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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2769

Today's Topics: 

  rsync question                        [ "John O Laoi"  ]
  Re: Striping comment from configurat  [ Jean-Louis Crouzet  ]
  Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?      [ John Masters  ]
  how to install wien2k                 [ "abdelkader belahcene"  ]
  Re: GMT vs UTC                        [ Stefan Monnier 
  want to install a driver for my vide  [ tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> ]
  Re: mysterious loss of internet conn  [ Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> ]



Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:04:56 +0000


From: "John O Laoi" <brianolaoi@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: rsync question

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Hello,



I have the same structure on 2 machines.
I want to keep them in sync.



I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
and then rsync from the other as follows


Do you need help?X

~$ rsync -avh  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/  ./Documents/
Password:


receiving file list ... done


Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods





But the file ~/Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods  on the machine I am issuing the
command on does not change!



What am I doing wrong?



John



Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:22:16 -0600


From: "Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <tech@patterson-pcc.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Problem building Linux Kernel
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On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:52:35 am Jochen Schulz wrote:

> Randy Patterson - [Tech]:
> > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
> > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or
> > directory
>
> Your system is missing libncurses5-dev.
>
> J.

Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file that 
explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed dependency.


Do you need more help?X

What would I do without debian-user! :-)



Randy



Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:46:12 +0100


From: zecrazytux <zecrazytux@supinfo.com>
To: "Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <tech@patterson-pcc.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org


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Hi,



scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file =
or


directory




 > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README=20
file that


 > explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed=20
dependency.





Next time, you would try to find the needed package by using apt-file=20
search curses.h # replace of course curses.h by the name of the missing=20
file :)



Can we help you?X

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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:16:05 +0100


From: Jean-Louis Crouzet <jeanlouis.crouzet@free.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

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Jochen Schulz wrote:

> Jean-Louis Crouzet:
>> #cat sip.conf | grep -v "^;"
> 
> That's a useless use of cat. :) You may instead just do
> 
> grep -v '^;' sip.conf
> 
> If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace
> followed by a ';' as well, do
> 
> grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$'
> 
> J.


OK thanks for the tip now running. I still need display line such as


bindport=5060                   ; UDP Port to bind to (SIP standard port 


is 5060)



but not line such as

                                 ; Set this to your host name or domain name


but I guess I'm fine with


Don't know where to look next?X

grep -v '^;' sip.conf



Thanks,


JL



Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:03:10 -0500


From: Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>

To: Debian User 
Subject: Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3
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Davide Mancusi wrote:

> Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto:
>>>     No, you need to reboot because you recompile the kernel module.
>> Shouldn't
>>
>> # modprobe -r <module>
>> # modprobe <module>
>>
>> suffice instead of reboot?
> 
>     Errr, yes. I suppose it should. *hides in a corner*. So the right
> sequence for me would be
> # /etc/init.d/kdm stop
> # modprobe -r fglrx
> # modprobe fglrx
> # /etc/init.d/kdm start
> <...>


Starting kdm isn't that necessary, if you're just testing the new
driver/configuration. You can run just 'Xorg' to test whether X Window
starts (kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace).



Sarunas

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Confused? Frustrated?X

Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:07:58 -0500


From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Can expect deal with dialog generated by whiptail?

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On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 03:36:05PM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote:

> I have some program which show some dialog by whiptail as UI to users,
> can I use expect to run the program without any interaction?

I would think not since expect will also see all the terminal control
codes used to make the dialog/whiptail UI.  Also, I don't know what
happens if you try to run a dialog/whiptail program if it doesn't have a
tty for which to grab termcap data.



Your best bet is to provide the program with with a parameter that
causes it to forgo dialog/whiptail and just use standard IO.  Similar to
debconf using readline instead of dialog.



Doug.



Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:34:40 -0500


From: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
To: grajkiran@gmail.com


Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Deletion of files from usb-key
Message-Id: <E1IqAL2-0005Br-BB@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>


> 
> Post the actual output of 'ls -la'. Also the output of 'df 
> /media/usb-key' with the device mounted would help
> 
$ ls -la /media/usb-key
drwxr-xr-x 2 brownh brownh    20480 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root   root       4096 Jul 17 15:16 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh  1071529 Aug 14 14:35 Brooks_Angelo_Maya-1.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh   384142 Aug 15 16:11 Brooks_Asjah-1.JPG
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh   498168 Aug 10 21:42 Brooks_Chanel.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh   491997 Aug 10 22:27 Brooks_Curtis_Sandra.png


...


Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365X

$ df /media/usb-key 

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1               499440    303916    195524  61% /media/usb-key

> Hmmm... appears to be some hardware error or a case of filesystem 
> corruption. Did you try dosfsck on the drive?

I agree that it seems to be file system corruption, but dosfsck didn't
help. On unmounted device:



# dosfsck /dev/sdd


dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN


Logical sector size is zero.


> Use mkdosfs. Unless you assigned a drive letter to your flash drive, 
> mformat is unlikely to work.

I tried mkdosfs on an unmounted device:



# mkdosfs -I /dev/sdd


mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005): 



when I mounted it, the files remain. Hoever, for some reason my xterm
displays them in green, while files are normally displayed in
black. I can add and then delete a test file on the device, which also
shows up green. 


-- 
 
       Haines Brown, KB1GRM

	 
        


Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:12:00 +0100
From: Pavel SRB <srb@heckler-koch.cz>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Virtual machine
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judd@wadsworth.org wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
>      I currently run Debian (lenny) only on my workstation here.  I hav=

e

> a short term need to run a software package which only exists for
> windows (I can=B4t get it to install properly under wine).  I=B4d like =

to

> run WinXP in a vm in order to do this without rebooting or working on
> a separate computer.  I=B4m more interested in ease of setup than in
> performance, since I can still work on other tasks in linux while=20
> running this.  What would be the easiest way to do this; vmware,
> Xen, bochs, or some other?  Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> -Chris
>
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i am using Free VMware server, with which i am very happy. So it is up=20
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(*buntu, knoppix.)

good luck

Pavel



Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:38:46 +0000
From: John Masters <johnmasters@oxtedonline.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
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On 16:45 Thu 08 Nov     , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

> 
> This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of
> "what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war
> incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends
> to reveal various hidden gems. And by the way, popcon states which
> software is most installed (and does not exclude essential stuff like
> 'tzdata' which I'm sure many users don't care/know about), and that's
> a limitation. Doesn't that distinction make it worthy to run this
> poll?
> 


Firstly I must apologise to any and all I offended with my post. In
mitigation I plead age, failing memory and a bad day at work. I could
have sworn that it was only about 3 months ago the last survey was
posted; just checked the logs and it was last October. Doesn't time fly
when you get older?

Also at the same time there was a bit of a flame war going on about spam
and I must have subconsciously associated the two different threads.

BTW I actually submitted to the last survey ;). Also I take your point
about the difference between popcon and the poll.

-- 
Regards, John



Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:02:00 +0200
From: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
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On Nov 8, 2007 7:38 PM, John Masters <johnmasters@oxtedonline.net> wrote:

> On 16:45 Thu 08 Nov     , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> >
> > This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of
> > "what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war
> > incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends
> > to reveal various hidden gems. And by the way, popcon states which
> > software is most installed (and does not exclude essential stuff like
> > 'tzdata' which I'm sure many users don't care/know about), and that's
> > a limitation. Doesn't that distinction make it worthy to run this
> > poll?
> >
>
> Firstly I must apologise to any and all I offended with my post. In
> mitigation I plead age, failing memory and a bad day at work. I could
> have sworn that it was only about 3 months ago the last survey was
> posted; just checked the logs and it was last October. Doesn't time fly
> when you get older?
>
> Also at the same time there was a bit of a flame war going on about spam
> and I must have subconsciously associated the two different threads.
>
> BTW I actually submitted to the last survey ;). Also I take your point
> about the difference between popcon and the poll.


I will check it out. Also please re-submit in anything changed. If
not, you lose :-)

-- 
my place on the web:
floss-and-misc.blogspot.com



Date:  Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:17:38 -0500
From: "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: rsync question
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John O Laoi wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have the same structure on 2 machines.
> I want to keep them in sync.
> 
> I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
> and then rsync from the other as follows
> 
> ~$ rsync -avh  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/  ./Documents/
> Password:
> receiving file list ... done
> Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods
> 
> 
> 
> But the file ~/Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods  on the machine I am issuing the
> command on does not change!
> 
> What am I doing wrong?


Try:
rsync -avuh  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/  ./Documents/

->HS



> 
> John
> 
> 

Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:12:59 +0100
From: "abdelkader belahcene" <abelahcene@gmail.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: how to install wien2k
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Hi,
I tried to install wien2k on debian etch, i coudn't, for several reasons,

one of them,  it needs fortran 90, I can't find it in debian
repository, just gfortran ( fortran 95). We have install it in fedora
2 or 3 !!! I don't remmeber what exacltly the installed packages.


So if somebody can't help, or if there is a more recent wien2k.
thanks a lot
best regards
bela



Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:11:37 +0100
From: Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>
To: Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3
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Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto:

> Starting kdm isn't that necessary, if you're just testing the new
> driver/configuration. You can run just 'Xorg' to test whether X Window
> starts (kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace).


	Yeah, but if kdm is running and I kill X, it will restart it 
automatically. You need to kill kdm first, otherwise you will not have 
the chance to unplug/plug the recompiled module.

Davide

-- 
A tautology is a thing which is tautological.
--
Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.



Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:20:42 -0500
From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GMT vs UTC
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> Note that while there is a difference between GMT and UTC, mostly
> computers are set to GMT.  The "M" is for Mean time which smooths over
> leap seconds that occur in UTC due to the jitter of the earth's
> rotation.  Check wikipedia for a more precise answer.  Note, however,
> that its unlikely that you'll manage to keep your system clock, even
> with ntpd, close enough to one or the other to notice the differnce
> (which needs sub-second accuracy).  


The error with ntpd should be well below one second, unless your machine is
turned off for an extended period of time.


        Stefan



Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:49:24 +0100
From: Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu>
To: "H. Haines Brown" <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Deletion of files from usb-key
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Haines Brown wrote:

> $ df /media/usb-key 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdd1               499440    303916    195524  61% /media/usb-key
>   


Above you're using /dev/sdd1


> # dosfsck /dev/sdd
>   


Here you're using /dev/sdd (not the partition 1).


> # mkdosfs -I /dev/sdd
>   


Dito.

For making really sure you get to a clean state, I'd use this sequence 
(not tested as typed, but should work; unlike the previous suggestion of 
writing one sector with dd, this wipes the whole stick, so really make 
sure that this is ok for you and that /dev/sdd *is* your stick):

Plug stick in, but do not mount it (or umount it again if it has been 
automounted).

# cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdd
(it will probably print an error when it reaches the end of the device, 
that's ok)

# sync

unplug, plug back in.

use cfdisk (or fdisk) to create one partition as has been there before.

unplug, plug back in (at least do this if cfdisk warns you about not 
having been able to make kernel aware of the changed partition table).

# mkdosfs /dev/sdd1
(note the missing -I, since you're not working on a whole device 
anymore, but on a partition (the only one))

Then mount the stick as usual.

Christian.


Do you need more help?X

Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:50:39 -0500
From: Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3
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Davide Mancusi wrote:

> Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto:
>> Starting kdm isn't that necessary, if you're just testing the new
>> driver/configuration. You can run just 'Xorg' to test whether X Window
>> starts (kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace).
> 
>     Yeah, but if kdm is running and I kill X, it will restart it
> automatically. You need to kill kdm first, otherwise you will not have
> the chance to unplug/plug the recompiled module.
> 
> Davide
> 

That's correct. What I meant is that, once at the terminal and X/kdm
off, one can do 'Xorg' instead of '/etc/init.d/kdm start', when only
testing the new Xorg driver.

Sarunas




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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:01:52 +0100
From: Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu>
To: John O Laoi <brianolaoi@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: rsync question
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John O Laoi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have the same structure on 2 machines.
> I want to keep them in sync.
>
> I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
> and then rsync from the other as follows
>
> ~$ rsync -avh  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/  ./Documents/
> Password:
> receiving file list ... done
> Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods
>
>
>
> But the file ~/Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods  on the machine I am issuing the
> command on does not change!
>   


Some ideas:

- I'm always adding a dot after the end slashes of directory paths 
(rsync -avh  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/.  ./Documents/. ), 
this makes sure the tool doesn't inadvertently create a subdirectoy like 
./Documents/Documents/

- issue "find ./Documents -name ZZZ.ods" to see whether there is more 
than one of the same name (for example to check if the above happened).

- check with "md5sum" whether the documents are the same or not

- maybe quit openoffice before opening the document again.

Christian.



Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:20:01 -0600 (CST)
From: Kevin Monceaux <Kevin@RawFedDogs.net>
To: Debian Users Mailing List <Debian-User@Lists.Debian.org>
Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

This looks like it might be fun.  First of all, while I do know the 
meaning of FLOSS I might choose to ignore that fact from time to time 
below.


> audio editor:


N/A - I haven't really gotten into audio editing.


> audio player:


mpg123


> cd-ripper:


cdparanoia


> desktop OR window manager:


Xfce when a GUI environment is absolutely necessary, otherwise I prefer to 
stick to text consoles.


> DBMS:


PostgreSQL


> development:


Well, I work as an IBM mainframe operator, so I'm thankful for the 
development of mainframes.


> disc burner:


cdrecord


> e-mail client:


Alpine


> file manager:


ls


> finance:


I'd love to be rich, but it doesn't look likely that it's going to happen.


> ftp client:


ftp


> image editor:


My graphics design skills are practically non-existant, but I have used 
gimp a few times.


> image viewer:


xv


> instant messenger:


yelling across the room


> mathematics:


Well, I really liked algebra back in high school, but I hardly remember 
any of it these days.


> misc utilities:


tar


> news:


I never watch the news.


> p2p:


amule


> package manager:


aptitude, although I'm closely following the development of IPS.


> pdf-reader:


acroread


> spreadsheet:


I try to avoid spreadsheets.  I prefer databases.


> tag editor:


Sharpies, they work wonders for nametags and such.


> terminal emulator:


c3270, but I find actual terminals work better than emulators.


> text editor:


vim


> video player:


xine


> web browser:


Firefox.  And, if it's Firefox, get over it and call it Firefox.


> word-processor:


LaTeX


> anything unreleased and anticipated:


Indiana - well, the developer preview has been released.  I am, however, 
anxiously awaiting the final, ready for primetime, release.


> anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC):


clip, Aubit4GL


> games:


canasta, cribbage, backgammon


> non-free:


I try to avoid those.



Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!



Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:24:07 -0800
From: tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: want to install a driver for my video card
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i want to install a driver for my video card ( Intel Corporation 82852/855GM 
Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) from 'lspci'). looking at the debian site 
i find 'xserver-xorg-video-intel', but when i try to apt-get it i get:

	kloro@debian:~$ apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
	Reading package lists... Done
	Building dependency tree... Done
	E: Couldn't find package xserver-xorg-video-intel

shouldn't anything available at the debian site be also available to apt?

thanks,

tom arnall



Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:34:26 -0500
From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: mysterious loss of internet connection
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:28:34 -0500
Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> wrote:


> Is it strange that I can't get past the router with ping or with a browser
> but I do get name resolution?  Surely I have to get past the browser for
> name resolution.


If you're using DHCP from the router, as is the default with most SOHO
routers AFAIK, then the router may be setting itself up as a
nameserver;  what is in /etc/resolv.conf?

Celejar
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