Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400 >> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >> I underst

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Don Sutter wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like > >> to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Li

Re: How to properly empty log files

T o n g a écrit : My /var/log/mail.err is very big due to a misconfiguration error. However, I can't simply remove it because it is "owned" by rsyslogd: [...] So, how to properly empty log files? Hi, If you dont want to : - restart syslog - keep the information in the file you can "truncate

Why not thunderbird

Hi, I know that thunderbird has been renamed to icedove in Debian. But for iceweasel, we can still type the command firefox, mozilla-firefox, or even mozilla and start it. So why icedove is not providing the thunderbird command? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.s

Re: How to properly empty log files

T o n g wrote: Hi, My /var/log/mail.err is very big due to a misconfiguration error. However, I can't simply remove it because it is "owned" by rsyslogd: $ lsof | grep mail.err rsyslogd 4387 root 10w REG8,9 17605899 247416 /var/log/mail.err So, how to properly

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my > spooler engine, I don't get in the file-print menu an option to print > PostScript/default as I do with iceape. I use standard LPD to print. Do you have the xp

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I understand that I don't need much processing power; that's why I was > thinking of an embe

How to properly empty log files

Hi, My /var/log/mail.err is very big due to a misconfiguration error. However, I can't simply remove it because it is "owned" by rsyslogd: $ lsof | grep mail.err rsyslogd 4387 root 10w REG8,9 17605899 247416 /var/log/mail.err So, how to properly empty log files?

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my > spooler engine, I don't get in the file-print menu an option to print > PostScript/default as I do with iceape. I do. I may have done something to get it to work here, but I'm not sure

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Don Sutter wrote: Hi All, I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions robust enough to handle Win

Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

Don Sutter wrote: Hi All, I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions robust enough to handle Windows? Perhaps I should consider using VM, Win

Re: Gnome turns everything root

Slim Joe wrote: I want to make my Debian system more Ubuntu-like, which means doing sudo or sudo-like system administration. However when I enter my user password to run update-manager every program in my Gnome menu that requires root-level privileges is authenticated. That is I can run without t

Gnome turns everything root

I want to make my Debian system more Ubuntu-like, which means doing sudo or sudo-like system administration. However when I enter my user password to run update-manager every program in my Gnome menu that requires root-level privileges is authenticated. That is I can run without typing my password

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:20:09 +0200, Sam Kuper wrote: > > Well, maybe you're right about that, but: > (1) My point still stands: start low and upgrade if needed. This way > you won't be paying over the odds. Most VPS providers offer > near-instant upgrades. > (2) The OP didn't require MySQL. He spe

Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

Hi All, I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions robust enough to handle Windows? Perhaps I should consider using VM, Windows and a Windows

[Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

Hi, When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my spooler engine, I don't get in the file-print menu an option to print PostScript/default as I do with iceape. So with iceape I'm actually able to print stuff, but with iceweasel I don't get how to do it... I tried addign field

libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

Debian Lenny I have a commercial application called acuSim under /usr/local/bin/acusim. It also installed libz.so.1.2.3 under /usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/base/lib. This library is causing major problems on my box. For example, if I try to start Iceweasel, it segfaults. gnome-sessio

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Thursday 16 October 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > 1) I'm a writer by avocation. Honestly, it's much easier for me to > > write a 5,000 word email than a 500 word one. I'll refer you to > > Churchill's quotation about how long it would ta

Re: Login name in Sid

Frank writes: > In addition I couldn't change it the normal way..so I had to go in and > actually edit the file. You mean you couldn't edit /etc/password with vipw? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Alpha Station problem with 2.6.18-6 kernel

Hello, I can't: 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.18-6-alpha-generic' on my Alpha Station 400 4/233. The last time I did the update the 2.6.18-5 kernel was installed. I get this message during install: "Hmm. The package shipped with symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.18-6alpha-generic/source How

Re: ALSA not working properly

On Thursday 16 October 2008 20:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Nigel, Florian, thank you so far for the hints. > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 October 2008 > > > > 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > > > Dear All > > > > > > I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply > >

Re: Login name in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: > Kent West wrote: >> Frank McCormick wrote: >>> Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,16.Oct.08, 13:57:41, Frank McCormick wrote: > Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in > as "comment", not m

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: ... > > But IIUC, the power draw, especially of an old and probably energy > > inefficient computer, is much higher than that of a dedicated external > > di

Re: Login name in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Thu,16.Oct.08, 13:57:41, Frank McCormick wrote: Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in as "comment", not my login name. I get into Gnome

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Re: Login name in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,16.Oct.08, 14:39:56, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Thu,16.Oct.08, 13:57:41, Frank McCormick wrote: Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in as "comment", no

Re: Login name in Sid

Frank McCormick wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu,16.Oct.08, 13:57:41, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in > >> as "comment", not my login name. I get into Gnome via GDM, and it > >> doesn't seem to matter whether I type in name

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:03:41 -0500, Sam Leon wrote: >> My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking >> capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly >> installed lenny. >> >> How can I get it back? > Install hunspell and a laungauge pack: > > http://packages

Re: Login name in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,16.Oct.08, 13:57:41, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in >> as "comment", not my login name. I get into Gnome via GDM, and it >> doesn't seem to matter whether

Re: Login name in Sid

On Thu,16.Oct.08, 13:57:41, Frank McCormick wrote: > Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in > as "comment", not my login name. I get into Gnome via GDM, and it > doesn't seem to matter whether I type in name and password..or let it > automatically log me in. If I dro

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Sam Leon wrote: >>> Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun >>> down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :( >> >> Hmmm, very puzzling. I'd ask lkml. Not puzziling at all. Most HDs have utter crap inside that is too dumb to f

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: > 1) I'm a writer by avocation. Honestly, it's much easier for me to > write a 5,000 word email than a 500 word one. I'll refer you to > Churchill's quotation about how long it would take him to write a long > speech vs. a short one. Have that added to

Login name in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in as "comment", not my login name. I get into Gnome via GDM, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I type in name and password..or let it automatically log me in. If I drop into a ter

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:11 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called > > someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup > >

Programar un generador de funciones con el AC'97

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Re: OT: Linode & VPSVille

On 10/16/2008 10:25 AM, Eric Gerlach wrote: Anyone have any experience with Linode? I have had a $20US/mo. linode running Etch for about 3 months. It was dead simple to set up, has been completely stable, has seen no host load issues, and the bandwidth has been outstanding. I've been using

Re: no-ip script owner (normal user versus nobody)

Steve Kemp wrote: > On Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 11:32:00 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Currently the script file I specified in no-ip configuration does not >> appear to run as me since it cannot find my conf files from my home. >> That same script runs perfectly if I run it myself manually. > > Configure

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:11 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called > someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup > over rsync or NFS, and turn it off. If it does wake-on-lan you

Re: live cd with lvm

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:55:15 +0200 Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. Or if you have a better solution, > here is my problem: Debian Live, of course! The rescue flavor includes lvm2, and you can, of course, build any image you want and

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:21:45 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Postfix and exim4 may be heavier than esmtp, but Postfix on my > system is only 5.7MB of RAM. Compared to Iceweasel, Icedove, GNOME, > etc, etc, it's positively light-weight. Exim: (VIRT/RES/SHR): 6272 500 4

Re: no-ip script owner (normal user versus nobody)

On Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 11:32:00 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Currently the script file I specified in no-ip configuration does not > appear to run as me since it cannot find my conf files from my home. > That same script runs perfectly if I run it myself manually. Configure either noip to run: sud

Re: live cd with lvm

Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. INSERT has it: http://www.inside-security.de/INSERT_en.html ... looking at the project page, though, they haven't done a release in a while. Last one was in 2007. Which is too bad. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Adm

no-ip script owner (normal user versus nobody)

Hello, I am running no-ip on my of my computers. The daemon runs as 'nobody'. No-ip's configuration's last step is to specify a script I wish to run on successful update of the IP address. I want to run this script as me as the user, not as root or nobody. How do I do that? Currently the script f

OT: Linode & VPSVille (was: Re: virtual private server? advice requested)

Sam Kuper wrote: I made a shortlist for this sort of thing myself recently. It was largely inspired by http://djangohosting.org/ with the addition of VPSVille . I opted for VPSVille, though I'm only paying month-on-month and I'm automating things as far as possible so that

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Thursday 16 October 2008, you wrote: > A lot of what you're saying is right, and is great advice to the > community. But in the time it took you to write that 5000+ word > email you probably could have written the patch and submitted it. 1) I'm a writer by avocation. Honestly, it's much easie

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Wednesday 15 October 2008, you wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Both of your comments involve disagreements over differences of > > opinion -- but I can see where you're coming from and I think the > > point about rewording the warnings in menu.lst would go a long way > > toward addressing the is

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

A lot of what you're saying is right, and is great advice to the community. But in the time it took you to write that 5000+ word email you probably could have written the patch and submitted it. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi If you'd "love to see

Re: OT: welcome back

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:27:52PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:34:53AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > >>On 10/13/2008 09:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >No vacation. Moving. > > > >nice to be back. > > Hope you were able to move up to broadban

Re: ALSA not working properly

Nigel, Florian, thank you so far for the hints. Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2008 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Dear All > > I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply > clicking on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that > specific file. But,

Re: Problem on receiving mails

--- Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 21:17:04 +0800, Stephen Liu > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [...] > > > Further to my late email. > > > > > > Change MX back to "mail" > > > > > > Sent a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > # tail /var/log/mail.log > > O

Re: shutdown failure

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:05:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > shutdown stopped working, in the sense that the shutdown command > produced the log entry > > Oct 13 20:01:02 aptiva shutdown[26745]: shutting down for system > reboot > > and wrote /fsckcheck > I finally pulled the plug. Aft

Re: Login depends on X?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:51:41PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > (I use GNOME mainly because I do things like web surfing and such, which > is better with the graphics. I use a Win machine for the unavoidable, > and for playing Blu-Ray discs. If I didn't use Iceweasel a lot, I would > just as

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/15/08 19:16, Sam Leon wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sd

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

T o n g wrote: Hi, My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly installed lenny. How can I get it back? thanks Install hunspell and a laungauge pack: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=myspell-&sea

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

On 10/16/08 02:52, Aioanei Rares wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] apt-get would only remove the meta-package and leave the other packages. It would, however, nag you about the auto-installed packages, telling you how to get rid of t

Re: Problem on receiving mails

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 21:17:04 +0800, Stephen Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > Further to my late email. > > > Change MX back to "mail" > > > Sent a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > # tail /var/log/mail.log > Oct 16 13:07:04 xen01 postfix/qmgr[1976]: 299472055B: > from=<[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Problem on receiving mails

--- Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 19:03:13 +0800, Stephen Liu > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Debian Etch > > Postfix > > Courier > > MySQL > > > > > > The mail server can send mails via telnet but unable to receive > mails. > > All m

Re: Problem on receiving mails

--- Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 19:03:13 +0800, Stephen Liu > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Debian Etch > > Postfix > > Courier > > MySQL > > > > > > The mail server can send mails via telnet but unable to receive > mails. > > All m

Re: Problem on receiving mails

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 19:03:13 +0800, Stephen Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Debian Etch > Postfix > Courier > MySQL > > > The mail server can send mails via telnet but unable to receive mails. > All mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] were rejected. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hos

Re: Problem on receiving mails

--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu,16.Oct.08, 19:03:13, Stephen Liu wrote: > > [...] > > > The mail server can send mails via telnet but unable to receive > mails. > > All mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] were rejected. > [...] > > # postconf -n > > alias_database = hash:/

Re: Problem on receiving mails

On Thu,16.Oct.08, 19:03:13, Stephen Liu wrote: [...] > The mail server can send mails via telnet but unable to receive mails. > All mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] were rejected. [...] > # postconf -n > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases > append_dot_mydomain =

Problem on receiving mails

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Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:04 AM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > >> its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody ha

Re: hda-sda problem after debian5beta2-netinstall-CD

On Wed,15.Oct.08, 09:58:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > After install with debian5beta2-netinstall-CD, > the first boot could not start from /dev/hda4. > After editing the grub lines, boot from /dev/sda4 succeeded. > But every boot the message remained: > "could not stat resume device file '/d

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

On Wed,15.Oct.08, 10:09:36, Ron Johnson wrote: > How do you configure it to use multiple relay hosts, dependent upon "from" > address domain? AFAICT it's actually dependant on Envelope-From:, but here goes: main.cf: sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relay smtp_sasl_pass

Re: No changelogs for all 50+ package updates

On 2008/10/16, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Slim Joe wrote: >> For the past four or five days I cannot see or download >> the changelogs for any of the packages which the >> Gnome Update Manager is supposed to install. [snip] > I'm experiencing the same thing (see also the recent post here with subje

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

On Wed,15.Oct.08, 17:04:27, H.S. wrote: > Having read what people posted, it appears that pulseaudio is on the > right track. In this thread, only Paul has discouraged its use and > Preston is having trouble (appears to be a hardware problem), and two > others are having a ball of a time with pa.

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/15/08 20:09, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> But maybe you are more intereste

Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

On Tue,14.Oct.08, 17:11:50, Sven Joachim wrote: > > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) > > This looks strange. Quoting the acpid manpage: > > In addition to rule files, acpid also accepts connections on a UNIX > domain socket (/var/run/acpid.socket