Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 20:44:46 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" > > > > (my star

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be careful > to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left running on logout) > which would try to access files under /home/*/ - and though I don't > know of anything offhand whi

Re: was firefox-37, where to put now moving home partition

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:33:00 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/03/2015 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is booting with the single option on the kernels command line > > insufficient for this scenario? > > Gene, when you first boot, boot into rescue mode and login as root. > now /home is nicely idl

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:39:46 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote: > > I vaguely recall fighting with the partitioning stage at one point > > in the past but I think the 7.7 netinst I tried recently was much > > improved. > > > > There might be one part

Jessie and /var

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume sizes about right when I first set them up. VM images and containers are stored under /var - is there anything else that systemd stores under /var that might take

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:41:05 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): [...] > When he mentioned drives in a hot swap cage, isn't that RAID?? Then > didn't the installer made the correct call? :/ Ric No raid involved Ric, jus

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:43:47 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:29:04 -0400 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Does this server take 2.5 megabyte pictures? I'll take them with my > > Nikon L100 camera as I go. Thats the size of its usual jpeg output, > > per picture. > > Gene, > > P

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:01:26 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > It could also be that I was unlucky in my purchase of cheap USB disk > enclosures. Which is why I was careful to relate my experience but > not cast blame. Your experiences and others may very well be > different! You will have different har

Re: Debian 7 and Debian 8 and bootloader

2015-04-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Bret Busby a écrit : > > It would be on a UEFI/GPT system, so the primary partitions are redundant. > > With Linux, I generally have a / partition, a /swap partition, a /home > partition, and data partitions, with the swap partition being shared > between the Linux installations; as they are not

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 03:15:15 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:39:46 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > I vaguely recall fighting with the partitioning stage at one point > > > in the past but I think the 7.7 netinst I

Re: debian 8

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 01:26:35 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:41:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? > >> > >> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" > >> interfa

Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/04/15 00:11, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have OpenVPN on my KDE Wheezy laptop configured to connect to my >> wheezy VPS. When booting from scratch this works fine. > > Works for me too. Note that I am not using KDE however. Doesn't seem > like that should matter. Unl

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" (my > > > stars) > > > > No - it is another Gene special. > > >

[OT] Use of language on this list was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 01:44:46 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" (my > > > > st

Re: Jessie and /var

2015-04-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Petter, On 04/04/15 09:23, Petter Adsen wrote: > I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm > RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume > sizes about right when I first set them up. > > VM images and containers are stored under /var - is the

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-04 Thread Joe
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:39:26 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > I think I/we ought to be using .local > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762 > because this won't get onto the Internet. > Really? I've seen an Exchange Server refuse mail from a BT server because the latter identified itself with .local

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > C.E.T., Certified Electronics Technician, I am one, registered as > NEB-118.  That card, dropped on the HR department desk when the > department is looking to hire an electronics technician, raises eyebrows > AND the salary that will be offer

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400 > The Wanderer wrote: > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be careful > > to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left running on logout) > > which would try to access

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > I'll use jigl to make a slide > show thats well compressed. Please don't. Some of us have visual impairments. Just post the pictures. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: [OT] Use of language on this list was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/04/15 10:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Why can't he actually type out these awful jargon acronyms? And > avoid this extra abstruse vocabulary? Because we might actually > understand if he did, and writing stuff we can't understand seems to > make him feel superior. > > But this is the English

Re: Jessie and /var

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:01:47 +0200 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Petter, > > On 04/04/15 09:23, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm > > RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume > > sizes about right when I first set

Re: debian 8

2015-04-04 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-03, Bret Busby wrote: >> > I would not get on a dog, either. I think that dogs are not > constructed to be able to hold up the weight of a human on top of > them. > People get on my nerves, which are not designed to support the burden either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: debian 8

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 10:16:55 Curt wrote: > People get on my nerves _All_ people? How uncomforable! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150

Re: zfs, autofs dependencies

2015-04-04 Thread Mimiko
On 03.04.2015 23:21, David Wright wrote: Those scripts have logging lines. Have you read their output? Yes, there are logging, But there is no any suspection lines in that log files. Only error is given when it's trying to mount devices so there are: /backup/network - error mounting /backup/o

Re: zfs, autofs dependencies

2015-04-04 Thread Mimiko
On 03.04.2015 23:21, David Wright wrote: I'm as yet unconvinced. I can't see in your original posting where you've told ZFS how to manage mounting your volumes. In my original post I've wrote: zfs create -V 4T zfspool/backup zfs create -V 1T zfspool/network zfs create -V 1T zfspool/op mount

Re: debian 8

2015-04-04 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > _All_ people? How uncomforable! > Some people, some people. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmhve9s.3lu.cu.

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 21:51:54 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150403_2316+0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Can any kind soul take pity on my less than perfect sight and tell > > me where to find the md5sums and shasums for these downloads? A > > URL would be great. I just can't find them. > > > > h

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these here > parts for decades. I couldn't find that one on the acronym site!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these here > > parts for decades. > > I couldn't find that one on the acronym site!! I thought cf. was compare[d] w

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 11:31:53 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these here > > > parts for decades. > > > > I couldn'

LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
I've just finished setting up Jessie with mdadm and LVM, the latter of which I have never used before. /dev/md0 is a 1G mirror for /boot, no LVM there. /dev/md1 is a mirror, than consists of the major part of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - both 250G. There are also 4G swap partitions on sda and sdb, no R

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 04:40:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Sorry Brian, that is ***generally*** shorthand for "equivalent" >

Re: LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:48:32 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > I've just finished setting up Jessie with mdadm and LVM, the latter of > which I have never used before. > > /dev/md0 is a 1G mirror for /boot, no LVM there. /dev/md1 is a mirror, > than consists of the major part of /dev/sda and /dev

Re: LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 13:56:33 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:48:32 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > I've just finished setting up Jessie with mdadm and LVM, the latter > > of which I have never used before. > > > > /dev/md0 is a 1G mirror for /boot, no LVM there. /dev/md1 i

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 11:16:30 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 21:51:54 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150403_2316+0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Can any kind soul take pity on my less than perfect sight and tell > > > me where to find the md5sums and shasums for these

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]: > Greetings all; [...] > > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it into > my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be great as it > probably looks someplace else for its libraries & such. > > So where is the st

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 11:55:18 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 04:40:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > So

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:05:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > > C.E.T., Certified Electronics Technician, I am one, registered as > > NEB-118.  That card, dropped on the HR department desk when the > > department is looking to hire an electronics te

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:06:09 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400 > > > > The Wanderer wrote: > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be > > > careful to make sure that nothing got aut

Re: LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 13:04:16 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > > Please post the output of vgdisplay -v. > > Here goes. "freshinstall" is just a snapshot of the system right after > the first boot. Yup. vgdisplay -v says just that. > root@fenris:~# vgdisplay -v > DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:08:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'll use jigl to make a slide > > show thats well compressed. > > Please don't. Some of us have visual impairments. Just post the > pictures. > > Lisi jigl has the advantage of allow

Re: LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 15:09:20 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 13:04:16 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > root@fenris:~# vgdisplay -v > > DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed. > > Finding all volume groups > > Finding volume group "ROOTVG" > > --- Volume

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 06:20:24 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these > > here parts for decades. > > I couldn't find that one on the acronym site!! The general meaning seems to that wh

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 06:31:53 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:01:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > cf, cluster f--k. No idea where it originated, but common in these > > > here parts for decades. > > > > I could

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 07:10:01 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Gene Heskett [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]: > > Greetings all; > > [...] > > > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it > > into my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be > > great as it probab

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:18:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:08:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I'll use jigl to make a slide > > > show thats well compressed. > > > > Please don't. Some of us have visual impairments.

Re: Issues with Enigmail @ Icedove and a huge keyring

2015-04-04 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 02.04.2015 um 14:37 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:15:44PM +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: >> I've got a quiet big keyring (>2k keys inside it) and since last updates >> of enigmail I'm recognizing issues with it. Ehenever it's about >> verifying a signature Enigmail

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I remember similar problems with a USB drive which were due to a broken cable. Did you check with another USB cable? -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https:/

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 20:29:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:38:06 Brian wrote: > > > > Your turn now for some gauntlet picking up and a keystroke by > > keystroke account. :) > > > > There is no significant space available on the disk to install to. The > > only way to g

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 09:04:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:18:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 05:08:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:41:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I'll use jigl to make a slide > > > > show thats well compres

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 14:07:48 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 11:16:30 +0100 > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 21:51:54 -0600 > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > On 20150403_2316+0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Can any kind soul take pity on my less than perfect sig

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:05:55 Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 20:29:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:38:06 Brian wrote: > > > Your turn now for some gauntlet picking up and a keystroke by > > > keystroke account. :) > > > > > > There is no significant space a

[OT] Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > tbe, To Be Exact "Even with a tested IQ of 147, the wet ram is now having problems of the short term memory variety, TBE when its 80 years old." Parses, but fails semantic analysis. Apologies for not adding OT earlier. Cheers, David. -- To UNSU

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150403_1501-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > I'm not so unlucky as Bob appears to be (he says, touching wood), but > > > > I think Bob came to his conclusion during a previous period of > > instability in Debian, > > It could also be that I was unl

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Brian
On Sat 04 Apr 2015 at 12:57:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:05:55 Brian wrote: > > > > I said nothing of the sort. All my responses have been in the context > > of using d-i. That goes for others too. > > d-i? expand please. Debian installer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [OT] Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:59:49 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > tbe, To Be Exact > > "Even with a tested IQ of 147, the wet ram is now having problems of > the short term memory variety, TBE when its 80 years old." > > Parses, but fails semantic analysis.

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:19:52 Brian wrote: > On Sat 04 Apr 2015 at 12:57:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 12:05:55 Brian wrote: > > > I said nothing of the sort. All my responses have been in the > > > context of using d-i. That goes for others too. > > > > d-i? expa

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com): > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400 > > The Wanderer wrote: > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be careful > > > to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left runnin

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 13:43:14 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com): > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200 > > > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400 > > > > > > The Wanderer wrote: > > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd nee

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/04/2015 03:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:41:05 Ric Moore wrote: On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): [...] When he mentioned drives in a hot swap cage, isn't that RAID?? Then didn't the installer made the correct

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:43:14 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com): > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:04:53 +0200 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400 > > > The Wanderer wrote: > > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/04/2015 06:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2015 04:40:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2015 00:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 03 April 2015 18:09:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 03 April 2015 22:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote: Sorry Brian, that is ***generally**

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 14:14:21 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be > > > > > careful to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left > > > > > running on logout) which would try to access files under > > > > > /home/*/ - and thoug

Re: Xorg -configure fails with "created screens does not match number of detected devices"

2015-04-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/03/2015 09:34 AM, David Wright wrote: Quoting venkat (venka...@vortexindia.co.in): Tried various options today and finally modified xorg.conf with below settings made my X server start with multiple displays enabled. Section "Device" Identifier "Intel GMA3600" Driver "modesetting"

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 14:24:31 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/04/2015 03:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:41:05 Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote: > >>> Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > > > [...] > > > >> When he mentioned drive

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/04/2015 03:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: df currently reports: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 944923028 128755476 768168168 15% / udev

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 15:50:03 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/04/2015 03:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > df currently reports: > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks > > Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs > >

Re: Jessie and /var

2015-04-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Petter Adsen (pet...@synth.no): > I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm > RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume > sizes about right when I first set them up. > > VM images and containers are stored under /var - is there anything el

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-04 Thread deloptes
Paul E Condon wrote: > This is a place where Debian is really not newbie friendly. I think it never aimed to be - therefore you have ubuntu ... at least my feeling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Icedove stopped sending and receiving e-mail

2015-04-04 Thread Gary Dale
I've just had a rather bad time with my Debian/Jessie AMD64 system. I had to reset it yesterday after a hardware-related lockup (it doesn't like my optical drive connected to an add-in PCIe SATA card - usually freezes after writing an ISO image to DVD). The lockup wouldn't respond to sysrq

Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
I am experiencing a very strange phenomenon. I have an old IBM 3151 ASCII display terminal that has been lying around the house; and today I decided to see if I could get it connected up to one of my PCs, which runs Debian GNU/Linux (jessie). I was successful in doing this. But when I login to D

Re: Purge by Default

2015-04-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Is there a way to "--purge" by default when using apt-get or aptitude? > I often browse the apt repo and install various things I find (mostly > games) to discover it, then remove them in a few hours/days/weeks. I'm > afraid of leaving tons of config files laying on my

Re: Jessie and /var

2015-04-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm > > > RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume > > > sizes about right when I first set them up. You can always expand the volume v

Re: Purge by Default

2015-04-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/03/2015 at 06:50 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to "--purge" by default when using apt-get or > aptitude? I often browse the apt repo and install various things I > find (mostly games) to discover it, then remove them in a few > hours/days/weeks. I'm afraid of l

Re: LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > /dev/md0 is a 1G mirror for /boot, no LVM there. /dev/md1 is a mirror, > than consists of the major part of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - both 250G. > There are also 4G swap partitions on sda and sdb, no RAID there. This isn't a complaint but just comment. I gave myself a lot of f

Re: Emacs terminal corruption in Debian virtualbox guests

2015-04-04 Thread Dennis Schafroth
I am hit by this on one out of four virtual boxes guests running Debian 8 jessie (3 upgraded from wheezy, one installed clean). The one behaving bad is upgraded just as the other one running the same Mac mini host. The two others runs on another Mac mini. The package installed on bad is exact

Re: zfs, autofs dependencies

2015-04-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mimiko (vbv...@gmail.com): > On 03.04.2015 23:21, David Wright wrote: > >I'm as yet unconvinced. I can't see in your original posting where > >you've told ZFS how to manage mounting your volumes. > > > In my original post I've wrote: > > zfs create -V 4T zfspool/backup > zfs create -V 1T