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Differentiated writable permissions
Hi all! Yesterday someone asked me the possibility to create two users for FTP access. One that had the ability to create any type of file and other that could create any type of files except directories to avoid changing the structure of the access tree. As I'm using ProFTPd, I thought this could be done at a... 4 Jun 2010 07:00

Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)
On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: Steven wrote: This might be what you are looking for: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ Cleaning up firefox/iceweasel's internal databses helps a lot It had some non-negligible influence. Thanks! ... 3 Jun 2010 06:44

Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)
On Thu, June 3, 2010 10:40, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the) tab, it might take ~10 sec... 3 Jun 2010 05:39

Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:40:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the) tab, it might take ~10 secs.... 3 Jun 2010 10:01

Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)
Hi, I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the) tab, it might take ~10 secs. to close (GNOME keeps then asking me if I want to wait or en... 3 Jun 2010 10:01

linux-kbuild-2.6.32
Hello. I run in some problems. I need 2.6.32 kernel from backports to use DRBD + OCFS2, but as I see there is no linux-kbuild-2.6.32 in backports. It is because of this bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568165 Any friendly workarounds? May be home made\fixed packages? -- Best rega... 3 Jun 2010 05:39

Disk problems or worse?
Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Short of buying a new disk, how would I know? What would you recommend? Or do I have a simple BIOS setting problem? (My last post to debian-user was in 2008. Etch has contin... 18 Jun 2010 22:21

Bandwidth usage daemon recommendation
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers(a)gmail.com> wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight daemon (I don't need anything fancy like cacti) to monitor total bandwidth usage? Searches turn up quite a few, but many are unmaintained in recent years. Maybe they do everything... 4 Jun 2010 03:46

can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 13:46:47, H.S. wrote: If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or installed, I would like to know its contents. If the package is installed, the following output will be great: $> dpkg -L linux-image... 2 Jun 2010 18:42

can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]
On 02/06/10 01:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:09:48PM -0400, H.S. wrote: On 02/06/10 12:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: As far as I can tell, generally linux-image* puts files in /lib/modules, /boot, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/bug. Now given that -trunk should I have tried "dpkg... 2 Jun 2010 16:29