Umarzuki Mochlis writes:
[...]
> Try installing from virtualbox own repo to get the latest
> (2.1.4). Check http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
After inserting a `virtual.list' in /etc/apt/sources.list.d containing
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-fre
This emerge output is confusing (wrapped for mail):
[ebuild U ] dev-util/cvs-1.12.12-r6 [1.12.12-r2] USE="nls%* pam server%*
-crypt -doc -kerberos (-emacs%*)" 0 kB
What does it mean as regards emacs
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Sorry to butt in here with no lurking... I just created a vmware app
with debian.. I used the small install CD so a networked install.
I expected to be installing lenny but find really old tools
installed. Which makes me think I installed something older.
kernel is 2.6.18
`apt-cache search emac
I just started working with debian recently, I'm a long time gentoo
user.
I want to install the latest cvs emacs but do not see it in an
aptitude search.
I have only a very basic sources.list.
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ [...]
deb ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ lenn
Chris Burkhardt writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I just started working with debian recently, I'm a long time gentoo
>> user.
>>
>> I want to install the latest cvs emacs but do not see it in an
>> aptitude search.
>
> See Romain
I'm too new to know what is the standard or default tool to configure
what services are started at boot.
I've installed chkconfig from ancient expierence on various linux
distros but suspect their is something more popular or maybe something
installed with default install.
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I'm attempting to build emacs from cvs sources. Something I've done
many times on various linux distributions.
the ./configure step ends with an error about not finding X11
development libraries (posted at the end)
I'm running a fairly fresh lenny installed from the small cd installer
using netw
Last time I ran debian was several yrs ago.. back then I learned a way
using dpkg to extract the packagename of files found on the
machine... Assuming they came in using apt and dpkg.
I even kept a note about it which of course is no where to be found
now that I need it again.
Anyone know how to
Jeff D writes:
[...]
> something like this:
> $ dpkg -S /bin/bash
> bash: /bin/bash
Ron Johnson writes:
[...]
> Also:
> $ apt-file search /bin/bash
> bash: /bin/bash
> bash: /usr/bin/bashbug
> bash-minimal: /bin/bash-minimal
> bash-static: /bin/bash-static
These don't look like what I expe
Where is the mount.cifs tool?
Maybe I need to expand my sources.list, but neither aptitude search
or apt-cache search know anything about cifs.
Its not installed already following a fresh install of lenny.
and install through aptitude of samba samba-common
The samba-doc pkg includes mention of m
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes:
> A nice web trick: http://packages.debian.org/file:mount.cifs .
>
> As you can see, it's in the smbfs package.
>
>>From a running debian-system, apt-file search mount.cifs would yield
> comparable results. (The apt-file package must be installed first, but
> it's wor
After moving from lenny to squeeze with a full-upgrade, I see this
final line of output from `aptitude full-upgrade
Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131].
What does that line mean. Do I need to investigate and fix whatever
there are 8 broken of?
And the last item [-131] ... does i
Sjoerd Hardeman writes:
>> Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131].
>>
>> What does that line mean. Do I need to investigate and fix whatever
>> there are 8 broken of?
> It means that eight packages have unmet dependencies. This is likely
> because some leftover packages from lenny r
Tyler MacDonald writes:
> I went through this exact same process awhile ago when I went from squeeze
> to etch...
>
Thanks for nice help... very usefull.
Before getting into whats happening.. I'm currently and have been a
bit confused about debian naming/versioning setup.
I thought etch was qu
Tyler MacDonald writes:
> Yours went a lot smoother than mine, I had to fight with gnome etc for
> awhile too in order to get everything back into place.
Maybe not:
After following the suggestions a ways I get this concluding line now:
Current status: 0 broken [-6], 704 updates [-7].
I gu
on a recently upgrade to squeeze and still working the upgrade I
notice my man pages have a scattering of non-englsh char scattered
through them, that in places makes it difficult to read.
Here is a good example from `man aptitude' at the `search' option:
search
Searches for p
I've googled and looked everywhere my little pea brain could think of
but not finding the all important passwd for the weekly snapshot isos.
I'll bet its somewhere totally obvious, but I've spent the last hour
drawing blanks.
strings like these in google:
site:debian.org password install media
Harry Putnam writes:
> I've googled and looked everywhere my little pea brain could think of
> but not finding the all important passwd for the weekly snapshot isos.
>
> I'll bet its somewhere totally obvious, but I've spent the last hour
> drawing blanks.
>
I read in several places that there is a debian pkg for the mail
filter tool `pryzor', however aptitude can find no hint of it.
aptitude search pryzor
Turns up no hits.
Maybe I need something added to my sources.list. Currently it looks
like:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing ma
Jerry Stuckle writes:
> On 9/13/2013 9:16 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I read in several places that there is a debian pkg for the mail
>> filter tool `pryzor', however aptitude can find no hint of it.
>>
>>aptitude search pryzor
[...]
> Maybe you're t
I have been noticing for some time that my ~/.inputrc key combos don't
work. Also the keyboard Alt key doesn't work in emacs if I run it in
-nw more (in an xterm).
I guess some kind of changes over time in the OS setup has happened
but I could not nail it down to any particular date... haven't be
Bob Proulx writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I have been noticing for some time that my ~/.inputrc key combos don't
>> work. Also the keyboard Alt key doesn't work in emacs if I run it in
>> -nw more (in an xterm).
>
> Race condition. I just sent a similar
Bob Proulx writes:
[...]
> I think you have configured AltGr or other modifier without realizing
> it.
>
>> I'd like to get things back to what I'm used to but when I start
>> reading xmodmap manpage... I have to hide all my guns so I don't just
>> go ahead and shot myself. ;)
>>
>> I'm used to
Bob Proulx writes:
[...]
> Sorry but I have no more ideas. I can only say that the behavior you
> are seeing isn't normal. I don't see it. I believe other people are
> not seeing it. Whatever the problem is it is something specific to
> your system. The challenge is to find it.
You've done
Xue Fuqiao writes:
> Thanks for your information. But AFAIK you are using "primary
> selection". The primary selection is separate from the clipboard. Its
> contents are more “fragile”; they are overwritten each time you select
> text with the mouse, whereas the clipboard is only overwritten b
Bob Proulx writes:
[...]
> Sorry but I have no more ideas. I can only say that the behavior you
> are seeing isn't normal. I don't see it. I believe other people are
> not seeing it. Whatever the problem is it is something specific to
> your system. The challenge is to find it.
>
> Bob
Thi
Logrotation is not happening for some reason, so stumbling around
investigating and ran up on /etc/cron.daily/apt
Ok, maybe a bit of a lamer here but:
What is the /etc/cron.daily/apt script supposed to do?
Looking thru the script, I couldn't make heads or tails of it.
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Chris Bannister writes:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Logrotation is not happening for some reason, so stumbling around
>
> What is output of:
> apt-cache policy logrotate
,
| logrotate:
| Installed: 3.8.6-1
| Candidate: 3.8.6-1
Curt writes:
> On 2013-10-06, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> I think that comment was basically that /etc/cron.daily/apt doesn't
>> have anything to do with log rotation. So you are barking up the
>> wrong tree.
>
> Maybe he thought that given the apt script is run before the logrotate
> script in cro
Bob Proulx writes:
Thanks for the in depth explanations and advice. Very helpful.
>> Of course there are other ways, like removing the
>> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate script altogether and running logrotate
>> from roots' crontab.
>
> Under the principle of "where do you stop" I think that is worse
I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen
on a machine with both anacron and cron installed.
I understand the reasoning for machines that are not up all the time,
where anacron picks up the slack for cron jobs that came up with
the machine down.
I get that.
But in my
Bob Proulx writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen
>> on a machine with both anacron and cron installed.
>
> And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-)
Not on your life! I have a certain fo
setup:
Running Debian testing
Video card (from lspci):
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce
FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem:
Micro-Star International ...
I'm getting some kind of horrible sequence of events on many (
Bob Proulx writes:
> The particular part I was pedantically talking about was your comment
> that said "checks that it is executable", yes, all good, and then you
> go on to say "*and* sees to it that this user has permission". It was
> that last part, the second part of the _and_ that I was ped
Harry Putnam writes:
> I'd like to go back to the old `nv' driver I used to use when running
> Gentoo, or some other driver that will work with my card and just
> ditch that nouveau driver.
>
> Can anyone guide me a bit as to how to do that?
[...]
Before getting int
Sven Joachim writes:
[...]
> Do you use plymouth?
No, nothing to do with plymouth is installed
[...]
> You could boot with the nomodeset kernel parameter, which should give
> you the vesa driver under X. Alternatively, boot with nouveau.noaccel=1
> to disable acceleration.
Where would I p
Sven Joachim writes:
[...]
>
> You have to edit the line starting with "linux", putting parameters
> after /vmlinuz-$version .
Finding that line was the problem...
I found /boot/grub.cfg and the kernel line there
> You could boot with the nomodeset kernel parameter, which should
> give you the
Harry Putnam writes:
[...]
> However:
>
>> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alternatively, boot with
>> nouveau.noaccel=1 to disable acceleration
>
> Seems to be golden... It does seem to stop the goofy login at console
> screen. And since my uasge on linux is never he
Sven Joachim writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
>> It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into
>> maintenance mode. Telling me to enter root passwd or press C-d.
>>
>> I press C-d and it finishes booting up normally.
Sven Replied:
> This is rather odd and indicates that you ar
I want to download a jessie weekly build for 64 bit PC.
What is the appropriate architecture on the downloads?
My machine has nothing to do with amd but that is the only thing
listed as 64 bit on the pages including jessie or testing.
However, at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ the starting pag
Andrei POPESCU writes:
>> My machine has nothing to do with amd
>
> Well, AMD created the x86-64 architecture we are all using (Intel's
> IA-64 never became really popular), so actually it does ;)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64
That is interesting. I would not have guessed at that fact
Setup:
Running 64bit Jessie
Exim4-daemon-heavy pkg installed
I'm working my way thru the `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' question
answer session.
It must be about the 2nd screen where it asks you the address of any
hosts you expect to accept mail from.
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config:
│ Please e
when running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' I've run accross a few
of the questions that are confusing to me...
The current one I'm stumbling over is
1) A question about listing of host IPs the smtp listener will
listen for...
And then later on there is
2) A question about which hosts y
System: 64bit jessie running as vbox vm guest
Running on HOST Solaris (x86) (openindiana)
I'm getting lots of lines in logs like below.
Can anyone tell me what kind of a problem this log output is pointing
to?
/var/log/syslog:Oct 5 06:53:35 2xd systemd[1]: \
[/lib/systemd/system/rtkit-daemo
Brian writes:
> On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 12:01:48 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> when running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' I've run accross a few
>> of the questions that are confusing to me...
>>
>> The current one I'm stumbling over is
>&g
Simon Hollenbach writes:
> Hello Harry,
>
> On 05/10/14 18:01, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> when running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' I've run accross a few
>> of the questions that are confusing to me...
>>
>> The current one I'm stumbling over
Brian writes:
> On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 13:19:01 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> System: 64bit jessie running as vbox vm guest
>> Running on HOST Solaris (x86) (openindiana)
>>
>> I'm getting lots of lines in logs like below.
>>
>> Can anyone te
Setup: jessie 64 bit
Freshly configured exim4
I'm quite new to exim4 although I've had it running on another Debian
install for few months now. At any rate I'm not experienced enough to
know how to find the source of a problem once I've gotten to the point
where I'm attempting to send mail.
Watc
Jerry Stuckle writes:
> On 10/5/2014 4:38 PM, Brian wrote:
>> On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 16:16:22 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/5/2014 12:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure I'm leaving out some major piece of
Jerry Stuckle writes:
> The first question - why do you think you need to relay to other
> networks, even if they're your own? Do you have other SMTP servers
> running on those networks?
Good question and apparently thee is no reason. It stemmed from a deep
seated confusion about what relaying
Joel Rees writes:
>> So they would all be sending mail by way of server host.
>>
>> I guess that is not what is meant by relaying?
>
> I think that's relaying, but not open relay (if you get it set up right).
>
> But you should consider why you want to send out through a central server,
> unless
lee writes:
[...]
Thanks for the tips.
>> SMTP>> EHLO 2xd
> That's an invalid helo string.
Is a valid one made up of just the full fqdn?
And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts?
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1dv.local.lan dvlocalhost
10.0.0.9 dv.local.lan dv
lee writes:
I accidentally let my prior response get away before I remembered to
ask these questions.
[...]
>> LOG: MAIN
>> <= ha...@2xd.local.lan U=harry P=local S=569
>> $ delivering 1Xauru-0003TT-Fh
>> R: smarthost for rea...@newsguy.com
>> T: remote_smtp_smarthost for rea...@newsguy.com
Martin Read writes:
> On 12/10/14 14:52, lee wrote:
>> Harry Putnam writes:
>>
>>> Can any of you experienced exim4 hands interpret this output?
>>
>> Reading RFC-821 would tell you more.
>
> Reading RFC 2821 would be even better, since RFC 821 is ob
Harry Putnam writes:
> lee writes:
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks for the tips.
>
>>> SMTP>> EHLO 2xd
>
>> That's an invalid helo string.
>
> Is a valid one made up of just the full fqdn?
>
> And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts
nathan Dowland writes:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:45:44PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> > And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts?
> snip
>> Egad ... I just noticed that was from a different machine... but the
>> format is the same on all of mine. So still
I managed to get sendmail sort of working on one of my vbox guest
debian vms.
It was kind of rough sledding and still not really working properly.
I use a smarthost from fastmail.fm where I have accounts. Finally
seems to have gotten the auth working thru access.db.
But an odd thing is happening
Just now ran thru the ncurses interface you get with dpkg-reconfigure
exim4.config
On question you are asked is if you want to put a different domain on
outgoing email I chose yes and inserted `newsguy.com'
I never saw a way to rewrite the lefthand side of outgoing email.
I need it to be `re
Jonathan Dowland writes:
> iirc it's /etc/email-addresses. See also man etc-email-addresses
Oh man don't tell me its that easy... I've been fussing around
with this for a good while. I've read a good bit about it, Been thru
several key documents, but never heard mention of this file,
So, I
Jonathan Dowland writes:
> My sympathies, I don't think it's an obvious location (ie outside of
> /etc/exim4) and I recall feeling similar when I eventually stumbled
> over it.
>
>> On 18 Oct 2014, at 00:52, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> So, I just insert t
[NOTE: Originally miss-posted on ... emacs.help]
,
| From: Harry Putnam
| Subject: no C-h i m emacs ??
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help
| To: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org
| Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:29:46 -0500 (2 minutes, 9 seconds ago)
| Message-ID: <87egt14r51@reader.local.lan>
`
Months ago, installing jessie as guest on win7-64, I somehow ended up
with a 486 kernel.
In other previous installs it was a 686 kernel... not sure what I
did. But no doubt I selected it without realizing or the like.
My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels
has any d
Pascal Hambourg writes:
> Harry Putnam a écrit :
>>
>> My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels
>> has any down sides?
>
> The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthreading and PAE
> (which is required for NX/XD bit).
I
Running debian jessie
I have one openindiana (solaris) host on my home lan. That host has
had no updates or changes recently.
Following a `full-upgrade' yesterday on a debian host, I am now seeing
an ssh failure with output I have not seen before, when ssh from
openindian host to debian host (new
Jochen Spieker writes:
> Harry Putnam:
>>
>> harry-on-REMOTE-sol > ssh REMOTE-deb
>>
>>no common kex alg: client
>>'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1',
>>server
>>
>> 'curve25
Harry Putnam writes:
> I'm not at all clear on how one would go about making an adjustment in
> sshd_config to allow the algs used by my REMOTE-sol to be recognized.
>
> REMOTE-sol does not appear to be using OpenSSH .. maybe a solaris
> version of SSH.
>
> In light
Running jessie
Using an lxde desktop... for a long time now
(Note: for lack of a fuller vocabulary, the word icon is used to cover
a few different things below:)
(Attached at bottom is a screen grab showing what I'm talking about)
Some mnths ago (not sure how many) the icons (running program
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> On Ma, 09 dec 14, 11:05:23, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> Further, some indicators still show the regular icon. One I notice is
>> iceweasel.
>>
>> I'd like the old behavior back but have no idea how to start digging
>> into
Andrei POPESCU writes:
[...]
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes:
[...]
Tixy writes:
[...]
Whoops, forgot the promised screen grab:
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> So far every application *except xterm* I have tried has the same icon
> in the top left corner of its window as well as the taskbar. I tried GTK
> as well as Qt applications. To me this seems to indicate a bug in xterm
> rather than lxpanel.
I maybe mis-interpreting
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Running jessie
>> Using an lxde desktop... for a long time now
>>
>> (Note: for lack of a fuller vocabulary, the word icon is used to cover
>> a few different things below:)
>>
>> (Attached at bot
Tixy writes:
> On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 07:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Tixy writes:
>> > A (possibly wild) speculation is there's some race condition where the
>> > task bar button gets created before the application sets it's icon and
>> > then d
After digging around in several wiki pages and other google hits on
'debian exim4 spamassassin'
I'm thoroughly confused by now.
One of the sources:
https://wiki.debian.org/Exim#Spam_scanning
Under the `Spam scanning' header it tells me exim has a default
configuration for spamassassin (-ed HP in
How does one obtain pkgs (encfs in this case) that are not available
to an `aptitude' search of pkgs for jessie?
It appears that the pkg in question (encfs) is available for wheezy.
https://packages.debian.org/stable/encfs
So how to get to it, without jacking up my sources.list or some other
I must be miss-understanding the usage of sudo's option `-E' (preserve users
env).
One would think that tools found along user path would then be
available to `sudo'
Here is what puzzles me:
Note:
--- --- ---=--- --- ---
ls -l /merb/dv/home/harry/script
The Wanderer writes:
> On 07/08/2014 09:45 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> How does one obtain pkgs (encfs in this case) that are not available
>> to an `aptitude' search of pkgs for jessie?
>>
>> It appears that the pkg in question (encfs) is
Running jessie in vbox guest on win7
I seem to recall quite some time back getting some kind of
notifications on my desktop when I had pkgs needing updates.
It might have a year or two ago when I was running KDE and may have
been related to the kde desktop.
I've been running LXDE for a good wh
Any folks running jessie in a vbox vm... maybe will know what to do
here.
I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can
get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . Not sure
of exact setting but desktop was much larger when I logged in before
this upgrade.
Andreas Rönnquist writes:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:38:02 -0400,
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>>Any folks running jessie in a vbox vm... maybe will know what to do
>>here.
>>
>>I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can
>>get in 1024 x
B writes:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:38:02 -0400
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I
>> can get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x .
>> Not sure of exact setting but desktop was much larger
B writes:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:38:27 -0400
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Maybe. But nothing like that has ever been necessary before and
>> that is thru several vb upgrades over a few months.
>
> I wouldn't be so straight: some months ago, after I duno
Sorry if my subject sounds a little pompous but I keep hitting this
warning when trying to install vbox guest addtitions where is says it
cannot find the headers for my running kernel.
It's a little exasperating because when I first saw that I installed a
bunch of header from a pile of pkgs.
una
Andreas Rönnquist writes:
>>I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can
>>get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . Not sure
>>of exact setting but desktop was much larger when I logged in before
>>this upgrade.
>>
>
> An ISO with guest additions is l
"hdv@gmail" writes:
> On 2014-07-23 23:04, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Andreas Rönnquist writes:
>>
>>>> I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can
>>>> get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . No
John Bleichert writes:
> On 07/23/2014 05:32 PM, hdv@gmail wrote:
>> On 2014-07-23 23:04, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> Andreas Rönnquist writes:
>>>
>>>>> I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can
>>>>> get in 1
Curt writes:
> On 2014-07-23, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> Any ideas why vbox continues to report not finding header files for my
>> running kernel?
>
> I don't know. Have you installed "virtualbox-guest-dkms"?
>
> Yes, I'm answering a question
Klaus writes:
> On 23/07/14 21:36, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> uname -r:
>>
>> 3.14-1-486
>
> $ apt-cache show linux-headers-3.14-1-486
>
>
> Depends: linux-headers-3.14-1-common (= 3.14.12-1), linux-kbuild-3.14,
> linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
> Descrip
Curt writes:
> On 2014-07-23, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> Any ideas why vbox continues to report not finding header files for my
>> running kernel?
>
> I don't know. Have you installed "virtualbox-guest-dkms"?
>
> Yes, I'm answering a questi
Yusaku OGAWA writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> ***
>> Warning: unsupported pre-release version of X.Org Server installed. Not
>> installing the X.Org
Klaus writes:
[...]
>>
>>
> Could it be that you don't have dkms installed on the virtual machine?
> What response do you get for:
>
> $ apt-cache policy dkms
That was certainly 1 large part of the problem.
That command showed that there was no dkms pkg installed. So I
installed it.
Then f
I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been
declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at
least in jessie repos.
What are people using as a replacement? Hopefully something as easy
to use and encfs was.
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Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>> Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>>> I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been
>>> declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at
>>> least in jessie repos.
>>>
>>> What are pe
B writes:
> On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:10:10 -0600
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> Do you have more information on encfs being declared a security
>> hazard? Your post is the first I've heard of it.
>
> http://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm
> (You'll note that dangerous attack vectors are quite low).
Ga
Mike Kupfer writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been
>> declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at
>> least in jessie repos.
>>
>> What are people using as a replacement
Trying to do a simple edit to fstab but keep failing.
I want to mount a device in such a way that it ends up with uid and
gid of my choice. But when I attempt to add those options (or any
others it seems) the mount fails with this error:
# mount /home/harry/.junk
mount: wrong fs type, bad opti
Gary Dale writes:
>> The fstab line:
>>
>>/dev/sdd1 /home/harry/misc ext4 user,uid=1000,gid=1050 00
>>
>> I've tried several different rendition but far as I can tell the line
>> above should work.
>>
>> I'm probably making some terribly obvious error but failing to see
>> what it
I'm having a problem with fetchmail. Something that has not arisen in
some 15 yrs of linux use.
This post is a tad bit verbose... but it seemed necessary to make it
clear why I am somewhat flummoxed.
Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), t
AW writes:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
> > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a
> > windows hosts.
>
> Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon
Zenaan Harkness writes:
> Use getmail.
>
> I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what
> I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing.
No thanks. Fetchmail should be working. I really doubt that
fetchmail itself is the problem.
And just for the record.. its a bit
Brian writes:
> On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> AW writes:
>>
>> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400
>> > Harry Putnam wrote:
>> >
>> > > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
>> > > I&
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