Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 23:11, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:40:32 -0500 (EST), Joao Ferreira wrote: > > seems that $0 simply contains the program being run and not the > > interpreter that is running it... > > Hmm. You're right. > > echo $0 > > works at a shell prompt, but no

Re: upgrade to squeeze fails for NFS-rooted system

2010-11-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
deb...@good-with-numbers.com put forth on 11/27/2010 11:50 PM: > Upgrading lenny to squeeze fails with the following message during > "apt-get upgrade": > > -- > Preparing to replace mount 2.13.1.1-1 (using .../mount_2.17.2-3.3_amd64.deb) > ... > You have NFS mount points currently mounte

upgrade to squeeze fails for NFS-rooted system

2010-11-27 Thread debian
Upgrading lenny to squeeze fails with the following message during "apt-get upgrade": -- Preparing to replace mount 2.13.1.1-1 (using .../mount_2.17.2-3.3_amd64.deb) ... You have NFS mount points currently mounted, and this version of mount requires that nfs-common be upgraded before NFS m

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mag Gam put forth on 11/27/2010 11:06 AM: > Stan, > > Correct. On my severs I too have sound cards and USB. I don't really > need them so I would rather unload them. I suppose I can do a macro > benchmark and state if it helped or not but I would like to know on a > micro level to see if it helped

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-27 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Brian wrote: > Your course of action will depend on the confidence you place in > rkhunter. Mine is zero, but if your reading of its reports is convincing > and you think it tells you anything important about your system your > only option is to reinstall. Not bec

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-27 Thread Brad Alexander
I had an ATI card in my work desktop on my prior job. I left that job last week, so I can't access the model information. When I first got the box (a c2d HP, as I recall), I was able to run the fglrx driver and get full 3D. I prefer to run kde 4.x under Compiz, which I was able to do on this box.

Re: error message from openvpn.

2010-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > An OpenVPN tunnel is failing and this message is in /var/log/syslog. > Nov 27 16:17:07 joule ovpn-myvpn[1827]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: > Connection refused (code=111) > > Google finds references to some of the words but nothing explains > the meaning of ECONNREFUSED o

Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-27 Thread Ivan Marin
Hi all, I'm planning to get a laptop soon and gonna run Debian on it. I'm gonna need a few things: - HDMI/DVI output support, as I usually use a 22' Dell external monitor; - A good processor, at least i5/i7 Lynnfield/Arrandale; - A good video card, with good 3D support on Debian - I develop a VTK

error message from openvpn.

2010-11-27 Thread peasthope
Folk, An OpenVPN tunnel is failing and this message is in /var/log/syslog. Nov 27 16:17:07 joule ovpn-myvpn[1827]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection refused (code=111) Google finds references to some of the words but nothing explains the meaning of ECONNREFUSED or of (code=111). Any clues

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-27 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Hi, 27/11/2010 13:16, Matthias Andersson wrote: > On 11/27/2010 09:18 AM, Joel Roth wrote: >> aptitude search ~S~i\(~mmarillat\!~Odebian\) > > > Ok, I removed all packages that came up with that search; > > debian-multimedia-keyring > libdvdcss2 ^^ Maybe you shot yourself in the foot here,

Re: "need a quick hashing method"

2010-11-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Arthur Bela wrote: >HDD#1 >HDD#2 > >I copy files between HDD#1 and HDD#2. > >When i finish, i need a quick "hasing method" - i just want to check, >that the copy was 100% ok. Hashing is not 100%. It's probabilistic. If your hash results is N bits, your data longer than N bits, and your ha

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-27 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:22:00PM +, Camale??n wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:33 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote: > > > I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at > > www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable. > > > > Now the problem is that all videos play bla

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Nov 2010 at 18:53:05 +, James Brown wrote: > I have received the next messages from crondaemon: > /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter: > Internal error! > Internal error! [snip] > Is it a rootkit or other error? What I need to do - remove infected > files, reinstall the above packeges or give

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2010-11-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
Following up to myself again, in the meantime I think I've narrowed down the problem with my disconnects a bit: It seems that I'm loosing connection whenever the stick changes connection mode, or at least when it changes from UMTS to HSPA or HSUPA. Meaning, it connects with UMTS and I'm getting in

Re: update-initramfs produces unusable initrd.img

2010-11-27 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi again -- Does anyone have any post-thanksgiving suggestions for how to handle this issue? Thanks in advance, -PT On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Peter Tenenbaum < peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my recent experiments with moving my home Debian desktop to RAID-1 > arrays, I discover

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-27 Thread Mag Gam
Stan, Correct. On my severs I too have sound cards and USB. I don't really need them so I would rather unload them. I suppose I can do a macro benchmark and state if it helped or not but I would like to know on a micro level to see if it helped. I think one possibility is to do "lat_pipe" from lmb

[OT] Re: sed with several lines, how?

2010-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Arthur Bela wrote: > i just can't figure it out, how to "sed" when having several lines > [nor in awk, perl..] I have not really understood your question, but maybe this will help you: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-51 I would go someway along the lines of removing the newline at the e

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-27 Thread Leandro Minatel
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mag Gam put forth on 11/26/2010 11:14 PM: > > > unloading unnecessary modules > > If they are unnecessary modules, the kernel won't load them in the first > place, as the hardware they interface with doesn't exit. If they're not > loaded, ho

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-27 Thread Leandro Minatel
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Mag Gam wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working on a ecommerce system for a client. We are > using Debian 5. I was told by an engineer that unloading unnecessary > modules will improve performance in the system. My question(s) are: is > this true? Also, how do

Re: New default artwork for Debian "Squeeze"

2010-11-27 Thread Rob Owens
Nice work! Is this theme in the repos, or does it have to be installed manually? On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:04:03AM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > The new Debian Squeeze art work can be found here: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/SpaceFun > > More Debian News, including Squeeze release

Re: sed with several lines, how?

2010-11-27 Thread Arthur Bela
thank you, and sorry, if i had formulated wrong, but the "SOMETEXT#X" is a random STRING, like: $ cat testfile.txt alsjflsajfkljasdf asfklasjlkyxcvo kldfjlkasjdfasdf kasfjxcvklajdflas yxcvkjasafjads asdfjkldjlasj uiyxzckjhasfsd $ $ awk 'BEGIN {sawpattern=0} "^SOMETEXT, ^SOMETEXT" {if (($0 ~/S

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-27 Thread Matthias Andersson
On 11/27/2010 09:18 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > aptitude search ~S~i\(~mmarillat\!~Odebian\) Ok, I removed all packages that came up with that search; debian-multimedia-keyring libdvdcss2 libfaac0 libmp3lame0 libx264-104 livxvidcore4 mplayer At first glance that doesn't seem to have solved the issu

Re: hal installation problem - debian squeeze

2010-11-27 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 22:13 +0100, debian wrote: > On 2GB SD made dist-upgrade > card removed hal and trying install again but always getting follow: Out of curiosity, why are you trying to install hal again? If something depended on it I wouldn't have expected it to get removed by apt-get. (I

sed with several lines, how?

2010-11-27 Thread Arthur Bela
hyphen's [ - ] are just for marking the start/end of a pattern, but there are _not in_ the pattern! "OUTPUT" is what i want after "seding" the PATTERN#X's so i for e.g.: need the first, and second "magic" sed "FIRSTMAGIC" PATTERN#1 sed "SECONDMAGIC" PATTERN#2 PATTERN#1: -

Re: edit multiple files under multiple directories/folders

2010-11-27 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > In my home folder I have 6 tomcat directories under > /home/kaushal/tomcat0..6 > Under each of these tomcats there are sub folder conf and inside these conf > there is a file by the name server.xml so for example I have > tomcat0,