Re: KDE madness again
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:45:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Long time ago I stopped using KDE, because they started going insane. > > Two days ago upgraded to Buster and now wanted to check if all works fine. > > One of the things I need to use is qdbusviewer - unfortunately there is no > acceptable alternative. Now I spend already one hour because of the > stupidity and madness of the way KDE decided to do configuration > > $ qdbusviewer > qdbusviewer: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qdbusviewer': > No such file or directory I am currently running most packages on testing. On my system, qdbusviewer seems to be: # ls -l /usr/bin/qdbusviewer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 3 2019 /usr/bin/qdbusviewer -> qtchooser qdbusviewer itself seems to be in qttools5-dev-tools, and I seem to be able to run it as: # /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer Please let mke know if some version information from my side would help. Thanks. Kumar -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: One jigdo file missing - cannot build ISO image DVD7.
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 06:46:36PM +1030, djs wrote: > When using jigdo-lite to download files for debian-9.8.0-amd64-DVD7 the > majority of the files download correctly. The procedure becomes stuck > at http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/afl/afl-doc_2.36b-1_all. > deb . One file missing! I waited several weeks to see if this missing > file would be updated but it did not. I tried several other mirrors > around the world and the same problem appears even if trying to > download it directly. Seems to be a broken file globally mirrored. > The error message is '2019-03-10 18:25:18 (0.00 B/s) - Read error at > byte 0/132596 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.' Files required to > download and build all other DVD iso images did correctly complete. > Images 2 to 6 and 8 to 14 are all OK. DVD image 1 is also broken but > this can be downloaded as an image directly so this is not a problem. > Can a workaround be suggested to complete or ignore this missing file? You can download the missing package from https://snapshot.debian.org For instance: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/afl/2.36b-1/#afl-doc_2.36b-1 Kumar -- "...you might as well skip the Xmas celebration completely, and instead sit in front of your linux computer playing with the all-new-and-improved linux kernel version." (By Linus Torvalds)
xterm choking on compose key input
Hi. I regularly use the compose key to insert characters. The locale I use, en_IN, doesn't have a Compose file in /usr/share/X11/locale, so I copied the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file to ~/.XCompose. Now, most applications work fine. However, xterm seems to choke on compose key input, and I get garbage whenever I type any compose key sequence. However, if I run LANG=en_US.UTF-8 xterm, then it works fine. Is there a way to fix xterm, short of changing my locale or writing a wrapper that calls LANG=en_US.UTF-8 xterm? Thanks. Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150107083850.ga4...@bluemoon.iitb.ac.in
Re: xterm choking on compose key input
Dear Sven,
Thanks for the e-mail.
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2015-01-07 09:38 +0100, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
I regularly use the compose key to insert characters. The locale I
use, en_IN, doesn't have a Compose file in /usr/share/X11/locale, so I
copied the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file to
~/.XCompose.
Now, most applications work fine. However, xterm seems to choke on
compose key input, and I get garbage whenever I type any compose key
sequence. However, if I run LANG=en_US.UTF-8 xterm, then it works
fine.
Which version of xterm is that? If ~/.XCompose exists, xterm does not
read any other Compose files here:
dpkg -l xterm gives me:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
ii xterm 312-1amd64X terminal emulator
,
| $ strace xterm -e true 21 | grep Compose
| open(/home/sven/.XCompose, O_RDONLY) = 5
| stat64(/home/sven/.XCompose, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
| stat64(/home/sven/.XCompose, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
| open(/home/sven/.XCompose, O_RDONLY) = 5
`
So I don't have any explanation for the behavior you observe.
strace xterm -e true 21 | grep Compose
open(/home/kumar/.XCompose, O_RDONLY) = 6
stat(/home/kumar/.XCompose, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=563251, ...}) = 0
stat(/home/kumar/.XCompose, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=563251, ...}) = 0
open(/home/kumar/.XCompose, O_RDONLY) = 6
This is fine. It is clear that xterm honours the .XCompose file. It's
just that the characters it seems to receive aren't the right
ones. For example, Compose + . + . should give me an ellipsis, as it
does on other programs. But on xterm, I get â\200¦. But LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
xterm
works perfectly.
Thanks.
Kumar
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Re: C++ compiler g++-4.9
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 01:23:31PM +0100, Nick Mpallas wrote: Hi guys, I am building a platform and I need to compile apache mesos from sources. The issue is that the guys the require support for specific c++11 features that in the 4.7 compiler currently supported by debian aren't there. Will the g++ compiler will be updated?We would like to use debian as the backbone operating system for our cluster. Your hint would be to check the g++ package. From what I can tell, the testing g++ package is, indeed, g++-4.9, from https://packages.debian.org/jessie/g++ So, you can expect jessie to ship with g++-4.9 as the default. Kumar -- Checking host system type... i586-unknown-linux configure: error: sorry, this is the gnu os, not linux -- Topic on #Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141210130856.GA29959@odessa
Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: There was a thread about MP3 players a bit back, and one in particular found favour. But my memory, Google-foo, archive-foo have all failed me. Can any kind person remind me/recommend a suitable inexpensive MP3 player for me to take on holiday. I want to be able to load it easily frorm/with a Debian computer, and I don't want to spend exorbitant amounts. It must remember where it got to, and I want to be able to select my track/book/whatever. The very cheap one I was given last year restarted at the beginning every time it had been turned off. Much as I liked the first track, I got very tired of it. The Sandisk Sansa family is quite good[1]. I personally use the Sansa Clip+, but have used the old Fuze in the past. While they work out of the box, many of them support the free alternative firmware Rockbox for extra goodnessp[2]. Kumar [1]: http://www.sandisk.com/products/music-video-players/ [2]: http://www.rockbox.com/ -- To kick or not to kick... -- Somewhere on IRC, inspired by Shakespeare -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141004151339.GB18788@odessa
Suspend/hibernate menu options missing from KDE
Dear Debian User, I am using a Jessie, and largely have KDE 4.11. I am trying to configure my KDE to allow sleep on lid close and such goodness. In the Power Management section of my KDE System Settings, I am unable to find any sleep/suspend options. Likewise, the K Menu's Leave section also has only Restart and Shut Down in the relevant sections. However, sudo pm-suspend and sudo pm-hibernate and sudo pm-suspend, indeed, do what I want. From searching online, I found that the output of both of these commands in false: qdbus org.freedesktop.PowerManagement /org/freedesktop/PowerManagementorg.freedesktop.PowerManagement.CanHibernate qdbus org.freedesktop.PowerManagement /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.CanSuspend In addition, my /etc/default/acpi-support has this: ACPI_SLEEP=true ACPI_HIBERNATE=true LOCK_SCREEN=true LID_SLEEP=true #LID_SHUTDOWN=true DISPLAY_DPMS=xset XRANDR_OUTPUT=LVDS #DISPLAY_DPMS_NO_USER=true However, closing the lid only locks my screen, and doesn't suspend my computer. Would you be able to suggest something? Thanks. Kumar -- sct Anyone want the new supermount? :) klogd whats new aboutit sct klogd: It cleans whiter than white. :) -- Seen on #Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140817070756.GA15207@odessa
Re: ntpdate: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:43:28AM +, Amit wrote: Have a minimal debian system and installed ntpdate. Time seems to be set correctly but getting these messages: $ journalctl -b | grep ntp Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 1.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 2.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 3.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: no servers can be used, exiting Apr 17 17:36:45 test ntpdate[1148]: adjust time server 64.113.32.5 offset 0.017320 sec Apr 17 17:37:01 test ntpdate[1362]: adjust time server 64.113.32.5 offset 0.012608 sec Is this normal? It appears that your machine's NTP requests are blocked. Is the machine connected to the internet, and is there a NAT/firewall that may block some protocols? Kumar -- Not only Guinness - Linux is good for you, too. -- Banzai on IRC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140418004716.GB3350@odessa
Re: Maildir ext4 slowness
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:29:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening in the old days when I was using mboxes. I get at most 2-3 seconds with 12000+ messages Maildirs :) Following settings might help: # This speeds up mutt especially with large folders set header_cache=~/.cache/mutt/header/ unset header_cache_compress unset maildir_header_cache_verify set message_cachedir=~/.cache/mutt/message/ set read_inc=500 More details about them in muttrc(5). I prefer Maildir since I can use notmuch to index my mails easily. Yep. You are correct. This helped alleviate the delay significantly! I'll try to play around more to check things out, but it looks like this is what I was missing. Thanks! Kumar -- On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT -- Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restr...@fateware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140409113212.GA6452@odessa
Re: Maildir ext4 slowness
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:52PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: As with any MUA directly accessing maildir files performance gradually slows down over time with more and more mail files because they are scattered across the filesystem, especially with EXT, much less so with XFS. Seeking to 1000 files all over the disk to read the headers takes time. mbox is quicker because you typically have far more messages stored linearly on disk, thus you have much less seeking when reading headers. I intend trying out XFS on the next opportunity, just to compare the performance. Mutt, as with other MUAs, creates a header cache so it only needs to read the headers of new mail files. If you're slowing down with large maildir folders, the most likely problem is that your header caching is not working properly. I am not a mutt user so I cannot tell you which knob to turn or which cache file to delete/recreate to fix this. I have seen the same problem with many other MUAs and this is most often the cause. See this thread from '08 for background on the excessive seeking. The patch for this should already be in your mutt version if it's current, but understanding what is being discussed may give you an idea as to what is broken, and where to start looking: http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.2/00514.html The suggestion of using a header cache was what I wasn't aware of, and this helped speed up access significantly. Thanks for the suggestion and the link. Kumar -- Not only Guinness - Linux is good for you, too. -- Banzai on IRC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140409113507.GB6452@odessa
Maildir ext4 slowness
Dear Debian User, Of late, I've observed that opening my Maildir boxes in Mutt has been a tad slow. Here is the rough structure: I have an LVM home directory (ext4), within which I have a folder called ~/Maildir. This folder has several Maildirs, say inbox, debian-user etc., each of which gets its mail delivered using procmail. tune2fs gives me these features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening in the old days when I was using mboxes. I prefer Maildir since I can use notmuch to index my mails easily. Is there something I could to to speed things up? For instance, I could create a 20 GB file, create another filesystem on it and mount it as my Maildir, if that would help. Thanks. Kumar -- 'Ooohh.. FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to Linux over the wire. Film at 11.' -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140409024705.GA8611@odessa
Re: mbox files - can they be compacted?
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 02:10:09PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: Hi All ;) Is there an option to compact large mbox files from the shell? I did not find anything in google, I have some very large constantly updated mbox files and would like to know if they can be made smaller with any tool. AFAIK mutt does such operation when for example an email is deleted but I am curious if there are other options. What do you mean by compacting? If you are talking about gzipping it, then you can just gzip your mboxes. If you want Mutt to directly read/write gzipped mboxes, you can check the gzipped mboxes section here: http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/storage/ Do note that this might slow down access to the files, since it has to compress/decompress the mbox each time you want to read or write it. HTH. Kumar -- If a 'train station' is where a train stops, what's a 'workstation'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140406123338.GA4176@odessa
Re: images not correctly rendered in iceweasel
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:41:42PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: FWIW, I am using iceweasel 27.0.1-1 from experimental, and the rendering is identical for me in chromium and iceweasel. This seems to be an artefact in 24 though… Thanks for the reply Kumar. That is a good data point to have. Could you please post the output of dpkg -l iceweasel chromium on the machine you tested this? Is there anyone who is able to reproduce the problem? Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==-===--= ii chromium 32.0.1700.123-4 amd64Chromium web browser ii iceweasel 27.0.1-1amd64Web browser based on Firefox Hope this helps. Kumar -- Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140321225541.GA20802@odessa
Re: images not correctly rendered in iceweasel
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:25:06PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On some websites, Iceweasel is not rendering the images correctly. The same website works perfectly in chromium browser. For example, here is a screenshot of [1]http://www.java.com/images/jv0h_java8.jpg in both the browsers [2]http://imagebin.org/300474 - iceweasel [3]http://imagebin.org/300473 - chromium Notice how the chromium screenshot shows everything in blue while iceweasel's screenshot shows it in green. Has anyone encountered this problem? I am curious to know what causes this problem and want to find out if there is a fix. The problem occurs on other websites such as [4]facebook.com but not on all the websites (ex:- images on [5]images.google.com render correctly in both browsers). I am not sure why. My machine is a combination of Debian stable (Wheezy) and testing (Jessie). rajulocal@hogwarts:~/x$ dpkg -l iceweasel chromium ii �chromium � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 32.0.1700.123-1~deb7u1 � � � amd64 � � � � � � � � � � � �Google's open source chromium web browser ii �iceweasel � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �24.3.0esr-1~deb7u1 � � � � � amd64 � � � � � � � � � � � �Web browser based on Firefox Please let me know if you need any other information. A cursory glance indicates that Iceweasel seems to be using its own (possibly internal?) JPEG library, while chromium seems to use libjpeg. FWIW, I am using iceweasel 27.0.1-1 from experimental, and the rendering is identical for me in chromium and iceweasel. This seems to be an artefact in 24 though… Sorry for not being much help. Kumar -- How do you pronounce SunOS? Just like you hear it, with a big SOS -- dedicated to Roland Kaltefleiter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140320034104.GA20566@odessa
Re: eps editor
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:29:51PM +0800, lina wrote: On Sunday 23,February,2014 11:12 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Any package recommendation to edit the eps details? I have a network pic, see attached. I manually drag the nodes position, and it was produced by R tkplot, I am not smart to change the label position, any suggestion about eps editor package (epstool is not for this case) and how to beautiful this figure are welcome. I find gedit with find and replace can do some job, it is crazy. You can try Inkscape. It can import and export EPS files. Kumar -- I never thought that I'd see the day where Netscape is free software and X11 is proprietary. We live in interesting times. -- Matt Kimball mkimb...@xmission.com -- 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/20140223162455.GB28108@odessa
Re: Postfix - run script from email
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 02:17:33PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: Tony van der Hoff: Does anyone know how to attach some sort of filter/trigger to postfix to cause a script to be run on incoming mail with particular conditions, or would anyone like to suggest a better solution? I would do that during delivery of the e-mails, probably using Postfix. I think you mean procmail? Kumar -- How do you power off this machine? -- Linus, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using the machine for several months -- 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/20131207162705.ga20...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:11:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: In GahNU, answer find you :) But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it. I am doing some searching myself, but I did want some opinions from the list. Thank you for sharing your opinions. All good. I am also interested in the indexing side. Please do let us know what solution you find which works well for your email storage volume. About 6 years ago I encouraged a friend to move from OutlookExpress to Thunderbird, for libre reasons, and for getting familiar with software which is cross-platform to GNU/Linux. They had about 3GiB of OutlookExpress files, with many folders, and Thunderbird I think managed to import them all, BUT was significantly slower for searching and everything, so they could not practically make the switch at the time. They were running an 2000-era Pentium4 2GHz, 1G RAM, 120G laptop HDD. Personally, I use Mutt myself. I used to use mboxes, but recently converted to Maildirs due to the fact that notmuch makes searching very easy and fast. My current ext4 solution seems to work well, but I was just wondering whether this approach would scale well. Good luck, and I do hope you find a great solution to large mailbox storing and searching! Wish you the same. Thanks. Kumar -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -- 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/20130818134149.ga25...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Loopback filesystems for mail storage
Hi. This may be slightly OT, but I hope people don't mind much. I'd like to come up with an efficient way to store and access my e-mail using a loopback file, so I wanted some advice from experienced people on the list. Currently, I've been using only vanilla ext[34] file systems, but my Maildir has now grown to a large size. So, I wanted to come up with a better solution. One approach I thought of is a loopback file. That makes things simpler, since I don't really have to repartition, and backing up is rather easy. So, here are my questions: 1. What is the best filesystem for Maildirs with several tens of thousands of messages? 2. Is there a massive performance hit if I use a file mounted as a loopback filesystem, rather than a physical one? I don't mind a small hit for my desktop use, but if it nixes the whole utility of changing the filesystem, then I'd like to know. 3. What filesystem would allow quick file access? I'd like to be able to view the Maildirs in Mutt, and index and search it using notmuch. XFS is something searches on the interwebs revealed, but I've also heard people mention Btrfs, JFS etc. If this is too long to answer, I'd appreciate a pointer to a resource that I could read. Thanks. Kumar -- The primary difference [...] is that the Java programm will reliably and obviously crash, whereas the C Program will do something obscure -- Java Language Tutorial -- 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/20130817135957.ga5...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hi. This may be slightly OT, but I hope people don't mind much. I'd like to come up with an efficient way to store and access my e-mail using a loopback file, so I wanted some advice from experienced people on the list. Currently, I've been using only vanilla ext[34] file systems, but my Maildir has now grown to a large size. So, I wanted to come up with a better solution. One approach I thought of is a loopback file. That makes things simpler, since I don't really have to repartition, and backing up is rather easy. So, here are my questions: 1. What is the best filesystem for Maildirs with several tens of thousands of messages? 2. Is there a massive performance hit if I use a file mounted as a loopback filesystem, rather than a physical one? I don't mind a small hit for my desktop use, but if it nixes the whole utility of changing the filesystem, then I'd like to know. 3. What filesystem would allow quick file access? I'd like to be able to view the Maildirs in Mutt, and index and search it using notmuch. XFS is something searches on the interwebs revealed, but I've also heard people mention Btrfs, JFS etc. If this is too long to answer, I'd appreciate a pointer to a resource that I could read. Oh, and this: 4. Would it be easy to enlarge/grow a file that contains a filesystem? i.e., if I create a container file of 5 GB and want to expand it to 7 GB? Of course, I don't mind creating a new file for 7 GB and moving the mails as well… Thanks. Kumar -- We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. -- seen in someone's .signature -- 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/20130817140114.ga7...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:28:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: And of course the simple solution is to migrate to mbox. Maildir was created for a single purpose: to eliminate file locking contention on the traditional UNIX single mbox file. With tens of thousands of emails this is obviously an archival workload. As such you don't have the locking issues. Header and body searches are many times faster with mbox than with maildir. The only operation that is significantly slower is deleting an email. I'll assume mutt uses mmap to access mbox files, so large file sizes shouldn't be a problem. Thank you for your response, Stan. The reason why I moved to Maildir is because I started using notmuch for indexing and searching my e-mail. Now, I could maintain two copies: one for general access and the other for notmuch indexing, but that's rather inefficient and I'd have to sync them somehow. FWIW, I have some 100K+ emails, mostly list mail, in a couple dozen active mbox files. Full body searching is relatively quick on a file containing 20K emails and on a gzipped file containing 17K+ emails, even with stale FTS indexes in both cases. These mbox mails are stored on a Dovecot server w/dual 550MHz CPUs, 384MB RAM, with a single effective 7.2K SATA spindles--pretty old and slow hardware. mbox performance is more than acceptable. Agreed. I'll see if there is a way by which I can have the best of both worlds. My usual solution (even with mboxes) was to use formail to split the messages to several mail directories on a per month basis, such as 2013_08, 2013_07 … 2005_06 etc. I'll see if that helps. Thanks. Kumar -- mar...@bdsi.com (no longer valid - where are you now, Martin?) -- from /usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/mcd.c -- 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/20130818040056.ga17...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: In GahNU, answer find you :) But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it. I am doing some searching myself, but I did want some opinions from the list. Thank you for sharing your opinions. Kumar -- Apples have meant trouble since eden. -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikh...@at8.abo.fi -- 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/20130818040618.gb17...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: apache chroot
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:26:22PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) After installed debian 7, there isn't: libapache2-mod-chroot (I use it to put apache within a jail) but this package does not exist. Any idea? You should check the PTS: http://packages.qa.debian.org/liba/libapache-mod-chroot.html There, clicking on Removed 0.5-7 from unstable reveals that it was removed because it is obsolete as apache has its own chroot direcive as of version 2.2.10¹. HTH. Kumar ¹: http://packages.qa.debian.org/liba/libapache-mod-chroot/news/20110428T151218Z.html -- | |-sshd---tcsh-+-dpkg-buildpacka---rules---sh---make---make---sh---make---sh---make---sh---make---sh---make---sh---make -- While packaging XFree86 for Debian GNU/Linux -- 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/20130617113535.ga8...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: RedHat and MariaDB
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Slashdot and others have reported that RedHat, like Fedora and OpenSuSE, is switching from MySQL to MariaDB. I expect Debian will follow suit, since they have set precedents many times for preferring free software. (Example: OpenOffice.org == LibreOffice.) Has this been discussed? Does anyone have a time frame for this? I would like to see this happen in time for Jessie. You will be interested in the thread here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00181.html Kumar -- So in the future, one 'client' at a time or you'll be spending CPU time with lots of little 'child processes'. -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the private life of a Linux nerd -- 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/20130615021121.ga10...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Starting Google Chrome
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:08:44PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 04/15/2013 07:59 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Kumar - Thanks. It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the executable. Package Manager. I installed the Google Chrome deb file downloaded from the Chrome website¹, and that did put a file called google-chrome in /usr/bin To check the contents of the package, you can use dpkg -L google-chrome-stable Hope this helps. Kumar ¹: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ = Kumar - Thanks. rosenberg:/home/ethan/Desktop# dpkg -L google-chrome-stable dpkg-query: package 'google-chrome-stable' is not installed Then download it from here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ Get the deb, and run dpkg -i debfile That should install it. Kumar -- ...Deep Hack Mode -- that mysterious and frightening state of consciousness where Mortal Users fear to tread. -- Matt Welsh -- 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/20130416112531.gb32...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Starting Google Chrome
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. A search on Google gives the start command as google-chrome. I can't make it work. It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the executable. A lot of Debian folk use Chromium, that is already packaged in Debian, and is the free (open-source) version of Chrome. You might also want to give that a shot. Kumar -- Those who don't understand Linux are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. -- unidentified source -- 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/20130415232555.ga4...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Starting Google Chrome
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Kumar - Thanks. It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the executable. Package Manager. I installed the Google Chrome deb file downloaded from the Chrome website¹, and that did put a file called google-chrome in /usr/bin To check the contents of the package, you can use dpkg -L google-chrome-stable Hope this helps. Kumar ¹: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ -- ...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals. (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) -- 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/20130415235935.ga8...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: possible in lynx file download?
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:38:32PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze) I use lynx to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem getting CD .iso images. (Except that it seems to prefer IPv6, which is significantly slower for me than IPv4. Is there a config option to change that behavior?) But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same directory, I get a few lines of HTML pre-pended to the downloaded file. Has anybody else seen this behavior? Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug in Lynx? I see this behaviour in Lynx as well. elinks, however, does it as expected. As for Lynx, if you have to use it, one workaround is to browse to the MD5SUMS, and then use the P button to print it, which allows you to save it to a file. I have no clue about the IPV6 issue, though. Kumar -- The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license. If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces. -- Copyright notice for the chat program -- 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/20130331225750.ga25...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:28:17PM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: My current work-flow of running synaptic, reloading, marking upgrades, viewing history, cherry-picking updates I'm interested in and viewing the changelogs for each, (or if they fail to download, gunzip -c xyz/changelog.Debian.gz | less) sucks. Is there an updates list I can subscribe to so that the updates, complete with the changelog entry for the updates, get mailed to me when they're available. I realise it's going to depend on their availability on my local mirror, so as an alternative, could it be bundled with the update, or available in semantic along side the history entries. I'm just brainstorming here - feedback welcome. Is there a package that does this already? Are you looking for something like debian-devel-changes¹? It lists much less than what you want (the latest changelog entry for a package) and has uploads to all of Debian (not just testing or unstable etc.). Kumar ¹: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/ -- [In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to be less abusive.') (By Matt Welsh) -- 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/20121216001122.ga7...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: watch and beep
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:31:33AM +, Paweł Ch. wrote: I would like to hear beep when command output watch dig @ns.domain.tdl domain.tdl soa appear with string 2012113005. Which command performs this task. How about: while true; do if dig @ns.domain.tdl domain.tdl soa| grep -q 2012113005; then beep; fi sleep 2; done beep is available in the beep package. Kumar -- /* * Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to * terminate things with extreme prejudice. */ die_if_kernel(Oops, regs, error_code); (From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c) -- 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/20121130122647.ga12...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: compiling a Debian package
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 05:18:14AM +0100, lee wrote: Hi, is it a bug that should be reported when a source package doesn't compile? And how come that there is a binary package though it cannot be compiled? apt-get build-dep dvbcut apt-get source dvbcut cd dvbcut debuild -us -uc ... fails with a number of errors: It depends. Which version of the compiler and libraries do you have installed, and which version was used on the buildd? And is the current version buildable in sid and wheezy? If so, it's may not be a release critical bug, although it may still be a bug. Please check these details (versions of packages, compiler etc.). HTH. Kumar -- I've no idea when Linus is going to release 2.0.24, but if he takes too long Im going to release a 2.0.24unoff and he can sound off all he likes. -- Alan Cox -- 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/20121028051435.ga26...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: looking for the 'lockfile' program
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 04:31:39PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: Ok, its part of procmail apparently. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Britton Kerin britton.ke...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available or has been obsoleted for some reason. I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor flock, but the program described here: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_lockfile.htm For the future, you can easily check things like this by visiting http://packages.debian.org/file:filename For instance, http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=lockfile Kumar -- We should start referring to processes which run in the background by their correct technical name... paenguins. -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the penguin Linux logo -- 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/20121003004437.ga17...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: EXIM in Debian
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:46:55PM -0400, Mark Robinson wrote: I know it might not be in the right group but is related mostly with Debian. There is Exim 4.72 under Debian with split configuration files. I need to remove header and I know how to do in Exim. In section remote_smtp add remove_headers=blablabla. How I can do in Debian Exim with split configuration? The exim4-config includes the man page exim4-config_files for standard changes. I'd suggest that you have a look at the files in /etc/exim4/conf.d, make your changes as needed, and run update-exim4.conf to write them to generate the configuration. Kumar -- Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was Divide and conquer not Divide and cock up (By iia...@www.linux.org.uk, Alan Cox) -- 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/20120919013428.ga4...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: GNU find: print0 and -type arguments
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:12:49PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: Kumar Yes, I read the man page and I know what the -print0 option is supposed to do. Notice, however, that when I executed find -print0 -type d the output (which, we both understand, is delimited by null characters) includes the regular file, even though I specified -type d. My bad. Sorry for missing this. Kumar -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste (k...@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93) -- 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/20120802115312.ga30...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: GNU find: print0 and -type arguments
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:33:35PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: . ./dir This is the expected output. However, when I execute: find -print0 -type d I see (on a terminal screen that does not display null characters): ../dir./file The same goes for using -type f. It appears as though find ignores the -type argument when the -print0 option is passed. Isn't this a bug? No. If you refer to the man page, it will reveal that -print0 actually outputs null characters instead of newlines. It is usually useful in conjunction with the -0 option for xargs to run commands on each file or directory found by find. Please read the man pages and they have nice examples at the bottom. Kumar -- Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that no conclusion can be drawn from them. -- Joseph L. Brothers, Linux/PowerPC Project) -- 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/20120802014159.gb12...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Why compiling.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:54:29AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: The kernel provided when you install Linux, Debian included, has to work on nearly every system out there so it includes drivers for nearly piece of hardware that can be installed in a PC. I always compile a kernel with only the hardware I have in my computer. This gives me a smaller memory footprint and a smaller disk footprint. I'd like to get some proof of this. For many years, the Linux kernel has been modular, and, barring some filesystem support and similar, almost all hardware support is achieved by means of loadable modules. So, a module is loaded only if you have the hardware which has a need for it. This is why a stock Debian kernel will load the driver for just an Intel sound card if you have one, and not drivers for any other brands. However, tomorrow, when you switch out the sound card, the same kernel can support the new sound card without needing a rebuild. Please correct me if I have missed something here. Thanks. Kumar -- If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. (By Linus Torvalds) -- 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/20120711041248.ga7...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: how to update Debian OS properly
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:57:28PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: in a testing environment I was trying to upgrade the security patches and I run the command apt-get upgrade. It ran fine, but at the end it upgraded my whole OS, first my test machine was showing Debian version 6.0.4 now after the upgrade it shifted to Wheezy/SID which I think is unstable. In Microsoft when we upgrade the OS. it downloads only the security and OS patches. So the question are 1. how to upgrade only the security patches? If security is your concern, you ought to be running stable as opposed to testing. If you run stable, then ensuring that security.debian.org is listed in the /etc/apt/sources.list will fetch security updates. 2. if the upgrade patch trigger any critical issue. Like any service like hosting, filesharing or squid got effected by the update, how come we know which patch cause this problem and how to remove that specific patch because in Microsoft I have seen that security patches and OS patches some time make problems when run along with ongoing services. I'd advise you to subscribe to the security mailing list of the projects which you run on your machine whose security issues you are concerned about. Read this for further details and ideas: http://www.debian.org/security/ 3. how to revert back to old OS, for example, in my case i upgraded my system from 6.0.4 to Wheezy/SID now want to revert things back. This is a little complicated and one could end up hosing one's system. I'd advise you to back up things and do a fresh install of squeeze. HTH. Kumar -- We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department. -- Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software -- 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/20120525114253.gb5...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: OT: Need help compiling C files
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:10:56PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: Any ideas why I'm getting these errors while trying to compile F3 flash memory test program? The source is at: http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ Tried adding -I /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/include option, without quotes, but that didn't help. I'm not a C/C++ developer at all. Thanks $ make linux gcc -Wall -c utils.c In file included from utils.c:1:0: utils.h:4:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [linux] Error 1 It works for me. Please try sudo apt-get install build-essential and then try again; the headers might not be present. Kumar -- The first is to ensure your partner understands that nature has root privileges - nature doesn't have to make sense. -- Telsa Gwynne -- 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/20120411042219.ga10...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: OT: Need help compiling C files
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:45:14PM -0700, T Elcor wrote:
I'm on Wheezy, installing build-essential appears to be a bit problematic:
# aptitude install make gcc build-essential
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential bzip2{a} dpkg-dev{a} g++{a} g++-4.6{a} libc-dev-bin{a}
libc6-dev{a}
libclass-isa-perl{a} libdpkg-perl{a} libfile-fcntllock-perl{a}
libstdc++6-4.6-dev{a} libswitch-perl{a}
libtimedate-perl{a} linux-libc-dev{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
perl perl-base perl-modules
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
fakeroot libalgorithm-merge-perl manpages-dev
3 packages upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 35.2 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
libuuid-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
libdbi-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual
package.
libdbd-mysql-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
libperl5.12 : Depends: perl-base (= 5.12.4-6) but 5.14.2-9 is to be
installed.
libtext-iconv-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages: list of 144 packages
I don't know how one would get over this. It is possible that you are
caught in the midst of a transition, but I am not sure.
Should you just want the stdio.h header, maybe getting libc6-dev
should do. You could try installing just that.
Kumar
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Re: dir is not ls
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:57:28PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: Just save the alias in /etc/profile.d/bash_aliases.sh and we are done. (But I think a rm /bin/dir is also applicable) Every time there's an update to coreutils dir will be back, don't forget. Anyhow, won't the alias take precedence? If yes, why bother removing dir? In addition, the bash profile is not an option since that probably applies only for those who have their shell as bash; users choosing another shell would probably still see dir. Kumar -- There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader. (Unknown source) -- 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/20120320031342.ga19...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: why for debian -lblas links to libblas.so.3gf instead of libblas.so?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:47:20PM -0500, Jichao Yin wrote: -lblas links a program to libblas.so.3gf -llapack links a program to liblapack.so.3gf only those two sorts of libraries have and link to 3gf version of .so (including both reference netlib blas and ATLAS blas, lapack). On the other side, redhat distributions -lblas links to libblas.so and -llapack links to liblapack.so. Is there anyone who can clarify why debian uses .so.3gf only for -lblas and -llapack? Actually I found in debian libblas.so - libblas.so.3gf ultimately�� What is relationship between the two? This is a remnant of the gfotran transition. During the transition, a .3gf was added to libraries and package names for allowing a distinction between the g77 generated libraries and gfortran generated ones. From your perspective, the fact that the file names have a 3gf should not affect functionality at all. If it does, please let me know. For more information on the gfortran transition which happened ~ 3 years ago, see http://wiki.debian.org/GfortranTransition Kumar -- *** PUBLIC flooding detected from erikyyy lewnie THAT's an erik, pholx ;) -- Seen on #LinuxGER -- 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/20111025023021.ga7...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Count words/characters in ps or pdf
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:55:59PM +0200, li...@webconect.ch wrote: Hi all I'm looking for a program to easily count words and characters (with and without spaces) in ps or pdf documents. Any suggestions? How about: pdftotext pdffile|wc -w Kumar -- Save yourself from the 'Gates' of hell, use Linux. -- like that one. -- The_Kind @ LinuxNet -- 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/20111014132435.ga15...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: A quick Q: how do I link LS or Ls to ls
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:01:50PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I wonder is it possible to make the terminal recognize LS or Ls as ls Just add alias LS='ls' in your ~/.bashrc (or analogous for your shell). Kumar -- I've seen people with new children before, they go from ultra happy to looking like something out of a zombie film in about a week. -- Alan Cox about Linus after his 2nd daughter -- 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/20110917043601.ga24...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Just a Quick Question
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:53:19PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: How does one go about turning off the screen saver on the Debian system? Thanks so much in advance. It depends on which desktop environment you use (KDE/GNOME/XFCE/Other?). Each one has its own way. Alternately, if you run xscreensaver, xscreensaver-demo can be used to control the screen saver. HTH. Kumar -- Feel free to contact me (flames about my english and the useless of this driver will be redirected to /dev/null, oh no, it's full...). (Michael Beck, describing the PC-speaker sound device) -- 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/20110914015844.gb21...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Kscope is not in wheezy?
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:58:54AM +0800, H Xu wrote: I've checked this website and kscope is available in squeeze and sid: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kscope But I can't find it in wheezy. Why? On the package tracking system, you will get a reason why: http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kscope.html If you click Check why, you will discover that it needs to migrate along with qscintilla (specifically, libqscintilla2-5). However, the qscintilla2 source package produces libqscintilla2-6. This most likely means that a binNMU¹ or sourceful upload of kscope may be necessary. (There may be some inconsistencies in what I've said, so please verify). ¹: http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU -- Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus. (By m...@ka4ybr.com, Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) -- 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/20110914020309.gc21...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Exim4 configuration with rewriting for smarthost
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:41:48PM -0500, rlhar...@hal-pc.org wrote: For a week I have been searching without success for a guide to configuration of Exim4 for a personal system which utilizes the smarthost of an isp to handle outgoing mail and a web hosting service to host a web site. To the best of my knowledge, using an ISP to relay is covered in this tutorial for GMail, but should be adaptable to your situation: http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 Apologies if this wasn't what you expected; but in general, one of the cases of exim4-config s what you'd want, to the best of my understanding. Kumar -- This kernel runs like a dessicated slug if you have more than 2G of memory due to a 32-bit overflow. -- Andrew Morton, on Linux 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 -- 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/20110830012407.ga9...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 01:04:21PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: Hi again, can't anybody help? I'd really like to report this as bug against upower or KDE, but in the end I got no clue how I can verify where the problem is caused. One thing you could do is to run acpi -b when the weird occurrences happen, and see if that is in tune with what the battery monitor shows. When on ac, acpi -b should return blank, but when on battery, it should display some information on the battery life remaining etc. This way, you can tell if the problem is in the KDE applet or in ACPI. Thanks. Kumar -- The first is to ensure your partner understands that nature has root privileges - nature doesn't have to make sense. -- Telsa Gwynne -- 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/20110823123129.gb28...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: One thing you could do is to run acpi -b when the weird occurrences happen, and see if that is in tune with what the battery monitor shows. When on ac, acpi -b should return blank, but when on battery, it should display some information on the battery life remaining etc. This way, you can tell if the problem is in the KDE applet or in ACPI. What exactly do you mean by on battery? When I am on AC, but the battery is plugged in, acpi -b prints Battery 0: Unknown, 98% After plugging AC off, it says Battery 0: Discharging, 98%, 02:12:32 r emaining Ah, that made sense. I checked without a battery, which is what gave me a blank message. And when there is no battery it's empty. As far as I can tell, it also does that when KDE displays the no battery icon, which is however hard to catch since it only lasts for a fraction of a second. However, you gave me the idea to look for a CLI for upower, and there actually is one. upower --monitor prints this when plugging in AC: [14:47:44.867] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC [14:47:45.203] device removed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:45.832] device added: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:45.832] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:46.137] device removed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:46.420] device added: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:46.425] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:46.547] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:47.082] device removed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:47.374] device added: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:47.378] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:47.548] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:48.032] device removed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [14:47:48.255] device added: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [...] So the problem is definitely within upower or even further down the stack, but not in KDE. I'll report a bug against upower. Glad to know that you've at least zeroed down on the issue. Thanks. Kumar -- If a 'train station' is where a train stops, what's a 'workstation'? -- 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/20110823134426.ga31...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: how to add exec permission to other users
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:58:52AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I have a program It can be run by root only I want to add exec permission to other users so they can run it too how to use chmod? You should be able to use chmod a+x filename. But please be aware of the security implications of doing this before taking this step (is the application meant to be run only as root?). Kumar -- [...] or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name. (Don't laugh! Look at the SMC etherpower for that.) -- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS -- 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/20110817123014.ga3...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Wireless problem with Thinkpad X220
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 02:56:02PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: 1. Turn every service (wicd, network-manager, rf stuff, etc.) that is associated with wifi off. 2. Does iwlist wlan0 scan still return nothing? Unfortunately, even these didn't help. However, upgrading the kernel to 3.0.0-1-amd64 fixed things. Thanks! Kumar -- Stealth How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? Joey Use a rope? -- Seen on #Debian -- 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/20110813052042.ga28...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: How to install non-free firmware after installing Debian
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:21:37PM +1000, yudi v wrote: I need to install [1]Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux I downloaded the non-free firmware files and was looking for good documentation on how to install non-free firmware. So far* I did not come across one on Debian site. I set up Debian with LVM on top of LUKS. Can someone point me in the right direction. If you have ethernet access, just use apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi. Else just get the firmware-iwlwifi deb package and bring it to your laptop (via USB, say) and use dpkg -i debfile to install it. HTH. Kumar -- Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs. -- Dennis Ritchie -- 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/20110811122650.ga22...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Wireless problem with Thinkpad X220
Hi! I've been trying to help a friend out with wireless on his Thinkpad X220. The identifier is: 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) Now, according to http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x the drivers should work for the kernel (2.6.39 bpo.2). However, while wlan0 is displayed, he is unable to configure his network, and dmesg output says this: [ 2069.228798] rtl8192ce :03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled [ 2085.887165] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'WEP' [ 2085.887174] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'CCMP' [ 2085.887181] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'TKIP' [ 2085.887187] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' (deinit) [ 2143.973876] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' [ 2143.973885] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP' [ 2143.973892] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP' [ 2143.973898] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP' [ 2143.973921] [ 2143.973923] Linux kernel driver for RTL8192 based WLAN cards [ 2143.973929] Copyright (c) 2007-2008, Realsil Wlan [ 2326.698887] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'WEP' [ 2326.698897] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'CCMP' [ 2326.698904] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'TKIP' [ 2326.698910] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' (deinit) [ 2343.256604] rtl8192ce :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 [ 2343.256624] rtl8192ce :03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2343.266633] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc' [ 2343.267260] rtlwifi: wireless switch is off In spite of having switched the WiFi on, Network Manager doesn't see anything. iwlist scanning gives: Failed to read scan data : Network is down Also, rfkill showed: 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no An rfkill unblock removed the soft block, but that still did nothing. I've run out of debugging ideas, and am looking for suggestions. Could you let me know how I should go about this? Thanks! Kumar -- Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the leading edge so bad they walk right off the precipice. -- Craig E. Groeschel -- 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/20110812040526.ga11...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: S-Video on Debian
Dear Brian, On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:39:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: The changelog for xserver-xorg-video-intel documents bug fixes for TV-OUT made a few years ago. Nothing else since. mode: NTSC-M supported: NTSC-M NTSC-443 NTSC-J PAL-M PAL-NPAL 480p@59.94Hz 480p@60Hz 576p 720p@60Hz720p@59.94Hz 720p@50Hz 1080i@50Hz 1080i@60Hz 1080i@59.94H The default TV standard is NTSC-M, which is ok if the television is built for it. Otherwise xrandr --output TV1 --set mode PAL Even this didn't help. Strangely, the TV standard isn't even defined in my case; there has to be a driver issue. I'll try getting fresh drivers from Intel asand building them this weekend to see if that does me some good. Thanks for the help! Kumar -- Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software? -- Matt Welsh -- 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/20110804014841.ga8...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: S-Video on Debian
Dear Brian, Thanks for helping me out. On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:04:50PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 20:33:33 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Here's what I have: TV1 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 848x48030.0 + 640x48030.0 + 1024x768 30.0 800x60030.0*60.3 This tells you * the connection to the TV has been detected * there are two preferred modes (shown by the '+') * the current mode is 800x600 (shown by the '*') Fair. This makes sense. xrandr --output TV1 --mode 800x600 --crtc 1 '--crtc 1' isn't really required. Well, with, or without, nothing really appears on the TV. xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 [snip] Forget about this for the moment. I should have been clearer and explained I use xvattr to send video to the TV with vlc. It is of no consequence if nothing appears on the TV screen in the first place). The command for you to use to see a portion of your computer screen on the TV (because the TV is detected) is xrandr --output TV1 --mode 800x600 (or --mode 848x480 etc) Well, this didn't really send the computer screen to the TV. I'll proceed to the debugging information. It might be useful for us to see the outputs of 'xrandr --verbose' and 'lspci' for the video card. Here are the graphics card details from lspci -vvv: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 022f Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 45 Region 0: Memory at fea0 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Region 2: Memory at e000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at eff8 [size=8] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0300c Data: 4191 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Bridge: PM- B3+ Kernel driver in use: i915 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c) Subsystem: Dell Device 022f Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at feb0 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Bridge: PM- B3+ The relevant portion of xrandr --verbose is: TV1 connected 640x480+0+0 (0x3c8) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm Identifier: 0x44 Timestamp: 148418469 Subpixel: unknown Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0 Brightness: 1.0 Clones: CRTC: 0 CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 filter: bottom margin: 37 (0x0025) range: (0,100) right margin: 46 (0x002e) range: (0,100) top margin: 36 (0x0024) range: (0,100) left margin: 54 (0x0036)range: (0,100) mode: NTSC-M supported: NTSC-M NTSC-443 NTSC-J PAL-M PAL-NPAL 480p@59.94Hz 480p@60Hz 576p 720p@60Hz720p@59.94Hz 720p@50Hz 1080i@50Hz 1080i@60Hz 1080i@59.94H 848x480 (0x3c7) 14.5MHz +preferred h: width 848 start 849 end 912 total 944 skew0 clock 15.4KHz v: height 480 start 481 end 512 total 513 clock 30.0Hz 640x480 (0x3c8) 11.3MHz *current +preferred h: width 640 start 641 end 704 total 736 skew0 clock 15.4KHz v: height 480 start 481 end 512 total 513 clock 30.0Hz 1024x768 (0x3c9) 26.9MHz h: width 1024 start 1025 end 1088 total 1120 skew0 clock 24.0KHz v: height 768 start 769 end 800 total 801 clock 30.0Hz 800x600 (0x3ca) 17.0MHz h: width 800 start 801 end 864 total 896 skew0 clock 19.0KHz v
S-Video on Debian
Hi. I have an S-Video cable which I'd like to connect to a TV. It works on a friends laptop with Windows. On Debian I have: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3 KDE 4.6.2 When I connect an S-Video cable to the television, I am able to see the settings on the KDE Display Applet, and can configure it. However, no output manages to get through to the television. Several Ubuntu related fixes found on search engines didn't help much; I couldn't figure out which xorg.conf to play around with. Please let me know if I have to provide additional details. Thanks in advance for any pointers you could offer. Kumar -- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk ? Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !! (By leit...@inf.fu-berlin.de, Felix von Leitner) -- 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/20110731195804.ga5...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: S-Video on Debian
Dear Brian, On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:47:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: When I connect an S-Video cable to the television, I am able to see the settings on the KDE Display Applet, and can configure it. However, no output manages to get through to the television. This is what I do. 1. xrandr -q The relevant lines in the output are: S-video disconnected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 800x60072.2* Here's what I have: TV1 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 848x48030.0 + 640x48030.0 + 1024x768 30.0 800x60030.0*60.3 2. xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600 This ran: xrandr --addmode TV1 800x600 3. xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 --crtc 1 This ran after a while, although I initially got a cannot find crtc for output: xrandr --output TV1 --mode 800x600 --crtc 1 4. xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 Found Xv 2.2 X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 132 (XVideo) Minor opcode of failed request: 13 () Serial number of failed request: 13 Current serial number in output stream: 14 This step doesn't work. I hear some sound indicating that the TV is responding somewhat, but it doesn't seem to work. I'll keep trying, but if you have additional insights, do let me know. Thanks! Kmap -- MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- dmegg...@aix1.uottawa.ca -- 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/2011080101.ga20...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: KDE shortcut keys
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:42:43PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: If this doesn't work, here's another method. - Go to System Settings, and choose Input Actions. - Right click somewhere on the white space in the left section, and choose New - Global Shortcut - Command URL - Fill out the Trigger and Action and you should be good to go! The second way did the trick! I'm very thankful to You for the trick! I did try through the system settings but by choosing the app. in the list - reassigning the keys... So, the topic is solved and its end. Glad that it worked out. This method always seems to work! Kumar -- How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunk could check chunks? -- Alan Cox -- 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/20110714124346.ga3...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: KDE shortcut keys
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 08:30:59PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I have up-to-date Debian6 w/ KDE 4.4.5. The problem is that I can not use shortcut keys - for clean experiment I did so under a new user - no effect. If it works in the named version, what I can do to make it working? Try this. I might have done something already, but you could try it and let me know. - Suppose your program is accessible from the K Menu. Then right click on the K Menu, and choose Menu Editor. - Navigate to your program, and choose the Advanced tab. - Set a shortcut key. If this doesn't work, here's another method. - Go to System Settings, and choose Input Actions. - Right click somewhere on the white space in the left section, and choose New - Global Shortcut - Command URL - Fill out the Trigger and Action and you should be good to go! HTH. Kumar -- I tried the clone syscall on me, but it didn't work. -- Mike Neuffer trying to fix a serious time problem -- 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/20110711235211.ga2...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Wacom Bamboo Pen Touch
Hi. On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:20:05AM -0400, Matthew Howle wrote: I have a Wacom Bamboo Pen Touch (CTH-460) but I am unable to get the device working on Squeeze stable (6.0.1, AMD64). I also followed the instructions provided here http://lik.noblogs.org/post/2010/05/07/wacom-debian/ except for using version 0.8.8-11 of the linuxwacom driver. Any ideas? I had similar problems, and I switched to a newer kernel available in sid (2.6.38-1-amd64). If you are wary of pulling in a new kernel, you could choose to build it from source using kernel-package. Kumar -- No, that's wrong too. Now there's a race condition between the rm and the mv. Hmm, I need more coffee. -- Guy Maor on Debian Bug#25228 -- 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/20110504151732.ga5...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Why had emacs 23 become so ugly?
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:21:25AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the indentations I've been using have become microscopic. What's more, carefully counted-out ASCII tables and diagrams have become unreadable. Why is this? Why has this nonsense been inflicted on programmers? What can I do about it? Why should it even be necessary to do anything, considering that emacs is presumably maintained by programmers? This is possibly due to the default font setting. You can choose a monospace font and have all the goodness you wished for. For instance, the following works for me in my .emacs, but YMMV. (setq running-emacs-23 ( emacs-major-version 22)) (if running-emacs-23 (progn (set-default-font Monospace-7))) Kumar -- And Bruce is effectively building BruceIX -- Alan Cox -- 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/20110501030046.ga21...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT
Dear Alan, On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:19:54AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from Debian etch to Debian squeeze and got mutt 1.5.20. It has one behavior that I don't like and I hope that it can be changed: when I type 'v' within mutt I am given a choice of viewing the message within a browser window. My Firefox is almost always open, and previously mutt would display the message within a new Tab. Now a new Firefox Window is opened. I don't like that! Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one person who wrote, yeah, I'd like to know that too; but otherwise nothing. Maybe someone here knows something about configuring mutt? Failing that, how easy is it to go back to an older version of mutt? My mutt on etch always opened a new Tab. sigh You can check the command line with which firefox is called (from the mailcap, possibly?). Just change it to do: firefox -new-tab $URL That way, you can get it to open in a new tab. HTH. Kumar -- A Linux machine! Because a 486 is a terrible thing to waste! -- Joe Sloan, j...@wintermute.ucr.edu -- 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/20110421134159.ga6...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:37:02PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote: No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap Add a line like: text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html If another text/html; entry exists, you may need to comment (#) it. Bingo! I didn't have a .mailcap in my home directory, I just created it populated with the line above. And now my mutt puts the stuff into a Tab just like I wanted. Mr Green is herewith added to my growing list of Geniuses! How did you ever know about this, Mr Green? is this documented anywhere, or did you intuit it? Maybe you are the mutt developer? You've certainly added evidence to my claim, made in a different E-mail, that E-mail, the killer app, is by no means a piece of cake to set up correctly. Nice to hear that it worked. :-) The details are in section 5 of the Mutt manual: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html Kumar -- Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft and take over the (computing) world from the grassroots. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/20110421223913.gb17...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: mua and mail service provider statistics
Dear Chen, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:05:43PM +0800, Chen Wei wrote: as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. Wondering how to manage so many emails, out of curiosity, I did a statistics on choice of mail client and email service, based on 1494 messages received since subscribed to this list. Here is what I found. Thanks for doing this. The short story is, GMAIL prevail. The trouble with GMail is that it is suboptimal when it comes to a couple of things when compared to Mutt, _for me_: - It's threading is linear, which is difficult to follow for long and complex evolving threads. - I prefer console goodness over a web based approach. - GMail encourages top posting. But I see the merit in using GMail; it's simple, easy and powerful to use. Just that it's not for me. Kumar -- No, that's wrong too. Now there's a race condition between the rm and the mv. Hmm, I need more coffee. -- Guy Maor on Debian Bug#25228 -- 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/20110413142206.gc6...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:57:31AM +0800, waterloo wrote: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? I use Debian 6 amd64. Searching online led me to this: http://synapse.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/run-a-script-on-startup-shutdown-in-linux/ HTH. Kumar -- The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license. If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces. -- Copyright notice for the chat program -- 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/20110405054125.ga15...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: best labtop for debian
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: The IBM ThinkPads were always solid equipment and all of the hardware was supported very well. They did what you expected a laptop to do in that all of the peripherals worked with Linux drivers. Networking worked with native drivers. Graphics display worked with native drivers. Suspend to ram works. Suspend to disk works. The volume buttons work. The keyboard light can be toggled on and off. The special function keys work. Battery life is reasonable. The keyboard is the best of any of the laptops I have used. In my experience everything just works. On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wanted to know if all the ones available today (X-series, T-series, Edge etc.) carried similar goodness. Thanks! Kumar -- Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. (Taken from a .signature from someone from the UK, source unknown) -- 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/20110209032135.ga18...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
On lenny-backports-sloppy
Dear Debian Users, If this hasn't been discussed here already: http://blog.snow-crash.org/2010/10/a-new-player-in-the-house-lenny-backports-sloppy.html HTH and thanks. Kumar -- 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/20101005145445.gs27...@bowser.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:18:46AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:27:44 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? Most surely, yes. I've got all MS TrueType fonts installed O:-) Evince lists as used in that PDF: Arial, Garamond, Times News Roman and Symbol. Let me go back home and check it (on this machine, I don't have install privileges). No installation privileges needed. Just drop (copy/paste) all your MS *.ttf font into your user's ~/.fonts folder and you're done :-) Worked fine. Thanks! :-) Kumar -- Linux was made by foreign terrorists to take money from true US companies like Microsoft. - Some AOL'er. To this end we dedicate ourselves... -Don -- From the sig of Don, d...@cs.byu.edu -- 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/20100928122012.gb11...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Garbled PDF: missing fonts?
Dear Debian users, I have a problem opening the following PDF: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? I use squeeze/sid, and can give you package versions if you could tell me which ones would be useful. Thanks! Kumar -- 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/20100927205114.gb20...@bowser.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?
Dear Camaleón, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:10:12PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51:14 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I have a problem opening the following PDF: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker- Interview-Weblayout.pdf It opens fine here with Evince (lenny). All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? Most surely, yes. I've got all MS TrueType fonts installed O:-) Evince lists as used in that PDF: Arial, Garamond, Times News Roman and Symbol. Let me go back home and check it (on this machine, I don't have install privileges). Thanks! Kumar -- 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/20100927212744.ge20...@bowser.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?
Dear Sjoerd, On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:20:12AM +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51 -0500 Kumar Appaiah wrote: I have a problem opening the following PDF: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? If you open this pdf with evince, and have a look at File Properties tab 'Fonts', then you will see that all fonts except SymbolMT are 'not embedded', which means that they are missing from the pdf. A good pdf should contain the used fonts, so it is clearly at fault here. Indeed. I can confirm that this is the case. If you open the pdf with Adobe Reader, and have a look at File Properties tab 'Fonts', then you see that Adobe Reader replaces the missing fonts with other fonts that it apparently carries with it. Notably, the main text font, which is Garamond, is replaced with 'Adobe Serif MM', and although it looks fine, it differs from the original font. Installing msttcorefonts does not help here, because it does not contain the Garamond font. AFAICT Garamond is part of W2000 and XP. Yes, since I have the msttcorefonts installed. One option would be to get the Garamond font (three .ttf files) from some Windows installation and install it, e.g. just by putting it into ~/.fonts . I see that evince shows the text just fine then. Thanks. This does seem to work; but there is the slight problem that the characters umlauts didn't render properly; that is probably because the version of the font I used didn't have that encoding. But this is something I can get over myself. Thanks again! Kumar -- But what can you do with it? -- ubiquitous cry from Linux-user partner -- 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/20100928001336.ga30...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?
Dear Doug, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:53:25PM -0400, Doug wrote: On 9/27/2010 4:51 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I have a problem opening the following PDF: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? I use squeeze/sid, and can give you package versions if you could tell me which ones would be useful. Just as a sanity test, I opened the file in Windows, and it works perfectly. However, unless you read German, don't bother! (It's not difficult German, but there it is!) Ich weiß dass dieses Dokument in Deutsch ist. Ich möchte es lesen für die Übersetzung der Artikel auf Englisch für meine Arbeit. :-) (That was a German n00b's attempt to tell Doug that I am aware that the document is in German, and I want to read it in order to translate it into English as part of my work. ;-)) Kumar -- If loving linux is wrong, I dont wanna be right. -- Topic for #LinuxGER -- 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/20100928040135.ga2...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: converting pcm raw output to wav or mp3 file
Dear Siju, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:19:09PM +0530, Siju George wrote: I followed http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer#Using_the_ALSA_PCM_file and got the /tmp/out.raw file How do I convert it to wav or mp3? You would need an MP3 encoder, such as LAME. LAME is not available in Debian, but is available from unofficial repositories, such as Debian Multimedia (see http://debian-multimedia.org/ for details) HTH. Kumar -- How do you pronounce SunOS? Just like you hear it, with a big SOS -- dedicated to Roland Kaltefleiter -- 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/20100920113527.ga30...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: converting pcm raw output to wav or mp3 file
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:13:18PM +0530, Siju George wrote: You would need an MP3 encoder, such as LAME. LAME is not available in Debian, but is available from unofficial repositories, such as Debian Multimedia (see http://debian-multimedia.org/ for details) thanks i found out $lame -r out.raw out.wav to convert to wave and $ffmpeg-i out.wav out.mp3 to convert to mp3 thanks :-) Actually, you wouldn't need to use ffmpeg at all; lame sample.wav sample.mp3 should usually do the trick. See here for details: http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lame/lame/USAGE HTH. Kumar -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By komar...@craft.camp.clarkson.edu, Mark Komarinski) -- 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/20100920115117.ga...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:25:45PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: Last time the problem was compiling the kernel at all, which is working just fine now thank you Debian-User. fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 --initrd kernel_image creates the .deb file just fine, it installs fine, but when I run it and try to get the VirtualBox and Nvidia drivers to compile, this is what I get: from vbox-installer.log == Makefile:170: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.36-rc4) does not match the current kernel (version 2.6.36-rc4-curt1.0). Stop. == The thing is, there is no such error with 2.6.35.4-curt1.0, nor when it was 35-rc4-curt1.0. So why would it be choking on the custom extension now? I used _exactly_ the same compile command, listed above. Is this a manifestation of this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591793 I am unsure, but I was under the impression that kernel-package is broken for the most recent kernels. Thanks. Kumar -- 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/20100920175012.gf23...@bowser.ece.utexas.edu
Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:22:19PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: I am using Debian CD images as a local repository. I am mounting a CD and using it with this source list: deb file:///mnt lenny main Everything working fine but the problem is when I try to install a package from this repository, apt is always warn me about untrusted repository. Is it possible disable signature check for my CD location? Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use apt-cdrom to use the CD repositories? It is much easier than mounting the CD to use it. In any case, to fix the error you get, you have to identify the GPG key corresponding to the CD, and obtain it (preferably in a trusted manner), and do sudo apt-ket add - key Again, if apt-cdrom works, I would personally prefer that. Thanks. Kumar -- #if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE 32 #error Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer. #endif -- linux/arch/sparc64/double.h -- 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/20100910115801.ga4...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:14:11PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: In any case, to fix the error you get, you have to identify the GPG key corresponding to the CD, and obtain it (preferably in a trusted manner), and do sudo apt-ket add - key Where can I get this keys? CD images doesn't have signatures. Please paste the error message here. It would contain the key ID. Kumar -- The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun... -- Linus Torvalds at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux -- 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/20100910122554.ga6...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:36:03PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:25:54AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Please paste the error message here. It would contain the key ID. There is no error. Debian CD images doesn't have any signature or key. I see. I thought apt-get update would actually warn about the missing keys; maybe I was wrong. You could try looking for the Release.gpg file in your CD and trying out this: gpg --verify Release.gpg Release That would tell you the keys which were used to sign the files. For instance: gpg: Signature made Sat 04 Sep 2010 12:30:28 PM CDT using RSA key ID 55BE302B gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found gpg: Signature made Sat 04 Sep 2010 12:37:54 PM CDT using DSA key ID F42584E6 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found Please let me know if this helps. Kumar -- 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/20100910134932.gd27...@bowser.ece.utexas.edu
Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:26:49PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: In the early times, I was manually sign my local Release. Maybe I should continue to do this. Since I don't have any other ideas, I'd actually not be averse to that. You could sign your repository yourself, with a key which APT is aware of. If someone else can point our the right way, please do. Thanks. Kumar -- Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux (Unknown source) -- 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/20100910181805.gi13...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:26:46PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, There are sometimes some websites (such as news ones) which make an extensive use of flash stuff. Amongst the animations, flash is sometimes also used for ads, etc., and I don't like this. Are there any Iceweasel tools which can detect these ads, or use a public DB to avoid displaying these ads? Or is there any related solution? Flashblock. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/ Kumar -- 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/20100909184255.gr27...@bowser.ece.utexas.edu
Re: help parsing output
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:12:26PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote:
Dear debian people,
Can you help me with this task I have? I have a lot of files in a
subdirectory
containing the following text:
You should use awk.
- cut -
I need to parse this file to get in a csv file the following information:
Correctly Classified Instances, Kappa statistic, Total Number of Instances,
Precision {1}, Recall {1}, F-Measure {1},Precision {2}, Recall {2}, F-Measure
{2},Precision {3}, Recall {3}, F-Measure {3},a,b,c,a,b,c,a,b,c
56.6808, 0.2443, 5324760, 0.681,0.618,0.648,0.617,0.519,0.564,
0.056,0.296,0.094,1784321,684983,416649,787342,1190428,314537,49255,53877,43368
Does anyone have an idea how this could be accomplished?
I not that great in programming so writing a ruby or shell script do do this
would take me weeks:-(
A starting in Awk for processing a single file would be:
BEGIN {
n_equals = 0;
}
n_equals == 0 /Correctly Classified/ {
CCI = $(NF - 2);
}
n_equals == 0 /Incorrectly Classified/ {
ICI = $(NF - 2);
}
n_equals == 0 /Kappa statistic/ {
KS = $NF
}
…
/ ===/ { n_equals = n_equals + 1 }
n_equals == 1 /TP Rate/ {
next;
}
// More complicated processing
END {
printf %d,, CCI
printf %d,, ICI
printf %f, KS
…
}
You ought to read the Awk manual, and then it would be a mattle of a
couple of hours of thought at most.
HTH.
Kumar
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Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:17:06PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: What part of This directory provides Debian GNU/Linux Stable installer ISO images with a modification by Kenshi Muto to support newer hardwares, such as SATA and Ethernet devices. don't you understand? Sorry, what are You talking about? He says that it's essentially identical to the stable Debian installer ISOs, except that it has added support for more hardware. Kumar -- 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/20100726174349.gk13...@bowser.ece.utexas.edu
Re: ftp client that understands utf8
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 05:03:02PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, Is there a ftp client in Debian that understands utf8, i.e, handling utf8 file or directory names correct? I am not sure, but lftp might work[1]. HTH. Kumar [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436566 -- C:\ WIN Bad command or filename C:\ LOSE Loading Microsoft Windows ... -- 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/20100719170806.ga20...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Requesting Backports
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:21:46PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way to make packages for lenny when using squeeze?� I'd just say send the package maintainers a friendly request, at packagename@packages.debian.org. For backporting, you would want to create a Lenny chroot and build your package in there. I don't have links at hand, but an easy way would be to use pbuilder, as is described in this (rather old) page: http://blog.edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/pbuilder_backports/ HTH. Kumar -- If a 'train station' is where a train stops, what's a 'workstation'? -- 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/20100603132616.ge15...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:15:30AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: It works fine here (icewasel and lenny). browser.chrome.favicons → false browser.chrome.site_icons → false And after restarting the browser, no more favicons. Well, thanks for the reply, but that doesn't help in my case. Try the following URL and see what you get. https://www.busey.com/home/home I think that's the SSL certificate there. It's done by Firefox / Iceweasel, not the website. A quick search didn't reveal details on how to hide this; maybe somebody else can do a better job. Kumar -- How do I type for i in *.dvi do xdvi $i done in a GUI? -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces -- 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/20100506162907.gf27...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:26:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to the end of the file. Thanks. The double () operator? I'd also recommend that you check out tee and tee -a. Kumar -- Steal my cash, car and TV - but leave the computer! -- Soenke Lange soe...@escher.north.de -- 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/20100506163020.gg27...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Some Mirrors are up
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote: Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade! This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the ones which were available on that mirror. ftp-master.debian.org is still down, though it should be up sometime soonish. Kumar -- We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium) -- 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/20100402145537.gy1...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Some Mirrors are up
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Wayne wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote: Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade! This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the ones which were available on that mirror. ftp-master.debian.org is still down, though it should be up sometime soonish. Kumar I don't think so. I have been trying 2-3 times a day since the mirrors went down to get an update done. On the second try today, the update completed. Whatever the case may be, I am certain that no uploads are happening, since ftp-master is yet to be resurrected. For instance, the last update date for files here is 25th March: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/ Kumar -- Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unknown source) -- 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/20100402151225.gz1...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: No updates seen in a while
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may be a fine additional list, but why shall I subscribe The last entry I have from l.debian.announce is: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated that was on January 30, 2010 the nightmare continues. This list is more appropriate: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/threads.html Kumar -- ...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals. (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) -- 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/20100402172415.ga1...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: No updates seen in a while
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:40:51PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Kumar Appaiah schreef: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may be a fine additional list, but why shall I subscribe The last entry I have from l.debian.announce is: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated that was on January 30, 2010 the nightmare continues. This list is more appropriate: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/threads.html We know, first three responses to the OP were links to the announcement. Yet then people wondered why there was no message sent to the user-list, as users also depend on that server. Gradually, this continued to wondering when the server will come online again. Right. Thanks for pointing this out; I'll read the thread properly next time. Kumar -- I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't. (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) -- 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/20100402230007.ga2...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: OT: Debian Mentors Access
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:13:34AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-30 07:00, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Greetings, Is anyone else getting a Peer's Certificate has been revoked. messages when accessing https://mentors.debian.net/ ? I got a 404 not found. The #debian-mentors IRC channel is private... There is, though, a debian-mentors mailing list. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ And I am on the #debian-mentors IRC channel on OFTC's network. Could you please recheck if you are able to connect on OFTC's #debian-mentors? Thanks. Kumar -- Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;) -- Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi -- 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/20100330121920.gm1...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:25:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Eh? I think you're imposing unneeded self limits. How so? With scp I can send file to the machine that I'm remotely connected to? Like this: # On local-machine ssh remote-machine # type type type in remote-machine shell… scp local-machine:/home/kumar/Files/myfile.txt . # type type type… (still on remote-machine) HTH. Kumar -- How do you pronounce SunOS? Just like you hear it, with a big SOS -- dedicated to Roland Kaltefleiter signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: I don't know how to modify the: sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \$]+).*,a href=\\1\\1/a,' command, to not just: $ echo test string http://somewhere.uk/ test | sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \$]+).*,a href=\\1\\1/a,' a href=http://somewhere.uk/;http://somewhere.uk//a rather output this: test string a href=http://somewhere.uk/;http://somewhere.uk//a test How about: echo test string http://somewhere.uk/ test | sed -r 's,(.*)(http://[^ \$]+).*,\1a href=\\2\\2/a,' HTH. Kumar -- Whoa...I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz /dev/audio' and I think I heard God... -- mikecd on #Linux signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:12:39AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: I don't know how to modify the: sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \$]+).*,a href=\\1\\1/a,' command, to not just: $ echo test string http://somewhere.uk/ test | sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \$]+).*,a href=\\1\\1/a,' a href=http://somewhere.uk/;http://somewhere.uk//a rather output this: test string a href=http://somewhere.uk/;http://somewhere.uk//a test How about: echo test string http://somewhere.uk/ test | sed -r 's,(.*)(http://[^ \$]+).*,\1a href=\\2\\2/a,' Rather: echo test string http://somewhere.uk/ test | sed -r 's,(.*)(http://[^ \$]+)(.*),\1a href=\\2\\2/a\3,' Kumar -- Win95 is not a virus; a virus does something. -- unknown source signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: confused by bug
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:35:10PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: Contrast this with the stable version, which has migrated from stable-proposed-updates to stable. Sorted. After I realised you were talking about texlive-bin, while texlive-latex-base is built from texlive-base, I read the reports a little more thoroughly. Ah, that was because I didn't read your original mail carefully, and just glanced at the bug and concluded that it was texlive-bin. Apologies. It turns out (though this was still not clear from the reports) that if I upgraded texlive-base-bin (and texlive-pdfetex, though I suspect that's irrelevant)(which are built from texlive-bin) from oldstable-proposed-updates, that changed something (probably fmtutil) which enabled the existing texlive-latex-base to install. A bit tortuous, but I got there :-) Glad that you got there. But it's time to do the dist-upgrade dance and move to Lenny! ;-) Kumar -- MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. (By dmegg...@aix1.uottawa.ca) -- 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/20100302133700.ga2...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: confused by bug
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:17:11PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I've been caught by (closed) bug #531595 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531595 ) It says it's closed, and fixed - and was important to fix in etch, since that's where the problem is/was. However, texlive-latex-base still refuses to install on this etch machine. Can anyone help me understand what's going on in that bug thread, and how I can make it install? Do I need to add an additional repo? And yes, I know upgrading to lenny is the real answer - this is one of the steps towards that ... The bug has been fixed in 2005.dfsg.2-13, which was uploaded to oldstable-proposed-updates. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have made it's way into oldstable, as is revealed here: [ku...@bluemoon ~] rmadison texlive-bin texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-12 | etch-m68k | source texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-12 | oldstable | source texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-13 | oldstable-proposed-updates | source texlive-bin | 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2 |stable | source texlive-bin | 2009-5 | testing | source texlive-bin | 2009-5 | unstable | source Contrast this with the stable version, which has migrated from stable-proposed-updates to stable. You should be able to grab the fixed package from the oldstable-proposed-updates section of the archive. Someone can correct me if my analysis is incorrect. HTH. Kumar -- Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: confused by bug
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:48:49PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: You should be able to grab the fixed package from the oldstable-proposed-updates section of the archive. Thanks Kumar. I added: deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian oldstable-proposed-updates main to my sources.list, ran aptitude update, and tried again. I get the same version (2005.dfsg.3-1). That would appear to be newer than the one mentioned above ... but is still uninstallable. I tried using -t oldstable-proposed-updates, but it said 'Unable to find an archive oldstable-proposed-updates for the package texlive-latex-base' I guess my sources.list line is possibly wrong, but I don't get errors from aptitude update (I did from our in-house mirror; it must be setup differently) Any hints as to where I'm going wrong? Not really sure, but maybe you could just download the .deb file and run: sudo dpkg -i filename.deb That could work. Kumar -- Ok, I'm just uploading the new version of the kernel, v1.3.33, also known as the buggiest kernel ever. -- Linus Torvalds signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:40:14PM -0500, Jameson Rollins wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:30:32 +0100, Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote: What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on debian-multimedia i386 squeeze/testing? We have to run more expensive and more energy demanding 64-bit machines with lenny to have such packages. Curious about the reason why squeeze has no efficient pdf reader. There are plenty of very good free pdf readers in squeeze: evince xpdf konqueror Konqueror? I thought kpdf and Okular; I know for a fact that kpdf embeds into Konqueror (I may be wrong, though). Kumar -- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !! -- Felix von Leitner, leit...@inf.fu-berlin.de -- 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/20100228235101.gb1...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? xpdf.man remarks, Save as... Save the current file via a file requester. Does this mean that xpdf can do the conversion? What is a file requester? I use ImageMagick's convert tool convert image.bmp image.png convert image.bmp image.jpg convert image.bmp image.pdf There are various options, though. This might be a good starting point: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php Kumar -- Feel free to contact me (flames about my english and the useless of this driver will be redirected to /dev/null, oh no, it's full...). -- Michael Beck, describing the PC-speaker sound device -- 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/20100226171909.gf18...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:04:42AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? xpdf.man remarks, Save as... Save the current file via a file requester. Does this mean that xpdf can do the conversion? What is a file requester? [snip] The OP asked, I believe, for conversion from pdf to jpg/png. ImageMagick's 'convert' also does it: convert abc.pdf abc.jpg Each page of the PDF file becomes one image file, named abc-#.jpg, where '#' is 0 to (pdf pages - 1). You could then use 'gimp' or some other image editing program to crop the page image down to just the desired part. Dear me... I totally misread the original mail. Thanks for pointing this out, Bob. And to the OP, Bob's solution is something which would work well, though I must also mention another cheap trick: 1. Open your PDF in any PDF reader. 2. Zoom the section containing your image to the maximum resolution, especially if it happens to be a vector graphic. 3. Use a software like gnome-screenshot or ksnapshot to take a picture of the current screen. 4. Use Gimp or a similar software to trim the image. HTH. Kumar -- Audience: What will become of Linux when the Hurd is ready? Eric Youngdale: Err... is Richard Stallman here? -- From the Linux conference in spring '95, Berlin -- 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/20100226180945.gi18...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: problem getting source for package
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:29:51AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am trying to get the source package for rdiff-backup [snip] now when I do a apt-get source rdiff-backup, I only get 1.2.8-5 not 1.2.8-5+b2. From the changelog i can see this rdiff-backup (1.2.8-5+b2) unstable; urgency=low * Binary-only non-maintainer upload for i386; no source changes. * Build extension for python2.6 -- i386 Build Daemon buildd_i386-bi...@buildd.debian.org Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:34:45 + The binNMU implies that the same source package was rebuilt for your architecture due to some changes in the libraries which it depends on. See http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU for details. so what do I do, just keep using 1.2.8-5 and up my version to 1.2.8-5+b2alex03 ? This would be perfectly fine, and work as you expect. Kumar -- #define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */ #define TRUE1 /* and this is the Light */ -- mailto.c signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: man pages for c++ functions
Dear Kamaraju, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:56:57PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is there a package in debian which contains the man pages for c++ functions? I have already installed libstdc++6-4.4-doc . But it does not seem to have man pages for all the functions. For example, I would like to get a man page for getline ( http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/istream/getline/ ). But when I use man getline I get the C equivalent man page such as http://linux.die.net/man/3/getline . Is there any way to get the C++ version of the manpage as well? This does not answer your question, but does Debian actually have the C++ STL documentation as man pages? From what I can see, there is only the stl-manual package, which has all the documentation in HTML, but no other relevant packages. Please let me know if I have missed something. Thanks. Kumar -- Actually, typing random strings in the Finder does the equivalent of filename completion. (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands: file completion vs. the Mac Finder.) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
