Re: Samsung ML-1915 printer

2017-05-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Thu 18 May 2017 at 17:32:33 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Hi, Brian: >> >> finally I can get back to my printer problem... Thanks a lot for your >> help... I'm trying to follow your instructions but... Well, I don't know, >> maybe I'm missing something: > > The instruct

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-20 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2017-05-20 07:41 keltezéssel, Mark Fletcher írta: > I'd like to be able to diagnose what's going on here, why the transfer > was so slow. Any recommendations for tools I should research? I am very > willing to read man pages etc, but am a bit lost where to start. Google > gave me a lot of Window

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-20 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 01:41:20 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > The internet access is via Cable. I run an ethernet cable from the cable > modem to the firewall machine, then from the firewall machine to the > Linkstation's WAN port. The firewall machine's WiFi interface is > disabled (I didn't includ

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread Yvan Masson
I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security updates every day. > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > In Debian Stretch install pk-update-icon. > > This package works b

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-20 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated -- so not really suitable for an automated backup > solution. And as the conventional wisdom goes, if a backup isn't > automated, you're not doing a backup. > Yes for VM it is possi

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-20 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> craigswin wrote: >> >> > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative >> > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run >> > Vectorworks. >> >> VMs come with a penalty i

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread deloptes
Yvan Masson wrote: > So I suppose that Gnome and KDE should display user notification about > updates. > - I can tell that it is not the case for Gnome in Stretch (at least on > my desktop), which makes me really disappointed. Is there anyone here > who gets update notifications under Gnome in Str

Re: Update Notifier

2017-05-20 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 20-05-17, Yvan Masson wrote: > I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue > for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security > updates every day. > > > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > > > In Debian Stretch ins

OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

2017-05-20 Thread rhkramer
I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as follows: * [[][]] e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. My first thought (well, actually it's probably the sixth, one of which was trying to get the TWiki devel

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> There are the so called snapshots, which you can make and then include in >> your back up. No need to down the VM. [...] > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated I have no idea what that means. The way it normally works is that you have a

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yes for VM it is possible only if you use ESX server and licensed VM Ware Then better use Free Software, such as kvm, VirtualBox, ... Stefan

Re: OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

2017-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as > follows: > >* [[][]] > > e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] > > I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. In my quick test, sort -t '[' -k 4 seemed to do the trick, Stefan

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 18 May 2017 at 18:03, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > >A while ago, I initiated the "If Linux Is About Choice ..." thread > >about why there is no choice of inits during an initial install. > > > >Since that time, I've tested several systemd-less distros[1] as well as > >Stretch as replacement

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello! > > I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm > hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. > > My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one > Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX m

Re: how to copy files

2017-05-20 Thread Felix Dietrich
Dejan Jocic writes: > rsync -av /path/to/original/folder /path/to/backup > > Notice that there is no need for those / on the end of paths. Rsync actually treats a trailing newline on the source path specially; quoted from the man page: A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior

Re: how to copy files

2017-05-20 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 20-05-17, Felix Dietrich wrote: > Dejan Jocic writes: > > > rsync -av /path/to/original/folder /path/to/backup > > > > Notice that there is no need for those / on the end of paths. > > Rsync actually treats a trailing newline on the source path specially; > quoted from the man page: > >

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-20 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >​If this is true and it is a doddle to convert an ordinary debian >install >with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there >all >this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? Because DDs are listening, but users aren't :D. -nik

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-20 Thread Cat
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:20:15PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > If this is true and it is a doddle to convert an ordinary debian install > with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there all > this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? Fanaticism. For some

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 20 May 2017 at 14:43, Cat wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:20:15PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > If this is true and it is a doddle to convert an ordinary debian install > > with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there > all > > this sturm und drang and spa

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-20 Thread Catherine Gramze
> On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm >> hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. >> >> My home network consist

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 20 May 2017 14:20:15 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: Hello Michael, >with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there >all this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? People complain about all sorts of things. Changing something. Not changing somethin

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 20 May 2017 at 15:59, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2017 14:20:15 +0100 > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > >with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there > >all this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? > > People complain about all

Re: netfilter related regression in linux-image 3.16.43-2?

2017-05-20 Thread Tomaž Šolc
On 18. 05. 2017 21:14, Tomaž Šolc wrote: > after upgrading a mail server to the recent 8.8 Jessie point release > my monitoring showed a significantly decreased amount of inbound > SMTP traffic. Specifically, after rebooting for kernel upgrade from > linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 t

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right > click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded > out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that > something is not clickable. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
Michael Milliman wrote: > I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has > ceased to be displayed. [...] > I have attempted to re-set the desktop > background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop > background on the desktop to no effect. I don't know wha

Re: OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

2017-05-20 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2017-05-20 09:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as > > follows: > > > >* [[][]] > > > > e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] > > > > I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. > > In my quick test, > >

Re: OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

2017-05-20 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 09:19:07 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as > > > > follows: > >* [[][]] > > > > e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] > > > > I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. > > In my quick

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/20/2017 01:26 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right >> click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded >> out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that >> something is n

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/19/2017 09:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot >> the problem. The salient information is: OS is

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. > [...] >> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop >> b

Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-20 Thread Anil Duggirala
I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) in dual boot (UEFI) and everything was working. I wanted to reinstall Debian, so I installed Debian again by deleting the debian partitions (I think correctly) using the Debian installer partitioner and choosing the Guided use largest continuous

madam scrubbing?

2017-05-20 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, I have mdadm installed, and have three sets of RAID1 partitions set up. I have not explicitly configured any scrubbing, but do see some entries in the weekly and monthly cron scripts to do so. However, the machine I have this on is down quite often, and I want to run this using anacreo

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-20 Thread Fungi4All
Original Message Subject: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome. Local Time: May 21, 2017 3:56 AM UTC Time: May 21, 2017 12:56 AM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) i

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> >>> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >>> ceased to be displayed. >> [...] >>> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >>> background

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-20 Thread Felix Miata
Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-20 19:56 (UTC-0500): ... We can help you better if you can provide more information. When was your PC new? What make and model is it? Are you able to Ctrl-Alt-Fn and log in? If yes, try to show us output at least from: inxi -c0 -G or inxi -c0 -

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-20 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 20 May 2017 14:41:20 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello! > > I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm > hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. ... > I'd like to be able to diagnose what's going on here, why the transfer > was so slow

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-20 Thread David Christensen
On 05/19/2017 10:41 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello! Hi! :-) I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine

Packaging problem: impossible to build package from source

2017-05-20 Thread Michele
Hello everyone. I don't know if this is the best suited place for this kind of assistance, but I'm currently trying to create a debian .deb package from the official source obtained from debian repositories. In my case I'm trying to build openvpn, the procedure I follow is: apt-get source openv

Packaging problem: impossible to build package from source

2017-05-20 Thread Michele
Hello everyone. I don't know if this is the best suited place for this kind of assistance, but I'm currently trying to create a debian .deb package from the official source obtained from debian repositories. In my case I'm trying to build openvpn, the procedure I follow is: apt-get source openv

Re: Re: Trouble importing gpg keys in stretch

2017-05-20 Thread Peter Miller
Frank, The answers are: 7 7 0 So, it doesn't look like the issue. Thanks for your help anyway. Except, now I am left with a system I can't update properly. Cheers, PEte