Re: CPU frequency scaling

On 22/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? > -- > Vikki Roemer "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name" gives "model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor" Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:04:20AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: >> so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the >> emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I >> would then like to press and have the

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 08:46:40 Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:35:17 +0200, Thierry Chatelet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 88.131.106.6 > 6.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa is an alias for > 6.0-26.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa. > 6.0-26.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa domain na

Re: CPU frequency scaling

On 22/04/2008, Peter Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? > > -- > > Vikki Roemer > > > > "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name" > gives > "model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor"

Re: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:55:40AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > * From: "John Marvin L. Magsino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > would there be a way for me to serve my debian box application using the > > 2 public IPs > > search the net for lartc > > (for example, you could use two diffe

Re: website front-end

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:59:50PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: > On 22/04/2008, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:38:00 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that apache did a lot more than just relay > > http requests; that in fac

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 08:46:40 Bob Cox wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:35:17 +0200, Thierry Chatelet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 88.131.106.6 >> 6.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa is an alias for

Re: CPU frequency scaling

Peter Tynan wrote: On 22/04/2008, Peter Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 22/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? > -- > Vikki Roemer "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name" gives "model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Process

Re: CPU frequency scaling

On 22/04/2008, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Athlon XP processors don't support frequency scaling on desktop > motherboards. > > Sam Is it an Athlon XP $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD At

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 01:09, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 07:27:39 Lee Glidewell wrote: >> On Monday 21 April 2008 10:08:22 pm Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>> Hello >>> I know it's not really debian related, but: >>> A site call ripe.net is try

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:48:04 Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > the name. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. Old age, Ron? Well I guess I too am better to get use to it. Thierr

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe > > the syntax is correct; you might also want to try other options such as > hdb=none (if needed) > Thanks NN. Sadly, I tried b

Re: Which backup package?

Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:54:51 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:48:04 Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > > the name. > > > > -- > > Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: CPU frequency scaling

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:50:30AM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > Is it an Athlon XP have a look at http://www.daniel.nofftz.net/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:42:17AM -0500, lostson wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008 09:33, Robin wrote: > > Try update-menus as root > > That brought in qt4-designer in the debian menu but nothing anywhere else I > have qt4-config as well but that one is not showing up weird, thanks though > nev

Re: debian utility question

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk > permissions? On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk > repair utility there's a function for repair disk permissions which can > check permissions aga

Re: pdf plugin

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in > there. it opens the new tab but then starts a new window for xpdf > > this is the relevant line > > repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file" Can

Re: website front-end

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:30:16PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only > look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, > possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pther parts of > the URL. B

[SOLVED]Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 11:26:23 Peter Werner wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:48:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > > the name. > > it is calle

Re: Which backup package?

George Borisov wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. bacula. regar

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

Hello, On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:48:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > the name. it is called fail2ban. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: badblock can not be detected

On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh dear, that's quite a bad news. > that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset, > and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive, > then copy my data in again, it worked. but

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 03:54, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:48:04 Ron Johnson wrote: >> There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs >> and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember >> the name. >

Re: Which backup package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 04:24, George Borisov wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any >> suggestions, recommendations? > > I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it > out

Re: Sound Problems

Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot? After booting the system I have no sound, I the run alsaconf and everything works. //Ger On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 21:57 +, Jasper wrote: > Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > > > > To get the sound to work I have to run alsaconf > > every time I

preseed.cfg surprise

For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation. Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual installation choices made? The instructions I followed are in the debian installation m

Re: preseed.cfg surprise

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 05:25, Jude DaShiell wrote: > For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has > lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation. > Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual

Re: wakeonlan

NN_il_Confusionario: > > I suspect that when the power supply is "completely off" (first case), > then the harware (the nic) loses the status that makes it able to wake > on lan (a manual boot, with the re-initialization of the nic by the bios > would be necessary to re-enter the "wake on lan" sta

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

Jonathan Kaye: > > Thanks for the link. Just to be sure I understand, in my /boot/grub/menu.lst > file I have this: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro > I should change this line to > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe > > Is this

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot? > After booting the system I have no sound, I the run alsaconf > and everything works. > > > > fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) > run this command in a terminal before you run alsaconf and post its output.

Re: Sound Problems

fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) This returns nothing. //Ger On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:20 +, Jasper wrote: > fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) -- Gerard Hooton. Department of Microelectronic Engineering U.C.C. Butler Building, Enterprise Centre, North Mall. Cork. Tel: +353 21 490

RE: bits/news from the users of Debian?

Hello, After I read this post I decided to share one idea with you. It seems to be related to *debconf*. The Debian operating system is known for lack of nice-looking all-in-one configuration tool. Instead, it has the best existing packag

Re: is it possible to have clamd go to 90% of cpu ???

how do you switch to the volatile version / thanks mjh On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Monday 21 April 2008 19:54:16 Hose, vous avez écrit : > > > > On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: > > > I am running clamd for the first tim

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe > I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot up > routine paid absolutely no attent

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > It would be nice to write a simple text/gui based front-end for debconf > that scans all installed and configurable pachages (taking track on the > debconf severity selected) and lists them, eventually with some tips > about what this pachage is abo

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) > This returns nothing. > > //Ger > reasoning backwards, I would try ( before running alsaconf ): $( find /dev -group audio ) to see if the sounddevices are created cat /proc/asound/cards to see if your card is recogn

Re: Sound Problems

before running alsaconf: == ed:~# fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - Logitech EyeToy USB Camera Sony Corporation Logitech EyeToy USB Camera at usb-:00:10.1-2, full speed ed:~# lsmod |

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > before running alsaconf: > == > ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - Logitech EyeToy USB Camera > Sony Corporation Logitech EyeToy USB Camera at > usb-:00:10.1-2, full speed >

Re: Sound Problems

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:13 +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote: > Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot? > After booting the system I have no sound, I the run alsaconf > and everything works. > > //Ger > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02378.html -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL

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Re: Sound Problems

Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so I can't unplug the USB camera The /etc/modprobe.d/sound look like this: ed:~# more /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0 ed:~# On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:03 +, Jasper wrote: > Gerard Hooton ucc.

Burning Audio CD

Hi, I need advice on burning audio cd using command line. Here's what I use: To rip cd to wav: icedax dev=/dev/hdd -vall cddb=0 -B -Owav To burn wav to cd: wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav However, the issue I'm having is that for the burned audio CD, I always noticed t

Re: locale problems

s. keeling wrote the following on 04/21/2008 08:29 PM: Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that you

/dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP) i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently, i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my computer few times. i have messag

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

paragasu wrote: well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP) i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently, i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my computer few ti

Re: Sound Problems

Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so > I can't unplug the USB camera > The /etc/modprobe.d/sound look like this: > > ed:~# more /etc/modprobe.d/sound > alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx > options snd-via82xx index=0 > > alias snd-card-0 snd-v

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

"Alexandru Popa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It would be nice to write a simple text/gui based front-end for > debconf configure-debian Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Burning Audio CD

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To burn wav to cd: > > wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav I've always added -audio -pad when I burn CD's from wav files. Or, I just burn them in k3b, which works. But of course you wanted a command line

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. > one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP) > i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently, > i cannot cannot read or mount

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Is this a serious question? > George. well, i am sorry if this question look so stupid. but yes, i mean it. but i don't mind if you laugh or think it is a joke anyway

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800 paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed > or my hard disk is really dying? It could be either. The command you typed effectively formatted the disk. /dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. > > one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP)

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

> It could be either. The command you typed effectively formatted the > disk. > > /dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux equivalent of a black > hole. If you send the output of /dev/null to a file (which is exactly > what you have done) with a single chevron (>), it will overwrite > anything

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test > ls -lha /tmp/test > > Perhaps an EOF was written opps.. a correction. what i did was $cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 i forgot to include the cat command :(

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

paragasu wrote: well, i am sorry if this question look so stupid. but yes, i mean it. but i don't mind if you laugh or think it is a joke anyway Sorry but I assumed that if you knew about /dev/null and the use of ">" that you would also expect to break something if you redirected stuff direct

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

paragasu wrote: opps.. a correction. what i did was $cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 i forgot to include the cat command :( I think that would also result in an EOF being written to the target file. George. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test > > > ls -lha /tmp/test > > > > Perhaps an EOF was written > > opps.. a correction. > what i did was $cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 > i forgot to include the cat command :( Then you zeroe

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 2008-04-22 15:45 +0200, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800 > paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed >> or my hard disk is really dying? > > It could be either. The command you typed effec

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 2008-04-22 16:05 +0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test >> >> > ls -lha /tmp/test >> > >> > Perhaps an EOF was written >> >> opps.. a correction. >> what i did was $cat /dev/null >

Re: is it possible to have clamd go to 90% of cpu ???

Michael Habashy wrote: how do you switch to the volatile version / 1 - Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free 2 - Import the archive signing key: http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc 3 - edit the /et

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I would then like to press and have the text replaced by [

Strange window problem

For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with no cursor inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I use IceWm and unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out! I'd appreciate any tips o

Re: badblock can not be detected

On 22-Apr-08, at 6:06 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh dear, that's quite a bad news. that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset, and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive

Re: Which backup package?

On 21-Apr-08, at 7:17 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any sugges

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I am trying to get emacspeak work together with erc. I want all the incoming messages to be spoken out, but can't get it working. Google shows me that this is a debian specific thing, but the solutions I found for it did not work so far. I am trying this on a Debian sid system, but do use lenny an

Re: Strange window problem

> * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up try htop or pstree or many other similar tools -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

1024 cylinder limit.

i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard. during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of diskspace regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard. It this limit also true in debian?

Re: Strange window problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > try htop or pstree or many other similar tools As f

Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic link

Greetings; Well, locales is installed and working, I guess. Now I am getting screens full of messages like > ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a symbolic link I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to repeat, but not with every program. Anybody know how to fi

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it. > Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing. Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0 bytes long. I'm not going to test what it does t

Re: 1024 cylinder limit.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard. > during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of > diskspace > regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard. > It this limit also tr

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it. Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing. Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0 bytes long. I'm n

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0 > bytes long. I'm not going to test what it does to my hard drive, of > course. ;-) > i don't know what technical explanation behind this but i just found out, my hard disk die after i run this command. the hard disk cannot be

Re: Howto for ADempiere ERP under Debian Etch released

I would be very interested in an English translation. henryg --- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE! This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recicient's and may contain confidential or propr

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 09:32:38 paragasu wrote: > i don't know what technical explanation behind this but i just found out, > my hard disk die after i run this command. the hard disk cannot be > recognized > by udev (i am using sysresccd) and the hard disk produce error media error, > IO error,

Re: Aptitude Abnormality

Thanks, for the reply. On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:34:05 +0200 (CEST) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Minor problem... I thinks 8-) > > Just noted an error/warning during an install, as follows: > >"database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db fail

Re: Installing Madwifi (atheros drivers) into Debian Etch.

Hi, I'm trying to install the atheros drivers onto a desktop machine, and I've been told the version in stable has a bug in it. On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:32 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to build the following packages: > madwifi-source_1%3a0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etc

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro >> >> hdb=noprobe >> I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot

Re: Sound Problems

I made the suggested changes to the /etc/modprobe.d/sound And every thing now works. Thanks... //Ger On Tue, April 22, 2008 2:39 pm, Jasper wrote: > Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > >> >> Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so >> I can't unplug the USB camera >> The /etc/mo

Re: preseed.cfg surprise

Jude DaShiell wrote: > For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has > lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation. > Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual > installation choices made? The instructions I followed a

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 2008-04-22 18:13 +0200, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it. >> Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing. > > Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes

Re: Strange window problem

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200 > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > try htop or pstree or many othe

NC problem

I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I swap with on assignments). Anything I should try to get the install wor

Re: NC problem

Martin S wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I swap with on assignments). Anything I should try to ge

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > sudo update-initramfs -u I cannot directly confirm that step since I do not use initramfs-tools (I build my initrd, when it is needed, with yaird to avoid like a plague putting udev in the initrd. Well, I also do not use sudo but one

Re: Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic

> * From: "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a symbolic link > I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to repeat, but not with > every program. only the packages which execute ldconfig in they installation scripts (so packages

Problems with SATA and Mondo

Hello, sorry for this post but I don't find any valid information to solve my problem. I have installed a Debian Etch on an AMD64 computer. The system has three hard disc: 1 PATA and 2 SATA. With the 2 SATA disc I have build RAID 1 with "mdadm" and mounted LVM partitions on RAID 1 arrays. The

Re: pdf plugin

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03:31PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in > > there. it opens the new tab but then starts a new window for xpdf > > > > this is the relevant

xscreensaver

Hi I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd & pam-ldap). Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver I get permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive not sure where to look for this, xscreensaver seems to be the only app having problems

Re: Which backup package?

On 22-apr-2008, at 1:17, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? An

Re: Problems with SATA and Mondo

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:33:48PM +0200, Joan Carles Pineda wrote: > installed the official debian package mondo 2.20-1.1 from > ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable > I have the same problem with the 2 SATA disks (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb) and > I can't to access to them. > I don't have any proble

Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

Hello, I want to call a script after I plugged my USB scanner. I use udev for this by adding a rule [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat z_local.rules SYSFS{idVendor}=="1606", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0010", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", NAME="umax%n", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/umax1220u start", [EMA

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:17:08 paragasu wrote: > After browsing through that hard disk. i know there is nothing i want there > and i want to format > it. And trying to experiment with command (i did mention it) i > type %cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 (all local hard disk shown as /sda*, sdb* > in my

Re: removed root directory files

I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command. Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and was really just a backup so nothing was lost. Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless. Thanks for your help and I'll be using "rm *"

Re: xscreensaver

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:36:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd & > pam-ldap). Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver > I get > > permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive > > not sure w

Re: removed root directory files

Abraham Chaffin wrote: I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command. Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and was really just a backup so nothing was lost. Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless. Thanks for your he

Re: Burning Audio CD

On 2008-04-22, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To burn wav to cd: >> >> wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav > > I've always added -audio -pad when I burn CD's from wav files. Or, I > just burn the

Re: Strange window problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:35:45 +0200 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200 > > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Strange window problem

Frank wrote: For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with no cursor inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I use IceWm and unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out! I'd apprecia

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