Re: CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

2011-11-22 Thread Kent West
On 11/22/2011 11:26 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:59:33 -0600, Kent West wrote: I'm still wondering how to log off from the CUPS server so that I would again be prompted for the admin username/password if I wanted to change more settings, but I can let that be an issue

CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

2011-11-21 Thread Kent West
to lpadmin, but I'd rather be prompted for a privilege escalation. How can I get CUPS to prompt me again for the admin user/password? Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

2011-11-21 Thread Kent West
On 11/21/2011 11:04 AM, Kent West wrote: In times past I've been able to browse to http://localhost:621/admin and have it prompt me for the username/password. Now, when I browse there, it does not prompt me. I guess it assumes I want to do administrative things as my normal non-privileged

Re: CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

2011-11-21 Thread Kent West
On 11/21/2011 11:12 AM, Kent West wrote: On 11/21/2011 11:04 AM, Kent West wrote: In times past I've been able to browse to http://localhost:621/admin and have it prompt me for the username/password. Now, when I browse there, it does not prompt me. I guess it assumes I want to do

Re: CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

2011-11-21 Thread Kent West
On 11/21/2011 01:39 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:07:56 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Kent West wrote: No, on further tinkering, that doesn't seem to be quite the issue. I'm getting different Home pages at various times, and I just now realized

Re: CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

2011-11-21 Thread Kent West
On 11/21/2011 02:44 PM, Kent West wrote: Apparently this printer is being shared off another person's computer near by, but it's showing up in this list as if it's been added to my list of printers, and when I click on it to delete it, I'm then being taken to that CUPS server instead of to my

Re: problems

2011-11-11 Thread Kent West
; then I'd retry the Debian installation. (CC:ing you just in case you're not on the list) -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/

OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
is my favorite. The dog ate my lunch. I believe I can use sed 'The lazy dog'/d to delete all the lines containing that string, but I don't know how to put my new line where the first deleted line was. Thanks for any help. -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
On 10/11/2011 03:20 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: Hi Kent, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:41:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like so: The lazy dog ate my lunch

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
On 10/11/2011 03:22 PM, Dom wrote: On 11/10/11 20:41, Kent West wrote: I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like so: The lazy dog ate my lunch. The dog ate my lunch. The lazy dog slept all day

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
On 10/11/2011 05:27 PM, Chris Davies wrote: On 10/11/2011 03:20 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: johnc@infotech:~$ cat lazydog.awk /^The lazy dog/{ if ( count 1 ){ print The lazy dog is my favorite. count++ next } else {

Re: OFF-TOPIC: HTML to send data out a certain port

2011-10-05 Thread Kent West
On 10/03/2011 03:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: I don't have the Global Cache yet to play with, but I'm trying to get a feel for how to do things before we start spending money. The API documentation from their web site indicates it's a matter of just sending the correct ASCII

Re: OFF-TOPIC: HTML to send data out a certain port

2011-10-05 Thread Kent West
On 10/05/2011 10:54 AM, Kent West wrote: This is the sort of information I need. Thanks! But the man page for nc says -l and -p are not to be used together, and it doesn't work when I try to use them together. So I'm not sure how to listen to incoming data. Ah, just leave off the -p

OFF-TOPIC: HTML to send data out a certain port

2011-10-03 Thread Kent West
y'all any more. Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- 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/4e8a0dbf.6020...@acu.edu

Re: Openoffice writer.................................fill

2011-09-19 Thread Kent West
your tab right-click on that to set it to a right-tab double-click on that to open the Paragraph styles dialog box. set your leader as you prefer -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

smbpasswd -a unsuccessful

2011-08-19 Thread Kent West
that was fixed in version 3.3, but that's not available in the lenny archives. If I delete /var/lib/passdb.tdb, I can then get the command to work, but then I've lost all my other users' access. Thanks for any help! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o

Re: smbpasswd -a unsuccessful

2011-08-19 Thread Kent West
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:10:15 -0500, Kent West wrote: (...) westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk: sudo smbpasswd -a amyld New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL! Failed to add entry for user amyld. Failed to modify password

Which keyserver to use for debian?

2011-08-17 Thread Kent West
I'm getting the public key is not available type error on trying to upgrade my box from lenny to squeeze. I have a vauge understanding of gpg/public keys/private keys, but only vague, and I've found these two commands online which I believe will fix my problem: gpg --keyserver

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2011-07-07 Thread Kent West
On 7/7/11 12:58 AM, Kent West wrote: In a very old thread from January of 2008 (http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-user/41227-ot-how-detect-keypress-language.html), I asked the following question: snip I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program ... snip case 37: !-- Arrow

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2011-07-07 Thread Kent West
On 7/7/11 1:04 AM, Kent West wrote: Oh, forgot to mention, I got the dit.wav and dah.wav from http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial138_Get-key-press-event-using-JavaScript.html, Beep 6 and Beep 7 (renamed and put in the same directory as the morse.html file). D'oh! Pasted the wrong URL. http

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2011-07-07 Thread Kent West
On 7/7/11 12:58 AM, Kent West wrote: We pretty much decided it couldn't be easily done, but here's a very dirty, unclean method that at least shows the concept (modified from code found at http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial138_Get-key-press-event-using-JavaScript.html). And http

Re: How select the access point manually in a wireless network?

2011-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:28:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 07:46:08 -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote: It may not be possible if the connection quality is too low. What does 'iwpriv scan' say when you are in the middle? Hi Brian, iwpriv scan? maybe you mean 'iwlist

Re: How select the access point manually in a wireless network?

2011-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote: Hi people, I work with my laptop and use a wireless conection in an enterprise network. When I go to other floor, the wireless access point change automatically. I can see this change using the command iwconfig. Is there any way to

Re: Troubleshooting boot

2011-04-17 Thread Kent West
On 4/17/11 12:23 PM, Michaël Grünewald wrote: Dear Debian users, I have trouble running Debian Squeeze on my machine. The installation process successfully completes, but most of the time (19 times in 20?) the kernel stalls after displaying its `Loading ...' message. Any hint to help me

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Kent West
On 4/2/11 1:49 AM, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I rebooted, but X won't work. Near the end of Xorg.0.log has the following message: (EE) NV: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load Indeed, nouveau.ko and its dependent drivers (eg., drm_kms_heler.ko) are still getting loaded. What do I

Can't umount smb share because of nepomukse

2011-02-24 Thread Kent West
-686 kernel) Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- 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/4d667729.1050...@acu.edu

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Kent West
, where does LILO fit in? LILO is another bootloader available for Linux. What was your concern? The sponsor? :-) Greetings, LILO was the boot loader used a version or few back. It can still be used, but it's no longer the default on Debian installations. -- Kent West*))) http

Re: Debian question

2011-01-23 Thread Kent West
file and the ENGINE says 'django/db/backends/sqlite3'. You know why?? On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Kent West we...@acu.edu mailto:we...@acu.edu wrote: On 1/22/11 7:03 PM, Kimberly Harvey wrote: I have installed the django into the linux-Debian on my machine. I ran

Re: Debian question

2011-01-22 Thread Kent West
On 1/22/11 7:03 PM, Kimberly Harvey wrote: I have installed the django into the linux-Debian on my machine. I ran the linux program, and a black screen pops up asking for the root password. I did that, then the next thing it shows is the Debian:~# What does that mean? I am trying to go into

Re: why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-04 Thread Kent West
I can't see what it's supposed to be. My first guess is that your code doesn't specify a monospace font, and therefore the natural variances in the default variable-space font is causing your line-ends to be random. -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o

Can't Start Gramps

2010-12-22 Thread Kent West
]+ Exit 1 gramps Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- 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/4d1207a1.2040

Re: Can't Start Gramps

2010-12-22 Thread Kent West
On 12/22/2010 09:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:13:53 -0600, Kent West wrote: I filed a bug report last week, but haven't heard anything back; thought maybe you folks might offer a solution. (...) Could it be a regression of this old/fixed bug? http

Re: Firefox

2010-10-23 Thread Kent West
On 10/23/10 2:21 AM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Mark markthe...@gmail.com writes: whenever I open up firefox it crashes. I can't figure out why Try starting it with fresh configurations. That is, $ mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox.bak $ firefox Or try starting in

Re: My X environment has become magnified

2010-10-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Spiros Bousbouras wrote: Hi folks. I downloaded some new levels for the arcade game supertux. I tried supertux -d . on the directory where I had downloaded the levels but presumably I used the option incorrectly because the programme exited

Will Multi-Monitor work with my setup?

2010-09-22 Thread Kent West
right x axis y axis) TV-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) As far as I can tell, xrandr only sees one card, only sees one monitor. Thanks for any help! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2010-09-22 Thread Kent West
in a rc.d directory perhaps, it's not an intuitive thing, to me at least. -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Will Multi-Monitor work with my setup?

2010-09-22 Thread Kent West
to sometimes just cut the cord on old legacy technology.) But it does help that you told me that xrandr -q only reports one screen even in a dual-screen setup. Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2010-09-22 Thread Kent West
On 09/22/2010 03:15 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 09/22/2010 03:25 PM, Kent West wrote: On 09/22/2010 01:47 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: I assume you are running lenny. I don't know if it, sysv-rc, is the same as in testing/Sid. Do have svsv-re Version 288dsf-12? In /etc/apt/sources.list I have unstable

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2010-09-22 Thread Kent West
On 09/22/2010 04:01 PM, Kent West wrote: On 09/22/2010 03:15 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: The reason I ask is that he would know that we do not reply to the sender of messages, we reply to the list! That way everyone gets to see how to fix problems. Please remember that in the future. I am

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-08 Thread Kent West
/features.php link: http://links.twibright.com/shots/shot1.png And here's what I see on my machine: http://goshen.acu.edu/westk/links_shot1.png This is when I run links2 -g . -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-08 Thread Kent West
.photobucket.com/albums/c295/Veyka/browsers1.jpg [2] http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=4II3 Which is better/faster in these charts, the longer bars or the shorter ones? -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Kent West
On 9/7/10 8:30 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:05:05 -0600 Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote: ... Except with text-only browsers, you lose the ability to view images, video, and other interactive features that the web provides. links might be a good compromise; it has a

Re: What creates /etc/exim4

2010-09-03 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: Apparently aptitude purge exim4 does not remove /etc/exim4 or /var/lib/exim4. Apparently aptitude install exim4 does not create /etc/exim4 or /var/lib/exim4. Apparently dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config neither creates nor reads

What creates /etc/exim4

2010-09-02 Thread Kent West
it there, where a person would presumably expect to find exim4 configuration)? Thanks! -- Kent West))) Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: What creates /etc/exim4

2010-09-02 Thread Kent West
Oops; sorry; meant to sent that to the list, not to Timo. (having to use GMail until i get this figured out) On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Kent West we...@acu.edu writes

git hooks fail to run on bare repo

2010-08-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi list, they may be beter served on a git list, but I'm starting here anyway. I've got a bare git repo on my server and I push and pull through http. This works fine, but now I'm trying to run some hooks for various reasons. I've done chmod +x on hooks/post-update and hooks/post-receive in

Re: git hooks fail to run on bare repo

2010-08-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Ah nevermind, sorry for the noise list. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/140453 hooks not supported over http until version 1.6.6... I'm on stable, so 1.5.6 or so. A On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:59:06PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, they may

Re:

2010-08-02 Thread Kent West
On 8/2/10 7:06 PM, juan gonzalez wrote: all right, I have 2 questions. can I use .deb files on the the teminal version? and can I upgrade from the terminal one to the desktop one? and how? Yes; if you just have a .deb (say, whatever.deb), you can install it with dpkg -i whatever.deb.

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-08 Thread Kent West
On 07/07/2010 11:15 AM, Kent West wrote: On 07/06/2010 10:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: I recommend that you ignore the hardware raid and instead use software raid. The Debian installer can set up software raid for you at system installation time. It is easy. But it is also a little confusing

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-07 Thread Kent West
it into submission. -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- 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/4c34a825.5020...@acu.edu

RAID Questions

2010-07-06 Thread Kent West
(no bootable flag, can't create multiple partitions or partitions are empty after install)? Thanks for any suggestions/hints/clues. -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-06 Thread Kent West
On 07/06/2010 10:35 AM, Michal wrote: On 06/07/2010 16:16, Kent West wrote: I am a RAID newb. I have a brand-new Dell Precision T1500 workstation with two 700GB SATA drives, pre-loaded with Windows 7. Of course, Win7 has already been wiped off. My goal is to have a redundant Debian (Stable

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-06 Thread Kent West
On 07/06/2010 10:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: I thought there was HARDWARE RAID and SOFTWARE RAID. There is. Not knowing anything about it, I would have thought that with HARDWARE RAID, you'd go into the BIOS of the special drive-controller hardware (Ctrl-I

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-06 Thread Kent West
On 07/06/2010 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:16:17 -0500, Kent West wrote: I am a RAID newb. (...) In short, I have no idea what I'm doing, or how to do it. Second, are you sure you need a raid setup? :-) Nope; that's why I asked if I should go

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-06 Thread Kent West
article specifically addressing my hardware) has addressed my specific issues. But Bob and Camaleón have provided the extra umph I've needed to get over my first hurdle. Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-06 Thread Kent West
On 07/06/2010 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:16:17 -0500, Kent West wrote: How do I get around the problems I'm seeing in the Debian paritioner (no bootable flag ... I'm thinking this must be a bug in the installer's partitioner. If I let the install create partitions

Re: RAID Questions

2010-07-06 Thread Kent West
On 07/06/2010 04:44 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: I'm thinking this must be a bug in the installer's partitioner. If I let the install create partitions automatically, the bootable flag is set. But if I unset it and then try to re-set it, or if I manually create partitions, I can

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Kent West
want to see details about a package? aptitude show gramps Hopefully this will give you enough to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

nouveau prob with 2nd card

2010-06-30 Thread Kent West
of dmesg | grep nouveau. My question: Is this the way it should look, or are the 101 instances of PFIFO being angry and failure to allocate a framebuffer a problem? If it's not a problem, why can't I get my dual-monitor setup back? Thanks! /Kent -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise

Re: nouveau prob with 2nd card

2010-06-30 Thread Kent West
On 06/30/2010 08:36 AM, Kent West wrote: I updated to Sid a few weeks ago to get newer printer drivers so I could print, and lost my dual-monitor setup in the process. I've tried a handful of different video cards that I've been able to get hold of (none of them dual-head), and simply can

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:30:56AM -0400, ABS Doug wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Huang, Tao deb...@huangtao.me wrote: so the torrents render you wireless disconnected. if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything should be solved. but i have no idea on

Re: Debian Community Poll

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:50:17AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 19 iun 10, 12:13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-19 21:01 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] I'm interested inthe results, and how

Re: Debian Community Poll

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:51:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 14 iun 10, 09:52:32, Ron Johnson wrote: A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News: Debian Community Poll - [...] 12 : http://tinyurl.com/3y33ska The poll is closed now.

Re: Debian Community Poll

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-19 21:01 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:51:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 14 iun 10, 09:52:32, Ron Johnson wrote: A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News

Re: [OT] First computer

2010-06-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:18:27PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: ABS Doug writes: I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to TV... I'm feeling old. I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:03:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM: On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
fixing the quoting... On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is

Re: Restarting X

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:35:00PM -0400, H.S. wrote: On 17/06/10 01:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:53:49 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: When I'm testing things with X I l want to be able to log via SSH and restart X, how can I do that in a console? I'm using Gnome.

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:59:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/2010 09:48 AM, Lisi wrote: Thanks for this. I was originally responding to Andrew's saying: quote There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big enough to hold the data. /quote I can think of

Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
is now happy with my SMTP settings. On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:25:56 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big enough to hold the data. Would you feel inclined to elaborate?  I'm trying to solve this problem for my

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:56:51PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:25:56 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: Hi Boyd, At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system? man lvchange

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely preferable than no Geez, I remember when I couldn't

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:59:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/2010 02:17 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:31:41AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: Many thanks to all that responded to try to solve this LVM problem. I could not recover any data from the crashed system. I could not find any method of mounting drive 2 or 3 as individual drives and the system would not

Re: Debian Community Poll

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
(On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:10:22PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Monday 14 June 2010 16:01:57 Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:52:32 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News: Debian Community Poll - (...) 12 :

Re: LVM

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: Hi Boyd, At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system? man lvchange Many thanks to all respondents, and NO I did not have a backup, no drive big enough to hold all data. um... really? I've heard all sorts of

Re: [OT] advice on finding programming help

2010-06-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:00:02 Mark Allums wrote: On 6/8/2010 11:02 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2010 10:46:03 Mark Allums wrote: I was/am a computer guy (back in the day), but I have been

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-07 Thread Kent West
other people will this problem bite? Thanks for any suggestions! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-04 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 04:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:49 +0200, Kent West wrote: When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area

dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
file which used to work in stable. Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-4-686 i686 Debian Current Operating System: Linux westek 2.6.32-3-686 #1

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 12:01 PM, Kent West wrote: I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my printer. But when I dist-upgraded, my dual-monitor setup

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 21:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: So I figured I'd push on to Sid/unstable, to see if maybe I'd get newer drivers that might solve this issue. How interesting.! Now when I reboot (into the newly installed 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP kernel

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 03:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or whatever your monitor's resolution is. Where would I put this line

display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
. I've enclosed a copy of dmesg's output. How can I fix this? Thanks! -- Kent West*))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-15) (b

Re: display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 04:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:49 +0200, Kent West wrote: When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area

Re: display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 04:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:49 +0200, Kent West wrote: When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Kent West
rather than actually having the unit right here in front of me at the moment, but that's the gist.) -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Kent West
On 6/1/10 8:56 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Kent West we...@acu.edu writes: Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian workstation (through USB2, evidently). Do you have any

Re: GUI fails to start

2010-05-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Nathan Martin wrote: Help! After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I checked the option for Desktop in the set up process. Everything seems to go

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-15 Thread Kent West
On 5/14/10 6:17 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2010 20:36:41 Kent West wrote: I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-15 Thread Kent West
On 5/15/10 7:56 AM, Anand Sivaram wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 14:45, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de mailto:svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-05-15 11:04 +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: [readelf output] ELF Header: [...] INTERP 0x000114 0x08048114

Re: New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-15 Thread Kent West
On 5/15/10 10:34 AM, Chris Austin wrote: Hi, I have just bought a new 3-button mouse since 3-button emulation does not seem to work well in Lenny - I had a lot of trouble with unpredictable behaviour apparently due to contact bounce and getting unwanted context menus, some of whose

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7: ls -lh total 2.8M lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff6 2010-05-13 16:04 lmcksum

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Kent West
Alexey Salmin wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: Kent West wrote: wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7: ldd lmgrd /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: ./lmgrd: No such file or directory Not amd64, ok :) Try to use ldd

X freezes with 2.6.32-5; okay with 2.6.26-2

2010-05-13 Thread Kent West
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executable won't execute

2010-05-13 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7: ls -lh total 2.8M lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff6 2010-05-13 16:04 lmcksum - lmutil lrwxrwxrwx 1

Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-11 Thread Kent West
Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 16:48:47 -0500 Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: Hello Kent, Thanks, especially Brad! I think you mean Boyd; He gave you far better info than I did. You're right. My bad. Sorry Boyd; thanks especially to you! -- Kent West *))) http

How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-10 Thread Kent West
printer drivers for general use and printer drivers for gutenprint (whatever that is), or the relationship between those and/or cup-driver-gutenprint and/or cupsys-driver-gutenprint (and the descriptions are less than helpful), so any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Kent West *))) http

Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-10 Thread Kent West
Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:16:21 -0500 Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: Hello Kent, I know I've printed to this HP Color Laserjet CM3530 from a Debian box Install 'hplip' for HP printers. When run for the first time, it'll guide you through the setting up process

Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-10 Thread Kent West
Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 15:16:21 -0400 (EDT), Kent West wrote: Something I've never figured out with Debian is how to know which package to install to get a certain printer driver. I know I've printed to this HP Color Laserjet CM3530 from a Debian box before, but I have

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