Re: Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

2012-09-21 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 21/09/2012 13:10, Michelle Konzack a écrit : Hello, I use currently on my PanelPC "xvkbd" which is the last crap on earth and the design is for the ass. Hi, you can try kvkbd (KDE) - not sure if it's any better. There probably is a GNOME alternative, too, I suppose. Regards, David.

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 11/09/2012 12:36, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:01:13AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Le 11/09/2012 04:23, Weaver a écrit : I get the point. It's just not an accurate or germaine one...because you quoted out of context. it's "germane&

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread David Cho-Lerat
isory, of this nature, as I have already said, would be the first step that supplies that revelatory "Ah Hah!" moment that encourages exploration. Not one that inhibits access to knowledge. Regards, Weaver -- David Cho-Lerat Mobile : +33 623 057 174 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread David Cho-Lerat
For more than a decade now you need a working computer to install an operating system on another one so that you can acquire information and additional software as needed. Why isn't that included in the installer? Just boot from the installation media and be presented with a working system and a

Re: how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

2012-09-06 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 05/09/2012 19:29, Camaleón a écrit : On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:21:59 +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn" + "Up"

Re: how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

2012-09-06 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 04/09/2012 17:49, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:21:59AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Hi list, I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn&quo

Re: how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

2012-09-04 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 04/09/2012 11:34, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 11:21 +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Hi list, I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn" + "U

how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

2012-09-04 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi list, I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn" + "Up"/"Down" to set the screen contrast level. On the others, though, they don't (in addition, on the Toshiba the "mute" key doesn't

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-23 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi Bob, It sounds like you are trying to use a package installation in order to do system configuration. basically, to set up the software and all the system configuration around it, yes. That can work. It seems seductive. I used to do it that way too. But after having done it that way I no

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 22/08/2012 15:42, Roger Leigh a écrit : On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:54:44PM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: 3. add/edit some MySQL tables without knowing the MySQL root password I've fooled around with Expect for 1. and 2., and tried mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables for 3., but I feel

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi David, Hi Denis you can create the user as shown in the exim example. The Admins can login with their normal users (or as root) and can "su" to the user: su - yourusername --shell=/bin/bash see, that's the thing : the Admins of the application set up by this package don't have an accoun

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi Karl, thanks for your answers Pre-inst? It is quite uncommon do need to do much in the PRE-installation script. Most things end up in the post-installation scripts - e.g. many of the existing packages which create users do so in their post-installation scripts. yes I suppose what is done

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Thanks a lot for your answers. I know this looks ugly, but don't worry it's not really meant for Debian, I'm working on our of our company's packages ;) that doesn't sound like a great idea. What are you doing? well actually the package will install some software that has to be run by a s

help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi all, I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are described. How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts, for instance : 1. create a user *and* set their password 2. ssh-keygen with no user input ("Enter

[SOLVED] df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
a restart of the ProFTPD daemon reduced the amount of used space on /var from 90% to 34%. Phew ! Thanks all for your help, this is one command I'll definitely use again : lsof | grep "deleted" Le 22/08/2012 10:13, David Cho-Lerat a écrit : Google returns: http://superuse

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
I will also mention the GNU faq entry for it. Perhaps then it will rank higher in the search engine space. :-) http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#df-and-du-report-different-information thanks, I will send this link to the sysadmin. When I want to free up disk space used in

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
tune2fs -l /dev/md0 | grep "Reserved block count" Sorry, I forgot to mention that the result will be in Blocks. You can get the block size (in Bytes) with: tune2fs -l /dev/md0 | grep "Block size" Bye. cool. So : server:~# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/vg00-var | grep "Reserved block count" Res

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-22 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Google returns: http://superuser.com/questions/289678/du-vs-df-output oops, should have had a look :P this pointed me to : server:~# lsof | grep "/var" | grep "deleted" smbd 2926 root2w REG 254,1 2665 65406 /var/log/samba/log.smbd.1 (deleted) smbd

Re: df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-21 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi Karl, thanks for the prompt answer. FYI: I always use the "-x" flag on du too, as this will not recurse down other mounted file systems - e.g. if you have /var/cache on a separate logical volume. that's good to know. This doesn't change anything in this case, though : server:~# du -h -s

df and du don't seem to agree ?

2012-08-21 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi list, this might be a newbie question, but can anyone tell me why "du" and "df" don't seem to agree : server:~# df -h /var FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-var 5.0G 4.1G 624M 87% /var server:~# du -h -s /var 1.6G/var ("/var" is on a partition of