Re: rsync problem

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon July 27 2009 22:59:38 Robert Holtzman wrote: > Tried to post this to the rsync list but the subscribe connection failed > so I'll try here. > > Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a > script: > > rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.i

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-28 00:59, Robert Holtzman wrote: Tried to post this to the rsync list but the subscribe connection failed so I'll try here. Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a script: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' Look *ve

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
We are not your personal reference desk. Use your own initiative before coming to us. On 2009-07-28 00:40, hadi motamedi wrote: Thank you for your reply . Can you please provide me with more details on your proposed NX, VNC ? Regards H.Motamedi On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM, debuser wr

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-28 01:21, Scott Gifford wrote: Paul E Condon writes: On 2009-07-27_17:55:18, Eric Gerlach wrote: [...] Oh, and S3 storage is cheap. $0.15/GB/mo, plus $0.10/GB upload/download. A 1TB HDD from NewEgg is $0.085/GB once, and you own it, and $0.00/GB to upload/download. 2TB drives

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Gifford
Paul E Condon writes: > On 2009-07-27_17:55:18, Eric Gerlach wrote: [...] >> Oh, and S3 storage is cheap. $0.15/GB/mo, plus $0.10/GB upload/download. [...] > Renting is easier, but I wonder how long the web based services will > be in business. S3 is run by Amazon, and Amazon has been around

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-28 00:59, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] I was in a local computer store near Boulder, CO a few days ago. They are selling IDE disk drives, any size, for $0.25/GB. SATA are even What insane world do we live in where $0.25/GB is considered 3x too expensive? -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doo

rsync problem

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
Tried to post this to the rsync list but the subscribe connection failed so I'll try here. Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a script: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/media' / /media/disk/laptop This is the

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-07-27_17:55:18, Eric Gerlach wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:12:49PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:48:17 +0100 > > AG wrote: > > > > Hello AG, > > > > > Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine > > > that is safe for dummies (i.e. me)

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread debuser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:40 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: > Thank you for your reply . Can you please provide me with more details > on your proposed NX, VNC ? > Regards > H.Motamedi > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM, debuser wrote: >

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread debuser
В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:22 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: > Dear All > Can you please let us know what is the required service that needs to > be enabled on the Debian server to allow for Remote Desktop Connection > opened from the MS Windows client's side ? > Regards > H.Motamedi > As I know it's i

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread hadi motamedi
Thank you for your reply . Can you please provide me with more details on your proposed NX, VNC ? Regards H.Motamedi On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM, debuser wrote: > В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:22 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: > > Dear All > > Can you please let us know what is the required service

Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please let us know what is the required service that needs to be enabled on the Debian server to allow for Remote Desktop Connection opened from the MS Windows client's side ? Regards H.Motamedi

Re: batch automation

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 22:41, jeremy jozwik wrote: sorry if this is not within the scope of the debian user list. but im stuck in a rut. im running exiftool to copy exif data from my jpg files to my converted raw files. individually i am running ./exiftool -TagsFromFile jpg.jpg raw.jpg Why are you in /

batch automation

2009-07-27 Thread jeremy jozwik
sorry if this is not within the scope of the debian user list. but im stuck in a rut. im running exiftool to copy exif data from my jpg files to my converted raw files. individually i am running ./exiftool -TagsFromFile jpg.jpg raw.jpg but i have a folder loaded with .jpg files and this could tak

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:55:06 -0700 whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. ... > Secondly, sites such as the following lead me > to believe that it is possible to import packages > from the local download cache to the approx > repository: > >

approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-27 Thread whollygoat
I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get caught in an infinite loop updating the Packages files? I've tried from localhost and a remote machine. On both machines, running "aptitude update" causes the Packages file to start downloading (you can wa

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:34:19 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > AG writes: > > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > > superfluous

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 16:55, Eric Gerlach wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:12:49PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:48:17 +0100 AG wrote: Hello AG, Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine that is safe for dummies (i.e. me) and is low maintenance that I can

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:09:34 +0200 Siggy Brentrup wrote: ... > In my understanding there is no warranty whatsoever that testing / > unstable won't burn your house, void the universe or whatever you can > imagine. Nitpick: *no* version of Debian, not even stable, comes with any warranty, as per

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Miles Bader
AG writes: > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? I think such thi

RE: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-27 Thread Gibson, Jodie MRS
UNCLASSIFIED Oh, and to all those people that have provided useful suggestions to my problem, thank you. I will look into each of them and see which one will work for me at work. I have just changed to 'digest' format as a starter.. Thanks again, Jo. x -Original Message- From: Gibson,

RE: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-27 Thread Gibson, Jodie MRS
UNCLASSIFIED Lee, I haven't replied before this because it was the weekend, I wasn't at work (therefore had no access to my WORK email account), and frankly, this topic is so trivial that it does not warrant a response. However, I can see that if I don't reply to you, you will keep going like a

Re: font enlargement on file

2009-07-27 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:58:29AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I'm working from the command line and need to put two lines of > writing on a 4x6 card as a sign so need the font larger than 8 point > type. I have emacs on this machine and am wondering if something in > emacs might help or might t

Error loading operating system

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi, I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of ram). I manually partitioned the SATA disk: sda1 /10Gb sda2 /usr 10Gb sda3 /var 10 Gb sda5 swap 1 Gb sda6 /tmp 1 Gb sda7 /home the rest of the driveabout 456 Gb and the installer formatted it for me.

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:12:49PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:48:17 +0100 > AG wrote: > > Hello AG, > > > Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine > > that is safe for dummies (i.e. me) and is low maintenance that I can > > just leave to run acco

[SOLVED] Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Mark
Thanks for the help! Mark On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > In <631fe46c0907271429n387f32bp42606b1755eae...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark > wrote: > >I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my > >Debian and Ubuntu mach

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <631fe46c0907271429n387f32bp42606b1755eae...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark wrote: >I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my >Debian and Ubuntu machines). Is the following code correct for creating > the swap file (assuming 1 GB swap file size)? > ># dd if=/dev/zero of=/sw

Can't retrieve online quotes with gnucash

2009-07-27 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, Using GNUcash version 2.2.6 with Debian 5.0, I have the following message when I try to get online quotes for US stock exchanges: Unable to retrieve quotes for these items: NYSE:C NYSE:BAC NYSE:F NYSE:AIG NYSE:HAR NASDAQ:NOVL Continue using only the good quotes? So far, when I t

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Mark
I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my Debian and Ubuntu machines). Is the following code correct for creating the swap file (assuming 1 GB swap file size)? # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 And would the correct use of mkswap be: # mkswap /swap

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark: > > Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but > recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had > success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap > partition? I ran my previous laptop with 768MB of RAM for seve

Re: Chinese in rxvt

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 15:46, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:32:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Chinese fonts render perfectly for me in Iceweasel, Icedove and even rxvt. hmm..., how did you do -- rendering Chinese in rxvt? I *think* just by installing the packages I mentioned in the 26 Jul 200

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <631fe46c0907271347g341e048udf74d5ee643e1...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark wrote: >A couple of questions (background is below the questions if you want to >read): > >Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but >recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swa

mysql-server install script defective

2009-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
The script couldn't install because it doesn't know what to do with the --skip-federated option being passed. Apparently a new option being used by mysql. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Mark
A couple of questions (background is below the questions if you want to read): Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap

Chinese in rxvt

2009-07-27 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:32:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Chinese fonts render perfectly for me in Iceweasel, Icedove and even > rxvt. hmm..., how did you do -- rendering Chinese in rxvt? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourcefo

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:06:52AM +0200, Gilles Guiot wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do > not need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've > experimented with a few on the windows side, but to no avail. > Would any nice souls outhere

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
AG: > > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? I can only spea

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

2009-07-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:18:16PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Xan wrote: > > I have a NSLU2 device (armel computer). With Debian 5.0.2 installed. I > > cannot use reportbug because exim4 is not configured properly > > Use "reportbug -o bugreport.tx

Re: PSI does not let me chat with 'Not allowed' message.

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a6de169@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2009-07-27 10:28, Sthu Deus wrote: >> My PSI ceased to work. Now when I try to start chatting I get (and this >> for every recepient): > >What, besides "pounds per square inch", or Petroleum Services Inc, >is PSI? http://psi-im.org/ -- Boyd Stephe

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a6b45bf.5090...@yahoo.gr>, aprekates wrote: >I'm not saying to 'kick someone', i'm arguing about moving in non-free >section. If it is to be removed from main for patent issues, it can't be distributed in non-free either. It would be in the same boat as MP3-encoding. >So i think formally

Re: -- SPAM -- PSI does not let me chat with 'Not allowed' message.

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 10:28, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. My PSI ceased to work. Now when I try to start chatting I get (and this for every recepient): What, besides "pounds per square inch", or Petroleum Services Inc, is PSI? Not allowed. The recipient or server does not allow any entity to perform

Re: -- SPAM -- Integrity check of a downloaded with http-browser package.

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 10:23, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have downloaded a package from debian repo with my http browser. Now, how I can check its integrity, that an evil doer did not modify it some malicious way while the transfer? Use "apt-cache show" to find the file's nominal hash, then run sha1

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a6b3b97.60...@gmail.com>, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: >As a dedicated debian user i want to express my concerns and worries >regarding mono inclusion in main >and i ask for a vote for mono in non-free/main because: > >1) I feel like microsoft is not clear about the license issues. Do you hav

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. With this in mind, what do the more experie

Re: Kmail................

2009-07-27 Thread marc
Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Do you have the bug number? This is the reason that I left Kmail. >> >> What did you move to, Dotan? >> > > Thunderbird. I'm actually quite happy with it, even though it does not > have a reputation as a good email client. It does need a whole slew of > addons to bring it up

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Tim Beauregard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and I manually use apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. If no packa

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
John Hasler wrote: AG writes: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? Nothing. I make no attempt to "track" Unstable. I keep an eye on what's new and what is bein

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Jochen Schulz wrote: AG: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day) using 'sudo aptitude update

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-27 02:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances an

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject

Re: Installation trouble

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
Plz disable html formatting in gmail. On 2009-07-27 11:05, Matt Seburn wrote: Hi all, I'm having a lot of difficulty getting Debian set up on a server here at work. It has 6 SATA hard drives and (I think) a SATA CD/DVD ROM drive as well. That would mean 7 SATA devices, and thus a new and exp

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-27 01:40, AG wrote: [snip] Thanks for the many suggestions of applications and approaches. The next step for me is to take each one and do some further research and make a decision. If it would be useful, I'm happy to post back once I've done so and experimen

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 10:53, Tim Beauregard wrote: I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years. The changes I have noticed are: Good to have you back. 1. Much less traffic. I previously got 250+ posts per day. Now 50-100. Could this be due to the development of ubuntu? I thi

Re: Kmail................

2009-07-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Do you have the bug number? This is the reason that I left Kmail. > > What did you move to, Dotan? > Thunderbird. I'm actually quite happy with it, even though it does not have a reputation as a good email client. It does need a whole slew of addons to bring it up to standard, though. It works

Re: Kmail................

2009-07-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
>>> 1) There is a long-standing bug - or feature request: kmail does not >>> start a new thread when downloading mail, so you have to wait for it >>> to finish. It can be long if you have lots of mail, or if you pass >>> the mail through anti-spam/anti-virus. >>> >> >> Do you have the bug number? T

Installation trouble

2009-07-27 Thread Matt Seburn
Hi all, I'm having a lot of difficulty getting Debian set up on a server here at work. It has 6 SATA hard drives and (I think) a SATA CD/DVD ROM drive as well. I first started out with Lenny.. it would boot off the cdrom and start the install, but when it got to the detect cdrom stage it would fa

Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years. The changes I have noticed are: 1. Much less traffic. I previously got 250+ posts per day. Now 50-100. Could this be due to the development of ubuntu? 2. Less flaming. 3. Less digressi

PSI does not let me chat with 'Not allowed' message.

2009-07-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. My PSI ceased to work. Now when I try to start chatting I get (and this for every recepient): Not allowed. The recipient or server does not allow any entity to perform the action. How I can fix this? I've checked the repo, and as far as I understand, I have the latest version - 0.12.1-

Integrity check of a downloaded with http-browser package.

2009-07-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have downloaded a package from debian repo with my http browser. Now, how I can check its integrity, that an evil doer did not modify it some malicious way while the transfer? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Gilles Guiot
Florian Kriener a écrit : On Gilles Guiot wrote: I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented with a few on the windows side, but to no avail. Would any nice souls outhere come up with a few recomme

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: > Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able > to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and I manually use apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. If no packages are being kept back, I sel

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Florian Kriener
On Gilles Guiot wrote: > I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not > need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented > with a few on the windows side, but to no avail. > Would any nice souls outhere come up with a few recommendations ? :) Did you c

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-27 Thread Cousin Stanley
> Ok so here is the issue I have a desire to run my own linux server > as an rt box and to do wiki web serving plus email. > > I run off of a qwest dsl setup that is feeding 4 computers that are > all getting internet > > 6. I am looking for the best option for the money I like cheap

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Gilles Guiot
David Goodenough a écrit : When nmap V5 is packaged for Debian (it was only announced last week) there is an addon called zenmap. There is a zenmap currently, but the new one has a topology display. Whether that corresponds to your needs I do not know, but I suggest googling zenmap and have

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread John Hasler
AG writes: > With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of > the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the > Update Notification? Nothing. I make no attempt to "track" Unstable. I keep an eye on what's new and what is being reported broken on debi

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 27 July 2009, Gilles Guiot wrote: > frank a écrit : > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 11:06 +0200, Gilles Guiot wrote: > >> I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not > >> need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented > >> with a few on the windo

Re: There is no signal coming from your computer..

2009-07-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:02 AM, lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Another debian-user reported having similar problems. In the morning when I >> get in, I do not have any problems. This seems to only appears on a shorted >> breaks. And my dell 2

Re: connecting cable modem through usb port

2009-07-27 Thread Sandip Sandip
From: Sandip Sandip To: Sudev Barar Cc: "User, Debian" Sent: Tuesday, 9 June, 2009 12:52:15 PM Subject: Re: connecting cable modem through usb port 2009/6/9 Sandip Sandip : > > Is it that the modem is not 'installed'? > > Also, the same modem works without any username and password on another

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Gilles Guiot
frank a écrit : On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 11:06 +0200, Gilles Guiot wrote: I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented with a few on the windows side, but to no avail. Would any nice souls outhere c

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Monday 27 July 2009 09:59:15 Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, AG wrote: > > Thanks for the many suggestions of applications and approaches. The > > next step for me is to take each one and do some further research > > and make a decision. > > Nobody mentioned Unison? I've been usi

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:33 +0200, frank wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 11:06 +0200, Gilles Guiot wrote: > > > I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not > > need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented > > with a few on the windows side, but

Re: bug report advise needed

2009-07-27 Thread Florian Kriener
On Akira Sano wrote: > I want to file a bug report about segfault of several applications at > boot (unstable, after recent upgrade of several packages). The main > segfault is about gdm, but it seems from the output that > /lib/lsb/init-functions as well as ld-2.9 (libc6?) cause the segfault. >

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread frank
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 11:06 +0200, Gilles Guiot wrote: > I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not > need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented > with a few on the windows side, but to no avail. > Would any nice souls outhere come up with a

corrupt fielsystem on a Debian etch system

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Zoet
Hello all, I'm running a Xen virtualized Debian Etch guest. On friday I had to do some maintenance work (memory upgrade) and had to shutdown the whole system. After a reboot one (and only one!) of the Xen DomU does not start correctly. The System is a Debian Lenny with Xen and several VMs (mixed L

Re: hot to set pal from ntsc

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 04:51, Soren Orel wrote: Hi I connected my Debian Lenny with a tv by an S-video-Scart cable. For use as a PVR? Ok...I restart X, ALT+CTRL+Backspace I log in, ok, I get screen, but it's just black and white...where are the colors? :D:S Ok..I google...it says I'm maybe having NTS

Re: hot to set pal from ntsc

2009-07-27 Thread Soren Orel
# xrandr --output S-video --set TV_FORMAT PAL X Error of failed request: 186 Major opcode of failed request: 156 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 15 () Serial number of failed request: 17 Current serial number in output stream: 17 :D On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Soren Orel wr

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, AG wrote: Thanks for the many suggestions of applications and approaches. The next step for me is to take each one and do some further research and make a decision. Nobody mentioned Unison? I've been using it for backups for last two years. It is well-documented and simp

Re: RAID probs

2009-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I created md0, 1, and 2 RAID1 arrays with mdadm, containing partitions > from missing and sdb. Then I changed my mind, but mdadm seems to be > trying to put them together anyway, and I can't figure out where it's > getting the i

hot to set pal from ntsc

2009-07-27 Thread Soren Orel
Hi I connected my Debian Lenny with a tv by an S-video-Scart cable. Ok...I restart X, ALT+CTRL+Backspace I log in, ok, I get screen, but it's just black and white...where are the colors? :D:S Ok..I google...it says I'm maybe having NTSC configured, and I need PAL (I'm in Europe) Ok...how can I chan

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
AG: > > With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of > the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the > Update Notification? I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day) using 'sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitufe safe-

choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Gilles Guiot
Hello, I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented with a few on the windows side, but to no avail. Would any nice souls outhere come up with a few recommendations ? :) Thanks in advance -- To UN

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 02:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowle

Re: How to create an image file system that grows

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kevin Ross: > > ke...@htpc:~$ dd bs=1 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=sparse seek=5GB -- snip > ke...@htpc:~$ /sbin/mke2fs sparse -- snip > The filesystem has 4.4 GB available to it, but it's currently only taking up > 77 MB of disk space. Neat! Thanks for sharing that. J. -- After the millenium I woul

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 00:37, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:47:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-21 01:24, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: 251 FATs? WTF yah... im 95% that the sd needs to be re-formatted What's the output fro

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 01:40, AG wrote: [snip] Thanks for the many suggestions of applications and approaches. The next step for me is to take each one and do some further research and make a decision. If it would be useful, I'm happy to post back once I've done so and experimented with some test d

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: > > Hi > > > > Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am > > able to maintain a more or less stable system under those > > circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, si

font enlargement on file

2009-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm working from the command line and need to put two lines of writing on a 4x6 card as a sign so need the font larger than 8 point type. I have emacs on this machine and am wondering if something in emacs might help or might there be something else I have to use? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: > Hi > > Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am > able to maintain a more or less stable system under those > circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is > unstable and may be subject to breakages.

Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid us