Re: init spawning multiple cf-execd processes at once

2014-07-22 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 07/21/2014 04:56 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:39:16 +0200 Jimmy Thrasibule jimmy.thrasib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've added a new line to the /etc/inittab file to monitor the CFEngine daemon and restart it in case this one dies.

Re: init spawning multiple cf-execd processes at once

2014-07-22 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 07/21/2014 02:39 PM, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: Hi, I've added a new line to the /etc/inittab file to monitor the CFEngine daemon and restart it in case this one dies. cfe:2345:respawn:/var/cfengine/bin/cf-execd The cf-execd is re-spawned as expected, except the fact that multiple

Re: filesystem mounted as noexec

2012-03-18 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 18/03/2012 02:30, T o n g ha scritto: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:43:41 +0100, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: Most likely your filesystem is mounted with noexec, Bingo! Thanks! Hmm..., but why? I didn't specify noexec for any of my mounted filesystems except /proc: $ grep noexec /etc/fstab proc

Re: zpipe.c: the zlib example

2012-03-17 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 17/03/2012 04:10, T o n g ha scritto: Hi, I believe that zpipe.c used to be working. But it is still working now? I get it compiled OK, gcc -g -lz -o zpipe zpipe.c but wasn't able to run it: $ ./zpipe bash: ./zpipe: Permission denied I get the same result even I put an output

Re: Alternative archiving measures

2011-09-28 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 09/28/11 13:40, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote: Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert archived files in rar format? The unrar utility that is pretty ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at least not

Re: fcron as cron

2011-09-23 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
On 09/23/11 10:20, Florian Weimer wrote: Has anybody try to use fcron instead of Vixie cron? How well does it work in practice, especially if you've got tons of existing cron jobs written for Vixie cron? I'm mainly interested in time zone support because our systems run on UTC, but we have

Re: sed or awk: decode base64 string in passwd-like file

2011-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 29/06/2011 16:50, Denny Schierz ha scritto: hi, I have a file with strings like: tes...@domain.foo:e0NSWVBUfVUx=:500:12002::/imap/spool/domain.foo/%1n/% n:storage=50 I need to decode the second field (password field), with something like: echo e0NSWVBUfVUx= | openssl base64 -d How can I

/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

2011-06-16 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Hello everyone, I stumbled on debian's bug #561461, googled for a fix, applied it... and still nothing worked, until I realized I had edited /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf instead of /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf (doh!) I can't find anything in `apt-file search`, so I guess that dhcp3/dhclient.conf is a

Re: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

2011-06-16 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Mmm... (déjà vu?) I just already explained ;-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01419.html Greetings, Ouch! I read dhcpcd.conf and tought Got dhclient - irrelevant. My fault. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How do I get this dialog back?

2011-03-01 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 01/03/2011 16:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom ha scritto: Igor Sverkos wrote: Hi, while upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze, I got this dialog: http://f.666kb.com/i/breb9xzqa8abc1ls7.jpg I am asking myself, how do I get this dialog back again (for example, when I want to add another service, which should

Re: ntp synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 27/01/2011 16:50, Paul Cartwright ha scritto: My system rebooted yesterday. I had a 3 hour power outage due to a tree falling on the power lines down the street. After I got a few emails, telling me my date was wrong, I noticed that it said it was tomorrow already. I tried to change it, but

Re: [bash] script (redirect output) to file and email

2010-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 24/09/2010 22:10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha scritto: In20100924141439.gn15...@wasteland.homelinux.net, Jochen Schulz wrote: Enrico Weigelt: do_rm() { while read FILE ; do rm -fr $FILE ; done } That won't work with spaces in filenames. :) find … -exec or find … -print0 |

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 03/07/2010 12:50, Camaleón ha scritto: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the (default)

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

2010-06-18 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 18/06/2010 19:40, Jochen Schulz ha scritto: prakhar gaur: Just wanted to ask why was I not able to compile the make-3.81 source code and how did using apt-get resolve the problem. Simple: you need make to compile make, but it wasn't installed on your system. apt-get is one of Debian's

Re: ext2 empty

2010-05-31 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 31/05/2010 20:20, T o n g ha scritto: Hi, I came across a tool called something like ext2 empty but forgot where it is now. Primarily, it zero out all unused spaces in ext2 fs, so that the unused spaces won't take up much spaces when compressed. Any hint? Thanks probably zerofree -- To

Re: Vnc server

2010-05-10 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 09/05/2010 21:50, Andrew Lapham ha scritto: Hello all. I'm new to debian (2 days) but have been using Linux for a while. Anyway my problem is with Vnc4server. Yesterday I set up my /home/.Vnc/xstartup to include gnome session and I commented terminal emulator. And I remoted in no problem (I

Re: read command not reading from pipe. why?

2010-01-04 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Foss User ha scritto: I see that the read command stores input entered only on the console into the variables. Example: $ read a foo $ echo $a foo But when I don't enter input on the console by keyboard, but pipe it into the standard input of read, I am unable to store the input into the

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta lory.fu...@infinito.it writes: I'm on testing (which has vlc 1.03), but from what I remember old vlc versions used to look something like this: CTRL| ALT| KEY| ACTION

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-12 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I am using VLC 0.8.6h Janus (with wxWidgets). Totem and other GNOME's built-in players make the appropriate action when I press a specific music key on my (damn Microsoft, but standard) keyboard. However, it

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-12 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Lisi ha scritto: The box boots automatically into IceWM in 32 seconds from a standing start. I have Idesk configured to my satisfaction, and it runs beautifully if I start it manually after I have booted up and IceWM is running. Any attempt, however, to make Idesk also start automatically,

Re: Cannot empty trash because of permission problems

2009-10-12 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be writes: Hello, On my Debian Lenny, I am unable to empty the trash because of permission problems. For example, I have a .jar file, and when I choose to Empty Trash, I

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
JoeHill ha scritto: This is going to drive me nuts. I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode. Major Gnome update today, and sure enough, Network

Re: DVD download

2009-07-05 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Mark Neidorff ha scritto: This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb and again fails sha1sum. I have now

Re: glibc too old to install Flash on Testing?

2009-07-02 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
JoeHill ha scritto: What? I've definitely never seen this before. I'm running a Testing system myself and Flash works fine (well, to the extent that Flash can ever be said to work 'fine'). On a Testing system I just installed, however, I'm getting an error that: ERROR: Your glibc library is

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram net...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Thomas H. George ha scritto: A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. I thought I had installed all the available plugins. What must I find to view the picture? Tom $ aptitude show file $

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Patrick Wiseman ha scritto: Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.' How do I fix this? Is it some idiotic security feature? (I get really steamed when fear overrides function!) Patrick Workaround: launch a terminal

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Patrick Wiseman ha scritto: Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.' How do I fix this? Is it some idiotic security feature? (I get really steamed when fear overrides function!) Patrick A solution that really solves

Re: Are there any major issues with Debian testing?

2009-06-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
thveillon.debian ha scritto: ZephyrQ wrote: Just picked up a BBuy cheapo that I will lather/rinse/repeat and put Deb on...just wondering if testing has any major issues that I should be aware of before I make the jump (my main system runs stable). Hi, I have been running testing since

Re: cANT login to kde...

2009-06-07 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
raman narasimhan ha scritto: i recently installed ktorrent. it'd lots of dependencies. Now when i login i'm shown a window that says --- | kstartupconfig4 does not

Re: starting lxde with xdm

2009-06-04 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Umarzuki Mochlis ha scritto: i installed lxde with aptitude install --without-recommends lxde then i ran update-alternatives --config x-session-manager no startx, weird. Ran startlxde but nothing happened then i installed xdm, make .xsession with exec xdm in it, rebooted but nothing

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Joel Roth ha scritto: Hello all, I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. What about Debian? Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this functionality? Switch to terminal, ps ax, kill is possible, but clunky if I

Re: No protocol specified, cannot open display error

2009-05-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Aniruddha ha scritto: Hi, After an certain amount of time applications no longer open on my Gnome desktop, When I try to run a program from an already opened terminal I get the following output: $ gedit No protocol specified cannot open display: When I log out and in the problem is solved.