Hi,
Thanks everyone for the follow ups.
Sorry for responding late.
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:08 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually
>> /dev/ cdrom1.
>
> That does not match with a "correct" fstab file.
>
> Your primary device (dvd?) s
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:01:04 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:22:59 +, T o n g wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:49:24 +, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>>>> On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually
>>>> /d
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:36:46 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
>> tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that
>> before?
>
> Yes, but almost invariably, I didn't like what I got from there . . .
Guess I'm lucky that all cddb lookups from GUI tools are fine for me.
Do you stil
Hi,
None of the cd rippers work perfectly for me for the moment, so I need to
tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that
before?
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:23:45 +, T o n g wrote:
> I gave asunder a whirl but somehow it always freeze on me.
It works fine now -- I shouldn't have messed with the proxy setting.
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:48:13 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> asunder is pretty nice for the ripping part of your request (lightweight
> and GTK-based)
Thanks Andreas,
I gave asunder a whirl but somehow it always freeze on me. I guess it
might be because that I'm using an old version, v1.9.3-
Hi,
Of the two of the boxes that I have, both of them have problems with
gnome-volume-control-applet.
The first box, after I login from gdm, I get
The panel encountered a problem while loading
"OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet".
If I remove all my gnome/gdk2 configure directories/files, the gnom
Thanks everyone for the replies, especially to Tom for the answer.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:47:50 +, elbbit wrote:
> :~$ host -6 www.debian.org
> www.debian.org has address 86.59.118.148 www.debian.org has address
> 82.195.75.97 www.debian.org has IPv6 address
> 2001:41b8:202:deb:216:35ff:fec4
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:57:25 +, T o n g wrote:
> using hostname for remote host NOK
>
> tong@coral:~$ ssh -C -A -X -p 21 -o
> UserKnownHostsFile=/tmp/32083.tmpf.32124.uknf maroon -v OpenSSH_5.5p1
> Debian-4ubuntu4, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 debug1: Reading
> config
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:21:27 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> the following command lists (along with everything else)
> 2 *.deb files in /home/mike/
>
> root@/deb40a:~> FIND1="-maxdepth 1 -type f -print -name '*'"; \
> GREP="-v '\.\(deb\|gz\|tgz\|bz2\|tbz\|zip\)$'"; \ find /home/mike/
> $FI
one-line html post
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:44:27 +, elbbit wrote:
>> /etc/init.d/ssh restart
>
> This method normally includes /etc/ssh/sshd_config when it starts the
> sshd binary. The directive you are looking for in the file is probably
> "PermitRootLogin yes". Addin
Hi,
I have a very weird ssh connection problem -- I get
Permission denied (publickey).
error while trying to ssh into the box (as root) [1]. However, if I ssh
into the same box, same as root, using the same sshd configuration, just
a secondary debug ssh session, it works flawlessly [2]. I'
Hi,
I need to check for ^C in an endless loop that doesn't do any stdio.
How can I do that?
Back in DOS days, I used to use kbhit() from CONIO.H, which checks for
currently available keystrokes. Is there similar things under Linux gcc?
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:20:58 +, T o n g wrote:
> I can't explain the following myself: . . .
>
> -- dig knows the host maroon.
> -- yet ping doesn't know the host maroon.
- It actually happens to all of my local hosts short names, unless the
domain name is append
Hi,
I can't explain the following myself:
$ dig maroon
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> maroon
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34832
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:29:38 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> This problem was found on only 1 of 3 installs of Squeeze.
>
> I am now reinstalling the faulty system.
Do you still remember what partition tool that you used (that get you
into this)?
I found whenever I use tools from windows, I get suc
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:12:09 +, Tixy wrote:
>> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> > maroon. 0 IN A 127.0.0.1
>> >
>> > ;; Query time: 0 msec
>> > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.100#53(192.168.0.100) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 6
>> > 23:20:41 2011
>> > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 40
>>
>> This is t
I was curious enough to have opened it, and found out it is just a spam.
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On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:14:39 +, T o n g wrote:
>>>>> Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to
>>>>> different IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)?
>>>>>
>>>> You can use a virtual interface
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:58:55 +, Camaleón wrote:
Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to different
IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)?
>>> You can use a virtual interface:
>>>
>>> ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>>>
>> IMO t
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:12:37 +, Tixy wrote:
> I also had another thought, Is kvm1 a virtual machine? If so, does it
> even get to talk directly to the dnsmasq server or is the host doing NAT
> and it's own configuration for the guest?
See my blog,
http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/provi
Many thanks to Tixy, who answered all my questions, I now compile it into
a big blog,
Providing DHCP and DNS services with DNSMasq
http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/providing-dhcp-and-dns-services-
with-dnsmasq/
Synopsis
To use DNSmasq to provide DNS, DHCP, tftpd and ad blocking to my hom
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:19:43 +, Tixy wrote:
> . . . adding a dhcp-host line in dnsmasq.conf for each NIC. E.g. the
> entry for the machine I'm typing on is
>
> dhcp-host=00:28:58:3A:EB:A1,192.168.2.20,computer2,infinite
> ^ ^^ ^ MAC
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:35:34 +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote:
>> I'm wondering how can I use the libvirt? . . .
>>
> Take a look at
> http://edin.no-ip.com/blog/hswong3i/libvirt-kvm-debian-mini-howto
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:19:43 +, Tixy wrote:
> You'll have to disable DHCP on your router so only your new box responds
> to DHCP requests. . .
Thanks for your answer, Tixy.
In that case, I assume that the dnsmasq server need to be configured to
be on a static IP, correct? Any I need to man
Hi,
Some questions around pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq,
- Some dhcp server *requires* that hostnames be sent. I've found
document on how to send hostnames with other dhchp clients
except pump. Now, how can I configure pump to send hostnames
when making dhchp requests?
- The dnsmasq can b
Hi,
I have some questions regarding
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio
ie., paravirtualization kvm with libvirt
Followings are quotes and my questions,
,-
| We assume that you have installed the virtio-compatible guest
| under KVM using libvirt (ie. using something like virt-install or
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:20:06 +, T o n g wrote:
> Thanks. Now I'm one step further, but bumped into another problem:
[reposting the same message with added questions]
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:42:18 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> I can't figure out how to use the remount op
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:42:18 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> I can't figure out how to use the remount option of mount.crypt from
>> its man page. . .
>
> Use a comma to separate mount options, just like in the /etc/fstab:
>
> mount -o remount,ro …
Thanks. Now I'm one step further, but bumped i
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:42:22 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:25:28 +, T o n g wrote:
>>
>>> My Xorg completely freeze up the system after my recent upgrade.
>> . . . it is Debian Testing, kernel version 2.6.35.
>
> ... why are you loading t
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:42:22 +, Camaleón wrote:
>>> My Xorg completely freeze up the system after my recent upgrade.
>
> Can you "ssh" to the machine while X is frozen?
No, can't even ping -- destination unreachable.
>> Forgot to mention, it is Debian Testing, kernel version 2.6.35.
>
> A
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:31:55 +, T o n g wrote:
> Now the question that I really want,
>
> How can I reduce the size of my display to a smaller size, while keep
> the virtual size of my display to my current size, using panning to view
> all virtual display.
whole tread is doc
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:20:49 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> How to do panning using xrandr? . . .
>
> Don't guess; ask your device: "xrandr -q" will tell you the name of
Perfect, thanks a lot.
Now the question that I really want,
How can I reduce the size of my display to a smaller size, while k
Hi,
How to do panning using xrandr? Wouldn't
xrandr --panning x
be the same as
xrandr -s x
But it won't work -- I need to put --output before --panning.
The problem is, I've searched everywhere, but every possible string I
tried didn't work.
warning: output LVDS1 not found; ignoring
w
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:41:23 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> I want to use it to start an app when X starts, synergyc to be exact,
> (...)
>
> There is a doc on how to do this, but not sure if that will help:
>
> http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/autostart.html
Thanks Camaleón.
Been there, read that.
Hi,
Talking about VM, some prefer virtulbox, some VMWare. Don't know how many
of you prefer kvm. I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of
your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host.
The reason that I'm asking -- recently I noticed that my kvm is extremely
slow,
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:12:41 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Note: I start x with startx, and use fluxbox WM.
Me too.
> In debian, for years now, anything I want to have start up in X I put in
> .xinitrc like this
>
> synergys --config ~/.synergy.conf --restart &
> . . .
what if you want the
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:03:04 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
>> LABEL=cache31 /lfs/cache31 ext3 noauto,user,dev,suid,exec 0 0 #
>> /dev/sdc1
> ^^
Ha! Thx
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Hi,
Somehow my fstab entries are not all mounted by default:
$ grep -A2 devpts /etc/fstab
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=06220 0
LABEL=cache21 /lfs/cache21 ext3 noauto,user,dev,suid,exec 0 0 # /dev/sdb2
LABEL=cache31 /lfs/cache31 ext3 noauto,user,dev,suid,exec 0
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:40:39 +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> CBC would be a very bad idea for random access and modification.
I thought so.
Thanks for the confirmation.
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Hi,
I need to start gdm by default on one of my boxes, which is currently
booting into text mode.
I do have gdm installed:
$ dpkg -l | grep gdm
ii gdm2.20.11-4 GNOME Display Manager
It's still activated as the bootup service:
% update-rc.d gdm defaults
gdm already in /etc/r
Hi,
I'm thinking to do the disk partition encryptions now. However
"Hard drive encryption sounds like an intimating concept, mostly because
it is. The thought of taking your precious files, then using a
mathematical formula to convert them into random noise before scattering
them back across
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:47:51 +, Camaleón wrote:
>>> What does "amixer" show on PC Speaker?
>>
>> I don't see any entries for "PC Speaker":
>>
>> $ amixer | grep control
>
> (...)
>
> Hum... in fact, while I have a "PC speaker" entry in squeeze, I've just
> checked in lenny and there is non
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:57:21 -0800, S Mathias wrote:
> $ time 7z a -mx=9 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; time xz -9
> -z linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; ls -lS
was the linux-2.6.37.tar already in cache memory? If not, and you do xz
first, you will see more dramatic results.
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:27:56 -0800, Joe Riel wrote:
>> > beep
>>
>> That works; as expected the sound comes through the internal speakers.
>
> I meant "external" speakers.
I remembered that it can be turned on (i.e., switch from internal speaker
to external ones) via alsamixer, or any othe
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:36:57 +, Camaleón wrote:
> (note that everybody can reopen a bug)
Camaleón, I read all your posts, and agree to them all. But I have to say
I don't agree with you on this one.
For *this specific case*, I *do* consider the DD's reply being
"pointlessly abrasive, inap
Thanks a lot for your detailed explanations, Camaleón.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:13:04 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> Moreover, how can I view those folders in thunderbird? (I was able to
>> view local mailbox files before, but somehow I can't do it now)
>
> You only have to create a new IMAP account in
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:26:52 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> It is totally unsupported and may break everything but every time we've
> converted a system from Ubuntu to Debian in this way it has worked fine.
Most important underlying requirement is the compatibility (e.g. glibc,
etc).
The convoluted
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:17:11 +, Camaleón wrote:
> Another thing to try:
>
> http://blog.fealdia.org/2008/08/11/backing-up-gmail-on-debian-using-
isync/
Thanks for the info. I skimmed through the man page, but wasn't able to
find out how can I backup only a certain folders (labels in gmail t
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:34:21 +, Camaleón wrote:
> What I can't see is why this logging facility is not enabled by default.
> I also think it should be kept in a unique file, instead to be split in
> "/ var/log/dmesg" and "/var/log/boot", IMO it would be easier to read,
> interpret and debug...
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:08:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
>> > I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so
>> > that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not
>> > use them.
Me too.
>> Basically because gnome-desktop-environment is too big to fit on CD 1
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:53:09 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> btw, the best cp command for the job is cp -Ra (a for archive - maintain
> all permissions - do this as root to maintain uid/gid of other
> users/groups).
Thanks for pointing out why "cp -r" is unacceptable.
Just my added 2c...
the -R i
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:11:24 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> Hello. I am looking for an count-down clock. Features are:
>
> (...)
>
> If you find no aplication that suits your needs, may I suggest a "do-
> it-yourself" work? :-)
>
> Dialog (command line ncurses scripting) and xdialog (GUI) can help y
Hi,
Here is my 'route' output:
$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 00
le to do both CRC32 and MD5, but
static tells me that CRC32 is more than enough for such case:
The probability of a corrupted string going undetected is 1/(2^n). I.e.,
a 32-bit CRC has a probability of 1/(2^32), which is about 2.3E-10 (less
than one in a billion).
The new fast 32-bit CRC
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:22:39 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> Anyone know how I can get rid of this lpoptions default printer and use
>> system default?
>
> Hum... I'm not sure what do you mean here by "system default" :-)
Hi Camaleón, thanks for your reply in other message. I did
rm ~/.cups/lpoptio
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:25:34 -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> SOL:~# wodim -v speed=2 dev=/dev/hda cdimage.raw
. . .
> wodim: No such file or directory. Cannot open 'cdimage.raw'.
Are you sure the file you are buring, 'cdimage.raw', is there on cwd?
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:10 +, Camaleón wrote:
> Hum, indeed, that is the command suggested by CUPS for setting the
> default printer:
>
> ***
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html
>
> Setting the Default Printer
>
> If you normally use a particular printer, you can tell CUP
First of all, thanks every one who responded.
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:00:23 +, Camaleón wrote:
>>> What does "lpstat -t | grep default" say?
>>
>> Oh, that's how you find default printers --
>>
>> $ lpstat -t | grep default
>> system default destination: epson_cx1500
>>
>> Still pointing t
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:34:04 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> I've set the default printer on the server, and verified via the web
>> interface. Also, I did
>>
>> lpadmin -d new_printer
>>
>> on my client host, either as root and as myself.
>>
>> However, the printing still goes to the old printer th
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:40:13 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote:
> I have
> noticed my system produces more heat when I am using Linux OS
Have you installed cpufrequtils to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by
default?
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Hi,
I have a feeling that my X is too aggressive that it is killing
my LCD monitor.
Background:
Once, I tested Linux (Slax, if you insist) on an old system. On X
started (KDE to be exact), I see every pixel on the LCD monitor
being "blown" side way, just like you see several "ghost" images
on
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:33:36 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> >> I want to find out the action taken when a gnome menu is selected.
>> . . . when I click on a gnome menu, what exactly will happen, what
>> exact command will be launched?
>
> Right click on Applications, left click on Edit Menus, r
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:33:45 +0200, Steven wrote:
>> > Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a
>> > certain application touches?
What exactly do you mean by "touch" here?
> . . .
> My problem is that the program is being launched by another program,
> which I start
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:32:51 +0200, godo wrote:
>> PS: I'll be a while with this, but once it's done, if someone is
>> interested in getting the results, just let me know.
>>
> I'm interested! :-)
Me 2.
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Hi,
I want to find out the action taken when a gnome menu is selected. How
can I do that?
Please don't tell me that the only option is to dig into the complicated
gconf dir and some lengthy xml files. There got to be a better way. Even
MS can do better than that.
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:39:15 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
>> I'm having problem installing Ms Office 2007 under Wine on AMD64 box --
>> when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the
>> terminal, mainly to do with things being unimplemented. And the install
>> progress bar *never
Hi,
I've just installed wine [1], but I can't find the menu
Applications>Wine>Configure Wine. Do you have such menu entry?
Thanks
[1]
$ aptitude install wine
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libwine{a} libwine-alsa{a} libwine-cms{a} libwine-gl{a}
libwine-gphoto2{a} libwine-ldap
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:45:22 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
>> I do almost everything on command line. Maybe the only GUI tool I
>> need is the sound volume control tool, but I don't have it any more
>> -- I used to use tkmixer. Now that it's obsoleted, I'm yet to find
>> a GUI sound m
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:35:34 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> the application would
> transparently integrate the two, sending any new forum post to the
> relevant mailing list
OMG, I hope that is NEVER possible. Why? Take a look at, or participate
in ubuntu forum and you will know why. You'll get endle
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:43:20 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> I have a menu item, 'sudo gedit', which has worked for years but just
>> stopped working (on a current testing system). . . .
>
> Sorry to answer my own question - 'gksudo gedit' works (although why
> sudo no longer works, I don't kn
Hi,
I do almost everything on command line. Maybe the only GUI tool I need is
the sound volume control tool, but I don't have it any more -- I used to
use tkmixer. Now that it's obsoleted, I'm yet to find a GUI sound mixer
plain and simple enough for me.
Just like Gnome/Windows volume control
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:19:03 +, T o n g wrote:
> It seems to me that sendmail is not accepting local smtp connections:
because of the sendmail service is not started (this is a new install).
update-rc.d sendmail defaults
invoke-rc.d sendmail start
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Thanks for all the explanations.
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:02:05 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> In case you want that back, (setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)
> does the trick. Can you send mail if you do that?
No... OK, so the problem is acutally sendmail. My bad.
It seems to me that se
Hi,
In order to override whatever my shell environment encoding is, I
deliberately set
(setq ispell-dictionary "en_CA-wo_accents")
so that my emacs spell checking works no matter what.
However, the trick ceased to work having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4. Now
I get:
Starting new Ispell pro
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:20:16 +, Camaleón wrote:
> +5
>
> I love Clearlooks (and GNOME icon set) and had to download from upstream
> GNOME project in order to have it available in Squeeze :-/
FYI, the request has been rejected with
- I don’t think it is worth splitting.
- need a better rati
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:34:19 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> [OT] Just wondering -- how does Gnome look like with "no theme"? No
> desktop, menus, icons, bars at all or what?
Honesty, I don't know. I don't actually use Gnome, but fluxbox. I need
the theme just get my Gtk apps straight. Wondering how my
Hi,
Having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4, I lost the "send mail (with sendmail)"
menu, but get a "send mail (with gnus message)" menu instead. As you
might have guessed, it doesn't work for me.
$ tail -1 /var/log/mail.log
Sep 28 23:00:07 coral sm-msp-queue[5145]: o8SATjAs007592: to=root,
ctladd
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> I don't speak for the OP, but my guess is that the OP has a script that
> he wants to be able to run either as his non-superuser self or as root.
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:14:24 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote:
>>> I dont use sudo, but can you explain me,so I will go to bed with more
>>> knowledge, why root would need sudo?
>>
>> invoking my scripts embedded with sudo as root
>>
> I'm, not sure what you mean by "embedded" here, so my guess is that y
My bad.
The failed environment is a linux-live environment that I built myself.
When mirroring it to HD, everything works fine. So it's actually the live
environment's problem, not sudo's.
Thanks again for your comprehensive tips, which I'll garter bellow in
case someone else need to troubles
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:16:34 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> Do you have the "!root_sudo" option set?
Nope:
$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | grep root_sudo || echo no
no
Thank you all the same.
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:16:05 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> What could be wrong?
>
> grep root /etc/sudoers
% grep ^root /etc/sudoers
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
It has always been there.
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:17:11 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> There is an extremely long delay when sendmail first start up, right
>> when:
>>
>> Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmail
>>
>> The googled answer that I get is to put in startic IP, or use full host
>> name, but this is a live syst
Hi,
There is an extremely long delay when sendmail first start up, right when:
Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmail
The googled answer that I get is to put in startic IP, or use full host
name, but this is a live system. Is there any other way to solve it?
Moreover, I just can't unde
Hi,
How do I use the '-net user' kvm command-line option?
According to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Networking
,-
| By default, if you enable the usermode networking using the '-net
| user' command-line option, the guest OS will get an IP address in
| the 10.0.2.0/24 address space a
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:47:06 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote:
>>> Lots of useful info in there Javier. Also worth mentioning, though it
>>> doesn't seem you use it, is laptop-mode-tools.
>>
>> . . .
>
> The last time I setup laptopmode-tools under squeeze it is disabled by
> default and does nothing
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:37:55 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> I don't have the context of you previous e-mail, so my answer is just
> biased by what I use, which is NO desktop environment at all
Thanks. I use fluxbox and don't use desktop environment myself as well
(my wife does).
Thank you for
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:45:25 +, Camaleón wrote:
> you shouldn't care about the backend used by "gnome-power-manager" . . .
> Nowadays "gnome-power-manager" seems to use DBus instad of HAL, though.
I build my system from scratch (debootstrap). Ok, let me specify
gnome-power-manager and the ac
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:11:26 +, Camaleón wrote:
> I would recommend reading [ . . . ]
So, the Debian-recommended way is (still) "pm-utils". I saw that pm-utils
depends on HAL, and thinking that the HAL will soon be the thing in the
past, so I went for the other route: hibernate with kernel
Hi,
Thanks you all for the comments, which make it obligatory for me to
explain more. First, why I asked:
$ man tar | grep -i sparse
-S, --sparse
handle sparse files efficiently
--sparse-version=MAJOR[.MINOR]
set version of the sparse format to use (implies --sp
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:16:55 +, T o n g wrote:
> - There is a complicated installation script (think of being more
> complicated than VMWare), and rpm installation is just one of its single
> line.
> - The only dependencies of the sw is actually JRE, so I'm hope I would
>
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:23:25 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>> 2. Do I need to install an additional util and any way to configure it?
>> 3. Something else?
>>
>>
> The answer to your question and more, if you are running Squeeze
> already, is already on you system.
>
> read /usr/share/doc/hibernate/RE
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:40 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> If somebody please to explain current hibernation mechanism in Squeeze?
> If there are links to web docs about all this stuff?
+1, I want to know that too.
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We all know that,
,-
| On Debian and derived systems it is recommended to use "alien" to
| convert RPM packages into .deb format instead of bypassing the Debian
| package management system by installing them directly with rpm.
`-
However, I'm wondering if it OK to install RH packag
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:33:43 +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 of
Singapore wrote:
> I don't think it is that easy to hack if you are using SSL connections
> and very strong passwords. . .
Please keep your discussion focused on the technical issues.
Please do not disguise a political dis
Doing a full quote in case somebody doesn't know how to find its
parents
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:49:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> http://paste.debian.net/90057/
>>
>> Worked xog log:
>> http://paste.debian.net/90058/
>>
>> Not working one:
>> http://paste.debian.n
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:17:19 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
>> > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people
>> > started
>> > to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that
>> > people
>> > sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)?
>> >
>> >
> The be
Hi Stephen,
This is to confirm that I've read your message thoroughly and take it
seriously. However, I can only get back to you in a day or two.
Thanks
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:49:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> OK, I have looked at your files.
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