Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Reid
about stow, but this is time well spent...), but it's reasonably robust. -- 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: java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Unreversable dimmiing of display

2012-07-07 Thread Andrew Reid
, 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: UDEV identical devices. How to?

2012-07-03 Thread Andrew Reid
such constructions? Tnx in advance. -- 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/201207031829.19974.rei...@bellatlantic.net

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

2012-07-01 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew Reid
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 with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

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

2012-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: Nepomuk

2012-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
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/20120029.32996.rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: duplicity backups are unidirectional? : local_directory - remote_host

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Reid
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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org

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

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-26 Thread Andrew Reid
haven't noticed any performance degradation at all. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-23 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Reid
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...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Hardware asset information

2011-10-03 Thread Andrew Reid
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 Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: daft newbie questions

2011-10-01 Thread Andrew Reid
-- 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 subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew Reid
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.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109142153.00984.rei

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

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Reid
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 they're operating in the expected scope. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei

Re: System powers off randomly

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew Reid
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
=51f63d2301865cebh l=en Which fianlly points to this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640966 That's it. I guess the kernel team is working on it, God bless 'em. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

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

2011-09-10 Thread Andrew Reid
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Encrypted LVM container spanning drives?

2011-07-29 Thread Andrew Reid
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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: HELP: Number of CPU cores is not right

2011-06-17 Thread Andrew Reid
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 to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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 rei...@bellatlantic.net 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 dependencies

Weird Wifi problem -- WPA-EAP TTLS fails

2011-05-20 Thread Andrew Reid
? 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

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
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 for this. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

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

2011-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
getting confused. -- 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/201105072202.47354.rei

Re: iSCSI + LUKS

2011-04-16 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: Asus A8N-E - debian-amd64 hangs during installation

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: Mdadm device reassignment

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Reid
done a squeeze upgrade on a system with software RAID, and didn't have any issues, so it's not like it's doing it to everyone. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Reid
be possible to roll one's own, but I didn't get that far with it. /rant -- 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

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

2011-02-11 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: Build Deb install then move it

2011-02-05 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: alternatives for gcc

2011-02-01 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: module kvm-intel causing virtualbox problems

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Reid
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...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew Reid
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.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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 no squeeze-volatile repository, although

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Reid
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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

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

2011-01-22 Thread Andrew Reid
without further intervention. I have some really good notes on this somewhere, but can't find them just now, but as I recall, the make-kpkg docs are pretty good. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid

Re: set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-02 Thread Andrew Reid
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.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: upgrade to squeeze fails for NFS-rooted system

2010-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Andrew Reid
don't have to edit the files until after you've booted. -- 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

Re: Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Andrew Reid
...' initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 } I withdraw my earlier criticism of (hd0,1) -- it seems that Grub2 *does* index partitions starting from 1, and not from 0, as legacy grub does. Bad assumption on my part, sorry for the noise. -- A. -- Andrew Reid

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

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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 kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32

Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Reid
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 with a subject

Re: Security policy

2010-10-09 Thread Andrew Reid
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Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Andrew Reid
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 Intel C/C++ compiler installers...) -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei

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

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Reid
. 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 with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Reid
, 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. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: 802.11 WPA network key prompt despite GNOME keyring

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Reid
, 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.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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

2010-07-19 Thread Andrew Reid
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
for that, hence my earlier hesitation. -- 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

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-26 Thread Andrew Reid
. 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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Reid
, 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 subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Reid
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...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: mdadm doing strange things

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Reid
for confusion there also, although I think the initramfs info will suffice until the next kernel update. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2010-05-23 Thread Andrew Reid
this sort of thing. -- 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

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 make it largely useless. Just

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
the filesystem, and try again... -- 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

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
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...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
some kind of interaction between kdm and something else... -- 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

Re: xen

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net

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

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Reid
-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...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Andrew Reid
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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 understand that SFTP also runs

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

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Reid
-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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: aptitude package filtering

2010-03-14 Thread Andrew Reid
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. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Reid
would be natural, and would be preserved automatically across kernel 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: apt-proxy doesn't work

2010-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
, 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 debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Andrew Reid
the requirement, but have you looked at Gnu Octave? It's very similar to MatLab in its interface, and has quite powerful analysis tools, although I don't know how good the statistical suite is. It certainly has a friendlier learning curve than R. -- A. -- Andrew Reid

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Reid
within the scope of lenny-packaged tools. Aufs does work in general, but not in the case where I wanted it. I'm not aware of any comparisons between unionfs and aufs, but my intuition is that the kernel system should have better performance. -- A. -- Andrew Reid

Installing FreeBSD under Xen on Debian Lenny

2010-02-07 Thread Andrew Reid
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 to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2010-01-16 Thread Andrew Reid
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 with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Slow NFS

2010-01-02 Thread Andrew Reid
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.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-26 Thread Andrew Reid
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...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: LAME for Lenny

2009-12-24 Thread Andrew Reid
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 case of the custom kernel

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Reid
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
... -- 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
, 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: 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 migration, incorrect package metadata

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Reid
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

Security.debian.org confused?

2009-10-31 Thread Andrew Reid
? -- 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
. 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
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Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Reid
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
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.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Reid
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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 rei...@bellatlantic.net 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 suggestion

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 week. If you are using sysklogd (the standard

Strange log-rotate problem

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Reid
or log, because it's doing some kind of crazy pattern-matching thing? 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

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Reid
, 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 debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
-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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

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

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
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: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew Reid
, in your case) is are present -- this tests the udev step pretty directly. Hope this helps. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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