Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread David Baron
For booting, one can do as one does using LVM. Keep the needed small partitions in ext3 and put everything else in ext4. Is it possible to change existing partitions or logical LVM partitions using tune2fs or similar? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: sound card not detected

2009-01-20 Thread Rainer Kluge
Tamas Hegedus schrieb: > --- > 2. I tried to reinstall the essential kernel packages what I think might > have been affected by the manual alsa compile. > > aptitude reinstall|[remove&install] > linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 > !! > I do not have the driver I had the same problem some days ago.

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 2009-01-21 11:36: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:41:25 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: Actually it would connect at 31200 bps, so 3.12 kbps. Am I missing something, or are you off by a decimal point? Arthur. Celejar You are correct, I should have written 31.2 kbps. Arthur. -- To

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-20 Thread Kousik Maiti
Hello everybody, For IRC check http://www.mibbit.com/.. Enjoy On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:31 AM, S. Fishpaste wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:16 -0500, Michael Pobega in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: > >> Michael Pobega wrote:

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:25:59AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Daniel: > > I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't > restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and > then got this: > > > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem has been around since at least April of last year and had not been resolved by August, you would think that there woul

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob? [Solution]

2009-01-20 Thread s. keeling
I was missing libsasl2-modules and sasl2-bin. This was helpful: http://tribulaciones.org/docs/postfix-sasl-tls-howto/ Thanks mouss for your patience. mouss : > s. keeling a écrit : > > s. keeling : > >> mouss : > >>> smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic > >>> > >>> == generic: >

Re: reinserting USB plug via software

2009-01-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > What commands would be the equivalent to pulling the USB connector out >> > of the computer, waiting a second, and then putting it back in? > rmmod uhci-hcd; rmmod ehci-hcd; sleep 1; modprobe ehci-hcd; \ > modprobe uhci-hcd > (you may also need ohci-hcd, but the above is the most common setu

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:16 -0500, Michael Pobega in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: >> Michael Pobega wrote: >>> I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all >>> IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening

Re: sound card not detected

2009-01-20 Thread Tamas Hegedus
Hi, 1. I uninstalled the alsa compiled by hand. --- 2. I tried to reinstall the essential kernel packages what I think might have been affected by the manual alsa compile. aptitude reinstall|[remove&install] linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 linux-image-2.6-686 linux-libc-dev --- 3. I tried to reinst

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:43 +0100 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello! > > I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 > FS. On some tests that I have done, I have 40 MB/s more than the same > hardware with ext3 FS. Have you seen the same ? Here are some more performance

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:41:25 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Celejar wrote, on 20/01/09 12:45: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:07:03 +1030 > > Arthur Marsh wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Arthur (finding 6876 kbps downstream of ADSL considerably faster than > >> the 3 kbps downstream of a V.34 modem). > >

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:43:58 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: [SNIP] You just quoted about 140 lines and added *one*. This has become fairly common lately; please trim responses. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudok

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread H.S.
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:58:36PM -0500, "H.S." was > heard to say: >>> Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting: >>> >>> Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate > > [snip] > >> I think this will be most useful when aptitude

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-20 Thread mouss
s. keeling a écrit : > s. keeling : >> mouss : >>> smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic >>> >>> == generic: >>> keel...@newmil.nucleus.com keel...@nucleus.com > > More clues? Again, this is Sidux on AMD64, HP Pavilion dv4. > > Jan 19 18:33:35 newmil postfix/qmgr[12263]: 4EDADBC06: >

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:22:07 +0100 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Micha Feigin escribió: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:43 +0100 > > Adrian Chapela wrote: > > > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 > >> FS. On some tests that I have done, I h

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:50:06PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Given the corruption happens at high block numbers, I'm wondering > > if maybe there's some kind of wraparound bug happening here. > > (Though why only the 0x00 pattern fails would still be a mystery). > > Yeah, that seems

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 19 January 2009 19:30, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson : > > On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: > > I'm just adding my similar situation. It's an HP dv4 AMD Turion dual > core. I've not heard a peep of sound from it yet

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:41:43PM +0100, Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello! > > I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 > FS. On some tests that I have done, I have 40 MB/s more than the same > hardware with ext3 FS. Have you seen the same ? what are you using to te

Re: sound card not detected

2009-01-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I am putting this back on the list. ] Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:46:58 -0500, Tamas Hegedus wrote: > > Dear Florian, > > I uninstalled alsa* (were compiled for hda) and recompiled alsa* I would reinstall the Debian alsa-* packages and the package for your kernel. > After boot-up I have the soundcor

Re: ssh

2009-01-20 Thread David A. Parker
Christopher Browne wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David A. Parker wrote: Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the password? With

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 18:59:12 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] >>> I have checked, and most of the xserver-xorg-video-* files are >>> installed. Specifically, xserver-xorg-video-all, >>> xserver-xorg-

passwordless ssh

2009-01-20 Thread Johan Elmerfjord
Other alternatives (that doesn't work as well over internet) - and only if there is a limited number of programs that you need access to would be to use snmp or inetd. SNMP: Set up a own oid to return the values you are asking for. Inetd/Xinetd: telnet to a specific port - will start a program o

Re: reinserting USB plug via software

2009-01-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > What commands would be the equivalent to pulling the USB connector out > > of the computer, waiting a second, and then putting it back in? rmmod uhci-hcd; rmmod ehci-hcd; sleep 1; modprobe ehci-hcd; \ modprobe uhci-hcd (you may also need ohci-hcd,

RE: reinserting USB plug via software

2009-01-20 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: jida...@jidanni.org [mailto:jida...@jidanni.org] > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:29 PM > Subject: reinserting USB plug via software > > What commands would be the equivalent to pulling the USB connector out > of the computer, waiting a second, and then putting it back in? > > I find th

JBD: barrier-based sync failed - disabling barriers

2009-01-20 Thread Adrian Chapela
I am testing ext4 and when I mount the FS I receive the next error: kernel: JBD: barrier-based sync failed on cciss!c1d0p1:8 - disabling barriers How important is this error ? I was looking in Google for this error and it is an old error. I only found errors until 2006 Regards, Adrián.

Re: Needed Quote

2009-01-20 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:32 AM, PM_Water Pump Supply wrote: > Good Day, >Please can you supply me any of these items as a special order? > 1, Grundfos SQ Pumps 30SQ10-130 1 C P/N 11199 > 2, Shurflo Pumps ( Model 9325-043-101) 9300 Submersible Pump Linux runs on nearly everything

Re: ssh

2009-01-20 Thread Brett Viren
Francesco Pietra writes: > ssh target_machine_name date > > gives the date without asking a password. The mere sending id_rsa.pub > to create the authorized_keys file only works (without asking the > password) for command: > > ssh target_machine_name In the case of the first command, are you run

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-20 Thread charlie derr
Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:25:04AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Michael Pobega [mailto:pob...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: Michael Pobeg

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-20 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:25:04AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Michael Pobega [mailto:pob...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:47 PM > > Subject: Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: > > > Michael Pobeg

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Osamu Aoki (2009-01-21 00:43 +0900) wrote: > New corresponding pages are: > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch02.en.html#timestamps > (released package too) > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch10.en.html#customizeddisplayoftimeanddate > (new after this posting) P

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel: I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and then got this: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good The first bad revision is: changeset: 1652:c6e9af2ee01d tag: tip

RE: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-20 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Michael Pobega [mailto:pob...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: > > Michael Pobega wrote: > >> I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they blo

Re: ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2009 January 20 05:39:37 Arthur Marsh wrote: >Ron Johnson wrote, on 20/01/09 06:08: >> On 01/19/2009 01:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> On Monday 2009 January 19 13:15:28 Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal SCSI dri

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:44:44AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows >> was heard to say: >>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich >>> was heard to say: I did the above and began r

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/20/2009 05:41 AM, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello! I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 FS. On some tests that I have done, I have 40 MB/s more than the same hardware with ext3 FS. Have you seen the same ? My doubt is about the stability, is it really for

Re: ssh

2009-01-20 Thread David A. Parker
Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the password? With 'fully' I mean that command: ssh target_machine_name date gives the date without ask

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the followi

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. (more of that)

ssh

2009-01-20 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi: Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the password? With 'fully' I mean that command: ssh target_machine_name date gives the date without

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:59:13PM +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > LC_TIME=| etch | lenny > - > de_DE.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007 > en_DK.UTF-8 | 2007-01-19 21:32 | Jan 19 2007 Is this true. My lenny/sid sy

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Adrian Chapela
Micha Feigin escribió: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:43 +0100 Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello! I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 FS. On some tests that I have done, I have 40 MB/s more than the same hardware with ext3 FS. Have you seen the same ? My doubt i

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:43:58 +0800 > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > 2009/1/20 Umarzuki Mochlis > > > > > > > > > > > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > > > > > >> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:11:56 +0800 > > >> "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > >> > > >> > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > > >>

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Adrian Chapela
Teemu Likonen escribió: Adrian Chapela (2009-01-20 12:41 +0100) wrote: My doubt is about the stability, is it really for production use ? I want to know that because I am really interested in use in production use (like most of us, I think...). I can't comment the stability of the fil

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:43 +0100 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello! > > I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 > FS. On some tests that I have done, I have 40 MB/s more than the same > hardware with ext3 FS. Have you seen the same ? > > My doubt is about the stab

Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:07:52AM -0500, Paul Gupta was heard to say: > I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the > installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password > is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?" > > I'm assuming (which I h

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:43:58 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > 2009/1/20 Umarzuki Mochlis > > > > > > > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > > > >> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:11:56 +0800 > >> "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > >> > >> > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > >> > > >> > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 > >>

Mulit card USB reader Compact Flash not being detected

2009-01-20 Thread mitch
Have a USB multi slot card reader. When I plug it in, all slots except the Compact Flash are shown. Tried a different card reader, no difference. Insert a 1GB card and it is accessible. Other slots are shown and mounted, tried a SD card and could access the files on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 20 2009, Winfried Tilanus wrote: > > so I need to get a reader.. HSCD capable.. HCSD... > > Be aware it is HCSD (High Capacity Secure Digital). Sandisk sells HCSD > cards with a small USB HCSD reader. They are quite practical. thank y

Re: Needed Quote

2009-01-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Larry, you'd sent a quotation request to the rest of the world. At least where Debian users receiving this list lives. 2009/1/20 PM_Water Pump Supply > Good Day, >Please can you supply me any of these items as a special order? > 1, Grundfos SQ Pumps 30SQ10-130 1 C P/N 11199 > 2,

Re: sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Cartwright wrote: > I can't figure out how to mount this SD card in debian. > My dell desktop has a slot in front to put in an SD card, and when I do, the > light comes on the front panel, so I ASSUME it is inserted correctly, but I > don't see

Re: sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Winfried Tilanus
On 01/20/2009 Paul Cartwright wrote: > so I need to get a reader.. HSCD capable.. Be aware it is HCSD (High Capacity Secure Digital). Sandisk sells HCSD cards with a small USB HCSD reader. They are quite practical. Winfried -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Needed Quote

2009-01-20 Thread PM_Water Pump Supply
Good Day, Please can you supply me any of these items as a special order? 1, Grundfos SQ Pumps 30SQ10-130 1 C P/N 11199 2, Shurflo Pumps ( Model 9325-043-101) 9300 Submersible Pump 3, 65watt solar panel or 130watt . 4, Grundfos SQ Flex 3 SQF -2 Submersible pump 5, Grundfos SQ Flex 6

Re: sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 20 2009, Juha Tuuna wrote: > > I can't figure out how to mount this SD card in debian. > > My dell desktop has a slot in front to put in an SD card, and when I do, > > the light comes on the front panel, so I ASSUME it is inserted correctly, > > but I don't see anything in lsusb or l

Re: sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 20 2009, Winfried Tilanus wrote: > This is a HCSD-card, you need a cardreader that supports it. The > standard SD-cards and readers don't go past 4GB. On Lenny, using a HCSD > capable reader, 8GB HCSD mounts automaticly. great, good info, thanks! so I need to get a reader.. HSCD cap

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/20 Umarzuki Mochlis > > > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > >> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:11:56 +0800 >> "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: >> >> > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin >> > >> > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 >> > > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: >> > > >> > > [...] >> > > >> > > > > Looks like it's poi

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:11:56 +0800 > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > > > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 > > > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > Looks like it's pointing in the right direction. Does it see you >

Re: sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Winfried Tilanus
On 01/20/2009 Paul Cartwright wrote: Hi, > I can't figure out how to mount this SD card in debian. > My dell desktop has a slot in front to put in an SD card, and when I do, the > light comes on the front panel, so I ASSUME it is inserted correctly, but I > don't see anything in lsusb or lspci

Re: sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Juha Tuuna
Paul Cartwright wrote: > I can't figure out how to mount this SD card in debian. > My dell desktop has a slot in front to put in an SD card, and when I do, the > light comes on the front panel, so I ASSUME it is inserted correctly, but I > don't see anything in lsusb or lspci that says SANDISK, a

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread pierpaolo
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Adrian Chapela < achapela.rexist...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am doing my own tests with Ext4. > My doubt is about the stability, is it really for production use ? I want > to know that because I am really interested in use in production use (like > most of us, I th

sandisk 8Gb card

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
I can't figure out how to mount this SD card in debian. My dell desktop has a slot in front to put in an SD card, and when I do, the light comes on the front panel, so I ASSUME it is inserted correctly, but I don't see anything in lsusb or lspci that says SANDISK, and I'm not sure what the mount

Re: gnome-screensaver slideshow

2009-01-20 Thread Tom Ashley
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 00:06 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Yuwen Dai wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'd like to slideshow some pictures when gnome-screensaver is invoked. > > There is a "picture fold" in gnome-screen-preferences. However, there' > > no settings for this fold. Do you know where the

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Adrian Chapela (2009-01-20 12:41 +0100) wrote: > My doubt is about the stability, is it really for production use ? I > want to know that because I am really interested in use in production > use (like most of us, I think...). I can't comment the stability of the filesystem itself but I'd like to

Re: ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ron Johnson wrote, on 20/01/09 06:08: On 01/19/2009 01:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 2009 January 19 13:15:28 Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal SCSI drive after any USB drives are found. The SCSI disk gets fsck'd and moun

Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Adrian Chapela
Hello! I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 FS. On some tests that I have done, I have 40 MB/s more than the same hardware with ext3 FS. Have you seen the same ? My doubt is about the stability, is it really for production use ? I want to know that because I

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 20/01/09 12:45: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:07:03 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: ... Arthur (finding 6876 kbps downstream of ADSL considerably faster than the 3 kbps downstream of a V.34 modem). Your dialup modem only got 3 kbps downstream? Actually it would connect at 31200 bps,

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:11:56 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 > > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Looks like it's pointing in the right direction. Does it see you > > wireless > > > > when > > > > you open the

How to see the output of a custom init script on Lenny?

2009-01-20 Thread Sander Marechal
Hello, I have written a simplistic custom init script that makes a backup of my entire system using `rsync -vv`. I have symlinked this script as /etc/rc0.d/K00backup and /etc/rc6.d/K00backup so that the backup occurs whenever I reboot or shut down. When I was using Etch I would see the output of

Re: Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/1/20 Aaron Greenspan : > Hello again, > > For the sake of context and in case it got lost in the shuffle, I wrote this > post last night: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg01928.html > > Now, after several days of troubleshooting involving ext3-fs errors, > formatting problems, in

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-20 Thread Mark Allums
Aaron Greenspan wrote: Therefore, I think it's safe to say that the Syba SD-SATA-4P and the corresponding Silicon Image 3114 chipset have a fairly narrow appeal: they work in 32-bit 5V PCI slots only, on consumer systems only, which are running only the following operating systems that I own: n

Re: Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-20 Thread Aaron Greenspan
Hello again, For the sake of context and in case it got lost in the shuffle, I wrote this post last night: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg01928.html Now, after several days of troubleshooting involving ext3-fs errors, formatting problems, inexplicable read-only filesystem mou

Yo! PR: "West Coast Block Starz" Compilation Set To Drop On Feb. 3

2009-01-20 Thread Yo! Raps
"WEST COAST BLOCK STARZ" COMPILATION SET TO DROP ON FEBRUARY 3 New York, NY - January 12, 2009 - BLOCK STARZ MUSIC's highly anticipated debut compilation album, West Coast Block Starz, will be released on February 3, 2009 and features appearances by West Coast legends like Snoop Dogg, E-40, San Qu

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:22:42PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. > >> To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not > >> over the network. > >> It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (sin

Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

2009-01-20 Thread Juha Tuuna
Paul Gupta wrote: > By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too > weak etc. > ... > What is it exactly? AND How would one configure it to be stricter or > more lenient with password selection? I use libpam-cracklib to protect from dictionary attacks. Also installed some d

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-20 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009, schrieb Sven Joachim: > This is intentional, see the coreutils NEWS file: > > ,[ /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.gz ] > > | ls now defaults to --time-style='locale', not > | --time-style='posix-long-iso'. However, the 'locale' time style now > | behaves like 'posix-