Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Dienstag, den 17.07.2007, 21:43 +0300 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > This was, and AFAIK still is, the rule for walking on a road without a > sidewalk in Romania. Bicycles have to obey same rules as cars. Nonsense. Cyclists don't have to obey the law. 8-) Riding up one-way-lanes the wrong direction

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:34:32AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:54:09PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote: > > I just installed Debian Etch (4.1.1) that I'm planning on using as a > > syslog server. I've got syslog-ng up and running just fine. And I've > > got a script th

Re: NTLM APS not working after upgrade of Testing

2007-07-17 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-07-17 > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:00:53PM +0100, David Watson wrote: > > Can you confirm that ntlmaps is running using the following command: > > > > ps aux | grep ntlmaps > > > > if it is not running try running this command it should let you know if > >

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 > > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 > > > > Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:54:09PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote: > I just installed Debian Etch (4.1.1) that I'm planning on using as a > syslog server. I've got syslog-ng up and running just fine. And I've > got a script that greps the logs nightly for error messages that I care > about. The probl

Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-17 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:19, koffiejunkie shared this with us all: >--} Is there anything I can do to improve this, or this battery just on the >--} way out?  I'm just bothered by the suddeness of this drop in battery >--} life - it's been at about an hour for a good six months now, and stayed >-

ssh x11 forwarding on etch

2007-07-17 Thread Ron Peterson
Debian Etch I just discovered that I had to add the following to my /etc/ssh/ssh_config in order for X11 tunnelling to work when I logged into remote systems. Host * XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth According to the installed man page for ssh_config: XAuthLocation Specifies the full pathname o

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not permitted. The file is also dated 1931 ! This is the output of ls -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:40:05PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is the output of ls -l > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * > >---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko > > Wh

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the output of ls -l >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * >---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko What is the output of "lsattr" ? It could be that it has the immutable bit set. To fi

Re: (Etch) flash player md5 fail

2007-07-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:15:12PM +0100, time lord wrote: > this process then fetches the flash player from adobe and the install > continues but it > fails at the end with: "Not Installed, md5 fail" - from memory and indeed > when I try a vid on > you tube it complains about no flash. I'd sugge

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 > Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is > > > dying) left an undele

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is > > dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. > > > > No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- su

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Julian De Marchi
Frank McCormick wrote: The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group. Anybody have any ideas to get

undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group. Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ? Thanks --

RE: help with "apt-get purge"

2007-07-17 Thread Tony Heal
If you want to see what is being removed then use apt-get remove --purge somepackage -s The '-s' will simulate the operation and if everything is the way you like simply press the up arrow and backspace over the '-s' to get the live command, press enter and enjoy. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, I

RE: infinite loop in postgresql

2007-07-17 Thread Tony Heal
I am testing a nagios service that determine Postgres process that have gone beyond a predetermine time limit in cpu time. I need to get a Postgres process to use cpu time in a loop and when it has gone beyond the predetermined time the nagios service should report that. once I have determine if

Re: which package can compress VCD file to a different format?

2007-07-17 Thread David Fox
On 7/17/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks! I'm considering first convert it to AVI, then convert it to real media but converting avi take too much time and space, besides, real media is not open source I've never attempted to do a reencode of an already existing vcd but m

which package can compress VCD file to a different format?

2007-07-17 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! I'm considering first convert it to AVI, then convert it to real media but converting avi take too much time and space, besides, real media is not open source Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go pu

Re: ssh issues

2007-07-17 Thread Rob Bochan
OK, this is a bit crazy. However, after rebooting the machine, ssh is working properly. Go figure. ...Rob -- Security isn't something you download. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disable saving persistent net rules

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> How can I prevent udev from saving the MAC address of eth0 into the > persistent net rules file? I am using Debian Etch. I added a file /etc/udev/rules/a10-monnier.rules which contains various rules that I like (e.g. rename the firewire network interface to eth-fw0, rename the wifi interface to

infinite loop in postgresql

2007-07-17 Thread Tony Heal
I am attempting to test something and I need to loop inside of postgresql v 7.4 so that it will consume cpu time, I will then read the cpu time for my testing. Anyone have some ideas on how to create this loop? Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I know the answer to this will probably hurt, but I thought I'd give it > a shot in any case. My notebook's battery life took a sudden drop from > around an hour to about 15 minutes. I is a 4800mAh battery. Given the specs of your battery (10.8V 4.8Ah, i.e. 51Wh), an autonomy of one hour mean

Re: [OT] Samsung-provided linux drivers could be dangerous

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/17/07, Anson Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Samsung_Linux_printer_driver_modifies_the_permissions_of_many_executables I was going to recommend a Samsung Laser printer (like my ML-2250) on the "Economic Printer" thread, but now maybe not. I remember seein

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-17 Thread Matías Palomec
On 7/17/07, Mace, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just installed Debian Etch (4.1.1) that I'm planning on using as a syslog server. I've got syslog-ng up and running just fine. And I've got a script that greps the logs nightly for error messages that I care about. The problem is I can't

Re: Installing Testing onto an Intel DG965WH-board Machine

2007-07-17 Thread Anson Gardner
On Sunday 15 July 2007 03:53, Peter Robinson wrote: > Dear all, > > I am having some difficulties installing Debian onto my new machine. The > hardware is: 1)CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.40 GHz, L2 Cache 4096 kB > 2)Board: Intel Desktop Board DG965WH > 3)DVD Recorder: ASUS Lightscribe Drive DRW-1814BL

[OT] Samsung-provided linux drivers could be dangerous

2007-07-17 Thread Anson Gardner
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Samsung_Linux_printer_driver_modifies_the_permissions_of_many_executables I was going to recommend a Samsung Laser printer (like my ML-2250) on the "Economic Printer" thread, but now maybe not. Well, in fact I still recommend it, just not their driver CD. I wonder

Sending Email from script

2007-07-17 Thread Mace, Nathan
I just installed Debian Etch (4.1.1) that I'm planning on using as a syslog server. I've got syslog-ng up and running just fine. And I've got a script that greps the logs nightly for error messages that I care about. The problem is I can't get the results of the script to be emailed to me. I've

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:42:39AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I can't say I ever recall it being law, but I remember my grandparents > teaching me to walk against the flow of traffic, so that you can see the > driver and the driver can see you, and I grew up with the concept of doing This wa

Re: how to shift from stable to testing

2007-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:17:15AM +, Silke Suck wrote: > Hi, > > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I would like to recommend aptitude instead of apt-get. It is also the=20 > > debian recommended tool. > > I would _not_ recommend switching to aptitude on a system on which you >

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 06:24:17AM +0200, Sebastien JUST wrote: > > For the workgroup, discussing is already a good start ! bon chance! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem with amixer or ...

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:16:01AM +0100, annals wrote: > I hope someone can point me in the right direction on this, as I > can't be 100% sure I've not just overlooked something (I'm by no > means an expert etc.). I get errors with alsamixer/amixer that > prevent sound from working on this machin

Re: nfs client does not mount server-shares automatically on boot

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:38:56PM +, randhir phagura wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian; using etch. > > I have installed nfs on server and clients. It is functional manually but > does not mount the shares automatically from /etc/fstab. > > I have modified /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to mount n

Re: nfs client does not mount server-shares automatically on boot

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 08:38, randhir phagura wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian; using etch. > > I have installed nfs on server and clients. It is functional manually but > does not mount the shares automatically from /etc/fstab. > > I have modified /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to mount nfs by changing t

RE: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Adrian Hall
Hi All,Here in the UK, cyclists are treated the same as cars, trucks etc on the road and are subject to the same laws.This means they have to ride with the flow of traffic, stop at red lights, give way to pedestrians etc.Mind you, the roads are so dangerous for cyclists most just use the paths (

nfs client does not mount server-shares automatically on boot

2007-07-17 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, I am new to Debian; using etch. I have installed nfs on server and clients. It is functional manually but does not mount the shares automatically from /etc/fstab. I have modified /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to mount nfs by changing the 'nonfs' to 'nfs' in the lines shown below" mount_all_l

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I can't say I ever recall it being law, but I remember my grandparents teaching me to walk against the flow of traffic, so that you can see the driver and the driver can see you, and I grew up with the concept of doing the same on a bike (I'm unsure if they taught me that, or i

OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jul, Steve Lamb wrote: William Pursell wrote: If a cyclist is riding against the flow of traffic, Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to ride against the flow of traffic? I can't say I ever recall it being l

Re: wodim records at 4x with a 32x capable recorder

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 03:18, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > No matter if I run it as root or as normal user, and no matter which > speed parameter I set to wodim, when recording a CD-RW it is always > defaulting to 4x, even altough my recorder reports being able to do > CD-RW at 32x. I always get

Re: ssh issues

2007-07-17 Thread Rob Bochan
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:17:26 am Steve Kemp wrote: > The only time I've seen similar issues is when the host had > no ssh key in /etc/ssh - the server didn't have them and I had > to regenerate them. > > Have you tried searching google for the error message(s) you see > when connecting wi

/var/log versus system crash examination

2007-07-17 Thread tomas.itsx
Hello debian users, i have quite a newbee and a general question, so i will appreciate any hints and links to a good materials and so.My problem is: i run a kind of a long-time computation software (gromacs) on my debian etch box, but unfortunately i receive crashes of the system (debian

Re: dialup modem connection

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Install pon > Then install pppconfig and run that as root > Then if you are already as user added to dip it will all just work. > I am still on dialup and about to move onto satellite broadband > because there is no other broadband option. One of the joys of living > in the bush. > Be well, >

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-17 Thread judd
On 16 Jul, Steve Lamb wrote: > William Pursell wrote: >> If a cyclist is riding against the flow of traffic, > > Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to > ride against the flow of traffic? > Just out of curiosity, where did you grow up? Everywhere that I've lived (o

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-17 Thread judd
On 16 Jul, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:25 PM, William Pursell wrote: >> If you make >> a right turn (assuming you live where they drive on the >> right hand side of the road) and take out a cyclist that >> you didn't see passing you on the right in a cycle lane, >> I hope you g

Re: ssh issues

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Kemp
The only time I've seen similar issues is when the host had no ssh key in /etc/ssh - the server didn't have them and I had to regenerate them. Have you tried searching google for the error message(s) you see when connecting with -v -v -v ? Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/ -- To UNSUB

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-17 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >   Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to > ride against the flow of traffic? It would seem so. Everywhere that I have lived, bicycles are considere

Re: wodim records at 4x with a 32x capable recorder

2007-07-17 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > No matter if I run it as root or as normal user, and no matter which > speed parameter I set to wodim, when recording a CD-RW it is always > defaulting to 4x, even altough my recorder reports being able to do > CD-RW at 32x. > > (...) > Speed set to 706 KB/s > (.

Re: dialup modem connection

2007-07-17 Thread John Hasler
Install pppconfig, run it as root, and follow instructions. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[solved] The mystery of the misbehaving 120 Spacecam

2007-07-17 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi Debianers, > This is a real puzzler and a challenge to all. I'm running Debian Lenny > with a 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. My DM is KDE somewhere between 3.5.5 and 3.5.7 > as the KDE updates trickle down to testing. I rescued a Trust 120 Spacecam > USB webcam that my friend was t

Re: sid: system unusable after upgrade: tput invalid option -- 2

2007-07-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 13:49:36 +0200, Dot Deb wrote: > Dear all, > > today I had a very bad experience and I hope to find the > solution with your help. > > I upgraded my debian/sid after many weeks and I found that, at > boot, each init script stops with the error: > > tput invalid option -- 2

(Etch) flash player md5 fail

2007-07-17 Thread time lord
Hello, I have debian etch installed since yesterday (16-July-07). I have used both synaptic and apt-get to install Bart Martens installer package off of DVD1, this process then fetches the flash player from adobe and the install continues but it fails at the end with: "Not Installed, md5 fail" -

sid: system unusable after upgrade: tput invalid option -- 2

2007-07-17 Thread Dot Deb
Dear all, today I had a very bad experience and I hope to find the solution with your help. I upgraded my debian/sid after many weeks and I found that, at boot, each init script stops with the error: tput invalid option -- 2 I do no quite underst

Re: ssh issues

2007-07-17 Thread Rob Bochan
On Monday 16 July 2007 08:02:44 pm Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > Does /etc/hosts contain a valid entry for your hostname? > > Casey The hosts file for the trouble machine: - begin hosts -- 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 hostname # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capabl

Re: Problem after sata port went down

2007-07-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:48, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > The sata port on my MB went down and I had to run fsck on the hard-drive. I > guess the /var directory was mangled. As a result, I cannot install, > remove, upgrade any package. I get the following error ,essage fro, dpkg: > dpkg: serious war

Proble, after sqtq port went down

2007-07-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The sata port on my MB went down and I had to run fsck on the hard-drive. I guess the /var directory was mangled. As a result, I cannot install, remove, upgrade any package. I get the following error ,essage fro, dpkg: dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `hpijs' missing, assuming

wodim records at 4x with a 32x capable recorder

2007-07-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
No matter if I run it as root or as normal user, and no matter which speed parameter I set to wodim, when recording a CD-RW it is always defaulting to 4x, even altough my recorder reports being able to do CD-RW at 32x. (...) Speed set to 706 KB/s (...) Recorder is a BENQ DW1650, connected as slav

Udev rule writing

2007-07-17 Thread Alex Samad
HI Got myself a voip handset that seems to work with the yealink driver, I am looking at use yeaphone with it. My problem is that yeaphone uses /sys/., but I run the program as non root user. I want to write a udev rule to set the permission on the /sys directory structure (not the /dev/

Re: Computer freezes with linux-image-2.6.21-2

2007-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/07 04:11, andy wrote: > Miguel J. Jiménez wrote: >> Miguel J. Jiménez escribió: >>> No, I did not compile anything special... but I do a lot of extensive >>> CPU use (java, eclipe, postgres, apache, php, jboss all running >>> together) but as

Re: Problems regarding LDAP authentication & nss ...

2007-07-17 Thread Jaime Ventura
Just a few topis I forgot to tell. Im using debian etch. Ive already search on google about this. Found some info on a bug on libnss-ldap, but not on the version im using. So I think this is a missconfiguration rather a bug. Tanks Jaime Jaime Ventura wrote: Im trying to configure my debian box

Problem with amixer or ...

2007-07-17 Thread annals
I hope someone can point me in the right direction on this, as I can't be 100% sure I've not just overlooked something (I'm by no means an expert etc.). I get errors with alsamixer/amixer that prevent sound from working on this machine: Linux boxname 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP [...] x86_64 GNU/Linux (D

Notebook Battery

2007-07-17 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, I know the answer to this will probably hurt, but I thought I'd give it a shot in any case. My notebook's battery life took a sudden drop from around an hour to about 15 minutes. I is a 4800mAh battery. Fully charged, I noticed this: theluggage:/proc/acpi/battery/C17C# cat info

sox: problem with resampling audio files

2007-07-17 Thread Rehceb Rotkiv
Dear Debian community, I resampled some audio files with sox like this: sox oldfile.mp3 -r 44100 -c 2 nufile.wav This worked fine with all files except one, which got shorter (and therefore sounds "fast forwarded") and now has a very loud and irritating background noise. I cannot find an explan

Re: Computer freezes with linux-image-2.6.21-2

2007-07-17 Thread andy
Miguel J. Jiménez wrote: Miguel J. Jiménez escribió: No, I did not compile anything special... but I do a lot of extensive CPU use (java, eclipe, postgres, apache, php, jboss all running together) but as I said before nothing happened while having the other kernel... :'( Anyhow I have recompil

Re: Computer freezes with linux-image-2.6.21-2

2007-07-17 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Miguel J. Jiménez escribió: No, I did not compile anything special... but I do a lot of extensive CPU use (java, eclipe, postgres, apache, php, jboss all running together) but as I said before nothing happened while having the other kernel... :'( Anyhow I have recompiled the kernel deactivating

[OT] smart reporting trouble

2007-07-17 Thread André Berger
Back from vacation, I found messages from smartd (sarge; 2.6.21.5) in root's mailbox: SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hda, 1061 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors SMART error (OfflineUncorrectab

Server for a Bibliography (eg. pubmed.gov)

2007-07-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, I am looking for a tool just like pubmed.gov. Ideally it should support one of the export format of pubmed.gov, or quickly upload a pdf file of a scientific article. Thanks, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: RAM puzzle

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686. And try the 2.6.21 one while you're there: it may reduce your battery consumption significantly. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]