Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-02 Thread lrhorer
Tony Nelson wrote: > On 09-11-01 02:01:18, lrhorer wrote: >> > I don't see any mention of that venerable *nix utility, dump. >> > Other than not looking like a mounted filesystem and possibly the >> > sheer size of the data, dump should fulfill your requirements. >> >> I thought about dum

Re: Disabling the timeout in Expect

2009-11-02 Thread lrhorer
Mike Ayers wrote: >> am writing a script which may need to sit and wait for many hours or >> even >> days for a response without timing out. Barring some way to disable >> the timeout, what is the maximum value which can be set for the >> timeout? >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neal Hogan writes: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Merciadri Luca > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello, >> >> I have no "shut down..." option in my "System" menu (I am using GNOME >> front-end). I am thus oblige

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-02 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I receive ``the administrator is not allowed to log in from this > screen.'' I am thus unable to log graphically in as root. If you're trying to log in as root from gdm, this behaviour is normal. You should log in as root from another console (tty1, for example), kill GDM and then startx. For

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson writes: > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> However, the whole problem is that it does *not* automatically adjust >> the CPU freq, according to its load. > > cpufreqd installed? Thanks, Paul: I had to install

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tixy writes: > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> However, the whole problem is that it does *not* automatically adjust >> the CPU freq, according to its load. > > When doing some video transcoding a while ago, on a Lenny ins

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson writes: > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 12:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I am using GNOME with Debian Lenny, with a 2.6.26-2-686 kernel. I have >> added to one of my panels the GNOME's default CPU scaling applet. It >> allows me to modify

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean-François Pirlet writes: >> I receive ``the administrator is not allowed to log in from this >> screen.'' I am thus unable to log graphically in as root. > > If you're trying to log in as root from gdm, this behaviour is normal. > You should log

Tgz Backups

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. Is it possible to boot a LiveCD, to put the whole content of the tgz (assuming it is complete) on the partition (assuming there is enough free space), and to reboot (assuming GR

Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello folks, I use tar to make (not necessarily incremental) backups of my /etc/*, /home/*, and other important folders. I am encountering a problem: reading a file in a .tgz takes a really long time. I use the Archive Manager GUI (of GNOME) to go thr

Re: Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

2009-11-02 Thread Alexey Salmin
Since tgz is .tar.gz (a tar file compressed via gzip) there is no surprise that it's slow to get a single file from it. The whole tarball will be decompressed first and it's definitely expensive. If you have enough space on your hdd you can store a plain tarball instead of compressed file - that sh

Re: Tgz Backups

2009-11-02 Thread Alexey Salmin
What exactly do you want to get? A working system on a new partition without the installation process? Alexey On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. >

increase usr partition

2009-11-02 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Dear Debian fellows, I would like to increase my /usr partition. It's 5 gig and full. Is this possible with gparted? because when I try .. "device busy" Or is there a directory that I could empty? Running Debian Lenny amd64. Thanks in advance, Regards, Roy Stuivenberg.

Re: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > The difference is that US residents are still permitted the liberty of > using the units with which they are comfortable rather than those which > the all-knowing government imposes. > > Of course, "units" is always there to do th

Re: increase usr partition

2009-11-02 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/11/2 Roy Stuivenberg > Dear Debian fellows, > > I would like to increase my /usr partition. > It's 5 gig and full. > Is this possible with gparted? because when I try .. "device busy" > Or is there a directory that I could empty? > > Could it be that partition is mounted when you're trying

Help, the template debian/rules is too simple

2009-11-02 Thread waixy zhou
hi, I want to package the cross-complie tools for RTEMS(a realtime operation used in embedded system), and use dh_make to generate the template of "debian/" directory, then i find the file *debian/rules* is too simple, just 3 lines left after eliminating the comments, as follows: #! /usr/

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lrhorer wrote: >>> You're kidding,right? Back up the data to more than 900 Dual >>> Layer DVDs? Admittedly they are cheap, but... no, thanks. >> It depends on the consequences of data loss. If they are severe, >> there should have several li

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-11-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 08:15:25PM -0700, stephen...@yahoo.com wrote: > --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Maybe I missed something in a previous post. If you > > don't have > > ethernet, then how are you connecting to the dsl > > modem? USB? > > Yes USB to ADSL modem to POTS.

Re: Tgz Backups

2009-11-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. > > Is it possible to boot a LiveCD, to put the whole content of the tgz > (assuming it is complete) on the partition (assuming there is enough > free spa

Re: jre installation

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:53:07PM +0100, roberto wrote: > hello, > i try to install geogebra using its ".bin.sh" script and i get the > following message: > > > Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... > Configuring the installer for this system's environment... > No J

Re: Help, the template debian/rules is too simple

2009-11-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:25:01PM +0800, waixy zhou wrote: > hi, > I want to package the cross-complie tools for RTEMS(a realtime operation > used in embedded system), and use dh_make to generate the template of > "debian/" directory, then i find the file *debian/rules* is too simple, just > 3 lin

Re: wifi

2009-11-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:10:55PM -0500, peter bouchard wrote: > Hello > I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi > suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could > please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me > one. than

Re: Network manager doesn't autoconnect to wireless networks in stable?

2009-11-02 Thread chombee
Does no one know the answer to this? Is not reconnecting automatically the default behaviour of network manager in Debian 5 stable or am I the only one who has this behaviour? On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:26:14PM +, chombee wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that in Debian 5 network manager doesn'

Re: System logs are being logged to wrong files

2009-11-02 Thread P K
Hi, NOTE: Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. I picked up the reply from the list archive. On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:15:19 +0200 Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 30.10.2009 22:56, P K kirjoitti: > > Hi, > > > > Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. Thanks. Now: > > > > I am using D

Re: Network manager doesn't autoconnect to wireless networks in stable?

2009-11-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM, chombee wrote: > Does no one know the answer to this? Is not reconnecting automatically > the default behaviour of network manager in Debian 5 stable or am I the > only one who has this behaviour? > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:26:14PM +, chombee wrote: >> Hi,

Re: Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Salmin writes: > Since tgz is .tar.gz (a tar file compressed via gzip) there is no > surprise that it's slow to get a single file from it. The whole > tarball will be decompressed first and it's definitely expensive. > If you have enough space

Re: Tgz Backups

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Salmin writes: > What exactly do you want to get? A working system on a new partition > without the installation process? This looks like a lofty question. I would like to * install the minimal system, * use a LiveCD to complete some missing f

Re: Tgz Backups

2009-11-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Osamu Aoki writes: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. >> >> Is it possible to boot a LiveCD, to put the whole content of the tgz >> (as

Re: Network manager doesn't autoconnect to wireless networks in stable?

2009-11-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 11. 2009 16:44:55 je chombee napisal(a): > Does no one know the answer to this? Is not reconnecting > automatically > > the default behaviour of network manager in Debian 5 stable or am I > the > only one who has this behaviour? > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:26:14PM +, chombee wro

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
>> I am truly grateful that I had > > good ones and the recovery went well. For those of us not as Debian educated, you know like me who use Arno-iptables- firewall instead of Shorewall, I like Terabyte's image for Linux v.2. and if you're squeamish about paying a fee for this you can have the

Re: Re: xpdf printing with pdftops

2009-11-02 Thread Andreas Goesele
> >gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o %pipe%lpr - > > Thanks for the suggestion. The first line works (more or less) on the command line, but gives the warning: >GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open the file lpr . > (I say more or less, because an

Re: xpdf printing with pdftops

2009-11-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 17:58:51 +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > >> >gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 > >> >-o %pipe%lpr - > >> > Thanks for the suggestion. The first line works (more or less) > >on the command line, but gives the warning: > > > >>GPL Ghostsc

Re: jre installation

2009-11-02 Thread roberto
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:53:07PM +0100, roberto wrote: >> hello, >> i try to install geogebra using its ".bin.sh" script and i get the >> following message: >> >> >> Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...

apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. apt-get does not resume downloading - on bad connections it just starts downloading all over again. Is it fixable? How? apt 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-11-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 31 October 2009 12:55:36 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Micha wrote: > > On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some > >> time and it works great. > > > > I also know people who still run windows 98 and it works great, it > >

Wireless and the rate

2009-11-02 Thread Scurz
Hi, My wireless key works almost fine. I just have a problem with the rate. Here is the output from iwconfig : wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"xx" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:18:39:3A:21:4C Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-11-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:38:55 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > system anyway. Either that or run pure unstable and have to fight > dependencies during each transition (many of which happen during a > release cycle). > > By the time you have enough knowledge to run a mixed system and/o

Re: Help, the template debian/rules is too simple

2009-11-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 November 2009 06:25:01 waixy zhou wrote: > I use dh_make to generate the template of > "debian/" directory, then i find the file *debian/rules* is too simple, > just 3 lines left after eliminating the comments, as follows: > #! /usr/bin/make -f > %: >

Cron authentication issues

2009-11-02 Thread Erik Lattimore
After moving to Lenny, we've had issues running cron jobs from non- local accounts. We use kerberos and hesiod as our authentication infrastructure and cron isn't too happy with those types of accounts. This is what we see in /var/log/syslog: Nov 2 13:41:01 so-much-for-subtlety CRON[21205

Re: Wireless and the rate

2009-11-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:46:03 +0100 Scurz wrote: ... > The bit rate is at 11 Mb/s but I download all files at 300 ko/s, not > more. The rate seems to be limited. Is that KB/s or kb/s? If the former, then we're talking something like ~2.5 mb/s, and from what I understand, the maximum practical t

Re: apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 November 2009 12:36:22 Sthu Deus wrote: > apt-get does not resume downloading - on bad connections it just starts > downloading all over again. It does resume downloading, just not in the middle of a single file. (It will only download files that are missing.) Resuming in the middl

Re: apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:00:12 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Monday 02 November 2009 12:36:22 Sthu Deus wrote: > > apt-get does not resume downloading - on bad connections it just > > starts downloading all over again. > > It does resume downloading, just not in the middle of a single

Re: Wireless and the rate

2009-11-02 Thread Scurz
Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:46:03 +0100 > Scurz wrote: > > ... > > >> The bit rate is at 11 Mb/s but I download all files at 300 ko/s, not >> more. The rate seems to be limited. >> > > Is that KB/s or kb/s? If the former, then we're talking something like > ~2.5 mb/s, and from

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-11-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 November 2009 13:47:05 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:38:55 -0600 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > system anyway. Either that or run pure unstable and have to fight > > dependencies during each transition (many of which happen during a > > release cycle). > > > > By the

Re: apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 November 2009 14:01:20 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:00:12 -0600 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > On Monday 02 November 2009 12:36:22 Sthu Deus wrote: > > > apt-get does not resume downloading - on bad connections it just > > > starts downloading all over again. > > > >

Re: jre installation

2009-11-02 Thread steef
roberto schreef: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:53:07PM +0100, roberto wrote: hello, i try to install geogebra using its ".bin.sh" script and i get the following message: <..> do something like: @PATH=

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-02 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dave Witbrodt wrote: > My impression is that the kernel team considers 2.6.31 to have been a > bit buggier than usual, but they are feeling better about 2.6.32 and > plan to use it for Squeeze (when released). > I've just compiled and installed .31.5 (from kernel.org) and it seems my notebook li

2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Emanoil Kotsev put forth on 11/2/2009 3:48 PM: > Dave Witbrodt wrote: > >> My impression is that the kernel team considers 2.6.31 to have been a >> bit buggier than usual, but they are feeling better about 2.6.32 and >> plan to use it for Squeeze (when released). >> > > I've just compiled and ins

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-02 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Running a customized (stripped) little 2.6.31.1 from kernel.org under > Lenny since Oct 3, on an old dual 550MHz i440BX board. Fairly stripped > down install running a Postfix mail firewall and Lighty. Been running > great, no issues. I've probably got everything strip

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > On Monday 02 November 2009 13:47:05 Celejar wrote: >> >> I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by 'fighting >> dependencies'. I run Sid, and while I occasionally have to hold back >> a few packages, and can't always do a complete, full upgrade, it's >> simply a ma

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

2009-11-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 November 2009 16:31:26 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Another reason for my "success" may be the fact that in the past I most > often found it easier to reinstall on certain occasions (disk exchange, > re-partitioning) than to restore from a backup (which in turn may be due > to the fact that

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-11-02 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: > > Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs > > great at about 80C, but glchess/gnuchess still gets up to 95C or more! > > You might look to see wh

displays

2009-11-02 Thread John Lindsay
Greetings all Is anyone running any of the following displays 1)Dell S199WFPV 19" wide 2)LG L226WTY 22' wide 3)LG L19WTY-BF 19" wide 4)Acer X223WBO 22' wide I am currently running a Benq T904. Nothing wrong with it but for less the 1/2 what I originally paid for the Benq I can get one of the

Re: Re: xpdf printing with pdftops

2009-11-02 Thread Andreas Goesele
Despite the warning the file is printed, just that additionally I get the warning and a non-essential image is replaced by a blurry box. Is the page expanded to fit the paper? On the command line, yes. Not in xpdf Hmm, I am starting to think that maybe we should try a different approach. W

Re: displays

2009-11-02 Thread Dale
2009/11/3 John Lindsay : > Greetings all > > Is anyone running any of the following displays > 1)Dell S199WFPV  19" wide > 2)LG L226WTY 22' wide > 3)LG L19WTY-BF 19" wide > 4)Acer X223WBO  22' wide > > I am currently running a Benq T904. Nothing wrong with it but for less the > 1/2 what I originall

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:29:54PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > > Running a customized (stripped) little 2.6.31.1 from kernel.org under > > Lenny since Oct 3, on an old dual 550MHz i440BX board. Fairly stripped > > down install running a Postfix mail firewall and L

Re: required packages for squeeze

2009-11-02 Thread tom stoddard
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM, tom stoddard wrote: > I use squeeze. Who became God and decided that I must have certain > packages (nano, w3m, telnet, procmail, dhcp3-client, dhcp3-common and > a slew of lib* packages related to DNS)? After letting the system > install these packages ('cause I co

LED Gas/Oil Signs

2009-11-02 Thread Aaron Liu
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Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +, AG wrote: [...] > I'm thinking that the way forward would be via the GRUB prompt I was > able to get off of an old floppy, but to do so would mean being able > to by-pass LILO and boot into the first partition on the HD (/), and > then go into LILO.conf and

Re: Help, the template debian/rules is too simple

2009-11-02 Thread waixy zhou
I admit what I'm doing is a little beyond my current skill, after all, I'm just a user of Debian not a developer. But I think it is better using apt/dpkg to manage the software/tools I need in my research than just using "./configure && make && make install". I prefer to use the ready-made packages

Re: Wireless and the rate

2009-11-02 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Scurz schreef: > Celejar wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:46:03 +0100 >> Scurz wrote: >> >> ... >> >> >>> The bit rate is at 11 Mb/s but I download all files at 300 ko/s, not >>> more. The rate seems to be limited. >>> >> Is that KB/s or kb/s? If the former, then we're talking something l