Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018 at 15:01, Brian wrote: > Aren't standard utilities whatever you want them to be? Who could live > without netcat, midnight commander and oneko? emacs :-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 15:56:11 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:11:56 +, Matthew Crews wrote: > > On 9/25/18 2:08 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > > > Hi! > > > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, >

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
. (That was stated already in 2006 when i started to learn about burner drives.) > Aren't standard utilities whatever you want them to be? That's trivially true, but too cheap an answer to this question. > Who could live without netcat, midnight commander and oneko? Does oneko get along well with netcat ? Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:11:56 +, Matthew Crews wrote: > On 9/25/18 2:08 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > > Hi! > > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what > &g

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 13:24:48 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Brian wrote: > > There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system > > utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard" > > field in the package description. > >

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/25/18, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > Hi! > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what > else? I saw everyone else's great responses. Dissecting a debootstrap encounter com

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > No command line CD/DVD/BD burning: Dave Sherohman wrote: > Sounds pretty far from "standard" to me. Bordering on "esoteric", even. Burn programs compensate for a shortcomming of the Linux kernel and the Unix device model. If a burner drive is built into the machine, then a driv

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 01:24:48PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > But i am not sure whether the official classification in > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities > of the first three priorities really matches the idea of a set of > "standard [

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 06:28:46AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: > have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Jack Dangler
e of them. 2. There's no boot loader. A boot loader is optional because it might be supplied by an outside system, like a VM hypervisor. -dsr- This is helpful to have! It doesn't quite answer the mail since it lists packages of utilities (and not individual utilities themselves as in

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-25, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > no trick to be honest > The expression "standard utilities" seems to have thrown people for a minor loop. Me being naturally loopy to begin with, I navigated the treacherous semantic waters of your inquiry with my usual aplomb. I wo

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Jack Dangler
users' mailing list ? (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.) There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard" field in the package description. On my stretch: grep

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Matthew Crews
On 9/25/18 2:08 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > Hi! > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else? > I took a peek at /usr/share/tasksel/descs/debian-tasks.desc, and this i

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system > utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard" > field in the package description. There can always be a dispute. q.e.d. (Hey. You smuggled the word "syste

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
is that what ls -l /bin needs? 25.09.2018, 12:08, "Thakur Mahashaya" : > Hi! > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else?

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 06:28:46 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > mick crane wrote: > > > have a look in /usr/bin ? > > > > Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : > > https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard >

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > mick crane wrote: > > have a look in /usr/bin ? > > Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : > https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard > > /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. > /sbin is its add-on

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
ice > dispute among the regulars of a computer users' mailing list ? > (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.) There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard&

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. /sbin is its add-on for system administrators. /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on m

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
are you sure this is the place? there's some programs that I listed for example and use. 25.09.2018, 12:48, "mick crane" : > On 2018-09-25 10:08, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: >>  Hi! >>  Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in >>  Debian?

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
no trick to be honest 25.09.2018, 12:46, "Thomas Schmitt" : > Hi, > > Thakur Mahashaya wrote: >>  Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian? > > If this is a trick question: Good one. It makes me think. > > A standard utility is supposed

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-25 10:08, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hi! Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else? have a look in /usr/bin ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian? If this is a trick question: Good one. It makes me think. A standard utility is supposed to be installed often. The popularity of Debian packages is ranked at https://popcon.debian.org/by_inst

utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi! Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else?

Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories]

2016-11-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/30/2016 5:38 PM, Seeker wrote: On 11/30/2016 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/29/2016 8:52 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 08:07:47 AM Verde Denim wrote: On 11/29/2016 7:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I just looked at the intro of https://debtags.alioth.de

Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories]

2016-11-30 Thread Seeker
On 11/30/2016 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/29/2016 8:52 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 08:07:47 AM Verde Denim wrote: On 11/29/2016 7:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I just looked at the intro of https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . It appea

A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories]

2016-11-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/29/2016 8:52 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 08:07:47 AM Verde Denim wrote: On 11/29/2016 7:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I just looked at the intro of https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . It appears that its goal is to solve my problem. I see

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 06:02:09 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > That search function is not suitable. Back in the days when a > library's catalog was a physical set of card-files there were > typically three "file cabinets" - one each for title, author, and > subject cards. By analogy, p.d.o only

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 08:07:47 AM Verde Denim wrote: > On 11/29/2016 7:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I just looked at the intro of > > https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . > > It appears that its goal is to solve my problem. I see a day of > > interesting reading ahead.

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for test utilities. The closest heading I found was "Utilities" [https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/]. The only relevant entry I found there was "memtester (4.3.0-3)". I did not find "memtest86+" which I

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/29/2016 6:51 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 06:31:48AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I just looked at the intro of https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . It appears that its goal is to solve my probl

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 29 November 2016 12:51:52 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 06:31:48AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > I just looked at the intro of > > https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . > > It appears

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Verde Denim
/ looking for test utilities. The closest heading I found was "Utilities" [https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/]. The only relevant entry I found there was "memtester (4.3.0-3)". I did not find "memtest86+" which I've used many times [It was listed

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 06:31:48AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > I just looked at the intro of > https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . > It appears that its goal is to solve my problem. I see a day of > interesting reading ahe

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/29/2016 6:06 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 29 Nov 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/28/2016 9:24 PM, Dave Thayer wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:26:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for test utilities. The closest heading

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 29 Nov 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/28/2016 9:24 PM, Dave Thayer wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:26:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for test utilities. The closest heading I found was "Utilities&qu

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/28/2016 9:24 PM, Dave Thayer wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:26:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for test utilities. The closest heading I found was "Utilities" [https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/]. The only releva

Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-28 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:26:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for test utilities. > The closest heading I found was "Utilities" > [https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/]. > The only relevant entry I found there w

Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for test utilities. The closest heading I found was "Utilities" [https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/]. The only relevant entry I found there was "memtester (4.3.0-3)". I did not find "memtest86+" whic

Re: debian utilities for this issue?

2015-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
> transfer the materials onto an external drive for me, playing them will be > possible? You need to try it. Because mpg is a container holding media streams. The mpg container can definitely be opened by all of the utilities. The question is what encoding is used by the media stream. It is

debian utilities for this issue?

2015-01-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, Here is the problem. While I am exploring solutions in a number of arenas, I thought I would ask here too. An associated recorded some material I require for a production to their hdpvr unit. I amt old that the material can be exported to an external hard drive, which is no issue. The

Re: Starting NFS common utilities failed!

2011-02-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 03:33 Fri 04 Feb, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:04:52 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > >> How do I fix this problem? > >> > >> % invoke-rc.d nfs-common start > >> Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed! invok

Re: Starting NFS common utilities failed!

2011-02-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:50 Thu 03 Feb, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > How do I fix this problem? > > % invoke-rc.d nfs-common start > Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed! > invoke-rc.d: initscript nfs-common, action "start" failed. > > Ap

Re: Fwd: trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

2010-01-25 Thread Robert David
Dou you have these missing files?? these are some scripts from the dell updater. Are they executable? Becouse this seems like the binfile filed to extract correctly. buildVer.sh PIEConfig.sh I dont remember problems like this. I did that year ago. I just downloaded the bin file from dell suppo

Fwd: trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

2010-01-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Robert David wrote: > I updated dell poweredge bios once and I think I used > > procmail > > Next try to search package accoarding to file: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=lockfile&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any > > Regards, > Robe

Re: trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

2010-01-24 Thread Robert David
Mueller napsal(a): > ~ > While trying the update the BIOS of a PowerEdge 1850 using > Linux/Debian/knoppix 6.2, I got: > ~ > spsetup.sh: line 124: source: buildVer.sh: file not found > spsetup.sh: Cannot find utilities on the system to execute package. > > Make sure

trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

2010-01-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ While trying the update the BIOS of a PowerEdge 1850 using Linux/Debian/knoppix 6.2, I got: ~ spsetup.sh: line 124: source: buildVer.sh: file not found spsetup.sh: Cannot find utilities on the system to execute package. Make sure the following utilities are in the path: sed stty cut fmt

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Joey L wrote: > Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down. > 1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on > iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default. > > Does anyone know how to change tha

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:44:47PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,04.Jan.09, 11:39:20, Chris Jones wrote: > > > Of course, since acpi on my machine appears to be suffering from double > > vision.. I guess I shouldn't believe {every | any}thing it's telling me. > > Maybe the laptop has all t

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Joey L wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > > On Sunday 04 January 2009, "Joey L" wrote about 'Re: > > does debian have other utilities similar

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Neidorff
> > Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down. > 1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on > iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default. > > Does anyone know how to change that ??? > > 2). Mondoarchive - does the job - the issue i

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Joey L
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009, "Joey L" wrote about 'Re: > does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': > >file by file copy to some media > >no compre

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Jan.09, 13:34:10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009, "Joey L" wrote about 'Re: > does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': > >file by file copy to some media > >no compression > >no "archive

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 04 January 2009, "Joey L" wrote about 'Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': >file by file copy to some media >no compression >no "archive" >readable with other OS >if the directories specified are greater then the me

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Jan.09, 11:39:20, Chris Jones wrote: > Of course, since acpi on my machine appears to be suffering from double > vision.. I guess I shouldn't believe {every | any}thing it's telling me. Maybe the laptop has all the logical "infrastructure" needed for two fans, one is just not installe

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:50:13AM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: > > > >On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wr

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:48:54AM EST, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > One thing that put me off a bit was that I thought my laptop was > > going to catch fire. I think it went over 80C at one point! It's > > clearly stated in the man

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 04 January 2009 09:39 am, Joey L wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I feel like I'm chasing a moving target. Lets nail down the specs that > > you want. So far what I understand is: > > > > file by file copy to some media > > no compression > > no "archi

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Joey L
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 08:21 am, Joey L wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L wrote: > > Sorry - I missed a point here.I would like mondo to just copy the files > oto > > the dvd for me.So when I am on windows or linux - i can

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 04 January 2009 08:21 am, Joey L wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L wrote: > Sorry - I missed a point here.I would like mondo to just copy the files oto > the dvd for me.So when I am on windows or linux - i can just insert the dvd > and see the files as they are transparentl

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Joey L
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> Mondo is useful for system backup. Its prime selling point is that it can >>> restore a fully functional system (partitions included). I'm not sur

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Mondo is useful for system backup. Its prime selling point is that it can restore a fully functional system (partitions included). I'm not sure it is that useful for data backup. Very useful: use mondoarchive to archive anything onto DVD's then use mondorestore to r

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > > I need a utility to backup big directori

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > > The directories are quite big and i need the utility t

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to > put files on multiple dvds. > My k3b works grea

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. Mondo does that without any trouble. It splits the dir. in

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: > > >On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > [snip] > > >> > > >>Have you considered a tape drive? > > > > >

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > > The directories are quite big and i need the utilit

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:30:57PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I hope in the next couple of months to get a small tape library from the > same place I got my four NetServer LPr boxes. It supposed to have an > LTO-2 tape drive and storage for a dozen tapes, all in a 3U enclosure, > and all f

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > >> > >>Have you considered a tape drive? > > > >Yes, and the price-tag left me speechless. > > What about removable dis

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Have you considered a tape drive? Yes, and the price-tag left me speechless. What about removable disk drives? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:01:08PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Have you considered a tape drive? > > Yes, and the price-tag left me speechless. I wasn't suggesting a new drive, but an off-lease generation or two old drive. I

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > > The directories are quite big and i need the

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to > put files on multiple dvds. > My k3b work

does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Habashy
I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. My k3b works great - but i can not feed it a directory of files and ask it just copy a

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, FireHOL is well documented, it is written in bash, it is intuitive to configure and to maintain, and it comes with options that produce a template for your current box, that allow to check your configuration, and to read the effective iptable. Furthermore, it is maintained, The cons:

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:59:50PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:00, Michael Pobega wrote: Do you know of any reliable way to make sure my firewall is working? I'm behind a router so I don't think any of those TCP scanning sites would w

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:59:50PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > Do you know of any reliable way to make sure my firewall is working? > > I'm behind a router so I don't think any of those TCP scanning sites > > would work. >

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > do you know of any reliable way to make > sure my firewall is working? I'm behind a router so I don't think any of > those TCP scanning sites would work. nmap from various locations is my general testing proceedure. There might be more ag

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Jerome BENOIT wrote: firehole is great too ! Can you elaborate a little bit on pro/cons? Right now I'm trying to get through shorewall docs and it's "OK" but they could use a better initiation/orientation starting point. I'm only now grasping the different roles that zone/policy/rule play.

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 08:52 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:10 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > firehole is great too ! > > Anyone work with firestarter? Sorry about the post... I did not see the originals and had this question in mind at the moment. Now I see I probably

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:10 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > firehole is great too ! Anyone work with firestarter? Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization al

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:56:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and > > today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've > > been using ipcop

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
firehole is great too ! Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've been using ipcop, but they have some characte

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and > today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've > been using ipcop, but they have some characteristics that I didn't care for. > after thi

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-15 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:59:43 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I noticed that there are a number of iptable management utilities in the > debian arsenal of cool stuff. > > First - I have no interest in installation of a GUI front end on my > firewall.

Firewall Utilities

2008-11-15 Thread Tom Allison
For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've been using ipcop, but they have some characteristics that I didn't care for. I noticed that there are a number of iptable management u

Re: [Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-02-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 08:55:54 -0600 "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Javier, > OK, I installed hpijs + hplip, with the whole cups, ahavi and dbus > stuff (this is the part I didn't want), but hey, I wanted hp tools, > :). Yeah, I know; Sometimes a lot of "cruft", or at least, wha

Re: [Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-02-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Jan 27, 2008 11:45 AM, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:25:26 -0600 > "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > HPLIP has several tabs, one labelled Tools, where cartridge cleaning, > alignment and colour calibration can be performed. > > If you have

Re: [Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-01-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:25:26 -0600 "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Javier, > Only problem is that HPLIP as well as HPIJS now strongly depend on > cups under unstable (the system I use), and I don't use cups. Seems Ah, I've always used CUPS. > like I'll have to move to cups th

Re: [Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-01-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 27-01-2008 a las 11:25 -0600, Javier Vasquez escribió: > On Jan 27, 2008 10:48 AM, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:32:39 -0600 > > "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Javier, > > > > > I was wondering if there's any HP application whi

Re: [Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-01-27 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Jan 27, 2008 10:48 AM, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:32:39 -0600 > "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Javier, > > > I was wondering if there's any HP application which would allow > > performing print cartridge alignment, and also pen cartridg

Re: [Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-01-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:32:39 -0600 "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Javier, > I was wondering if there's any HP application which would allow > performing print cartridge alignment, and also pen cartridge cleaning. HPLIP, which is in the standard Debian repositories. -- Regar

[Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-01-27 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I was wondering if there's any HP application which would allow performing print cartridge alignment, and also pen cartridge cleaning. This is important because ususally when acquiring new cartridges the alignment is not the right one, and with t time, a cleaning becomes necessary on ink prin

utilities for liteon dvd drive?

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
apropos my earlier query regarding not being able to boot from a DVD, it's been suggested to me that I might need a firmware update to my DVD/RW drive unfortunately, all the manufacturer doesn't directly support anything except windows so.. can anybody suggest utilities I can

ANNOUNCE: truecrypt-installer -- utilities to get Truecrypt installed easily

2007-03-13 Thread Jari Aalto
can be read transparently under Linux and Windows. The Truecrypt licence does not allow distribution of modified sources. However, it is possible for individuals to assemble all pieces, build Truecrypt components, and install Truecrypt. This product contains utilities that automate those steps. It c

Re: network utilities

2005-08-09 Thread noc ops
D]> wrote: Hi, I installed bare bone sarge 3.1r0a. I was wondering what packages do I need to apt-get for basic/advance network utilities. tia, regards, /vicky Hello vicky, It depends a lot in what are you trying to achieve. Can you be more specific. I mean mtr is a very good tool,

Re: network utilities

2005-08-09 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Sergio Basurto Juarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- noc ops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I installed bare bone sarge 3.1r0a. I was > wondering > > what packages do I > > need to apt-get for basic/advance

Re: network utilities

2005-08-09 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- noc ops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed bare bone sarge 3.1r0a. I was wondering > what packages do I > need to apt-get for basic/advance network utilities. > > > tia, > > regards, > /vicky > Hello vicky, It depends a lot in

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