new apt and default action download files

2014-03-22 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear all, I upgrade my apt to 0.9.16.1 , my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic is: ##3 APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-03-21 17:13:41 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > The fact that it is multi-user doesn't mean that it will necessarily > > be used by several desktop users. > > You can remove spawning the getty on tty you don't want to use. > > I don't know how to do this wit

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-03-21 13:35:37 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > To cure my paranoia of having stdout going to an unknown place, I made > the following executable /usr/local/bin/exx: > > == > #!/bin/bash > startx > /dev/null & exit > == > >

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com > wrote: > > > I think it depends on the situation. If you're at the library with your > > laptop and need to go to the bathroom, it's best to take the computer > > with you, be

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-22 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. > My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I > connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a > webpage seems to make no difference. Is there an

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Jerry Stuckle writes: > That wouldn't work well. Remember, computers are not the only ones which > use UTC - in fact they are the most imprecise. There are many clocks > around > the world which are synchronized with UTC via radio, i.e. WWV/WWVH in the > United States, CHU in Canada, and other sta

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-22 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 3/22/2014 9:58 AM, Martin G. McCormick wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: That wouldn't work well. Remember, computers are not the only ones which use UTC - in fact they are the most imprecise. There are many clocks around the world which are synchronized with UTC via radio, i.e. WWV/WWVH in the Un

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file ~/.xinitrc : sessid="${HOSTNAME:-$(uname -n)}-${DISPLAY##*:}" # Send output to file # logfile="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME}/xinit-${sessid}.log" :

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-03-22 02:30, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2014-03-21 00:30, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote: >>> [snip] I never

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? xxx

2014-03-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140321_194133, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:38:25 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Over the years since Potato, I have noticed that while each new > > exists. > > I've noticed this too. I always need to struggle, navigate and wander to > download the

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52: > In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command > startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file > ~/.xinitrc : > > > sessid="${HOSTNAME:-$(uname -n)}-${DISPLAY##*:}" > > # Send output to fi

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-22 Thread Craig L.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400 > ken wrote: > > > It's not going in the trash though. It's still good for a headless > > linux box. Long ago I buffed it up with a big HD and 2G of RAM, the > > cat5 and 8

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-22 Thread Ron Leach
On 21/03/2014 23:10, Mike McClain wrote: I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a webpage seems to make no difference. Is there any way to log all transactio

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? [solved]

2014-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Paul Condon wrote: > >Hello everyone, I'm OP and I'm still adamant about what I did, and >what I saw. The URL, https://www.debian.org/CD/ does lead one to >images of CDs as stated by John H. So, my initial problem is solved. > >But what is an explanation of my experience? I don't know, but I >have

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Brian
On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 17:50:11 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52: > > In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command > > startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file > > ~/.xinitrc : This is

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Bill Wood
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 19:14 +, Brian wrote: . . . > This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use > ~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file > in his account. A happy Debian system is one with ~/.xsession. I'm a Debian newbie, so --

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 17:50:11 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52: >> > In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command >> > startx, something like the following snippet could be in

Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-22 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hello dear debian users! Recently, one jessie notebook I administer went through a forceful shutdown (holding down the power button) and after that grub cannot see the lvm physical volume by uuid. After trying to load the volume for some seconds, it gives the following message and drops to a minim

Re: Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140322_172754, André Nunes Batista wrote: > Hello dear debian users! > > Recently, one jessie notebook I administer went through a forceful > shutdown (holding down the power button) and after that grub cannot see > the lvm physical volume by uuid. After trying to load the volume for > some s

Re: Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-22 Thread Joe
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:27:54 -0300 André Nunes Batista wrote: > Hello dear debian users! > > Recently, one jessie notebook I administer went through a forceful > shutdown (holding down the power button) and after that grub cannot > see the lvm physical volume by uuid. After trying to load the vo

Re: Problem building h263/4 for asterisk from source

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:05:32PM +, David Woodfall wrote: > I tried installing ptlib and openh323 from source but make in ptlib > errored out with something that I couldn't fathom out. > > I'm new to Debian and apt so any help on getting the latest asterisk > working with all video codecs wo

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. > My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I > connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a > webpage seems to make no difference. Is there an

Re: How to compile Kernel 2.6.32 on Debian Wheezy?

2014-03-22 Thread Puneeth
Hi, I am facing the same issue as yours with respect to: drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf.h:128:15: error: duplicate member 'page' make[5]: *** [drivers/net/igbvf/ethtool.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [drivers/net/igbvf] Error 2 make[3]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2 make[2]: *** [drivers] Error 2 make[1]: *** [de

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Brian
On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 15:02:58 -0500, Bill Wood wrote: > On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 19:14 +, Brian wrote: >. . . > > This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use > > ~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file > > in his account. A happy D

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Brian
On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 21:19:59 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use > > ~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file > > in his account. > > Care to elaborate

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-22 Thread Mike McClain
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 01:19:43PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. > > My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I > > connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching

rsync: on remote machine: --info=NAME: unknown option

2014-03-22 Thread Emanuel Berg
In an alias, I setup the following command to copy files: > rsync -Lprtu --info=name --delete-excluded --exclude="*~" It works on my local Debian but when I try to use it (instead of scp) to copy files to a remote SunOS/Solaris system, it says: > rsync: on remote machine: --info=NAME: unknown op

Re: Problem building h263/4 for asterisk from source

2014-03-22 Thread David Woodfall
On (23/03/14 11:49), Chris Bannister put forth the proposition: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:05:32PM +, David Woodfall wrote: I tried installing ptlib and openh323 from source but make in ptlib errored out with something that I couldn't fathom out. I'm new to Debian and apt so any help on g

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:10:32PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 3/21/2014 10:08 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >Jerry Stuckle writes: > >>The time needs to be accurate > > > >TAI is accurate. UTC is fudged. The Earth is not a clock. BTW GPS > >time ignores leap seconds. It's what scientists most

[OT] Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 07:20:56AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient Greek students already > > > had TeX (if they knew they had it ;) ). > > >