Re: running a website the Debian way

2014-03-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:18:07PM -0700, Peter Michaux wrote: > > What I'm thinking is that I'd like to be have some .deb packages that > I can install on a brand new Debian VPS. These packages would create > database users, database, and tables as necessary. These packages > would configure and

Re: running a website the Debian way

2014-03-13 Thread Alan Chandler
to install and maintain a website in a more professional way. If there is such a thing, I'd like to know what "the Debian way" would be. The website in question could be something like * an Apache virtual host configuration file * a PostgreSQL database with a few users with var

Re: running a website the Debian way

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
; anything. I'd like to learn how to install and maintain a website in a > more professional way. If there is such a thing, I'd like to know what > "the Debian way" would be. Debian is the Universal Operating System. As such there are many ways to do the same thing, d

running a website the Debian way

2014-03-12 Thread Peter Michaux
in a more professional way. If there is such a thing, I'd like to know what "the Debian way" would be. The website in question could be something like * an Apache virtual host configuration file * a PostgreSQL database with a few users with various permissions * some static web conte

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:36:51 + Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried > making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't > have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower > re

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:56:36AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > What you have is some sort of image format inside a PDF "container". It > is probably already compressed, which is why Zip had little effect on > it. You need to extract the image, use image software to shrink it, and > put it back in

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 20:57 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > John A. Sullivan III writes: > > Does anyone know how to change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE, > > dcop, or anything else to ensure the file icon does not appear until > > the reduction is complete? > > Have gs write to a hidden temporar

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-03 Thread John Hasler
John A. Sullivan III writes: > Does anyone know how to change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE, > dcop, or anything else to ensure the file icon does not appear until > the reduction is complete? Have gs write to a hidden temporary file. Rename it when it's done. Arrange to remove the temporary

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-03 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 03:05 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > So I gave up with Acrobat and used the ghostscript command gs > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen > -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf which > worked really well and made a small

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread John Hasler
What you have is some sort of image format inside a PDF "container". It is probably already compressed, which is why Zip had little effect on it. You need to extract the image, use image software to shrink it, and put it back in a PDF container. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:39:59 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 11:33:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Other preset modes are "-dPDFSETTINGS=/print" and >> "-dPDFSETTINGS=/press" which provides higher quality PDF and so, a >> bigger file size. > > -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer and -dPDFSETTINGS=

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 11:33:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > Other preset modes are "-dPDFSETTINGS=/print" and "-dPDFSETTINGS=/press" > which provides higher quality PDF and so, a bigger file size. -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer and -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress with Ghostscript 8.62. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 02:42:28 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > So I tried the above command substituting my pdf file as input.pdf and > creating a suitable name for output.pdf and then hit return in a > sheepish ignorant kind of way and amazingly enough it worked. I got a > pdf file that was m

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:42:28 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Here is what I did here: > > The google search suggestion was to do this: > > gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen > -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf (...) > The info and m

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Michael Fothergill: > Doug: > > Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably > > this one) that there are a couple of repos you can get to from > > Debian that hold proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat. > > I have the debian non free mulltimedia link set up in my ap

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 January 2011 05:42:28 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: > OK, > > Here is what I did here: > > The google search suggestion was to do this: > > gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen > -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf > > What is p

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
>> >> Suggestions welcome. >> >> Michael Fothergill >> > Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably this one) > that there are a couple of repos you can get to from Debian that hold > proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat.  Either scan for > that info, or maybe some

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Doug
On 01/01/2011 06:36 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower resolution. But e.g

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
OK, Here is what I did here: The google search suggestion was to do this: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf What is peculiar here is that man gs and info gs find the NOPAUSE QUIET and BATCH commands or

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread shawn wilson
Converting your scans to text (ocr) might yield you some improvement. Ymmv depending on the text, images, number of pages, etc. If there are mainly graphics here, you might look into raster to vector software. I do not have any recommendations for such software.

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 January 2011 02:36:51 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried > making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't > have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower

making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower resolution. But e.g. adobe acrobat I think has an option in it somewher

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:07:18 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > >> >> > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There >> >> > is no option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny screenie >> >> > where you can see the problemat

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-04 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 22:06:33 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:32:03 -0300 > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > That said, I don't trust hybernation. Your data is much safer in the > > > long run if

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-04 Thread Lisi
On Friday 03 September 2010 18:47:20 Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:22:52 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Lisi: > >> > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There is > >> > no option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny s

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:32:03 -0300 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > ... > > > That said, I don't trust hybernation. Your data is much safer in the > > long run if you restrain yourself to suspend-to-RAM and shutdowns. > > Can you elaborate on this?

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > >> > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There is > >> > no option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny screenie where you > >> > can see the problematic combo box and the hibernation (Tiefschlaf) > >> > button right unde

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:22:52 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Lisi: > >> > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There is >> > no option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny screenie where you >> > can see the problematic combo box

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Lisi: > > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There is no > > option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny screenie where you can > > see the problematic combo box and the hibernation (Tiefschlaf) button > > right underneath. > > I'm

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 02 September 2010 21:11:33 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:56 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > > >> I meant you can hibernate your computer with any am

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:32:03 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: ... > That said, I don't trust hybernation. Your data is much safer in the > long run if you restrain yourself to suspend-to-RAM and shutdowns. Can you elaborate on this? I have certainly experienced my share of hibernation

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:11:33 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: (...) >> > Booting to the login screeen takes ~35–40 seconds here. Plus another >> > half minute to load the DE. Usually I am using normal standby (aka >> > suspend to RAM). Powerde

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:56 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > >> I meant you can hibernate your computer with any amount of ram > >> available, there are still restoring speed gains in some

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 02 sep 10, 07:39:09, Camaleón wrote: > > Amount of ram should not be a relevant key value for benefiting of > > hibernation. > > Unless there's something I'm missing, copying the contents of the RAM to > HDD and back heavily depends on the tota

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:56 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > >> I meant you can hibernate your computer with any amount of ram >> available, there are still restoring speed gains in some computers. >> Your mileage may vary. > > But you also

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > I meant you can hibernate your computer with any amount of ram available, > there are still restoring speed gains in some computers. Your mileage may > vary. But you also need as much space on the HDD to store the RAM content, which I don’t re

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:03:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 02 sep 10, 07:39:09, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Amount of ram should not be a relevant key value for benefiting of >> hibernation. > > Unless there's something I'm missing, copying the contents of the RAM to > HDD and back heavily dep

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 02 sep 10, 07:39:09, Camaleón wrote: > > Amount of ram should not be a relevant key value for benefiting of > hibernation. Unless there's something I'm missing, copying the contents of the RAM to HDD and back heavily depends on the total data available in RAM, which tends to be higher d

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:11:27 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > because I can’t make Powerdevil (KDE’s power management utility) hide > the "Hibernate" button (which I hit accidentially from time to time), > I’d like to disable the suspend to disk feature on my system. It’s not > practical anyway

What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello List, because I can’t make Powerdevil (KDE’s power management utility) hide the "Hibernate" button (which I hit accidentially from time to time), I’d like to disable the suspend to disk feature on my system. It’s not practical anyway (it’s a laptop with 3 GB of RAM). So what is the prope

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:46:42PM +, T o n g wrote: > What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default > (installing as minimum packages as possible)? If you are running some sort of userland daemon (e.g. laptop-mode) to manage power, you'll probably h

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
T o n g writes: >>> You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments. > > I don't have such file as /etc/default/cpufrequtils*, so nowhere to read > the comments from. Copy one of the sample files in /usr/share/doc/cpufrequtils/examples/ to /etc/default/cpufrequtils and edit at

[Solved] The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-12 Thread T o n g
> Nope, having installed 'powernowd' and reboot, I still need to 'modprobe > powernow-k8' manually. > > Do you have 'cpufrequtils' installed as well? Yep, the magic is 'cpufrequtils', not 'powernowd'. So the Debian way to enable onde

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-12 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:39:54 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> . . . I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq >> governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. . . >> > . . . my preferred package is 'powernowd'. . . IT > seems to do a good job of managing the dema

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
T o n g wrote: > I took a look at it, but still don't know how not to 'modprobe powernow- > k8' manually. > > Any specific hints? > /etc/modules Just add the module name there. -- micro: Thinker toys. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-12 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:11:14 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: >> You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments. I don't have such file as /etc/default/cpufrequtils*, so nowhere to read the comments from. > Actually /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils I took a look at it, but still don'

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-12 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Wackojacko wrote: > You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments. Actually /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils The locatation of this file appears to be changed from an earlier version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-12 Thread Wackojacko
T o n g wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:21:38 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default (installing as minimum packages as possible)? look at this package cpufrequtils and then look in here /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils If I don't

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-11 Thread Roberto De Oliveira
>  CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, > governor not available...done. Did you the governor kernel module?. You can find this modules with: 'modprobe -l cpufreq\*'. If you want to load these modules automatically, just add their names to /etc/modules. -- Saludos, Ro

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-11 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:21:38 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >> What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default >> (installing as minimum packages as possible)? > > look at this package cpufrequtils and then look in here > /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils If I d

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* T o n g [2009 Jul 11 11:48 -0500]: > Hi, > > I am able to use the 2.6 kernel ondemand cpufreq governor, but I just > noticed that I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq > governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. > >

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-11 Thread Alex Samad
reboot. > > What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default > (installing as minimum packages as possible)? look at this package cpufrequtils and then look in here /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils > > Thanks > -- The garden is in mourning; The rain falls c

The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-11 Thread T o n g
Hi, I am able to use the 2.6 kernel ondemand cpufreq governor, but I just noticed that I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by defau

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Dieder Vervoort
Check this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/replaced-eth0-network-card-new-network-card-comes-up-as-eth1-713488/ in my system it is z25_persistent-net.rules success ! Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:21:49 -0600, Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net) wro

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:21:49 -0600, Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net) wrote: > Since I think I have good reason to believe that the built-in has gone > bad, I would like to have it skipped over during all setup. How? I > can't exactly remove it. It seems to be soldered in place. Th

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
An uneducated guess: fiddling around with lspci or lshw actually would probably give you some info on the controller... then checking out which /dev is mapped to it and somehow block it? HTH Nuno -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpo

ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
A few days ago, communication with one of the Debian computers on my LAN became unreliable. Rsync transfers were interrupted with an error message about the MAC address changing. After a visual inspection and moving a few cables, the problem did not go away, so I added a lan card to the box and gav

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-09 20:02 +0100, lee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> > Create new default link to new source code >> >> This is absolutely unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Read the README >> in the Linux kernel tree why you should not do it. > > The NV

Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-09 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Create new default link to new source code > > This is absolutely unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Read the README > in the Linux kernel tree why you should not do it. The NVIDIA driver doesn't install when it wants to comp

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-08 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:45:08 +0100 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-12-08 23:01 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Sven Joachim: > >> Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your > >> old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd to the kernel directory. >

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-08 23:01 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Sven Joachim: >> Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your >> old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd to the kernel directory. > > The copy should be unnecessary as long as the current config is > available from /p

Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sven Joachim: > >> Create a new config file based on the old one, this will prompt for new >> configuration settings. Read carefully every question. >> root# make oldconfig > > Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your > old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd t

Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
I feel the need to correct a few bad ideas here. On 2008-12-08 21:53 +0100, subscriptions wrote: > Download the source code and unpack Note, none but one of the steps below require root privileges if you are a member of the `src' group or perform them below your home directory instead of /usr/sr

Re: Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 17:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:23:37, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > [...] > > > Is kernel-package still considered good (there is a bug against it: > > kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). > > > > I have not kept up on "current" methods, I just stuck

Re: Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:23:37, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [...] > Is kernel-package still considered good (there is a bug against it: > kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). > > I have not kept up on "current" methods, I just stuck with one that > worked. I guess you missed the latest post(s) of Manoj

Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
make install cd /boot mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-new_kernel_name (edit grub to boot new kernel) The questions: What is The Debian way as of now? I have just used kernel-package for years. Why use yaird or mkinitramfs? Which is the preferred method and why? Is kernel-package still considered

Re: What is the Debian Way ?

2008-09-27 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Jabka Atu wrote: > Howdy ,... > > In many places i encounter the phrase the "Debian Way" and many times i > can't really be sure what it is. > > While in some places i can go to the Debian policy to understand or to > explain but when it not in fully technical

What is the Debian Way ?

2008-09-27 Thread Jabka Atu
Howdy ,... In many places i encounter the phrase the "Debian Way" and many times i can't really be sure what it is. While in some places i can go to the Debian policy to understand or to explain but when it not in fully technical point. For example if a person describe an

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia > >> driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You > >> might want to try that. > > > > what driver would that be?? > > apt-get install nvidia-kerne

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >>> so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to > >>> run a command.. > > Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. sorry, would I meant to say was, there must be a step or two left out. Obviousl

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Patrick Wiseman wrote: so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a command.. Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. I have never seen such magic. Changing to a directory giving you root access? Something is very odd. Inspect your PA

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to > run a > > command.. > > > > I have never seen such magic. Changin

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. Y

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 > > GNU/Linux > > It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia > driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You > might wa

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to FIX it:

The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to FIX it: and then choose the op

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2008-01-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:51:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: > Bob wrote: > >Cameron Hutchison wrote: > >>Bob wrote: > >>>Bob wrote: > >>> > Is there such a thing? > > When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address > from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Marcher
Bob wrote: > Sorry to resurrect such an old thread but this is really irritating me, > after reading through the Bug Reports it seems this has been fixed in > version 4.2.4 which is fine for Lenny but I don't want to run Lenny on > my firewall, it's very simple dedicated etch box with nothing other

ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2008-01-09 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: Bob wrote: Bob wrote: Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a pr

Re: Configuring laptop interfaces The Debian Way?

2008-01-03 Thread robin putters
On 1/3/08, John Stumbles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces. > Apart from difficulties in getting the wireless to work I'm a bit > surprised by the way even the wired setup works. If I boot up the laptop > when the wired ethernet is di

Configuring laptop interfaces The Debian Way?

2008-01-03 Thread John Stumbles
I'm trying to set up a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces. Apart from difficulties in getting the wireless to work I'm a bit surprised by the way even the wired setup works. If I boot up the laptop when the wired ethernet is disconnected it spends quite a long time looking for a DHC

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-12 Thread Bob
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Bob wrote: Bob wrote: Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a preferred

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Bob wrote: >Bob wrote: >> Is there such a thing? >> >> When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address >> from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. >> >Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a >preferred work around for this? How d

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-12 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. This is a well know bug [0] and there are a lot of posts about it but no consensus on a work around. Any help? Thanks [0] it's so

ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-05 Thread Bob
Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. This is a well know bug [0] and there are a lot of posts about it but no consensus on a work around. Any help? Thanks [0] it's so old a well

What is the debian way to configure raw device?

2007-11-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, In Redhat or SuSE, there is 'rawdevices' under /etc. While what is the debian way? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 09/09/2007 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Jonas, Hi Andy, > > > You can use the normal Debian kernel source and compile like you > > > would normally, making sure to select the xen patch. > > > > Unfortunately, this simply doesn't work. If I run 'make menuconfig' in > > debians linux-source-2.6.22 so

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jonas, On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 03:03:09PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 09/09/2007 Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi Jonas, > > Hey Andi, > > > > i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 > > > host kernel yet. > > > > Do you need to? What is wrong with Debian's xen ker

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
ge | grep xen # > > that's because i would like to use a recent linux kernel (2.6.20 at > > least), build it the debian way (with make-kpkg), and as well build > > some external modules (nvidia-legacy-96xx, ivtv) with module-assistent > > for it. > > You can't

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Andy Smith
like to use a recent linux kernel (2.6.20 at > least), build it the debian way (with make-kpkg), and as well build > some external modules (nvidia-legacy-96xx, ivtv) with module-assistent > for it. You can't use a kernel.org kernel, as the xen feature is a patch developed external

how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 host kernel yet. that's because i would like to use a recent linux kernel (2.6.20 at least), build it the debian way (with make-kpkg), and as well build some external modules (nvidia-legacy-96xx, ivtv) w

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:54:26PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 00:36 -0300, Mariano Alonso wrote: > > you have a nice script called keychain to solve this problem. > > it manages ssh-agent. give it a chance, perhaps you get your problem > > solved > > Wait, it is NOT my pro

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 00:36 -0300, Mariano Alonso wrote: > you have a nice script called keychain to solve this problem. > it manages ssh-agent. give it a chance, perhaps you get your problem > solved Wait, it is NOT my problem. The idiot I was responding to suggested not using *ANY* password on

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Mariano Alonso
you have a nice script called keychain to solve this problem. it manages ssh-agent. give it a chance, perhaps you get your problem solved chears. On 4/19/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:03 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > why not in .bashrc - presuming the key doe

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:03 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > why not in .bashrc - presuming the key doesn't have a password What is the point of having passwords then? This is for key-authentication. If you have no very strong password for your private key, why even bother. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:22:27PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:45:57 +0200 > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello Paul, > > > > Am 2007-04-07 20:26:23, schrieb Paul E Condon: > > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > > event

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:45:57 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Am 2007-04-07 20:26:23, schrieb Paul E Condon: > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > > do, I

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Paul, Am 2007-04-07 20:26:23, schrieb Paul E Condon: > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where can I place an invocation of > ssh-add so that it is run once

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [not what I asked for, but OK ]

2007-04-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-09 09:39:20 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Is ssh_wrapper available in Debian? No, this is a script I've written. > What does it do? It does the ssh-add. Well, a little more: #!/usr/bin/env zsh # You may call "ssh_wrapper true" to initialize. emulate -LR zsh local cmd if [[ "$1" ==

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [not what I asked for, but OK ]

2007-04-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-09 09:07:29 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2007-04-09T13:07:34+0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is a bad idea. SSH can also be used in non-interactive sessions > > (e.g. by Subversion, rsync, unison and so on). Such a check must not > > be done if you want your wrapper to work with t

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