LVM can't find devices after adding new disks

2006-01-05 Thread Colin Ingram
I have two systems which both use LVM. I recently added disks to both systems and my system now has problems finding physical volumes at boot time. Only my sata drives are affected by this. On one of the systems I have no useful log messages or outputs since the /home, and /var are located on the

grub fallback mechanism

2005-12-28 Thread Colin Ingram
I'm trying to test a new kernel remotely so I would like to use grubs fallback mechanism. I was wondering what is the difference between doing using a config like this one taking from grub manual default saved timeout 10 fallback 1 title A root (hd0,0) kernel /kerne

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote: Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ MythTV & Freevo. cool th

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Heimdall Midgard wrote: 2005/11/6, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote: Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. http://www.snapstream.com/pr

DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

shorewall post-int hangs on sarge

2005-10-18 Thread Colin Ingram
I use sarge and when I recently tried to install the most recent update to shorewall( v2.2.3-2) my system hangs when trying to configure shorewall. ps shows the postins script zombified. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps axfw PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 7905 ?Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: colin [pr

RAID and Dual Boot Install

2005-09-26 Thread Colin Ingram
I am trying to install debian on a system that already contains windows XP on a raid 0 partition. I've got some difficult hardware so bare with me on this. My motherboard is a nforce4 chipset and I have two disk, sda and sdb, which are configured in a raid 0 array through the nvraid bios. I ha

Re: diff in octave and octave-forge

2005-09-10 Thread Colin Ingram
roberto wrote: Hi all, i know two different packages (among others) are downloadable for math computing: octave and octave-forge i have installed and currently using octave 2.1.69 but what are the differences with octave-forge?? can i install octave-forge without conflict with octave 2.1? (apti

Re: Is NTFS file system (Win2k) stable and usable with debian sarge?

2005-09-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Robert Wolfe wrote: On 9/6/05, *Colin Ingram* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >A different approach, if you need to rw > 2gb files. Don't dual boot, >run Windows in Vmware or equal and use Samba to transfer the files. > > Doesn't

Re: Is NTFS file system (Win2k) stable and usable with debian sarge?

2005-09-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 04 September 2005 10:05 am, J. Grant wrote: [Please include my email address in replies] I'm dual booting with win2k, I have a small FAT32 partition, which I mount and transfer files via. It is ok, but limited to 2GB per file max. I understand that NTFS allows

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread Colin Ingram
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:10 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: What exactly are you looking for? There are a large number of 100% web-based tax programs available. These work very well on Linux. Am I the only person who has seen all of the sites that leave confidential data

Re: Apache2::Util not getting installed?

2005-08-18 Thread Colin Ingram
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: However, that file doesn't exist: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ Apache/ APR/ APR.pm auto/ ModPerl/ mod_perl.pm It is located at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Util.pm At least in my installation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Ingram
Chris Palmer wrote: If the filesystem is intact, you can also examine other fields (e.g. s_blocks_count, s_free_blocks_count, s_log_block_size, et c.) to figure out how much space is used. Hopefully the original poster won't have to perform filesystem surgery. :) Nope! No reconstruction h

disk usage of an umounted partition?

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Ingram
I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem?

tar bug?

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Ingram
I haven't used tar that much so I don't know if this is the way it has always been or if this is a bug. Tar automatically excludes the archive being created from archive in order to prevent an infinite loop. $ tar -cvvf /home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar /home/colin/tartest/* tar: Removing

Re: hosed raid 1 under lvm

2005-08-08 Thread Colin Ingram
Erik Karlin wrote: on top. The raid one was made from hdb1 and hdc1. Recently when I was trying to change the size of a logical volume. I noticed that my vg was using /dev/hdc1 as a physical volume instead of /dev/md0. I'm running debian sarge and I have/had a 200GB raid 1 devices wit

hosed raid 1 under lvm

2005-08-07 Thread Colin Ingram
calling all lvm/raid gurus I'm running debian sarge and I have/had a 200GB raid 1 devices with LVM2 on top. The raid one was made from hdb1 and hdc1. Recently when I was trying to change the size of a logical volume. I noticed that my vg was using /dev/hdc1 as a physical volume instead

Re: debian reference html

2005-07-05 Thread Colin Ingram
roberto wrote: Hello i wonder if it is possible to download the entire debian reference in html format, with ALL its internal links and pages. aptitude install debian-reference-en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Accessing a program started in another term

2005-06-30 Thread Colin Ingram
Almut Behrens wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:29:50PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote: Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive program, like octave. Then I go home with and my remote terminal session and the octave program are still running at work. Is th

Accessing a program started in another term

2005-06-30 Thread Colin Ingram
Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive program, like octave. Then I go home with and my remote terminal session and the octave program are still running at work. Is there a way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the running octave program?

Re: smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-17 Thread Colin Ingram
Michal Simovic wrote: but that's all i could do, i don't know how to pass a command line option that would actually switch to that mode.. could you give me some more instruction? "vga" is not recognized by the grub command line.. An excerpt from my menu.lst file ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNEL

[Resolved] Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Colin Ingram wrote: Greg wrote: It matters because if Paulo or anyone else is not using udev then they want be affected by the udev/bootlogd init script bug. Mainly because they want have /etc/init.d/udev on their system which umounts /dev/pts so bootlogd can no longer work. I can&#

Re: FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote: -Original Message- From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! ! AFAIK dselect gets

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Greg wrote: Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15: This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem seem to be configure

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Stephen R Laniel wrote on Jun, 14: See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03789.html This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are neede

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:07PM -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: This fantastic list help me on this one before. Put this in /etc/default/bootlogd: BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes Next time you boot, every msg sent to /dev/console will end up in /var/log/boot. Cool! Tw

Re: How useful is apt-spy?

2005-06-14 Thread Colin Ingram
David Jardine wrote: However, since apt-spy took 50 minutes to run through all the mirrors and the download itself took about 15 hours, I wonder how useful apt-spy's tests were. I have the feeling that I was wasting my time with apt-spy since the potential download speeds from the various s

Re: Sarge release date [Was: Installing D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC on an Woody 3.0r5 after Install.]

2005-06-13 Thread Colin Ingram
Siju George wrote: I have downloaded sarge today and am going to install it so I'll let you know the details soon. I happened to see something strange though! You should probably start a new thread with your new topic. You have a better chance of getting a response from people other than

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-12 Thread Colin Ingram
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Right, This could be interresting to debate about. It's still about debian "version", packages version and repositories. Broadly, package are evoluting that way : The package is in really beta version in the unstable tree. Then most of the bugs are fixed and this pa

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-12 Thread Colin Ingram
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Marty wrote: This means : the package-2.0 is my system (taken from the testing repositories at (BIG-SWITCH -4)) could be different than the package-2.0 in the stable repositories. And APT won't see it and won't upgrade this package. Therefore it seems it's not possib

Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Ingram
Colin wrote: whole picture. Nah, I can't buy this argument. When I look to see what entries I can put in my sources.list file, I actually take a web browser and look at the directory it comes from. In the "dists" directory, I can see that "testing" and "stable" are links to names like

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Ingram
Marty wrote: Colin Ingram wrote: Apt uses its default behavior if you don't have an apt.conf file. As for version this default behavior is to update to the newest version available. It seems like you are referring to package version. I was referring to Debian version, e.g. sarge,

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Ingram
Marty wrote: Colin Ingram wrote: On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I created both by hand. This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf file. I wonder ho

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Ingram
Another point : in sources.list : changing testing by stable or testing by sarge returns me error when updating. Like apt can't find the repositories Does someone remember the command to reconfigure to get the choice of mirrors? G I use apt-spy to find mirrors. You can update the mi

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Colin Ingram
Wim De Smet wrote: I think it's not necessarily wrong to use top posting. I just feel like both manners of posting have their place. When you are just including a mail for reference to something, and then make a reply that is partly unrelated, I don't mind top posting. When it's a discussion lik

Re: Installing D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC on an Woody 3.0r5 after Install.

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Ingram
Siju George wrote: The Installation of this module failed so now could someone please tell me how I ca install this NIC?? I assume you mean the sk98lin module that I suggested to use? Exactly what failed? Did you try the one which is available in the kernel? I suggest trying this first

Re: Installing D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC on an Woody 3.0r5 after Install.

2005-06-07 Thread Colin Ingram
Siju George wrote: Hi al, I have been working on a debian woody 3.0r5 for which I have to install a D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC o it now. Running #modconf and looking under kernel/drivers/net Drivers for network interface cards I find dl2k - D-Link 2000-based

Re: shell cript deleting backups

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Ingram
'Maildir' is directory ( ~/Maildir/INBOX.debian ) I'm looking for a simple backup package independant of KDE. If you have a hint :) Founded kbackup but not what i need. Thanks for your help mess-mate -- Condense soup, not books! Check out dirvish It wil

Re: something wrong after upgrade

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Geng (Nico) Chan wrote: > Hi, > I use sarge as the only OS in my laptop(compaq m300), it works well > for nearly one year, but something went wrong this morning, after > I tried to upgrade my system by using > _#apt-get upgrade_ > Everything went ok, however after I reboot my box, the X could no >

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-24 Thread Colin Ingram
Fred L Youhanaie wrote: Hi Colin, I have had to deal with this sort of things on quite a number of occasions, and I have my own little perl script, which is very similar to Paul's, mine came straight out of the perl cookbook ;-) If you replace Paul's last print statement with: print j

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-24 Thread Colin Ingram
Almut Behrens wrote: I assume I can make the first subexpression match zero or one time. In that situation if the first subexpression doesn't match does $1=null? ...exactly (though it's 'undef', not null, strictly speaking). And the nice thing is that Perl doesn't segfault or throw fat

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Ingram
Almut Behrens wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:17:44PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote: (...) this creates a file that looks like this: 00:00.000, 3.24557e+007 00:02.510, 3.23482e+007 00:05.007, 3.24578e+007 00:07.507, 2.77091e+007 ---snip--- I now need to covert the "elapse time" c

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Ingram
Paul Smith wrote: %% Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ci> This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you ci> could help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file Why would you choose bash to do this? The shell is great for running commands, but

[OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Ingram
This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you could help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file to prepare it for input into a program which will fit the data by a non-linear least squares fitting routine. This program takes input from a file containing two column

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-18 Thread Colin Ingram
Derrick Hudson wrote: | > | > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started | > making vacuums. | | Is that a reference only us greybeards would understand? ;) It's a play on the word "suck". If software sucks, its bad. If a vacuum sucks, it is working. -D You co

Re: Getting a Dinamic Remote IP

2005-05-17 Thread Colin Ingram
Romulo Sousa wrote: What can I do in order to get the IP from her computer all the time the machine is booted? I would get a dynamic dns account so you can ssh to foo.domain and never have to worry about the ip again. try http://www.dyndns.org/ ;the service I use or http://www.technopagan.org/d

Re: Please, stop mail massive

2005-05-17 Thread Colin Ingram
Ian Cottrell wrote: Is it possible to subscribe to the list, yet no receive it via e-mail? I'd much prefer to read it via Usenet, but if I'm not subscribed, I can't post. You have to subscribe to the list to post? What happens if you just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Colin Ingram
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2005-05-10, Bill Marcum penned: I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox? I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was using multiple profiles. Try th

OT Enable/Disable Javascript in Firefox [Was: Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?]

2005-05-10 Thread Colin Ingram
Gerhard Gaußling wrote: Is there a "One-button One-click method" to switch javascript-support from on to off and vice versa? I often wished that feature. Try the PrefBar 3.1.0 extension*. ** Author:* Aaron Anderson *Version:* 3.1.0 *Size:* 167KB *Date:* 2004-02-08 *Compatibility:* ( 0.9 - 1.0+)

Re: IM

2005-05-07 Thread Colin Ingram
Scarletdown wrote: >Paul Johnson wrote: > > >>On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote: >> >>In a pinch, you can also upload an image to my wiki for display. >>http://ursine.ca/Special:Upload >> >> >. Or, if you want to get some geeky experience points, >you can apt-get install vsftpd,

Re: apt-get deprecated?

2005-05-01 Thread Colin Ingram
Luis Finotti wrote: So, with net-install at least, using aptitude from the start might not work "out of the box". I just recently did a Sarge net-install and have exclusively used aptitude. I have had no problems. Then only thing I've had to do is mark the dependencies of packages which