raid10_make_request bug

2011-08-15 Thread Serg Liberman
Hi all! I get some trouble using mdadm over LVM2. Here is my config: I've 2 servers (xen1 and xen2 - their hostnames in my local network) with configuration below: Each server have 4 SATA disks, 1 Tb each attached to motherboard. 4x4 Gb ddr3 debian squeeze x64 installed: root@xen2:~# uname -a

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With the rsync command you should use an exclude-file (see --exclude option) containing a list of directories and files not to be transferred like ./lost+found** ./run** ./dev/** ./sys/** ./tmp/** etc (see rsync manual). After transferring the files you may have to adapt files like /etc/fstab and

how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread lina
Hi, seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). How can I set up the right click, open links in new tab open links in new window back to the open links in new window open links in new tab Thanks, -- Best Regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Will diff --show-c-function behaves resonably for non C files?

2011-08-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 03:51:33PM -0700, Regid Ichira wrote: > $ diff --help | grep -e --show-c-function > -p --show-c-function Show which C function each change is in. > > Will diff -p behaves reasonably when applied to non C files? > I want to use the -p option in a script that does not

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Scott Ferguson writes: > That's part of the problem... of course all the UUIDs in fstab and > grub.cfg > will refer to your old drive... ;-p > Probably *not* the recommended way to do it, but... Of course! I will not quote any more, here, but that sounds like a plan. Many thanks.

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Ivan Shmakov writes: > It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) instead > of the whole disk. > > Moreover, the filesystem can be downsized prior to that with > resize2fs(8), thus the destination partition may be smaller than > the source one.

Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

2011-08-15 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, I am having trouble getting my multi-monitor setup running properly using the proprietary AMD drivers in Debian testing using XRandR. My hardware is an HP Compaw 615 Laptop, with a Radeon HD 3200 graphics card. I am using KDE 4.6.5. I want the external screen, if it is connected, to be to t

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Martin McCormick writes: > Ivan Shmakov writes: >> It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) instead of >> the whole disk. >> Moreover, the filesystem can be downsized prior to that with >> resize2fs(8), thus the destination partition may be smaller than the >> source

Re: "gconf-editor" icon missing from menu? (wheezy)

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:52:42 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:41:11 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> I've just realized my wheezy has lost an icon from the menu: "gconf- >> editor" is not there anymore while the binary file is still present and >> can be launched as expected. (...)

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:28:26 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > On 14 August 2011 14:42, Heddle Weaver wrote: > >> >> On 13 August 2011 01:44, Camaleón wrote: >> >> After configuring the modem through XP laptop, I can now access the net >> through my Debian laptop. >> The connection is very glitchy

Re: how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:20:57 +0800, lina wrote: > seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). > > How can I set up the right click, > > open links in new tab > open links in new window > > back to the > > open links in new window > open links in new tab You must be the only person request

setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the change, I provided network operations with my MAC address, which I got from the outp

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:03:07 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > I am having trouble getting my multi-monitor setup running properly > using the proprietary AMD drivers in Debian testing using XRandR. My > hardware is an HP Compaw 615 Laptop, with a Radeon HD 3200 graphics > card. I am using KDE 4.6.5. I wa

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 + (UTC), Steve Kleene writes: > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.97.14.253 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 10.97.14.1 > > auto eth0 > > Connectivity is

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: > I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their > network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I > still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:58:06 GMT, Volkan YAZ

Re: how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread lina
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:20:57 +0800, lina wrote: > >> seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). >> >> How can I set up the right click, >> >> open links in new tab >> open links in new window >> >> back to the >> >> open links in new window >

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/15/2011 05:19 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the change, I provided network operations

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their > network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I > still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the > change, I provided

Re: how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:46:03 +0800, lina wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:20:57 +0800, lina wrote: >> >>> seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). >>> >>> How can I set up the right click, >>> >>> open links in new tab >>> open links in ne

Re: how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread lina
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:46:03 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:20:57 +0800, lina wrote: >>> seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). How can I set up the righ

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: > I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their > network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I > still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:19:24 +0530, Mihira F

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:10:15 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:52:48 + (UTC), Camaleón replied: > >> If adminds are requesting you the MAC address you may be still need to >> setup a dynamic configuration for your adapter (DHCP). So I would first >> ask them what kind of set

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Aug 2011 at 11:49:24 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their > network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I > still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the > change, I provide

kernel source package with applied patches

2011-08-15 Thread Henry Jensen
Hello, I plan to create a source tarball of the Debian Linux kernel with patches already applied in oder to build a kernel, based on Debian kernel sources, on other, non-Debian based distros. As far as I can tell I must do it the following way. - Download linux-2.6_[version].orig.tar.gz - Downlo

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Curt
On 2011-08-14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > $ cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log | less less /var/log ... > $ cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log | grep -i fail grep -i fail /var/log ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Are you a graphic designer?

2011-08-15 Thread Heather Madison
Hey there, I'm reaching out to you because Thumbtack is getting a lot of job leads for graphic designers, and I'm looking for another graphic designer who is interested in taking on more clients. After checking out your website I think you are a great fit for Thumbtack and I'd love to start se

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com
>All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces to >the following: >auto lo >iface lo inet loopback ># The primary network interface >allow-hotplug eth0 >iface eth0 inet static >address 10.97.14.253 >netmask 255.255.255.0 >gateway 10.97.14.1 >auto eth0 Have u tried p

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 August 2011 16:05:43 gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com wrote: > >All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces > > to > > > >the following: > > > >auto lo > >iface lo inet loopback > > > ># The primary network interface > >allow-hotplug eth0 > >iface eth0 inet s

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:55:45 +0300, Itay wrote: (...) > + I couldn't find out anything suspicious in /var/log/syslog. >(But honestly I don't know what to look for: what is kernel > soft-lock?) here there is a good explanation on what soft/hard locks here (scroll down to "A Classificatio

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: > I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their > network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I > still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:26:32 + (UTC), Ca

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 August 2011 17:01:17 Steve Kleene wrote: > > I also wondered whether you were trying to run both your boxen with the > > same IP, since you say that the other one works. > > That is not the problem.  I have two distinct static IPs, one for each box. That seemed massively more likely,

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:01:17 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +, I wrote: > >> I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their >> network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, >> I still get the old address in DHCP space

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 August 2011 12:34:59 Camaleón wrote: > This is what puzzles me because I definitely see no (good|logical) reason > for not getting access to the web interface from Debian. Ethernet is one > of the most standarized technologies out there so I dunno what can be > happening with that DSL

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:22:28 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2011 12:34:59 Camaleón wrote: >> This is what puzzles me because I definitely see no (good|logical) >> reason for not getting access to the web interface from Debian. >> Ethernet is one of the most standarized technologies out t

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. > If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" > process and then restart the network service (also run ifd

how/where to ask questions about dpkg/APT and tools?

2011-08-15 Thread Tom Roche
My dpkg/APT knowledge/skills need to go from near-beginner to at least intermediate-level fairly quickly, but I have lots questions. Where to go (e.g., what forums, lists, IRCs, other sites) to ask them? Why I ask: >From using desktop ubuntu for a few years (and server ubuntu for longer, and mint

Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a system with several different users and would like to use cron to run this script as root: #!/bin/bash for user in `ls /home/`; do # echo "Path: $user" if [ "${user:0:1}" != "0" ]; then path="/home/$user/Backup" if [ -e $path ]; then

/etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
I have uncommented the following line in the /etc/inittab file on Debian Squeeze: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 Basically, I am trying to output a login console on Serial Port 1 also. This works if my system starts up normally i.e. via xdm->fluxbox. However, I want to do a auto lo

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-15 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 15 August 2011 21:34, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:28:26 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 14 August 2011 14:42, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > >> > >> On 13 August 2011 01:44, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> After configuring the modem through XP laptop, I can now access the net > >> t

Re: how/where to ask questions about dpkg/APT and tools?

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom Roche wrote: > My dpkg/APT knowledge/skills need to go from near-beginner to at least > intermediate-level fairly quickly, but I have lots questions. Where > to go (e.g., what forums, lists, IRCs, other sites) to ask them? If you are asking about using APT then this list debian-user is probabl

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a system with several different users and would like to use > cron to run this script as root: > > #!/bin/bash > > for user in `ls /home/`; do > # echo "Path: $user" > if [ "${user:0:1}" != "0" ]; then > path="/home/$user/Backup" >

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tech Geek wrote: > I have uncommented the following line in the /etc/inittab file on > Debian Squeeze: > > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 Seems reasonable. I do that on server systems too. > This works if my system starts up normally i.e. via xdm->fluxbox. Sure. > However, I wa

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > The problem is sudo can't be run without a tty, so I can run it > > myself, but it won't run from a script. > > Using 'su' would solve that problem. BTW... I assume that is because you have tty-tickets turned on for sudo? In which case you could avoid

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Ivan Shmakov writes: > resize2fs(8) after dd(1) on the destination partition ? it'll > make the additional space available to the filesystem. That may be the easiest approach to not get wrong if that is the case. The old drive is the master boot drive on /dev/hda. The new d

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >> > The problem is sudo can't be run without a tty, so I can run it >> > myself, but it won't run from a script. >> >> Using 'su' would solve that problem. > > BTW...  I assume that is because you have tt

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > BTW... I assume that is because you have tty-tickets turned on for > > sudo? In which case you could avoid it with sudo too by turning off > > tty-tickets for this use case. > > I think that you're confusing "tty-tickets" with "requiretty". Ah... Likely. I

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
> suspicious that I am compelled to ask if you are really sure that is > the correlation?  Please double check. Yes, I double checked that. As soon as I revert back to installing xdm, the login console appears on Serial Port 1. > Are there any messaged logged to /var/log/syslog concerning failure

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tech Geek writes: […] > However, I want to do a auto login into my fluxbox (instead of user > typing in username and password in xdm) and I still want the basic > login console on Serial Port 1. So I removed xdm package (apt-get > purge xdm) and added the following line to my /etc/rc.l

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Tech Geek writes: > > However, I want to do a auto login into my fluxbox (instead of user > > typing in username and password in xdm) and I still want the basic > > login console on Serial Port 1. So I removed xdm package (apt-get > > purge xdm) and added the following l

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
Ivan, >        I guess that the inittab(5) entry in question is only started >        after rc.local finishes.  Therefore, starting startx(1) in the >        background may help. That was it. Adding "&" at the end of the command in rc.local did the trick! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> BTW...  I assume that is because you have tty-tickets turned on for >>> sudo?  In which case you could avoid it with sudo too by turning off >>> tty-tickets for this use case. >> >> I think that you're c

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

2011-08-15 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > (...) > > Just a quick note here. Not sure if you have tried with "krandrtray" or > better yet, as you are using the ATI closed drivers, you may test their > catalyst control center utility to handle video screens (resolution/ > position, etc...). > > I bet with the open radeon drivers thi

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:39:54 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > >> NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? > > Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. "Arghh!!!" I mean... "ahh", that explains your pain :-P >> If so,

sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Both are set by default. Just tty_tickets is set by default. requiretty is off by default. $ man 5 sudoers tty_tickets If set, users must authenticate on a per-tty basis. With this flag enabled, sudo will use a file named for

Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

2011-08-15 Thread dave selby
Hi, I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6 but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something equivalent to synaptic for QT ? I am struggling with aptitude and would like something friendlier. Many thanks in advance Cheers Dave -- Please a

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

2011-08-15 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6 > but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something > equivalent to synaptic for QT ? > > I am struggling with aptitude and would like something friendlier. Why not use Synaptic? Just because you use K

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:56:46 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > On 15 August 2011 21:34, Camaleón wrote: >> Timeouts for "some" sites may require more debugging. A site can be >> having any problem or your ISP may be having a routing issue with that >> specific server... hard to tell what can be happ

Re: sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

2011-08-15 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:12:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Both are set by default. > > Just tty_tickets is set by default. requiretty is off by default. > > $ man 5 sudoers > >tty_tickets If set, users must authenticate on a per-tty >basis. >

Remote X renders transparency as black

2011-08-15 Thread Darac Marjal
Hi all, I am experiencing an odd problem displaying remote (i.e. SSH forwarded) X and wonder if I can pick your collective brains. The situation is as follows: I am logged into my laptop, rocky. The laptop is running Wheezy and Xorg detects the chipset as: [ 106.371] (II) intel(0): Integrate

Re: sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Walter Hurry wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Best would be to run 'sudo -l' and see what flags are actually set at > > the time. And remember that /etc/sudoers.d/* is a directory of > > additional snippets that are also included into the configuration. > > For what it is worth, I'm not sure that t

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-15 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 16 August 2011 05:51, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:56:46 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 15 August 2011 21:34, Camaleón wrote: > Okay, so it seems there is no telnet service available in route :-) > > How about a simple "wget 192.168.1.254"? > weaver@Bandit:~$ su Password:

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Robert Blair Mason Jr. (r...@verizon.net on 2011-08-10 10:07 -0400): > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 > > Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm > starting certain applications, or force them to use ALSA? Better late than never: take a look at pasuspender Regards, A

Re: sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

2011-08-15 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:12:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Tom H wrote: >>> Both are set by default. >> >> Just tty_tickets is set by default.  requiretty is off by default. >> >>   $ man 5 sudoers >> >>        tty_tickets     If set, users must

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi Martin, As luck would have it, I did just that this weekend. Except that my system used lvm for all partitions, which massively simplified the procedure for me. Martin McCormick (mar...@x.it.okstate.edu on 2011-08-14 21:32 -0500): > I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747

Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-15 Thread yudi v
> There has to be some instructions in the docs... let me check it. > > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB > *** > I should have looked harder, thanks for directing my attention to the documentation. > > should I just copy dvb-usb-af9015.fw to > > /lib/firmware > > Yep, so it seems and

RAID 1 problem after removing disk

2011-08-15 Thread MRH
Hi, I have an odd problem with my RAID 1 (/dev/md2) setup on Debian (sid). It used to be a 2 HDD configuration: /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1 Recently sdc1 started warning me with SMART errors, so I decided to replace it with a new drive (/dev/sde1). Perhaps foolishly, I used gnome-disk-utility (palim

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:12:24PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Martin McCormick writes: > > Ivan Shmakov writes: > > >> It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) instead of > >> the whole disk. > > >> Moreover, the filesystem can be downsized prior to that with > >> r

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:32:12PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747 > just before takeoff so the time has come to replace it. I > replaced it with a 16-gigabyte SATA flash drive and IDE adaptor > as the system it runs on is a little too o

Re: how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 04:20:57PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). > > How can I set up the right click, > > open links in new tab > open links in new window > > back to the > > open links in new window > open links in new tab > Just curious: are

Re: how/where to ask questions about dpkg/APT and tools?

2011-08-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Tom Roche (tom_ro...@pobox.com on 2011-08-15 12:35 -0400): > > My dpkg/APT knowledge/skills need to go from near-beginner to at least > intermediate-level fairly quickly, but I have lots questions. Where > to go (e.g., what forums, lists, IRCs, other sites) to ask them? > Why I ask: > [..] > Howe

Re: Remote X renders transparency as black

2011-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-08-15, Darac Marjal wrote: > I am experiencing an odd problem displaying remote (i.e. SSH forwarded) > X and wonder if I can pick your collective brains. > > The situation is as follows: I am logged into my laptop, rocky. The > laptop is running Wheezy and Xorg detects the chipset as: >

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I have a system with several different users and would like to use >> cron to run this script as root: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> >> for user in `ls /home/`; do >> #echo "Path: $user" >> if [ "${user:0:1}" != "0" ]; then

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> The problem is sudo can't be run without a tty, so I can run it >>> myself, but it won't run from a script. >> >> Using 'su' would solve that problem. > > BTW... I assume that is because you have tty-t

Re: Remote X renders transparency as black

2011-08-15 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 08/15/2011 03:57 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing an odd problem displaying remote (i.e. SSH forwarded) X and wonder if I can pick your collective brains. The situation is as follows: I am logged into my laptop, rocky. The laptop is running Wheezy and Xorg detects the chipse

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

2011-08-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:34:15 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6 > but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something > equivalent to synaptic for QT ? adept is similar to synapti

Re: how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread lina
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 04:20:57PM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). >> >> How can I set up the right click, >> >> open links in new tab >> open links in new window >> >> back to the >> >> open links

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Rob Owens writes: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:12:24PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Martin McCormick writes: > Ivan Shmakov writes: It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) instead of the whole disk. Moreover, the filesystem can be downsized pri

Apple iBook power management

2011-08-15 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i installed squeeze-powerpc on an Apple ibook g4, breathed new life into this little guy that Apple has kicked to the curb. i installed gnome, configured the proprietary wifi drivers, and setup a right-click for the mouse, and it's all working well.