Re: Recommended Linux Backup

Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:37:51AM +, Paulo A.B. wrote: >> It's based on Rsync, but has a different flavor. >> >> Try ribs . > > Or have a look at rdiff-backup This doesn't sound to me as if it fits the bill, either. It sounds closer t

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

Tony Baldwin wrote: > lrhorer wrote: >> Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup >> utilities, >> and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source >> solution which will do the following: >> >> 1. Back up to removable hard drives > > I rsync to a removable u

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

Paulo A.B. wrote: > It's based on Rsync, but has a different flavor. > > Try ribs . Please see my respose above. If it is based on rsync, I would expect it to have most of the limitations of rsync, adn I don't see in the README that it would seem to do what I

reportbug reportbug?

Is there a way to determine if reportbug is misbehaving? I dont like having to copy and paste the template made from console everytime to my icedove thunderbird.. are there any alternatives? I'm at a lost.. I had reportbug working and now i only get smtp-auth.. I have no idea if its my isp's

Re: Question regarding RAM

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:55:43AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/10/30 Kousik Maiti : > > If I change RAM size of a debian server, will it be auto detected by the OS > > or I have to change any settings manually? > > IMHO you need not do anything. unless you're running a lot of memory on x86 a

moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

Sorry if it's OT, but we have a debian lenny with a big VG1 a some LVs inside and want to move all LV's from VG1 to another VG2 located in other server. Is it possible? I've searched the web with no success. thanks. -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:37:51AM +, Paulo A.B. wrote: > It's based on Rsync, but has a different flavor. > > Try ribs . Or have a look at rdiff-backup > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > lrhorer wrote: > > > >> Other than

Re: Question regarding RAM

2009/10/30 Kousik Maiti : > If I change RAM size of a debian server, will it be auto detected by the OS > or I have to change any settings manually? IMHO you need not do anything. -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: Replying using bottom

Question regarding RAM

Hi list, This may be a silly question. If I change RAM size of a debian server, will it be auto detected by the OS or I have to change any settings manually? Thanks in advanced. -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered

ISO forum + album software

Greetings; I have been searching SourceForge and other software sites but I am not having any luck. I am looking for a package that has similar features to Yahoo groups. Members, albums, forums at least. Polls and other stuff would be a plus. If anybody knows of such a package please send

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

It's based on Rsync, but has a different flavor. Try ribs . On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > lrhorer wrote: > >> Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities, >> and I am looking for recommendations. I would li

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

lrhorer wrote: Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities, and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source solution which will do the following: 1. Back up to removable hard drives I rsync to a removable usb drive, myself. Works great. /tony --

Scanning with HP LaserJet 3300mfp

Hi: I am using Lenny and I had mixed results trying to scan: I have sane, xsane hplip, etc as well as kooka. xsane always fails with sane_read error during I/O. scaneimage and scanimage -T also fail. So does xscanimage. However, hp-scan (from hplip-gui), a command-line version than uses sa

Re: problems setting up screen blanking in X

green on 29/10/09 13:57, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-29 04:00 -0500: I have checked that this is the only xorg.conf being read. The output from "xset q" for the screen saver (disabled in the xfce config menu) is what I think still needs to change: Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes

Recommended Linux Backup

Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities, and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source solution which will do the following: 1. Back up to removable hard drives 2. Span multiple target volumes 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots lo

Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > lrhorer wrote: >>> Have you tried getting packages from >>> ? >>> >> >> On your advice, I just tried there. There are a ton of unmet >> dependencies, many of which I can't find at all. For example, the >> ffmpeg .deb package o

Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

OK, thanks. I tried verious versins, and after a long climb up the dependency tree, I was finally able to get it installed from stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > S. Fishpaste put forth on 10/29/2009 3:41 PM: > >> Does this default to installing Etch, and does one get a choice to switch >> the distro sources list before it's written to disk during the install? I >> don't remember ... > > I'm pretty sur

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

S. Fishpaste wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:14:00 -0400, Jaime Di Cristina in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste wrote: Anyone know where I can find a floppy image for Debian net install? There is no floppy images for Lenny, because they would not fit. Use t

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

S. Fishpaste put forth on 10/29/2009 3:41 PM: > Does this default to installing Etch, and does one get a choice to switch > the distro sources list before it's written to disk during the install? I > don't remember ... I'm pretty sure all the boot floppy installs point to the stable directories o

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:14:00 -0400, Jaime Di Cristina in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > S. Fishpaste wrote: >> Anyone know where I can find a floppy image for Debian net install? > There is no floppy images for Lenny, because they would not fit. Use > the etch floppy images instead. Overlo

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen & crashes all VT's

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:30 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:30:29 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a > > frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any sugges

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen & crashes all VT's

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:30:29 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a > frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any suggestions > regarding what to look for? (More info appended below) > > * John Magolske [091024 16:26]: [...] > >

Re: Single server image distributed clusters still available

Micha Feigin put forth on 10/28/2009 9:54 AM: > AFAIK the only options that are still alive are the commercial mosix solution > and the open source kerrighed. I forgot about this one: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:22:14 -0500, lrhorer in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > >> Have you tried getting packages from >> ? > > On your advice, I just tried there. There are a ton of unmet > dependencies, many of which I can't find at all. For example, the > ff

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:32:16 -0400, Tony Baldwin in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > green wrote: >> Please reply to the list! > > doh...I hate this list sometimes. > Why can't it function normally, like every other list > on the gods' green earth? Grab the extension 'reply to list' or upgrade to

Re: Re (4): Video on Demand, VoD

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:32:21 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:13:02 -0700 >> The plugin in the screenshot is totem-mozilla. > > I've removed VLC and installed Totem and now > the VCR control panel appears. Progress. > Thanks. This should w

Re: [OT] Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:23:27 -0700, John Magolske in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > * Nick Lidakis [091025 20:15]: >> Are there quality text mailing lists for non-computer related >> topics? Do web forums dominate the internet landscape? If one is >> tired of asinine graphics and animated avita

Re: spamassassin best practices

29.10.2009 4:43, Umarzuki Mochlis kirjoitti: > I got 2 debian 5 on vmware, both running postfix and dovecot-imap > > on server a, i already installed spamassassin and spamc (nothing else > configured) and add .procmailrc in a user (user1) home directory with > configuration as below: > > ## start

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

S. Fishpaste wrote: Hi; I'm attempting to install Debian Stable on an older desktop machine that doesn't support booting from an USB stick or CD. Therefore I'm looking for Debian net install floppy images. Damned if I can find any as everything I've found assumes one wants to use a USB stick or

Floppy Net Install Stable

Hi; I'm attempting to install Debian Stable on an older desktop machine that doesn't support booting from an USB stick or CD. Therefore I'm looking for Debian net install floppy images. Damned if I can find any as everything I've found assumes one wants to use a USB stick or minimal CD image. Any

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen & crashes all VT's

Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any suggestions regarding what to look for? (More info appended below) * John Magolske [091024 16:26]: > When I issue `startx`, X starts up in an immediately locked up state. > I have t

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

On Thursday 29 October 2009 09:32:16 Tony Baldwin wrote: > green wrote: > > Please reply to the list! > > doh...I hate this list sometimes. > Why can't it function normally, like every other list > on the gods' green earth? 1. Please trim the text you quote. If it's not useful context for your re

Re (4): Video on Demand, VoD

Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:13:02 -0700 > The plugin in the screenshot is totem-mozilla. I've removed VLC and installed Totem and now the VCR control panel appears. Progress. Thanks. This should warrant a bug report against Debian VLC. New problem: for about a week now in Squeeze, the VoD sc

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

On 0, Tony Baldwin wrote: > green wrote: > >Please reply to the list! > > doh...I hate this list sometimes. > Why can't it function normally, like every other list > on the gods' green earth? > > /tony > It does. You just need a proper MUA. -- http://fuzzydev.org/~pobega http://id

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

green wrote: Please reply to the list! doh...I hate this list sometimes. Why can't it function normally, like every other list on the gods' green earth? /tony Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-10-29 06:20 -0500: green wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-10-28 15:18 -0500: I use US-Intl keyboard m

Re: rensignement

On Thursday 29 October 2009 13:38:36 abdelkader djeddou wrote: > Bonjour, > je suis un ingenieur Algerien et je suis un débutant dans le system LINUX > et j'ai interissé boucaux sur votre system Debien qui j'ai le vue chez un > amie. donc j'ai besoin d'un suport d'installation avec des documents

Re: rensignement

On Thursday 29 October 2009 14:32:02 Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > http://formation-debian.via.ecp.fr/ > Je l' avais oublié, celui la: un must pour celui qui démarre sur debian. C'est pourtant par là que j' ai commencé. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

Please reply to the list! Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-10-29 06:20 -0500: > green wrote: >> Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-10-28 15:18 -0500: >>> I use US-Intl keyboard map. >>> á à ç ü ñ ¿ ¡ é ß ô etc. are all quite simple. >>> >>> do >>> # set xkbmap us intl >>> >>> then look at this: >>> http://dry.

Re: [OT] smaller DSL providers [was: Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:01:19AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:34:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 09:20:32PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > Forgive me if this too off topic for this list. I haven't had a chance to > > > see > > > w

Re: problems setting up screen blanking in X

Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-29 04:00 -0500: > I have checked that this is the only xorg.conf being read. The output > from "xset q" for the screen saver (disabled in the xfce config menu) is > what I think still needs to change: > > Screen Saver: > prefer blanking: yesallow exposures: yes

Re: rensignement

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Re: rensignement

On Thursday 29 October 2009 13:38:36 abdelkader djeddou wrote: > Bonjour, > je suis un ingenieur Algerien et je suis un débutant dans le system LINUX > et j'ai interissé boucaux sur votre system Debien qui j'ai le vue chez un > amie. donc j'ai besoin d'un suport d'installation avec des documents

rensignement

Bonjour, je suis un ingenieur Algerien et je suis un débutant dans le system LINUX et j'ai interissé boucaux sur votre system Debien qui j'ai le vue chez un amie. donc j'ai besoin d'un suport d'installation avec des documents explicatifs sur l'installation,la configuration et l'utilisation. surtout

To run several daemons under normal users.

Good day. I want to run the following list of daemons under normal user - for security reasons: saslauthd, couriertcpd, courierpop3login, authdaemond, spamd, logger could You please share Your opinion on how I can do that - as it is not clear from its running scripts where to specify it? Thank

Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

lrhorer wrote: >> Have you tried getting packages from >> ? >> > > On your advice, I just tried there. There are a ton of unmet > dependencies, many of which I can't find at all. For example, the > ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (an

Re: problems setting up screen blanking in X

Adam Hardy on 28/10/09 14:06, wrote: green on 28/10/09 13:34, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-28 04:47 -0500: My only problem now is with the video signal powering down after 10 mins. I can't find the configuration setting anywhere and searching the internet has so far only turned up people

Re: Problems compiling kernel 2.6.31

On 29.10.09 1311 (+0530), surreal wrote: > I am getting some problems while compiling kernel 2.6.31 using Debian Lenny > make-kpkg > > The messages are - > > make[3]: Entering directory `/root/linux-2.6.31' > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > SYMLINK inc

Problems compiling kernel 2.6.31

I am getting some problems while compiling kernel 2.6.31 using Debian Lenny make-kpkg The messages are - make[3]: Entering directory `/root/linux-2.6.31' CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86 CALLscripts/checksyscalls