Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-05 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 05 Jul 2012 at 23:02:19 +0800, lina wrote: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP Pro. VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe

Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

2012-02-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 00:20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:01:31 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 27/02/12 17:50, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Alberto Fuentes alberto.fuen...@qindel.com wrote: On 25/02/12 02:59, Sian Mountbatten wrote:

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 05:45, lee l...@songoku.yagibdah.de wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. I wish I could get some of those ... I've recently started having a problem where the capslock comes on (seemingly randomly) but

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:27, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: H.S. wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: It is okay to have both specified, I usually do. When I dealt with this issue last (a few years ago), I was under the impression that only one needs to be used. Either I was mistaken then,

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:34, Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.ukwrote: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. [...] I've got gigabit networking between the two computers So do you have 1Gb or 100Mb connectivity? CHris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to check 400 files exist

2012-01-18 Thread Anand Sivaram
2012/1/19 lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wawrzek.niewodniczan...@citrix.com wrote: On 01/18/12 16:34, lina wrote: Hi, Thanks ahead for reading this email. I am choked by how to check more than 400 files exist or not, if not,

Re: Re: Can't mount pendrive on testing

2011-03-10 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 16:39, Marcelo Laia marcelol...@gmail.com wrote: You could try: # mount /dev/sdb1 /media/pen ^ Thank you! It worked! But, only root gain access to write in the mass storage. Plus, automount continue not working. When I plug the

Re: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-04 Thread Anand Sivaram
2011, at 03:11, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:00:43AM EST, Anand Sivaram wrote: Tcpdump and Ethereal are very similar in terms of capture filters. They both use libpcap. I believe they call it ‘wireshark’ these days.. cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 09:43, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:00:41 -0600 jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: I have it installed, and I can look up the parameters in the command. What I don't understand is how I use it to investigate intrusions. Can someone

Re: Using Libvirt

2011-02-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:12, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, ,- | Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization | capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The | library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different | virtualization

Re: iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 20:48, geertsky bege...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network. On the server I've

Re: VM speed benchmark

2011-01-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:45, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Talking about VM, some prefer virtulbox, some VMWare. Don't know how many of you prefer kvm. I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host. The

Re: Mounting local filesystems...mount: /dev/sdc1 special device doesn't exist failed.

2011-01-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:27, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com writes: When I reboot I forgot to plug out my USB stick and when the system boot, I get error message - warning, something like stand in the subject of this mail. Because I plugged it out

Re: 7zr compress include subdirs?

2011-01-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:33, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/27/2011 04:28 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Trying to use 7zr, used example 1 from the man: 7zr a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on archive.7z dir1 But my 'dir1' has subdirs and

Re: Testing a network card

2011-01-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:34, logb logb.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is there anyone know how to test PPS (packet per second) of a nic? I tried to googled it, only found how to test the bandwidth using iperf or netperf. None found for PPS. Any hint are welcome. TIA. -- -- logb -

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 23:11, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:40:32 -0500 (EST), Joao Ferreira wrote: seems that $0 simply contains the program being run and not the interpreter that is running it... Hmm. You're right. echo $0 works at a shell

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 20:52, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:33 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable. Now the problem is that all videos play black

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 21:01, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:11:07 +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: considering sh, bash and csh, can I somehow, inside a script, determine if I'm being run with any of these 3 shells... I need to determine wich interpreter is

Re: Giving svnadmin permissions to a regular user

2010-10-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 04:58, Tech Geek techgeek12...@gmail.com wrote: I am running Debian Lenny with subversion installed. I have a normal user called svnmaster to whom I would like to give permission to run all the svnadmin commands. How can I do that. My repositories usually live in

Fwd: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
-- Forwarded message -- From: abdelkader belahcene abelahc...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 23:16 Subject: how to configure gcc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Wednesday 29 September 2010 15:18:46 abdelkader belahcene wrote: Thanks for answer yes but normally gcc should be configured, where is the config file, for example sshd_config is a config file for

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:29, Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: On 2010年09月27日 18:25, Jochen Schulz wrote: It would help to know what software runs the website. Are we talking about Apache2? No. In fact I wanted to abstract the software running on there for a reason: there is a

Re: tar and --sparse

2010-09-23 Thread Anand Sivaram
What is the actual size of the original file/directory before tarring? On the source side, try du -ms file or directory to find out the actual size on disk. That should be less than 10GB. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:29, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g

Re: converting pcm raw output to wav or mp3 file

2010-09-20 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 17:13, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: Dear Siju, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:19:09PM +0530, Siju George wrote: I followed

Re: Kvm, how to switch to console

2010-08-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
Goto monitor mode by ctrl-alt-2 In the monitor mode, use sendkey sendkey ctrl-alt-f1 or sendkey ctrl-alt-f7 or sendkey ctrl-alt-del go back to the guest system to activate the sendkey by ctrl-alt-1 On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:41, Matthew Moore anonymous.jon...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday August 1

Re: Interactive diff rsync

2010-07-22 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 21:33, Andre Majorel aym-nai...@teaser.fr wrote: Anyone knows of some software that will compare two trees and, for each file that differs, show you a diff and ask whether you want to update the destination file ? It must run in a terminal (no GUI) and it must be able

Re: Interactive diff rsync

2010-07-22 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 23:44, François TOURDE fra...@tourde.org wrote: Le 14812ième jour après Epoch, Andre Majorel écrivait: Anyone knows of some software that will compare two trees and, for each file that differs, show you a diff and ask whether you want to update the destination

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-19 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 13:39, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Sb, 17 iul 10, 23:10:39, Anand Sivaram wrote: Could you please elaborate on that? How can UUID fail if you have modules compiled in the kernel, since UUID is a property of the filesystem? Even

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-17 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:23, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Sb, 17 iul 10, 09:06:02, Anand Sivaram wrote: It is necessary to use initrd image while using UUID. So UUID method may not work with custom kernels where drivers are compiled in. Could you please elaborate

Fwd: kernel panic error

2010-07-17 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:23, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Sb, 17 iul 10, 09:06:02, Anand Sivaram wrote: It is necessary to use initrd image while using UUID. So UUID method may not work with custom kernels where drivers are compiled in. Could you please elaborate

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 20:54, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: On 10-07-16 10:56 AM, H.S. wrote: On 16/07/10 05:59 AM, Sunita Barve wrote: I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on two different machines. Now I am getting the following error I am in a

Re: Loop device is read only

2010-07-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:06, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: On 16/07/10 22:26, vr wrote: I can't seem to write to an image I downloaded and mounted as a loop device? # ls -l /opt | grep floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 10:08 floppy # mount -o loop fdbasecd.iso

Re: installing a second hard disk?

2010-07-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:06, Zachary Uram net...@gmail.com wrote: I just got a 500gb Hitachi hard drive (this is my second drive, my first drive is /dev/sda). What is the best way to install this in Linux? Is it better to run ext3 or ext4? Zach http://www.fidei.org -- To

Re: chroot problem

2010-07-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Zachary Uram wrote: in order to get it working i tried to mount the root partition : # mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt that is fine, but when i run chroot i get weird error: # chroot /tmp/mnt # chroot: cannot execute command

Re: What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed?

2010-07-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 08:17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed? It is important to distinguish grub version 1 from grub version 2. For example, can I just do this? if [ -f

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-06-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 05:50, Amrit Panesar apane...@4195tech.com wrote: On 6/30/2010 1:14 PM, Josep M. wrote: Hello Amrit. One option of the BIOS of the motherboard was allowing use with much less speed, I don't understand how much how run this, because install XP CD don't detect any SATA

Fwd: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
-- Forwarded message -- From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Date: Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:01 Subject: switching to console and zapping To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 18:25, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 kernel. Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source directory

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 17:39, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:40 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) I suppose you are using a wifi setup with at least WPA2-PSK (or AES) so we can discard any intruder making bad

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:44, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore?

Re: viewing a pdf in Squeeze

2010-06-24 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:36, Steven Demetrius steven.demetr...@fiwwi.comwrote: Thank you Steven Demetrius +855 12 810 350 On 2010-06-24 02:10, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:28:01 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:20:25 -0700, peasthope wrote: Given a

Re: git rebase question

2010-06-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 21:46, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net 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

git rebase question

2010-06-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
I am trying to understand the different aspects of git rebase, especially the --onto option. So I was going through git help rebase. That made me consider a few other scenarios. 1. The first example is git rebase master or git rebase master topic But if we want to use --onto option, this would

Re: Wireless USB adapters.

2010-06-12 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 19:15, weaver2wo...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings all, I'm looking at getting into wireless operation on my laptop for the first time, as I find that work requires me to travel. As far as USB adapters go, what's everybody using? What's good and what needs to be

Re: debian architecture history question

2010-06-12 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 22:39, Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.comwrote: On 6/11/2010 11:03 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm not exactly sure what the policy is for packages in the i386 archives in general, but I believe they are supposed to have -586 or -686 in their package name

Re: Which USB wireless LAN adapter really works on Debian?

2010-06-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 14:50, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I am going to town and wish to purchase the most compatible, least problems USB wireless LAN adapter for Debian. Please don't tell me one that I go buy, only to discover half of the ping packets get through, etc. Whilst of course on

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay dan...@fgm.com wrote: Ralph, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel

Re: Differentiated writable permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 16:09, Daniel Bareiro daniel-lis...@gmx.net wrote: Hi all! Yesterday someone asked me the possibility to create two users for FTP access. One that had the ability to create any type of file and other that could create any type of files except directories to avoid

Re: Hot CPU!

2010-05-31 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 22:44, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote: Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one change during three 15 min. sessions. Did you check that values from BIOS or other sources? (...)

Re: A question about services

2010-05-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:53, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello list I have some questions about the use of some of the services that are can be initiated at start up. I see these listed via the Administration menu option, using GNOME on an up-to-date testing Debian system.

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 18:29, Jasper rj...@xs4all.nl wrote: arecord|aplay then play with the sliders in alsamixer. :) --Jasper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-22 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 23:07, Aioanei Rares debian.dev.l...@gmail.comwrote: On 05/22/2010 08:10 PM, Avinash H.M. wrote: Hi All, I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them. I am doing following - run

Re: Is this possible ?

2010-05-20 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 19:15, exp...@hope.cz wrote: Let’s suppose this configuration |Server1| - |Server2| - |Client| A client sends a request that starts a script on Server2.The script ( running on server2) from this server 2 will download a webpage from Server1. Is it

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 14:45, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-05-15 11:04 +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: [readelf output] ELF Header: [...] INTERP 0x000114 0x08048114 0x08048114 0x00011 0x00011 R 0x1 [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-lsb.so.3]

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 20:09, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat,15.May.10, 16:32:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: The second one bonding http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding whit this one you can plus the bandwidth. `Bonding'

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:53, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: Let's say that you have two internet connections at home, and consequently two devices which link your computer to the Internet. How can you manage, e.g. in Iceweasel/FF, to use one or the other? If you have multiple

Re: Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 20:32, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: Hello list, I was wondering if anyone could suggest a package or means to look at any or all of the information from a given executable binary file: - What compiler compiled it - What (source) language was it compiled

Re: Disable server so it does not start on reboot (even after upgrade)?

2010-05-13 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:29, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Allan Wind put forth on 5/13/2010 10:13 AM: I use insserv to boot my laptop and used `update-rc.d apache2 remove` to indicate that I do not want apache2 to start on reboot. Indeed this works fine for while. Either

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-13 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 06:06, Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7: ls -lh total 2.8M lrwxrwxrwx

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-12 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 19:40, Snood sn...@comcast.net wrote: On 05/12/2010 08:08 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 5/12/2010 6:49 AM, Snood wrote: I'm looking forward to seeing if nouveau will be an improvement, performance-wise, without causing reliability issues. I am, however, going to wait

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:26, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Oscar Corte oect_1...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi: I would like to test Debian on a new PC. It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. What would it be the

Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:38, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth used by a specific process. I'd like some sort of utility or wrapper that will answer questions like How much data did my network backup job push over the wire? There are

Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:33, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 9 May 2010 12:15:49 +0530 Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:38, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth used by a specific

Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:50, Frederik Kriewitz frede...@kriewitz.euwrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. Well, I think that I'm going to code something like this, unless someone else will point out that it's

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:42, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or

Re: Vnc server

2010-05-09 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 00:56, Andrew Lapham drewlap...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all. I'm new to debian (2 days) but have been using Linux for a while. Anyway my problem is with Vnc4server. Yesterday I set up my /home/.Vnc/xstartup to include gnome session and I commented terminal emulator.

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-08 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 01:22, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

2010-05-07 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hi, I have some videos, with different encodings, whose soundtrack is interesting for me. How can I extract the related sountracks in an easy way? I tried with VLC, but to no avail, as VLC either creates

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

2010-05-07 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:44, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:29:44PM +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hi, I have some videos, with different encodings, whose soundtrack

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

2010-05-07 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:49, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Rob Owens wrote: Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above Thanks. ffmpeg does actually, exactly what I want. Thanks. (For such

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
if I change the netmask of the server it can no longer talk to the router because it is in a different ip network ie 192.168.11.55/22 can't talk to 192.168.11.1/24 (you can fake it on linux with iproute - see my other answer to this thread). That does not look correct. Just to see how it works,

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 13:35, Kevin Ross ke...@familyross.net wrote: On 5/6/2010 12:05 AM, Alex Samad wrote: well think about it, if we are talking about network 192.168.11.0/24 (for my example I will use 24 instead of 27) the server would have an address 192.168.11.55/24 (for example) and

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 06:36, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.netwrote: Not sure if this is the right list, sort of a general linux networking question (pointers to a more appropriate list welcomed) Setup: - I have two servers in a datacenter, currently used for different things

Re: Daemons

2010-05-04 Thread Anand Sivaram
normally as a part during reboot/shutdown procedure, sigterm is sent to all processes. This causes processes to terminate during which file descriptors are closed down flushing their cache. This is written to disk during filesytem sync. So these files are preserved. But when the system goes

Re: LXDE session aborting immediately.

2010-05-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:54, Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, not really, but that is what the message says.  Actually, it says that the session lasted less than ten seconds, but who's counting. This started happening last Monday night after doing a full-upgrade on my

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 07:31, Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com wrote: From: John johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com On 01/05/10, Marc Shapiro (mshapiro...@yahoo.com) wrote: | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...', 'Validating | authentication...', 'Obtaining IP

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:08, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...', 'Validating authentication...', 'Obtaining IP address...' then it times out and says 'Connection failed: Unable to Get IP Address.' I have no clue what

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 15:43, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: Invalid argument With mplayer I see: MPlayer SVN-r30656 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 12:13:29 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: Invalid argument With mplayer I see: (...) Running file on the file gives: flac: FLAC audio

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:43, Andrea Giuliano sarkiapon...@alice.it wrote: Hi, I'm running Lenny on a brand new AMD64, and just one thing is not working at all: the sound card. I mean, it seems to be perfectly detected, I get no errors at all from any sound application, but I can't get

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 19:38, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 15:52:46 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: Alsamixer doesn'i show muted input. Not does gnome-volume-settings. I also checked out gnome-sound-properties, and it gives no errors at all, as if it thinks everything

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 20:55, Andrea Giuliano sarkiapon...@alice.it wrote: Here aplay -l: card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]  Subdevices: 1/1  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Here is amixer info, too: Card default 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf9ef8000 irq 22'  Mixer

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 22:03, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: * Native capability of sound card can be found from cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params * Decoding is done by the player itself, most probably the decoder output format in your case would be 96khz, 24 bit little

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
       class $CLASS        sclass $SCLASS        card $CARD        device $DEV        subdevice $SUBDEV } On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 21:40 +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 20:55, Andrea Giuliano sarkiapon...@alice.it wrote: Here aplay -l: card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 15:58, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: Why am I getting this and how can I fix it? r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to revert the gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze (4.4.2-9). Install the package

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 21:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default  release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly. If

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 00:08, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:

Re: Creating a debian local mirror from 5 debian DVDs

2010-04-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 15:23, L.Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I want to do mass network installation using pxe boot and using a local debian mirror. However I don't want to download the files from a debian mirror to create a local one? Is it possible to create a mirror using

Re: 2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk...

2010-04-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
This is not a kernel bug, but the way debian uses drivers. There are two different drivers in the kernel now. Old ide drivers and newer pata drivers. Old ide drivers are going to get deprecated. For some reason debian stock kernel is taking only ide drivers. I have seen this with both my

Re: Which remote help solution?

2010-04-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
You could do the following. 1. install ssh server on your friends machine. Create port forwarding in their router Login to their machine as usual using ssh. To reduce ssh brute force attack, change the ssh port from 22 to some larger number and use the corresponding port for router port

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
What is your default runlevel. It should be 2 in normal mode. You could find it from the command runlevel. Anyway, just see your /etc/inittab and make sure that the required gettys are there. For my debian squeeze system, these are the relevant lines. # Note that on most Debian systems tty7

Re: aptitude and held packages

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
Try aptitude -s full-upgrade to see the remaining packages to be upgraded. This is because safe-upgrade does not remove any installed package. Try man aptitude to see the difference between these two options. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 19:59, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: I just upgraded apt

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
How about single user mode? Are you able to get virtual console there. Also try to disable gdm/kdm, see whether virtual consoles are working. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:08, rudu r...@cegetel.net wrote: Le 27/04/2010 03:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
It is giving a lot of input output error. Either your cd is bad or there could be problem with your cdrom drive. 2010/4/27 James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com Hello, I posted a few days ago about not being able to read a CD/DVD. I'm still having the same issues. I assumed that I could do:

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: It is giving a lot of input output error. Either your cd is bad or there could be problem with your cdrom drive. How do I go about proving either? I burnt this CD with this drive

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: Replying to debian-user.. 1. Take the cd (you burnt with this drive) and try to mount it using another cdrom to see the quality of that cd. 2. Take a readonly cdrom/cdr(written from some

Re: mkfifo question

2010-04-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
fifo is just like pipe, but there is a name/filesystem entry for that. you could assume that fifo is splitting the standard program1 | programs into two parts using the named fifo. In this case it depends how your program is doing the processing, whether it processes one file each after