Re: converting my local site to be https only access

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:35:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty tight > sandbox, but not running https. > > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it do > an auto-redirect to itself, b

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 11:35:19AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: [...] > one of the instruction sets you were following was suggesting to use > mod_rewrite. Personally, I think that's overkill [...] Good advice. Debugging Apache's mod_rewrite turns

IDE to USB Converters

If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? I actually have been using an IDE-SATA converter on these systems but 2 of 4 SATA drives have completely died after

Re: IDE to USB Converters

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:02:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis > that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a > bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? Does su

O/T question, but not completely

Please reply privately, unless you really think it's on-topic. Me, I'm not sure. I trying to build a package using automake (aclocal). I have all the tools installed that I need--autotools, autotools-dev, libtool, etc After patching the package's configure script, I attempted to regenerate the bu

Re: O/T question, but not completely

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:38:28AM -0400, Steve Matzura wrote: > configure.ac:87: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_MAD' not found in library > configure.ac:89: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_LAME' not found in library MAD and LAME are MP3 decoder/encoder libraries. Perhaps these macros are supposed to come from

Re: O/T question, but not completely

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:38:28AM -0400, Steve Matzura wrote: > Please reply privately, unless you really think it's on-topic. Me, I'm > not sure. > > I trying to build a package using automake (aclocal). I have all the > tools installed that I need

Re: O/T question, but not completely

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:53:49AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:38:28AM -0400, Steve Matzura wrote: > > configure.ac:87: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_MAD' not found in library > > configure.ac:89: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_LAME' no

Only root can write on USB disk

Dear all I have a very annoying problem. I can't write to my usb drives (fat32, ntfs, etc.) without root permissions. How can I fix this? -- Regards, Mostafa Shahverdy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: IDE to USB Converters

writes: > Does such an animal exist? I mean in the direction you are thinking > of (I know the "other" direction exists). That's what bothers me, too. I know that the picture I have in my head is a board with an IDE connector on one side and a usb port on the other where one installs the thumb dr

Re: IDE to USB Converters

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:02:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis > that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a > bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? > > I actually have been using an IDE-SATA conve

Re: Only root can write on USB disk

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:16:57PM +0430, Mostafa Shahverdy wrote: > I have a very annoying problem. I can't write to my usb drives (fat32, > ntfs, etc.) without root permissions. How can I fix this? Mount the file system with "-o uid=youruser" to have the files presented by the kernel as being "o

Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf?

hello Debian users! does anybody know an alternative for PDF printing (from any application that can print) to printer-driver-cups-pdf? The output of printer-driver-cups-pdf (in jessie and sid) is really bad, see: http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~fnatte2s/freeplane.pdf (might not be viewable by in-brow

Re: IDE to USB Converters

Dan Ritter writes: > Your SATA disks lasted 7-8 years? That's a reasonable lifetime > for spinning disks. Replace them with more SATA disks, either > spinning or SSD. Thanks for responding. I failed to mention that those SATA disks were SSD disks so it probably makes more sense to just buy some r

Syslog: rpc.imapd and nss_getpwnam “does not map into [ourdomain.tld]”

List, good evening, We have set up a new server intended only to serve archival and current files to other users on our network. The primary applications are nfs and samba; sshd and exim (only for system mail to route to our on-site MTA on another machine) are also operating. Syslog is show

Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf?

On Tue 02 May 2017 at 18:12:18 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > does anybody know an alternative for PDF printing (from any application > that can print) to printer-driver-cups-pdf? > > The output of printer-driver-cups-pdf (in jessie and sid) > is really bad, see: > http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~fnatte

Boot Drives for older Systems

This drive will be booting Debian so my question is not totally off-topic. Some older P.C. BIOS programs will not boot any drive over 32GB. Can you get a larger drive, partition it with a 32 GB boot partition and expect it to work that way with the remainder of the drive available for more space su

Re: Boot Drives for older Systems

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > This drive will be booting Debian so my question is not totally > off-topic. Some older P.C. BIOS programs will not boot any drive > over 32GB. Can you get a larger drive, partition it with a 32 GB > boot partition and expect it to

Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf?

hello Brian, Brian writes: > On Tue 02 May 2017 at 18:12:18 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > >> does anybody know an alternative for PDF printing (from any application >> that can print) to printer-driver-cups-pdf? >> >> The output of printer-driver-cups-pdf (in jessie and sid) >> is really bad, see

Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf?

On Tuesday 02 May 2017 19:04:55 Felix Natter wrote: > I tried renaming the file to freeplane.ps, and get the same result when > viewing with evince ;-) Renaming is generally a waste of time in Linux, which looks at the file not the file extension. You are thinking of Another OS. ;-) Lisi

Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf?

On Tue 02 May 2017 at 20:04:55 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > hello Brian, Hello Felix. > Brian writes: > > On Tue 02 May 2017 at 18:12:18 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > > > >> does anybody know an alternative for PDF printing (from any application > >> that can print) to printer-driver-cups-pdf?

Re: Boot Drives for older Systems

Le 02/05/2017 à 19:13, Martin McCormick a écrit : This drive will be booting Debian so my question is not totally off-topic. Some older P.C. BIOS programs will not boot any drive over 32GB. Can you get a larger drive, partition it with a 32 GB boot partition and expect it to work that way with th

Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf?

On Tue, 02 May 2017 20:04:55 +0200 Felix Natter wrote: >hello Brian, > >Brian writes: >> On Tue 02 May 2017 at 18:12:18 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: >> >>> does anybody know an alternative for PDF printing (from any application >>> that can print) to printer-driver-cups-pdf? >>> >>> The output o

Re: Console fonts

Hello Felix, Thank you for your informative response to my issue. My comments in-line below: On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 21:34:14 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >Larry Dighera composed on 2017-04-30 16:40 (UTC-0700): >[...] >Previously, in OP https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00534.html : >

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

On Tuesday 02 May 2017 06:35:19 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:35:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty > > tight sandbox, but not running https. > > > > Where can I find a tut that is a com

Re: underscore in xterm sometimes invisible

On Mon, 1 May 2017, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-05-01 08:58 +, David Griffith wrote: When I completely log out and log back in, the underscore character will be invisible in xterm. If I do "xrdb .Xresources", subsequent xterms created will show underscores. Investigating further, I tried

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:24:42PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I don't understand that: do you find Apache's config worse, or > lighttpd's or nginx's? Sorry I was unclear: I meant I find Apache's config the worst. It was the first HTTPD I used, and I spent many years supporting it professiona

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:42:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Humm, is this sounding like I should open up a fwd to port 443 on this > machine in dd-wrt? As it is, I am only NATing port 6309 to it via the > NAT menu. You will need to open another port up for HTTPS, yes, and 443 is the default.

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

On Tuesday 02 May 2017 17:13:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:24:42PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I don't understand that: do you find Apache's config worse, or > > lighttpd's or nginx's? > > Sorry I was unclear: I meant I find Apache's config the worst. It was > the

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

On Tuesday 02 May 2017 17:18:13 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:42:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Humm, is this sounding like I should open up a fwd to port 443 on > > this machine in dd-wrt? As it is, I am only NATing port 6309 to it > > via the NAT menu. > > You will ne

Re: Console fonts

Larry Dighera composed on 2017-05-02 12:20 (UTC-0700): ... >>Possibly Grub could be reconfigured to make a >>lesser mode like 1440x900 or less explicit. > I'm willing to edit grub, if you're willing to provide specific > instructions. Unfortunately, my Unix experience predates grub (AT&T Unix >

Re: IDE to USB Converters

On 05/02/2017 06:02 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? I actually have been using an IDE-SATA converter on these systems

Re: Console fonts

On Tue 02 May 2017 at 12:20:01 (-0700), Larry Dighera wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 21:34:14 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > >Even if OP can get the ttys working to his liking, I still think it's very > >likely a lost cause trying to use Jessie on his hardware. Stretch is very > >near > >ready to

Re: Console fonts

On Tue 02 May 2017 at 12:20:01 (-0700), Larry Dighera wrote: > Yes. It's a new single-board computer platform that began shipping ~April > 14, 2017. I can personally confirm that Tails Linux X11 runs fine on this > platform, and the manufacturer (Udoo) claims to have successfully installed > Deb

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

On 20/04/17 12:33, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Asus UEFI BIOS (H110I-PLUS BIOS 3202) defaults to incorrect turbo boost multipliers but I was able to manually set the correct "Per CPU" values in the BIOS. For a 7700K, these should be 45/44/44/44 if you are not overclocking (base clock 100MHz): https