Re: cheese - other application that does same job

2011-09-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:15:22 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: I dad the name of another application that's similar to cheese for the web cam. To take snapshots? Kindly please can someone just point me in the right direction. wxCam? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-13 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Golden wrote: Get finnix and try to mount your encrypted partition with --debug Watch the kernel logs as well. Have downloaded finnix-102.iso and wrote it to a CD. I hope to do what you suggest later today. Thanks for the tip. Ken Heard

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

2011-09-13 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 13/09/2011 16:21, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:09:33 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: After installation of debian 6 I tried to play an mp3 file. Do other sound files work or just mp3 fails? The indicator show it is playing but no sound. I checked both speaker

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

2011-09-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:51:08 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On 13/09/2011 16:21, Camaleón wrote: (...) It's strange, because when you experience a codec issue the file cannot be played, you get a message like not found any suitable codec or something similar which makes my wonder if

Re: cheese - other application that does same job

2011-09-13 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 13/09/2011 16:34, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:15:22 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: I dad the name of another application that's similar to cheese for the web cam. To take snapshots? Kindly please can someone just point me in the right direction. wxCam?

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Jari Fredriksson wrote: 13.9.2011 7:01, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: Jari Fredriksson wrote: jarif@spitfire:~$ sudo rndc stop WARNING: key file (/etc/bind/rndc.key) exists, but using default configuration file (/etc/bind/rndc.conf) That should not produce that warning. A default

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Yes, it is buggy. It should wait for a while and then kill the thing off. Agreed. And since the standard start-stop-daemon has that feature it would be very simple to do. It just needs to use the existing feature.. Shutdown scripts that fail to exit in a

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

2011-09-13 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 13/09/2011 17:00, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:51:08 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On 13/09/2011 16:21, Camaleón wrote: (...) It's strange, because when you experience a codec issue the file cannot be played, you get a message like not found any suitable codec or

Re: debian 6 mp3 not sounding

2011-09-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:29:22 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On 13/09/2011 17:00, Camaleón wrote: (...) Seem to be no coomunication between debian software and pc hardware Mmm... you need to run more tests before reaching a conclusion. Greetings, While I did some google it was

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 9/13/11, yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote:  I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to the manufacturer for replacement. I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX#  for the unencrypted partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-13 Thread Jari Fredriksson
13.9.2011 18:53, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: Jari Fredriksson wrote: 13.9.2011 7:01, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: Jari Fredriksson wrote: jarif@spitfire:~$ sudo rndc stop WARNING: key file (/etc/bind/rndc.key) exists, but using default configuration file (/etc/bind/rndc.conf) That should not produce

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Jari Fredriksson wrote: Restarted binf and now all works. Glad to hear it is all working for you. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: User configurable backup

2011-09-13 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 09/13/2011 01:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:22:50 +0600, Gary Golden wrote: I'm looking for a backup software which can be configured for inclusion/exclusion inside the target directory. (...) Tar with --exclude? Greetings, Hi , have a look to backuppc -

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
trouble daemon wrote: Anyways, the problem is that when I use the guided partitioning (tried with and without encrypted+lvm), `fdisk -l` makes mention of a bad partition table since sda1 isn't on a boundary. The current wisdom of partitioning is changing. The debian-installer is following the

Re: Bug in Debian installer

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
spp mg wrote: I install Debian(6.0.2.1 amd64) to a old HDD.This HDD has a lvm partition,it's creat by Fedora installer. I can't delete this lvm partition in intaller,it's display about lvm is busy... ,even if I delete all Logical Volume and restart installer. Finally, I delete lvm

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-13 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Golden wrote: Get finnix and try to mount your encrypted partition with --debug Watch the kernel logs as well. Have downloaded finnix-102.iso and wrote it to a CD. I hope to do what you suggest later today. Thanks for the tip. Ken Heard

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-13 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/9/13 Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com: On 09/13/2011 08:04 AM, yudi v wrote:  I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to the manufacturer for replacement. I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX#  for the unencrypted partitions and just over

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. September 2011 schrieb jacques: Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : On Wednesday 07 September 2011 3:33:10 pm jacques wrote: Hi, Hi Mark, Hi Jacques, 1. alias rm to rm -i to add a rm: remove regular file `filename' ? to give the user a moment to think for

autodiscover of a samba share

2011-09-13 Thread tadziu
hi, recently friend of mine visited me with his macbook in my home. i never used macos before to often, but i was amazed that its default file manager discovered automatically my public samba shares without mounting. they are just visible and accessible with single click, just after connecting to

Rolling my own

2011-09-13 Thread Dave Higgins
I'm trying to figure out how to make my own Debian based distribution. Either I'm asking the wrong question on Google or there is no information. I'm trying to take Debian and build a custom install for a product. I need to replace the kernel and add a few things to this installation CD.

Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: jacques wrote: by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( Everyone has made that mistake at some point.  I know I have! Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately and cancelled.

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: jacques wrote: by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have! Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately and

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst administration mistake and how did you recover? The worst admin mistake is failure to secure proper backups. Full stop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-13 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Further to the problem described in the first post to this thread, I have progress of a sort to report. As to inability of the computer on boot with squeeze to unlock the BDS-home_crypt partition, I discovered that the connection to the box from the

Re: How to disable USB automounts

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/09/11 16:17, Itay wrote: When I stick a USB device into the socket it is automounted; KDE pops up device notification widget, file manager window, etc. I tried to disable it: KDE - System Settings - Removable Devices, and unchecked Enable automatic mounting of removable devices.

Kscope is not in wheezy?

2011-09-13 Thread H Xu
I've checked this website and kscope is available in squeeze and sid: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kscope But I can't find it in wheezy. Why? Thanks. -- Hong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Rolling my own

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/09/11 08:04, Dave Higgins wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to make my own Debian based distribution. Either I'm asking the wrong question or you've got the wrong signature ;-p on Google or there is no information. There is. And on Debian.org. I'm trying to take Debian and

Re: Just a Quick Question

2011-09-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:53:19PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: How does one go about turning off the screen saver on the Debian system? Thanks so much in advance. It depends on which desktop environment you use (KDE/GNOME/XFCE/Other?). Each one has its own way. Alternately, if you run xscreensaver,

[OT] Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/09/11 08:15, Bryan Irvine wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: jacques wrote: by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( snipped Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst administration mistake and how did

Re: Kscope is not in wheezy?

2011-09-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:58:54AM +0800, H Xu wrote: I've checked this website and kscope is available in squeeze and sid: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kscope But I can't find it in wheezy. Why? On the package tracking system, you will get a reason why:

Re: Just a Quick Question

2011-09-13 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/9/14 RiverWind riverw...@shellworld.net How does one go about turning off the screen saver on the Debian system? Thanks so much in advance. Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @

Re: Just a Quick Question

2011-09-13 Thread RiverWind
I use the gnome system; sorry I forgot to mention that. Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Sep 13,

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-13 Thread yudi v
I would do: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX (Note there is no partition number.) I only use sdX# for partitions that are unencrypted. It's redundant to write over a LUKS container. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-13 Thread yudi v
If the drive has encrypted data, then you don't need to wipe much. I would do the following, and call it good: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=100 This will wipe pseudorandom data to the first 100MB of the drive, which should wipe out any of the encrypted header

netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

2011-09-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I have a small netbook that I broke the screen. I use it as a headless gateway now (the VGA port is still OK when needed, I just have to plug a screen). I just noticed that if I close (or fold) it, after a while it goes to suspend state (or hibernate I dont know exactly). I have to

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