Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 06:21 PM, Doug wrote: On 06/04/2011 02:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: "*Reader Prerequisites*: To get the most from this article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic

Re: Boot fails during fschk of /dev/vg1/var

2011-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/04/11 at 05:44pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> I am running Lenny with LVM.  Last night the system locked completely. >>  No mouse movement.  No keystroke entry.  Nothing.  I don't like to >> power down without a proper shutdown, but I did n

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/04/11 at 07:21pm, Doug wrote: > On 06/04/2011 02:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: > >[snip] > >>I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: "*Reader > >>Prerequisites*: To get the most from this > >>article, understand the following concepts befor

Re: Boot fails during fschk of /dev/vg1/var

2011-06-04 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/04/11 at 05:44pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am running Lenny with LVM. Last night the system locked completely. > No mouse movement. No keystroke entry. Nothing. I don't like to > power down without a proper shutdown, but I did not seem to have a lot > of choice. This morning, when I trie

Boot fails during fschk of /dev/vg1/var

2011-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Lenny with LVM. Last night the system locked completely. No mouse movement. No keystroke entry. Nothing. I don't like to power down without a proper shutdown, but I did not seem to have a lot of choice. This morning, when I tried to boot up I got an fschk on several partitions.

Re: New Squeeze install fails to boot (not even to grub)

2011-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 15:33 -0700, Johnathan Ritzi wrote: > [snip] Just to experiment, I went into fdisk, deleted all my new > partitions (leaving just the Windows ones) [snip] > I'm not even getting to the grub boot screen, so something is wrong > even before the point. Reinstalling grub to the Ma

Re: New Squeeze install fails to boot (not even to grub)

2011-06-04 Thread Johnathan Ritzi
Problem solved (I think). After digging some more, I realized that after the install the only partition marked bootable was /dev/sda6 (Linux root). I used fdisk to make /dev/sda2 also bootable (the main Windows partition) and grub (and everything else) came up fine. I believe the original set up wa

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-06-04, Jack Dodds wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig8C3A295D8BAF91ED98A88B02 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > Thanks to those who commented. > > I tried/etc/init.d/ne

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Doug
On 06/04/2011 02:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: "*Reader Prerequisites*: To get the most from this article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic unix command line tools, text editor

New Squeeze install fails to boot (not even to grub)

2011-06-04 Thread Johnathan Ritzi
(posted this to a Linux forum, cross-posting here as recommended by the install guide troubleshooting instructions) I recently purchased a new Lenovo Thinkpad T420i and am having problems installing the latest version of Squeeze from CD. After receiving the laptop, I started it up, configured Wind

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 15:27 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, John A. Sullivan III > File ownership is a constant confusion between the two basic systems. > *DO NOT* try to manage the same file server and accessing its material > with the two different protocols. I'

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 02:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very useful to have the "keep" option while configuring the application so you d

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > [snip] >> >> And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very >> useful to have the "keep" option while configuring the application so you >> don't delete e-mails unless you are sur

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 23:08 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running >> > samba and one application server (red

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 23:08 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > > samba and one application server (redhat). I would like to mount the > > shares of the file server in the

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: It could be an MTU/MSS issue. See the recent discussion in the debian-ipv6 list with subject "schein.debian.org" [2001:4f8:8:36::6]. Many thanks. Changing the MTU to 1480 as sug

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 08:34 AM, Jack Dodds wrote: Thanks to those who commented. I tried/etc/init.d/networking stop . When this is done, programs launch without delay. Of course, this makes it impossible for any program to access the Internet so it's not a solution! However, taking gedit as an

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 10:39 +, darkestkhan wrote: > I would say go with Wheezy +1 I installed stable (squeeze) and than upgraded to testing (wheezy), I just kept X from stable. What for other distros is called 'stable' IMO isn't that stable as Debian testing. I should have installed testing

Re: Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-04 Thread teddieeb
Andrei POPESCU Said: [re-wrapped to 72 characters] - Sorry about that, I send list mails from my cell phone, very small screen, not much I can do about the text length. Otherwise thank you for the reply. Just curious, are the 32bit Libraries that can be installed upon need in a 64bit ins

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-04 Thread Jack Dodds
Thanks to those who commented. I tried/etc/init.d/networking stop . When this is done, programs launch without delay. Of course, this makes it impossible for any program to access the Internet so it's not a solution! However, taking gedit as an example, Normal operation - Internet acces

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/02/11 at 08:15pm, tadziu wrote: >> i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to >> stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my >> second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get >> it work

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Doug wrote: > On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: >> >> On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >>> [snip] NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-04 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/2 Paul Johnson : > I was using RedHat/Fedora for along time, then Ubuntu, now Debian. > I'm not new in Linux, just Debian.  And I'm still having trouble > understanding some of the terminology. > > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key pro

Re: iceweasel & swiftfox not rendering pages

2011-06-04 Thread AG
On 03/06/11 12:40, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:32:01 +0100, AG wrote: Has anyone else experienced problems with Iceweasel/ Swiftfox not rendering web pages properly? Any page I go to will be rendered with blue hypertext text only, no images, no lay out, etc., whilst other browsers (

[Way OT] Re: Security-Warning Mac

2011-06-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[replies only to -offtopic please, Reply-To: set accordingly] On Sb, 04 iun 11, 09:32:49, Klaus Wolf wrote: > Dear guys, > > The German Ministerium for Security Internet gives the following > warning: > > http://www.buerger-cert.de/techwarnung.aspx?msg_nr=Bcert-2011-0041 > > this warning is as

Re: Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 iun 11, 05:46:56, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > Ron Johnson Said: > > The M2V has an AM2 socket, and all such chips are 64-bit capable, so > both 2.6.39-1-686-pae and 2.6.39-1-amd64 *should* work. > > (I think you'd get a different error if the kernel was incompatible with > t

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 iun 11, 02:31:28, Doug wrote: > > > I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: "*Reader > Prerequisites*: To get the most from this > article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic > unix command line tools, text editors, > DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, netmask, gate

Printing next few lines by awk following a pattern match.

2011-06-04 Thread arif tuhin
> To: etothepowe...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: Printing next few lines by awk following a pattern match. > From: debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:37:23 + > > General info > > Subscription/unsubscription/

Re: Security-Warning Mac

2011-06-04 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 4, 2011 3:33 AM, "Klaus Wolf" wrote: > > Dear guys, > > The German Ministerium for Security Internet gives the following > warning: > > http://www.buerger-cert.de/techwarnung.aspx?msg_nr=Bcert-2011-0041 > > this warning is as very high declared, that's why inform on this > list. I know that

Security-Warning Mac

2011-06-04 Thread Klaus Wolf
Dear guys, The German Ministerium for Security Internet gives the following warning: http://www.buerger-cert.de/techwarnung.aspx?msg_nr=Bcert-2011-0041 this warning is as very high declared, that's why inform on this list. I know that it's allmost OT. Nice day klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-04 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 4, 2011 2:08 AM, "jeremy jozwik" wrote: > > > Wow... I'm still with 3.0.6. > > my pc is still in 2.5 > Y'all realize this isn't really anything to brag about? I just hope both of you are running noscript or just turn scripting off (preferably the later with browsers that old). If you were