Re: Zoom in the official repo is outdated

2024-04-24 Thread Bob McGowan
On 4/24/24 01:28 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 24 Apr 2024 16:42 -0300, from luizroma...@tecgraf.puc-rio.br (Luiz Romário Santana Rios): Earlier this month, I noticed I was no longer able to login to Zoom meetings using the client installed from the Debian repos. In order to join meetings, I h

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Bob McGowan
On 8/10/23 03:03 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Default User (12023-08-10): And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" in any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why not? Unfortunately, I regret to say that I did not find that the answer to the question(s

Re: mounting media in plasma5

2023-07-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On 7/3/23 07:36 AM, Hans wrote: An ext4 file system has its own internal Unix ownerships and permissions. When mounted, those ownerships and permissions are what determine who can read or write to each file/directory within the file system. Yes, I know. The ACL that's being added at the root di

Re: Help with Optimus and external monitor use

2023-05-23 Thread Bob McGowan
Additional info: $ nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [10de:1f91] (rev a1) Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1) Your card is supported by the defau

Help with Optimus and external monitor use

2023-05-22 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, I have an Asus Tuf Gaming laptop which has an Optimus configuration, with an AMD GPU rather than Intel. I'm running Debian 11.7 I do not have any of the "other" auxiliary software tools installed, such as Primus (primusrun...). When I run glxgears -info, I see it using the AMD GPU as e

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2023-02-16 Thread Bob McGowan
On 2/16/23 12:01 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:27:25 -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: On 2/16/23 11:14 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:52:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: [1]to...@tuxteam.de [2023-02-16 16:53:02] wrote: Just for kicks: have you tried sending a PS (or

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2023-02-16 Thread Bob McGowan
On 2/16/23 11:14 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:52:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: to...@tuxteam.de [2023-02-16 16:53:02] wrote: Just for kicks: have you tried sending a PS (or *gasp* PDF) file down that alley (e.g. with soc

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Bob McGowan
On 12/4/22 03:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I did a web search for text editors with an auto-indent feature.

Re: Debian 11 - How to install Gtkmm

2022-11-09 Thread Bob McGowan
On 11/9/22 04:09 PM, Amn wrote: Trying to install Gtkmm 4 in a Debian 11 box I do this : sudo apt install libgtkmm-4.0-dev But then I get this error : Unable to locate package libgtkmm-4.0-dev What am

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Bob McGowan
The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G groupname[,groupname...] username For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob On 8/17/22 10:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: the user that's doing this would need to be added to the audio group and maybe the pulseaudio group if that group exists.

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On 4/2/22 14:10, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 10:58:49 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: Start LibreOffice, open the 'Tools' menu and click on 'Options'. Under the 'LibreOffice' heading select 'General' and in about the middle of the new set of opt

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On 2/28/22 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" Some comments on this, without knowing just how it failed: 1.  There is no reason I can see to using both 'sudo' and 'su' together.  By default, they both let you run a command as the root user. 2.  Using both '-' and '-

Re: Recs for new Linux laptop? (to replace Zareason)

2021-11-09 Thread Bob McGowan
On 11/9/21 7:17 AM, Tom Browder wrote: My Zareason laptop (13-in screen, very lightweight and thin) is running Debian 10 natively and wonderfully (with Win10 as a dual boot option), but the company has gone out of business and I want to start preparing a standby replacement. I would appreciat

Touch screen monitor recommendations?

2021-06-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, I have a use case which could use a touchscreen monitor with a standard desktop running Debian. Does anyone have any recommendations for units known to work with Debian? Thanks, Bob

Re: QEMU-KVM VMs sometime freeze when I run them for a couple of days

2021-01-06 Thread Bob McGowan
On 1/6/21 5:33 AM, buz.hr...@seznam.cz wrote: From: Nicholas Geovanis George Shuklin's comment may have intended this question too: Are backups running somewhere when the VMs "randomly" hang? Not necessarily on the VM that hangs, but somewhere touching a related filesystem, disk or network de

Re: Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-10 Thread Bob McGowan
On 12/5/20 1:47 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en the 3.6.1 section could explain why you have

Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-05 Thread Bob McGowan
It is a Power PC G3 running Mac OS 9. I've gotten CDs for Jessie 8.11, the last Debian release to support Power PC architecture. I set up a second SCSI hard disk with an Adaptec controller and installed to it successfully.  However, upon reboot the system does not start immediately.  When it

Re: Zoom.

2020-10-17 Thread Bob McGowan
On 10/17/20 1:23 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Does anyone have Zoom working in Debian 10? Here it produces empty windows. Visible toward the right in this screenshot. http://easthope.ca/Zoom.png This is the entire output after starting in a terminal and then exiting. peter@joule:~$ zoom pete

Re: Journal

2020-09-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On 9/3/20 11:20 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 11:11:56 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: Pelican is a static site generator. You write your content in MarkDown or RST, and then Pelican compiles it into a website by applying a theme and CSS styles. Performance is high, because your webserver is onl

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

2020-08-18 Thread Bob McGowan
826.650] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 826.650] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 826.650] (EE) [ 826.653] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing lo

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

2020-08-17 Thread Bob McGowan
On 8/16/2020 8:20 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: No, that's OK. Grab a netinst or the DVD image: you can use mirrors - the critical thing is that you don't install any graphics drivers over and above the text mode drivers, you don't try to use the graphical install - nothing graphical. Once you've got

Re: Installation Problem

2020-07-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On 7/14/20 1:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-07-14 13:33, Vlad Dragomir wrote: I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, It asks for additional non-free firmware, unfortunately it's an Intel wireless card. It gives a list of files it needs in order to configure the n

Re: Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

2020-06-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On 6/29/2020 11:37 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:10:44PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: But I cannot figure out where this might be, or even if this is the correct interpretation. Check out the contents of /etc/systemd/system first. Rebuild initramfs second. Reco Hi

Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

2020-06-29 Thread Bob McGowan
Please see thread with subject "Be careful when editing /etc/fstab" for a bit of background. My computer had two swap partitions, on two different disks, when one of them started to generate CRC errors, seek errors, etc. Once I determined which of the two it was, I commented out the /etc/fst

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On 4/28/20 8:46 AM, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, i.e. xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, I recently had a sound problem with a web page and was instructed to do the following to enable it for a specific web site. Note, this is not exactly intuitive. 1. Go to the web site in your browser; 2. In my Firefox, just to the left of the address bar are some icons, click the "info

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-07 Thread Bob McGowan
On 1/7/20 1:19 PM, deloptes wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: It looks like the majority of the pure Bluetooth devices are only 4.0. There is one combination WIFI/Bluetooth I saw that is 5.0. The version here does not mean anything relevant to the support by the OS. BT4.0 in terms of hardware is

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-07 Thread Bob McGowan
On 1/5/20 3:24 AM, deloptes wrote: André Rodier wrote: Hello, I am looking for a USB / Bluetooth 5 adapter, natively compatible with Debian. Thanks, André most of them are I use ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Double check if adapter (newer once) are

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

2019-01-08 Thread Bob McGowan
On 1/8/19 10:47 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Jude DaShiell composed on 2019-01-09 00:04 (UTC-0500): lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script I tried exactly that on Buster multiple times, and always get the following: root@gb250:~# NAME LABEL bash: NAME: command not found root@gb250:~# sda bash: sda

Re: perl; Trying to get File::stat to work

2018-10-19 Thread Bob McGowan
It looks like this has to do with mixing the usage of the "native" stat of Perl with the "object" version from File::stat. The 'stat' from File::stat returns a reference to an object, which has the stuff you're wanting, tucked away internally as object variables.  You need to do:     use Fil

Re: Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

2018-10-03 Thread Bob McGowan
Thank you both for pointing to the correct library.  I will be trying it out soon, as time permits. One question does remain, why didn't apt-get refuse to install the application, or pull in the correct library? On 10/2/18 11:29 PM, deloptes wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Hi, I have a

Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

2018-10-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, I have a high def (4K) mp4 video I would like to put on a Blu-Ray disk, to play in a standard Blu-Ray player. So I did the Google search and found several posts, all of which mentioned an application tsMuxeR, which is available for Linux and is in the Debian repos. However, it is a 32

Re: List words separated by comma and without duplicates

2018-04-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On 04/29/2018 03:45 PM, David Margerison wrote: On 30 April 2018 at 04:12, Antonio A. Rendina wrote: If you want to improve your bash skills you can read: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ I suggest that to avoid poor and ancient, it would be better to read current documents w

Re: [OT] debian (or debian like) terminal program for android

2018-02-10 Thread Bob McGowan
See as reference, what, John Hasler wrote on 02/10/2018 02:09 PM and 02/10/2018 05:21 PM. Which raises the question, what is wrong with "Termux" (I'm assuming you meant this when you listed "Terminux", as I can't find anything by that name, but could be wrong in my assumption). Termux provid

Re: Segmentation fault in top -b1 -hc

2017-05-08 Thread Bob McGowan
On 05/08/2017 03:28 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:46:13AM +0200, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > > On 05/08/2017 11:19 AM, Valentin Bajrami wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> There is a segmentation fault when top is used as follow > >> > >> top -b1 -hc > >> > >> I think the args are no

Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories

2017-05-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On 05/03/2017 07:44 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Hmm, maybe I don't need a response to this--I think if I read Greg Wooledge's > post (next in the thread) and experiment (tomorrow or later ;-) with his > script, I'll get the idea... > > On Wednesday, May 03, 2017 10:29:08 PM rhkra...@gmail.com

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Bob McGowan
On 01/17/2017 02:39 AM, Hans wrote: > I remember this discussion from sime time ago. Debian has changed a real > poweroff from "halt" to "halt -p". The second one is according to the manual. > > As far as I remeber, "shutdown" is just a wrapper fpr the halt command, but I > am not quite sure. >

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-04 Thread Bob McGowan
On 01/04/2017 10:59 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: > I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as > the subject, and found several references to emails with similar > problems. However, no exact solution was proposed. > > And this actually only happens on

shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-04 Thread Bob McGowan
I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as the subject, and found several references to emails with similar problems. However, no exact solution was proposed. And this actually only happens on one of the two systems I have Debian installed on. I'm using testing (stre

Re: Purpose of fsck at boot (was: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?)

2014-12-10 Thread Bob McGowan
On 12/10/14, 3:41 AM, "Frédéric Marchal" wrote: >Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 11:10:52, Frédéric Marchal a écrit : >> Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 09:49:51, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit : >> > You run fsck on power up because the 'system does not remember' if it >> > was shut-off cleanly or not. I

Re: Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not

2014-11-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On 11/14/14, 12:00 PM, "Francesco Ariis" wrote: >On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:28:23PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: >> Now to the problem; when I try to use fluidsynth instead of qsynth, MIDI >> events are recognised (I can see them with -v option), but no sound >>comes >> out of the speakers. > >I

Re: Two Z Shells

2014-10-06 Thread Bob McGowan
On 10/3/14, 6:31 PM, "John Aten" wrote: >* PGP Signed by an unknown key > >Hi all, > >I just installed z shell through: > >#apt-get install zsh zsh-doc > >Before installing, I looked for it with which and whereis. I got nothing >from which, (it now lists /usr/bin/zsh) and when I typed whereis zsh

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Bob McGowan
On 9/25/14, 7:12 AM, "Rob Owens" wrote: >I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still >shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. > >I have set: > ># Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) >ffmpeg_cap_new on > >and > ># Gap is th

Re: security camera software

2014-09-24 Thread Bob McGowan
On 9/24/14, 6:43 AM, "Rob Owens" wrote: >I need to set up a couple usb cameras to record video based on motion >detection. I prefer ease of setup to a large feature set, since this is >expected to be only temporary. I want to only record when there is >motion, so I don't have hours of footage t

Re: mount inconsistencies

2014-05-13 Thread Bob McGowan
On 5/12/14 8:52 AM, "Jochen Spieker" wrote: >Hi folks, > >this looks very weird to me. My wheezy system claims that a filesystem >is mounted, but the mount directory appears to be empty and umount fails >because the filesystems is not mounted, after all: > >| # grep backup /etc/fstab >| /dev/mapp

Re: bash quoting problems

2011-08-09 Thread Bob McGowan
o be put in the corrct place. Does anyone know how to do this? You may want to consider putting the sed script in a file and using the -f script (or --file=script) option instead. No quoting needed. ;) -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Wicd Wireless Woes

2011-05-26 Thread Bob McGowan
ated to 'network-manager' that are installed. This has worked for me on several different Ubuntu/Kubuntu releases. I don't know what the Ubuntu references are, that info's all on my home system. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Problem with chmod

2011-05-10 Thread Bob McGowan
'mount' with no arguments to see what devices are associated with mount points, and choose one that points to the pendrive itself. Or, if the pendrive is not mounted, you may be able to mount it manually and then do the mkdir/copy. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Finding Library Dependencies - MxEasy Security Camera Software

2011-05-10 Thread Bob McGowan
ute directory path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and repeat the command. For any library used that is not found in a "standard" location (minimally /lib:/usr/lib but may include /usr/local/lib), repeat the ldd on that library to be sure its dependencies are resolved. -- Bob McGowan -

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-05-04 Thread Bob McGowan
is filling the height. To get it to fill the width without changing the aspect ration implies, I think, cropping top/bottom, not left right, doesn't it? -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4dc1a87a.5070...@symantec.com

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-28 Thread Bob McGowan
ff, so I can test everything and copy functioning stuff back in place easily. Anything that doesn't work is deleted. There are simply too many interdependencies to trust a "hybrid" system. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Gdm login failing "I could not start your session"

2011-04-18 Thread Bob McGowan
x27;m not sure about the "best" way to figure out what might be missing. You could try listing the dependencies of the gnome meta-package(s) and then check for these packages and reinstall any that are missing. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: 64 bit debian, 32 bit app and libaio.so.1 dependency

2011-04-07 Thread Bob McGowan
On 04/07/2011 01:21 PM, George Standish wrote: > On 11-04-07 04:10 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: >> Hi, all, >> >> I have a Perl based application tool set that uses DBD::Oracle libraries <> >> So, is there a way currently to get a 32 bit library installed in a 64 &g

Re: 64 bit debian, 32 bit app and libaio.so.1 dependency

2011-04-07 Thread Bob McGowan
On 04/07/2011 01:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-04-07 22:10 +0200, Bob McGowan wrote: > >> I have a Perl based application tool set that uses DBD::Oracle libraries >> from the Oracle 11 instant client package. The DBD was compiled in a 32 >> bit environment. >

64 bit debian, 32 bit app and libaio.so.1 dependency

2011-04-07 Thread Bob McGowan
not available on the 64 bit Debian system (fyi, it's 6.0.1, in case that's relevant). So, is there a way currently to get a 32 bit library installed in a 64 bit environment using apt-get or aptitude, outside of the basic 32 bit support package? Thanks, -- Bob McGowan

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread Bob McGowan
should need). > > ... unless anyone knows of a system that does all of this for me, then > i'll just let it ride and not worry about anything? Check out "Smart Boot Loader" (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/) or "Master Boot Loader" (http://mbldr.sourceforge.net/) i

Re: labeling swap partitions, a question

2011-03-24 Thread Bob McGowan
value -s LABEL /dev/sd[ab]2 swap1 swap2 If you don't use a specific /dev/??? value, blkid will print all LABEL values. If you want the UUID, use that in place of the LABEL argument to the -s option. You may need to be root to run swapon. You will need to be root to run blkid as it needs to

Re: JACK configuration

2011-01-17 Thread Bob McGowan
ording track only, and there should be two lines (assuming stereo input), inside the ribbon. If volumes are high enough, the lines should show amplitude variations. -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4d34bc11.8060...@symantec.com

Re: Web calendar sharing in Evolution

2010-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Thanks in advanced. > > -- > Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! > Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) > Registered Linux User #474025 > Registered Ubuntu User # 28654 Many thanks, and Happy New Year. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

2010-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
The Gnu ls uses backslash escapes (\r, \b, \octnum etc.). This might help in searching strace output, if you do try Bob Proulx's suggestion, since you would know the actual character to look for. Also, you ran the above as root. Since the original file is readable by all, what happens if

Re: Off topic question about grep

2010-11-09 Thread Bob McGowan
t;pattern" 00firefox-files_before, which is actually a file name and so not likely to be found in any of the files searched. If you want to prove this, try: ls > files grep * files:00firefox-files_before -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: what is the use of -c parameter of column(1), can you demonstrate with an example?

2010-11-02 Thread Bob McGowan
e awk: > > http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/12/awk-formatting-fields-into-columns.html > > (bit fugly) or, depending on exactly what you need, look at pr(1). > > -- > Chris Jackson > Shadowcat Systems Ltd. > > -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4cd09f6a.8000...@symantec.com

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Bob McGowan
ged in and are running 'startx'. But if you use Ctl-Alt-F[2-6] you'll get to one of tty2 - tty6, and you'll see a login prompt (assuming you have more than one virtual tty set up for login). All that output on tty1 is simply startx telling you what it's doing. Which is a good

Re: photo printing

2010-10-20 Thread Bob McGowan
because, besides the standard print sizes (from 4x6 in. to 13x19 in.), it can also handle non-standard sizes, up to 13x44 in. So, if you don't care about paper surface type or size, a laser printer may well be a very good choice. It will also be faster ;) -- Bob McGowan --

Re: avogadro plugins

2010-10-19 Thread Bob McGowan
On 10/18/2010 10:03 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > On 19/10/10 03:50, Bob McGowan wrote: >> On 10/18/2010 05:55 AM, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have just install the avogadro package on my amd64 Squeeze desktop. >>> Now I w

Re: avogadro plugins

2010-10-18 Thread Bob McGowan
lugged by avogadro: > any hint is warmly welcome. > > Thanks, > > lina A web search for 'Avogadro software' found a wiki home page, with a link to a developer's page. That page have links to a number of other pages, one of which discusses plugins. Perhaps that will help.

Re: USB

2010-10-18 Thread Bob McGowan
a/ mount the partition This is all standard stuff, you should be able to find details about each step in your documentation. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Excellent bootable usb - How to Duplicate?

2010-10-08 Thread Bob McGowan
s=1024K where sd? would be something like sdc and sdd, respectively. You may or may not have used the bs= as there is a default for it. What device names did you use? To use dd and get the "whole" stick, including partition table setup, you need the whole disk device name, a single fil

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

2010-09-03 Thread Bob McGowan
n external eSATA connection, you could use eSATA external disk enclosures to extend capacity. It does mean at least an extra package/power supply and so on. -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c813f49.4030...@symantec.com

Re: Fascinating problem with bash

2010-08-24 Thread Bob McGowan
23857 SHLVL is 2 while loop MyVar is empty The only point where SHLVL, and $$, get 'reset', is in the explicit execution of 'bash -c'. I believe this suggests modern shells are maintaining the functionality of a "subshell", but are running things

Re: Enabling remote logon - any decent intro docs?

2010-08-13 Thread Bob McGowan
kdm and gdm both mention "remote" logins using the XDMCP protocol. Perhaps this will at least give you a starting place for searching. > > AG > > -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c65bb21.5000...@symantec.com

Re: Why do i get this when trying to list files on usbkey?

2010-08-13 Thread Bob McGowan
would be inclined to suspect connector or cabling issues. Does the USB device work in other systems? If it does, I'd look at the hardware on your system, first. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Block size recommendations

2010-08-11 Thread Bob McGowan
to handle it. You could, theoretically, pick a size that would force disk swapping, which would have a very negative impact on throughput. ;) Not that this should be an issue for modern systems with gigabytes of RAM. But then, modern systems also have disks that generally use LBA, as Boyd ment

Re: Wifi GNOME network manager version into KUbuntu, Debian "pinning method, etc. ; jor debian

2010-08-11 Thread Bob McGowan
issue with updates to the *existing installed* packages, hence no pinning should be needed. This is how I'm doing it and everything continues to work well. The only thing that could be a problem would be a future upgrade, assuming the installer processing is not fixed. -- Bob McGowan

Re: match across line using grep

2010-08-06 Thread Bob McGowan
On 08/05/2010 06:49 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年08月04日 04:55, Bob McGowan wrote: >> In fact, the LC_ names all seem to be specific to things >> that would not necessarily impact the regex operation. >> > It is not totally true. The encoding part might. If it is UTF

Re: repair partition: wrong size

2010-08-05 Thread Bob McGowan
issue, assuming the alternate is OK. See the man page for e2fsck for a way to figure out where the alternates were created. -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c5afbe3.60...@symantec.com

Re: match across line using grep

2010-08-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On 08/03/2010 11:28 AM, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2010-08-03 09:57 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >> On 08/03/2010 05:39 AM, Andre Majorel wrote: >>> On 2010-08-03 19:37 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: >>>> On 2010???08???03??? 17:53, Andre Majorel wrote: >>&

Re: match across line using grep

2010-08-03 Thread Bob McGowan
ith literals, if present. If, instead of using the '.*' pattern, I embed a literal newline, it also works: $ perl -e 'print "a\nb\0"'| grep -z 'a > b' a b$ And just to prove the point, it does work with multiple null terminated lines: perl -e 'print "a\nb\0not here\0"'| grep -z 'a > b' a b$ I'm using GNU grep 2.5.3 -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c584a92.70...@symantec.com

Re: Checking burned image is ok

2010-07-27 Thread Bob McGowan
produced a "files differ: byte , line yyy" type of message, the 'cmp' actually succeeded in properly comparing the two images. -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c4f00a3.6080...@symantec.com

Re: wicd with WPA2 fails

2010-07-16 Thread Bob McGowan
;&1 Or just put everything after the 'exec' above, after the xx.orig command line. The advantage of using the 'exec' form is that any output the script generates for any problem will also be written to the file (syntax errors, other commands failing, etc). -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c408b61.2080...@symantec.com

Re: Photo time are wrong

2010-07-13 Thread Bob McGowan
modification time), then something is amiss on the Linux side. You may need to verify your locale settings. If you find the date displayed by exiftool is OK, you can use exiftool to rename the files, based on the date and time of creation or even have it set the modification times (a la 't

Re: thinking of installing amd64 Debian: what is its current state?

2010-07-13 Thread Bob McGowan
32 bit software, you can install 32 bit libraries which will allow you to run them directly. My system is not with me, so I can't give you the exact package name, but I think if you search for "32 bit support on 64 bit system", or something similar, you should find what is needed.

Re: su and environment.

2010-07-08 Thread Bob McGowan
ds to validate the environment variables PATH and HOME. You may also want to try running a normal system command such as 'date', to see if that works. Good luck. -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c366356.6080...@symantec.com

Re: martian sources iptables

2010-07-02 Thread Bob McGowan
ists.debian.org would be more appropriate for your request, in any case. You should look up 'martian packet' on wikipedia for details. Basically, they are packets from "illegal" source addresses: private network values or unallocated address ranges are a couple of exam

Re: remark from dd

2010-07-01 Thread Bob McGowan
numbers would match, but then you wouldn't know that the input was larger than the output can hold. > > Thanks,... Peter E. You're welcome ;') -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4c2d00bb.9030...@symantec.com

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
On 06/01/2010 11:01 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: >> On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
27; can start stand alone or if a front end KDE app. is needed. If this does work but things are still too slow, you might add a local rc startup script in /etc/{init.d,rc2.d} to start the services at boot time. None of this is tested, just some thoughts on alternate ways to get things going.

Re: Still can't read DVDs/CDs

2010-05-18 Thread Bob McGowan
rw-rw 1 root cdrom 3, 0 2010-05-04 17:11 /dev/hda brw-rw 1 root cdrom 3, 64 2010-05-04 17:11 /dev/hdb -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4bf2e54d.10...@symantec.com

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
be counted on or not. sed does have a '-r / --regexp-extended' option, and some 'extended' regex engines allow specifying a 'shortest' rather than 'longest' match, but I don't have any experience with extended regex in sed, you will have to experiment. -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4bed98da.8050...@symantec.com

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
;SUFFIX" to the -i option, as in '-i.bak', and sed will make a backup copy, using the suffix as the extension appended to the file name. > (find $dir -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/$regexp//" {} \;) for all files in a > directory. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: OO.writer can't its file.

2010-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
including where to store temporary files. Mine points to /tmp, but I don't recall if that is standard/default, or if I changed it. In any case, OOwriter created a directory with several files in it, when I opened a document. If your temp directory has not been cleaned up and is a regu

Re: Automounting problems.

2010-05-12 Thread Bob McGowan
to get it mounted. A simple 'ls /media' gives you the list of names that you've set up this way. To determine the name you need to use for the device path in the auto.usb file, first do an 'ls' of /dev/disk/by-id before plugging the device, and one after. The new dev

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-28 Thread Bob McGowan
ontroller problem, it shouldn't affect the disks on the other controllers. > Rebuild is generally the period of most intense activity so > figure on failures being much more likely during a rebuild. > > --Mike Bird > > -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

2010-04-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Paul Chany wrote: Liam O'Toole writes: On 2010-04-14, Paul Chany wrote: I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't know where? ---SNIP--- Maybe /etc/environment? Here on my GNU/Linux Lenny system this file is empty. -- Regards, Paul Cha

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Bob McGowan
ess technical users could assume using Debian lists is OK. The above is guess work based on observation, not critical analysis. YMMV. ;) -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4bbe0eb2.5070...@symantec.com

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-08 Thread Bob McGowan
an MBR recovery/backup/restore and more application. Not the boot loader that you want ;( But perhaps useful info, in other contexts. It appears to be a DOS only tool. It (and other freeware tools for DOS/Windows) can be found here: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.h

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

2010-03-26 Thread Bob McGowan
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-24 12:07, Bob McGowan wrote: > [snip] >> >> And, I used VFAT for the filesystem type: > > That's the key difference, since vfat "is" fat32. > Ah, yes. Too long since I've dealt much with FAT of any sort, det

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

2010-03-24 Thread Bob McGowan
ls --version says "ls (GNU coreutils) 5.97" and still using etch [4.0]). A couple of other differences: My flash drive has no partition table, the filesystem is built on the base device, like a floppy disk. And, I used VFAT for the filesystem type: $ mount|grep sde /dev/sde on /var/autofs/u

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Bob McGowan
new install, you can easily assign labels if you choose the advanced partitioning method. -- Bob McGowan -- 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/4ba008d7.3060...@symantec.com

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-11 Thread Bob McGowan
time now, in large part to avoid the fsck, simply because it is time consuming and got in the way. I've tended to avoid using sleep or hibernate, due to issues with my hardware not working well, though things are getting much better with newer software and kernels. Which means I need to periodic

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