Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same amount of money to do that. On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found t

spamassassin and detailed logs

spamd: result: . 1 - DKIM_ADSP_DISCARD,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY Currently I'm getting log entries like the above from SpamAssassin. spamd: result: . 1 - DKIM_ADSP_DISCARD=1,SPF_PASS=-1,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=1,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0 I want to see something like the above with numbe

Re: spamassassin and detailed logs

Russell Coker wrote: > I want to see something like the above with numbers for each test so I can > easily determine why the total was determined. I know that I can search > through the SA configuration for each test, but this is time consuming and > has > the problem that the SA configuration

Re: administration of initscripts

On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What are people trying to do? Hi Bob, For an example of where one will want to "manage" the init scripts, take

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

> > You can get a HDD to USB adapter and attach the hard disk to a working > PC, then use debootstrap to install debian onto that HDD (you will > need to format it to your desire first). > Yes, I have another PC installed Debian and a HDD to USB adapter. > If you aren't sure of what you're doing

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

On 4/15/13, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old > computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same > Yes, this is easier. But I want to try the harder path :-) Best regards, Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

On 4/15/13, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Yes, I have another PC installed Debian and a HDD to USB adapter. >> If you aren't sure of what you're doing, this will be a steep learning >> curve, but is very doable. Just require a little persistence and may >> be a few tries before you get there... >> >> If the

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

> Personally I like the about two-year stable release schedule. It is > long enough I appreciate knowing that our setup will not break due to this but also compile and download various packages like libreoffice and xfce-4.10. Now I would not expect libreoffice to be packaged but xfce-4.10 had a

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Personally I like the about two-year stable release schedule. It is > > long enough > > I appreciate knowing that our setup will not break due to this but > also compile and download various packages like libreoffice and > xfce-4

Re: administration of initscripts

> > I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > > have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What > > are people trying to do? > > Hi Bob, > > For an example of where one will want to "manage" the init scripts, > take a look at the thread in debi

Re: administration of initscripts

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > > > have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What > > > are people trying to do? > > > > Hi Bob, > > > > For an example of where one

Re: java on wheezy

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Is any official (= working) advice on getting java at work with wheezy > > (specifically in amd64, if relevant)? > > http://wiki.debian.org/Java > > > What should be installed/reconfigured/uninstalled other than t

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 13:50:49 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard > disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read > only. You imply the machine is still functioning and the OS is bootable, so d-i can

Re: spamassassin and detailed logs

Bob Proulx wrote: > How about piping the email through: > > | spamassassin -d -t -D 2>&1 | less > > That will produce a summary at the bottom with the points from each > rule that fired. Is that good enough? Thanks for the suggestion, however there are several problems with this. Firstly I o

[gnome2] disable suspend/hiberante from menu buttons

Hi folks! I need to disable 2 buttons from menu buttons in gnome2 I find consolekit and check /etc/ but I can't resolve :-/ also using gconf-editor, I can't change that settings :-( Any idea to resolve this problem? thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Booting Wheezy Install on Software Raid 6

Hi Folks, I'm in the process of assembling a storage system, and am running into an issue while testing the setup in a VM. The setup has 6 three terabyte harddrives that I'd like to put in RAID 6 (Eventually more will be added, expanding the array). I'd like everything to be on

Xfce: multi workspace: stick windows to a workspace

Hello List, is there a way to stick windows to a given workspace with Xfce ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/516beef8.3040

Re: remove unwanted services/packages

Thread name: "Re: remove unwanted services/packages" Mail number: 4 Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 In reply to: Alex Mestiashvili > If you are limited in space than you can try to delete the man pages and > documentation in other than your language. see localepurge package. delete mans could be a ch

Re: Booting Wheezy Install on Software Raid 6

On 15/04/13 07:25 AM, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, I'm in the process of assembling a storage system, and am running into an issue while testing the setup in a VM. The setup has 6 three terabyte harddrives that I'd like to put in RAID 6 (Eventually more will be added,

Re: administration of initscripts

> I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What > are people trying to do? > What is more complicated than this. If you want it then install it. > If you don't want it then remove or purge it. With those

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

> I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard > disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read > only. I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then > I found the CD-ROM is broken, it can not boot from the CD-ROM.

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

Hi Rob, > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > > > I wanted to use Debian live > > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop > > installed on a flash drive with full persistenc

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

Hi Christer, > First of all, I have another architecture (amd64) and I never got > persistence to work with stable (Squeeze). > But it works really well with testing (Wheezy) using the regular > iso-hybrid .iso image. > > There is a link to a very helpful instruction in my previous mail. > Note t

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 15:20:07 +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Hi Rob, > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > > > > > I wanted to use Debian live > > > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-b

Re: Xfce: multi workspace: stick windows to a workspace

On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 14:13:44 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > is there a way to stick windows to a given workspace with Xfce ? http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#window_manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

Brian writes: > > When I upgrade the system after some time has passed - it might > > happen that grub is installed to the hdd and the notebook won't > > start anymore. So I'll try to get live work first. > > That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB > itself is not

Re: Xfce: multi workspace: stick windows to a workspace

Thanks Brian, it rocks ! I have just bookmarked the FAQ. On 15/04/13 15:34, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 14:13:44 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, is there a way to stick windows to a given workspace with Xfce ? http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#window_manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: administration of initscripts

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 08:39:27AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > > have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What > > are people trying to do? > > What is more complicated than this. If you want it then

Re: administration of initscripts

Le 15/04/2013 14:39, Stefan Monnier a écrit : I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What are people trying to do? What is more complicated than this. If you want it then install it. If you don't want it

Re: administration of initscripts

Le 15/04/2013 16:55, Roger Leigh a écrit : On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 08:39:27AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What are people trying to do? What is more complicated th

which distro to use

Hi, I have an IBM server U320, an old centos (year 2008) is now running on it. I want to update or more exaclty to install debian, unfortunately the disk is not recognized by debian amd64. scsi U320 ( on the disk it is written Only use on eserver 320) Is there a distro which can find the disk.

Re: mod-security update

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:46:44AM +0200, Jens Tobiska wrote: > After the latest update of mod-security for debian squeeze, I am receiving > the error message: > > Syntax error on line 52 of /etc/apache2/mod-security/modsecurity.conf: > Invalid command 'SecRequestBodyLimitAction', perhaps misspell

Re: administration of initscripts

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 05:28:02PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 15/04/2013 16:55, Roger Leigh a écrit : > >On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 08:39:27AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > >>>have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I

Re: which distro to use

You don't mention which version of Debian you have tried - the current stable release is version 6 code-named 'squeeze'. It's quite old now, and if that's the version you tried, it might be worth trying the wheezy Release Candidate 1 release installer from

Re: administration of initscripts

On 04/15/2013 05:02 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What are people trying to do? Hi Bob, For an example of where one will want to "manage" the init scripts, take a look

Re: administration of initscripts

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:55:33PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Getting rid of all the /etc/default disable options will be a release > goal for jessie. Very glad to hear that. Services that come shipped with an /etc/default file that disables the daemon 'by default' really irk me. Not least puppet

Re: administration of initscripts

Am 15.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Erwan David: > And disabling them in /etc/default prevent launching them after boot > (see my need on the other tread). "update-rc.d disable" is the proper way to disable a service from starting at boot time. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intell

Re: administration of initscripts

Thilo Six wrote: > gentoo has a rather nice API for an administrator to handle > initscripts s.th. i always missed in debian. Isn't sysv-rc-conf what you are looking for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

On Apr 15, 2013 11:16 AM, "Yuwen Dai" wrote: > > On 4/15/13, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old > > computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same > > > > Yes, this is easier. But I want to try the harder pat

Re: /etc/network/interfaces config example for 3g (telstra Bigpond Elite USB Sierra Wireless USB 308 modem)??

On 04/15/2013 01:14 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Does anyone have at hand an example of how to set up interfaces file so ifup/down works with a USB 3G modem, with a Telstra password? The interface comes up fine, as wwan0, with devices /dev/ttyUSB[0-3] created as well, when I plug in the modem. TI

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 23:54:28 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: > >>> You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even > >>> with > >>> 15krpm SAS drives. the RAID1 will never

Re: administration of initscripts

Hello Bob, Excerpt from Bob Proulx: > Thilo Six wrote: >> Subject: administration of initscripts >> ...in debian has been no pleasure for some time now. > > Sorry to hear that. Why not? I was looking for the "offical" way of dealing with initscript for some time now. If you look online mostly

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

On 04/15/2013 02:44 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 23:54:28 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: >> >> It's not necessary to ask on linux-raid, and as you have not yet done >> so, I'll clarify this now: >> >> Both the md RAID1 and RAID10 per

Re: administration of initscripts

Hello Roger, Excerpt from Roger Leigh: -- -- > update-rc.d foo disable|enable > > is one method. Thank you for sharing this! It might be a nuisance but running the stop part of the initscript isn't the same as not touching it all? -- -- > Getting rid of all the /etc/default disable options

Re: administration of initscripts

Hello Siard, Excerpt from Siard: > Thilo Six wrote: >> gentoo has a rather nice API for an administrator to handle >> initscripts s.th. i always missed in debian. > > Isn't sysv-rc-conf what you are looking for? Thank you for your help. I am aware of the existents of 3rd party managing tools o

Re: administration of initscripts

>> file-rc "works", but only just. I would not be surprised if it was >> removed for the next stable release--it's simply incompatible with >> dependency-based booting. That's a shame, I would take direct editing of runlevel.conf over dependency-based booting myself. >> When you are using dyn

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:54:17 +0200 Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > Personally I like the about two-year stable release schedule. It is > > > long enough > > > > I appreciate knowing that our setup will not break due to this but > >

Re: administration of initscripts

Hello Yaro, Excerpt from Yaro Kasear: -- -- > Systemd has "assimilated" udev, -- -- > Related to the above two downsides, systemd is not really a crowning > example of a developer following the UNIX Philosophy of "one simple task > and do it well." -- -- > Administrators might not like

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

Hello Kevin, Excerpt from Kevin Chadwick: -- -- >> libreoffice | 1:4.0.2~rc2-2 | experimental | source, amd64, >> armel, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 >> >> And yes, 4.0.x will also be in wheezy-backports when it's time for that. >> Using it from "unstable" is bad, becaus

packages.debian.org lagging?

I have some pending updates on my wheezy system, but the changelog for the updates doesn't show up in apper, and when I look up the packages on packages.debian.org, the currently-installed versions of the packages are shown but not the to-be-upgraded versions. For example: $ apt-cache policy curl

Contratacion, Despido, Finiquito y Liquidacion

¡Hoy por hoy las amenazas de una mala administración de su personal; puede causarle problemas potenciales! Contratación, Despido, Finiquito y Liquidación. Fecha: 23 abril de 2013. Lugar: Su computadora o dispositivo móvil. Horario: De 10:00 a.m a 1:00 p.m y De 3:00 p.m. a 6:00 p.m. (Hora del Cen

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

On 4/16/13, Soare Catalin wrote: > On Apr 15, 2013 11:16 AM, "Yuwen Dai" wrote: >> >> On 4/15/13, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> > Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old >> > computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the >> > same >> > >> >> Yes, t

Starting Google Chrome

Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. A search on Google gives the start command as google-chrome. I can't make it work. rosenberg:/

Re: administration of initscripts

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:39:27 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > > have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What > > are people trying to do? > > What is more complicated than this. If you want it then insta

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. I don't what you are using to start an X sessio

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. > > 1] No desktop icon > 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it > with a specific file. > > A search on Google gives the s

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On 04/15/2013 07:37 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. I do

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On 04/15/2013 07:25 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific fil

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On 04/15/2013 07:37 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. I do

Re: migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

On 04/13/2013 04:50 PM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:19:18 -0600 Paul Condon wrote: Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice document with lots of step-by-step instruction, and particularly how

Re: administration of initscripts

Am 15.04.2013 20:12, schrieb Celejar: > What's wrong with sysv-rc-conf (although it won't work for some of the > fancier stuff you have in mind, such as running daemons "on demand")? It's orphaned and hasn't seen any updates for over 6 years. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking inte

Re: administration of initscripts

Am 15.04.2013 21:35, schrieb Thilo Six: > + dropping human readable textfiles in favour of c binary code, which makes it > needless more complex to debug the whole show. That's non-sense. systemd unit files are text-files in ini-like format and much more readable then shell scripts with all their

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Kumar - > > Thanks. > > It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you > have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the > executable. > > Package Manager. I installed the Google Chro

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: > That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB > itself is not installed or reinstalled to, for example, the MBR of any > disk. This is not entirely correct. You need to put all grub* packages on hold to make sure it won't ever update the

Re: administration of initscripts

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:12:20 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 15.04.2013 20:12, schrieb Celejar: > > What's wrong with sysv-rc-conf (although it won't work for some of the > > fancier stuff you have in mind, such as running daemons "on demand")? > > It's orphaned and hasn't seen any updates for o

Re: Starting Google Chrome

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. > > 1] No desktop icon > 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it > with a spec

Re: administration of initscripts

On 04/15/2013 07:13 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.04.2013 21:35, schrieb Thilo Six: + dropping human readable textfiles in favour of c binary code, which makes it needless more complex to debug the whole show. That's non-sense. systemd unit files are text-files in ini-like format and much more

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

On 4/15/2013 1:44 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 23:54:28 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: >>> Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: > You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even > wit

Re: administration of initscripts

Am 16.04.2013 04:26, schrieb Yaro Kasear: > UNLESS, does anyone know if journalctl works fine inside a > LiveCD/DVD/USB/Ferret/Whatever on another systemd setup? Or, maybe as a > better way to put it, use a live media's journalctl to use a non-running > systemd's journal? Sure, that works: journal

Re: administration of initscripts

Am 16.04.2013 04:26, schrieb Yaro Kasear: > On 04/15/2013 07:13 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 15.04.2013 21:35, schrieb Thilo Six: >>> + dropping human readable textfiles in favour of c binary code, which >>> makes it >>> needless more complex to debug the whole show. >> That's non-sense. systemd

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On 04/15/2013 07:59 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Kumar - Thanks. It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the executable. Package Mana

Re: Starting Google Chrome

On 04/15/2013 09:41 PM, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command li

RE: iperf / ftp / http TCP poor performance in one direction (UDP good)

Ok - Just an update to this. Connected a Laptop to the same switch the Deb server is connected to @ POPB - The Laptop was able to achieve acceptable performance: POPA -> POPB (FTP) - ~36Mb/secPOPB -> POPA (FTP) - ~30Mb/sec (The link is currently in use, so there is some background traffic so th

Re: packages.debian.org lagging?

Hi Andrew On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 02:03:57PM -0700, Andrew Bennett wrote: > I have some pending updates on my wheezy system, but the changelog for the > updates doesn't show up in apper, and when I look up the packages on > packages.debian.org, the currently-installed versions of the packages are

Re: packages.debian.org lagging?

Hello Salvatore, On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso < carnil.deb...@gmx.net> wrote: > AFICS, packages.debian.org is still affected by the failure mentioned > here[1]. > > [1]: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/2013/04/msg0.html > Thank you for the