OT: welcome back (was Re: Running app full-screen)

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 09:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I think (its been many years since I tried) that most if not all X apps will accept a --geometry setting on the command line. Once you get that right, there's a file (I forget the name) in your home directory that maps Xresources (that may be the

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 08:59 PM, H. S. wrote: [...] Now, if understand this right, with that rootnoverify stuff in Debian grub, that entry will lead me to FC9's grub, correct? In that case, I still don't have the grub.conf in FC9's grub. How do I go about getting that? grub-install seemed not to work in t

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: [...] This sounded really promising. I was going to try it. But now the stupid computer won't boot past "setting the system clock" in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. Time to reinstall again, I suppose. This is becoming stupid. I sincerely hope y

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-14 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Saturday 11 October 2008 16:30:21 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 22:10 +0200, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > > I'm looking to setup Kerberos with an LDAP backend, I have found a couple > > of howtos and nothing seems to be complete. > > > > Has anybody set this up before and have d

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-14 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Friday 10 October 2008 23:03:38 Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > > Has anybody set this up before and have documentation on how to replicate > > it. > > I had an existing LDAP setup for Linux/AIX/Samba - and it was trivial > to get Heimdal-kdc up and ru

hanging on startup

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Brucken
Hi, my system amd64/unstable won't start up anymore after latest upgrade. Last message before booting stops is "dirmngr..." I cannot give more details right now. Anyone with same experience out there? Cheers, Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/14 Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am looking for suggestions on finding a > good VPS hosting company, or suggestions on Google-fu for effective > research on my own (so far I have managed to find only masses of adverts), > or pointers on trying something else. > I made a shortli

RE: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread paul
> > But what is the way to avoid those messages entirely? Set logging to the level you choose. Try "man klogd" without the quotes. Paul www.MasterMOZ.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's the recommended Debian way to do so? I've tried a) create $HOME/bin/backup.sh script b) sudo ln -is $HOME/bin/backup.sh /etc/cron.daily and it appears to

Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-10-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Carlos, Am 2008-10-10 10:55:22, schrieb Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe: > Hi, Mr Konzack, Mrs. ;-) > Thank you very much for your time and guidance. > > In fact, our cabling is in poor condition, right now, so we're budgeting > to replace all of it soon, with a new CAT6 harness. I'll arrange

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2008-Oct-14, at 12:34 AM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hence my request for advice. I am looking for suggestions on finding a good VPS hosting company, or suggestions on Google-fu for effective research on my own (so far I have managed to find only masses of adverts), or pointers on trying some

Re: Rejuvenated kernel-package uploaded to unstable, please test

2008-10-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Manoj and other Kernel-Maintainers, Thank you for doing this hard job... I am ongoing to test the new "kernel-package". Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -

virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Dear all, I currently run e-mail and web services for my little domain from my home box, connected to the net with DSL. The other day, the network burped and I was offline for several hours... Basically, I've grown frustrated with trying to host important services off a consumer-grade network lin

what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi list! I was trying to backport libcups2-dev from lenny to etch when I met with the following error (from config.log) g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie > with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's > the recommended Debian way to do so? > > I've tried > a) create $HOME/bin/backup.sh script >

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/14 paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Basicly, if you are looking for VPS. go for XEN based VPS because it is > better. Not in all cases. See http://vpslink.com/compare/openvz-vs-xen-vps-hosting/ > You need VPS with at least 256MB dedicated memory. Not necessarily. I would start off with

Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-14 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: but at the same time i read the release notes for the new Ubuntu beta, and its really nice. I *want* Gnome 2.24 (the auto Unstable is at GNOME v2.22.5 I said: Unstable (or Sid) has been at 2.23 for a short while, and is already transitioning to 2.24. Let me cla

Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > my /var/log/Xorg.21.log is huge, I just noticed it looking for something > ELSE.. > lots,lots, LOTS of lines like this: > > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/

Re: what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:37:56PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:57:56AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > >Hi list! > > > > > > > >I was trying to backport libcups2

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > > > If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie > > with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's > > the recommended Debian way to d

Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
Aioanei Rares wrote: > > >> Maybe more info would help people able to help..like the output of lspci >> -v...why > lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device 01db Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 14:55:15 +0100, michael wrote: > ratty:~# ls /var/mail > mail michael > ratty:~# You might find that /var/mail/mail is mail for the root user. Steve -- Managed Anti-Spam Service http://mail-scanning.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 14:55 +0100, michael wrote: > > I suggest writing/rewriting backup.sh so that it writes its output > > to well-defined files, rather than relying on the behaviour of > > standard output/error. > > I thought about this but presumed if there was an already set-up > mechani

lsmod question

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In the 'lsmod' list I find this: ... ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent] ... yet in the .config of 2.6.26-1-686 I see: ... CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m ... question: how does that entry in lsmod come about + what does it mean? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

RE: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread paul
[snip>...I am looking for suggestions on finding a good VPS hosting company, or >suggestions on Google-fu for effective...[snip] If you are looking for very low cost you can be hosted on a shared server. This is achieved through sharing 1 server with maybe 100 of websites through apache's virtual

Fwd: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM Subject: Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Aioanei Rares wro

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:57 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 14:55:15 +0100, michael wrote: > > > ratty:~# ls /var/mail > > mail michael > > ratty:~# > > You might find that /var/mail/mail is mail for the root user. > > Steve well I did check it ;) but it didn't have a rece

Re: lsmod question

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 09:03, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In the 'lsmod' list I find this: ... ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent] ... yet in the .config of 2.6.26-1-686 I see: ... CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m ... question: how does that entry in lsmod come about + what does it mean? Didn't you ask t

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >hello all, > > > >I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my > >21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in > >iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I

Re: lsmod question

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 09:03, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, question: how does that entry in lsmod come about + what does it mean? Didn't you ask this a couple of hours ago? Frank Lanitz answered you 30 minutes later. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/10/msg00744.html I

Re: lsmod q

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank Lanitz wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:52:13 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, In the 'lsmod' list I find this: ... ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent] ... yet in the .config of 2.6.26-1-686 I see: ... CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m ... question: how does that entry in

Re: Fwd: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
Aioanei Rares wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM > Subject: Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL

Re: Fwd: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Aioanei Rares wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM > > Subject: Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) > > To: [E

live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. Or if you have a better solution, here is my problem: On 3 debian laptops with lvm, the root partition is too small. So I have problems when aptitude upgrade the kernel. I got the error message: no place left on device. Last time I got around using

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Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:55:15 +0200 Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. Or if you have a better > solution, here is my problem: > On 3 debian laptops with lvm, the root partition is too small. So I > have problems when aptitude upgrade the

Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me a 5MBs boost but that was all. I also tried blacklisti

Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time = 180 } To hdparm.conf to spin down the disk after 15 minutes of inactivity to save power (y

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:21:59 +, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking > capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly > installed lenny. > > How can I get it back? Did you check if it is activated? Edit > Preferenc

Re: Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 11:50, Sam Leon wrote: I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me a 5MBs boost but tha

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-14 17:55, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On 3 debian laptops with lvm, the root partition is too small. So I have > As far as I see, you can resize the lvm without unmounting /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html- 11.9. Extending a logical volume To extend a logica

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time = 180 } To hdparm.conf to spin down the disk after 15 min

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:59 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 14:55 +0100, michael wrote: > > > > I suggest writing/rewriting backup.sh so that it writes its output > > > to well-defined files, rather than relying on the behaviour of > > > standard output/error. > > > > I thoug

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 01:41 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/13/2008 08:59 PM, H. S. wrote: > > [...] <--deleted--> > > My Debian system doesn't have a grub.conf but a /boot/grub/menu.lst > instead. I create boot stanzas by modifying menu.lst, but I've heard > that FC users need to edit grub.co

/var/run/Xorg.0.log error message

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
I was trying to figure out an Xorg.log error, which pointed to acpid.socket . my Xorg.21.log ended with these lines ( lots of them) tail Xorg.21.log (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) (WW) Open ACPI

FW: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread paul
REVISED FOR I SAID "man klogd" meaning "man logd" >SNIP> But what is the way to avoid those messages entirely? >SNIP> Set logging to the level you choose. Try "man logd" without the quotes. Paul www.MasterMOZ.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:57:56AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > >Hi list! > > > >I was trying to backport libcups2-dev from lenny to etch when I met > >with the following error (from config.log) > > > > >/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such f

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-14 06:30, Carl Fink wrote: > But now the stupid computer won't boot past "setting the system clock" in > Linux. Still works fine in Windows. This happens occasionally on my lenny thinkpad as well ;-( (Last kernel upgrade?) Usually it will reboot just fine. HTH, Johannes signatur

Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-06 18:40, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi. Im running Lenny on two computers, and have been very happy with > it. Nothings ever really been broken, so i dont think that a "stable" > version is necessary for what i need. > > I dont really want to go "unstable"--the name alone scares m

New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread David Baron
I have Debian Sid (with KDE4) in various partitions, shared with three vfats for Win98, Shared data and audio files, on two 40gig disks. I have had to make a lot of partitions to expand and shoe-horn in as the linux needs expanded. So one of these 40gigers, a maxtor which has been giving problem

Re: lsmod question

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In the 'lsmod' list I find this: ... ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent] ... yet in the .config of 2.6.26-1-686 I see: ... CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m ... question: how does that entry in lsmod come about + what does it mean? Hugo Sorry for asking this 2x. T

Re: Fwd: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
Aioanei Rares wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Aioanei Rares wrote: >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM >>> Subject: Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/ru

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 13 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > But does it address the original issue? The original report is > > that menu.lst is overwritten without notice. > > A fact that is noted in that file, by the way. > > In the top, there are pointers to documentation on

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hal Vaughan escreveu: > I don't mean this with any offense, but you're so wrapped up in the > details you're not seeing what's going on. You're re-arranging the > deck chairs on the Titanic. I may be, after all this thread has been going on very long. So I kindly ask you to summarize what did y

Re: choice of debian kernel for etch

2008-10-14 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Tuesday 14 October 2008 07:53:12 Boris Demirov, vous avez écrit : > Boris Demirov wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have this situation where I want to select an already recompiled > > debian kernel for the following hw: > > > > 16GB ram > > Intel E5420 xeon (2x4 cores cpu) > > > > with the requireme

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan escreveu: > > I don't mean this with any offense, but you're so wrapped up in the > > details you're not seeing what's going on. You're re-arranging the > > deck chairs on the Titanic. > > I may be, after all this thread has bee

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Hard Drive Spin Down >Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:25:58 -0500 > >>On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: >>> I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I >am >>> using rsnapsho

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: I take it I will need to get a Krb5 schema file for ldap? Yes, and iirc, one comes with Heimdal package (likely in /usr/share/doc) if you can't find one, let me know Yea I'm not actually sure why we need kerberos, but my boss seems to think we d

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hal Vaughan escreveu: > It was two years ago. I don't remember all the details, but basically I > did something like "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade", got a new > kernel image, and a clobbered menu.lst and it took me hours before I > got the server up and running. The system worked fine u

lsmod q

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In the 'lsmod' list I find this: ... ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent] ... yet in the .config of 2.6.26-1-686 I see: ... CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m ... question: how does that entry in lsmod come about + what does it mean? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Julian Blake Kongslie
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 15:08 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > As a user, you run apt and get notified that important files > may be changed. [snip] Sorry, but you've said this several times in this thread, and it's just wrong. Apt/dpkg/whathaveyou do *not* notify the user whenever they are going

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:36:25 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 13 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > I only wanted to point out that there is a direct logical line from > > the replies to your bug report to the relevant documentation. > > Therefore I think that your complaints

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 20:01 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I have Debian Sid (with KDE4) in various partitions, shared with three vfats > for Win98, Shared data and audio files, on two 40gig disks. I have had to > make > a lot of partitions to expand and shoe-horn in as the linux needs expanded. >

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:55 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. Or if you have a better solution, > here is my problem: > On 3 debian laptops with lvm, the root partition is too small. So I have > problems when aptitude upgrade the kernel. I got the e

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 14:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Ron is correct (as usual); there are lots of housekeeping that must Just on the easy stuff. Debian does so much for us, and daemons like Postfix are so stable, with simple-to-read text files that they can run unattended for years, leading to

Re: hanging on startup

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:42:25 +0300, Erik Brucken wrote: > Hi, > > my system amd64/unstable won't start up anymore after latest upgrade. Last > message before booting stops is "dirmngr..." I cannot give more details right > now. Anyone with same experience out there? I run Sid/amd64 as well,

Re: Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 11:50, Sam Leon wrote: I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan escreveu: > > It was two years ago. I don't remember all the details, but > > basically I did something like "aptitude update && aptitude > > upgrade", got a new kernel image, and a clobbered menu.lst and it > > took me hours be

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
my /var/log/Xorg.21.log is huge, I just noticed it looking for something ELSE.. lots,lots, LOTS of lines like this: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (C

Re: what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hans Ekbrand wrote: Hi list! I was trying to backport libcups2-dev from lenny to etch when I met with the following error (from config.log) /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory How do I get around this? I did try to build cups again aft

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. I'm using trinity rescue at http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 I don't know, but I think lenny beta installer perhaps has lvm's tools instaled in r

Best Mozilla plugin for viewing WMV?

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
mozplugger or totem-mozilla or mozilla-plugin-vlc? Or something else entirely? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: lsmod q

2008-10-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:40 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > That means if I wait a little bit that '[permanent]' should go. > Let me see. It seems that [permanent] means the module can't be unloaded; I guess it's unlikely to go away soon. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Abel McClendon
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:04:07 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe this is not the nicer way things could work, but given the constrains > in which Debian operates, the mailing lists are where we have more attention > and "human resources" t

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread paragasu
i do some research on the internet about vps server. Basicly, if you are looking for VPS. go for XEN based VPS because it is better. Basicly there is two package, unmanaged and managed VPS. Unmanaged is cheaper. With VPS you have to install the package on your own. So, sure you can install Exim, A

Re: lsmod q

2008-10-14 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:52:13 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > In the 'lsmod' list I find this: > > ... > ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent] > ... > > yet in the .config of 2.6.26-1-686 I see: > ... > CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m > ... > > question: how does that entr

Re: which debian port shouls i use for quad core xeon

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 07:20, Siju George wrote: Hi, I am purchasing a few quad core Xeon based servers. Which port of debian should I use on them. Is it the amd64 port? Typically the answer is "amd64", but if you need some special closed-source app that only comes in 32-bit mode, then go for the i386

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: hello all, I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my 21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I found some K settings app to change those fonts. Is there a simple app to inst

Re: FW: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 07:12:11AM -0400, paul wrote: > REVISED FOR I SAID "man klogd" meaning "man logd" > >SNIP> But what is the way to avoid those messages entirely? >SNIP> > > Set logging to the level you choose. Try "man logd" without the quotes. > If you do that, you'll turn off all logg

Re: Which package provides lvcreate

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:41:47PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:37:39AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > For operational help for standard stuff, I always refer to the > > LVM-HOWTO. Its available with all the other

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:55:15PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > > I think the standard output for jobs run out of cron.daily will > > typically go to root's mailbox. > > Well, root seems not

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Keep replies to the list. > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >hello all, > >

Re: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:18:19AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > True. That's firehol. Never heard of firehol. Can you tell it what to expect and not log? > Where've you been for 3 months Doug? Moving from Kingston to Orillia. Note the new email address. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:34:53AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/13/2008 09:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Welcome back Douglas. I hope you had a great vacation. > No vacation. Moving. nice to be back. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:56:54AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/11/08 18:24, Abel McClendon wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:09:23 -0400 Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oct 11 14:08:45 debian kernel: [44140.916755] Inbound IN=

Re: hanging on startup

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:42:25AM +0300, Erik Brucken wrote: > Hi, > > my system amd64/unstable won't start up anymore after latest upgrade. Last > message before booting stops is "dirmngr..." I cannot give more details right > now. Anyone with same experience out there? > No experience since

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:34:05PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Basically, I've grown frustrated with trying to host important services > off a consumer-grade network link. A little googling and Wikipedia-ing > reveals that what I probably want is a "virtual private server". Then I > can still

puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Hello, Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in installing and running it, could you share your experience. By the way, Fedora uses pulseaudio (FC8 and FC9). It looks like it works very well there

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Carl Fink engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:18:25AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: >--} > On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: >--} >> [...] >--} >> This sounded really promising.  I was going to try it. >--} >> >--} >> But now the stupi

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 21:28:50 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > This can easily be done with a Xen guest. Not possible, from what I can > tell, with a OpenVZ host. Also OpenVZ can be oversold easily, whereas the same can't be done with Xen. (Well not memory anyway.) Xen is probably a nice o

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Aneurin Price
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: >> But does it address the original issue? The original report is that >> menu.lst is overwritten without notice. >> > > A fact that is noted in that file, by the way. > > In the top, there are p

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes
On 2008-10-14 22:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Google lvm tldp for the howto. or just: # aptitude install doc-linux-html $ iceweasel /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/index.html & Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

2008-10-14 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:02:54 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking >> capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly >> installed lenny. >> >> How can I get it back? > > Did you check if it is activated? > > Edit > Prefe

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Nick Lidakis
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: hello all, I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my 21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I found some K settings app to change those fonts. Is there a simple app to inst

Re: what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:57:56AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > >Hi list! > > > > > >I was trying to backport libcups2-dev from lenny to etch when I met > > >with the following error (from config

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Douglas A. Tutty escreveu: > I think its somewhere in the settings but I can't figure out how to get > there. I thought it was about:settings but that doesn't work. > > I also need to change the browser ID to firefox, which is on that same > settings page but I can't remember how to get there. >

Re: what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:37:56PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:57:56AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >

which debian port shouls i use for quad core xeon

2008-10-14 Thread Siju George
Hi, I am purchasing a few quad core Xeon based servers. Which port of debian should I use on them. Is it the amd64 port? thanks Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X terminal problems

2008-10-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Andreas, Am 2008-10-10 18:57:14, schrieb Andreas Ronnquist: > and then it's like the first 8 characters is part of the prompt, and > won't go away no matter how much I press backspace. (a simple enter > restores the prompt though.) > > Is it some buffer that I must increase or something simpl

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what > is its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been > successful in installing and running it, could you share your > experience. > > By the way, Fedora uses p

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