On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:56 PM, green wrote:
> Tom H wrote at 2012-02-14 11:18 -0600:
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:34 AM, green wrote:
>> >
>> > Frankly, I am surprised that comments here suggest apathy and even
>> > hostility
>> > toward (that
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:46:10 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:24:44 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>>> It doesn't take much to check that GNOME p
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Martin T wrote:
>> thank you for replies! So am I correct, that hostname set during the
>> installation is:
You're welcome.
>> 1) mapped to an address from 127.0.0.0/8 range in /etc/hosts file
>
> Specifically 127.0.1.1 so that it is always
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'd like to know exactly how to start/stop retart etc the network
> configuration.
>
> But first it seems one must determine what is actually running them.
>
> in /var/log/boot I see:
>
> grep -i NetworkManger /var/log/boot
> Mon Feb 13 13
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>>
>> invoke-rc.d networkmanager restart
>
> typo fix s/networkmanager/network-manager/
Oops. Thanks.
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way
>> by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the
>> tools that control networking...
>
> There
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>
>> If a package's installed, use
>> dpkg -S /path/to/file
>>
>> If it isn't installed, install apt-file, run "apt-file update", and use:
>> apt-file search /pa
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> Yes. And also to /etc/postfix/main.cf if postfix is installed. Or to
>>> other places if other MTAs are installed.
>>
>> When you use "dpkg-reconfigure e
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian wrote:
>>> On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way
&
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, wrote:
>
>> You can check which packages are uninstalled but still have their
>> config hanging around with "aptitude search '?config-files'".
>>
>> You can then run "apt-get purge " to get rid of the config
>> one particular package or "apt-get purge $(aptitude
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
>> > You can check which packages are uninstalled but still have their
>> > config hanging around with "aptitude search '?config-files'".
>> >
>> > You can then run "apt-get purge " to get rid of the config
>> > on
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Jo, 16 feb 12, 10:43:34, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
>
> aptitude purge ~c
Thanks. I didn't know that we could use search terms without
specifying a search (pretty unusual!
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>
> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system.
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > > What would happen if I would commented wheezy lines by using a # and
>> > > after that I run 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'?
>> >
>> > Nothing different would happen from what you
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Sb, 18 feb 12, 19:54:50, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU
>> >
>> > aptitude purge ~c
>>
>> Thanks. I didn't know that we could use search terms without
>&
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote:
>>
>> fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/*
>> /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules.dpkg-old
>
> Could you please run 'dpkg -S 55-hp
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Jason Heeris wrote:
>
> A while ago I installed Emdebian (Squeeze) to a compact flash card on a
> single board computer. I had not anticipated this, but now I'd like to take
> that installation and replicate it on other identical flash cards on other
> identical S
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Du, 19 feb 12, 15:25:48, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hmm, maybe I should try to get the Release Team's current o
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:15:13 -0500
> Curt Howland wrote:
>>
>> It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work
>> perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay
>> purely open-source.
>
> That's what everyone s
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> You can also change the hostname but you don't need to do so.
>
> At what point in the boot process is it assigned? I could write a script to
> change it to "
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 22 February 2012 09:43, Jason Heeris wrote:
>> On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> For filesystem UUIDs, I wouldn't use "GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"".
>>> I&#
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:37 AM, David Baron wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2012 16:00:46 debian-user-digest-
> requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
>>> On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote:
>
> fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/*
> /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak
> /etc/udev/rul
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Felix Koop wrote:
>
> I have a problem with my sid installation. The screen is turning blank
> after about 30s of inactivity on mouse/keyboard. I have already set dpms
> mode off (xset -dpms) and deactivated the screensavers (xset s 0), but
> no luck. Has anybody a
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to install WINE on my squeeze amd64 system. The configurator
> throws up a message box:
>
> It appears that libnss-mdns is installed on your system,
> but lib32nss-mdns is not. Please note that Wine will not be
> able
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Felix Koop wrote:
>
> Yes, I am using gnome and my window manager is gdm3. I tried searching
> power settings under org.gnome in dconf-editor, but did not find any.
> Could you be more specific where they should be? Or do I need to install
> any package to have tho
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:39:43PM +0100, Felix Koop wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your answers. Please keep me on cc as I am currently not
>> subscribed to this list.
>>
>> I tried "xset dpms force off" but that would blank the screen directly.
>> "xs
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Felix Koop wrote:
>
> I have tried in dconf-editor to find a setting in
> "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power" without success. Even
> deactivating the whole plugin does not seem to help. :-(
Look at the two "idle-dim" keys.
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Selim T. Erdogan
wrote:
> Felix Koop, 25.02.2012:
>>
>> I have tried in dconf-editor to find a setting in
>> "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power" without success. Even
>> deactivating the whole plugin does not seem to help. :-(
>
> Under "org.gnome.settings-da
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Felix Koop wrote:
>
> I looked at the 3 idle-dim keys and deselected idle-dim-ac and
> idle-dim-battery (btw this is a desktop machine and should never be on
> battery). Also I changed idle-dim-time to 3600, but no success. The
> screen always blanks after 30 s of
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Raffaele Morelli
wrote:
>
> I am setting up (tryin at least) a nfs mount on a remote machine, there's a
> firewall in between so I asked the net administrator to open ports 111 and
> 2049 on the server.
>
> /etc/exports on the server is
> /home/username/ CLIENT
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> Have you tried with falling into init 1 (no X server and so no KDE) and
> issue "xterm" from there?
No X, no xterm. :(
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 16:19, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> If you are generating random hostnames then does it actually matter
>> what name the current host uses? Would "localhost" be as good as any
>> randomly generated one?
>
> The randomness is n
>> I'm going to try it too.
>
> Ha! Beat you to it! :-)
:)
I'd forgotten about this hostname and postfix business until your
email arrived last Monday but I haven't had the time to do my (far
less thorough) test.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Bob Proulx wrot
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Raffaele Morelli
wrote:
> 2012/2/27 Tom H
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Raffaele Morelli
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am setting up (tryin at least) a nfs mount on a remote machine,
>> > there's a
>>
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Andreas Weber wrote:
>
> Funny enough nobody talked about energy consumption yet. If you would
> buy a car or any other device, this would immediately be a point worth
> considering, wouldn't it?
>
> I suggest you buy a Mac Mini (-Server if you like to have 2 disks
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:37:46 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you tried with falling into init 1 (no X server and so no KDE) and
>>> issue &
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 20:50, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Aren't your users going to hate the random names?
>
> They won't be end users, but production staff. (I can certainly see
> how you'd be sceptical of doin
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 18:20:25 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
>> I suspect that if this update hits Testing that many more users will
>> be impacted. I know that I will have to put CUPS on my laptop in Hold
>> status just so I have a machine to prin
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:46:38 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:37:46 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Camaleón wrote:
&
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 27 Feb 2012 at 11:29:59 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Brian wrote:
>> >
>> > Quite possibly. But that's the nature of Testing, isn't it? Preventing
>> > packages
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Alberto Fuentes
wrote:
> On 25/02/12 02:59, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
>>
>> Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather
>> than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set?
>>
>> And can it be set to the HOME directory?
>
> well,
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 28 February 2012 00:27, Tom H wrote:
>> Thanks for the explanation. It's a good plan but I think that you
>> name'll be invoked in some non-flattering contexts once this is
>> implemented... :)
>
> H
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Whit Hansell wrote:
> On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote:
>
>> I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc:
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_apti
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 28 February 2012 13:40, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Everywhere that I've worked the hostnames have had something to
>> indicate its purpose and its location.
>
> I don't think this reasoning can be applied h
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:15:40 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm getting the kernels in the /boot partition of one system matched
>>> with the file-system root partition of the other system.
>>
>> I looked at the update
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Raffaele Morelli
wrote:
> 2012/2/27 Tom H
>> >> You have to use static ports for statd, mountd, and lockd if you're
>> >> not using nfsv4. (You don't have to use the same static assignments
>> >> used below
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 19:01 Wed 29 Feb , Sven Joachim wrote:
>> This is because .inputrc is only honored by programs that use readline,
>> and the standard pager does not use that.
>>
>> > how to get rid of this?
>>
>> Make sure that less (the standard p
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Jason Heeris wrote:
>
> I have a Debian Squeeze system that exposes a terminal on the serial
> line (ttyS0) and the usual tty ones. I would like to print a message
> at the very end of the boot sequence, but before any user logs in (the
> message is a diagnostic t
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Jason Heeris wrote:
>> >
>> > line (ttyS0) and the usual tty ones. I would like to print a message
>> > at the very end of the boot sequence, but before any user logs in (the
>> > me
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Jason Heeris wrote:
> On 1 March 2012 14:22, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>
>>> If it's static, you can add it to "/etc/issue".
>>
>> Or if the process can update /etc/issue before getty can display it.
>
> rc.local appears to run before the contents of /etc/issue is
> disp
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote:
>> Yes, this all the result of the alternatives "system".
>>
>> Is it "/usr/bin/pager" or "/usr/pager"?
>
> yes it is "/usr/bin/pager"
>
> "/usr/pager" does not exist on my systems
I meant to write "/bin/pager" and "/usr/bin/lessq" below...
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> /bin/lessq (I would actually suggest using /usr/local/bin/lessq)
Better, yes.
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> /bin/less -q $*
>>
>>I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
>>situations.
>
> That’s also what keeps lingering in
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
>
> Doing a test on 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64, the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf seems to
> be consistent:
>
> # cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=0.90
> UUID=e94e767e:1183e8a6:67791052:2affdb87
> ARRAY /dev/md1 le
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote:
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any
>> other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily
>> turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF
>
> Make sure yo
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> I am using Debian wheezy i386 with an Nvidia video card and the default
> nouveau driver. Everytime I switch back and forth between the X console
> (tty7) and a text console (such as tty1), tty1 gets spammed with messages
> like this:
>
>
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bernard wrote:
> Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
>> Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012:
>>> On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote:
Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any
other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to e
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:08:00 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Isn't this a "/proc/sys/kernel/printk" issue?
>>
>> You can set "kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3" in "/etc/sysctl.conf".
>
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Scott Ferguson
wrote:
> On 05/03/12 05:08, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>
>>> I am using Debian wheezy i386 with an Nvidia video card and the default
>>> nouveau driver. �Everytime I
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:44:47PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. Non-working:
>>>
>>> echo -e 'list\nquit' | nc 192.168.4.9 4949
>>> (UNKNOWN) [192.168.4.9] 4949 (munin)
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:39:20 -0500 (EST), Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 05/03/12 05:08, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Isn't this a "/proc/sys/kernel/printk" issue?
>>>
>>> You can set "
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Sylvain wrote:
>
> I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine
> except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the
> backuppc logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start
> it manually with /etc/init.d/backuppc
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Sylvain wrote:
> 2012/3/6 Tom H :
>>
>> AFAICT, a bug should be filed against backuppc to change its init
>> script to have "$remote_fs" (or "$all"!) in "Required-Start" or
>> "autofs" in "
Are you trying to beat some number-of-posts-record?!
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:27:29 +0100, Pierre Penninckx wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> So like I said I didn't manage to make permission 100% work through
>> sshfs, though it works on the server or through DokanFS. The ACL on the
>> /srv/movies folder is: # fi
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:32 PM, T o n g wrote:
>
> I've got the following entry in my cron job:
>
> 1 1 1 */2 * me my-this-job
>
> How often will it execute?
>
> Checking the log, I notice that it run on Jan 1 and Mar 1. That's really
> not something that I've been expecting for. I have another c
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
wrote:
>
> I'm trying to reinstall smb.conf file as it came with samba-common.
>
> However, even when I reinstall samba-common (into which it seems to appear)
> with the force-confmiss option, it won't get reinstlled:
>
> # apt-get -o DPkg::
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs
> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed
> from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives.
>
> Has anyone ever written
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>
>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs
>> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed
>> from that PPA to the versions availa
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-pur
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM, rcb wrote:
>
> Anyone knows why this command:
>
> :~$ alias muda='find . -name "*" -mtime -$1'
>
> and all this variations I tried:
>
> :~$ alias muda='find . -name "*" -mmin -`echo $1`'
> :~$ alias muda='find . -name "*" -mmin `echo -$1`'
> :~$ alias muda='find .
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Clive Standbridge
wrote:
>>
>> Anyone knows why this command:
>>
>> :~$ alias muda='find . -name "*" -mtime -$1'
>>
>> and all this variations I tried:
> [...]
>> does not work to do what your intuition imagine what I want it to do?
>
> Hi Beco,
>
> It doesn't wor
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> I have been using Linux for several years but now I have another learning
> moment. ;-) I have read several LVM howto sites but still run into things I
> do not understand.
> Can someone please answer the 4 embedded questions and tell me
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sian Mountbatten
wrote:
>
> I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap,
> usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be
> started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the
> Contents-i386.gz for sid
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Mark Blakeney
wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well.
>
> About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't
>
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:16:52 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>>>> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well.
>>&
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Pierre Penninckx
wrote:
>
> @ Tom H:
> This seems to be the problem but I must say that I don't really
> understand what this paragraph means, especially this:
> "But the problem is, that the openssh sftp server indeed cares about
> th
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
>>
>> Another thing you can test is manually booting your Debian system from
>> GRUB2 boot menu by reaching the command line. This way if you're lucky
>> any error you get will be printed on the screen.
>
> Indeed you're right.
> 'Operating
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
>
> => Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector
> 946507840 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this
> location and looks for on this drive.
> ...
> sda1:
>
> File system: vfat
>
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Alexander Samad wrote:
>
> I am having some issue with nfs-kernel.
>
> I have 2 servers both have NFS exports.
>
> when i mount 1 from server B to server A, the users come up as nobody and
> nogroup.
>
> when i mount from A to B I get the proper uid/gids
>
> // th
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> Teo, I hate to ask but... don't you have a blog or a site with additional
> instructions and where people interested in these compilations can review
> what you provide?
http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com/
http://enmingteo.wordpr
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alexander Samad wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Alexander Samad
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am having some issue with nfs-kernel.
>>>
>>> I have 2 servers
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2012 12:04:48 Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> > Teo, I hate to ask but... don't you have a blog or a site with additional
>> > instructions and where people inte
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Nicolas Bercher wrote:
>
> On a Squeeze, I'm trying debootstrap with variant fakeroot:
>
> $ sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=fakeroot squeeze
> debootstrap-squeeze-amd64
> E: unsupported variant
>
> This is exactly bug 319100[1] (2005), which is tagged a
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2012 14:17:44 Bonno Bloksma wrote:
>>
>> It is either a normal apt-get upgrade or an aptitude full-upgrade. But
>> why.?
>
> Because they are not the same? If they were identical there would be no point
> in having the two of
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Alexander Samad wrote:
> this is on server A
> /home/alex
> -no_root_squash,insecure,wdelay,no_subtree_check,async,mp=/home/alex
> 192.168.11.14/32(rw) laptop.wlan1.hme1.samad.com.au(rw)
> laptop.lan1.hme1.samad.com.au(rw) alex-mini.lan1.hme1.samad.com.au(rw)
2012/3/22 José Luis Segura Lucas :
>
> I'm trying to get reportbug working. I tried to send several bug reports
> and I was completely unable to see it published on the BTS of the packages.
>
> I can't get any log from reportbug: I accomplish all the steps, selected
> to send via SMTP and, after a
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Todd A. Jacobs
wrote:
>
> I'm doing a customized Squeeze install, and have a lot of problems with the
> d-i preseed/late_command. For starters, it seems like you can only have one
> of these in your preseed.cfg; is that true? Or is it only true if one is
> using "i
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:51 PM, John W. Foster wrote:
>
> Running a full production server with Debian stable only. apache2,
> MySql, Mediawiki 1.18.1 many other apps that are all working well. The
> issue is; I keep getting the domain name changed by some software to
> 'home'. My router is provi
lOn Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Robert King
wrote:
>
> What am I doing wrong here? I am getting the above error on apt-get update
>
> solzhenitsyn:~# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
> Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
> Ign ht
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Robert King
wrote:
>
> Solved.
>
> It was something weird my university's authenticating proxy was doing. By
> changing /etc/apt/apt.conf to proxy differently it worked. (would this be
> an old version of a signature on the proxy not being replaced?).
>
> Thanks
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Chris Bannister:
>>
>> I suppose that ultimately all you'd need is libav (ffmpeg is
>> "now/will be" deprecated)
>
> Oh, didn't know that.
>From a recent -devel post [1]:
> Actually, ffmpeg changed names to libav recently. The latter is
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 18:53:20, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>>
>> Only Linux 3.0 has Xen dom0 and domU support. Unless Linux kernel
>> 2.6 in Debian 6.0 squeeze has special Xen dom0 patches.
>
> You can have 3.2 on squeeze from squeeze-bac
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Miles Fidelman
wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 18:53:20, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>>>> Only Linux 3.0 has Xen dom0 and domU support. Unless
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Todd A. Jacobs
wrote:
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> I've got the following snippet in a Debian preseed.cfg file:
>
> d-i preseed/late_command string \
> in-target mkdir --mode=700 /home/vagrant/.ssh; \
> in-target chown vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh; \
> in-target wget --no-check-certi
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Jo, 22 mar 12, 17:28:26, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> > Getting grub2 to use a different command-line option for each entry left
>> > as an exercise for the reader.
>>
>> I ended up locally diverting /usr/sbin/update-grub (replacing it with
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:22 PM, wlan wrote:
>
> I was install Debian testing x86_64 with KDE4 2 days ago. And I've
> next problem. For example I watched movie in my browser from streaming
> and my /tmp was full, and movie stoped. It's bug? Or I can resolve it
> problem? Yep, i was use google. =)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 16:45:39, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>> On Jo, 22 mar 12, 17:28:26, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Getting grub2 to u
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 14:58:52, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> IMO, the rule of thumb for applying a new default is asking ourselves if
>> the new default will cause any problem to the users. If yes, then
>> don't touch the old default and keep it the wa
Wayne wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Wayne wrote:
>>> I finally have grub 2 installed. Whew. It works for testing but, does
>>> not
>>> set the vga=31B on the stable entry.
>>> The grub2 docs are, to say the least, sparce, and do not seem to have a
>>
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