write access to /proc/bus/usb

2004-09-18 Thread Chris Purves
I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems. The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but only root has read/write permissions. What I have been doing is manually changing the permissions access every time I want to run the scanner. (using xsane) Does

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb [for scanners]

2004-09-18 Thread Chris Purves
On Saturday 18 September 2004 19:07, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Are you sure only root has permission? Is there group read/write > permission for the group "scanner"? If I go to /proc/bus/usb/002/005 root is both the owner and group. It would appear that /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner is not cha

What's the difference between updatedb and /etc/cron.daily/find?

2006-11-23 Thread Chris Purves
I am seeing different results from /etc/cron.daily/find and running updatedb from the command line: aims-07:~# /etc/cron.daily/find aims-07:~# locate Access.pm aims-07:~# updatedb aims-07:~# locate Access.pm /home/httpd/twiki/lib/TWiki/Access.pm aims-07:~# /etc/cron.daily/find aims-07:~# locate A

Re: What's the difference between updatedb and /etc/cron.daily/find?

2006-11-23 Thread Chris Purves
On 23/11/06, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, michael wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:03:49 -0700, Chris Purves wrote > > I am seeing different results from /etc/cron.daily/find and running > > updatedb from the command line: [ . . . ] > &g

How to uninstall X

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Purves
What is the best way to completely uninstall X from my system? Presently, I have xorg installed. I think I should be able to remove one of the X libraries, but I'm not sure which one. -- Take care, eh. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: How to uninstall X

2006-12-08 Thread Chris Purves
On 07/12/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:28:43AM -0700, Chris Purves wrote: > What is the best way to completely uninstall X from my system? > Presently, I have xorg installed. I think I should be able to remove > one of the X libraries, b

wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-20 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, Is it possible to encrypt my wireless keyboard communication? I have a Logitech EX110. The included Windows software has this feature, but of course no linux drivers. Thanks. -- Take care, eh. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-20 Thread Chris Purves
On 20/09/2007, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 10:23 -0600, Chris Purves escribió: > > > > Is it possible to encrypt my wireless keyboard communication? I have > > a Logitech EX110. The included Windows software has this feature,

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Purves
On 21/09/2007, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > > > On 20/09/2007, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 10:23 -0600, Chris Purves escribió: > >>> >

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Purves
> > >> El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 10:23 -0600, Chris Purves escribió: > > >>> > > >>> Is it possible to encrypt my wireless keyboard communication? I > > >>> have > > >>> a Logitech EX110. The included Windows software ha

df reporting incorrect available space

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Purves
341085 3% /tmp /dev/hda5 4807056 1201816 3361056 27% /usr /dev/hda6 2885780 2297096442096 84% /var /dev/hdd1480719056 233711036 222588820 52% /backup /dev/hdb1488252928 180889124 307363804 38% /video -- Chris Purves "Canada i

host -t txt returns incomplete results

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Purves
I am having a problem with the DomainKeys perl module and have tracked it down to where I think the problem originates. I cannot get the txt record of hosts with multipart txt records. If I run the following command: host -t txt s1024._domainkey.yahoo.ca My machine (Debian sarge) returns the fo

no sound through HDMI

2007-11-29 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, I have posted on the alsa-user mailling list two days ago with no response, so I thought I would see if the Debian community can help me out. I have been trying for the last week to get sound through my HDMI port with no success. I have a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard http://www.giga

systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Purves
hanged and everything had been running fine for years. I'd appreciate any help in debugging this problem. Thanks. -- Chris Purves Visit my blog: http://chris.northfolk.ca "I can't have a lobotomy just because I've got a pirate costume on." - Christine Purves -- T

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Chris Purves" >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM >> Subject: systems hangs every few days >> >> After upgrading to wheezy, I

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Chris Purves" >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM >> Subject: systems hangs every few days >> >> After upgrading to wheezy, I

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 15:57, Klaus wrote: > On 18/06/13 13:59, Chris Purves wrote: >> I'm not running X. >> > Do you have (a) a serial or (b) a graphical console attached to the > mo-bo, or (c) do you access the unit remotely via telnet / ssh? If b > or c, could you try to h

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 12:38, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:59:07PM +0100, Chris Purves wrote: > >> After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days >> where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a >> cold boot. >

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 13:05, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/18/2013 7:59 AM, Chris Purves wrote: >> After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where >> the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. >> >> This is an older machi

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-07-03 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 14:03, Jape Person wrote: > On 06/18/2013 10:31 AM, Chris Purves wrote: >> On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: >>> - Original Message - >>>> From: "Chris Purves" >>>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>> Sen

help rebuilding RAID 5

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Purves
/dev/md1". This does not work. mdadm assigned the sdd clone as a spare and says it doesn't have enough disks available. If I connect back to the original sdd I can assemble the array, degraded, but functioning. So mdadm doesn't accept those two disks as the same. Help, pleas

Re: help rebuilding RAID 5 [solved]

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Purves
On 2011-11-08 16:48, Chris Purves wrote: Hello, I have a software RAID 5 consisting of 5 disks. One of the disks (sdc) failed and could no longer be recognized by the BIOS. I replaced it with a new disk and while the array was rebuilding, another disk (sdd) experienced a read error, which

creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Purves
table (and therefore the data), but doesn't say what the effect is when running on an existing partition. I haven't used lvm2 before, and although it seems straightforward to create logical volumes with empty disks, I couldn't find any info for disks with existing data. Tha

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Purves
On September 29, 2010 11:46:05 am Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/29/2010 10:19 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > > I have a 500 GB disk that is full and I would like to use it and a new 1 TB > > disk to create a 1.5 TB logical volume. Is it possible to do this without > > destroying t

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Purves
On September 29, 2010 12:11:50 pm Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/29/2010 11:00 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > > On September 29, 2010 11:46:05 am Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 9/29/2010 10:19 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > >>> I have a 500 GB disk that is full and I would like to use

remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-28 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older than six months. Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cron job? What are others doing? Thanks for your ideas. -- Take c

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > than six months. > > Is this for a personal system or an ISP/company/email-host? personal

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Daniel Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > &g

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:41 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it! > > >

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Adam James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > >

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Daniel Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > &g

exim4 smtp_receive_timeout

2006-01-23 Thread Chris Purves
I have exim4 installed on sarge. Where can I find the setting for the smtp_receive_timeout option and how can I modify it? I am using the split file configuration. Thanks. -- Take care, eh. Chris

File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Purves
Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, or delete the file? The shared directory is a samba share, and will only be accessed through windows, so solving this problem through samba is just as good. --

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 8/19/05, Niklas Schönberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Purves wrote: > > Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new > > file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, > > or delete the file? > > >

Wordpress Multiple Blog Configuration

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Purves
Hi, I just installed Wordpress and got it running. In the README.Debian file there's a mention that the Debian configuration can support multiple blogs, but no instructions as how to accomplish that. >From README.Debian: >>> A little more about the (multiple blog) configuration The defau

ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-09 Thread Chris Purves
A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with the following error: Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst: line 3: 31771 Illegal instruction ldconfig dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):  subprocess p

Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-11 Thread Chris Purves
On 9/10/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Purves wrote:> A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with> the following error:>> Preconfiguring packages ...> Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ...> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postins

Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-11 Thread Chris Purves
On 9/12/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Next, try "strace ldconfig" and watch for any error messages. >>>dmcnet:/var/lib/dpkg/info# strace -v ldconfig execve("/sbin/ldconfig", ["ldconfig"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0 uname({sysname="Linux", nodename="dmcnet", release="2.2.20", version="#1 Sat Ap

Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Purves
Luc, what is your kernel version? -- Take care, eh. Chris

Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Purves
On 14/09/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Purves wrote: > > It's a long shot, but you might try changing the problem machine to > point to the server used by the non-problem machine. > I was able to solve the ldconfig problem by downgrading libc6 to t

Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 10/09/05, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with the > following error: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst: line 3: 317

exim4 how to enable authorisation

2005-09-28 Thread Chris Purves
I have installed exim4 and enabled sasl for authorisation according to the supplied docs, but I don't know how to get the server to authorise. If I allow relaying from all hosts, then I end up with an open relay. If I disable relaying, then there's no option to authorise. I'm sure this is a simp

Re: Wordpress Multiple Blog Configuration

2005-09-28 Thread Chris Purves
On 20/08/05, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Wordpress and got it running. In the README.Debian > file there's a mention that the Debian configuration can support > multiple blogs, but no instructions as how to accomplish th

Re: exim4 how to enable authorisation

2005-09-29 Thread Chris Purves
On 29/09/05, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed exim4 and enabled sasl for authorisation according to > the supplied docs, but I don't know how to get the server to > authorise. If I allow relaying from all hosts, then I end up with an > open relay.

Re: exim4 how to enable authorisation

2005-09-30 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/09/05, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now I get "TLS not supported"...still have to figure that out. > Finally got it all sorted out. I've written a howto which covers proper setup for system password authentication using saslauthd. http://chris

Re: backup plan for home server

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Purves
On 01/10/05, Bogdan Calmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scenario 1: > - configure the two drives for software RAID > - weekly backup of unreproducible data (such as pictures) to the network > (tar or rsync?) I don't have any experience with RAID, but I have been using backuppc for managing bac

dependency handling of mixed system using aptitude

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, I am keeping a stable/testing mixed system using pinning with aptitude. My /etc/apt/preferences file looks like this: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 500 This works great installing all stable packages, but using testing

Re: dependency handling of mixed system using aptitude

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Purves
On 23/11/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:19:34 +0800 > Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am keeping a stable/testing mixed system using pinning with > > aptitude. > > > > But now I want to always keep te