Re: multiple ftp servers

2012-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 02:41:41PM +0300, Anan Zaaa wrote: I have proftp installed and want to install pureftp on a different port for custom usage. Why? Perhaps an alternative would be to run two proftp instances. Would that meet your needs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: wifi connect _FAILS_ - was [Re: FROZEN Wheezy netinst - Where to get?]

2012-07-25 Thread Jon Dowland
I'm 99% sure your difficulties are caused by missing wireless firmware. If you can put the firmware-linux-nonfree* stuff onto a USB stick and have that ready at install time you might get further. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: replying to a thread on the list that is not in my inbox?

2012-07-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Thanks. It will bring up Icedove. How do I get that header info to Mutt? Set mutt up to handle mailto: urls with something like http://mailtomutt.sourceforge.net/ or

Re: best filesystem for logical volume ?

2012-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 05:28:10PM +0530, J. B wrote: Is it better than ext4 and reiserfs ? No. (a more detailed answer may be provided with a more detailed description of your requirements :)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: how to copy files from linux to windows via terminal

2012-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:04:27PM +0800, lina wrote: how to copy files from linux to windows via terminal. The key issue is what method of access you are using to the Windows machine. Windows file sharing is perhaps easiest, in which case you can copy stuff via 'samba' on the Linux host.

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:54:44PM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Hi all, I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are described. How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts, for instance : 1.

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:24:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: xz: tar Jcf I'm using a distro that packages with xz. I'm sure that there never was a big difference between gz: tar zcf and bzip2: tar jcf for the length of the files,

Re: compressor

2012-08-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:44:38PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: linux-3.6-rc2.tar.bz2 78M linux-3.6-rc2.tar.gz 99M linux-3.6-rc2.tar.xz 65M linux-3.6-rc2.tar.lz 66M I think lzip is worthy enough that it should have a mention too. It has gotten less

Re: compressor

2012-08-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:43:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:40:36 +0800, lina wrote: Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. Ha, that's like asking what do clouds smell like? :-) Remember to run your chosen compression algorithm at least twice! -- To

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:21:50PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Virtualbox on my Wheezy x86_64 Are you running both of • a 64bit kernel (I guess yes, given above) • the 64bit version of virtualbox (not the 32bit one on top of 64bit kernel) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: This email mentions nothing of any troubleshooting performed by you up to this point. It's sole purpose seems to be to blame me for what you apparently believe is a bad recommendation. I read it very differently: veiled admiration

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:04:56AM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 20:24 +0800, lina a écrit : Sorry, here you mean, once tar -Jcf a.tar.xz a again tar -Jcf a.tar.xz a.tar.xz ? No, I think this was a joke :) Yes it was a joke :) but it was based on a

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:26:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: There is a problem with the mashing and reformatting. It makes lzip appear to be 66M against xz being 65M and so xz is better, right? snip It would be better to look at the long byte counts for this type of comparison. You're right,

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:18:15AM +, Mark Blakeney wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:31:29 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful tool, namely Perl. I would suggest python is a much better choice to a young person just starting

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
read ignore read ignore index=-1 while read line; do set -- $line index=$((index + 1)) if [ $index != $1 ]; then while [ $(($1 - $index)) -gt 0 ]; do echo $index 0 index=$((index + 1)) done fi index=$1 [ $index -le 1024 ] || break second=1 shift [ $# -le 0 ]

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:40:50PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I have much egregious noise in that file. It would be good if there was a campaign to clean it up. But it is a distributed culture of sloppy programming over years that has contributed to it. It would take a large effort to clean

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: So what now? If the bug needs re-opening, unarchive it and reopen it: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control Probably something like this to cont...@bugs.debian.org unarchive 617940 reopen 617940 thanks It would be

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Yes, pulseaudio needs ALSA. Note that pulseaudio is bad programmed That's certainly an opinion, and perhaps a commonly-repeated one, but an opinion non-the-less. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: libsdl1.2-dev – Nolonger supports Color Ascii Ourput (libcaca) - WHY?!

2012-09-04 Thread Jon Dowland
Please note that you tried to submit a bug but didn't get the syntax right, so it won't have worked. On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:17:06AM -0700, Nzvr Salamon wrote: What the fuck? Why did you drop support for libcaca output. Check the changelog. It reads: libsdl1.2 (1.2.14-6.3) unstable;

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 03:23:21PM -0700, Weaver wrote: I find the packages 'cruft' and 'deborphan' work fairly well together. I find Bleachbit to be a little too militant. All of the above will find packages that are not being used. But, packages that are not being used are not loaded and thus

Re: tracker-miner, tracker-store, etc., was Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:06:51PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I noticed that tracker is doing a lot . How important is it? Is it inadvisable to disable it? It creates and manages search indexes. If you don't use desktop search, disable or remove it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: e2fsck errror: Error reading block (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read)

2012-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:39:37PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: You have to understand: You have to connect it to the controller directly OR You can not use what the SMART offers to You. That simple. This is not actually true. Yes, the majority of USB hard drives do not support SMART, but some do.

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Interesting statement. Squeeze (6) is still STABLE. After Wheezy (7) is moved from TESTING to STABLE, Squeeze will be fully supported for at least 1 year. Thus deprecated soon is not accurate, unless your definition of soon

Re: systemd

2012-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:09:52PM -0300, francis picabia wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: In cases of doubt, I'm against using anythin coming from Lennart Poettering. Odd, I can't find Ralph's mail in my d-u archive, was it a private

Re: systemd

2012-09-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:06:08PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Kernel patches from Lennart were properly reviewed, and accepted only after the maintainers and subsystem maintainers approved them as an acceptable solution for the general problem they were supposed to be addressing.

Re: systemd

2012-09-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:12:35PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Lennart would not be able to easily push random crap to the kernel upstream even if he tried to. It is a very different situation from userland. How so? Do you believe Redhat, Fedora etc. ship anything

Re: Storage server

2012-09-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:49:45PM +0200, Veljko wrote: a) backup (backup server for several dedicated (mainly) web servers). It will contain incremental backups, so only first running will take a lot of time, rsnapshot Best avoid rsnapshot. Use (at least) rdiff-backup instead, which is

Re: Storage server

2012-09-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:51:05PM +0200, lee wrote: Some people have argued it's even better to use software raid than a hardware raid controller because software raid doesn't depend on particular controller cards that can fail and can be difficult to replace. Besides that, software raid is a

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Jon Dowland
I would say that neither hardware nor software RAID are a replacement for a working backup scheme. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Jon Dowland
Denis' answer is very good, I won't re-iterate his points. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 01:26:48PM +0200, Veljko wrote: Thanks for your valuable input. So, in case I have to backup lot of small files and only some of them are changed I should go with rsnapshot. If there are big text files that

Re: Storage server

2012-09-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Which is why I recommend XFS. It is exceptionally fast at traversing large btrees. You'll need the 3.2 bpo kernel for Squeeze. The old as dirt 2.6.32 kernel doesn't contain any of the recent (last 3 years) metadata

Re: Storage server

2012-09-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:03:43PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: http://www.taobackup.com/ Yes indeed, great read. Also this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html A single external drive, normally stored away from the server, would be enough to have a backup that would survive the host going up

Re: Removing Pulseaudio with Gnome: volume control missing

2012-09-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:58:16AM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: Hi all! Recently I installed Debian on a new computer, and I want to avoid using Pulseaudio (it is problematic for me, and this is a long discussion on this and another lists about that). I tried to uninstall it, and

Re: Storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:20:55PM +0200, Veljko wrote: Can you please explain what design flaw is that? Isn't directory with complete backup (but not occupying that much space due to hard links usage) very usable for backup? If slow work can be avoided by the use of XFS, what would be wrong

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address the request. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 07:58:36PM +0200, lee wrote: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes: The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
Do you need split configuration? Are you wedded to it? My advice would be to copy /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated to /etc/exim4.conf, at which point the Debian exim configuration is overridden, and just edit that one file instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:10:18PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I think its better to configure exim4 for single configuration file by whatever means is described in the wiki page Camaleón linked to, likely an dpkg-reconfigure exim4something We differ in our opinion. In my opinion, for

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 02:48:38PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Third, I'm a bit puzzled by Jon's remarks quoted above. Martin recommends using a single, aka monolothic configuration file. Jon says I disagree but then suggests doing away with the debian framework. Martin was replying to me. My

Re: Installation

2012-09-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 01:54:39PM +, Camaleón wrote: Okay, then please _describe in detail_ what's what you find that hard or what is taking your time at the Windows OEM installation process. But kindly not on this list. This thread is increasingly becoming more and more OT. Thanks --

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:14:00PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I can not decompress .m4a files w/ mplayer2: Can you play it back with anything else? m4a implies an iTunes-style AAC-encoded file. VLC should be able to decode it, plus anything linking to libfaad, such as

Re: Fwd: RE: /var/spool/mail ?

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:52:24AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: # echo /var/spool/mail/root will replace the content of the file with an empty string The smiley of death is better: # : /var/spool/mail/root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
Are you using GNU emacs? Then how about Xemacs (formely Lucid emacs)? or vice-versa. -- 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/20120925191858.GA26155@debian

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi Conrad, Please do not reply to an un-related post when you are writing a new topic to a mailing list. For clients that support threading, the result is your discussion mixed up with the other one. This can mean either confusion for people participating in the other thread, or less exposure

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Dom wrote: It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not. Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data over asap. YES to backup, but it's worth

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:35:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Maybe we could start some kind of petition for Itanium and AMDINTL64. I think these tell everyone at a glance what they need to know when selecting a port, and would completely eliminate the confusion. Itanium will probably

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Dan wrote: I would like to run a program that requires libXm.so.3 but libmotif3 has been replaced by libmotif4 and I can not find anywhere libXm.so.3. Any idea? I have found that symlinking LibXm.so.3 to LibXm.so.4 works for some legacy applications.

Re: exim4 smtp server userid

2012-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:13:34PM -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: I want to configure exim4 to use the same (google) smtp server with two different userid's depending on the from address. I can put the appropriate tests into my c_smarthost string, but I don't know how to specify the userid -

Re: Editing org.gnome.desktop.background in /etc/gdm3/greeter.settings doesn't change login wallpaper

2012-10-08 Thread Jon Dowland
Is /opt definitely mounted at the time gdm3 starts? -- 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/20121008075046.GA10625@debian

Re: Fwd: Re: Security support for CMSes

2012-10-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 08:41:14PM +0200, Robert Pommrich wrote: Putting it back to the list where it came from. It was already there. I'm not sure what you've done to your mail configuration, but list mail is working fine: no need to forward more copies to it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: devscripts:rc-alert: A patch for on the fly selection of curl or wget

2012-10-09 Thread Jon Dowland
Cool - you should probably send this to the devscripts devel team, though: devscripts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Perl: where is the command in system(command -v wget) documented?

2012-10-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 10:58:27PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: command is a shell built-in command - so you should find it in the documentation for your shell - e.g. man sh should get you to the right manual page. Exactly *which* shell this is, depends on your system, but it is most likely

Re: Recurring email messages in IceDove and I'm feeling deja vu

2012-10-15 Thread Jon Dowland
Try rebuilding/repairing your INBOX and/or other effected folders. Right-click on the folder in the left-hand pane, select 'Properties' and then Repair Folder. This can happen when Thunderbird's cache gets out-of-sync from the server and it cannot figure out how to get back in sync on it's own. I

Re: No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Jon Dowland
The error no such file or directory could be a red-herring in some cases. What is the filesystem and mount options for the drive upon which you've put Java? (output of mount, please) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
This can be answered (by a developer) using UDD - http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase The answer today is udd= select count(*),release from public.packages group by release; count | release +-- 2 | wheezy-security 272170 |

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
I for one am tired of reading OT threads about people's own mail filtering failings. The mails you are receiving will have a proper List-Id header. If your mailer cannot filter on them, then please fix your mailer or change it, don't clog thie list with more irrelevance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi Wally, When communicating on a Debian mailing list, please direct your emails at the list address and do not CC the participants explicitly. For this and other rules, please see the Code of Conduct at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Various modethods accesing debian-user list

2012-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:23:54AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I am subscribed to debian-user@lists.debian.org in the normal fashion. Last weekend, for an unknown/unknowable reason, mail from all lists from lists.debian.org was interrupted. Also I was unable to connect to the archive page.

Re: OT: Various modethods accesing debian-user list

2012-10-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:22:36PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: Isn't there a sandbox list for such OT talk? We do have a lot of that discussions on that list and should continuing starting it here, but then take it to another list. Well indeed, but you've selectively quoted an OT sentence

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: I understand. Thank you for correcting my humbly mistake. Will comply. You're welcome - and whilst I'm at it, welcome to the list! I hope you find it useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: raid

2012-10-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:19:08PM +0200, steef wrote: hi all, my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now. Use a partition tool such as gparted or cfdisk to

Re: 32bit binaries on 64bit system?

2012-10-18 Thread Jon Dowland
What libraries does your binary require? try using ldd to find out. You may have missed a particular 32 bit library dependency. If you are prepared to upgrade to wheezy, multiarch might make this a bit easier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-21 Thread Jon Dowland
In my experience, preseeding is pretty awkward. My advice: start from scratch, try to guess the right thing to put in in order to answer the first couple of questions, try it. Did those questions get answered? Then add a few more for the next few questions. Repeat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, but could it be reproduced/triaged in a virtual machine? It might be much quicker/easier to

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:23:27AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix

Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 02:13:37AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: and it created irishceltic.iso which is 18.4 gbs big. I now want to burn this to DVD's but brassero wont do multiple DVD from one source, and so far, i havne't been able to do it from k3b. How do I do it in either

Re: PS/2 Keyboard and Mice not working (USB is) on X

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
, then try 2, etc…) If no to either question, then the issue is at some layer underneath X, the input event subsystem. If yes, then there is an X configuration issue. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: eglibc fails to build from source

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Brian wrote: sudo apt-get build-dep package_name If you would prefer to be able to remove the build dependencies afterwards easily, you could do (assuming one has devscripts and gdebi installed): mk-build-deps sudo gdebi install the

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:38:45AM -0400, Tom H wrote: …or using something more or less non-standard like the apf-firewall or arno-iptables-firewall packages (or any other iptables frontend; these are the two that I know of). ufw is another which is quite simple for basic firewall needs. --

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 07:51:52AM +0100, keith wrote: Try it with:- genisoimage -o irishceltic.iso -R -J -l -v -V Irish Celtic -hide-rr-moved . In particular, the -R option (although -r is better) and -J options are what do the trick here. -J is good particularly if you want your disc to

Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
I missed your reply because you did not reply to an existing message in your thread. Please do this so that your reply shows up in the same place as your original message, for people who use threaded mail readers. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:17:28AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: Split was indeed

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:16:58PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I use LVM quite a lot, but I am a bit annoyed by having to vgchange -ay after inserting and vgchange -an before removal. I like to see a removable flag for LVs that lessens the locking restrictions that are important in

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:14:36AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I have tried to use /etc/network/if-pre-up.d on my laptop (which uses NetworkManager) and it does not load my iptables rules. But if I call my script manually, it will load properly. Is NetworkManager incompatible with

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:25:47AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Well, it didn't take long to find the answer on the internet. Get your firewall set up and then: iptables-save /etc/iptables/rules I tested it and it works! What version of the package? It would appear the file should be

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:53:46PM +, Camaleón wrote: I haven't had experienced any of that issues in any of my systems so I still find ReaiserFS the most suitable filesystem for me. As long as you don't have any VM images using reiserfs v3 on top of a reiserfs 3 filesystem, you're probably

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 03:48:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: There's something about geniso and long filenames here: http://wiki.debian.org/genisoimage Check if that's enough for you. That page offers nothing more than a subset of the manpage, and nothing more than the other posts to this

Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
the specific filesystem layout can be important), repacking is almost always going to be a wiser choice, especially if you choose an archive format that handles splitting natively (e.g. zip, or non-free rar) and in-archive checksumming (again zip, rar…) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: [OT] Mails coming from joe1assis...@gmail.com

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:04:38PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: By the way, this looks like a reason to GPG sign everything, like I am doing. There is sometimes arguing at gnupg-user and enigmail user about should messages to mailing lists be signed or not. I think that there was once such

Re: Script request for files truncating with genisoimage

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
image, one per disc*! The net result is going to be five ISO filesystems on DVD-Rs, each containing a single file which is a chunk of a larger ISO filesystem, with the majority of the file metadata (their long file names) missing. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:08:14PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: rsync seems like the right choice, but how will it handle job canceling when I'm done for the day? Yes. But, for the initial sync, I tend to prefer a tarpipe which is a lot quicker. ( cd /srcdir tar cf - . ) | ssh user@somehost '(

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:13:46PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: So everything is fine now? Can you share the script? It was probably 'rename s/ /_/g *\ *' which was posted as a reply to Sharon in another thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:29:19AM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: You need to find out the source of the problem. Do you regularly restart Exim? In my experience, with the Debian packaging, this is usually caused by exim conflicting with itself. I've never figured the problem out entirely, but

Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 02/05/12 11:08, Johan Mazel wrote: I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. Can I ask for some help on this list or should I use another way ? That's what the list is for. Please make sure use a descriptive subject for the post with your problem in it. Thanks

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:45:25PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i resize the LV from 300 GB to 400 GB Exactly what command did you type, and what feedback did you get? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: 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 have thought of to get rid

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 02:15:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: Your version (1.2.10-2.1) of gorm.app appears to be out of date. The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive: testing: 1.2.10-2.1+b1 unstable: 1.2.10-2.1+b1 This version is for kfreebsd only. Are you using

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:09:16PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: No, this isn't a reportbug bug. This is reportbug simply saying You're running stable. The bug you're about to report may already have been reported and fixed in testing or unstable. No, it isn't. He's running version 1.2.10-2.1 of

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
As Kelly (and later Darac) have said, you can press 'Y' anyway, so please do so. I will attempt to independently confirm the reportbug bug and report it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Where have the mailing lists gone?

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
Feedback on Debian websites should be directed to debian-...@lists.debian.org (or by filing bugs against a suitable pseudo package: a list of all pseudo is at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: RAID broken .... /dev/sd? drive name changed

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:13:14AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i have got 4 drives. /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd /dev/sda raid mirror with /dev/sdc and /dev/sdb was raid mirror with /dev/sdd now this time i unplug the /dev/sdd for some problem diagnostics now

Re: Signatures (was: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks)

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 02:10:37PM +, Camaleón wrote: I had to remove 33 lines of wasted text coming from your GPG code and your extra-large signature :-) Consider using something like t-prot, which does this automatically, or most PGP-aware mailers, which will decode the signature, verify

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:07:25AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:51:48PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: That keyserver which you are using seems to be offline and I don't know how used it is. The recommended keyserver is pool.sks-keyservers.net according to

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:28:35AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: And on top of it, everyone else on the list gets held hostage and is forced to jump through so many hoopes just to avoid being inconvenienced. So rude... With respect, I don't think you have the right to speak for 'everyone else'

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:38:49AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: They don't support the considerate version of gpg/pgp. Now that I know that people using this actually have a choice and choose to be rude, it does make it rather tempting to set up an autoresponder and filter to nag them... Why not

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:09:44AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: What's there to throttle? With 56kbits/s (theoretical max. speed) it's barely usable with today's sites. I think you are being generous - gmail, google reader etc. are completely unusable at that speed unfortunately :( Last time I

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Bob's PGP signature is valid - yours is not You waste our time and bandwidth. In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures are valid. Bob's key validates his identity - yours does not. I can verify that

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 04:15:28PM -0400, Celejar wrote: I'm no expert in all this, but can you explain and document what you mean by the claim that headers ... must be verified? All emails have their headers modified en route (e.g., Received: and Delivered-To are added, as are all kinds of

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:23:06AM +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: Am 08.05.2012 13:11, schrieb Indulekha: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:20:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 09/05/12 18:56, Jon Dowland wrote: In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures are valid. All his posts? Is cutting and pasting a hobby? Do you between some and all? The ones I've bothered

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:18:56PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: (you've trimmed my initial investigation which indicates he has at least one signatory.) investigation? Huh? How hard was it to see the key is signed by... the key holder (or another person called Mika?), using a key that

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