Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:29:57PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > It is semi-on-topic for this list to discuss work-arounds for Debian-provided > clients, most of which boil down to using Reply-To-All and then editing the > To/Cc lines to match list policy. Actually, I'd say that the maj

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
10/12/2009 03:44 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: Thunderbird by default does not have that feature, even under Linux You are wrong. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 -- T

Re: Fonts looking bad on qt apps

2009-10-13 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Any one else has noticed this problem and found a fix for that? I would > appreciate any pointers to fix this problem. Same problem here, Debian Squeeze/Testing amd64, Gnome, using e.g. LyX or Kile. There seems to be something wrong with the way qtconfig loads its settings when you're a normal

Re: Fonts looking bad on qt apps

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Jean-François Pirlet at 2009-10-13 18:12... >> Any one else has noticed this problem and found a fix for that? I would >> appreciate any pointers to fix this problem. > > Same problem here, Debian Squeeze/Testing amd64, Gnome, using e.g. LyX > or Kile. There seems to be something wrong with

Re: install CD live

2009-10-13 Thread Michal
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, is it possible to installthe CDLive debian on harddisk, if so how thanks a lot bela Do you mean so the CD image is bootable from the HDD? Or install Debian from the live CD? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Clewlow
> I don't run the xserver by entering startx in the console. I have it starting > and running automatically via an entry in ~/.bash_profile. >> All entries in your .Xsession or similar must end with &, so >> they'll >> run in the background, except the last one. This last one should be >> your win

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Terence
2009/10/13 Dave Sherohman : > The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, > even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to go > to the list, directing an intended-private message to the list causes > over 100 times more harm than a message intended for

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:02:19 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 22:52, Lisi wrote: > [...] > > > Yes.  But I omitted to mention that because I forgot, that putting an & > > after both startx and Idesk results in Idesk running correctly - but only > > if and when I open a termina

install CD live

2009-10-13 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, is it possible to installthe CDLive debian on harddisk, if so how thanks a lot bela

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:23:30AM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Granted, for most lists, the substantial majority of replies are > > intended to go to the list, but the greater degree of harm caused by > > inadvertently publicizing priv

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hello Dave, On 2009-10-13, Dave Sherohman wrote: > [...] > The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, > even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to go > to the list, directing an intended-private message to the list causes > over 100 times more ha

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Christer Oldhoff wrote: > Hello Dave, > > On 2009-10-13, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >> [...] >> The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, >> even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to go >> to the list, directing an

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hello Mark, On 2009-10-13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > [...] > Yes, you are sounding so reasonable. As a final accord, would you, > please, to post an instruction how to tune up GMail web client to use > Sorry, I do not know how to do that since I have never used GMail. I read and post to the list

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 13 Out 2009, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: 10/12/2009 03:44 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: Thunderbird by default does not have that feature, even under Linux You are wrong. Really? Because all the Thunderbirds/Icedoves I've used never had this feature. Thunderbird 3 is reported to h

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 13 Out 2009, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Yes, you are sounding so reasonable. As a final accord, would you, please, to post an instruction how to tune up GMail web client to use 'List Reply' field in messages? That's unfortunately not possible, because Gmail does not have this feature. And

Command arguments autocompletion

2009-10-13 Thread Matteo Riva
I noticed that in a shell I can use tab-complete even on command arguments, as in: $ aptitude sa will expand to $ aptitude safe-upgrade How does this work? Where does bash look for possible completion candidates? Has it always been like this or is this a recently new feature (I could swea

Re: Command arguments autocompletion

2009-10-13 Thread Reinaldo Orrego
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Matteo Riva wrote: > I noticed that in a shell I can use tab-complete even on command > arguments, as in: > >  $ aptitude sa > > will expand to > >  $ aptitude safe-upgrade > > How does this work?  Where does bash look for possible completion > candidates?  Has it

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-13 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha Feigin schreef: There were times when software would modify itself in memory due to lack of memory space. I also saw contests where people wrote programs that would read the same start to end and end to start (forgot what that is called). A palindrome Sjoerd signature.asc Description:

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-13 Thread Terence
2009/10/13 Sjoerd Hardeman : > Micha Feigin schreef: >> > A palindrome > > Sjoerd > > "The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob. It don't work." Sorry! : ) Terence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > connect a usb device (at least the error message says the hypervisor > does not support the hostdev xml that I was trying t

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:10:40 -0700, Consultores in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > El lun, 12-10-2009 a las 07:28 -0500, green escribió: >> Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-10-11 22:27 -0500: >> > I think your position is analogous to that of an American tourist in Paris >> > who gets all bent out of

Re: Iceape video problem

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:58:17PM -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:35:24AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Problem: Now that I understand to enter about:config in the search field > > I can find plugin.expose_full_path but cannot edit the value to change > > it from fal

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.4 released

2009-10-13 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Dear Debian Users, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.4. Release Highlights * Finished up most packaging work for Debian * Fixed a bug in offline bug report handling when using a folder as the install argument apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.

Desktop freezes while browsing

2009-10-13 Thread shankarananda
I am using Debian-testing ( weekly build ) iso updated on 28-sep-09. Problem is, My desktop freezes often. I have attached a log file with this post. Have a look at the end part of it. I am using Debian-testing ( weekly build ) iso updated on 28-sep-09. Problem is, My desktop freezes often. I

Re: NFS or SSHFS?

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi list, > > Do you know pros and cons of using SSHFS instead NFS to share a lot of > debian folders? I know NFS is proven and has good performance with a > lot of shares and intensive use. BUT I don't know if SSHFS have been > proven to work under this circumstances.

Re: Fwd: Configure wifi access / Free.Fr / WPA (TKIP/AES)

2009-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:37:28 -0700 Kelly Clowers wrote: ... > Have you tried: > wpa-driver nl80211 > > I think wpasupplicant defaults to wext, but as the Intel 4965 is a > mac80211- using card, it should be using the new netlink/cfg80211 > interface. FWIW, I use wpa_supplicant with the b43 dri

Re: Configure wifi access / Free.Fr / WPA (TKIP/AES)

2009-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:03:22 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying a very simple task: connect to my wifi using a my > debian box. Setup: My wifi box is made by Free.Fr (French ADSL > provider). I did setup the SSID to be foobar, no broadcast, and > security "WPA (TKIP+AES

Re: Libata in Debian GNU/Linux Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Mirko. On Monday, 12 October 2009 14:06:32 +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:55:28PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > > I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 > > > > stock kernel installed from a binary image from Debian repositories. > > >

Can't Intialize Security Component

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Suddenly when iceape email client is started I get a message, "Cannot initialize browsers security component." I haven't changed any settings so I don't know what has gone wrong. The system is squeeze and the email client is iceape. Any suggestions as to how to correct this problem? Tom -- T

How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...

2009-10-13 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror It would chug away for a minute or two, then give you

gnome window placement (particularly iceweasel)

2009-10-13 Thread michael
Howdy folks, I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny on amd64. I notice that now some windows change their position particularly iceweasel. I have 4 workspaces and 2 monitors (and use nVidia's own driver). The two "features" I've noticed but wish to control are a) if iceweasel starts on the right h

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...

2009-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:36 +1100 Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > Greetings, > > When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how > much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you > didn't confuse the input and output!): > > dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev

How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...

2009-10-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Frank McCormick put forth on 10/13/2009 9:48 AM: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:36 +1100 > Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how >> much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you >> didn't

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:01:23 -0500 Dave Sherohman wrote: ... > better email client". I know mutt supports reply-to-list (I'm using > it right now) and I'm pretty sure I've seen people here saying that > Thunderbird supports it natively in the latest version (and with a > plugin in earlier versi

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...

2009-10-13 Thread Jari Fredriksson
13.10.2009 17:41, Frank Charles Gallacher kirjoitti: Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerro

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Gaspar Núñez
hi i´m trying to change from windows to a free OS and i'd like to try Debian however i´m having some problems to install it and the packages that i need to do my work right know i would appreciate some help on the following: i've dowloaded several times dvds 1 and 2 (debian-503-i386-DVD-1.iso an

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:44:22 -0500 Gaspar Núñez wrote: > hi > > i´m trying to change from windows to a free OS Please create a new thread for new questions, and don't start a new topic by replying to an existing one with unrelated material. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access v

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:33:28 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 10/13/2009 10:26 AM: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:01:23 -0500 > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> better email client". I know mutt supports reply-to-list (I'm > >> using it right now) and I'm pretty sure

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 10. 2009 17:44:22 je Gaspar Núñez napisal(a): > hi > > i´m trying to change from windows to a free OS > and i'd like to try Debian > however i´m having some problems to install it > and the packages that i need to do my work > > right know i would appreciate some help on the following: >

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:44:22 Gaspar Núñez wrote: > i´m trying to change from windows to a free OS > and i'd like to try Debian > however > > i've dowloaded several times dvds 1 and 2 > (debian-503-i386-DVD-1.iso and debian-503-i386-DVD-2.iso) > but when i check the md5 sum the codes never ma

[OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 10/13/2009 10:26 AM: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:01:23 -0500 > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > ... > >> better email client". I know mutt supports reply-to-list (I'm using >> it right now) and I'm pretty sure I've seen people here saying that >> Thunderbird supports it natively in t

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...

2009-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:41:36AM +1100, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > Greetings, > > When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how > much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you > didn't confuse the input and output!): > > dd if=/dev/mem of

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 17:44:22 Gaspar Núñez wrote: > hi > > i´m trying to change from windows to a free OS > and i'd like to try Debian > however i´m having some problems to install it > and the packages that i need to do my work > > right know i would appreciate some help on the following:

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dean Chester wrote: > Hi, > I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using > linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers > and because we have to run our network with in another network so we are > hoping to run the 1 server as a copy of the o

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:21:40AM EDT, Terence wrote: > 2009/10/13 Dave Sherohman : > > The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, > > even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to > > go to the list, directing an intended-private message to the lis

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
I'm on T-Bird 2.0.0.23 (latest) and I don't have a reply-to-list option. Is this something I have to set manually in about:config? Sure would save me some time manually editing the recipient list with each reply. -- Stan Here it is: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:33:28 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm on T-Bird 2.0.0.23 (latest) and I don't have a reply-to-list > option. Is this something I have to set manually in about:config? > Sure would save me some time manually editing the recipient list with > each reply. For T-Bird/Icedove th

Re: Command arguments autocompletion

2009-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:24:17PM +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: > I noticed that in a shell I can use tab-complete even on command > arguments, as in: > > $ aptitude sa > > will expand to > > $ aptitude safe-upgrade > > How does this work? Where does bash look for possible completion > candid

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:40:09AM EDT, Terence wrote: > 2009/10/13 Sjoerd Hardeman : > > Micha Feigin schreef: > >> > > > A palindrome > > > > Sjoerd > > > > > > "The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob. It don't work." > > Sorry! : ) > > Terence It's called a vim ;-) http://vim.wikia.com/w

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lee Winter
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:21:40AM EDT, Terence wrote: >> 2009/10/13 Dave Sherohman : > >> > The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, >> > even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to >> > go

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Gaspar Núñez
i apologize for not having started a new thread (i thouhgt i was doing that) i'll try to find out how (any direction is welcomed) thanks for the tip to check goodby-microsoft gaspar On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 Octo

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:03:50AM EDT, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 13 Out 2009, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: >> 10/12/2009 03:44 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: >>> Thunderbird by default does not have that feature, even under Linux >> >> You are wrong. > > Really? Because all the Thunderbi

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:09:22 Lee Winter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:21:40AM EDT, Terence wrote: > >> 2009/10/13 Dave Sherohman : > >> > The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, > >> > even though 99

Re: Configure wifi access / Free.Fr / WPA (TKIP/AES)

2009-10-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:03:22 +0200 > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I am trying a very simple task: connect to my wifi using a my >> debian box. Setup: My wifi box is made by Free.Fr (French ADSL >> provider). I did setup the SSID to be foobar, no broadcast, an

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...

2009-10-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 13 Out 2009, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror It would ch

Re: Configure wifi access / Free.Fr / WPA (TKIP/AES)

2009-10-13 Thread Mark
>> I am trying a very simple task: connect to my wifi using a my >> debian box. Setup: My wifi box is made by Free.Fr (French ADSL >> provider). I did setup the SSID to be foobar, no broadcast, and >> security "WPA (TKIP+AES)". I hit generate and it gives me a password. >> I can connect using Win

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:12:04 -0500 Gaspar Núñez wrote: > i apologize for not having started a new thread > (i thouhgt i was doing that) > i'll try to find out how (any direction is welcomed) A new thread is started by simply composing and sending a mail to the list address, not replying to an ex

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 18:09:22 Lee Winter wrote: > Consider an email UI that offered the following choices: >     - reply to sender (only) >     - reply to list (only) >     - reply to all > This would appear to make it possible for the user to establish a > default preference and selectively

keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Israel Garcia
Hi List, It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two latest (newest) files? -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Command arguments autocompletion

2009-10-13 Thread Matteo Riva
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > The code for that is through programmable bash completion: > >  /etc/bash_completion      - the base "scriptlet" >  /etc/bash_completion.d/*  - extensions by various packages [snip] Thank you very much Tzarfir. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi List, > > It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). > > How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two > latest (newest) files? > how about something like this to start: for file in $(ls -tA | egrep -v "$(ls -tA |head -n

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Erickson
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi List, > > It's a simple  question but difficult to me :-). > > How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two > latest (newest)  files? Here's one way, (warning: this will probably break painfully on filenames with

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Israel Garcia
On 10/13/09, Michael Erickson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). >> >> How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two >> latest (newest) files? > > Here's one way, (warning: thi

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Israel Garcia
On 10/13/09, Jeff D wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Israel Garcia wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). >> >> How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two >> latest (newest) files? >> > how about something like this to start: > for file

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Israel Garcia
On 10/13/09, Jeff D wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Israel Garcia wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). >> >> How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two >> latest (newest) files? >> > how about something like this to start: > for file

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Israel Garcia skrev: Hi List, It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two latest (newest) files? untested, run it with 'echo' in front first to test: rm $(ls -rt | sed '1,2d') -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:09:22PM EDT, Lee Winter wrote: [..] > This is an excellent example of why there should not be a globally > defined policy denying the utility of potentially useful features. No global policy..? Sounds like an oxymoron to me. What do you recommend? A policy that is u

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: > You can rearrange the order in which things are started in your > .xsession file, ie you dont have to start the window manager last. [snip] > Basically, when the script finishes, X will close - so dont let the > script finish - thats what the

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 22:31:20 Chris Jones wrote: > The crux of this issue is that as usual the M$ MUA does not do things > right and as a result a slew of mailing list providers started messing > up their headers to accomadate _them_ > > And a host of so-called GNU/linux MUA's followed suit.

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > > connect a usb device (at least the error message says the > > hypervisor

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread ghe
On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Chris Jones wrote: The crux of this issue is that as usual the M$ MUA does not do things right and as a result a slew of mailing list providers started messing up their headers to accomadate _them_ And a host of so-called GNU/linux MUA's followed suit. Two wrongs

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: >> You can rearrange the order in which things are started in your >> .xsession file, ie you dont have to start the window manager last. > [snip] >> Basically, when the script finishes, X will close - so dont let >> the >> script finish - tha

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:35:19PM EDT, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Israel Garcia skrev: >> Hi List, >> >> It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). >> >> How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two >> latest (newest) files? >> >> > untested, run it with 'echo' in

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:21:21PM EDT, ghe wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > Or you could get procmail to add a Reply-To to incoming Debian list > email. Naturally.. let them do their own munging. [..] CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Lee Winter
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:09:22PM EDT, Lee Winter wrote: > > [..] > >> This is an excellent example of why there should not be a globally >> defined policy denying the utility of potentially useful features. > > No global policy..? Sounds like

Re: NFS or SSHFS?

2009-10-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, so far I can remember NSF was not considered as a safe network stuff (see harden-servers) : may be the last version is safer. Jerome Michael Pobega wrote: On 0, Israel Garcia wrote: Hi list, Do you know pros and cons of using SSHFS instead NFS to share a lot of debian folders?

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread John Hasler
Lee Winter writes: > The fact that some people fear inadvertent embarassment does not > justify the administrative imposition of rules to "protect" all users > by eliminating options they would reasonably expect to have available. You are the one asking for the administrative imposition of rules.

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Neal Hogan
My goodness! This and the other 50 threads on the same topic in the last two months need to stop. Really! Some have problems with receiving mail from certain providers. Others have problems with users of providers that have "acceptable" features. Others just like to keep threads like this going. I

Re: Ubuntu noninteractive aptitude mysql install

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Woolley
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >  Maybe you could run pstree to find out what's generating that prompt? Thanks for the replies, Daniel. I'm positive it is the interactive mysql server password prompt causing the hang, every other apt package installs fine with this same a

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:46:31PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:35:19PM EDT, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > Israel Garcia skrev: > >> Hi List, > >> > >> It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). > >> > >> How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only th

Raid help needed !

2009-10-13 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 under lvm2 with 7 partitions on this amd64 system. I have migrated from "etch" to "squeeze" without undue problems. BUT, now I cannot boot either kernel 2.6.30-1 or 2.6.30-2 with grub2, it fails by not finding or identifying my swap part

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 14:24 -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi List, > > It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). > > How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two > latest (newest) files? Try the following script: -- snip -- #!/bin/sh -e # Removes all but the 2

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-13 Thread Justin
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, All > For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 under lvm2 with 7 > partitions on this amd64 system.  I have migrated from "etch" to > "squeeze" without undue problems.  BUT, now I cannot boot either kernel > 2.6.30-1 or 2.6.30

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:16:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, All > For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 under lvm2 with 7 > partitions on this amd64 system. I have migrated from "etch" to > "squeeze" without undue problems. BUT, now I cannot boot either kernel > 2.6.30-1 or

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Andrew Sackville-West skrev: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:46:31PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:35:19PM EDT, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Israel Garcia skrev: Hi List, It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). How can I delete all files on a folder /

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Håkon Alstadheim at 14/10/09 16:37... Due to all the positive feed-back, I actually tested the "ls -rt"-bit, and sure enough, the 'r' makes ls list the newest files _last_, so you DON'T want 'r'. This makes the correct command: rm $(ls -t | sed '1,2d') I thought this looked like an int

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Matthew Smith skrev: Quoth Håkon Alstadheim at 14/10/09 16:37... Due to all the positive feed-back, I actually tested the "ls -rt"-bit, and sure enough, the 'r' makes ls list the newest files _last_, so you DON'T want 'r'. This makes the correct command: rm $(ls -t | sed '1,2d') I thought t

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Håkon Alstadheim at 2009-10-14 16:52... > Seems to work here. Standard behaviour for 'ls' is to use > single-column-mode when output is not to a tty. Your ls command may be > aliased to something, or it might be a different version from mine. Try > the manual page. Try with the '-1' option

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread Brian Marshall
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm on T-Bird 2.0.0.23 (latest) and I don't have a reply-to-list option. > Is this something I have to set manually in about:config? Sure would > save me some time manually editing the recipient list with each reply. It's only in T

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Roland Müller
Hello, > Andrew Sackville-West skrev: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:46:31PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:35:19PM EDT, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > >> > >>> Israel Garcia skrev: > >>> > Hi List, > > It's a simple question but difficult t