Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-22 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 16:36 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > > I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > > doesn't seem to detect anything. > Do u have the i2c kernel modules? > > Pol > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Fortran$ sudo lsmod|grep -i i2c i2c_dev 8548

Re: hddtemp value

2007-06-22 Thread michael
Quoting Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi folks :-) Which value hddtemp show? (about my ata disks, between 45-55 C) Is it correct? Or I should worry? 45-55 C seems a little hot. They will probalby work for you but your drives will probably die sooner than later. Either they are too close

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 21:11 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > michael: > > > > I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > > doesn't seem to detect anything. I've a Intel Server Board SE7320SO2 > > with two 3. GHz Xeon chips.

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > michael wrote: > > I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > > doesn't seem to detect anything. I've a Intel Server Board SE7320SO2 > > Even if it did, unless you've

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 6/22/07, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> [...]... my box gets noisy and I'm trying to see > >> if it's temp related > > > > > &

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:28 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > michael wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 16:36 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > >>> I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > >>> doesn't seem to detect anyth

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 06:59 -0700, Sam wrote: > just a quick thought, do you have acpi on in your kernel? > > modprobe acpi > ? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe acpi Password: FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko)

pppd errors with (UK) Demon internet

2006-10-01 Thread michael
that sometimes I have to try half a dozen times before a connection is established and even then it's really really slow. Thanks, Michael Oct 1 20:03:44 manchester-campaigns pppd[5621]: Unsupported protocol 0x1 received Oct 1 20:03:44 manchester-campaigns pppd[5621]: sent [LCP ProtRej id=0x6

pppd problems

2006-10-02 Thread michael
Could somebody point me in the right direction to determine why I get numerous errors with pppd ie Unsupported protocol 0x1 received in my syslog? I'm running pppd $ sudo pppd --version pppd version 2.4.4 thanks, M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: matlab installation

2006-10-04 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:01 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > i am trying to install matlab release 14, > > shanazsoft:/usr/local/matlab704# /media/MathWorks_R14_1/install > bash: /media/MathWorks_R14_1/install: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: > Permission denied > > > what can i do now ? > i am

Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-09 Thread michael
I get a similar error to the OP... any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get update Password: Get:1 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable Release [79.6kB] Ign ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable Release Get:3 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/mai

Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-10 Thread michael
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 20:57 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-10-09, 20:03:31 (+0100) skrifaði michael: > > I get a similar error to the OP... any ideas? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get update > > Password: > > Get:1 ftp://ftp.uk.debi

Re: permissions

2006-10-10 Thread michael
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:32:41 +, Andrew Critchlow wrote > Thats brilliant! thanks for that, do you know of any view cmds to show the group membership? You can also try installing the package members # members group will give you a list of users that belong to that group. Cheers, Mike --

installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
hello, Have some new hardware, Intel DQ965GF motherboard Core 2 duo E6600 IDE Cdrom I've tried every installer I can find, and no matter what the installer won't detect my cdrom. Perhaps there's one out there I haven't found yet? I've tried official sarge, etch, AMD64 etch and a custom i386 sarge

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:29:04 -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote > > > > Thanks! > > Mike > You can get an i386 sarge with 2.6.18 at the url below does not seem > to have updated the AMD64 one though perhaps if you ask nicely he may. > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ > Cool thanks! I think this is where

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:56:34 -0700, michael wrote > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:29:04 -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Mike > > You can get an i386 sarge with 2.6.18 at the url below does not seem > > to have updated the AMD64 o

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:32:55 -0700, michael wrote > hello, > Have some new hardware, > Intel DQ965GF motherboard > Core 2 duo E6600 > IDE Cdrom > > I've tried every installer I can find, and no matter what > the installer won't detect my cdrom. > Perhaps ther

Re: sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 12:29 +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: > How would I know if sudoers is already installed on my system? Is > sudoers the same as when you type >su - to get root access? > I can't seem to find sudoers in apt? > > no that's "su" not "sudo" given apt-cache search sudoer re

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:58 -0500, cothrige wrote: > I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a > cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then > added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there > ready to go. However, this is n

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:37 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > cothrige wrote: > > I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a > > cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then > > added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 12:05 -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Which editor are you using? Please do a > > ll /etc/alternatives/editor > > Oddly it says nano as well, but my EDITOR and VISUAL variables are > both set to emacs, which is that which I

1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-14 Thread michael
Hello, Looking for suggestions on going with 1 dual core CPU or 2 dual core CPU. Main server would be an NFS file server. Probably using SW raid as well. Money is a conern. Is it better to go with a single, yet faster CPU?, or go with a slower CPU, yet have 2 of them? Thanks for your input. Cheer

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-14 Thread michael
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael wrote: > >> Hello, > >> Looking for suggestions on

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-14 Thread michael
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:22:23 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:15:53PM -0700, michael wrote: > > > > Probably about 100-150 workstations. > > This server will also run proxy, email and web, but my main concern was > > NFS as I'm kinda ne

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-14 Thread michael
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:55:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >> For a multiuser system, *I* would go for more, slower CPUs. Each > process gets more of a CPU that way. > > Why not an Athlon 64X2 single-socket board, or an Opteron 2xx dual- > socket bo

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-15 Thread michael
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:40:23 + (UTC), Edward Guldemond wrote > On 2006-10-15, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I must say, though, that I have not tried kerberos. > > Kerberos works fine here. I have a PII 400 serving Kerberos using > Heimdal along with Samba serving SMB and

Re: NIS configuration

2006-10-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:38:42 -0700 (PDT), Brad Brock wrote > Hi, I want to activate NIS in my network. I've > installed NIS pakcage on my Debian. Where can I find > the configuration example and explanation? This is my > first time using NIS. Thanks. > /usr/share/doc/nis has a how-to for starting

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it > and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard > drives with a 4th spare also hooked up. > > The system drive crashed and I restored it. The problem i

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread michael
> In the future, I'll build my own .conf files just to be sure. In > the long run, I'm just going to find a RAID controller that does > hardware RAID5, preferably one that's hot swappable, and just > rebuild the RAID on that. > > > I also like to run / from a raid array. /boot is a mirror, > >

flavours of LaTeX

2006-10-31 Thread michael
entation (or tell me if it's brief!) about (a) how these happen to have been set up differently, (b) how to change one so that both are the same. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:12 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > >> I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really > >> `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is > >> really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while an

xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread michael
iple times with the output concat-ed ie you get groups of date sorted files rather than a single list of date sorted files... (giving xargs the '-x' aborts the above cmd indicating find returns more chars than xargs can handle on a single run)... ta, michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +0000, michael wrote: > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > and the other pdftex

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:03 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:44:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > >

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:54 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 18:15:59 +0000, michael wrote: > > [...] > > > It was more that even running 'latex' the graphicsx won't accept eps > > files (whereas the older 'latex' (linked

quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread michael
o 18 Pro cessor I wish to get the field '18' Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread michael
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:24:23 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote > Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and > corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of > removing these, once I have established stability with later > versions, or is my first thought of 'rm'i

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread michael
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:32 -0800, Aleksei Dzhulai wrote: > The simplest case: > awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if ($i~/Processor/) print $(i-1)} }' file > I don't think that will pick up the case where the required output is on the line before Processor, but thanks, M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

package names

2009-09-03 Thread michael
had a quick looks about but can't see what {a} means in package names (I've just upgraded from etch to lenny) would somebody point me to the relevant documentation? Thanks! M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: package names

2009-09-03 Thread michael
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 03:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-03 03:11, michael wrote: > > had a quick looks about but can't see what {a} means in package names > > (I've just upgraded from etch to lenny) > > > > would somebody point me to the relevant d

Re: package names

2009-09-03 Thread michael
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-03 11:19 +0200, michael wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 03:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-09-03 03:11, michael wrote: > >> > had a quick looks about but can't see what {a} mea

vmplayer dying on lenny/amd64

2009-09-03 Thread michael
a few problems and was wondering if anybody could advise? a) vmplayer sometimes says the CMOS is wrong b) vmplayer frequently hangs - lots of cpu usage, not disk bound, but unresponsive (can occasionally click on XP's start or a program but nothing happens) Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: open office conditional formatting

2009-09-05 Thread michael
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 12:24 +0100, michael wrote: > Anybody know how to get OpenOffice (oocalc) to respect the conditional > formatting? eg if I set up some cells to have a given cond. formatting, > save and exit, then upon reopen it's got a *different* conditional > form

open office conditional formatting

2009-09-05 Thread michael
Anybody know how to get OpenOffice (oocalc) to respect the conditional formatting? eg if I set up some cells to have a given cond. formatting, save and exit, then upon reopen it's got a *different* conditional formatting... M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

evolution hanging under lenny on AMD64

2009-09-07 Thread michael
I am running Evolution 2.22.3.1 on my AMD64/Lenny box: 22:06:17 ~$ uname -a Linux amd64 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 07:12:04 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux but it frequently hangs when I quit Evo... here's a partial gdb attached log... any ideas? ta, M [Switching to Thread 0x7fb7103d6700 (LWP 60

[Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit]

2009-09-09 Thread michael
Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably updating? Thanks, M Forwarded Message > From: Evolution > To: c...@networkingnewsletter.org.uk > Subject: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit > Date:

Re: [Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit] - how to upgrade Lenny's evo

2009-09-10 Thread michael
On 10 Sep 2009, at 06:36, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/9/10 Ron Johnson : On 2009-09-09 15:55, michael wrote: Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably updating? Thanks, M Ther

apt, aptitude: By default purge config of removed packages ?

2009-09-23 Thread Michael
Hello, I'm not on this list -- please cc. I always wondered about the masses of packages with 'c' flag (config files left) in my package database. I'm mostly using aptitude for updates and maintenance, so this is on behalf of the way aptitude calls apt. I use to clean the configs (including do

Re: Re: Purging config file of removed package

2009-09-24 Thread Michael
dpkg --purge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: apt, aptitude: By default purge config of removed packages ?

2009-09-28 Thread Michael
I'm not on this list -- please cc. Andrei: ,[ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local ] | // Aptitude should purge autoremoved packages | Aptitude::Purge-Unused true; ` Many thanks !! Still i wonder, why is this not installation default ... ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: apt, aptitude: By default purge config of removed packages ?

2009-09-28 Thread Michael
On the other hand, this is a continuous upgraded system at least since woody, no fresh install. Maybe that's why there was no 00local file at all until now. And the line you told me is nowhere in the other files, too. So i created the file, the folder lists now: / r: ls -1 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

gnome window placement (particularly iceweasel)

2009-10-13 Thread michael
Howdy folks, I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny on amd64. I notice that now some windows change their position particularly iceweasel. I have 4 workspaces and 2 monitors (and use nVidia's own driver). The two "features" I've noticed but wish to control are a) if iceweasel starts on the right h

Re: gnome window placement (particularly iceweasel)

2009-10-15 Thread michael
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 09:59 -0700, N B Day wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 16:41 +0100, michael wrote: > > > > > > b) if iceweasel is already running in the top-left workspace and > > > Evolution in the bottom-left, then clicking on a hyperlink in an email > &g

disks... (is it broken or is it something else?)

2008-09-01 Thread michael
.. So my question is whether the hard drive is actually okay? And if so why was I getting numerous errors before?? All help at solving this most welcome! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cronjob in user environment

2008-09-02 Thread michael
#x27;s ~/.bashrc. why not, as johndoe, run `crontab -e` and add an entry such as 29 13 29 * . ${HOME}/.bashrc; ./foo.sh works for me, as does this sort of thing: 03 001 * *USER=michael bin/backup-rsync-HORACE full -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ia32-libs and vmware-server

2008-09-03 Thread michael
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 18:22 +0100, kj wrote: > Hi guys, > > Running the vmware server client on Lenny-64bit comes up with an error > (I'll put it at the bottom). The only suggestion I've found so far > that solves this is to downgrade ia32-libs from 2.6 to 1.19. > > Unfortunately ia32-libs 2.

Re: Issue with intel's cluster openmp

2008-09-12 Thread michael
On 12 Sep 2008, at 02:57, Micha wrote: I'm trying to run intel's cluster openmp on my machine. For some reason it crashes with a SIGBUS (Bus Error) when I run it on my machine. The exact same executable with the same libraries works fine on a different one (although it is itanium). are

Re: kernel swap question

2008-09-14 Thread Michael
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 06:28:31PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > I have a system with 32GB of RAM. The application is designed so it > does not do sequential reads and it does random operations. The > application memory intensive and I would like it to not swap. I want > it to use physical memory as much

Re: kernel swap question

2008-09-14 Thread Michael
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 04:14:44PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Michael: > > Interesting. That will just not use swap? So, it will FIFO pages into > physical memory? > > > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 1

sed

2008-09-18 Thread michael
I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct incantation... given a file with many strings, include many of the form www I wish each to be transformed to some url or other ie so literal 'www' is replaced wi

Re: sed

2008-09-18 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:53 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:29:29PM +0100, michael wrote: > > I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be > > able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct > > incan

Re: sed

2008-09-18 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:06 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:29 +0100, michael wrote: > > I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be > > able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct > > incantatio

help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script

2008-09-23 Thread michael
-progress --stats -v -rP --filter='+ */' --filter='+ CONC*' --filter='- *' . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data_hdd1/michael/`basename $PWD` but I can't see how to sort FILTER in this bash script such that + and */ all work properly... ta, Michael # cmd - need newer t

gv (gs) not producing full plots on AMD64 with nVidia

2008-09-29 Thread michael
I'm running Debian etch on my AMD64 box. It has an nVidia GeForce 6600 card and I'm using nVidia's module driver (v169.12). When I try and use 'gv' to display an IDL-produced plot it gives a partial plot, the cursor shows that interpretting is progressing but it never completes the plot. (If I take

Re: gv (gs) not producing full plots on AMD64 with nVidia

2008-09-30 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 19:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 18:27:19 +0100, michael wrote: > > I'm running Debian etch on my AMD64 box. It has an nVidia GeForce 6600 > > card and I'm using nVidia's module driver (v169.12). When I try and

Re: Communication between VMed Debian and Windows

2008-10-07 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 04:59 -0700, Neo Li wrote: > Hi all! > > Since I'm new to Linux, I'm still in the migration process. Now I use > VMware running Debian. > > After I can do most of jobs with it that Windows can do I'll switch to > it and drop Windows. (to use it in VMware at most) > > I thi

what is Debian way to move a user's home directory?

2008-10-08 Thread michael
If I have a user with home dir /here/user and wish to move their home dir to /somewhereelse/user then is there a 'good way' of doing so or is a) mv /here/user /somewhereelse/user b) change /here/user to /somewhereelse/user for user entry in /etc/passwd sufficient? thanks, Michae

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-08 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:58 +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, eveyone > > I'm using LG X TICK USB memory stick (1GB) in Etch. > In MS windows the USB memory stick can save 1GB data, but in my etch > the device can save only 450MB data. > When over 450MB data is to be copied to that disk, the error mess

Re: what is Debian way to move a user's home directory?

2008-10-08 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 11:22 +, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: > 2008/10/9 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I have a user with home dir /here/user and wish to move their home > > dir to /somewhereelse/user then is there a 'good way' of doing so or is > >

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 18:27 +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Thanks for answer. > > The result of "df /media/USB*" is > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvailable Use% > Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 976996914420 62576 > 94% /media/USB DISK > > But when the /media/USB

creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's the recommended Debian way to do so? I've tried a) create $HOME/bin/backup.sh script b) sudo ln -is $HOME/bin/backup.sh /etc/cron.daily and it appears to

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > > > If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie > > with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's > >

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:57 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 14:55:15 +0100, michael wrote: > > > ratty:~# ls /var/mail > > mail michael > > ratty:~# > > You might find that /var/mail/mail is mail for the root user. > > Steve well I

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:59 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 14:55 +0100, michael wrote: > > > > I suggest writing/rewriting backup.sh so that it writes its output > > > to well-defined files, rather than relying on the behaviour of > > >

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > > > If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie > > with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's > >

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-19 Thread michael
- Okay, my shorthand description of my problem was perhaps too shorthand! The script isn't actually backup.sh but rather a link and as far as I can tell is okay: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.daily$ ls -lt|head total 92 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 9 13:30 backup-rsync-hdb1_users-VERI ->

disk failure

2007-11-14 Thread 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/mich

Re: disk failure

2007-11-14 Thread michael
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 10:36 +, michael wrote: > '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/S

Re: disk failure

2007-11-14 Thread michael
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:22 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > 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: >

Re: disk failure [CLOSED]

2007-11-14 Thread michael
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:41 +, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:22 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > michael: > > > 'tiger' just told me various home directories are unavailable and upon > > > further investigation I see disk errors. Here's th

Re: 64 bits or 32 bits? How to define?

2007-11-15 Thread michael
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 00:56 +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Wednesday 14 November 2007 21:57:20 Pantor, vous avez écrit : > > Exactly yes, CPU is AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ and no idea is it 64 bits or > > 32 bits CPU. > > It is 64bits if you see lm (Large Mode) in : > $ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo > f

Re: 64 bits or 32 bits? How to define?

2007-11-15 Thread michael
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 04:15 +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Pantor wrote: > > >>> anybody can tell me how to define is my system 64 bits or 32 bits? > > >> what do you really mean by `system' ? hardware

Re: creative zen v plus

2007-11-21 Thread michael
On 21 Nov 2007, at 04:11, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I have a Creative Zen V Plus MP3 player. I cannot seem to open it, or mount it. I tried installing gnomad2, but it cannot find the usb device. I tried mounting /dev/sda1, but this also did not work. My system does see it: [EMAIL PR

(tcl) modules

2007-11-22 Thread michael
dulefile can be summarized through the module command as well. If no arguments are given, a summary of the module usage and sub-commands are shown. The action for the module command to take is described by the sub-command and its associated arguments. [1] www.modules.org -- Michael

won't dual boot: 2 disks and LVM

2007-12-18 Thread michael
efinite reference stating "MS WinXP cannot handle LVM" it does seem to be the culprit. Anybody got any such definitive references or other help? Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity

2007-12-18 Thread michael
On 18 Dec 2007, at 20:53, cs wrote: I've not managed to define precisely when I get borrows but I'm noticing the following symptoms and was wondering if some kind soul would help me debug what's going on in order to get to a solution? Thanks, Michael set-up: etch, gnome

bash scripts and files

2007-12-30 Thread michael
Folks, can somebody point me to an authorative reference that explains when one needs to put, eg, #!/bin/bash as the first line of a script and whether or not it's required/ surplus/ignored for bash specific files such as .bashrc and .bash_profile many thanks but couldn't find it quickly u

Re: bash scripts and files

2007-12-31 Thread michael
On 30 Dec 2007, at 18:11, Gerard Robin wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:17:43PM +, michael wrote: From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian user Subject: bash scripts and files X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.debian.org X-Spam

Re: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity

2007-12-31 Thread michael
On 18 Dec 2007, at 23:57, Adam Porter wrote: What video driver? Does it happen with KDE? Does it happen with different Linux distros? Does it happen if you boot a live CD of Ubuntu or...? Does logging out and back in (without rebooting) fix it? t happens frequently but not immediatel

Re: mouse & keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-03 Thread michael
ImPS/2" seems to have helped (so far!) > If that doesn't turn anything up, I'd suggest trying a different USB > keyboard, and a PS/2 one if possible. > > If that doesn't help, I'd suggest seeing a psychiatrist; perhaps your > original theory of your slowly g

Re: mouse & keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-03 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:41 +, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:36 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > > cs wrote: > > > > > actually after using KDE for an hour today, the keyboard froze too... > > > playing with the control centre somehow reset it such that

Re: mouse & keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-04 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:43 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > michael wrote: > > > Okay, I spoke too soon :( > > The mouse just ''froze'' on me again (as in I could move it but clicking > > did nothing) - had to ALT-TAB (to 'nothing' then again to g

Re: mouse & keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-04 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:05 +, michael wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:41 +0000, michael wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:36 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > > > cs wrote: > > > > > > > actually after using KDE for an hour today, the keyboard froze

how to determine current X focus?

2008-01-05 Thread michael
conclusion since if in Gnome I turn off Gnome (metacity?)'s "select windows when the mouse moves over them" option (and thus also turning off auto-raise) it *seems* to make the problem go away Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: mouse/keyboard not responding under Xorg

2008-01-05 Thread michael
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:16 +, michael wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:51 +0000, michael wrote: > > I've not managed to define precisely when I get problems but I'm > > noticing > > the following symptoms and was wondering if some kind soul would help me >

Re: how to determine current X focus?

2008-01-06 Thread michael
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:42 +, michael wrote: > Is there a tool that will o/p the current X application that is > accepting input ('focus')? It appears my problem with (intermittently) > un-responding USB mouse/keyboard (see 18 Dec 2007 posts) may be due to > loss of f

overclocking AMD64 gives X mouse/keyboard problems [WAS: mouse/keyboard not responding under Xorg]

2008-01-08 Thread michael
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:43 +, michael wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:16 +0000, michael wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:51 +, michael wrote: > > > I've not managed to define precisely when I get problems but I'm > > > noticing > > > th

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 18:51 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-12-31, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, probably the previous chapter ("she-bang") was of more use > > but a useful ref. However, I'm still trying to understand why it&#x

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:26 +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 + > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably > > > invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are writ

subversion/apache2 errors

2008-01-10 Thread michael
the repository (I'm using /usr/local/SUBVERSION for the root for repositories eg /usr/local/SUBVERSION/repos1). Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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