Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Reid
lutely insisted on havnig Sun Java -- it's a bit fiddly to set up (and you may have to learn about "stow", but this is time well spent...), but it's reasonably robust. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Reid
licensing restrictions introduced by Oracle affecting redistribution. There is no Debian-packaged Sun Java VM newer than 6u26. You can switch to OpenJDK, or remove your sun-java6 packages and install the JRE from the Oracle-provided binaries. -- A. -- And

Re: Unreversable dimmiing of display

2012-07-07 Thread Andrew Reid
l-alt-F1" to switch to a text console, the keyboard brightness controls would work, and then when I did "ctrl-alt-F7" to switch back to the X-window system, the brightness would be preserved. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -

Re: UDEV identical devices. How to?

2012-07-03 Thread Andrew Reid
dvb/adapter1/%%s $${K#*.}'", NAME="%c", GROUP="video" > SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", KERNELS=="0000:04:00.0", ENV{kworld}=="two", > ENV{kworld}="one", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf > dvb/adapter2/

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-07-01 Thread Andrew Reid
192.168.1.*), it s a simple matter to just ping every address in the space and see if there's a live one you didn't know about. If the machine doesn't answer ping requests, a more complicated way would be to run a port-scanner from the laptop, and see what it finds.

Re: Reports of (Debian?) Linux kernel 2.6.32 livelocking when notified of leap second

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew Reid
:60" UTC, so the kernels have the info. If they're going to lock up at local midnight, well, I guess I'll find out in half an hour. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Nepomuk

2012-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
sers also enjoy having the NFS server actually work, so we've been OK so far. > Algol 68 specialist This is why I mentioned the config-file and system-wide ways to do it... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

[SOLVED!!!] Weird Wifi problem -- WPA-EAP TTLS fails

2012-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
me. I should have used it much earlier. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120011.52257.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: duplicity backups are unidirectional? : local_directory -> remote_host

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Reid
performance penalty is real, but it works for me. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

OT: Grepping style (was Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.)

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Reid
only works on files, but I don't really know if that's the reason. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112012240.36880.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-26 Thread Andrew Reid
t Lenovo Thinkpads, and while I've never done any benchmarks, I haven't noticed any performance degradation at all. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-23 Thread Andrew Reid
help will be appreciated. The relevant apt > sources.list entries are: You need to specify the backport repo in order to get the dependencies to work, I think. Try "apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel", which is very likely how you got it in the first place.

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Reid
g wifi on Debian > squeeze. > > Has anybody got any ideas? There is a 2.6.39 kernel packaged in squeeze-backports, maybe it has a non-broken driver? -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Hardware asset information

2011-10-03 Thread Andrew Reid
;dmidecode" and count up the populated "type 17" entries, but beware, I believe it will also report un-populated DIMM slots. As for a desktop GUI tool, I have no idea. Probably there is, but that's not really my world. -- A. -- Andrew Rei

Re: daft newbie questions

2011-10-01 Thread Andrew Reid
ue with the flash plug-in on iceweasel 6.0.2 on 64-bit "squeeze" -- occasional random crashes, it's usable, but annoying. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew Reid
y, who was visiting the workplace and tried out the shiny red button. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Reid
a brief but intense look at the man-page, I figured out that what I wanted was "chown -hR ", and did that for both my initial task, and to fix the user directories that had been messed up. These days, I almost always use verbose options of commands, if they exist, so I can verify that

Re: System powers off randomly

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew Reid
inue, but there is no substitute for trying it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109111744.31758.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Andrew Reid
o, and 2.6.32-25squeeze2 is now available. I'm installing it now, I don't know yet if it fixes the issue, but judging from the bug report referenced upthread, I think it's likely to be a fix. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net --

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Andrew Reid
n] Sep 9 17:40:12 > einstein kernel: [22866.749200] Pid: 2413, comm: chrome Tainted: P > 2.6.32-5-amd6 4 #1 Aspire X1301 > > (etc) > > > (searching...) > > > > This can be related: > > http://www.google.vu/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=51f63d2301865ceb&

Re: Encrypted LVM container spanning drives?

2011-07-29 Thread Andrew Reid
the device by UUID, so as long as all the LVM stuff is in the initramfs, the kernel should be able to find it at boot-time. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Andrew Reid
o -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106272244.26736.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: HELP: Number of CPU cores is not right

2011-06-17 Thread Andrew Reid
in "lenny", but 512 in 64-bit "squeeze". Alternatively, you can rebuild your own kernel, starting with the default config file but changing "CONFIG_NR_CPUS" to 48 or more. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Weird Wifi problem -- WPA-EAP TTLS fails

2011-05-21 Thread Andrew Reid
> On Fri, 20 May 2011 20:47:21 -0400 > > Andrew Reid wrote: > > So, apologies for the long-windedness, but what can cause EAP to > > > > fail? Do I need to add some libraries with more authentication > > schemes in them somehow? Obviously I have all the d

Weird Wifi problem -- WPA-EAP TTLS fails

2011-05-20 Thread Andrew Reid
thentication schemes in them somehow? Obviously I have all the dependencies of wpa_supplicant, but is there something else? Thanks in advance. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105202047.21826.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
nstallation target system from it. I have a dim recollection that the name of the ISO file mattered, and had to match a config entry on the USB device somewhere, but my notes, alas, don't cover that case. Also, the ISO can't be too big -- you'll want the net-install ISO

Re: Mystery on my laptop: KDE + nvidia + X + wheezy/sid

2011-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
solated the problem to one account's desktop settings. It's possible the 4.4 to 4.6 migration isn't as clean as it could be, and something's getting confused. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: iSCSI + LUKS

2011-04-16 Thread Andrew Reid
to the next, just as with USB and "real" SATA drives. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104161401.49711.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Asus A8N-E - debian-amd64 hangs during installation

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew Reid
better. I think that's pretty unlikely, though -- my experience with this is that typically it's more common with an older installer and a newer motherboard. The A8N-E is from 2005, I'd expect it to be fully supported by the installer kernel.

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
better than "", but of course, it's your call. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110045.13142.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Mdadm device reassignment

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Reid
adm --query --detail --scan", leaving out the "metadata=" bit), re-run update-initramfs, and then reboot. This may clear it, whatever it is. For the record, I've done a squeeze upgrade on a system with software RAID, and didn't have any issues, so it's not

Re: checking for changes in file size/permissions since installation?

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Reid
for custom scripts, so it may be possible to roll one's own, but I didn't get that far with it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Help! Cannot mount XFS filesystem createt with Ubuntu on Debian

2011-02-11 Thread Andrew Reid
le This part makes sense to me -- fdisk can't read gparted-style partition tables. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102112003.37995.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Build Deb install then move it

2011-02-05 Thread Andrew Reid
ker way to accomplish this, but I've never actually gotten around to figuring it out. I'll be following the thread to see if anyone else knows a good way. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: alternatives for gcc

2011-02-01 Thread Andrew Reid
t constructively with the package manager. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102012101.13639.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Reid
is the problem, which was pretty much guesswork on my part... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101312047.53519.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: module kvm-intel causing virtualbox problems

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Reid
olling the former but not the latter. I confess I don't really understand this distinction. Whenever I have wanted to prevent a module from loading, adding the module to that file has always done the trick for me. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bel

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:35:03 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:11:30PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hi all -- > > > > I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and > > I noticed that as of now there is

Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew Reid
s what allowed me to keep using the "clam" AV scanner without it going obsolete, so this is potentially important to me. Thanks. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Reid
vel 2 (I think), but it may be related. Also 500+ days is impressive up-time -- you are clearly not doing kernel patches ... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-22 Thread Andrew Reid
h package is the culprit. For the home-built kernels, you want to also build the kernel-headers target, which will create the "-headers" .deb file, which you can also install. Use the same append-to-version as for the kernel image target, and it should work without further

Re: Exim4 : allow relaying for authenticateed users (LDAP,PAM over TLS)

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew Reid
of those sensible applications that actually uses the system "getent" calls to figure out users and so forth, so as long as your /etc/nsswitch.conf file is set up to use the LDAP, Exim will automatically and seamlessly get it right. PAM don't enter into it.

Re: set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-02 Thread Andrew Reid
that I don't actually use this extension, and that while I am a member of the EFF, I don't work for them, and am not affiliated with https-everywhere. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: upgrade to squeeze fails for NFS-rooted system

2010-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
nt > /dev/nfs on / type nfs (rw) > [...] > -- > > So how do I upgrade? One option is to chroot into the exported file system on the NFS *server*, and manually do this part of the upgrade. You might need to bind-mount /proc to suppress some complaints. -- A. --

Re: Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Andrew Reid
t, sorry for the noise. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201011222115.02412.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Andrew Reid
ature of RAID1, setting root=(hd0,0) will probably allow your system to boot, but it's still not really right. You should be able to type in the relevant bits in grub rescue mode, you don't have to edit the files until after you've booted. --

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 22 October 2010 03:22:02 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: > > I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with > > 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where > > the stock Debian ke

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
n will come to dominate the execution time, at which point additional investments in parallelization are probably wasted. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Reid
mplication that arises after 32 cores, and should I be more careful about tuning other parameters? I googled around a bit, but didn't find much... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Security policy

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew Reid
-final_updated-errata_05-01-2010.pdf> -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201010091642.51833.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Andrew Reid
n particular, they have one of the best distribution-agnostic binary-blob installers I've ever run across. As a Debian user, when I do have to resort to binary/proprietary software, having it only available as RPMs just adds salt to the wound. (Don't get me started about the older I

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Reid
d-on -- Flash seems to be getting more common, and more of a CPU hog. The major downside is that the version I have seems unable to work with the PDF plug-in from Adobe, so I have to open them in an external app. It's annoying, but not a deal-breaker. -- A. --

Re: Latest Lenny update: What new hardware is supported?

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Reid
u can *use* it in Linux. At least, that was my experience with the Virgin "Broadband2Go" service using the same device. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: 802.11 WPA network key prompt despite GNOME keyring

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Reid
it by doing > sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart In my case, this is actually on Ubuntu 10.04, but the symptoms are identical. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-19 Thread Andrew Reid
but I haven't heard anything recently about that. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007192122.01683.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Current solution for ia32 on amd64?

2010-06-29 Thread Andrew Reid
, but Wine is likely to require low-level access to the hardware, so it might not be as good for that, hence my earlier hesitation. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-26 Thread Andrew Reid
welcome > any possible solutions. If you have it working where did you place the > lib so that Iceweasel etc. could find it?? /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins. I think the browser also searches /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. My experience is with "lenny" systems.

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Reid
etary drivers at Ubuntu-install time, and they're not working, then I suppose you could try the more recent madwifi drivers anyways... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: mdadm doing strange things

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Reid
mdadm/mdadm.conf on the reverted root partition? Is it nonexistent on the one you're now booting from? There's potential for confusion there also, although I think the initramfs info will suffice until the next kernel update. -- A. -- Andrew Reid /

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Reid
time. Modern routers (including WRT54Gs) are pretty good about this, but network drivers play a role too, and they do differ between the various OSs you've tried. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?

2010-05-23 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:29 Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:38:48AM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Setting the *directory* noexec seems very bad, since the exec bit > > on directories controls the ability to cd to it, and turning that > > off would ma

Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?

2010-05-23 Thread Andrew Reid
important in a multi-user production environment. On my home systems, I mostly don't worry about this sort of thing. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
is faulty? Other than that, given the evidence in the rest of the thread, I'm going to guess that it's some kind of file-system error. Check the logs (especially /var/log/kern.log) for errors, maybe fsck the filesystem, and try again...

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
omizations you've done. If blitzing and re-building the kdm config fails, then it's probably some kind of interaction between kdm and something else... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
  - Add /dev/sda1 to the array, and sync.   Now you have a bootable software raid-1 system.   I'm not saying this solves the OP's problem, necessarily, but it's perfectly possible.  I've never tried it with LILO or grub2, but I would think it would work.    

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
they all now use Iceweasel instead of Konqueror when I click on links. I don't know what other apps might or might not respect the x-www-browser setting, but I would think any desktop app packaged for Debian should do it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...

Re: xen

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Reid
d a search on packages.debian.org for "xen", and came up with these: >http://packages.debian.org/sid/xen-hypervisor-3.4-amd64 >http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-amd64 This appears to be the Xen hypervisor and a Dom0-enabled kernel.

Re: NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Reid
bfs-like devices" section there as a starting point. It's also possible that the gnome-mount is setting some permissions somehow, you may need to edit that also. Sorry to be so vague, it's just another approach. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlan

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 21 March 2010 23:14:32 Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2010 18:52:36 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I am managing a small embedded device that I SSH into over the LAN. To > > run commands, I use KDE Konsole, and to transfer files I use Konqueror > > and SFTP. I unde

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Andrew Reid
xecutable. If that's your case, you can always do: # cat file | ssh remote 'cat > destinaton' i.e. pipe the file through a simple SSH invocation of "cat" on the remote system. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Reid
be tricky to police. That said, I am not myself such a purist -- I have lots of non-free packages on my various systems. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: aptitude package filtering

2010-03-14 Thread Andrew Reid
hat there's an update for my lenny-backports version of OpenOffice. On my system, packages show up with the distro name, not the distro status (i.e. "squeeze" and "lenny", not "testing" or "stable"), but aside from that it works as described.

Re: Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Reid
I use grub, and it's already customized to have the right "root=" line, so adding "noswap" to the "kopt" line would be natural, and would be preserved automatically across kernel updates. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlan

Re: apt-proxy doesn't work

2010-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
" from apt-proxy for this sort of thing, I found it much easier to deal with. YMMV, of course -- not sure what I was doing wrong with apt-proxy, my symptoms varied from yours. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Andrew Reid
r learning curve than R. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002151322.19640.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Reid
rformance. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Installing FreeBSD under Xen on Debian Lenny

2010-02-07 Thread Andrew Reid
Has anyone done this successfully? Can you share your VM config file and/or provide clues? I can of course provide arbitrarily terrifying levels of additional detail. Thanks in advance. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2010-01-16 Thread Andrew Reid
for that kernel. Linux debian 2.6.32-trunk-686 Excellent news. Also, thanks for posting the solution to the list, where others can find it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Slow NFS

2010-01-02 Thread Andrew Reid
ing is slow. I think NFSv4 is much the same, although it may introduce a few more options, and so be more tunable. I have no direct experience with it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-26 Thread Andrew Reid
l to just unpack the thing on another system and look around. The initrd image is a gzipped cpio archive. "man cpio" for more details on how to unpack it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: LAME for Lenny

2009-12-24 Thread Andrew Reid
umbrances. If you care about such things, you might wish to encode to a more open format, like ogg. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 07:48:05 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew Reid wrote: > > It's likely the devices aren't being recognized in the initramfs -- > > possibly they require kernel modules which are not present by default. > > But I would think that to be the

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Reid
e in the initramfs. Or, as the other responder mentioned, you can just stick with a custom kernel. I used to do that, but I like getting security updates. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Serious clock problem

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Reid
sion of work-arounds, mostly involving kernel arguments. Sorry this isn't more helpful... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Help, the template debian/rules is too simple

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Reid
g piles of cruft in /usr/local. This might be a more appropriate solution to your problem, if your software doesn't have complicated dependencies. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Reid
the dpkg --get-selections thing, but I've never kept a copy of the boot sector -- that's an excellent idea. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 01 November 2009 05:36:00 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andrew Reid: > > http://security.debian.org//srv/security-master.debian.org/ftp/pool/updat > >es/main/e/expat/libexpat1_2.0.1-4+lenny1_amd64.deb > > This should have been fixed by now. > > During an internal m

Security.debian.org confused?

2009-10-31 Thread Andrew Reid
uration, but I'm willing to believe I missed a memo and have drifted out of date. Anyone got any clues? -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Cluster FS ?

2009-10-23 Thread Andrew Reid
t from IBM. A colleague of mine is attempting to do this on a CentOS system. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-17 Thread Andrew Reid
s remotely possible I'm misconfigured and will be sorry when the switch-over hits, but I read the instructions carefully, I think I'm OK. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Reid
om an alt console, but I'm not 100% sure it's possible, and I certainly don't remember how. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-13 Thread Andrew Reid
so have this habit, and I generally intend to use ext2, but sometimes I forget to switch it from the installer's filesystem default, which is ext3. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Reid
ill fix things. If leaving it out works, then (hd0,0) is a likely candidate for the right answer. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 August 2009 11:12:49 Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > > That would seem to narrow it down to a corrupt initramfs, > > or, as you already suggested, motherboard hardware issues. > > Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the sugge

Re: Strange log-rotate problem

2009-08-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 22 August 2009 02:09:09 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-22 01:08 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: > > My problem is that I can't figure out who is rotating > > /var/log/auth.log. > > > > It's currently being rotated every day, and retained for a

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Reid
, and if you then started all the /etc/init.d services manually, it would run fine for months at a time. I never did figure that one out, I eventually got rid of the machine. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Strange log-rotate problem

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Reid
ations? Some obscure cron thing that doesn't show up when I grep for "auth" or "log", because it's doing some kind of crazy pattern-matching thing? Thanks in advance... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
nes, is update-initramfs writing its files to the correct place so they're read at boot time? That's about all I can think of. Good luck. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
ebian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php > I've got an Intel quadcore CPU (which means I'm on the AMD64 > architecture, right?) and am running Debian stable (Lenny). Yes, those chips are amd64 architecture. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew Reid
can then do an "ls" in /dev, and see if the relevant hard drive partition (/dev/sda5, in your case) is are present -- this tests the udev step pretty directly. Hope this helps. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

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