make X11 screen agnostic for media center on receiver

2024-11-24 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi all, tl;dr: how do I set a fixed resolution on X/XFCE and make debian not care what's on the display end? Full story: I'd like to run Kodi media center or similar on a debian 11 machine that's connected to my receiver via hdmi. The machine is an intel N100 and provides graphics, too. When

shim / MS updates

2024-08-18 Thread Dexter Filmore
Recent Windows updates caused certain bootloaders to make the blacklist, I just had an argument that went like: why wasn't there a shim update when MS announced this in April? And then someone kept insisting that when the Secure Boot feature was designed Linux distributors did not name an authorit

caps on jessie breaks kodi from backports, works with wheezy package

2016-04-05 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi all, recently upgraded my media center/file server from wheezy to jessie, went quite well apart from one thing: I installed kodi 15.2 from jessie-backports and that (as well as other programs depending on caps) throw an error "Unable to find label "Eq" in plugin library file "/usr/lib/ladsp

missing bits of graphicsmagick-dev in Jessie?

2015-11-22 Thread Dexter Muir
I've been trying to build a fresh version of xastir (Ham Radio APRS) in Raspbian Jessie and in Kubuntu 15.10, (both Debian derivatives), with near-identical failures. I'm using a CVS script that uses apt-get to install all dependencies and source, then configures, builds and installs xastir.

recompile 3rd party modules before reboot?

2014-03-06 Thread Dexter Filmore
I use deb7 as a media center base (DVB-S2-PVR with TVheadend and xbmc), but the DVB-S2 module (Technotrend TT-connect S2-3600) needs the tvlinux modules in order to not have the kernel scream and die when talked to. Now, each time the kernel gets an upgrade I: -disable tvheadend -reboot -recompl

Re: custom HDD powermangement not working anymore - addendum

2013-08-20 Thread Dexter Filmore
Forgot: the pwrwatch script is called from cron every 15 minutes. Am Tuesday 20 August 2013 22:29:38 schrieb Dexter Filmore: > Hi, > > I wasn't too happy with the HDD power mangement so I wrote the script below > tailored to my needs. Basically, it looks for activity on the devi

custom HDD powermangement not working anymore

2013-08-20 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi, I wasn't too happy with the HDD power mangement so I wrote the script below tailored to my needs. Basically, it looks for activity on the device and if there was none over the past 10 minutes it sends the disks to sleep. Now - this worked a charm ever since I wrote it, now recently I notic

suddenly: shutdown!

2013-06-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
So today I when looking at the logs for something else I noticed this: (PWRWATCH is my own disk array power management, only sends disks to standby) Jun 25 06:51:13 xerxes kernel: [359176.119126] Jun 25 06:51:33 xerxes kernel: [359196.088136] pctv452e: pctv452e_power_ctrl: 1 Jun 25 06:51:33 xerxe

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-15 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 23:54:28 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: > >>> You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even > >>> with > &

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: > > > > You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even > > with > > 15krpm SAS drives. the RAID1 will never be faster than a single disk. > > How > > would it. > > It can read faster than a single disk by combining read

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 17:21:35 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > exactly, i am using RAID 1 with mdadm and not more then 230 or 300MB > throughput. and the people are harnessing 4GB so this is the point where i > am confused You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sunday 02 December 2012 17:29:06 schrieb Claudius Hubig: > Hello Dexter, > > please don’t CC me as I am subscribed to the list (unless you want > your mails to end up in /dev/null). It’d also be helpful if you > refrained from top-posting and learnt how to quote properly. To

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Yes, indeed, that's what triggered it. I checked as root on crontab -l and that did not show anything. Am Sunday 02 December 2012 16:09:24 schrieb Claudius Hubig: > Hello Dexter, > > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Dec 2 00:57:01 xerxes kernel: [4939561.868562] md: data-check o

hard reset sata link when scrubbing array

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi, when scrubbing an md array yesterday (do not know who triggered that yet but that's something I hope to cover in another thread...) I got lots of these: Dec 2 01:38:45 xerxes kernel: [4942064.241510] ata6: hard resetting link Dec 2 01:38:45 xerxes kernel: [4942064.731991] ata6: SATA link u

who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi all, so I detected lots of activity on my raid array. Looking into the logs I find this in messages: Dec 2 00:57:01 xerxes kernel: [4939561.868562] md: data-check of RAID array md0 Well - who triggered it? there's no cron job that inits a check, I did not re-add any disks... does the md k

Etron EJ168 USB3 controller: wheezy?

2011-12-28 Thread Dexter Filmore
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3, H67 (B3) lists: 03:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b6f:7023 (rev 01) Current 2.6.39 on wheezy: no go, attached devices are not recognized. Cannot find info if more recent kernel improve situation. Where can I read up if support has been incorporated? Read on t

java6update15 - how, where,..?

2009-09-18 Thread Dexter Filmore
I need java6update15 or later (if there be) on a lenny machine. Now, 6-12 is in lenny and no later in backports. ideas? -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+>++ L+++> E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+

Re: Weird startup problem with 2.6.26-2-686 in lenny - EDD

2009-08-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 16. August 2009 18:00:38 schrieb Thomas Hochstein: > Dexter Filmore schrieb: > > (And what's EDD? I had to put edd=off to the lenny kernel else they > > borked one step later) > > "Enhanced Disk Drive" > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En

Weird startup problem with 2.6.26-2-686 in lenny

2009-08-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
Just upgraded my server from etch to lenny, all fine so far. But: 2.6.26-2-686 bootet ok about 10 times, then all of a sudden the system stops after this point: http://www.vaultofsages.de/~dexterf/pub/boot.jpg Funny thing is: 2.6.26-1-686 still works fine. I even purges the -2 package and reins

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out - old matrox?

2009-02-27 Thread Dexter Filmore
From what I remember old matrox cards are supposed to work fine, plus you can even build a vga-to-scart connector, instructions floating in the web. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+>++ L+++> E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++

flash stick health?

2009-02-26 Thread Dexter Filmore
Noticed that konq slows down writing to a flash memstick lately (memory stick pro duo, precisely). It's only a couple of weeks old and doesn't get written to a lot. So - how do I check its health? -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+>++ L+++> E-

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 20:02:33 schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 09:02:03 schrieb Raj Kiran Grandhi: > >> Whatever is wrong with good old 'cp'? You can just add a redirect to > >> /dev/null if th

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 09:02:03 schrieb Raj Kiran Grandhi: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: > > > > users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 > > > > Now "silent" is supposed to suppress wa

NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-18 Thread Dexter Filmore
I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 Now "silent" is supposed to suppress warnings on chmod/chown errors, each time a copy operation is completed I get "couldn't change permissions on XY" I need to copy a pretty big range of file

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Dexter Filmore
snip > That doesn't quite work out: > > mount /cdrom > /Fri Oct 17-06:14:44HDC5# md5sum /cdrom > md5sum: /cdrom: Is a directory Isn't /cdrom a symlink to /dev/cdrom...? Maybe give it the real device path rahther. Dex -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-27 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Freitag, 19. September 2008 16:24:32 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Fri,19.Sep.08, 16:17:11, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Extra paranoia: forward a different port than 22, lets say (inet) to > > 22 (lan/vm) and conf the client script to connect to that port. reduces > > po

Re: Grub overkill

2008-09-27 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 04:30:55 schrieb Amit Uttamchandani: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:52:46 -0400 > > John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is more of an annoyance than a serious problem but whenever I > > build a Debian or Debian-derivative OS and grub detects other OS it > >

japanese input?

2008-09-23 Thread Dexter Filmore
etch or lenny, doesn't matter, any will do. Need japanese input on both gtk2 and qt apps. Possibly mouse input, i.e. draw signs -> the get instant-ocr'ed. What are my options here? Dex -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+>++ L+++> E-- W++ N o? K

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2008 20:03:08 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Wed,10.Sep.08, 19:50:04, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > I use a virtual machine for support and have my router forward ssh there. > > Something simple with fluxbox or even no X at all, should fit a 32MB VM > >

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Montag, 8. September 2008 23:48:21 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > Hi, > > Recently my mother (running Lenny) switched ISPs and is now behind a > NAT, which makes direct ssh access impossible. A reverse ssh tunnel can > solve this, but having her type a passphrase every time is hmm... > unrealistic. >

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues - etc

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Montag, 25. August 2008 20:28:54 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Mon,25.Aug.08, 19:40:39, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > [...] > > > > You have to check it's docs. > > > > Nope, only has a DNS forward service so you can point it at a DNS of your > > choice.

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues - part of the mytery solved

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Montag, 25. August 2008 18:45:04 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Mon,25.Aug.08, 18:06:20, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Ok, partly cleared: m0n0wall doesn't list machines in leases that have > > fixed IPs assigned. The other box recently got a new NIC and the MAC > > filte

Re: Copied debian etch system assigns eth2 to only Ethernet adapter - thanks

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
> just delete all ethx lines and then on reboot eth0 should be eth0 again... > > HTH > > PS. I had a similar issue recently also with VMWare and this solved it ;) Had this here, too, boggling my mind - thanks :) -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+>

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues - part of the mytery solved

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Ok, partly cleared: m0n0wall doesn't list machines in leases that have fixed IPs assigned. The other box recently got a new NIC and the MAC filter didn't match it hence it got an ordinary dhcp lease and appeared in the list. Why m0n0wall does this is beyond me. Anyway - still haven't figured why

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues.

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 24. August 2008 20:26:39 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Sun,24.Aug.08, 18:17:09, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > And: why doesn't xerxes appear in the leases list? Am I missing > > something? wrong config option in.. well, where? > > Compare /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues.

2008-08-24 Thread Dexter Filmore
Got a etch r4 box (xerxes) and a m0n0wall firewall/router. Another box (shodan) used to run etch r4, too, now is on Kubuntu/etch dual boot. From Kubuntu I can't ping xerxes by name, unknown host. I can ping shodan from xerxes tho. In m0n0walls interface in dhcp leases xerxes doesn't appear. sho

nvidia 173 or 177 for etch?

2008-08-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Does anyone know of precompiled debs of nvidia-glx 173 or 177beta for etch? The installer just won't work, and I have the impression that 1.0-wxyz is terribly old. Pointers for running the installer appreciated as well. exported IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=true, ran it, threw errors like

gtk themes not applied when launching gtk apps from kmenu or kicker

2008-06-28 Thread Dexter Filmore
Funny issue here: when I launch gtk apps like Gimp, Sonata, gThumb from KMenu, kicker quick launcher or "run command" the gtk theme is not applied. When I run from a terminal, all fine. Created a new user account, fired up a kde session - all fine there, too. Any idea how come? Dex -- -BEGI

Re: getting a RealTek 8197 to work

2008-06-23 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2008 14:51:10 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 16:24:27 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Toshiba Satellite laptop, integrated rtl8197. Got a patched 8187b driver > > from the aircrack people but can't make it go WPA, only sees WEP. > &g

getting a RealTek 8197 to work

2008-06-21 Thread Dexter Filmore
Toshiba Satellite laptop, integrated rtl8197. Got a patched 8187b driver from the aircrack people but can't make it go WPA, only sees WEP. Anyone know how to make this one fly? If not: ExpressCard 54 slot present, can someone recommend a good wifi card for that that works out of the box? (2.6.22

Re: script makes kernel panic - thanks

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 22:42:45 schrieb Cameron Hutchison: > Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Got a laptop here (Samsung X22), WinXP Pro and data partition in > > /dev/sda[23]. Wrote this script to backup both partitions 1:1 to an > > external USB di

script makes kernel panic

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Got a laptop here (Samsung X22), WinXP Pro and data partition in /dev/sda[23]. Wrote this script to backup both partitions 1:1 to an external USB disk. Teh script itself works absolutely as intended. BUT: I added an entry to GRUB's menu.lst like that: title Windows XP Backup root

Re: kernel tells me stuff on tty1 - want it on tty 8 or 10. how?

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 18:15:45 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:40:12PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Encountered an oddity on a headless machine with etch r3: > > > > When the system is booted, kernel messages are put on tty1. > > They ac

kernel tells me stuff on tty1 - want it on tty 8 or 10. how?

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Encountered an oddity on a headless machine with etch r3: When the system is booted, kernel messages are put on tty1. Since this is the terminal I login to after it's booted this is highly annoying since my screen is garbled when I run scripts and the kernel messages me about... mounted disks o

smartctl: power on hours on a samsung disk

2008-05-30 Thread Dexter Filmore
Does anyone know how to read the smartctl value on a Samsung SP 1604N 160GB pATA disk? I always get 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 098 000Old_age Always - 1325263 and I'm pretty sure the disk didn't run for 150 years yet. Tried -F samsung{,2} with smartmontools

Re: no flash in opera after upgrade - someone got an "old" version?

2008-05-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
> > Yeah, it's a problem with Opera 9.27 and Adobe's latest Flash, which > won't be resolved in the 9.2 versions of Opera. You'll have to do what > I ended up doing, and move onto the betas of 9.5. Opera 9.5b2 is quite > good and stable for me, and Flash works with it, too. snip Thanks for the in

no flash in opera after upgrade

2008-05-15 Thread Dexter Filmore
Today I preferenced etch-backports and did a huge upgrade, so far all fine but one thing: Opera 9.27 won't play flash anymore. Iceweasel does, so th eplugin seems fine. Pathes and all appear correct to me. Ran strace on Opera and searched the output for open calls on flash, but nothing. Ideas?

Re: software raid5 array degrades from initrd

2008-05-04 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 22:47:07 schrieb Alex Samad: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:45:04PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > So here's the story: > > [snip] > > > Now: what's going on here? both onboard 3114 and pci 3114 controllers are > > handled by the s

Re: software raid5 array degrades from initrd

2008-05-04 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 4. Mai 2008 14:49:19 schrieb martin f krafft: > also sprach Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.03.1723 +0100]: > > initrd has its own log...? > > No, it just prints to the console. > > I suggest you add break=bottom to the kernel command

software raid5 array degrades from initrd

2008-05-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
So here's the story: Software raid5 on debian etch with 2.6.22 kernel from backports. Hardware: Asus K8N-E Deluxe, nForce3/250Gb chipset. Has: 2 sATA ports from the nF3 (sata_nv) 4 sATA ports from an onboard Silicon Image 3114 (sata_sil) 4 sATA ports from an PCI controller, Silicon Image 3114,

faubackup filling disc

2006-06-15 Thread Dexter
s of files anymore, but copies them again. Do you have idea? Thanks a lot Dexter <https://vishnu:1/cron/edit_cron.cgi?idx=10> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/rc5.d managed by webmin

2006-06-11 Thread Dexter
liable for administration at all? Thanks Dexter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsync --delete

2006-06-09 Thread Dexter
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: >On Wednesday 07 June 2006 23:51, Dexter wrote: > > >>Hi, >>i use "rsync -rlptgov --delete /mnt/server/dir/ /var/share/server/dir" >>comand to sinchronize directory on backup server with primary server. I >>use --delete option,

rsync --delete

2006-06-08 Thread Dexter
. Acording to manual, rsync should not delete any files if there are any I/O errors, to prevent masive deletion. But masive (whole tree) deletion happened to me, when SRC directory was not mounted and directory "/mnt/server/dir/" was empty. Do you know some way to evoid this to happen? Than

OpenVPN hardware requirements

2006-05-26 Thread Dexter
erver). What do you thing? What hardware do we need? Thanks alot. Dexter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba domain controller suggestions

2006-05-12 Thread Dexter
tool - samba gui - webmin Works fine. Dexter Rodney Richison wrote: > Would like suggestions on setting up a "preferably debian" domain > controller. In particular, good tools, gui's, to manage it. > > Or should I look at something differant like sme server? &g

Re: problem to run faubackup from cron

2006-04-24 Thread Dexter
Florian Kulzer wrote: >On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:01:11 +0200, Dexter wrote: > > >>Hi, >>i have installed program "faubackup". It is running fine. I have >>created cron job: >>faubackup -vL source_dir destination_dir >>This command is running

problem to run faubackup from cron

2006-04-24 Thread Dexter
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GC85 PCMCIA modem

2006-04-06 Thread Dexter
with setserial? Please read the FAQ at http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?WvDial If you still have problems, send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. # Thanks Dexter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PATH issues

2006-03-17 Thread Dexter
maybe you can try to make symbolic link of directory with java to directory, where it should be On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 10:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Davis wrote: > Hello. > > I have a problem with the PATH. I'm fairly familiar with the > tradional linux / unix roles for the various start up scri

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Dexter
I think, you define default printer in system. Then it is default for every program. Dexter On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 23:19 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running cups under sarge. I can print from firefox, but > the print window shows five printers, two are attached to a > Mac in

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-23 Thread Dexter
try command "nmap ip_address" On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 00:12 +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:49 -0500 > Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > > > My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those

Re: help: logcheck reboots my ubuntu gracefully but randomly

2006-02-22 Thread Dexter
Is it hard restart (like with restart buttom), or soft (like with reboot command)? If it is hard restart, than it is propably something with hardware. (procesor overhit, memory slover than bus...) Dexter On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 23:10 -0600, MC Moisei wrote: > Hi all, > > Since I thi

Re: Unable to print from mozilla-firefox only

2006-02-19 Thread Dexter
was printed. Solution: -remove packages for LPR -install packages cupsys... and also package cupsys-bsd. Later is needed for, that cupsys understand and accepts also commands for LPR (that is why you have to remove LPR) Dexter On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 23:50 -0600, Jason M Cox wrote: > This is

Re: Routing, Bridging and VPN

2006-02-18 Thread Dexter
- no need 2x tcp). dev tun0 will create interface tun0, that you use in shorewall configuration. So that`s it. OpenVPN and Shorewall works fine for me. Easy to configure. Maybe I forgot something, bether check documentation also. Enjoy Dexter On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 21:10 +0100, Michael Przys

Re: Routing, Bridging and VPN

2006-02-17 Thread Dexter
and even easer to change configuration if you need later (open some port, redirect port...). See: http://openvpn.net/howto.html http://www.shorewall.net/ Dexter On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 17:57 +0100, Michael Przysucha wrote: > Hello, > I want to set up a Bridge/Router which shall include

Re: installing packages from testing in sarge

2006-02-12 Thread Dexter
. Dexter On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 19:52 -0500, Martin Paraskevov wrote: > Hello, > > I am a newcomer to the list and have the following question to ask. I > have recently installed debian sarge (the stable distribution) but > when I search for mozilla-firefox with: > > apt-cache

Re: possible to set nolisten on dhclient

2006-02-07 Thread Dexter
if you look into file /etc/services, you will see: bootpc 68/tcp # BOOTP client bootpc 68/udp I don`t thing, you need to run bootpc client to use dhcp. So just switch it of. Dexter On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 16:13 -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: > He

Re: Strange behaviour with gigabit ethernet

2006-01-30 Thread Dexter
eed, than you should have copied 1 000 000 000 b * 360 s =360 000 000 000 b= 45 000 000 000 B= 45 GB. If it was just 100M speed, than you have copied just 4,5GB. Dexter On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 12:21 +, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Hi List! > > I recently upgraded my home network to gigabit ethe

Re: permissions - is this the best approach?

2006-01-19 Thread Dexter
In principe, it`s correct. Write permission and stiky bit on folder make, that everybody can create file in this directory, but only owner of the file can delete it. On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 01:38 -0500, Chinook wrote: > I've set up a Linux and Mac zeroconf (netatalk) LAN. On the Linux box > (Debi

lpr: lp: unknown printer

2006-01-12 Thread Dexter
at on some programs printer is working, but some not. I do not get even error from grafical program and nothing is printed. Can i make e.g. "lp" alias to "HP-Color-LaserJet-4650". How can i diadnostic problem? Thanks Dexter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem installing KDE on Etch

2005-12-18 Thread Dexter
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:34 +, Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:23:12PM +0100, Dexter wrote: > > Hi, > > i have problem to installl KDE on Debian Etch. I get folloving error: > > > > # apt-get update > > Hit ftp://ftp.

problem installing KDE on Etch

2005-12-18 Thread Dexter
# I wass googling a lot and found people with the same problem, but no solution. Do somebody know how to solve this problem? Is it a bug? Dexter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
ion... > > Dexter wrote: > > >Well, you have only 6,7M free on /boot device. Whole disk is partitioned > >wery strangely. I would propose for desktop station: > >1G /boot > >1G swap > >1G /var/log > >rest / > >Or something else, but defitely not,

Re: SATA RAID 0 on nforce2 400 ultra chipset

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
I don't know, if this chipset is suported? But i have instaled allready few SATA and RAID0 on Debian without problem. I thing, there should be no problem. On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:50 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > I have an asus a7n8x-xe mobo and I thought to buy two SATA hard drives > to

Re: unable to install sarge - motherboard asus P5GD1-VM and IT8211F controller

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
Are IDE disks visible in bios? They shouls be in first menu. On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:26 +, Steve Boulette wrote: > hello, > i'm trying to install sarge on a PC with a P5GD1-VM motherboard. The > motherboard has a IT8211F IDE controller. There's 2 IDE HDD (not SATA) on > the IT8211F and a D

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
Well, you have only 6,7M free on /boot device. Whole disk is partitioned wery strangely. I would propose for desktop station: 1G /boot 1G swap 1G /var/log rest / Or something else, but defitely not, what you have now. I would propose you to reinstall system and make bether partitioning. Dexter

Re: installation time for a Debian distribution

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
I gess it should take less than hour for standard desktop instalation. Testing version is bether if you install desktop station. Stable is good for server. On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:29 -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > With a speed of between 1.0 and 1.5 mbs on DSL, how long would it take to > ins

Re: apt broken dependencies

2005-12-14 Thread Dexter
i run #apt-get update #apt-get upgrade On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:32 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/14/05, Viliam Kocinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > i have upgraded my instalation of debian stable to testing. My > > repository list looks like this: > > > > t# cat /etc/apt/sources.

apt broken dependencies

2005-12-14 Thread Dexter
Hi, i have upgraded my instalation of debian stable to testing. My repository list looks like this: t# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb ftp://ftp.sk.debi

Re: How to make a raid 1 on a webserver on woody remotely

2005-12-09 Thread Dexter
. Add old disk to raid. Raid should sinchronize disks (copy data to added disk). This is just idea. Once i wonted to do it this way, but it did not work and i had to reinstall the system. Dexter On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 16:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Has anybody a

save modified email attachment in received email

2005-11-22 Thread Dexter
Hi, do somebody know, if it`s posible to modify email attachment (document) and save it in the same received email? This mean, next time you open the same email, attachment will stay modified. I know, it is posible on MS Outlook through IMAP. I wass not able to do it with other program. Dexter

Re: Why my debian will stop for 10 mins when startup

2005-11-22 Thread Dexter
It is bether if you post all messages on mailing list. Like this, people will be able to read it and learn from you. Mailing list are published on internet, so it is goog when googling. Have a nice day. Dexter On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:53 +0800, Hongzheng Wang wrote: > OK, I think I have fo

Re: Why my debian will stop for 10 mins when startup

2005-11-21 Thread Dexter
Something similar hapens to me on my Laptop. Usewally in work i have mounted some NFS directories. When disconected from network is is allso trying to mount this directories. So i type CTRL+C to cancel mounting and continue booting. Dexter On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 00:23 +0800, Hongzheng Wang

Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Dexter
if you find some arror there. $df-will show you mounted disks, try to cd to some directory if it's accesible. Mayby you run some aplication that freez. Try to find out whitch aplication can it be. Dexter On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 04:00 -0800, Alex Goldman wrote: > My Debian Sarge system

Re: unable to bring up eth0

2005-11-19 Thread Dexter
Try: #scanpci if you can see bouth cards. See also file: cat /etc/network/interfaces if bouth interfaces are defined there. Try also to set static ip adresses in /etc/network/interfaces Then try: #ifup eth0 to bring intercafe up. Good luck Dexter On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 08:57 -0800, Fred J

Re: gnome resolution

2005-11-19 Thread Dexter
, but still opened windows (e.g. Skype) are quite big. Do you know where can i make them smaller? Thanks for help. Dexter On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 16:45 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:22:28PM +0100, Dexter wrote: > > i've debian installed on Laptop 15". I use

gnome resolution

2005-11-18 Thread Dexter
r lesolution to 800x600, than there are even biger. Did I miss some setings? Why I can't get bether resolution? Thanks Dexter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to show a number of available packages?

2005-07-07 Thread Dexter
s me that the number of listed > (Normal) packages (I run unstable) is 16286 while 'synaptic' puts that > number at 16486. > > malebo > > On 7/7/05, Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > see commands: "apt-cache" and "apt-get". Those are comma

Re: How to show a number of available packages?

2005-07-07 Thread Dexter
see commands: "apt-cache" and "apt-get". Those are commands for searching and installing debian packages on command line. Maybe you can make some script of it. See manuals. Dexter2 On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 06:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > > Could someone tell me of commands th

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Dexter
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:18 +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > This is a great day for democracy in Europe: the European Parliament > has rejected the Software Patents directive by 648/680 votes. We're > free, we're save, we're happy! > > ;-)) > > http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2

Re: bash - executing function in "find" command

2005-07-05 Thread Dexter
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 18:53 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > d> But I want to use bash function instead of command. > > You can't. > > d> Problem is not, that command "find" runs in different environment,

bash - executing function in "find" command

2005-07-05 Thread Dexter
Hi, bash command "find" let's you execute other commands like this: $find . -exec commandname {} param1 param2 \; This should do: for each file in actual directory tree run: $commandname filename param1 param2 ("{}" stands for filename) So far I understood it from manuals and it's running as I want

Re: Posting a log...

2005-07-05 Thread Dexter
and run command: mount /mnt/WindowsD Like this you'll mount windows particion /dev/hda2 on directory /mnt/WindowsD. Maybe you'll need to change vfat option (fs type) or particion number. Copy file to windows partition: cp /var/log/ /mnt/WindowsD and reboot to Windows. Good luck. Dexter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread Dexter Graphic
each one's strengths and weaknesses are in terms of running my preferred OS: Debian GNU/Linux. Perhaps some of you folks would be willing to share your own laptop preferences? Are there any hardware companies you know of that provide GPL drivers and support open standards? Dext

Re: How do I Remove the Sl0 Port?

2000-11-28 Thread Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga
goodday dont know much about 'S10' but if its a network interface, just edit /etc/network/interfaces iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp remove your 'S10' defination and do a '/etc/init.d/network restart' to test your config. mabuhay!, barryg On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:59:31PM

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-22 Thread Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:56:18PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using PuTTY from windows to ssh to my debian box but I find that it > > disconnects my session after some idle time. > > > > Is it a ssh setting (coz I can't find it) or it's my ssh cli

Re: LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga
me tinks you have to create a small partition < 20M and mount it "/boot" on ur 2nd harddrive, or u could use grub @ gnu.org/grub lilo cant boot from partitions greater that 1024th cylinder. hte_pagan On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:34:18PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > hi, > just installed "slink"

Re: problem with LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga
since you can boot debian through floppy, enter debian and edit /etc/lilo.conf change boot=/dev/something to boot=/dev/hda for master boot record and remember to add windoze to ur lilo.conf or yull never gonna see it.(i think a good idea. ;) ) anyways good day, a note also observed

RE: Debian/gnu Linux Install

2000-09-26 Thread Dexter Graphic
came with it or download one from the Internet. You may even have a SCSI CD ROM in which case you may need to find a driver for your SCSI card. Either way you will need provide us with more details. It may be easier to just take the computer to a friend or computer repair shop near by. Dexter Gr

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