Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
M.Lewis wrote: > > Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony > (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without > upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Just add experimental distribution in your sources.list and then install it with '-t experim

Re: cannot boot after update

2008-12-22 Thread Simon Kranz
xltian1230 wrote: maybe you should reinstall the driver of your ATI card Do you mean install fglrx? I don't have it installed at the moment, i assume it is using the default ati driver from Xorg. Simon 2008/12/23 Simon Kranz > Hugo Vanwoerkom wro

Re: Parallel GZIP --> speed instead of 2 CPUs running

2008-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wonderig why Ron Johnson replied to my post with just bzip2 bench marks. Maybe I was unclear about myself. >> Osamu: >> The full story is here on my amd64 core2duo system: >> >> Summary: (with -1 option for speed, real time for compression) >> >> Binary filesText f

Re: SOLVED: Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:22:34AM -0200, André Neves wrote: > Setting udev's syslog level to DEBUG in /etc/udev/udev.conf helped me > see what was the bottleneck. After the 30 seconds long pause, the next > couple of message were about "settling", which, along with the graph > that bootchart drawe

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:48 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008, Ron Johnson wrote > about 'Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?': > >On 12/22/08 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> My system is a fully

Re: ip conflict detection

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, linuksos wrote: > Hi guys, > > is there and tool/daemon in a standard Debian repository which would > be able to detect ip conflict on the local network? > > thanks arpwatch will do that for ya -- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techn

Re: ip conflict detection

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 22:21, linuksos wrote: Hi guys, is there and tool/daemon in a standard Debian repository which would be able to detect ip conflict on the local network? nmap or arping is what I'd try. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at abov

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 22:11 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:03:10 -0500 > "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use > > > to connect to my main machine an

Re: Con[cat]enate two video files (was: Video editing)

2008-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 01:11:05AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > Ron Johnson writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > Unbelievable but true!! It seems to work. > > Now I tried to `cat' a file with no audio in it with another with audio in it, > and what happens is that th

ip conflict detection

2008-12-22 Thread linuksos
Hi guys, is there and tool/daemon in a standard Debian repository which would be able to detect ip conflict on the local network? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 19:27, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008, Ron Johnson wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?': On 12/22/08 18:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Virtualbox, Qemu, and Kvm don't really have a hypervisor. With any of the 3 your existing sid installa

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:03:10 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use > > to connect to my main machine and run X. > > > > I believe that I could boot off of knoppix,

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use > to connect to my main machine and run X. > > I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something > easier I could do with the stuff already on my

SOLVED: Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread André Neves
Setting udev's syslog level to DEBUG in /etc/udev/udev.conf helped me see what was the bottleneck. After the 30 seconds long pause, the next couple of message were about "settling", which, along with the graph that bootchart drawed for me and an afternoon of reading manpages led me to think that wh

Re: Re: cannot boot after update

2008-12-22 Thread Simon Kranz
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Simon Kranz wrote: Hello, I run debian etchnhalf 4.0r5a AMD64. I just installed a new desktop system (std and desktop packages). Since then i have done very little to add to it. Just installed foo2qpdl for my printer and also dvdrip from debian multimedia. Once in gnom

How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update? (2)

2008-12-22 Thread Dirk
found it.. myself(!).. http://dspnet.fr.eu.org/~lonewolf/LinuxJapan/Howto_English_Japanese.html Thanks for nothing! and no.. i'm still not interested in what you think about using debian/unstable... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update?

2008-12-22 Thread Dirk
debian/unstable Thanks for shutting the fuck up if you don't have the solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 22 December 2008, Ron Johnson wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?': >On 12/22/08 18:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Virtualbox, Qemu, and Kvm don't really have a hypervisor. With any of >> the 3 your existing sid installation will be fine as a host. > >Do I create (

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 18:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008, Ron Johnson wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?': On 12/22/08 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 22 December 2008, Ron Johnson wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?': >On 12/22/08 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to experiment >>> with virtual machine

Re: Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread André Neves
It is the touchpad of my laptop (i.e. internal). No clue why it is problematic. I'll try to write some udev rules and report any progress. André On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:58, yiyong lin wrote: > I think it should be the last component appeared. "input: SynPS/2 > Synaptics TouchPad as /class/in

Novelty:Error(first time in several) with harddrive partition booting installation.

2008-12-22 Thread Luis Maceira
Trying to install DebianPPC after changing my harddrive partitions I am unable to continue,I have done this several times with no problem so I am a little bit astonished. I downloaded the needed files vmlinux,initrd.gz,yaboot.conf from the right places,booted from BIOS(OpenFirmware)to a HFS partit

Con[cat]enate two video files (was: Video editing)

2008-12-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> [...] now I need also to append two >>> video files one another. What I'm trying to do is to select pieces from a >>> dvd. Ron Johnson writes: >> I *think* that plain old cat will successfully join them. >> >> $ cat f1.mpeg f2.mpeg > big.mpeg Rodolfo Medina wri

Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. Anybody else seeing this? What do you do with the report? What do you do about Iceweasel crashing? The application firefox-bin has crashed. Information about the crash

Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

2008-12-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:52 AM, M.Lewis wrote: e2fsck -f /dev/curley/home # check consistency before starting (may be required by resize2fs?) resize2fs /dev/curley/home 30G # change the size of (fs) /dev/ curley/home from whatever it is, to 30GB lvreduce -L 30G /dev/curley/home

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-22 23:10 +0100, M.Lewis wrote: > Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony > (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without > upgrading my entire system to Experimental? The easiest way is to download it from http://packages.debian.org/e

Re: [OT] bouncing list spam via Gmail's and other smarthosts

2008-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:07:03 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: ... > Am I assuming correctly, that this kind of bounce is ok (ie. welcome if > it was for some spam) ? > > /== > Return-Path: > [snip] > Resent-From: Johannes Wiedersich > Resent-To: lists...@l.d.o > Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2

Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-22 Thread M.Lewis
Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Thanks, Mike -- IBM: Incredibly Broad Monolopy 16:05:01 up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 1.73, 1.79, 0.78

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently Google, so I thought I'd ask first. My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to experiment with virtual machi

Re: installing lazarus from debian backports - Broken package

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 14:26, Csanyi Pal wrote: Ron Johnson writes: On 12/22/08 11:38, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I setup source.list for the debian backports: deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib\ non-free deb http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ lazarus-stable universe Did yo

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Monday 22 December 2008 15:14:06 Ron Johnson wrote: > I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently > Google, so I thought I'd ask first. > > My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to > experiment with virtual machines. > > Is this possible, or do I have to

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently > Google, so I thought I'd ask first. > > My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to experiment > with virtual machines. qemu / virtualbox? openvz

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2008 December 22 14:14:06 Ron Johnson wrote: > My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to > experiment with virtual machines. > > Is this possible, or do I have to start from bare metal? While I've never done it myself, it should be possible. The Sid kernel will run on

Re: installing lazarus from debian backports - Broken package

2008-12-22 Thread Csanyi Pal
Ron Johnson writes: > On 12/22/08 11:38, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I setup source.list for the debian backports: >> >> deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib\ >> non-free >> deb http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ lazarus-stable universe > > Did you "apt-get update

Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently Google, so I thought I'd ask first. My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to experiment with virtual machines. Is this possible, or do I have to start from bare metal? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-22 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hey Ross, Haven't tried this however I believe the Network Boot Howto is what you're looking for http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO.html Good luck :) Bye for now On Tuesday 23 Dec 2008, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 13:29, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 12/22/2008 01:13 PM: On 12/22/08 12:55, Sven Joachim wrote: [snip] These functions seem to be defined in /etc/bash_completion. [snip] Maybe /etc/bash_completion contains some code that bash doesn't like when it's cal

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 12/22/2008 01:13 PM: On 12/22/08 12:55, Sven Joachim wrote: [snip] These functions seem to be defined in /etc/bash_completion. [snip] Maybe /etc/bash_completion contains some code that bash doesn't like when it's called as sh. But another question is why

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 13:10, Ross Boylan wrote: I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use to connect to my main machine and run X. I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something easier I could do with the stuff already on my main machine--maybe setting up

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sven Joachim wrote the following on 12/22/2008 12:55 PM: On 2008-12-22 15:09 +0100, Dennis Wicks wrote: When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens full of messages that look like the follow

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-22 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/12/22 Ross Boylan : > I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use > to connect to my main machine and run X. > > I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something > easier I could do with the stuff already on my main machine--maybe > setting up an im

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 12:55, Sven Joachim wrote: [snip] These functions seem to be defined in /etc/bash_completion. [snip] Maybe /etc/bash_completion contains some code that bash doesn't like when it's called as sh. But another question is why a non-interactive shell even reads that file. That's a m

Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use to connect to my main machine and run X. I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something easier I could do with the stuff already on my main machine--maybe setting up an image and transmitting over the netwo

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:09:31AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with > #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or > six screens full of messages that look like the following and all start > wi

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-22 15:09 +0100, Dennis Wicks wrote: > When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with > #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or > six screens full of messages that look like the following and all > start with /bin/sh > > /bin/sh: _o

Chrony with real-time support

2008-12-22 Thread John Hasler
I have uploaded chrony_1.23-6rt1 to Experimental. In addition to the real-time scheduler support in chrony_1.23-6rt this version adds support for mlockall() so that chronyd can be locked into RAM. The features are documented in the chronyd man page as well as in the comments in /etc/chrony/chrony

Re: installing lazarus from debian backports - Broken package

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 11:38, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I setup source.list for the debian backports: deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib\ non-free deb http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ lazarus-stable universe Did you "apt-get update" after modifying sources.list? (Yes, it's

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 11:25, Dennis Wicks wrote: Bob Cox wrote the following on 12/22/2008 08:35 AM: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:09:31 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) [snip] function lm () { ls -laNF "$@" | $(which less) } [snip] Any other ideas? Oh yeah, I'

Re: Parallel GZIP --> speed instead of 2 CPUs running

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 10:49, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:13:17PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Thomas Preud'homme wrote: The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : ... I have a core 2 duo and time give me a usage of almost 200% with pbzip2 Anyone has bet

installing lazarus from debian backports - Broken package

2008-12-22 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I setup source.list for the debian backports: deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib\ non-free deb http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ lazarus-stable universe and want to install lazarus-ide I have installed fpc, fpc-source, fp-compiler, fp-ide, fp-units-base, ...

Re: iPod

2008-12-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raquel wrote: > Okay, I've gotten rid of the Creative Zen and ordered the iPod Nano > as a gift to Trish, my spouse. What do I need to manage the iPod Nano? > I'd just as soon not use a command line to do it, largely because > Trish is going to be mana

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Cox wrote the following on 12/22/2008 08:35 AM: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:09:31 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) wrote: Greetings; When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens fu

Re: Parallel GZIP --> speed instead of 2 CPUs running

2008-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:13:17PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : ... > > I have a core 2 duo and time give me a usage of almost 200% with pbzip2 > > > > Anyone has better results ? > Yes, see

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > The Monday 22 December 2008 17:26:17 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : >> Nelson Castillo wrote: No, don't. I'm just wondering why. Actually I did a test in the same order (bzip2 and the pbzip2) on a tar of my picture directory and on a video. I just don't

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Monday 22 December 2008 17:26:17 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : > Nelson Castillo wrote: > >> No, don't. I'm just wondering why. Actually I did a test in the same > >> order (bzip2 and the pbzip2) on a tar of my picture directory and on a > >> video. I just don't understand why my 2 runs aren

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Nelson Castillo wrote: >> No, don't. I'm just wondering why. Actually I did a test in the same order >> (bzip2 and the pbzip2) on a tar of my picture directory and on a video. I >> just don't understand why my 2 runs aren't much quicker with pbzip2. > > Your test data is already compressed :-) You

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
> No, don't. I'm just wondering why. Actually I did a test in the same order > (bzip2 and the pbzip2) on a tar of my picture directory and on a video. I > just don't understand why my 2 runs aren't much quicker with pbzip2. Your test data is already compressed :-) You will not be able to compress

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
>> Anyone has better results ? > Yes, see following: > > jac...@work:~/temp$ time tar -cjf temp1.tar.bz2 debian > > real0m18.830s > user0m18.317s > sys 0m0.268s > jac...@work:~/temp$ time bash -c "tar -cf - debian | pbzip2 -c > > temp2.tar.bz2" > > real0m10.494s > user0m19.557s

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Monday 22 December 2008 16:47:26 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : > Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > The Monday 22 December 2008 16:13:17 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : > >> Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > >>> The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : > Volkan YAZICI

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/22/08 09:13, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Thomas Preud'homme wrote: >>> The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux > repositori

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > The Monday 22 December 2008 16:13:17 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : >> Thomas Preud'homme wrote: >>> The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any compression tools in the official De

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-22 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/20/08 07:49, John Hasler wrote: Nate writes: If the media is to be believed, this has happened for years with the elderly being targeted for Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid/etc. scams and a lot of folks being bilked out of large sums of money. With phone directory i

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/20/08 07:49, John Hasler wrote: Nate writes: If the media is to be believed, this has happened for years with the elderly being targeted for Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid/etc. scams and a lot of folks being bilked out of large sums of money. With phone directory information online fr

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 09:13, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Thomas Preud'homme wrote: The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : Volkan YAZICI wrote: Hi, Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Monday 22 December 2008 16:13:17 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : > Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : > >> Volkan YAZICI wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux > >>> reposito

RE: iPod

2008-12-22 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: b_kl...@web.de [mailto:b_kl...@web.de] > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:12 AM > Subject: Re: iPod [snip] > on Lenny I asked aptitude about gtkpod and it proposes also the > installation > of > > faac > faad > > Why encoders? > > mp3gain > > Is this only modifying mp3's you put in the

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : >> Volkan YAZICI wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux >>> repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus? >> pbzip2? > > > I profit o

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Monday 22 December 2008 13:53:43 Eugene V. Lyubimkin, you wrote : > Volkan YAZICI wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux > > repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus? > > pbzip2? I profit of this thread to ask you if you se

Re: Copy a file one hundred times

2008-12-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:45:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/21/08 15:58, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> $ seq -w 1 1 10 | xargs -i -n1 cp file.jpg file{}.jpg >> What's with the {}? An implied variable? > > $ LANG=C man xargs | grep -C 2 '{}' >-i[replace-str]

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:09:31 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) wrote: > Greetings; > > When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with > #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or > six screens full of messages that look like the following a

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:37:34AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:10:04PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > > > > Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux > > repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus? > > Could you please giva a u

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/22/08 08:09, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens full of messages that look like the following and all start with /bin/sh /bin/sh: _opens

Re: Traffic Shaping on Linux

2008-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 06:53:20PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > Hi I was wondering if anyone had ever tried traffic shaping in linux? My > boss wants me to use FREEBSD to implement traffic shaping on our network > but I really want to stick on using linux in every machine. > > So if anyone know how to

Re: compiling issue

2008-12-22 Thread Mark Allums
lostson wrote: > Hello > Also what is the iceweasel-dev package called I cant seem to find that > either, thanks. You may wish to do some checking at mozilla.org. Firefox, that is. Of course, the Debian package may contain differences you need to be aware of. If you want to develop a plug

Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens full of messages that look like the following and all start with /bin/sh /bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: syntax error near

Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-22 Thread Adam Hardy
Paul E Condon on 18/12/08 05:09, wrote: 1) Subscribe to this list so you can keep track of the ebb and flow of Debian. (Probably you already do this.) 2) The cycle begins with you running the stable version, but refer to it by its code name in your sources.list -- potato, sarge, etch, whatever.

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:48:41PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Tzafrir Cohen writes: > > Could you please giva a usage scenario? > > Compressing a database backup file of size 300GB. > > > Is the task really CPU bound and not i/o bound? > > "top -d 1" tells me that C

Re: compiling issue

2008-12-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 07:05:10 -0600, lostson (lost...@lostsonsvault.org) wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:50 +, Bob Cox wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:51:05 -0600, lostson (lost...@lostsonsvault.org) > > wrote: > > > > [ FYI - there seems to be something wrong with your digital

Re: compiling issue

2008-12-22 Thread lostson
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:50 +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:51:05 -0600, lostson (lost...@lostsonsvault.org) > wrote: > > [ FYI - there seems to be something wrong with your digital signature ] > > > Hello > > I am trying to compile a program on Debian Lenny but when compil

Re: compiling issue

2008-12-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:51:05 -0600, lostson (lost...@lostsonsvault.org) wrote: [ FYI - there seems to be something wrong with your digital signature ] > Hello > I am trying to compile a program on Debian Lenny but when compiling i > get this error > > checking For "./../common" or "./c

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Tzafrir Cohen writes: > Could you please giva a usage scenario? Compressing a database backup file of size 300GB. > Is the task really CPU bound and not i/o bound? "top -d 1" tells me that CPU usage is 800%. (BTW, have you ever met with an input file that is not CPU bound,

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux > repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus? pbzip2? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contribu

Re: Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread yiyong lin
I think it should be the last component appeared. "input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input10" is that an external component or internal? 2008/12/22 André Neves > Hmm... Would anybody have any suggestions on finding what hardware causes > the delay? > > André > > > On Mon, Dec

Re: Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread André Neves
Hmm... Would anybody have any suggestions on finding what hardware causes the delay? André On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:44, yiyong lin wrote: > It looks like some of our hardware is not recognised at boot time. > similar to my external hard drive, sometimes, it just hangs there until i > unplug m

Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

2008-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:02:02PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Debian Etch > Postfix > SquirrelMail > Apache2 > > > Please advise how to stop squirrelmail, the webmail, running > temporarily. TIA Stop apache? Add a temporary rewrite / alias / symlink to redirect the traffic t

Re: Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:39:59AM -0200, André Neves wrote: > Hi, > > For several months now I've had my laptop boot delayed because udev likes to > hang for 30 seconds after its execution on startup. I have a Dell Vostro > 1500 laptop and am currently using Lenny. > > My rcS.d is: > > S01glibc

Re: [OT] bouncing list spam via Gmail's and other smarthosts

2008-12-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > The listmaster told me not to bounce mail under such circumstances. Am I assuming correctly, that this kind of bounce is ok (ie. welcome if it was for some spam) ? /== Return-Path: [snip] Resent-From: Johannes Wiedersich Resent

Re: Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread yiyong lin
It looks like some of our hardware is not recognised at boot time. similar to my external hard drive, sometimes, it just hangs there until i unplug my hard drive, then it works fine. 2008/12/22 André Neves > Hi, > > For several months now I've had my laptop boot delayed because udev likes > t

How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

2008-12-22 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Debian Etch Postfix SquirrelMail Apache2 Please advise how to stop squirrelmail, the webmail, running temporarily. TIA B.R. satimis Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Udev idling on startup

2008-12-22 Thread André Neves
Hi, For several months now I've had my laptop boot delayed because udev likes to hang for 30 seconds after its execution on startup. I have a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop and am currently using Lenny. My rcS.d is: S01glibc.sh S02hostname.sh S02mountkernfs.sh S03udev S04hibernate ... others ... The "

compiling issue

2008-12-22 Thread lostson
Hello I am trying to compile a program on Debian Lenny but when compiling i get this error checking For "./../common" or "./common-dist"... not found configure: error: The "common" or "common-dist" directory wasn't found What package am I missing if any ? Also what is the iceweasel-dev pack

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:10:04PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux > repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus? Could you please giva a usage scenario? Is the task really CPU bound and not i/o bound? --

Re: Traffic Shaping on Linux

2008-12-22 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, rjubio writes: > Hi I was wondering if anyone had ever tried traffic shaping in linux? My boss > wants me to use FREEBSD to implement traffic shaping on our network but I > really > want to stick on using linux in every machine. > > So if anyone know how to do this or has any

Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus? Regards. P.S. I'm aware of pigz, but AFAIK it's not distributed with official repositories. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Traffic Shaping on Linux

2008-12-22 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/12/22 rjubio : > Hi I was wondering if anyone had ever tried traffic shaping in linux? My > boss wants me to use FREEBSD to implement traffic shaping on our network but > I really want to stick on using linux in every machine. > > So if anyone know how to do this or has any online tutorials pl

Traffic Shaping on Linux

2008-12-22 Thread rjubio
Hi I was wondering if anyone had ever tried traffic shaping in linux? My boss wants me to use FREEBSD to implement traffic shaping on our network but I really want to stick on using linux in every machine. So if anyone know how to do this or has any online tutorials please.. I would like to le

Re: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

2008-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-22 09:08 +0100, M.Lewis wrote: > Looks like you're out of space: > > failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during > `./lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/net/irda/irda.ko': No space left on > device Exactly. FWIW, I kind of expected that, it's a rather common error w

Re: nrg2iso

2008-12-22 Thread steef
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El dom, 21-12-2008 a las 15:52 +, steef escribió: El sáb, 20-12-2008 a las 09:45 +, steef escribió: Eduard Bloch wrote: [...] Try this: mount foo.nrg /bla -oloop,offset=307200 [...] hi eduardo, i did: st...@etchschijf:~$

Re: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

2008-12-22 Thread M.Lewis
Zaki Akhmad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: If you still have your terminal open, send the complete output of the "apt-get upgrade" run. Otherwise, try "apt-get upgrade" again. Here's the full version: # apt-get upg

Re: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

2008-12-22 Thread Zaki Akhmad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > If you still have your terminal open, send the complete output of the > "apt-get upgrade" run. Otherwise, try "apt-get upgrade" again. Here's the full version: # apt-get upgrade Reading pack

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