Are squeeze daily CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On the cdimage daily builds page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/ there is mention of Lenny and Sid, but no mention of squeeze. Is that a bug? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Same sort of thing for the weekly page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. Rick On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On the cdimage daily builds page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Chris, I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: Take a look at http://www.ducea.com/2008/12/08/howto-upgrade-from-debian-etch-to-lenny/ It worked for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:14:18PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Same sort of thing for the weekly page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. Also fixed now. The first set of

gnome on PowerPC Debian Squeeze: error dialog box when starting root-terminal

2009-03-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Has anybody else seen this? More or less bog-standard powerpc squeeze installation on PowerMac G4 When I choose the "Root Terminal" in the accessories menu, I get an error dialog box with error messages like this: There was an error loading a terminal keybinding. (Failed to contact configu

Re: about ntp

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Chris Davies wrote: leo wrote: when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: "no server suitable for synchronization found" The NTP Pool servers are all run on a "best endeavours" basis. (I know, because I run one.) So if one doesn't respond yo

Re: USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Rob Gom wrote: Hi Debian Users, I own an USB 2 GB stick. Unfortunately it is reported to system as two separate devices: Is it possible to convert stick to be single device? I don't need second one... And two windows about new device connected can be a bit irritatin

Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...

2009-04-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi! I'm trying to take one of my G4 Macs from Squeeze to Sid, so I can investigate the reported problems with the 2.6.29 kernel in Sid on PowerPC. I get the following diagnostic from "aptitude update; aptitude safe- upgrade": The following packages have been kept back: gnumeric-common

Re: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...

2009-04-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:48:25PM -0400, Rick Thomas > was heard to say: First of all, why does "full-upgrade" say "and 3 not upgraded" when there seem to be only two un-upgradable packages? I wonder if you have

Best way to install a new session manager

2009-04-11 Thread Rick Thomas
After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). What's the best way to do that so as to get all packages installed the same way they would have been had I used the associated install CD? Is this i

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

2009-04-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Apr.09, 14:14:12, Rick Thomas wrote: After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). What's the best way to do t

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-12 Thread Rick Thomas
I ran into this too. Same problem -- extra set of quotes in the environment variables after doing "sudo -i" . I put LANG=C LANGUAGE=C export LANG export LANGUAGE at the end of /root/.bashrc and the problem went away. But now that two of us have seen it, I think there's a bug in "sudo

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 13, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Bob Cox wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:24:27 -0700, Kelly Clowers (kelly.clow...@gmail.com ) wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:14, Celejar wrote: So you seem to be correct; for some reason, in the sudo shell, the LC* variables are getting extra quotes.

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 11, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:08PM +0100, James Youngman (j...@gnu.org) wrote: (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a year ago), at least

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 13, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2009-04-13 15:14:36 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: rbtho...@greybox:~$ locale LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C&q

Re: Cron - any advanced options?

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Here's a little program that I picked up I don't remember where. It's what I use when I have this sort of problem. It atomically creates a lock file and tests for a previous lock file of the same name -- properly handling processes that quit without removing the lock, etc... Rick shlo

linux-image-powerpc has the same broken dependency...

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug prevents an "expert" mode install from properly installing Sid unless you chose a non-default kernel. Instead of depending on linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc, in Sid, it should depend on linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc, because 2.6.26-2 doesn't exist in Sid. The 2.6.26 version may (I

eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7

2009-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: eog This doesn't happen on a i386 box... == greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions

Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 12, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing

The saga's not over yet... [Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7]

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Well, It finally upgraded eog, but now it's transmission-gtk that has the same problem... = greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states.

Re: Debian and the future: IPv6

2009-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 22, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: Give it 3 or 4 years and it will be having a definite impact, 10 years or less it will be common, or even ubiquitous. It may be sooner than that. The IPv4 address space is expected to run out in 2011 at current rates of allocation. After t

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: widux wrote: Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel: Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): You need Option"DontZap" "false" in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Bug reported as Bug#533089 Sadly, if your diagnosis is correct, it may not be fixable... Oh well, I guess that's what "sudo -i" in a normal terminal is for... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Bug reported as Bug#533089 Sadly, if your diagnosis is correct, it may not be fixable... Oh well, I guess that's what "sudo -i" in a normal terminal is for... &#x

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hi, I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Steve Reilly wrote: It may be that you can get to it by running dpkg-reconfigure Anybody on this list have any suggestions for appropriate values of ? Rick i believe what your looking for in is cupsys. but thats not going to ask you for passwords or u

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Steve Reilly wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hi, I've just installed cups to manage an

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:20 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,14.Jun.09, 22:33:07, Rick Thomas wrote: It may ask for a userid and password at low priority. See "-- priority=value" option in the dpkg-reconfigure(8) man page. The same one that says: dpkg-reconfigure normally

Debian on non-linux kernels...

2009-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
What requirements does Debian put on a non-Linux kernel? Where would I look for documentation on that? There's some interest in making Minix 3 run with the non-kernel parts of Debian. Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: X11 without HAL: "DontZap" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore

2009-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: I had this same problem and using the following (in an .xsession in my case) solved the problem: setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp Cheers, Asumu Takikawa This is good to know. How often does this have to be done? Can I do it

Re: PowerBook 12"

2009-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:32 AM, MAD wrote: I would really like to start using Linux - I have it already as a VM on my Intel Mac Book Pro, and I think it will make my 12" PowerBook very useful. Is there anything someone from your Debian group could tell me to help? Thanks a lot. Mark Hi M

Re: encrypted partition question

2008-09-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Since top-posting is discouraged on this list, my comments are at the bottom of this email... On Sep 21, 2008, at 12:32 AM, DanMitton wrote: If I don't want to use "none" and be prompted for the passphrase, how can I do it? I have the passphrase on a USB thumb drive, but how do I spe

How to keep gnome from automatically mounting USB thumb-drive every time I log in?

2008-11-15 Thread Rick Thomas
How can I prevent a USB thumb-drive from auto-mount-ing every time I log in. I'd like it to require a manual operation to get it mounted. For reasons that I won't go into here, it lives nearly all the time inserted in a USB slot on the CPU. But for most login sessions I do not need to us

aptitude safe-upgrade says libgnomekbd-common is being kept back on sid powerpc systems

2008-12-02 Thread Rick Thomas
When I do "aptitude safe-upgrade" on my sid powerpc systems, it says that libgnomekbd-common is being kept back. This has been going on for a week or more. It doesn't do that on my sid i386 systems. It doesn't seem to be hurting anything... Anybody got an idea why? Rick -- To UNSUBSC

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade says libgnomekbd-common is being kept back on sid powerpc systems

2008-12-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: When I do "aptitude safe-upgrade" on my sid powerpc systems, it says that libgnomekbd-common is being kept back. This has been going on for a week or more. It doesn't do that on my sid i386 systems. It doesn't seem to

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, theoretically that is what I want, but if I'm not mistaken PXE boot is dependent on a dhcp server giving the machine an IP and declaring that it has a boot image to provide, or am I wrong. I want to give the ip as an option and use a give

Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! for all the very helpful replies. On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-12-17 20:14 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current

Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

2008-12-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:52 AM, M.Lewis wrote: e2fsck -f /dev/curley/home # check consistency before starting (may be required by resize2fs?) resize2fs /dev/curley/home 30G # change the size of (fs) /dev/ curley/home from whatever it is, to 30GB lvreduce -L 30G /dev/curley/home

Re: Running Debian Stable

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add OOo 3.0 to a Debian stable installation? By adding the u

Re: Running Debian Stable

2008-12-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add

Re: Who is logged into this box?

2009-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:16 AM, steve wrote: i often wondered where some of these commands got their name from myself. w? and that is short for user in what way?? It's short for "who(1)", which does much the same thing, but differently. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Which FS for USB Flash Drive

2009-01-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 27, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Kushal Koolwal wrote: Probably the best r/w filesystem for flash based devices in JFFS2. I don't recollect an option of formatting the FS as JFFS2 in the Debian Lenny Installation CD? JFFS2 isn't for USB Flash "thumb drives". It's for the kind of raw flash

Re: Which FS for USB Flash Drive

2009-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Kushal Koolwal wrote: Hi Rick, If you will, it's doing the JFFS2 thing for you -- you don't need the software in the kernel to do it a second time. Do you know any resource where I can find the steps on how to install on JFFS2? Also I was wondering if all t

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 22, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Clive McBarton wrote: prepends it with sufficiently many (3 suffices?) good nameservers, so it never gets used and everything is fine. Nothing is 100.000% certain, of course. But as long as your 3 are independent of each other -- i.e. not subject to a single

Re: Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
If you want a reasonable approximation to a headless, but otherwise full Debian installation, your best bet would be to buy a 2GB USB2.0 flash drive. 32 MB isn't going to cut it.Crucial sells their "Gizmo! jr" 2 GB drive[1] for US$15. It's "about half the size of a stick of gum". (

Re: Lenny in less than 2 GB of drive space?

2010-03-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-26 12:45, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] I've got an NSLU2 ("slug") with 32 MB RAM and 8 MB of flash doing duty as an NTP server. It has a "Gizmo! jr" drive as it's only mass storage. Works a treat.

Where to find driver for new HP printer (Color LaserJet 2605dn)

2007-11-07 Thread Rick Thomas
The immediate problem is for Sarge, but I expect I'll also discover that Etch and Lenny don't have drivers for this one either, since it's fairly new. So here's the question: I just got a new HP color LaserJet 2605dn printer. The CUPS setup doesn't seem to have a driver for it. Does any

Re: Where to find driver for new HP printer (Color LaserJet 2605dn) [Solved -- Thanks!]

2007-11-08 Thread Rick Thomas
, Rick Thomas wrote: So here's the question: I just got a new HP color LaserJet 2605dn printer. The CUPS setup doesn't seem to have a driver for it. Does anybody have an idea where to get appropriate driver software (I *think* it's just a PPD file, but I don't know for sure)

Re: removing kde

2007-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:23 PM, steve wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:01:09PM -0600, lostson wrote: I have install debian stable with kde and am wanting to remove kde completely and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if

Strange error message from mac-fdisk in Lenny on PowerMac G4

2007-12-13 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody know what this error message means? greybox:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda mac-fdisk: Symbol `sys_errlist' has different size in shared object, onsider re-linking The machine in question is a PowerMac G4 running Lenny. Thoughts? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

aptitude dist-upgrade complaining about evolution being broken?

2007-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
When I do "aptitude dist-upgrade" on my Lenny testing machine, I get: The following packages are BROKEN: evolution-exchange evolution-plugins gnome-desktop-environment The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: evolution The following packages will be REMOVED: evolution The fo

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade complaining about evolution being broken?

2007-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Followup is bottom posted... On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:09 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: When I do "aptitude dist-upgrade" on my Lenny testing machine, I get: The following packages are BROKEN: evolution-exchange evolution-plugins gnome-desktop-environment The

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade complaining about evolution being broken?

2007-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Followup is bottom posted... On Dec 18, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Rick Thomas schreef: On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:09 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: When I do "aptitude dist-upgrade" on my Lenny testing machine, I get: The following packages

Where to find Sarge install disks?

2007-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
For reasons that aren't worth explaining, I need to install Debian Sarge (old-stable) for a little while. But I can't seem to find the ISO's for it. Does anybody know where they are hidden? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even /usr than /. On this line... Making /tmp a separate filesystem is often recommended. Ri

DNS zone file management software?

2007-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there a debian supported DNS zone file management software package? For example, Red Hat has a simple gui called redhat-config-bind . I'm looking for a "debian way" equivalent. If such a thing exists, is there a version that supports IPv6 addresses? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Tunnel between two IPv6 islands in an IPv4 ocean?

2007-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
What would be the "Debian way" to set up a tunnel between two routers running Debian to connect two IPv6 islands in an otherwise IPv4 ocean? To be a bit more specific: There are two groups of us in my University who are experimenting with IPv6. The rest of the University is entirely IPv4.

Installer CDs for etch 4.0r2 and sarge 3.1r7 ?

2007-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Where can I find installer CD/DVD iso images for the newly announced etch 4.0r2 Same question for the yet-to-be-announced sarge 3.1r7 ? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Install DVD .jigdos out of date?

2007-12-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:01:30PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hi Can anyone comment on whether the .jigdo files currently published on cdimage.debian.org and its mirrors for the DVD images of the i386 STABLE distribution are out of date? I

what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Franz Pop wrote: This is a known issue that _has_ already been fixed, but only when new images will be built, which has been delayed because of hardware issues with the machine that does that. Is this the reason why the installer iso's for 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 are delayed? Any idea when t

Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 5:57 PM, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Franz Pop wrote: This is a known issue that _has_ already been fixed, but only when new images will be built, which has been delayed because of hardware issues with the m

Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:16 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 10:37 PM, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as 4.0r3 is concerned, I'm only curious, not personally inconvenienced, about what's holding those up and why nobody seems to have an answer for the ques

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2008, at 12:42 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: I can't say I've ever had a CD-R that was stored in a cool, dark place and handled gently fail. I got curious. So I pulled a couple of CD-Rs from 1997 out of the desk drawer they've been sitting in for the last 9+ years. They were sto

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD- Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try a bunch more, just for fun...

What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
I hate to be a bore on this subject, but the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's still aren't available, as far as I can tell. And no word from anyone as to what the hold up is. Can anybody enlighten me? The 4.0r2 iso's are up now. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD- Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 6, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:31:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: of all those IBM floppies I can only write to 2 Try a few straight reads to /dev/null just to scrape them clean. After that, use a cleaning disk to clean the heads of the

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
ile if you want to install Sarge. For pedagogic reasons, I want students to install Sarge, not Etch, on their lab machines. This makes it difficult. When 3.1r7 is available that manual step will go away, I hope! Rick On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, folks, for all the offers of help! Fortunately, Frans Pop has just informed me that the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's will be available in a couple of days, which is just in time for the beginning of semester. Which solves the problem handily. I'll keep all your suggestions in mind for the nex

Re: [OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 9, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we e

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:14 PM, John Hasler wrote: Russel writes: The spam simply has disappeared. You can have mine. Neither the hosting outfit nor my local ISP has an explanation. One of them probably started doing some filtering, using an RBL, checking rDNS, etc. My guess is that th

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that with AT&T UNIX). In order to be completely sure you would be able to swap out a program when memory became full, UNIX allocated a page of swap for every page of virtual memory a program occupied. So if vi required 256K to ru

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Rick wrote On my own systems, I make swap huge (10 GB or more for 1 GB RAM -- Disk is cheap!) so I can mount /tmp on a tmpfs filesystem. Is this for apps that say "if malloc() fails, I create a tmp file"? IOW, you pretty much ensure th

Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm trying to get started with Xen. I've installed Lenny and a bunch of packages that looked interesting and mentioned Xen in their descriptions. But there does not seem to be a Xen enabled kernel available. Is Xen built-in to the Lenny kernels, or what? I plan to spend tonite with my f

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 23, 2008, at 4:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that with AT&T UNIX). In order to be completely sure you would be able to swap out a program when memory became full,

Re: wheezy & ext4 ?

2013-10-26 Thread Rick Thomas
A few years ago, ext4 was regarded as "experimental". The default filesystem that the Debian-Installer offered was ext3, with ext4 as an option (along with ext2 and some others) for those with special needs or a love of adventure. By 2013, the general opinion is that ext4 has all the important

Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the stuff in examples/ b

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 21, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Glenn English wrote: > I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install Hi Glen, Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? I've done "aptitude install wordpress" which dragged in all the necessary other packages, like apache2,

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
or the wiki, so the next person can benefit from our experience. Thanks in advance! Rick On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:39:20 -0800 > Rick Thomas wrote: > >> >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for goin

Fwd: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2013-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi, all! I just downloaded the powerpc netinst installer from /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-24 23:02 257M I checked the md5 and sha1 sums, and burned it to CD. All went well. But when I booted it (on two different G4 m

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:38 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Hi Rick, >> >> These instructions should work for Debian as well: >> http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/05/09/how-to-wordpress-on-ubuntu-gnu-linux/ >> >> The main thing is to get Apache & PHP configured properly. Once that's >> done, Wordpre

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package. It >> installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's version >> has nothing to do with the version number of the debian install

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/11/13 18:31, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman >> wrote: >> >>> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debi

Re: Time for compassion and the Init GR

2014-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 7, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 11/7/2014 2:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Jo, 06 nov 14, 22:11:59, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >> I thought he took special care to not make any assumptions about the >> results. >> >> Kind regards, >> Andrei I’m with Andrei. I think S

Re: ntpd confusion

2014-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2014, at 11:00 AM, mad wrote: > I found it. It was DHCP. The NTP init scripts checks if there is a file > /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp in which the local router is configured as > only ntp source. The DHCP client package in Debian tries to get as much information as possible out of th

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Stan, Calling people names is no way to encourage them to use free software. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bb13d31f-28c7-47b1-b34c-3c121e74f.

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact so the admin can make the proper measures) but a different thing is completely killing the service. Hi

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 23, 2012, at 6:13 AM, David L. Craig wrote: On 12Sep23:0208-0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact so the

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: But the phenomena are same, that is, When booting my PC, apache2 failed to start. And when I executed the following: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart apache2 started successfully with the dual stack. Why this phenomena happens ? Is the apache2

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Charles Blair wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I think I will post a restatement of the question. I would have thought that a dual boot of windows 7 and debian would be a common enough problem that there should be something about it somewhere, perhaps

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Charles, On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote: Thanks again. I wish these issues had been addressed either by the installer itself or by the installation instructions. Tnere must be many other unsophisticated users that have encountered this problem. You're welcome, of cour

Installing Lenny on PowerMac?

2012-11-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a temporary need to install Lenny on a PowerMac G4 so I can run some tests on a "fresh" installation for a user who is unable (for various reasons) to upgrade to Squeeze at this time. When I run the netinst installer CD all seems well until it wants to setup sources.list. Then it

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 08 dec 12, 12:46:23, Mauro wrote: W: Failed to fetch http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages 302 Moved [IP: 193.62.202.28 80] Hmm, your apt is trying to download the uncompressed Packages file, which is

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Mauro wrote: Have you tried aptitude instead of apt-get? yes, same error. Just a guess, but take a look at backports and see if you can install a more modern version of apt or aptitude. FWIW My lenny box has aptitude version "0.4.11.11-1~lenny2". Rick

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Mauro wrote: On 8 December 2012 17:37, Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 8, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Mauro wrote: Have you tried aptitude instead of apt-get? yes, same error. Just a guess, but take a look at backports and see if you can install a more modern

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by >> most of the tools anyway. > > Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later >

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >>>> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment >>>> as all partitions

Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs "RAMTMP=yes"

2014-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
I’m trying to get /tmp on tmpfs, so I put “RAMTMP=yes” in /dev/default/tmpfs . But I don’t get /tmp/mounted on tmpfs. I’ve got plenty of ram and swap: > rbthomas@jessie:~$ cat /proc/meminfo | egrep '^(Mem|Swap)Total:' > MemTotal:1017648 kB > SwapTotal: 2928636 kB Here’s my /etc/d

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