Thunderbird asking for authentication

2018-05-08 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, In the last few weeks, each time I start Thunderbird, it asks me to authenticate for a website. The website is familiar to me, and I have a username/password for it. But I don't want to enter the details, because I don't know why it's asking - is there a way to find out? I generally canc

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-05-08 at 13:48, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/08/2018 10:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: >> Have you tried >> >> stat /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/grub2 >> problem-2018-02-13/ >> >> and/or a 'ls' of the same directory? > > After adding required quotation marks: Yes,

Which packages are my bugs in? (system suspend issues)

2018-05-08 Thread Ryan Lue
Hi, I’m trying to file a couple bugs via reportbug, but I’m not sure which package they fall under: 1. Closing the lid does not cause system suspend. 2. When entering system suspend, the system only stays suspended for about 2 seconds, then immediately resumes again. (‘echo XHCI | sudo t

Re: Chinese file name problem in xterm

2018-05-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 08/05/18 21:39, Long Wind wrote: i decide to use old font with problem the new font a user suggests can display Chinese correctly but it display English ugly, and most of time i use English I use and recommend xfce4-terminal from Xfce. gnome-terminal should perform similarly. What desktop e

Re: How does "making VPN accessible" works?

2018-05-08 Thread likcoras
On 05/09/2018 05:37 AM, Yuri Kanivetsky wrote: > To investigate I added the following rules to iptables: > > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j LOG > iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 443 -j LOG > > While it was running, I ran a https request to the server from my > local computer. It hang,

Re: [linux.debian.user] question about exim.

2018-05-08 Thread Kamil Jońca
Tixy writes: [..]] > > is a valid way of specifying a group in a field that expects an address > > But the log snippet the OP posted had: > > ... failing address in "To:" header is: > ): "@" or "." expected after > "Undisclosed-Recipient": failing address in "To:" header is: > > > which does

How does "making VPN accessible" works?

2018-05-08 Thread Yuri Kanivetsky
Hi, I wasn't able to find the answer neither on Stack Overflow, nor on OpenVPN forum. I had a server I had to connect to VPN, but make it accessible over SSH (via it's physical NIC). I've found a solution, but I don't really understand how it solves the issue. Just telling a good place to ask this

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I couldn't interpret what I was seeing so below are excerpts of what was > captured by script command. It is hard to understand what "script" wants to tell us. "less" would have been more useful for our purpose of displaying output and navigating in it. Whatever, we

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Tue 08 May 2018 at 11:38:52 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-05-08 at 11:10, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 05/07/2018 07:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat / | fgrep Device > >>> Device: 80eh/2062d Inode: 2

Re: kmail1 vs kmail2

2018-05-08 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > due to some problems with akonadi and kmail I took a look at trinity > desktop environment and I was surprised, how fast it works on my EEEPC. > Not taht plasma is slow, but TDE seems rigt faster. But that is not the > reason for my mail. > same here > I have a ques

Re: [linux.debian.user] question about exim.

2018-05-08 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 20:41 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > How can I achieve this? > > I looks like I have write custom acl, but it is not obvious to me how to > > write proper condition in such acl. > > hi, > where is the recipient? It's specified as part of the SMTP protoco

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 May 2018 at 14:32:20 +0100, jpff wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2018, Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:17:07 +0100, jpff wrote: > > > > > Things are getting better if not quite right. I have a lean x/fvwm system > > > installed and I have managed to get an xterm displayed. The maj

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 May 2018 at 07:27:17 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Debian 9 with MATE. > My observed symptoms were initially observed related to what choices given > when right clicking on the icon associated with a partition. Are you at liberty to talk about and describe the symptoms in p

Re: minimal installation

2018-05-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 May 2018 at 19:53:51 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2018-05-07 23:22 (UTC+0100): > > > On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > > >> On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > > >> linux /install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- tasks=standard >

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Dan Norton
On Tue, 8 May 2018 08:33:47 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > On 5/8/18, Curt wrote: > > > I downloaded 'debian-9.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso' and booted it in > > > kvm and *it does work* as advertised here, so I don't know what > > >

Re: [linux.debian.user] question about exim.

2018-05-08 Thread deloptes
Kamil Jońca wrote: > How can I achieve this? > I looks like I have  write custom acl, but it is not obvious to me how to > write proper condition in such acl. hi, where is the recipient? why would you want to receive for "Undisclosed-Recipient". I suggest you look deeper and see where it is comin

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/08/2018 10:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-05-08 at 11:10, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/07/2018 07:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat / | fgrep Device Device: 80eh/2062d Inode: 2 Links: 22 richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat /

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/08/2018 10:38 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [snip] Something could be wrong with the input tree instead. Especially around file "grub2 problem-2018-02-13". What do you get from ls -lR /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/"grub2 problem-2018-02-13" 2>&1 | less This could

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-08 Thread John Cunningham
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 5:10 AM Jonathan de Boyne Pollard < j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > So bear in mind that your learned ideas about what runs what are no > longer true. > > If I still did sigfiles, this would now be in mine. Thank you very much for your helpful reply. --

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread jpff
The next installment I booted the machine just recently and I am not sure what I did but I noticed that both the wired and wifi interfaes were up. I took the wired down ifconfig enp2s1 down and it continued to ping my gateway and the bbc. More than that it allowed be to use aptitude t

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-05-08 at 11:10, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/07/2018 07:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Richard Owlett wrote: >>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat / | fgrep Device >>> Device: 80eh/2062d Inode: 2 Links: 22 >>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat /media | fgrep Device >>>

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > # stat / | fgrep Device > Device: 80eh/2062dInode: 2 Links: 22 > ... > # stat /media/richard/MISC-backups/dev_sda14/ | fgrep Device > Device: 819h/2073dInode: 15728641Links: 4 That's different filesystems. So cp -x should not try to copy again wha

Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/07/2018 07:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat / | fgrep Device Device: 80eh/2062d Inode: 2 Links: 22 richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat /media | fgrep Device Device: 80eh/2062d Inode: 131073 Links: 5 "/media" was not th

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
AAArgh. I forgot that Dan is using a selfish bullshit spam-multiplying system. EOD. On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 02:53:56PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Dan wrote: >>On Mon, 7 May 2018 15:30:54 + (UTC) >>Curt wrote: ... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@ei

Re: 3-button trackpoint configuration (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

2018-05-08 Thread Felix Miata
jpff composed on 2018-05-08 14:32 (UTC+0100): > Brian wrote: >> On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:17:07 +0100, jpff wrote: >>> 1: The X40 has a three-mbutton trackpoint but while button 1 works, button >>> 2 has no affect and button 3 does what button 2 should do. Not seen that >>> before and not sure

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Dan wrote: >On Mon, 7 May 2018 15:30:54 + (UTC) >Curt wrote: >> >> I should have just referred you to the Debian Handbook here: >> >> https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.installation-steps.html >> >> Each menu entry hides a specific boot command line, which can be >> configured

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Only thing my poor brain can come up with is integrity of the > downloaded ISO file. That would be quite a peculiar transport damage. On the other hand, malicious alteration would probably avoid such obvious deviations from usual behavior. Greg Wooledge wrote: > Th

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2018-05-08 Thread Steve Kemp
> >qpsmtpd? It is small, plugin-based, and also written in Perl. > I couldn't discern, BTW, whether it supports TLS / SSL to an > upstream MTA? I did find this thread: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2005/07/msg3404.html That thread, I think, is about presenting TLS to t

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread jpff
On Mon, 7 May 2018, Brian wrote: On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:17:07 +0100, jpff wrote: Things are getting better if not quite right. I have a lean x/fvwm system installed and I have managed to get an xterm displayed. The major issues I have left outstanding are If you have fvwm on the system i

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/8/18, Curt wrote: > > I downloaded 'debian-9.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso' and booted it in kvm and > > *it does work* as advertised here, so I don't know what accounts for > > your difficulty, Dan. > Ok, that's really weird, then.

kmail1 vs kmail2

2018-05-08 Thread Hans
Hi folks, due to some problems with akonadi and kmail I took a look at trinity desktop environment and I was surprised, how fast it works on my EEEPC. Not taht plasma is slow, but TDE seems rigt faster. But that is not the reason for my mail. I have a question: As I have a lot of mails in km

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 5/8/18, Curt wrote: > On 2018-05-07, Dan Norton wrote: >>> >> >> Unfortunately, that does not work. The Boot Screen does not look like >> "Figure 4.1. Boot screen" and more to the point, tab has no effect. One >> can move selection up or down, enter to select, E to edit, or C for >> a GRUB com

flyspell with hunspell error complaining about utf8

2018-05-08 Thread Pétùr
Hi, Does anyone have also an error when using flyspell with hunspell (inside emacs of course)? I have the following error when activate flyspell-mode (with hunspell set as the default dictionnary): "Error enabling Flyspell mode: (UTF-8)" My flyspell configuration (below) worked flawless for yea

Re: pointless systemd dependencies

2018-05-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi, Am 2018-05-08 hackte to...@tuxteam.de in die Tasten: > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 08:49:00PM +0300, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Without security updates... >> >> I used some to get rid of systemd entirely, BUT, >> those packages are some versions behind Debian! > > This is to be expected: keeping

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-07, Dan Norton wrote: >> > > Unfortunately, that does not work. The Boot Screen does not look like > "Figure 4.1. Boot screen" and more to the point, tab has no effect. One > can move selection up or down, enter to select, E to edit, or C for > a GRUB command line. Boot a Debian 9.4 ne