Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-10 03:20:44, Clive McBarton wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: dumpe2fs -b device is supposed to print the bad blocks that have been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks. Every HD that is even remotely

Re: Google Maps keeps loading... still loading?

2010-04-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-08 10:11:59, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:04:51 +0200, Julio wrote: El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 08:50 -0500, Ron Johnson escribió: So, since it works perfectly for me in the US, could there be a local issue? I dont know, but it work now. Confirmed: with no proxy

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-06 16:06:14, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:24:04PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-04-06 14:12:19, Russell L. Carter wrote: r...@feyerabend diff -u ssh_config ssh_config.dpkg-dist --- ssh_config 2010-04-05 21:14:26.172871668 -0700

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-06 14:12:19, Russell L. Carter wrote: I dist-upgraded yesterday and ssh root logins started requiring a password. ... ... r...@feyerabend diff -u ssh_config ssh_config.dpkg-dist --- ssh_config 2010-04-05 21:14:26.172871668 -0700 +++ ssh_config.dpkg-dist2010-01-04

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-04 17:03:30, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:57:09 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 11:53 AM: $ apt-cache show lshw ... Description: information about hardware configuration A small tool to provide detailed information

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-21 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 over SSH, so is there a way to send files in Konsole as well? I

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-22 15:33:20, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 22 March 2010 18:46, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: ... p.s. I hate screen. Why? I actually like it. Besides having to learn a new set of odd keybindings, I use the scrollback of a terminal a lot, and entering a mode to do

Re: Fixed Wireless CDMA Terminal Huawei ETS2252+ problem not driver for Linux :(

2010-03-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-20 05:06:56, Giancarlo Pegoraro wrote: Hi, This's my first message in this list. I'm sorry for my english :-) I use a Debian/Squezze and living in Mozambique. My provider telephon/internet change the hardware from Huawei ETS2252 to Huawei ETS2252+. The adaptador usb/seria for ETS2252

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-12 13:11:14, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: ... (--) SAVAGE(0): probed videoram: 32768k Plenty of video RAM to do true color mode even at 1366x768 resolution. 1366x768x24/1024 = 24588k; 1366x768x32/1024 = 32784k. Hmm. If

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-03 02:21:22, Cecil Knutson wrote: Tony, Modern kernels use SCSI emulation for ATA and are restricted to 16 partitions per drive, so don't go wild here. (LVM is not affected.) The reduced limit has been a problem for some Fedora users. But the Dell has SATA, does that

Re: Possible modprobe parameter boot problem

2010-03-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-03 17:39:29, Richard Katsch wrote: ... The (perceived) problem: modprobe appear not to use an option file during boot but will use the file if it is invoked manually. This suggests that the module is loaded before the filesystem is mounted. Try rebuilding the initrd. ... ... [

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-02 01:26:39, Cecil Knutson wrote: ... ...and the news that Linux can address 63 partitions. ... ... Modern kernels use SCSI emulation for ATA and are restricted to 16 partitions per drive, so don't go wild here. (LVM is not affected.) The reduced limit has been a problem for some

Re: Recovered!! (was Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer))

2010-02-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-27 12:04:08, Freeman wrote: ... Following the big xserver-org/mesa seg-fault/crash I was at grub playing space invaders. 1.) I could reach the diversion to maintenance mode where it recommended running e2fsck on mounted partitions, which I eventually did, reluctantly. I would

Re: Large font on display

2010-02-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-26 09:36:25, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:20:29 -0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Where can I download respective drivers. Linux drivers coming with the mobo can't work. There is no driver for Linux on the CD coming with the display. Fonts becomes very large even selecting

Re: Controlling User Logins Using Pam

2010-02-21 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-21 09:08:47, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 15:46:34 +0200, David Baron wrote: The good old parental control problem. How might one control user login times and periods using pam (or polkit)? Use /etc/security/time.conf, as described here:

Re: reportbug doubt, help PLEASE

2010-02-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-17 03:04:37, Camaleón wrote: You can report it via e-mail: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html Although I have a working system, I always write the reports via e-mail. I suposse is a bit more time-demanding (it needs special formatting) but after writing the first,

Re: Duda entre LVM y CLVM

2010-02-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-11 08:28:47, Angel L. Mateo wrote: ... I am planning to deploy a virtualization server farm. I'm going to deploy several virtual machine servers (xen). The VM are going to be storaged in a shared storage (iscsi) with LVM volumes, all of them in the same VG. In a

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-10 13:56:49, Albretch Mueller wrote: ~ I get those what are you really trying to do? questions all the time. Let me start by explaining to you, why I do things in a certain way ~ I love live CDs and use them all the time. I carry one of them, my pen drive and/or my external micro

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-10 15:50:40, Alex Samad wrote: ... On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We have just started to explore Debian Lenny as a platform ... no nslcd is not a typo, like I said there are 2 streams/groups of packages for pam

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-10 17:12:54, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:09:22PM EST, Camaleón wrote: ... I mean, the only way I see to know what fonts are being used in a document is by reading the meta information (font properties) from a PDF reader but that is not indeed definitory as

Re: Personal keylogger?

2010-02-09 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-09 04:08:47, Dotan Cohen wrote: It looks like LKL doesn't work. Although it runs, it does not produce an output file. In online forums I see much mention of other people who cannot get it to work, yet no solutions. It might be that I am selecting the wrong keymap, how can I know which

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-09 12:44:02, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Besides the badblocks app? We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no bad blocks on it, according to badblocks prog. we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find e.g. bad blocks on it..:\ :D

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-04 19:06:58, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:42:45 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote: In this case output goes to stderr, so: tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES 2 /tmp/data$$ | openssl ... Is that something you just have to find out by trial and error? I

Re: link-up link-down ethernet switch tale of woe

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-02 03:23:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 2/2/2010 12:11 AM: ... ...25.0006 MHz crystal. ... ... ... I'm sure the system design tolerance is much greater than 0.0006%. ... Me too, but (25.0006/25.0 - 1.0)*100.0 = .0024%. Googling shows that the IEEE

Re: Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-02 22:13:01, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:48:46 -0500 (EST), PETER EASTHOPE wrote: How does this sound? * Boot from the Lenny installer CD and go into rescue mode. * In the page entitled Rescue operations do Execute a shell in /dev/hda1. (The system on /dev/hda1

Re: Grepping fonts for a specific glyph

2010-01-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-28 07:24:24, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 28 January 2010 12:42, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: ... On GNOME you can get accurate info about availabe fonts that can represent that character with Char Map (gucharmap) application. Yes, but I cannot search for fonts by glyph with

Re: Advanced fsck?

2010-01-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-27 23:57:53, hadi motamedi wrote: ... ... I tried for manually run fsck , as the followings : #fsck -s /dev/hda3 But after rebooting the server it will come back again at the similar prompt asking for give root password for maintenance . Can you please do me favor and let me know

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-28 22:40:09, Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS root-boot file system. The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a Lenny upgrade. From what I read on this list, you can use

Re: How to shrink a LVM partition

2010-01-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-24 14:27:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 24 January 2010 11:25:19 vitaminx wrote: I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk. Is it possible without any data loss? Yes, but it is tricky. Check your file systems. Make sure they are clean before the process

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-21 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-21 14:17:37, Rodolfo Medina wrote: ... $ rsync -vru --delete ssh://192.168.0.2/home/rodolfo/test1 /home/rodolfo/ but got error: ssh: ssh: Temporary failure in name resolution rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] rsync error: unexplained

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Ok, i'm getting somewhere: # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (= 5.2.0-8) p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (= 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) p A php5-common Recommends

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 16:35:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 14:30:50 Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Ok, i'm getting somewhere: # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (= 5.2.0-8) p

Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?

2010-01-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-06 08:09:00, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... ... The big question though is why this is happening in the first place. Your top output showed 750MB+ in the cache on a system with 1GB ram. That's 3/4 of your system memory occupied by cached disk file pages, which is quite normal for Linux.

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-25 09:04:42, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:07:55 -0500 ... this is the learning part.. knowing what you need, what you MIGHT need, and what you don't have to have to make it work.. Absolutely. I'm just warning you to be prepared for a lot of very frustrating why can't

Re: How to tar a file while it's chaging

2009-12-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-18 14:17:54, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: Hi, In a backup shell script I tar a file but sometimes it's chaging because is a log file (plain/text). While taring a get this error (warning) message: /bin/tar: /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.1-main.log: file changed as we

Re: Please teach me about how to find drivers and how to install drivers.

2009-12-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-15 06:55:40, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Kyuichiro Nakamura put forth on 12/15/2009 4:59 AM: Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on my old DynaBook SS 60P 1N8M (192Mb). I can not search for drivers. I also can not install the drivers. I am intending to use application 'ORCA'

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-12 08:54:35, Merciadri Luca wrote: ... It looks like a hardware error, as stated before by the log, but why? I am sure this is linked with the fact that it is done through IDE, but Windows does not complain about this. Can the drive /read/ CDs and DVDs in Windows? In Linux? If not,

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-09 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-09 14:12:06, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi, Tony. On Tuesday, 08 December 2009 15:17:04 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: I was testing with driver vesa. I slightly change the configuration in xorg.conf.new to test and I add some modes becausewhen doing the test I get the message

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-08 10:47:26, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi, Camaleón. On Tuesday, 08 December 2009 15:03:58 +, Camaleón wrote: ... Try by loading vesa or nv driver, instead nvidia one. Exactly minutes before reading this email, I was testing with driver vesa. I slightly change the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-08 17:05:39, Wayne wrote: From: roberto robert...@gmail.com ... On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: ... Have you checked out the console-tools package? The showkey program for instance. yes and i get ~$ showkey Couldnt get a file descriptor

Re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org

2009-12-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-04 23:07:42, Tomislav Butkovic wrote: Hello, I have been for the last few months trying to figure out how to increase the screen resolution on my Dell Inspiron 5150 running Debian Lenny with a GeForce FX Go5200 64mb. The maximum screen resolution is currently 1024x768. I have

Re: apache2 directory protection

2009-12-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-04 11:14:38, vr wrote: I am having trouble getting apache2 recognizing directory protection. I've created a directory /var/www/mydir and created .htaccess .htpasswd files in there but am never prompted for login. .htaccess AuthUserFile /var/www/mydir/.htpasswd AuthType Basic

Re: Secondary Mail Server

2009-11-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-25 17:38:18, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Hi, I am planning to experimenting my own Secondary Mail server (MX) Currently I had a Postfix on my shorewall and working fine to deliver all emails to stupid Exchange07 Setup the DNS, everything ok To add the flavor, I am planing to ask my

Re: Lost window manager and gnome-panel

2009-11-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-23 23:13:14, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... Conclusion: The problem is somewhere in my configuration files, but not in .gconf, .gnome2 or .gnome2_private. ... What about .gconfd/ and .gnome/? (And all the other dot-files.) Have you looked at ~/.xsession-errors? (It gets made anew

Re: daemon ata/0

2009-11-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-24 13:02:17, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: Greetings, what does back ground process ata/0 do ? Where is it documented ? I don't have any such thing, but I expect you are referring to a Kernel Thread, listed by ps in square brackets as [ata/0], which is probably from some ATA

Re: Lost window manager and gnome-panel

2009-11-23 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-23 13:31:14, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... 1) How can I fix Gnome? What part of the configuration starts metacity and gnome-panel when the user logs in? Note that I'll have to do this manually from XFCE, because I can't even get a terminal running in Gnome. Try creating a new

Re: Lost window manager and gnome-panel

2009-11-23 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-23 15:50:52, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... The only thing I can think of is that Nautilus has a bug where clicking on Preferences crashes it, so I used gconf-editor to change the way Nautilus works. I could go back and set Nautilus to defaults (I think there is an option somewhere

Re: Why aptitude wants to remove zenity and xserver-xephyr?

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-20 05:36:13, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-11-20 11:17 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: I would like to guess why aptitude removed my zenity and xserver-xephyr when I only want to remove hplip-gui. In its output appear {u} , I think it means because of a upgrade No, it means unused,

Re: debian-5.0.3 on ThinkPad A21e : dude, where's my RAM ?

2009-11-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-17 10:22:38, Nuno Magalhães wrote: From my free -m i get this: total used freeshared bufferscached Mem: 3934 3755 179 0 191 1703 -/+ buffers/cache: 1859 2074 Swap: 190650 1855 I

Re: Ctrl Alt F11 gives me trouble

2009-11-13 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-13 08:08:35, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com [2009 Nov 13 06:22 -0600]: Hello, I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a prompt I couldn't propery

Re: ibus-setup

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-11 11:26:45, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/11/12 Mr. Wang Long mr.wang.l...@gmail.com On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 23:52, Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/11 Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com which package on Debian Lenny that provides ibus-setup?

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-11 17:15:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: Hi, I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. This resolution seems to be the highest available based on

Re: slow backup using lvm snapshots and tar

2009-11-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-05 01:18:48, Israel Garcia wrote: Hi list: I'm using this command to create s snapshot of every LV's server, mount the LV, make a TGZ to a shared folder (NFS), then umount LV image and remove snapshot LV. The problem is tar backup is extremely slow (it takes 3 hours to make backup

Re: Need advice analyzing S.M.A.R.T data of HDD in Imminent disk failure.

2009-11-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-03 21:29:19, Luis Maceira wrote: In Ubuntu9.10 I have received warnings that a HDD is in pre-failure.The disk(Iomega Prestige mobile USB external) has 1 month.In Debian Testing and OpenSolaris(installed on the same HDD I have no warnings.).Using smartmontools (this disk is not in its

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-31 09:11:29, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [nothing here -- I'm late to this thread] lrhorer wrote: Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities, and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source olution which will do the following: 1.

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-01 02:01:18, lrhorer wrote: I don't see any mention of that venerable *nix utility, dump. Other than not looking like a mounted filesystem and possibly the sheer size of the data, dump should fulfill your requirements. I thought about dump, but I did notthink it would

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-01 02:21:45, lrhorer wrote: On Thursday October 29 2009 5:14:44 pm lrhorer wrote: 1. Back up to removable hard drives 2. Span multiple target volumes 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single backup to the user. 4. Maintain an easily monitored index