Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Patterson
* John Wesley Cooper [2009-03-12 19:41:34 -0700]: > I haven't quite gotten it fixed, but I have managed to successfully set up a > ndiswrapper kernel! Now all would appear to need is a driver... I thought I pointed you to a driver that you wouldn't have to install from a softpac first. Hence t

Re: What's the easiest way to obtain a debian kernel which contains snd-cs46xx module?

2009-03-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:11, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:55:30 + > j t wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just done a fresh install of Lenny on my Thinkpad T21, which >> (according to lshw) contains a "Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 >> CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator" (pci id

Re: Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread Lists
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this but I can't locate it. Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection

Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread green
Adrian Levi wrote at 2009-03-12 18:55 -0600: > 2009/3/13 Norbert Zeh : > > smartd does not complain with either, -d sat or -d ata.  The only > > difference is that, in the first case, it reports to be monitoring two > > SCSI drives, while in the latter it says they're ATA drives. > > > > So I'm a b

Howto build an inexpensive debian-based (hand-held) computer

2009-03-12 Thread Deboo ^
Can someone provide some links to build cheap / inexpensive computer (even with limited memory and no storage) which can run linux / debian off a usb stick and can be used for basic operations. It will be helpful for poor people use a computer when handheld like devices running Windows CE are stil

Re: IP Forward Problems

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:43:52AM -, Gerard Hooton wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:07:06PM +, Gerard Hooton wrote: > >> Hello, [snip] > > > > why do you have 3 interface into the same ip network ? I presume there > > are all attached to the same ethernet broadcast domain ? > > >

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:02:58AM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Dotan Cohen [mailto:dotanco...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:36 AM > > > > >From: Chris Stackpole [snip] > > His exact question was "how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp > command?" by the gr

Re: Local Repo

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:39:16PM -0600, Victor Padro wrote: > I have seen many How to's regarding Local Repositories, but I don't know if > it covers all architectures including ARM. > > What I'm trying to do is to setup a Server on my network which will have a > local repo for my two NSLU2 and

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:00:28AM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > isn't that a reason for top posting? > > No, because with bottom posting you can quote just a little bit of an > e-mail and put your response directly below it. This is a big boon with > larger e-mails because

Re: why pop out this window "the platform you are running is not supported by this tool"?

2009-03-12 Thread 明覺
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:11 AM, s. keeling wrote: > Star Liu : > > My box is debian sid amd64 with desktop gnome, when i performance some > > admin on the system by click on a item in System-Administration, it > > pops out a window to let me choose my platform, then i choose the > > debian g

Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/13 Norbert Zeh : > Hi Debianites, > > I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd > to monitor two SATA IDE drives.  I've read on the web that the right > option to use for such a drive is "-d ata" to force smartd to treat it > as an ATA drive.  On the other hand,

Re: It's possible to install Debian 5.0 using serial console?

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:04:26AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:31:30 -0700 (PDT) >> my mail wrote: >> >> > >> > hi all >> > >> > I want install Debian 5.0, it possible to install Debian using serial >> > console just like another os freebsd? >> > >>

SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi Debianites, I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd to monitor two SATA IDE drives. I've read on the web that the right option to use for such a drive is "-d ata" to force smartd to treat it as an ATA drive. On the other hand, when starting smartd without any -

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > PS: typically flash memory is made up of "eraseblocks" that are much > larger than a disk block, so depending on the way your flash key works, > writing a single block (512bytes) of your disk may end up doing "read > the surrounding eraseblock; erase it, rewrite it with

Re: Xorg failure

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Javier Barroso wrote: >> >> I was using the xserver-xorg-video-intel.  Now, I'm using Ubuntu.  I >> didn't really want to do so; but, I couldn't tolerate crashes every hour, >> every few days. > There is a bug in bugtracker system, but nobody answered :( : > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/12 Bob Cox : > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 22:14:59 -0700, Mike McClain (mike.j...@nethere.com) > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: >> > Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: >> > >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and

Delivery Failure Report: Attachment Blocked

2009-03-12 Thread Infoservices
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Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi > > Just to give a little background, after 3 years of running Gentoo (and > SuSE previously,) I have given up due to the impossible maintenance > burden and am migrating back to a binary distribution. Having sworn off > RPMs for life, I have chosen Debian as the most m

Re: why pop out this window "the platform you are running is not supported by this tool"?

2009-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Star Liu : > My box is debian sid amd64 with desktop gnome, when i performance some > admin on the system by click on a item in System-Administration, it > pops out a window to let me choose my platform, then i choose the > debian gnu/linux, unstable/testing. why it always makes me to choose, >

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Robert Hodgins : > > > and boot from the CD reader using an SBM card > > Not a card. Sorry. I meant a floppy. > I use a floppy with Smart Boot Manager v. 3.7.1 on it so that the > computer will boot from the CD. I've used this before (a long time ago) on a AMD 486DX3-100. It worked. -- A

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Robert Hodgins : > > Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine "down the > road" (and I'd like to keep it going as long as the hardware holds up), I'm all for "driving it into the ground" in order to get your money's worth out of the price of a car, but really, unless you're a

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Csanyi Pal : > Stefan Monnier writes: > > >> Yup, I did a reinstall of Etch. I just did a minimal install this time > >> (unchecked all the options in tasksel). I was able to get througt the > >> base install and right up to the installation of GRUB and the reboot and > >> could log in. In other

Re: how to switch language of gnome to Bulgarian

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Michael Wagner wrote: > * Angelin Lalev 06.03.2009 >> locale -a >> >> >> bg_BG >> bg_BG.cp1251 >> bg_BG.utf8 >> C >> en_US.utf8 >> POSIX >> >> But after I switch session language in gdm to Bulgarian and start >> gnome or kde I get error, >> saying something about language bg_BG.utf8 is

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Star Liu wrote: >> Having said that I wouldn't recommend ftp for anything except anonymous >> access.  sftp is now widely supported in file transfer clients even on >> MS-Windows.  sftp is a lot more secure and doesn't have any problems with >> firewalls like ftp does. > thank you, I have stopped

Re: Keep current version with aptitude

2009-03-12 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:39 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-03-12 19:44 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > To keep a package at its current version during an > > 'aptitude safe-upgrade', I issue the command: > > > > aptitude hold > > > > But this only lasts for one upgrade. > > During the

apt-p2p torrent

2009-03-12 Thread josep
How do I enable "apt-p2p" with iptables?? (It's a P2P-based "upgrades" downloader) I forward the 9977 port to the pc, but the "Peer Uploads"-is still 0% ... so how can I enable a torrent in iptables? :( Help me thank you

Re: 1000hz preemptive kernel for Debian Lenny AMD64

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Steffen Tronstad wrote: >> I ’ m pretty sure that the kernel included in the distrobution before >> was 1000Hz, but for some reason one of my server runs at only 250Hz. >> >> I ’ m using my server to run gameservers and need a high timer. Is there >> any precompiled ker

Re: Pingin won't connect?

2009-03-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:32:26PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Pushed as pidgin 2.4.3-4lenny1~volatile0 into volatile-proposed. > Please test and report back. A small correction: the autobuilders will need a day or two until all builds for all architectures are available. I only uploaded amd64,

scanner stop working after update

2009-03-12 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! My system is sid. The scanner is epson perfection v100 photo It was working flawlessly (with iscan). Since last system update (aptitude update; aptitude safe-upgrade)(friday morining), the scanner stop working. $lsusb Bus 004 Device 013: ID 04b8:012d Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection V10/V100

Re: Linux OS joining a domain like win ?

2009-03-12 Thread Mariusz Sielicki
2009/3/12 Rodrigo Hashimoto > Hello, > > Is possible to a linux OS join a domain like a windows xp OS ? > > I have the samba as DC for Windows XP machines, but for Linux OS, is it > possible too? > > thanks > Yes, it is possible. Linux machine (with samba) can by a domain member. http://www.sa

Re: USB stick checkup - is heavy daily use taking its toll?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:27:34PM EDT, Dan Serban wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly > > backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear. > > > > The smartctl utility does not give me much information: "SMART Health

Re: RAID 5 data structures

2009-03-12 Thread Sam Leon
Joe McDonagh wrote: Sam Leon wrote: I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the "stripe" is managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk from each disk. Now I always thought of the s

Re: Pingin won't connect?

2009-03-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:07:48PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:53:13 Stephan Seitz wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:53:49PM +0200, Vadim Kolchev wrote: > > > Got a problem with pidgin - it won't connect saying that i use > old > > > version. Is there a

Re: Linux OS joining a domain like win ?

2009-03-12 Thread Sjors Gielen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: > Hello, > > Is possible to a linux OS join a domain like a windows xp OS ? > > I have the samba as DC for Windows XP machines, but for Linux OS, is it > possible too? > > thanks I'm not very experienced with this; I just s

Re: Where to find old debian versions?

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
Just a note that this thread has finally convinced me to go and add the emacs19 and emacs20 packages to my Debian installation. It took some tweaking (adding a few dummy packages to fill in dependencies, plus silence some post-inst script failures), but it appears to work well. Thanks, S

multiple relay host for email delivery

2009-03-12 Thread twpim-gusto
Here is my situation: I am using postfix MTA. I have free email account with gmail.com and yahoo.com.au (and others)

Re: Where to find old debian versions?

2009-03-12 Thread Jason Voorhees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:08:48PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:14:59PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: >> > >> >> P.D.: Does someone know what debian

Re: Pingin won't connect?

2009-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:53:13 Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:53:49PM +0200, Vadim Kolchev wrote: > > Got a problem with pidgin - it won't connect saying that i use old > > version. Is there a workarond because I don't want to use unstable > > Let me guess, ICQ? > > > versi

Re: samba - smb.conf

2009-03-12 Thread Rodrigo Hashimoto
Hello Roberto, That's right, I only get a new "smb.conf" after reinstall the "samba-common" instead of "samba". Thanks a lot. On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 23:07 +, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: > 2009/3/12 Rodrigo Hashimoto : > > Hello guys, > > > > I have two questions, the first one is how to g

PC hangs with iptables

2009-03-12 Thread josep
How come I can't turn off my pc, after I: iptables-save > /etc/debi-firewall.conf echo "#!/bin/sh" > /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables echo "iptables-restore < /etc/debi-firewall.conf" >> /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables after this, my pc just hang's when shut

Linux OS joining a domain like win ?

2009-03-12 Thread Rodrigo Hashimoto
Hello, Is possible to a linux OS join a domain like a windows xp OS ? I have the samba as DC for Windows XP machines, but for Linux OS, is it possible too? thanks

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Ken Teague
Daniel Burrows wrote: My experience has also been that attempting to bottom-post in a corporate environment confuses people because they can't find your reply. That's when the sender needs to trim out what doesn't need to be there. It's not necessary to quote the entire previous e-mail.

Re: Pingin won't connect?

2009-03-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:53:49PM +0200, Vadim Kolchev wrote: Got a problem with pidgin - it won't connect saying that i use old version. Is there a workarond because I don't want to use unstable Let me guess, ICQ? versions? No, the ICQ server changed their protocol again. You need a new

Pingin won't connect?

2009-03-12 Thread Vadim Kolchev
Got a problem with pidgin - it won't connect saying that i use old version. Is there a workarond because I don't want to use unstable versions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing testing from latest netinst iso

2009-03-12 Thread ChadDavis
>  Filed an installation report...then picked up the march 1st > version...it works...it realizes there is a HD attached :) I'm experiencing the same issue even with the latest nightly build of the net installer. i386, from today March 12th. When I use the Lenny installer it works fine, so I sus

Upgraded Debian packages this morning, and now Samba is broken (coredumping).

2009-03-12 Thread Phillip Pi
Earlier, I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Then, i noticed my Samba was not working in Windows XP Pro. SP3. Explorer said: "\\192.168.0.46 is not accessible..." I tried stopping, restarting, Samba, but it did not work. I investigated and found Samba coredumping: # ls -all /var/log/s

Re: Keep current version with aptitude

2009-03-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-12 19:44 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > To keep a package at its current version during an > 'aptitude safe-upgrade', I issue the command: > > aptitude hold > > But this only lasts for one upgrade. > During the next 'safe-upgrade' I am proposed to upgrade that package > again. Pr

Re: Where to find old debian versions?

2009-03-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:08:48PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:14:59PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > > > >> P.D.: Does someone know what debian version included MySQL Server 3.x? > > > > http://archive.debian.

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Joe McDonagh
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Stackpole, Chris schreef: His exact question was "how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp command?" I took the 'while' to mean 'as the cp command runs' aka progress during the transfer. As for benchmarking, when rsync finishes it prints out messages like: sent

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-12 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com) [12.03.09 15:18]: > Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new "Lenny install" and I'm having to > type control+d to continue boot, I looked at "dmesg" and I can't make > what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure the problem. > > If more info

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> How about doing an upgrade instead? >> Still, I'd like to know why the Etch installer is successful and the >> Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine "down the >> road" (and I'd like to keep it going as lo

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Hodgins wrote: > I reinstalled (a minimal) Etch last night. It was successful. Is there any particular reason, why you don't just 'aptitude upgrade' etc. from etch to lenny? Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Keep current version with aptitude

2009-03-12 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, Using Sid. To keep a package at its current version during an 'aptitude safe-upgrade', I issue the command: aptitude hold But this only lasts for one upgrade. During the next 'safe-upgrade' I am proposed to upgrade that package again. Is there a way to make it permanent? In Synaptic th

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> How about doing an upgrade instead? > Still, I'd like to know why the Etch installer is successful and the > Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine "down the > road" (and I'd like to keep it going as long as the hardware holds up), > incremental upgrades from Etch to Lenny t

Re: What's the easiest way to obtain a debian kernel which contains snd-cs46xx module?

2009-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
j t wrote: > I've just done a fresh install of Lenny on my Thinkpad T21, which > (according to lshw) contains a "Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 > CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator" (pci id 1013:6003). When you google "Cirrus Logic CS 4614", one of the first hits is http://www.blog.tdobson

Re: Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to > update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each > system over my 768Kbs connection. Same here. For various reasons, I found apt-cacher and friends unsuitable for my needs (can't remember the reas

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Why ext2 rather than ext3? > I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it went on to > say "flash drive". ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives > because of the reduced number of writes to disk. The extra writes of ext3 have 2 consequences: 1 - slow things down 2 - w

Re: USB stick checkup - is heavy daily use taking its toll?

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Serban
Chris Jones wrote: > I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly > backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear. > > The smartctl utility does not give me much information: "SMART Health > Status: OK" + a cryptic "Read defect list: asked for grown list b

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Hodgins
> How about doing an upgrade instead? > You could even try to do it incrementally. > Thank you. You are right. I could do that. Still, I'd like to know why the Etch installer is successful and the Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine "down the road" (and I'd like to keep i

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Hodgins
Daniel, thank you for your suggestions. > Assuming you are using the text installer (if you haven't you should, > just in case), you should be able Alt-F4 to see the system logs (ctrl > is unnecessary in text mode. Alt-F3 and Alt-F2 should be alternate > consoles you can use. I'm using the text

Re: samba - smb.conf

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Serban
Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: Hello guys, I have two questions, the first one is how to generate a new "smb.conf" ?? dpkg-reconfigure samba And the second question is regarding the aptitude on Debian Lenny. I tried to removed the samba with "dpkg -r samba" and reinstall it with "aptit

Re: Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread ss11223
On Mar 12, 12:40 pm, "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: > > From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 AM > > Subject: Local mirroring How-To? > > > Greetings; > > > I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this > > but I can't locate it. > > > Here is

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Dotan Cohen schreef: >> 3 m/s >> > 299792458 m/s, to be precise. But only when your bits travel trough a > perfect vacuum. > Dotan's Razor: An insignificant inaccuracy can save a lengthy explanation.\ -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך

RE: Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 AM > Subject: Local mirroring How-To? > > Greetings; > > I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this > but I can't locate it. > > Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that > I ha

Re: Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread randall
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this but I can't locate it. Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection

Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this but I can't locate it. Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection. I have the space

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dotan Cohen schreef: > 3 m/s > 299792458 m/s, to be precise. But only when your bits travel trough a perfect vacuum. Sjoerd -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signa

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Stackpole, Chris schreef: > His exact question was "how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp > command?" > > I took the 'while' to mean 'as the cp command runs' aka progress during > the transfer. As for benchmarking, when rsync finishes it prints out > messages like: > > sent 17580260 byte

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

2009-03-12 Thread Martin
Hi, 2009/3/12 Dave Ewart : > On Wednesday, 11.03.2009 at 22:01 +0100, Martin wrote: > >> OK I Managed to get at least group memberships (somehow working): >> >> # getent group testers users; id john.doe >> testers:*:5001:cn=Dummy,uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc=name >> users:*:5000:cn=Dummy,u

Re: How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:12:24PM +, David Corking was heard to say: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >  I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but... > > > >  ...do you mean etch or lenny? > > Yes - I mean etch (4.0). I upgraded that server to etch a lon

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:04:27 -0400, Stefan Monnier (monn...@iro.umontreal.ca) wrote: > >> > Why so many difficult answers? > >> > If you normally use ext3, use ext2(ext3 without journalizing) on your > > Why ext2 rather than ext3? I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it

Re: How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-12 Thread David Corking
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >  I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but... > >  ...do you mean etch or lenny? Yes - I mean etch (4.0). I upgraded that server to etch a long time ago, then put up with a broken aptitude for a long time without investigating de

RE: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Dotan Cohen [mailto:dotanco...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:36 AM > > >From: Chris Stackpole > > Try looking into the rsync command. If you read the man pages, there is > > a --progress flag that you can use. This will tell you the stats as it > > copies. > > `rsync --progr

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: raq...@thericehouse.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Measure "cp" Speed? >Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:06:20 -0700 > >>On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:01:35 +0100 >>Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> >>> On 12 March 2009 11:58:48 Zaki Akhmad wrote: >>> > 200

Re: How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:18:32AM +, David Corking was heard to say: > Please suggest the next steps for troubleshooting an aptitude > installation that is crashing. I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but... > As far as I can tell, the trouble began when an 'upgrade' put 4.0

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> I am wondering, how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp > command? > > Sadly, no one seems to want to give you a straight answer... > Why? I told him that he could use the "time" command. It is made just for this purpose. Of course, Google would have gotten him an answer 3 hours ago, but

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Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Raquel wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:01:35 +0100 Thierry Chatelet wrote: I am not a wizzard in linux, but my guess is that the answer must be 42 Thierry LOL! Whenever I call my son and tell him I have a question to ask, his immediate answer is, "42". My usual response is, "A question!

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > Why so many difficult answers? >> > If you normally use ext3, use ext2(ext3 without journalizing) on your Why ext2 rather than ext3? > Google for explore2fs. It claims to support both ext2 and ext3. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: find least used packages

2009-03-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hendrik Boom wrote: Remove forgotten packages. If you have popularity-contest installed, you can use popcon-largest-unused to list the packages you do not use that occupy the most space. You can also use deborphan or debfoster to find obsolete packages (see Section 4.11, “Obsolete packages” ).

Re: Local Repo

2009-03-12 Thread Victor Padro
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:39:16PM -0600, Victor Padro wrote: > > I have seen many How to's regarding Local Repositories, but I don't know > if > > it covers all architectures including ARM. > > > > What I'm trying to do is to setup a Server

Re: Where to find old debian versions?

2009-03-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:08:48PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:14:59PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > > > >> P.D.: Does someone know what debian version included MySQL Server 3.x? > > > > http://archive.debian.

Re: It's possible to install Debian 5.0 using serial console?

2009-03-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:04:26AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:31:30 -0700 (PDT) > my mail wrote: > > > > > hi all > > > > I want install Debian 5.0, it possible to install Debian using serial > > console just like another os freebsd? > > > > if possible how to do it, thank

RE: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Zaki Akhmad [mailto:zakiakh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:43 AM > Subject: Measure "cp" Speed? > > Hello, > > I am wondering, how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp command? Sadly, no one seems to want to give you a straight answer... Try looking into the rsyn

Re: What's the easiest way to obtain a debian kernel which contains snd-cs46xx module?

2009-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:55:30 + j t wrote: > Hi, > > I've just done a fresh install of Lenny on my Thinkpad T21, which > (according to lshw) contains a "Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 > CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator" (pci id 1013:6003). > > /proc/asound/cards shows no soundcards,

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:01:35 +0100 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On 12 March 2009 11:58:48 Zaki Akhmad wrote: > > 2009/3/12 Dotan Cohen : > > > 3 m/s > > > > Where this number come from? Isn't it the value will be vary > > depends on the medium we are making cp from and to? The speed of > > h

Re: It's possible to install Debian 5.0 using serial console?

2009-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:31:30 -0700 (PDT) my mail wrote: > > hi all > > I want install Debian 5.0, it possible to install Debian using serial console > just like another os freebsd? > > if possible how to do it, thanks Never done this, YMMV, these references are old, etc. http://www.patoche

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 00:12:15 -0500, Kumar Appaiah (a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:04:29PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > > There's nothing more painful when reading e-mail than to start from the > > very bottom, read the message, then begin to read each reply up

Re: why sid cannot install openoffice?

2009-03-12 Thread MinJue Shi
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2009/3/12 Sven Joachim > > On 2009-03-12 06:31 +0100, Star Liu wrote: >> >> > here is the error message: >> > StarLiu:~# i openoffice.org-writer >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > Building dependency tree >> > Reading state infor

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-12 Thread MinJue Shi
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby was >> heard to say: >> >>> The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator. >>> >> >> I installed flightgear on my computer ove

Re: why sid cannot install openoffice?

2009-03-12 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/12 Sven Joachim > On 2009-03-12 06:31 +0100, Star Liu wrote: > > > here is the error message: > > StarLiu:~# i openoffice.org-writer > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean

Re: help: can no longer ssh into my vps server!

2009-03-12 Thread Kousik Maiti
Post the output of ssh -vvv r...@74.124.206.171 In server root login may be disable. Check with other user. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > Zach Uram wrote: > > ubu...@ubuntu:~$ ssh -v r...@74.124.206.171 > > OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubunt

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:42:32PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering, how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp command? Speed of what, exactly? Copying from where to where? What is the size of the file? If you try to copy it again, the file will likely be cached alrea

Re: help: can no longer ssh into my vps server!

2009-03-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Zach Uram wrote: > ubu...@ubuntu:~$ ssh -v r...@74.124.206.171 > OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: Applying options for * > debug1: Connecting to 74.124.206.171 [74.124.206.171] port 22. > debug1: connect to

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Zaki Akhmad
I see, I am just curios. Before I use cp, I copy the file with wget and scp. wget and scp have a speed indicator. Thanks all -za, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/3/12 Zaki Akhmad : > 2009/3/12 Dotan Cohen : > >> 3 m/s > > Where this number come from? Isn't it the value will be vary depends > on the medium we are making cp from and to? The speed of harddisk if > we are copying on same harddisk, different harddisk, and so on if we > copy with USB

How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-12 Thread David Corking
Please suggest the next steps for troubleshooting an aptitude installation that is crashing. When I try to use it interactively I get: # aptitude Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying.. Segmentation fault For non-interactive use, I get: # aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tre

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 11.03.2009 at 22:01 +0100, Martin wrote: > OK I Managed to get at least group memberships (somehow working): > > # getent group testers users; id john.doe > testers:*:5001:cn=Dummy,uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc=name > users:*:5000:cn=Dummy,uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 12 March 2009 11:58:48 Zaki Akhmad wrote: > 2009/3/12 Dotan Cohen : > > 3 m/s > > Where this number come from? Isn't it the value will be vary depends > on the medium we are making cp from and to? The speed of harddisk if > we are copying on same harddisk, different harddisk, and so on i

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Zaki Akhmad
2009/3/12 Dotan Cohen : > 3 m/s Where this number come from? Isn't it the value will be vary depends on the medium we are making cp from and to? The speed of harddisk if we are copying on same harddisk, different harddisk, and so on if we copy with USB interface (USB 1.0, USB 2.0). I am

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