Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:42:45 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote: >>> In this case output goes to stderr, so: >>> >>> tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES 2> /tmp/data$$ | openssl ... >

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks > like this: > > tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | > dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz > > Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdou

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread bruno
Ken Teague wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks like this: tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz Because of the "v" flag tar wri

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 05.02.2010 09:07, Ken Teague wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks >> like this: >> >> tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | >> dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz >

Re: Google Earth kills system

2010-02-05 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:33:19AM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:28:10 -0600 > JW Foster wrote: > > > I built Google Earth as instructed in the installer. It starts OK then > > as soon as the browser pops open both the mouse & my keyboard freeze > > up & I have to reboot.

OT: Reply to with kmail

2010-02-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi all, I was just wondering why, when I click on Reply, with most of the messages, by default, the reply address is to the list, while with some mails, it goes to personal answers. By example, the 2 mails from JW Foster have strange behavior. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: OT: Reply to with kmail

2010-02-05 Thread Sjors van der Pluijm
Op vrijdag 5 februari 2010 11:05:40 schreef Thierry Chatelet: > Hi all, > I was just wondering why, when I click on Reply, with most of the messages, > by default, the reply address is to the list, while with some mails, it > goes to personal answers. By example, the 2 mails from JW Foster have >

Re: OT: Reply to with kmail

2010-02-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 05 February 2010 11:16:57 Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: > Op vrijdag 5 februari 2010 11:05:40 schreef Thierry Chatelet: > > Hi all, > > I was just wondering why, when I click on Reply, with most of the > > messages, by default, the reply address is to the list, while with some > > mails, it

Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-02-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 02. 2010 05:26:59 je Joey Morris napisal(a): On one of my Lenny installs, I had a somewhat similar (albeit by no means identical) problem that turned out to be due to some missing lines in my xorg.conf. The lines I had to add to xorg.conf in order to make things work as expected we

Re: Printer install question

2010-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:48:55 -0600, postid wrote: (...) > I've already installed the drivers. Should I follow the user's advice > and connect the printer now to finish setting up the printer or should I > uninstall the drivers, connect the printer and reinstall the drivers > with the printer con

Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:14:26AM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > Hi, > > s2ram > s2disk What package? I get command not found when running these as root. > > and put your script in.. /etc/pm/sleep.d > this direcorty is generated by the package pm-utils in which you can > also find the docs h

Re: Unable to download files with epiphany-browser in Squeeze

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:27:56 -0500 (EST), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I can confirm this, doesn't seem to work for me either. I'm running > unstable. > > save as doesn't work. > > however shift-click does download the file to the preferences-set > download directory. I'm running testing, and your

Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R.

RE: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Rafał Radecki sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > Hi All. > > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization > software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual > machines (Linux/Windows) in it? > > With regards, > R. > Do you have any shared storage that yo

Re: Re (2): Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:06:11 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > For successful installation of future kernels, you should also check your > /etc/kernel-img.conf file. Here's what mine looks like > > -- > > do_symlinks = yes > relative_links = yes > do_bootloader = yes > do_bootfloppy =

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:20:48 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote: > If you are using stdout as tar output, including filenames there will > corrupt that output, so it is logical that in this case filenames goes > to stderr. That does make sense, now that I think about it. I didn't look closely enoug

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM, bruno wrote: > Why not simply use the  t option for content listing : > > tar tvf  * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES He's already creating the archive with -v. Why process the archive a 2nd time just to get a listing when it comes from stdout the 1st time? -- To UNSUB

Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-05 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, On Fri, 05 Feb 2010, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:14:26AM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: Hi, s2ram s2disk Package: uswsusp What package? I get command not found when running these as root. > and put your script in.. /etc/pm/sleep.d this direcorty is generated by

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > Hello, [snip. > > This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial > port).  I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration > however - it appears on the "video" portion of the screen, and I'm able t

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread bruno
Ken Teague wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM, bruno wrote: Why not simply use the t option for content listing : tar tvf * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES He's already creating the archive with -v. Why process the archive a 2nd time just to get a listing when it comes from stdout th

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100205_135919, Alexey Salmin wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:42:45 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote: > >>> In this case output goes to stderr, so: > >>> > >>> tar -zcvf - * --

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/2/5 Rafał Radecki : > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. > Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines > (Linux/Windows) in it? Try the XenServer mailing lists or wiki? http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/ http://lists.xensource

[OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:44:28 -0500 (EST), bruno wrote: > Ken Teague wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM, bruno wrote: >> >>> Why not simply use the t option for content listing : >>> >>> tar tvf * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES >>> >> >> He's already creating the archive with -v. Why pro

UDF filesystem in removable harddisk crashed

2010-02-05 Thread User
Hi, all kind friends. Help me! Sorry for my poor English. My OS is Debian Lenny for i386, and last month I bought a "Seagate FreeAgent Desk" 1TB removable harddisk. In order to can be used on both Linux and Windows, I chose UDF filesystem for it. The command of making filesystem at that time

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-05 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Andrew, On Feb 5, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Lev Lvovsky wrote: >> Hello, > [snip. >> >> This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial >> port). I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration >>

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > I wish the shell supported multi-stream pipelines. I think you could fake it with tee and a fifo. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: UDF filesystem in removable harddisk crashed

2010-02-05 Thread Pier Paolo
Il giorno sab, 06/02/2010 alle 00.15 +0800, User ha scritto: > > Hi, all kind friends. Help me! Sorry for my poor English. > > My OS is Debian Lenny for i386, and last month I bought a "Seagate > FreeAgent Desk" 1TB removable harddisk. In order to can be used on both > Linux and Windows, I ch

Re (4): Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.

2010-02-05 Thread peasthope
Stephen, > I think you might have been somewhat confused by my suggestions. > I actually gave two completely different alternative recovery scenarios. Yes. I'd missed Alternative number 1 and followed 2 approximately. I used the ncurses interface whereas you refer to the CLUI. > If you can't

Upgrade freeradius etch to lenny.

2010-02-05 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, On one of our radius servers we upgraded from etch to lenny which means the freeradius server software was upgraded from version 1.1.3 to 2.0.4. This is a big upgrade for FreeRadius. I've managed to get most of the freeradius server working properly except the accounting part. I see

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:44:28 -0500 (EST), bruno wrote: >> Ken Teague wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM, bruno wrote: >>> Why not simply use the t option for content listing : tar tvf * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES >>> He's already creating

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks > like this: > > tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | > dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz > > Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file > copie

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks > like this: > > tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | > dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz > > Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file > copie

Mailers and In-reply-to; was Re(4): Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-05 Thread peasthope
Tixy, > ... both the message I just quoted and the one I originally replied to > have an "In-reply-to" header ... In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/author.html or http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/author2.html or http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/author3.html d

Re: UDF filesystem in removable harddisk crashed

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:15:14 -0500 (EST), resat...@yeah.net wrote: > The command of making > filesystem at that time was: > > # mkudffs -r 0x0150 --media-type=hd --utf8 /dev/sdb > > Note: I made UDF filesystem in the whole disk, not partition. > > > It worked normally, read and wrote file

Nvidia issues SOLVED by disabling gdm

2010-02-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: After much head bashing, I decided to try starting X using 'startx', bypassing gdm. My nvidia card is now working splendidly with the 195.36.03 beta driver, which I installed using the nvidia installer (as that seems to be the easiest way to ensure I have 32-bit compatible OpenGL libr

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:39:26 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: >> I wish the shell supported multi-stream pipelines. > > I think you could fake it with tee and a fifo. Well, I know about tee; but, although I've heard the term fifo, I know nothing about it in a Linux/Unix/shel

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Chris Jackson
Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks like this: tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdout the name of each file copied. How can I

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Reposting with the issue recapped: I cannot surf this particular public website from my LAN. Is it my DNS or my what, I don't know. 75% of the time with my normal setup I get "address not found" when surfing it. This is some diagnostics I was doing: a...@isengard:~$ host www.trade2win.com Ho

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:42:09 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Reposting with the issue recapped: > > I cannot surf this particular public website from my LAN. Is it my DNS > or my what, I don't know. (...) > The intermittent nature of the problem is puzzling me too. Can anyone > say what my course o

Problema con desintalacion de Postgre 8.4 URGENTE

2010-02-05 Thread john vera
Hola amigos como estan! tengo un problema en mi sistema Debian Lenny tengo installado el .bin de postgre 8.4 este me esta dando muchos problemas y quiero volver a la version 8.3 del mismo! mi problema espesifico es como desintalar esa app 8.4 eh detenido los procesos borrando los enlaces simbolic

Re: Cron does not run.

2010-02-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 04 February 2010 23:47:59 Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > >On many Debian systems cron jobs are run at GMT time. > > What is Your local time? America/Chicago > How do You get reports of works run? The logcheck cron job explicitly mails the logcheck use

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 February 2010 10:01:45 Paul E Condon wrote: > Traditional Unix and traditional C both made provision for stdin, > stdout, and stderr. When Stroustrup, et al., started working on C++ > and its earlier predicessors, someone recognized the need for a fourth > stdXXX, namely stdlog. If yo

Debian Lenny crashes on every shutdown.

2010-02-05 Thread Charles Oestreich
Has anyone seen this problem? Or is this the wrong mailing list for this type of problem? Thanks for all your help. I am running Debian - Lenny Version 2.6.26-21 as a guest OS on VirtualBox. It crashes every shutdown, and I am hoping someone has already seen this error, and could help me fix it.

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Camaleón
2010/2/5 Joe: (you forgot replying to the list) > Camaleón wrote: >> There is not much more you can do at your side, unless you contact your >> ISP provider and explain them this issue. They are failing at some point. >> > > EDNS? It has caused a lot of this kind of thing with Windows, where th

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 05/02/10 18:56, wrote: On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:42:09 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Reposting with the issue recapped: I cannot surf this particular public website from my LAN. Is it my DNS or my what, I don't know. (...) The intermittent nature of the problem is puzzling me too. Can

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Stephen Powell on 2010-02-04 18:06:58: > but in the general case, it's hard to tell. Since stdout and > stderr both default to the terminal, and since the doc doesn't > say, how else would you know other than by trial and error? Trial and error is an effective way to figure it out. [1] De

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:42:47 -0500 (EST), Bob McGowan wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> This is off topic from the OP's question, but one of the things that I >> miss in the Linux environment that I used to use a lot in the CMS >> environment is CMS Pipelines. The shell supports pipelines, but they

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:01 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 05/02/10 18:56, wrote: >> It looks crystal clear to me: blame your ISP routing tables, any proxy >> or service that it can be being used by them to filter Internet traffic >> or just its DNS servers :-) > > It's a British-audien

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dave Thayer wrote, on 05/02/10 16:01: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:01:00PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: In my case I have: UUID=4823-93A9 /mnt/usb8gigvfat defaults,users,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000,shortname=win95 0 2 (all on one line) If I change that trailing "2" to a zero, no fs

Re: Mailers and In-reply-to; was Re(4): Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:58:05 -0500 (EST), peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > When a message was created by clicking the Reply button > in that mailer, a correct In-reply-to parameter was included. > No complaint. > > The problematic case is where a message in the archive is > read with the browser and

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 February 2010 14:47:21 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:42:47 -0500 (EST), Bob McGowan wrote: > Let me give you a > simple example of a CMS pipeline for illustrative purposes, > so that you will get some idea of what I'm talking about. > [snip: Long, but very useful desc

Re: Nvidia issues SOLVED by disabling gdm

2010-02-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri February 5 2010, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> After much head bashing, I decided to try starting X using 'startx', >> bypassing gdm.  My nvidia card is now working splendidly with the >> 195.36.03 beta driver, which I installed using the

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Lisi
On Friday 05 February 2010 20:40:01 Adam Hardy wrote: > It's a British-audience website and my ISP is British Telecom, so it's unlikely to be something like ISP routing > tables s/likely/unlikely??? Or have you contact with a second firm called BT that I don't know. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSU

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Lisi on 05/02/10 21:54, wrote: On Friday 05 February 2010 20:40:01 Adam Hardy wrote: It's a British-audience website and my ISP is British Telecom, so it's unlikely to be something like ISP routing tables s/likely/unlikely??? Or have you contact with a second firm called BT that I don

Re: octave-forge in debian

2010-02-05 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 5 February 2010 12:31, lc wrote: > I want to install the package octave-specfun in debian unstable, This isn't a question particular to Octave, but it's about Debian packaging. Please direct questions to Debian mailing lists or support channels. At any rate, I'm CC debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2010 14:47:21 Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:42:47 -0500 (EST), Bob McGowan wrote: >> Let me give you a >> simple example of a CMS pipeline for illustrative purposes, >> so that you will get some idea of what I'm talking about. >

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 07:39 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Last question is, what guarantee is there that the device file will have > been generated (assuming that the USB drive is present) before the > @reboot cron event is run? The standard mount script is run in runlevel S, which is entered be

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 February 2010 16:33:12 Bob McGowan wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > mkfifo "LOCM" && > > mkfifo "FIN" && > > ( > > "<" | "NFIND" | "LOCATE" 2> "LOCM" | "FANINANY" 2< "FIN"| ">" & > > "LOCATE" < "LOCM" > "FIN" & > > wait > > ) > > which would disallow having the >

Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-02-05 Thread Joey Morris
Klistvud wrote on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:49:47PM +0100: > On one of my Lenny installs, I had a somewhat similar (albeit by no > means identical) problem that turned out to be due to some missing > lines in my xorg.conf. The lines I had to add to xorg.conf in order > to make things work as expect

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 18:56 +, Camaleón wrote: > It looks crystal clear to me: blame your ISP routing tables, any proxy or > service that it can be being used by them to filter Internet traffic or > just its DNS servers :-) I'm just an observer of this conversation, but can you clarify your

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2010 16:33:12 Bob McGowan wrote: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> mkfifo "LOCM" && >>> mkfifo "FIN" && >>> ( >>> "<" | "NFIND" | "LOCATE" 2> "LOCM" | "FANINANY" 2< "FIN"| ">" & >>> "LOCATE" < "LOCM" > "FIN" & >>> wait >>> ) >> wh

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:44 AM, bruno wrote: > because it's a simplier way to get the list into a variable Can you please explain how it's simpler. The method I suggested certainly isn't as easy, but the method I suggested merely showed a detailed example. Others here are coming up with 1 or 2

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Chris Jackson wrote: > Use $() like you do with the date command. You have to redirect stderr back > to stdout, which means running it in a subshell: > > > FILES=$( ( tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k > $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +

Warning when installing postgresql-common (94lenny)

2010-02-05 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, I got the following warning line when installing PGSQL just a few minutes ago. The line reads: supported_versions: WARNING: Unknown Debian release: 5.0.4 Should I worry? Thanks, // Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > and finally my resolv.conf (rewritten by dhcp.client when picking up IP > address from the DSL modem): > > a...@isengard:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain localdomain > search localdomain > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 194.74.65.68 Your res

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-04 19:06:58, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:42:45 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote: > > In this case output goes to stderr, so: > > > > tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES 2> /tmp/data$$ | openssl ... > > Is that something you just have to find out by trial and error?

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > tar ... 2> "$filename" > mapfile array1 < "$filename" > > (don't know actually why '-u 2' option for mapfile does not complete for > me? would make it a 'one-liner'.) > > on bash4.0+ This is a great example as well. The only problem is ba

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Ken Teague wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Chris Jackson > wrote: >> Use $() like you do with the date command. You have to redirect stderr back >> to stdout, which means running it in a subshell: >> >> >> FILES=$( ( tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k >> $1

Re: Google Earth kills system

2010-02-05 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:49:13AM -0800, evenso wrote: > > I haven't found much evidence of what happened. None of the upgraded > packages in that period seem X related. I've just been living in CLI land > until I get time to repair and investigate more. Although Googleearth is not mentioned, s

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Ken Teague on 05/02/10 23:42, wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: and finally my resolv.conf (rewritten by dhcp.client when picking up IP address from the DSL modem): a...@isengard:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain localdomain search localdomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserv

Re: [OT] - Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:27:49 -0500 (EST), Bob McGowan wrote: > If someone wanted to, they could write a single program that would read > input/write output from/to two or more descriptors, and use it to create > a multi-path'ed I/O processing sequence, but writing it to prevent > blocking on one inp

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Richard Hector wrote, on 06/02/10 09:07: On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 07:39 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Last question is, what guarantee is there that the device file will have been generated (assuming that the USB drive is present) before the @reboot cron event is run? The standard mount script is

cannot install to AMD Geode LX800 machine

2010-02-05 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, I was asked from a user who want to install Debian but I couldn't solve his problem, so I want your help. He uses "Kojinsha SA5ST12A", it has AMD Geode LX800 chip. http://jp.kohjinsha.com/support/content/supt/sa/sa5st12a/specification/index.html (Japanese) He tried to install with de

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: > It is running dnsmasq. It's a gateway and firewall with two NICs, one for > the net and one for the LAN. My assistance at this point will be rather limited, as I've never used dnsmasq and I don't have a means to set it up and test it now. > I

Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

2010-02-05 Thread Mark
I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax, for example). I found a few interesting options but nothing in the official Debian packages. Here's what I have so far as options (on-line versions), any insight i

Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

2010-02-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mark wrote: I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax, for example). I found a few interesting options but nothing in the official Debian packages. Here's what I have so far as options (on-line version

Re: Pango: Iceweasel vs. Chrome

2010-02-05 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:30:07 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: > Basically the difference is that Chrome repects the XSETTINGS > configuration but not the detailed fontconfig settings. If you are > running both browsers in a GNOME session then Chrome will use > XSETTINGS. Thanks for the reply. I'm

Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

2010-02-05 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:35:26 -0800 Mark wrote: > I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything > specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax, > for example). I found a few interesting options but nothing in the > official Debian packages. Here's what I ha