Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
John Salmon wrote: > I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation > but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? > Or else you can find it here if you prefer a web interface. http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ Cheers, Jonathan

Re: Sarge -> Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2007-12-22 05:28 +0100, Cam wrote: > apt-get dist-upgrade normally works a treat, but having used it lately > to move from Etch to Lenny (after appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list > changes) I encountered this ugly situation: > > Preparing to replace indent 2.2.9-7 (using .../indent_2.2.9-9_i386.

Re: ftell, fgetpos, etc.

2007-12-21 Thread Scott Gifford
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > What I don't know is how to seek around the file in a machine-independent > manner, and avoid future headaches. [...] > (a) use fgetpos and fsetpos > This will presumably do random access to anything the machine's file > system will handle, b

Re: Switch running System to RAID-1

2007-12-21 Thread Scott Gifford
alexandrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I just figured that our complany's server was running on JBOD with 2 HDs, > one of them entirely unused (d'oh!). Of course I would like to have it as > RAID 1. > > Now, I built an Array from the HD in use and know how to make it bootable, > but I supp

Sarge -> Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Cam
Hi All, apt-get dist-upgrade normally works a treat, but having used it lately to move from Etch to Lenny (after appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list changes) I encountered this ugly situation: Preparing to replace indent 2.2.9-7 (using .../indent_2.2.9-9_i386.deb) ... Errno architecture (i486-l

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday December 21 2007 21:33:06 Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:51:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for > > > /, and I am starting to feel the pinch.

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:41:00PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> If >> some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, >> it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even >> /usr than /. > > >

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:51:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: > [snip] > > > > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /, > > and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8 > > years > > Impressive. Have you ru

Re: ftell, fgetpos, etc.

2007-12-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:48:34 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:39:58PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:09:54PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I need to write code that creates, reads, and writes a random-access binary >> > file, said binary file to

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-21 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg (limitation of software), converted to pdf using imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) to collect the complete document. Probab

Can't find newly added fonts in 'xfontsel'

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Yang
Hi All: I created a folder /usr/share/fonts/X11/myfonts where to save the my added fonts. After mkfontscale, mkfontdir operations, the fonts are available to most of applications I use. However, I can't find it in "xfontsel" until I manually add the fontpath by the command: $ xset +fp /usr/

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can you describe in more detail what "everything breaks" means? >> The internet still works for me, so it cannot be "everything" :-) >But it is everything, ... I was trying to make my point in a funny way. I'm assuming your fridge still works and you

Re: How do I set up sudo..

2007-12-21 Thread ajm
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:21:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:35:32AM -0800, Alou Dialy wrote: > > I figured out that I didnt have /sbin and /usr/sbin in > > my PATH but how come when I do sudo env it does show > > those directories in my PATH ? > > > > The man pag

Re: Switch running System to RAID-1

2007-12-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:12:22PM -0800, alexandrus wrote: > I just figured that our complany's server was running on JBOD with 2 HDs, > one of them entirely unused (d'oh!). Of course I would like to have it as > RAID 1. > > Now, I built an Array from the HD in use and know how to make it bootabl

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 01:16:55AM -0800, stevem wrote: > Excuse me if I hijack this thread but I've long wondered about a variation > of this question: If I roll my own kernel why isn't the resulting .deb > dependent on it's linux-source package? I couldn't find a suitable > option to make-k

Switch running System to RAID-1

2007-12-21 Thread alexandrus
Hi, I just figured that our complany's server was running on JBOD with 2 HDs, one of them entirely unused (d'oh!). Of course I would like to have it as RAID 1. Now, I built an Array from the HD in use and know how to make it bootable, but I suppose I have to make some changes to the boot-config b

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2007-12-21 23:41 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine >> (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine). > > Hm, I tried 'aptitude -t unstable install pdftk' which gets stuck on > the same message. :-. Could

Re: Pre-Boot eXecution Environment DHCP problems

2007-12-21 Thread Tod Detre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should be able to remove that from the boot order. In the system's bios the boot order will list something like "cdrom, net, disk". Just remove the net option. Regards, Tod Detre - -- Pantek, Inc. - http://www.pantek.com/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2007-12-21 20:47 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Apparently this is fixed in version 1.41 You just have to be > > patient until that version hits Lenny. > > Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine > (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine)

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even /usr than /. On this line... Making /tmp a separate filesystem is often recommended. Ri

Re: texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:13:05 +0100, Davide Mancusi wrote: >> I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see >> texexec. . . >> >> What package is this utility part of? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > Looks like texexec is not in Debian. What

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2007-12-21 20:47 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Apparently this is fixed in version 1.41 You just have to be patient until that version hits Lenny. Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine). Or gr

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 15:00, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Orig-To: Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. > >If I uncomment the commented "up" and "down" lines, everything breaks. > > Can you describe in more detail what

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 14:56, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >AFAIK ip, route et al are called my ifconfig to do the work. > > This is not right. ifconfig uses the old ioctl interface to control the > network interfaces. ip uses the new netlink protocol. > >

Re: texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread Mike Bird
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see texexec. $ which texexec $ What package is this utility part of? There's a texexec in the context package, which is not in all Debian versions. Suggest you check with the helpful people on the debian-tex list. --Mike Bir

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: [snip] > > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /, > and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8 > years Impressive. Have you run /# apt-get clean/? That should free up lots of space. > My main reason f

Re: texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread Tom
Hey ho, I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see texexec. <...> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ You need to apt-file search. The package should be "context". Tschuess, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread Davide Mancusi
Davide Mancusi ha scritto: I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see texexec. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I apologise. Wrong command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search bin/texexec context: usr/bin/texexec This one seems to m

Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread Arthur Barlow
John Salmon wrote: I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? Install aptitude-doc-en. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread Davide Mancusi
ISHWAR RATTAN ha scritto: I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see texexec. $ which texexec $ What package is this utility part of? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Looks like texexec is not in Debian. What did it do? Davide -- A tautology

texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see texexec. $ which texexec $ What package is this utility part of? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread Davide Mancusi
John Salmon ha scritto: I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? Have you installed aptitude-doc-en? Then you should find the documentation in the standard location: /usr/share/doc/aptitude Davide -

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Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Orig-To: Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. >If I uncomment the commented "up" and "down" lines, everything breaks. Can you describe in more detail what "everything breaks" means? The internet still works for me, so it

Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread John Salmon
I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? -- John Salmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted via Pronews.com - Premium Corporate Usenet News Provider http://www.pronews.com offers corporate packages

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >AFAIK ip, route et al are called my ifconfig to do the work. This is not right. ifconfig uses the old ioctl interface to control the network interfaces. ip uses the new netlink protocol. >Creating >an alias in the interfaces file is the correct way to do

Re: [OT] JavaScript with socket function

2007-12-21 Thread jekillen
On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Nelson Castillo wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 1:06 PM, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to write some JavaScript function in web page that can fetch other web page from internet, store it in variable, parse and present some extracted data from that other page.

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:16:40PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > >> The network administrator should have tools to detect the problem but you >> can try this method (i never use it when i have an ip conflict) >> >> First : launch "ifconfig" and see your ip address/netmask. I assume that >>

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2007-12-21 20:47 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Apparently this is fixed in version 1.41 You just have to be patient until > that version hits Lenny. Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:38:11PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:44:03AM +, T o n g wrote: > > Ops, yeah, I meant DHCP. I'm using DHCP instead of static ip. both under > > windows and under linux. [snip] > > Can I do that myself from my Linux box? > > I don't know what

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2007-12-21 21:25 +0100, Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Sjoerd Hiemstra shared this with us all: >>--} Has anyone managed to install pdftk in Lenny? >>--} Trying to install it, aptitude says: >>--} >>--} The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>--} pdftk: Depends: libgc

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:08:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Friday December 21 2007 08:56:46 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Has anyone managed to install pdftk in Lenny? > Trying to install it, aptitude says: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > pdftk: Depends: libgcj7-0 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable > Resolving dependencies... > Unable to resolve d

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Sjoerd Hiemstra shared this with us all: >--} Has anyone managed to install pdftk in Lenny? >--} Trying to install it, aptitude says: >--} >--} The following packages have unmet dependencies: >--} pdftk: Depends: libgcj7-0 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable >--}

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Adrian Levi
On 22/12/2007, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > "iface eth0:1 inet static" and so on is exactly the way I used to do it, but > that creates IP aliases (like as you would when using "ifconfig' manually") > instead of secondary ips (like when you do "ip addr add" manually".

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 13:42, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 22/12/2007, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. > > If I uncomment the commented "up" and "down" lines, everything breaks. > > Yes, I have real numbers and

Re: questions about shishi problem while using apache with etch

2007-12-21 Thread Stefan Fritsch
> In trying to create some new web stuff, apache seems to be > complaining about shishi (which I see from research is the gnu > kerberos stuff). Why is it doing this? I know I could just create > the directory, but I want to understand WHAT it is trying to do and > WHY. > > Port 12345 is one of m

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Adrian Levi
On 22/12/2007, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. > If I uncomment the commented "up" and "down" lines, everything breaks. > Yes, I have real numbers and not nnn in the real config file.: > > allow-hotplug eth0 > if

pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Has anyone managed to install pdftk in Lenny? Trying to install it, aptitude says: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pdftk: Depends: libgcj7-0 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up... Abort.

Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Note: this email is purposely NOT word-wrapped butcause I'm having trouble with a conf file, and don't want word-wrapping in the wrong place adding confusion) Does anyone know the correct way to add multiple secondary IPs (in other words, a base device IP, and 2 or more additional IPs) to one

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 12:49, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > Does anyone know the correct way to add multiple secondary IPs > > (in other words, a base device IP, and 2 or more additional IPs) > > to one device interface, in this case, eth0. > > I accidently sent the original post before I finished

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
> Does anyone know the correct way to add multiple secondary IPs > (in other words, a base device IP, and 2 or more additional IPs) > to one device interface, in this case, eth0. I accidently sent the original post before I finished typing. When I use a config like the last example, networking c

Re: Local list archives

2007-12-21 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 12/20/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > How can I obtain archives of this list on my local machine? > > Just one idea: > to download all messages of December 2007: > > wget -r -l 1 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/12 > > Then use a browser t

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-21 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 12/21/07, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the complete

evolution not getting access to password

2007-12-21 Thread Freddy Freeloader
About two weeks ago, well, that's "a" guess as to how long ago it was as I've been pretty busy, I started having to enter my admin password every time Evolution checks for mail. Not the password for the email server but the same admin password that's asked for if you're starting up a program t

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
ISHWAR RATTAN: > > I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the complete document. You can use pdfjoin from th

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:25:40PM -0500, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the

Re: aptitude crashing x?

2007-12-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 02:15:19AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Important! You should _not_ upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from > > an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are > > upgrading. That is because each of those

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-21 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/12/21, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the complete documen

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-21 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! > I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the complete document. i use GhostScript in a similar case in t

Re: aptitude crashing x?

2007-12-21 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miles Bader wrote: > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Important! You should _not_ upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from >> an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are >> upgrading. That is because each of thos

Re: aptitude crashing x?

2007-12-21 Thread Miles Bader
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Important! You should _not_ upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from > an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are > upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be terminated > during the upgrade which can result

concatenating pdf files

2007-12-21 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg (limitation of software), converted to pdf using imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) to collect the complete document. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: install-info/dpkg b0rked ?

2007-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
Hello, On 2007-12-21 07:25 +0100, Toufeeq Hussain wrote: > Currently a few packages(example: sed, findutils) ave been failing to > install on my Debian testing system. The problem seems to be a cryptic > error message which comes up when I run apt. Here's the output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:49:12 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > never pass up a good excuse for more hardware!! ;) It doesn't even have to be good; *Any* excuse will do, IMO. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is /

Re: Can't logout before command finished

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 07:36:58AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:44:00PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > On 2007-12-20 07:55:21 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Is not "screen" another solution? (I'm not terribly familiar with > > > "sc

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:08:07PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:35:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > But now that the damage is done, I don't have much advice. Probably > > your best bet is to move up to sarge manually replacing packages as > > needed to remove

Pre-Boot eXecution Environment DHCP problems

2007-12-21 Thread Berend van Berkum
Hi all, recently I did a fresh install of Debian Etch on my home-serverbox, and now it only boots properly after a reboot. The reason given is that the Managed PC Boot Agent or Pre-Boot eXecution Environment errs with "PXE-E53 No Boot Filename received" after which it hangs reporting there's no

Re: log reading while updating

2007-12-21 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:11:42 +0100 roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > a runnig program logs its output to a file and i'd like to read this > log file "while" it is being written and updated by the program, and > possibly searching in it for patterns and so on > > is it possible by "less

Re: function key problem

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Shuler
On 12/21/2007 08:53 AM, Deephay wrote: > I have some problem with the function keys for a laptop Details on the specific laptop and your desktop environment would certainly bring better help - all laptop manufacturers have different hotkey usage, and some desktop env's have some built-in widgets y

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday December 21 2007 08:56:46 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss > > > the system. > > > > Kiss the system

function key problem

2007-12-21 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, I have some problem with the function keys for a laptop: some functions of the "Fn+SOMEKEY" are sometimes sofware-based, there are drivers for them in Windows, but no for linux. I am wondering if there a way to catch the key press event and then execute a program which is determined

problem converting 2.6.18 IDE to 2.6.23 PATA (mkinitramfs can't handle encrypted devices?)

2007-12-21 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
I just installed a new Debian machine. It has encrypted root on an IDE disk. For default 2.6.18 kernel the disk is seen as /dev/hda and encrypted root is /dev/mapper/hda2_crypt. For the 2.6.23.x kernel with PATA, the disk is seen as /dev/sda, but the encrypted device doesn't change its name,

Re: log reading while updating

2007-12-21 Thread roberto
On 12/21/07, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > roberto: > > > > a runnig program logs its output to a file and i'd like to read this > > log file "while" it is being written and updated by the program, and > > > > possibly searching in it for patterns and so on > > When you want to search

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread stevem
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Johannes Graumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any mechanism to be notified by aptitude or the likes if a > > source package downloaded with 'apt-get source' has been upgraded by > > the maintainer and needs rebuilding? > > Excuse me if I hi

Re: log reading while updating

2007-12-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
roberto: > > a runnig program logs its output to a file and i'd like to read this > log file "while" it is being written and updated by the program, and > > possibly searching in it for patterns and so on When you want to search for specific patterns, you can either $ tail -f /var/log/syslog | g

Re: log reading while updating

2007-12-21 Thread H.H. Ding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 try tail -f xxx.log roberto 写道: > hello > a runnig program logs its output to a file and i'd like to read this > log file "while" it is being written and updated by the program, and > possibly searching in it for patterns and so on > > is it possible

Re: log reading while updating

2007-12-21 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello > a runnig program logs its output to a file and i'd like to read this > log file "while" it is being written and updated by the program, and > possibly searching in it for patterns and so on tail -f file > is it possible by "less" or other editors ?

log reading while updating

2007-12-21 Thread roberto
hello a runnig program logs its output to a file and i'd like to read this log file "while" it is being written and updated by the program, and possibly searching in it for patterns and so on is it possible by "less" or other editors ? thank you very much -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian -- T

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread Johannes Graumann
That seems to be one level lower than I'm looking for: checking for true upstream updates. What I want is looking for updates of the source-package *.deb) ... Joh Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Johannes Graumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any mechanism to be notified by aptitude or the likes if a