Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how? [solved]

2009-07-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:11:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-07-19_18:57:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote: I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how

Re: problems during installation

2009-07-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:33:37PM +1000, w0102926 wrote: Hi I attempted to install debian GNU/Linux 5.0 several times today, but every time the process gets to select and install software, nothing appears to happen, I have left it for up to an hour with please wait 1% complete on the screen.

Re: DVD download

2009-07-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:42:46PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: 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

chown question

2009-07-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I have a really basic question; I really messed up my box. I was doing a reinstall on an old box after a drive failure. I restored /home but one of the UIDs were created differently so I needed to chown their directory, including all the hidden files in their ~/. Without thinking,

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

2009-06-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:05:20PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:17:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: While you may think its terribly inefficient, it isn't really. A fancy wait function is just polling anyway

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:49:26PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Although there have been attempts to design one universal computer language that serves all purposes, all of them have failed to be generally accepted as filling this role. Ada does a good job. Except that since no OS is

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

2009-06-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:17:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Currently I have a shell script that works as below. 1) launch proga, progb in the background using nohup. 2) Ask proga, progb to write a file when they finish. 3) Every five minutes check if these files are present. If

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote: I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and directories with

Re: any substitute for x window system?

2009-06-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:58:22AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: I'm looking for a pure c/c++ programmed desktop manager, while the xorg is depandent on perl, so i do not like it, is there any graphics system which depands only on c/c++ to replace x window system? thanks I think that you'll find that you

Re: Filesystem UncorrectableError for IDE disk on 2.6.26?

2009-06-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:11:07AM +, Glyn Astill wrote: Just upgraded an etch machine to lenny, and with it I've gone from the 2.6.18-6 kernel up to 2.6.26-1 kernel. I'm seeing the following errors under heavy disk activity: Jun 18 18:08:05 xglyn2 kernel: [14214.048193] ide: failed

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in console mode. Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? I think that the only way to dirctly tell exim4 to send mail is to speak SMTP to it,

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:26:41PM +0200, David wrote: Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the manager wants to use exim in a weird

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, please? Install bsd-mailx. echo 'Body of the message' |

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:52:05PM +0100, AG wrote: If I was to plan to build the perfect system from scratch, using a motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to jive up the sound quality -

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:30:14AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 07:35, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so it can easily

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:57:26PM +, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: snip I guess the automatically generated uids during the new installation were different from the ones in my backed up passwd/group files. What would be the best way to restore the full system in such a case? snip BTW,

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least amount of software needed. I don't do windows. Does it have OpenSSL? I encrypt stuff with

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: With one big partition, you lose the ability to: - have a separate /var (or /var

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't understand.

Re: replacing hard disk

2009-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:43:12PM -0300, Claudio wrote: I think this tool *dd*, resolve your problem. http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image http://www.mckeay.net/2004/10/18/using-dd-to-clone-a-hd/ Or, you can use tar to create to stdout, pipe the output to another tar process to extract

Re: ed 1.33 install errors

2009-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:13:47PM -0400, Rob Bochan wrote: On Monday 01 June 2009 08:53:19 pm Jude DaShiell wrote: Script started on Mon Jun 1 20:50:14 2009 localhost:~# aptitude install ed ... update-alternatives: error: alternative path /bin/ed doesn't exist. dpkg: error

Re: Realtek Device ffff (rev 10) is not recognized with 8139too

2009-06-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:43:21PM +, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: Here are the outputs of some commands. What does dmesg show? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: replacing hard disk

2009-06-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:39:08PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: So tomorrow it's off to the computer shop to get a new hard disk. Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install any updates and extra

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? Mind that it is a headless device. Everything has to be done through ssh (or local telnet). It has no

Re: konqueror, fish, stalled

2009-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Whenever I tried to copy file(s) bigger than 900 MB using fish protocol, it stalled. Any way to prevent this? Try a different protocol. Use rsync or scp (or mc with shell link) from a command line. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: hylafax

2009-05-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:08:37PM -0400, Tom Low-Shang wrote: Is Hylafax still the only open source fax server available? Last time I did fax, I used mgetty+sendfax. It worked just fine. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Lenny kpdf much slower than on etch

2009-05-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I'm finding that kpdf is much slower on Lenny than on Etch. When I load a new doc, it takes forever to generate the first page (and the thumbnails). Is there some setting I can change somewhere? This is on my dual-P-II-450. It takes 100% of a CPU for about 10 seconds before I can

Re: Operating system-level virtualization: how to make it?

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:39:38AM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:27 +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: On 22-05-2009, Sthu Deus

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:18:54AM -0500, lee wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:46:47AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090526142918.gc5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 01:17:16PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Use the old software. It

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:51:25PM -0500, lee wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:21:15PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: If the issue is saving $20 on a case, then you are just $20 short of having a working solution. Sounds good to me. Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit and

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:08:00AM -0500, lee wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: As far as I know, the only digital media that is designed to last that long on the shelf without data loss is tape. Since tape technology moves apace, you should probably

Re: Operating system-level virtualization: how to make it?

2009-05-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:27 +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: On 22-05-2009, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: How I can organize a Operating system-level virtualization on a server for every service I would isolate?

Re: Luks encrypted partition gets identified as ntfs

2009-05-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:52:20AM +0100, Aron wrote: About 4 years of research I have in there so far got that gut feeling it's going up in smokes. I surely hope you have backups, either not encrypted or encrypted with something else (I use openssl). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Lenny. Do I need to check the system after improper shutdown?

2009-05-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:33:31PM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Hello, list! Do I need to clean up something or check hard drive consistency after system's hang up during recovering from Suspend-to-RAM state? An improper system shutdown by 'power' key was forcibly applied and during a boot

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2 *

how capture segfault trace for bug report; lenny megaraid driver?

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I use an HP NetRaid 1si raid card in my HP NetServer LPr. It worked fine on Etch and was able to retreive status info from /proc/megaraid, e.g. # cat /proc/megaraid/hba0/raiddrives-0-9 With Lenny, there are a couple of problems: 1. Rescue mode doesn't see the drives even

Re: sudo vs. su (was Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux)

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:50:28PM -0500, dwain wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, George nutn...@comcast.net wrote: I was a little disappointed being called out on my suggestions in my original post. Obviously the person isn’t a sys admin and from my understanding the whole purpose

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/5/19 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: I don't know if can handle UTF-8, but I see nobody mention htmldoc, which is in debian etch, I suppose must be in lenny, so another option to try. I did not know about htmldoc,

Re: LVM how to

2009-05-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:17:48AM +1000, gianni wrote: how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian? the root is to small around 400mb... I looked around the web but it look like I need to do that from a rescue cd, which one should I use? any good link for a easy how to :) No

Re: Hardware diagnostics

2009-05-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:37:51PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: I have a Debian Etch installation that's beoming increasingly unstable. It periodically freezes up, with nothing in the logs until it is rebooted. I suspect a hardware problem, and would like to identify it or rule it out

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 06:37:45PM +, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I ... Any other ideas? Is there a konqueror- or KDE way to do this? Am I missing

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:04:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [Replying to debian-user, including OP's reply to me, which was presumably intended for debian-user.] On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, gianni giovanni.favor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Patrick this is the result from df -h

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list. Since you only just created the user, I'd just go ahead and delete it (use: # cd

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past has done

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. I want to see the output

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

2009-05-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:23:33PM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real directory. Is there any easy way to do it? Let me explain

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:01:39AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan

Re: Backing Up CMOS Settings Under Linux

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 05:32:28PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:19:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I first thought it was my imagination, but I have had two Dell Dimension computers change their boot drive order. I don't know when it happens because they

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real directory. Is there any easy way to do it? Let me explain with an example (that you can try): mkdir d1 touch d1/{a,b,c} ln -s c d1/d ln -s d1 d2 I want

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:29:07AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Before I try it, please advise whether, in removing the sudo facility for users, the package management (both adding/removing packages, and, downloading and installing updates, and using synaptic) will work by

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many others. There has recently been some chatter on their general mailing list to overhaul how they

Re: USB PCI card to buy: [SOLVED] Startech PCI625USB2I

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:01:40AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it a shot. The odds

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:10:15PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. This has to be a joke. Win 98 wasn't even an operating system. It was an application that ran on top of DOS for pete's sake. That was a different

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one _must_ go through the docs to

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:03:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I don't keep a backup server in the safety deposit box :), I keep the backup media. In this case, big USB stick (hard drives don't fit and This opens

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:57:40AM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: SNIP I'm one to read the 1000 page book cover-to-cover. That way, I'll rememeber a significant amount and know exactly where to look when I need something I don't remember. Now a days google is a *huge* help

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:10:13AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Now a days google is a *huge* help in this. There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:54:38PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the kernel that e.g

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:18:23AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, We plan to buy an HP proliant ML115 G5 for server backup. The CPUs would be amd opteron 64bit. And there is embedded sata raid controller. I will use raid1 on two 1T harddrives. I would like to

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:41:12AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see if it sees

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:05:00PM -0400, debian debian wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Robert Menes viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little memory refresher with. I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Thank you very much for your reply! Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided

Re: debian with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on notebook?

2009-04-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:39:38PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: Hello, since my ThinkPad T400 has two 250GB HD, i considered to install debian testing with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on it. Has anyone experience with that kind of setup? Any significant reasons against my plan? Sounds like a

Re: File won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date,

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: Hi List! I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. I have 2 partitions: md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 md1 is for

Re: clean up the laptop body/keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:33:38AM -0300, Hashimoto wrote: What kind of product do you suggest to use to clean up my laptop body and keyboard ? To be explicit: other than the screen. I've always started with air, then a damp cloth. The owner's manuals for plastic electronic things generally

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:08:41PM +0200, Dirk wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:26:17AM +0200, Dirk wrote: nah.. instead of configuring a package i don't want to install in the first place i just run a cronjob that de-installs the MTA every 30 minutes using

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:26:17AM +0200, Dirk wrote: (see subject) i don't want an MTA running on a system... but many programs require it as dependency to spam me with their stuff (which should belong into just a log file (IMO))... Unix without an MTA??? Why not install exim, then look

Re: SD-NECU2-5E1I - Re: Linux (Debian) support of USB card

2009-04-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
me know whether the answer is helpful for you. Best Regards, Michael, mich...@us.syba.com Syba Support Team - Original Message - From: Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca To: support...@syba.com Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 7:04 AM Subject: Linux (Debian) support of USB

Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

2009-04-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:53:11PM -0400, H.S. wrote: This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router for my home lan such that

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009-04-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with Debian (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze). The

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009-04-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 15:22:38 je Douglas A. Tutty napisal(a): On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: I agree ... to a point. Namely, I've never managed to overheat the unit by just _using_ the CPU

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Here's the reply I received from Startech. Hi Doug, Both chipsets (Nvidia and NEC) are natively supported in the Linux = kernel since 2.4.x, but we do not directly support these cards in Linux, = nor have we tested with

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:00:40AM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:02:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org) wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009, Miles Fidelman wrote: I suggest that a small (1GB-4GB) partition for simple md-raid1 be used for /

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:09PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Not really answering your question directly, but may I suggest, if cost is not *absolutely* critical, that you consider RAID 10? If it is a server, then certainly you will want to get away from a three-drive RAID 5. A RAID 10

Re: Trouble burning netinstall CD : SOLVED -- it's trouble with k3b's check.

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:49:56PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: Anyone know what I should do with three Lenny install disks? :-) Put one somewhere safe, with your off-site backup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: dialing phone numbers

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:05:37AM +0200, Pol wrote: Any hints about dialing numbers by your laptop keyboard to a phone connected through modem? minicom? echo? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. Do they all just work now? It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it a shot. The

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. Do they all just work now? It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it a shot. The

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:43:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca [2009.04.09.1532 +0200]: On the other hand, having / in LVM means: * you can enlarge / when necessary; You should never have to enlarge a 500 MB / I bet you'll be wrong

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get swapped, does it go to a scratch file? This might help

Re: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Steven, Please don't top post. I've tried to reorganize this in the correct order, but the quoting wasn't consistant. -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 2:17 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

Re: creating a compact binary

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:13:53PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 2009-04-06 18:59, Mag Gam wrote: I was wondering if its possible to compile src code (for example rsync) to create 1 large binary. I want to do this to

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:26:20AM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: $ cat /proc/swaps: Filename

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a bug report on Friday, checked

USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. Do they all just work now? I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's: PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia chipset PCI330USB2 4-port (3+1) with NEC D7201026c

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. Do they all just work now? It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it a shot. The odds

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:00:57PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: By the way, you may want to write to Belkin and ask them if the card will work with Linux. They will never write works with Linux on the box if

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Samuel B?chler wrote: Thanks a lot to everyone! Just as a short description: I installed easypg. In the console environment I type `emacs keys.pgp'. This starts emacs and prompts for passphrase of `keys.pgp'. After entering the passphrase you can

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get swapped, does it go to a scratch file? This might help: http://www.easypg.org/ yea, it looks like it can leak info. Doug

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 06:59:43PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but when I rebooted my computer

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Samuel B?chler wrote: I store logins and passwords of some dozen of Web-Services in an encrypted file. I used to use kgpg to read and update this file. Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script: #!/bin/sh gpg keys.gpg

Re: Several users need to work in the same directory

2009-03-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 05:37:07PM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: I know that the user can chmod the files he just created manually and then set the execution bit, but in our case the developers sometimes upload several new files using sftp, and I am wondering if they really have to logon again

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:26:12PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: But I think I would like to have a record of what packages were actually installed. So I'm thinking of writing a script, to be run nightly, that puts a fresh copy of my selections in /etc/apt, e.g. # dpkg --get-selections

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1751-1] New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities

2009-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:57:11PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,22.Mar.09, 18:35:21, wrote: Hello all, I'm running Etch, and use Iceweasel. I'm concerned about this security advisory. It says that the Etch release notes said that the Mozilla products would have to be stopped

Re: lenny reinstall

2009-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:38:23AM -0600, postid wrote: I need to reinstall lenny using netinstall. (I had some problems with the network, etc. during the first attempt.) I want to keep the partitioning I currently have set up. I especially don't want to risk messing up hda1 since I

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 05:11:43AM -0700, Thorny wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny on it. Or, maybe I shouldn't

accessing www.mls.ca map search from linux

2009-03-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hi all, We're looking for a new house and here in Canada, the way to do this (other than getting a realestate agent to do it), is to go to www.mls.ca and do a search. MLS has recently changed how you choose the geographic area: it used to be by clicking on a simple map to choose the realestate

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