Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 04:04:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Kenneth Parker writes: > > > Isn't this what this is all about? [...] > Excellent work, and a great result. Thanks for reporting it to us! Seconded. Thanks for the report. That's the spi

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Congratulations, Kenneth! I’m proud to have been of help! Rick On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have > trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent > Chicken and Eg

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
m...@neidorff.com: > > What is your goal in doing another install? If you want a text interface, > then open a terminal window and make it full screen. Poof! Best of both > worlds. True. And for more isolation but without the requirement for reboots (and a separate kernel) you can use chroot

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running systems, has been going for a while, and also learning more about the systemd changes. I will also add the Bios to UEFI transition, which the last two

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
Kenneth Parker: > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > systems, has been going for a while, It has been going on since at least 2008, so calling these changes "recent" uses a quite fl

Re: how to use boot.img.gz

2018-04-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Long Wind wrote: > /debian/dists/Debian9.4/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media > it's in directory above Do you mean something like http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ ? It seems hardly to be capable of doing anything without the

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Long Wind
Congratulation! such success story is hardly surprising to me debian has lots of such story if i meet problem, usually i can get help from this list sometimes i can't solve it even after seeking help but debian is still best in my experience On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 1:39:03 PM GMT+8, Ken

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/23/2018 03:38 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: When I recently wanted a *truly* Minimal Debian 8 system (so I could study systemd from the ground up), I installed from the "netinst" CD, with the Ethernet Cable disconnected. It gave me Exactly what I was looking for, took little space, and I (aft

Re: (solved)Re: how to use boot.img.gz

2018-04-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 09:37:05 +, Long Wind wrote: > Thank Thomas Schmitt! > I can't use the file for that purpose.I will try other methods. > > > On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 5:16:13 PM GMT+8, Thomas Schmitt > wrote: [Good explanation snipped] > But why build a new ISO when you al

Re: how to use boot.img.gz

2018-04-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > But why build a new ISO when you already have downloaded a good one ? Brian wrote: > I don't think Thomas Schmitt was quite saying you cannot boot from USB > using boot.img.gz but querying why you should want to. I still wonder, but am too shy to ask directly. Have a nice day

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:33:00PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > While installing and you check no boxes to add packages or desktop you get > Debian Base install, command line, apt, dpkg and internet. Correct. > Package > 'net-tools' is installed so you have ifconfig if needed. This is the same >

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Joe
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:25:02 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > m...@neidorff.com: > > > > What is your goal in doing another install? If you want a text > > interface, then open a terminal window and make it full screen. > > Poof! Best of both worlds. > > True. And for more isolation but withou

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/24/2018 05:20 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:33:00PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: While installing and you check no boxes to add packages or desktop you get Debian Base install, command line, apt, dpkg and internet. Correct. Package 'net-tools' is installed so you h

Re: how to use boot.img.gz

2018-04-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 13:59:16 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > But why build a new ISO when you already have downloaded a good one ? > > Brian wrote: > > I don't think Thomas Schmitt was quite saying you cannot boot from USB > > using boot.img.gz but querying why you should

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 05:39:30AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > I was thinking net-tools gave us ifconfig. It does. > So Greg what package pulls in > the things we need for internet? I know its not network-manager. A default install of stretch does not have the ifconfig command. It has the ip

Re: how to use boot.img.gz

2018-04-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > There is no problem with 'zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX' and copying > a netinst 9.3 image to a USB stick. Boots fine and locates the image. > Then I get the dreaded "No kernel modules found...mismatch...kernel > used by this version of the installer...kernel version available in

Re: how to use boot.img.gz

2018-04-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 15:56:03 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Brian wrote: > > There is no problem with 'zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX' and copying > > a netinst 9.3 image to a USB stick. Boots fine and locates the image. > > Then I get the dreaded "No kernel modules found...mismatch...kern

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 06:22:46 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/23/2018 03:38 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > When I recently wanted a *truly* Minimal Debian 8 system (so I could study > > systemd from the ground up), I installed from the "netinst" CD, with the > > Ethernet Cable disconnected.

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 05:39:30AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> I was thinking net-tools gave us ifconfig. > > It does. Kinda. On Buster, ifconfig and its buds are installed automatically. But if you've written a script parsing ifconfig

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
I kept the tarball of the resulring System, before installing anything (because tar is on the Minimal System). However, I could not find that tarball last night. I believe (via Skimming) that someone else answered you. Kenneth Parker On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 7:23 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04

Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread John Cunningham
Howdy, I just noticed that logrotate hasn't been running since October 2016 on one of my Jessie boxes. Manually running logrotate works without issue. This is approximately the time I upgraded it from Wheezy. I hate to wade into the pool of systemd hate, but is this systemd's fault? I noticed ana

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-04-24 16:40 +, John Cunningham wrote: > I just noticed that logrotate hasn't been running since October 2016 on one > of my Jessie boxes. Manually running logrotate works without issue. This > is approximately the time I upgraded it from Wheezy. I hate to wade into > the pool of syste

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread Boyan Penkov
In this vein, is there a way to intelligently indicate to the system that this is the case, and automatically read the crontab, then write an intelligent anacrontab with sane defaults? Cheers! On 04/24/2018 02:04 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: If your system is not running 24/7, then anacron is very

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 11:00:34 (+0200), Jochen Spieker wrote: > Kenneth Parker: > > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > > systems, has been going for a while, > > It has been going

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:09:06 -0400 Boyan Penkov wrote: Hello Boyan, >that this is the case, and automatically read the crontab, then write >an intelligent anacrontab with sane defaults? From the anacron page on packages.debian.org; This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of th

postfix "delivery-date" - how to?

2018-04-24 Thread Kamil Jońca
Exim has a nice feature: it puts "Delivery-date" header when terminates delivery to pipe/mailbox. Is it posible with postfix? KJ -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ Down with categorical imperative!

Re: Email tutorial?

2018-04-24 Thread mark
On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 3:56:06 PM EDT J.W. Foster wrote: > I am trying once again to get an email server to run on my server. I NEED a > qualified tutorial or some real assistance in getting it operational and > secure. I am aware that there are MANY primers or docs on this. Problem is > they l

Re: Email tutorial?

2018-04-24 Thread Joe
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:56:06 + (UTC) "J.W. Foster" wrote: > I am trying once again to get an email server to run on my server. I > NEED a qualified tutorial or some real assistance in getting it > operational and secure. I am aware that there are MANY primers or > docs on this. Problem is the

Re: Email tutorial?

2018-04-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 04:25:56PM -0400, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > DHCP is like that, with an added twist: When IP address change, in order for > you to get the e-mail an association between your IP-address and your > physicla > computer, the change has to be broadcast to all the IP servers o

I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Gdsi
Hi again. My the wish is to have littlest OS, for more clear view on it. If I was not afraid wipe out MBR, I shall have made a very small partition and was reinstalling the OS from the flash drive in case of errors many times. Many thanks for consultations, now I long shall not bother to you, (be

Re: Email tutorial?

2018-04-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-04-24 20:56, J.W. Foster wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 4.7.1 : Relay access denied. if using external SMTP server you sometimes have to register who is allowed to send mail with them. I had problem not been able to send mail when changed domai

RME Hammerfall / VLC

2018-04-24 Thread Glenn English
Debian Buster, RME Hammerfall soundcard, VLC 3.0.1 Already looked at the VLC site and found nothing useful, so I whine to the audio gurus on this list. Audacity works fine playing mp3s and flacs (meters bounce, sound in the headphones). But VLC is dead (nothing, and the VLC site suggests that I g

Re: Email tutorial?

2018-04-24 Thread John Crawley (johnraff)
On 2018-04-25 06:07, mick crane wrote: On 2018-04-24 20:56, J.W. Foster wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 4.7.1 : Relay access denied. if using external SMTP server you sometimes have to register who is allowed to send mail with them. I had problem not b

Re: Email tutorial?

2018-04-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:16:13AM +0900, John Crawley (johnraff) wrote: > On 2018-04-25 06:07, mick crane wrote: > >On 2018-04-24 20:56, J.W. Foster wrote: > > > >>An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: > >>4.7.1 : Relay acce