Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Andrius wrote: Hi, what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular sites? wget, grep But, perhaps, it would be easier to just ask the site admins to mail you the list of addresses? Regards, Andrius -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which

Re: Nvidia to Intel

2008-02-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
w. Check your xorg.conf and change the driver manually if needed. Am I missing something or do I have to go back to Nvidia to get some decent video speed? FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers -- Raj Kiran Grandhi

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ere is my cron.minute, modify to your needs: = #!/bin/bash CRON_DIR=~/cron suffix=`date +%H%M` cd $CRON_DIR for job in *.$suffix do if [ -x $job ] then ./$job elif [ -r $job ] then /bin/bash $job fi done = -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every erro

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to F

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
adware, etc, though with your unix like browsing habits, you may be less prone to be fooled by malware sites. You might want to install cygwin, it gives you a unix-like environment within windows. It was a life-saver during my brief corporate employment. See http://www.cygwin.com -- Raj Kir

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
rn1, dir2/pattern2 are given as arguments to the script. I could not figure out how to do this inside a bash script. Any idea? #call as script-name dir1 dir2 pattern="$1" dir1="$2" dir2="$3" for file in $dir1/$pattern; do diff $file dir2${file##${dir1}} done ra

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
PATH and check if 'cd' is aliased to something. Somebody please correct me if I was wrong. I think you should check your sarcasm meter. It seems badly calibrated. Patrick -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
n windows, 'it complains of virus'), ease of burning a cd (in windows, he has to wade through nero), ease of watching movies (mplayer plays everything unlike in windows) -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two hum

Re: unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
do not htink that sounds right. [snip errors] Add a new user and try logging in as that user from gdm. If it works, then there is something wrong with your configuration files and you can try moving them out of the way before logging in again. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every

Re: unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
. I did create a new user...but nothing helps. I got the same issue. it is driving me up a wall. thanks..for any help... mjh -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the

Re: mounting CD1 is not enough for mirroring and net install

2008-02-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
either have a partial mirror on your server machine using debmirror or you can pass the boot parameter debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated=true -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
/boot and run grub-install hd0 If you do not have a separate /boot partition, then mount your root partition somewhere, say /system, then chroot /system mount /proc (don't know why this is needed, maybe for /proc/partitions) grub-install hd0 -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
expand it and it gets passed to your script. So it should be $patlist "file*" -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
achieve this in the most generic fashion? Has anyone done this kind of thing before? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you wil

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
f any other reasons. We run a couple of proprietary applications at work that are only supported on RHEL. I have had no problem running them on Debian Etch. YMMV. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, includin

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: I can think of an obvious reason: RH is "known", i.e., management has heard of it, and it's a *company*, Point taken. as opposed to a bunch of left-wing communist hippies that want to destroy capitalism. Can't agree with that, though. -- Raj Kir

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 20:40, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I can think of an obvious reason: RH is "known", i.e., management has heard of it, and it's a *company*, Point taken. as opposed to a bun

Re: Problem with KVM switch and Screen Res...

2008-02-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ave saved the edid file at /root/edid.bin Thanking you, fcG. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing ownership & permissions of Free Agent USB drive

2008-02-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
u mount it. Try passing the uid= option when mounting the drive. For the permissions you can pass the umask option. Refer to the mount manpage for more details. TIA Andy Unfortunately, the output of ls -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ow to config X to handle the screen when i put it in 16:9 mode -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ome live cd based on debian and just use debootsrap to install, instead of using debian-installer? Only, you have to make sure that you set up a few things, like fstab and the grub entries. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:16:11AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option for 4:3 or 16:9 I would like to

Re: Burn DVD - RW

2008-03-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ideo files to a DVD RW disk? growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J ~/MPEG/video.mpg If you are looking for a way to burn a dvd that can play in a standalone player, then you should install dvdauthor and browse its documentation. Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the sour

Keyboard usage analyzer

2008-03-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I would just like to know the number of keypresses I am generating everyday and perhaps the number of times each key is pressed. Just curious. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To

Re: Keyboard usage analyzer

2008-03-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Nelson Castillo wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I would just like to know the number of keypresses I am gene

[OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
on denied error when I try to do anything fancy with external media and I have to explicitly add user to the plugdev group to allow access. How can I achieve something similar in ubuntu? This appears to be such a trivial issue but I have no clue as to how to go about it. Thank you, Raj Kir

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. I am facing some trouble in disabling user access to external storage devices on a ubuntu 7.10 system. I have created an unprivileged user, 'guest'. The user is not a member of any other grou

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. I am facing some trouble in disabling user access to external storage devices on a ubuntu 7.10 system. I have created an unprivileged user, 'guest'. T

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am fairly certain that it is hal that is doing the automount (nautilus > > calls gnome-mount which in turns calls hal) The device gets mounted with > > the permissions 700 and owned by the unprivileged user. However, t

Re: Rename partition in Nautilus Tree

2008-03-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
realise this may be a Gnome question rather than Debian - If there's a better list to post this on please let me know) Russell -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:58:55AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. You mean a non-debian specific post. Why not ask on a Ubuntu list? Doug. I have not had much luck with the ubuntu list. Google could not help me either and

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
let the computer do the rest. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: how to add text to real media file

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
sources) -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Restricting resource usage on a shell server

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
dwidth limit. Any advice appreciated so that this project can go ahead. Thanks, Sean -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
become to use. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get --purge

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ll you which package provided the bootstrap.jar file. You can also try apt-cache depends tomcat5.5 to get a list of all the dependencies and reinstall them with 'apt-get --reinstall install' Why did this happen? Surely a purge should wipe the slate clean? Thanks Adam -- Raj

Re: What's the problem with this cron command

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
y placing it in some file and executing that file from cron? It could be some problem with the parsing of quotes. $ tail /var/log/syslog Mar 15 13:16:27 cxmr tong: get executed. So, what is the problem? PS. I'm sure the PATH is setup properly in my cron, so cron can find ps &

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

2008-03-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux TIA! Dennis -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

2008-03-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ores it in ~/.thunderbird (or maybe the other way round) So it is better if you take a backup of that folder before you play around with the upgrade. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Difficulty setting up gcc packages.

2008-03-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I cannot find any file with that name.Was gcc-4.1 automatically configured upon installation or do I need to do anything manually? Try compiling a simple hello world program and see if it gives any errors. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is fo

Re: Application to find RGB hex values?

2008-03-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
or Linux, though I'm sure there must be a simple way. Ideas? Anthony Why don't you simply use gimp itself? The color picker tool with info window (press shift and drag) should work. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity.

Re: difficulties configuring PPPoE

2008-03-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
fore I guess DNS is not working) Then I pinged with an ip address(I used that of Google). I was told "destination net not reachable". Try pinging an ip address instead of a name. You may try 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 What was the problem? How to solve it? Hope someone can help. Thank

Re: Make Error Building Module

2008-03-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
, unfortunately their dedicated list is down at the moment but I’m pretty sure this is something you’ll be able to help with. Cheers, Robert -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
der'. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ar/web/node/125 could work is based in Kubuntu. Nice work. Does it also simulate an occasional BSOD? ;-) -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screen resolution amd64 and NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

2008-03-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
tly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: reboot problems

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Gelonia L Dent wrote: Dear Debian Users, I am working on a diskless cluster which runs Debian 2.6.17. I rebooted the machine and lost the ssh, dhcp, most shell commands and the NFS filesystem . The system boots using GRUB. I've tried to restart all of these daemons but with no success. Did you

Re: reboot problems

2008-06-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Gelonia L Dent wrote: Dear Debian Users, I am working on a diskless cluster which runs Debian 2.6.17. I rebooted the machine and lost the ssh, dhcp, most shell commands and the NFS filesystem . The system boots using GRUB. I've tri

Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

2008-06-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Alan Chandler wrote: I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded iceweasel. Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of some facilities on my web site. Can I easily undo that upgrade? If so how Add etch or lenny to your sources.list and then install the require

Re: ssh connection without passwd

2008-06-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi every one, I am using DSL on small miniPC. I tried the ssh-keygen it seemed running correctly, it generates the key (pub and priv), Use ssh-copy-id to copy your public key to the ssh server. This requires that password based connections are allowed to that serv

Re: shutdown and reboot scripts

2008-07-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me what script I can edit so when my box shuts down or reboots all my mounted devices get pumounted? (I use pmount to mount everything) So, how can I pumount all devices on /media? So basically I have 2 questions: 1. What script can I place commands in

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Copyright © 2008 Raj Kiran Grandhi # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This

Re: login problem (password corruption? pam?)

2008-07-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Joseph Neal wrote: Hello all. Logins keep going bad on me. Repeatedly. I first noticed the problem yesterday after updating sid. First sudo failed to accept my password. I logged out of KDE and was not able to log back in. Let's call my normal login that I've been using the past couple

Re: sudo password visible through ssh command line

2008-07-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Javier Barroso wrote: Hi, In sid with key passwordless auth : ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "sudo ls" password: password And password is shown you Any tip to avoid this ? Where should be reported this bug if it could be consider as such (note I don't know if there are more programs with this proble

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last Wednesday, I bought two WD6400AAKS drives from NewEgg. They were manufactured in Thailand only 21 days ago. They couldn't have been sitting in NE's warehouse very long... I won't be surprised if the printed date of manufac

Re: Cannot switch to VT (console)

2008-07-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Recently I tried to switch to VT (console) and I couldn't - Ctrl+Alt+F1 didn't work (and they used to couple of weeks ago). I don't even know where to look for the problem; xev detects KeyRelease XF86_Switch_VT_1 event, /etc/inittab contain getty respawns. Chec

Re: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 - US - Debian mirror?

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lubo wrote: yep, some sorts of load balancing is involved. here is the one with IIS on it: http://35.9.37.225/debian/dists/etch/ $ dig http.us.debian.org ;; ANSWER SECTION: http.us.debian.org. 3494IN A 128.30.2.36 http.us.debian.org. 3494IN A 64.50.236.5

Re: Ext3 Overwritted by Ext3

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Armin ranjbar wrote: Dear all , there is an Ext3 partition which have been mkfs.ext3 by mistake , there are very few inodes available in file system now but tools like lde shows that majority of data is still available on disk , the problem is that how its possible to take back disconnected ext

Re: Ext3 Overwritted by Ext3

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Armin ranjbar wrote: Dear all , there is an Ext3 partition which have been mkfs.ext3 by mistake , there are very few inodes available in file system now but tools like lde shows that majority of data is still available on disk , the problem is that how its possible

Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Mitchell Laks wrote: On 09:07 Mon 28 Jul , ss11223 wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferences -> security -> Passwords Section / Exceptions button Thank you all for this suggestion, but it is actua

Solving sudoku with aptitude

2008-08-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Here is an interesting article where the author uses package dependencies and conflict handling mechanisms of the debian package management system to solve sudoku puzzles http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ Regards, Raj Kiran -- If you can't explain it s

Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
stick as /dev/sdb. Why does it make my PC crash and what can I do to stop it from doing that. Could it be a hardware problem? Try inserting the usb stick into different ports and see. Also try a different usb stick dd'd from the troublesome one. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is fo

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
hieve this. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian utility question

2008-04-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
7; to select the files and then use chmod on each of them. Something like: $ find -print0|xargs -0 chmod You can also use 'find' to report existing permissions. Look into the -printf option of find, particularly the %M and %m directives. Look into the man pages of find, chmod

Re: locale problems

2008-04-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ot;, LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Many TIA! Dennis Run `dpkg-reconfigure locales' and select the locales you want to be generated. -- Raj Kiran G

Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

2008-04-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
restore previous partition sizes? How do I backup my active drive/root partition? do I need a live cd or is it possible to do from a running system? Thanks Look into the clonezilla live-cd. It does exactly what you describe. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for

Re: Debian 4.0 - NFS Install

2008-05-04 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
t the installation? Local cdrom or netboot? Either way, just do a minimal installation. Once you have a basic system (minimal install) up and running, you can mount the nfs share, point apt to that share and install the rest of your system. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the momen

debconf dependency problems

2008-05-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
n Packages 500 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.5.11etch1 0 500 http://mirrors.kernel.org etch/main Packages == Has anyone encountered this problem? Is there any workaround? Thanks, Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equat

Re: usb not detected in gnome

2008-05-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
automatically mount removable media is checked. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: debconf dependency problems

2008-05-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Has anyone encountered this problem? Is there any workaround? There[1] seem to be a problem with debconf-i18n package in sid. It is to do with the Perl 5.10 transition. [1] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00019.html

Re: more ash/dash/bash questions

2008-05-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
nt them to run only on your machine, you are free to choose any interpretor you want, otherwise you can try making a deb package of your script and have it depend on the interpretor of your choice. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity.

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
for the general.useragent.extra.firefox string. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
:(function(){var a=document.getElementById(%22header%22);a.style.display= %22block%22})() -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/08 21:57, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/08 10:23, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/06/08 21:57, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my

[OT] Recovering a deleted file that is still open

2008-05-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
If I have accidentally deleted a file that is still being used by some application (read or write mode), is it possible to recover such a file? Especially since the file is not really deleted until the descriptor is closed by the application? Just wondering... Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics

Re: [OT] Recovering a deleted file that is still open

2008-05-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Joey Hess wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: If I have accidentally deleted a file that is still being used by some application (read or write mode), is it possible to recover such a file? Especially since the file is not really deleted until the descriptor is closed by the application? Just

Re: File Permissions

2008-05-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
that the directory still belongs to that user, so the user is free to delete any file in that directory (even though the file is owned by somebody) You may want to try chattr to set the 'i' attribute on the relevant file. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment.

Re: decoding

2008-05-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
PGiyw)-- - --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q)-- Base64 doesn't know what to do with this file. Help anyone? Prepend the line "begin-base64 644 -" to your encoded text. Append the line "" and pipe it through `uudecode' -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is

Re: Strange msgs in syslog

2008-05-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.10.1 LEN=61 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=48305 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=43182 DPT=53 LEN=41 Thanks! Dennis There is probably an iptables rule that is logging those packets. You may want to inspect your rules and remove the relevant ones. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
thing to do with your configuration setup. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VNC / Vino / tightVNC question

2008-05-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
al display of the server. Use can use the builtin vino server (assuming you are using gnome). You can configure it by running `vino-preferences'. You should "Allow other users to view your desktop" for the vino-server to start. Then, install the xvnc4viewer package on the cli

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/08 19:48, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: andy wrote: I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which cleared it temporarily. However

Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar icons and make better use of screen space? I almost wish the gtk/gnome devs had smaller monitors :-) -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the momen

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more in India (tariffs on imported Chi

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
d packages as possible and may add/remove a few packages to resolve dependencies and conflicts in a more intelligent manner that 'apt-get upgrade' Is such a thing possible? -ishwar -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equa

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 19:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: [snip] Thank you and to all others for their suggestions. I shall try alternate WMs, but the problem appears to have more to do with gtk than with gnome. The panels take up a tiny

Re: window manager

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
it, gnome-session or xfce-session. It will be executed whenever you do 'startx'. When logging in from gdm select 'User Session' or 'XClient script' (whichever is present) and choose to make it the default option if you like. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is

Re: Gnome display fonts have disappered

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
fonts and then reinstall all the packages that have 'font' in their name. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: replacing pxe.linux.0

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
missing something? -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
this problem some time back before I installed the noscript extension. You might want to consider it. Alternatively, you may consider adblockplus which is takes a blacklisting approach rather than the explicit whitelisting approach of noscript. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for t

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
should not be necessary! I would assume that the people who wrote ext2/3 knew what they were doing when they implemented forced checks. Doug. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To U

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
andy wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: andy wrote: I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is despite the mediaplayer I am

Re: pxelinux.0 doesn't recognize my Mirrored debian??

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
a pxe?? How did you create your local mirror. Make sure that you have also downloaded the main/debian-installer section since that is where the installer loads its components from. Also make sure that you have the correct Release.gpg files. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the momen

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
s root he can't do something (outside of some special directories). You should suspect something seriously wrong if your system behaves otherwise. For your present problem with locales, install localepurge and get rid of all the locales that you don't care about. -- Raj Kiran Gra

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
system can be compromised remotely. Obviously, the ability to become root by tweaking the boot parameters from the grub screen does not count as a vulnerability. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
installation of vmplayer. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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