dual boot hardware problem

am concerned that it might not work, based on this boot hang. Any thoughts or theories that might help would be appreciated. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: Formatting a file with mkfs.msdos

his should NOT be done to binary (data) files since it will destroy the structure expectd by whatever probram made the file. If you do not have the two utilities I can supply you with some alternatives (assuming you have sed and tr available). --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: dual boot hardware problem

b may also need fixing. Is there anything else that needs changing? Thanks again, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com > -Original Message- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 8:55 AM > To: Bob McGowan

RE: win98/hamm dual boot problem

ils may or may not be useful but the over all discussion is very good. Hope this helps ;-) --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: freeing space on /usr?

edure will work. As to "appropriate" things, nothing other than trying to avoid directory structures with lots of symlinks comes to mind. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com > -Original Message- > From: Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fr

RE: set clock to GMT?

software clock. If your hardware clock is going off by hours, I would tend to suspect the hardware clock itself (the chip or its power supply). Then you would want to use the hardware clock to periodically update your system software clock. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: find & replace?

itor is the tool to use. To give it the list of files to process requires some shell knowledge and a little additional information from you. Do you want each processed file to be concatenated on stdout or should each file be saved as an individual processed file? And which shell are you using? ---

RE: Serial Console

files (so I could recover if needed) and then set up links with the original names to the serial device being used as the console. IHTH and Good Luck, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: how to zmodem via telnet?

offhand, if you need it let me know and I will search my archives for it). I hope you find this info useful, though perhaps not exactly helpful, in this case;-) --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: V.90 modem recomendation

ork with Linux if it is a "winmodem" or are there workarounds? I know some of this is probably documented and I just haven't found it yet, so pointers to reading material are also appreciated. TIA, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message-

RE: Installing Debian from WindowsNT Pt. 2

m - for the Hyperterm part at least). My Linux box is at home so I cannot check details for you on that end. Good luck. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 12:4

RE: Linux the hard way

ry large) file and hope there are no power failures (though zmodem will check for partial transfers on a restart and seek to the position of the last correctly transferred data - thank goodness ;-). On your Linux system, use tar to extract the files. There may be other utilities that would do recur

RE: first script executed

d success with is changing to an alternate virtual terminal during the install and running ps. This not only gives me a list of the processess currently runnning but also gives the expanded arguments being used. Of course, this means doing a normal install again so you can track things. I have found tha

RE: NFS mount problem

and "nfs.server". The first is started by default, the second has to be set to start by telling the init program to go to run state 3, rather than run state 2, as its initdefault in /etc/inittab. I expect something similar on the Debian Linux side. I hope this helps you get NFS ru

RE: NT and Linux

> -Original Message- > From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 12:29 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NT and Linux > > > > Hello, > > I got into a discussion with a system administrator o

RE: Nethack save files: was: angband save problems

for this to work. If they are both set to group id "games" and then the executable is made set GID with group "games", things worked fine. This was a week or two ago and I do not remember if the group was acutally named "games", but the procedure is what counts, he

RE: Getting ttyx

Several ways, including piping the tty output to sed or cut or awk. But my preference would be: basename $(tty) # assumes you are using bash, ksh etc. or basename `tty` # back quotes for sh --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com > -Original

RE: adding users via scripts

term, I'd probably add the users with > one script and change the entries in /etc/shadow with another. > > Searching for ideas, advice, etc. Thanks. > How about just adding the 'passwd' command to the scirpt? --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at arteco

RE: NT and Linux

atched HW RAID for the same config, there will certainly come a breakeven point, where additional capacity causes CPU performance degradation in the SW RAID setup. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: NT and Linux

Hi, King, my comments follow your questions, below. I hope this helps. Bob > King Lee asks: > > Thanks Bob McGowan for your very informative reply. I gather that >1. Software raid is OK if problem is I-O bound, i.e., > CPU would normally be idle waiting for I-O. I w

Install problem - kernel problems with Adaptec 2740 EISA cards

I downloaded the Official CD images 2 or 3 months ago and did all the checks and balances before burning a CD. I also checked the CD image file against the burned image (dd and cmp under a UNIX system) and found no errors. I tried to install from the CD using a DOS boot and running the install.ba

RE: Problem with my shell

ce of a carriage return character, which in text mode was being stripped but in binary was becoming an invisible part of the string, which of course could not be found. Could be "ae" was writting in "DOS Text Mode"?? --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: brace expansion in ash?

now how off the top of my head), or you could link bash to sh (OK for your own setup, but no guarantees for other systems). -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

irect hardware access). See: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ Other projects (gcc, Java...) can be found under: http://sources.redhat.com/ -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

. Maybe if the interface > were more like Lynx... > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan

Re: Dselect file list generation

f doing it, but I am just a newbie. > > Good luck > > Alessandro > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed replace and add a line

pends after the current line, the 'i' inserts before the current line. > > Try changing the "\n" to a "Ctrl-V Ctrl-M" > This will not produce the desired appearance. Control-M is a carriage return. The result (once the substitute is fixed: s/228/228^M229/)

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

> > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > ::: > ICQ: 75132336 > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what are these?

suspect foul play, because the files are > too obvious. > > do these file names ring a bell for anyone? > > Please cc, I'm not currently subscribed. Thanks. > -- > > Turn your computer off. Go outside. > -tom > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

and 4 spaces, etc. In both cases, a printout should look the same as what you see in the editor. I hope some of this is useful to you. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making /tmp temporarily bigger

: > > ln -s /usr/local / > > Debian won't let me do that. Any suggestions for making more space for > > /tmp? > > > > Thanks, > > Bryan Walton > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Juli-Manel Merino Vidal > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

ED] < > > /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBObrzZodCcpBjGWoFAQGXYQP8DlSlwEhXLirEJCB2rN90CpGTUAXMRY44 > y22JKxLEjQm6He8i0uzMsfkSfUmQHh2t8t/yUmBatQ3UsIznQRACTMjwa4ayU7fP > hlRxa08XFosGh80z2hxW/xRGsgx+7nEllPupEcwfq5peGjR7vjy8Bot7cAGiHaqh > LDPuLOVN58E= > =FQfM > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

learly executed whenever I halt/reboot. > > ??? > > Please enlighten me! > > Regards > > Christian > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

Run states 0 and 6 are both characterized by complete shutdown of all services. And since the script name is just a way to find the file(s) of interest (and _all_ files are "of interest" for 0/6) and it is the argument that actually causes the action, it doesn't matter what name is used so long as

Re: booting with lilo win2k

ts linux just fine. If I choose > `win', then it attempts to boot Win, but I see a message: > `NTLDR is missing. Press Cntrl+Alt+Delete.' > > win2k *is* on /dev/hda1, which I verified with fdisk just now. > > I tried removing the `table=/dev/hda' option, but it

Re: Dialup Help!

ble an exchange of username > and password? Could it just be that on the system Nils has to connect to PAP > is what's been implemented? > > (I don't mean to be quarrelsome; I'm just trying to understand.) > > -- > Bob Bernstein > at

Re: kerneld message

running a >2.0 kernel. > > HTH > -- > Ragga You should check your startup scripts. Somewhere, you have enabled starting kerneld, you need to find that place and disable it. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autologin on Serial Console

sabled it). I'm sorry I can't give you specifics at this point, I don't have access to any UNIX system where I could play with this type of stuff (being as root privileges are needed). Let me know if you need more help, though, and I'll see what I can do later at home. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monitoring program

gt; > www.linuxexpert.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppd error

sfully connect to my ISP using Debian/GNU > Linux. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > TIA > M.Henry > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tail -f termination, after ppp established.

r the line 'pppd[.*ip-up finished', then issue a kill to the saved pid: ### Add to your existing script tail -f /var/log/syslog & tailPID=$! until grep -q 'pppd[.*ip-up finished' /var/log/syslog do sleep 10 # select a delay that works for you done kill $tailPID ##

Re: cleaning up lost+found

dn't see it. > > If someone has any clues I'd like to know. If necessary I can mail > whatever extra info you think you need. TIA, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hardware question

I'm planning on building my own PC and am interested in recommendations for motherboard manufacturers and CPU's. I'm thinking about going with a dual CPU and using SMP. Thanks, -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian- or linux- friendly hardware vendors?

> Do You Yahoo!? > Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

... > ... Since inittab is read on > boot, I expect it would take a reboot to take affect. > See the manual page for 'telinit' to force init to re-read the inittab file. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scsi aic7xxx problem

ends of a SCSI cable must be terminated to work properly. And I have had systems where the BIOS level worked fine without termination but the OS detected errors. So I'd check carefully to be sure that the internal tape-drive has termination enabled. Check your manual for how to do this. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software

Re: Recs for new Linux laptop? (to replace Zareason)

On 11/9/21 7:17 AM, Tom Browder wrote: My Zareason laptop (13-in screen, very lightweight and thin) is running Debian 10 natively and wonderfully (with Win10 as a dual boot option), but the company has gone out of business and I want to start preparing a standby replacement. I would appreciat

Touch screen monitor recommendations?

Hi, I have a use case which could use a touchscreen monitor with a standard desktop running Debian. Does anyone have any recommendations for units known to work with Debian? Thanks, Bob

Re: Authentication failed after su-

On 2/28/22 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" Some comments on this, without knowing just how it failed: 1.  There is no reason I can see to using both 'sudo' and 'su' together.  By default, they both let you run a command as the root user. 2.  Using both '-' and '-

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

On 4/2/22 14:10, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 10:58:49 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: Start LibreOffice, open the 'Tools' menu and click on 'Options'. Under the 'LibreOffice' heading select 'General' and in about the middle of the new set of opt

Re: question about sound

The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G groupname[,groupname...] username For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob On 8/17/22 10:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: the user that's doing this would need to be added to the audio group and maybe the pulseaudio group if that group exists.

Re: Journal

On 9/3/20 11:20 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 11:11:56 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: Pelican is a static site generator. You write your content in MarkDown or RST, and then Pelican compiles it into a website by applying a theme and CSS styles. Performance is high, because your webserver is onl

Re: Zoom.

On 10/17/20 1:23 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Does anyone have Zoom working in Debian 10? Here it produces empty windows. Visible toward the right in this screenshot. http://easthope.ca/Zoom.png This is the entire output after starting in a terminal and then exiting. peter@joule:~$ zoom pete

Help with install on old Mac

It is a Power PC G3 running Mac OS 9. I've gotten CDs for Jessie 8.11, the last Debian release to support Power PC architecture. I set up a second SCSI hard disk with an Adaptec controller and installed to it successfully.  However, upon reboot the system does not start immediately.  When it

Re: Help with install on old Mac

On 12/5/20 1:47 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en the 3.6.1 section could explain why you have

Re: QEMU-KVM VMs sometime freeze when I run them for a couple of days

On 1/6/21 5:33 AM, buz.hr...@seznam.cz wrote: From: Nicholas Geovanis George Shuklin's comment may have intended this question too: Are backups running somewhere when the VMs "randomly" hang? Not necessarily on the VM that hangs, but somewhere touching a related filesystem, disk or network de

Re: using Webex from Stretch

Hi, I recently had a sound problem with a web page and was instructed to do the following to enable it for a specific web site. Note, this is not exactly intuitive. 1. Go to the web site in your browser; 2. In my Firefox, just to the left of the address bar are some icons, click the "info

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

On 4/28/20 8:46 AM, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, i.e. xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm

Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

Please see thread with subject "Be careful when editing /etc/fstab" for a bit of background. My computer had two swap partitions, on two different disks, when one of them started to generate CRC errors, seek errors, etc. Once I determined which of the two it was, I commented out the /etc/fst

Re: Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

On 6/29/2020 11:37 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:10:44PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: But I cannot figure out where this might be, or even if this is the correct interpretation. Check out the contents of /etc/systemd/system first. Rebuild initramfs second. Reco Hi

Re: Installation Problem

On 7/14/20 1:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-07-14 13:33, Vlad Dragomir wrote: I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, It asks for additional non-free firmware, unfortunately it's an Intel wireless card. It gives a list of files it needs in order to configure the n

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

On 8/16/2020 8:20 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: No, that's OK. Grab a netinst or the DVD image: you can use mirrors - the critical thing is that you don't install any graphics drivers over and above the text mode drivers, you don't try to use the graphical install - nothing graphical. Once you've got

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

826.650] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 826.650] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 826.650] (EE) [ 826.653] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing lo

Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

Hi, I have a high def (4K) mp4 video I would like to put on a Blu-Ray disk, to play in a standard Blu-Ray player. So I did the Google search and found several posts, all of which mentioned an application tsMuxeR, which is available for Linux and is in the Debian repos. However, it is a 32

Re: Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

Thank you both for pointing to the correct library.  I will be trying it out soon, as time permits. One question does remain, why didn't apt-get refuse to install the application, or pull in the correct library? On 10/2/18 11:29 PM, deloptes wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Hi, I have a

Re: perl; Trying to get File::stat to work

It looks like this has to do with mixing the usage of the "native" stat of Perl with the "object" version from File::stat. The 'stat' from File::stat returns a reference to an object, which has the stuff you're wanting, tucked away internally as object variables.  You need to do:     use Fil

Re: Debian 11 - How to install Gtkmm

On 11/9/22 04:09 PM, Amn wrote: Trying to install Gtkmm 4 in a Debian 11 box I do this : sudo apt install libgtkmm-4.0-dev But then I get this error : Unable to locate package libgtkmm-4.0-dev What am

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

On 12/4/22 03:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I did a web search for text editors with an auto-indent feature.

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On 2/16/23 11:14 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:52:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: to...@tuxteam.de [2023-02-16 16:53:02] wrote: Just for kicks: have you tried sending a PS (or *gasp* PDF) file down that alley (e.g. with soc

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On 2/16/23 12:01 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:27:25 -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: On 2/16/23 11:14 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:52:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: [1]to...@tuxteam.de [2023-02-16 16:53:02] wrote: Just for kicks: have you tried sending a PS (or

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

On 1/8/19 10:47 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Jude DaShiell composed on 2019-01-09 00:04 (UTC-0500): lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script I tried exactly that on Buster multiple times, and always get the following: root@gb250:~# NAME LABEL bash: NAME: command not found root@gb250:~# sda bash: sda

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

On 1/5/20 3:24 AM, deloptes wrote: André Rodier wrote: Hello, I am looking for a USB / Bluetooth 5 adapter, natively compatible with Debian. Thanks, André most of them are I use ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Double check if adapter (newer once) are

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

On 1/7/20 1:19 PM, deloptes wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: It looks like the majority of the pure Bluetooth devices are only 4.0. There is one combination WIFI/Bluetooth I saw that is 5.0. The version here does not mean anything relevant to the support by the OS. BT4.0 in terms of hardware is

Re: udev issues backing up /dev

rir wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:36:56PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: backup using dump/restore - it backs up whole filesystem (unless you exclude/include only some files), even the "hidden" part. however, udev remounts the original /dev to /dev/.static, with a small hacks, you

Audio recording hardware (was: Re: audio recorder in linux ... what's its name?)

Russell L. Harris wrote: Within the past year or two there have become available a number of alternatives to the computer sound card. These eliminate the pitfalls (especially the electrical noise) associated with sound cards, as well as the problem of hardware and software obsolescence. Som

Re: Audio recording hardware

Thanks for the explanation and references. They will be quite helpful. Bob Russell L. Harris wrote: * Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070226 11:14]: Russell L. Harris wrote: Within the past year or two there have become available a number of alternatives to the computer sound card.

Re: LABEL in grub /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab

GeorgeBaker wrote: I'm trying to create a cluster configuration. I've loaded sarge and it boots no problem, However, when I install the openssi, for some reason the /dev/hda becomes /dev/hdc and the boot dies looking for the correct hardware. I've read the comment from Bo

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

Caoilte O'Connor wrote: Hi, I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll have to tar it all because some of the filenames are too long and a few have strange accents. What would people suggest is the best way to go about doing this? I guess I need to find the best way of c

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] yes! that went perfect for two years. last week we lost many electronic data of our (small) business because essent (energy-producer a

Re: Kernel install problem

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ? Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own filesystem. Regards,

Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

Hi, I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do this. And, I see the permissions on it are: crw--- 1 root root 10, 200 2007-02-27 16:28 /dev/net/tun So, methinks, I should fix the udev con

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:53:31AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do this. And, I see the permissions

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:15:57AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: On my system, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules is a symlink to the file ../permissions.rules. So, content is the same

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:12:17AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 <--snipped stuff-->>> *REALLY BAD*: your business did regular backups to the same media!! _Always_ have multiple backup medi

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:37:13AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:15:57AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: On my system, the file /etc/udev/rules.d

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Bob. Bob McGowan, 01.03.2007 20:53: I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do this. And, I see the permissions on it are: crw--- 1 root root

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

Land Haj wrote: Hi! I'm still trying to get used to having raid-1 on my new etch installation. I have a very simple question: When I reboot or turn off my computer, the system always has trouble umounting the raid devices. It says they are busy (in red, warning letters). But the shutdown co

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

Land Haj wrote: Thank you for your reply! Today, I've dpkg-reconfigured mdadm. It had all md-devices listed as necessary for root, and so I changed it so that only md0 (where root is) is listed as necessary. This for some reason got rid of the message saying that swap (md1) was busy. But md0

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

greengoblin kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Mar 6 20:15:21 greengoblin kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Mar 6 20:15:22 greengoblin exiting on signal 15 Can the shutdown not be logged in some other, more detailed way? Gratefully, landhaj - Original Message From: Bob McGowan

Re: Random sd* devices numbering

Marco De Vitis wrote: On 08/03/2007 19:40, Joe Hart wrote: Sounds to me like a call for udev. Naming the disks by UUID should udev? You opened up a new world to me. Thanks! /me reading udev docs all night long... Hmm, I thought the LABEL/UUID mounting feature was part of udev?? In any ca

Re: core dumps

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Cédric Lucantis writes: Hi, I'd like to know how to find which program produced a particular core dump file, any idea? , | (debian-unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ulimit -c unlimited | | (debian-unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo " | #include | | int main

Re: usb audio device & sound card

Mark Grieveson wrote: Greetings Mark: This script would set your on-board card (CS46xx) to be your default card for alsa regardless of which card it is in the system (0 or 1): #!/bin/bash # # The awk statement should get the first "word" (the card number) # from the line which contains the

Possible bug in 'sort -m'

I ran into this as a result of working with the SQL UNION operator and trying to then confirm what it did/does by using 'uniq' and 'sort'. So,for background, I first did: select count(from_number) from cross_reference and select count(to_number) from cross_reference and got 84919 in both

Re: Is that all there is to it??

Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:43:24 -0300 Cassiano Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tarek Soliman wrote: An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic step

Re: Possible bug in 'sort -m'

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 13.03.07 15:34, Bob McGowan wrote: sort -n -o from_number from_number sort -n -o to_number to_number [deleted] sort -m from_number to_number | uniq | wc -l 122010 This is still almost 12000 too big (only 17 less than the 'uniq' on the sepa

Re: PATH question

Tony Heal wrote: I have a problem on one of my servers. The ‘ls’ command does not have the –h switch available. So as a workaround until I can determine what caused this and why I wanted to use the ‘ls’ file from another server. I copied /bin/ls from server # 2 onto server # 1 and tested it and

Re: do I need jackd?

H.S. wrote: Hello, Do I need jackd on a computer which is recording output from an audio mixer? Currently the output of the mixer is being fed to the line-in of the computer's sound card and audacity is being used to record the audio. Seems to be working fine. I have also tried to playback t

Re: Possible bug in 'sort -m'

Cameron Hutchison wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Here, I numerically sort and merge the two source files into a destination and count lines in all three. Then I get unique lines from the merged sort and count the result. $ sort -n -m from_number to_number > xxx A merge sort (sort -m) needs

Re: scripting

Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:36, john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (the comments often ind

Re: scripting

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:14:48PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Nigel, I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. Is there is typo here or is there some o

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