I have a single partition mounted at '/'. When I run the disk usage
utility, it shows That I have 66 GB remaining. Which is correct. But when
I scan home it shows my home folder as 100% full.
Why would my home folder be full, when my there is just one huge partition
and it has plenty of empty
Of course, the official linux client from google should probably drop one
of these months.
Really?! Last time I had a discussion on G+ they were of the mindset
that they wanted 3rd parties to develop for it, after all the toolkit
was released for that purpose. Do you have a cite for this
of these months.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Stephen Allen
marathon.duran...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:58:26AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
Has anyone had any experience, recently, with Grive or SyncDrive on
Debian
Wheezy?
Other clients would be fine too, I'm just trying to figure
Has anyone had any experience, recently, with Grive or SyncDrive on Debian
Wheezy?
Other clients would be fine too, I'm just trying to figure out what my
options are for a Google Drive client on a Debian system.
Something keeps turning off my key repeater setting. I'm not sure if
that's the technical term, but pressing and holding a key doesn't do
anything. I have to go into System Settings and toggle the repeat
checkbox, then it works again.
NOTE, it will then quit working in a short time frame, i.e.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:55 PM, ChadDavis chadmichaelda...@gmail.comwrote:
Something keeps turning off my key repeater setting. I'm not sure if
that's the technical term, but pressing and holding a key doesn't do
anything. I have to go into System Settings and toggle the repeat
checkbox
Some software that I use has a functionality to automatically update itself
from the web. This update process has quit working and is complaining that
MD5 is not a FIPS140 compliant algorithm.
I understand that this might not be a debian issue, but perhaps it is. Is
there a way to replace the
Unless you've already removed it, you can still check the configuration
file, find the files/apps it was serving, and get a good guess at the
contents, enough to decide whether you want to start the server back up to
look. Or whether you might want to take other measures to make sure that
And synaptic knowing about tntnet was somewhat reassuring, because it does
indicate a high probability that it was installed by someone with
admin-level priviledges. Bad if it wasn't you, of course, but not bad if
you're sure no one not you has been logging in as you.
Did you check what it
of that chrome package. Anyone know what that verbiage
means?
For now, I just turned the service off.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm. Guerilla marketing?
Wish I had time to check it out. Looks kinda fun.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:55 AM, ChadDavis
It means synaptic knows of a newer version of google-chrome-stable,
but since you specifically asked for removal of tntnet it won't touch
it.
Nothing to worry about.
So, there's no connection between chrome and tntnet, it's just
pointing out that while I'm doing stuff, there's this other
I've noticed the tntnet is running on my box. I'm on wheezy.
I'd like to turn it off, at the least. But I wonder why it's fired up
in the first place. I didn't install it, unless by accident. How
might I determine if something else is using it?
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I'm doing some software development that uses RPM packages. I would like
to have RPM installed on my debian system for trivial and development only
usage. In other words, I don't really plan to manage my system with it at
all; i just want to use it for my dev purposes.
My question is whether
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
ChadDavis wrote:
Why are you overriding the nameserver? If you control the dhcp server
then the better option is to have it provide the desired information
there instead of having clients override it.
I don't want
The vncserver and xvncviewer names use the Debian Alternatives
system. You can read more about that here:
That helps!
And then people found that starting a server was inconvenient.
Wouldn't it be better to export the current desktop? Instead of
exporting a new, unique and different
I'm a bit confused about what package is the vnc server that I need to run
in order to remote desktop into my machine. Installed by default is a
vino and it says that it is a VNC server for Gnome. But when I search
about how to set up a vnc server on the internet, I keep finding vnc4server
I'm trying to add a dns server. I manually add the server to resolv.conf
and then it get's blown away. Actually, I'm not even sure it works before
it get's blown away.
Can someone explain the moving parts for a noobie?
Thanks Bob. This is quite helpful. I have comments and further questions
inline below.
Why are you overriding the nameserver? If you control the dhcp server
then the better option is to have it provide the desired information
there instead of having clients override it.
I don't want
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser?highlight=%28debian-user%29#Multiarch
Cool. The problem is that my binary in question hasn't been installed
via dpkg, nor will be. So, I'm left to track down the missing
libraries and install the 32 bit version by hand. Thus,
apt-get install
both of my systems are 64 bit amd.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:17 PM, ChadDavis chadmichaelda...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a binary file that I'm trying to execute. It works on my
squeeze system but not on wheezy.
the file commands gives me:
ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
I have a binary file that I'm trying to execute. It works on my
squeeze system but not on wheezy.
What is the error message?
I don't see any error message. Is there a system level log that would
capture something?
execve(./myApp.run, [./myApp...], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
[ Process
After recent upgrades, my gnome3 no longer works. The system boots and I
can log in to an X system, but it looks more like gnome2, than gnome3; the
whole activities thing and the favorites menu is gone. Instead, I have the
mutliple window changer thing in the bottom right corner.
While I know
So, how do I start troubleshooting this? I looked in /var/log/gdm3
logs, but couldn't see anything that lept out. There were some errors
from the nvidia driver levels, but those were in older logs and, as I
say, the UI works, it's just not gnome3.
As you do not seem to know what has
(EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.
If
(EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
Did you reinstall the
I want to see the script that installs the alternatives when the
sun-java6-jdk is installed. I'm not that familiar with the .deb
structure, etc. I guess it's in some lifecycle script, but I don't
know where those end up. The update-alternatives man page says
update-alternatives is usually
I'm installing, by hand, a java7 distribution that doesn't exist in
the repositories. Is it feasible to use the alternatives mechanism to
work with ad hoc installations like this? In other words, I've
installed the java 7 jdk into /usr/local/jdk1.7.0.
I just want to check whether it's
Anyhow, there are some good answers to the original question at
http://serverfault.com/questions/14199/how-many-context-switches-is-normal-as-a-function-of-cpu-cores-or-other
Thanks for the good info!
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I'm learning about various tools to monitor performance. I'm reading
about vmstat right now, and it says that context switching, if very
high, can be an indicator of misbehaving hardware . . . I'm not that
interested in what it can mean, at this point, but I'm interested in
what appears to be
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:02 PM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:20:18 -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
I'm learning about various tools to monitor performance. I'm reading
about vmstat right now, and it says that context switching, if very
high, can be an indicator
Does the context switching means CPU switches it speed?
Context switching means that the CPU has switched the process that it
is executing. The context is the process's execution context, I
believe, which contains it's execution stack, variables, etc.
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I notice that the following two invocations of netstat have
drastically different execution times:
netstat
netstat -n
When you just use numerical addresses, it executes almost instantly,
but with the domain names and whatever you call those logical names
for the port numbers, such as 'www', it
There are web sites where you can purchase cd/dvd versions of the full
distrobution. Google linux distros on disc.
www.osdisc.com
Note, if you want to download you'll have to find a good internet
connection. Moreover, you'll want to download a full distrobution, not a
net-install. The net
I'm using the gnome-system-monitor to watch some apps and their
resource usage. On the process view, it lists a %CPU column. I
assume this means the percentage of the CPU that the application is
currently using. THe documentation doesn't really clarify this, but
seems not to contradict this
I have a why question.
I'm a Java developer, and I use 100% debian for all of my development
environments. I'm somewhat familiar with the debian way . . . but
I'm would like some insight into the concept of java lib packages.
Browsing through the lib stuff for my distribution I see that there
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith
Jr.b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:
In 4fe4c4f50907020939v7039d33ej8056970848e03...@mail.gmail.com, ChadDavis
wrote:
When I'm using
an advanced project tool, like Maven, all of these Java libraries
are managed for me -- they are all kept
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
Jr.b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:
In 4fe4c4f50907021030n40b776b8h9a09ce64ecec9...@mail.gmail.com, ChadDavis
wrote:
I would be interested in
hearing how people doing Java development make use of the Debian
shared Java libraries.
I don't think
n't really favor one language over another at runtime.
In any case, the lib*-java packages are not specifically for developers.
They are shared dependencies of the Java applications that are part of
Debian or are using the Debian build and distribution network (contrib/non-
free). Java
Filed an installation report...then picked up the march 1st
version...it works...it realizes there is a HD attached :)
I'm experiencing the same issue even with the latest nightly build of
the net installer. i386, from today March 12th. When I use the Lenny
installer it works fine, so I
When I run the bigmem version of the 2.6.24-1 kernel, my machine slows to a
crawl. It does actually run, but it's shockingly slow. 5-10 minutes to
boot, 5 minutes to login. Then it runs like a Windows machine after that.
I don't really need to fix this because I can fall back to the normal
There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone
had the solution. Google should find the thread.
Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms
suggestsions, other than:
debian bigmem kernel linux
etc.
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ChadDavis schrieb:
I have 8gb of memory, bios sees it. Lenny only sees 3.2 gb.
Is there a different version of the kernel or parameter to make it see
all of my memory?
If you compile your kernel by hand, look at menuconfig
After a new lenny installation on a new motherboard, my PATA drive came up
as 'sdb'. I expected hda. I don't really care, but it does lead me to
wonder how these names get doled out by the system. Can someone explain, or
refer me to a good explanation, of how hardware is discovered and named.
I'd like some advice from the admins. I'm a developer who admins my own
environment in a home office. I get things done, but perhaps not in the
best fashion.
For instance, I just installed the tomcat server via the debian
repositories. By default, all of the files go in under the root
I have 8gb of memory, bios sees it. Lenny only sees 3.2 gb.
Is there a different version of the kernel or parameter to make it see all
of my memory?
Can anybody recommend some software that tracks hours spent on tasks? I'm a
software developer just looking for a simple piece of software, preferably
in the debian distribution, that can do timekeeping chores for me.
I have a simple bash scripting question.
I have a tree of directories from which I would like to recursively dig
into, removing source control meta-information from. In this case, the
meta-data is in .svn folders.
Does anyone have any elegant suggestions on how to do this?
That's great. I also saw in Unix Power Tools that you can use xargs to
similar effect?
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Martin Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:27:30AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
I have a simple bash scripting question.
I have a tree of directories
Good to know. Thank.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
ChadDavis wrote:
I have a simple bash scripting question.
I have a tree of directories from which I would like to recursively dig
into, removing source control meta-information from
I just wonder if this is supposed to be used where 'svn export' better
be.
No, its the Sysdeo tomcat plugin's export WAR file feature. it doesn't, as
far as I can tell, have a mechanism for filtering out things like .svn.
I'm trying to figure out which version of debian I need to go with to get
G33 Chipset support. I've read a couple of online things that suggest I
need kernel 2.6.23, but others seem to suggest that older versions work?
Does anybody have experience with this chipset and debian?
In case
I'm trying to figure out which version of debian I need to go with to get
G33 Chipset support. I've read a couple of online things that suggest I
need kernel 2.6.23, but others seem to suggest that older versions work?
Does anybody have experience with this chipset and debian?
When the kernel is uncompressing, I get an
invalid compressed format (err=1)
---System halted
It seems that others have had this problem due to media issues. I've tried
to reburn the image and that still doesn't change anything. Does anyone
have any other ideas?
I reburnt several times and finally it worked. Now I've got another issue
to check out though ;)
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:39:43PM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
When the kernel is uncompressing, I get
Can any one recommend a java decompiler for linux?
I'll be mulling this over, I'm sure, I can't let a good problem like
this rest ;) So, hopefully sooner than later, it will get solved.
I figured out the problem. To recap, I was trying to use the shebang
notation to specify that ruby should be used to execute the script. Common
thing.
I'd also ask, which I forgot in my first response to your question, is
this something that needs to be done for all users on your system or is
it a personal script?
I think the Debian policy in this case would guide you only if what
you're doing is for all users of the system. If you're
I've started using wrapper scripts to set environment variables that are
required by individual applications, as per the debian policy manual. I've
encountered a problem that seems to arise out of some difference between
using the wrapper script and hitting the binary directly. It involves a
Then I probably am not following what you're doing. You don't show the
shebang lines in this message, but I thought you wanted your application
to use a custom wrapper script, and not run the packaged ruby1.8 directly.
On my system /usr/bin/ruby1.8 is a binary, and not a shell script as I
Putting the original executable in /etc/alternatives is not a good idea.
The script you put in /usr/bin may get overwritten at some point, with
a security update, but still be at version 1.8, so you'd end up without
your wrapper, at least, and perhaps still running the binary you moved,
#!/bin/sh
export RUBYOPT=rubygems
exec /etc/alternatives/ruby1.8 $@
Do you really want to quote the argument list?
I got that directly from the debian policy manual example. I didn't do it
for any real reason. I'm not scripter, so I'm unaware of how this would
impact stuff.
I'd
this kind of package?
On Feb 8, 2008 4:08 PM, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob McGowan wrote:
Ken Irving wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:02:30PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
First of all, I have wrapped my ruby binary in wrapper script as just
indicated. the wrapper script is called
I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my
profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post that I'd
ever made to the debian list. Kind of scarey to think that all of my posts
to a list were being kept on record with out my knowing. I'm sure that
You could place an old machine on the dmz port of your
firewall/router (you DO have a firewall, don't you?), and copy client
software to that machine, for access by your clients.
I don't have a firewall software, but i have the DSL router and
nothing comes through unless i port forward. I
This may a bit off topic, but I am talking about a debian base network, and
I sense that many of the people on this list have admin expertise.
I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the
process realized I'm not all that honed on security issues. My concern is
this,
match the byte sequence when the unterlying system call is made . . . is
this an accurate description of the situation?
On Dec 31, 2007 9:52 PM, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2007-12-31 15:08:24 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question
mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand
what is happening, I find that I don't understand a couple of fundamentals.
1) what is the default encoding of my debian system?
2) It seems that
I need some advice in troubleshooting mount problems. I've got al ls120
superdisk that I'm trying to mount. I've installed it as the secondary
device on my main ide channel, behind the boot hard drive.
Here's what I've got in my fstab:
/dev/hdb /media/ls120 vfatrw,user,noauto 0
The actual language in the constitution states that The Congress shall
have the power to ... promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive
Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Interestingly, I've read that
If you want Whizzbang, Wizard style, auto-magic crap, then why use a
powerful OS?
I use vim when learning a language and then usually try to find power
tools ( auto-magic ) to speed up rote tasks once I know what I'm
doing. From my point of view, and learning style, and obsessive
compulsion
http://membres.lycos.fr/aulon/fun/dilbert.linux.gif
Can someone explain the last frame? Who are those people?
Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,Here kid, go buy yourself a
real computer.
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is a bit hazy and distant at this point.
On 12/12/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:03:37 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
Hello.
I'm trying to install a nvidia driver and have run into some issues
with getting the installer to locate my header sources.
I'm running
Hello.
I'm trying to install a nvidia driver and have run into some issues
with getting the installer to locate my header sources.
I'm running etch if it matters.
I've installed the linux-source and linux-headers packages for my
kernel with apt-get. Yet, the installer still says it can't find
Don't buy an HP/Compaq. Two reasons:
1. They never perform as good as the hardware suggest. This has been
my observation over several years dealing with clients who buy nothing
but HP.
2. HP of late has a filthy habit of boobytrapping their notebooks to
not take generic components. My
I don't know if you can use Ant. I usually work with Java but the
books I've read on Ant say that there are c++ packages built for it.
I do know that it is WAY faster than make. The main reason being that
all of the recursive and secondary processing is done with in the JVM
( ant being java
Thanks.
On 11/7/06, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:47:56PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
Well, I just found the tomcat package in debian. I didn't realize
they had a current version in packages. NONETHELESS, I would still
like it if someone can point me
If I want to install software that isn't in a package, what is the
Debian compatible method. I mean, where do I put the executables,
where do I put the installation itself, etc. To be specific, I'm
installing tomcat.
If someone can tell me where to find documents that specify such
Debian
Well, I just found the tomcat package in debian. I didn't realize
they had a current version in packages. NONETHELESS, I would still
like it if someone can point me to infromation outlining the standards
for software installation in the debian system.
On 11/7/06, ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED
I'm installing some software that needs the JAVA_HOME environement
variables set. I read in the debian policy manual that system wide
environment variables are a bad idea. I can see that. It suggests
writing a wrapper script to start my program. The problem here is
that you get a maintenance
Yo. I'm installing a nvidia driver, and the script says you must
turn off the xserver. In order to this, since I didn't know how, I
rebooted into runlevel one. Then the script complains about runlevel
one not being enough. Is runlevel one more of a rescure mode than
just a non-graphical
Where's my source tree? How do I get one if I don't have one?
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Thanks man. I was trying to find kernel-source, to no avail.
On 11/5/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:54:31AM -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
Where's my source tree? How do I get one if I don't have one?
[apt-get|aptitude|whatever] install linux-source
I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've
recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent
and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around
here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty bickering.
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Hey there. What X system does my recent (installed yesterday ) debian etch system use? Isn't there adifference between xfree86 and xorg? The docs I found on the debian site are for xfree86 but my system seems to have X11 / xorg stuff on it? Sort me out if I'm clueless.
Respect.
If I go with the testing or unstable version, how unstable is the system? This is intended to be a work machine, so I can't really afford to suffer many crashes. On 11/3/06,
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Hey. This may be a dumb question, but . . . I'm doing my first install on a laptop. I have found that I need to track down drivers for both my ethernet and wireless cards. I already found them, I think, but I am curious as to how I make them available to the install process. The install talks
Hey, I am using CVS for some development work. It keeps track of whether a file has been modified by monitoring the timestamp. My time stamps keep getting renewed occasionally, which mucks up CVS. There are ZERO changes to the files at these times, but its annoying nonetheless.
I wanted to check
Hello,
I'm installing an application, oracle's instant client actually, and I
need to know where to put the shared libaries ( .so ). I'm pretty
unfamiliar with development on Unix/Linux so I don't exactly know how
things work. I suppose there's some sort of path variable for
locating shared
/, and put the shared objects in there?
And then just dump the executables into /usr/bin?
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Hello,
I'm installing an application, oracle's instant client actually,
and I need to know
I have a Gigabyte mother board that has second and third IDE channels
that are controlled by an onboard RAID chip. The chip is a
Gigabyte deal I think. In the bios, I can configure the RAID
controller to simply view the channels as IDE/ATA ( the chip only
supports harddrives ). I moved my
, ChadDavis wrote:
I have a Gigabyte mother board that has second and third IDE channels that are controlled by an onboard RAID chip.The chip is a Gigabyte deal I think.In the bios, I can configure the RAID controller to simply view the
channels as IDE/ATA ( the chip only supports harddrives ).I
Can some one tell me how to get past the level where the green goo is
spreading and there aren't enough diamonds to satisfy your
requirement? This is on the atari caves.
Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is
decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux
systems?
Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to Win-axe?
the postfix that is set up by default on debian serves this role.
Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP port?
Chad
On 4/3/06, listrcv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ChadDavis wrote: an incoming mail server and an outgoing mail server.This means that it must listen on some port to receive email from
Matthew,And sendmail is an MTA? Sendmail hands it off to postfix? If so, then does Postfix, as the default MTA for the debian system, even run an SMTP port service?Chad
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Does cron talk
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On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:01 -0700, ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers.I need to install a server in my local network to use for development of another application.I just need a mail server available for the appli-
cation.I read some of the online
Hello.
I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers. I need to install a
server in my local network to use for development of another
application. I just need a mail server available for the
application. I read some of the online documentation and became a
bit confused about what constitutes a
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