very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, Recently my xfce started behaving with strange issues that make me unable to use it. I can login to xfce, but... I notice 2 major problems: 1) the windows have no frame, no minimize, maximize and close buttons; so I can not close them, minimize them, nor move them; each new window I

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hi guys, thank you for the clear explanations. I was able to fix the issue now. Thank you Joao On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:06 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Maximilien Noal noal.maximil...@gmail.com writes: On 02/23/2012 06:47 PM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, Recently my xfce

Re: rsync exclusions

2012-01-16 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 10:19 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm just fine tuning my rsync exclusion file which is called perfectly okay and works well, but now \i want to add these lines to it;- -/icedove/nipl* -/gnash/* -/mozilla/firefox/* -/opera/* Will they work with wildcards like that

Re: sbin

2012-01-01 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 00:42 +0800, lina wrote: Hi, Is it safe to add /sbin into PATH? there should be no problem, but a regular (non-root) user will not be able to do much with it because most of those executables will at some point require root privilege (at least that is my guess) Why

Re: xfce4

2011-12-19 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 09:58 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: 2=) How to change the system time? Kjetil try Applications Menu - Settings - Time and Date cheers Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: xfce4

2011-12-19 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 11:12 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: see below. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:11, Joao Ferreira Gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 09:58 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: 2=) How to change the system time? Kjetil

Re: when did debian came into existence?

2011-12-12 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:44 +, steef wrote: LinuxIsOne schreef: HI, when did Debian came into existence? 1993 See Ian Murdock's opinion :) http://ianmurdock.com/linux/linux-family-tree-version-0-90/ check out the image !! Joao s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-18 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 20:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I've fled from gnome 3 and am mostly happy with xfce. But there's the panel with six icons at the bottom of the screen that obscures the bottom of a lot of windows. How can I get rid of it, or move it elsewhere? Is it possible to

Re: debian 6.03 KDE desktop

2011-11-17 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 15:57 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Running Gnome desktop debian 6.03. Kindly is there a command to add the KDE desktop to a Gnome system. apt-get install kde-standard should work (I did not try). Joao I remember that in Ubuntu there is such a command.

Re: cut's counterpart: vcut ?!

2011-11-16 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 17:15 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 16:58 +, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hi all, a crazy ideia just crossed my mind ? Is there a command that allows me to glue to text files together line by line ? more or like the inverse operation

can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Has anyone done this before ? thank you Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 08:14 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to remove (gnome is actually dozens of pakcages). Side

Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

2011-11-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 20:39 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) do most of you replace GNOME 3 by XFCE? I'm undecided what to do, but I guess it would be wise to install parallel to GNOME 3 the most used alternative installed by users who are subscribed to this list. Excepted of KDE

Re: [OT] mantis not sending e-mail

2011-11-13 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
:) bull's eye :) On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 13:14 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:58:43 +, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Did you already follow the steps detailed here? They are for Gmail but the basics should also valid for other email servers. Please read this if you have

[OT] mantis not sending e-mail

2011-11-12 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I'm trying to get mantis to send e-mails but I can't get it right. I posted on the mantis list but I got no replies. So I wonder if anyone on Debian list is using mantis. I've tried many scenarios but I still can't get mantis to send e-mails. The logs generated are not clear enough.

Re: ssh/dsa strange issue

2011-10-21 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 23:40 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: a) user jane on one system transfers her public DSA key to account john at a given remote host. it works. jane accesses john's account without typing a password. b) now the same user jane transfers her

ssh/dsa strange issue

2011-10-20 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I have this strange situation: a) user jane on one system transfers her public DSA key to account john at a given remote host. it works. jane accesses john's account without typing a password. b) now the same user jane transfers her public DSA key to account mary at the _same_ remote

Re: login shell VS interactive shell

2011-10-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 08:53 +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Joao Ferreira Gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between login shell and interactive shell. I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ? Hello

login shell VS interactive shell

2011-10-13 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between login shell and interactive shell. I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ? text I read was: When Bash starts executes the commands in a variety of different scripts. When started as an

how ssh implements X forwarding

2011-10-03 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I was wondering exactly how X11 forwarding is implemented on an ssh tunnel... can anyone point me to some hands-on/tutorial information on this, and maybe other useful practical cases using ssh ? thanks Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: how ssh implements X forwarding

2011-10-03 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 20:27 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/10/11 20:12, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I was wondering exactly how X11 forwarding is implemented on an ssh tunnel... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Network can anyone point me to some hands

wireless not working after upgrade

2011-09-20 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
hello all, I've just upgraded to the latest software packages. Wireless stopped working. details: jmf@wheejy:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) Release:testing Codename: wheezy jmf@wheejy:~$

Re: wireless not working after upgrade

2011-09-20 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
: [6.751848] iwl3945: probe of :0c:00.0 failed with error -2 any ideias ? could I just downgrade the firmware package ? how could I achieve this ? many thanks Joao On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 19:27 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: hello all, I've just upgraded to the latest software packages. Wireless

childsplay not starting

2011-09-18 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello, I've installed childsplay for my kids but it is not starting jmf@wheejy:~$ childsplay 2011-09-18 18:15:48,960 - schoolsplay.SPDataManager - ERROR - No sqlalchemy package found Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: childsplay not starting

2011-09-18 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
It's a bug, see #638747, childsplay doesn't work with sqlalchemy from testing/sid. Fortunately a fix has already been proposed, you should watch it's upload in Sid and install it when it's available. thx a lot. I was able to fix it following the bug ID and found the proposed fix...

Re: which gnome version in sid?

2011-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 15:05 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Which gnome version is now in cid? If the version is 3.0 or later I need to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca don't get along. http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome/gnome Jude

evolution crashes and hangs

2011-09-08 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I am using wheezy. Yesterday I upgraded all packages and since then I have evolution (3.0.2) crashing and hanging every 30 minutes. In the Evolution mailing list they tell me the only way is to upgrade to 3.0.3 which is now on sid. How do I achieve this ? I do not wish to upgrade to

Re: How do I partition a 250 gb drive for a dual boot setup?

2011-08-21 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 01:54 -1200, sdc wrote: Unfortunately I have to use Windows 7 as well so I need to setup a dual boot. Alternativelly to dual-boot you might want to consider running windows as a virtual machine, using, for example, VirtualBox (there are others). It will work just fine.

[OT] plot execution flows from C/C++ sources

2011-08-10 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, [ maybe some programers out there... :) ] I recently stared working on a project for maintenance and new developments on an existing huge code base of C/C++ It's quite a challenge for newcommers. Does anyone know of any tools that would help in ploting execution flow diagrams

Re: eog (Image Viewer) all black on jpg images

2011-08-09 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 16:12 +, Camaleón wrote: eog does display pngs correctly. gimp displays jpgs correctly. It works fine here (running an updated wheezy) :-? I'm also using updated wheezy (weird) ... Have you tried to...? just did 1/ Testing with a fresh-new user account? same

Re: eog (Image Viewer) all black on jpg images

2011-08-09 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
... well... nevermind. I have GIMP :) cheers Joao On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 10:30 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 16:12 +, Camaleón wrote: eog does display pngs correctly. gimp displays jpgs correctly. It works fine here (running an updated wheezy) :-? I'm also

eog (Image Viewer) all black on jpg images

2011-08-08 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I noticed recently that eog (aka Image Viewer) displays all black on jpg files. This was not so a few weeks ago. I have recently upgraded (and dist-upgraded). Can anyone replicate this. eog does display pngs correctly. gimp displays jpgs correctly. cheers Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: how to examine ssh problem

2011-08-02 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 23:02 +0800, lina wrote: Hi, when I tried to ssh some_server, it showed me, Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password). 1] I tried ssh from desktop, laptop and other server, the same problem. 2] I generate a new key by ssh-keygen in some_server, it

smart formatting csv files

2011-07-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I'm currently dealing with some big ugly csv files (separator is ';'). I'm using gedit or kwrite to visualize them. Does anyone know if there is some kind of plugin ou external scripts for gedit/kwrite that would allow me to align all that data vertically by adding spaces where

Re: smart formatting csv files

2011-07-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Well no real particular reason... I was just wondering a bit. I guess I'll use Open Office :) thx Joao On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 13:35 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Hi Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm currently dealing with some big ugly csv files (separator is ';'). I'm

get package name from file name

2011-07-07 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello, how can I tell which package installs a given file ? something like: # find-package-from-file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 libxml2 thx jmf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: get package name from file name

2011-07-07 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:24 +0100, kuLa wrote: dpkg -S /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 cool. thx Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello, can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa they both contain data. thx Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 00:02 +1000, CaT wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello, can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa they both

perl xs error: unknown type name ‘off64_t’

2011-06-29 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I'm trying some SWIG examples to work with perl XS. I got this error: jmf@wheejy:~/tech/swig/aaa$ swig -perl5 example.i jmf@wheejy:~/tech/swig/aaa$ jmf@wheejy:~/tech/swig/aaa$ gcc -c example.c example_wrap.c -I /usr/lib/perl/5.12.3/CORE/ In file included from

gnome-applet top bottom left right setting

2011-06-15 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, Where can I find the gnome-applet configuration setting that defines the position (top, left, right, bottom) ? I need to change it back to the default setting (bottom, I guess)... changed it to right but the result is not so good and I can't find a way to put it back the way it was

Re: gnome-applet top bottom left right setting

2011-06-15 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 13:37 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:53:20 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Where can I find the gnome-applet configuration setting that defines the position (top, left, right, bottom) ? Position of what, exactly? You mean the panel? :-? :) sorry

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-12 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:50 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:21:34 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: which is which ? CPU ? Motherboard ? Most probably the CPU, as Brian pointed out (there should be an icon identifiying

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-10 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:34:37 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: I'm using gnome sensors applet to keep an eye on computer temperature. The applet configuration lets me choose: - libsensors \temp1 \temp1 I also have

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-10 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: which is which ? CPU ? Motherboard ? Most probably the CPU, as Brian pointed out (there should be an icon identifiying the item) both icons are identical !!! but 74°C and 95°C -being Celsius- are a bit high values for whatever they

mobi files reader

2011-05-25 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello all, how can I read e-books in .mobi format in linux ? thanks Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

need help with sed problem

2011-03-18 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello all I need to use sed to replace a given line in a text file with the current working directory. But this is getting quite tricky. Problem ilustrated below: $ cat text.txt :/some/wrong/path/ $ sed s/.*/:$TERM/ text.txt

Re: need help with sed problem

2011-03-18 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:59 +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:46:04 + Joao Ferreira gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: jmf@squeeje:~$ sed s/.*/:$PWD/ text.txt sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unknown option to `s' Hello, this is because $PWD gets

basic audio editing software

2011-02-24 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello, I will need to make some simple volume adjustments and maybe some basic noise reduction on a few sound files (wav, maybe others). Is there some basic utility in Debian for this. I really don't need sophisticated stuff, but any ideas are welcome. :) Thanks Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Looking for a watchdog for background processes and files

2011-02-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
I'dd suggest you look at monit. monit is a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs running on a Unix system. It will start specified programs if they are not running and restart programs not responding. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/monit it is a quite popular tool

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:04 +0200, Juha Tuuna wrote: On 20.1.2011 14:02, Jesus arteche wrote: Hey guys, I have two servers...and I need that a folder in one of the servers will be updated every time to another server, in case the first server go down...the second will be able to

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-18 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
You need to simply try it out. I don't think Debian will choose Unity instead of Gnome... (I'm personally very positive of this... but that is only my serious belief) anyway, I need to consider carefully abandoning Ubuntu. I'm sure they will keep supporting Gnome. Nevertheless, I stared a long

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-18 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:09 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: They say they will have other desktop options, but, in my experience, it will be tough to avoid the packaging and configuration changes that they enforce on everybody in order to make Unity work (maybe I'm too skeptical). I sincerely

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 02:27 -0800, S Mathias wrote: cat asdf.txt bla-bla bla-bla bla[XYZ] importantthing another important thing [/XYZ] bla-bla bla-bla [XYZ] yet another thing hello! [/XYZ] bla-bla etc. $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt output.txt $ cat output.txt importantthing another

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

2011-01-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs. can you show us the exact command you used ? cheers joao However, after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available. Is there a way to create a bigger partition?

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

2011-01-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
with this. be extra carefull not to touch your internal hard drives. sometimes it can be confusing. :) cheers joao To mount the volume mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman

Re: Time zone utility to read olson database

2010-12-16 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 14:45 +0100, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am looking for tz the reader of olson database (tzdata). Where can I get it ? I am looking the official (http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm) URL and I was searching in Debian repository and I couldn't find any utility to

Re: rsync; Shouldn't Deleted Files be Deleted on the Backup?

2010-12-13 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 12:09 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I really like rsync but I have something set wrong. It copys the file system perfectly but if I delete a file on the master, I really want it to delete on the backup system. I tried --delete, --delete-during and --delete-after with

Re: ultimate backup choice

2010-12-12 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
rsync _is_ the tool you want. there are other GUI based tools that use rsync behind the scenes rsync will only transfer the changes !!! this is good 2 suggestions: rsync -a /etc r...@$serverb:/tmp/ - syncs the whole contents of Server A's etc into /tmp on SeverB - uses ssh which is great and

Re: parsing problem

2010-12-09 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 11:33 -0500, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, I have long strings to parse which have permanent and variable information. Somewhere in the strings we have something like Handle: 0x12a7 . Handle is permanent and 0x12a7 is variable. I wish to be able to extract the

Re: parsing problem

2010-12-09 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
like a charm. A few year ago I used Perl a lot but I lost my hand at it. Your idea of Perl helped me to fix another problem with the same file: non-breaking space. Perl and \xA0 fixed it for me. Thanks a lot Joao, Bernard On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Joao Ferreira gmail

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-09 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
this is what I use deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free j On Fri,

Re: jpg2pdf :-)

2010-12-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 12:45 +, Camaleón wrote: Now, I'd like convert any files to pdf (like png, txt, etc.) but I don't how do. The same tool you are using for JPGs (Imagemagick's convert) should do the trick for PNGs and other image formats. works for txt too: convert abc.txt

Re: jpg2pdf :-)

2010-12-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 14:01 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: convert abc.txt abc.pdf not on my lenny system: $ convert abc.txt abc.pdf convert: Improper image header `abc.txt'. convert: missing an image filename `abc.pdf'. on my squeeze: j...@squeeje:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules

how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
hello all, considering sh, bash and csh, can I somehow, inside a script, determine if I'm being run with any of these 3 shells... I need to determine wich interpreter is running me... thx Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 11:27 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: If a script wants to know which shell is running it, the variable $0 might work. For example, echo $0 I tried this... but see what I got: j...@squeeje:~$ cat sh.sh #!/bin/sh echo $0 j...@squeeje:~$ cat bash.bash #!/bin/bash

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-29 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 06:12 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value whatever and that i can delete. i recall there's a utility that will identify unused libraries but i'm

Re: Creating Video DVDs from VOB files only

2010-09-16 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 02:54 +0200, godo wrote: Try kdenlive, dvdauthor or devede. I've been using devede and it works just fine. It's very simple... but gets the job done... very easy to use. You can save the result to an ISO file, watch it on Movie Player before burning to the DVD. It

Re: copy via rsync

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:01 +0200, Jakub Jedelsky wrote: Hi list! I want to copy a lot of files via rsync (about 200GB), but the process ends in D state after some time. In /var/log/kern.log I have this error: Sep 10 09:26:45 servername kernel: [31527915.475952] EXT3-fs warning (device

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 22:30 -0400, Doug wrote: I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of Ubuntu that took over the

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, left over after cloning drive from a smaller one.) On-screen instructions say [!!] Partition disks The

help with wireless WPA2 Enterprise

2010-09-07 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
hello all, I'm not being able to connect to my company WPA2 Enterprise wireless network using Network-Manager. At home I have a router with WPA WPA2 Personal and I can associate just fine with NM. But, at work, we have a wifi network with WPA WPA2 Enterprise and I'm unable to associate. I'm

Re: How to format usb stick ?

2010-09-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:16 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote: Hi, How can I format USB stick with vfat? In system menu, I cannot find the tools for it. I would propose to use a text console. The tool is mkfs.vfat, contained in the debian-package dosfstools (This has to be installed first). You can

Re: http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/ crashes Iceweasel 3.0.6 (2010072023 Firefox/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-3))

2010-09-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 15:53 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Everything is in the title: using Iceweasel 3.0.6, I'm sure to crash it if I go to http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/. What about your versions? No crash here... using iceweasel 3.5.11-1 jmf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Huawei E220 on NetworkManager

2010-08-19 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
anyone had any luck with Huawei E220 on Network Manager ? I haven't tried Network Manager (I prefer wicd), but it works fine with the software from https://forge.betavine.net/frs/?group_id=12 Yes. I've been using betavine utility for my Vodafone 3G for about 2 years now... but...

Re: Enabling remote logon - any decent intro docs?

2010-08-14 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 21:51 +0100, AG wrote: Hi all I have a guest account on my machine and want to enable that user to access that profile from another Debian machine on my LAN. This task is called remote networking, right? And as far as I can tell OpenSSH is probably the way to go.

Re: Evolution Backup ??

2010-08-11 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. John The File -

Huawei E220 on NetworkManager

2010-08-11 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello, has anyone out there been able to get NetworkManager to bring up a 3G connection on a Huawei E220 (portuguese operator Vodafone). I have never been able to achieve this. Now I migrated from Lenny to Squeeze (fresh install) and still no luck. I tried a Globetroter 3G modem (portuguese

Re: bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 22:39 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:13:03 -0400 John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com wrote: Hello John, I wonder if this is why there are some many problems with Evolution 2.30 breaking. From those threads, it seems that Evolution

Re: how to dual boot debian with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:22 +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All On my debian machine, I need to install redhat on one of its partitions and so make it dual boot . Can you please let me know how this can be accomplished? Hello, the process should be quite straightforward. 1st u need to make

Re: bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:15 +, Camaleón wrote: Is this bug? Not for me. But having the NM applet started by default and seeing no ethernet device there (but working) is a bit confusing for users who want to use NM. agree ! :) if NM is a feature in Debian (and affects other SW

Re: help parsing output

2010-08-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 12:12 -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Does anyone have an idea how this could be accomplished? I not that great in programming so writing a ruby or shell script do do this would take me weeks:-( use perl !!! now seriously: use perl. don't wonder around; perl is the way you

bug 530024 on squeeze

2010-08-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello all, can anyone confirm the status of this issue in current Squeeze ? I also had this problem some months ago but I ended up installing Lenny (because of other reasons too) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530024 ... or has anyone been able to safelly overcome the issue

Network Manager on Squeeze (was: bug 530024 on squeeze)

2010-08-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Network Manager on Squeeze ? what's the status or workaround on bug 530024 !? any other visual tools similar to NM that are known to work better for eth, wifi, pptp/ppp :) $thx++; jmf On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 11:22 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:48:14 +0100 Joao Ferreira gmail

Re: Network Manager on Squeeze (was: bug 530024 on squeeze)

2010-08-02 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 20:07 +0100, Tixy wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 18:23 +, Camaleón wrote: Just for the record, editing /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf file (as per bug suggestion), adding managed=true and resarting the system seems to resurrect eth0 cable connection