Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is available? You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended, unless you have backups elsewhere. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [...] Usually, this prohibits simply providing a pointer to the source code. The

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
Option a requires the source and binary to be distributed on the same medium. Yes, sorry I erased the right option (b) and kept the wrong one (a). Now, *if* the Internet is considered a medium customarily used for software interchange, a URL that was live for at least 3 years after the

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
does it apply on CF cards? The name says flash, so I would assume yes? But still, I think it really reasonable to consider the life of the media. Yes, same thing. BTW, regarding the life of the media: let's say the internal maximum write speed is 50MB/s, an expected lifetime of 10-writes,

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment results)

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it. Well several years is not very

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
The comfort of administering just one LV, covering both disks carries the risk that most of the data will be useless on failure of one disk and possible data recovery will be difficult to predict. The 'classical' two partition approach at least gives the possibility to save some crucial data

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a symbolic link). I could

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment results)

2009-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
I was thinking to let my firewall run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ... Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries. Especially if you can use a syslogd on another machine. Or use busybox's

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
an emergency shell. This happens about 50% of the times. Then I use the emergency prompt to check if /dev/exthd1 actually exists, and, again, 50% of the times it doesn't; the /dev/sd?1 file is always there, though. When /dev/exthd1 doesn't exist, a udevadm trigger will bring it up. If

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm curious: where did people come up with the incongruous idea of using find/rsync/younameit rather than just use plain old `rm'? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware modules are compiled with the same version of gcc. Are you sure that module-assistant wouldn't be able to build the module you need without having to rebuild the whole kernel? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. Actually, practice suggests otherwise: % uname -a Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 04:05:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux % free total

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
Well, I guess that is a matter of philosophy. I did not think a bigmem kernel was stock. AFAIK stock kernel in this context means that I did not build my own. I just aptitude install linux-image-2.6.28-1-686-bigmem and go on with my life. Also, we might have a discussion of the meaning of

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
It's a different approach taken than the 1:3 gb split. You are paying a performance penalty for accessing the higher part of the memory as it requires trickery and you will probably see a gain by using a amd64 kernel (you can keep the 32bit userspace) It has its advantages and disadvantages,

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny on it. Or, maybe I shouldn't thank you for that, it's not like I don't already have enough projects. chuckle FWIW, I find that running Lenny on a 64MB

Re: unpack and pack initrd

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
r...@etchrouter:~# gzip -dc /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd64 | cpio -i [...] r...@etchrouter:~# find . -print -depth | cpio -o -H newc /var/lib/tftpboot/initrd.img [...] + Problem, the new file is that it does not work :-) Please someone advise me how to do it correctly? I don't know which

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on each drive?

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on each drive? Yes, both

Re: How to install WLAN on Acer 4530

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
What's wrong with debian packages named madwifi-source and madwifi-tools? Indeed, I'd just do: # module-assistant auto-install madwifi potentially preceded by # aptitude install module-assistant if needed, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
On the Gnome desktop, when I click on the computer icon, I get a list that includes an icon for filesystem, which appears to be #2 since it's 5.5 GB total capacity with 3.3 GB used. But I have no icon for #6 which is /home. The icon is (as the name says) representing the root of the filesystem

Re: OT: wireless router suggestions

2008-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
The time has come to replace my garbage router. I am looking at the WRT54GL because of the available firmware, however, I need a USB print server as I do not want to replace my wonderful USB all-in-one HP printer. Which quality wireless routers can run Tomato and have USB print servers?

Re: how to use squid as a Debian package proxy / cache (instead of approx, apt-cacher, etc)

2008-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
Somewhere I got the idea of using Squid as a package cache instead of approx, apt-cacher, apt-proxy, etc. (E.g. [1]) That thread had some of the details needed, but it is missing some details. E.g. The settings that will allow the hard drive to spin down. For what it's worth, I use

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
editable. I think the best way to make them learn the folly of their (people who insist on .doc) ways is to convert each page of the pdflatex's output into a png and embed them as pages in the .doc format :) Actually, that sounds like a good idea. Tho PNG being bitmapped is a bad choice.

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
I use neither windows nor UTF. I purged all the UTF stuff from my debian boxes. I don't need it slowing things down. What's the point of Have you noticed or even measured a difference? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
As for measuring speed, it was dramatic. From the bash prompt, hit enter to get a new prompt thus $ enter $ On Debian with UTF enabled (and the box otherwise idle), it would take more than one second, without the UTF stuff installed it was about half a second. OpenBSD was as

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
BTW, what do you mean by disable UTF? Other than setting LANG=C what else have you done to tune the system? remove all the locales-related packages (remove anything I didn't specifically need: disk space is limited too). Sure, a 200 MHz box would give faster (twice?) bash response than a

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
Stefan Who doesn't understand why pople use such old systems given the availability of cheap replacements which are much smaller and consume less power. * not everybody lives in regions with the same techonological density as, say, New York. Even less people live in places where discared

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
Damn, all of my computers sitting in front of me have floppies! They are all pre-millennium as well except for my 2 month old acer laptop So you have a 2 month old Acer laptop with a floppy? If it ain't broke why fix (or replace) it? I don't think it's relevant: floppies have always been

Re: xrandr Dual head screen different resolutions open source radeon driver

2008-11-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
That is very cool. How did you figure out what to do? I am currently using the nvidia proprietary drivers AFAIK, this doesn't support xrandr (or not well enough). You probably want to try the `nouveau' driver, which does support xrandr. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: What version of debian should I install at this point in time?

2008-11-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
Since I will have a bit more space, I plan to copy my existing Sarge and Etch systems to the new drive and install something more current as well. I have heard that Lenny will soon replace Etch as the stable version. Should I wait a bit, or is there any way I can finalize my Lenny install at

hda: lost interrupt with CompactFlash (via PCMCIA)

2008-11-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm trying to read a CompactFlash card via a PCMCIA adapter (first time I use this PCMCIA port) and am not having much luck: # dmesg|grep hda [ 10.372034] hda_intel: probe_mask set to 0x1 for device 17aa:2010 [ 11.213306] hda: CF 32GB, CFA DISK drive [ 11.903046] ide-cs: hda:

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
Prior to your message, I didn't think anyone actually liked non-split configuration files for exim4 and apache. I tend to find the many little files rather inconvenient since you can't get the complete picture quite as easily. I guess it's a matter of taste, but monolithic files are

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
If Debian were to use diff3 and other such revision-control-style tools, it would not be nearly as hard. And it would behave better in the face of local edits. And it would reduce the diff between the upstream and the Debian version. I'm not sure I understand correctly, whom you mean by

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
when a config file has been changed locally, it's unable to merge the local change with the upstream change: There is no general way to do this. The system would have to fully understand the config file and know all the ways the changes could conflict and interfere. Try to take the need to

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-12-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
Q: How are we going to do that? A: It's not possible in general. Of course it is, since you can always fall back on the current code in those cases where you don't know how else to do it. When something is impossible, it's impractical to think about how it would be done. Solving NP-hard

Better support for merging local and upstream (was: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux)

2008-12-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
Q: How are we going to do that? A: It's not possible in general. Of course it is, since you can always fall back on the current code in those cases where you don't know how else to do it. No, it's not. Falling back to the old behavior (not merging changes) is not a technique for

Re: Better support for merging local and upstream

2008-12-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
Q: How are we going to do that? A: It's not possible in general. Of course it is, since you can always fall back on the current code in those cases where you don't know how else to do it. No, it's not. Falling back to the old behavior (not merging changes) is not a technique for

mount helper scripts?

2008-12-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
Does mount provide some way to add hooks such that mount /foo can do some work to setup/create the necessary device file before actually mouting it (the device file contains an ext3 partition). I'm thinking of an fstab entry like /dev/bar /foo ext3 noexec,prehook=/sbin/makebar In

Re: 100mbit router

2010-01-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a 30/20 Mbit internet connection. I want to buy a new router, because the old one: DL-604 is no longer supported. What router should I buy, that can handle a 30/20 connection? No wifi, only ethernet. Are there cheap routers that supports VLANs and can handle this speed [uploading and

Re: USB audio adapter

2010-01-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
I am interested to buy a USB audio adapter. The C-Media based adapter which came with an Altec-Lansing headset works well but I prefer to buy an adapter without a headset. Does anyone know of an inexpensive adapter which works in Debian? Most/all of the cheap adapters work.

Re: USB audio adapter

2010-01-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
I am interested to buy a USB audio adapter. The C-Media based adapter which came with an Altec-Lansing headset works well but I prefer to buy an adapter without a headset. Does anyone know of an inexpensive adapter which works in Debian? Most/all of the cheap adapters work. If you want

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
What if any is the generally accepted way of maintaining multiple versions of kernels? Hmm... well, the wayu I do it is: I install multiple kernels. That's all there is to it. Any reason you're wondering about it? Have you tried something and bumped into problems? Stefan -- To

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
What if any is the generally accepted way of maintaining multiple versions of kernels? Hmm... well, the wayu I do it is: I install multiple kernels. That's all there is to it. Any reason you're wondering about it? Have you tried something and bumped into problems? Are you doing this

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
So assuming that I only have stable + security in my apt sources.list config, how would I manage to keep the older version of the kernel package, as well as the newest version? Huh... you install the new kernel. 'apt-get install' will remove the binaries from the previously installed kernel

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
Of course I have - otherwise I wouldn't be asking the fine people on this list how to go about this. Now, you're starting to give the necessary info. So like I said in my initial email, *concurrent* installs of kernel packages doesn't seem feasible by just installing the next kernel handed

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
Well, no, what i really want is a portable Debian, so i can, for example, build a web app and show it everywhere without need a web server and just have my own configuration and run it every where Some live distributions have USB environments (I call them) which allow you to create a

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
Not that I can confirm my USB stick 'portable debian' would work on a wide range of systems. For a number of reasons I was not able to pursue this much further than what is described in my notes, one of them being that I did not have access to a target machine (or machines) and discover

Re: debian embebed

2010-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have afonera 2.0n, with openwrt and the chip rt3052 from ralink, and I like to install debian instead openwrt, someone know if it could be posible and howto do? Not sure, but I can't think of any reason why not. The way I'd recommend you do it: - install Debian via deboostrap on some

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
A good place to test your system is the local consumer electronics store. Closed a couple of years ago, CompUSA that is. I still have a Best Buy not too far from me, but I'm not sure they would be agreeable beyond a quick boot, which would be okay if everything works, but not ideal if you

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2010-02-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
Which architecture should I use for an Intel Atom Processor? It depends on the exact model. There are some Atom micros supporting 64 bits (amd64) but the vast majority don't (just 32 bits, so i386 is required), so better check first the serial number. Don't bother checking: since you had

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I've found that deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules takes care of the network devices. Yes, but you should expect this file to re-appear at the next package upgrade, which is why I opted for an rm in /etc/rc.local. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-02-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
However, it has transpired that it wasn't that simple to change from the i686 kernel to amd64 even though my 32 packages will work under the amd64 kernel Apt and Dpkg for instance don't seem to know this has happened. Others have already answered the how to move from i386 to amd64, but I'll

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
So, what are the advantages I see, and why don't they matter to me anymore? First off, IIUC you seem to want to use LVM, right? I'd agree with this choice: there's little reasons not to use LVM nowadays. Once you've decided to use LVM, then the rest (happily) doesn't really matter anyway, since

Re: emacs transient-mark-mode

2010-03-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
When I set mark with C-SAPCE and then move cursor with C-f C-b M-f M-b C-n C-p there is blue backgroun and transient-mark-mode work as I am used to. But if I move cursors with arrow keys or when I use C-x C-x to exchange cursor and mark transient-mark-mode disapears. Doesn't sound like one

Re: Emacs24?

2010-03-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
Anyone know when emacs24 will be in Debian squeeze? The latest they have is emacs23 :( Yes, it's a real shame. We're also still waiting for Debian to put Emacs-24 in unstable at least, so we can grab the source and release it. But we've been waiting for so long that we're losing hope. We may

Re: Linux should not be booting

2010-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
this evidently does not overwrite the boot sector, does grub-install do this? I have yet to run grub-install. Of course, this would not explain why my system still boots after deleting the vmlinuz files. Yes it could: you installed `grub' on your Debian system, but you haven't activated it, so

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tmp

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID partition numbers for the simple reason I can manually write down

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants to use. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are consuming the inodes. hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in which they appear). But every symlink and every directory does use an inode. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
? No one's calling for a 'Depends'; Indeed. what is requested is merely that Gnash be packaged in such a way that it not interfere with a certain non-free package. Is that really a problem? I'm not at all convinced the problem is packaging (there doesn't seem to be any conflict there).

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm not at all convinced the problem is packaging (there doesn't seem to be any conflict there). Last time I had a system with both Gnash and adobe's flash, the problem was that Firefox just seemed to insist on using Gnash even when I instructed it to disable the Gnash plugin. So, all that's

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
My initial difficulties are mitigated a bit. Some web sites work; some don't. I think that both Gnash and Flash can be installed at the same time. Which is actually running, I am not competent enough to know. update-alternatives --display flash-mozilla.so update-alternatives --config

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
[...] At worst it may require some changes to Firefox. A bug report against IW? What's IW? iceweasel? Ah, good catch, thank you. You can say Firefox even if Debian has to say Iceweasel. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
I suppose I can classify this as an experiment case, whereas I will likely later on try out various (which may include Apache, Samba, whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan to keep better track of what I have installed so that the packages can be purged easily

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
How about Puddlerodent? Would that be an appropriate form of mockery of the situation? I mock both Debian (zealotry) and primarily Mozilla (love-hate relationship with FOSS and control freaks) with that one. IIUC Debian changed the name upon explicit request from the Mozilla foundation, so

Re: extract debian package default config

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? No. Various way to do that have been proposed already in this thread, but there's no simple and reliable way to do that. It's too bad, really. I wish `dpkg' was careful to stash a copy of the original conf file somewhere

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? maybe pdftoppm | ppmtojpeg ? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I want to know that, before I start buying movies on DVD's from other Region Codes, so that I will not end up with movies on DVD's, that I cannot use. There are several ways to do that: 1 - use `regionset'. But this can only be used 5 times. 2 - change your DVD's firmware (there's a web site

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
Then I tried to resize with parted of systemrescuecd [1] the LVM partition to having more space to extend the logical volumes, but when I trying to do it I obtain a message saying that partitions LVM are not supported yet. How I can to extend a LVM partition? I'd suggest to report a bug

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
Personally, I think you would be better off finding a 64-bit Xeon for that machine (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12028_div/12028_div.html lists it as an option). PAE is somewhat of a hack IMO, and there are known incompatibilities with some operating systems (FreeBSD,

Re: how to test local ssh server without asking external help

2009-04-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
Any ideas why: ssh 192.168.1.10 would work, but ssh external.ip.here doesn't? I can't test if my ssh server works (or web server, or ddbb server) except if I ask for external help? Thats a nat feature, you cant access the external address from an internal address in the same network where

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be used with 32 bit CPU's and 32 bit OS, with (what I understand to be, basically) a software patch to allow access to the memory that lies outside the limits of a 32 bit OS, but using that patch has its own problems, and so

Re: side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
Can this be done in LaTeX? perhaps with the minipage environment? I don't think minipage will give you an easy solution. But in any case, I'd ask on comp.text.tex. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
suggesting that there can be perfectly common use cases where I want the thing installed, and eventually even running, but not just yet, or right now. Or not by root (e.g. mpd). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single partition devoted to LVM. Actually, I also do that for secondaryexternal

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single partition devoted to LVM.  Actually, I also do that for

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
So if I understand it correctly it is not multiboot situation. Indeed. For multiboot, you can use the same setup if all your alternative boots understand LVM (e.g. various versions of GNU/Linux), or if your other OSes are run from within GNU/Linux (e.g. with VirtualBox). That's usually the

Re: Another solution

2009-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
After the netinstall, install a 64-bit kernel. With a 32bit userland, this mostly works, but you may find a few quirks. E.g. uswsusp won't work (at least s2disk won't, don't know about s2ram). So it's usually fine, but you may want to keep an eye open. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
-bash: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: No such file or directory As long as you keep `stable' in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, that shouldn't be a problem. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
edit the file and remove the instance. Is there an easy way to identify it? Yes: ssh's error message tells you which one it is (i.e. gives you the line number). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?

2009-04-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
Would you, please, help me to join multiple Postscript files into one document? I have several *.ps files with formatted text and illustrations and want to collect them into a single document. Not sure what the resulintg document should look like, but if by collect you mean append the pages,

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
but the marketing brief seems to suggest that if you lose a drive you only lose the files that were on there. with lvm you would lose any lv that has blocks on that drive Not sure what Windows really guarantees in this regard, but yes, losing a drive that is part of a larger volume is a

Re: reduce XFS

2009-04-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
ps.: or is there any other stable FS that supports online shrink/extend? ext3 (probably also ext4), but I never tried it myself. Everytime I tried, ext3 refused to shrink online. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
If someone has actual experience about dealing with lost disk in WHS, please tell us. Actually, I'd rather you don't tell us: just tell him. This is a mailing list dedicated to Debian, so Windows discussions are off-topic. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
So I want to convert high quality mp3 to 128K Which package in etch? Not sure about MP3, but at least for Ogg `sox' works fine for such tasks and it does support MP3. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
Why would somebody need an MTA for a (normal) desktop? Why should every user specify an outgoing SMTP server? Why should every MUA implement the functionality of an MTA? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: what does kept back mean when do apt-get upgrade?

2009-04-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
I often see that some packages are kept back when I do apt-get upgrade, what does it mean? It means that there are newer versions of those packages available, but apt-get refrained from upgrading them. The reasons for that can be that in order to upgrade those packages, apt-get would need to

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
i don't want an MTA running on a system... but many programs require it as dependency to spam me with their stuff (which should belong into just a log file (IMO))... What are those many programs? On my Debian desktop, I happen to like to have an MTA running (exclusively for outgoing email),

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
I've asked the same question a while ago. I have a simple one-user desktop, i do not need an MTA. I know those programs don't need much memory (i have 4GB), i know they're sleeping most of the time, i know they'll only wake up if there's something to do. But i don't want an MTA. It's that

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
# apt-get -s remove exim4-daemon-light Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: at bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-daemon-light gutenprint lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics mailx Which of those do

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
No. It needs an MTA. Install Esmtp, Nullmailer, or similar. Back to square one i guess. From the man page, as far as i can tell, all at does is run commands at specified times... kinda like cron... why does it need an MTA? You don't need at, just remove it. Stefan -- To

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm using Emacs on Debian, when I try to edit a file with emacs, it takes many to open the file. A common problem is that Emacs tries to find the machine's name at startup, and depending on your (mis)configuration, this may require access to the network and may hence fail with a timeout. Try

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
Why would somebody need an MTA for a (normal) desktop? Why should every user specify an outgoing SMTP server? Why should every MUA implement the functionality of an MTA? Do you understand the difference between server and client? ;-) Placing a mail into the queue of an MTA is NOT the

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for using one or the other. are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer hardware)? I my mind, the difference between the two is: -

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
In the second case, if I check the 'print to file' check box, I am asked for the location but the printed file is a PS file instead of a PDF file. IIUC the print to file thingy is completely separate from CUPS and doesn't use it. It basically saves the file *before* passing it on the CUPS, so

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
remedy is to hold down the power button until it powers down. The reason I suspect Network-Manager is twofold: (1) the freeze only It may very well be that network-manager triggers the bug, but such a freeze is clear evidence of a bug in (some part of) the kernel. So please report it there.

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
[...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX total 0 ?- ? ? ? ?? reportX/2009-r...@? I remember seeing a similar thing (also in the context of rsync, by the way), and I remember it took me a while to figure out how to fix it, and I also remember that I fixed it without fsck

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you get the picture.

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
Seriously, left pinky on the key to the right of the A key and left ring finger on the Z key at the same time...? Here's how I'd do it: left-pinky on control (sometimes labelled as capslock), left-index on x, right-middle finger on p. Not only is this very difficult to get right consistently

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