inode zero dtime, orphaned inode list problem for ext3

2009-06-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hello debian list, Last time I try to boot into my debian sid laptop it turned out there are filesystem errors and it failed to mount. I went to single user mode and run e2fsck and I got the following messages: "inode zero dtimez" and something like "orphanged inode list", I fixed the errors, but

Re: split root logical volume to var tmp home etc

2009-06-10 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:25:33PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090609211030.ga30...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:01:41PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> (0. [LVM specific] Create the new

Re: split root logical volume to var tmp home etc

2009-06-09 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:01:41PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090608200757.ga26...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >Now I would like to follow other list member's advice to have separate > >LVs for var, tmp, home etc. But I

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:05:48PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090608201522.ga26...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:58:56PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > >> Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> >

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:58:56PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > > the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home > > etc? and leave enough un

split root logical volume to var tmp home etc

2009-06-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hi, debian list, I had a lenny installation that has the lvm setup done by the lenny installer, I knew nothing about lvm then so it ended up with a single root lv. Now I would like to follow other list member's advice to have separate LVs for var, tmp, home etc. But I don't know how to perform the

Re: bash alias ineffective?

2009-06-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:43:25PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I put > alias rm='rm -i' > in .bashrc > but rm still removes without asking for confirmation. > > Why? you need to source it using . .bashrc or source .bashrc HTH, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:53:18AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-04 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-04 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:58:59PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:53:52PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > My typical setup for a hd (the first 2 or 3 drives in the machine is > > > > > > /bo

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-04 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:07:58AM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>>

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:41:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:08:57PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > > wrote: > > >Can I say the best practice for lvm i

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't > >

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:23:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090603185138.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> In <20090603174408.ga25.

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:51:03PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a26ba9d.9060...@rctoolz.com>, George Randall wrote: > >Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > >> the harddrive and single P

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090603174408.ga25...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > >the harddrive and single PV on it &g

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:15:15PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote: >>> Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >>>> Hi debian users, >>>> >>>> Can I say the best practic

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> Hi debian users, >> >> Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for >> the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home >>

best practice for lvm?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hi debian users, Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Thanks for enlightenment and I am thinking of how to best utili

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:03:32PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > > Well for one if you used one big > partition you would loose the versatility of having a seperate /home > partition or other partitions that could stay intact during a > reinstall. This is a good point. Thanks George, Zhengquan

lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hello debian users, Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't

Re: bacula-web from debian repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:18:50PM -0300, Claudio wrote: > Hi Zhengquan, > > I hope this url, help for your needs. > > http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm Thanks Claudio, the link great but seems bacula-web is not in the repo. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

bacula-web from debian repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hi, debian list, Has anybody installed bacula-web from debian-repo? Is there a debian package for this? TIA, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

[solved, Thanks]Re: detailed disk usage package?

2009-05-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
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lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?

2009-05-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after the installation. I hav

detailed disk usage package?

2009-05-04 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I was doing du -ka . | sort -nr once in a while to do disk usage analysis. I was wondering if anybody here are using a package that can do detailed disk usage analysis. and the program can email a detailed report to me? Thanks for any pointers, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSU

Re: lenny and raid 1 with adaptec 1220 SATA

2009-04-28 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:03:10PM +0200, Peter Sprenger wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a 2 1TB SATA hardisk configuration with an Adaptec 1220SA > controller. I created a healthy RAID 1 array and now I want to install a > lenny distribution on it. Now my first question is, in the debian > install

Re: how to check memory type?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:01:56PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Motherboards/S5000PSL/S5000PSL-overview.htm > > >Eight fully buffered 533/667 MHz DIMMs Thanks Kelly, Now I understand motherboard type defines memory type. Regards, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSU

[solved, Thanks!]Re: how to check memory type?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:21:37PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Zhengquan Zhang [mailto:zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:11 PM > > Subject: how to check memory type? > > > > Dear debian community, > > > > I

Re: will this one work?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> It is generally frowned on to change the topic of a conversation because > it can mess up people trying to follow a thread. Just so you know later > on. > > According to Intels website [1] you need ECC Fully Buffered memory. > > According to Kingstons website these [2] are the memory modules yo

will this one work?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1068675#TS Will this one work? Now I think the only info I still do not have is whether the memory we are using is fully buffered or not. Is there any means to decode that? Thank you very much! -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: how to check memory type?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:21:37PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Zhengquan Zhang [mailto:zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:11 PM > > Subject: how to check memory type? > > > > Dear debian community, > > > > I

Re: how to check memory type?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:33:11PM -0300, Claudio wrote: > Hi Zhengquan, > > I expect that command hope this help. > > dmidecode -t 16 Now I know it is ECC. But I still don't know if it is fully buffered. Thanks for your reply! here is the out put

Re: how to check memory type?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47:52PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I expect that command hope this help. > > > > dmidecode -t 16 > > I think "dmidecode -t 17" is what is needed. Now I know it is ddr2 but I still don't know if it is fully buffered or ECC. the motherboard from 'lshw' is intel S5

how to check memory type?

2009-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I was looking for commands to check detailed memory info. (not usage info but type and manufacturer info). I have no idea what memory type our server is using and we want to add more rams to it. Particularly I don't know whether it is DDR or DDR2 or DDR3 and i would like t

Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> 4. Shrink the partition. (I'm comfortable with fdisk, but gparted is > >> the recommendation I've heard the most.) > >If I don't do this, will there be spare space unformatted after I do the > >first two steps? > > It wi

Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:50:16PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090426181517.ga9...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >on on of my systems I have > >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on &g

shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, on on of my systems I have FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/debian-root 224G 12G 200G 6% / tmpfs1008M 8.0K 1008M 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 80K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:27:41PM -0400, Justin wrote: > I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0 for the OS and 2x1TB in raid1 for > storage. On the raid0 I dualboot Windows and Fedora. The motherboard's > fakeraid is excellent because it provides a common interface between Windows > and Fedora. For th

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:32:43PM -0700, paragasu wrote: > ubuntu == debian testing, > > if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. The problem is this, debian is definetly stable for server. But after one or two years after the stable release. The devs on the server will want the latest

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:00:15AM -0700, prad wrote: > we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for > using one or the other. > > are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? > are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer > h

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:03:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > installer could find the disk on which to install. I don't know if the > installer program has a means of adding a module then rescanning for > hard drives. Ah, I never thought of the installer failing to find the boot drive.. >

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:12PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Dear debian community, > > > > Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > > and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in d

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > >and the debian community seems to advis

why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard. Is there any advantage compared with software raid? Thanks, -

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > > > guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the > > > kernel that e.g. suse has included in its kernel but debian can't > > > inclu

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Thank you very much for your reply! > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the > kernel that e.g. suse has included in its kernel bu

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to > the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see > if it sees the drives. Note that embedded sata "raid" controllers are > generally f

HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, We plan to buy an HP proliant ML115 G5 for server backup. The CPUs would be amd opteron 64bit. And there is embedded sata raid controller. I will use raid1 on two 1T harddrives. I would like to consult debian community to see if anyone have some experience with installing

Re: where to download sid?

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Then *after* you are comfortable with Debian, you might find that you want > newer upstream versions of one or more packages. If that happens, you can > migrate the whole system to Squeeze or Sid without reinstalling or yo

[Solved, Thanks!] Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
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Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:33:44AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Alternatively, you can set it in your shell's initialization files, > e.g. in ~/.profile?: > > if [ "$TERM" = "mlterm" ]; then TERM=xterm; fi > > You can do this on your local system or on each server you connect to. Thanks, Sven!

Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:01:44AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Because the server does not "know" your terminal (terminfo and/or > termcap). > > > Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. > > Because terminal emulators are *mostly* compatible to xterm. Great, Now I understand! Thanks And

Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:08:48AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > And thus you can use: > > $HOME/.terminfo/m/mletrm > /etc/terminfo/m/mletrm > /lib/terminfo/m/mletrm Thanks, Tzafrir! -- Zhengquan Yow! Are you the self-frying president? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

question about term

2009-04-20 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, This problem has been puzzling me for quite a while. I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say Error opening terminal: mlterm. Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. I was puz

Re: How to apply changes in /etc/network/interfaces w/o OS restart?

2009-04-18 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 01:04:26AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I have changed my ip in /etc/network/interfaces. Then have > restarted /etc/init.d/networking, but saw no effect. How can apply my > changes to my network configuration without restarting whole OS? > > Thank You for Your t

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:00:07AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > http://www.debian.org/users/ > > Organizations are listed there only if the submit a request. Many more > are probably running Debian and are not listed there. This is very useful promotion tool. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:12:43PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > nmap -v -A scanme.nmap.org I am running a sid on my desktop but this does not return I am running sid.. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-16 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=amazon.com Thanks for this, I can even check for what my server is running:) -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

which websites are running debian

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I wonder if there is some official resource that show who is running debian on there servers. The boss knows redhat and gentoo and would like to know more about debian. Another question, is there a way to test a site like amazon.com running which OS? Regards, -- Zhengqua

[solved, Thank you!] Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
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Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> You must read the ABS-Guide , and other documents abouta shell > programming. It's really a good thing. Thank you very much especially for this, I will read it when I have time, Regards, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> , > | while true; do > | > | IDP=$(pidof your_process) > | > | if (( $? == 1 )) ; then > | echo "End your_process with pid:$IDP" | mail -s "subject text" user > | fi > | > | sleep 1 > | > | done > ` I tested this, it runs great, but it would send me more t

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> , > | while true; do > | > | IDP=$(pidof your_process) so the IDP should now be the process ID. > | > | if (( $? == 1 )) ; then Could you explain $? ==1 abit? I am sorry I am not familiar with this. > | echo "End your_process with pid:$IDP" | mail -s "subject text" user

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:29:53PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,15.Apr.09, 13:00:25, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Dear debian users, > > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there > > any way to send myself an email after the proces

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:23PM +, Pedro Insua wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:00:25PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Dear debian users, > > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there > > any way to send myself an email after the p

email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian users, I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there any way to send myself an email after the process for the script ends? Thank you very much, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: usermod change username problem

2009-04-14 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:43:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > AFAIK filesystems don't know about usernames, just uid. I *think* I did > it this way: > > - logout my user and switch to single user (or reboot into single user > mode) > - edit /etc/passwd /etc/group and other relevant files >

usermod change username problem

2009-04-12 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear Debian community: I have got a specific problem using usermod to change my previous username olduser to newuser. This is what I use: sudo usermod -l newuser -md /home/newuser olduser[:w newuser is the new login name and -md use /home/newuser as the new home directory and moves /home/olduser

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:46AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > zhang zhengquan writes: > > >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... > > To verify that the correct resources are being used, run > "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, > or display an error th

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:42:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulz

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > [...] > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > so how can I tell my dpi is low? > > Run >

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:14:33PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > > I put in my .Xdefauts > > XTerm*font:10x20 > > Are you sure your .Xdefaults is being loaded? Depending on how you I think so. xrdb -load ~/.Xd

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:44:18AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it > > larger but I don't know what font sizes are available. > > Could anyone have any pointers on this? > &

xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community: I tried to find the xterm mailing list but seems we don't have this. since I am running sid I think it might be relevant I put in my .Xdefauts XTerm*font:10x20 but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it larger but I don't know what font sizes are av

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-06 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:10:44PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: > >> Dear debian users, > > > > Good afternoon > > > >> I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > >> laptop r

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-06 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:44:31AM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > zhang zhengquan a écrit : > > Dear debian users, > > I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > > laptop running sid, > > and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, > > I have a system rescu

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:20:43PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan > (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly > > reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some fre

how to revert my system to a particular date...

2007-06-01 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
Today after sid upgrade, I found that my collins cobuild dictionary under wine is unable to load.. I want to revert my system to the day before yesterday. I tried to reinstall the dictionary and reinstalled wine but the dictionary still failed to launch. Now I want to restore my system to a previ

cd organizer under linux suggestions

2007-04-27 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I used gtktalog and cdcat, they are used to organize music cds, but they do not have cddb database query support. I wonder if ther is a ware that able to query the cddb information from freedb and can automatically add the info to my cd directory database. Thanks! Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: howto see network traffic for each process?

2007-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Thanks, that works great. zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

howto see network traffic for each process?

2007-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I used iptraff to monitor the network traffic, but is there any package that can show the individual networki traffic for each process? Thanks. Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CD organizer recommendations?

2007-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I have lots of music cds and I downloaded some apes and burned some. Is there a package in debian that organize them nicely? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? Thanks! -- Zhengquan Zhang Department of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing,P.R.China. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: howto extract all the tar.bz2 files in the same directory?

2007-03-23 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
t (I'm sure there are ways a lot easier but that's > what I usually do) > > * will create a directory named like the tar.bz2 (in case it extracts > to ./ and not to some subdir) > * extract ever foo.tar.bz2 to ./foo/ > > haven't checked exactly but in gener

howto extract all the tar.bz2 files in the same directory?

2007-03-23 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I want to extract lots of tar.bz2 files in one directory, and I want the extracted files to be of the original names with out the tar.bz2 extension. Is there a way to extract them all at once? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? Thank you! Regards: Zhang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

howto quickly move to the left side of a zoomed pdf in xpdf?

2007-03-19 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I enabled the vikeys and felt a little more comfortable with xpdf, but the fonts are still very small, so I zoom in alot, but since my screen is not so large I have to move from the left to the right and from the right to the left very often, using the mouse is very clumsy. Anyone have a solution

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-04 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
+0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:48:53PM +0800, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > thank you, > > ok I will try zsh then. > > > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:33:10AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > zhengquan zhang wrote: > > > > I can

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-04 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
thank you, ok I will try zsh then. On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:33:10AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > zhengquan zhang wrote: > > I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document > > I need, > > but in bash if I use vi *doc* and press tab, nothing would h

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
bash. Thank you. Zhang On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:51:26AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > zhengquan zhang wrote: > > > Hello: > > I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document I > > need, > > but in bash if I use vi *doc* and press tab

vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-03 Thread zhengquan zhang
Hello: I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document I need, but in bash if I use vi *doc* and press tab, nothing would happen, it can not find the file I want to edit Is there any switches to make it possible? Thank you. zhang