Re: To mirror a huge tree...

2009-07-14 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: is it more efficient to use tar, rsync or "cp -r"? [snip] Or is 30MBps about as good as I can get from the combination of the USB software and hardware? USB is pretty lousy for speed, partly because it is hub-based and has overhead. USB 3 will be very fast, though.

Re: Lenny upgrade and Bind9 error message.

2009-07-14 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:10:56AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > Lee, > > Thanks for the reply. I did find something that took away the message: > > In the named.conf.options file add: > > options { > //... > files 4096; > //... > } Nice --- but is your named so busy

Re: To mirror a huge tree...

2009-07-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:04:02PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > ... external USB hard drive, I'm getting a consistent 30MBps, > > ... is 30MBps about as good as I can get from the combination of the > > USB software and hardware? > > 30 MB/s is good for USB. You need

RE: To mirror a huge tree...

2009-07-14 Thread David Christensen
Ron Johnson wrote: > ... external USB hard drive, I'm getting a consistent 30MBps, > ... is 30MBps about as good as I can get from the combination of the > USB software and hardware? 30 MB/s is good for USB. You need Firewire, eSATA, or an internal drive to go faster. David -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-13 14:24, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a5b841e.7010...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: In your case, you'll have to add at least 3 of the new PVs to the VG before pvmove will let you begin. Are you going to move swap onto LVM? If not, make sure your partition table for the new dr

To mirror a huge tree...

2009-07-14 Thread Ron Johnson
is it more efficient to use tar, rsync or "cp -r"? (Yes, I know that incremental backups would be faster with rsync. Also, most all of these files are already compressed, so tar or rsync -z or -j wouldn't help either.) With "cp -r" to an ext4 (with extents enabled) fs mounted on an external

customizing Debian's info files

2009-07-14 Thread tyler
Hi, Is there anyway to customize info files in a way that will be respected by future package updates? For example, the info entries for the R-doc package get filed under "Programming", but I'd prefer they were under "R". I can change the entry in /usr/share/info/dir, but it gets overwritten the n

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:54:48PM EDT, AG wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:34:07PM EDT, AG wrote: > unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. >> You want the cdtool package, per "apt-cache show", size = 62122 (lenny). >> >> :-) >> >> Seriously I'd be curious to know

Re: USB keyboard fails in 5.01 - please help!

2009-07-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:14 -0400 Zachary Uram wrote: > Just installed Debian 5.01 and my USB keyboard is not recognized. It > works fine in Microsoft Windows Vista. I think it is an issue with > newer kernels because I also tried it with Ubuntu 9.04 and same > problem (keyboard's green status

Re: how to create again eth0

2009-07-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 03:32:43PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:54:17 +0100 > abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > > Thanks to everybody, > > ifconfig -a doesn't display eth0, no up if possible! > > > > but I said the card is not detected, I mean there is not eth0 logical > > de

After Sid Upgrade, Can't Restore Dual-Monitor functionality

2009-07-14 Thread Kent West
I had two monitors, running off two different cards, working before a dist-upgrade several weeks ago. Since then, I've been trying to get my setup restored, to no avail. Currently I can run one monitor, but only if I change the driver on one of the cards to vesa from nv; leaving both at nv results

USB keyboard fails in 5.01 - please help!

2009-07-14 Thread Zachary Uram
Just installed Debian 5.01 and my USB keyboard is not recognized. It works fine in Microsoft Windows Vista. I think it is an issue with newer kernels because I also tried it with Ubuntu 9.04 and same problem (keyboard's green status light never comes on - even during entire boot process as it norm

Re: A program for remote logging of times events from email?

2009-07-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:34:32 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Look at the uucp uux command or the "grunt" package if you need security. Or my own mailmin (see sig), which has the advantage of being well-documented. OTOH, although mailmin uses GnuPG for security, I'm no expert, and I have no doubt

Re: Can I check packages integrity with debsums on sums chech failed DVDs?

2009-07-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Sthu Deus wrote: > Also, I tried: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info$ dpkg -S ace-of-penguins.md5sums | grep var > > and got: > > dpkg: *ace-of-penguins.md5sums* not found. This is to be expeced. The md5sum is not part of the package. dpkg -S searches files belonging to a software package, not files that c

Re: how to create again eth0

2009-07-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:54:17 +0100 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks to everybody, > ifconfig -a doesn't display eth0, no up if possible! > > but I said the card is not detected, I mean there is not eth0 logical > device, while the info about the physical card is there in > /etc/udev/rule

Failure to boot after failed resume from s2something

2009-07-14 Thread John
I've a puzzling failure to boot. Error messages have to be copied over by hand, so apologies if there are typos. The boot process seems normal past cryptsetup's request for the password. The first sign of trouble reads mount: mounting /dev/mapper/[name of my swap partition] on /root failed: no su

Re: s2disk no longer working

2009-07-14 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:02:42 -0400 Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > Suspend to disk has stopped working for me with bleeding edge kernels: > > ~$ uname -a > Linux lizzie 2.6.31-rc2-wl-lizzie-27873-ga483c23-dirty #4 Thu Jul 9 19:13:30 > EDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux FTR, the problem, which may have been rela

Chroot can't find /sbin/getty

2009-07-14 Thread John
I've run a chroot of stable, starting with sarge, currently etch, for several years. The relevant line in /etc/inittab has been "8:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/chroot /sarge /sbin/getty 38400 tty8" and it worked. Until the past month or so, when the chroot has consistently failed, with the following me

Re: How to unmark packages

2009-07-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,14.Jul.09, 14:03:34, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I'm running testing and noticed in Synaptic I have a bunch of > packages which are in the "local or obselete category". Some have > been locally installed...but most are those I had to re-install after > an unfortunate problem sometime ago.

How to unmark packages

2009-07-14 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running testing and noticed in Synaptic I have a bunch of packages which are in the "local or obselete category". Some have been locally installed...but most are those I had to re-install after an unfortunate problem sometime ago. I assume becaus

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-14 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > So why not just use cp -a ? Probably because, when I first learned to do this stuff, the system I used did have a -a option to cp, but did have rsync installed. And now it's more muscle memory than anything. (I'm almost to the point where I

Re: Lenny upgrade and Bind9 error message.

2009-07-14 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Lee, Thanks for the reply. I did find something that took away the message: In the named.conf.options file add: options { //... files 4096; //... } Thanks, Ken On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, lee wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:16:17AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: Jul

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-14 Thread AG
Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:34:07PM EDT, AG wrote: unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. You want the cdtool package, per "apt-cache show", size = 62122 (lenny). :-)

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-14 Thread AG
Alan J. Greenberger wrote: AG, Instructions were for Lenny / KDE3. I don't have a Squeeze system. If it is nowhere on the GUI, then all I can suggest is a possible workaround: Exit kscd. On KDE3, just hitting the X in the upper right hand corner just gets rid of the GUI, but it still is runn

Can I check packages integrity with debsums on sums chech failed DVDs?

2009-07-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have installed Lenny from a DVD-1 that has passed sha1sum check. Then I added some software from the DVD-2 and -3 - that did not pass the check successfully. Is it correct to suppose that the OS installation is not secure because od the failure on sum check of those 2 DVDs and therefo

Re: A program for remote logging of times events from email?

2009-07-14 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:33:36AM -0600, John Haggerty wrote: > I was looking at a device similar in concept to http://www.getpeek.com and > was interested in the theoretical possibility to log timeclock events > similar to this device by being able to read a starter line in an email like > > ///

Re: Lenny upgrade and Bind9 error message.

2009-07-14 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:16:17AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Jul 14 04:51:21 dcc1 named[2111]: max open files (1024) is smaller than max > sockets (4096) > > I looked around and I do not see where the max open files (1024) is > controled. How do I stop this error message? T

Re: Re: how to create again eth0

2009-07-14 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:54:17PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks to everybody, > ifconfig -a doesn't display eth0, no up if possible! Have the kernel modules for the card been loaded? If it's an onboard card, is the card turned on? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-14 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:25:31PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > So why not just use cp -a ? cp -axv pause it with Ctrl-S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Removing Stuck Process

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Nelson
David Baron writes: > I mean, really stuck, with oops-like kernel messages complaining about the > process. How do I get rid of it? Reboot? -- Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: A program for remote logging of times events from email?

2009-07-14 Thread John Hasler
Look at the uucp uux command or the "grunt" package if you need security. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Debian for ARM, Gemini, Centroid, GIGANAS

2009-07-14 Thread Ramanjit Singh Lamba
Hello everyone, I'm a nubie who has developed a recent interest in working with Linux. Part of this ocured because I was trying to explore the options to run my MRT Communications Dual Bay GIGANAS in a more controllable manner. During my research I came across a few different options inclu

Re: A program for remote logging of times events from email?

2009-07-14 Thread John Haggerty
I did notice once thing upon looking it gets the general idea but it's a little more ambitious than I would really expect is http://www.wrike.com/pricing.jsp but then it's a cost service :( Ideally I would like something I can "control" maybe something that would do batch processing via gmail w

A program for remote logging of times events from email?

2009-07-14 Thread John Haggerty
I was looking at a device similar in concept to http://www.getpeek.com and was interested in the theoretical possibility to log timeclock events similar to this device by being able to read a starter line in an email like //(this would be some sort of activation string) mrblahblah(some sort of

Using Curlftpfs

2009-07-14 Thread David Baron
This goody lets one mount a remote ftp to one's local filesystem using fuse. However, navigating this mounted filesystem is s slw as to render it quite problematic. Anything accessing it such as dolphin or a terminal session gets stuck up quite well. I do not understand curlftpfs's opti

Removing Stuck Process

2009-07-14 Thread David Baron
I mean, really stuck, with oops-like kernel messages complaining about the process. How do I get rid of it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-07-13, Cousin Stanley wrote: > Thanks for this advice regarding the KsCD configuration > as I'm now happily listening to Mozart from an old CD > > Previously, KsCD would list the CD tracks and go through > the motions of playing, but no sound I discovered that setting

After suspend a second X server does not start anymore

2009-07-14 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have a desktop system which I suspend to RAM from time to time using pm-suspend. After resuming everything works fine except switching to another user inside KDE (which I think technically starts another X server). The logs should contain a sequence of - starting a second X server -

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:50:25PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Celejar wrote: > > I'm no expert in this stuff, so I'm curious - what is gained by this > > over a straight rsync? > > > In my experience, find | cpio is faster than rsync for moving raw > data aroun

Lenny upgrade and Bind9 error message.

2009-07-14 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, Just upgraded to Lenny on a machine that is running Bind9. The kernel is: vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 Bind9 version is: 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P2-1+lenny1 Message when Bind9 is started: Jul 14 04:51:21 dcc1 named[2111]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf' Jul 14 04:51:21 dcc1 named[2111

Re: Re: how to create again eth0

2009-07-14 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks to everybody, ifconfig -a doesn't display eth0, no up if possible! but I said the card is not detected, I mean there is not eth0 logical device, while the info about the physical card is there in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-* . the physical card is detected, something nasty has done, and n

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-14 Thread steef
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In , Neal Hogan wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dirk Neumann wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:45:31 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after some interrupt? mc Master

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-14 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:17:59AM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:54 AM, lee wrote: > > BTW, I've given up attaching the game to a particular CPU and trying > > to mess with the priority/scheduling. That doesn't seem to make it > > faster, but more unresponsive to ke

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,13.Jul.09, 21:05:13, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:07:14 +0300 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen > > > brightness when working on battery but it has b

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-14 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:54 AM, lee wrote: > BTW, I've given up attaching the game to a particular CPU and trying > to mess with the priority/scheduling. That doesn't seem to make it > faster, but more unresponsive to keyboard inputs. I guess LGP just > needs to fix the game. The Windoze vers