Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency

2022-02-17 Thread David Liontooth
On 2/16/22 9:26 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 08:24:57AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: Still, where in pool is udev? unicorn:~$ apt-get --reinstall --print-uris install udev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0

Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency

2022-02-17 Thread David Liontooth
On 2/16/22 9:03 AM, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 07:19:34AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: Hi -- I have a machine, Linux ancient 2.6.36.2 #1 SMP Sun Dec 26 06:19:57 PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux. […] Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in the running

Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency

2022-02-16 Thread David Liontooth
On 2/16/22 7:48 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 07:19:34AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: Hi -- I have a machine, Linux ancient 2.6.36.2 #1 SMP Sun Dec 26 06:19:57 PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux. This is not a Debian kernel. You either built it yourself, or you got it from some

Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency

2022-02-16 Thread David Liontooth
Hi -- I have a machine, Linux ancient 2.6.36.2 #1 SMP Sun Dec 26 06:19:57 PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I can install a new kernel, but it won't boot into any of the new kernels: root@ancient:~# update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-16-amd64 Found initrd

Re: interfaces file failes to set gateway

2012-01-10 Thread David Liontooth
Thank you, Bob -- much appreciated, including the update on the conventions for the interfaces file! Cheers, Dave On 01/10/2012 11:12 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: David Liontooth wrote: This is my /etc/network/interfaces: # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static

interfaces file failes to set gateway

2012-01-09 Thread David Liontooth
I've run into an odd problem: on two of my squeeze servers, the /etc/network/interfaces file fails to set the default gateway on boot. I can add the gateway manually by issuing route add default gw 192.168.0.178 eth0 -- it works fine. This is my /etc/network/interfaces: # The primary

How to install Debian on a server with a LSISAS1068E controller

2009-10-26 Thread David Liontooth
Hi Allan, Do you have the PCI ID for the controller this worked on? Did it need megaraid_sas or mptsas? I have what seems to be the same controller, the LSI SAS 1068E, but it is PCI ID 1000:0059 rather than 1000:0058. It would really be helpful to know if my device is the same as the one

continuation character in cron jobs

2007-10-21 Thread David Liontooth
I'd like to use the continuation character \ in a cron job, but I get an error when I do. I use crontab -e to edit the crontab and have this sort of thing: 30 5 * * * script varable variable \ variable-text when I try to save, I get this: crontab: installing new crontab

Re: continuation character in cron jobs

2007-10-21 Thread David Liontooth
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:03:30PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: I'd like to use the continuation character \ in a cron job, but I get an error when I do. I use crontab -e to edit the crontab and have this sort of thing: 30 5 * * * script varable variable

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread David Liontooth
Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines them all into one grand editing suite That's not The Unix Way.

Waveform display

2007-04-10 Thread David Liontooth
I'd like to display the waveform of files in X11 -- is there a utility for doing this? I looked at extace, but it seems to only work with the esound daemon. I'm looking for a command-line tool. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: gparted errors

2007-04-10 Thread David Liontooth
michael wrote: In order to resolve lack of space in / (for /opt where Intel compilers like to live) I wish to repartition my HD. I tried a LiveCD of gparted but it gives a Kernel Panic. (NB The CD is okay since I've used it in another machine before.) The 'problem' machine is a Pentium III

feh won't make a montage in a script

2007-02-03 Thread David Liontooth
I'm using feh, an image viewing utility, to make a montage of thumbnails, with this command in a bash script: feh -m -W 1024 $FIL.img/$THUMBS/*.jpg -O $FIL.jpg The man page explains, -O FILE Just save the created montage to FILE without displaying it (use in scripts). When I

Re: feh won't make a montage in a script

2007-02-03 Thread David Liontooth
David Liontooth wrote: I'm using feh, an image viewing utility, to make a montage of thumbnails, with this command in a bash script: feh -m -W 1024 $FIL.img/$THUMBS/*.jpg -O $FIL.jpg The man page explains, -O FILE Just save the created montage to FILE without

Re: Cronjobs get the wrong time stamp in mail record

2006-12-23 Thread David Liontooth
Wayne Topa wrote: David Liontooth([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I'm running a script as a cron job on four machines, and get an e-mail every time the job is completed. On three machines, the time stamp is the time of the completion of the job; on the last one, the time stamp

How to configure SMART monitoring with munin for 3ware RAID

2006-12-23 Thread David Liontooth
Just for the record, here's a howto for monitoring the individual disks in a 3ware RAID using munin. The syntax for finding the drives on a 2.6 kernel is not exactly intuitive. 1. Install smartmontools and edit /etc/smartd.conf, adding this sort of thing: # Monitor 4 ATA disks connected to a

Re: Daemonologists wanted

2006-12-21 Thread David Liontooth
Paul Johnson wrote: David Liontooth wrote: It might even be worth bugreporting the behavior that the sensor daemon fails if a probed sensor is absent, but I suspect that's a Debian issue, not an upstream sensors issue? Yes, reportbug would be the appropriate method to report this bug

Cronjobs get the wrong time stamp in mail record

2006-12-21 Thread David Liontooth
I'm running a script as a cron job on four machines, and get an e-mail every time the job is completed. On three machines, the time stamp is the time of the completion of the job; on the last one, the time stamp is five minutes earlier. I've checked the time on the machine; it's correct

Re: Daemonologists wanted

2006-12-20 Thread David Liontooth
Paul Johnson wrote: David Liontooth wrote: If I issue /etc/init.d/sensord start to start the sensor daemon, the script seems to run fine, but the daemon doesn't actually start. On my other machines, it runs as expected. Any daemonologists out there? What's the .conf look

Re: Daemonologists wanted

2006-12-20 Thread David Liontooth
Paul Johnson wrote: For posterity, it might be helpful to post what motherboard and chipset that's for. Right -- this is a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939. The Gigabyte K8NSC-939 has the same AMD Athlon64/FX or Opteron temperature sensor, as does the Tyan Tomcat S8350 and lots of other amd64 boards --

Daemonologists wanted

2006-12-19 Thread David Liontooth
If I issue /etc/init.d/sensord start to start the sensor daemon, the script seems to run fine, but the daemon doesn't actually start. On my other machines, it runs as expected. Any daemonologists out there? Dave #!/bin/sh -xv PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin +