Panayiotis Karabassis:
I have a rather acute problem with aptitude. I am tracking wheezy and
very often, the resolver wants to remove half my system rather than
upgrade a couple of packages.
Just run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in these cases. It offers better
solutions in many cases. You can
Anthony Campbell:
Following a suggestion on google I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but
it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so,
which I used to have previously.
I don't know whether that actually helps you, but when dealing with the
many Java alternatives,
lina:
It seems that my fetchmail saved in the
:~/Maildir$ ls
cur new new.sbd tmp.msf Trash.msfUnsent Messages.msf
cur.msf new.msf tmp TrashUnsent Messages
This is the Maildir format. You probably have a ~/.procmailrc that
creates these folders.
I wonder
Registros Web:
PostScript sounds great guys but, how do I now if a printer is a
PostScript printer? Do you know of any brand that makes then?
Postscript compatibility should always be listed in the printer's specs.
It is probably not written on the box in bold letters, but the
manufacturer's
Teemu Likonen:
All this works nicely but a little before the system is shut down the
backup hard disk wakes up and starts spinning. I'd guess the cause is
one of these init scripts:
/etc/rc0.d:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2012-06-25 21:02 K10cryptdisks -
../init.d/cryptdisks
lrwxrwxrwx 1
Muhammad Yousuf Khan:
btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the
question raising in my mind if postfix is the complete server then why
we have to add several other tools like mentioned above
(dovecot,spamassassin etc) ?
When Unix/Linux people talk about mail
rabidblog...@safe-mail.net:
$ lsof | grep anon_inode anon_inode
$ lsof | grep dev/null /dev/null
I find several anon_inodes and over a dozen /dev/null listings, in
some listings for each there are several processes which are repeated.
So what? There is nothing unusual about that.
lina:
It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T,
from one server to another server.
Either use rsync without encryption (= not tunneled over SSH), or pipe
tar through netcat. The latter does not support resuming.
If you can tell us a bit more, we might be able to help better. Do you
J. B:
any recommendation about the best file system for logical volume ?
There is no useful answer to that question. The quality of a filesystem
does not depend on whether it is used on an LV or on a partition.
J.
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lina:
how to copy files from linux to windows via terminal.
Typically, you mount a share from the windows system (filesystem type
cifs or smbfs) and then just cp.
I know putty, prehaps I should install it?
I don't see how that would help.
J.
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J. B:
Dear list,
Is there anyone who is successful increasing LUKS partition ?
I have 2 physical partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2.
There is 800 GB free disk space (un-partitioned) between sda1 sda2
Whole /dev/sda2 is dedicated to a LUKS partition which holds a LVM.
I have tried with
J. B:
Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
I'd use parted (without being a big friend of its interface).
no luck with parted. It throws error couldn't detect filesystem
If you don't tell me what exactly you are doing, I cannot tell you what
you are doing wrong.
Anyway, a minute
Dr Beco:
Today I registered a lot of students in the class, and 4 hours later I
was in home and got a message one of them could not log in.
Log in where? Is this system administered by you?
So I tried and got this message:
@@@
@
lina:
I read the man dpkg,
and didn't think too much, just tried the
dpkg --clear-selections
and then the dpkg --get-selections shows
root@Debian:/home/lina# dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | wc -l
2991
root@Debian:/home/lina# dpkg --get-selections | grep install | wc
Lars Noodén:
On 8/24/12 12:52 PM, Gaël DONVAL wrote:
Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 21:51 +0200, Jochen Spieker a écrit :
I understand your problem has been solved already, but nevertheless:
/var/backups should contain an old version of your /var/lib/dpkg/status.
Great one!
Is there a utility
krish:
I wasn't really sure which package to report this bug against, so
writing it to the lists.
-- snip
# uname -a
Linux myhostnamewashere 3.5.2-x86_64-linode26 #1 SMP Wed Aug 15
14:31:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I cannot comment on whether this is actually a bug, but the problem
lina:
$ ls -lrt
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET
drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list
It looks like the file is not named RET bus RET instead. Quote the
whitespace and you should be able to read/delete it.
J.
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Tony Baldwin:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used
google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'.
Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit
processor, or an
Stan Hoeppner:
I think most people know when I swing the cluebat that I'm not trying to
belittle the person on the receiving end, but simply forcefully driving
home a point. If I actually intended to hurt someone's feelings I'd
reply off list. That makes it personal. And this is exactly
Kelly Clowers:
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Lisi Reisz hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
Anyone got any suggestions what I could try? Could I supply more helpful
data? I have done a ssh -v and the result is below.
What does your sshd config file look like on A? Are you using RSA
certs
Robert Latest:
What I can't figure out is how to separate the IP address spaces in
this PC itself. There are plenty of 192.168 addresses in use in our
intranet, and it is quite possible that addresses will be used both in
the Intranet and in the Modbus space.
That is a broken network
Lisi Reisz:
On 2 October 2012 21:24, Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
And additionally, what's on the server's log for the aborted log in?
I couldn't find one. Not, I fear, the same thing as there isn't one. :-(
Googling suggested that it would be called auth something, and I
Tony van der Hoff:
So, how do I reset the second adapter to become eth1 again?
Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules or just remove it and
reboot.
J.
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Dennis Wicks:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I
have thought of to get rid of it or write over it.
Any ideas how I can
Bob Proulx:
I noticed today that an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in Sid wanted to remove
xserver-xorg and much of the rest of the X system.
That's why I habitually only run 'apt-get upgrade', as it will never
remove any packages and you can use it more or less blindly in order to
receive
Tony van der Hoff:
On my Squeeze box, I am getting occasional panics from Exim, due to
port 25 being in use. I imagine it's occasionally clashing with
Thunderbird:
Thunderbird / Icedove will never bind to port 25. And even if it wanted
to, listening on ports 1024 is only allowed for
Dan B.:
No. Losing the display order setting is probably the _worst-case_
scenario
The OP showed us an obvious case of file system corruption. He is lucky
if he only lost this index file and no other files. He is *very* lucky
if an fsck can repair the damage and nothing else is corrupted. Or
Martin McCormick:
So far, I do not see any error yet. I will do the tests you
suggested and report back. It does act just like it is waiting
for more input. I have type y, yes and ok and do see the echo
back. I will post a message later describing the tests.
I would just Ctrl-c and apt-get
Indulekha:
Anyone know a way to simply filter out all that annoying gpg/pgp noise?
muttrc:
set display_filter='sed -f ~/.mutt/display-filter'
~/.mutt/display-filter:
/^gpg:/d
J.
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comprehending a nuclear apocalypse.
[Agree]
Indulekha:
No, I think you may have an incorrect or incomplete configuration
This is inline vs. MIME:
http://www.phildev.net/pgp/pgp_clear_vs_mime.html
J.
--
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Lars Noodén:
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:45:59PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
This is inline vs. MIME:
http://www.phildev.net/pgp/pgp_clear_vs_mime.html
How old is that? There's no date and it mentions Pine. Alpine has been
out to replace it since 2007 or so.
I have no idea, it's just
Indulekha:
Well, all I know is that Jochen Spieker is able to use it without
being intrusive
At the same time, my mutt apparently removes inline signatures when
replying. Skimming manual.txt, I still have no idea what setting is
responsible for this behaviour or why it doesn't work
Johann Spies:
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:20:21PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
muttrc:
set display_filter='sed -f ~/.mutt/display-filter'
~/.mutt/display-filter:
/^gpg:/d
Thanks. I have learnt something new in this thread.
JFTR, my actual display-filter contains this for PGP
Shaun:
How does one allow Windows users to set their own passwords if the IMAP
server they're using is Debian?
That depends on how you authenticate IMAP users. I use Dovecot's virtual
hosting with Postgresql plus Roundcube as web frontend. AFAIK, Roundcube
has a plugin that allows users to
Shaun:
Also vacation mails are done via .procmailrc files and so this is
currently a bit messy too as the users can't do it themselves as they
don't have shell access. And setting up procmail rules. Again, would be
nice to be able to have users do this themselves. Are all these things
Shaun:
What are the main differences between Dovecot and Courier so I can make
an informed decision about which to use?
https://www.google.de/search?q=dovecot+vs+courier
I don't have any experience with any other IMAP server than Dovecot.
What I like about it is that it makes simple setups
public e-mails allows everyone verify that Jochen
Spieker is actually the same person as Jochen Schulz (my birth name).
My main reason for signing public e-mails is to invite people to encrypt
their e-mails to me. Signing is the easiest way to express that I (know
how to) use PGP/GPG and that I
Anthony Campbell:
I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with
Radeon.
In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*,
either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely
(Nouveau), If I kill it from a tty terminal there is no
BG:
Is it better from a security standpoint to su - in a tab as I have
been doing or should I open another terminal for this user?
Following the principle of running few processes as root, su-ing is the
way to go. That way, the terminal still runs as your primary user, you
have only one root
an...@gmx.de:
During a dist upgrade, my /var went full and I started to do the
following with the lvm commands: reduce /home to 100G,
You need to remember that LVM is just a logical layer between your
disks/partitions and the filesystem. If you shrink an LV, you break the
filesystem using
Fred Zinsli:
I am attempting to create a script (#!/bin/sh) that searches for files
created on the first day of the week, then on the first day of the month,
then the first day of the year. as seperate events. All the files are in
one directory so easy to find, though the files could have
Andrei POPESCU:
On Ma, 05 iun 12, 12:01:13, rjc wrote:
P.S. While you're at it I suggest man xargs - you'll find it more
useful than -exec with certain uses of find.
Anything that '-exec {} +' can't do?
Yes. For example, with xargs you can control the number of arguments per
command
Keir Snow:
Been trying to set up a subdomain of my site, so I've created a config
file in sites-available that looks like this:
-- snip
I've then enabled it using a2ensite however it seems to override my
default config file and serve the subdomain content when the main site
URL is used.
Tony Baldwin:
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:58:57PM +0100, Keir Snow wrote:
Not sure I follow sorry, where would I create this section? I thought
by putting something in sites-available I was leaving the main config
alone?
I believe what Jochen is suggesting (and what I would recommend, b/c
Harry Putnam:
I've recently done a tremendous amount of removing and purging. I
wanted rid of kde and finally to install lxde. And threw into the
bargain moving from testing to stable.
Downgrading is unsupported and you should generally expect a lot of
trouble doing so.
There is plenty of
Harry Putnam:
Nice unix command line too... It took me a bit to figure out why it
would not copy paste to the cmdline. Finally I realized that the mail
formatting had broke a line you probably did not expect and so there
was no newline escape following `END' in your message.
Yeah, sorry. I
J.Hwan Kim:
I want to measure cpu usage from information sources like /proc file
system and not from the application program.
I'm not sure that the cpu usage information is in /proc file system.
Try /proc/stat:
http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm
J.
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I use a Playstation to
Teemu Likonen:
Is it possible to install Debian 6.0.5 directly with newer kernel?
http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
Kenshi Muto is a DD.
J.
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[Agree] [Disagree]
http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html
Eike Lantzsch:
Should i file a bug against trousers in Sid?
Yes.
J.
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http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html
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Jim Pazarena:
I have an EXT3 which is not journaled.
I would like to enable it.
You appear to be a little bit confused. Ext3 is always journalled. Ext3
without a journal is ext2. By default, ext3 only writes filesystem
metadata to the journal, not file content. If you want to trade
Joy Sankar Sengupta:
After applying any command like apt-get install/update/upgrade I am
getting following error:
-- snip
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Just do as suggested and run 'apt-get update'. And
Brian:
At this stage you might ask youself whether the time and frustration
involved in upgrading from something which is pre-Lenny is really worth
it. Is there any practical reason why you should not do a new Squeeze
install?
ACK. It looks like the OP (inadvertantly?) tried to do something
John Hasler:
Gary Dale writes:
Running pure sid like he seems to be is just nuts.
I've been running pure Sid since it was invented. Works fine. Of
course it would be silly to run Sid and do daily updates.
I do that for a couple of (+5) years now and didn't have many problems
yet. But
Lisi:
I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 year
support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that Debian is
going the other way. :-(
This comparison is a bit unfair since Ubuntu officially only supports
its main repository which is, as far as I
Lisi:
On Monday 25 June 2012 16:13:54 Jochen Spieker wrote:
And, BTW, Desktop LTS support lasts only for 3 years, not 5.
I recently read that it was changing to five for the desktop, as well as the
server edition. If you say that this is an urban myth, I am happy to believe
you.
No, I
Umarzuki Mochlis:
I want to backup my Documents folder using Areca Backup and I want to
know if one full backup (once a month) and daily delta blocks backup
to office's network folder would be enough for a successful restore if
my laptop have a drive failure?
I don't know about Areca, but
Mark Panen:
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1 323M 304M 2.6M 100% /
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 3.9G 212K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 2.6M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc9
Keith McKenzie:
Judging by your present setup, it looks like you have 8gb ram, half of
it being used as tmpfs; or am I wrong.
Note that tmpfs doesn't reserve the space if it is not in use. It will
only use as much space as is currently actually saved in it.
J.
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anots...@fastmail.fm:
Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing
keys?
None that I know of, but I don't see a need for that either. Sure, you
could use one of the built-in certificates in your browser to bootstrap
the chain of trust to the signing keys. But that's
Roger Leigh:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:49:14PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
What I find more interesting is that the key 0x6294BE9B (Debian CD
signing key) only has nine signatures and only one from someone using
his official @debian org address (0x3442684E, Steve McIntyre). That
could
lee:
I've looked at formail + procmail , but formail forces it into mailbox
format which I dont want.
Formail doesn't actually save the mailboxes anywhere, procmail does
that. And if you append a slash to the mailbox name, procmail generates
maildirs. Example:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
Russell Gadd:
I can't remember many details, but one issue stands out in my memory.
When printing a second document to my HP Laserjet it would wait up to
4 seconds before the GUI panel to initiate the print would complete.
This was reported as a bug but not solved at least for many weeks
Mark Panen:
What is the story with plugin-containe? Every distro i have ever
used it eventually eats your CPU usuage? including:
It's a Firefox/Iceweasel process that runs browser plugins like Adobe
Flash.
J.
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mundanities
Mark Panen:
On 30/10/2012 08:33, Jochen Spieker wrote:
Mark Panen:
What is the story with plugin-containe? Every distro i have ever
used it eventually eats your CPU usuage? including:
It's a Firefox/Iceweasel process that runs browser plugins like Adobe
Flash.
Yes, but why for the last
lee:
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes:
Firstly, you could have specified that instead of broad statements like
32 bit support has been removed from Debian. Debian is much more than
the amd64 architecture.
That is what 32bit support is about.
No. First and foremost, 32 Bit
Stan Hoeppner:
So again, ARM will never reach the desktop, nor succeed, without full
ISV support. Which, as I stated previously, is why ARM will only have a
chance on the desktop if the consumer conditions are right to launch an
Android based PC appliance. This will provide the same
Nick:
How can I get a list of all the possible usernames that might be
required by packages on a server?
I remember a previous discussion about this question and IIRC the
conclusion was that there is no such list. Some packages use prefixed
usernames (like debian-tor), but most don't.
Or is
[Disclaimer: I only run a mail server for mainly personal use. I have
less than ten users on that system but the configuration is comparable
to that of the ISPMail howto].
Muhammad Yousuf Khan:
i am working in a small company 30 to 50 users, so which one is more
suitable for me a mailbox
Jochen Spieker:
For 50 users, I recommend to use Maildirs and make sure Dovecot's LDS is
^^^
Whoops. What I meant to write was LDA. Not LSD and most definitely not
LDS. :)
J.
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Kelly Clowers:
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
I don't think there are many people (or organisations) that keep their
e-mails in relational databases. Sure, mail servers like Exchange (or
Dovecot) may have their own on-disk-format for mailboxes
lee:
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes:
Nothing (that I'm aware of) in Debian bans you from using non-free
software. There is only the understanding that support for non-free
software is the responsibility of that software's provider.
You already can't use it anymore when it's
Alan Feuerbacher:
Last night Kaspersky anti-virus detected a Trojan in one of the files:
Apparently you have missed the excellent answers you have already
received on-list. If you want to be CC'ed, you should specifiy this in
your e-mails (preferrably using appropriate headers).
If you are
ML mail:
Sorry wrong mailing list :(
No problem, we can guide you through the Debian installer to make your
adapter work anytime. :)
J.
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Ralf Mardorf:
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote:
I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch,
and
the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the
multiarch
way of doing things.
The disadvantage of upgrading from
Ralf Mardorf:
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:11 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
Ralf Mardorf:
I can't speak for this particular case, but sometimes it seems to be
less work to make a new install.
… which won't help in this case.
If it's a transition issue, why wouldn't help a install
David Guntner:
Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another
message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without
closing the old one) with the IMAP server. After I've moved around
enough times, the server logs a note saying that I've exceeded the
David Guntner:
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Dovecot limits both the total number of parallel connections and the
number of connections per user (or per client IP address, don't
remember). Either increase that or reduce the number of connections
Thunderbird uses.
I think
Lisi Reisz:
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 15:51:24 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Or a woman. I hope this isn't too sexist.
It is, extremely. My husband says do you not think a woman is humanum as
well?
I think you got Ralf wrong. He did not want to express that women are
not human but to make a big
Morel Bérenger:
Le Mer 21 novembre 2012 15:29, Chris Bannister a écrit :
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:05:33AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
galculator is very good, if you have a num pad where the . is a ,,
OTOH
gcalctool does completely display what you typed.
Whats wrong with bc/dc? :)
Darac Marjal:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:41:08PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:00 +, Darac Marjal wrote:
Actually, that is quite sexist. In fact, it's plain and simply sexist
which is inappropriate in this community.
Apologize!
I most certainly will not.
David Guntner:
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/speedup_thunderbird_imap
Well, unless I'm looking at the wrong setting, I've got it configured
for 1. Maximum number of connections to cache in Advanced settings
for the server is currently set
The Wanderer:
Is there any way to get a list of what sources are *currently* active, i.e.,
the
ones which were in sources.list during the *most recent* successful 'apt-get
update'?
apt-cache policy, without any further arguments.
J.
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Daniel Dalton:
My question: does 64 bit debian use more battery power than 32 bit?
Short answer: no. The relevant difference is probably Debian vs. Ubuntu
here.
Should I return to a 32 bit set up if battery life is important to me?
Or is there perhaps something that maybe isn't configured
Rob van der Putten:
In my Analog web server statistics I get a lot of 'domain not
given'. According to the docs this is caused by hostnames without a
dot.
In the case of an IP address without a (matching) reverse lookup,
the 'hostname' is an IP address. And in case of IPv6, the IP address
Rob van der Putten:
Jochen Spieker wrote:
I don't know about Analog, but I use webalizer which has a similar
problem with IPv6 addresses. Looks like a bug to me. AFAICS Analog's
latest upstream release is exactly eight years old today (Happy
Releaseday!) and Webalizer's is more than two
Rob van der Putten:
Jochen Spieker wrote:
Ah, according to BTS #452259, this issue was fixed in upstream version
2.20. Squeeze still has 2.01, but wheezy will ship 2.23.
Excellent! So how configurable is Webalizer?
Not very much.
I do rather weird stuff with Analog. Convert logfiles
lina:
I wish to have a mentor.
http://mentors.debian.net/
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/
J.
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with it.
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Chris Davies:
Alois Mahdal alois.mahdal.1-ndm...@zxcvb.cz wrote:
Since I'm using various clients, filtering using rules in MUA is not
practical. I would prefer to have all this logic in a single place,
(namely my personal VPS box), where for example a script would exist
just for purpose of
Albretch Mueller:
Have you tried
#ps ax | grep iceweasel
then
#kill pid
?
~
yes, I have:
~
#kill -9 pid
~
but it doesn't do anything and iceweasel keeps giging me sh!t
Did you actually insert the correct PID? Did you understand that the '#'
in front of the command is just the prompt
Peter Viskup:
viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status
Name: gnome-shell
VmPeak: 3537456 kB
VmSize: 3403068 kB
I am not sure, but I suspect you misinterpret those numbers. This is the
amount of memory that the application thinks is available for itself.
This does
Matej Kosik:
I am trying to figure out the meaning of:
/proc/$PID/fd/*
files.
These files represent the open files of a process. On recent systems you
can even see the associated real files, if any:
# ls -l /proc/6373/fd
total 0
lr-x-- 1 root root 64 Feb 19 10:25 0 - /dev/null
Vincent Lefevre:
Is it normal that when using the tar command to create a big archive,
the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds
to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)?
No. What storage device is tar writing to/reading from?
J.
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poenik...@operamail.com:
Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK.
http://news.albasani.net/index.html.en
Ubuntu has three newsreaders available, one for GNUstep, one called
pan newsreader
and another called xpn Newsreader. Which one to use (maybe I should
try all three).
J. Bakshi:
I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze.
The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the
loop statement. Moreover sh -x script are malfunctioning
but :bash -x script are running fine. what actually I am missing
here ? I have tried both with #!/bin/bash and
Victor Nitu:
On 11/15/2011 08:42 AM, George wrote:
Might I suggest awesome window manager? It uses almost no resources,
can be manipulated entirely with the keyboard (although it also has
complete mouse support), can be customized extremely easily (although
the defaults are sane so it is by
Farmbuyer:
I do some work on a few OSS projects whose site hosts have moved to 1.7.
All my SVN client operations stopped functioning with a message saying that
the working checkouts were too old (format 10 created by Subversion 1.6),
and that I needed to run 'svn upgrade' in my working
Joey Hess:
This graph puts the other in perspective; gnome is used by seven times
as many users. There is an interesting drop at the end of this month
however.
s/used/installed.
I have Gnome 3 installed as well, but I don't actually use it very much.
J.
--
If I could travel through time I
Nicolas Bercher:
I'd like use set up a crontab rule from 6 am to midnight, and crontab(5)
mentions:
field allowed values
hour 0-23
Then, I tried something like:
*/10 6-0 * * 1-5 my-script
Using this, cron should execute my-script on 06:10, 06:20 … 23:50, 00:00,
Bob Proulx:
# The default vixie-cron PATH is /usr/bin:/bin, overriding the
environment.
PATH = /home/rwp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
You still can use
PATH = ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
if the crontab belongs to the user 'rwp'.
J.
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Nothing is as I
Bob Proulx:
Jochen Spieker wrote:
You still can use
PATH = ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
if the crontab belongs to the user 'rwp'.
Having a literal '~/' in there works for bash. But it doesn't work
for /bin/sh linked to dash for example.
Works here:
$ exec /bin
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