Re: changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread john doe
On 3/29/2018 9:56 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-03-29 19:34, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-29, mick crane wrote: following recent about hostname it seems I've been under misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to ".home" . It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
Teemu Likonen [2018-03-30 07:05:38+03] wrote: > It seems to me that you want to use locally installed sendmail program > (or compatible) for sending mail so you would configure Emacs like this: > > (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail) Sorry, here's a correction.

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Dan Hitt [2018-03-29 13:50:54-07] wrote: > >> In emacs, i tried the address otheruser@host, otheruser, >> otheruser@localhost, otheruser@host.local >> >> Here, 'host' is to stand for the hostname of my box, stripped of any >> domain informati

Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude

2018-03-29 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 2018-03-30 04:00, John Crawley (johnraff) wrote: > On 2018-03-29 09:15, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:00:34 +0200 Mikhail Morfikov said: >>> Is there some variable that holds, for instance, a list of the >>> packages that apt wants to upgrade? In such way it would be easy

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
Dan Hitt [2018-03-29 13:50:54-07] wrote: > In emacs, i tried the address otheruser@host, otheruser, > otheruser@localhost, otheruser@host.local > > Here, 'host' is to stand for the hostname of my box, stripped of any > domain information. > > In all four cases, it opened a new tab in my firefox br

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
Sorry everybody for mail-bombing the list, don't know how my previous reply took off so fast :( :( :( On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:02 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > The third one, otheruser@localhost. There should be a line in > /etc/hosts re

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:02 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Wright >> wrote: >> > On Wed 28 Mar 2018 at 22:42:43 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: >> ... >> >> I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thin

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > On Wed 28 Mar 2018 at 22:42:43 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > ... > >> I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box: > >> i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m),

nmtui bug

2018-03-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'd normally use reportbug to report this except nmtui is preventing that from happening. The version in use is on debian-mac-9.4.0 disk and I used that version since the system is too old for efi or uefi. I was able to edit my wifi connection and save the connection with all fields filled in

Re: Activate/deactivate kernel parameters without reboot

2018-03-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm running with a 'nouveau.noaccel=1' kernel parameter added at hand [...] > Is there any way to deactivate and reactivate such a parameter without > the need to reboot? You can try and change it with # echo 0 > /sys/modules//parameters/noaccel -- Stefan

Re: changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 23:05:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 18:34:42 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-03-29, mick crane wrote: > > > following recent about hostname it seems I've been under > > > misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to > > > ".home

Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude

2018-03-29 Thread John Crawley (johnraff)
On 2018-03-29 09:15, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:00:34 +0200 Mikhail Morfikov said: Is there some variable that holds, for instance, a list of the packages that apt wants to upgrade? In such way it would be easy to set this up. apt list --upgradable will print out a list

Activate/deactivate kernel parameters without reboot

2018-03-29 Thread rv riveravaldez
Hi, I'm running with a 'nouveau.noaccel=1' kernel parameter added at hand at boot (for a random freeze that appears with nouveau driver and the NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) GPU). Is there any way to deactivate and reactivate such a parameter without the need to reboot? Thanks

Re: changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread Brian
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 18:34:42 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-03-29, mick crane wrote: > > following recent about hostname it seems I've been under > > misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to > > ".home" . > > It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigg

Re: Ideal place to set environment variables

2018-03-29 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Greg Wooledge: If there existed a single, universal, simple answer, don't you think we would have put it on the wiki page? I think that login.conf is a step in the right direction, and I'm planning on making tools that support it. Or, rather, on making the tools that already support it on

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 28 Mar 2018 at 22:42:43 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: ... >> I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box: >> i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put >> in the other user's name in the To:

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
David Wright: an extra ^@ character¹ Unix & Linux Stack Exchange had this last year. * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/395494/ * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396192/ * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360830/

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Mar 2018 at 22:42:43 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. > > I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box: > i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put > in the other user's name in

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 17:20:58 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:10:55AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > Thanks for the

Re: changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread mick crane
On 2018-03-29 19:34, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-29, mick crane wrote: following recent about hostname it seems I've been under misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to ".home" . It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigging where. apache roundcube postfix

Re: Wine doesn't start

2018-03-29 Thread Johann Klammer
On 03/28/2018 09:50 PM, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello, > > to play some old games, I wanted to start wine, but it always fails with > errors like that in the attached gna.txt :( > > Not even winecfg is starting (I created gna.txt with starting winecfg). > > It used to work so well a while ago..

Re: changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, mick crane wrote: > following recent about hostname it seems I've been under > misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to > ".home" . > It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigging where. > apache > roundcube > postfix > now my ISP SMTP s

Re: Can't get an OpenGL context above 1.3 in Stretch

2018-03-29 Thread Daniel Keast
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 04:20:48PM +, Daniel Keast wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 03:26:03PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > Am Samstag, 24. März 2018, 14:58:41 CET schrieb Daniel Keast: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > maybe I am wrong, but I believe, that the problem might be your hardware. > > > > Some har

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > >>So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and >>you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only >>to go into some spool queue somewhere strictly on your local machine, >>how do you do it? > > S

changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread mick crane
following recent about hostname it seems I've been under misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to ".home" . It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigging where. apache roundcube postfix now my ISP SMTP server is moaning. think I got them all except cu

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: >> >> [...] > > Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't come across the virtual buttons. > > I think I'll look at what processes are running by the

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:10:55AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: > > > > [...] > > Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't come across the

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: > > [...] Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't come across the virtual buttons. I think I'll look at what processes are running by the time it tries to mount /home, and which of them

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread songbird
Dan Hitt wrote: > Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. > > I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box: > i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put > in the other user's name in the To: line. > > I then hit control-c

Roundcube creates new user with host FQDN instead of localhost

2018-03-29 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Debian Stretch, roundcube 1.2.3+dfsg.1-4+deb9u1 Roundcube has created new user_id, with mail_host as FQDN and not localhost as previously. last_login with user where mail_host is localhost was 21. March, today login is mail_host FQDN. Can I fix this in the database so address books etc of the

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > So if you want to send mail to someone in the same box (or in > your local network or...), you'll have to set up a mail transport > which knows how to do that (exim, postfix, whatever). > I believe this is the default, no (exim set up for local mail only, so that variou

Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude

2018-03-29 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 2018-03-29 01:03, John Crawley (johnraff) wrote: > On 2018-03-29 03:40, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:18:24PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: >>> On 2018-03-28 20:12, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> I really thought there's some easy way to include user's scripts when you >>> wan

Re: screen freeze when attaching external screen through the dock.

2018-03-29 Thread BRINER Cédric
The screen does not freeze on X.org. Where should I report this bug ? cED

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: [...] > Wild geese, it's spring, and they're migrating! :-) - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlq8p9kACgkQBcgs9XrR2kazmwCfT1FgILpMJGFDRzBnorrEs1z

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:50:13AM +, Curt wrote: >> On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > [link blaming NVidia] > >> I found another thread blaming the phenomenon on the "virtual lid >> buttons" (whatever the hell those are)--workaround involved xmodmap: >> >> https://bbs.ar

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:50:13AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-03-29, wrote: [link blaming NVidia] > I found another thread blaming the phenomenon on the "virtual lid > buttons" (whatever the hell those are)--workaround involved xmodmap: > > http

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:30:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> This has happened a couple of times or so in the past week: >> On booting up, I get to the prompt to unlock my /home partition. >> The first attempt fails, not because I mistyped the passphrase, >> but beca

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:42:34AM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > >So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and > >you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only > >to go into some spool queue somewhere

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-03-29, Dan Hitt wrote: > Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. > > I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box: > i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put > in the other user's name in the To: line. > > I then

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:30:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > This has happened a couple of times or so in the past week: > On booting up, I get to the prompt to unlock my /home partition. > The first attempt fails, not because I mistyped the passphr

Re: screen freeze when attaching external screen through the dock.

2018-03-29 Thread BRINER Cédric
Hi, I've looked at the files, and let me show you what I found supicious in syslog, I've found a lot of: Mar 29 08:14:20 cedian gvfsd[1697]: Error calling org.gtk.vfs.MonitorClient.Changed(): Le délai d’attente est dépassé (g-io-error-quark, 24) all the logs are in : https://paste.debian.net/101

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

2018-03-29 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and >you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only >to go into some spool queue somewhere strictly on your local machine, >how do you do it? Sounds very much like an emacs anti-feature. $ mail -s Spammedyspam