On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote:
> Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In
> particular, compare the values of "design capacity" and "last full
> capacity". If "last full capacity" is significantly lo
On 17/08/12 10:40, Emil Payne wrote:
> I have a 1 TB external USB drive with 362 GB used. I'd like to do a full
> backup to DVDs and then an incremental (or something) backup every month
> or two, also to DVDs or CDs. I'd like the backups to be compressed in
> order to save space (i.e. - the number
On 08/08/12 09:14, lina wrote:
> It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T,
>
> from one server to another server.
>
> I checked that rsync is faster than scp,
> but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the network
> is also a problem,
>
> Here I wish to know are there some
Thanks for your help!
On 23/05/12 18:55, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2012 22:40:56 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> According to this bug report (message #30) the script is not available
> anymore:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664646
Yes, that&#
Dear list,
some time ago I installed and use some non-free fonts for latex. They
were installed by
getnonfreefonts-sys --verbose -a
After the latest texlive update of wheezy some days ago, these fonts do
not work any more:
[...]
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+456/600 -
On 2011-02-21 17:17, Mauricio Contreras wrote:
> I have just installed Squeeze from 3 DVDs with KDE. I did a clean install. I
> can hear system sounds, and Amarok plays my mp3 files.
> I installed flash non-free: I can see Flash files but I cannot hear any
> sound on YouTube and similar sites.
>
>
Dear all,
now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a
good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and
application to access my ipod.
I've upgraded to squeeze about a month ago, and I can't find the
following features in squeeze's amarok (all of which were p
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Tom Furie wrote:
> Why? What's the difference between having stable in the source list and
> automatically upgrading when the new stable is released - all upgrade
> issues *should* be worked out by then - versus switching the codename
> once the new ve
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Tom Furie wrote:
> On 09/12/2010 22:19, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
>>>> As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies
>>>> if you
>>>> weren't CC'd on them, you could chan
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shirish शिरीष wrote:
> At bottom :-
>
> 2010/12/10 Tom Furie :
>
>
>
>> As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if you
>> weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze' now as
>> they are currently t
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Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> works for txt too:
>
> convert abc.txt abc.pdf
not on my lenny system:
$ convert abc.txt abc.pdf
convert: Improper image header `abc.txt'.
convert: missing an image filename `abc.pdf'.
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In questions of sci
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Pol Hallen wrote:
> Howdy :-)
>
> #!/bin/sh
> convert "$1" "${1/.jpg/.pdf}"
>
> using this script correctly convert jpg file to pdf (I use it with service
> menu in kde).
>
> Now, I'd like convert any files to pdf (like png, txt, etc.) but I don't
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 30 nov 10, 15:39:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>>> 1. Is this setup possible and/or feasible?
>> Probably yes, though I have never tried this. This would mean that your
>> disks ie. the raid has
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deloptes wrote:
> I am doing a backup once a month ... I don't use any raid ... no issues in
> the past. After 4 years of use, I have disassembled the notebook and
> cleaned it up with a spray. I think it will work for the next 4 years ...
FWIW, good
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> So here is what I thought of:
>
> - make a software RAID1 on my laptop between a SD card and a partition
> on the builtin HDD
> - whenever I want or need to use the other laptop I use the SD card to
> boot from it and wor
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Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:32:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
> Last backup was from a year ago, that should give you some hints about
> how valuable is data for the user.
Daughter is a banker, not computer scientis
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Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:48:18 +0100, Axel Freyn wrote:
>> A similiar point is true for scandisk / chkdsk: Again, independent on
>> the filesystem: Once the filesystem is corrupted, the recovery tool has
>> to make assumptions about wha
Arthur Bela wrote:
> i just can't figure it out, how to "sed" when having several lines
> [nor in awk, perl..]
I have not really understood your question, but maybe this will help you:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-51
I would go someway along the lines of removing the newline at the e
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Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Brad:
>
>> Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was
>> insufficient benefit to warrant all the extra work (to say nothing
>> of storage space) to do it.
>
> Then. may You know wh
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Hi!
PRAKHAR gaur wrote:
> I think I did not put the question properly.
> The question is...
> There is a package called as "kernel-devel" in Fedora, what is the equivalent
> one in Debian?
Since most of us know more about debian than about fedora, i
Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:32:09 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
>> I have some problem with permissions of files saved from a windows XP to
>> a samba share. Some files from a proprietary software are saved with
>> permissions
>
> (...)
>
>
Dear all!
I have some problem with permissions of files saved from a windows XP to
a samba share. Some files from a proprietary software are saved with
permissions
-rwxrw 1 johannes tandem 4686 2010-09-06 11:24 BCK2000.DAT
other data from the same software are saved with permissions
-rw--w
Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone !
>
> On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions,
> using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that
> I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. SystemRescueCD does not
> backup LVM volumes, or, if it does, that
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Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers
>> and it will
>> be rather difficult to remove the watermark.
> I did not merge the layers b
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Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> Merciadri Luca dijo [Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:00:13PM +0200]:
>>
>>
>> Yet, you say in your previous reply they would be able to remove the
>> watermark from the document. That is clearly more complicated
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-20 07:27, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> [snip]
>> Yes, but there are some nuances. Let's take my example: how would you
>> have done this? You need to transmit the document, but the receivers are
>> sufficiently dishonest to p
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Merciadri Luca wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
>> What do you mean by "real protection"? If they possess a copy that they
>> can read they can print it. It should be obvious that there is nothing
>> you can do to stop them.
>>
> Not so obvious, simply
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Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Why would an
>> honest soul ever allow information to be read, but not printed?
>>
> To maintain honesty? An honest soul (i.e. me, here) has to send some
> data to
Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>> Twas brillig at 17:32:51 19.04.2010 UTC+02 when
>> luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be did gyre and gimble:
>>
>> >> Pdf "anti-features" are fake security. Don't trust on them, never.
>> ML> And what do you suggest if one wants some real protection _
Merciadri Luca wrote:
> I have no answer to your question, but I am wondering...
NB: Apparently, the original post you replied to was to debian-laptop,
not debian-user...
--
Johannes
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the
humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Ionreflex wrote:
>> [quote]
>> Linux lol 2.4.27-3-586tsc #1 Tue Dec 5 22:06:26 UTC 2006 i586 GNU/Linux
>> [/quote]
> What does `lol' mean here?
I guess it's just the hostname of the computer in question.
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In que
John Hasler wrote:
> "S.D.A." writes:
>> Precisely, far too many lists on Debian and they could use some
>> consolidation. My view is if an issue affects users of Debian; then it
>> should be posted to the 'user' lists.
No.
debian-user is for "Help and discussion among users of Debian".
debian-a
Alexander Samad wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Anyway, WICD is the only networking GUI I've used that worked for me,
>> but is there another that handles IPv6?
>
> gvim /etc/network/interfaces
> gvim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> works
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John Hasler wrote:
> Jordan Metzmeier writes:
>> Etch security support ended 2010-02-15:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch
>
> A huge slug of Etch security updates came out yesterday. Look at
> debian-changes.
- From one respective security annou
Jason Voorhees wrote:
> I just want to use an ext4 filesystem without having to recompile my
> kernel nor using testing repositories nor losing the stability group
> of packages provided by Debian Lenny.
I haven't used ext4 yet, so no comment on that.
FWIW, there is also http://www.backports.org/
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Maybe you misunderstood my example shell prompt code.
> [11:14:14][s...@greer]/etc/postfix$
> [11:16:09][r...@greer]/etc/postfix$
>
> There. No color. Root does has a different prompt. The prompt says "root"
> instead of "
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Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no
> bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog.
>
> we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find
> e.g. bad blocks on it..:\ :D
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Also, I've always _hated_ that # for root's prompt, so I killed it and use a $
> now. No need for it since root is now all red. :)
FWIW, if I document my work, eg. by copy-pasting the command into a
doc-file, the color informat
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Kent West wrote:
> If I understood all that, I bet I could figure out how to get my
> wireless network working. However, I've been googling/studying off and
> on for the past year, everytime I try to put Debian (or Ubuntu, or
> whatever) on a laptop th
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Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I have spent several hours and Googled myself to death trying to
> figure out how to record website audio. I've been using Sox and
> ffmpeg but so far have got nowhere.
>
> I have a list of audio devices but none seems to w
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Dino Vliet wrote:
> Questions
>
> 1) Can you show me the definitive debian lenny guide to create a
> software RAID-1 array from within the debian installer (I searched
> with google but wasn't that sucessfull and the manual is brief) The
> OS and data
Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:05:58 +0100, Bernard wrote:
[...]
> I don't know what are the capabilities of your e-mail client, but in the
> event it can handle IMAP accounts, the easiest way to transfer the e-
> mails from one MUA to another, is by setting up a local IMAP server and
>
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 24 January 2010 11:25:19 vitaminx wrote:
>> I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk.
>>
>> Is it possible without any data loss?
>
> Yes, but it is tricky.
>
> Check your file systems. Make sure th
Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> Now this is funny.
Your mail is funny. There are solutions for your problem. It appears you
just have been too lazy to search properly.
> 3 - missing thing: that they can only use chrooted sftp [with shell
> like: /bin/false].
>
> Why? Why can't I create a normal chrooted
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Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> Does someone has an easy howto for only allowing e.g.: scp with rssh
> [chrooted]?
aptitude install scponly
or
aptitude install rssh
and configure the passwd for the respective user(s)
10:18:20-johan...@e13-v21:~$ aptitude s
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Bret Busby wrote:
> Why, in the time that Debian 5 has replaced Debian 4 as Debian "stable",
> especially, as Debian 4 will no longer be supported, has a workable
> process of upgrading from Debian 4 to Debian 5, not been released?
It has been release
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> It doesn't work either. I think that the two pcs don't see each other: also
> the command `ssh 192.168.0.2' produces nothing.
Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"
"ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Andrew Malcolmson writes:
>
>> Another vote here for Unison when changes can occur on either copy, as
>> the OP is doing. If only one end changes, then rsync or its derivations
>> such as rdiff-backup are great.
>
> Well, ac
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FWIW:
Use 'rsync' for backups (one way transfer)
Use 'unison' for *synchronization* of (equivalent) data between
computers etc.
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Three nations have not officially adopted the International System
of Units as their primary or sole syste
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes:
>> Naturally, it needs to look at each file to see if they are equal or not, it
>> cannot guess which files are changed. By default this is based on the
>> modification time (and possibly size, I'
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Joe wrote:
> Unison will indeed do it, but the GUI will expect to find the source and
> destination as directories. If you are already running a Samba
> file-sharing server on one of the machines, that is the simplest way.
You don't need a samba serve
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Hi list,
> I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or
> /usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.:
>
> Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal
> output (from
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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The latexmk version in Debian is 3.07a, which was released in 2004.
> Why hasn't it been updated?
>
> FYI:
> http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/
> http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/
It is
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Rick Thomas wrote:
> I was thinking: if you don't trust rsync, then use something
> else to generate the checksums. But if you trust rsync, why bother with
> double-checking in the first place?
Because it could be that rsync works fine, but
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,16.Jan.10, 21:12:17, Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
>> anybody got any tips/howtos/docs for this?:
>>
>> - restrict the users, to only use scp ["no shell"]
>> - but a root, admin can still login with ssh
>
> apt-cache show scponly
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Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
>
> Why I have such situation:
>
> $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0
> SIOCDELRT: No such process
>
> $ /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18
> inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.16
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Bernard wrote:
> A few weeks ago, I have decided that, whenever my PC was to stay on for
> awhile without being used, I would disconnect the internet connexion,
> using the Gnome "Network Manager" for this purpose (right click then
> uncheck "activate
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Leonardo Canducci wrote:
> I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from
> my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs).
[snip]
> I'd like the size of the backup to be exactly the same and check sync
> result with du.
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> They are not supported by the "Debian installer kernel".
>> They have to be installed *seperately*.
>
&
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM:
>> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM:
>
>> All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The
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m...@neidorff.com wrote:
> I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail
> server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h'
> and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if
> the %
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM:
>
>> Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless.
>
> Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have
> both. I'd venture to guess th
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Liviu Andronic wrote:
> How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and
Just roll back your last working backup. If you don't have a working
backup you should consider implementing a backup system, NOW. It's not
mainly update prob
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with
> occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing.
s/should/should not/
;-)
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Johannes
Three nations have not officially adopted the Inter
Jason Filippou wrote:
> I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I
> noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means
> that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure that caused everybody
> (including myself) a lot of grief, my Debian disk rescue
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Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:17:16 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
>
>> Camaleón wrote:
>
Which probably isn't true anyway, with that much in the way of
resources, you could reverse engineer it in short enough order.
>>> "Reverse en
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Carl Johnson wrote:
> I agree entirely with you. It is obvious by now that the original
> poster has an irrational grudge against ATI and is not interested in
> any real discussions.
Ups OP was Rogério Brito, not Camaleón.
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Three natio
Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:54:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2009-12-14 13:28 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
Be sure to avoid Nvidia graphics cards then.
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> There is "nv" driver (2D) and soon it will be "nouveau" (2D+3D) driver
>>> available. Both are open source.
>> T
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AG wrote:
> I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and
> media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it
> worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have
> access to the drive but am
Klistvud wrote:
> Agreed, it's spare parts. But buying a spare battery for your car will
> hardly set you back for 14% of the total cost of a new car.
>
> It seems I may have phrased my question awkwardly, so let's try to
> rephrase it:
>
> Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- w
lee wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:07:34PM +, Chris Jackson wrote:
>> To match anything except |, use:
>>
>> [^|]
>
> Thanks! That's nice, but the pattern '\^.*\|[^\|]-[0-9]\|' still
> matches all lines ... and I don't see why/how it could to that
> ... Hmm. Here's an example line:
>
>
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> IIUC the main feature of CUPS is that it lets client applications get
> a description of the printer's features, so they can give you a nice GUI
> widget to let you choose simplex/duplex, draft/quality, photo-paper,
> color/b&w,
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Hi list,
> I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or
> /usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.:
>
> Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal
> output (from
Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> That's extremely clear indeed ! The issue is that I was confusing
> software RAID and hardware RAID. So I rebooted the system and in the
> BIOS I setup the RAID0.
I would advice to use software RAID instead. As pointed out before, that
requires the extra effort of mainta
Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:29:57AM -0700, deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote:
>> 4) Is it possible to install LILO instead of GRUB? I know it is better and
>> advanced, but I like LILO... would it be safe to install it without
>> breaking some kind of dependence?
>
> I believe s
Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> No that was a user-mistake. You should leave the installer do a first
> 'guided partitioning', then you have access to the software RAID
> partionning. Then for each disk that is marked 'FREE SPACE' you need
> to select it and state 'use for RAID'.
> Once all physical vol
[redirecting to list]
Michael, please keep the discussion on list so that others might benefit
as well! Thanks!
Michael Zoet wrote:
>> Is there anyone out there who managed to run a version of openoffice.org
>> 3 on lenny? What is the best approach?
>>
>
> Openoffice 3.1.1 from the backports wor
Hi list,
it seems that backports' openoffice.org 3.1.1 has been uninstallable for
several weeks now. On one of my machines I have an old 3.0.1 which works
ok.
Is there anyone out there who managed to run a version of openoffice.org
3 on lenny? What is the best approach?
Thanks for sharing your e
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Hi list,
I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or
/usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.:
Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal
output (from colordiff, git diff etc.)?
Preferably, I would like to print in
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
>> For the sysems I back up at work, we do the dpkg --get-selections
>> thing, but I've never kept a copy of the boot sector -- that's an
>> excellent idea.
I guess the 'state of the art' way of recording
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lrhorer wrote:
>>> You're kidding,right? Back up the data to more than 900 Dual
>>> Layer DVDs? Admittedly they are cheap, but... no, thanks.
>> It depends on the consequences of data loss. If they are severe,
>> there should have several li
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John Hasler wrote:
> The difference is that US residents are still permitted the liberty of
> using the units with which they are comfortable rather than those which
> the all-knowing government imposes.
>
> Of course, "units" is always there to do th
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Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Sadly, only three nations have the good sense not to spend 10's of
> millions of their GNP converting to Yet Another Arbitrary System Of
> Measurement. Burma, Liberia, and the United States.
FWIW, I don't think that it makes sens
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Micha wrote:
> On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>>>> For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.
>>
>> Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for so
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S Scharf wrote:
> Stable uses 2.6.26 (which is before the reported problem) but that installer
> only wants to allow lilo and not grub2, which is needed
> for the configuration I desire.
Have you tried with a small /boot partition outside of the raid/
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Micha wrote:
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> For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.
Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some
time and it works great.
YMMV, of course.
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Roy Stuivenberg wrote:
> I have a question concerning sshd.
> I'm unable to connect from outside to my Debian box.
Have you tried ssh's -v option?
/---from 'man ssh'---
- -vVerbose mode. Causes ssh to print debugging messages about its
progress.
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lrhorer wrote:
> Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities,
> and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source
> solution which will do the following:
>
> 1. Back up to removable hard drives
> 2. Span mul
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Again, aptitude install ntp is fully automatic and shouldn't require any
> manual configuration. You may want to remove the package and reinstall it.
s/remove/purge
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Three nations have not officially adopted the
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Roman Gelfand wrote:
> I am running ntp server. I suppose I need to tell ntp server the
> authoritative time server to synchronize with. How would I do that?
Debian's defaults work out of the box for me.
What's your output of 'ntpq -p'
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Holger Rauch wrote:
> which Debian package would you recommend for hard disk cloning,
> provided that UUIDs related to both file systems and/or the LVM (PVs,
> LVs, VGs) should be changed in order to be unique?
>
> Is there a package around that's abl
Tim Beauregard wrote:
> Could this clever friend please delete corruption and greed next?
Won't help. Judging by his/her unsuccessful other act.
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Johannes
Three nations have not officially adopted the International System
of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma,
Liberia
Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 23. 10. 2009 12:49:12 je Johannes Wiedersich napisal(a):
>> Why don't you just give it a try and follow up with any questions or
>> problems you face?
>
> Because I'm not yet familiar enough with Debian (or GNU/Linux, for that
> matter) t
Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 23. 10. 2009 10:06:48 je Dale napisal(a):
>
>> the easiest way is to in synaptics just search for 'linux' and remove
>> the kernels you not need, ie linux images and linux headers etc for
>> the versions you want.
>>
>
> Thanx. Will that take care automagically for the rela
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Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:41, Johannes Wiedersich
>> I would go for a 32 bit Debian system with a 64-bit kernel. (I have
>> sometimes problems with certain `flashy' web sites or digitally
>> restrict
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Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-10-16 13:41 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> This way you are running a 64-bit system with a 32-bit userland.
>
> Note that this combination will not work with virtualbox (#456391¹), so
> that it be
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Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU
> It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB)
>
> Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit
> with bigmem kernel. The questions are:
>
> Does ru
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Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> shampavman skrev:
>> If I were you , I would write a simple wrapper for rm.
>> Here is what I would do.
>> if rm or rm -r is encountered, create a local dir somewhere call it
>> 'Mytrash' then mv the files over there.. instead
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Israel Garcia wrote:
> Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY
> commands from Debian OS?
The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data
from the last backup. There are various backup methods avail
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AG wrote:
> Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I
> have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account
> for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE config files
> which is where t
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