Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

The apt-cd package may help here. Also when searching for tutorials I find it useful to append "tutorial OR howto" to google searches for problems like this. The howtos get you into another probably useful category. On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Nov 201

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Tazman Deville wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:34:37AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> [...] >> The first thing that I check when I get disk full errors but the disks >> are not full is the permissions. And the second thing should be the inodes, but I wasn't thinki

Re(3ish): USB adapter for SD card.

* From: Cindy-Sue Causey ordered one of these. For the extra 41 cents, it has an activity light. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/231081576986 When this second one arrives, I can compare the read and write speeds. Thanks to everyone who replied, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 1234567

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(64-bit) linux 3.10 and nouveau oddity

Due to GPF problems I've been having with wheezy's linux 3.2, I decided to try testing's 3.10 kernel (only installed the newer initramfs and 3.10 pkgs). Yesterday it ran fine all day, even built my firewall system without a lick of the troubles I've been having with 3.2. (So the GPF problem migh

Re: rkhunter warning meaning

On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:12:38 +0100 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I have some warnings from rkhunter: > > > Warning: The file properties have changed: > File: /usr/sbin/rsyslogd > Current hash: 99fd3e8be4e7b9f553d52f6837eef50ebcebadc8 > Stored hash : 2acece0875

screen ping-pong

Hello, Looking for some pointers for a longstanding intermittent issue (first seen early this summer). Basic setup info: - Dell Lattitude E6400 (Intel x4500 video) connected to an external display, using DisplayPort at both ends - Up-to-date Wheezy, with some packages from Backports, includin

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:28:24 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:55:10 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> > >> To borrow from the hardware world, man pages would correspond to > >> Product Specification. What I'm looking for would correspond more > >> with a

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:54:19PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > The binary size effects the initial load-up time which, for small > numbers of files/short execution times, may be the lions share of > the total execution time. However as you point out, for orders of > magnitute like 500,000; it'

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 07:15:19PM +0400, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:29:10PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0400, Reco wrote: > > > find . -type f -name 'popularity-*' -print0 | xargs -0rn 20 rm -f > > > > I idly wonder (don't know) to what ext

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On 11/05/2013 05:33 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:25:13PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0400, Reco wrote: perl -e 'for(){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}' >> >> I have two questions. Why < before unlink and why stat[9] there? > > You have to p

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

Hi. On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:25:13PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0400, Reco wrote: > >> perl -e 'for(){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}' > > I have two questions. Why < before unlink and why stat[9] there? You have to pass unlink something to delete. Stat is called

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:29:10PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0400, Reco wrote: > > find . -type f -name 'popularity-*' -print0 | xargs -0rn 20 rm -f > > I idly wonder (don't know) to what extend find might parallelize the > unlinks with -delete. A cursory

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:18:42AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: > > > > >On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) > > >Itay wrote: > > > > > >>On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: > > > > >[...] Is there anything suspicious in the ro

Re: free-software phone: neo900

ken wrote at 2013-11-05 04:53 -0600: > Is there a microphone? The N900 is a phone and has a microphone. The neo900, also, is a phone and has a microphone. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:10:31PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > As simple Debian users, we indeed do not mind about portability > stuff. But for Debian's maintainers, using systemd as default means > that they'll have to maintain other systems for Debian Hurd and > Debian KFreeBSD.

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0400, Reco wrote: > find . -type f -name 'popularity-*' -print0 | xargs -0rn 20 rm -f I idly wonder (don't know) to what extend find might parallelize the unlinks with -delete. A cursory scan of the semantics would suggest it could potentially do so: it's not cl

Re: rkhunter warning meaning

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:12:38PM +0100, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I have some warnings from rkhunter: > > > Warning: The file properties have changed: Properties of the file have changed. In other words, not just the file has changed, but information about the file has changed. >

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0400, Reco wrote: >> perl -e 'for(){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}' I have two questions. Why < before unlink and why stat[9] there? stat[9] is mtime. Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

rkhunter warning meaning

Bonjour, I have some warnings from rkhunter: Warning: The file properties have changed: File: /usr/sbin/rsyslogd Current hash: 99fd3e8be4e7b9f553d52f6837eef50ebcebadc8 Stored hash : 2acece0875f8c6156c1f05df71e8c83c91dea2d0 Current inode: 523303Stored inode

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0400, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:41:58AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:28:16AM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > > > find . -name 'popularity-*' | xargs rm -rf > > > > Sorry, opportunity for a bit of golf. Find

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:41:58AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:28:16AM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > > find . -name 'popularity-*' | xargs rm -rf > > Sorry, opportunity for a bit of golf. Find has a built-in for deleting > files: > > > find . -type f -name 'popula

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:52:52AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 11/5/2013 1:21 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 05/11/13 16:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root > >> filesystem that has run out of inodes. You need to ask yourself why you

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

Le 04.11.2013 17:44, Conrad Nelson a écrit : LXDE, on the other hand, would be a better choice for a UNIX philosophy fan (better, not perfect, since UNIX philosophy imply that softwares discuss between them by text only, which can not really be easily done when you come to GUIs. I think that r

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

Joe wrote: On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:55:10 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: To borrow from the hardware world, man pages would correspond to Product Specification. What I'm looking for would correspond more with an Application Note. I think the magic word you want is 'tutorial'. You probably also

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 02:41:01PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > But if you are concerned about writes to sdb > then I would simply plan to boot from the debian-installer image in > rescue mode, assemble the raid, sync, then replace sdb, and repeat. > You can always install grub to the boot sectors af

Re: USB adapter for SD card.

On 9/5/13, Doug wrote: > On 09/04/2013 11:54 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 9/4/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: >>> >>> Yeah. It looks like the card reader is recognized, and the fact that >>> the cards are in it, but it looks like the capacity of both cards is >>> too big for the reader to deal with

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm having problems with two specific man pages at the moment - gunzip and dpkg-scanpackages. When using gunzip I got an unexpected result. The result of "gunzip myfile.gz" was a single file named "myfile". What I expected/des

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

Hi. On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:41:58AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:28:16AM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > > find . -name 'popularity-*' | xargs rm -rf > > Sorry, opportunity for a bit of golf. Find has a built-in for deleting > files: > > > find . -type f -name 'p

Re: free-software phone: neo900

On 05/11/13 10:53, ken wrote: > On 11/04/2013 08:54 PM green wrote: >> Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at >> , is intended to be a successor of the Nokia N900, >> with significantly improved specifications and features, as well as >> full free sof

Re: free-software phone: neo900

On 11/04/2013 08:54 PM green wrote: Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at , is intended to be a successor of the Nokia N900, with significantly improved specifications and features, as well as full free software support (excluding PowerVR 3D accele

Wine on Wheezy

Hello, I use Debian Wheezy (|Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux) and have try different Wine Versions (1.4.4 and 1.5.5) but allways there is the same error: ||p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-

Re: Bash Scripting Question

On 11/4/13, Thomas H. George wrote: > The script I am trying to write executes a program that requires a > keyboard response. I have experimented with redirecting STDIN but haven't > found the > correct way to make the response. To read a value (perhaps half your "problem"): apt-cache show ... z

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:16:39PM +, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > Decisions like changing such an essential part of OS should not be made > > in rush. > > It's not being done in a rush. This has been discussed at length on > debian-devel a numbe

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:28:16AM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > find . -name 'popularity-*' | xargs rm -rf Sorry, opportunity for a bit of golf. Find has a built-in for deleting files: > find . -type f -name 'popularity-*' -delete I'd also be rather wary of invoking rm -rf with the results of

Wine on Wheezy -- cant find gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so

Hello, I use Debian Wheezy (|Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux) and have try different Wine Versions (1.4.4 and 1.5.5) but allways there is the same error: ||p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On 11/5/2013 1:21 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 05/11/13 16:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root >> filesystem that has run out of inodes. You need to ask yourself why you >> have 1.7M files in your rootfs. That's very dumb. > > Or perhaps

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On 11/4/2013 10:28 PM, Tazman Deville wrote: ... > Got it! > find . -name 'popularity-*' | xargs rm -rf > (passes the files to rm one at a time). Glad you got it squared away Anthony. Normally I'd suggest filing a bug report against the problem application, but since the system is Squeeze it's pr