Re: OT: How to extract sound track from a DVD

Thierry Chatelet: > > Well, everything is in the title. > I have a DVD from a jazz concert I would like to extract the sound to play it > in my car. Can someone suggest tools or links? lsdvd /dev/sdX ... => Longest track: Y mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.dump -dvd-device /dev/sdX dvd://Y ffm

Re: mencoder crash permanently

Michelle Konzack: > Am 2008-11-17 14:18:26, schrieb Michelle Konzack: >> Now I have tried >> >> ffmpeg -i 2007-08-05_Tehran.flv 2007-08-05_Tehran.mp4 >> >> But the video looks a little bit weird... Define "weird". By the way, it might help to set a bitrate and video dimensions (-b, -s). > A

Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?

中和刘: > > when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the > user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I > hope I can get the mac address of the user according to its IP > address, is it possible? thanks No, it's not possible. Ethernet frames aren't routed

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

x03: > > I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced > with the image. If you have working OpenGL support for your nvidia hardware, you should try other video output drivers, especially '-vo gl' and '-vo gl2'. J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine,

Re: Upgrading a kernel in a remote server without fears, how

Arnau: > > This is a question that probably has appeared a lot of times here but I > haven't found a solution. Sounds like "I didn't bother to google but I hope I still get answers". :) > And here comes my question, is there a way to ensure that the kernel > will work? Not without running

Re: how do i change to lenny?

中和刘: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:20 PM, raman narasimhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i tried adding the following line to sources.list >> >> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main >> >> then in terminal i typed apt-get update; but i got error.. (pls see below) > > it should be "apt-get

Re: how do i change to lenny?

中和刘: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No, it shouldn't. First, you always need to run an 'update' after >> editing the sources.list and second, aptitude is the preferred package >> manager since sarg

Re: how do i change to lenny?

Curt Howland: > On Monday 24 November 2008, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was >>> >>> it should be "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" >> >> No, it shouldn't. First, you always need to run an 'update' after >> editing the sourc

Re: how do i change to lenny?

charlie derr: > > My memory is that the advice I followed several years ago (to switch from > apt-get to aptitude) was due to a slightly better dependency-processing > algorithm, but it's possible I've misremembered that detail. No, your memory serves you right. J. -- Americans have a better

Re: Encrypt file while you are using it

Manuel Gomez: > > Hi, i would like to maintain encrypt an archive in all moment, so i > would like to know what software can be this. You cannot work with encrypted data without decrypting it. > Now i am using Truecrypt, but when i mount the encrypted directory it's > vulnerable. In which sense?

insserv & encrypted /home

Hi, Short version: does anybody use cryptsetup and insserv at the same time successfully? I recently re-installed Debian on my laptop because I wanted to repartition my hard drive and use an encrypted filesystem for /home. Everything went quite smooth, but after installing and configuring insserv

Re: insserv & encrypted /home

subscriptions: > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 21:55 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I recently re-installed Debian on my laptop because I wanted to >> repartition my hard drive and use an encrypted filesystem for /home. >> Everything went quite smooth, but after installing

Re: insserv & encrypted /home

Eric Gerlach: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Which package should receive the bug report, insserv or cryptsetup? I >> guess this is insserv's fault, but I am not sure. > > I think that this would be a bug against cryptsetup. Ok, see #507722. J. -- In the west we kill pe

Re: sshd in Vserver not working

Sjoerd Hardeman: > > ssh -vvv 10.1.1.14 > OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-3, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: Applying options for * > debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 > debug1: Connecting to 10.1.1.14 [10.1.1.14] port 22. > debug1: Connection estab

Re: insserv & encrypted /home

Michael Wagner: > > -snip-- > # Services which need to be interactive >boot.crypto > > Names starting with a `+' sign are marked as optional. If the service > with the name after the plus sign is available it will be used, if n

Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

Sven Joachim: > >> Create a new config file based on the old one, this will prompt for new >> configuration settings. Read carefully every question. >> root# make oldconfig > > Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your > old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd t

Re: [OT] FLOSS xls-oracle converter?

Nuno Magalhães: > > Does anyone know a reliable converter to export a bunch of tables in > an M$ excel file to regular SQL92/2003 or, preferable, Oracle? No GUI > required, just an easy way to convert them... Oracle's sqlldr can import CSV-like files. J. -- I am on the payroll of a company to w

Re: How to import T-bird files from Windows to Debian/lenny?

Dennis Wicks: > > The latest problem is how can I, if I can at all, import her T-bird mail > folders/files/address books from Windows to Debian? I sure hope this is > an FAQ some where! It may be enough to just copy her profile folder to ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. J. -- My clothes aren't just fa

Re: shortcuts sought for mutt

Bernard: > > but I can't send any mail. If I try to, the system sends a mail saying > "mailing to remote domains not supported". You probably need to configure your MTA (Exim by default, you may have esmtp). J. -- My medicine shelf is my altar. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Java on Debian

Girish Kulkarni: > > I want to "set Java up" on my Debian Etch i686 machine and the jargon > is getting in my way. I though Java is a Java Virtual Machine + some > APIs. Then ... First of all, Java is a language (specification). :) > 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? It's all you need

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

John Culleton: > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and > one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software > that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to mak

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

Andrei Popescu: > > I have an R61 Thinkpad bought new last July. Before that I had an A21p > and R50e (both IBMs, second hand). The R50e I gave to my mother and she > is very happy about it. IMO ThinkPads are not very stylish, but they are > very sturdy. Some models have Suse pre-installed. I

Re: Anything wrong with the recent update of debian sid amd64?

Star Liu: > > I made a "apt-get upgrade" today, after that a serious bug appear. What has been upgraded? > At > first, I edited a big javascript file(2633 lines) in eclipse, and > after some operations, my pc dead, I could not run any other command > so I had to press the reset button of my pc t

Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

Paul Cartwright: > > # uname -a > Linux paulandcilla 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 15 18:15:07 UTC 2008 i686 > GNU/Linux > > so what would I need to do to run amd64 ?? Re-install. J. -- It is not in my power to change anything. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

Bernard: > > Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better > ordering a specific DELL mouse ? No, any USB mouse will do. > For I have not been able to get WiFi working so far ! lspci iwconfig > Do you recommend to give it a quick extra trial before installing Debian

Re: Make it impossible for websites to style forms in Debian Blizzardhawk

Michelle Konzack: > Am 2009-01-06 02:07:56, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > > > > http://sums.math.mcgill.ca/~jordi/piccies/exhibit-a.png > > Whoops... I was not aware, that I can modify the look of a Website by > modifying a GTK+ theme... This is standard behaviour. As long as form e

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

Kent West: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 2009/1/6 Kent West : >> >>> (You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast >>> too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my Macbook; I get so frustrated >>> when I sit down at a Windows laptop and don't have that feature. >> >> What's tha

libdrm-intel from experimental

Hi, A few weeks ago I bought a shiny new Thinkpad X200. Thinkwiki.org suggested to install X.Org from experimental and since I usually run sid anyway I did so. Everything worked smoothly until a recent upgrade installed libdrm-intel1 version 2.4.3+git+20090105+a8c5480-1. After that, X always segfa

Re: libdrm-intel from experimental

Eugene V. Lyubimkin: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> A few weeks ago I bought a shiny new Thinkpad X200. Thinkwiki.org >> suggested to install X.Org from experimental and since I usually run sid >> anyway I did so. Everything worked smoothly until a recent upgrade >>

Re: libdrm-intel from experimental

Peter Jordan: > Jochen Schulz, Wed Jan 07 2009 23:18:04 GMT+0100 (CET): >> >> Unfortunately, I don't have the old version anymore and >> snaphots.debian.net doesn't list the package at all (it has probably >> never entered sid). > > If you could write

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

Dean Chester: > > Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that > Vista boots up quicker than debian. I use insserv on my desktop/laptop computers. My laptop boots in less than a minute from Grub to a usable desktop, including two password prompts (cryptdisks, gdm). Makin

Re: This is for your attention

Rynhardt Kruger: > > Can't we do something about all this spam on this list, looks like this list > is the local target. > Rynhardt Well, the first thing to do is not to reply to it and not to quote it. And by the way: the amount of spam that is actually getting through to the subscribers is *re

Re: kernel naming conventions?

Kent West: > > 1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."? Because it is more specific and Debian can run on more kernels than just linux. Not that many people actually /use/ other kernels, but it's possible. > 2. What is "-xen" and "-vserver" Hm, Kernels for Xen and Vserver?

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

Joerg Schilling: > > As mentioned before: cdrkit is neither free nor working. Jörg, is there anything we can do to make you recognize the fact that there are different opinions on that subject and that there is no sense in trying to educate anyone on this list? You are doing yourself and this lis

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

Joerg Schilling: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Jörg, is there anything we can do to make you recognize the fact that >> there are different opinions on that subject and that there is no sense >> in trying to educate anyone on this list? You are doing yourself and >

Re: Reality of SATA hotplug?

Ron Johnson: > > If a loose SATA cable falls off of my DVD drive while the power is on, is > it ok for me to just slide it back in? Or should I power the machine > down? Generally you don't have to power down. (Of course, if a filesystem on the drive was mounted, you probably have to fsck it a

Re: Postfix config

Tenant: > > I've set up user accounts and somehow it knows, when I can mail from an > outside source, it comes in as myacco...@domain3.com. > > But when I mail from us...@domain3.com back to the outside email > account, it comes in as us...@domain1.com (the machine's main domain) > and not f

Re: Postfix config

Paul Cartwright: > On Sun January 25 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> I don't fully understand your problem, but maybe it helps you to know >> that Debian's default Postfix config uses /etc/mailname as $myorigin. > > I'm just setting up postfix and trying to

Re: Postfix config

Tzafrir Cohen: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:52:02PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> In other words: you want to be able to receive mail for your DynDNS >> domain on your local system? That is probably a bad idea, since every >> time your public IP address changes,

Re: Postfix config

Paul Cartwright: > On Sun January 25 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> In other words: you want to be able to receive mail for your DynDNS >> domain on your local system? That is probably a bad idea, since every >> time your public IP address changes, mail can get lost.

Re: Where to put unclutter command?

Dotan Cohen: > > I use KDE 3.5.10 and I want to run the unclutter command when I log > in. I am not sure which file to put the command in, where should it > go? Thanks. Last time I looked, it was started automatically by some script in /etc/X11/. J. -- My drug of choice is self-pity. [Agree] [

Re: several webs in teh same apache

Jesus arteche: > > I'd like to know how i could redirect several webs to same Apache server, > now what I've got is several webs in the same apache server, and i can > access to them by the following way: Your terminology is *really* weird. If you learn the common terms, it is easier to help you.

Re: From x86 to x86-64

tinkywinky: > > I've installed x86 version of Lenny, but I have 64-bit processor. I'd like > to change to use 64-bit version of debian. Is that possible without having > to reinstall? Generally no, but... > I thought of using a separate working directory where to install everything > (if that is

Re: From x86 to x86-64

pierpaolo: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> ...you can use debootstrap to reinstall without using the installer and >> without repartitioning your hard drive. You just need a swap partition >> large enough to hold the base system. > >

Re: Use of Swap Space

Dean Chester: > > I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% when the temperature of my CPU is > high. The causality is the other way round: your CPU's temperature rises if the CPU is being used. That's totally expected. The question is whether the temperature is high enough to damage your CPU. J.

Re: I don't need an MTA

Nuno Magalhães: >> Would you mind posting the output of 'aptitude why mail-transfer-agent' or >> 'aptitude why exim', whichever is more enlightening? > > $ aptitude why mail-transport-agent > i lsb Depends lsb-core > i A lsb-core Depends exim4 | mail-transport-agent Thanks a lot for showin

Re: update-alternatives: how do i get a listing of the names of all link groups?

Paul E Condon: > There are several command options to update alternative that require > that the user supply a name or a specific link group. 'link group' is > a term of art for which there is much discussion in the man page, but > I don't see instructions for merely listing all the legitimate cur

Re: Which programming Language

Andrew Malcolmson: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Kevin wrote: > ... >> Python is object oriented and as such is useful if you specifically want to >> learn nice, clean object oriented language. However its not a good start if >> you want to then move to another language. > > Why would that be

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

Hendrik Boom: > > I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now > how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as > well. I wonder why you didn't even mention LaTeX in your pos

Re: POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

Norman Bird: > I decided to check the auth.log and started freaking out because I saw alot > of POSSIBLE BREAK-IN lines. It says "possible break-in *attempt*". But either way, it is harmless. And, by the way: do you think a smart attacker who gained root on your machine would leave traces in the

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

Mike Iowa: > > 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based > system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created Filesystem created: Mon J

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

Jeffrey Cao: > On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: >> >> $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created >> Filesystem created: Mon Jul 6 09:01:20 2009 >> >> (Hm, did I really in

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

Stephen Powell: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:55:30 -0500 (EST), Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know >> about yours. > > Maybe it's not an hour off. Sorry, english is not my first language. What I mean

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

Kent West: > > Now I get no dhcp offers received. I don't understand how ifup/down and > /etc/modules and udev and /etc/network/interfaces and "wpa-conf > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and iwlist/spy/scan/whatever > and eth0 vs wlan0 vs sit0 and auto eth1 vs allow-hotplug eth1 and wep v

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

Kent West: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> /etc/network/interfaces contains the configuration of all your network >> devices. > > Well, that's what I thought, except a couple of people on this thread > told me to remove my wireless from this file and use wicd or &

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

Kent West: > > we...@evoljasen:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any && sudo iwconfig wlan0 > essid ACUWireless Thanks for fixing my errors. > we...@evoljasen:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"ACUWireless" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associ

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

Kent West: > > we...@evoljasen:~$ dmesg | grep wlan -- snip > [ 267.697118] wlan0: AP denied association (code=10) Well, there you have it. The access point does not want to talk to you. You said it works using the same card in a different machine? -Otherwise I would suspect the access points ha

Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

Matt Zagrabelny: > > FWIW, the replaygain algorithm uses a more advanced psycho-acoustic > model to determine loudness than just "maximum amplitude". ACK, and it should be preferred to "dumb" normalization if possible. > I know you are talking about .wav and .flac, but I've used: > > mp3gain >

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > In any case, /etc/fstab is for *static* file systems. It is *not* for file > systems that may or may not be there when the system is booting (or otherwise > in operation). NACK. Or don't you have an entry for your CD/DVD drive? J. -- If I had to live on a desert i

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:53:06 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: >>> In any case, /etc/fstab is for *static* file systems. It is *not* for >>> file systems that may or may not be there when the system is booting (or

Re: KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

Γιώργος Πάλλας: > > In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is > booting, I used the > GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2 config, That only sets the resolution for the boot manager. To enable KMS at boot time, add 'video=i915:modeset=1' to the kernel command line.

Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Jochen: > >> For FLAC there is metaflac --add-replay-gain. > > Can You help me w/ its usage. I tried this way (running in the flacs dir.): > > $ metaflac --add-replay-gain 001.flac 002.flac 003.flac > > - it just hangs to me. Metaflac just doe

Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Jochen: > >> '--apply-replaygain-which-is-not-lossless' to change audio information >> directly. But, as the name suggests, it is generally not recommended to >> use it. > > Then it is not what I wanna do - I want to change the file itself so > tha

Re: Intel Atom Processor

Lisi: > On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:59:05 Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:47:44 +, Lisi wrote: >>> >>> Running Debian Lenny: >>> l...@tux:~$ uname -a >>> Linux Tux 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 08:59:21 UTC 2010 i686 >>> GNU/Linux l...@tux:~$ >> >> Debian uses "i386" for namin

Re: Two Lenny problems

(Sorry, cannot comment on your sound issues.) Cecil Knutson: > > […] but I have not > found any reference that gave me the information I needed to run programs > outside of X. Just Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in, start your program. > I loved Midnight Commander, but where is it now? In the Debian archi

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

Francesco Pietra: > > Unfortunately, for dealing with most editors of scientific journals, > and for personal use of the scientific literature, either as author or > referee, neither the readers you mention, nor any one other I know > except acroread, are enough. You don't mention which features

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

Mark: > > I hope there is a simple answer to this question (fingers crossed): how do I > overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all zeros > (essentially blanking the partition clean in preparation for installing > Lenny), without destroying the partition table? Why do you think yo

[OT] Hanlon's Razor (was: Debian 5 security issue)

Ron Johnson: >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor Completely unrelated to the OP, but the best extension to Hanlon's Razor is given by the previous Friday's Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-05/ :) J. -- Ultimately, the Millenium Dome is a spectacular monument

Re: Virtualbox-3.1

Frank J Niertit: > > First of all let me thank you for a great system. You have made my > life a lot better. You're welcome. Not that I (or most other persons reading this list) am a DD, but still. :) > But there is always a but. I cannot load > Virtualbox-3.1. I am reliant on it in order to run

Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

Tech Geek: > > So I downloaded the opera browser deb file - > opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb. What I am trying to do is first find out > what all packages does this deb file depends on and then install those > packages first (using apt-get) and then finally install this deb file (using > dpkg -

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

Nuno Magalhães: > > I don't really notice unstable to be unstable, except when it is :) > Granted if you upgrade often you're more likely to run into trouble. In my experience, upgrading daily (or even twice a day) is almost totally painless. Sure, you may hit a few more bugs on the way, but the

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

Lubos Rendek: > > Can anyone suggest a notebook which would be a perfect choice for > installing Debian in terms of hardware support and power management. I > do not need anything fancy what I'm more concerned about is that it > should have VGA out, long battery life and easy to carry. I am runni

Re: How to read log files

Dotan Cohen: > > Actually, I am interested in Kernel logs and messages at the moment. > For individual software such as Apache, TFM is usually rather > adequate. But where is TFM for the kernel? Why don't you just post what you've got? You will most probably find someone who can explain not only

Re: Manage window: change positions, etc.

Olivier Cailloux: > > I posted this message one week ago but did not receive advices. Does > anybody know an other place where I could ask the question? You'd have to ask the metacity people. But I doubt they will be able to help you (short of implementing what you need which I don't think they

Re: How to read log files

Camaleón: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:20:59 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>> I cannot see any "panic" or "kernel oops" in that log. >>> >>> What is the exact behaviour are you seeing? >>> >> The machine is locking up and the keyboard leds flash. > > When the machine locks, try to access it via ssh.

Re: How to read log files

Camaleón: > > Then he could use a serial port and instruct kernel (at boot time) to log > out there. I've done that one time, with a VM machine and another linux > (openSUSE). > > What are the recommended steps to achieve this in Debian? /etc/inittab contains examples. (Legacy) Grub can be con

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

Lorenzo Bettini: > > sorry I pasted the wrong name: --revision actually took effect since the > generated .deb is now (note the 'lore01') > > linux-image-2.6.32.10+drm33.1-recompiled_lore01_i386.deb > > but what I need to do is to get rid of '+drm33.1' which seems to be > automatically added

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

Paul Chany: > > I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't > know where? ~/.xsession? J. -- When driving at night I find the headlights of oncoming vehicles very attractive. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: ssd / smart question

Glenn English: > > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x 007 000 000Old_age Offlin

Re: updating to last sarge

roberto: > > in order to perform a distro upgrade to debian etch i have to do the > update to the last released sarge (as stated in debian official guide > to this kind of upgrade) > > so i have to change the occurrences of "stable" in my /etc/apt/sources.list > to "sarge" If you are currently us

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

Jean-Louis Crouzet: > > #cat sip.conf | grep -v "^;" That's a useless use of cat. :) You may instead just do grep -v '^;' sip.conf If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace followed by a ';' as well, do grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$' J. -- When standing at the top of b

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or > directory Your system is missing libncurses5-dev. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

Jean-Louis Crouzet: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace >> followed by a ';' as well, do >> >> grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$' >> > OK thanks for the tip now

Re: Sid/Unstable

Jeff Grossman: > > [...] How dangerous would it be for me to move completely to unstable? I do not think it would be particularly dangerous. Security updates generally reach sid quite fast (but, of course, without guarantee). But with about seven years of Debian experience, I still refrain from ru

Re: Suggest core2duo motherboard for debian.

Semih Gokalp: > > Hi.I have Asus P5K SE motherboard and can not install debian etch amd64. > When I try install debian etch,cd-rom device not mount so i can not install. You might try to use thew installer for lenny, since it contains a more recent kernel. At you even

Re: updates in Sid

Frank McCormick: > > I usually run aptitude updating my Sid system every two or three days but > lately > (the past week or so) there are no new packages. Is it possible I did > something with > aptitude to cause it to ignore new stuff ? No. There was a problem with Debian's build machine, but

Re: any pages listing text mode resolutions of video cards?

Daniel B.: > Kevin, > >> And setting vga=771 or similar in your kernel options? > > Yes. I've been using vga=10 in my kernel options (via LILO) to set > the virtual console text mode resolution at boot time. I am not absolutely sure, but I don't think vga=10 gives you a real framebuffer. It jus

Re: disk failure

michael: > 'tiger' just told me various home directories are unavailable and upon > further investigation I see disk errors. Here's the first reports I can > find regarding said hard drive: > > Nov 13 02:23:01 ratty /USR/SBIN/CRON[19292]: (michael) CMD (rsync -r -v > -P --links --stats /data_hdb1/

Re: How to mount ext3 so the files belong to a specific user?

Kent West: > > I have a partition that I'm mounting in a specific user's home directory, > and want that user to be able to read/write to that partition. > > However, I've been unable to find (google, man, etc) any way to accomplish > this; the few hints I have found indicate it works fine with

Re: How to mount ext3 so the files belong to a specific user?

Kent West: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Are you aware that you only need to tweak the permissions to your liking >> once? Just create an ext2/3 filesystem, mount it as root and then change >> the permissions of the mount point. This will affect the root directory >

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

André Wendt: > > I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and > repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. > > $ ulimit -f > unlimited > > $ uname -a > Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > This

Re: debian ISO question

Mark Quitoriano: > > im new to debian im looking which version should i download. i can see > the stable version is 4.0 but when i look for the ISO i only see > debian-4.0r1? is this the latest? or is it a release candidate? No, the 'r' stands for "revision". When downloading an image, always pic

Re: Anyone using icewm on Sid?

Anthony Campbell: > > Following today's upgrade on Sid I've started getting complete lockups > in X. I thought at first it was a bug in xserver-xorg and submitted a > bug report but now I think it's to do with icewm. Same here with current IceWM and X.org from unstable. The machine wasn't complete

Re: Anyone using icewm on Sid?

Andrei Popescu: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:46:23PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >>> Yep, happens to me too, with icewm-session and -experimental. Something >>> is definitely wrong as the graphics in the toolbar are all messed up. >>> According to the aptitude log, icewm wasn't updated (on

Re: wiki to pdf converter

Amit Uttamchandani: > > == Timers === > > * Timer0 > - 8-bit timer/counter with 8-bit prescaler > * Timer1 > - 16-bit timer/counter with prescaler can be incremented during SLEEP via > external crystal/clock. > * Timer2 > - 8-bit timer/counter with 8-bit period register, prescaler, and

Re: to sata or not to sata (etch dvd install)

baldyeti: > > Besides trying alternative debian-based distros like > mepis or kanotix, is there a more official way of > installing stable whilst using a more recent kernel > in case this is needed for HW support? http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ Not really official, but the guy who makes these image

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

Jabka Atu: > > 1. How would you suggests to transfer audio (encrypted) calls to any pc ?. Over the internet? You may tunnel almost everything through SSH. I don't care very much about these things in my local network, though. > 2. How do you make your surfing more secure (except using fake MAC

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

Serena Cantor: > > To me, any interface that's different from Explorer will make me > uncomfortable. Then you won't like any file manager except Explorer. I wasted a lot of time searching for a drop-in replacement for Windows Explorer as well. Get used to it, there is no clone. And once you are

Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

s. keeling: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> e) Skype seems secure, but the Germans[1] might have cracked >> it and be blowing smoke in order to get Bad Guys to use >> encrypted Skype, >> >> [1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10477899 > > "Might ha

Re: how to detect the number of processors ?

Jerome BENOIT: > > today I built a new kernel for one computer of the lab: > whereas the boss claims that it has only one processor, > Knoppix claims that there are two processors. It's probably a single processor with multiple cores, hyperthreading or something similar. J. -- I use a Playstati

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