Boinc Clients Niceness

Is there any way to control the niceness of boinc_client processes? Setiathome, for example, will initially come up niced. When it restarts, for example a new "work unit", it comes up not nice. It's options, controlled from their site, include nothing to control this and it has its own system of

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would recommend that Debian

Re: [OT] Interview with Con Kolivas on Linux failures

Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Brodbeck wrote: > > To me it always smacked a little of "me-too-ism", too ... the GNU > > folks felt Linux wasn't GNU-ish enough, so they had to go write their > > own kernel. > > The GNU Hurd has existed long before Linux existed. Hurd has been in >

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

On 25/07/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bicycles don't contain engine computers running close-source software. ;) Aha! I knew there must be a link! Thanks , David. On 25/07/07 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That errupted into a brief shower of fire about b

Suspicious PAM messages

Hello, Of late (a week or so) I have started noticing some strange syslog messages: su: PAM [dlerror: libselinux.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]: 2 Time(s) su: PAM [dlerror: libsepol.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]:

Re: XKB broken

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:17:39 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:50:05 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:32:14 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 15:42:04 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On my uptodat

Re: OpenGL programming for GNU/Linux

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:55:18PM -0400, "Lic. Orestes leal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > The only platform-specific parts are 1) getting a GL surface on the screen, > > and 2) installing the libraries/headers. For (1) you just use GLUT or Qt > > (or another cross-platform windowing

Re: OT: Cycling

> On 16 Jul, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to >> ride against the flow of traffic? Almost certainly. In the U.S., every state has adopted some form of the Uniform Traffic Code, one of whose clauses is equivalent to The r

Re: Newbie, Video help

On 07/25/2007 11:20 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: justin reeves wrote: heres the response Please reply to the mailing list so that all can participate in the discussion and the answer will be available in the archive. If your mailer has a reply-to-list action that is the one to use. If not t

Re: Cron and mail

Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is called "MAILTO" and not "MAIL"? You can try with that, but in general, as the man page says: "When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab ..." Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi > Non-root users are not getting information

Re: Newbie, Video help

justin reeves wrote: > heres the response Please reply to the mailing list so that all can participate in the discussion and the answer will be available in the archive. If your mailer has a reply-to-list action that is the one to use. If not then use the group-follow-up action and delete the n

Cron and mail

Hi Non-root users are not getting information mail about scheduled tasks. I've included the line MAIL=joendoe in jondoe user. Task are performed but users are not notified. I am using Etch and exim4. What's wrong with this? -- -- Sergio Belkin - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

adduser kills sound pt. 3

OK. So I investigated what statoverride is, and its a list of names that can be used to install packages under. I checked /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride, and it seems as though there is indeed a name 'root' in there, thus doubling my confusion. My guess is that the there was once a root group in /etc/

Re: USB scanner crashes VMware XP client

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:22:06 -0400, I wrote: > I'm running a VMware Server 1.0.2 XP client on an Etch host. I'd like to > use an Epson Perfection 2400 scanner from the XP client, but it crashes XP. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:16 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom replied: > a year ago I tried a USB Winmodem

adduser kills sound pt. 2

I tried to fix the problem on my own by completely removing linux-sound-base and the alsa packages, then reinstalling them, however when I tried to reinstall them (after successfully removing them) I got this error: Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `root' in statoverr

Re: Newbie, Video help

Ron Johnson wrote: > justin reeves wrote: > > I have a Leadtek Winfast A250, which I was told was > > equal to a Geforce 4 Ti 4600? > > How equal is equal? Equal in speed, or does the Winfast A250 have a > Geforce 4 Ti 4600 chip inside it? What is the output of this command? lspci | grep VGA

adduser kills sound

Twice I have used adduser to add a new user to my laptop, and each time afterward, I find that I am unable to use my sound device. When I use programs that output sound as root however, I am able to hear sound. Figuring that this is a permissions related issue, I checked my /etc/group file, and fo

Re: Newbie, Video help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/07 19:22, justin reeves wrote: > If this is not the correct group, please point me to > the correct one. It is... > I have just loaded for the first time Debian, I have > never used or have seen Linux before, I am trying to > figure out how

Newbie, Video help

If this is not the correct group, please point me to the correct one. I have just loaded for the first time Debian, I have never used or have seen Linux before, I am trying to figure out how to get a video driver so I can have a higher resolution than 1024*768, I have only past experience in DOS an

Re: Mount NTFS read only for nun root user

Oscar Corte wrote: Hil all: I´m able to mount an NTFS partition from the root user. I do this trhough a command window, logging in as Super user "su" and then executing the "mount" command. However, when I exit from root to tue regular user the mountd partition is not available. ¿How can I

Re: what is this in tcpdump?

On Jul 25, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I get a lot of these in my tcpdump on my machine: 15:45:47.427003 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 129 15:45:48.427004 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 167 192.168.1.31 is my broadcast address, and basemen

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

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:58:33PM +0100, Terence wrote: > On 25/07/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If they still publish it, the Washington Bicyclists Manual would be a good >> place to start for finding citations there. > > OK, it's OT, but what possible connection is there betwe

what is this in tcpdump?

I get a lot of these in my tcpdump on my machine: 15:45:47.427003 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 129 15:45:48.427004 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 167 192.168.1.31 is my broadcast address, and basement is me. They usually come in pairs like this, thoug

Mount NTFS read only for nun root user

Hil all: I´m able to mount an NTFS partition from the root user. I do this trhough a command window, logging in as Super user "su" and then executing the "mount" command. However, when I exit from root to tue regular user the mountd partition is not available. ¿How can I make it available (

Re: Using sources to update packages...

ZephyrQ wrote: > ...Will I mess up the system if I choose to 'upgrade' a package by > compiling from sources (in this case just a game)? If you are talking about this sequence: tar xzvf program-X-Y.tar.gz cd program-X.Y ./configure make make check make install Then you should be oka

syncing logs

Does anyone have a way to synchronize logs, such as determine what happened in apache at (or around) the same time that the syslog has an entry. Since most logs have a date/time stamp per entry I would think there was something around that could do this, but I can not find it. Thanks Tony

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

On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Terence wrote: OK, it's OT, but what possible connection is there between the title "[OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?" and a bicycle in Washington (wherever that is)? Is it that "binary = bicycle", or because Linux users behave like nil/ill

Re: Using sources to update packages...

Hi. ZephyrQ, 26.07.2007 00:07: > ...Will I mess up the system if I choose to 'upgrade' a package by > compiling from sources (in this case just a game)? Not if you install into a custom directory, like $HOME/Games for example. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: Ope

Using sources to update packages...

It has been a **long** while since I ran pure Debian (2+ years) and I seem to have forgotten... ...Will I mess up the system if I choose to 'upgrade' a package by compiling from sources (in this case just a game)? I'm on Etch, but thinking of going up to Lenny...has it stabilized a bit? (Rea

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

On 25/07/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If they still publish it, the Washington Bicyclists Manual would be a good place to start for finding citations there. OK, it's OT, but what possible connection is there between the title "[OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popula

Re: USB scanner crashes VMware XP client

Steve Kleene wrote: I'm running a VMware Server 1.0.2 XP client on an Etch host. I'd like to use an Epson Perfection 2400 scanner from the XP client, but it crashes XP. a year ago I tried a USB Winmodem on VMware Server XP client and got nowhere. Researching at that time I found that VMw

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Adrian Hall wrote: I think with three disks, the best option for using RAID is what's known as RAID 5 - this will make your three physical disks look like a single 'logical' disk. For some values of "best", anyway, and for three disks it's about the only opti

USB scanner crashes VMware XP client

I'm running a VMware Server 1.0.2 XP client on an Etch host. I'd like to use an Epson Perfection 2400 scanner from the XP client, but it crashes XP. The scanner software installed without error. The sequence in VMware from there is as follows: VM -> Settings -> shows USB controller present

Re: Getting wake-on-lan to work in Etch

Le Wednesday 25 July 2007 01:46:03 Raj Kiran Grandhi, vous avez écrit : > Hi, > > I am trying to get "wake on lan" to work in Etch. I have a motherboard > with an onboard NIC which supports wake-on-lan. I have enabled > wake-on-lan in the bios. When I poweroff the computer during POST, I am > able

Re: with etch, /etc/fstab root not needed?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Larry Evans wrote: > > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > > The /proc entry is obsolete if you use default mount options. It is > mounted by one of the initscripts. Hmm... The stock Etch installer still creates the entry. I don't see

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

Miles Fidelman wrote: Adrian Hall wrote: Put RAID 5 into Google and you should be able to find out plenty more information - it's been a while since I had to deal with RAID so my descriptions are a little vague. Someone else on this list will likely give a better description.

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

Hi! Adrian Hall wrote: > RAID is a method of spreading your data across disks.It can vary > from simply treating all of your disks as one large disk (and > providing no redundancy for your data) to what's known as striping > where your data is written to multiple disks in a way that means if > one

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

Adrian Hall wrote: Put RAID 5 into Google and you should be able to find out plenty more information - it's been a while since I had to deal with RAID so my descriptions are a little vague. Someone else on this list will likely give a better description. last time I looked, wi

RAID vs Multiple Drives

RAID is a method of spreading your data across disks.It can vary from simply treating all of your disks as one large disk (and providing no redundancy for your data) to what's known as striping where your data is written to multiple disks in a way that means if one of the disks fails, the syst

RAID vs Multiple Drives

Tell me to move this if this is the wrong place to ask, but: RAID recognizes a number of HDD's as one homogeneous drive. If I have, say, 3 HDD's, and I divide those 3 between my /, /tmp, and /dev locations (I picked arbitrary points), is that like having a virtual RAID system? Or not because

Re: etch setup and some questions

Hi LostSon, On 7/25/07, lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... I have read that once a debian release goes into stable like etch has you do not see very many updates or new apps just security and bug fixes mostly. I know about enabling testing and such but I have done that once and it broke m

Re: samba, cups and windows client

On 7/25/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:08:00PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Hi all, > > I just set up a printer server on my Debian box using cups and samba I'm not really up on these things, but I was under the impression that you could bypa

[fwd] xorg troubles

[ I put this back on the list. It seems that your webmail makes it very difficult for you to participate on the debian-user list. You can try Gmane, it allows you to read the list, post replies and start new threads: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user ] - Forwarded message fr

Re: samba, cups and windows client

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:08:00PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Hi all, > > I just set up a printer server on my Debian box using cups and samba I'm not really up on these things, but I was under the impression that you could bypass samba altogether now for printing and just use ipp://address/

how to restore bios password (PHEONIX on acer 5102)

Dear Debian list members, im sorry to ask such strange question here but still. i ve sent my laptop to local custumer servrice and they add a bios password on it. the full story is in bsh83.blogspot.com [It is in hebrew]. the [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't answar my calls and im like a lamer can't a

Re: XKB broken

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:50:05 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:32:14 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 15:42:04 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On my uptodate Sid system, XKB has suddenly broken. None of my XKB > > > settings in /etc/X11/xorg.con

Re: [OT UPDATE] Interview with Con Kolivas on Linux failures

On Wednesday 25 July 2007 18:02:49 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't really think this is OT, albeit not directly Debian related. > > Con Kolivas, the kernel hacker who authored a better scheduler, recently > > decided to quit. > > > > Loss for Linux (and Linus

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

Nick Demou wrote: > I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet > access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for > the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? > I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be willing to download > and run putty.exe b

Re: Terminal clock (script)

* Hugo Vanwoerkom (25-07-2007): > > I replaced vcstime years ago with my own version that displays more > information (minutes of battery left, free MB's, CPU temp, CPU %, VT#, > dow, date, time) and is a daemon, all of which are changeable with a > companion dialog piece, the 2 communicate over

samba, cups and windows client

Hi all, I just set up a printer server on my Debian box using cups and samba server. Everything seems to be fine when I use a Windows XP Pro Client to connect to the printer: the client can see the printer, I can add it to the printer list, and its status is ready. I also add the windows user to

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On 7/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:14:22 +0300 "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet > access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for > the worse how can I ssh to my deb

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On 7/25/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] DO NOT access any meaningful device from an internet cafe. They tend (not all) to be infected boxen even down to key loggers. I'll only do it if things go for the worst and I've allready setup a simple one-time-password mechanism which

Re: [OT UPDATE] Interview with Con Kolivas on Linux failures

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I don't really think this is OT, albeit not directly Debian related. Con Kolivas, the kernel hacker who authored a better scheduler, recently decided to quit. Loss for Linux (and Linus) He now has become a "key developer": http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?

Re: Terminal clock (script)

Oleg Verych wrote: In case somebody will find it useful, i want share it. A script that shows updated time and some more info in terminal's status line. I've found this fun, when i use my desktop system. It's just text mode actually. I use X very rarely to read pdfs (that can't be pdftotext'ed) o

Re: samba, cups and windows client

Nguyen, Cuong K.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all, > > I just set up a printer server on my Debian box using cups and samba > server. Everything seems to be fine when I use a Windows XP Pro Client > to connect to the printer: the client can see the printer, I can add it > t

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:14:22 +0300 "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet > access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for > the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? > I suppose that a PC in most interne

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:31:38 +0530 "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-07-25 > > Use a USB thumb disk. > > A portable hard drive has much better value-for-money. But it is not as > resistant to shock. >

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

hi, On 7/25/07, Nick Demou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be willing to

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

hi, On 7/25/07, Erik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have not read all you have written, but will not: iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -s 10.200.10.50 ! -d 192.0.2.8/29 -j SNAT --to-source 192.0.2.11 do the trick? i guess that's one of the reasons why I prefer debian-user over other lists

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

* Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-07-25 > Use a USB thumb disk. A portable hard drive has much better value-for-money. But it is not as resistant to shock. . -- Masatran, R. Deepak pgp

Re: Keymap with usbkeyboard

On 7/24/07, Arnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've got a server with only USB connections, so I had to plug a USB keyboard. This keyboard is an spanish one, so in the installer settings I selected spanish layout. After the installation has finished I have some problems with it, the keym

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:14:22 +0300 "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet > access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for > the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? > I suppose that a PC in most interne

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

Use a USB thumb disk. I got a brand new 1GB stick from Best Buy for fairly cheap. Install all necessary programs on it -- Putty, Firefox, Emacs/Vim, GIMP, etc. The more the better. If you have room, install Cygwin (I'd suggest getting a 2GB stick for that, though). It is almost certain that an In

Re: XKB broken

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:32:14 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 15:42:04 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On my uptodate Sid system, XKB has suddenly broken. None of my XKB > > settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf are active, /var/log/xorg.0.log contains > >

Re: XKB broken

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:05:55 +0200 Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On my uptodate Sid system, XKB has suddenly broken. None of my XKB > > settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf are active, /var/log/xorg.0.log contains > > the line "(WW) Couldn't load XKB keym

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

Try this... http://www.webssh.org/?t=webssh Slow, and not running on https, But if in dire need, it can suffice... Later, Larry - Original Message - From: "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:14 AM Subject: how to ssh to a linux box from an interne

how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be willing to download and run putty.exe but am I right? If not is the

Re: aptitude and "Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security."

Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi George. Are you talking about debian-multimedia.org? If, did you install their keyring package? YUP. Thanks, I thought it might be this, but my SID environment where I had this included failed completely after an apt or synaptic upgrade twice (in between did a re

Asrock K8NF6G-VSTA BIOS upgrade warning - forcedeth fails

Hello all, just a heads up on a problem I had. I build a small Debian Stable i386 media server on a Asrock K8NF6G-VSTA motherboard running BIOS version P1.2, everything worked well, until i flashed the BIOS up to version 1.6. That's when the forcedeth driver began complaining about bad MAC and ass

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, Say I want 10.200.10.50 to look like it came from 192.0.2.11 how do I do that? I have not read all you have written, but will not: iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -s 10.200.10.50 ! -d 192.0.2.8/29 -j SNAT --to-source 192.0.2.11 do the trick? By the way, if the

Re: clamd niceness (outgoing mail: "From isn't in return path")

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:57:04PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:06:18PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:53:13PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > as far as i can tell, there is no way to set the nice level other than > > > modify

Sound problem with videoplayers

Hello i am running an amd64 system, and recently saw that vlc and mplayer are available now for this platform... tried, but they play without sound xmms plays fine, so i ran an strace on it, and mplayer stops at open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY)= 5 close(5)

Re: with etch, /etc/fstab root not needed?

Larry Evans wrote: > I commented out the lines specifying where my root filesystem > was located in fstab: > > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > #/dev/hdb3 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 > /dev/hdb9

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

Hi, On 7/25/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Marcher wrote: > i have a setup where i have a borderline box that has 5 public IP > Addresses (this is for the sake of example: 192.0.2.8/29), all is > NATed to 10.200.10.0/24. Now the IP the provider uses as gateway is > 192.0.2.9 wh

Re: Installing OOo 2.2.1 from backports on Stable

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:58:58PM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > On 07/24/2007 03:30 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > and nobody calls me Mr... :) > > Yes sir! ;) I never know how to refer to people that I do not > personally know, so I tend to default to formal titles. Its such a pain to

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

David Brodbeck wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > On Jul 23, 2007, at 7:42 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> Hmm. In most places I've driven bicyclists are required to share a >>> lane, and are *not* entitled to an entire lane by law. >> >> Either you do not