Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

Daniel Barclay: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> ... In my >> experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email >> addresses at all. > > Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), > right? Sure. J. -- I like

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

Andrei Popescu: > > - boot in "recovery mode" > # rm -rf ~username/.gnome > ... > # reboot What's the point in rebooting? Just log out, log in on a VT, delete the directories and log in again. Gnome doesn't keep any daemons running after the user logs out, or does it? J. -- I have been manipulat

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

Andrei Popescu: > On Wed,26.May.10, 10:59:30, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> What's the point in rebooting? Just log out, log in on a VT, delete the >> directories and log in again. Gnome doesn't keep any daemons running >> after the user logs out, or does it? &

Re: Filezilla: always trust a domain's certificate

Merciadri Luca: > > How can I tweak some setting so that Filezilla will never ask me again > if I want to trust a given domain's certificate? I often connect to some > machines of montefiore.ulg.ac.be through SFTP, but the fact is that I > connect to different machines (sometimes, some are dead),

Re: How long squeez supported

Camaleón: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote: > >> thanks. > > It has not been released yet! :-) > > ~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK. NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release + another year. Usually, that's more than one year in total. J. --

Re: How long squeez supported

emigrant: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release + >> another year. Usually, that's more than one year in total. D'ouh. Of course, I meant to write "that's more

Re: Disk problems or worse?

Ralph Katz: > > Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to > syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel problem. I don't remember the specifics anymore, but on one of my systems I had similar errors. After rep

Re: Disk problems or worse?

Ralph Katz: > > As mentioned in the original post, disk PASSED SMART tests, and computer > is a P4. > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz single processor > hda: UDMA/100 mode selected Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM

Re: Disk problems or worse?

Ralph Katz: > On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: >> >> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller >> (rev 03) > > Where would I find it? Just run

Re: Opinions about my partition

Germana Oliveira: > > any suggestion are welcome! I won't comment on your disk layout, but just one hint: you should absolutely use LVM. It is nothing more than an abstraction layer between your disks/partitions and the filesystems, but offers a lot of flexibility. If after one year you recognize

Re: LVM

Gerald C.Catling: > > I am not a Debian user but I have seen references to LVM here. > I have 3 drives LVM'd to give me 1.3TB of storage space on my server. That was a bad idea. You have no control over or knowledge of which data went on which drive in this setup. When one disk dies, your whole fi

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

prakhar gaur: > > Just wanted to ask why was I not able to compile the make-3.81 source > code and how did using apt-get resolve the problem. Simple: you need make to compile make, but it wasn't installed on your system. apt-get is one of Debian's tools to manage software and the command 'apt-get

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

Lorenzo Beretta: > Il 18/06/2010 19:40, Jochen Schulz ha scritto: >> >> Simple: you need make to compile make, but it wasn't installed on your >> system. apt-get is one of Debian's tools to manage software and the >> command 'apt-get install make'

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

Augustin: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 15:26:12 Ron Johnson wrote: >> The *drive*? No. e2fsck checks the filesystem data structures >> that have been written onto the drive. > > Yes, sorry. I did mean the partition, not the drive. No, you didn't mean the partition, you meant the filesystem. ;-) T

Re: repositories for AMD 64 apps

John W Foster: > TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are > designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with > GPLed source code available... What exactly are you looking for? The complete Debian archive is available for pure AMD64. I am running Debia

Re: basic installation question x 2

Jim Pazarena: > > (a) is it possible to avoid/cancel the initial request for a user name >(other than root)? >My goal is to have an install routine which _after_ the base install >creates all the users I need, possibly in non-default locations. Debian-installer has the concept "pre-se

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

Paul Chany: > > I decide today that I'm going to upgrade my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to > Squeeze. > > I try to search on debian.org site for an exact howto for this, but > find nothing. Mayhep I don't know how to search effectively? The keyword you need to look for is "release notes". You will fi

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

Paul Chany: > > Moreover, I decide to migrate my 32-bit Debian GNU/Linux Lenny > installation to 64-bit one (i386 to x86_64). I'm going to use this > howto: http://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit Interesting approach. I would probably just mkfs my swap partition and debootstrap there. Then reboo

Re: is this result of keylogger? am i hacked?

Sergey Spiridonov: > > I found yesterday that some files in /etc/ (/etc/shells and > /etc/default/default/schroot) are changed. They contain data which I > was typing on keyboard. Strange enough, this files are not > overwritten, but contain data they should contain + somewhere in the > middle or

Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

Martin McCormick: > > ls *.[Zz][Ii][Pp] Note that 'ls' doesn't see this pattern at all. The pattern is expanded by the shell to all existing files matching the pattern. This list of files is then passed to ls. Using 'echo' would yield (almost) the same result in this case. > for MAGFILE in

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

pierre poulos: > > Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;// I guess you meant to write "http://"; instead of "http;//". > www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web proxy. What error message do you get? J. -- I worry about people thinking I have l

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

pierre poulos: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> pierre poulos: >>> >>> Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;// >>> www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web >>> proxy. >>

Re: What to put on SSD

Pasi Oja-Nisula: > > So basically I have root and home partitions and another disk > for backups of the whole thing. > > Now I got a SSD disk, about which I don't really know much. > It's a 160 GB Intel, so it should be quite ok. "Quite ok" is "quite an understatement". :) Intel SSDs are still o

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

George-Cristian Bîrzan: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 21:56 +1000, pierre poulos wrote: >> Cannot initiate the connection to security.debian.org:21 >> (2001:388:1034:2900::26). - connect (101 Network is unreachable) [IP: >> 2001:388:1034:2900::26 21] > > Try, as root: > sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disab

Re: What to put on SSD

Pasi Oja-Nisula: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> You might want to read Ted T'so's blog entries regarding SSDs: >> http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/ssd/ > > This is where the pain starts. I started looking at this and

Re: What to put on SSD

Brian Ryans: > Quoting Jochen Schulz on 2010-08-05 04:27:26: > >> BTW, you can monitor lifetime writes with recent kernels for each >> filesystem separately: >> >> $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/manowar-home-crypt | grep ^Lifet >> Lifetime writes: 785

Re: building 2.6.35

Alexander Samad: > > I am looking at how to build 2.6.35 the debian way so I end up with > deb packages. The easiest way to get a kernel deb is to fetch vanilla sources from kernel.org, unpack them and run 'make && make deb-pkg'. I am not sure whether such packages create an initramfs on installa

Re: What to put on SSD

[Re-posted to the list] Andrei Popescu: > On Vi, 06 aug 10, 21:14:21, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> What about boot time? My laptop (Thinkpad X200) boots up in less than >> ten senconds (boot manager to GDM). > > Are you using anything special besides the (now def

Re: What to put on SSD

Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > Did you enable the 'discard' mount option on your ext4 file system (see > kernel-/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt) in order to make usage of > the TRIM-ability of the SSD? Me? -No, because my (1st gen) X25m model doesn't support TRIM. J. -- I think the environment will

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

Lisi: > > I have been asked to set this HDD up as a backup device on a Lenny system. > It > will primarily be used for photographs and personal files. > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B0017422EA The exact type of disk is irrelevant to your task. And, btw, th

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

Bob Proulx: > > It is "just a disk drive". There isn't anything magical about it > having come with FAT32. That is just a mild convenience so that the > casual MS user does not need to format it themselves. But they could > and you could too. No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) d

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

Jordon Bedwell: >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> >>> No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) doesn't allow >>> formatting disks larger than (IIRC) 32GB with the FAT filesystem. It's >>> either NTFS or… NTFS. > > […] Yes, Windows

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

Tom Browder: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot > >> Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but >> it can manage ext4 for other partitions. >> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Debian >> http://wiki.debian.org/Ext4 >> >> For

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

Tom Browder: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> In order to be able to at least mount existing ext4 filesystems during >> installation, you canalso try Kenshi Muto's d-i: >> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ >> >> These are regular

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

Jordon Bedwell: > > Calling you names? lol? And I don't need to read out-dated KB > articles, Show me more recent ones which support your claim. > I logged into Windows XP machine here in the office and > did it before I even posted...I formatted an external HD with FAT32 > with no problems. You

Re: Debian FS structure.

Sthu Deus: > Wolodja: > >> /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a >> better place. What kind of data do you have here? > > Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for > all the users, say movies, music, etc? I put such files under /srv/fi

Re: Debian FS structure.

Sthu Deus: > Jochen: > >> I put such files under /srv/files. /srv is meant for service-specific >> files, e.g. /srv/www, /srv/imap etc. The naming below /srv is up to >> you, though. > > Why www under /srv? - If it was always in /var? Well, to quote the FHS (

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

Aaron Toponce: > > I was in the same situation as you not a month or two ago. I spend days > online looking for a good NAS, and really couldn't find anything that > impressed me. I ended up going with 4-1 TB 3.5" drives, and putting them > in a Linux software RAID 10 with LVM on top. What mainboa

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

Mariusz Sielicki: >> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> What mainboar, CPU and case do you use? I am currently searching for a >>> similar solution as well. I am considering to buy a Mini-ITX Atom board, >>> but it's hard to fi

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

Kevin Ross: > On 09/01/2010 02:43 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> What mainboar, CPU and case do you use? I am currently searching for a >> similar solution as well. I am considering to buy a Mini-ITX Atom board, >> but it's hard to find a decent case with enoug

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

Angus Hedger: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I am still just a little bit unsure about wattage. Do I need 180W with >> an Atom board (D510 + ION or NM10 chipset) + four hard drives and one >> optical drive? > > Have a look here [1], I know it doesn’t have the D510

Re: bashrc, bash_profile, /etc/skel/ - Debian Squeeze

Csanyi Pal: > > When I installed 64bit Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze, I used my $HOME > directory with it's dot files too. > > So, I think the .bashrc and .bash_profile remain in the state in which > was on Gentoo. Yes, that's how it should be. Debian package managers must never touch anything under

Re: Latest Lenny update: What new hardware is supported?

tw...@cstone.net: > > > I'm specifically interested in whether the Verizon USB 760 broadband > wireless modem is now supported, but in general, when the kernel image is > upgraded, where can I find a list of the new hardware inclusions without > asking anyone to lead me by the hand? The release

Re: Latest Lenny update: What new hardware is supported?

Alexander Batischev: > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:46:00PM -0400, tw...@cstone.net wrote: >> I'm specifically interested in whether the Verizon USB 760 broadband >> wireless modem is now supported, but in general, when the kernel image is >> upgraded, where can I find a list of the new hardware incl

Re: umount without sync

T o n g: > > I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before > umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary? No, it's completely unnecessary as umount does the sync for you. Just don't unplug removable drives before umount returns. > If I copy a big chu

Re: why permissions denied?

hugo vanwoerkom: > > As root I compiled a module. What is "a module"? Some stand-alone program? Usually, people mean "kernel modules" when talking about modules and these are not meant to be executed. > Then I try to execute it and I get 'permissions denied' Check the mount options for the file

Re: [bash] script (redirect output) to file and email

Pol Hallen: > > I try to redirect output of this script to file (using tee) and also send > it to mail > > the script deletes files older than 150days: > > find /share/.trash/ -type f -atime +150 -exec rm -fr {} \; - atime finds files *last accessed* 150 days ago. You probably need mtime ins

Re: [bash] script (redirect output) to file and email

Enrico Weigelt: > * Jochen Schulz schrieb: > >> - You are starting an rm process for every file to delete. You can end >> the command with "+" instead of "\;" to make find pass as many files >> to rm as possible. If you delete many files that wa

Re: Oracle SQLPLUS

MASOKIS: > > hi.. i'm happing a difficult. i learn oracle .. as usual. i use oracle in > windows platform.. but i my love is on linux.. :) > then i setup the path..using this command; > maso...@oshirixnet:~$ nano /etc/profile > > to > PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local

Re: Oracle SQLPLUS

MASOKIS: > > oh.. it was a missing part. now i already try it. the path now echo as > inside the file. > > maso...@oshirixnet:~$ . /etc/profile > maso...@oshirixnet:~$ echo $PATH > /home/masokis/.dist/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/usr/l

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

Zhang Weiwu: > > Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised example: > > I have computer A that runs a website. I only want > myhost.dyn-dns.com to be able to access this website, others who > want to access the website should get denied. How do I configure > c

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

Celejar: > > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 > > I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to > about a third of the original, but at the cost of egregious degradation > of the video quality. If I use the 'sameq' option: ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

Celejar: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200 > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and quality (-sameq, >> -qscale, -vb etc.). You have to set both explicitly if you need anything >> else (which you usually do). > > Tha

Re: what will happen if CPU overheat

Long Wind: > > I have a P3/550, slot 1 > the cpu fan is noisy, so I remove it > but I am not sure about heat sink > > What will happen if CPU overheat? If you are lucky: the CPU switches off the system before any damage is done. If you are not so lucky, the CPU will die. If you have bad luck, it

Re: what will happen if CPU overheat

Long Wind: > > if maximum temperature of PC's environment is 35 degrees > then, maximum will be decreased by how much if the fan is removed? There is no general answer to this question. It depends on your CPU, heatsink, thermal paste, the computer case, airflow through the case and inside the roo

Re: libopensync0

Debian TR: > > I am not able to install libopensnyc0 from official repos. What are you actually trying to do? And which Debian version are you looking at? $ apt-cache policy libopensync0 libopensync0: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.22-2 Version table: 0.22-2 0 500 http://ftp2.d

Re: libopensync0

Camaleón: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:37:27 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > (...) > >> It isn't contained anymore in squeeze and sid. Probably because no >> package depends on it: >> >> $ aptitude search '~Dlibsync0' | wc -l 0 > > "o

Re: CPU synthetic benchmark

Martin Spinassi: > > How do you do your CPU benchmarks test? Generally, I don't. :) But what I find interesting when comparing CPUs is the speed of video encoding (h.264). J. -- Tony Blair is a hypnotised self-seeking scarecrow just like all the rest. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Moving LVM Volumes to New Disk

David Baron: > What is the best way to do this? (If I simply cp -a, I might dispense with > LVM > altogether since it's services on a 1 terra disk are not critical any longer). > > I thought to simply add partitions on the new disk to the current volumes and > sometime later remove some or all

Re: removing linux-base from backports

Michael P. Soulier: > > I wanted to test something with a newer kernel so I grabbed a newer one from > lenny-backports, but it includes a new linux-base that insisted on > re-addressing all my devices by uuid. Now that I'm done, when linux-base is > removed that shouldn't break anything, should it

Re: Backup home directory

Alex PADOLY: > > Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. Well, if your /home is not a separate filesystem, you cannot really generate an "image". But what about the following? # tar cvzf /backup/home-$(date '+%F').tar.gz /home For a more advanced backup solution, look a

Re: removing postgres

Sthu Deus: > > I can not remove the following: > > $ sudo /usr/bin/dpkg -r postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3 Why do you use dpkg for that? Have you tried apt-get or aptitude? I guess they will do what you want to achieve. J. -- Americans have a better life. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: aptitude

patrick: > > if a system is using the bigmem kernel: > > uname -a > Linux buddy2 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:52:29 UTC 2009 > i686 GNU/Linux > > why would aptitude safe-upgrade try to > install a non bigmem kernel? $ aptitude why linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 J. -- I throw away plasti

Re: removing postgres

Sthu Deus: > Jochen: >> >> Why do you use dpkg for that? Have you tried apt-get or aptitude? I >> guess they will do what you want to achieve. >> >> J. > > I've tried that already. Please check this: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > postgresql-8.3 [8.3.11-0lenny1] postgresql-cli

Re: Graphical diff/patch viewer

Rob Gom: > > do you know/is there any graphical patch/diff viewer in Debian (or for > Linux in general)? Such a tool would produce side by side view of > changes/deletions/inserts. Apart from vimdiff: have you tried Kdiff3? J. -- I can tell a Whopper[tm] from a BigMac[tm] and Coke[tm] from Pepsi

Re: dovecot imapd on network

Paul Cartwright: > > I have dovecot imapd setup & working on my Lenny box, and I have a > local user account setup in thunderbird & have IMAP folders. > I am trying to setup my laptop to that IMAP account working, but it is > refusing connections... > do I need to do something to iptables? or am I

Re: A question for the list:

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > In <4cd3921a.5090...@optonline.net>, Doug wrote: >> >> One thing I >> really _don't_ like about Debian is its fear of the copyright. I really >> want >> Thunderbird and Firefox, with their familiar icons, on my screen, not the >> goofy clones that Debian has come up with

Re: Off topic question about grep

~Stack~: > > But that would match against 9_asD which begins with a number (not what > I wanted). So I tried: > [_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]* > > I realize that the expression won't do what I mistakenly thought I > wanted it to do. What is puzzling to me is that my hard disk usage > peaked, my cpu jumped

Re: Wayland & Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?

Camaleón: > On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:33:56 +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote: >> 2010/11/9 Camaleón >> >> I myself would prefer to keep X11 > > I see not good technical reason for introducing the change. At least not > nowadays. I am not an X window programmer (don't even know C), but my impression is

Re: Wayland & Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?

Camaleón: > On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:55:09 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I am not an X window programmer (don't even know C), but my impression >> is that X has quite a few design warts that many people would love to >> get rid of. And you cannot really bla

Re: Wayland & Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?

Sven Hoexter: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:13:04PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> But I tend to agree with what another poster said: Ubuntu may be the >> right place to try things like this. Debian isn't, but it still may >> profit from the experience. Without being

Re: usb-modeswitch

Stanisław Findeisen: > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/usb-modeswitch > > Please, someone adds this thing to lenny would be great. :-) That won't happen. Debian stable doesn't get new packages. There might be a package on backports.org, though. J. -- We are lining up to see you fall fl

Re: problem with awstats

Camaleón: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:53:46 -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: >> >> But all the awstats documentation I've read (that included in the Debian >> package, stuff I found on google) says the other way should work. > > I dont't think so. > > Just think about it... how can Awstats know what host

Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

tv.deb...@googlemail.com: > 11/11/2010 13:29, Artur Frydel wrote: >> >> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org >> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command? > > aptitude search ~S~i~mmarillat This will report packages of Christian Marillat from

Re: Recovery from hard drive failure

Peter Tenenbaum: > > Mark -- I've decided against using LVM because (a) it adds another level of > complication to the overall recovery / RAID-ification procedure, which at my > low level of expertise I really do not need, and (b) it's not clear to me > that LVM offers that much benefit for a rela

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

Peter Tenenbaum: > > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup ... > mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied Can your user write to /tmp? Google suggests to 'chmod 1777 /tmp'. J. -- I have been manipulated and permanently distorted. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

Peter Tenenbaum: > > Never mind. JFGI. True. :) > Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. /tmp usually has the sticky bit set. That makes sure that nobody can delete other peoples' files. J. -- Scientists know what they are talking about. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: "need a quick hashing method"

Arthur Bela: > > I copy files between HDD#1 and HDD#2. > > When i finish, i need a quick "hasing method" - i just want to check, > that the copy was 100% ok. Why do you want to hash? Hashing implies reading both trees completely, computing hashes and comparing these hashes. It might be faster to

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

Camaleón: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >> But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. > > Well... gathering information about the running terminal is possible: > > s...@stt008:~$ stty -a | grep column > speed 38400 baud; rows 63; columns 86; line

Re: instalação

Leonardo Reis da Silva: > > Qual debin devo instalar no meu pc? I don't speak your language, but from the few keywords I know you probably asked which architecture you have to choose for your 64 Bit Intel CPU. The answer is: you can choose between i686 (32 Bit) and amd64 (64 Bit for recent Intel a

Re: btrfs on an external HD?

Brad Alexander: > > I was thinking about setting up a btrfs filesystem on this drive since > it will be mainly be data from my home workstation that I will be > using on my work laptop, so the data will be safely elsewhere. Both > the home workstation and the work laptop are running sid > (2.6.32-

Re: question regarding SSL

Arthur Bela: > > If i use https, then my connection "is safe", ok. Safe against earthquakes? -No. Safe against a malicious server admin? -No Safe against a man in the middle? Yes, but only under certain circumstances. Never say something is generally safe (or secure). Always mention which ris

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: > > At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script which > is nso resource-hungry … > (In the script, I am loopìng over the about 3700 tar.gz files in one > directory. For e ach of them, I am spawning a > sub-shell (using &) doing some installation wo

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: > > This si my shell (bash) script: > > # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, > # to ~/R/allinstall . Should be run from ~/R/Recommend . > # > for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z > do > if [ -f $FILE ] > then >nice R CMD INSTALL

Re: btrfs on an external HD?

Brad Alexander: > > That is a good point. Is anyone using the 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 from > experimental? Any stability issues? I am running vanilla 2.6.36.1 and don't see any problems with it. J. -- In idle moments I remember former lovers with sentimental tenderness. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:56, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: >>> >>> This si my shell (bash) script: >>> >>> # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, >>> # to ~/R/a

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

James Brown: > > I have a VDS under Debian Lenny, > ~# uname -a > Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4-ent #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:03:05 MSD 2010 i686 > GNU/Linux Is the rest of the software as ancient as the kernel? Lenny uses 2.6.26. You should probably ask for a more recent kernel. > Is it a rootkit or othe

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

(Sorry if this comes late, but I had trouble getting through the list's spam filters.) Sthu Deus: > > Can I make separate passwords (if one is necessary to boot) - for > accessing the FS and for just booting? It appears you don't really understand how filesystem encryption (usually) works. Let m

Re: An experiment about file timestamp (was: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone)

Lisi: > > I have an idea that there may be some distinction at the atomic level > between UTC and GMT. Can anyone enlighten me? Or was the decision to > call it UTC in place of GMT purely political? Ah, time for my favourite quote from the Java6 API documentation: | Some computer standards ar

Re: Intel video problems

Frank McCormick: > > The video is Intel82865...a couple of years old. I read something about old intel chips not being that well supported anymore since the switch to KMS. Do you have KMS enabled (on a recent kernel: not disabled)? > I have reconfigured X and ran it with the new xorg.conf. I w

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

Peter Tenenbaum: > > Paul -- thanks for the suggestions. I guess that, since I am not using a > tape drive for backup, there's no good reason to use dump rather than rsync, > and the latter will leave me with a navigable file tree on the backup > drive. If you are going that route anyway, I sugge

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

Peter Tenenbaum: > > In thinking this over, I think that the best approach is to simply have a > daily rsync --archive from my main hard drive to the backup drive. While I > understand that more sophisticated backup systems are often useful in a > large system, the system in question is a home co

Re: Getting the memory used by a process

Mathieu Malaterre: > > I am trying to find out the memory used by a process (peak memory > actually). I found the command 'pmap', howeverI cannot find a way to > retrieve the PID of a process when execution time is really short. For > instance, this does not work: > > /bin/ls && (ps ax | grep l

Re: Where I can to find information about Tiger messages?

Craicovik: > > The information of tigexp is not enougth for understand the problem. I wanted to recommend the tiger-user mailing list, but tiger appears to be dead and the last message in the list archive is from September 2009. :-/ > I have the following message in my tiger report: > > --WAR

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

shirish शिरीष: > > Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and > can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to > subscribe to the list, send mails and still not receive mails other > than if guys explicitly address me either in To: , or in CC: . I h

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Camaleón wrote: >> >> I send the messages to "gmane.linux.debian.user" (Gmane group for >> this mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms >> it into the real mailing list "To:" address >> (debian-user[at]lists.debian.org). >> > > I still take it that you sen

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

Frank McCormick: > Camaleón wrote: > >> I send the messages to "gmane.linux.debian.user" (Gmane group for this >> mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms it into the >> real mailing list "To:" address (debian-user[at]lists.debian.org). > > Yeah, but what address do you u

Re: How do I set up compiz ? No xorg.conf anymore ?

shirish शिरीष: > > How do I set up compiz. I downloaded compiz and the compiz-manager > using this wiki page. > > http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz … > Now I'm on an Intel machine (GMA31 chipset) and there's no /etc/X11/xorg.conf Have you tried to run Compiz without altering the xorg.conf? The wiki

Re: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

Klistvud: > > I'm planning to surprise my unsuspecting self with the above hard > drive for Christmas, but have read some alarming reports about > incompatibilities with GNU/Linux partitioning. Apparently, there are > no less than two distinct problems with these drivers: I am running squeeze wit

Re: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

Mike Viau: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:46:59 +0100 wrote: >> >> Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. > > I don't understand the implied meaning of this error? Did you take any > precautions as to the alignment of your partition? What about if you > were planning on having multipl

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