Re: Sound Problems

2012-02-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 14 February 2012 21:17:49 David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 14 February 2012 20:39:04 debian-user-digest- > > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Hi Emil, try this: > > > > The new kernel module added two new regulators "speakers" and > > "headphones", and they are both set to "0" by de

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-15 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:40:26 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] > This is an 8 port card, so 16 drives will require 2 cards. Unless you > plan to connect 4 SATA drives and 4 EIDE drives to the mobo ports...ick Indeed it is, I was planning on adding the second after I've tested the first thoroug

Re: Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m; was Re(2): http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary

2012-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 feb 12, 19:13:33, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > > Did you remove the xorg.conf now? > > No. I made it with "Xorg -configure". It's appended below. My understanding is that the point of "Xorg -configure" is to give you a template to modify. Since Xorg was able to generate it I'm assu

Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel D Jones
Please disregard. Sent to the wrong mailing list. On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 07:17:48 you wrote: > Doing a world upgrade gives me: > > root@kushiel / # emerge -uDvatN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge

Programming in debian..HELP

2012-02-15 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hello folks, I am looking to learn some Linux programming skills, My current situation is like, I have to integrate Third-party software with software like squid and iptables. The third party vendors have provided me with SDKs and I have no idea on how to get them working with squid and iptables.

zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel D Jones
Doing a world upgrade gives me: root@kushiel / # emerge -uDvatN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "sys- apps/pciutils[-zlib]". !!! One of the following packages is r

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/15/2012 3:13 AM, Dan Serban wrote: > I don't know why I didn't think of that, maybe I spent too much time on > Wikipedia and assumed I'd see 33MHz for all PCI devices. >> No, "capabilities" tells you what the device can do *and* what's it's >> currently doing. Note the 133MHz is under the s

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Davies
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Anyone heard of the unlink command? Yes. And your point is...? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/dvls09xg3r@news.roai

Re: Running 2 ssh instances

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Davies
Sylvain wrote: > I have a server with an ssh instance configured to run on port 22. I > also configured iptables to have a port-knocking mechanism blocking > connections on port 22. > Now I'd like to run another (restricted) ssh instance for just 1 > particular user, without this port-knocking

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: >> So, it seems there is no way around thinking both addresses are on a >> single nic since there is only one ethernet wire attached to >> localhost. > > As above; erroneous. Find out about MAC addresses and ARP. They are > basic to communication on an ethernet network and will help

Re: Any way to tell where the network problem is?

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:35:45 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 20:55 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > Feb 8 19:45:40 corn kernel: [1987612.981170] ethfast: >> > Detected Tx Unit Hang: >> >> (...) >> >> > Feb 8 19:45:49 corn kernel: [1987622.027816] NE

Re: Debian breaks commitment to support Lenny until after Wheezy is released

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:12:57 -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > In an announcement[1] from 2009, Debian promised to support Lenny at > least until the release of Wheezy: > > "To accommodate the needs of larger organisations and other users with a > long upgrade process, the Debian project commits to p

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Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:13:34 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:32 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> Mmm, I don't know how reliable it can be that information :-? >> >> ("+" means the flag is enabled and "-" means it is disabled) >> >> Regardless lspci output, I would ensure

Re: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libc6'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:41:49 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > i have installed debian 6 on a dell vostro 1550. > > > while updating software through synaptic or apt-get, i get this error > > > Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libc6'. Please see man 5 > apt.conf under APT::Immediate-C

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-15 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Anyone heard of the unlink command? unlink is slower than rm removing a 1.5GB file (at least on ext3): cbell@circe:~$ time rm test1 real0m0.278s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.264s cbell@circe:~$ time unlink test2 real0m0.375s user

Re: Programming in debian..HELP

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:14:58 +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > I am looking to learn some Linux programming skills, My current > situation is like, I have to integrate Third-party software with > software like squid and iptables. The third party vendors have provided > me with SDKs and I have no idea on

unable to add jet-direct laserjet postscript with "raw" queue

2012-02-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am running Squeeze on an i386, with the Gnome desktop. Under CUPS, I am unable to add a HP LaserJet4 with Postscript and a Jet-Direct ethernet card. The problem is that I am unable to specify a "raw" queue. CUPS appears to me to have a bug, because it repeatedly asks for the root password fo

Re: Stupid shell question

2012-02-15 Thread Chrissy Jackson
On 12/02/12 23:55, Joel Roth wrote: Hi Shellsters, I've got a directory structure like this: ./project1/bak/a.yml ./project1/bak/b.yml ./project2/bak/c.yml ./project2/bak/d.yml I want to move the *.yml files into the corresponding parent directory. I tried this: for dir in `find -maxdepth

Re: using a bluetooth headset

2012-02-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Celejar wrote: IIUC, that snippet just sets up a profile that alsa applications can use; they still need to be told individually to actually use this profile. For example, using 'aplay', you'd do something like "aplay -D bluetooth sound.wav". Each alsa app will have its own

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:26:04 +1100, Alex wrote in message : > On 13 February 2012 00:57, green wrote: > > > > So the Trim-Slice is not supported by mainline kernels? > > > > As others said, the main issue is the Tegra 2 is a nvidia chip ...that doesn't work with nouveau? Uh-oh. > and CompuL

Re: Amaya

2012-02-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:06:43 +1100, Scott wrote in message <4f39ebe3.7070...@gmail.com>: > On 14/02/12 15:24, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > Dear List - > > > > How do I install Amaya in Debian. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Ethan > > > > > > > # apt-get install amaya > > > Or synaptic, or aptitude

Re: Need help on missing Dia shape icons

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:35:04 -0600, luger wrote: > I just installed the "dia" package, dia starts up fine but immediately > gives me a warning: > > failed to load icon for file > /usr/share/dia/shapes/Flowchart/display.png > cause=Couldn't recognize the image file format for file > '/usr/shar

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread green
Alex Hutton wrote at 2012-02-14 16:59 -0600: > Fair points. I guess you would need to go with an Atom or other x86 > system which would have a more mature architecture, rather than ARM. Yes, x86 seems to be the architecture of choice at this point, with regard to reliability. > For my personal n

Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I'd like to know exactly how to start/stop retart etc the network configuration. But first it seems one must determine what is actually running them. in /var/log/boot I see: grep -i NetworkManger /var/log/boot Mon Feb 13 13:27:14 2012: Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager. OK,

Re: unable to add jet-direct laserjet postscript with "raw" queue

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:53:47 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I am running Squeeze on an i386, with the Gnome desktop. > > Under CUPS, I am unable to add a HP LaserJet4 with Postscript and a > Jet-Direct ethernet card. The problem is that I am unable to specify a > "raw" queue. (...) I just h

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'd like to know exactly how to start/stop retart etc the network > configuration. (..) If you are using network manager, "service network-manager start|stop| restart" should do the trick (N-M calls dhclient). Greetings, -- Camaleón

How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

2012-02-15 Thread Miroslav Skoric
I have a dual-boot Win$/Debian box having two cards, an older one 3Com (3C905TX in Win$, 3c59x in Deb) and a newer one TP Link (TF-3200 in Win$, sundance in Deb). Both cards are wired to the other two machines in the LAN, the older card links to an older box, the newer card links to a newer box

Re: How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

2012-02-15 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > I wonder what is the best way to reconfigure the NIC's so the old card (now > eth0) boots as eth1, and the new card (now eth1) boots as eth0? This is done using the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Just open that in your

Re: How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:57:28 +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: (...) > The issue is that the 'central' box sees the old NIC as eth0 and the new > NIC as eth1, though I would like it to be the opposite. Besides that, it > seems that the cards get renamed during the system boot, as follows: > > rename

Re: Programming in debian..HELP

2012-02-15 Thread Bijoy Lobo
The SDKs which i have header (.h) files which ask me to compile my app using them On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:14:58 +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > > > I am looking to learn some Linux programming skills, My current > > situation is like, I have to integ

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread green
Mark Neidorff wrote at 2012-02-14 17:45 -0600: > I've stayed on the sidelines of this thread because the original post sounded > to me like trolling. But, after the posts that I have read, you seem quite > serious. Trolling?! Apparently I failed to clearly express myself in the original post.

Bad news for Epson Perfection v330

2012-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver from Avasys. A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and they are not installable on Debian because of dependency problems. This s

Re: Need help on missing Dia shape icons

2012-02-15 Thread luger
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:35:04 -0600, luger wrote: I just installed the "dia" package, dia starts up fine but immediately gives me a warning: failed to load icon for file /usr/share/dia/shapes/Flowchart/display.png cause=Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/us

Re: using a bluetooth headset

2012-02-15 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:16:58 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Celejar wrote: > > > IIUC, that snippet just sets up a profile that alsa applications can > > use; they still need to be told individually to actually use this > > profile. For example, using 'aplay', you'd do

Re: how are html pages printed?

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-02-15 a las 14:10 -0600, Mark Copper escribió: (resending to the list) > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) > >> Also it is worth remembering there is *not* a problem printing to the > >> same printer from either squeeze on AMD or wheezy on i386 machines, I > >> be

Re: "hostname" question during Debian installation

2012-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Martin T wrote: >> thank you for replies! So am I correct, that hostname set during the >> installation is: You're welcome. >> 1) mapped to an address from 127.0.0.0/8 range in /etc/hosts file > > Specifically 127.0.1.1 so that it is always

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Christofer C. Bell wrote: > unlink is slower than rm removing a 1.5GB file (at least on ext3): > ... > I suspect that removing a large number of non-zero byte files will be > slower with unlink than rm. If it is then it is pointing to a kernel performance issue. Because there is very little diffe

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'd like to know exactly how to start/stop retart etc the network > configuration. > > But first it seems one must determine what is actually running them. > > in /var/log/boot  I see: > > grep -i NetworkManger /var/log/boot > Mon Feb 13 13

Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-15 Thread Paul E Condon
I have been using qpopper on some hosts on my home LAN. I use fetchmail, procmail, and mutt in an arrangement that I learned about when I first took up using Debian many years ago. qpopper allowed me to integrate watching system error messages into my mail set up without ever having to learn much

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > /etc/init.d/network-manager restart Fine. > service network-manager restart Better. > invoke-rc.d networkmanager restart typo fix s/networkmanager/network-manager/ Not needed. 'invoke-rc.d' is completely redundant with 'service' for the human user. For the human 'service' i

Dell Dimension 2400

2012-02-15 Thread David J Meyer
To all I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with the onboard video chipset. I have installed Squeeze on to the computer. The OS seems to be working fine. I can access the Apache server and the page and application that it provides. I also have configured it as a print server which also works the way it sh

Re: "hostname" question during Debian installation

2012-02-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Yes. And also to /etc/postfix/main.cf if postfix is installed. Or to > > other places if other MTAs are installed. > > When you use "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" or "dpkg-reconfigure > postfix", "/etc/mailname" is updated; in postfix's case because "my > ori

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> invoke-rc.d networkmanager restart > >  typo fix s/networkmanager/network-manager/ Oops. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 10:07:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > In the confused thread I butchered, I missed this little snipped from > Brian. I very much appreciate this explanation. I had it wrong. You're being too hard on yourself. I get things wrong all the time and it may be only months later I

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330

2012-02-15 Thread hvw59601
Anthony Campbell wrote: I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver from Avasys. A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and they are not installable on Debian because of de

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330

2012-02-15 Thread richard
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:57:38 -0600 hvw59601 wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver > > from Avasys. > > > > A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I > > find that the drivers for this scanner are now bei

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: [Snip] > Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way > by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the > tools that control networking... There is: ifupdown > Command line is my preferred id

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Davies
Anthony Campbell wrote: > A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find > that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and > they are not installable on Debian because of dependency problems. You've said the same thing over on news://uk.comp.os.linux

Re (2): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-15 Thread peasthope
* From: Andrei POPESCU * Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:12:09 +0200 > My understanding is that the point of "Xorg -configure" is to give you a > template to modify. Well yes, certainly. I included it so readers would get the Xorg view of the hardware. > Since Xorg was able to generat

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED

2012-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver > from Avasys. > > A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find > that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and > they are not installab

Re: Re: About a bug in libpam-mysql package on squeeze

2012-02-15 Thread Onur R. Bingol
Hello Camaleón, "verbose" variable is set to 1 in this case. If not, I cannot retrieve any information regarding to this problem. You are right about the date of the update, but I will just give a try by submitting this problem as a bug. Thank you your answer :) Regards, -- Onur R. Bingol

Re: Sound problems (Fixed?)

2012-02-15 Thread Emil Payne
I have Firefox set to load automatically on login. Today I quit firefox because it locked up. As soon as I did sound started working all over the place. I restarted Firefox and sound still works. Hopefully it will keep working. I still don't understand hoe Firefox would cause other programs (l

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-15 Thread ACro
Quoting Gerald : > Hi Andrew, > I rang Microsoft and explained the I wanted a data partition on the > 1TB drive to > store data . I told them I thought the 890GB of space taken up by > windows a bit of > waste since If I had to re-install the system it deleted all the > data as well. > They gave

Re: Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-15 Thread Clive Standbridge
> But may provide some benefit when removing a large number (3) of > files (at least empty ones). > > cbell@circe:~/test$ time find rm -type f -exec rm {} \; > > real 0m48.127s > user 1m32.926s > sys 0m38.750s First thought - how much of that 48 second

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 feb 12, 22:40:29, ACro wrote: > > Hi Gerald, > thanks for your feedback. Nice, diplomatic solution. I'll do the same > if I'll ever bump again into a similar problem. I also use an old > Windows XP for similar purposes; fortunately without all the obstacles > implied by W7. Anyway, th

Re: Re (2): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 feb 12, 14:27:26, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > * From: Andrei POPESCU > * Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:12:09 +0200 > > My understanding is that the point of "Xorg -configure" is to give you a > > template to modify. > > Well yes, certainly. I included it so readers would get > t

Re: Programming in debian..HELP

2012-02-15 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:14:15AM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > The SDKs which i have header (.h) files which ask me to compile my app > using them > That didn't answer the question. The question was "which programming language are you using". ./tony > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Camaleón

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 feb 12, 14:18:38, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] Don't know about POP3, but for IMAP I just installed dovecot-imapd and it automatically picked up my ~/Maildir/ I expect the same would happen with dovecot-pop3d (but I'm too lazy to test). Could you give more details, like where the e-ma

Re (3): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-15 Thread peasthope
From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:26:42 +0200 > I'd rather have the full Xorg.0.log :) http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/Xorg.0.log ... Peter E. [-- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. bcc: peasthope ... shaw.ca "ht

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120216_015139, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 15 feb 12, 14:18:38, Paul E Condon wrote: > > [snip] > > Don't know about POP3, but for IMAP I just installed dovecot-imapd and > it automatically picked up my ~/Maildir/ > I expect the same would happen with dovecot-pop3d (but I'm too lazy to

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom H writes: > If a package's installed, use > dpkg -S /path/to/file > > If it isn't installed, install apt-file, run "apt-file update", and use: > apt-file search /path/to/file Ok, again talking through my hat. I miss-remembered apt-file as apt-cache.. So sure was I that it was the one I was

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So to recap my original post, the basic requirements are: > - fanless mini PC > - it will run Debian > - production environment (reliability is important) > - good Linux support to facilitate fast deployment and low maintenance, > - avoiding non-free software (non-free firmware, out-of-tree kern

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> not a necessity, though it is desiable :). A custom kernel that > doesn't work is obviously going to be a problem, but if it works well > enough then it would be fine for me. But I guess it does make a The problem is: what will you do with your machine three year down the road? Will you have

Re: Dell Dimension 2400

2012-02-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:57:42PM -0600, David J Meyer wrote: > To all > I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with the onboard video chipset. I have > installed Squeeze on to the computer. > The OS seems to be working fine. I can access the Apache server and the > page and application that it provides. >

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > [Snip] > >> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way >> by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the >> tools that control networking... > > There is: ifupdown Ahh n

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread green
Stefan Monnier wrote at 2012-02-15 20:25 -0600: > > not a necessity, though it is desiable :). A custom kernel that > > doesn't work is obviously going to be a problem, but if it works well > > enough then it would be fine for me. But I guess it does make a > > The problem is: what will you do w

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-15 Thread Bilal mk
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bilal mk wrote: > > I tried to remove 5GB directory. In that directory around 3 files and > > directory. It will take more than 30 min to complete. > > A large number of files consuming a large number of blocks will take a > significant am

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way >> by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the >> tools that control networking... > > There

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Tom H writes: > >> If a package's installed, use >> dpkg -S /path/to/file >> >> If it isn't installed, install apt-file, run "apt-file update", and use: >> apt-file search /path/to/file > > Ok, again talking through my hat.  I miss-remembered

Maintaining/resting gnome settings

2012-02-15 Thread T o n g
Hi, My wife uses gnome, but the problem is that her gnome settings goes berserk every now and then. It won't be long for her to find out this is not working as expect, then that is not working as expect. I use fluxbox instead of DM, so I don't know gnome well. So all I can do is to remove any

notify osd stop working

2012-02-15 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello, I did a upgrade yesterday and among the other the osd was been upgraded too. Since then the osd stops working. I have also tested by notify-send "hello" But not notification at all. Presently the notification packages I have `` dpkg -l | grep osd rc libxosd2 2.2.14

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom H writes: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way >>> by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the >>> tools that control

Re: "hostname" question during Debian installation

2012-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Yes. And also to /etc/postfix/main.cf if postfix is installed.  Or to >>> other places if other MTAs are installed. >> >> When you use "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" or "dpkg-reconfigure >> postfix", "/et

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Tom H writes: >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way by now on this modern of a version