Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The answers to your questions depend on what hardware you're using, what kind of processor, how many RAM. Concerning the CPU, the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo would give some insight. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Command line wifi tooling

2014-11-28 Thread Bram Diederik
Hi all, During Debian installation does the user has an option to use the wifi to get debian packages. The user is shown all access point. And fill in the credentials after selection an AP. My question is. Is there an commandline equivalent to this? Thanks in advance. Bram

Re: Command line wifi tooling

2014-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
Not sure if you're looking for cli or ncurses. I always just do: nmcli dev wifi # list APs) nmcli con "" password "" That assumes networkmanager - I'm sure installer probably uses iwlist scan and then either iwconfig or wpa_supplicant/wpa_passphrase though. On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Bram

Re: NFS homedirs and icon position

2014-11-28 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 24-11-14 om 16:52 schreef Paul van der Vlis: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem with homedirs on NFS (Wheezy), using Gnome3 > Classic. With "advanced settings" I configured the desktop so that users > can place icons on it. > > The problem is that after ordening the icons and rebooting the

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, John Hasler wrote: >> Patrick Bartek writes: >> >>> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. >> You mean Testing. Jessie has not been released. > Semantics. Ah, my favorite movie quote: "I'm offering you my body and you're offering me semantics!"

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/27/2014 at 11:08 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:10:23PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 11/27/2014 at 09:33 PM, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> Patrick Bartek writes: >>> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. >>> >>> You mean Testing. Jessie has

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:00:05 AM UTC+5:30, Serge wrote: > 2014/11/16 Peter Nieman wrote: > > Has anyone ever wondered where all these funny directories like ~/.cache, > > ~/.config, ~/.local or even ~/Desktop (with a capital D) came from that > > appeared in Debian after upgrading to - was

Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
In common conversation, "peculiar" can mean either "unique" or "strange/unusual". I'm using it in *both* senses. I'm working on understanding how to use debootstrap and/or multistrap. In another forum I was asked a question that initially appeared to be out of context. It got me thinking about

Installation of Wheezy on a Dell Latitude E6320 [SSD Only]

2014-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Hello dear Debian user reading me, I've been struggling with this configuration for the past few days (2,5) before I decide to post here. Hopefully this will be the right place?! So here are the physical elements of my story: Machine => Dell Latitude E6320 With a single SSD such as : Model Fam

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > In common conversation, "peculiar" can mean either "unique" or > "strange/unusual". > I'm using it in *both* senses. > > I'm working on understanding how to use debootstrap and/or > multistrap. In another forum I was asked a question that > initially appeared t

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I do this on my own machine. The visible stuff I used to keep in my home directory is now in a separate partition mounted on ~/Desktop. I've noticed just one downside: cd no longer takes me to a useful place. So I have an alias called cdd that takes me to Desktop and I'm trying to remember to use

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > In common conversation, "peculiar" can mean either "unique" or > "strange/unusual". > I'm using it in *both* senses. > > I'm working on understanding how to use debootstrap and/or > multistrap. In another forum I was asked a question that > initially appeared t

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Ron
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:07:50 -0500 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > CD burners (creators), don't > they eject upon job completion? Only if you ask them to (Preferences...) Cheers, Ron. -- We'll cross that bridge when we come back to it later.

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Now the strange thing: I've done some research, and it seems that > > all the init replacement procedures start with first replacing > > systemd with sysvinit, then proceeding with replacing sysvinit with >

Exim config: possible to use AUTH *only* on port 587?

2014-11-28 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, Been setting up Exim and Dovecot to work together. Inbound mail is working, stored in maildirs and served by Dovecot using IMAP over SSL. Exim is also working as an authenticated (only) relay for when our users want to send or reply to email while offsite, and set up so t

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-28 Thread lee
Scott Ferguson writes: > Please don't top post. > > > On 22/11/14 20:50, lee wrote: >> >> Didier, >> >> you have *totally* missed the OPs point. >> >> BTW, since you assume that no "systemd takeover" > > Hyperbole much? ? >> what has been the outcome of the GR to support multiple >> init sys

libc6-i386 vs libc6:i386 (for vpn client)

2014-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Judging from https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO, which doesn't seem current but is all I could find, if I'm on the amd64 architecture and want to support i386 I should expect to get packages like libc6:i386. There are a number of other packages that seem to have versions for 32 bit without ne

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: In common conversation, "peculiar" can mean either "unique" or "strange/unusual". I'm using it in *both* senses. I'm working on understanding how to use debootstrap and/or multistrap. In another forum I was asked a question that initia

Epson XP-820 print to CD from Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Mailer Daemon
Has anyone had any luck with the Epson XP-820 print to CD function? I recently acquired one after having used their R-320, which also prints to CD, for years. Unfortunately this one doesn't seem to work. The printer driver seems to work nicely, allowing me to select print to CD/DVD easily but

Re: Epson XP-820 print to CD from Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Mailer Daemon
On 28/11/14 04:34 PM, Mailer Daemon wrote: Has anyone had any luck with the Epson XP-820 print to CD function? I recently acquired one after having used their R-320, which also prints to CD, for years. Unfortunately this one doesn't seem to work. The printer driver seems to work nicely, allowi

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29 November 2014 at 08:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> >> On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> > > I've just proved ( again ;/ ) that my writing lacks clarity. It's hard to describe a custom live CD in a single, small post. > The eject command indeed works as expec

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29 November 2014 at 07:05, lee wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> >> >> On 22/11/14 20:50, lee wrote: >>> >>> Didier, >>> >>> you have *totally* missed the OPs point. >>> >>> BTW, since you assume that no "systemd takeover" >> >> Hyperbole much? > > ? "the use of exaggeration as a rhetoric

Re: ntpd confusion

2014-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2014, at 11:00 AM, mad wrote: > I found it. It was DHCP. The NTP init scripts checks if there is a file > /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp in which the local router is configured as > only ntp source. The DHCP client package in Debian tries to get as much information as possible out of th

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
My apologies for the delay in replying. On 28 November 2014 at 16:08, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On 26/11/14 04:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> On 27/11/14 06:32, Rick Macdonald wrote: >>> >>> On 26/11/14 08:24 AM, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 12:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29 November 2014 at 07:05, lee wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: > [...] Other than that, the OP has a good point. I found that every time something is related to the freedesktop stuff, >>> >>> Freedesktop just provides hostin

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 28/11/14 05:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: My apologies for the delay in replying. On 28 November 2014 at 16:08, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 04:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/14 06:32, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 08:24 AM, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 12:23 AM, Scot

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread seeker5528
On 11/28/2014 6:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: I have a question along these lines: Years ago when we used computers, many people used one machine -- centrally administered. Nowadays one person uses many machines 1. Simply multiple hardware 2. Multiple OSes on the same h/w 3. Other more fancy (cloud)

Re: XDG Standard is not evil

2014-11-28 Thread seeker5528
On 11/28/2014 10:27 PM, seeker5528 wrote: Pictures, music, etc... can all be kept on another partition, creating symlinks in your home directory within each installation in place of the real Documents, Pictures, etc... that would normally be there. As root you can do something like: |groupad