Re: Install-time non-free issues

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 02:05, tty7 wrote: >> >> Which documentation is that. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/i386/ch06s04.html.en Thanks > > > >>> >>> I've switched to tty2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and activated it, and created >>> /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/usb and mounted both filesystems, and verified >>>

Re: Should I be concerned that w/who reported 0 users?

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 10:20, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > I manage a virtual machine remotely, running Debian stable. Recently, > both 'w' and 'who' were reporting zero users. The machine had been up > for 141 days, so I did 'sudo shutdown -r now' and returned to it a few > minutes later, when 'w' and '

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
I've followed the posts in this thread, dealing with the various tangents it's taken won't help you, probably the reason why it's received little attention. On 11/01/14 10:50, Bob Goldberg wrote: > running wheezy. > > I have a dir w/ unix perm = 750 > IE: > root@wheezy:/home/chtest/home# ls -l >

Re: Fresh Jessie Install VLC freezes

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 11:50, Robert Crawford wrote: > Group; > > My computer is Dell GX280 with 3 gb ram 500 gb hd, Dell x1300 dvi video > card 128 mb memory running on a 23' HP LCD monitor. I've got a > multi-boot system with Windows 7 Pro on sda1, Xubuntu 13.10 on sda6, > Kubuntu 13.10 on sda7 and Debian

Re: Fresh Jessie Install VLC freezes

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 14:31, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/01/14 11:50, Robert Crawford wrote: >> Group; >> >> My computer is Dell GX280 with 3 gb ram 500 gb hd, Dell x1300 dvi video >> card 128 mb memory running on a 23' HP LCD monitor. I've got a >> multi-boot

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/01/14 00:13, Joel Rees wrote: > Caveat. I don't have the patience to work with ACLs, mostly because I > can't see how they could really work without bringing a system to its > knees. > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Bob Goldberg wrote: >> [...] >>> I may be wrong here, but how could ACL

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/01/14 10:00, Bob Goldberg wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Scott Ferguson > <mailto:scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I've followed the posts in this thread, dealing with the various > tangents it's taken won't

Re: Fresh Jessie Install VLC freezes

2014-01-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
Resending to the list On 15/01/14 05:44, Robert Crawford wrote: > > > > > > Please post the output of:- > $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | grep multim > > and:- > > $ dpkg -l vlc > > > Kind regards > > > -- > > ​Scott, > > Test #1 >

Re: update flash

2014-01-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/01/14 02:56, Jarth Berilcosm wrote: > If you have flash-player non-free installed make sure to run > > update-flashplugin-nonfree --install > > update-flashplugin-nonfree --status > > Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.335 > Flash Player version available on upstr

Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

2014-01-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/01/14 08:39, Jarth Berilcosm wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:22:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Honestly ? Get a break, go live in a tent or something. Jarth, don't let Ralf upset you, it's not his fault he's human, and that comes with all sorts of illogical baggage. Bash on the other h

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 11:45, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> LMGTFY I understand and agree with, but why the URL shortening? You only >> saved... >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=viber >> ... 2 characters and you also hit innocent bystanders like me :p > > BTW, LMGTFY was OK for the "What's viber?" part, but for the "Is >

Re: Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see > that what's installed now is Qt5. > My book has never been updated. > > So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best > develop a new app with it. > > Anybody wi

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 15:24, Jon Danniken wrote: > Hello list, > > I recently came across a posting by an individual who got his > Debian machine compromised due to a number of security problems, one of > which was the default installation and running of sshd with > "PermitRootLogin = > Yes". in /etc/ssh/s

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 14:54, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Klaus wrote: >> Didn't we have a recent thread about this? I seem to remember that there >> might be a bug in the current installer, and you have to escape the >> installer process at that point. Then, enter a shell and edi

Re: How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
Re-sending, accidentally sent off-list On 28/01/14 15:12, Garry wrote: > > Is it possible to downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze? > > The reason I want to downgrade is because I am trying to install Openfire and > unfortunately: > > openfire pre-depends on sun-java5-jre | sun-java6-jre | default-

Re: How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
Reposting on-list, my apologies Gary for accidentally replying off-list On 28/01/14 17:56, Garry wrote: > > > >> On Jan 27, 2014, at 11:50 PM, "Scott Ferguson" >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> On 28/01/14 15:12, Garry wrote: >>

Re: Port 123 and ipv6

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 18:00, lina wrote: >>> I read something online, and wonder: >>> 1] shall I close the port 123 >> >> Probably you should, unless you're providing ntp to some other hosts.s > > I have disabled the ntp. Here is other two things: > > 1] about port 631, can I turn it off? since I only prin

Re: How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 18:40, Garry wrote: > >> > > It was one of those situations where everything you do gets trumped. I > decided to use a different server for the openfire install. > For people searching for a solution to the same problem:- Debian Wheezy (note: you'll also need mysql, see the OpenF

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 19:00, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> and if it exists, scrape the page for the license e.g.:- >> $ curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber|html2text|grep License|head -n1 > > That will

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 19:41, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> It can't work as the snippet name is in the wrong format >> >> The correct snippet name is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/NNproxy >> where NN is a number e.g.:- >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90proxy >> >> Make sure you use the ip address not the server name > > I did the a

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 21:02, Klaus wrote: > On 28/01/14 05:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 28/01/14 14:54, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > Note the trailing slash, so it would be > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://CacheServerIp:3142/";; 1++ > > >> It can't wo

Re: Disable ipv6?

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 22:04, Tanstaafl wrote: > Is there an easy way to do this? > > I don't use it, I don't understand it (yet), so I don't want to use it > until I do understand it. > > Thx > > This question has been asked and answered more than once on this list, recently. https://lists.debian.org/

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/14 01:18, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:58:22 + > Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 28 Jan 2014 at 09:46:43 +, Joe wrote: >> >> >> > > Good passwords, no. But most of the posts I've seen about hacked Linux > installations where the point of entry was known seem to blame ssh, > p

Re: How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
now it had been a > problem and then after maybe impossible to fix. Additionally it encourages people to *not* read the post they are replying to. Perhaps that's the reason for your post? I have *no* idea what you are talking about or how it's related to the post you attached it to. &

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/01/14 16:51, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Okay, Thanks for everything guys!! But still I am not able to get this work. > > So is what I am trying to do: > > Case I : Without Preseed: > > I boot from the PXE server. I go to the mirror selection page on the > debian installer. Yes. > I execute a

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/14 16:42, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> NO. Stop there! :) >> >> Don't open a shell. Just proceed to the next step in the installer and >> enter the proxy information as asked. >> >> The Debian installer will do all that for you. > > Somebody above mentioned that there is a bug in the debian in

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/14 18:07, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Thanks for everything. I have observed that a few packages are being > downloaded from the internet. They maybe the security packages and > updates released after package the iso. ( I have imported the > packages from the iso ) See the apt-cacher-ng manage

Re: Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 17:04, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 28/01/14 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see >>> that what's installed n

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/14 22:47, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> No. Probably a DNS problem, alt+f4 in the affected installation to see >> where the error is. > >> I've seen the problem but don't recall a specific cause - I also don't >> know your DNS, PXE and TFTP server setup. I generally use an IPCop >> Firewall and

Re: put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 10:50, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > > Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest > that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least > update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't > be installed, don't k

Re: Photovoltaic inverter monitoring or logging software

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 13:38, Bret Busby wrote: > > Hello. > > I am wondering whether anyone on this list, has any knowledge or > experience of software that runs on Linux, preferably Debian Linux, for > monitoring/logging electricity output from a photovoltaic inverter. > > In searching in the Debian pack

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 15:29, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > 2014-01-30 Brian mailto:a...@cityscape.co.uk>>: > > On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 18:53:11 +0100, Denis Witt wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:42:34 + > > Brian mailto:a...@cityscape.co.uk>> wrote: > > > > > The AllowUsers di

Re: Old computer with Savage Video Help

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 16:31, Robert Crawford wrote: > My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2400-S251 with Super Savage Video chip. > It does have pae built in. 30 gb hd and 512 mb ram. > > Ubuntu above 12.04.3 has issues with the Savage video chip. Also it > won't boot from USB drive. Debian != Ubuntu Just w

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the > computer issue a beep as it should accord

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 17:17, Артур Истомин wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:37:57PM +, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 28 Jan 2014 at 11:40:04 -0800, Jon Danniken wrote: >> >> >> But ssh keys are great for some situations. The problem is their >> advocates never describe what the situations are and it is too

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 17:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2014-01-31 Scott Ferguson <mailto:scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com>>: > > On 31/01/14 15:29, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > > > 2014-01-30 Brian <mailto:a...@

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 18:12, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140131_174326, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a >>> adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 18:52, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2014-01-31 Scott Ferguson <mailto:scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com>>: > > > > Security requires knowledge, you made no such discovery. Too much emotional content. :) Flamefests do no one any good. If you need a pub

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 18:39, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> Why don't I get a beep with: >> >> echo -e \a > > Because the shell absorbs the \ and the echo command sees only the > letter a. Try this: > > echo -e '\a' > Good point. Getting the (system) beep is tricky, traditionally it used the ^G. From fogg

Re: "cloning" a debian installation

2014-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/14 08:02, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Fabrice, > > You have many questions that need answering from advanced users on > this list however as a kind suggestion, I can recommend a free > program called "EaseUS Disk Copy". I have used this software to clone > a complete copy of Windows from on

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. > I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless > Access Point. > > I'm trying to follow these steps here: > http://www.daveconroy.com/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-wifi

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. >>> I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wir

Re: open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 01:43, Frank McCormick wrote: > When ever I update my Debian Sid installation and it involves open-jdk I > get this warning when it's being configured: > > > update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-7, but binary format > already installed by openjdk-6 > > Is this somethin

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>> >>>> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I just bo

Re: Suggest a tool for decoding binary data

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 12:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've been working on homegrown backups for a while. I like using > standard UNIX tools because the backups are usable on any *NIX system. > I'm about to tackle GPT partitioned disks, and want to decode the > label. > > I need it because i like to take dd

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 14:12, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > >>> >>> >>> So, >>> nobody in this list uses Viber Well, it is a piece of heavily marketed, unreliable, proprietary piece of, um, software - which offers no privacy. And there are a number of alternatives >> >> I use Viber on Arch and Ubuntu

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 00:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to > ‘get-iplayer’! > > > Any problems, or further instruction required, please let me know. > > Thanks > Sharon. > Thanks - it looks interesting. (if only there was something sim

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 02:44, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:51:04 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 02/02/14 00:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> >>> May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade >>> to ‘get-iplayer’! >>&g

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 15:12, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. > The output of "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... )" > follows. > What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the introductory paragraph? > Must the first match occu

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 16:30, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/02/14 15:12, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. >> The output of "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... )" >> follows. >> What ex

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 22:50, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to >> allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup >> in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. > > +

Re: Testing: Warning messages from su within cron

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 22:55, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > I’m using Testing. For some time I’m getting warning messages from > scripts started via cron, e.g.: > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > su: No module specific data is present > /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: > su: No module specific data is

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 23:48, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> As long as the swap file is not sparse. >> > > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something > like: > > swapon: /path2swapfile : s

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 02:33, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > * From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com > * Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:30:49 +1100 >> There are a number of parent devices, don't try and match for more than >> one value per parent device. >&

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 02:50, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>>> >>>>> On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>>>

Re: todo list software

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 11:17, Brad Alexander wrote: > At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone > recommend a good todo list software? I run KDE on sid, and > kmail/kontact/etc seem to be in a bit of a mess. > > I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a lot of what

Re: MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 11:07, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I > also installed MythTV from the *deb-multimedia repository*. > > I did read the README.Debian file for MythTV and tried running 'sudo > -u mythtv mythtv-setup, but get the message

/dev/ACM, LG Arena phone, and tethering

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
I have an LG Arena KM900 mobile phone I'd like to be able to tether with Debian Wheezy boxes. The problem is that it's not doing this automagically. I have usbmodeswitch installed:- usb-modeswitch 1.2.3+repack0-1 Connecting the phone with a USB cable and the phone set to use "PC suite" (whic

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 15:25, Rick Valenzuela wrote: > On 02/03/2014 06:17 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >>> Has anybody else experienced problems over the last couple of days? >>> Or is there a local fix I can apply? >> >> I too have had this issue for a couple of days now. > > Same here, but it went away yesterda

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
Re-sending to list On 04/02/14 16:51, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Sorry for revoking this thread so early. > I installed like say 10 PCs simultaneously using apt-cacher-ng and PXE > server. Afterwards when I started other PCs to install from network, > they are refusing to identify the PXE server. > >

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 17:21, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/02/14 16:51, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> Sorry for revoking this thread so early. >> I installed like say 10 PCs simultaneously using apt-cacher-ng and PXE >> server. Afterwards when I started other PCs to install from network, &g

Re: Unable to Update

2014-02-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 19:17, David Baron wrote: > Getting errors like: > Failed to fetch > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/PackagesIndex > Hash Sum mismatch > on every source so no packages can be updated! > > Running on i386 Sid box. How to fix? > > Wait (until the upda

Re: /dev/ACM, LG Arena phone, and tethering

2014-02-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 21:17, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:37:09PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I have an LG Arena KM900 mobile phone I'd like to be able to >> tether with Debian Wheezy boxes. >> >> >> I can't mount the fake CD

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/02/14 01:03, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:35:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.4.104 >> >>>> netmask 255.255.248.0 >> >> Just in case it makes a difference - that's a /29 network i

Re: akonadi pain + kmail2

2014-02-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/02/14 08:58, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I do not know, if you have the same trouble like me, but after the change to > akonadi I get into some trouble. Yes, I had that problem. > > When I started KDE, and I want to start kmail2, it is telling me, that akondi > got not correctly starte

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 14:54, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> Please post:- >> /etc/dhcpd.conf >> /etc/default/dhcp3-server > > Like I said, these files are not there on my box! > Sorry, I haven't been monitoring the list. (I don't currently have access to a pxe server, so you'll need to check my memory). Try:-

Re: Difference between apt and apt-get

2014-02-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 16:43, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in /apt > update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/. > Thanks, > Muntasim-Ul-Haque >From the man pages:- APT is a *management system* for software packages. For normal day to day

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit : >> yaro wrote: >>> Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little >>> benefit. >> >> It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a >> problem). It only

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 21:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 06.02.2014 11:03, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit : >>>> yaro wrote: &g

Re: FW: upgrade problem

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 22:57, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:31:57AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > When I did today apt-get dist-upgrade it fails with this message : > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 1

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 14:25, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/02/14 14:07, Chris Bannister wrote: >> CC'ing debian-boot >> >> Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble. >> He says he followed the d-i's suggestions >> Thread starts here: >> https://l

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 14:07, Chris Bannister wrote: > CC'ing debian-boot > > Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble. > He says he followed the d-i's suggestions > Thread starts here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:08:39PM +, Roelof Wo

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 19:17, Roelof Wobben wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:25:47 +1100 >> From: scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade >> problem) >> >>

Fwd: Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
resent to list Original Message Subject: Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice. Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:25:18 +1100 From: Scott Ferguson To: Anubhav Yadav On 07/02/14 16:01, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> Defining "desktop" is the tri

Re: Add a separate /home after installation?

2014-02-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/02/14 12:45, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > When I installed Debian I put everything in one partition. Now I'm > wondering what I was thinking. / is ext4 for mated on a drive with > eufi partition table, no raid or lvm. My thought is if I can shrink > that and create a new partition I can copy ov

Re: [OT] kernel 3.14-rc2 for Testing

2014-02-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/02/14 17:20, Pablo Zuñiga wrote: > Dear, > > We Plural? (not one face painter?) > have completed the preparation of the 3.14-rc2 kernel, is cooked and > stored in > https://github.com/ed00m/kernel2Debian/tree/master/3.14/3.14-rc2-amd64 > > additional information > + http://www.phoronix.

Re: [OT] kernel 3.14-rc2 for Testing

2014-02-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/02/14 03:29, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 10:05 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> * On 2014 11 Feb 07:20 -0600, Chris Bannister wrote: Any reason why people should *not* distrust this kernel? >>> >>> I was thinking the same thing. Why the rush to upgrade kernels anyway? >> >>

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/02/14 09:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 00:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 11 feb 14, 23:20:11, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> IOW there is no reason why somebody shouldn't install >>> nearly all available packages. Depending on your definition of "reason" ;p >> >> Of co

Re: problem BOOTMGR is missing

2014-02-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/02/14 17:36, Mahesh Rajpurohit wrote: > Sir/Madam, > I download Debian amd64 of 4.4G twice from two DVD images. > But it shows me BOOTMGR is missing when I make my pendrive bootable. > So please send me a link so that I can download directly from that link. > Send

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/02/14 20:27, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > After reading through all the pros and cons, it seems that there isn't a > good replacement at all, so it would be better to wait. Admittedly I use > OpenRC on my gentoo machine and it's fine. Systemd seems to violate too > many Unix principles and Up

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/02/14 20:27, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > After reading through all the pros and cons, it seems that there isn't a > good replacement at all, so it would be better to wait. Admittedly I use > OpenRC on my gentoo machine and it's fine. Systemd seems to violate too > many Unix principles and Up

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
net.debian.org (unfortunately my ISP has taken to hijacking that URL today). > I've read LP's comments on systemd, but that hardly > falls into the balanced camp. Or even relevant (LP's comments), given their luxury of sitting in the observers pavilion? Kind regards. P.S. I do

Re: ssh host ip/id management for dynamic dns servers

2014-02-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 07:07, Dan Purgert wrote: > On 12/02/2014 13:30, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 20140212_200320, Lars Noodén wrote: >>> On 02/12/2014 07:34 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: ... Question: Suppose I encounter this situation of the 'known host' having moved to a different IP address (or

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Hello List > > I was very alert for almost 14 years, Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org HTH Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 19:12, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > One more question about systemd: > > let's assume that I have to execute a script after S10checkfs/ > S11mountall and before S13networking. My experience with systemd is limited, but so far (Wheezy) everything "just worked". I haven't been using it l

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 20:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 feb 14, 19:41:00, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: >> >> Don't really understand your email, nothing makes sense. This >> must be considered spam. > > You shouldn't reply to spam ;) Spam? NSA backdoors, chemical contrails, fluoride pharmacological consp

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 21:37, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:13:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-02-12 06:12 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Does anyone knows who sells round tuits? Yes. (disclaimer, I get a commission from them) - but my advice it to buy the square ones a

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 21:41, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > > So far I'm impressed with > > the increased configurability, and especially, the faster boot-times > > (SLA goodness!). > > Interesting, even if booting is not what my "it shou

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/02/14 20:49, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2014-02-17 12:26 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > >> But for 99.9% of Linux users most of the features in X11 are >> useless > > That's a pretty bold statement. Do you have a link listing all > the features of X, so we can get an idea of which of them a

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/02/14 22:17, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2010-November/97.html > > I have to check wheter the "seamless" X11 support in Snow Leopard is still > not so "seamless" as

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/02/14 19:11, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > On 18/02/14 22:17, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > Scott Ferguson writes: > > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2010-November/97.html > > > >

Re: 7z command works fine on command line but not in script

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/02/14 19:47, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello. > > I made a script to extract music from a jamendo archive, but for a > reason I do not know, 7z does not accept the command line. I also echoed > it, to be able to know what it tries to run, and it works fine when ran > on command

Re: 7z command works fine on command line but not in script

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
e what you are lacking). On 19/02/14 20:30, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 19.02.2014 09:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 19/02/14 19:47, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I made a script to extract music from a jam

Re: Debian speech recognition - end user information &/or forus

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/02/14 01:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > I want essentially a note taking tool. Assuming you mean speech to text > NO interest in voice activated control. > > A brief search indicated voice recognition is an active project under > Debian accessibility. What I found was developer oriented.

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/02/14 07:52, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > I suggest you to contact undeveloped maintainer and edit the systems page on > Wikipedia? Not sure if you meant the "systems" i.e. udev, or systemd. I suspect you mean the udev page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev The primary developer who works o

Re: 7z command works fine on command line but not in script

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/02/14 23:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 19.02.2014 10:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> Just read your last post before sending this, so this may no longer be >> relevant... I don't know that you need to quote the variables. I use >> colo

Re: Coloured CLI [was: Re: 7z command works fine on command line but not in script]

2014-02-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/02/14 20:24, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:15:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 19/02/14 23:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le 19.02.2014 10:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >>>> Just read your last po

Re: Runnings Windows 7 pro from inside Debian 7

2014-02-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/02/14 11:17, John Foster wrote: > Seeking tips on how to set up a *multi boot* system that has Windows 7 > pro, Debian 7 & 2 other operating systems each with *its own disk* to run > from so that any of the OS can be run in a safe manner *from within* > Debian 7. Confusing as to what you act

Re: update-grub

2014-02-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/02/14 20:06, Ric Moore wrote: > After bending my brains for a day fixing little problems, after > upgrading to Jessie, I'm noticing a weird behavior. > > I have Ubuntu on /dev/sda3 and Debian on /dev/sdb1. When I run > update-grub, it notices the Ubuntu partition yet when I boot, the old > s

Re: update-grub

2014-02-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/02/14 20:27, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 21/02/14 20:06, Ric Moore wrote: >> After bending my brains for a day fixing little problems, after >> upgrading to Jessie, I'm noticing a weird behavior. >> >> I have Ubuntu on /dev/sda3 and Debian on /dev/sdb1. When

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