Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 11:53:30 schrieb Ron Leach: > On 11/05/2014 10:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Look into > > > > - /etc/cron.d > > - crontab -l > > > > It would not make much sense, but maybe someone added a call to > > /etc/cron.hour

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

2014-06-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 05:59:20 schrieb Chris Bannister: > Hi, Hi Chris, > Does this seem necessary? > > root@tal:~# apt-get clean > root@tal:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / > [...] > root@tal:~# apt-get update > Hit http:/

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 10:11:00 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 03:33:43PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > For the record I am using systemd without any issues, but then I am > > doing so on desktop systems. I just dislike the increasingly monolithic > > architecture of system

Re: install kate (4.13.1 , testing) in debian stable

2014-06-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2014, 18:54:50 schrieb sppmg: > Hi all > > I want install kate 4.13.1 in debian stable, but the kde is 4.8 in > debian stable . > > I followed kate official tutorial (http://kate-editor.org/get-it/) ,and > get source by git and apt-get source. > but I always get 4.8 versio

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Please do not top-post. Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012 schrieb Dionyssis Goulimis: > > On 12/30/12, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember > >> my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin > >> password

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012 schrieb Mika Suomalainen: > On 31.12.2012 06:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always > > login as root without password. > > > > Google with "grub init=/bin/bash mount" you get many howtos > > describing: > > > > Boot wi

Re: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb Andrei Hristow: > Hi, I have 8 GB RAM Which version will be better for my i381 or amd64 Anything >= 4 GB: 64 bit. So that processes can address more than 3G of RAM. And yeah, I saw this with Planeshift having 3,7 GB of RSS for itself :) Ciao, -- Martin

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: > Hi, Hi Lina! > I don't know how to scroll down in htop, for 128 processors. > > I have no problem in my laptop, it's only 8 processors. > > Thanks ahead for your suggestions, Holy! But I think you mean processor cores still? Yeah, lscpu reports 8

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 1/17/2013 9:53 PM, lina wrote: > > On Friday 18,January,2013 11:18 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> What system do you possess that has 128 cores/hardware threads? HP > >> DL980? Supermicro 5086B-TRF? What are you using it for? That's a > >>

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb Doug: > On 01/18/2013 12:29 AM, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't know from where jump out a directory with following info. > > > > $ ls -lrt try/ > > ls: cannot access try/STEPS: Permission denied > > ls: cannot access try/test_xtc2pdb.f: Permission denied >

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: > Hi, Hi Lina, > I don't know from where jump out a directory with following info. > > $ ls -lrt try/ Where is that directory located? In your home directory? > ls: cannot access try/STEPS: Permission denied > ls: cannot access try/test_xtc2pdb.f: Perm

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Lina, Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: > > Where is that directory located? In your home directory? > > Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try > > >> -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar > > > > I imagine it could also be a subtile lack of access rights (SELinux >

Re: Why the 64 bit ISA is better

2013-01-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > PS: do you know if, as for 16 bits to 32 bits, there is a the need to > > switch processor's "mode"? > > Yes. x86-64 adds 'long' mode which comprises two sub-modes. See the > Wikipedia page or the x86-64 Architectural Programmer's Reference M

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Mark, Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013 schrieb Mark Allums: > The most noticeable difference to me has been the lack of drivers. You > are pretty much on your own finding drivers for things. Debian supports > older hardware quite well, but there is usually a long wait for it. > > Upgrades from

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 26. Januar 2013 schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: > Le 26.01.2013 01:39, Mike McGinn a écrit : > > On Friday, January 25, 2013 19:13:45 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > > > > wrote: > >> Le 24.01.2013 18:06, Mike McGinn a écrit : > >> > On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:54:40 Ralf M

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2013 schrieb Tom H: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU > > wrote: > > On Jo, 24 ian 13, 10:34:08, Mark Allums wrote: > >> Upgrades from release to release are more tricky than Ubuntu. It is > >> sometimes easiest to just install the new version "clean". > >

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2013 schrieb Mike McGinn: > On Friday, January 25, 2013 08:11:48 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:05:00AM -0500, Mike McGinn wrote: > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a > > > 'buntu user since release 7.04. With each release o

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:05:01 +0100, Martin Steigerwald > > wrote: > > Only thing that broke was ContentNegotiation with Apache, still want to > > write a bug report about it, cause its easily fixable when one knows > &

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Sorry, hit send accidentally. Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:05:01 +0100, Martin Steigerwald > > wrote: > > Only thing that broke was ContentNegotiation with Apache, still want to > > write a bug report about it, cause its ea

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Anyway, what use is comparing? I know that upgrades on Debian work > *nicely*. I use Debian. So what relevance on earth has it to me to know > whether upgrades work nicely on xyz? > > So if you want to put your time to make

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:18:37 +0100, Martin Steigerwald > > wrote: > > Sorry, hit send accidentally. > > > > Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > >> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:05:01 +0100,

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Mike! Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013 schrieb Mike McGinn: > I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a 'buntu > user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from Kubuntu I > have been less and less happy with the so called "quality" and I am > planning a move

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:48:47 +0100, Martin Steigerwald > > wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > >> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:18:37 +0100, Martin Steigerwald […] > >> But yo

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > What I cared about was the bold matter of factly statements that Debian > is less upgradeable than Ubuntu to someone who is in the switch from > Ubuntu to Debian. On which you above seemed to provided the first sign > of possi

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > I read your off-list mail. I didn't read your last mail to the list to > the end, because it's to long. You ask me to stop, I stopped. Yes, I > could name a developer, but it doesn't make sense, he's very kind. I > don't like to fight a battle wit

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:21:17 +0100, Chris Bannister > > wrote: > > Which is why there are so many derivatives. > > Debian is a good distro, but for some users it has got weak spots, that's > why other distros try to get rid of those drawbacks.

Re: Backing up system customization: Is Debian packaging better than Remastersys?

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > But I am still not fully satisfied with this solution because making a > live-DVD out of the currently-running system has some issues: > > 1. If I ever need to re-install my system and do not have the >remastersys-DVD available, I will have trou

Re: Backing up system customization: Is Debian packaging better than Remastersys?

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > On 01/27/2013 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > >> But I am still not fully satisfied with this solution because making a > >> live-DVD out of the currently-run

Re: Backing up system customization: Is Debian packaging better than Remastersys?

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > Dear Debian users, > > I have configured my system to my specific needs by installing packages, > changing their configuration, adding a useful HTML-Documentation > collection and installing some programs from source. The resulting > system is used

Re: Backing up system customization: Is Debian packaging better than Remastersys?

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > On 01/27/2013 07:42 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > >> Dear Debian users, > >> > >> I have configured my system to my specific needs by installing > &g

Re: /var full

2013-01-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2013 schrieb David Guntner: > Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > In the future instead of removing a file that you want to be freed > > immediately consider truncating it instead. By truncating the file it > > does not matter if there are other handles to it. The

Re: Debian Wheezy freezing

2013-02-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2013 schrieb William Ivanski: > Hi everybody, Hi William, > I have a Lenovo laptop, with CPU Intel Core i5, which I use to work. > I installed Debian Wheezy and the system freezes randomly. No response > to keyboard or mouse clicks, just mouse moves. Needed to restart all

Re: Debian is a translation.

2013-02-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 3. Februar 2013 schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: > Le 03.02.2013 10:05, Nuno Magalhães a écrit : > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:40 AM, > > > > wrote: > >> you will run localepurge. > > > > Yup, that plus whichever locales you want usually does the trick, > > Only the trick to c

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2013 schrieb Kelly Clowers: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:28 AM, "Morel Bérenger" > > wrote: > >> Pure ALSA works fine if you only need one sound at a time and don't > >> need/want stuff like per source volume, and don't mind Flash sometimes > >> messing up and blocking all acc

Re: chrootkit suspicious files and directories

2013-02-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2013 schrieb Sthu Deus: > You wrote: > > chrootkit gives following message > > Oops! Please excuse - I mixed up chrootkit w/ rkhunter. > Please drop my previous message. Using rkhunter for ages on my server. Never got a false positive. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - htt

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2013 schrieb darkestkhan: > Mixing works out of the box here too - some integrated Intel audio > chipset. AFAIK in recent versions of ALSA / distributions shipping it, by default dmix is automatically configured and used. On my ThinkPad T530 mixing works out of the box as

Re: Real words

2013-02-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2013 schrieb Corrupted_flame82: > Some motherfuckers do not beleive that "revengeance" is a real word. I > would like you to prove to said fucker of mothers that indeed it is not > only a real word but has been proven to be a real word based on > Webster's Revised Unabriged

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 schrieb Gary Dale: > On 13/03/13 09:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting > > the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the > > next long term support kernel, but I would like to

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the > 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next > long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer > features from the

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2013 schrieb peasth...@shaw.ca: > ... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting > the filesystem. > > Additionally there can be a backup home directory which > stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine > that when the machine powers up without the rem

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2013 schrieb Benjamin Egner: > On 04/10/2013 06:01 PM, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Right now, I have three or four terminals open, with 1 to 5 tabs in > > each terminal, most are ssh out. > > > > In one terminal, I typed "more " > > > > just one blink, all those terminal-e

Re: BTRFS Kernel Panic

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
On Thursday 11 April 2013 23:23:30 Roger Leigh wrote: > You could also try upgrading to a newer kernel e.g. 3.8.x. I've > done this myself due to btrfs issues with older kernels; you might > need to hand-build it though since Debian doesn't yet have it. > See kernel-package. Debian has it in expe

Re: Problem with xz on very small system

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
On Friday 12 April 2013 15:59:06 David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 12 Apr 2013, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > Dear David, Hi David, > > David Goodenough wrote: > > > I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. > > > > > > Unpacking replacement traceroute ... > > > dpkg-d

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > My laptop is at 112 days. Of course it hasn't actually been "on" all > of those days. Had about 200 days on a hibernating workstation at work. And its nice in Juni or July to type who and see 18 Apr as login time for display :0 :) Ciao, --

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 mondschein:~> uprecords # Uptime | System Boot u

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2013 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > On 2013-04-17 17:22:32 +1030, John Elliot wrote: > > $ uptime 16:51:12 up 1136 days, 17:01, 1 user, load average: 0.22, > > 0.12, 0.08 > > I got on 2012-11-01: > > 10:48:16 up 1150 days, 8:00, 1 user, load average: 0.83, 0.69, 0.31 >

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 19. April 2013 schrieb Karl E. Jorgensen: > Hi > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:32:45PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on > > rootfs but can't guess how... > > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > >

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 19. April 2013 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space > > > on rootfs but can't guess how... > > > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > > > > > regrds > > > /r > > > > > > debian:~# df -h > > > File syste

Re: rootfs

2013-04-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. April 2013 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: > > > Don't believe opinion as fact just because it's on a server hosted > > > by freedesktop.org. Rusty Russel and the FHS is a more > > > authoritative (and correct) source, I suggest you read it. > > > > I never split up / and /usr for the last

Re: VIA system freezing since upgrade to wheezy

2013-05-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 18. Mai 2013, 18:21:51 schrieb Mark Carroll: > I have a small low-power mini-ITX system that I use as our home router. > It is VIA C7 based with VIA CN700, VT8237, etc. on the motherboard. > Mainly it just sits there moving packets through iptables, via RTL-8139 > and VT6102 (Rhine) eth

Re: Searching for process filling root FS.

2013-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Sthu, Am Montag, 20. Mai 2013, 12:06:11 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Good time of the day. > > > I watch carefully disk space on my root device i try to find the > culprit that fills the space. > > For example, i have free space only 100 MiB. After 2-3 hours space is > gone. After reboot i see the s

Re: MySQL slow and high load with Debian Wheezy (was: [whole mail text])

2013-05-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Andrei, How could that KMail can answer from the subject if marked, but I strongly second Lisi´s notion of putting a legible text into the mail body and using a fine descriptive and short enough subject for the mail. Am Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013, 11:15:29 schrieb Andrei Hristow: > Hi, I have

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 09:55:20 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > append command:"cd"to .profile > > > > > > > > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > > == > > > > exam

Re: expresscard esata experiences anyone?

2013-07-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Zenaan, Am Freitag, 12. Juli 2013, 23:43:55 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > Any experiences with ExpressCard54 (or 34 for that matter) eSATA > laptop cards someone can share? > > Wondering of course about linux support. Have an Delock ExpressCard34 eSATA card here, works just fine. martin@merkaba

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi David, Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 17:42:27 schrieb David Guntner: > I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a > program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my > system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full > backup

Re: encrypted USB backup.

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 3. August 2013, 14:33:26 schrieb Hendrik Boom: > On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:03:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:00:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > >> - Original Message - > >> > >>> From: "Hendrik Boom" > >>> > >>> What is the recommended way to set up part o

etckeeper (was: Re: Backing up system customization: …)

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2013, 17:00:59 schrieb Brad Alexander: > etckeeper - A package that places a git repo under /etc, and captures > changes to /etc config files, mainly by puppet and apt, which both > have "hooks" files to implement changes. The truly paranoid could > combine/clone all of the g

Re: Mysterious hangs since upgrading to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi David! Am Sonntag, 4. August 2013, 08:31:21 schrieb David Guntner: […] > Since I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy yesterday, I've noticed periodic > hangs, where the system seems to just be *seriously* loaded down. It > happened again this morning - it was so bad I was just about to press > the

Re: Wheezy rkhunter hidden process found

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi David, Am Sonntag, 4. August 2013, 09:25:18 schrieb David Guntner: > And the saga continues! :-) > > In this morning's reports, I found the following notation from rkhunter: > > Warning: Hidden processes found: > > HIDDEN Processes Found: 1 sysinfo.procs = 519 ps_count = 521 > >

Re: owncloud no longer in wheezy

2013-08-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 13:09:14 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Joel Rees: > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: > >> (I had installed owncloud on a wheezy box when wheezy was testing. I want > >> to install it again, but this time on wheezy stable.) > > > > According to the th

Re: owncloud no longer in wheezy

2013-08-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 12:11:30 schrieb David Guntner: > Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Does it need to be in backports? > > That's the preferred location, AFAIK. > > > I think a co-worker has installed it from Sid. I think backports are

Re: Migrating 32 -> 64

2013-08-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. August 2013, 20:25:46 schrieb Gregory Seidman: > I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's > showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC > was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was > hanging). As

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. > > That's a good example. I wanted to have a 3.5-rc5 kernel for testing. And it did compile in about 10 minutes here. ;) There is no need to tough, if you happy with packages jus

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: > People who prepare the individual packages or distributions are > usually the only ones who need to compile code. However, some > brave/foolhardy souls must have the latest code from the developer's > source and compile their own. This is invariably

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hallo Andrei, Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: > > And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a > > specific machine is portable? > > Imagine a situation where due to whatever reason the kernel image of > your router m

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 09:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > The reason machine A is not bootable is because a minor hardware > > change is capable of doing that with a custom kernel. > > +1 > > I almost exclusively use self-build kernels only, becau

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > why should my work machine kernel need to be > > appropriate for my router? > > A stock kernel should work for both. IMHO, even if you do use custom > kernels, it's probably a good idea to keep a stock kernel around for > backup and troubles

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:54 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are > > > compiling kernel on debian.

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Kumar Appaiah: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:54:29AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > The kernel provided when you install Linux, Debian included, has to > > work on nearly every system out there so it includes drivers for > > nearly piece of hardware that can be ins

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: > 2012/7/10 Muhammad Yousuf Khan > > > This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i > > need your help. > > > > why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are > > compiling kernel on debian. > > what is t

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 20:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I did not yet compile a complete KDE > > Even compiling something simple as e17 without using a script is a > PITA :D. I don´t think that building KDE SC wou

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 20:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > I did not yet compile a complete KDE > > > > > > > > Even compiling something

Re: Wheezy on UEFI

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Darren Baginski: > Hi list! Hi Darren, > Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more par > ticular. While installing I faced some issues. > Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever system is > BIOS or UEFI and install

Re: System inventory and complain logging system

2012-07-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > Hello all, > > i am looking for a web base UI project that can help me to maintain > the inventory , record of desktop complain, complain tickets etc. > any advice please? actually what i wanted to know is, How linux > Pros/Network Admi

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 7. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > Because it works for me. I've kept installs of previous versions of > > Debian on separate partitions for reference as well as the fact that > > by doing so I'll have a working install while getting a newer version > > setup. Also when I first started

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Brad Alexander: > Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the > Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend > installing several extra pulse-related packages. Is it worth it? Will > it fix my problems? Or is it no

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > Regarding your question of "keeping PA or not" I would give it a > chance, read the official docs¹ and if nothing helps to alleviate the > cranky- underwater sound and problems persist I would then reconsider > my decision. KDE users can be considered

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:20 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> I'm very happy with the old ESD > > > > > > > > And you can be happy for good reasons! However, IIRC for KDE it was > > aRts and it never caused issues for my jack orientated workflow and > > p

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 17:53 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > I'm just as happy using straight alsa and building a dummy package. > > I'm a dummy(-package-builder) too, since it's more comfortable, than to > rebuild some stuff without PA dependen

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: > 2012/7/19 Brad Alexander > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Raffaele Morelli > > > > wrote: > > > Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend > > > for > > > > KDE4 > > > > > (gstreamer backend really sucks

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Raffaele, Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: > 2012/7/18 Brad Alexander > > > I need an opinion here. I had a 5 year old, lovingly upgraded > > workstation with 32-bit sid up until I upgraded my hardware. I did a > > nuke and pave and reinstalled amd64 sid. > > > > Someti

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Brad Alexander: > So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a > really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to give Just read this again. "I tried to like pulse" Yes, I did to. ;) -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald -

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:29:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:57 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> aRts was ESD's counterpart in KDE, IIRC. > >> > >> Anyway, we deserve the price to pay (PA can be complex to setup) for > >> having a

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Adrian Fita: > On 18/07/12 02:57, Brad Alexander wrote: > > [...] > > > Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the > > Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend > > installing several extra pulse-related pa

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:32:26 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:29:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:57 +, Ca

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Tom H: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:38:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd? > > > > There's more info about Systemd and its status in Debian here: > >

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > "conservatives" who don't want to transition to anything > > If I would be conservative I wouldn't use Linux for pro-audio. But > here's another nice example of insane changes Arch already made an

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:16:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I can't resist, ban me from the list :D, > > (...) > > It's not a matter about banning but netiquette and politeness. > > It is very unfair to speak (criticise?) from a person that is > com

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Again, I don't have knowledge about systemd and it seems to have a > advantages, e.g. compared to consolekit, but anyway, there are several > things vague to dummies like me and he already implied a borked sound > server to all major distros or the

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 23:38 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 24 iul 12, 12:38:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:55:16 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 30/07/12 07:02 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > (...) > > >> KMS is a wonderful feature, but I personally would rather see good > >> OpenGL support than KMS, though. Nouveau's getting there, but it's >

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:55:16 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 30/07/12 07:02 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > (...) > > > > >> KMS is a wonderful featu

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > But then one might argue why use integrated graphics at all. Well my > main argument is that I am really quite fond with the Intel graphics. drivers that is. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Michael P. Soulier: > On 29/07/12 11:15 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > Any card you buy will likely work, either with the open source > > drivers or the proprietary ones. With Wheezy on the verge of > > becoming the current stable release, you shouldn't run into problems

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: > On 29/07/12 03:21 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 29/07/12 02:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > >> Interesting. You'd think NVidia would keep their proprietary drivers > >> current with their hardware. ATI certainly does. > >> > >> I wouldn't worry about

Re: systemd

2012-08-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012 schrieb Michael Biebl: > On 31.07.2012 21:05, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > technical arguments like its Linux only and I found some limitations > > myself like its init script compabitibility does not take care of > > further initscript argum

Re: Shockwave Flash

2012-08-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012 schrieb Fred Zinsli: > Hi all Hi Fred, > Been playing with this for days, but just don't have a clue about what > I'm supposed to be doing or looking for to help. > > Attempting to install shockwave flash so I can view swf files in a web > browser. > > It isn't workin

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-08-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Mark Fletcher: > Ahoy the list! Hi Mark, > I use a Buffalo 4TB NAS using RAID which I mount from my Debian Wheezy > AMD64 running on a self-built Intel Core i7 920-based machine. > > I want to be able to read and write the NAS from the Linux machine > with minim

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > > I see (on a terminal screen that does not display null characters): > > ../dir./file > > You have the order of arguments backwards. You wanted to say this: > > find -type d -print > > That would do the right thing. Doing it the other way

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-08-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 23. Juli 2012 schrieb green: > Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2012-07-23 06:59 -0500: > > On 7/23/2012 6:17 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > I suggest buying a PostScript printer with ethernet connection. > > > > LEXMARK E260dn, monochrome laser: > I purchased a Lexmark E360dn, hoping for good Li

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