Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:11:38PM -0700, ghe wrote: > I have a hard time believing, though, that there wouldn't have been a > lot of very loud wailing if it's not possible for us old server admins > to set things up the way I want to... No warranties, but: * you can try a system where udev is NO

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 2008-11-04 06:28 +0100, Matt Miller wrote: >>> > Also, I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer >>> > swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in >>> > my terminal history when the editor is open, and then c

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-03 Thread Serena Cantor
The command you give does not work. I'm sure no other TV program is running. Below are output by your command, followed by example at www.mplayerhq.hu _ MEncoder dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium III

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-04 06:28 +0100, Matt Miller wrote: >> > Also, I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer >> > swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in >> > my terminal history when the editor is open, and then clears away >> > the screen and redisplays what

flashplayer v10

2008-11-03 Thread gary turner
The last upgrade of flashplayer-mozilla to v10.0.12.36-0.4 (amd-64) from v9.0.124 killed flash for me in all browsers. I tried removing and re-installing, but no joy. My PIII, 32 bit, latest upgrade is to 9.0.124.0-0.0 0, and it still works just fine. Both machines' /etc/apt/sources.list po

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-03 Thread Matt Miller
> > From GNOME terminal, when I: > > > > vi x :set nu > > > > the line numbers are colored, and I want to get rid of that. > > you could change the default alternative setup to point to nvi > instead. Thanks, that got rid of the colorized line numbers. > > Also, I don't want the editor to do what

Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > >> my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 >> months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that >> i'm thinking could be used as the network dhcp instead of my mode

Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/4 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > >> my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 >> months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that >> i'm thinking could be used as the network d

Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 > months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that > i'm thinking could be used as the network dhcp instead of my modem > (which i'm thinking is half

simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Lachlan
i been have tremendous trouble getting my network to see hostnames and and other pc's. it will see everything randomly one day and then be missing the next. my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that i'm

AtomicParsley stik not working

2008-11-03 Thread Jos Collin
Hi, I'm trying to copy an .mp4 file to "TV Shows" folder in my IPOD Nano. I have used the following command to set the stik atom. AtomicParsley test.mp4 --stik value=10 AtomicParsley test-temp-46045.mp4 -t Displays stik as "TV Show" Then I copied test-temp-46045.mp4 file to the IPOD using amarok

Re: grub with sata drives? - Progress

2008-11-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:00:56PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in /b

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Serena Cantor wrote: > mencoder >> driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:audiorate=44100:amode=1:audioid=1:adevice=/dev/dsp1:norm=PAL:normid=0:chanlist=europe-west >> tv:// -o out.avi hi, I missed the -tv indeed What about the mencoder commands there from the link http://www.mplayerhq.hu

Re: grub with sata drives? - Progress

2008-11-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:00:56PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I > > installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in > > /boot/grub/menu.

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:42:16AM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > it to do that before upgrading? > > I have not used aptitude on this system before. Ho

No pata_marvell in debian lenny installer?

2008-11-03 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
I'm trying to install Debian on my new system, using an Asus P5K SE/EPU motherboard. The SATA hard disk is perfectly recognized by the debian lenny installer (business card, daily build), but my CD-ROM, which is IDE, simply does not get recognized. Booting an Ubuntu Live CD, if figured out

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think you can use the device node symlinks in /dev/disk/by-label/ or > /dev/disk/by-uuid/ to avoid ambiguities, or you can write your own udev > rules to generate other symlinks in /dev that always point to the right > partit

Re: grub with sata drives?

2008-11-03 Thread Shams fantar
Thomas H. George wrote: > I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I > installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in > /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 > groot=(sdb,0) > > and ran update-grub. > Which is the outpout message of the update-grub ?

Re: cups-pdf [Solved]

2008-11-03 Thread Chris
On Monday 03 November 2008, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:00:47 +0100 > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 03 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > >

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-03 Thread Serena Cantor
The command you gives does not work. It seems to me that you miss "-tv", so I add it, mencoder says sth. wrong with audio device. I think I can omit chanlist and channel specification in mencoder command, because I can use the command below to watch TV: mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=48

Re: grub with sata drives?

2008-11-03 Thread elijah rutschman
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I > installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in > /boot/grub/menu.lst: As far as I know, grub doesn't use the Linux /dev/ nodes to access d

RE: Question regarding bonding of multiple eth's

2008-11-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
I finally figured it out and thought I would share in case someone else stumbles upon this problem. After doing a lot of research I found that I had to add the following line to my /etc/modules: bonding mode=1 miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200 It seems to be working perfectly now. C

Re: [opensuse] Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Neil
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Volkan YAZICI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I had used to be a ReiserFS user ~4 years and never had even a single >>> problem with it. > ... >>> >>> [1] Yes, we have couples of

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-03 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:00:47 +0100 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote:

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:05:26 -0700, ghe wrote: > David Schmidt wrote: > > > I might be wrong but perhaps e2label is what you are looking for. > > Been there; done that :-) > > That would work to get the machine booted, as would using the UUIDs. But > I really want my system disk to be sda so

Re: setting open file limits

2008-11-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:32:31PM +0100, frank wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 07:37 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > root: vim /etc/security/limits.conf > > > > user1- nofile 8192 > > > > > > then i try > > su - user1 > > ulimit -n > > > > > > and I get 1024, I have

Re: LDAP and POSIX groups

2008-11-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:19:11PM +0100, frank wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:48 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > > I'm having problems setting up LDAP with POSIX groups. I can see groups > > and members with "getent group mygroup", but am not a member after > > logging in. > > > > To co

Re: owner permissions

2008-11-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:32:00 -0800, Alan Hutchinson wrote: > Hi I am using Debian-lenny beta 2 ,and I don't no how to get "owner > permissions" so that I can download ndiswrapper and install it,I have bean > reading the "Gconf help" files but sadly that was not much help, and also > the reason

Re: ecryptfs

2008-11-03 Thread Paul Cartwright
Bob Cox wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search ecryptfs-setup-private >>> ecryptfs-utils: /usr/bin/ecryptfs-setup-private >>> ecryptfs-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/ecryptfs-setup-private.1.gz >>> >>> This is with lenny. >>> >> looks like lenny changed the files to : >> >> /usr/bin/ecryptfs-m

Re: ecryptfs

2008-11-03 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 14:08:31 -0500, Paul Cartwright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:46:30 -0500, Paul Cartwright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > >> I was reading a ubuntu how-to on ecryptfs ( for my laptop) and was > >> interested in install

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:50:32AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02 2008, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may > > be this is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be > > related to previous formatting

Re: Where's Catalina Tomcat Directory?

2008-11-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:28:20PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Bob Cox wrote: > > Maybe http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+catalina+webapps+directory > > has some helpful information? > > :-) > > Actually I'v

Re: nmap package obsoleted?

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi there I am trying to down load and install ndiswrapper but be four I can do that I have to get "owner permissions" so that I can modify etc\apt\sources.list file,how can I get owner permissions without all the rocket science,thanks in advance. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

grub with sata drives?

2008-11-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst: kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 groot=(sdb,0) and ran update-grub. Next I tried to boot the system and got the splash screen with my kernels listed but then a

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Schmidt wrote: > I might be wrong but perhaps e2label is what you are looking for. Been there; done that :-) That would work to get the machine booted, as would using the UUIDs. But I really want my system disk to be sda so the /dev filesystem

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 03 November 2008, Chris wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > > >

owner permissions

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi I am using Debian-lenny beta 2 ,and I don't no how to get "owner permissions" so that I can download ndiswrapper and install it,I have bean reading the "Gconf help" files but sadly that was not much help, and also the reason that I am sending you this email is I cant or don't seam to be getting

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 23:16 +0100, Matt Miller wrote: > >From GNOME terminal, when I: > > vi x > :set nu > > the line numbers are colored, and I want to get rid of that. Also, I > don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer swapping, or > whatever it is, that prevents me from scro

Re: Where is touch pad configure?

2008-11-03 Thread Robert Górajski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone :) You must edit xorg.conf first. In section "ServerLayout" add: InputDevice"Synaptics Touchpad" And add section: section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option

Re: LDAP and POSIX groups

2008-11-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:48 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I'm having problems setting up LDAP with POSIX groups. I can see groups >> and members with "getent group mygroup", but am not a member after >> logging in. > The ldap documentation is very rare

Re: ecryptfs

2008-11-03 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:46:30 -0500, Paul Cartwright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was reading a ubuntu how-to on ecryptfs ( for my laptop) and was > interested in installing it on my Debian desktop. the ecryptfs-utils app > installed just fine, but there was no user program > (ecryptfs-setu

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-03 Thread H.S.
Chris wrote: > > ok. The first image is a fragment of a payment form from Ebay, the text is > unreadable > > http://imagebin.org/30257 > > the second image > > http://imagebin.org/30259 > > is a printout of the website > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/ I printed this web page

disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have servers with a SCSI disk for the system and a RAID1 of SATAs for data. That's what I want, anyway. What I want to happen is the SCSI disk should always be sda, the SATAs should be sdb & c, anything IDE should be called hd, and externals should

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-03 Thread Chris
On Monday 03 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > > I am getting very poor results printing to pdf from Firefox, it see

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-03 15:42 +0100, Mark Copper wrote: > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > it to do that before upgrading? Not very much. However you should be able to do this, if you replace

Re: Where is touch pad configure?

2008-11-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/3 Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have lenny/gnome installed on a laptop with a touch pad > and I can't find any thing/place to configure/customize it. > It is working, but is way to sensitive. If it is synaptics touchpad (it might not be, mine for example is an ALPS touchpad), if yo

Where is touch pad configure?

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have lenny/gnome installed on a laptop with a touch pad and I can't find any thing/place to configure/customize it. It is working, but is way to sensitive. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > > Dear Deloptes, > > I have the incommensurable pleasure to announce you > that I have managed to install Lenny on my laptop thanks > to your precious help! > And "icing on the cake" (I think this is the way you put it > in English), I perfectly dual boot with the *!#)=} other >

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-11-03 Thread Micha
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:01:37 -0600 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > 2008/11/3 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > you can also always get a free matlab compatible matlab from bittorrent ;-) > > I have strong opinions as to why this is not a viable solution: > > http

tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-03 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is it to do that before upgrading? I have not used aptitude on this system before. How important is that? It would be nice to run the upgrade through

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Dear Deloptes, I have the incommensurable pleasure to announce you that I have managed to install Lenny on my laptop thanks to your precious help! And "icing on the cake" (I think this is the way you put it in English), I perfectly dual boot with the *!#)=} other "win-thingy" OS I have on it!

Re: Any Project Management Tools for Linux

2008-11-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any project management tolls available for Linus with Gantt Chart > etc? > > thanks > > --Siju How about? openproj[1] taskjuggler [2] ganttproject[3] gnome and kde both have their own versi

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-11-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Hi. 2008/11/3 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > you can also always get a free matlab compatible matlab from bittorrent ;-) I have strong opinions as to why this is not a viable solution: http://everything2.com/title/mathematica+and+free+software Cheers, - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: setting open file limits

2008-11-03 Thread frank
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 07:37 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > root: vim /etc/security/limits.conf > > user1- nofile 8192 > > > then i try > su - user1 > ulimit -n > > > and I get 1024, I have checked my /etc/pam.d for pam_limits and it is > enabled for login/su, sshd and g

Re: LDAP and POSIX groups

2008-11-03 Thread frank
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:48 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > I'm having problems setting up LDAP with POSIX groups. I can see groups > and members with "getent group mygroup", but am not a member after > logging in. > > To configure LDAP, I added > > nss_base_group ou=Group,dc=example,dc=

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Serena Cantor wrote: > Thanks! It's not easy to use mencoder. I copy and use your script, > mencoder report error when parsing -tv option. Then I remove "channel=$CH" > from -tv option, mencoder report "Unable to open /dev/dsp" and "0 frames > successfully processed, 0 frames droped" > > It's too

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Aneurin Price
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > >> Please, I don't want to start a flamewar between filesystems. But could >> anybody give any recommendations to me? > > First of all, avoid XFS at any cos

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:47:40AM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please post an /etc/fstab and the output of 'dumpe2fs -h' for one of > > your filesystems (considering that they have been created with same > > options). > > I've

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-03 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! It's not easy to use mencoder. I copy and use your script, mencoder report error when parsing -tv option. Then I remove "channel=$CH" from -tv option, mencoder report "Unable to open /dev/dsp" and "0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames droped" It's too hard to use, I'd rather give u

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Ok, thanks a lot. I took the one you would have taken... I'll let you know if it works or not. Thanks again. Regards, -- Lmhelp -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Etch---Netinst---Asus-laptop---Problem-tp20262860p20301691.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at

Change USB port uid and gid

2008-11-03 Thread hce
Hi, I want to change /proc/bus/usb to user level access permission. How can I change /proc/bus/usb uid and gid when mount it in rc.sysinit or fstab? I put following statement in fstab, but does not change the uid and gid, it is still with root:root access permission. none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs r

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz I think you have to download the hole directory for the netboot not only the tar.gz file http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > >> I would suggest that you simply download the netinst CD ROM, burn it on >> CD and try installation with it. > > Would you please be so very kind to tell me where to find the image > to burn on the Debian website so that I do not make another mistake? > >> I think the problem

ecryptfs

2008-11-03 Thread Paul Cartwright
I was reading a ubuntu how-to on ecryptfs ( for my laptop) and was interested in installing it on my Debian desktop. the ecryptfs-utils app installed just fine, but there was no user program (ecryptfs-setup-private ), per this doc: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory to cr

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
> I would suggest that you simply download the netinst CD ROM, burn it on CD > and try installation with it. Would you please be so very kind to tell me where to find the image to burn on the Debian website so that I do not make another mistake? > I think the problem you have now is that you ha

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Serena Cantor wrote: > I have etch and install mplayer from debian-multimedia. > I can watch TV with command below: > > mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vo xv tv:// > > Now I want to record TV program, which command can I use? > I wish the output is one to two megabytes p

Re: Memory on dom0 xen host (etch)

2008-11-03 Thread Javier Barroso
I now can read it is like a 'bug' on memstat http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=47260 I suppose memstat is counting /proc/xen/privcmd , and perhaps I should use xm top and not free. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Javier Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 'memstat | sor

Re: Apt-get problem

2008-11-03 Thread Josep M.
Hello Eugene. Thanks, I will change in next msgs, about apt-get upgrade nothing is upgraded: The problem is that apt-get want remove a lot of packages without needed, and I would like change this. deb:# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state inf

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > > Hi again, > > I did a: > # wget > http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz > -O /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 > instead, in the procedure I described in my first post... > > This time, "Network configuration has succeeded". >

Re: Apt-get problem

2008-11-03 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Josep M. wrote: > Hello. > > With "aptitude dist-upgrade" all is ok but "apt-get dist-upgrade" want > delete a lot of packages...how can I fix it? [snip] Firstly, please not post locale-specific output of commands, use "LANG=C command" instead. Secondly, yes, aptitude now has better dependency-r

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Hi again, I did a: # wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz -O /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 instead, in the procedure I described in my first post... This time, "Network configuration has succeeded". But, I have another error message a

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Please, I don't want to start a flamewar between filesystems. But could > anybody give any recommendations to me? First of all, avoid XFS at any cost: it has a bad history with power failures. IMHO, if you don't have any good rea

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > I am getting very poor results printing to pdf from Firefox, it seems > > > to have worked better in the past. Changing the

Re: Any Project Management Tools for Linux

2008-11-03 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/11/3 Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is there any project management tolls available for Linus with Gantt Chart > etc? > I hope you mean for Linux ;-) Planner? Or you can look at web based ones like obm or egroupware? -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics rang

bandwidth control

2008-11-03 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi there, I am looking a (debian) package to control bandwidth for my network So far, the best candidate from googling is IPCop, which I havent try it yet. I want to be able to control the bandwidth for each host (mix win, lin, mac) The idea of IPCop is to have 2 or 3 (with DMZs) NIC and make the

Any Project Management Tools for Linux

2008-11-03 Thread Siju George
Hi, Is there any project management tolls available for Linus with Gantt Chart etc? thanks --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Oh, I forgot: > when you boot switch to console and do 'uname -a' ~ # uname -a Linux (none) 2.6.18-6-486 #1 Sat Jan 26 08:50:43 UTC 2008 i686 unknown Thanks, -- Lmhelp -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Etch---Netinst---Asus-laptop---Problem-tp20262860p20300164.html Sent fr

[SOLVED] Re: mysql Etch -> Etch

2008-11-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mariusz Sielicki wrote: Did you backup database named "mysql" too? This database contains users and grants data. Yes, I backuped all /var/lib/mysql/ But on start mysql: /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'de

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Robert E A Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used to operate a whole bunch of Solaris systems on survey ships, > and power-loss situations were always fraught. > > My thoughts: ReiserFS is still available and stable, why not use it > for a year and see what happens? Actua

how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-03 Thread Serena Cantor
I have etch and install mplayer from debian-multimedia. I can watch TV with command below: mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vo xv tv:// Now I want to record TV program, which command can I use? I wish the output is one to two megabytes per minute. And the output should be

Re: mysql Etch -> Etch

2008-11-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mariusz Sielicki wrote: Did you backup database named "mysql" too? This database contains users and grants data. Yes, I backuped all /var/lib/mysql/ But on start mysql: /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Hi, Thanks again for your answer. Can you tell me if this is on that kind of website where I can know if "lenny" has support for my ethernet card "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express G"? http://hardware4linux.info/component/15869/ Thanks in advance, -- Lmhelp -- View thi

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sun, 02 Nov 2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The short answer is going to be, work on getting more UPSes, and > consider some type of longer-term (but still temporary) power source, > like a Diesel generator. > > If you have any diagnostics at all, post a summary here. Someone ma

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, Sorry for the late reply. (Guess what? Yet another electricity problem and I've been struggling with servers since 2 days.) On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please post an /etc/fstab and the output of 'dumpe2fs -h' for one of > your filesystems (considering th

Re: mysql Etch -> Etch

2008-11-03 Thread Mariusz Sielicki
Did you backup database named "mysql" too? This database contains users and grants data. Maybe try software for migration: MySQL Migration Toolkit. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html Regards. Mariusz 2008/11/3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I want to move a

Re: Where's Catalina Tomcat Directory?

2008-11-03 Thread Zaki Akhmad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Bob Cox wrote: > Maybe http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+catalina+webapps+directory > has some helpful information? :-) Actually I've done this. I deploy sample.war with tomcat manager. Then I see it shows on /us

Re: mysql Etch -> Etch

2008-11-03 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi, You can get the mysqldump from the Machine A and then restore this dump in new MySQL installation @ Machine B. Machine A: mysqldump -u root --all-databases>all-database_1.sql port this mysqldump (all-database_1.sql) to Machine B and run the command from dump's saved location. Machine B: mys

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-11-03 Thread Micha
Octave is getting more mature and is much more usable these days. It is mostly matlab compatible in syntax. scilab used to be better than octave, don't know the state at the moment, but the syntax is different than matlab. PDL as mentioned is a perl extention that also has a limited command line

mysql Etch -> Etch

2008-11-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I want to move all mysql databases with all users, grants, etc. from one box (Etch) to another (Etch). One box 1: tar czvf /backups/varlibmysql.tgz /var/lib/mysql One box 2: /etc/init.d/mysql stop cd / tar zxvf /backups/varlibmysql.tgz /etc/init.d/mysql start This way i'm missing use

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 02 2008, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may > be this is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be > related to previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached > information somewhere. Umm, no. I am

Re: Where's Catalina Tomcat Directory?

2008-11-03 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 14:59:41 +0700, Zaki Akhmad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am using Debian Testing. And I installed tomcat5.5 with apt-get > method. I have one web application directory, but I don't know how to > deploy it on Tomcat. While I work on Tomcat on Windows, I just copy it > to