Re: Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-09 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Daniel Latter dan.lat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:00:02 UTC+1, Christofer C. Bell wrote: Do you by any chance use KDE? I do not use KDE myself but my colleague does, but its just to browse to a web address, can I ask what you

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Latter dan.lat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. I did as you suggested and found evidence in the second command, but the only that stood out was the Debian start up script that I have already commented out and restarted MySQL, I'm going to

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-23 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/22/2012 7:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:53:21 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-23 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/23/2012 3:20 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: While one could hope you're wanting this off the list because you've finally realized how much you've embarrassed yourself, I know that, sadly, that isn't true

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-22 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com writes: - Original Message - From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a primary technical support resource. People should be

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-22 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/21/2012 7:05 PM, T Elcor wrote: - Original Message - You are either: 1. Horribly lazy 2. Incompetent Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say this on the

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I'm probably going to regret this... On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: That's absurd. You are not going to install an OS in

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: an operating system isn't for you. The bare metal computer on a desert island with nothing but a CD situation you're imagining simply doesn't happen. Camaleón is exactly

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:55 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: What you call desert situation is the most likely one to have. If you didn't have it, you were lucky

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I am doing a net install. I cannot find a usable mirror. I have tried at least 4 in the UK and 2 in Holland. So I can progress no further. Even if I were to download CD1 and install from it, the first thing I would want to

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Morning Star morning.star.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I get a difficulty to produce the desired output using awk. i want to use for loop bash variable as the input to the awk variable here is the illustrated input: line_1 line_2 line_3 line_4 line_5

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-27 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:13:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 07:18:04PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Jude. The Holy Father is neither jude jdash...@shellworld.net Could You please

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail mlnos...@yahoo.com wrote: That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Christofer C. Bell wrote: That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel default is to overcommit. In which case swap is not used

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:48:51 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: So, if your bank doesn't work with OpenJDK 7, then your bank is wrong. I see you're still

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-15 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:29:41 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Dear linuxers, According to this blog ( http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u ) from Sylvestre, responsible for

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: A company is not a person and cannot have rights. All it should have is the obligation to obey laws and regulations affecting its operations - just as an automobile, another construct, must conform to all regulatory

Re: Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

2012-07-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:05 PM, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Stephen Allen writes: That was what I thought the purpose of volatile was. It isn't. See http://www.debian.org/volatile/ . You want backports: http://backports-master.debian.org/ No, while that meets the need, I don't

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: You'll be forced to upgrade to GNOME3. Yes, and and that forced upgrade comes from more than just Debian. I see no gnome2/gnome3 packaging differentiation as it happened with kde3/ kde4 in its early stage, most sure because

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-24 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: Fedora is interesting in that they use SELinux by default, but I don't personally like their plans for mandating reboots for certain updates for Fedora 18.  That's too much like Windows for my liking.  I prefer

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-19 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: You could also post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list. From reading the errors, his sources.list points to sarge, etch, *and* lenny, none of which are provided on the main servers these days. From parsing the output

Re: Intermittent installation related problems

2012-06-18 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: What's even more annoying (ascetically) is that I can not see a way for multiple simultaneous installs to use the same swap space. After all, only only one install will be in use at a time. This stood out to me reading

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I doubt a blind person would be asking for printed books on Debian. Blind person could ask books for Debian if they are written with Braille, but they might be more rare than normal books about Debian. My

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-14 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:08 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: The ImageMagick identify command could be used on the image to gather statistics (such as pixel size) do some math on it, and feed that back to mogrify, giving you some

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Steve Dowe s...@warpuniversal.co.uk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5).  I'm using software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below).  But I must be doing something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer,

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a default size before its being

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: Does Samba require you to  back of the security of Win7 down to the point where it doesn't require Kerebos?  If I remember correctly all that will be resolved once Samba 4 gets released. That I don't know. If

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: But unless squeeze is free of the horrible and fast march of updates one experiences on wheezy it may not be a goal after all. While squeeze has updates, they are generally few and far between. This is the intent of the

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-10 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping out kde and most of X then moving from testing to stable, and finally installing lxde

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-10 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly incompetent klutz might

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?

2012-06-09 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2012 01:10:26 ow...@netptc.net wrote: I have seen such a behavior before when the BIOS boot sequence was erroneously configured to boot from floppy before the HDD I *always* configure my BIOS boot sequence to

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:34 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Let's be clear what this is.  I have to get *permission* from someone else, to run a program on my own computer.  To actually use my computer to do my stuff, I

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 21:36 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: This new world doesn't tie you to Microsoft or any other company. You're mistaken, it does and it does it in a way I don't like it. As soon as Apple

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: Would that mean anybody who wants to build their own kernel would need to buy a signing key? Not at all.  You can generate your own key and load it into your UEFI.  It's

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 08 iun 12, 14:52:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: So some misconfiguration somewhere, but I'm blowed if I can find it. Has anyone any hints, please? /etc/mailname and the variables options 'myhostname' and

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-07 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com writes: You can't disable the code signing requirement on ARM. ... which is a great deal more worrying. Yes. And no. I'd hate to see a situation where it was impossible to

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-07 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: Let's be clear what this is.  I have to get *permission* from someone else, to run a program on my own computer.  To actually use my computer to do my stuff, I have to take extraordinary steps to get someone else to grant

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:07:23PM -0400, Tom H wrote: What's non-free about signing the boot-chain? Do I have the freedom to build and install and boot my own kernel? No?  Looks like I lost the freedom to have any

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:03:54 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: For years, we've (the FLOSS community) been avoinding to be always Windows dependant and now it seems we are going

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers because their position is not mentioned in

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having this discussion.  MSFT issues are not for us in the Debian or wider Linux

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: * On 2012 05 Jun 21:45 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had been a bit more proactive

Re: The permissions of the apache2 log dir

2012-06-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Titanus Eramius tita...@aptget.dk wrote: Hi list Last week i ran into the very restrictive folder permissions of the apache2 log dir. They where drwxr-x--- root adm but I changed them to rwxr-xr-x root adm so a unprivileged user may opdate webalizer[1] at

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 22:48:57 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 02 iun 12, 18:12:03, Brian wrote: There appears to be no advantage in using sshd in this situation. The idea of having to guide her through configuring a

Re: Configure sudo

2012-05-27 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Denis Witt denis.w...@concepts-and-training.de wrote: Hi again, I came up with this now: cat /usr/local/bin/adm.sh Having access to chown and chmod is not secure: cbell@circe:~$ cp /bin/dash . cbell@circe:~$ sudo ./adm.sh chown root:root ./dash Change

Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook

2012-05-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/12 14:21, Lars Noodén wrote: The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and download:       http://debian-handbook.info/ Excellent. I've been

Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

2012-05-09 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: yes i got that , but first i thought. it is related to something LVM over RAID. which means more complexity thats why i didn't read thoroughly , There isn't really much complexity to LVM over RAID. The RAID device

Re: is it safe to remove those things.

2012-05-07 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:15 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: :/var/cache/apt# du -sh * 4.0K    apt-file 9.3M    archives 21M     pkgcache.bin 21M     pkgcache.bin.InpgdZ 22M     pkgcache.bin.K9JUn6 22M     pkgcache.bin.nChibf 21M     srcpkgcache.bin is it safe to remove

Re: command history via Web-console.

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am using few web front end tools in debian and other destros and for learning purpose i would like to know the command history that has been ran via Web console. does linux provide any option by

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: I don't think it's a bug... If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line: yourusername   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll get no password prompt. Of course,

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Dennis Wicks: Greetings; I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; -? ? ?    ?             ?                ? Inbox.msf I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I

Re: eglibc fails to build from source

2012-04-29 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:01 PM, bibop554 - bibop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I try to build eglibc from source but it fails. I'm on Debian squeeze 6.0.3 I downloaded [eglibc_2.11.3.orig.tar.gz] and [eglibc_2.11.3-2.diff.gz] from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libc6 Did you install the

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: I only press the sign button and message is signed correctly and I can verify it. Then perhaps you could be so kind as to stop pressing the sign button, then. :-) -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I don't understand what you mean here, could you please elaborate?  Yes I can...  All the discussion started about the following sentence in section 4.4.6  of the

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Alberto Fuentes alberto.fuen...@qindel.com wrote: Ive seen that the most optimal sharing desktop is freenx but i aptsearched (new verb guys! if i can google something i can certanly aptsearch as well :) freenx does not give any result back on repositories.

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:14 PM, John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com wrote: Yes but doesn't xrdp rely upon VNC and thus have the same performance issues as VNC? I would be delighted to be wrong.  RDP on Windows has show remarkable improvement with versions 6 and 7 to the point

Re: Bug#666010: ITP: nvidia-texture-tools -- image processing and texture manipulation tools

2012-03-27 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Weller l...@ring0.de wrote: Am 28.03.2012 01:01, schrieb Ben Hutchings: Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those patents, it looks like you're about to violate item 1 of the Debian patent policy. Ben. S3TC is not actively

Re: Bug#666010: ITP: nvidia-texture-tools -- image processing and texture manipulation tools

2012-03-27 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Weller l...@ring0.de wrote: Am 28.03.2012 01:01, schrieb Ben Hutchings: Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those patents, it looks like

Re: apt aptitude inconsistent search results (regex)

2012-03-26 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Ano Nymous qubi...@gmail.com wrote: I've read man 7 regex and I'm fairly sure those regexes are fine but many instances give wrong results. An application that gives expected results is grep, in particular grep -E. Is this a known issue, or where am I going

Re: Installing Debian as VirtualBox guest - which videodriver to install?

2012-03-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just installed on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid host on VirtualBox the Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid as guset using the http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso so I get virtual consoles but

Re: any GUI for LVM2 ?

2012-03-22 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:37 AM, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, Is there any GUI available in debian/ubuntu for LVM2 ? Yes, you can install the system-config-lvm package. Here are the details: Package: system-config-lvm Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section:

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-15 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 16:45, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice here:

Re: Cups init.d file missing

2012-03-14 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Ralph Bacolod rabaco...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu Ralph Bacolod ,MT http://blog.devsphoto.com twitter: @rafiks -Original Message- From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:39:52 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Cups

Re: Cups init.d file missing

2012-03-14 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Ralph Bacolod rabaco...@gmail.com wrote: I do have debian its just the output of lsb_release command. ;-) Don't be to harsh on me kind sir. -Original Message- From: Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:59:18

Re: Cron, 1 month but 2 months

2012-03-10 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:09:23 +, T o n g wrote: Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will do, as long as it is easy to schedule.

Re: Free movies on the Internet -- download scams

2012-03-04 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Hi All! It occurred to me that there might be free movies to download. So I did a web search with Google and got lots of sites; but there's a catch! You have to register (for free). So I give my email address

Re: Persisting a one-off hostname change

2012-03-04 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 February 2012 13:40, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Everywhere that I've worked the hostnames have had something to indicate its purpose and its location. I don't think this reasoning can be applied here

Re: unsuscribe

2012-02-28 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:28 PM, pastor alexander religion1...@hotmail.com wrote: endless crap, too much. is there a chat room for one-on-one -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-26 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom.  The debian installer disk has a rescue mode.  That can be very useful to repair a system such as yours.  If the above grub selection of a newer kernel

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: I only continue this banter because I find your assumptions and responses to be hilarious, already been forwarded around work. Please keep your witty, brilliant responses coming as to why I was such the dick with this

Question about APT's config on Debian (not an actual issue)

2012-02-19 Thread Christofer C. Bell
I'm wondering how the following Ubuntu-isms made it into Debian's APT configuration: cbell@circe:~$ apt-config dump | egrep 'verse|ubuntu' APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: universe/metapackages; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: multiverse/metapackages;

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

2012-02-18 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to install GNUstep from sources on my Debian GNU/Linux SID sytem. How can I know where come installed files after I did run: ./configure make sudo -E make install commands? You may want to look into the

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Julien Groselle julien.grose...@gmail.com wrote: So no, I didn't rescan anything... It's just what I need (a command line to recan all HDD device) Apparently it's as easy as this: echo - - - /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan Where 0 is the the controller

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM, frank fr...@dead-link.org wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: echo - - - /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan Have you tried it? Or just copied and pasted? echo - - - /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan -bash: /sys/class/scsi_host

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Julien Groselle julien.grose...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure my kernel is not so old :) # uname -r ; cat /etc/debian_version 2.6.32-5-amd64 6.0.4 Oh, not you, Julien. I was addressing Frank who is running Lenny's kernel. That said, he seems to have sorted

Re: Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Clive Standbridge list-u...@tgstandbridges.plus.com wrote: But may provide some benefit when removing a large number (3) of files (at least empty ones). cbell@circe:~/test$ time find rm -type f -exec rm {} \; real              0m48.127s user              

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-15 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Anyone heard of the unlink command? unlink is slower than rm removing a 1.5GB file (at least on ext3): cbell@circe:~$ time rm test1 real0m0.278s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.264s cbell@circe:~$ time unlink test2

Re: How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

2012-02-15 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Miroslav Skoric sko...@eunet.rs wrote: I wonder what is the best way to reconfigure the NIC's so the old card (now eth0) boots as eth1, and the new card (now eth1) boots as eth0? This is done using the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Just open

Re: display to remote machine

2012-02-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 12 feb 12, 21:34:20, T o n g wrote: Hi, With the ssh/x-forwarding, I seems to have lost the ability to sent my local xdisplay to remote machine. How can I do it? Details: I'm sitting in front of machineA

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:47 PM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Christofer C. Bell wrote at 2012-02-13 15:33 -0600: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: So they just try booting Ubuntu and if it works, then claim Linux support? Their testing

Re: Conflict resolution?

2012-02-12 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), which one do you use? aptitude. AFAIR, it was the recommended

Re: [1/2OT]how to optimize below one

2012-02-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: #!/bin/bash for i in {0..110} do cat_g_f -f m001\_$i\_sot.xtc  m002\_$i\_sot.xtc  m003\_$i\_sot.xtc m004\_$i\_sot.xtc   m005\_$i\_sot.xtc m006\_$i\_sot.xtc m007\_$i\_sot.xtc  m008\_$i\_sot.xtc  m009\_$i\_sot.xtc

Re: Resolved as far as possible, I think: was: Re: Invisible files on /tmp from Flash or Iceweasel?

2012-02-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Randy Kramer rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, lsof is helpful. lsof sounded like a good idea, but doesn't actually find the files.  I guess it would find the files before the unlink occurred. From lsof(1): +|-L [l] This option enables (`+') or

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-10 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.netwrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Are there other tool I can use to avoid using facebook? I did find out about and someone else mentioned about Diaspora. It's considered decentralized social networking. But can I use some

Re: [OT] gmail archive button missing from label

2012-02-07 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:18 AM, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I get the gmail archive button in inbox view , but not in the label view. Is it not possible to archive messages from label view ? Click the small [x] next to the Inbox label. This will remove the Inbox label

Re: Python

2012-02-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Sylvain sylvainterside...@gmail.com wrote: On 01. 02. 12 07:42, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:24:17PM +0200, cletusjenkins wrote: Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian packages would I need to start coding

Re: No locks available.

2012-02-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: $ fuser -bash: fuser: command not found uname -a Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELlargesmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 09:59:08 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux From the looks of this uname(1) output, you're on a RHEL 4 (or clone)

Re: Wheezy. Weekly build 23-Jan-2012. No kernel modules were found during install.

2012-01-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Leonid Korostyshevski korostyshevski@gmail.com wrote: If somebody knows, is that bug fixed in upcoming DVD 30-01-2012 weekly build? ~3.7Gb is a way big for 3G uplink, so should it be marked for download when *.iso will be ready for? Leonid, If

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list for security updates

2012-01-29 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Colin colintemp...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2012-01-29 11:51 +0100, Colin wrote: This depends on what you intend to do when wheezy becomes stable. Do you want to continue to use testing

Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

2012-01-29 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.netwrote: On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy. ^^ Unfortunately, Debian lives in a real world

Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

2012-01-29 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.netwrote: On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list f ... sorry for the noise

2012-01-29 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.netwrote: On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: Colin, Perhaps this will explain it better. This is taken from ftp.us.debian.org: lrwxrwxrwx1 21285 212856 Feb 5 2011 testing - wheezy

Re: linux-source-3.2.0-rc7

2012-01-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:38 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, a quick question, Which header I should choose? $ uname -a Linux debian 3.2.0-rc6-3.2-mj-lina #1 SMP Sat Dec 17 13:14:26 SGT 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux the one I built from kernel.org a bit heavy, took so much space. I

Re: System doesn't start X on first boot

2012-01-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Alberto Luaces alua...@udc.es wrote: George writes: On 1/5/12, Alberto Luaces alua...@udc.es wrote: George writes: When I boot my computer, most of the time I get a command line without X starting. I have to sudo reboot, wait for the system to reboot and

Re: PHP5 scripts not served by apache2 on Squeeze

2012-01-04 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: Kristian Lampen wrote: Hello, I have a fresh install of apache2 and php on my server and I can not get php to work, php-scripts are not executed by apache, just the plain script is served to the browser. By default, in

Re: How to do this, fold + split

2011-12-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza kleberfortal...@gmx.com wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split on the word but word boundaries? Thanks this shoud be what you want split -b

Re: How to do this, fold + split

2011-12-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza kleberfortal...@gmx.com wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible

Re: lenny hosting wheezy chroot

2011-12-27 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu wrote: I am looking for advice on how to run a wheezy chroot from a lenny host, in particular how to handle dev, udev, and X. While it's not an answer to the questions you've asked, I just want to make sure you're aware of a

Re: OT: deferring gmail's new look

2011-12-26 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 25 December 2011 20:19:25 Kelly Clowers wrote: Still no desktop app is as good as gmail. The searching and Conversations still have not been done right anywhere else. One man's meat is another man's poison! The

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