Re: Problems with greylistd and exim and gmail

2014-10-31 Thread Virgo Pärna
Interesting thin is, that graylistd crashed twise yesterday evening: greylistd: ### Fatal event in /usr/sbin/greylistd, line 488: greylistd: >>> -1141431269 greylistd: ### Fatal event in /usr/sbin/greylistd, line 488: greylistd: >>> -1136431291 That has not happened before for me. But that s

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:07:27PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: > > Don Armstrong wrote: > > > systemd-inhibit --who='backup script' --why='backup is running currently' > > > \ > > > --mode=block yourbackupscript; > > > > This doesn't currently prevent

WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread B. M.
Hi list, I have a problem with my (w)lan setup. We use telephone and internet over the cable network and the company gives us a wlan modem for free. Unfortunately this modem doesn't allow me to specify fix IPs in the internal network for all of our machines. Nevertheless I setup an owncloud ser

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-10-31 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 30 October 2014 19:46:26 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Hans [2014-10-30 10:27 +0100]: > > Dear maintainers, > > > > completely without starting any flamewars: > > > > I am using systemd and I have /usr mounted on a separate partition as well > > as /var, /home, /boot and /. > > > >

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-31 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
Στις 22-10-2014 17:41, Steve Litt έγραψε: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:01:17 +0300 "Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis" wrote: Hi, after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usable Jessie with one of the defaults DE and with no systemd utilities, i decided the following. In the companie's pc's i

Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:28:33AM +0100, B. M. wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a problem with my (w)lan setup. We use telephone and > internet over the cable network and the company gives us a wlan > modem for free. Unfortunately this modem doesn't allow me to specify > fix IPs in the internal

Re: Problems with greylistd and exim and gmail

2014-10-31 Thread Virgo Pärna
This whitelisting seems not to work at all. So I'm trying to add 209.85.128.0/17 # GMail 74.125.0.0/16 # GMail to /var/lib/greylistd/whitelist-hosts which is used by greylistd itself. Hopefully it would allow mails throw. But I'm not sure, if those changes will survive upda

Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread B. M.
Thanks a lot for the answer, I think I'll look deeper into avahi. Le 31 oct. 2014 à 09:45, "Karl E. Jorgensen" a écrit : > Hi > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:28:33AM +0100, B. M. wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have a problem with my (w)lan setup. We use telephone and >> internet over the cable ne

Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread Catalin Soare
On Oct 31, 2014 11:24 AM, "B. M." wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the answer, I think I'll look deeper into avahi. > > > Le 31 oct. 2014 à 09:45, "Karl E. Jorgensen" a écrit : > > > Hi > > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:28:33AM +0100, B. M. wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I have a problem with my (w)l

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Karl E. Jorgensen [2014-10-31 09:21 +0100]: > Personally, I would have preferred molly-guard to use dpkg-divert, > but it works as it is. It does, since 0.5-1, but that needs to be uploaded still. I am checking… -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian devel

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-10-31 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Baron [2014-10-31 10:22 +0200]: > On Thursday 30 October 2014 19:46:26 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > To mount /usr at boottime you need to boot with an initramfs. > > > > Therefor you need at least > > > > ii initramfs-tools 0.118 > > ii util-linux 2.25.2-2 > > > > which

Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread Simon Hollenbach
Hello, On 31/10/14 09:45, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:28:33AM +0100, B. M. wrote: Hi list, I have a problem with my (w)lan setup. We use telephone and internet over the cable network and the company gives us a wlan modem for free. Unfortunately this modem doesn't allow

Re: Problems with greylistd and exim and gmail

2014-10-31 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:11:08 + (UTC), Virgo Pärna wrote: > This whitelisting seems not to work at all. So I'm trying to add > 209.85.128.0/17 # GMail > 74.125.0.0/16 # GMail > > to /var/lib/greylistd/whitelist-hosts which is used by greylistd itself. > That does no

Debian on Panasonic laptop

2014-10-31 Thread apadoly2
Hi, Can I install debian on a PANASONIC laptop ( Panasonic Toughbook CF T8) with tactil screen? Thanks Regards Alex

Re: Debian on Panasonic laptop

2014-10-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 31/10/14 09:28 AM, apado...@padoly.besaba.com wrote: Hi, Can I install debian on a PANASONIC laptop ( Panasonic Toughbook CF T8) with tactil screen? Thanks Regards Alex I assume you are really asking "what features may not work if I install ...". Why not test it with a live CD to see

Re: Debian on Panasonic laptop

2014-10-31 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 01:28:47PM +, apado...@padoly.besaba.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > Can I install debian on a PANASONIC laptop ( Panasonic > Toughbook CF T8) with tactil screen? Yes. You may need to spend a while afterwards configuring the touch screen. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this polkit: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.foo.apt.pkla [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-user:apt Action=org.debian.apt.* ResultAny=no ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes However when I: su - apt it looks like

Re: Problems with greylistd and exim and gmail

2014-10-31 Thread Joe
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:11:08 + (UTC) Virgo Pärna wrote: > This whitelisting seems not to work at all. So I'm trying to add > 209.85.128.0/17 # GMail > 74.125.0.0/16 # GMail > > to /var/lib/greylistd/whitelist-hosts which is used by greylistd > itself. Hopefully it would

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: > >> I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this >> polkit: >> >> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.foo.apt.pkla >> >> [Configuration] >> AdminIdentiti

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:17 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro > wrote: >> El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: > -A FORWARD -d -i eth5 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 1024:65535 > --dport 80 -m time --weekdays --datestop -j ACCEPT > Also, that was

Systemd and Unix

2014-10-31 Thread David Kline
I have heard a lot of talk about how systemd deviates from the unix philosophy. What is the unix philosophy, how does debian follow it, and why does systemd break it?

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread Vanessa
On 2014-10-31 17:17, shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro > wrote: >> El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: >> >>> I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this >>> polkit: >>> >>> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this polkit: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.foo.apt.pkla [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-user:apt Action=org.debian.apt.* ResultAny=no ResultInactive=no ResultActive=

Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-10-31 Thread Charles Kroeger
I have a line in my /etc/fstab file: #/dev/sde1/ /media/lumix-photos vfat users,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 Anytime I want to add photos off the SD card in my camera, I comment out the hashmark add the SD card to the reader, and reboot the computer. The SD card is mounted (/dev/s

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Vanessa wrote: > On 2014-10-31 17:17, shawn wilson wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro >> wrote: >>> El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: >>> I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this polkit:

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-31 Thread lee
Don Armstrong writes: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >> As to package management: When you don't have a software installed, >> other software you have installed shouldn't depend on the software you >> don't have installed when the installed software doesn't use the >> software which is not ins

Re: Need help setting up printing in Jessie

2014-10-31 Thread lee
Paul E Condon writes: > information? What happens is basically nothing. I select the B+W > print buffer from the file menu in the Emacs23-lucid window, and... > nothing comes out of my printer, and nothing is added to the jobs > list in CUPS. You might need to set a default printer, or use somet

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread lee
Mario Castelán Castro writes: > Hello. > > I can set up a script for backup with cron or anacron, but how can I > prevent the computer from shutting down while the backup is being > performed so as to not to leave it incomplete?. I'd try to fix the bug that makes it shut down. Do you have broke

Re: Understanding DNS, Create an "Failover"

2014-10-31 Thread lee
basti writes: > Hello, > last weekend my primary DNS-Server goes down, and some of my server > can't find each other. > > [...] > > How can I fix this? Set up a second name server which operates as slave of your primary one and use the slave as fallback? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, lee wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > Except that it the software does depend on the shared library being > > installed. Binaries which link against shared libraries must have ^^ > > the shared library present

Re: Understanding DNS, Create an "Failover"

2014-10-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
lee wrote: basti writes: Hello, last weekend my primary DNS-Server goes down, and some of my server can't find each other. [...] How can I fix this? Set up a second name server which operates as slave of your primary one and use the slave as fallback? bind, and dns in general, are desig

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Armstrong wrote: It's like keeping a trailer connected to your car all the time, with the main fuse of the trailers' circuit removed, just because the electricity could decide to want to try to flow through the outlet at the hitch in case you hit the break pedal. If we're going to make ca

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread Vanessa
On 2014-10-31 19:36, shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Vanessa wrote: >> On 2014-10-31 17:17, shawn wilson wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro >>> wrote: El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: > I'm trying to allow an apt user

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-10-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/31/2014 at 02:10 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I have a line in my /etc/fstab file: > > #/dev/sde1/ /media/lumix-photos vfat users,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 > 0 > > Anytime I want to add photos off the SD card in my camera, I comment > out the hashmark add the SD card to the

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-31 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. Tesseract seems to do a really great job bu

Re: Debian on Panasonic laptop

2014-10-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/11/14 00:28, apado...@padoly.besaba.com wrote: > Hi, > > > > Can I install debian on a PANASONIC laptop ( Panasonic Toughbook CF T8) > with tactil screen? Yes. For stable:- To enable sound you'll need:- echo >/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf 'options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad' (and

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-10-31 Thread Martin Read
On 31/10/14 21:31, The Wanderer wrote: If the mount failing isn't that critical, then the "right way" to fix the problem under systemd's apparent design would probably be to add the "noauto" label to the fstab, so that the device will not mount automatically on boot. If there's a way to configur

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 31.10.2014 um 07:07 schrieb Don Armstrong: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: >> Don Armstrong wrote: >>> systemd-inhibit --who='backup script' --why='backup is running currently' \ >>> --mode=block yourbackupscript; >> >> This doesn't currently prevent either /sbin/shutdown or eg, the >>

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Thanks everybody for their help. I will use molly-guard to guard from accidental shut down from the CLI. Is there something like molly-guard for the LXDE power off/close session button?. I must clarify that what I mean by “preventing the computer from shutting down” is preventing the operator

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-31 Thread Doug
On 10/31/2014 06:31 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, This is part of a medium sized, low budget archiving project that will process serveral thousand documents, all done by low tech volunteers. So I really need methods that are straight forward or can

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-10-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/31/2014 at 06:33 PM, Martin Read wrote: > On 31/10/14 21:31, The Wanderer wrote: > >> If the mount failing isn't that critical, then the "right way" to >> fix the problem under systemd's apparent design would probably be >> to add the "noauto" label to the fstab, so that the device will not

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-31 Thread lee
Don Armstrong writes: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >> Don Armstrong writes: >> > Except that it the software does depend on the shared library being >> > installed. Binaries which link against shared libraries must have >^^

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-31 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Am 2014-10-29 15:42, schrieb Joel Rees: >> >> And that tells me exactly zip about why bc doesn't show up in my XFCE4 >> menus. (I mean the pointy-clicky ones.) > > > I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG .desktop > fil

a perfect car analogy for a perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-31 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >> Don Armstrong writes: >> > Except that it the software does depend on the shared library being >> > installed. Binaries which link against shared libraries must have >

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-31 Thread Carl Johnson
Joel Rees writes: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG .desktop >> files, and doesn't parse Debian's menu system. > > Yeah. That seems to be the case. I asked about a similar issue and somebody told me how to cr

How to use the network-manager-strongswan

2014-10-31 Thread Gulfstrean Wang
Hello, I want to use the network-manager-strongswan to connect ikev2 vpn server, but I can not find how to configure the network-manager-strongswan via UI or configuration file. Could you tell me how to use it if you know? Thank you very much! Gulfstream -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

How to use the network-manager-strongswan

2014-10-31 Thread Gulfstrean Wang
Hello, I want to use the network-manager-strongswan to connect ikev2 vpn server, but I can not find how to configure the network-manager-strongswan via UI or configuration file. Could you tell me how to use it if you know? Thank you very much! My debian version is testing, and the window mana

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-31 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: > Joel Rees writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Christian Seiler >> wrote: >>> I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG .desktop >>> files, and doesn't parse Debian's menu system. >> >> Yeah. That seems to be the c

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-10-31 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:30:02 +0100 The Wanderer wrote: >I suspect that /dev/sde1 exists, but /dev/sde1/ (with the trailing slash) does >not - i.e., />dev/sde1 is a device node, not a directory. Yes, the extra forward slash was there (indicating a directory)..interesting. Anyway. I removed the