Re: ssl-cert-snakeoil certificate.

2012-08-16 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
certificate. No decent browser should trust it, so you don't want to use that in the wild. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

2012-08-16 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. I assume that the network card works OK in Win XP ? if not, then all bets are off: If the underlying machine does not have networking, the virtual machines will be isolated too... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. By the way, is there a command to see how big this reserved space actually is on a given partition/disk ? in your case: lvdisplay vg00/var as you have a logical volume mounted on /var. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 04:07:54PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 03:45:35PM +0100, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Hi list, this might be a newbie question, but can anyone tell me why du and df don't seem to agree : server:~# df -h /var Filesystem

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
there... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20120822133211.GA19601@hawking

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of your changes require a MySQL restart!? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20120822133549.GB19601@hawking

Re: Custom SSH Authentication

2012-09-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
, and the server side will have no reliable way of telling whether a passphrase was needed or not. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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

Re: LXC container shutdowns master host

2012-09-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
/dev/initctl - which controls init, and thus controls runlevels and shutdown... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20120910093617

Re: /var/spool/mail ?

2012-09-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
... Do you read and delete the mail that is sent to root? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20120925101338.GD18682@hawking

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
) If this is a lot shorter, then your problem may be related to how fdisk chooses a default device to look at, and the contents of /proc/partitions becomes interesting... Hope this help -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Core dump problem

2012-10-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of the kernel? Not a userland process? If you are after coredumps of userland processes, check out ulimit (a shell built-in) - e.g. $ ulimit -c unlimited $ crashing-program [ args ] ... $ ls -l core Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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

2012-10-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
-- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20121008215827.GA13226@hawking

Re: No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
/bin/bash did not exist -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20121015153958.GA12644@hawking

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the interval time? -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations -- 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/20120502135713.GM18412@hawking

Re: Re: MySQL 4.0 (sarge) -- MySQL 5.0 (etch) -- Please do REPAIR TABLE

2012-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
? -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations -- 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/20120509183547.GH8503@hawking

Re: ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
moving data around on the remote machine. That is consistent with the symptoms we saw before decreasing the MTU. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
on the remote machine? these files may contain relevant stuff: /var/log/syslog /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/kern.log .. basically all of them... look for files in /var/log which were touched around the time (or later) of the problem. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: dhclient does not recognize config file

2012-05-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Paul Zimmerman wrote: dhclient in Squeeze pays no attention to the config file at /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf How about /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf ? -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the problem, but may make the system less unusable while the probelm is still ongoing... -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine? - SOLVED

2012-06-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
exhibited on thedailytwf.com ... Welcome to my life. -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations -- 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/20120606093741.GI5642@hawking

Re: Any command to control the upload bandwidth of a running program

2012-06-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
route. For scp: check out the -l option: -l limit Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: asm/ioctls.h in kernel headers

2012-06-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
://packages.debian.org under the heading Search the contents of packages - there are files of that name in several packages: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=ioctls.hmode=exactfilenamesuite=stablearch=any Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how to open ssh tunnel port ?

2012-06-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
in the MySQL protocol too - it is not designed to be hardened. Also: As far as MySQL is concerned, the connection will appear to come from B - mysql will never see the true source of connections. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Where is CC and why do my downloads not find it?

2012-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the chicken and the egg. It's debian - it's all pre-built. If you need a compiler, apt-get install gcc. But really: sounds like you've got a really weird apache there.. Hope this helps Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: swap-partition

2012-11-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
need one swap partition: They can usually share :-) (unless you do suspend-to-disk). From within a running Linux system, you can see the active swap partitions/files using: # swapon -s or $ cat /proc/swaps Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: How to detect what file was installed?

2012-11-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. But if you insist on installing from source (I'd recommend that you dont - build Debian packages from source instead!), then you should look into the checkinstall and/or stow packages. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: samsung or android device causing crash?

2012-11-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
causing the problems. Sounds like a suspect USB cable to me. That will be worth eliminating. Although I'd not expect your linux box to crash as a result of it... 3F330C6E ?? PGP key fingerprint ending!? Somewhat unusual Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Messed up root

2012-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
/ # vi /etc/passwd (You don't have to use vi - any text editor will do. But do not expect a graphical one to work.) Once done, umount things: # umount /usr # if /usr is a separate file system # mount -oremount,ro / # sync # reboot -fn Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: Abberant symptopm or bug worth attempting to duplicate?

2012-11-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
should write this to /var/log/kern.log, where you will have the additional benefits of timestamps. Obviously, if the crash is _really_ bad, then nothing may end up on disk... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I typically open up a different session and use vim/emacs to merge the two sets of changes at this point. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote: Hi, all. Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I updated a package that had

Re: Execution of local PHP modules

2013-01-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the userdir module in apache (as well as PHP, obviously), put your PHP (or HTML or whatever) files in $HOME/public_html/, and point your browser to http://localhost/~your-login-name . Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Talking to my cable modem

2013-01-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
never used snmp and I have no idea what to do with it. Try running nmap(1) against it - on the internal IP address of it. Perhaps it supports UPNP ? If so, you may be able to use the upnp-router-control package/app to extract some interesting information from it.. -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:26:05PM +, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I typically

Re: service not working

2013-01-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Starting OpenLDAP: slapd what could be the reason of the service failure ? I'd suggest checking the logs - e.g. /var/log/daemon.log and /var/log/syslog - slapd is probably running into a (big) problem after it starts. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Gjjijjo

2013-01-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Bbbmm Bmhnhnjjkjjjh Nnjjjhbnggtjg Bbnhjj jjj Wow. I found that you can get similar results with $ sudo apt-get install fortunes filters $ fortune | fold -w 10 | kenny Sent from my iPhone Whatever. Sent from mutt. Beat That!! -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 20:19 +, frank ernest wrote: I wish to advocate linux and I have one small problem. If I were (theoretically speaking,) to go up to Miss Jones and say Why not try linux? she would respond Which distro should I try for there are many? Sure? I'd thought that

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi No need to CC me, I'm on the list -- otherwise I wouldn't have seen your email in the first place On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 21:35 +, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/26 3:53 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: -snip- Unfortunately, this is about as interesting to the average person

Re: Debian Wheezy and Command-shell Browser Output

2013-02-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 16:14 +, Martin McCormick wrote: I use Debian Wheezy with the speakup kernel modules that make it possible for computer users who are blind to access the system. The particular hardware I am using should run gnome with orka but tell that to the box and see

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I recently bought a new laptop. Annoyingly the laptop function key is where you'd expect the control key and the control key is one key in from the left. Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of

Re: want to setup FAI on a running server

2011-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
documented : http://fai-project.org - but you obviously have that URL already. Although it may not exactly be targetted towards beginners ... :-S Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
restore the system? Backups? At the very least, you should be able to restore the mysql database from a backup. Or you can just re-create the users (with corresponding passwords and privileges) from the installation instructions of the apps you use. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: bootmisc.sh

2012-01-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. A zero exit code is returned. This is *nearly* the same as : echo /var/run/utmp except that the echo would emit a newline character - usually OK for text files, but not for binary files like utmp... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ethernet raid

2011-10-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
, since the bonding must be define at both ends of the cables. Google for linux lacp, and you will get a few good hits. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen Senior System Administrator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How do you approach the problem of MaxClients reached with apache?

2012-02-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 14:05 +, francis picabia wrote: Hello, One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to see the error: server reached MaxClients setting After it, the server slowly spirals down. Sometimes it mysteriously recovers. This is difficult to

Re: [on-topic] /etc/passwd

2012-03-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:11 +, lina wrote: Hi, Last time I added one user, Later I used deluser some_user_name but some information still keep it in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. What information is left? We would expect one line per user, but if the line is still there, then the

Re: debconf configuration question in one window

2012-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 07:05 +, Bilal mk wrote: Hello, I am trying to build a debian package for my web application. It will ask two question. But i want this question in single window. Currently it will prompt two separate window. Please help me how to do this on

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 08:13 +0100, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello, I have been provided a muscular linux server to use as a Mysql server in our organization. The server is located just beside the web server and within the same network. This dedicated server has 8GB RAM, i5 processors and

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Jumping back in (late) in this thread... On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 19:51 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: J. Bakshi wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: J. Bakshi wrote: I have been provided a muscular linux server to use as a Mysql server in our organization. The server is located just beside

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 07:18:18AM +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Jumping back in (late) in this thread... Bob Proulx wrote: # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 7986 7913 73

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:23:09PM +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: But at some point the daemon is going to need to write a file to disk. That data will get cached at that time. Or are you saying that mysql is using or should using O_DIRECT

Re: variable in loop

2011-01-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
done hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations Manager -- 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/20110102232220.ga...@hawking.jorgensen.org.uk

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:49 -0500, RR wrote: Hello, this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just Google but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a Sun machine

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
usage for better network bandwith: sourcebox:~# dd if=/dev/sda | gzip | nc -l -p destbox:~# nc $IP_OF_OTHER_BOX | gunzip | dd of=/dev/sda Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf

2007-04-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
information on cdrw-taper on /usr/share/doc/cdrw-taper ... PS: If you haven't already done so, you should probably set up firewalling on interfaces other than the loopback interfaces - the amanda protocol isn't quite as secure as it could be... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Backup: optical disk, and RAID

2007-04-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
for you... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Some don't prefer the pursuit of happiness to the happiness of pursuit. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [solved]: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssh-ssl-proxy/ It is not designed for what you have in mind - but at least casual scanners could well see an https server instead of SSH... Disclaimer: yes: i wrote it. This is blatant advertsing. Hope it's usefull -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [solved]: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:02:50PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: On 4/21/07, Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite being security-through-obscurity, it *is* possible to run https and ssh on the same port, via a proxy: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssh-ssl-proxy/ Nice idea

Re: [solved]: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:59:37PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:02:50PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: On 4/21/07, Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite being security-through-obscurity, it *is* possible to run https and ssh on the same port, via a proxy

Re: Help with NTFS FAT32

2007-04-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
way, but I've never used it myself. YMMV. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Piece of cake! -- G. S. Koblas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to mount the drives as they normally do in the office... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: To give happiness is to deserve happiness. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

2007-04-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
- there are others (newer ones) around too (which I never experimented with). Anything that ends up with a valid .deb file will do. -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: The ratio of literacy

Re: Network Bandwidth Sniffer

2007-04-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
interfaces, then: # apt-get install iftop and run iftop Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: It's a summons. What's a summons? It means summon's in trouble

Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. (If you can hit him). No mention of PCs though... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion [Reply to many replies+attempt to elaborate]

2007-04-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
standpoint it is the best Debian I have used. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: $(HOSTNAME) not set in a makefile?

2007-04-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
get: -bash: HOSTNAME: command not found Note: the $(command) construct in bash is functionally identical to `command` ... Perhaps you meant ${HOSTNAME} (note the curly brackets) at the command prompt? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lost Internet Access

2007-05-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of my head - hopefully somebody else can help here. But this might help: # ifdown eth0 # # wait for a bit # ifup eth0 (assuming that eth0 is your network interface) No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by xx Advertising? Why? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: aptitude + dpkg

2007-05-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
- this is what apt normally does for you. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: One organism, one vote. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dvd-rom structure

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
disk? You should be able to get *some* details with: $ file -s /dev/dvd Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Your computer account is overdrawn. Please reauthorize

Re: Lost Internet Access

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
though... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. -- Al Capone signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: General questions...

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
only receive security updates: http://www.debian.org/security PS: Please don't top-post... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: No two persons ever read the same book. -- Edmund

Re: SOLVED?: ssi on apache2 doesn't work

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
an index.html and an index.shtml, will apache2 load the one that is listed first in this line and ignore the second, or is this determined in some other manner? See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
solution already: apt, aptitude, synaptic etc. But if you come up with something better, I'm willing to give it a go. But it's got to beat apt and aptitude! -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Life

Re: Best way to find a version in snapshots depending on existing install

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to list the dependencies of each version on snapshots of a particular package? Well, you *could* rebuild the package from source, but you might run into build-time dependencies that cannot be fulfilled - especially if you take a later (debianized) version of the package... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL

Re: same problem

2007-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
where else i can have a look for the answer... well - to find the answer, you need a question first... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: You can't have everything... where would you put

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
where to proceed from here. Any help would be much appreciated! verbose is good - especially when it's not random ramblings :-) Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: One small step

Re: Problem with iptables

2007-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
at the time of the log entry? It's not making sense ... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Things worth having are worth cheating for. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

2007-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
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Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:55:49AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. The setup is as follows: /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

2007-05-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
preferences etc etc. Whether the default install should say stable or etch is a different matter. Don't be surprised if the current lenny (or any future RC) says testing though... [Runs for blast shelter...] You may be assimilated. Resistance will provide greater knowledge. -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: Problem with iptables

2007-05-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
work! -A OUTPUT -m state --state RELATED -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -m limit --limit 1/sec -j ULOG --ulog-prefix 'OUT-unknown:' -A OUTPUT -j DROP -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: To take

Re: Remove mounted drive links from desktop?

2007-05-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
false Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Unix is a Registered Bell of ATT Trademark Laboratories. -- Donn Seeley signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: alsactl restore failed ...

2007-05-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
message about the soundcard modules in there. What type of sound card? Assuming it is a PCI card (this usually includes on-board cards too), the relevant fragment of the output from lspci -v would be useful... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: installing X libraries?? -- need your help!

2007-05-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
-dev. There might be other libraries you need, but those checks are likely further on... Does the theme have a useful README or INSTALL file? They usually list the compile-time dependencies... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
that firewire is a network interface. When the installer asks you which device to use, I'd pick eth1. Actually: tcp/ip over firewire is not unheard of. And quite well supported as far as I know (although for those who care: apparently no longer supported in MS Vista ?) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
command from the sox package should do the trick too.. -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly

Re: cron and CRON

2007-05-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
you'll probably see that the uppercase'd cron processes are the ones that spawned your sendmail process. Although by the time you read this, that process is probably dead... But don't be surprised to see other occurrences of the same... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Delete garbage in /var

2007-05-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
1,8G 774M 918M 46% /var 918M free? Doesn't look like a problem at the moment... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Politics makes strange bedfellows, and journalism

Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)

2007-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
, but probably just because I haven't got the hang of it yet... Another nice thing: in vim: :set spell spelllang=en_gb and hey presto: spell check on the fly! -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's

Gnome apps: Very slow when changing preferences?

2007-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
cannot see any clues in $HOME/.xsession-errors (I start gnome from .xsession) or from stdout/stderr when I launch things... Why are those preferences dialogs trying access my bookmarked places ? seems a bit freaky... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL

Re: Gnome-Keyboard-Properties

2007-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
, furthermore, to find the data statement that controls the actual keyboard. Do you mean the keyboard mapping? i.e. the table that maps a key (or combination of keys) to a character? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
/[ coreutils: /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz Cause: dpkg takes a search pattern, not a file name. Hence '[' is a special character for dpkg itself. From dpkg(1): dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ... Search for a filename from installed packages. :-) -- Karl E

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
it as a hardlink to test. This is open source, so why wonder? The source will tell. And as far as I can see, Mathias Brodala is spot on... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: When you have an efficient

Re: mail proxy with GUI statistics

2007-05-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. GUI stats or GUI client? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Carson's Consolation: Nothing is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example. signature.asc

Re: help!

2007-05-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to (what I consider) to be the best guides. http://www.aboutdebian.com may be useful too and whats the difference between the kernal and the terminal?! :S haha The kernal is green - it stops at the terminal (which is usually black) :-) D'oh! -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Business card iso

2007-05-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
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Re: keyboard layout diagram

2007-05-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
it :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Inquiry is fatal to certainty. -- Will Durant signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

2007-05-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
iso-8859-1 to my .muttrc solved the problem for me. Perhaps the same solution will work for you? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: somebody was calculating pi on the server signature.asc

Re: Issues with external HD, changed to read-only

2007-05-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
on it before re-mounting... Is there a way to change this so that the drive works correctly? All the other drives are working properly, just not this one. Depends on what has gone wrong. Probably yes. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL

Re: nfs username and passwd does not work on tty1, tty2, tty3

2007-05-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
before posting. Otherwise you might miss out on the reply ... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols

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