Re: battery

On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: > I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger > and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect > the charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows incorrect info. > > I plug in the charge

Best practice vsftpd writable root inside chroot()

Hi, I just came accross this new security feature of vsftpd whith which you cannot have your $HOME writable for a chrooted user. Since this ftp server is a public accessable server with ~60 users and partial nested homedirs, there is no chance that there is no writable homedirectory. Another b

Re: battery

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:29:49AM +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: > On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: > > I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger > > and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and > > connect the charger the battery c

replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486 kernel so I'm assuming there is some intent to continue to support older hardware. In my case, I have an old laptop that I could run Squeeze on by including ide-gene

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

Hello Gary, On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: > The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in > the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486 kernel so I'm assuming > there is some intent to continue to support older hardware. > > In my case, I have an old

Re: battery

On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows incor

Re: battery

On 08/08/13 12:46, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: >>> I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its >>> charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system >>> back up and connect t

roundcube-plugins

Is anyone running roundcube? I upgraded this past weekend (08/04), and ever since then, I have been getting these messages to /var/log/dpkg.log every 30 minutes: 2013-08-08 07:32:33 startup packages remove 2013-08-08 07:32:33 status installed roundcube-plugins-extra:all 0.7-20120110 2013-08-08 07:

Re: roundcube-plugins

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:16:46AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: >Is anyone running roundcube? I upgraded this past weekend (08/04), and >ever since then, I have been getting these messages to /var/log/dpkg.log >every 30 minutes: Both roundcube-plugins (0.9) and roundcube-plugins-extra

Re: roundcube-plugins

That is the usual behavior, but in my case, installing one uninstalls the other. According to Bug 714135, this was marked as fixed, but I still get the install-uninstall behavior. And I am still getting it trying to install and uninstall whi

Re: roundcube-plugins

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:36:43AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: >That is the usual behavior, but in my case, installing one uninstalls the >other. According to [1]Bug 714135, this was marked as fixed, but I still >get the install-uninstall behavior. Ah, yes. Roundcube-plugins 0.9.2-2 b

Re: roundcube-plugins

Okay, so any idea why dpkg is doing the half-installed/unpacked/configured issue every 30 minutes? On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:36:43AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > >That is the usual behavior, but in my case, installing one uninstalls >

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Gary, On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486 kernel so I'm assuming there is some intent to continue to support older

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

Hi, On 08/08/13 18:06, Gary Dale wrote: > On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello Gary, >> >> On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: >>> The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing >>> in the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486 kernel so I'm >>>

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:06:23PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >Hello Gary, > > > >On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: > >>The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing > >>in the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486

Re: battery

>> >It's a feature of modern laptops. > >The idea is that the battery lasts longer if you avoid full >charge/discharge cycles. > >Mine is on 80% too - it's normal. > >As for how you tell it to charge to 100% because you're planning a bus >trip - anyone out there, please let me know. >

debian installation question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I would like to make a fresh install of debian and I want to keep my previous /home partition ie. forbid the installer to reformat this partition. I am sure that it is possible, but at the end of the partitionning step, how cna I check which

Re: battery

> > http://www.samsung.com/us/article/tips--tricks-extending-notebook-battery-life > > > it's called "Smart charging", so I guess it should have a config option > somewhere. > > Philip Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung has just recently disco

Re: debian installation question

On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:15:44 -0700 François Patte wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > I would like to make a fresh install of debian and I want to keep my > previous /home partition ie. forbid the installer to reformat this > parti

Re: debian installation question

Bonsoir, On 08/08/13 20:15, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I would like to make a fresh install of debian and I want to keep my > previous /home partition ie. forbid the installer to reformat this > partition. > > I am sure that it is possible, Indeed, it is possible Nevertheless, for saf

Re: battery

cletusjenkins grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung > has just recently discovered the amazing feature of not over-charging > batteries. Funny... my laptop is a Samsung that I've had for a few years now, and it has a feature under ba

an other question about installer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonsoir, I encounter a difficulty while partitionning. The situation: 4 disks: 2 "old" HDD with the previous install (fedora 10). These 2 disks contain 2 raid(1) arrays, one with the / partition and one with the system (/usr, /var, /tmp, /tmp, /hom

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

On 08/08/13 12:20 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:06:23PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Gary, On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in the Wheezy kernel. Howe

Re: dhclient "No DHCPOFFERS received"

On 8/7/2013 4:53 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 09:29:57PM +0200, Slavko wrote: is your network like this, please: - |ISP| - | |

Re: battery

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:15:03AM -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: snip... > > The cycle only does damage when the battery is discharged beyond 50-60%, > which a li-on battery should not allow. Laptop batteries can and sometimes do go to total discharge if left on battery po

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

Hello, On 09/08/13 02:31, Gary Dale wrote: > On 08/08/13 12:20 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:06:23PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: >>> On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Gary, On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: > The various ide modules (ide-gene

Re: an other question about installer

Bonjour, On 08/08/13 23:34, François Patte wrote: > Bonsoir, > > I encounter a difficulty while partitionning. > > The situation: > > 4 disks: > > 2 "old" HDD with the previous install (fedora 10). These 2 disks contain > 2 raid(1) arrays, one with the / partition and one with the system > (/u

Re: battery

Darac Marjal wrote: > Perhaps so, but if the charge isn't increasing, then that's basically > "full". Probably so. > Batteries usually note three main values in their "fuel gagues" (a small > chip in the battery): current charge, current maximum charge and > designed maximum charge. The "designed

Re: Best practice vsftpd writable root inside chroot()

Maik Stubbe wrote: > I just came accross this new security feature of vsftpd whith which > you cannot have your $HOME writable for a chrooted user. If the chroot file system is writable then that has the same security issues as a writable root filesystem. Which is to say it has no security. Simp