Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an removing method if wanted latter. Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under their

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? This seems to work: $ TZ=EST date -d 2010-12-26 16:20 PST Sun Dec 26 19:20:00 EST 2010 Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian User List

2007-03-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I would prefer if [OT] messages would be kept [OOTL] (out of this list) I said this once before and got shot down, but here it is again: If this list is supposed to be for idle chit-chat among the debian community, then we really have

Re: I can't change monitor resolution in gnome

2007-04-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Etch is no longer testing, it's been released. :-) Reconfigure the xserver-xorg package (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg in a terminal as root); the defaults should be what you're currently configured for. When you get to the monitor configuration page, try auto-detection; if that doesnt give you

Re: using sizeof

2007-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
J HU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have declared a structure and I'm using the sizeof to get the size of this structure. After the call I get that the total size is 64Bytes but if I get the size of each field and I add them manually I get that it should be 61Bytes... Anyone knows why the

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 181,1324.014027,111.111.111.111,111.111.111.111,RTP,Payload t ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark 185,1324.078941,111.111.111.111,111.111.111.111,RTP,Payload t ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54521, Time=1725616276

Re: Slightly annoyed question about Debian package system

2007-06-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Dirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any chance to find out in which package the start-stop-daemon is w/o reinstalling the whole debian distribution and hopeing that it will be installed automatically? Man, that question doesnt sound slightly annoyed, it sounds downright frusturated ;-)

How do I rebuild alternative symlinks?

2006-10-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I just moved a debian installation from one system to another by mirroring /opt, etc, /home, /var, and /usr/local -- and then using dpkg --set-selections to get all the same packages installed on the new box. Everything's gone great except for the alternatives system. For some reason, none of the

Re: How do I rebuild alternative symlinks?

2006-10-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
/bin and elsewhere if the ones in /etc/alternatives already exist? Thanks, Tyler Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just moved a debian installation from one system to another by mirroring /opt, etc, /home, /var, and /usr/local -- and then using dpkg --set-selections to get all

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread Tyler MacDonald
David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to accept the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in a pre-up or up I end up with HD. I think maybe post-up would be more appropriate here. Unfortunately post-up

x.org and unplugged hotplug devices

2006-11-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, I'm having one usability issue with a debian workstation FAI image I'm trying to set up. The /dev/input/mice device only exists when a mouse is actually plugged in. When X is running, you can unplug/plug the mouse back in and things will still work. But when the mouse is unplugged at

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-23 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Toshiba Satellite ($299.99 US) Intel Celeron M 420 512 MB DDR2 RAM 80 GB HD CD-RW/DVD 802.11 a/b/g I have one of these. It uses the ipw2100 wifi card internally. I got fed up with it so I now use a PCMCIA D-Link AirPlus AG

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an archive or compression format that includes the ability to not only detect errors but to correct them? (e.g. store ECC data elsewhere in the file) If there was, and I could write it directly to the disk, then that would solve the

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, make multiple identical backups. sprinkle them in various locations. on a periodic, routine basis, test those backups for possible corruption. If their clean, make a new copy anyway to put in rotation, throwing away the old ones after

Symlinking /etc/passwd?

2006-12-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm setting up a box that is mostly going to be chroot environments, stored in a partition in /var. I would like to move /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to /var so that I can hardlink them into my chroot environments. Is it safe to do this, and make /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow symlinks to the new

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip address you are? Your local network address: ~$ /sbin/ifconfig Your internet address: ~$ wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ 2/dev/null Or for the blind: http://moanmyip.com/

Re: LVM

2007-09-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Yuriy Padlyak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Wondering how to move Logical volume to other Volume Group. Can't find any LVM command for this purpose You'd create a new logical volume in the other volume group, copy the data over manually, and delete the old logical volume. Cheers,

Re: file system check

2007-09-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tony Heal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been times when I have rebooted a system after a couple of months of uptime that the OS automatically does a file system check of all partitions. The message on the screen states that the files system has not been checked in X number s of days.

Where'd my debian menu go???

2007-09-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm running sid. In Gnome, I've gotten used to having a Debian menu under Applications where all those non-gnome apps go. However, it's disappeared!!! Not only that, but when I go to the Edit Menus option, it's not there either. It's like it's disappered off of the face of the planet. I

Re: Where'd my debian menu go???

2007-09-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Philippe Marzouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to reactivate it through alacarte ? *Very* interesting. I install alacarte, and run it. Neat! And looks very familiar... So I right-click on applications again, and click on edit menus. Instead of the limited editor I had before, I now have

Re: Where'd my debian menu go???

2007-09-13 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, to make a Debian menu appear, I have to check and uncheck it. To make it go away, I have to uncheck it. Whatever the *actual* state is, the GUI always shows it as selected within a few seconds. I'm going to play with this dialog on my work desktop

Re: LVM

2007-09-15 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Yuriy Padlyak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, but I don't know how to move ext3 file system or it's content without loosing any file attributes, etc either :) I usually use (as root): cp -avx /oldpartition/. /newpartition/. -a = Copy all attributes, permissions, recurse, etc. -v = Print the

Gnome Update Manager's Smart Update

2007-09-15 Thread Tyler MacDonald
The Smart update button in the update manager often comes back to me with a solution that involes removing software that I use every day, in fact software that I usually have open when the update manager is open (such as pidgin and anjuta). Is that really such a smart idea? Why is the update

Re: Gnome Update Manager's Smart Update

2007-09-15 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that really such a smart idea? Why is the update manager suggesting that's a smart idea? It will cripple my ability to work! Is it really that smart of the update manager to suggest such a thing? Is it such a smart thing to call that button

Re: mpm-itk package

2007-09-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Florian Lindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, does anyone have experiences with the mpm-itk package: http://packages.debian.org/etch/apache2-mpm-itk I use it in production and absolutely love it. - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Gnome Update Manager's Smart Update

2007-10-01 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smart refers to resolving dependencies by installing additional packages or removing software, as opposed to simply not installing packages that would require such actions. Is that always the smart thing to do? That's why you have the

good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so i'll know exactly what i managed to recover and what is definately lost. dd_rescue works okay, but is there something that tries harder to recover a

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? Have you tried dvdisaster already? No, I will,

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster that you use _before_ the cd/dvd gets damaged that can recreate it later

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
There's a big list here: http://www.debian.org/users/ iWeb.com, my hosting provider, fully supports debian on their dedicated servers, and even runs a local mirror (http://debian.iweb.ca/). :-) - Tyler mack stout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As silly as these questions are... I'm trying

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster that you use _before_ the cd/dvd gets damaged that can recreate it later. The docs claim you need the ECC file, but I am running it right now without an ECC file, and it is still doing a

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've completed recovery now and have ended up with maybe a few gigs of files (out of hundreds of DVD's) that can't be covered. I think that's a pretty good recovery rate... and the files that were lost aren't exactly rare, so I should be able to find

Re: Math Package to Solve Linear Equations?

2007-10-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
to solve systems of linear equations - i.e. enter the matrix and the y values and the program inverts the matrix and reports the x values. I know how to do it manually but it is laborious for large matrices. Perhaps Openoffice.calc/solver does this but it is not clear to me how to enter

gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

2007-10-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Is there some sort of simple application out there for GNOME that acts like an egg timer? You know, i enter in an amount of time, can watch it tick down, and have it make some sort of loud obnoxious sound when it's done? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

2007-10-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ok... so I tried both the eggtimer tcl script, and sanduhr... eggtimer loses immediately because it only has a 1-minute resolution. Further, there's no countdown, or indication that you're going to get an alarm.. the dialog box just stays the same until the time's elapsed. sanduhr is a little

Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

2007-10-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sanduhr is a little bit more advanced, and very nice and unobtrustive... The countdown indicator is a cute graphic of an hourglass slowly filling up. Unfortunately, I really want a digital readout. If it wasn't for that, I'd stick with sanduhr

Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

2007-10-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't used it, but the following app (on a sid box) sounds like it fits the criteria: $ apt-cache search timer ... timer-applet - timer applet - a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel ... we have a winner! ;-) The only thing it doesn't

Re: Where is the missing disk space gone?

2007-11-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: physically missing. I used df -h, it returns to me with the follows: /dev/sda8 19G 334M 18G 2% /home When I used du -sh /home, it returns to me with the actual used spaces: 162M/home I'm not 100% sure on this... but I have noticed

Re: News Flash

2007-02-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does it matter to you, since you want to move to Canada? Holy fucking flamebait Ron! Don't think for one second that Canadians aren't affected by, or interested in, American politics. We'd rather not be, but we have no choice, living right next door to

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wishful thinking I like a good digression as well as the next person, probably better than most, but this is ridiculous. I'd love to see this go over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could someone set it up, please? /wishful thinking Thank you for

We need an off-topic list (was Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's GREATLY increasing the noise:signal ratio for people who don't know about ignore thread or other such things. It doesn't bother me personally (like I said I've found some of the messages in this thread quite interesting... and if I don't feel

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who gives a shit about politics, and what the hell has it it got to do with the debian mailing list??? It's the Debian *USER* list, not the *DEBIAN* User list. As has been discussed several times every time a long thread comes up the list is for the

Re: We need an off-topic list (was Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use mutt in non-threaded mode so I have no idea. :-) So the list should adjust itself to how you read mail? A list that the debian organization reccomends for new debian users to go to seek help should be as accomodating to that goal as possible,

Re: We need an off-topic list (was Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list But does a debian-user-ot (or whatever) mailing list need to be hosted at debian.org? I think so; otherwise off-topic stuff will still end up in the help list... and having there be a officially

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW I was raised in a born again fundamentalist Christian family. None of the siblings remained in the faith. It was an intolerant way to live. FWIW, there is a big difference between being raised in a born again family and being born again

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
You do realize I was being sarcastic, right? Yup. Best time to butt in. :-) - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PayPal - Limited account access -

2007-03-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might consider forwarding them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To determine this, read the full header and/or use whois. If the mail originates from a server located in a decent constitutional state, the owner of the server will take measures against

Re: Shred Iterations

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Masatran, R. Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no point in overwriting more than once. Is not sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda sufficient? Not if you *REALLY* want to get rid of something.. then

education has made my debian mentally challenged

2008-02-19 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, I'm running sid. I've had the education packages installed for awhile... last week, an update came out for them which has completely broken the package manager, making it impossible to upgrade further. I get a message like this for every education-* package: Preparing to

Re: education has made my debian mentally challenged

2008-02-19 Thread Tyler MacDonald
-astronomy_0.825_i386.deb Jay Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyler MacDonald wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. I've had the education packages installed for awhile... last week, an update came out for them which has completely broken the package manager, making it impossible to upgrade

(hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2008-04-11 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, I know that reading /etc/network/interfaces has been done over and over... has an API been created for editing/writing it? If it's available in perl, or over the commandline, that would be even better :-) Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2008-04-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:36:56PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I know that reading /etc/network/interfaces has been done over and over... has an API been created for editing/writing it? If it's available in perl, or over the commandline

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language Or, Practical Extraction and Report Language (per the man page) Positively Eclectic Rubbish Lister Or, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (per the Camel Book) I see, you don't read this

Re: My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:01:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:53:42AM -0600, Fran wrote: I've been told by my ISP that my sarge webserver (only port 80 open, all software up to date) is spewing traffic they're

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had to do this several times now, it's a fairly painless procedure. I've added a few notes... Hi Justin, probably the simplest way is to just make a new /var on the new drive and move all of it there. -add new HD to computer -partition HD -format HD

Re: drivers in linux

2007-01-11 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Andrew, This works way, way, way differently in linux. If you type dmesg, after a clean boot, you'll get a report of every driver that started up. If you type ifconfig -a, you can get a list of all configured network cards. If you type lsmod, you'll get a list of

Re: backup strategy using rsync

2007-01-19 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Randall, I got to thinking, how hard would it be to isolate the hardware dependent portions of a system, and simply backup and restore the hardware independent portions onto a new system using rsync? Can someone shed some light on the subject? A thinks I'm not clear on. I have implemented

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is actually what is done, yes. And, in addition, the safe is only accessible to restricted individuals. Having said that, none of the restricted individuals (apart from me) would know what to do with the root password anyway ... All a matter of

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Peter Easthope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan. Is there a way to use the MAC address rather than the IP address? Or you could install a dynamic IP updater (like ez-ipupdate), and register for a

Free me from the pain of NFS!

2007-01-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hello everybody, I currently have several NFS mounts to share my media between my PVR, my workstation, and my neighbour's workstation downstairs. The problem is, a lot of the time the mounts are not loaded on boot for some reason or another (eg; in the case of a power outage, all

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steffan Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least two of the machines in question would be running fairly heavily-used MySQL instances (currently a 5G or so database) with replication and the others are Apache/Java app servers for the most part, so likely to perform better if given copious

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steffan Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running yi.org with iweb.ca, they're good, and cheap. They have special deals on sometimes too, so keep an eye on the last minute section of their dedicated webpage. I ended up getting a dedicated system with 300GB harddrive, 2GB ram,

How do I install by package Tag?

2007-12-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I've decided I want to install all arcade games on my desktop system. I noticed that abuse has a Tag: game::arcade associated with it. However, when I do an apt-cache search game::arcade, nothing turns up. I've looked through apt-cache, apt-get, and synaptic, and I can't find anything to do with

Re: How do I install by package Tag?

2007-12-23 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I install all packages with the game::arcade tag? aptitude install '~Ggame::arcade' should do it. Be warned that this will install a *lot* of stuff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search '~Ggame::arcade' | wc -l 246 Cryptic, but it

Multiseat volume settings?

2008-09-13 Thread Tyler MacDonald
My daughter and I share a multiseat debian setup. I'm using gnome and she uses KDE. I like to listen to music using amarok. She likes to play games whose sound get annoying after awhile, like gcompris or childsplay, or http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/ or http://www.boohbah.com/ . The problem is

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ...unless there might still be some women somewhere on Usenet. alias woman locate; talk; date; uptime; gawk; head; clean; sleep And then they wonder why some women find IT a hostile area Seriously, there are female readers of this list.

Re: startx fails

2009-07-20 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device EndSection So, I'm stuck. Video chipset is NVidia GeForce 8300 and monitor is LG W2042S with specs; Have you installed the proprietary nvidia kernel drivers? You'll need the module-assistant

What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-07-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I want to set up a workstation in my back yard. I know it probably involves an umbrella and a laptop, and a power extension cable. I think that the laptop overheating may be a concern. Even with an umbrella, I'm worried that glare may be an issue too. Can any of you share how you have

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-08-01 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Is that Canadian burning hot (80F), Arizona burning hot (115F, 10% humidity) or New Orleans burning hot (90F, 60% humidity)? I'm in canada, and it's 32C which according to google is new orleans hot but i have no idea about the humidity... Anyway, why

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Kamaraju, I have the same problem, I ended up resolving it by setting the following option; ServerAliveInterval=30 This forces SSH to send traffic around every 30 seconds if it's idle, keeping my work's firewall happy. Cheers, Tyler Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Comparing two debian boxes (find which package is different)

2010-01-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, I believe dpkg-query will do what you want, something like; dpkg-query --show -f '${Package}\t${Version}\n' Cheers, Tyler Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I would like to compare two debian box. I am trying to figure out which package version is

Application launch countdown?

2010-01-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I've set up the computer attached to my television to automatically log in on boot. I want it to automatically launch an application as well -- but once in awhile I may want to avoid that. I know I can do this with sessions, but what I'd prefer is this: Does anybody know of a (preferably GNOME)

Re: 1 last line from upgrade to squeeze

2010-02-19 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I went through this exact same process awhile ago when I went from squeeze to etch... Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: B A libcompress-zlib-perl - Transitional dummy package for Compress::Z B A libice-dev- X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (develop B perl-doc

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Carlos, If you set the default umask in /etc/login.defs , useradd will obey this when creating home directories. Try setting UMASK 077 in /etc/login.defs . Alternately, you can user the higher level adduser tool, which has it's own configuration setting for world-readable home directories

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: I have never heard this before in years or using Linux. I am not saying you're wrong but I would just like to know why I should not use 'useradd' rather than 'adduser'. I assumed that it was just personal preference for which you preferred to use but

printing...

2008-07-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm using sid... I've got a print server set up in my garage. I made my daughter's birthday invitations up into a PDF and told my print server to print of 30 copies. I printed via the standard document viewer by double-clicking on the PDF in nautilus. It's printed off several copies now. Each

media player with NFS cacheing?

2009-03-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, My daughter's computer is hooked up to our intranet via a wireless card so we don't have to stretch cables through the hallway. Unfortuantely, it's pretty radio-noisy here so we dont get very good performance. I've tried several channels with little success. So when she puts

Re: Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
can be given as max which means to choose the largest size that fits on all current drives. Tyler MacDonald ty...@yi.org wrote: Hello debian! I have a RAID-5 mdadm array with 4x500GB drives (1.4TB usable). I'm running out of space and am going to buy a new drive, but I

Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hello debian! I have a RAID-5 mdadm array with 4x500GB drives (1.4TB usable). I'm running out of space and am going to buy a new drive, but I would like to move to 1TB drives (either RAID-5 or RAID-10, haven't quite decided yet). I can't afford to buy all new 1TB drives at once so I'm thinking

ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
After over 10 years of faithful service (essentially when I ditched pine), I am considering having my mutt put down. Should I move over to gmail, or is there some amazing scriptable GUI mail client that is going to knock my socks off with an array of pipes and regexps and color-highlighting and

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: Should I move over to gmail, or is there some amazing scriptable GUI mail client that is going to knock my socks off with an array of pipes and regexps and color-highlighting and maybe even procmail-parsing and custom keybinding? Of course: Gnus.

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in Squeeze

2010-05-20 Thread Tyler MacDonald
It looks like the tool is called xfs_repair, and is part of the xfsprogs package. http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=xfs_repairmode=exactfilenamesuite=testingarch=any Cheers, Tyler lrhorer lrho...@satx.rr.com wrote: OK, I'm stumped.

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: Hello Jordan, Hopefully the temporary error was not caused by something like find . - -type f -delete as it appears... Given what I've just seen there, that's a possibility. :-) When I was trying to upgrade my MythTV boxes earlier today, I was

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Le disque a crashé. The drive has crashed. Christian Marillat est en train de restaurer ... Christian Marillat is being restored ... No - Christian Marillat is not being restored (Christian Marillat est en train d'être restauré), he is doing the restoring.

multiversion w/ apt-ftpachive?

2009-10-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
dpkg-scanpackages supplies a --multiversion option, which will put all available versions of a package into the Packages file. How can I get apt-ftparchive to do this? apt-ftparchive claims to support everything dpkg-scanpackges does, but I can't find any documentation for apt-ftparchive

Re: Create amd64 DomU in Debain

2009-11-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Dan, According to the 'xen-create-image' manpage, --image-dev is Specify a physical/logical volume for the disk image.. I havent tried it myself (because I love lvm), but it sounds like you can use a physical disk for the root image with xen-tools. Cheers, Tyler

perl install paths

2009-11-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, Background here: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52072 Essentially, I had two copies of TAP::Harness installed -- one from CPAN and one from the libtest-harness-perl package. Debian's went to /usr/share/perl5 -- CPAN's went to /usr/share/perl/5.10.0. This is the @INC

Re: To run a program under another user.

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sthu, Have you tried: su - username, or su -c command - username? Cheers, Tyler Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good day. I need to run a console program under another user - if I try to do so with the help of sudo - ut tells me that I'm out of the

Re: Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported as boot devices

2009-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: RAID0 is a truly silly misnomer. But many people use it because it gives them one large and fast HD on Windows, OS X, and Linux. If that is what Mathieu wants to do in spite of the lack of redundancy... Agreed -- if you can afford 4x1.5TB drives, you can

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

2009-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tudod Ki tudodk...@yahoo.com wrote: if I: ssh -fND localhost:6000 someb...@192.168.56.5 -p PORTNUMBER from computer A to computer B [B = 192.168.56.5] then I can set the SOCKS proxy for e.g.: Firefox to use localhost:6000 on computer A. Ok. I can surf the web through B. But: - Can

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

2009-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tudod Ki tudodk...@yahoo.com wrote: but what's with cam attack? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_Table#Attacks they could attack a switch, and it will act as a hub? and then they can set promiscuous mode on their cards and sniff Hmm. I didn't know about that one! I suppose it's

Re: Handle each file at a time in loop?

2010-01-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Foss User foss...@gmail.com wrote: $ ls convert.sh Track 1.wav Track 3.wav Track 5.wav Track 7.wav Track 9.wav Track 1.mp3 Track 2.wav Track 4.wav Track 6.wav Track 8.wav So, you can see there are file names with spaces in them. I have written a script like this to handle one file

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

2010-08-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: of scheduling things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe a note on the proton boron fusion reaction energy . I may never use it but would like to be able to

Every time `tracker` has a memory leak....

2013-07-29 Thread Tyler MacDonald
This has happened at least a dozen times in the past few years. I've removed tracker a few times, but it's been re-added due to dependencies/recommends. A product that is this immature should not be allowed to be part of the default installation. Again, tonight, I had to SSH in to my PC from

Change preferred interface for default gateway?

2013-11-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi! It's been awhile. :-) When I am on wireless and plug into a wired connection, my wireless default route is dropped when the default route for the wired connection is added. It seems wired is always preferred over wireless. Is there any way to reverse this behavior? Or even better, make it

Re: Change preferred interface for default gateway?

2013-11-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I am using the default (Network Manager), sorry, should have specified... It a pretty vanilla Debian Stable install on a Lenovo T410s. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 10. November 2013, 10:26:01 schrieb Tyler MacDonald: Hi! It's been awhile