Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:04:03PM EST, Kent West wrote: > I've got a TeraStation Pro Network Attached Storage device connected to > a stable Debian box. I'm trying to free up some space by deleting old > backups, but have come across a file with a bad name. I'm smbmounting > the NAS to get to the

Re: Networking problem

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:22:17PM +0700, freeburn wrote: > Now we want to use a machine which will be connected with the smpp > server and also connected with the office network for accessing our > remote content server(where our website is hosted). I have tried to use > two ethernate cards. but

Re: font available in fc-list but not in xlsfonts

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:27:44AM EST, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:56:53PM EST, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > [..] > > > I first tried to install ttf-droid_1.00~b112+dfsg-0ubuntu1_all.deb and > > then tried the manual way: to unpackage the font to > > /usr/share/truetype/droid and a

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ > replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say > you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000€, but would > have to pay over 1

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Klistvud wrote: My sister has an even older Dell (it must be at least 5 or 6 years) which still lasts just under an hour on the *original* battery. In the meantime, I've had at least 3 or 4 batteries in two different Compaqs die on me. She never unplugged the battery in all t

Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian user, I have a weird time-zone related issue on my machine. I observed that the "alarm-clock" package was always ignoring my requests for an alarm within an hour from now, and all other alarms used to go off with an hour to spare. So, I did some investigation, and found that it always

Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:56:54PM +1030, Dale wrote: > How do I get it to default to say ttyUSB8?, cause all I am getting at > the moment is that it wants to connect to ttyUSB3 and it just ignoring > what it put in the conf file Set up a udev rule for that particular device. -- Chris. -- To

Re: lenny's hardware compatibilty list

2009-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:58:24 -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi, where can I find an official list of hardware compatibility > (different devices) for debian lenny? I haven't found any for that specific purpose :-? > Is this raid card supported by debian lenny's kernel? > http://www.adaptec.com/e

Re: "apt-file update" error because missing Contents-i386.gz file

2009-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:45:31 -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: > I have a new Debian Lenny system. The /etc/apt/sources.list file > contains > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib deb > http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian le

Re: "apt-file update" error because missing Contents-i386.gz file

2009-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-11 06:45 +0100, Peter Michaux wrote: > I have a new Debian Lenny system. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib > deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main con

Re: "apt-file update" error because missing Contents-i386.gz file

2009-12-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2009-12-11, Peter Michaux wrote: > Hi, > > I have a new Debian Lenny system. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib > deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib

Re: regexp: anything but |

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Wagner
* lee 09.12.2009 > -[-0] > should match above line. But why does it match Hello lee, look at the program 'txt2regex'. With it you can define a regex for some programs like sed, vim, grep etc. It's not perfect, but you always get the idea. Package: txt2regex Section: utils Version: 0.8-3

Re: User privileges separation in Debian.

2009-12-11 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and comprehensive answer, Joey: >ssh's privilege separation is somewhat atypical. From sshd_config(5) Do You know anything about the subject for these two services: saslauthd courierlogger authdaemond (of courier-authlib) - as they seems do not any stuff regarding the

Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-11 Thread AG
I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I cannot do back ups nor

Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: > I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and > media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it > worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have > access to the drive but am

Re: voice communication on my LAN

2009-12-11 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:53:34 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > I'm looking for an easy way for my wife to contact me when I'm working > out in my garage. I've usually got the computer on, playing music out > there. I'd like something that will make a sound over the computer > speakers, so I'll know I ha

Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-11 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 13:28 +, AG wrote: > I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and > media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it > worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have > access to the drive but am unable t

Re: GRUB2 Squeeze

2009-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:01:40AM -0800, Tudod Ki wrote: > Two questions only: :) > 1 - ~When will Debian Squeeze be stable? When it is ready after base freeze etc alrady mentioned here. > 2 - If it gets stable, will it contain GRUB2, so that I don't need to > create a separated "/boot" when usi

Re: voice communication on my LAN

2009-12-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:11:35AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:53:34 -0500 > Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm looking for an easy way for my wife to contact me when I'm working > > out in my garage. I've usually got the computer on, playing music out > > there. I'd like something t

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:04:03PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/TERASTATIONBACKUP/RSYNC-BACKUP/home/web/html/mriggs/Archive/Spring > 2008/445:> stat Tentative\ Schedule\ \?��\ Math\ 445.pdf > File: `Tentative Schedule ?\307\364 Math 445.pdf' Looks like latin1 / UTF-8 i

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:04:03PM EST, Kent West wrote: I've got a TeraStation Pro Network Attached Storage device connected to a stable Debian box. I'm trying to free up some space by deleting old backups, but have come across a file with a bad name. I'm smbmounting the NAS to get to the file s

install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi, How do you direct aptitude to install packages to a specific directory? For example, Google Chrome by default is installed under /opt but I prefer it to install in my /usr partition rather than in the root partition which contains /opt. That's mostly because I have partitioned my hard disk a

Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:12:44AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Set up a udev rule for that particular device. I'd second this: hard-coding to ttyUSB8 or similar could potentially fail in the unlikely event you use up to that number prior to plugging in the GPS. YOu can use udev to provide a un

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:13:45 +0330 Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi, > > How do you direct aptitude to install packages to a specific directory? For > example, Google Chrome by default is installed under /opt but I prefer it to > install in my /usr partition rather than in the root partition which

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread PaulNM
Celejar wrote: For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk / partition onto /opt? Celejar That's a good idea. To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopback mount it to /opt. PaulNM -- To

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 11 Dez 2009, PaulNM wrote: Celejar wrote: For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk / partition onto /opt? Celejar That's a good idea. To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopba

[Update] Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-11 Thread AG
I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I cannot do back ups no

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread John Hasler
PaulNM writes: > To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in > /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopback mount it to > /opt. Just use a bind mount. man bind I'd rather not install such a bungled package at all, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-11 Thread Toan Pham
Add this udev rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-gps.rules BUS=="usb", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", NAME="ttyUSB0" On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Jon Dowland > wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:12:44AM +1300, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > Set up a udev rule for that particular device. > > I'd second this: h

Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-11 Thread Toan Pham
sorry, typo on the last email.. BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", NAME="ttyUSB0" On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Toan Pham wrote: > > Add this udev rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-gps.rules > > BUS=="usb", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", NAME="ttyUSB0" > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Jon Dowland > > > wr

Re: how to reset scd0

2009-12-11 Thread Hugh Lawson
lee writes: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: >> Dne, 10. 12. 2009 12:17:33 je lee napisal(a): >> >> > >> > Now even after a shutdown and turning off the power, the drive still >> > doesn't work. So this might be a hardware problem, and it's getting >> > off topic ---

RE: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-11 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: computing.acco...@googlemail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable >Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:28:55 + > >>I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and > >>media files. When last

Re: [Update] Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-11 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:27 +, AG wrote: > > I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and > > media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it > > worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only > > have access to the drive but am

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Just use a bind mount. man bind That should read "man mount". Read the "bind" section. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

hp-deskjet-6122 printer and cups

2009-12-11 Thread I Rattan
The system is: Linux tigaon 2.6.30-4.slh.4-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 14 01:30:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux I am trying to install hp deskjet 6122 printer via cups page. It finds a driver that has the attribute: .. Foomatic/gutenprint-ijs.5.2 and configures it. When a test page is pri

Re: [OT] Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:46:52PM EST, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:13:16 -0500 > Chris Jones wrote: > > ... > > > You wouldn't know of OSS projects sponsored by the F.B.I, I.R.S, or > > other government entities by any chance? > > SELinux - "primarily developed by the NSA": > > ht

Re: Msn protocol

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Ryans
send 560116 thanks Please see Debian bug #560116, "Pidgin 2.4.*: Can't Connect to MSN Messenger". Apparently Microsoft have changed their MSN Messenger protocol _yet again_ -- Several clients of mine who use Woe{XP,Vista,7} all asked me about 'mandatory wlm updates'. This bug is available via www

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-12-11 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Berni On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Berni Elbourn wrote: > > Or look at it the other way round > > Linux is not vulnerable to windows virus. Note the careful wording > ;-) So don't waste valuable server cpu cycles on-access scanning on > a Linux server. The problem is that I can't rely on all c

rsync, beagle, lsetxattr

2009-12-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
I used to have beagle installed but have now purged it. When I run rsync there are many error messages of the following type: rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("home/rick/12-05-01.txt","user.Beagle.AttrTime") failed: Operation not supported (95) rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("home/rick/12-05-01

Re: Why CUPS?

2009-12-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-12-09 14:52 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: >> This does not only apply to client applications, but also to >> computers configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only >> set-up and configure a printer on one server for a whole network. >> With a default debian installation, the cl

Re: NFS in 2.6.32

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-09 14:59 +0100, David Baron wrote: > >> Get warning not supported in current kernel. >> I did nothing in making 2.6.32 to disable (or enable) this. >> >> Deprecated? >> Needed? >> Bug? > > Bug¹ in nfs-kernel-server, the kernel itself is almost certainly fine. > T

Re: Why CUPS?

2009-12-11 Thread Lisi
On Friday 11 December 2009 19:42:23 Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-12-09 14:52 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> This does not only apply to client applications, but also to > >> computers configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only > >> set-up and configure a printer on one server fo

Re: Weird sound behavior on sid

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Julian De Marchi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey all! > > I have a debian sid desktop. Not sure when it occurred, but my sounds > keeps muting itself frequently. > > The log files provide me with no answers and my google-fu fails to > relive any answers. > > I

Re: hp-deskjet-6122 printer and cups

2009-12-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 13:24:35 -0500, I Rattan wrote: > The system is: > > Linux tigaon 2.6.30-4.slh.4-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 14 > 01:30:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux > > I am trying to install hp deskjet 6122 printer via cups page. > It finds a driver that has the attribute: > >..

Re: hp-deskjet-6122 printer and cups

2009-12-11 Thread Dave Witbrodt
I Rattan wrote: I am trying to install hp deskjet 6122 printer via cups page. It finds a driver that has the attribute: .. Foomatic/gutenprint-ijs.5.2 and configures it. When a test page is printed the error message ".. guntenprint-ijs" is not installed. What package might contain this soft

zen.spamhaus.org down?

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Vier
Anyone else here having trouble? It use it with postfix. Looks like it went down about 5:15 EST on 12/8 for me. I've tried looking up a blocked ip using both level3's dns and spamhaus's servers. IP Address Lookup 213.147.118.113 is listed in the PBL, in the following records: * PBL264264 2

Re: zen.spamhaus.org down?

2009-12-11 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Tom Vier wrote: > Anyone else here having trouble? It use it with postfix. Looks like it went > down about 5:15 EST on 12/8 for me. I've tried looking up a blocked ip using > both level3's dns and spamhaus's servers. > > > IP Address Lookup > > 213.147.118.113 is listed in the PBL, in the follow

Re: problem with libxul.so

2009-12-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 20:34:18 +0100, Ruan Yun wrote: > Hi, > I get issue when i try to launch both application Epiphany and Iceweasel. > > Epiphany: [...] > epiphany-browser: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so: > undefined symbol: cairo_xlib_surface_create_with_xrender_for

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lee wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > >> Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ >> replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say >> you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000€, but would >>

Re: NFS in 2.6.32

2009-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-11 21:10 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > (I think) I hit the same "bug" in 2.6.31 when trying to copy an iso image > from my notebook to nfs mounted partition from the server. Have you even read the bug report? This is a totally different issue. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I have created my own apt simple repository # ls -1 /home/code/apt Contents Contents-i386.gz Packages Packages.gz db libconfig-properties-perl_1.70-1_all.deb I can install the package from that apt repository # cat <> /etc/apt/sources.list deb file:///home/code/apt ./ EO

Re: NFS in 2.6.32

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-11 21:10 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> (I think) I hit the same "bug" in 2.6.31 when trying to copy an iso image >> from my notebook to nfs mounted partition from the server. > > Have you even read the bug report? This is a totally different issue. > > Sven

Re: regexp: anything but |

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > * lee 09.12.2009 > > > -[-0] > > should match above line. But why does it match > > Hello lee, > > look at the program 'txt2regex'. With it you can define a regex for some > programs like sed, vim, grep etc. It's not perfec

Re: how to reset scd0

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:56:41AM -0500, Hugh Lawson wrote: > >> > >> Generally, when faced with a dilemma whether an issue is hardware- or > >> software- related, I boot up a live CD or two. Any odd Ubuntu will do. > > > > Ok, but in which way would doing this help? I haven't changed the > > so

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > no need of lithium at all. What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make batteries from? > So price is what the company decides to put as price. So? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

[SOLVED] ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-11 Thread Dale
Hi all, Thank you for everyones input on this problem, I have fixed it by creating a file called '50-gps.rules' in '/etc/udev/rules.d/' and putting this string in the in the file 'BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="067b", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2303", NAME="myGPS"' and then restarting ud

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:42:49 +0100 lee dijo: >On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> no need of lithium at all. > >What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make >batteries from? There are lots and lots of ways to make batteries. The great advant

apt pinning question

2009-12-11 Thread Gordon Wrigley
I wasn't sure what venue was best to ask this in, so if this is the wrong place please direct me to the correct place. I'm using APT pinning to pull packages from both Ubuntu Karmic(stable) and Ubuntu Lucid(testing) but I'm having problems getting APT to produce the behavior I want. What I want i

SATA drive performance seems low

2009-12-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I have a new single platter 7200rpm 500GB WD SATA drive connected to a new SiI3512 based PCI card (yes, 33Mhz PCI). Host is a headless server, dual ~500MHz Intel Mendocino CPUs, 384MB PC100, kernel 2.6.31.1 compiled by me from kernel.org sources _the Debian way_, very low system load, over half RA