Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in >> openfiler thanks for reminding me that btw are you getting 600Mbps >> with Jumbo frame? > > I don't use jumbo frames here

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/22/2012 2:22 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in >>> openfiler thanks for reminding me that btw are you getting 600Mbps

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
I have done both upgrade and dist-upgrade and got the same type of error.For dist-upgrade, the error is :-" Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.11.3-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" The output of "dpkg -l | grep dpkg":-

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Dom
On 22/06/12 08:51, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 11:34:06 +, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: I think it is working now.But still getting some error while installing downloaded updates. dpkg: regarding .../ncurses-base_5.7+2010

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
The outpur is given bellow:- client:/home/student# apt-get install dpkg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: dpkg: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.6) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/22/2012 2:22 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner >> wrote: >>> On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >>> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 14:36:42 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > The outpur is given bellow:- > > client:/home/student# apt-get install dpkg > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > The following packages

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Brian: > > At this stage you might ask youself whether the time and frustration > involved in upgrading from something which is pre-Lenny is really worth > it. Is there any practical reason why you should not do a new Squeeze > install? ACK. It looks like the OP (inadvertantly?) tried to do somet

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 12:10:24 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Brian: > > > > At this stage you might ask youself whether the time and frustration > > involved in upgrading from something which is pre-Lenny is really worth > > it. Is there any practical reason why you should not do a new Squeeze >

Re: Root password usage - was [Re: Intermittent installation related problems]

2012-06-22 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:31:31 -0500 Mark Allums napísal: > If you gave root a password during install, then you should if you was used national keyboard (i don't know how it is in english) for root password, you can go to problems, because installer do not follow the keyboard choice dur

git over smart-http; how to check /refs/heads/master

2012-06-22 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I am trying to make a pre-receive hook which can check /refs/heads/master and based on the user name it allow/deny push to master. The git is configured over smart-http here. So from apache log ; during push I can see "GET /git/test.git/info/refs?service=git-rece

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/22/2012 2:22 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner >> wrote: >>> On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >>> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > ok here you go with the details > > this is the storage server NAS/SAN box > > root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r > > Server listening on TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default) >

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
> Try using -u or f.i. -w 2M with TCP. > But your results are quite good already. UDP only root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -u -r Server listening on UDP port 5001 Receiving 1470 byte datagrams UDP buffer size: 110 KByte (default)

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >> Try using -u or f.i. -w 2M with TCP. >> But your results are quite good already. > > UDP only > > root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -u -r > > Server listening on UDP port 5001 > Receiving 1470 byte datag

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
TCP Result iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r -w 2M Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 256 KByte (WARNING: requested 2.00 MByte)

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/22/2012 04:15 AM, Greg Madden wrote: 1. 'APT::Default Release' in '/etc/apt/apt.conf I think apt.conf is no longer there... At least its long since last time i saw it... I just created a file in apt.conf.d/00default with such directive greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r -u -b 1024M Server listening on UDP port 5001 Receiving 1470 byte datagrams UDP buffer size: 110 KByte (default) ---

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r -u -b 1024M > > Server listening on UDP port 5001 > Receiving 1470 byte datagrams > UDP buffer size:  110 KByte (default) > ---

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
>[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.11 GBytes953 Mbits/sec >[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec585 MBytes490 Mbits/sec 0.053 ms 393567/810629 can you please explain what these two lines mean in the output. i can understand the values but i can not understand it like what is 1.11GBytes and what is 953 and etc.

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. I reme

Re: Root password usage - was [Re: Intermittent installation related problems]

2012-06-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 6/21/2012 9:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Brian wrote: >>> On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 13:55:49 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:37:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The new install will not accept root passwor

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.11 GBytes    953 Mbits/sec >>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec    585 MBytes    490 Mbits/sec  0.053 ms 393567/810629 > > can you please explain what these two lines mean in the output. > i can understand the values but i can not understand it like what i

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. I reme

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > 2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >>>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.11 GBytes    953 Mbits/sec >>>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec    585 MBytes    490 Mbits/sec  0.053 ms 393567/810629 >> >> can you please explain what these two lines mean in the output. >> i c

Fwd: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-22 Thread Harshad Joshi
For some reasons i am not able to get debian members response in my mailbox to my query posted on mailing list. So i have written a brief post about UEFI, Canonical and Microsoft over here - http://harshad.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/the-ghost-of-uefi-and-micr00ft/ Canonical too has some plans for U

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:22:54 +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> If this simple test fails then you better stop here, read the log and >> solve the problem in first place :-) > > keir@example:~$ telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to

Re: cyrus --> dovecot

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:40 +0200, Móczik Gábor wrote: > 2012.06.21. 18:07 keltezéssel, Camaleón írta: >> What's the exact output you get from apt? (...) > The following packages will be REMOVED: >cyrus-imapd-2.2 > The following NEW packages will be installed: >dovecot-imapd (...) Mm

Re: Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:40:37 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Postscript > > From: > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:26:49 + (UTC) >> There shouldn't be any conflicts between the security updates when >> using the backports repository... > > No /etc/apt/preferences here. Could that help? Can't tell...

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:07:44 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> What's what you want to get? > > I want to get again a testing/sid system, but this shall be my first > time to upgrade from testing/sid to 'newer' testing/sid. > > I'm a feared what could happen with my system right a

Re: any stable open source ldap software for SSO

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:06:39 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2012/6/22 Camaleón : >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:30:57 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> >> > >> If you're replying to my post you removed too much of the quoted text >> ;-) >> >>> I admit that I have never extensively used OpenLDAP

Re: Apertium error... seeking English <-> Español translation tool

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:08:05 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > * Camaleón [120621 11:23]: >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:45:07 -0700, John Magolske wrote: >> >> > I'd like to use the Apertium translation tool [1], which can >> > translate English <-> Español (and other languages too, but that's >> > the

Re: aplay: main:682: audio open error: Device or resource busy, no audio

2012-06-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:02 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, > First of all please CC me if somebody answers as I'm not subscribed to > the mailing list. I am on Debian sid and about 2 weeks back my audio > has mysteriously gone kaput which means no audio. This is on dual-boot > s

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/12 10:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:07:44 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Camaleón writes: What's what you want to get? I want to get again a testing/sid system, but this shall be my first time to upgrade from testing/sid to 'newer' testing/sid. I'm a feared what could hap

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:02:20 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install -- it makes pictures on > the screen and adds posts and pages. The posts appear on the home page > of the blog, and the names of the pages show up in the menu (default > theme). But when I c

Re: Fwd: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
Harshad Joshi writes: > Lot of PC/laptop/tablets in 2012 and beyond will have UEFI instead of > good old bios. Bad old bios. Very bad. It was designed for 8080s and floppy disks. It was excellent for that environment but it has been obsolete for decades. > Will Debian community fight against th

Reading/posting to Debian mailing lists (was: Re: Fwd: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft)

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:26:17 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > For some reasons i am not able to get debian members response in my > mailbox to my query posted on mailing list. (...) Most of the Debian mailing lists are open, meaning there's no need for users who want to post to be subscribed. To

Re: bash related question, adding variable into path

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:34:40 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > below scripts stuck when i added id variable to a path. > > this script supposed to copy message files (from 18-22 june) from a > zimbra store/mailbox of a user and copied it into /tmp > > #!/bin/bash > echo "Username? then [ENTER]:"

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 11:03:48 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > He'd better comment out the sid lines or he'll still be getting mainly > sid. Unless you want to test sid - something that I can't imagine anyone > doing - you should only use sid to install certain packages that you > want to test aga

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Seyfert
Okay, I don't precisely know what fixed it but now the font is correctly displayed for me. deleting files from /usr/share/fonts/ somewhat brought unreproducible results. I started font-manager (which I believed to be inactive since I commented out the corresponding entries in ~/.fonts.conf). In deb

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
Gary Dale writes: > Running pure sid like he seems to be is just nuts. I've been running pure Sid since it was invented. Works fine. Of course it would be silly to run Sid and do daily updates. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Just a quick note on this... The above should be used (according to the > provided configuration template located in "/usr/share/doc/wordpress/ > examples/apache.conf") when you use no virtual hosts and your files are > placed outside the "/blog" p

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Glenn, I notice you're still having problems, so, for what it's worth I've had Wordpress running on Debian, with Apache for years, and recently did a reinstall after getting hacked. Here's the step by step that I jotted down: 0. Caveat, this is running under Lenny, in a Xen VM - that sh

Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Vilius Panevėžys
Hi all, I need eclipse >= 3.7 to use plug-ins that refuse to work with the eclipse version available in squeeze. So, I'd be happy with the version from testing. I've created apt.conf """ $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "squeeze"; """ and added sources for wheezy, complete sources.list

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > Okay, > I don't precisely know what fixed it but now the font is correctly > displayed for me. deleting files from /usr/share/fonts/ somewhat brought > unreproducible results. You deleted all the fonts under "/usr/share/fonts/" path? :-?

Re (4): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-22 Thread peasthope
From: Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:20:25 + (UTC) > You mean the hex code, right? Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_character_reference#Example > People who is interested in the Enterprise based version will know What about the other 90 or 99% who just want a working browser? > ??

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:48:13 +0300, Vilius Panevėžys wrote: > I need eclipse >= 3.7 to use plug-ins that refuse to work with the > eclipse version available in squeeze. So, I'd be happy with the version > from testing. (...) Have you considered in getting the upstream package instead¹? Being a

Re: Re (4): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:17:02 -0800, peasthope wrote: (...) >> People who is interested in the Enterprise based version will know > > What about the other 90 or 99% who just want a working browser? That they stick to the default browser (e.g., Epiphany)? >> I was referring to the latest version

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Vilius Panevėžys
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:23:52 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:48:13 +0300, Vilius Panevėžys wrote: > > > I need eclipse >= 3.7 to use plug-ins that refuse to work with the > > eclipse version available in squeeze. So, I'd be happy with the > > version from testing. > > (...

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 02:02:20PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install -- it makes > pictures on the screen and adds posts and pages. The posts > appear on the home page of the blog, and the names of the pages > show up in the menu (default theme). But

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:36:30 +0300, Vilius Panevėžys wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:23:52 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:48:13 +0300, Vilius Panevėžys wrote: >> >> > I need eclipse >= 3.7 to use plug-ins that refuse to work with the >> > eclipse version available in

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 10:56:04 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Gary Dale writes: > > Running pure sid like he seems to be is just nuts. > > I've been running pure Sid since it was invented. Works fine. Of > course it would be silly to run Sid and do daily updates. I'm not too sure about daily or r

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 16:11:49 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > > > - symbol.ttf which comes with cernroot is behaving strangely > > using it for displaying causes wrong displaying of non embedded greek > > letters. > > The behaviour you get

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 22, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I would guess that you need to enable apache mod-rewrite. > do (as root, in terminal) > a2enmod rewrite > service apache2 restart > > then tell us what happens. "Module rewrite already enabled" (I didn't do the restart.) In the admin state,

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:25:55 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 16:11:49 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: >> >> > - symbol.ttf which comes with cernroot is behaving strangely >> > using it for displaying causes wrong displaying of non

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Seyfert
Hi, > > You deleted all the fonts under "/usr/share/fonts/" path? :-? no, I did as was suggested by brian (keep the X fonts and gsfonts) > > - ttf files not only help displaying fonts, they can also break it. > > This is not because of TTF but a bug coming from a different place (in > wheezy

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > I'm not too sure about daily or regular updates being silly as opposed > to unnecessary... Daily and/or automatic updates when running Sid are silly because sooner or later they will get you in trouble. > How do you deal with security updates? Subscribe to the relevant > mailing l

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/12 01:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 10:56:04 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Gary Dale writes: Running pure sid like he seems to be is just nuts. I've been running pure Sid since it was invented. Works fine. Of course it would be silly to run Sid and do daily updates. I'm no

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 22.06.2012 20:47, John Hasler wrote: > Brian writes: >> > I'm not too sure about daily or regular updates being silly as opposed >> > to unnecessary... > Daily and/or automatic updates when running Sid are silly because sooner > or later they will get you in trouble. > >> > How do you deal with

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 22.06.2012 20:59, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 22.06.2012 20:47, John Hasler wrote: >> > Brian writes: >> > I'm not too sure about daily or regular updates being silly as opposed >> > to unnecessary... >> > Daily and/or automatic updates when running Sid are silly because sooner >> > o

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
John Hasler: > Gary Dale writes: > >> Running pure sid like he seems to be is just nuts. > > I've been running pure Sid since it was invented. Works fine. Of > course it would be silly to run Sid and do daily updates. I do that for a couple of (+5) years now and didn't have many problems yet. B

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/12 02:31 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: John Hasler: Gary Dale writes: Running pure sid like he seems to be is just nuts. I've been running pure Sid since it was invented. Works fine. Of course it would be silly to run Sid and do daily updates. I do that for a couple of (+5) years now

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Gary, Gary Dale wrote: > It doesn't help testing since the point of packages in sid is > to get them to work with the current testing environment, not the > current unstable environment. This is more or less obviously absolute bullshit. Running sid, testing applications and reporting bug

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 12:47:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Brian writes: > > I'm not too sure about daily or regular updates being silly as opposed > > to unnecessary... > > Daily and/or automatic updates when running Sid are silly because sooner > or later they will get you in trouble. And leav

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 17:42:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:25:55 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 16:11:49 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > >> > >> > - symbol.ttf which comes with cernroot is behaving st

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 13:55:55 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > You miss the point of sid. It's not a distribution the way Wheezy is. > It's a place to put packages for testing before they enter into the > general testing pool. Testing against sid is almost useless when you > really want to know if

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/12 02:52 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Gary, Gary Dale wrote: It doesn't help testing since the point of packages in sid is to get them to work with the current testing environment, not the current unstable environment. This is more or less obviously absolute bullshit. Running sid,

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Gary, Gary Dale wrote: > Again, the art of testing is to change one thing at a time. You can't do > that when all the packages are in flux. Pulling particular packages from > sid and testing them in the relative calm of testing is a much more > easier way to isolate bugs. But in order t

/etc/bash.bashrc instead ~/.bashrc

2012-06-22 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hi all! I have several computers with Debian installed. In all of them I have unstable with, in some cases, some experimental packages. In one (and only one) of then, when I open a terminal or connect by SSH, my bash load the default system configuration from /etc/bash.bashrc, instead of reading,

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 21:39:29 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Gary Dale wrote: > > Again, the art of testing is to change one thing at a time. You can't do > > that when all the packages are in flux. Pulling particular packages from > > sid and testing them in the relative calm of testing is a

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Daily and/or automatic updates when running Sid are silly because sooner > or later they will get you in trouble. Brian writes: > And leaving the updating for an extended period won't? Did I say you should? -devel warns you about transitions and similar events that mean that it would b

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Lisi
On Friday 22 June 2012 17:36:30 Vilius Panevėžys wrote: > Yes, I'll do that as a fallback, but installing packages the manual way > looses all the advantages of the package management system. Let's say > that's an exercise to learn how to use apt along the way, though > I actually need the newer ve

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 15:50:07 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Daily and/or automatic updates when running Sid are silly because sooner > > or later they will get you in trouble. > > Brian writes: > > And leaving the updating for an extended period won't? > > Did I say you should? No.

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/22/2012 5:45 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth > [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 744 MBytes 624 Mbits/sec > [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 876 MBytes 734 Mbits/sec > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth > [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec744 MBytes623 Mbits/sec

Re: any stable open source ldap software for SSO

2012-06-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 14:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:06:39 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2012/6/22 Camaleón : > >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:30:57 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> > >> > > > >> If you're replying to my post you removed too much of the quoted text

LUKS question

2012-06-22 Thread yudi v
Hi, I have a laptop with the entire harddrive encrypted with LUKS. Are there any precautions I need to take before moving this harddrive to another machine and booting from it. The only precaution suggested on LUKS FAQ is to back up the header. I have done that. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To UN

Re: Re: Is the a 'contrarian' Debian install available?

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Condon
I think I have also read somewhere that netinst is a minimal system that is capable of hardly anything, except downloading and installing more packages from a mirror on the web. For this to be true in any meaningful sense, I had always assumed that it is capable of booting from hard disk. And To

Re: bash related question, adding variable into path

2012-06-22 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/6/22 Camaleón : > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:34:40 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> #!/bin/bash >> echo "Username? then [ENTER]:" >> read username >> id=`/opt/zimbra/bin/mysql -e 'use zimbra;select id,comment from mailbox;' | >> grep $username | cut -f 1` mkdir /tmp/$username 2>/dev/null >> for

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-22 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Huh. Whadya know. I loaded Wheezy 64-bit and the same problem occurred. Connected the system directly to the network interface and the problem vanished. Connected it directly to the IPCop fir