Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Joe
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:19:00 -0700 koanhead wrote: > On 08/10/2014 10:30 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > ... I have a philosophical problem with systemd, I suspect it will > > cause problems, my fallback is OpenBSD (or maybe Debian/kFreeBSD, > > thanks Reco) > > For the record, in case anyone

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/11/14, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:26:40 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Some of the reasons I switched my desktop from Ubuntu to Debian were: >> >> 1) To do more config by editor and less by magical binary program. >> >> 2) To get rid of gratuitous boot gun

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/08/2014 10:06 AM, Mike McClain wrote: >> Please describe your network topology. Where's the Win2k box ? > __ > | Debian| LAN| Windows 2000 | > Inet|Linux|-

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-11 Thread Joe
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:44:52 +1000 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > I give another vote for IPCop btw that or pfsense, but IPCop is > simpler. > Yes, but it's a distribution in itself, which means you need to dedicate an entire computer to it. (No, I don't think there is any point in running

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.08.2014 19:08, Steve Litt a écrit : On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:51:30 +0400 Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:26:40 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Within months of my switch, oops, here comes systemd. Consider switching to the Debian/kFreeBSD. It's the same Debian, yet there won't be no

New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-11 Thread David Baron
I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly old. Seems to be no way to run them. Wine64 complains about the .exe format. Placing win32:i386 on top of all this complains that the .wine is for a 64bit installation to wine32 will not work. Even if there is no such folder (I

Re: Disk space usage

2014-08-11 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi, Thanks for your answers. On 08/10/2014 11:48 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Diogene Laerce a écrit : >> >> I have a strange issue with wheezy 7.6.0 : the system complains >> for only left 487 Mo on the ROOT level. But a : > [...] >> where /boot, /etc, /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr, /var a

Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

2014-08-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.08.2014 23:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:02:42 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom : Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:49:38 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom : ... 'Tis amazing. I am going to have to try this because I have the hardware lying around

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >>> I wish to know when will be the final release of Debian Jessie. >> >> The soft-freeze will be in September. The hard-freeze is planned for >> December, AFAIK. The release will be sometimes after that, probably >> in the spr

Re: Suppressing pushd output

2014-08-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/08/14 17:15, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:03:20 +0200 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> DEBUG=1 >> if [ $DEBUG -eq 0 ]; then >> NULLOUT='>/dev/null' >> fi >> pushd $dir ${NULLOUT}; do_something; popd ${NULLOUT} >> > > Try it like this: > > #DEBUG=1 > OUT=/dev/null > [

Re: dd

2014-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:15:31 -0400 (EDT), Reco wrote: > > While dd can be used to copy a directory, it cannot be used alone for > this task. Try this: > > ... > > cp -a /var/www/* /media/lin50 This may work if there are no "hidden" files in the directory (files whose names begin with a period), an

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:35:54 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > > > > Olav Vitters, a Gnome guy who always argues on behalf of Gnome/systemd > > on debian-devel@ (I don't think that he's involved in Debian in any > > other way), has said on his b

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:09:24PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: > >> > >> I consider these posts as not OT. Consider Debian social contract: > > > > Think again. > > > > > >> Our prio

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:35:47AM +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: > > There are tiers of users. > > > > There's the users who are not developers. > > There's the users who are developers. > > Then there's me. > > > > Since I am at the top of the hierarchy, > > Uh, yo

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/11/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:35:54 -0400 >> Tom H wrote: >> >> >> > Olav Vitters, a Gnome guy who always argues on behalf of Gnome/systemd >> > on debian-devel@ (I don't think that he's involved in Debia

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/11/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:09:24PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Chris Bannister >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: >> >> >> >> I consider these posts as not OT. Consider Debian social contract:

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/11/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:35:47AM +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: >> Zenaan Harkness writes: >> > There are tiers of users. >> > >> > There's the users who are not developers. >> > There's the users who are developers. >> > Then there's me. >> > >> > Since I

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 08:05:46PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > > I wish to know when will be the final release of Debian Jessie. > > The soft-freeze will be in September. The hard-freeze is planned for > December, AFAIK. The release will be sometimes after that, probab

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Mike McClain a écrit : > > Clearly DNS lookup is working and I have a problem with the > configuration of IE. Check in its network settings whether a proxy is defined, and remove it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-11 Thread saint
Zenaan Harkness writes: > GNOME Image Manipulation Package? GNU Image Manipulation Program. It a bit funny but not strange that The Gimp is developed under the banner of the GNOME project: GNOME was created AFTER The Gimp was re-written using GTK (GIMP Tool Kit), providing the uniform look requir

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:15:02 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Don't confuse GNU and GNOME. HINT: What does GIMP stand for? > > GNOME Image Manipulation Package? Oh come on man! Stop with the silly FUD... It doesn't become anyone here... The GIMP has been around a long long time. GIMP: http

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/11/2014 06:27 AM, David Baron wrote: > I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly > old. Seems to be no way to run them. > > Wine64 complains about the .exe format. Placing win32:i386 on top of > all this complains tha

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/11/14, Sven Hartge wrote: > Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > >> I wish to know when will be the final release of Debian Jessie. > > The soft-freeze will be in September. The hard-freeze is planned for > December, AFAIK. The release will be sometimes after that, probably in > the spring. > > As alway

Re: par2

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:30:14 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > Here in New Zealand - *ONE* Raspberry Pi $55.00, 16GB SD $20.00, cases Well, you do have some of the most picturesque land recorded in 48 frames per second... and Hobbits... :) > That's dammned expensive and not useful at all!!! It

Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a problem with fetchmail. Something that has not arisen in some 15 yrs of linux use. This post is a tad bit verbose... but it seemed necessary to make it clear why I am somewhat flummoxed. Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), t

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Use getmail. I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing. They are incredibly faster. Good luck :) Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a > windows hosts. Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon is running? ps -A |grep fetchmail It's possible you will need to

Package netpbm not found during debian wheezy 7.6.0 net install

2014-08-11 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst fails at "Select and install software" when retrieving file 1204 of 1315 (26%). Further investigation on the 3rd expert install attempt shows that the installer cannot progress past downloading package netpbm amd64 2:10.0-15+b1 messages in Ctrl+Alt+F4 console window are

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:24:06 -0400 AW wrote: > It's possible you will need to enable the service daemon... > > sudo systemctl enable fetchmail > > in order for it to start on host boot. And I forgot about the /etc/default/fetchmail Make sure START_DAEMON=yes --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joe wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:19:00 -0700 koanhead wrote: For the record, in case anyone is interested, I'm writing this from a Jessie box without systemd. It's easy to make this happen, and it works just fine as long as you don't use GNOME or MATE, possibly KDE, or those functions of othe

Re: Disk space usage

2014-08-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Diogene Laerce a écrit : >> >> mount --bind / /mnt >> du /mnt -hx --max-depth=1 [...] > After narrowing on /mnt, I found that the 55G comes from > /mnt/media/backup/backup. > > As I couldn't find which files or directories are involved in that > directory, I umount /mnt, deleted it all (rm -R

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-11 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Zenaan Harkness writes: > Martin, it looks like you'll have to recompile your kernel first sorry. I was kind of thinking that. Actually, I think I have a solution which I hadn't thought of at the time. I have FreeBSD running in a virtual machine on a Mac. That will be native ufs and I shou

Re: Disk space usage

2014-08-11 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 08/11/2014 03:31 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Diogene Laerce a écrit : >>> >>> mount --bind / /mnt >>> du /mnt -hx --max-depth=1 > [...] [...] > You just deleted everything in the /backup directory of /dev/sdc1 > mounted on /media/backup. I hope you had another backup or it did not > co

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Thank you. I'll respond to a few points now, the rest of your post requires some thought and experimentation. Joe wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:46:56 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] What should I be reading to understand: 1. what would be minimal set of programs to install? It depe

networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-11 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > > Any ideas? > This is a s

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:09:24PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Chris Bannister >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: >> >> >> >> I consider these posts as not OT. Consider De

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
AW writes: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 > Harry Putnam wrote: > > > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: > > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a > > windows hosts. > > Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon is running? > > ps -A |grep fetchmail >

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness writes: > Use getmail. > > I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what > I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing. No thanks. Fetchmail should be working. I really doubt that fetchmail itself is the problem. And just for the record.. its a bit

Re: Package netpbm not found during debian wheezy 7.6.0 net install

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 16:31:12 +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst fails at "Select and install software" when > retrieving file 1204 of 1315 (26%). > > Further investigation on the 3rd expert install attempt shows that the > installer cannot progress past downloading packa

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 09:29:33 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > It would more resemble "Who pulls which string when?" > In one iteration of my experiments I had been burned by not adding > "exec openbox" as last line of xinitrc. What other scripts are run > at boot that would affect whether Openbox

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > AW writes: > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 > > Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: > > > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a > > > windows hosts. > >

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> AW writes: >> >> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 >> > Harry Putnam wrote: >> > >> > > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: >> > > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on >

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:25:52 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > And yet something seems to be causing the verbose setting to produce > insufficient output on the new host. > harry > fetchmail -vvvac > fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: > fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.c

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-11 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:01:05 +1200 Chris Bannister napísal: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: > > > > Our priorities are our users and free software > > > > We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software > ^ >

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Joe
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:44:31 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:19:00 -0700 > > koanhead wrote: > > > >> For the record, in case anyone is interested, I'm writing this > >> from a Jessie box without systemd. It's easy to make this happen, > >> and it works just f

Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

2014-08-11 Thread Floris
Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:29:50 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom : I forgot to ask: is systemd also necessary? Hugo you need loginctl, so the answer is yes, you need systemd success, Right. I found your bug 711351. Hugo That bug is already solved. systemd version 44-11 doesn't had multi

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:21:24PM +0100, Joe wrote: No idea, but this is a sid updated today, ps aux | grep init returns pid 1, /sbin/init. I have systemd, systemd-sysv, and sysvinit installed but not sysvinit-core. Systemd is certainly running, along with systemd-udevd, So you’re running syst

Re: basic fstab .. pilot idiocy??

2014-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 06 aug 14, 22:23:43, B wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:15:29 -0400 > Harry Putnam wrote: > > > /dev/sdd1 /home/harry/misc ext4 user,uid=1000,gid=1050 > > 00 > > I don't see no uid/gid options in man mount ext4 section… To expand a little, the uid and gid options wouldn't

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:50:01 +0200 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I had understood that Debian is in this, as in many things, different from > most Linux distros. Yes you're right, that's what makes Debian special, passion always trumps money. Look what happened to M$. I happen to know directly a certain

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread koanhead
On 08/10/2014 11:40 PM, sa...@eng.it wrote: > koanhead writes: > > For the record, in case anyone is interested, I'm writing this from a > > Jessie box without systemd... > > > All I did was use aptitude interactively to remove systemd-* and then > > review and adjust the solutions as necessa

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 aug 14, 17:30:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I'm posting to the list instead of privately sending it to you, so > others can comment or correct errors. You asked for it :p > III. INSTALL X > > A. Quick & Dirty, but bloated: 'apt-get install xorg' > B. Lean & Mean: 'apt-g

Sid running systemd.

2014-08-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I checked my Sid system and see it's already running systemd, and all required packages are installed, so I pulled the plug on sysvinit(completely removed) and it still boots. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.13.3 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 aug 14, 10:46:56, Richard Owlett wrote: > My goal: understand Debian from a fairly low level on up > Environment: a laptop dedicated exclusively as a learning environment > Resources: complete DVD sets for Squeeze and Wheezy (totally isolated from > internet ;) ... > What should I

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 aug 14, 22:22:20, Sven Hartge wrote: > > All other were mostly misconfigrations which kinda worked before, > because sysvinit was more forgiving or just papered over the error, for > example unavailable volumes during boot without "nofail" or "_netdev". It's also very unforgiving of wro

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running > exim4-heavy. Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. > But still the configuration files look the same.. I'm not seeing a > reason why one is more verbose than th

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread songbird
Andrei POPESCU wrote: >Sven Hartge wrote: >> All other were mostly misconfigrations which kinda worked before, >> because sysvinit was more forgiving or just papered over the error, for >> example unavailable volumes during boot without "nofail" or "_netdev". > > It's also very unforgiving of wron

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/11/14, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/11/2014 06:27 AM, David Baron wrote: >> I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly >> old. Seems to be no way to run them. >> >> Wine64 complains about the .exe format. Placing win32:i386 on top of >> all this complains that the .wine

Open the letter and respond with the payment code

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Re: par2

2014-08-11 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:30:14 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 03:56:14PM -0400, AW wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:24:49 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > Assuming you have both a backup copy and a live copy plus some par2 > > > files, you should be safe with the 5

Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

2014-08-11 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 08:26:35PM -0400, John Holland wrote: > working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot > http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583&cid=47639701 Cool thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 10 aug 14, 17:30:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I'm posting to the list instead of privately sending it to you, so > > others can comment or correct errors. > > You asked for it :p > > > III. INSTALL X > > > > A. Quick & Dirty, but bl

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-11 Thread David Christensen
On 08/11/2014 03:27 AM, David Baron wrote: I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly old. Seems to be no way to run them. Wine64 complains about the .exe format. What about installing a hypervisor under amd64, creating a Wheezy i386 VM, and running Wine on the VM? D

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine [SOLVED]

2014-08-11 Thread Mike McClain
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:06:28PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Mike McClain a ?crit : > > > > Clearly DNS lookup is working and I have a problem with the > > configuration of IE. > > Check in its network settings whether a proxy is defined, and remove it. Hi Pascal, Nope, no proxy.