bsdgames on a command-line type system

2008-04-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I remember when installing bsdgames package on a command-line-type system very early in the installation openoffice's dictionary directories were updated. Later those for emacs were updated. That was in earlier packages chronologically. What was downloaded that would have given dictionaries-

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 12 April 2008 08:58:59 Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hi > No success in entering BIOS. It seems that the "Intel(R) Boot Agent" should > be eliminated, to get free of their PXE system. Does anyone know how to > throw this agent away with Linux? The old amd64 installation is recognized > on t

Help with upgrading

2008-04-12 Thread wwongdg
I have recently carried out a dist-upgrade on a long time running i386 debian machine. Somehow the new distro changed its device naming from hda1 to sda1 and now my ide attached harddisk fails to boot! Booting it will only take me as far as raminitd (or something to that effect which i can't rem

Re: Debian vs. the Eee PC

2008-04-12 Thread Robert Epprecht
Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What variety of Linux is installed on the EeePC? But why not install proper Debian on it? It works *very* well already :) There is a CustomDebian project to make Debian work optimally on the Eee. Please visit http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/ There is

Re: intel 3945 wireless

2008-04-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Apr 2008, Dominique Dumont wrote: > "Ernst Doubt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have sid running, but so far no luck with successfully connecting > > to an access point (though I seem to be close). I had tried > > previously with ipw3945 but never gotten everything right, so now > > I

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-04-12 Thread Goupil
Lars Bjerregaard wrote: > > Hello, > > I saw a link to your survey from LWN, and wanted to reply to it because of > it's > friendly and inviting tone. I'm not subscribed to the list (but maybe I > should > do that...). > > I first touched a set of Linux diskettes around 1995, and have been >

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi All, > > In "KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options", I set > "Adding the EuroSign to certain keys" to "Add the EuroSign to the 5 key", > coz that's where > it is located on my keyboard. > > At the bottom of the Control Center I read

Re: Another problem Postgresql: createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:45:46AM +0530, Jaisen N.D. wrote: > I have another problem with postgresql 8.1. > initdb: directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" exists but is not empty > If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty > the directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" or run i

Re: bsdgames on a command-line type system

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:47:25AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Something like checking all packages only on the system for > anything like openoffice in their dependencies I think. deborphan -d -a $OTHER_OPTIONS should be able to do something of this kind Moreover, apt-cache search reverse

Re: Help with upgrading

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:21:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sda1 and it booted all the way to login prompt and I am stuck. There is > no other partition which I've made like /usr, /home, /var, etc. So I > have no way of editing my /etc/mount since there isn't such file nor is > there an ed

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-04-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
First, RedHat has a business product which is more stable than Fedora deliberately. Second, unless I'm much mistaken RedHat also offers its business customers phone support for fees. Third, RedHat was the first distro in Government and business took note of that decision and followed along wi

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Friday 11 April 2008 10:10:22 pm Mark Allums wrote: > > The problems with waste are slowly being solved, even without breeders. > >    But you make a good point.  However, I would prefer it if the > > breeders were in the arid Southwest deserts, a

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:55:55PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required" in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one scripting language to learn? Several other

Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?

2008-04-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/11/2008 09:07 PM: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:21:39 pm Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings, Just stumbled over some software known as Bochs. It sounds as if I could install that on my Debian 4.0 system and then be able to run Win 2k as needed in a "partition"

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/08 10:09, Kent West wrote: Curt Howland wrote: Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them as they went by, espec

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/08 19:54, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] You would write a script that would pole the relavant data. Probably That's just *disgusting*. Or I'm a dirty old man. Let me pole that for a sec... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:04:23PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:10:04AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > Yes, the system does thrash, not a complete lockup. But, if you try to > move the cursor and few times with no results it certainly seem

Re: (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:36:56PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I know that reading /etc/network/interfaces has been done over and > over... has an API been created for editing/writing it? If it's available in > perl, or over the commandline, that would be even better :-) Its just a plain

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:45:11AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >one-liner just because I hate regex (or it hates me). > > I start to analyze one of them one-liners and suddenly I get so tired... You might find useful txt2regex -- Chi usa software non libero avvelen

forgetting to snip

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Just a note: Posts recently are becoming many pages long with perhaps a one-liner comment somewhere. People are forgetting to snip. Also, some people are forgetting to word-wrap. Not trolling, not trying to moderate the list, just observing. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
I have recently installed debain Etch 40r3 on an older Intel desktop which was previously reliably running a 2,4 Kernel SuSE system. The installation went pretty smoothly, and the system is being manly used as a firewall (Shorewall) for a local lan, and a Samba server. This morning it generated a

How to create several binaries (and compile ) one after the other

2008-04-12 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello,.. I would like to create several Debian package when the only change is the compile type (i386 amd64 ppc etc..). How can it be done ? since when create the package it creates only amd64 (this is set in the rules file). Thank you in advance.

Is there away to hide the incoming mail when sending mails to this maling list ?

2008-04-12 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello,.. I would like to hide my new email from the mailing list : i mean to send the mail but prevent the spam bots attacking my email address (i got 1000 spam mail in a week). to login somewhere or some thing like that.

Where are "Log AttacLog" emails coming from...

2008-04-12 Thread Hose
I have inherited the lovely duty of admin'ing a production server running Etch. It's all very straightforward except for a phantom installed package that is spitting out snort-esque emails to root about perceived ongoing attacks. Unfortunately the only one it ever seems to complain about

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:18:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: ... > > As for everyone else why are we having this crap discussion AGAIN. only a matter of time. real traffic is down, OT is up... flame wars a comin' A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help with upgrading

2008-04-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:21:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > I have recently carried out a dist-upgrade on a long time running i386 debian > machine. Somehow the new distro changed its device naming from hda1 to sda1 > and now my ide attached harddisk fails to boot! Booting it

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:36:26 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:18:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > ... > > > > As for everyone else why are we having this crap discussion > > AGAIN. > > only a matter of time. real traffic is down, OT is up... flame wars a > c

Re: VLC-Player no picture in VLC-Frame via Beamer

2008-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 21:47:22 +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote: > Etch > VLC-Player > Dell Latitude D 520 > Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics > Controller > > > Hello, > > I am downloading videos from youtube via youtubecatcher and save them as > *.flv. > > When

Re: (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2008-04-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:36:56PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > I know that reading /etc/network/interfaces has been done over and > > over... has an API been created for editing/writing it? If it's available in > > perl, or over the commandlin

Re: Problemas en el DVD

2008-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Para obtener ayuda en español, envía tu mensaje a debian-user-spanish. ] On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 19:53:58 +0200, luis saavedra wrote: > Estimado: > junto con saludarlo en el presente mail. le informo o cumsulto, si el DVD > Nº1 tiene problemas o sinplemente el problema es mio. sale que no coinsi

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:45:11AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: one-liner just because I hate regex (or it hates me). I start to analyze one of them one-liners and suddenly I get so tired... You might find useful txt2regex Indeed. So it

Rhythmbox cannot play wma file

2008-04-12 Thread zhengda
Hi, I have a problem with Rhythmbox. It could play wma file before, but it cannot now. I think I might delete some package by accident, but I cannot find it. I do install gstreamer 0.10 and many of its plugins. Does anyone which package Rhythmbox relies on to play wma file? Thank you in advance.

hyperlatex htmlcaption: funny output

2008-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I don't suppose there are any hyperlatex users on the list that have had the correct output when using the htmlcaption command? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473795 http://hyperlatex.sourceforge.net/html/hyperlatex_29.html And the hyperlatex mailing list has been dead

Uniq is not unique ?

2008-04-12 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, For fairly large file 100K+ lines uniq command does not filter the repetitive lines. Am I doing anything wrong on the usage ? For eg:- I had run this script in my home dir find . -name \* -type f -exec basename {} \; | uniq or send the output to a file and then run uniq on the

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Kent West
Florian Kulzer wrote: Is this the right room for an argument? HA-H! I loved Flying Circus! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uniq is not unique ?

2008-04-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > > > > For fairly large file 100K+ lines > uniq command does not filter the repetitive lines. > > Am I doing anything wrong on the usage ? > > For eg:- > > I had run this script in my home dir > > find . -name \* -type f -exec basename {} \; | uniq > or send the

Re: Uniq is not unique ?

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For fairly large file 100K+ lines > uniq command does not filter the repetitive lines. > > Am I doing anything wrong on the usage ? > > For eg:- > > I had run this script in my home dir > > find . -name \* -

Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 12 April 2008 06:59:10 am Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Re: wine. It just doesn't seem to work too well for me. > And when I look at the web page it looks like it is > concentrated on gaming rather than real work. It's worth trying both, the only reason the appdb is so gaming-heavy is bec

Re: Is there away to hide the incoming mail when sending mails to this maling list ?

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 12 April 2008 08:20:21 am Jabka Atu wrote: > I would like to hide my new email from the mailing list : Considered harmful at best. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ > i mean to send the mail but prevent the spam bots attacking my email > address (i got 1000 spam mail in a

Re: Problems with vmware-server-console

2008-04-12 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Miguel Gaiowski wrote: > Hi, I've been trying to get vmware to work here and I got this issue > while compiling the kernel module. > > I'm using Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.24-686 and here's the output I get: > http://www.debian-administration.org/users/gpall/weblog/5 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: Uniq is not unique ?

2008-04-12 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-04-12T22:27:46+0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > For fairly large file 100K+ lines > uniq command does not filter the repetitive lines. If you need to sort it anyways then `sort -u` might be of interest. /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-12 Thread owens
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:49:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:46:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> > My (admittedly limited) understanding of public key crypto is that the >> > public and private key are connected by the relationship of two >> extremly >> > lar

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tuko kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 122, ti=dfa66000 task=dff98550 > task.ti=dfa66000) Is the memory (ram + swap) sufficient ? A 2.6 kernel might need more memory than a 2.4 kernel. The heavvier use of swap is needed, the easier

Re: How to create several binaries (and compile ) one after the other

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:17:30PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > I would like to create several Debian package when the only change is the > compile type (i386 amd64 ppc etc..). debian developers do this, starting with the same source package. When the source is compiled on i386, it produces a i386 pa

Re: Is there away to hide the incoming mail when sending mails to this maling list ?

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:20:21PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > I would like to hide my new email from the mailing list : If you have already posted with your new e-mail, all is already lost. If not, consider the fact that you can have several free e-mail addresses and you can post to a debian maili

Re: Where are "Log AttacLog" emails coming from...

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:24:30AM -0500, Hose wrote: > installed package that is spitting out snort-esque emails to root check cron jobs check active daemons check the complete headers of the e-mail (Since you can not find the log file, double check: is the email originating from that box? from

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-12 Thread tom arnall
i find that opera does ok if i start with a clean slate each time, i.e., no tabs from former session. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rhythmbox cannot play wma file

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:33:54PM +0200, zhengda wrote: > I think I might delete some package by accident, check /var/log/dpkg.log Also note that .wma files do _not_ use all the same codec. Some use higtly non-free codecs which are not in debian (but some of them might be in packages from debia

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > only a matter of time. real traffic is down, OT is up... flame wars a > comin' > > A Andrew, since it's OT time, tell me more about your International. I am currently restoring a 1948 IH KB1, myself. Parts and reliable information are

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-12 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Nigel On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > In "KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options", I set > > "Adding the EuroSign to certain keys" to "Add the EuroSign to the 5 > key", > > coz that's where i

Re: Where are "Log AttacLog" emails coming from...

2008-04-12 Thread Hose
On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:20 PM, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:24:30AM -0500, Hose wrote: installed package that is spitting out snort-esque emails to root check cron jobs check active daemons check the complete headers of the e-mail (Since you can not find the log file, d

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/08 09:02, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 04/11/08 19:54, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >>> You would write a script that would pole the relavant data. Probably >> >> That's just *disgusting*. >> >> Or I'm a dirty old

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:44:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:21:42AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Or wonder if you will be stuck at a 2.6.22 kernel because you have a > > nvidia MX400 because m-a only works with the nvidia-glx from unstable if > > you try

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Re: What to do to get loclized version of debian package ?

2008-04-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:06:04PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:57:33AM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > > > I see now that the translation are in source files. > > > The question is how to make cups to use it ? > > > >

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > > On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >Hey Everyone, > > > >Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around > >for similar markups that allow for basic "rich text" output. > > > > I actually use a

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Is this the right room for an argument? >> > > HA-H! > > I loved Flying Circus! No, you didn't! -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:43:55 +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > In "KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options", I set > > > "Adding the EuroSign to certain keys" to "Add the EuroSign

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > If its a pure >> engineering problem, I'll use Fortran77. May I suggest you shift to Fortran 90 from Fortran 77? Though Fortran 77 codes are compatible with Fortran 90, I find that F90 has much better tools organize the code than F77. There is even a free Fortran 90 comp

Hidden processes....or not....using unhide package

2008-04-12 Thread Robin
Discovered multiple short term, 5-10 secs, hidden processes appearing on my system - Linux localhost 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux. Checked logs. Checked PC with top, htop, ps and then system rkhunter and chkrootkit . Also tried rkhunter and chkrootkit from a l

regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Samad
this started out as a grep quetion trying to look at a file with out the comments in it i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. but this left me with lots of blank lines. so i tried changing it to perl perl -e 'while(<>){chomp ; next if ( /^\s*;/); print "[$_]\n"}' sip.conf whic

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
I would think so. It is quite a lightly loaded system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464 0 100552704 105132032 -/+ buffers/cache: 105779200 955699200 Swap:699138048

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed debain Etch 40r3 on an older Intel desktop > which was previously reliably running a 2,4 Kernel SuSE system. > > The installation went pretty smoothly, and the system is being manly > used as a firewall

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:23:05PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > i find that opera does ok if i start with a clean slate each time, i.e., no > tabs from former session. > I don't do sessions at all anyway (whatever they are), i.e. I always have a clean slate. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-12 Thread Kim N. Lesmer
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:18:08 -0400 Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to have /etc on a separate partition from / (root) so > that root can be read-only while /etc is read-write? No. You have a lot of other stuff to think about such as /var/log and /tmp. Perhaps you sho

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:33:11PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > If its a pure > >> engineering problem, I'll use Fortran77. > > May I suggest you shift to Fortran 90 from Fortran 77? Though Fortran 77 > codes are compatible with Fortran 90, I find that F90 ha

Re: regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > this works > perl -e 'while(<>){chomp ; next if ( /^\s*;/); print "[$_]\n" if length > $_ > 0}' sip.conf > > or this > perl -nle 'next if ( /^\s*;/); print if length $_ > 0' sip.conf > > why doesn't the next force a read of a new

Re: regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Owen Townend
On 13/04/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this started out as a grep quetion > > trying to look at a file with out the comments in it > > i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. > > but this left me with lots of blank lines. > Hey, Try this: `sed -e 's:;.*::' -e ':^$:

Re: regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > this started out as a grep quetion > > trying to look at a file with out the comments in it > > i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. > > but this left me with lots of blank lines. Hav

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:48:28PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Give us some hardware details. CPU and speed, ram size, swap size, any > errors in /var/log/syslog? > > You may want to install the memtest86+ package and run it when you can > spare the box for a while. The package installs a gr

package conflict

2008-04-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Using unstable distribution installing bsdgames and emacs does not work completely successfully. It's either one package or the other but not both on the same machine. Probably both packages dependencies need updating on the debian repositories so that whenever one is installed it automatical

Re: package conflict

2008-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/08 20:30, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Using unstable distribution installing bsdgames and emacs does not work > completely successfully. It's either one package or the other but not > both on the same machine. Probably both packages dependencies

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:40:46AM +0200, Kim N. Lesmer wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:18:08 -0400 > Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to have /etc on a separate partition from / (root) so > > that root can be read-only while /etc is read-write? > > No. You have a lo

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:25:49PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > [...] > > > only a matter of time. real traffic is down, OT is up... flame wars a > > comin' ... > > Andrew, since it's OT time, tell me more about your International. I > am c

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> Is this the right room for an argument? > >> > > > > HA-H! > > > > I loved Flying Circus! > > No, you didn't! Well, now you're just cont

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464 0 100552704 105132032 > -/+ buffers/cache: 105779200 955699200 > Swap

Odd problem - Windows not seeing files from linux on a FAT32 partition?

2008-04-12 Thread Kevin C. Redden
Hi folks: Ran into a really bizare problem. I'm working on it in the usenet but thought you may be able to help too. I've got Debian 4+KDE fully installed on a PATA drive, Win2k/SP4 is my Windows on SATA drives. I've got a partition of 640 megs on the PATA drive, formatted in FAT32 that I use a

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Is this the right room for an argument? HA-H! I loved Flying Circus! No, you didn

Re: forgetting to snip

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Just a note: > > Posts recently are becoming many pages long with perhaps a one-liner > comment somewhere. People are forgetting to snip. Nah, just lazy. > Also, some people are forgetting to word-wrap. Some people might not k

Re: how to fix my broken system..

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:48:15PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 04/11/2008 03:59 AM, Jaisen N.D. wrote: >> Hai I have a problem here. >> I use Etch. I have installed a postgresql package from debian backports, >> with the following command. >> ---

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 05:45:01PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:36:26 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:18:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > ... > > > > > > As for everyone else why are we having this crap discussion > > > AGAIN. >

Re: forgetting to snip

2008-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/08 23:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Just a note: >> >> Posts recently are becoming many pages long with perhaps a one-liner >> comment somewhere. People are forgetting to sni

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Angus Auld wrote: > Would someone be able to advise me as to what is a > safe method to add a fortune command to my .bashrc > file so as to have fortune output in my terminal @ > login? > I've googled this pretty extensively, and have found a > few methods, but also warnings that certain processes

Re:%20Re: Help with upgrading

2008-04-12 Thread wwongdg
Thanks, everyone, I've got it. My blunder on /etc/mount which really should be /etc/fstab. Have to edit when grub is loading up. Change its entry from hda1 to sda1. And, you're right, nano is still available.

Re: system not using hosts file

2008-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian McKee wrote: > I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1 Because host is a BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) command it only reports DNS data from nameservers. /etc/hosts isn't a nameserver and so isn't used. This is also true of the 'dig' command. There are actually

Re: Odd problem - Windows not seeing files from linux on a FAT32 partition?

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:48:48PM -0400, Kevin C. Redden wrote: > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/bridge vfat > rw,auto,user,exec,sync,utf8,umask=0,gid=users 0 1 > I can see, access and save any file from a *normal* > linux account without a problem. However if I try to get to them from > Windows, the

Re: regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Samad wrote: > trying to look at a file with out the comments in it > i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. > but this left me with lots of blank lines. Try this: sed 's/[[:space:]]*;.*//' file | less -s The 'less -s' squeezes consecutive blank lines. See also 'more -s' an

Re: package conflict

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:56:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/12/08 20:30, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > dpkg can't get a lock on > > /var/lock/dpkg/ when you try to install both of these packages and this > > happens in the install phase when dictionaries-common gets contacted and > > asked to

Re: package conflict

2008-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/08 01:41, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:56:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/12/08 20:30, Jude DaShiell wrote: >>> dpkg can't get a lock on >>> /var/lock/dpkg/ when you try to install both of these packages and