Re: RAID 1 - software or hardware.

2011-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
yudi v wrote: > Should I use the RAID controller on the motherboard (not sure how reliable > it will be) or use software RAID? The problem with the hardware raid on the motherboard is what do you do if the motherboard fails? You will at that time have good data on your disks but probably no way t

RAID 1 - software or hardware.

2011-12-20 Thread yudi v
Will be installing a new system and would like to have the following set-up: RAID 1 > LUKS > LVM Should I use the RAID controller on the motherboard (not sure how reliable it will be) or use software RAID? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-20 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:30:02 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: >am now using alsa. The problem occurred when we > were trying to debug a problem with playing mp4 films on VLC, my > preferred programme for playing and watching films. It may be something as simple as selecting the correct 'device' in VLC

intel i5, system config question

2011-12-20 Thread yudi v
Hi all, I will be building a new desktop with intel i5. Which option should I choose: go with squeeze and update to kernel 3+ or install Wheezy This will be my main production PC. I would like it to be as stable as possible. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Lack of sound

2011-12-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a problem with playing sound at present, I hear faint music when watching a film out of the left ear [with earphones, my preferred choice] and nothing out of the right ear. I've turned up all speakers that I can find to their maximum, but with no appreciable gain. The relevant part of .

Re: fastcgi too slow in debian squeeze

2011-12-20 Thread J. Bakshi
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:58:01 -0500 (EST) vogelke+deb...@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:26:44 +0530, > >> "J. Bakshi" said: > > J> I have been suffering with the slow performance of my apache server > J> (2.2.16) running on debian wheezy. I have finally pointed out it

Sound loss on Squeeze

2011-12-20 Thread Grant Fisher
I just installed squeeze yesterday. The sound worked perfectly then, so I assume that my sound card is compatible with debian(it also worked fine with ubuntu). But just to be sure, the command "sudo lspci -v' output: 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)

Re: fastcgi too slow in debian squeeze

2011-12-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/20/2011 8:58 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:26:44 +0530, >>> "J. Bakshi" said: > > J> I have been suffering with the slow performance of my apache server > J> (2.2.16) running on debian wheezy. I have finally pointed out it is the > J> fastcgi which makes the web server s

Re: Iceweasel 9.0 not loading https pages

2011-12-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/12/11 13:17, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 21 December 2011 12:14, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> I can't find any existing bug reports for this... >> Other browsers on the same Squeeze box function fine, as does >> Iceweasel 8 on other Squeeze boxes on the same network. >> >> Anyone else experie

Re: fastcgi too slow in debian squeeze

2011-12-20 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:26:44 +0530, >> "J. Bakshi" said: J> I have been suffering with the slow performance of my apache server J> (2.2.16) running on debian wheezy. I have finally pointed out it is the J> fastcgi which makes the web server so slow. But I really need it as I am J> also hostin

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/20/2011 6:25 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:01:45 -0500 (EST), Darren wrote: >> >> The tty switcher could be a keyboard issue, I >> support, with the wrong codes being sent, but I have no idea how to fix >> that, and I've treid reading around the web but I can't find anyth

Re: Iceweasel 9.0 not loading https pages

2011-12-20 Thread Victor Nitu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/21/2011 04:14 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Other browsers on the same Squeeze box function fine, as does Iceweasel > 8 on other Squeeze boxes on the same network. > > Anyone else experiencing the same problem? All I can say is: dpkg-reconfigu

Re: Iceweasel 9.0 not loading https pages

2011-12-20 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 21 December 2011 12:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I can't find any existing bug reports for this... page requests are sent > (POST) eg.:- > > Request URL: https://duckduckgo.com/html > Request Method: POST > Status Code: > Request Headers > 12:56:57.274 > > Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,

Iceweasel 9.0 not loading https pages

2011-12-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
I can't find any existing bug reports for this... page requests are sent (POST) eg.:- Request URL: https://duckduckgo.com/html Request Method: POST Status Code: Request Headers 12:56:57.274 Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7

Re: boot from a iso with grub-imageboot problem

2011-12-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/12/11 04:26, afuentes wrote: > I installed grub-imageboot. I assume you're referring to the Wheezy package, not the Grml package. > When I try to boot the isos, i get > "Linux-bzImage error: file not found" > i changed the conf-file What conf file? /etc/default/grub?? > to point to a d

Re: PermitUserEnvironment option forOpenSSH sshd; was Re(2): automating x permission on a file.

2011-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > The PermitUserEnvironment option for the OpenSSH sshd might > make scp usable after all. At present the sshd won't allow > an existing file to be over-written, even when write permission > is present. What? Uhm... No. That isn't the way it works. You can overwrite f

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:01:45 -0500 (EST), Darren wrote: > > The tty switcher could be a keyboard issue, I > support, with the wrong codes being sent, but I have no idea how to fix > that, and I've treid reading around the web but I can't find anything I > can use. I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboa

PermitUserEnvironment option forOpenSSH sshd; was Re(2): automating x permission on a file.

2011-12-20 Thread peasthope
* From: Bob Proulx * Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:45:19 -0700 > This would be much better for rsync over ssh. Start using rsync using > the -a option to preserve everything including permissions. The PermitUserEnvironment option for the OpenSSH sshd might make scp usable after all. At

Re: FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-20 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 21 December 2011 07:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Just something that might not be obvious in Brian's example: the > username must always be your complete e-mail address. I have a feeling the fully-qualified address is only required if it's a Google Apps (Gmail for your domain) account. I cou

Re: FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Just something that might not be obvious in Brian's example: the > username must always be your complete e-mail address. I just have the username. Tried it with justfo...@gmail.com and that worked too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote: >> >> > How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't >> > it! >> > How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.

Re: FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote: > On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote: > > > How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it! > > How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc. > > This what I have as part of my ~/.fetchmailrc > > poll pop.

Re: How to make "Nepomuk semantic desktop" switched off by default in KDE 4 in Debian?

2011-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 19 dec 11, 22:58:19, wzabo...@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl wrote: > I have instructed all users to switch off Nepomuk semantic desktop in > system settings, but I'd like to change the system settings so, that > when a new user account is created, this service is switched off by default. > Is ther

Re: lxde "customize look and feel"

2011-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 19 dec 11, 11:29:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I installed lxde in a VM running Debian Wheezy under vmplayer, to > see what it is like. > > Preferences -> Customize Look and Feel does nothing. Is that > supposed to be that way? What are you trying to change? LXDE is much more modul

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The point is what the Debian Policy says. > > > > Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most > > effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian to > > enforce for both init.d scri

Re: xfce4

2011-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 19 dec 11, 17:16:13, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Thanks for all the elp! I am trying some of the suggestions now. Of > cpourse, changing date withsudo date > is now problem, as I do not switch timezones that often! On the other > hand, switching keyboard layout I do Very often,

Re: Re(2): automating execution of script.

2011-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Better to do it elsewhere rather than from your ~/.bashrc file. > > > > > while "1" do > > > if (inotifywait -e modify ~/control.sh) = 0 > > >then { chmod u+x ~/control.sh; ~/control.sh; } > ~/controlresult > > > fi > > > done & > > # apt-get

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 20 dec 11, 20:56:11, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The point is what the Debian Policy says. > > Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most > effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian

Re: Re(2): automating execution of script.

2011-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 19 dec 11, 15:24:19, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Better to do it elsewhere rather than from your ~/.bashrc file. > > > while "1" do > > if (inotifywait -e modify ~/control.sh) = 0 > >then { chmod u+x ~/control.sh; ~/control.sh; } > ~/controlresult > > fi > > done & # apt-get install inc

kernel failure

2011-12-20 Thread Gerardo A. Mirkin
Hello, I just subscribed to the mailing list. I net-installed Debian 6.0 on an Asus eeepc 1215p netbook and everything seemed ok, including updates of the kernel and firmware to access the net. However, after an update of several packages (appart from kernel) including wicd, and knetworkmanager a k

Samsung notebook question

2011-12-20 Thread I Rattan
Any one running Debian (or derivative) on Samsung NP-N145-JP02US netbook? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.gso.4.64.1112201354260.15...

Re: FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote: > How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it! > How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc. This what I have as part of my ~/.fetchmailrc poll pop.googlemail.com protopop3 service 995 user justfo

boot from a iso with grub-imageboot problem

2011-12-20 Thread afuentes
I installed grub-imageboot. When I try to boot the isos, i get "Linux-bzImage error: file not found" i changed the conf-file to point to a directory on my home and run udpate-grub2 successfully. /home is in a lvm volume (in case it matters) This is the directory with the isos: rw-r--r-- 1 afuen

FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-20 Thread Alex Padoly
Hi, How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it! How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc. Thanks! Regards. Alex

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running current squeeze 6.0.3 with default Gnome installation. ... I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboard. The quick fix is to simply swap your high quality clack-itty dinosaur KB wi

Re: Which way to program this?

2011-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Neidorff wrote: I am considering writing a "visual department scheduler" for schools. The concept is similar to an appointment calendar, but I'd like to include drag 'n drop functionality. A supervisor is provided with teaching session objects that meet in fixed time periods (call them 1

Fwd: How to refresh Nautilus file view.

2011-12-20 Thread Russell Gadd
> > How is the mount point set? Dynamically or statically? > Sorry not sure what you mean by "Dynamically or statically?". I have a line in fstab as follows: //nasbox/dataNAS /mnt/nas cifs rw,user,exec,iocharset=utf8,user=xxx,password=xxx,uid=1000,gid=1000 (not sure if all these options are stric

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-20 Thread steef
lina schreef: Hi, which media player is your favoriate and love to recommend. I have a problem in using movie player, it's kinda of funny when open some song with it, all the process just being killed and came to login interface. (more like the new-started laptop without truely re-start). Than

Re: Force USB low speed on an specific port.

2011-12-20 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-12-18, Marc Aymerich wrote: > Hi, > Today I've tried to connect my mouse through +10meters USB cable. > Seems that it works pretty well despite of what the RFC says about > maximum cable lenght :) the only problem I have is that ~5% of mouse > clicks are lost. I want to try putting the bus

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-20 Thread lina
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Paul Saunders wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:35:33 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> sorry, supposed to send to list. >> >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: lina >> Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:34 PM >> Subject: Re: what's the best media player ? >> To: W

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Saunders
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:59:46 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/20/2011 4:22 AM, Paul Saunders wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:55:50 +1100 > > gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > > > >> On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > >>> > I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running curren

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-20 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:27:49 -0500 Bill Marcum wrote: > In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install > > programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? > > > > I can't run anything on the other system right now,

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Saunders
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:35:33 +0800 lina wrote: > sorry, supposed to send to list. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: lina > Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:34 PM > Subject: Re: what's the best media player ? > To: Walter Hurry > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Walter Hurry

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The point is what the Debian Policy says. Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian to enforce for both init.d script and default file. I

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/20/2011 4:22 AM, Paul Saunders wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:55:50 +1100 > gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > >> On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: >>> I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running current squeeze 6.0.3 with default Gnome installation. >> ... I have

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/20/2011 2:55 AM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: >> >>> I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running current squeeze 6.0.3 with default >>> Gnome installation. > ... >>> I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboard. >> >> The quick fix is to simply swap y

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-20 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > I always recommend finding big files and truncating them first. You > can truncate a file using the shell by redirection nothing into it. > : > largelogfile.log > Or you can use 'true' as the same thing since ':' is an alias for > 'true'. So shell programmers always tend t

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-20 Thread lina
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Tutku Dalmaz wrote: > Hi, > > As a default player i use gnome-mplayer.I recommend that you to use it. I just installed the gnome-mplayer too when I used gnome-mplayer filename.mp4 it's just crashed again, > > Best Regards. > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, l

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Saunders
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:55:50 +1100 gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > > > >> I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running current squeeze 6.0.3 with > >> default Gnome installation. > ... > >> I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboard. > > > > The quick fix

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-20 Thread lina
sorry, supposed to send to list. -- Forwarded message -- From: lina Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:34 PM Subject: Re: what's the best media player ? To: Walter Hurry On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:44:16 +0800, lina wrote: > >> Hi, >

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-20 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install > programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? > > I can't run anything on the other system right now, but I > can mount the disks on a machine that is running OK. > > Many

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-20 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hello there, > > Is it possible to launch a default application with a file from the > command line, e.g. something like: > > ./myfile.pdf > > which would retrieve the default PDF viewer and launch it on "myfile"? > > For the moment, I have a bash script ca

Which way to program this?

2011-12-20 Thread Mark Neidorff
I am considering writing a "visual department scheduler" for schools. The concept is similar to an appointment calendar, but I'd like to include drag 'n drop functionality. A supervisor is provided with teaching session objects that meet in fixed time periods (call them 1-12). The supervisor

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread goossens
On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > >> I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running current squeeze 6.0.3 with default >> Gnome installation. ... >> I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboard. > > The quick fix is to simply swap your high quality clack-itty dinosaur KB > with its inbuilt 8042

Re: xfce4

2011-12-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 19/12/11 23:16, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Thanks for all the elp! I am trying some of the suggestions now. Of cpourse, changing date withsudo date is now problem, as I do not switch timezones that often! On the other hand, switching keyboard layout I do Very often, surely ten

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au, 20.12.2011: > I hope I am sending to the right place. I really have no idea how to deal > with this. I'll have to describe the problem in detail, since I cannot > assign it to a package or anything. I have tried searching for a similar > problem but can't find one. I am