Setting max open files inside a chroot

2010-09-17 Thread Alok G. Singh
This question was posted on Serverfault.com[1] by me but I did not get any responses. Any help appreciated. I have setup the limits in the host (the chroot being the guest) via /etc/security/limits.conf and that works just fine: $ ulimit -n 65535 However, inside the chroot it is still the old va

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Alok G. Singh
If you care about power, you'd probably be better off with a low-power CPU model (X61s, for example). The X200 and X300 have an option for SSD which will save some more power. I've been using my X61s with sid for the past 2 years and haven't had a problem. Everything works, with free software (exc

Re: [OT] iceweasel vs. Firefox

2010-03-21 Thread Alok G. Singh
Apparently it is no longer an issue[1]. Footnotes: [1] http://glandium.org/blog/?p=933 -- Alok The Phone Booth Rule: A lone dime always gets the number nearly right. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Interrupting a hibernate

2010-03-18 Thread Alok G. Singh
Micha wrote: > Try escape, works with tux on ice,maybe others as well Doesn't seem to do anything here. -- Alok Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Interrupting a hibernate

2010-03-17 Thread Alok G. Singh
When I was using uswsusp, hitting Backspace would interrupt the suspend. Now I just use pm-utils and there appears to be no way of cancelling a suspend once initiated. Is there a way ? -- Alok And Bruce is effectively building BruceIX -- Alan Cox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Oracle on (current) Debian Sid

2010-03-15 Thread Alok G. Singh
I did write up[1] what I did to install 10g on Lenny a couple of months ago. Everything had to be done by hand, but it was simple enough. There's a togaware page linked from the wiki page which was invaluable for external setup (kernel params, etc). Footnotes: [1] http://trac.klp.org.in/wiki/Ora

Re: Log Summariser

2010-03-15 Thread Alok G. Singh
logwatch is fine for some, but you might also want to take a gander at logcheck. It has user defined rules to ignore known issues so that familiarity does not breed contempt. -- Alok A kiss is a course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are

resume - suspend cycle on 2.6.30-2

2009-10-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
On my X61s, since I upgraded to the latest kernel in sid, the system immediately suspends on resuming. Booting with the older 2.6.30-1 fixes the problem. Are the hacks in acpi-support still necessary for s2disk or is there a cleaner way to do suspend now ? -- Alok If time heals all wounds, how

dh-make-perl and dependencies

2009-05-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
I've been trying to package some modules $ dh-make-perl --cpan Template::Latex --dh 7 --requiredeps [...] Needs the following debian packages: libtemplate-perl $ dpkg -l libtemplate-perl ii libtemplate-pe 2.19-1.1lenny1 template processing system written in perl How do I make dh-make-perl see t

Re: Thinkpad X61s hotkeys

2009-05-08 Thread Alok G. Singh
Andrei Popescu wrote: > | XKBMODEL="thinkpad60" Nope. This made no discernable difference. -- Alok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Thinkpad X61s hotkeys

2009-05-07 Thread Alok G. Singh
Ever since upgrading to the new hal/X.org in sid, I have lost the hotkeys which did work earlier. Now, there are no symbols for many of the hotkeys like "Switch display", "Eject", etc. but the two keys that I care about (sleep and suspend) do have symbols. When I press them, this is what I see in

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-19 Thread Alok G. Singh
Thanks for all the helpful links and advice. I finally just made the router relay DHCP requests and setup a dhcp3 server which allows me to do everything. -- Alok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
Eric Gerlach wrote: >> I don't think there is, strictly speaking, a difference. But, a DHCP >> client on a booted system will just ignore all the netboot >> information in the response. So, generally you just run one DHCP >> server that gives everyone the netboot information and there's little >

PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs around. The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

2008-03-13 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 13 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I think that Debian might be a better try now since the standard > graphics driver is already so good. The nv driver does no 3D acceleration. You could try nouveau [1] which has excellent 2D acceleration and limited 3D acceleration. Footnotes: [1]

Re: Intel Graphics Drivers

2008-02-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 29 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from > www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some > problems. You do know that they are already packaged for Debian, right ? xserver-xorg-video-intel is the package. You probably need t

Re: Firefox error - SSL_ImplementedCiphers

2008-01-23 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 23 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has > different size in shared object, consider re-linking See bug #459356 [1] Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/459356 -- Alok E Pluribus Unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Adding a new style file to auctex

2008-01-02 Thread Alok G. Singh
I have been trying to install the qcm class [1] to typeset question papers. I have added qcm.el to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/Makefile.in and ran update-auctex-elisp and qcm.elc was written to /var/lib/auctex. However, I am unable to use the features of qcm.el. Is there any additional setu

Re: beryl/compiz

2007-11-09 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 10 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the debian.beryl-project repository still in working order? The official position is described at http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/Compiz -- Alok "...if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a bette

Suspicious PAM messages

2007-07-25 Thread Alok G. Singh
Hello, Of late (a week or so) I have started noticing some strange syslog messages: su: PAM [dlerror: libselinux.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]: 2 Time(s) su: PAM [dlerror: libsepol.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]:

Re: Airtel won't working on LAN

2007-06-06 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 5 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > while i go through in both modems the Airtel has firewall enabled > but in VSNL the firewall is disabled. > > is it the cause ? how to disable it ? or else what will be the > problem? Not really the best forum to ask, but you could ask Airtel themselves

Re: Debian package for Emacs XFT

2007-05-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 5 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can find packages of Emacs with XFT for Ubuntu everywhere, but > none for Debian Etch. Did anybody packaged Emacs+XFT for Debian > Etch? where can I get those packages? Thanks. twb has a script to build the debs [1]. I have some debs for i386 and amd6

Re: latex to html

2007-04-23 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 24 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using latex2html to convert files from latex to html, but > latex2html seems not maintened, I have used hevea with mixed results. By and large, I've had better luck with it than with latex2html. This is also on the CTAN FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cg

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 11 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel >> to produce an accented char. How do I achieve this? You can do that with a 'Compose' key. Here [1] is a guide for GNOME/GTK+. You can do the same thing with xmodmap as well. I suppose

Re: raggle and iceweasel

2007-04-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 5 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 'browser_cmd' => ['iceweasel', '%s'], Try 'browser_cmd' => [ 'iceweasel', '-a iceweasel -remote \'openURL(%s, new-tab)\'" ] That's the command line to open a new tab in an existing window. -- Alok "Why waste negative entropy on comments

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-27 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 27 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone set up a repository with unofficial Firefox packages, for > until whatever is going on is done? If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. -- Alok You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin

Re: Degraded i810/i915 Rendering Performance After Xorg 7 Upgrade

2006-09-21 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 20 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, rendering performance seems to have degraded somewhat. Is there anything relevant in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Alok Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu