Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-24 Thread Peter Beck
On 24/11/11 16:42, Chris Brennan wrote: I use KeePass, it's an offline database program to manage passwords, it's under active development and I've never had any real problems with it. I'm also using Keepass, it's available for all platforms (Linux, Win, Mac, Android,...) and there is a

Re: need git suggestion

2011-12-29 Thread Peter Beck
On 12/28/2011 02:50 PM, Andreas Weber wrote: git command line gitk git-gui giggle is another nice gui frontend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Beck
Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com quatschte am Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:53:24AM -0600: I blogged about it here: http://pthree.org/?p=2007 Hi Aaron, thanks for sharing this link. I am using molly-guard since some years, but the colored shell looks just great. I love it! ;-) Cheers Peter

Re: [OT] FLOSS implementation of ActiveSync server?

2011-10-02 Thread Peter Beck
Gregory Seidman gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net quatschte am Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 10:53:38PM -0400: Recent versions of MS Exchange Server implement a protocol (targeted at mobile devices) named ActiveSync. I know that Google supports ActiveSync for its various services, but those are the

preseed with USB-Stick and RAID on internal disks

2011-10-15 Thread Peter Beck
Hi guys, I'm trying to create a preseed file on Squeeze for a HP Proliant NL36, which should boot from USB and use all four internal disks with RAID 5: internal 8GB USB-Stick: /dev/sda| -- atomic partitioning -- | internal 1000GB HDDs: /dev/sdb|

clone LVM disk to a larger disk

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Beck
Hi guys, I'm using two HP Microservers with a Heartbeat1 cluster, drbd and kvm. On one of these servers the systemdisk is a 160GB disk with LVM configured, on the other node it's a 1TB disk. I'd like to have both nodes with the same disk sizes (easier to configure imo) Now I've got a 1TB

Re: clone LVM disk to a larger disk

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Beck
On 06/05/2011 04:51 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: What I would probably do is: - install new disk alongside the old one - put one big partition on the new disk and pvcreate the partition - vgextend the existing VG with the new partition - vgreduce the VG, removing the old disk's partitions That

Re: Evolution is unusable

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Beck
On 06/05/2011 11:49 PM, Vladimir Kerka wrote: some two or three weeks ago Evolution decided there is no internet connection to my computer and from that moment it works offline. I can't get it back again, because online is grayed. Hi Vlada, are you using NetworkManager ? I've had similar

Re: Strange GTK theme behavior

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Beck
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com quatschte am Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:28:16PM +: On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:57:38 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: Yep, gnome-terminal looks pretty ugly ;-( depends... I like the design...somehow... but resizing terminals behaves strange on my laptop sometimes... --

Re: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files

2011-07-12 Thread Peter Beck
AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com quatschte am Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:34:00PM +0100: Hi all Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf files together to make one large one? Hi AG, pdftk can do that: pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf cat output 12.pdf Cheers Peter --

Re: pdf tool to stitch 2 pages together side by side

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Beck
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com quatschte am Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 01:18:15AM +: HI, Further onto the thread stitching together 2 pdf files, of all the tools mentioned, which one do you think (no guess please) can stitch 2 pages together side by side from the same pdf file. I.e.,

Re: Problems with Pacemaker + Corosync after reboot

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 21:06 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! I'm beginning to test HA clusters with GNU/Linux and for that I decided to try Pacemaker + Corosync in Debian Lenny following this [1] howto. Both packages were installed from the Backports repositories. But I am observing

Re: Problems with Pacemaker + Corosync after reboot

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 21:06 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: # ps auxf [...] root 1508 0.1 1.9 182624 4880 ?Ssl 15:52 0:22 /usr/sbin/corosync root 1539 0.0 1.2 168144 3240 ?S15:52 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/corosync Hi Daniel have you tried to kill corosync with

Re: o/t ipod

2010-12-26 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 06:32 -0600, Ted Wager wrote: My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux on my machines but can get access to a Winbox at a neighbours... on windows it's not possible to attach

Re: Problems with Pacemaker + Corosync after reboot

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 21:06 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: # ps auxf [...] root 1508 0.1 1.9 182624 4880 ?Ssl 15:52 0:22 /usr/sbin/corosync root 1539 0.0 1.2 168144 3240 ?S15:52 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/corosync root 1540 0.0 1.2 168144 3240 ?

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade - printer not working

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Beck
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 18:36 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: jobs are sent and lpq says that they are printing but in cups the printer status is Processing - Printer is offline. Hi Filipe, Not sure, but as far as I can remember I had this recently too and cupsenable did solve this issue... Cheers

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade - printer not working

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Beck
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 18:36 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: Thanks Peter, it worked. Hi Filipe, great to hear that. btw: don't reply to me directly, reply to the list ;) A happy new year for you too! Regards Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: lenny to squeeze - key arrows not all working

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Beck
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 19:41 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: got its standard arrow key shortcuts disabled after upgrade System - Preferences - Keyboard - Mouse Keys is disabled ? If the Mouse keys are enabled, the numberblock on the keyboard behaves strange (imo)...maybe this is also affecting the

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Beck
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in my experience it's worth it. absolutely. I was (and still am) using a T42p and now I have a X301 which is just great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Wheezy Codename with lsb_release

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Beck
Hi guys, I am running testing on my laptop (sources.list has testing everywhere). Since Squeeze is stable, shouldn't be the codename shown with lsb_release labelled with Wheezy ? On my system it still shows Squeeze. I'm just wondering if this is normal or just on my system ? Cheers Peter --

Re: Wheezy Codename with lsb_release

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 00:15 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: As soon as base-files 6.1 migrates to testing, /etc/debian_version will say wheezy/sid Hi Sven, thanks for clarification... Cheers Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Beck
On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how to fix the problem. My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old Fedora

Re: Controlling User Logins Using Pam

2010-02-21 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 15:46 +0200, David Baron wrote: How might one control user login times and periods using pam (or polkit)? Never tried by myself, but maybe this is useful: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/227 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Console Video Mode / Text Size

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 13:08 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: debian-user@lists.debian.org i'm using grub (/boot/grub/menu.lst), just add vga=792 (for example) to the kernel entry and the resolution would be 1024x768, for example: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sdc1 ro quiet vga=792

Re: Synaptic or Python error?

2009-04-16 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 13:32 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Getting this error after any installing any packages with Synaptic: E: python-elementtree: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 I see this error occurs a lot when I search on it, but I can't tell if it's a

Re: How to add a hibernate shortcut?

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Beck
s2disk could be the tool you're searching for? On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 15:39 +0100, tchomby wrote: Is there a way to add a one-click panel icon and/or keyboard shortcut to hibernate the computer? I never normally want to shutdown, suspend (doesn't work), restart, lock screen or logout. So

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009-05-02 Thread Peter Beck
I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave this statement on the virtualbox website: To comply with U.S. export regulations, VirtualBox downloads have temporarily been moved to the Sun Download Center.

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009-05-02 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 09:07 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:58:19PM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave this statement on the virtualbox website

Re: Squeeze and mobile broadband...

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 23:27 +0530, arshad wrote: i want to know whether, mobile broad band works out of the box in squeeze? have things changed from then?? I am using a Qualcomm MSM6275 UMTS PCMCIA card, in Lenny i had to use the tools from betavine, now in squeeze it's working out of the box

Re: Resuming from hibernation issue with sid-kernel

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Beck
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:17 +0200, Johan Grönqvist wrote: To thaw, I have to select kernel 2.6.32-4 in grub, and then all works well. If I select 2.6.32-5 in grub, I get the usual blank screen for a few seconds while the saved state is read form disk, but then the display stays blank after

Re: Recommendations on groupware

2011-03-24 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:01:16 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: Hi. I'm currently looking into groupware solutions on Debian mainly for sharing a calendar such as Thunderbird + Lightning. Anyone who can provide some real life experience of pros and cons? Kind regards Rico Hi Rico, I am using

Re: Android / Rythymbox

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Beck
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 09:14 +0100, Michael Thompson wrote: It is visible as a mounted drive in gnome, and I can access it without issue. However Rythmbox, banshee et all will not show it. And I dont have a clue where to start to see why. Anyone come across this before? I've had a similar

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:45 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, maybe you can have a look at cfengine[1], seems to fit your needs and it's readily available in Debian. I don't have hands-on experience with it though. what about puppet ? Anyone made experience with puppet on debian ?

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 17:55 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: If you decide not to go with your own apt repo, I highly recommend you at least use something like apt-cacher-ng. It'll save a lot of download bandwidth and time. If you're using different distros (debian, ubuntu...) I also recommend

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-09 Thread Peter Beck
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 13:28 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I have moved my apt-cacher-ng files to a new partition, but kept the same path name. That was successful. Later I moved it to a different machine altogether, and that was also successful. Hi Rob, thanks for the info - will try that next

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Beck
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 10:53 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: You'll need VMWare or VirtualBox (VBox is free but because it's not Oracle owned, it's licence might radically change without warning why not KVM ? If your processor supports VT I would go for KVM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Beck
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:36 +0200, Erwan David wrote: The author (or the copyright owner, depending of the country) may change the licence at any moment. However, he cannot remove rights to people who obtained the software under GPL. a recent example is NoMachine NX4...they changed to closed

Re: Much Ado About Nothing [was: changing my e-mail address]

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 18:51 +0200, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 17. 04. 2011 16:19:30 je sal migondis napisal(a): Yeah, right.. Imagine for a second the OP is subscribed to .. TEN.. TWENTY.. different debian mailing lists... IMHO this is a subscriber issuei would create a rule on my own

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Beck
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 05:35 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: N900, Maemo5/OS2008 Me too. Maemo/Android (nitdroid) Dualboot. It's a brick and it's a pity that no portrait mode is is supported on most applications... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Beck
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 17:46 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: Ditto. Have an N900 and an N810. It is a brick, but small price to pay for a hardware keyboard. yes, the keyboard is really great and convenient to use. Have you looked in to the Community Seamless Software Update (CSSU) project? It is

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Beck
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 10:58 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is shaking his head with the inevitability of it all. RMS never liked Skype: Skype is a special