Shell prompt (was ... Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!)

2012-12-09 Thread Chris Bannister
Asking on list, as others may be interested also. On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:52:51PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: martin@merkaba:~ dpkg -l | grep ia32-libs martin@merkaba:~#1 ^ martin@merkaba:~#130 dpkg -l | grep i386 | cut -c1-72 | grep -v lib

Re: no cgi-bin program

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:28:08AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: *Hi, I installed the apache2 from the wheezy distro, apache2, php5 mysql everything ran correctly but cgi failed. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html The module is loaded I mean the cgi.load I added

Re: debian wheezy Beta4

2012-12-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 09:04:23AM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Two Samsung printers SCX-4623F and ML-1510. Debian wheezy Beta4 does see them but unable to install. I installed splix - no difference. Kindly what else is missing please. Could you please read:

Re: Invoking the screensaver AND backups [WAS:RE: Dying hard drive?]

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:15:58PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote: Chris Bannister, you mentioned /etc/inittab. I don't think that X passes the key presses to it, and I always disable that functionality anyhow. This is not an OS that needs that work-around for a reboot, and I don't want anyone

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 09:42:15AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi Charles, thanks for your suggestions, but alas none worked in my case. What is output of: apt-cache policy udev uname -a apt-get -f install -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bannister
[OOps, looks like I've jumped in when Bob's already helping. Feel free to wait and see what Bob suggests, although I can't see any problem with trying the following] On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:47:46AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: What is output

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) my apologies for cross-posting this to several Linux mailing lists. What you have done is referred to as multiposting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting This is distinct from multiposting, which is the posting of

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:34:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I ~think~ they are also doing some free

Re: Dying hard drive?

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:53:30PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Does Main Menu - Settings - Keyboard - Application Shortcuts not work for Ctrl-Alt-Del? No. Not everyone has Main Menu - Settings - etc. but everyone has an /etc/inittab file. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:55:22AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install In Section B.4.7 says The examples below only provide basic information on the use of recipes. For detailed information see the files partman-auto-recipe.txt and

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I ~think~ they are also doing some free softwares. $ apt-cache show mono-complete -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Dying hard drive?

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 01:38:33PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote: with XScreenSaver. Under the old system I could hit Ctrl+Del+Alt and that would invoke the screensaver and lock the screen. That functionality is missing now. Ctrl+Alt+Del is supposed to be the three finger salute! :) get the same

Re: Abberant symptopm or bug worth attempting to duplicate?

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 06:19:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:25:12AM +, Andrei POPESCU wrote: The error messages would have been very useful. Of course - for an proper bug report. After giving the highs and lows of my initial tries, that is why I asked Do

Re: Messed up root

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 07:37:39PM -0600, green wrote: Gary Roach wrote at 2012-11-26 18:43 -0600: I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of the files in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the root

Re: Outrageous Xenophobia. Was: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:00:05PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 12:27 +, Tony van der Hoff It is alleged, that a certain German Fuerer added a smiley to the order to exterminate the Jews, to indicate it was a joke. It was misunderstood. I made a joke with the

Re: Outrageous Xenophobia. Was: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:58:08PM +0100, Titanus Eramius wrote: This is, after all, a specialised list, not a comedy central. You are joking, aren't you? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing

Yet another Hijack (was ... Re: OpenDkim on Debian which was stolen from (How to deal the broken links.))

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:45:24AM -0500, Fred White wrote: I need to ask this question because I consider myself still fresh in the learning process of Debian-Linux and do not want to break my server. Well first of all, it is bad manners to hijack threads. You may not have done it

Re: How to deal the broken links.

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:13:20AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, /usr/lib# find -L -type l ./libmd_mpi_d.mpich.so ./libgmx_mpi.mpich.so Is it safe to remove them all? I wouldn't mess around in those directories unless you know what you are doing. What seems to be the problem, you might want

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:07:08AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: Yury Sakarinen z...@onego.ru wrote: Carl Fink писал 2012-11-26 16:03: I am not a developer, the target market. ahhaha, wrong list to ask questions.. Actually this is Debian User. There is debian-mobile. -- If you're

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 09:54:55PM -0300, Beco wrote: Hey guys, Any prediction or estimate when will Wheezy be finally stable? I'm excited! Go Debian! :) March next year? Conservative prediction. Could be sooner if families come second over the xmas holidays. IOW, is there a rush? -- If

Re: how to systemctl status blah, showing journal/log at same time ?

2012-11-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:39:03AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: [SOLVED] Requires sudo as normal user. It's simply re permissions. Perhaps a NOTE in the output of systemctl to hint at this? I suggest you aim your comments (via a bug report if you wish) where they may actually be listened

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:35 -0500, Doug wrote: Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be specific to certain distros Some distros use aliases for commands, e.g. something like ls -a has an alias, this IMO should be

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 03:13:31AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 14:48 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:35 -0500, Doug wrote: Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be specific

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:31:37PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: You might say where you're coming from - Windows, Fedora, ... ? aptitude search blah (or apt-cache search blah) aptitude show blah (or apt-cache show ...) ip route -n ping So you use these commands everyday? Interesting.

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on mailing lists. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the

Difference between hijack and sub thread (was ... Re: OT: Sources.list Question)

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:09:54PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The main problem still is, that humans on this list count to much on all kinds of automatic selection. An id shouldn't be that important as a subject is. We had thousands of years of natural evolution and now we try to be better

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:54:07AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:40 +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: Yes, there are some useful shortcuts. I guess tty is unimportant at the moment, but e.g. Alt+F2 is useful to launch an app and Ctrl+Alt+F7 is useful, if a newbie should

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:05:33AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: galculator is very good, if you have a num pad where the . is a ,, OTOH gcalctool does completely display what you typed. Whats wrong with bc/dc? :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:11:15AM +0200, ed mente wrote: Have you tried a kernel ml? yes, but with no luck http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/56974 BTW, that seems like a newsgroup rather than a ML. You could try the debian-lap...@lists.debian.org mailing list. Please

Re: OpenVPN setup woes

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:14:16AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Tony, From: Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:01:13 + I'm trying, without much success so far, to set up an OpenVPN server on my Squeeze VPS. Here OpenVPN works with static key

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles (tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 05:58:38PM +0100, Herbert Schwarzer wrote: Following issue occurs (in both flavours Squeeze as well as Wheezy): Running amd64 KDE-Environment. It does not matter running nouveau-graphics-driver or nvidia-graphics-driver (the Debian way ...) If I switch from KDE-GUI

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:07:48PM +0200, ed mente wrote: Hi, [...] [4.] Linux version 3.6.3 (root at clterm) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro ^ 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #6 SMP Sun Oct 28 16:46:38 EET 2012 ^^

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:03:41PM +0530, J. B wrote: Hello, Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and also lost my working skype 4.0 ` dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles(tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:57:03PM +0100, Herbert Schwarzer wrote: Hello Chris, perhaps I do not understand your proposal ... if I switch to runlevel=1 (that's the single user mode, isn't it?) there is no X running, so I can login as root only in text-mode (console). Correct. That

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:46:38AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: ... I've been a computer user since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I just never had reason to have contact with *nix. Even when working for DEC I was much more

Re: OpenVPN setup woes

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:01:13PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi all, I'm trying, without much success so far, to set up an OpenVPN server on my Squeeze VPS. I used the howto at http://wiki.debian.org/openvpn%20for%20server%20and%20client as my guide. However, it appears to be

sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:30:01 +0100 Steven Post redalert.comman...@gmail.com wrote: the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the multiarch way of doing things. So...now we wait, is that about

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:43:25PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: One thing to think about is placement of the ctrl key. It gets used a lot, especially when editing. So it's placement is of great importance ergonomically. Only if you use emacs, if you use vim, for example, it hardly gets used at

Re: Re: Network Connection issue

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:31:32PM -0500, Karl Miller wrote: I too have the D-Link DGE 530T C1 card in my system as eth0, but have a slightly different issue. Running Ubuntu 12.04 patched up, and the card is [...] Suggestions? Try

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:10:01PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Well, if you apply common sense to what you read, old instructions can still be quite usable. The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is a good example for that. If there was one common culture then common sense might

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 02:22:34PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/11/12 13:48, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hmm...authorized_keys contain keys from the user who wants to login. I does not make sense to generate keys for the gpxrecorder account (?). I typically create user keys on both ends.

Re: restart problems monitor or GPU

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:13:39PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: This is a recent development. I run Debian unstable by apt preferences I have a: Samsung SyncMaster 215tw Nvidia GeForceT 9800 GT Graphics Accelerator (silent cell) Recently on a systems restart be it Debian or Windows 7

Re: scid: Location of X11 library: not found

2012-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:59:25PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Dear linusers, Due to license problems, the actual scid package for debian has disabled the use of tablebase (the menu item is gray). So, to have this feature, I need to compile it from scratch. Why not just enable the tablebases in

Re: upower history

2012-11-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:52:35AM +0100, Meneth wrote: Hi! On battery-powered devices such as laptops, upowerd stores power charge and usage statistics in /var/lib/upower/. On my old machine, (Ubuntu 10.10, upower 0.9.5), those logs went all the way back to the time of OS installation,

troubleshooting a broken mess (was ... Re: compiling a Debian package)

2012-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:04:49PM +0100, lee wrote: Yeah and that's why you are forced to turn your system into a mess with brokenarch and are supposed to try packages from unstable which create only more dependency problems and mess things up even further. Think it through and you'll see

Re: Where is CC and why do my downloads not find it?

2012-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:29:41PM -0700, Samuel Morgan wrote: Hi- I recently installed DEBIAN Linux on my 386 PC and then tried to install an Apache web server, as I have on Mac and Windows, binary and it asked for a C compiler. Where do I get, if I really need, a CC binary pre-built?

Re: plugin-containe high CPU

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:05:25AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, What is the story with plugin-containe? Every distro i have ever used it eventually eats your CPU usuage? including: Squeeze amd64 6.0.6 Happens in Wheezy also. Bloody nuisance, and that's putting it mildly. -- If you're

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:06:37PM +0100, lee wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: Andrei called d-m.o deprecated because, AFAIK, most of the packages in d-m.o are now available in d.o. Cinelerra is not in Debian, and I haven't been able to compile it, so the only source for it is

Re: motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:12:45PM -0400, H.S. wrote: On 10/21/2012 08:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:12:45PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Here is what appears to have changed since my last night's upgrade: [UPGRADE] ffmpeg:amd64 7:0.11.1-dmo5 - 7:1.0-dmo1 [UPGRADE

Re: Is Wheezy going to be more stable than Squeeze?

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:45AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: I expect this post could cause annoyance in some quarters but I can stand abuse if you want to give it. I am tempted to insult you in funny ways, but at the moment I cannot think of any. :) What about: His mother was a

Re: Using Debian wheezy

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:16:31AM -0700, rodrigo tavares wrote: Hello, I'm using Debian 6;0 Squezze, in my mail server, so I need to cyrus-2.4, but in repository come only cyrus-2.2. So I comment my sources.list, and add reposotory  wheezy. So I run apt-get update, and i got installed

Re: Controlling automount

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:40:28PM -0400, Len Berman wrote: I am running Debian stable (Linux foobar 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux). If rhythmbox is up when I plug in my digital camera, rhythmbox grabs it as a 'removable device' and I cannot get

Re: motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:12:45PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Here is what appears to have changed since my last night's upgrade: [UPGRADE] ffmpeg:amd64 7:0.11.1-dmo5 - 7:1.0-dmo1 [UPGRADE] gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:amd64 0.10.13-5 - 1:0.10.13-dmo1 [UPGRADE] libxine2-ffmpeg:amd64 1.2.2-4 - 1:1.2.2-dmo3

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:58:59PM +0200, lee wrote: Mutt isn't designed with the concept of folders in mind. It merely acknowledges the concept because the mails need to be stored /somewhere/. You mean it doesn't work out of the box and requires some configuration? Hey, JFYI most good

gnus MUA

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:07:25PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote on Oct 18th? If you know, and enjoy LISP then configuring it will be an enjoyable experience.? No need for any elisp. All configuration can be done via menus. Interesting. A newcomer to Linux who is advised to use

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:02:02PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear package-teams, please do not put everything to multiarch! Just let me explain, why I think so. As already reported here, many users (and me too) got into a lot of problems, beccause the 32-bit nvidia drivers are now

Re: DVD-RAM, Raspberry Pi and other toys - Was: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:37:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: spend more time with Computers, then I really would lose any real world social contacts, would feed myself with more junk foot. Has that got anything to do with putting your foot in your mouth? SCNR -- If you're not careful, the

aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: I recommend using aptitude for everything. It replaces apt-get and apt-cache, ... root@tal:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/apt-get apt: /usr/bin/apt-get root@tal:~# apt-cache policy aptitude aptitude: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.6.8.1-2

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 05:37:03PM +0200, lee wrote: Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com writes: In fact, its very time consuming to have to structure emails in that fashion and its not something I look forward to. A decent MUA would make things a lot easier for you. Gnus is said to

Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:14:23PM +0100, Joe wrote: And finally, there are a few people who are just plain prickly... but one of the most important of all freedoms is the freedom to offend. Once that is outlawed, censorship becomes trivial to implement. Bollocks. -- If you're not careful,

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 06:00:35PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Chris Bannister writes: Last I looked, Gnus was a newsreader... You didn't look very closely. Gnus works quite well for both news and email and offers all the advantages of a newsreader such as groups, killfiles, scoring

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:14:58AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Thank you very much for your help. At now, I can read from the install CDs. On my centos, I learned how to install extra programs from my install CDs , as the following : #yum -disablerepo=\* -enablerepo=c6-media install gimp

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:37:55AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: I found how to install packages from CD, as : #apt-get install gcc Ahh! Should have read whole thread. :) But can you please let me know where can I find the list of available and useful programs that I can try to install them

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 09:36:28PM +0100, Lisi wrote: Yes, and you don't need to say su root. Just su is enough. True, but then su on its own won't source root's environment, whereas su - will source root's environment as though you'd actually logged in as root. Try them both to see

Re: doc resources

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:06:07PM -0700, james gray wrote: are the files and one directory in /usr/share/doc/aptitude available online. at this time. with the limited resources available. i am not able to print out the material. what would be the online address to read and print

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:58:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:52 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Also I was just trying to respond to everyone's reply. You don't need to do that. +1 :) Honestly, you don't need to, unless there is something pertinent to add. -- If

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 06:58:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: It was a struggle initially but I learned. It was my first real progress with certain things that needed to be done with Linux. I had no idea that files needed to be verified before burning to CD. They don't. It is just an added

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:44:19PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 00:41:46 Wally Lepore wrote: Now I can finally join the ranks of Debian users and ask operational questions, help others and start the

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:41:30AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Actually, for downloading iso images I had high speed download link. But at now, my server does not have high speed internet connection at the moment so I thought that if I can make use of the other iso image CDs to install

weirdness mounting phone

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this behaviour when plugging in my Galaxy Y into my wheezy laptop ---8- - root@tal:~# [1132299.352535] cdc_acm 1-1:1.1: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem. root@tal:~# mount

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
[Jude, not sure which part of the post you were responding to.] On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:07:48PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: googling WARNING: Received FLV packet before play()! Ignoring. gets: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/rtmpdump

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 01:04:34PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: You wrote: I have: schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=10M I was tight on space at one stage, and the default was no good for me, so I added that to my .rtorrent file which solved it. Oh, great! I wonder

Re: Debian Small CD install netinst.iso

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:03:11PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Members, I just downloaded the Debian netinst.iso file called debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso. The file is only 191 MB because it installs the most basic Debian system. I then acquire the rest via the internet. Yep, that is

Re: Debian Small CD install netinst.iso

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Is this the link for the live CD? http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ Thats one. There is also knoppix, and various others. I ask because I attempted to install Ubuntu awhile back and their LiveCd was a snap to find and download but

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:53:23AM +0900, Satoru Otsubo wrote: Syntax error on line 2 of /etc/apache2/ports.conf What about this syntax error? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:58:06AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Any ideas of how to retrieve a multi-media file from here? http://www.tlcentre.sfu.ca/archive/convocation/2012/ A click on the first link makes Iceweasel show the directory,

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:05:02PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I can not configure rtorrent to close on low disk space - it just closes on start after several seconds. In ~/.rtorrent.rc I have: schedule = watch_low_diskspace,300,1200,close_low_diskspace=1 That

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:39:05AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Chris. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: I have: schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=10M Does it work for You - meaning if You have 11 MB free space - does it down load

Re: Re (2): retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:36:42AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 05:55:41 +1300 ... but something still seems amiss. If you, or anybody else for that mattter, solves the rtmpdump incantation - could you post the correct

Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:58:39PM +1000, geoff wrote: Yep, everything works fine in root. I'd also tried creating another user account, and it displayed the same behaviour as my other user account. OK. What packages were upgraded? The log in /var/log/dpkg should help you here. Obviously,

Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:29:14AM +1000, geoff wrote: You should fix your clock. Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. The most recent point release went into my system on Sunday. Upon rebooting the keyboard and mouse are inactive. The mouse is usb, and can be activated by

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:58:25PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: turn into this: append vga=788 inited=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- ^^ console=ttyS2,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS2,19200 Now all seems to be working. Weird. -- If you're not careful, the

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:10:02PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 10/1/12 11:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Sorry. There's a typo, intited should be initrd. Ahh! OOPs didn't read whole thread. Still, it does show the reason why you should copy 'n' paste instead of laboriously typing it out by

Re: Installation

2012-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:02:33AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 09/25/2012 02:56 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, lee wrote: They even have begun to use different keys to get into the BIOS quite some time ago. Really? Have you got a source

Re: Installation

2012-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 03:06:05AM -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: System installation should be as automated as is possible. In fact, the installer should ask as few questions as possible. The trouble is there are many different desirable setups depending on what you want to use it for. I wouldn't

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:21:10AM +0200, lee wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: You seem to have misunderstood that Christian's one of d-i's maintainers (he also seems to be a big fan of fonts!): Well, I didn't know any of this, and he didn't mention it. I could help with

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:12:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: Okay, I agree the user does not need to hold a MS in Computer Science as a previous requirement for installing an OS and managing a computer. But an MS in Astronomy (Astrophysics?) won't help you build a telescope either. Remember, a

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:24:46PM +0200, lee wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 06:31:52, lee wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: If you have an OEM license, it can't be transferred to a different PC:

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, lee wrote: They even have begun to use different keys to get into the BIOS quite some time ago. Really? Have you got a source for that allegation? That's just retarded, stupid and braindead. Why don't they make computers easier to use by always

PerlMagick (was ... Re: Installation)

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 06:36:48PM +0200, lee wrote: Crop a picture with imagemagic? I just found out you can actually do that, and it starts a lot faster than gimp. I sometimes use it to display an image or for converting images and taking screenshots. It's Huh! All you need is perlmagick.

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:53:21PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say this on the list. We all can think whatever we want -and we can be wrong or right as we don't have all

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:54:26PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 4:16 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should be self reliant. Only when they search and can't

Re: pppd shutdown

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Have you found the problem yet? On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:21:33PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, I'm on dialup using pppd and loosing the connection often in the middle of fetching mail or loading some URL in the browser. I'm hoping for suggestions to help me debug the problem.

Re: command line interface tool question

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:13:10AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: What command line interface tool or tools does Linux have available to snag a graphical image of what's on the screen and save that image in a file? If you're running lynx and you come up on a website with a captcha on a form

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:01:51AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Greetings, I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the

Re: Installation

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:15:23PM -0700, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Unless you submit it against d-i as a patch, there *is* no onward. If it gets rejected, there should be an explanation as to why. Patches are still being accepted against

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 06:34:47PM +0200, lee wrote: need it. This requirement is ridiculous. It has come up only about 12 years ago --- and aren't things nowadays supposed to be easier than they were instead of being more difficult? Believe me, its a lot easier now than it was 12 or so

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 07:17:36PM +0200, lee wrote: That's perfect and wonderful, thank you! Sure the bug can be closed. Hopefully the submitter can close their own bugs? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:06:42PM +0200, lee wrote: Are you referring to grub figuring it out when booting or to grub figuring it out while it's being installed? (In any case, I don't know any of the answers ...) tal% less /boot/grub/device.map (hd0)

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:36:36AM -0700, Weaver wrote: […] Finish Partitioning and Write to Disc At the top is an annotation which says: “This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mountpoints. Select a partition to modify its

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