Re: unexpected script output

2012-12-27 Thread Bob Proulx
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >Wow. 1-4 times a day? > Usually: > 1: when I am moving from train to work > 2: when I am leaving work to train > 3: when I am moving from train to home > 4: when I am leaving computer for bed > :) Ah, I see. It isn't because the machine is unstable or need

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Sharon Kimble [121227 06:18]: > Do you think that 'Disk utility 2.30.1' would be able to rescue a USB hard > drive that has had Debian 6 accidentally installed on it, over the vital > backups? The USB drive has just been sitting on the shelf for two years and > not been used since the unfortuna

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
That would depend on the usage, consider this: - find an old jukebox - strip the old (defective?) hardware - insert cheap modern computer hardware - include touchscreen for song selection I'm seriously considering something like that. The web interface would be ideal for parties were people can

Re: management tools?

2012-12-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Which leads me to wonder: Those of you who run server farms on Debian, what are you using for: - initial o/s install and configuration (e.g., FAI, other things?) - software install/update/configuration (chef, puppet, ?) - virtual machine management - user

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

2012-12-27 Thread Joel Roth
Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Roth wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > > I usually just upgrade apps individually as I need to... > > > > > > As in 'apt-get install openssh-client' ? But that won't upgrade any > > > of the dependencies. > > > > I didn't know that. My first try w

Re: xen on wheezy

2012-12-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: "cr...@gtek.biz" > To: Patrick Bartek > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:54 PM > Subject: Re: xen on wheezy > > On Thursday, December 27, 2012 17:14, "Patrick Bartek" > said: > >>> Any pointers would be appreci

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 09:36:00AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > Note that I use oggenc here, because I'm not familiar with the command > to convert to mp3, although I imagine ffmpeg would do it. If you find avconv in Debian, ffmpeg is deprecated. root@tal:~# apt-cache show ffmpeg [...] This pa

Re: How do you read logs?

2012-12-27 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/25/2012 05:55 PM, jug...@lavabit.com wrote: > Hello. > > There are a lot of `possible break-in attempts' messages in my > logs. So it's hard to read them `by hand' (with last or more). How > do you read yours? Do you use any log analyzers? Whi

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 dec 12, 19:40:30, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Well... actually, you are true, but I know about no lossless > efficient (or at least correct) audio algorithms. Depends what you mean by "efficient". According to Wikipedia FLAC compresses to about 50% without loosing quality

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 21:48 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] > > I had a look at this yesterday, you can combine the mpd package with > > the > > fookebox package, that last one is a web interface for mpd. > > Sounds interesting, maybe I'll try to take some time to test it, > be

Re: xen on wheezy

2012-12-27 Thread craig
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 17:14, "Patrick Bartek" said: >> Any pointers would be appreciated. > > > I would restart at the beginning: > >    http://www.xen.org/support/documentation.html > >    http://wiki.debian.org/Xen> Well I've been through those, and several other pages. The only

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 27 December 2012 21:17:56 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Ok, first, sorry to ask two questions at a time: dead drives and > deleted partitions are different things, I know that. > > Let me explain "my" (they are, in fact, friend's problems) two problems > (from different peoples

Re: var/run and var/lock relative links not being compliant with Policy

2012-12-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:13:35AM +0200, Regid Ichira wrote: > Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690345#5 > > In sysvinit (initscripts), we were obliged to revert back to using > absolute links for /var/run and /var/lock in this commit: > > http://anonscm.d

var/run and var/lock relative links not being compliant with Policy

2012-12-27 Thread Regid Ichira
Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690345#5 In sysvinit (initscripts), we were obliged to revert back to using absolute links for /var/run and /var/lock in this commit: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=commitdiff;h=0977997 due t

Re: xen on wheezy

2012-12-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: "cr...@gtek.biz" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:33 AM > Subject: xen on wheezy > > I am trying to learn virtualization with Xen on Wheezy. I have installed > Wheezy > on an old AMD Athlon XP system, and

Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
Ok, first, sorry to ask two questions at a time: dead drives and deleted partitions are different things, I know that. Let me explain "my" (they are, in fact, friend's problems) two problems (from different peoples). === 0) the common part. By the past, I've did some researches about forensic

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
That would also mean different tcp ports for each instance, which is cumbersome with regards to the firewall and possibly proxy servers the client needs to pass Did not thought about that problem. I have some basic understanding of network stuff, but would have never thought about that issue

Re: management tools?

2012-12-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Fidelman wrote: > I'm getting ready to rebuild a small cluster (4 nodes, xen > virtualization) that I'm using to support a combination of hosted > services (mostly email lists, a few web sites) and some > experimentation. > > To date, I've installed stuff manually, relied on a > high-availab

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

2012-12-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Roth wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > I usually just upgrade apps individually as I need to... > > > > As in 'apt-get install openssh-client' ? But that won't upgrade any > > of the dependencies. > > I didn't know that. My first try was apt-get install ssh. If the pack

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 27 December 2012 19:08:26 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Sharon, > * the USB hard drive has not had Debian 6 accidentally installed on it > over the vital backups: the usb key contained no backup, and I wanted to > write Debian 6's iso content on it (it is possible). > * The USB drive has not

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 04:12 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] > > So, the actual solution you are using is using a www website which > distributes m3u files, and the user just use that m3u which point to a > web address, it the user's music software is just playing the stream? B

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok for the Disk Utility, but the issue is that the drive is not recognized: as I explained before, plugging it does not result in a linked /dev/sdstuff, so that I have -to my little Linux knowledge- no way to access it. Using Disk Utility or whatever

Re: something about cups-pdf

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.12.2012 17:54, lina a écrit : :/var/spool# ls -lrt cups-pdf/ total 8 drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4096 Dec 27 2011 ANONYMOUS drwxr-x--x 2 root lpadmin 4096 May 12 2012 SPOOL Is it normal? What does the ANONYMOUS for? drwxrwxrwt ? Thanks, Sounds like it's the file name for me. -- To

xen on wheezy

2012-12-27 Thread craig
I am trying to learn virtualization with Xen on Wheezy. I have installed Wheezy on an old AMD Athlon XP system, and installed the xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-686-pae metapackage. I understand that I also need "...a kernel specifically crafted to work as the Domain 0, mediating hardware access for

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
because music, as photo (not drawings, some can be compressed) and films, can be only "compressed" with data losses. I don't agree. Music, photos and films can very well be compressed as long as they are not already compressed (lossy or not). Yes, most usual formats nowadays are already compre

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-27 Thread Worrier Poet
On 12/27/2012 12:53 PM, Max Hyre wrote: > On 12/26/2012 09:03 AM, John Hasler wrote: >> Max Hyre writes: >>> Too bad signing requires registration with personal info. >> >> "Personal info"? Email, name, and zip code? You're being silly. > >Minor attribution note: It's Worrier Poet who worri

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 dec 12, 05:47:57, tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: > Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple > script that will run periodically (through cron). > i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: > -convert them to mp3 > -delete the wav f

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 dec 12, 14:52:14, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Another point about your script: compressing a bunch of mp3 is a > waste of CPU resources and time, Agreed > because music, as photo (not > drawings, some can be compressed) and films, can be only > "compressed" with data losse

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-27 Thread Max Hyre
On 12/26/2012 09:03 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Max Hyre writes: >> Too bad signing requires registration with personal info. > > "Personal info"? Email, name, and zip code? You're being silly. Minor attribution note: It's Worrier Poet who worries about ID. I have no problem with it because,

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 dec 12, 23:08:25, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: > > > No, vlc packages are not in the official repos. > Now I get it. Doesn't matter if the repository is official or not, but only if it's available. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http:

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM, piruthiviraj natarajan > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister > >> wrote: > >>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj nat

something about cups-pdf

2012-12-27 Thread lina
:/var/spool# ls -lrt cups-pdf/ total 8 drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4096 Dec 27 2011 ANONYMOUS drwxr-x--x 2 root lpadmin 4096 May 12 2012 SPOOL Is it normal? What does the ANONYMOUS for? drwxrwxrwt ? Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.c

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: > >> > >> root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > >> // Recommends are as of now still abused in many packages >

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> > Tom H wrote: >> >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> What is a SIG? >> >> >> >> It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group. >> >> >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs >> > >> > Sorry. Term preda

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: >> >> root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf >> // Recommends are as of now still abused in many packages > > If you know of any packages where this is occuring, then

Re: how to restore grub boot manager

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:26:15 +0800 Long Wind > napísal: >> >> I don't have a Debian CD now >> (so I can't rescue) > > This can be done with mostly all of Linux live CDs ;-) d-i has a rescue mode that even has an option to re-install the boot load

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 05:47:57AM -0500, tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: > Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple > script that will run periodically (through cron). > i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: > -convert them to mp3 > -de

amavis-clamav fails

2012-12-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running postfix/amavis/clamav on my mail server; of late (last week or two) I'm seeing error messages in syslog: Dec 27 13:52:43 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) ESMTP::10024 /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20121227T130337-18681: -> SIZE=5530 Received: from vanderhoff.org ([127.0.0.1]) by lo

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.12.2012 11:47, tsit...@linuxmail.org a écrit : Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple script that will run periodically (through cron). i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: -convert them to mp3 -delete the wav files that h

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/12/27 > Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple > script that will run periodically (through cron). > i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: > -convert them to mp3 > -delete the wav files that have been converted to mp3 > -compress

bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread tsitras
Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple script that will run periodically (through cron). i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: -convert them to mp3 -delete the wav files that have been converted to mp3 -compress the files and move

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: > Is there any way to clean the apt cache for the packages that I am not > currently using? > > I tried using this config > root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Clean-Installed "0"; > // auto-remove breaks on meta pa

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:27 PM, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: > I recently moved from Arch Linux to Debian Wheezy. > Is there any way to clean the apt cache for the packages that I am not > currently using? > > I tried using this config > root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Clean-Inst