Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 29 prairial, an CCXXIV, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : > If you see no reply-to header, then only do reply to list as already > instructed with L for mutt, which I don't use. > > Always do reply to list, it's simple. IF someone says they are not > subscribed, please CC me, then take that in

[SOLVED (sort of)]Re: apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

2016-06-16 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:13:43 +0200 Michael Lange wrote: > Ok, looks like it's a bug in Jessie's apt version. Just for the record, in case anyone reads this: I filed a bug report for apt about this issue ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827365 ), however it showed that a new fe

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 6/15/2016 4:23 PM, Rodary Jacques wrote: > Not using any MUA, just a browser (Opera, which is BTW in the official > Debian list: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers, non-free but I don't > know why as it is a Mozilla clone; Mozilla isn't free What a ridiculous claim this has always been by deb

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 07:26:37AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 6/15/2016 4:23 PM, Rodary Jacques wrote: > > Not using any MUA, just a browser (Opera, which is BTW in the official > > Debian list: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers, non-free but I do

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Tanstaafl
My last reply to the spammer aka 'Nicolas George'... On 6/16/2016 5:28 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > With that in mind, you realize that the reply-to-list feature is bad UI > design: No, but I did take a minute to test and discovered my MUA of choice (Thunderbird) does have a bug with respect to i

Re: Missing signatures for installer checksums

2016-06-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
maybe an easier way if Sarah has smtp working on her debian box. Install report-bug and run it. If everything gets filled in correctly and report-bug can actually send an e-mail, the bug report will be filed correctly with everything debian expects. On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Leon.37428 wrote: Da

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 6/16/2016 7:45 AM, < wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 07:26:37AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 6/15/2016 4:23 PM, Rodary Jacques wrote: >>> Mozilla isn't free >> What a ridiculous claim this has always been by debianites... > This is an unnecessary slur. Were it not for Hanlon's razor[1], I'

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Nicolas George wrote: > Now, finally, how do we achieve automation? > > The ideal solution would be to have a real header telling us what to do: > "List-Reply-To: list" or "List-Reply-To: sender, list". Unfortunately, the > people in charge of that messed it up, they invented these useless headers

Samba 4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3 and group specific policies

2016-06-16 Thread Virgo Pärna
Just checking if anyone else has problems with group specific Group Policies with Samba Active Directory domain controller with latest samba update (from 5th of June)? I have one policy that is only allowed for specific computers. Those computers are part of special groups and gro

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 08:20:11AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: [...] > Really? Whatever... to claim Mozilla was 'not free' based solely on the > one little issue with the trademarked logo was just plain silly. *plonk* -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > There are MD5 and SHA sums in that same directory. However I can only access > those checksums through unencrypted connections. Therefore they cannot be > used to check against 3rd party tampering. The chain of trust begins by the public keys as decribed at https://www.debian.org/CD/verif

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Did you take a look here: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify , "Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs"? The https protocol would add quite some overhead to the download of the iso-files which are already big by them self. Regards, jvp.

Re: Samba 4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3 and group specific policies

2016-06-16 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 12:58:44 + (UTC), Virgo Pärna wrote: > > Those computers are part of special groups and groups have permission > for that policy. But those computers get "Access denied" when trying to > read that policy (GPT.INI). It worked before last update. > Or maybe I'm wron

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Matthew Davis
> Did you take a look here: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify , "Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs"? Yes I did. It's incredibly confusing. It's written with assumed knowledge that a lot of users don't have. There are lots of hex strings with mysterious 3 letter abbreviations and no commands in

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 June 2016 13:47:54 Dan Purgert wrote: > In addition, I feel that both parties in the original problem > (apparently Lisi and Nicolas -- please correct me if I'm wrong) each > have some fault in the matter.  Mainly, this seems to stem from each of > you assuming that the other's MUA b

Re: Missing signatures for installer checksums

2016-06-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jun 2016 at 08:18:18 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > maybe an easier way if Sarah has smtp working on her debian box. Install > report-bug and run it. If everything gets filled in correctly and > report-bug can actually send an e-mail, the bug report will be filed > correctly with everyth

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 June 2016 14:41:22 Matthew Davis wrote: > (Sorry about the lack of pleasantries in my previous email. I haven't used > these sorts of mailing lists before, so I just assumed it was all about > going straight to business like on Stack Exchange.) Both your emails seemed fine to me. :-

Re: testing, rhythmbox err msg "Failed to open output device: Unable to prepare device"

2016-06-16 Thread songbird
Sven Arvidsson wrote: ... > Most likely a problem with Gstreamer, is=C2=A0gstreamer1.0-alsa installed? pulseaudio was too noisy, took it out again, left gstreamer alone. things now work like before with alsa. thanks again, :) songbird

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2016 13:47:54 Dan Purgert wrote: >> In addition, I feel that both parties in the original problem >> (apparently Lisi and Nicolas -- please correct me if I'm wrong) each >> have some fault in the matter.  Mainly, this seems to stem from each of >> you assumin

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 June 2016 16:31:21 Dan Purgert wrote: > > In the end, however, we are all at each others' mercy. :-/ > > Indeed we are.  The people who send HTML messages often create "fun" > issues (as my client expects text alone).  But, "text only" is now > seemingly the "alternate" rather than t

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
matthew wrote: > [snip] > > There are MD5 and SHA sums in that same directory. However I can only > access those checksums through unencrypted connections. Therefore they > cannot be used to check against 3rd party tampering. (Since someone > who has the ability to tamper with the .iso can also tam

open - resource temporarily unavailable

2016-06-16 Thread Andrew P. Cherepenko
Hello list, 'open()' for creating file sometimes returns an error: couldn't open "myfile.txt": resource temporarily unavailable either in background process or interactively (ex: in Emacs when trying to save a file). system: Debian 8.5 with kernel: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 and syst

error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie

2016-06-16 Thread Dalios
Hi list, my system is Debian 8 Jessie (stable) with XFCE Desktop Environment and just a few days back my Iceweasel browser transformed to Firefox. After that my keyboard shortcut for launching Firefox isn't working if Firefox isn't running! In other words: if a Firefox Window is open then I can la

Re: Missing signatures for installer checksums

2016-06-16 Thread Sarah Newman
On 06/16/2016 07:44 AM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 16 Jun 2016 at 08:18:18 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> maybe an easier way if Sarah has smtp working on her debian box. Install >> report-bug and run it. If everything gets filled in correctly and >> report-bug can actually send an e-mail, the bug

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/06/2016 18:18, Dan Purgert a écrit : 1) So, the fact that HTTPS doesn't ~actually~ provide you with any security when a "malicious party" has root accesss to the webserver, AND that it adds overhead to the transmission Does it really add network overhead of just CPU overhead on the se

Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie

2016-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 June 2016 12:48:42 Dalios wrote: > Hi list, > > my system is Debian 8 Jessie (stable) with XFCE Desktop Environment > and just a few days back my Iceweasel browser transformed to Firefox. > After that my keyboard shortcut for launching Firefox isn't working if > Firefox isn't runnin

Apt periodic doesn't work

2016-06-16 Thread Jayson Willson
Hello! I use Debian Stable. Recently I have installed unattended-upgrades package, so as to have apt lists updated and possible upgrades downloaded automatically (while I do not want them to be installed automatically). However, though I think I have configured everything correctly, apt doesn't

Re: Missing signatures for installer checksums

2016-06-16 Thread John Hasler
Sarah writes: > Figuring out how to file the bug report isn't a problem. The problem > is I don't know what component is responsible for generating either > the existing checksum files or the .sign files for the ISOs. Then file the bug against your best guess as to the culprit. The maintainer wil

Re: boot times out after dist-upgrade on Stretch

2016-06-16 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for getting back to me, Sven, I normally run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade immediately after my computer boots. According to the messages log, I turned the computer on about 5 minutes before running that command and the last log entry was about 3.5 hours later at 22:59. I hadn't f

Re: Missing signatures for installer checksums

2016-06-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jun 2016 at 13:04:35 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Sarah writes: > > Figuring out how to file the bug report isn't a problem. The problem > > is I don't know what component is responsible for generating either > > the existing checksum files or the .sign files for the ISOs. > > Then file

Functional Difference of dpkg --get-selections vs --get-selections "*"

2016-06-16 Thread Bruce Gates
Hello, Noob question for y'all... What is the functional difference between dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --get-selections "*"? It seems to me that the first command would find all packages anyway, making the wildcard erroneous...perhaps I'm mistaken? Thanks guys and gals! Bruce

Re: open - resource temporarily unavailable

2016-06-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-06-16 21:46 +0600, Andrew P. Cherepenko wrote: > Hello list, > 'open()' for creating file sometimes returns an error: > couldn't open "myfile.txt": resource temporarily unavailable > either in background process or interactively (ex: in Emacs when > trying to save a file). Are y

Re: Apt periodic doesn't work

2016-06-16 Thread Teemu Likonen
Jayson Willson [2016-06-16 20:54:12+03] wrote: > Hello! I use Debian Stable. Recently I have installed > unattended-upgrades package, so as to have apt lists updated and > possible upgrades downloaded automatically (while I do not want them > to be installed automatically). However, though I think

Re: Apt periodic doesn't work

2016-06-16 Thread Jayson Willson
There is only one empty file named unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log in this directory. unattended-upgrades: Initial blacklisted packages: Initial whitelisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: ['origin=Debian,codename=jessie,label=Debian-Security'] No packages foun

Re: Functional Difference of dpkg --get-selections vs --get-selections "*"

2016-06-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-06-16 18:36 +, Bruce Gates wrote: > What is the functional difference between dpkg --get-selections and dpkg > --get-selections "*"? >From the manpage: , | --get-selections [package-name-pattern...] | Get list of package selections, and write it to stdout. |

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 16/06/2016 18:18, Dan Purgert a écrit : > 1) >> So, the fact that HTTPS doesn't ~actually~ provide you with any security >> when a "malicious party" has root accesss to the webserver, > > >> AND that it >> adds overhead to the transmission > > Does it really add network

Re: boot times out after dist-upgrade on Stretch

2016-06-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 at 03:12, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Thank you for getting back to me, Sven, > > I normally run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade immediately after > my computer boots. According to the messages log, I turned the > computer on about 5 minutes before running that command and the

Re: boot times out after dist-upgrade on Stretch

2016-06-16 Thread Borden Rhodes
First, a huge shout out to /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.Debian.gz for telling me that appending systemd.debug-shell to the linux line in grub would let me run a shell even whilst the main boot couldn't drop into an emergency shell. I think this should be writ in large friendly letters at the start