Re: spam filtering question?

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 10:27:50PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > shellworld.net the shell service where I do most of my internet work is > using Ubuntu. > For reasons that I find rather confusing spam assassin is well no longer > filtering at the level it did previously. > Has something happened

Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:53:30AM +1100, Igor Cicimov wrote: > It depends. If you are using cloud services with remote shared storage like > AWS EBS it does not make sense using LVM on top of RAID. To me it is just > adding complexity to already complex SAN storage. You also have no idea > what th

understanding how localization works in Debian

2016-12-12 Thread Martin T
Hi, I read the "Configuring the System for Another Language" paragraph in "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" and am I correct that localization works in a way that: 1) pam_env.so sets the environmental variables seen in the output of locale command based on configuration files(for example /etc

Re: network setup

2016-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 Dec 2016 at 19:43:06 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried manual network configuration and debian renamed wlan0 to > wlx00c0ca364bd2 for some reason. If I do ip a that shows up as possible > wifi connection. Unfortunately ifup doesn't recognize that device name. It is unclear (to me,

How to upgrade / compile an ARM kernel?

2016-12-12 Thread Robert Latest
Hi all, I have this old hardkernel odroid-u2 chugging away as a slow but reliable mediaserver. It's a few years old and uses a Debian Wheezy I downloaded from Hardkernel's site. I now wanted to connect a two-bay USB/SATA adapter, but the odroid only sees one of the drives. Maybe it's something e

Re: understanding how localization works in Debian

2016-12-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 01:58:12PM +0200, Martin T wrote: > 1) pam_env.so sets the environmental variables seen in the output of > locale command based on configuration files(for example > /etc/default/locale) when user logs in Maybe, maybe not. The LC_* and LANG variables can come from many diff

Re: How to upgrade / compile an ARM kernel?

2016-12-12 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday, 12 December 2016 14:20:45 PYST Robert Latest wrote: > Hi all, > > I have this old hardkernel odroid-u2 chugging away as a slow but > reliable mediaserver. It's a few years old and uses a Debian Wheezy I > downloaded from Hardkernel's site. > > I now wanted to connect a two-bay USB/SAT

Nvidia legacy 340 package was removed?

2016-12-12 Thread tier
What we will use insted?

Using EasyCAP USB video capture device

2016-12-12 Thread rhkramer
Is anyone here using the EasyCAP USB video capture device? If so, what software are you using? (I want to capture video and audio.) Comments / suggestions? (I have one of these, but I haven't tried using it so far...)

Re: Nvidia legacy 340 package was removed?

2016-12-12 Thread Teemu Likonen
tier [2016-12-12 21:18:22+06] wrote: > What we will use insted? Nvidia 340 is still in Jessie as package nvidia-driver but it is also in jessie-backports as package nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver. Here's what my system tells: $ apt-cache policy '^nvidia-(legacy-[0-9]+xx-)?driver$' nvidia-driver:

Re: Desktop freeze

2016-12-12 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, i'm having a very similar issue with epiphany-browser and chromium, using gnome-shell in debian/sid. The content inside the window stops being refreshed completely, but i can still move the window around without it displaying garbage. I'm not sure on which package i should report this. Jéré

Tip: nmtui NetworkManager, Terminal Interface (also Bug#694068 + hostname)

2016-12-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Hi.. Sharing the existence of the Debian package called "nmtui" because the only 5 references to it in possibly 200,000 emails are from this past week k/t Debian-Accessibility and Debian-User listservs [1], [2]. Thought maybe nmtui's interface might prove more user friendly for those who found not

Re: Package update problem...

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday, 12/11/16 02:45:41 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. > > > > I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates > > available. I select the package(s) and then I'm ask

Re: How to upgrade / compile an ARM kernel?

2016-12-12 Thread Robert Latest
Thanks for the tip, I'll take my question next door.

Plasma: keyboard crash

2016-12-12 Thread Hans
Hi folks, from time to time in plasma 5 I have the problem, that the keyboard stops its function. Is there a way to restart the keyboard without restarting plasma? Thanks for any hints. Best Hans

Re: understanding how localization works in Debian

2016-12-12 Thread Martin T
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 01:58:12PM +0200, Martin T wrote: >> 1) pam_env.so sets the environmental variables seen in the output of >> locale command based on configuration files(for example >> /etc/default/locale) when user logs in > > Maybe,

Black Screen on First Boot

2016-12-12 Thread Dan Norton
Greetings, The netinst of jessie from a flash drive, graphic install, went well like it did on another PC, but on this old PC the boot after install produced a black screen. vbeinfo lists some display settings followed by "Preferred mode 1360x768", but this mode is not in the list. There is

Re: Where to report wl bad behavior ?

2016-12-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> 2016-12-11 20:59 GMT+01:00 kamaraju kusumanchi > : >> >> How and where did you get the wireless driver? If the driver is not >> part of the official Debian software repository, I do not see how >> filing a bug report would help. Your best shot is to complain to the >> upstream yourself or use a d

Re: Package update problem...

2016-12-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full > administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on the > system. My reasoning is that by default if the user goes to a "naughty" web > page and some

Re: Plasma: keyboard crash

2016-12-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > from time to time in plasma 5 I have the problem, that the keyboard stops its > function. Is there a way to restart the keyboard without restarting plasma? How have you determined that the problem is with plasma 5 and not something else

current testing

2016-12-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello after a long absence. Following up (in a sense) on the recent thread about the wisdom of mixing elements from the stable and testing/unstable distributions, I wanted to ask about how stable current testing is. I used to run the testing distribution as a matter of course, but have been too bu