RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

If you want to have your connection be established on bootup, the "Debian way" is to add your PPP connection to your /etc/network/interfaces file, like: auto ppp0 iface ppp0 inet ppp provider dsl-provider Then, in your ppp options, add the "persist" option, which will cause your connection to

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

stephen...@yahoo.com put forth on 10/30/2009 10:15 PM: > --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Maybe I missed something in a previous post. If you >> don't have >> ethernet, then how are you connecting to the dsl >> modem? USB? > > Yes USB to ADSL modem to POTS. I think your suggestion

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

stephen...@yahoo.com wrote: > It is just that I would prefer that non-technical guests staying at my house not have to learn to start an xfce-term and type 'pon' before they can use the Internet. If it comes to that I would make the machine boot up into Windows by default, but that would be an op

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

Israel Garcia writes: > 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. It looks like you could just use pvmove to move the dat

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Maybe I missed something in a previous post. If you > don't have > ethernet, then how are you connecting to the dsl > modem? USB? Yes USB to ADSL modem to POTS. I think your suggestion of buying a router was still valid however, I found several rec

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

stephen...@yahoo.com put forth on 10/30/2009 9:39 PM: > I have run pppoeconf as root, it is one of the things I tried over the last > few days. I just did it again, since I couldn't remember what happened the > last time. It just says no working Ethernet card can be found, not > surprising rea

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

I have run pppoeconf as root, it is one of the things I tried over the last few days. I just did it again, since I couldn't remember what happened the last time. It just says no working Ethernet card can be found, not surprising really since I don't have an Ethernet card. Am I missing somethi

PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

stephen...@yahoo.com put forth on 10/30/2009 7:43 PM: > It is just that I would prefer that non-technical guests staying at my house > not have to learn to start an xfce-term and type 'pon' before they can use > the Internet. If it comes to that I would make the machine boot up into > Windows

Re: floppy mounting (solved)

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 22:43 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-10-30 17:23 (+1300), dr hugo z. hackenbush wrote: > > > Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as > > root but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in > > terminal but still wont let me in

Re: Recommended Linux Backup correction

s/would fault/would not fault/ On 20091030_192015, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20091030_010001, lrhorer wrote: > > 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

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

On 20091030_010001, lrhorer wrote: > 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 m

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

stephen2eq writes: > It is just that I would prefer that non-technical guests staying at my > house not have to learn to start an xfce-term and type 'pon' before > they can use the Internet. Then why don't you just run pppoeconf as root, follow instructions, and be happy? Why do you want to compl

Problem with LSB Default-Start/Stop values

Hi, I am trying to setup an init script for a commercial Linux application that does not come with a "INIT INFO" header block. The application needs to be running in runlebels 2-5 and stop in 0,1,6. I found an application that has very similar requirements/dependancies, and added a header

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

Celejar: > something using a local "firewall", plus something like fwlogwatch, > invoked with the -R option for "realtime response mode".  The idea Thanks for that, I will have look at fwlogwatch if / when I have some more time to spend on this (unfortunately, a week off work just ended today).

Re: System logs are being logged to wrong files

30.10.2009 22:56, P K kirjoitti: > Hi, > > Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. Thanks. Now: > > I am using Debian/Sid (sidux actually) on a i686 machine. Over the > past few months, I have seen various logs being logged to the wrong > files, ie, they are being logged to the xyzlog.

xpdf printing with pdftops

Hi! pdftops allows to expand a smaller page to fill the paper. xpdf doesn't have such an option. I was wondering whether it would be possible to use pdftops in a clever printing command in the xpdf printing dialog ("Print with command" or "Print to file"). Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advan

Re: Question regarding RAM

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 03:54:17PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West put forth on 10/30/2009 12:19 AM: > > > unless you're running a lot of memory on x86 architecture. then you > > might need the bigmem kernel to see it all properly. But other than > > that, it should just work.

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

stephen...@yahoo.com put forth on 10/30/2009 9:49 AM: > Hello all, > new Debian user here, hope somebody can help. What do you have against using a PPPoE broadband router, like (most of) the rest of us? Masochist? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

System logs are being logged to wrong files

Hi, Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. Thanks. Now: I am using Debian/Sid (sidux actually) on a i686 machine. Over the past few months, I have seen various logs being logged to the wrong files, ie, they are being logged to the xyzlog.1 file instead of the xyzlog files. For example,

Re: floppy mounting

On 2009-10-30 17:23 (+1300), dr hugo z. hackenbush wrote: > Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as > root but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in > terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please? I haven't had floppy driver for many years bu

Question regarding RAM

Andrew Sackville-West put forth on 10/30/2009 12:19 AM: > unless you're running a lot of memory on x86 architecture. then you > might need the bigmem kernel to see it all properly. But other than > that, it should just work. Or, a bit less ambiguous: If you are currently using a standard 32 bit

Re: floppy mounting

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 11:46 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > dr.hugo.z.hackenbush: > >> > >> Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root > >> but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in > >> te

Re: floppy mounting

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:39 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > dr.hugo.z.hackenbush: > > > > Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root > > but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in > > terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please? > > You

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:00:01AM -0500, lrhorer wrote: > 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 > T

RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

> From: stephen...@yahoo.com [mailto:stephen...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:50 AM > > At the moment I have to start an xterm and explicitly type 'pon' before > I can use any internet-based programs such as iceweasel or even ping. > My question is, is there any way I can get icewe

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:54:22PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Friday 30 October 2009 06:01:21 Israel Garcia, vous avez écrit : > > 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

Re: Problem installing Raid + LVM system on new Dell T5500

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:59:20 -0400 S Scharf wrote: > I have a new Dell T5500 with two SATA disks (and a Dell Raid > controller). The BIOS is set to revert to ATA disks if the > 'hardware' Raid signature is not detected. > > I want to install testing with one large software Raid 1 partition as >

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:49:34 -0700 (PDT) "stephen...@yahoo.com" wrote: ... > At the moment I have to start an xterm and explicitly type 'pon' > before I can use any internet-based programs such as iceweasel or > even ping. My question is, is there any way I can get iceweasel (or > ping) to caus

Debian font size is unstable

On a completely new lenny install, after 3 days of use, the font in the headers of icedove and iceweasel become microscopic and unreadable. In the text spaces there was also some reduction but could be barely read..Also the text was somewhat reduced in the console background and no longer was sens

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:24:57AM +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Israel Garcia wrote: > > 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 possib

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

Le Friday 30 October 2009 06:01:21 Israel Garcia, vous avez écrit : > 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

Re: floppy mounting

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > dr.hugo.z.hackenbush: >> >> Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root >> but wont let me mount as user?  Tried   #adduser (name) floppy  in >> terminal   but still wont let me in? any clues please? > > You need

Re: floppy mounting

dr.hugo.z.hackenbush: > > Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root > but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in > terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please? You need to login again after adding your user to the floppy group. Did yo

floppy mounting

Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Problem installing Raid + LVM system on new Dell T5500

I have a new Dell T5500 with two SATA disks (and a Dell Raid controller). The BIOS is set to revert to ATA disks if the 'hardware' Raid signature is not detected. I want to install testing with one large software Raid 1 partition as the physical drive for the LVM, (which will have a root and home

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

Hi Michael thanks for your help. I tried those three lines at the top of my provider file but they do not seem to have made any difference. (As an aside I did find it strange that if I put the 'connect' line somewhere else in the file other than at the top, pppd complains that it is an 'unreco

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

* stephen...@yahoo.com 30.10.2009 > At the moment I have to start an xterm and explicitly type 'pon' > before I can use any internet-based programs such as iceweasel or even > ping. My question is, is there any way I can get iceweasel (or ping) > to cause a GUI dialog to appear, asking me if

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

> 1. Back up to removable hard drives > 2. Span multiple target volumes > 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single > backup to the user. > 4. Maintain an easily monitored index so the user can see which drive > will be needed for a particular backup or restore operation

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:58:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner in gmane.linux.debian.user 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 r

PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

Hello all, new Debian user here, hope somebody can help. With no help, and asking no questions until now - but extensive use of Google! - I have managed to partition my PC's hard drive, download the 5.0.3 net-inst ISO image, install Debian on my new partition, find the firmware for my ADSL mode

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:14:44PM -0500, 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 > 2. Span multiple

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:28:28 -0400 Rick Pasotto wrote: > Today dpkg and dpkg-dev showed up as being held back. When I ran > > aptitude -s install dpkg dpkg-dev > > the result was that kdebase, kicker, kpersonalizer, ksplash, and > libkonq5 became BROKEN. > > Something is wrong somewhere if upd

Does everything depend on everything?

Today dpkg and dpkg-dev showed up as being held back. When I ran aptitude -s install dpkg dpkg-dev the result was that kdebase, kicker, kpersonalizer, ksplash, and libkonq5 became BROKEN. Something is wrong somewhere if updating required core packages breaks optional packages. -- "Life is lik

Re: reportbug reportbug?

jagginess wrote: 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 ide

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Israel Garcia wrote: > 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? - Create LV in VG2 with the same size from LVs in VG1 - cat /dev/VG

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:32:16 -0400 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? I think the common answer is "because they're all wrong". -- Avi Greenbu

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:49:31AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > So how do you enter a deadkey? > ralt+'+e? Using this setxkbmap us_intl enable me to just type "e for ë etc. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4599 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch