On 2010-06-17 00:35 +0200, AG wrote:
> Since the last testing update I have rebooted and found myself being
> ensnarled in what seems to be a kernel issue, whereby a module
> "nouveau" by default seizes control of the graphics card which
> prevents the nVidia driver from loading.
If you had insta
I finally found some time to look into this more deeply. Turns out it was
never a printer or driver problem at all. The problem was that my
cupsd.conf was set so restrictively that not even root could print! I
reconfigured so that root and I can print, and everything is now fixed.
Duh. Well, t
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:40:55 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
>> Check "/etc/default/spamassassin" file, there is a variable ("CRON=0")
>> that you can modify to get a cron job task for SA rules auto-updating.
>
> Yes, but does it need running SA as daemon, that is to specify in the
> same file allow daem
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:17:40PM +0200, Steve Dierker wrote:
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> > Alternatively, you could mount /var/log as tmpfs, so it writes to RAM
> > instead of to disk.
>
> I would suggest to mount /var/log as tmpfs and backup it per cronjob to
> your h
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:14:29PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> > Maybe having bnx2 driver in a usb disk, and installing it when lenny
> > installer ask ?
>
> Well, maybe. Any instructions how to put bnx2 driver on usb disk?
Yes: doewnload that deb file and put it on a USB disk that is connecte
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM, ABSDoug wrote:
> I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care to
> elaborate, please feel free!
>
i didn't notice that you are not familiar with the symbolic link solution.
actually, it's the simplest way.
i should have mentioned it i
On 23:35 Wed 16 Jun , AG wrote:
> I pass this along and hope that this helps anyone who finds
> themselves similarly disposed.
this also bit a number of others on the list. If you see my post, I banned the
nouveau module
from my kernel as well as the nouveau packages from xxorg-* and then bui
On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote:
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under
> $HOME.
I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care
to elaborate, please feel free!
(That's the way for a newbie to engender
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Gmail doesn't seem to suffer the non-wrapping problem.
I'll go subscribe right now.
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--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under
> $HOME.
I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care to
elaborate, please feel free!
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
> Check "/etc/default/spamassassin" file, there is a variable
> ("CRON=0") that you can modify to get a cron job task for SA rules
> auto-updating.
Yes, but does it need running SA as daemon, that is to specify in the
same file allow daemon?
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On 06/16/2010 07:16 PM, ABSDoug wrote:
[snip]
He's right& it was on my to do list. I just went over to settings, I couldn't
find anything to fix it. SO annoying. I looked at GMail, didn't see setting for
this either. I like doing E-mail off the web, but that might have to change.
Gmail doe
On 06/16/2010 07:10 PM, ABSDoug wrote:
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Huang, Tao wrote:
[snip]
The main reason I'd like access for XP is iTunes for my iPhone. Seems silly to have
16GB of information repeated for XP& Linux /home.
Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under $HOME.
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--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote:
> No sane person would. If you *do* treat "storage" as
> /home, then
> You're Doing It Wrong.
The main reason I'd do this is access for XP, iTunes for my iPhone. Seems silly
to have 16GB of information repeated for an XP & Linux /home. So right now my
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Huang, Tao wrote:
<<< why do you need to access the /home partition when using winxp? ntfs
doesn't support POXIS file ownership and permissions natively. so keep you
/home partition to a linux filesystem. you can have a separate storage
partition for shared documents and f
Since the last testing update I have rebooted and found myself being
ensnarled in what seems to be a kernel issue, whereby a module "nouveau"
by default seizes control of the graphics card which prevents the nVidia
driver from loading.
Here's some history [1]
However, for some nouveau doesn't
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 09:13:11PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote:
> If this isn't on topic, sorry ahead of time & perhaps you can point me in the
> right place?
>
> I've been reading up on having a separate partition for your /home files. For
> quite some time, I've been using a ntfs partition named "sto
On 06/16/2010 02:21 PM, AG wrote:
Up until a few days ago, VLC used to play *.wmv format video files just
What version of vlc and what branch of Debian?
fine. Now, for some unknown (to me) reason, it no longer does so.
I have tried other video players (e.g. xine) and they work fine, so I
bel
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM:
> >>On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >>[snip]
> >>>an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:57:12PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2010-06-16, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Indeed. And if Adobe refuse to maintain the older version there's not
> much anyone else can do about it.
True.
> > After this operation, 124MB of additional disk space will be used.
> > E: Y
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:21:55 +0100, AG wrote:
> Up until a few days ago, VLC used to play *.wmv format video files just
> fine. Now, for some unknown (to me) reason, it no longer does so.
>
> I have tried other video players (e.g. xine) and they work fine, so I
> believe that it isn't the lack o
On 15/06/10 14:31, Tom Furie wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:02:47PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 15/06/10 12:44, Alan Chandler wrote:
The real magic command is "cp -alf" which essentially merges a shorter
term store with a longer term one, making new entries where the shorter
store has a
On 06/16/2010 05:45 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 10:59 AM:
I wrote a script that only backs up our data directories (including much
of /home) into a bunch of tarballs, excluding "junk" folders like
caches, thumbnails, trash, etc, and compressing most but not stuff
Up until a few days ago, VLC used to play *.wmv format video files just
fine. Now, for some unknown (to me) reason, it no longer does so.
I have tried other video players (e.g. xine) and they work fine, so I
believe that it isn't the lack of a codec, even though that is the error
message VLC
Steven skrev:
How to identify which drive has failed in an array?
I have 6 disks, 4 are used in raid (mdadm), the other 2 contain /boot, /
and /home.
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdd
/dev/sde
/dev/sdf
Each have 1 partition.
/dev/md0 (raid 1) consists of /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1
/dev/md1 (raid 1) consists of /de
Dear Jnanadarshan,
I will courier you the Debian 504 DVD1. I am in Bangalore so please wait for at
least a week for it to arrive.
Thanking you,
--
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Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology,
Biotech Park
Bangalore 560 100
India.
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:46 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:41 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > Hello, all. With the appreciate help from this list, we finally learned
> > we needed to install Acrobat Reader version 9.3.2 from unstable into our
> > Lenny systems
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 15:46 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 13:50 +, Camaleón wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:52:21 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 10:05 +, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > >> Linux PDF "readers" are in a very good sh
On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM:
On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the
most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely preferable than no
Geez, I
Use smartctl from the smartmontools package. If mdadm says that /dev/sdc (or
cat /proc/mdstat) is at fault then use "smartctl -a /dev/sdc" and it will print
out all kinds of info on the drive including its serial number which should be
on a sticker on the case of the drive.
The programs incl
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 04:43:06 martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2010.06.15.2108
+0200]:
> > > Use mdadm for a RAID5 or RAID6 and LVM on top for the remaining
> > > cases when you need space and care less about performance.
> >
> > Use RAID 1/0 in mdadm when you ne
Hi sa...@linuxbazar.com
Please send one full set of CD:s and DVDs of latest Debian stable
(i386 and amd64 architecture) to following address:
>> Address
>>
>> Jnanadarshan nayak
>> C/O-Mardaraj Mishra
>> Old Jagannatha Road
>> Madhupatana-II
>> Cuttack
>> 753010
>> Orissa
>> India
and then send
On 16/06/2010 15:50, Steven wrote:
>
> On Wed, June 16, 2010 15:47, Michal wrote:
>>
>> One way is to label the disks themselves so you simply do;
>>
>> cat /proc/mdstat which might say /dev/sd3 is down. Open the case, look
>> for the disk labled /dev/sde and replace it. If you have LED's like
>>
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 04:43:06 martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2010.06.15.2108
+0200]:
> > > Use mdadm for a RAID5 or RAID6 and LVM on top for the remaining
> > > cases when you need space and care less about performance.
> >
> > Use RAID 1/0 in mdadm when you ne
On Wed, June 16, 2010 15:47, Michal wrote:
>
> One way is to label the disks themselves so you simply do;
>
> cat /proc/mdstat which might say /dev/sd3 is down. Open the case, look
> for the disk labled /dev/sde and replace it. If you have LED's like
> servers have (probably not) they can be a fid
paragasu put forth on 6/15/2010 4:33 AM:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if there is a simple SMTP deamon.
> This deamon will execute a specific command on every email received.
>
> I have a PHP program that will parse the email and
> send SMS to specific mobile phone number thereafter.
>
> please advice
:)
We'll pay 50 USD to the first who can get this guy a CD :D
-Morten
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:28:49 +0530, Jnanadarshan Nayak
wrote:
> Please send me a Debian CD at the following address as I do not have the
> financial capacity to buy it and as I am using a mobile internet
connection
> so its i
2010/6/16 Jnanadarshan Nayak :
> Please send me a Debian CD at the following address as I do not have the
> financial capacity to buy it and as I am using a mobile internet connection
> so its impossible for me download.
You mean CD1 or DVD1 of Debian?
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On Wed, June 16, 2010 13:13, Siju George wrote:
> Hope some one finds this helpful :-)
>
> --Siju
>
> Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault.
> =
>
Thanks, this might prove useful.
However I
Please send me a Debian CD at the following address as I do not have the
financial capacity to buy it and as I am using a mobile internet connection
so its impossible for me download.
Address
Jnanadarshan nayak
C/O-Mardaraj Mishra
Old Jagannatha Road
Madhupatana-II
Cuttack
753010
Orissa
India
>
> Thanks, this might prove useful.
> However I do have a question... which might be just as important.
>
> How to identify which drive has failed in an array?
>
> I have 6 disks, 4 are used in raid (mdadm), the other 2 contain /boot, /
> and /home.
> /dev/sdc
> /dev/sdd
> /dev/sde
> /dev/sdf
On 2010-06-16, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just noticed that doing "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" on
> Debian Lenny now wants to pull in "ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
> ia32-libs-libcurl3 ia32-libs-libidn11 ia32-libs-libnspr4
> ia32-libs-libnss3 ia32-libs-libssh2 lib32asound2 lib32gcc
J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
Hi, everyone
When I change IP address and netmask via "ifconfig",
the netmask is set incorrectly.
For example, when I command in shell
"ifconfig netmask 255.255.255.0 70.7.44.102",
the IP address 70.7.44.102 is set correctly,
but the netmask is set to 255.0.0.0.
That's the
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:05 PM, H.S. wrote:
> On 15/06/10 05:33 AM, paragasu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wonder if there is a simple SMTP deamon.
> > This deamon will execute a specific command on every email received.
> >
> > I have a PHP program that will parse the email and
> > send SMS to s
On Wed, June 16, 2010 13:13, Siju George wrote:
> Hope some one finds this helpful :-)
>
> --Siju
>
> Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault.
> =
>
Thanks, this might prove useful.
However I
Good day.
I try to install anew my matrix printer. And not able to specify the
device I use that is /dev/usb/lp1.
If I try to send directly to the device - it prints, but when I run
system-config-printer, I do not know which connection to use of the
following: usb serial port #*, appsocket, inter
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 14:14:22 Camaleón wrote:
> Many people send the replies to me directly and I am not sure
> whether if they are full aware of that (intentionally off-list) or this
> is just the famous Gmail's webmail "non-reply-to-list-but-sender"
> error :-)
I forgot that Gmail does that
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:51:41 +0900, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
> When I change IP address and netmask via "ifconfig", the netmask is set
> incorrectly.
>
> For example, when I command in shell
> "ifconfig netmask 255.255.255.0 70.7.44.102", the IP address 70.7.44.102
> is set correctly, but the netmask is
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 14:14:22 Camaleón wrote:
> but I asked you why you were so reluctant to use
> differential backups on her computer. I couldn't understand "why" because
> today backup tasks are just "point-and-click", I mean, they are easier to
> achieve than any image generation of the wh
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:05:56 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 June 2010 08:41:03 Camaleón wrote:
>> El 2010-06-15 a las 22:58 +0100, Lisi escribió:
>>
>> (resending to the list)
>
> Sorry. I debated whether to send it to you or the list, and decided
> that it was OT for the list since I was
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On 06/16/2010 08:51 AM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
> Hi, everyone
>
> When I change IP address and netmask via "ifconfig",
> the netmask is set incorrectly.
>
> For example, when I command in shell
> "ifconfig netmask 255.255.255.0 70.7.44.102",
> the IP ad
On 15/06/10 05:33 AM, paragasu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if there is a simple SMTP deamon.
> This deamon will execute a specific command on every email received.
>
> I have a PHP program that will parse the email and
> send SMS to specific mobile phone number thereafter.
>
> please advice.
>
Hi, everyone
When I change IP address and netmask via "ifconfig",
the netmask is set incorrectly.
For example, when I command in shell
"ifconfig netmask 255.255.255.0 70.7.44.102",
the IP address 70.7.44.102 is set correctly,
but the netmask is set to 255.0.0.0.
Why does this case happen?
Beca
also sprach Siju George [2010.06.16.1402 +0200]:
> > "Manually" is for Mac users. ;)
>
> these days every one has left windows and are picking on Mac ? :-)
"Reinstalling" is for Windows users.
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Hi,
Just noticed that doing "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" on
Debian Lenny now wants to pull in "ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
ia32-libs-libcurl3 ia32-libs-libidn11 ia32-libs-libnspr4
ia32-libs-libnss3 ia32-libs-libssh2 lib32asound2 lib32gcc1
lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1"
fischer:~#
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:06 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Siju George [2010.06.16.1322 +0200]:
>> > sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
>>
>> oh thanks :-)
>>
>> I did it manually using fdisk
>
> "Manually" is for Mac users. ;)
>
these days every one has left windows and are picking
also sprach Siju George [2010.06.16.1322 +0200]:
> > sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
>
> oh thanks :-)
>
> I did it manually using fdisk
"Manually" is for Mac users. ;)
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:48 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Siju George [2010.06.16.1313 +0200]:
>> 2) Create identical partitions on the new disk using 'fdisk'.
>
> sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
>
oh thanks :-)
I did it manually using fdisk
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also sprach Siju George [2010.06.16.1313 +0200]:
> 2) Create identical partitions on the new disk using 'fdisk'.
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
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Hope some one finds this helpful :-)
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Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault.
=
** Actual screen shot from terminal of steps taken during rebuild on
10-June-2010 on Debian Lenny ( Linu
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM:
> On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> [snip]
>> an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the
>> most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely preferable than no
>
> Geez, I remember when I couldn't fill up a 4
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:40:16PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> ==
> Removing nvidia-glx ...
> rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/libGL.so': No such file or directory
> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2' with
> different file `/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa',
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 21:46, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Hrm, this isn't actually on-topic for Debian-user. You might have better
> luck
> with the Git user's mailing list.
>
> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:50:45 Anand Sivaram wrote:
> > I am trying to understand the different aspects of git
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> Alternatively, you could mount /var/log as tmpfs, so it writes to RAM
> instead of to disk.
>
> -Rob
>
>
I would suggest to mount /var/log as tmpfs and backup it per cronjob to
your harddrive every hour.
So you are minimizing the write access to
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 10:59 AM:
> I wrote a script that only backs up our data directories (including much
> of /home) into a bunch of tarballs, excluding "junk" folders like
> caches, thumbnails, trash, etc, and compressing most but not stuff like
> image and OOo document directories
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 6/15/2010 10:44 AM:
> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 04:52:10 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 6/14/2010 10:45 AM:
>>> On Monday 14 June 2010 03:11:56 Gerald C.Catling wrote:
Hi Guy's,
I am not a Debian user but I have seen reference
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 10:21 AM:
> On 06/15/2010 04:34 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Disclaimer: my comments below intentionally exclude x86-64 capable CPUs
>>
>>
>> There are different kernels for different models of the Intel x86
>> processor
>> family and compatibles, but
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Alexander Samad wrote:
> I am doing something similar with tpg (aka optus), can I suggest just
> using pppd call debug until you work out what the
> problem is, it all looks okay to me. but debug should give you some
> more info.
I looked at what t
also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2010.06.15.2108
+0200]:
> > Use mdadm for a RAID5 or RAID6 and LVM on top for the remaining
> > cases when you need space and care less about performance.
>
> Use RAID 1/0 in mdadm when you need redundancy, space, and performance.
>
> (Although, IME, RAID 5 i
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 08:41:03 Camaleón wrote:
> El 2010-06-15 a las 22:58 +0100, Lisi escribió:
>
> (resending to the list)
Sorry. I debated whether to send it to you or the list, and decided that it
was OT for the list since I was commenting on a specific sentence of your
that wasn't stri
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:33:47PM +0800, paragasu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if there is a simple SMTP deamon.
> This deamon will execute a specific command on every email received.
>
> I have a PHP program that will parse the email and
> send SMS to specific mobile phone number thereafter.
On 06/15/2010 07:22 AM, Mélaine Aubin Guifo wrote:
Hello,
I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed
that there is about 1 MB unallocated between partitions.
I would like to know the reason of this change.
How big is that drive?
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El 2010-06-15 a las 22:58 +0100, Lisi escribió:
(resending to the list)
> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 19:44:33 Camaleón wrote:
> > But it's "her" backup and "her" data. She should care about how to do
> > things like these, whatever place she is (home, university, work...).
>
> I was forgetting that
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, ABSDoug wrote:
> Cheesy that I wouldn't just write straight to the partition with /home files,
> from XP. The way I have it setup now, info is stored on a ntfs named
> "storage", any OS can read/write. That said, I don't really use XP that much
> anyway.
>
why
2010/6/16 Justin The Cynical :
> On 6/15/10 11:59 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>> Looks like problem is on iDrac, because it is connected as scsi device.
>>
>> solution was: deattach iDrac after boot and fix the root device on
>> grub commandline.
>
> There you go, Dell's virtual media stuff throwing
El 2010-06-15 a las 15:32 -0500, Arthur Machlas escribió:
(forwarding to the list)
> >> I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed
> >> that there is about 1 MB unallocated between partitions.
> >
> > How is that? Are you on lenny, squeeze...?
> >
> > As root, type "f
On 6/15/10 11:59 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> Looks like problem is on iDrac, because it is connected as scsi device.
>
> solution was: deattach iDrac after boot and fix the root device on
> grub commandline.
There you go, Dell's virtual media stuff throwing it off.
For the record, USB storage (a
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