Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

Even shorter: apt autopurge Apropos to my recent message regarding system configuration, I keep a personal metapackage around that lists the packages I really want. About once a quarter I do the following (as root): # apt-mark showmanual | grep -v mrc-mars | xargs apt-mark auto # apt autopurge

Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:40 PM Mike Castle wrote: > Thanks for all of the commentary so far. > > Once I get something working, I will *try* to remember to follow up > here with what I've managed to cobble together. I have done quite a bit of research and experimentation and fin

Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?

Hah! https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00042.html

Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Like Alex, one of my physical machines is a laptop that is not always on the home network. Though I'm usually connected to *something*. I'm still debating whether to bother with a VPN or trying something like a tailnet. Heck, before I adopted Debian and

Current best practices for system configuration management?

For a while now, I've been using `equivs-build` for maintaining a hierarchy of metapackages to control what is installed on my various machines. Generally, I can do `apt install mrc-$(hostname -s)` and I'm golden. Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up various config files that I

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 1:49 AM Alain D D Williams wrote: > We seem to be told that this must be done by those who will not be doing the > work. Was that explicitly stated anywhere? Or is the lack of any type of explicit "I'm willing to help drive this" statements leading to that conclusion?

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:07 AM Alain D D Williams wrote: > It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. Should we scour our > systems looking for similar issues in other languages ? Then in, say, 20 years > time when different words will then be considered offensive, by some, do this >

Re: top bar the way I want it

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 9:12 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > And, of course, write notes to yourself for EVERY change like this, so > you can remember how you did it. I actually have a quarterly reminder for myself to review my various systems and take notes on changes. Installed packages, make sure

Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:57 AM wrote: > Yes, the main reason for the separation of /usr has more or less > disappeared with the arrival of initramfs, but still... why. To some extent, it will make it easier for packaging. Look at any package built using autoconf, for instance, you run:

Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM Andy Smith wrote: > น There was another use-case which is "sharing a read-only /usr > between systems by NFS, etc." but at the time this was widely > regarded a lost cause as so many other things violated the > premise. I did that for years. Then again,

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > What's not really stated anywhere is *why* these library functions > exist. I don't see many practical application for a library function > that reads a text file full of MAC addresses and hostnames, looks up > one of them, and spits out the

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

I use Evince probably once a week or so from the command line. I do not see that error, though I think I have in the past. I suspect that if you are seeing those issues with the current bookworm release, it is likely a problem local to you. You could be missing a package that evince expects to

Re: Performance of my computer

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM Van Snyder wrote: > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory > > leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with > > "kill

Re: A file synchronization tool that respects hardlinks

rsync supports hardlinks. --hard-links, -H preserve hard links Though, in general, the purpose of something like darcs is to *provide* the syncing. mrc

Re: Single-page application [was: debian.org - broken Download link.]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 6:11 AM wrote: > Gah, no. As a user I hate those with all my guts. Page "state" is > distributed in some intransparent way across client and server and > there is no way to refer to "something" via an URL. Many modern SPAs track state via URL, so they can be referenced.

Re: Git for backup storage

Something I played with recently was https://packages.debian.org/stable/vcs/git-filter-repo But you definitely want to run tests on real data before you decide that deleting old data saves your anything, particularly with respect to time. If git is so efficient at storing this kind of data, then

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

Oops. The 'grep -v -F' should be 'grep -v -f'. Well, 'grep -v -F -f' would probably be appropriate as well. mrc On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 7:58 PM Mike Castle wrote: > > Some tools I've been using lately are apt-mark and "dpkg-query --show". > > The following UNTESTED com

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

Some tools I've been using lately are apt-mark and "dpkg-query --show". The following UNTESTED commands (ran as a normal user): (apt-mark showauto ; apt-mark showmanual) > apt-thinks-you-installed.txt dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep -v -F apt-thinks-you-installed.txt >

Re: XFCE4 without panels

I just tried this in a VM and it seemed to work. >From a command line: xfce4-panel -q find ~/.config | grep panel Remove the xfce4-panel.xml (I also removed the empty directory just named panel.) The lack of panels seems to have survived a reboot. I don't know if it is sufficient for every

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

I think it is kind of like buying a new ANYTHING. Some folks will buy a new model as soon as it comes out. Some will wait a few months to see if anyone else is having problems with it. Whether it is a vehicle, electronic device, refrigerator, MS-Windows, new online service, etc. As more folks

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

7: 2013-05-04 https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 7.1: 2013-06-15 https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130615 42 days 8: 2015-04-25 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426 8.1: 2015-06-06 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150606 42 days 9: 2017-06-17

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

I was just researching this myself a couple of days ago, and spent several hours going down a rabbit hole. It seems that many folks are going the way of using an open source solution, Home Assistant (aka, HA), (https://www.home-assistant.io/). Even to the point where I found that folks that used

Re: unzip files bigger than 4 GB

Nvm, confused 2G with 4G. Sorry for the noise. On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Mike Castle wrote: > > It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet: > > $ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE > UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. > USE_

Re: unzip files bigger than 4 GB

It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet: $ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. USE_DEFLATE64 (PKZIP 4.x Deflate64(tm) supported) LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT (large files over 2 GiB supported) ZIP64_SUPPORT

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 10:50 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > Merged-usr is officially mandated for bookworm, and upgrades to bookworm > will do the merge, if it hasn't already happened. End of an era. My first Linux system (predating the existence of Debian), mounted /usr over NFS over PLIP. I

Re: Multi Desktop Windows?

Depends on your desktop/window manager, most likely. For me, with XFCE, it is ctrl-alt- by default. And they appear to be configurable in the Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard section. mrc

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

I would not be surprised if the version number indicated the module in not Pure Perl, but rather includes some C source code. Which would then need to be compiled specifically for the version of Perl installed. mrc

Re: /home as a symlink?

You could run into issues where the value of 'pwd' does not equal the value of 'readlink -f .'. For myself, I use autofs with autohome. It's been a while since I've looked at the details, but I believe it simply does with bind mount described elsewhere in this thread. My main machines happen to

Re: Beowulf gone?

I took rendering video to be an immediate example, but not necessarily the only thing of interest.

Re: Beowulf gone?

Down to it's basic, rendering videos is nothing more than a simple map-reduce, partioning a workload in a bunch of identical bits of processing. That could be done with N machines and a few simple shell scripts. Not really any need for anything fancy. What the fancier software gives you is

Re: MTP device mount gnome 3

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > My experience has been that this whole "MTP" thing, instead of just mounting > phones like they used to, as a storage device, has been a real horror show, It's less of a horror show than having two operating systems

Re: Some Flash news

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > That's Shumway from Mozilla. Google's Swiffy fits into this domain as well. mrc

Re: Iceweasel: permissions.default.image=3 (that is, prevent third-party images from loading) is ignored for some sites?

I believe that cached images will still load. mrc

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > So I just > might remove google-chrome and live with chromium for now. An install of > 64-bit Debian is not in the cards for now. At some point, there may be 64-bit only code introduced into Chrome that could

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

Besides switching to 64-bit or chromium or keeping the browser open? (Actually, does chromium issue the same warning?) mrc

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > When you reply to and critique an essay, you would likely reply in top-post > form and leave the essay at the bottom so that readers, whom you may safely > assume have already read it, may conveniently

Re: Mouse blanker?

Well, -idle 0 will hide it right away. But it'll get lots of false positives about thinking you've stopped moving the mouse. And unclutter has been around for just over 23 years now. mrc

Re: Mouse blanker?

Installed by default, meh. But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default. cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed. if [ -e /etc/default/unclutter ] then . /etc/default/unclutter fi if [ -x

Re: ask.debian.net

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Lev Lazinskiy l...@levlaz.org wrote: 1. It is very approachable to anyone since a lot of people have already used Stack Overflow. 2. It has better search tools. 3. Actual Answers float to the top (instead of having to read through en endless stream of

Re: Virtual noobie

With VirtualBox, one has the option to install a bunch of guess additions that help the guest and host work better together. Is such needed/useful with KVM and friends? FWIW, I use vbox as it comes with the installation, mostly because I'm too lazy to download the upstream version. Seems to

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Brings up another point. I've always wondered how the sticky fingers crowd could manage all the key-presses necessary for arranging proper security. One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: LG Germany answered quickly and stated that the drive is not known to show this behavior under MS-Windows. (Linux is not on their compatibility list, they say.) Has the drive displayed this behavior since you turned on

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager Session and Startup Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. There may be additional things you need to do to make sure session stuff isn't loading screensavers through some other mechanism (i.e, squirreled away in a saved

Re: Another less woe

I'm using i386. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+t9imx+mhum0+pgmucg9j3qbsb013t2keeczwiwqhmdajf...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Another less woe

Darn. It happened to me on three different machines. Though they're all the same arch. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Another less woe

I just filed a bug on this, but I'm wanting a sanity check on this: If I do something like: less /usr/share/dict/words then do this search: (a|b)(c|d) it crashes with a double-free error. I'm not doing anything terribly funky there, am I? mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Randy Kramer rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it can be done readily in lynx and I just haven't spotted how to do it? I have ~/.lynx/external to which I just added this line: EXTERNAL:http:echo %s | xsel -i:TRUE Then I can navigate to a link and hit the `.' key.

XFCE and automatic monitor detection

This is mostly a laptop question, but probably general enough that I want to post it here instead. So one thing that I think Gnome2 had over XFCE is better multiple monitor support. I could plug in a new monitor and the right thing would just happen. More importantly, I could unplug the

/etc/network/interfaces whacked

In addition to the Gnome 3 stuff, I just experienced another issue with upgrading my laptop on the testing track. Something whacked my /etc/network/interfaces. Fortunately I happen to have a backup of the / partition, so I'll be able to walk through multiple installs to try to identify the

Re: /etc/network/interfaces whacked

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mike Castle dalgoda+deb...@gmail.com wrote: In addition to the Gnome 3 stuff, I just experienced another issue with upgrading my laptop on the testing track. Something whacked my /etc/network/interfaces. Fortunately I happen to have a backup

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital Green Drives (also present in WD Elements external USB cases)

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote: just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason, should you buy WD Green drives. i've just spent a hair-raising 6 weeks discovering that these drives, when pushed above a mere 40

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Johannes Schauer j.scha...@email.de wrote: What I'm using now is liferea which is okay but could be more minimal and mainly, is way too slow to enjoy using it (search for the fsync issue). Sounds like you may need to tune your filesystem. If fsync() is

Re: New automount (NFS) permission issues

Did some more testing. All of the problems seems to be client side. Dropping back to 2.6.32, both automounts and the flock $0 script work over NFS. But did discover something interesting. After a fresh boot, the follow both work with 2.6.32: $ ls /share/images $ ls /share/images/ With 2.6.39,

New automount (NFS) permission issues

I am running debian/testing across a number of machines, all mostly up to date (usually any given machine is no more than a week behind). Some time ago, maybe a couple of months, I started noticing some problems with my automounted NFS mounts, and wondering if anyone else has noticed something

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive?  It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Depending on how long since boot, you

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hi, Using Google search always returns my results in Spanish because Google has figured out that my ISP is in a Spanish speaking country. But I want the results in US Eglish and always have to do an extra mouse click

ssh suddenly prompting for passphrase

Just sharing something that happened to me. After a recent upgrade with debian/testing, I noticed that ssh would pop up a window asking for my password, and this would be AFTER running ssh-add. Turns out that I needed to read this bit in /usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/README.Debian: The GNOME

Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Didar Hossain didar.hoss...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I would not recommend converting, but, rather creating a separate partition for ext4 to test it out. For my use case, in order to get the benefits for using ext4 over ext3, it worked better to create a

Re: The NAME environment variable

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: This is the first time that I found the NAME variable missing from the environment. How common is this? Not present on my Debian/testing system. I have USER, USERNAME and LOGNAME, but no NAME. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas on what I need to change? I just switched to not using any xorg.conf at all, which I think is the ``new'' recommendation. I put new in quotes because I think I saw someone at work the other day say something like

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have suggestions and practical experience with the pros and cons of the various filesystems? Google is switching (has switched by now?) all of it's servers over to ext4. A web search will turn up more details

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Gnash is a noble effort.  Gnash sucks.  I want choice, and my choice is Adobe Flash.  Installing Gnash screws up Flash.  Right now, I can refuse to update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that will not

Re: w32codecs

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote:  My problem was that I hadn't realized that d-m had a non-free section at all. I get the feeling the non-free section is new. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

autofs stopped working on testing

Has anyone else noticed that autofs has stopped working on testing? I'm really just digging into the debugging process, so may not have read all of the necessary docs quite yet. I've had autofs working for /home and a /share hierarchy for quite some time now, and haven't had too many problems

Re: autofs stopped working on testing

Solved! On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Mike Castle dalgoda+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Oh ... I just remembered... / on the ldap server was full, and I ended up nuking a lot of stuff on that partition.  I wonder if I got overly zealous and deleted something important.  I hope not. Not sure if I

messed up error messages from gcc

I typically keep my environment pretty stripped down, and so it may turn out that I'm missing some package that causes the following problem. But I've not yet been able to figure it out. I'm hoping the masses out here will immediately recognize the problem as ``Oh yes, you need ... '' Running

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: Could you please try running LC_ALL=C gcc -Wall -Werror t.c and let us know if that solves the issue? Yup. That did it. Thanks for the quick analysis. LANG= gcc ... had the same effect. That's what I get for

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Mike Castle dalgoda+deb...@gmail.com wrote: So, what's the proper solution to this?  Do I need to install something?  Or rebuild a locale database somewhere? (if the latter, I would have thought that it would have been done automatically upon appropriate

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Maybe your terminal is not in Unicode mode? Good possibility, but, I thought that would only matter when non-ascii characters came into play. Oh... ok.. I just found the UTF 8 item on xterm and there actually is a minor

Re: what is the proper grub2 update procedure when changing disks

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:10 AM, David Goodenough david.goodeno...@btconnect.com wrote: In the old Grub1 days if I had a bootable disk die and I copied its contents across to a new disk and wanted to make it bootable I followed a procedure that ran grub, looked for /boot/grub/stage1, set root

Re: Grep on dictionary words

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I have a long binary file (about 12 MB) that I need to extract the text from via strings. Naturally, there are a lot of junk lines such as these: pDuf #k0H}g) GoV5 rLeY1 TMlq,* Is there a way to grep the output of

Re: clive doesn't extract youtube file

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for: I believe that youtube has retired some support for a variety of

Re: floppy mounting

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: dr.hugo.z.hackenbush: Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root but wont let me mount as user?  Tried   #adduser (name) floppy  in terminal   but still wont let me in? any clues please?

Re: Samba ls date weirdness

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Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: *So - how do I change my getty to rungetty?* rungetty takes a different set of command line options than getty. From reading the man page, it looks like you only need one argument: the tty. This doesn't seem too surprising since

Re: df/du shows big difference of used space

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclaswniclaswm...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted. Different commands shows different usage: As root, from root directory: df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/d 1390840

Re: how to start a delayed shutdown over ssh and disconnect immediately?

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, David Christensendpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: I don't see a time delay option for poweroff.  I need a time delay to solve chicken and egg problems with shared folders, name resolution, etc. -- e.g. I need to tell all the machines to shutdown while they're

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Tyler MacDonaldty...@yi.org wrote: My yard extends farther than I can piss - but not farther than I can run an extension cord.  It has a nice fir tree near that back.  Seems like a nice place to hang out and program, if I can see the screen clearly and not melt

Re: can I use ext4 now?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Rick Pasottor...@niof.net wrote: mount -t ext4 -o nodelalloc /dev/sdc1 /s3 Leave off the -t ext4 and it should mount, though as ext4dev. Or use -t ext4dev. There are some known bugs with the kernel you're using, hence all of the recommendations for newer

Re: can I use ext4 now?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Tim Tebbittteb...@gmail.com wrote: you should mount ext4dev filesystems using -o nodelalloc and only use freshly created filesystems using mke2fs -t ext4dev Fortunately, the OP was doing exactly this. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Tzafrir Cohentzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: So why not just use cp -a ? Probably because, when I first learned to do this stuff, the system I used did have a -a option to cp, but did have rsync installed. And now it's more muscle memory than anything. (I'm almost

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

Don't try to do two things at once. If something goes wrong, you won't know which is the cause. Just put in the new drive and partition it into swap + lvm swapoff /dev/sda1 vi /etc/fstab # remove swap pvcreate vgextend pvmove -v /dev/sdb2 vgreduce /dev/sdb2 shutdown and remove the bad drive

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: What if I want 4 small partitions instead of one monster 1TB partition? I've read that you need a target at least as large as the source. (I've got this aching feeling that 1TB partitions are just not a good idea,

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Sthu Deussthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after some interrupt? Depending on how stable you need the destination file system, but I often do: find . -depth | cpio -pdmv /path/to/dest Followed up

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Neal Hogannealho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious b/c I am mildly interested in the OP's question and I briefly attempted to decipher the above response. There is no man page for 'mc' and google tends to lean towards midnight connection. $ apt-cache search mc

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: pvcreate /dev/sdc1 pvcreate /dev/sdc2 pvcreate /dev/sdc3 pvcreate /dev/sdc4 vgextend $vg /dev/sdc1 vgextend $vg /dev/sdc2 vgextend $vg /dev/sdc3 vgextend $vg /dev/sdc4 pvmove /dev/sda2 pvmove /dev/sdb

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Celejarcele...@gmail.com wrote: I'm no expert in this stuff, so I'm curious - what is gained by this over a straight rsync? In my experience, find | cpio is faster than rsync for moving raw data around. Not sure why, but it feels that way. It's been a long

Re: Iceweasel's rendering faster than Firefox?

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Celejarcele...@gmail.com wrote: How, then, can there be a significant performance gap? Maybe it's merely build options? static vs dynamic libraries? Maybe FF has extra debugging turned on, or some feature that you'll find out down the line that might be

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:13 AM, John Haslerjhas...@debian.org wrote: And many apps keep files open while running, leading to lockouts or races. Elucidate. Firefox. You can only have a profile open on one machine at a time. Very annoying. There is no need to a profile to be tied to

Re: ext4 stable enough to entrust it with data?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:40 AM, leel...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: It seems you can convert ext3 to ext4 later, so I'm thinking of using ext3 for now and maybe converting later. If you go this route, be sure you use a later kernel, .28+. .26 has known issues with mixing extent/non-extent files

Re: OT: launching jobs in a combined serial parallel way

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchiraju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: proga, progb are completely independent. They take couple of hours to finish. The time to complete proga, progb are not same. progc should to be launched only after both proga, progb are finished. progc

Re: OT: launching jobs in a combined serial parallel way

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Mike Castledalgoda+deb...@gmail.com wrote: I've taken to using flock for such things if I'm launching them from other scripts. I forget which package and I can't look right now (my machine died this morning). To clarify, I meant to say: I've taken to using

Re: convert standard time to unix time bash

I think cross posting to so many lists, particularly across domains is considered rude. Meanwhile... On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Tony Asnicarasnica...@gmail.com wrote: but how can I convert standard time to unix time? :D date +%s You can mix it with -d for fun things, if you need the

Re: OT: how to send a key code to a running process?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Sthu Deussthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good day. How I can send a space key code to a running process by running a simple program? - I need this for mplayer to pause/continue. For now I have to refer to the console it is running in, but I want to use hot-keys -

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Kumar Appaiaha.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: How about passing the text through fmt -w 80|sed 's/^/ //'? Or use the -p option to fmt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:54 PM, marc gm...@auxbuss.com wrote: ogg is a container, so unless you used a lossless codec (i.e. FLAC) then the mp3s are going to sound horrible, especially as mp3 also has sound shaping and, usually, produces variable bit rate files. I thought most ogg's were

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Anything that doesn't have a showstopping-type bug filed against it in sid moves to testing after a week, as I understand it. You might check bugs.d.o for information. Is there something in particular you need from 27,

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: In my experience, there is no point in bringing in a more recent kernel package until 2.6.30 is released which includes drm and video driver fixes required by the latest Xorg packages although the latest 2.6.2902 package

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Scott waterho...@ultrasw.com wrote: GNU is an OS, Linux is a kernel. Unfortunately popular usage has led to Linux incorrectly meaning GNU/Linux and even more. How much GNU software is required before it has to have the GNU moniker? If my machine uses the

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Mike Castle dalgoda+deb...@gmail.com wrote: If I use a BSD kernel with mostly GNU software, do I have to call it GNU/BSD? (Something I'd find very amusing, by the way.) Oddly enough, in a completely different context, I did just come across a reference to GNU

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