Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 17.10.2013 um 13:21 schrieb Joel Rees : > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my netbook is a ~5 years old Acer One with Atom processor, 1 GB memory and >> 150 GB HDD. […] > > Have you checked the hardware acceleration settings? > > I had a slow

Re: Oddity in synaptic 0.75.13 (Wheezy)

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Beco wrote: > On 17 October 2013 19:24, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: >> >> Using synaptic 0.75.13 in Wheezy under the menu item, "Settings, >> Repositories," the updates tab lists, "Notify me of a new Ubuntu >> version." >> >> What? Is someone developing for Debian but

Re: Oddity in synaptic 0.75.13 (Wheezy)

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Beco wrote: > On 17 October 2013 19:24, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: >> >> Using synaptic 0.75.13 in Wheezy under the menu item, "Settings, >> Repositories," the updates tab lists, "Notify me of a new Ubuntu >> version." >> >> What? Is someone developing for Debian but

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 17.10.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Joe : > There is mate, allegedly a fork of Gnome2, I haven't tried it. I do use > LXDE on my sid desktop and also on my Aspire One netbook. I have the > one with the slightly smaller case and SSD, which has an unbelievably > slow write speed. I usually use it with

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > I'd like to configure multiple IP addresses to a VLAN tagged interface. I > tried > > auto eth3.107 > iface eth3.77 inet static > address 10.0.5.15 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > iface eth3.77 inet static > address 10.0.5.16 > ne

Re: endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> On 18 Oct 2013, at 05:51, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > What's wrong with htonl and other similar functions/macroes? They are pretty good when they fit what you want to do, but there are holes: eg convert big endian source to host layout. Note that the glibc implementation uses cpp conditionals

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> >> I'd like to configure multiple IP addresses to a VLAN tagged >> interface. I tried >> >> auto eth3.107 >> iface eth3.77 inet static >> address 10.0.5.15 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> iface eth3.77 inet static >

Re: Oddity in synaptic 0.75.13 (Wheezy)

2013-10-18 Thread Beco
On 18 October 2013 04:26, Tom H wrote: > > (Apologies for the earlier blank email. Hit "Send" rather than "..." > to expand the text...) > > ;) > LMAO! What drama! > > The developer must've grabbed an Ubuntu patch and not cleaned up that part. > > It's just a question of filing a bug report to

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-18 Thread Jesse Molina
As previously noted, this was a bug in mdadm and has already been fixed in the current version. Just update your mdadm package and then re-build your initramfs file with the "update-initramfs" command. Be sure to read the manpage for that command. Probably "update-initramfs -u" alone will

Re: Oddity in synaptic 0.75.13 (Wheezy)

2013-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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Re: Passing "nowait" command line option to "dhclient"

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thanks for your quick and helpful reply! On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Your indention is terrible! Sorry, I'll improve. >> I think I have to pass the option "-nw" to dhclient, but how do I do >> that correctly? > > If you want dhclient not t

Recovering my USB-Key content

2013-10-18 Thread Jean-Marc
Hi the list, The partition table of my USB-key has gone and I got some read-error messages. I recovered the files stored on it using photorec but it is a little bit a raw-recover splitted into generic directories with generic names. I tried then testdisk but, except the fact that testdisk t

Re: dpkg-query - package "un"packed, no version ???

2013-10-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 sep 13, 01:28:35, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/3/13, Curt wrote: > > > > Where or how do you get "no package description" for those packages? > > What command are you using? > > :) > > With my custom supa-dupa package searcher and shower script :) > > Now, my script was using "dpkg -

Re: su - root

2013-10-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 sep 13, 03:09:46, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Can anyone explain to me the message here "Added user root.": > > $ su - root > Password: > Added user root. > ~# Doesn't happen here. > Did not happen with "sudo su -". What does it mean?? BTW, you don't need 'su -' with sudo, just use -i.

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Steffen Dettmer > wrote: >> but I get an error message that ifup tries to configure the VLAN >> interface twice, but the addresses are set. > I assume that you mean "auto eth3.77" not "auto eth3.107". Yes, of cours

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi! On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Steffen Dettmer wrote: > However all of the docs I see just now suggest using a bridge. There are docs recommending to take the burden of kernel software briding to add an alias IP?! > Configuring multiple IP addresses on interfaces like

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Tom H wrote: >> auto eth0 >> iface eth0 inet static >> address 10.0.5.16 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> iface eth0.77 inet manual >> auto br0.77 >> iface br0.77 inet manual >> bridge_ports eth0.77 >> bridge_fd 0 >>

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-18 Thread Jogi Hofmüller
Hi jesse, Am 2013-10-18 10:35, schrieb Jesse Molina: > > As previously noted, this was a bug in mdadm and has already been fixed > in the current version. Just update your mdadm package and then > re-build your initramfs file with the "update-initramfs" command. Be > sure to read the manpage fo

Re: what's up with the apt-get

2013-10-18 Thread Linux-Fan
On 10/18/2013 04:03 AM, don magnify wrote: > no vim candidate?! > > isn't this it: > http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/vim > > what exactly needs to be in sources.list? > > i got this installing from iso. initially the cdrom part was in but since i > don't have a cdrom i got rid of it... > > #

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> works for me in the form of >> >> allow-auto eth0.9 >> >> iface eth0.9 inet static >> address 192.168.1.119 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> gateway 192.168.1.1 >> >> iface eth0.9 inet static

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 09:30, Helmut Wollmersdorfer a écrit : Am 17.10.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Joe : There is mate, allegedly a fork of Gnome2, I haven't tried it. I do use LXDE on my sid desktop and also on my Aspire One netbook. I have the one with the slightly smaller case and SSD, which has an unbel

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thanks again for your fast help. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Tom H wrote: > So Bob must be right about your ifupdown version not using iproute I'm using Wheezy with ifup version 0.7.8, I think this is the latest officially released (aka "the best") one? > and, as he suggested, you're

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> auto eth0 >>> iface eth0 inet static >>> address 10.0.5.16 >>> netmask 255.255.255.0 >>> iface eth0.77 inet manual >>> auto br0.77 >>> iface br0.77 inet ma

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Chris Davies
Tom H wrote: > iface eth3.77 inet static > address 10.0.5.15 > iface eth3.77 inet static > address 10.0.5.16 The Debian documentation at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html states categorically, « Do not define duplicates of the "iface" stanza for a network interface

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steffen Dettmer wrote: Hi, I'd like to configure multiple IP addresses to a VLAN tagged interface. I tried auto eth3.107 iface eth3.77 inet static address 10.0.5.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 iface eth3.77 inet static address 10.0.5.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 but I get an error mess

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 04:32, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I spoke about graphical applications,

web-gui for scripts

2013-10-18 Thread Pol Hallen
Howdy :-) I searching for what is the way to create a gui interface for my scripts ("security web-gui"). So, a script could be something like this (execute by root user): #!/bin/bash # pr.sh /etc/postfix reload So, I must create a gui do "reload postfix service" I can write a php script lik

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, just in case someone still reading my boring DHCP client attempts, to complete the topic here my findings about behavior at shutdown. Even with simply /etc/network/interfaces configuration: allow-hotplug eth3.77 iface eth3.77 inet dhcp and manually starting "ifup eth3.77" after boot, on

Re: web-gui for scripts

2013-10-18 Thread Lars Noodén
On 18.10.2013 15:35, Pol Hallen wrote: > Howdy :-) > > I searching for what is the way to create a gui interface for my scripts > ("security web-gui"). > > So, a script could be something like this (execute by root user): > > #!/bin/bash > # pr.sh > /etc/postfix reload > > So, I must create a g

Re: web-gui for scripts

2013-10-18 Thread Philipp Born
Hey, is it "something like this" or is it "this"? If it's "this", I would suggest you to install a software like Webmin or so. Greetings. On 18.10.2013 14:35, Pol Hallen wrote: Howdy :-) I searching for what is the way to create a gui interface for my scripts ("security web-gui"). So, a sc

Re: Oddity in synaptic 0.75.13 (Wheezy)

2013-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Good news: this bug was fixed for sid on Aug 23 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666869 It's actually in "software-properties-gtk", which is started by synaptic when you click on "Settings → Repositories" Checking whether this is something that could be considered for backporting

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Tom H wrote: > thanks again for your fast help. You're welcome. >> So Bob must be right about your ifupdown version not using iproute > > I'm using Wheezy with ifup version 0.7.8, I think this is the

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> iface eth3.77 inet static >> address 10.0.5.15 > >> iface eth3.77 inet static >> address 10.0.5.16 > > The Debian documentation at > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html states > categorically, « Do

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> >> I'd like to configure multiple IP addresses to a VLAN tagged interface. I >> tried >> >> auto eth3.107 >>iface eth3.77 inet static >>address 10.0.5.15 >>netmask 255.255.255.0 >>iface eth3.77 inet

Squeeze with silverlight/Pipelight

2013-10-18 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, Could someone play any video on this site? -> http://www.rtlklub.hu/most/45733_ejjel-nappal_budapest_gabornak_szabadnapja_van_mert_a_pizzer Thanks

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 04:32, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Steffen Dettmer wrote: I'd like to configure multiple IP addresses to a VLAN tagged interface. I tried auto eth3.107 iface eth3.77 inet static address 10.0.5.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 iface eth3.77 inet static

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 11:37 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:56, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : You're the one who said programmers need to know a lot of details about the hardware being used, not me. The more you need to know about different hardware, the harder it is to write code t

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Miles Fidelman >> wrote: >> >> eth0:1 is an alias. >> > ummm... no, eth0:1 is a virtual interface riding on top of a physical one > (eth0 being the physical interface). The OP's asking abou

Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Veljko
Hello, I have 4 HDDs in software RAID10 for my backup server. I had help on this list when I started to configure it and everything was working great for a year. Last few days I noticed some load issues. During backup rotation of rsnapshot load would go very high. I watched iotop and jbd2 was top

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use standard smart pointers in C++, I tend to avoid them. I had so much troubles with them,

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Veljko wrote: Hello, I have 4 HDDs in software RAID10 for my backup server. I had help on this list when I started to configure it and everything was working great for a year. Last few days I noticed some load issues. During backup rotation of rsnapshot load would go very high. I watched iotop

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 11:37 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:56, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : You're the one who said programmers need to know a lot of details about the hardware being used, not me. The more you need to know about different hardware, the harder

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 3:57 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Do you know how the SQL database you're using works? Sure do. Don't you? I know how the interface works. Actually, I do know quite a bit about the internals of how it works. But do you know how it parse

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 8:31 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 17.10.2013 21:57, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use s

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 16:22, Miles Fidelman a écrit : But now, are most programmers paid by societies with hundreds of programmers? (and whether you actually mean "developer" vs. "programmer") I do not see the difference between those words. Could you give me the nuances please? I still have a lot t

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi! On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Tom H wrote: >> I'm using Wheezy with ifup version 0.7.8, I think this is the >> latest officially released (aka "the best") one? > > Strange. I was under the impression that Debian 7's ifupdown is using > iproute but you had a vconfig error in an earlier emai

ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Verde Denim
When I connect my iPad4 to my Debian Wheezy box, I get this message DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus. Error. No Reply. Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus). This worked with an older iPad (gen 1 & 2). Is there something I'm missing to be able to connect my iPad 4? Debian: Linux

packages for amd64 and i386 at a different version

2013-10-18 Thread Jari Fredrisson
I can't install or update ANYTHING in my wheezy right now. Whatever I try, there is always this: dpkg: error processing libcurl3:amd64 (--configure): package libcurl3:amd64 7.26.0-1+wheezy4 cannot be configured because libcurl3:i386 is at a different version (7.26.0-1+wheezy3) dpkg: error proce

Re: ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 11:58 -0400, Verde Denim wrote: > iPad: 7.0.2 It at least isn't caused by the iOS version. Connecting an iPad 2 running the same version, I don't get an issue. In the past I used USB cables of a valid length regarding to USB specifications, but this often caused trouble, only

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 3:57 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Do you know how the SQL database you're using works? Sure do. Don't you? I know how the interface works. Actually, I do know quite a bit about the internals of how it works. But do

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Tom H wrote: >> --->8=== >> auto lo >> iface lo inet loopback >> >> allow-auto eth0.9 >> iface eth0.9 inet static >> address 192.168.1.119 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> gateway 192.168.1.1 >>

Logout, shut down autostarted app in openbox?

2013-10-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I have a nicely working script for rotating backgrounds in openbox. It is initiated in autostart.sh. My trouble involves having this shut down if I log out, then back in at a later time. The first instance does not get terminated, so my backgrounds begin to change at really interesting rates

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 17:54, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 8:31 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 17.10.2013 21:57, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 10:32 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I spoke about graphical applications, and

Re: what's up with the apt-get

2013-10-18 Thread don magnify
thanks bob. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > don magnify wrote: > > what exactly needs to be in sources.list? > > You are missing Wheezy main. You only have: > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib > > And that is contrib without non-free which

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Veljko
Hello Miles, On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:43:59AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Do a smartctl -A /dev/sd[abcd] - look for non-zero raw read errors > and reallocated sector counts. I've found, at least for the WD > drives I use in my servers - anything other than a 0 raw-read-error > count is a sig

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 17:50, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : And, again, just a guess, but I'm guessing the huge percentage of programmers these days are writing .NET code on vanilla Windows machines (not that I like it, but it does seem to be a fact of life). A lot of people also seem to be writing stored SQ

Re: Squeeze with silverlight/Pipelight

2013-10-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 18 October 2013 15:03:27 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone play any video on this site? -> > http://www.rtlklub.hu/most/45733_ejjel-nappal_budapest_gabornak_sza >badnapja_van_mert_a_pizzer > > Thanks I just tried, but I'm afraid that I gave up when MS started wanting to ins

Re: Logout, shut down autostarted app in openbox?

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
if [ "$(pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh)" ] ; then killall -9 -w wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh fi # add your code here exit while pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh > /dev/null ; killall wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh ; done # add your code here exit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Logout, shut down autostarted app in openbox?

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > if [ "$(pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh)" ] ; then > killall -9 -w wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh > fi > # add your code here > exit > > while pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh > /dev/null ; killall > wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh ; done > # add your co

Re: Logout, shut down autostarted app in openbox?

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > if [ "$(pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh)" ] ; then > > killall -9 -w wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh > > fi > > # add your code here > > exit > > > > while pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh >

Re: Logout, shut down autostarted app in openbox?

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > if [ "$(pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh)" ] ; then > > > killall -9 -w wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh > > > fi > > > # add your

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 12:11 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 3:57 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Do you know how the SQL database you're using works? Sure do. Don't you? I know how the interface works. Actually, I do know quite a bi

Re: packages for amd64 and i386 at a different version

2013-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-18 17:54 +0200, Jari Fredrisson wrote: > I can't install or update ANYTHING in my wheezy right now. > > Whatever I try, there is always this: > > dpkg: error processing libcurl3:amd64 (--configure): > package libcurl3:amd64 7.26.0-1+wheezy4 cannot be configured because > libcurl3:i386

Re: Logout, shut down autostarted app in openbox?

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > if [ "$(pidof wallpaperRandomSwitch.sh)" ] ; then > > > >

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread mfidelman
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone Original message From: Veljko Date: 10/18/2013 12:26 PM (GMT-05:00) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dying hard drive? Hello Miles, On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:43:59AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Do a sma

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 17:22, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use standard smart pointers in C++, I tend t

E: Unable to locate package libpngwriter0-dev

2013-10-18 Thread don magnify
hi... now that have sorted out the sources.list i get this: E: Unable to locate package libpngwriter0-dev for # apt-get install libpngwriter0-dev although http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libpngwriter0-dev my guess is one is squeezing the other is weezing. so how do i force it in? do i cr

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2013-10-18 11:43 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Do a smartctl -A /dev/sd[abcd] - look for non-zero raw read errors > and reallocated sector counts. And Current_Pending_Sector ! > I've found, at least for the WD drives I use in my servers - > anything other than a 0 raw-read-error count is a s

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 1:10 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:22, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but

Re: web-gui for scripts

2013-10-18 Thread Pol Hallen
The easiest thing is to make sure there no user-submitted data can be passed on to the system and no system output can be passed on directly to the user. ok Use if-then statements, case statements, and even scrubbing via regex if it is necessary to pass data. good idea, thanks! Also, if

Re: web-gui for scripts

2013-10-18 Thread Pol Hallen
is it "something like this" or is it "this"? :-) If it's "this", I would suggest you to install a software like Webmin or so. I need build my own web-gui thanks for help Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

2013-10-18 Thread Joe
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:37:44 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Am 17.10.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Joe : > > >> Both LXDE and XFCE use Openbox, but of course there are many > >> others. > > XFCE uses it's own wm: xfwm4. Of course, you can use openbox with > XFCE, but it is not the defaul

shell usage; was Re: xmonad and LXDE.

2013-10-18 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:49:38 -0600 > You can run very well with X and a window manager and without a desktop > environment. Definitely I've taken note but for now I'm leaving LXDE. For example, the task bar at the bottom of the screen is helpful and I haven't learned to o

Re: Logout, shut down autostarted app in openbox?

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 09:09 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > My trouble involves having this shut down if I log out, then back in > at a later time. Than a script for shutdown wouldn't work. I misunderstood at least this part of your request. I thought you were writing about a shutdown and that aft

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Joe
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:36:13 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 18.10.2013 04:32, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > > > > I'm pretty sure that C was NOT written to build operating systems - > > though it's been used for that (notably Unix). > > I never said I agreed that C was designed to

Re: Xorg/driver assignment

2013-10-18 Thread Curt
On 2013-09-23, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have an AMD E450 and I've downloaded and install the > amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64 > > Now I'm not sure whether the driver is properly installed. > Probably there is a configuration problem > > root@vdr:~# fglrxinfo > display: l

Re: ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Verde Denim
On 10/18/2013 12:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 11:58 -0400, Verde Denim wrote: >> iPad: 7.0.2 > It at least isn't caused by the iOS version. Connecting an iPad 2 > running the same version, I don't get an issue. In the past I used USB > cables of a valid length regarding to USB

Re: ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Shane Johnson
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Verde Denim wrote: > On 10/18/2013 12:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 11:58 -0400, Verde Denim wrote: >>> iPad: 7.0.2 >> It at least isn't caused by the iOS version. Connecting an iPad 2 >> running the same version, I don't get an issue. In the

Re: ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 12:55 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Verde Denim wrote: > > I'm thinking its the iPad4/iOS 7.0.2 that's the problem, but not > > sure why it just doesn't connect. It keeps asking me for the PIN > > and to retry. It's not iOS 7.0.2. For the iP

Re: packages for amd64 and i386 at a different version

2013-10-18 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Jari Fredrisson writes: > I can't install or update ANYTHING in my wheezy right now. First of all, versions for different architectures are equal. For example: freehck@lpt00:~% apt-cache policy libcurl3 libcurl3: Installed: 7.32.0-1 Candidate: 7.32.0-1 Version

Re: ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 21:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 12:55 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Verde Denim wrote: > > > I'm thinking its the iPad4/iOS 7.0.2 that's the problem, but not > > > sure why it just doesn't connect. It keeps asking m

Re: E: Unable to locate package libpngwriter0-dev

2013-10-18 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
don magnify writes: > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libpngwriter0-dev > > do i create a separate sources.list for squeeze? No. I would recommend you to read sources.list(5) accurately, and then add squeeze repository into it. pgpuB6F9Kl7qe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Of course I know nothing about vlan configuration so I am likely wrong > > here. I just know that visually it doesn't match. However all of the > > docs I see just now suggest using a bridge. Perhaps something like this. > > > > auto eth0 > > allow-hotplu

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Fidelman wrote: > for what it's worth, my (working, for years) /etc/network/interfaces > file looks like this: In addition to what Tom said, you have redundant network and broadcast statements. If you specify the netmask then the network and broadcast will be calculated from the netmask. B

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > However all of the docs I see just now suggest using a bridge. > > There are docs recommending to take the burden of kernel software > briding to add an alias IP?! But you were asking about VLANS not IP aliases! Not wanting to distract from the disc

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: > > Tom H wrote: > >> iface eth3.77 inet static > >> address 10.0.5.15 > > > >> iface eth3.77 inet static > >> address 10.0.5.16 > > > > The Debian documentation at > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html states > > categorically, « Do

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 20:23:51 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > > On Wednesday 16 October 2013 13:14:06 Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:23:16PM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > >> > >> "I am not entirely certain but I don't think it has a number > >> yet, bu

Re: E: Unable to locate package libpngwriter0-dev

2013-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
don magnify wrote: > now that have sorted out the sources.list i get this: > E: Unable to locate package libpngwriter0-dev > for # apt-get install libpngwriter0-dev > > although http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libpngwriter0-dev > > my guess is one is squeezing the other is weezing. so how do i

Re: shell usage; was Re: xmonad and LXDE.

2013-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > I've tried to combine on one line and neither of these works. > $ nohup xmonad > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 & ; disown > $ nohup xmonad > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 & \; disown > Someone please give a correct syntax. Try it without the extra ';' there. $ nohup xmonad > ~/.

Re: ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Verde Denim
On 10/18/2013 03:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 12:55 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Verde Denim wrote: >>> I'm thinking its the iPad4/iOS 7.0.2 that's the problem, but not >>> sure why it just doesn't connect. It keeps asking me for the PIN >>

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 06:26:38PM +0200, Veljko wrote: > IIUIC, this is output I should be looking: > > sda: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 095 094 006Pre-fail Always > -

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:48 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: In the REAL world, program behavior is very much driven by the properties of underlying hardware. And... when actually packaging code for compilation and/or installation - you need to know a lot about what

Re: ipad connection

2013-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 17:40 -0400, Verde Denim wrote: > On 10/18/2013 03:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 12:55 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Verde Denim wrote: > >>> I'm thinking its the iPad4/iOS 7.0.2 that's the problem, but not > >>> sur

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gregory Nowak wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 06:26:38PM +0200, Veljko wrote: IIUIC, this is output I should be looking: sda: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 095 094 006Pre-fail Alway

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 16:22, Miles Fidelman a écrit : (though it's pretty hard to get hired for anything in the US without a bachelorate in something) I do not think it can be worse than in France. Ok. I wasn't sure about that, though France does seem as creden

Re: Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-18 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:17:56 +0200 Gareth de Vaux wrote: > > I could use the keyboard/mouse in the BIOS from the start fine. > I do need to redo the pairing on each boot in the OS though. > > If anyone's interested: >snip Odd. Once paired using my Mac my mouse and keyboard have remained paired

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 10:32 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I spoke about graph

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:50, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : And, again, just a guess, but I'm guessing the huge percentage of programmers these days are writing .NET code on vanilla Windows machines (not that I like it, but it does seem to be a fact of life). A lot of peo

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