Re: Icedove stopped sending and receiving e-mail

2015-04-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 17:44:34 -0400 "Gary Dale" wrote: > 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

Re: Jessie and /var

2015-04-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 16:35:02 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > 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 r

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

2015-04-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Powell wrote: > 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 Fun! I never used one of those models and am unfamiliar with it in particu

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 April 2015 17:57:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > The film show seems to be the only way I can present what I've done in a > manner that should not generate a 6 week long thread arguing about what > I did or did not do to cause my own headache if indeed it is my mistake. If you would like h

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150404_2240+0200, deloptes wrote: > 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 > In the present, Debian relies on Ubuntu, but there are still short passages of

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 April 2015 09:03:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2015 17:57:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > > The film show seems to be the only way I can present what I've done > > in a manner that should not generate a 6 week long thread arguing > > about what I did or did not do to cause my ow

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-05 Thread Brian
On Sun 05 Apr 2015 at 07:33:18 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150404_2240+0200, deloptes wrote: > > 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 > > In

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 05 April 2015 14:42:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 April 2015 09:03:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2015 17:57:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The film show seems to be the only way I can present what I've done > > > in a manner that should not generate a 6 week long thr

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

2015-04-05 Thread Linux-Fan
[Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:44:13 +0200] Petter Adsen wrote: > 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 o

Re: Icedove stopped sending and receiving e-mail

2015-04-05 Thread Gary Dale
Quoting "Petter Adsen" : On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 17:44:34 -0400 "Gary Dale" wrote: 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 free

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 April 2015 09:46:49 Brian wrote: > On Sun 05 Apr 2015 at 07:33:18 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20150404_2240+0200, deloptes wrote: > > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > This is a place where Debian is really not newbie friendly. > > > > > > I think it never aimed to be - therefore

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

2015-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150405_0201-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > > 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 > > Fun! I never used one

Fwd: add a remote login to the window login

2015-04-05 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Hi, I read in the features of lightdm "Supports remote login (incoming - XDMCP, VNC, outgoing - XDMCP, pluggable)." But I can't find where to configure it. *I want to enter from a local machine running to a remote server using XDMCP. I did it with without problem from a thin client. Now I

Re: Icedove stopped sending and receiving e-mail

2015-04-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/05/2015 10:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: Perhaps. I'm leaning at this point to doing a fresh install of Jessie (after saving /etc) to see if I can get it boot using systemd. Same thing I did back 6 months or so ago. Installing fresh fixed everything. I would back up /etc for reference, but al

Re: sshfs: problem with rsync

2015-04-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le lundi 30 mars 2015, 10:45:25 Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > I'm using sshfs to copy some files from my PC to Android devices. > With the cp command, no problem, but trying with "rsync -av" > gives the error: > > rsync: rename "/gs2/mnt/sdcard/.file.txt.xK3ZiH" -> "file.txt": > Operation not p

Re: sshfs: problem with rsync

2015-04-05 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015, Dominique Dumont wrote: You don't need to use sshfs with rsync. rsync is able to use ssh with something like rsync -av /some/where remote_system:/to/some/where my Android ssh server uses the port 2223, and I could not find how to force rsync to use this port. (you ne

Re: Icedove stopped sending and receiving e-mail

2015-04-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/04/15 03:23 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 17:44:34 -0400 "Gary Dale" wrote: 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 car

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

2015-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:01:10 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case "m"s >> at the end of each line. > > How does the terminal handle control-m carriage returns? Normally at > the terminal will receive a CR-NL pair an

Re: e2fsck.conf and ssh_known_hosts: where?

2015-04-05 Thread David Wright
> While attempting to debug a flaky HDD under Jessie, I had occasion to > inspect the conf file /etc/e2fsck.conf, and found that it doesn't > exist on any of my computers. But the man e2fsck mentions file > e2fsck.conf and man e2fsck.conf states that the default location is > /etc/e2fsck.conf . Has

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

2015-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 11:59:49 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > > Times change. If one waits even a short while, they can change a lot. > When this terminal was new, a 'standard' terminal was a mechanical > teletype manufactured by Teletype Corp. in Skokie, IL. The generic > name for this 'ter