Re: Windows and UTC system time

2014-07-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 05 July 2014 22.39:57 Doug wrote: > Unfortunately, the fix that works in Windows 7 does not work in Windows 8. > Microsoft "fixed" it! > > --doug One more reason not to use 8. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 06 July 2014 00.56:04 Bob Proulx wrote: > It doesn't solve the problem because twice a year when DST > comes and goes what usually happens is that Windows resets the clock > and therefore it gets set forward and back twice. I seem to remeber that you could tell Windows (7?) not to care a

Re: MPD on localhost won't work if there's no Wifi!?

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > or, if the domain name is left blank, > > > 127.0.1.1 foo > > > would be seen. > > > > Doesn't it create an entry like this? I will need to test it in order > > to see what it creates in that case. > > 127.0.1.1 foo.localdoma

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > No worries. The fact that it is documented in rcS is historical at > > this point. It always used to be set in the /etc/default/rcS file. > > But in recent times they moved it to /etc/adjtime instead. > > However as far as I know there isn't a man pa

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have some data in text format organized as follows > > field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 > val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 > val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 > ... > val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 > > > I want to do database (sql) like operati

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I have some data in text format organized as follows field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 ... val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 I want to do database (sql) like operat

Re: Iptables

2014-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 iun 14, 21:20:39, Diogene Laerce wrote: > On 06/27/2014 08:34 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > Some mail clients (such as Thunderbird) can use that information to > > display a nested hierarchy of "which mail is a reply to which", which I > > find very useful; others just use it for "conv

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 July 2014 04:11:27 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > >> Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > >> device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from

Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

2014-07-06 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-06, Rares Aioanei wrote: > > I only had AssetCache; I removed it, same thing. > There's also 'settings.sol' you might want to get rid of, if you haven't already. Find and purge everything flash (and all browser caches, etc) and if that doesn't solve the problem, it must be something e

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iun 14, 18:54:45, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Of course now with SSDs that standard thinking needs to be thought out > again. I haven't seen any benchmark data for full SSDs. I imagine > that it will have much flatter performance curves up to very full on > an SSD. It would super awesome if

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 July 2014 23:44:46 Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/05/2014 05:45 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2014 22:32:25 Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 07/05/2014 03:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Loads of people have streaming Internet. It must be possible. And > >>> yes, once I hace a box

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:16:01 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I'm also having trouble using the remote. I have found lots of stuff > via Google that says go to here, then go to there, but absolutely > nothing that says *how* to get there. I have managed to open the > video folder, and turn the m/c

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iun 14, 15:38:09, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists > for Debian Linux. Just for the archives, the file extension is a poor indicator of the file type and was originally meant more as information for humans. Fortunate

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread ken
On 07/05/2014 11:11 PM Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the occasional glitc

Re: Tell Debian to use local time?

2014-07-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 04:10:06PM -0500, Nelson Green wrote: > (Added inadvertently omitted subject) > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Erwan David wrote: > > > Le 05/07/2014 21:38, Nelson Green a écrit : > > > Good afternoon, > > > > > > This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-b

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-06 Thread ken
On 07/06/2014 06:32 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 16 iun 14, 15:38:09, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists for Debian Linux. Just for the archives, the file extension is a poor indicator of the file type and was originally meant mo

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iun 14, 08:03:56, Mike Bailey wrote: > Hello all, > Last week I bought myself a new monitor to replace my old 24" monitor. The > new monitor is a Samsung S27C500, which is connected via hdmi. The monitor > has two inputs: one hdmi, and one vga. I do not have a VGA input on my video > card

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 July 2014 11:27:25 Joe wrote: > We started with keyboard and mouse with the Pi, and then found it was > controllable by our TV remote control, through the HDMI connection. It > Just Worked. Lucky you. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Jul 2014 at 17:56:43 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > > It can be done but not with a netinst image or CD-1. The method is > > outlined in this thread. > > Thanks! It looks like something I could at least stick in a script. > > Searching fo

Grub ... updating kernels

2014-07-06 Thread David Baron
As part of my new 64bit installation, I am now on Grub. I am familiar with Lilo, know how to edit lilo.conf, etc. Of Grube, which I have avoided until now, I know nothing. No man page either. Can someone point be to documentation or some simple how-to add/change kernels and such. Thanks in adva

Re: Grub ... updating kernels

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 15:04:17 +0300, David Baron wrote: > As part of my new 64bit installation, I am now on Grub. I am familiar with > Lilo, know how to edit lilo.conf, etc. Of Grube, which I have avoided until > now, I know nothing. No man page either. > > Can someone point be to documentatio

Couple of very small issues

2014-07-06 Thread David Baron
After new 64bit install ... Bash on tty screen shows working directory on prompt. In konsole or yakuake, does not. I copied by bashrc from the old /etc. Vi/vim does not have the keymapping that it once had, no display of line number, etc. Works but without visul clues and "insert." "replace," e

Re: Tell Debian to use local time?

2014-07-06 Thread ken
On 07/06/2014 06:41 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 04:10:06PM -0500, Nelson Green wrote: (Added inadvertently omitted subject) On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 05/07/2014 21:38, Nelson Green a écrit : Good afternoon, This morning I had the mis-fort

Re: Couple of very small issues

2014-07-06 Thread David Baron
> After new 64bit install ... > > Bash on tty screen shows working directory on prompt. In konsole or > yakuake, does not. I copied by bashrc from the old /etc. Actually is working. "Home" directory is not shown, just anything relative to it. Other directories show as full paths. I think previous

Re: Grub ... updating kernels

2014-07-06 Thread Matej Kosik
On 06/07/14 13:04, David Baron wrote: > As part of my new 64bit installation, I am now on Grub. I am familiar with > Lilo, know how to edit lilo.conf, etc. Of Grube, which I have avoided until > now, I know nothing. No man page either. The safest place to start probably should be "info grub".

Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

2014-07-06 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 10:01:17 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-07-06, Rares Aioanei wrote: > > > > I only had AssetCache; I removed it, same thing. > > > > There's also 'settings.sol' you might want to get rid of, if you > haven't already. > > Find and purge everything flash (and all browser ca

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Martin Read
On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: > Can you run systemd without logind or journald? I can't quickly find an answer, so I'll leave answering that one to someone else. Can you run logind without systemd or journald? If you have something else that provides the systemd interfaces logind

Re: Windows and UTC system time

2014-07-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 7/6/2014 3:20 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2014 00.56:04 Bob Proulx wrote: >> It doesn't solve the problem because twice a year when DST >> comes and goes what usually happens is that Windows resets the clock >> and therefore it gets set forward and back twice. > > I seem to

SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-06 Thread KS
Hi all, I wanted to upgrade my system to amd64 and used that opportunity to install 2 240GB (1GB = 1000MB etc. unfortunately) SSDs on my rig. The partition map is below: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 223.6G 0 disk ├─sda1

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/06/2014 09:54 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: >> Can you run logind without systemd or journald? > > If you have something else that provides the systemd interfaces > logind depends on, you can run logind (and

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 14:54:06 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: > > Can you run systemd without logind or journald? > > I can't quickly find an answer, so I'll leave answering that one to > someone else. Disable at boot time: systemctl mask systemd-logind

Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB
Hi, I was recently bit by the bug listed here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746642 which resulted in my new SATA drives not being recognized during a Debian 7.5 install. Is there anyway to install 7.5 with my sata card without installing 7.4 from ISO first? I’m using PXE-b

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/07/2014 17:34, Brian a écrit : > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 14:54:06 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > >> On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: >>> Can you run systemd without logind or journald? >> I can't quickly find an answer, so I'll leave answering that one to >> someone else. > Disable at boot t

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread: systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Paul E Condon
I am a foolish user of Wheezy. I want to see for myself what will happen if I switch to systemd today. I find on wiki.debian.org/systemd a document with steps needed to install and test systemd, but I have trouble: After using apt-get to install the systemd package the next step is (verbatim): T

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 17:54:49 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 06/07/2014 17:34, Brian a écrit : > > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 14:54:06 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > > > >> On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> Can you run systemd without logind or journald? > >> I can't quickly find an answer, so

Time synchronization problem

2014-07-06 Thread Roman Gelfand
I have just installed ntpd using apt-get. It appears that after sync the time is 22 minutes ahead of the true time. when I do ntpq -p, I get remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter

Re: Time synchronization problem

2014-07-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/07/2014 19:38, Roman Gelfand a écrit : > I have just installed ntpd using apt-get. It appears that after sync > the time is 22 minutes ahead of the true time. > > when I do ntpq -p, I get > > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > ===

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/07/2014 19:13, Brian a écrit : > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 17:54:49 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > >> Le 06/07/2014 17:34, Brian a écrit : >>> On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 14:54:06 +0100, Martin Read wrote: >>> On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: > Can you run systemd without logind or journald

Re: Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread: systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 08:19:05 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > What file (full path) ? /etc/default/grub > What position within the file? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread: systemd

2014-07-06 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/06/2014 10:19 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am a foolish user of Wheezy. I want to see for myself > what will happen if I switch to systemd today. I find on > wiki.debian.org/systemd a document with steps needed to > install and test systemd,

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 17:20:30 +0200, David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB wrote: > I was recently bit by the bug listed here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746642 which > resulted in my new SATA drives not being recognized during a Debian > 7.5 install. > > Is there any

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 19:35:43 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 06/07/2014 19:13, Brian a écrit : > > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 17:54:49 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > >> Le 06/07/2014 17:34, Brian a écrit : > >>> On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 14:54:06 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > >>> > On 06/07/14 00:10,

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-06 Thread Linux-Fan
On 07/06/2014 05:29 PM, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to upgrade my system to amd64 and used that opportunity to > install 2 240GB (1GB = 1000MB etc. unfortunately) SSDs on my rig. [...] > What I want to know at this point is: > Is there anything else that is recommended? Nothing that I am a

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB
Well, the problem with netboot preseed is that it takes a mirror - and the official mirrors only have the latest on deb 7 and the latest on deb 6 unless I’m mistaken. So even if I try to use a netboot from 7.4 I will still get 7.5 through the mirror and the install will fail to find the discs.

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 20:35:38 +0200, David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB wrote: > Well, the problem with netboot preseed is that it takes a mirror - and > the official mirrors only have the latest on deb 7 and the latest on > deb 6 unless I’m mistaken. So even if I try to use a netboot from

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB
Ah. That might actually work, didn’t know about that snapshot archive. Handy. I don’t have any server to try it out on now, but I sure will if I get the chance. Thanks Brian! Kind Regards, David 6 jul 2014 kl. 20:46 skrev Brian : > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 20:35:38 +0200, David Majchrzak, ODERLAND

New 64bit install. More problems.

2014-07-06 Thread d_baron
1. /var/mail/usermail very large, containing hundreds of messages. Should only have 10-20. This file serves a dovecot imap server and messages have been read and deleted. What is going on here? Especially since the installer gives a very (too) small /var partition. (Looks as if /opt, /usr/local

Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Valerio Pachera
Hi there, I wish to learn how to create/build a debian package. I'm reading the documentation https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging#Introduction_to_Debian_Packaging but I found a problem at this step: "Create a file called *debian/hithere.dirs*, and make it look like this:" I did it, but

Fwd: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Valerio Pachera
Hi there, I wish to learn how to create/build a debian package. I'm reading the documentation https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging#Introduction_to_Debian_Packaging but I found a problem at this step: "Create a file called *debian/hithere.dirs*, and make it look like this:" I did it, but

Re: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Linux-Fan
On 07/06/2014 08:59 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote: > Hi there, I wish to learn how to create/build a debian package. > I'm reading the documentation > > https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging#Introduction_to_Debian_Packaging > but I found a problem at this step: > > "Create a file called *debia

Re: New 64bit install. More problems.

2014-07-06 Thread Hans
> > 3. System no longer halts ... says it halted but I need to manually cause > the power to cut off. Maybe related. Packages I suspected were removed but > not at fault. > > The command halt has changed! It is not "halt" any more, but "halt -p". This is according to the manual. The former sim

Re: New 64bit install. More problems.

2014-07-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 21:54:49 +0300 d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > 1. /var/mail/usermail very large, containing hundreds of messages. > Should only have 10-20. This file serves a dovecot imap server and > messages have been read and deleted. What is going on here? > Especially since the installer give

Re: New 64bit install. More problems.

2014-07-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-06 20:54 +0200, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > 2. No user can access KDE any more. Upgraded something that showed no > error (used reportbug-ng to check since apt-llistbugs is broken) and > now, no kdm login can access the dbus. Screen just blinks and returns > to login. kdm.log cites the

Re: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Valerio Pachera
2014-07-06 21:09 GMT+02:00 Linux-Fan : > Unless you provide some more information, I can not find the source of > the problem: Could it be possible to upload an archive of the directory > you are trying to build the package from? > Here it is. I forgot to mention I'm running debian wheezy. hith

Re: Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread: systemd

2014-07-06 Thread emmanuel segura
if you are using grub2 http://askubuntu.com/questions/19486/how-do-i-add-a-kernel-boot-parameter 2014-07-06 16:19 GMT+02:00 Paul E Condon : > I am a foolish user of Wheezy. I want to see for myself > what will happen if I switch to systemd today. I find on > wiki.debian.org/systemd a document with

Re: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Linux-Fan
On 07/06/2014 09:21 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote: > 2014-07-06 21:09 GMT+02:00 Linux-Fan : > >> Unless you provide some more information, I can not find the source of >> the problem: Could it be possible to upload an archive of the directory >> you are trying to build the package from? >> > > Here i

Re: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Linux-Fan
On 07/06/2014 09:54 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 07/06/2014 09:21 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote: >> 2014-07-06 21:09 GMT+02:00 Linux-Fan : >> >>> Unless you provide some more information, I can not find the source of >>> the problem: Could it be possible to upload an archive of the directory >>> you are t

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> > I looked at mysql (http://zetcode.com/databases/mysqltutorial/), but > there > > the configuration seems to focus on having a central database that could > be > > shared across different users. This does not work for me for three > reasons: > > Are you aware of SQLite? > I am still exploring a

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 06/07/2014, ken wrote: > On 07/06/2014 06:32 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 16 iun 14, 15:38:09, Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists >>> for Debian Linux. >> >> Just for the archives, the file extension is a poor indica

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what > I am after. >> > 2) I want the data to be in text format. SQLite keeps data in b

Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, We have a RAID1 server running Lenny, one of whose two 2TB discs comprising the RAID arrays has failed. The discs were partitioned into 8 partitions during the Debian Lenny installation, and separate RAID1 arrays were built on 7 of those partitions, again during Debian in

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > Is there, in Lenny, a command or tool for cloning a GPT? Use dd, it'll take a looong time but you'll have a bit copy. -- ptinou: the only thing that surprised me with vi$ta was when it told me it was going to deactivate my k

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: Oops, I read a tiny bit too fast. > machine to Wheezy. So I need to partition the new disk, and I'd > like it to be an exact clone of the existing RAID1 member, so that > each partition starts on the same sector, etc. I can then repair > the a

Re: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Valerio Pachera
2014-07-06 21:58 GMT+02:00 Linux-Fan : > > I found a much simpler solution: Your `debian/compat` file is called > `debian/compact` (with an additional ``c''). Just rename it to `compat` > (without the second ``c'') and the problem fixes itself. > Thank you very much! It was just matter of a typo.

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 07/07/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > On 06/07/2014, ken wrote: >> On 07/06/2014 06:32 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Lu, 16 iun 14, 15:38:09, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists for Debian Linux. >>> >>> Just for the a

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:20:55 +0200 B wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 > Ron Leach wrote: > > > Is there, in Lenny, a command or tool for cloning a GPT? > > Use dd, it'll take a looong time but you'll have a bit copy. > But... How do you know how much to copy? GPT partitions va

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/6/2014 1:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:20:55 +0200 B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: Is there, in Lenny, a command or tool for cloning a GPT? Use dd, it'll take a looong time but you'll have a bit copy. But... How do you know how much

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 07/07/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > On 07/07/2014, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 06/07/2014, ken wrote: >>> On 07/06/2014 06:32 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 16 iun 14, 15:38:09, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists >>>

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 13:41:15 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: > You don't need to know, you just use dd over the entire disk (i.e. > sda instead of sda1). Yup. > Just to be clear, you're trying to copy the entire disk with all > its partitions, right? I think you also read too fast, apparently he ju

Re: ntp problem

2014-07-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: . . . when i used it you have to run ntpdate(1) to synchronize before running ntpd . . . In my 1st post, I wrote: = I tried ntpdate, which actually restabl

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/6/2014 1:56 PM, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 13:41:15 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: You don't need to know, you just use dd over the entire disk (i.e. sda instead of sda1). Yup. Just to be clear, you're trying to copy the entire disk with all its partitions, right? I think you also re

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/07/2014 21:25, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: Oops, I read a tiny bit too fast. machine to Wheezy. So I need to partition the new disk, and I'd like it to be an exact clone of the existing RAID1 member, so that each partition starts on the same sector,

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/07/2014 21:56, B wrote: I think you also read too fast, apparently he just wanna have the same partition table. Which RAID doesn't care, eg: dsk0 partition = 100 (sectors, GB, whatever) dsk1 " = 101 or 4242.42 RAID will only pick 100 on dsk1 partition to achieve its work. Su

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:35:03 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > B, many thanks for thinking about this, Call me mâââsteeelll and bend over Igolll, so I can pet your hump *<;-) Apparently, this is very easy: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12986/how-to-copy-the-partition-layout-of-a-whole-dis

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 23:49:38 +0200 B wrote: Rahhh, read too fast, former was for non-GPT, here's one good pgm that does the trick (also exist as a pkg in trudububu): http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19047/how-can-i-quickly-copy-a-gpt-partition-scheme-from-one-hard-drive-to-another --

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/07/2014 22:49, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:35:03 +0100 Apparently, this is very easy: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12986/how-to-copy-the-partition-layout-of-a-whole-disk-using-standard-tools I mentioned Lenny, because it matters. I'd found that page before posting,

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 04:03:26PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Someone else wrote (attribution removed previously) >> > > If you are already sed/grep/awk then stop at awk. :-) > > > > Seriously though what do you want to do that can't be done easily with awk? > I do use awk and have some

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Roth
Bob Proulx wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > I have some data in text format organized as follows > > > > field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 > > val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 > > val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 > > ... > > val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 > > > > > >

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Neal Murphy
Other than not being fully automated, what would be wrong with: - use dd to copy the first 10MiB of the old drive to the new, - use dd to skip all but the last 10MiB of the old drive and seek to the same spot on the new drive - use dd if=/dev/zero to zero the first MiB of each partition.

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 19:20:01 -0400 Neal Murphy wrote: > Other than not being fully automated, what would be wrong with: > - use dd to copy the first 10MiB of the old drive to the new, > - use dd to skip all but the last 10MiB of the old drive and > seek to the same spot on the new drive > -

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/06/2014 06:16 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I think that I have bitten off more than I can chew. I should stick to "normal" computers. I grock them. :-( Please forgive, but I have to ...it's "grok" :) Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

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2014-07-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/06/2014 02:51 AM, Weydson Lima wrote: When I try to open the gnome System Settings, it opens a window titled "Starting Sytem Settings" but it never actually opens any window, and after a few seconds, the taskbar window closes. How do I troubleshoot this? Maybe repost with a subject line??

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-06 Thread Kynn Jones
Brian, Your recipe worked like gangbusters. And it taught me a lot too. Thanks a lot! k On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 Jul 2014 at 17:56:43 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > > It can be done but not with a netinst

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi > wrote: > > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what > > I am after. > > >> > 2) I want the

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/07 3:18 "Brian" : > > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 19:35:43 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > Le 06/07/2014 19:13, Brian a écrit : > > > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 17:54:49 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > >> Le 06/07/2014 17:34, Brian a écrit : > > >>> On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 14:54:06 +0100, Martin Rea

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : >> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi >> wrote: >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks >> > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what >> > I am af

what was broken with sysvinit? some thoughts on initialization "systems"

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
The first problem I notice with sysvinit is that it is not a (single) initialization system. Or, that may be the only problem, other than that it is a feature rather than a problem to those who understand the issues involved, whereas it is perceived as a problem by those who expect a system. Att

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" : > > Joel Rees writes: > > > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : > >> > >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi > >> wrote: > >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > >> > very promising. There is a Perl DBI I

Re: what was broken with sysvinit? some thoughts on initialization "systems"

2014-07-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, July 06, 2014 10:19:33 PM Joel Rees wrote: > It took me several years (and playing with MSWindows's Wrong Way To Get It > Right) to see that ad-hoc nature of sysvinit was, indeed, a feature, not a > bug. SysV init was a feature of the first computer I bought for my own use decades ago;

Re: Learning package building - tutorial issue

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 09:58:14PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 07/06/2014 09:54 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > On 07/06/2014 09:21 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote: > >> 2014-07-06 21:09 GMT+02:00 Linux-Fan : > >> > >>> Unless you provide some more information, I can not find the source of > >>> the problem: C

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: > 2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" : >> >> Joel Rees writes: >> >> > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi >> >> wrote: >> >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite >> >> > looks >> >>

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: >2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" : >> >> Joel Rees writes: >> >> > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" : >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi >> >> wrote: >> >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite >> >> > looks >> >> >

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Of course now with SSDs that standard thinking needs to be thought out > > again. I haven't seen any benchmark data for full SSDs. I imagine > > that it will have much flatter performance curves up to very full on > > an SSD. It would super awesome i

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Are you aware of SQLite? > > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what > I am after. Using Perl with DBI with an SQLite database works

building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-06 Thread Brian Sammon
I want to re-build a package for personal use, and have a special version number for my custom build. Since I'm not planning on customizing the source or the debian control files, I think the ideal choice is to build a binary package with a suffix like "+b1" or "+local" on the end. An example

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > ken wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> Bret Busby wrote: > >>> I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists > >>> for Debian Linux. > >> > >> Just for the archives, the file extension is a poor indicator of the > >> file type and was originally meant

Re: Install both PHP53 and PHP54 with dotdeb on squeeze ?

2014-07-06 Thread Grégoire COUTANT
Hi, I finally use phpfarm who are incredible for this need : - http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/Introducing%20phpfarm.htm - http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/Running%20Apache%20with%20a%20dozen%20PHP%20versions.htm Hope this help Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 07 July 2014 00:50:04 Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/06/2014 06:16 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I think that I have bitten off more than I can chew. I should stick > > to "normal" computers. I grock them. :-( > > Please forgive, but I have to ...it's "grok" :) Ric :-( Thanks, Ric. -- To UN