Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:28:10AM +0530, Kurian Thayil (kurianmtha...@gmail.com) wrote: > I got your modification working only when telnet gives a prompt, Right you are - telnet doesn't react to the escape sequence before connecting. Bummer. :-( Oh well, just kill it then: #! /bin/bash case "

Re: PMP

2009-04-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:37:30AM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > WTF is PMP PMP, A.K.A PtMP, means Point to Multi Point. ISDN BRI has two variants: point-to-point (PtP), that is used for standard CPE to CO connections and PtMP that is used to connect multiple endpoints on the same physical line.

Re: To check a copy of a file on its originality from its installed package.

2009-04-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Eric Gerlach пишет: > If you're really paranoid about this, you should consider looking at > tools like tripwire or samhain. But they take considerably more > effort to set up. I wanted to ask a bit more on security issue: should I regenerate the keys for ssh after it had been updated to new ope

Re: To check a copy of a file on its originality from its installed package.

2009-04-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Eric: > This works in the simple case, the only thing to be aware of is that > if someone has the ability to change you /usr/bin/sudo, then they can > probably update the debsum as well (unless debsums are signed... are > they?) Is there key point on investigat

Re: To check a copy of a file on its originality from its installed package.

2009-04-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Rob: > On 2009-Apr-15, at 4:02 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: > % aptitude install debsums > % rehash > % debsums sudo I get the error: # rehash bash: rehash: command not found I've searched for the file at the debian package page - there is no such a file that is in a

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi Tapani Tarvainen, I got your modification working only when telnet gives a prompt, something like, kuria...@debian:~$ telnet 192.168.0.20 25 Trying 192.168.0.20... Connected to 192.168.0.20. Escape character is '^]'. 220 rhel.virusk.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:34:26 +

Fwd: Links to download Testing distribution does not work

2009-04-15 Thread Mohamed Irshad
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Mohamed Irshad Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM Subject: Fwd: Links to download Testing distribution does not work To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I am not quite sure which is is the correct place to post this. (I am new here).  Below is my

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

2009-04-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:53:01AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I've asked the same question a while ago. I have a simple one-user > > desktop, i do not need an MTA. I know those programs don't need much > > memory (i have 4GB), i know they're sleeping most of the time, i know > > they'll only

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:58:37AM +0530, Kurian Thayil (kurianmtha...@gmail.com) wrote: > I tried the script. Good work. But, one problem though. If the mail > server is firewalled (Netfilter) and if its blocking the client (one > where bash script is run - 192.168.0.10), then `telnet 192.168.0.

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

2009-04-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I've asked the same question a while ago. I have a simple one-user > desktop, i do not need an MTA. I know those programs don't need much > memory (i have 4GB), i know they're sleeping most of the time, i know > they'll only wake up if there's something to do. But i don't want an > MTA. It's that

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi Tapani Tarvainen, I tried the script. Good work. But, one problem though. If the mail server is firewalled (Netfilter) and if its blocking the client (one where bash script is run - 192.168.0.10), then `telnet 192.168.0.20 25` will not give any reply but just tries to connect indefinitely. At t

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-15 Thread H.S.
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > KDE4 doesn't cope well with pre 180 Nvidia drivers. There is a 180+ > driver in the sid-reps. Try to install that one, maybe that will help? > > Sjoerd Yes, that seems to have worked. Dolphin does not hang now and starting even a single widget (clock) does not appear to

Re: update ext4dev to ext4

2009-04-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 17:10, Hashimoto wrote: > Hello guys, > > Actually I'm using the 'ext4dev' filesystem in one partition, and I'd like > to update it to 'ext4'. Could you guys help me on it ? > > I just compiled the kernel '2.6.28.7', so I believe my current kernel > supports it, the ext4.

which websites are running debian

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I wonder if there is some official resource that show who is running debian on there servers. The boss knows redhat and gentoo and would like to know more about debian. Another question, is there a way to test a site like amazon.com running which OS? Regards, -- Zhengqua

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

2009-04-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:34:29PM +, Tzafrir Cohen (tzaf...@cohens.org.il) wrote: > BTW: is it possible to configure exim (or sendmail) not to run as > daemons? Don't know about exim but for sendmail it is perfectly possible, well-supported and indeed easy. Whether that is a useful configur

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

2009-04-15 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:15:42 -0400 Michael Pobega wrote: > I actually have a question about this; I've always used reportbug with > the -M flag, which relays the mail through Mutt. What is the *proper* > way to set up exim4 so that reportbug will work without any errors? > (Currently I'm not usin

HAL and KDE mounting USB drives

2009-04-15 Thread Andrew Reid
Hi all -- I'm trying to implement a security policy in which portable devices, especially USB drives, are not auto-run. My idea is to go one better, and have all of these devices automatically mounted with "noexec,nodev,nosuid" by default. I also want users to still be able to choose th

flash on facebook hangs with "loading 20 of 20"

2009-04-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
When trying to start a game from http://apps.facebook.com/texas_holdem/ , the flash application hangs with a message "Loading 20 of 20". Any idea what flash packages I need to install/uninstall or in general what I have to do to get this working? Using Lenny Debian 5.0. $dpkg -l | grep flash ii f

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

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:28:26AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > MTAs, afaik, are useful for multiuser systems and/or systems that > > actually handle mail. (Most (i should say 'most' otherwise some > > nitpick will say "But i do!"

[solved, Thank you!] Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
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update ext4dev to ext4

2009-04-15 Thread Hashimoto
Hello guys, Actually I'm using the 'ext4dev' filesystem in one partition, and I'd like to update it to 'ext4'. Could you guys help me on it ? I just compiled the kernel '2.6.28.7', so I believe my current kernel supports it, the ext4. Thanks.

Re: PMP Exam Preparation Course (35 Contact Hours) on April 20th to 24th, 2009 at Kuala Lumpur

2009-04-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
WTF is PMP introducing abbreviations should explain them -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: lenny failing to boot

2009-04-15 Thread Vwaju
I apologize for not doing more research on this before posting the problem. I see there is some material on this on Linux Forums. After I've researched it, I'll post again. Best Regards, Vwaju, NYC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: ALSA configuration problems

2009-04-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alexander Harizanov wrote: > Hi, > I have Etch on AMD Sempron 3000. i have no problems playing audio CDs or > DVDs.  But if I try stream video there is no sound at all.  Mlayer stated > the following error: alsa-lib: 'pcm_hw.c:1248:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resou

Re: Network traffic failure after installing Lenny

2009-04-15 Thread Alejandro Barocio A.
I can't do ping; I haven't tested it on a different network; but my stronger suspect is DHCP (for it runs on a WinXP OS). Neverthless, I never had such problems with Etch or Woody, an they show up when I installed Lenny. I will try the Network on Ubuntu. -- Para vencer, hay que ceder; Para apre

Re: Network traffic failure after installing Lenny

2009-04-15 Thread Alejandro Barocio A.
2009/4/11 gn643202 : >   What router are you using? None, just a network (RJ47) switcher an the "services" of a WinXP Lap confugured to route network traffic. -- Para vencer, hay que ceder; Para aprender, hay que desconocer; Para ser libre, hay que servir. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

lenny failing to boot

2009-04-15 Thread Vwaju
I just installed lenny on a a brand spanking new hard drive. I was impressed with how quickly and smoothly it went. However, when installation was complete and I rebooted, I got: GRUB Loading stage 1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 18 What now? Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To

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: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-04-15_07:24:03, John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > > Look into the package chrony. > > I agree that he should install Chrony (everyone should :)) but I think he > has more wrong than just an outlier crystal. Four minutes per hour is > 66,667 parts per million. You can do better

Re: unable to login to console

2009-04-15 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Mahmudur Rahman Jami wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian lenny. I am unable to login to my system. It shows the > following message when I put user account at desktop console CUI, > > Usage login [-p] [name] > -p [-h host] [-f name] > -p -r host > > Th

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Spiro Harvey: >> while ps -ef | grep $processname; do sleep 60; done && echo "done" | \ >> mail -s "subject" user >> But it might be tricky to identify the right process. > > grepping ps will invariably also return the grep line, so this will > hit a false positive. Better to use pgrep rather than

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

2009-04-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 00:24, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 22:22:24 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Sunday 12 April 2009 20:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > > > Florian Kulzer pisze: > > > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Spiro Harvey
> while ps -ef | grep $processname; do sleep 60; done && echo "done" | \ > mail -s "subject" user > But it might be tricky to identify the right process. grepping ps will invariably also return the grep line, so this will hit a false positive. Better to use pgrep rather than ps & grep. Using pgre

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:40:36PM +, Pedro Insua wrote: > Sorry.. I forgot 'sleep' > > > , > | while true; do > | > | IDP=$(pidof your_process) > | > | if (( $? == 1 )) ; then > | echo "End your_process with pid:$IDP" | mail -s "subject text" user > | fi > | >

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:22:00AM +0200, Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello, > > I am preparing a versioning control. In my environment some of the > clients are Windows PC. I have implemented the next Subversion + > TortoiseSVN (for windows clients) + Eventum (for bug control, etc.). If you have

Re: smbpasswd vs pbdedit?

2009-04-15 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: So, I've completely removed the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file; this may result in some "issues", but so far, it looks like perhaps this file has been deprecated. Now I'll go see if I can find any actual documentation to this effect. Yes, apparently the file has been deprecated: A

Re: smbpasswd vs pbdedit?

2009-04-15 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: In my searching for an answer, I discovered the pbdedit tool. I have not been able to discover if this is soon to be a replacement for smbpasswd, or if it just does some of the same things. If it just does some of the same things, which tool do I want to use? It seems the t

Re: Re: "unsupported platform" message on admin apps

2009-04-15 Thread Alon Horn
it only asks 1 time per reboot for all of those progs, actually until you confirm once. alon DISCLAIMER: This mail message was scanned for malicious content by Quality Bytes Mail Security when leaving the gateway of Kibbutz Hazorea http://qb.q-bytes.com/qbms/?c=hazorea . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

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

2009-04-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:18:57PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > All those are mail applications, i don't want them. :) Unlike exim, ssmtp does not run as a server. Or does not maintain a spool. BTW: is it possible to configure exim (or sendmail) not to run as daemons? Assuming you don't want t

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> You must read the ABS-Guide , and other documents abouta shell > programming. It's really a good thing. Thank you very much especially for this, I will read it when I have time, Regards, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Pedro Insua
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:05:56PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > , > > | while true; do > > | > > | IDP=$(pidof your_process) > > | > > | if (( $? == 1 )) ; then > > | echo "End your_process with pid:$IDP" | mail -s "subject text" user > > | fi > > | > > | sleep

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> , > | while true; do > | > | IDP=$(pidof your_process) > | > | if (( $? == 1 )) ; then > | echo "End your_process with pid:$IDP" | mail -s "subject text" user > | fi > | > | sleep 1 > | > | done > ` I tested this, it runs great, but it would send me more t

Re: Can't change brightness on HP Compaq 6715b laptop

2009-04-15 Thread Klistvud
Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 22:28:19 je Harry Rickards napisal(a): > On 13 Apr 2009, at 21:16, Klistvud wrote: > > Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 21:17:12 je Klistvud napisal(a): > >> Hiya, > >> > >> since I installed my fresh Lenny system several days ago, this > >> thing has > >> been buggi

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread H.S.
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> , >> | while true; do >> | >> | IDP=$(pidof your_process) > > so the IDP should now be the process ID. > > >> | >> | if (( $? == 1 )) ; then > > Could you explain $? ==1 abit? I am sorry I am not familiar with this. $? is a bash variable that holds the

Re: Synaptics touchpad hangs on Lenny

2009-04-15 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
It is same bug as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455994 creating hard links helps. bug still persist in Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 0.14.7~git20070706-3 iivanov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: "unsupported platform" message on admin apps

2009-04-15 Thread Klistvud
Dne sreda 15 april 2009 ob 14:37:41 je clive napisal(a): > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:43:56 +0300 > Alon Horn wrote: > > I mentioned this yesterday... > Subject: System Services > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:39:21 +0100 > > I go no response, but so far it has not appeared to create any problems. > > Hop

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
> , > | while true; do > | > | IDP=$(pidof your_process) so the IDP should now be the process ID. > | > | if (( $? == 1 )) ; then Could you explain $? ==1 abit? I am sorry I am not familiar with this. > | echo "End your_process with pid:$IDP" | mail -s "subject text" user

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:47:43PM +0530, Kurian Thayil (kurianmtha...@gmail.com) wrote: > [...] I need to execute a script > only after making sure that I am able to send mail using the relay > server 192.168.0.20 (Postfix enabled). Is it possible for me to write a > bash script which check thi

Re: xfce 4.6 in unstable

2009-04-15 Thread JoeHill
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,15.Apr.09, 14:19:11, JoeHill wrote: > > > So I'm guessing it has something to do with pin-priority? I notice that the > > output from apt-cache policy includes an '800' for unstable and a '900' for > > testing. > > Because testing has higher priority (900) than

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 15 Abr 2009, "Kurian Thayil" wrote: Hi All, I need to write a BASH script which does a set of operations. But this set of operations must be done only after checking if I am able to use a relay server for sending mails. So, consider my client server where bash script would be run as 192.

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,15.Apr.09, 13:00:25, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> Dear debian users, >> I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there >> any way to send myself an email after the process for the script ends? > > Easiest would be to put something like > > ech

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Pedro Insua
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:21:55PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:23PM +, Pedro Insua wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:00:25PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > Dear debian users, > > > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is ther

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:29:53PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,15.Apr.09, 13:00:25, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Dear debian users, > > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there > > any way to send myself an email after the process for the script ends? > > Ea

Re: xfce 4.6 in unstable

2009-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,15.Apr.09, 14:19:11, JoeHill wrote: > So I'm guessing it has something to do with pin-priority? I notice that the > output from apt-cache policy includes an '800' for unstable and a '900' for > testing. Because testing has higher priority (900) than unstable (800) apt will not install pa

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Pedro Insua
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:21:55PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:23PM +, Pedro Insua wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:00:25PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > Dear debian users, > > > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is ther

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,15.Apr.09, 13:00:25, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian users, > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there > any way to send myself an email after the process for the script ends? Easiest would be to put something like echo 'Master, job is done' | mail -s "

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zhengquan Zhang: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:23PM +, Pedro Insua wrote: > >> echo "End" | mail -s "subject text" user > > THank you very much, but now the problem is that the process has already > started and how can I detect its end time? In another shell: while ps -ef | grep $process

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:23PM +, Pedro Insua wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:00:25PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Dear debian users, > > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there > > any way to send myself an email after the process for the script en

Re: xfce 4.6 in unstable

2009-04-15 Thread JoeHill
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,15.Apr.09, 00:23:20, JoeHill wrote: > > > > > Or you may install the remaining packages from Sid as I have just done. > > > > That's the thing, I did 'aptitude install xfdesktop4', and it said the > > latest version was already installed (4.4). > > apt-cach

Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi All, I need to write a BASH script which does a set of operations. But this set of operations must be done only after checking if I am able to use a relay server for sending mails. So, consider my client server where bash script would be run as 192.168.0.10. Now, I need to execute a script only

Re: Adding Firmware to Custom Kernel

2009-04-15 Thread Walton, Bryan K
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:23:57AM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > > > > I'm guessing that when I created my initrd image (using mkinitramfs) > > that something didn't go right.  Or am I missing some step? > I think so, decompress your initrd image and check it. > > There is a bug [2] that could gi

Re: email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Pedro Insua
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:00:25PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian users, > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there > any way to send myself an email after the process for the script ends? Hello. You can use 'mail' , in 'bsd-mailx' package. When

email notification when a process ends?

2009-04-15 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian users, I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there any way to send myself an email after the process for the script ends? Thank you very much, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: xfce 4.6 in unstable

2009-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,15.Apr.09, 00:23:20, JoeHill wrote: > > > Or you may install the remaining packages from Sid as I have just done. > > That's the thing, I did 'aptitude install xfdesktop4', and it said the latest > version was already installed (4.4). apt-cache policy xfdesktop4 on my machine shows that t

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:22:00 +0200 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello, > > I am preparing a versioning control. In my environment some of the > clients are Windows PC. I have implemented the next Subversion + > TortoiseSVN (for windows clients) + Eventum (for bug control, etc.). All > work very we

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Hugo writes: I'm using chrony for years. But this last change to DST I had to do a "makestep" in chronyc for the change to take effect. Chrony neither cares nor knows about DST, nor does the kernel. That's handled by the time zone stuff. Do you have your hardware (BIOS) cl

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread ponga
On Apr 15, 5:50 am, John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > > Look into the package chrony. > > I agree that he should install Chrony (everyone should :)) but I think he > has more wrong than just an outlier crystal.  Four minutes per hour is > 66,667 parts per million.  You can do better tha

smbpasswd vs pbdedit?

2009-04-15 Thread Kent West
I've got a user on a Lenny box ("goshen") who wanted her username changed from bolinp to pab05b (so her username would be the same as her other accounts in her job world). I used adduser to create the new pab05b and copied all the files over from bolinp, and then used deluser to delete the old pab

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread John Hasler
Hugo writes: > I'm using chrony for years. But this last change to DST I had to do a > "makestep" in chronyc for the change to take effect. Chrony neither cares nor knows about DST, nor does the kernel. That's handled by the time zone stuff. Do you have your hardware (BIOS) clock on local time?

Re: cp(1) fails to copy file from /proc

2009-04-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-15 18:07 +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote: > I'm not sure wheter this is a bug or a feature... However, I just noticed > that cp(1) fails to copy /proc/cpuinfo to the file system (tested on i686 and > x86_64 lenny systems): > > $ wc -l /proc/cpuinfo 200 /proc/cpuinfo > $ cp /proc/cpuinfo /tmp

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Sjoerd writes: Just for my information: why is chrony better than eg. ntp? I thought the ntp daemon also adjusted the clock rate to synchronise the system with the online ntp-servers. Chrony corrects the clock more quickly when it is far off, does a better job of keeping it

cp(1) fails to copy file from /proc

2009-04-15 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, I'm not sure wheter this is a bug or a feature... However, I just noticed that cp(1) fails to copy /proc/cpuinfo to the file system (tested on i686 and x86_64 lenny systems): $ wc -l /proc/cpuinfo 200 /proc/cpuinfo $ cp /proc/cpuinfo /tmp $ echo $? 0 $ wc -l /tmp/cpuinfo 125 /tmp/cpuinfo

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
John Hasler wrote: Sjoerd writes: Just for my information: why is chrony better than eg. ntp? I thought the ntp daemon also adjusted the clock rate to synchronise the system with the online ntp-servers. Chrony corrects the clock more quickly when it is far off, does a better job of keeping it

Re: To check a copy of a file on its originality from its installed package.

2009-04-15 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:46:44AM -0400, Rob McBroom wrote: > On 2009-Apr-15, at 4:02 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> For example, I have >> >> /usr/bin/sudo >> >> that comes from its installed package >> >> sudo >> >> My question is, How I can find out that the /usr/bin/sudo file has not >> been exchan

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

2009-04-15 Thread John Hasler
Nuno writes: > The few bugs i've reported were on their application's sites. Then you've never reported a bug to Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread John Hasler
Sjoerd writes: > Just for my information: why is chrony better than eg. ntp? I thought the > ntp daemon also adjusted the clock rate to synchronise the system with > the online ntp-servers. Chrony corrects the clock more quickly when it is far off, does a better job of keeping it correct when you

Re: lenny upgraded but some 50 packages not upgraded?

2009-04-15 Thread CaT
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:24:29PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Just done etch -> lenny upgrade and wondering why apt-get upgrade won't > upgrade the following, when some of them might be nice to have (and > synaptic seems to find no reason not to give them to me): Try apt-get dist-upgrade instead

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-15 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Wed, 15/4/09, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > From: Johannes Wiedersich > Subject: Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, 15 April, 2009, 3:32 PM > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,11.Apr.09, 13:47:08, James Youngma

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Apr.09, 13:47:08, James Youngman wrote: > >> (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. >> the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a >> year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. > > etckeeper. Admittedl

Re: lenny upgraded but... Just seen that other thread :O

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 15/04/09 15:24, wrote: Just done etch -> lenny upgrade and wondering why apt-get upgrade won't and after sending the email, found the next email on the list answered me. I'm obviously gifted with the opposite of foresight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

lenny upgraded but some 50 packages not upgraded?

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Just done etch -> lenny upgrade and wondering why apt-get upgrade won't upgrade the following, when some of them might be nice to have (and synaptic seems to find no reason not to give them to me): The following packages have been kept back: antlr apt-listbugs arts audacity autopano-sift avah

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <49e59928.7000...@gmail.com>, Adrian Chapela wrote: >I am preparing a versioning control. In my environment some of the >clients are Windows PC. I have implemented the next Subversion + >TortoiseSVN (for windows clients) + Eventum (for bug control, etc.). All >work very well but I have a problem

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Rick Thomas on 13/04/09 22:19, wrote: It does exactly what you are asking for and it does it automatically. And it's a debian package: $ aptitude show rsnapshot Package: rsnapshot State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.2.9-1 Priority: optional Section: utils Maintainer: Simon

Re: xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Thomas Anderson on 13/04/09 13:01, wrote: I hope that this will work for you, because it worked for me this a.m. when I updated. The stock kernel image has been updated (2.6.26-2-686 for me). The recipe below worked for me. Good luck: 1. download the latest nVidia driver from the nVidia site 2

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <49e5a888.6000...@gmail.com>, Adrian Chapela wrote: >Dave Ewart escribió: >> - Pre-commit tests which can be configured to perform arbitrary >> operations (e.g. a clean compile, for example) before allowing the >> commit to take place. > >Pre-compile or post-compile is not a good option to v

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:40:48 -0400, Bryce wrote in message : > > Been using KDE4.2 from experimental for a while and you're right it > > doesn't seem as fast as KDE3. Turning off composite made things a > > lot faster. ..yup, here too, I have KDE-4.2.2 on a R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] on xorg' radeo

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

2009-04-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:28, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > You asked a quiestion that was not clear. It took a while to understand > that you wanted a package to satisfy the mail-transfer-agent dependency. I'm not the OP, i just posted the same question a while ago. You sumed it up nicely i think: ha

Re: To check a copy of a file on its originality from its installed package.

2009-04-15 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2009-Apr-15, at 4:02 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: For example, I have /usr/bin/sudo that comes from its installed package sudo My question is, How I can find out that the /usr/bin/sudo file has not been exchanged with another copy by some person and therefore it does some stuff that I'm not aware

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
John Hasler wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Look into the package chrony. I agree that he should install Chrony (everyone should :)) but I think he has more wrong than just an outlier crystal. Four minutes per hour is 66,667 parts per million. You can do better than that with an rc oscillator.

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > Look into the package chrony. I agree that he should install Chrony (everyone should :)) but I think he has more wrong than just an outlier crystal. Four minutes per hour is 66,667 parts per million. You can do better than that with an rc oscillator. ponga wrote: >Ithink

Re: "unsupported platform" message on admin apps

2009-04-15 Thread clive
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:43:56 +0300 Alon Horn wrote: I mentioned this yesterday... Subject: System Services Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:39:21 +0100 I go no response, but so far it has not appeared to create any problems. Hopefully someone is in the 'know' of how/why this happens. Clive > > hi,

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-15 Thread Raffaele
2009/4/15 orange > > I see, thanks for clarification. > Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with > 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will > work. > IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- > upgrade and config files

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread marc
Adrian Chapela said... > Hello, > > I am preparing a versioning control. In my environment some of the > clients are Windows PC. I have implemented the next Subversion + > TortoiseSVN (for windows clients) + Eventum (for bug control, etc.). All > work very well but I have a problem that I think

"unsupported platform" message on admin apps

2009-04-15 Thread Alon Horn
hi, I'm geting a popup with: "Unsupported platform The platform you are running is not supported by this tool. If you for sure it works like one of the platforms listed below " when I open the following ->system->admin apps in Gnome: network services shared folders time and date users and gr

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

2009-04-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi, > > It seems as though most people on the list are incapable of answering > a simple technical question if it messes with their belief system. > Instead, they go on questioning the OPs motivations. It's rather > annoying. You a

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-15 Thread orange
I see, thanks for clarification. Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will work. IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- upgrade and config files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago in Sid? The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ with 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 86

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adrian Chapela: > > Now the copy on the repo is bad, because the User1 is using a function > which isn't on the file3 commited by the User2. Is there any way to > advice User1 that some other files are changed by another user ? Apart from commit messages by mail: no. Probably the best approa

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Adrian Chapela
Dave Ewart escribió: On Wednesday, 15.04.2009 at 10:22 +0200, Adrian Chapela wrote: Do you have any idea to solve this ? Make sure that User1 and User2 talk to each other. This is a serious suggestion: version control of this type is not a replacement for communication. Thank you

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 15.04.2009 at 10:22 +0200, Adrian Chapela wrote: > Do you have any idea to solve this ? Make sure that User1 and User2 talk to each other. This is a serious suggestion: version control of this type is not a replacement for communication. Having said that, you could look into the f

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