Re: Reply configuration (was: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012)

2021-08-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/08/2021 12:25, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2021 04:02:14 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Debian is about choice Polyna. That is mine. Quit monopolizing the conversation unless you are helping the user SOLVE his/her problem. +1 -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: shells (was Re: Zoom.)

2020-10-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 20/10/2020 15:51, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Top posting intentionally as I don't think any (or much) context is required. so, hijacking a thread instead? :-) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
there at least any way of making my change more permanent? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/2020 15:42, Nicolas George wrote: Tony van der Hoff (12020-11-11): It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented

Apparmor pain

2021-01-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
an application without major surgery? any help appreciated. Thanks -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: Apparmor pain

2021-01-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/01/2021 13:27, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:49:42PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: This is a simplified scenario: Say I have 2 machines, both running Debian 10.7. Each machine has 3 users: A, B and C. Each machine has an identical (mantained by Unison

upgrade fails

2019-09-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
upgraded. Can anyone tell me why, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: upgrade fails

2019-09-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24/09/2019 12:35, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-09-24 at 07:11, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> tony@tony-lx:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade >> [sudo] password for tony: >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information...

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
gt; wa...@waynesallee.com >> http://www.WayneSallee.com >> > > Thank you for your contribution. I look forward to reading your > proposals for improving Debian, and how you intend to contribute. > Don't feed the trolls. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ILE), but, beware, it is only updated when the terminal is closed. Bash provides the 'history' command, which shows the entire history. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

stretch -> buster upgrade fails

2020-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
returned an error code I don't know where to find a verbose log. Any suggestions as to how tp proceed please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: stretch -> buster upgrade fails

2020-05-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/05/2020 19:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/cache/app-info -a -e /usr/bin/appstreamcli; then appstreamcli refresh-cache > /dev/null; fi' E: Sub-process returned an er

Re: stretch -> buster upgrade fails

2020-05-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/05/2020 09:23, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 10/05/2020 19:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/cache/app-info -a -e /usr/bin/appstreamcli; then appstreamcli refresh-cache > /

Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
> Try Here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gemini-4G-WiFi-Space-Grey/dp/B07DNG5YMG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534779869&sr=8-1&keywords=gemini+pda -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

strange DHCP behaviour

2018-10-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
out? I've tried 'dhclient -r wlan 0; dhclient -v wlan0' on the laptop, to no avail. Any suggestions, please? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading

2018-12-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
terature. > Not the bible, but pretty close: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
om a .iso, you need 'dd', i.e. sudo dd bs=4M \ if=/path-todebian-10.iso\ of=/dev/sdx\ oflag=sync Make sure you identify the correct usb stick for sdx, or you may end up overwriting something important. This is explained in detail at https://linuxize.com/post/create-bootable-debian-10

failed upgrade to Buster

2019-10-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi all, I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the doc/ folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the language files, whe

Re: failed upgrade to Buster

2019-10-28 Thread tony van der Hoff
On 28/10/2019 09:47, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi Tony, Quoting Tony van der Hoff (2019-10-28 10:17:13) I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this ap

Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
libapache2-mod-php7.3 is already the newest version (7.3.11-1~deb10u1) OK, so what is going wrong, please? Thanks -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/01/2020 14:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:27:16PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I have a up to date Buster system as a fresh install (not upgrade). My PHP scripts, which used to work fine under Stretch, are now failing - the browser just shows the

Re: Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/01/2020 14:52, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:39:21PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/01/2020 14:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:27:16PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I have a up to date Buster system as a fresh install

Re: Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/01/2020 15:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:59:15PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/01/2020 14:52, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:39:21PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/01/2020 14:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu

Re: Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/01/2020 15:11, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 03:07:18PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/01/2020 15:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, you are definitely missing the module file. It should be in that package: apt-file search php7.3.load libapache2-mod

Re: Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/01/2020 16:39, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 03:55:46PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/01/2020 15:11, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Can you send me (directly) the files from that system named '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php7.3*'? Appa

Re: Apache2/PHP7 fails in Buster

2020-01-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
y Apache, but I'm sure that's just a configuration issue. Thanks again chaps -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: identity confusion

2020-02-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-- tomás Now all *you* need to do is fix your sig.sep :) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On Monday 02 March 2020 06:28:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this storage, so I

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ople so afraid of systemd? I have used it since the beginning of jessie, through stretch, and now buster, and have had no problems with it. I ask the question in all innocence, purely to understand whypeople seem to want to jump through hoops to avoid it. -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: Iceweasel problems - where to report them?

2008-02-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 6 Feb at 16:55 "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Greetings; > > I have several serious problems with Iceweasel. > What are your problems? [snip] -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamsh

Re: Canon LIDE-90 scanner

2008-02-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ch seperate device would cost on its own a couple of years ago. I'm just waiting for either my scanner or printer to die, so that I can justify buying one of those nice HP C6200 units... -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: right click and resize selected images in Konqueror

2008-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
gcc1 (2 1:4.1.1-12) libqt3-mt (2 3:3.3.7) libstdc++6 (2 4.1.1-12) quanta (5 4:3.5.7-2~bpo40+1) 4:3.5.5-1 - kdelibs4c2a (2 4:3.5.5-1) libc6 (2 2.3.6-6) libgcc1 (2 1:4.1.1-12) libqt3-mt (2 3:3.3.6) libstdc++6 (2 4.1.1-12) quanta (5 4:3.5.5-1) Provides: 4:3.5.7-2~bpo40+1 - 4:3.5.5-1 - Reverse Provides:

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
// router nameserver What's that comma doing there? [snip] -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: famd

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
arted to get sluggish, and I noticed famd was sitting at 80% processor time. Restarted famd, and all was well again. Like the OP I have been in the habit of leaving my log-in session running for days, and in particular, leaving a number of Iceweasel windows open. Last night I shut everythin

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
hat all documents must be sent in > 'doc' format. I know a few who are totally lost if they are sent a PDF > document and reply back to send the document in doc format since the one I > sent "was not opened by their computer". And these people have a job! [snip] Bu

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22 Feb at 10:32 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 02/22/08 03:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 22 Feb at 5:08 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > &g

ide-tape crashes

2008-02-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
255 bytes] After this the server simply dies, and needs a hard reset to reboot. Running amverify on a tape containing just a single image works fine. Has anyone come across this problem before, or has anyone any suggestions as to how to isolate the problem. -- Tony van der Hoff| mai

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
compilers. They take simple statements and make them > into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch > Hey Ron, I hope I' not teaching granny to suck eggs, but the standard sig-sep is dash-dash-space-newline, so unless you're so proud of your sig that you want it quoted back to you..

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [snip] >&

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
; floppy or a GRUB CD and that always gets around it. But clearly that is > not an option if you do not have one of them. > > Aside from those rescue methods, I use Knoppix and chroot into the > particular partition. > > Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why peo

initrd

2008-02-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I've just built a 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, using the etch configure as the base, and following the instructions in the kernel source README. Do I additionally need to make an initrd for it to boot? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -

Re: famd strikes again

2008-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ing works fine again.. # ps -ef|grep famd root 18821 1 0 > 18:42 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 > > the other user USER_ owned the famd process.. but when I restarted it, > root owns it. > Yep, I've had to restart fam several times this week. I

Re: initrd

2008-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27 Feb at 11:34 George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > Hi, >> > > I've just built a 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, using the etch configure as the > > base, and following the instructions in the kernel s

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ted and not available in the stock kernel) overcomes the problem. I've raised a new bug report (467291), but no response yet. Whilst I like Debian, I'm surprised that the maintainers can let this situation prevail. But I guess it's a kernel bug, not specific to Debian. -- Tony

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
242 223 204 186 168 14 > > 17 > > This AWG thing is nice, since I don not know I in Europe... I am counting > in mm² http://www.reuk.co.uk/AWG-to-Square-mm-Wire-Size-Converter.htm -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England

Re: [OT]: how to troubleshoot an optical drive in Linux

2008-03-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
aptop is long out of warranty so calling Dell is not an option. My Inspiron 5100 did just that. Turned out to be dirty contacts in the drive connector. Try removing the drive, and re-installing it. ISTR Dell's web site has instructions somewhere on how to do it. -- Tony van der Hoff|

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. Couldn't find country LV . Skipping. SERVER: ftp.at.debian.org Benchmarking FTP... Downloaded 6125463 bytes in 8.20 seconds Download speed: 729.45 kB/sec Benchmarking HTTP... Downloaded 6125463 bytes in 7.68 seconds Download

Re: prob hp colorado 5 GB on lenny - /dev/ht0 read only file system !!!

2008-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
nd with IDE-SCSI (if you leave IDE-TAPE in, you need the hdd=ide-scsi line in your startup parameters, otherwise ide-tape gets preference). It's a mess... HTH -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

switch between Gnome and KDE

2009-05-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running testing, I've just done an update via synaptic, the first time for several months. I now find my desktop manager has switched from KDE to Gnome, which starts up with various errors. How can I switch back to KDE, please, and how do I disable Gnome permanently? -- Tony va

Logrotate error in lenny

2009-05-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
x27;s empty. (a) What does this mean? (b) how do I fix it / should follow the instruction to raise a bug? Any pointers gratefully received. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Logrotate error in lenny

2009-05-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Lenny, I'm getting an error in my daily cron log: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ured that export PS1='\[\033[0;31...@\w$\033[0;30m \]' would return it back to black after the prompt - which it does, and I can live with that, but ideally, I'd like to save away the present colour, and restore it. Can anyone suggest how to do that? PS - where are these escape seque

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
gt; Apologies and thank you, Chris. You're both very generous, but I wouldn't have thought an apology is necessary. My understanding of the accepted protocol has always been: You ask on the list; you get a reply on the list. How much effort is it to subscribe, or to go to

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/02/10 04:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Tony van der Hoff put forth on 2/11/2010 11:53 AM: > Thanks for your help, everyone. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: OT: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
suck around the fans, and any area which has accumulated dust, using a domestic vacuum cleaner with a plastic nozzle has always been adequate, as well as cheap and safe. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
o do your homework for you, what have you tried so far, wit what results? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: using wodim

2010-04-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-tao speed=0 dev=/dev/scd0 -data /home/user/image.iso and im getting this error wodim: trying to use a high speed medium on low writter ¿? What can i do ¿? THANKS Oh, oh. Cue Schilling! -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

/var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
delete) it. Any advice, please? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
udo apt-get clean > Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? Thanks very much to all who replied. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
27;m learning a lot. I like this distro :) Cheers, Tony. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dropbox alternative

2013-10-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ttp://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/525ebecc.1060...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ork... I gave up; cleaning up the mess consisted of reformatting, and redoing a netinstall. I then installed/removed packages manually. TBH, it didn't take too much effort, and certainly wasn't worth the effort trying to "JTTH" ;) It would seem that this is raised often enou

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/11/13 18:05, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 11/4/2013 10:05 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 04/11/13 14:50, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:56:27AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>> On 11/4/2013 7:19 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: >>>>

Re: free-software phone: neo900

2013-11-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
or did I miss > mention of it? >From http://neo900.org/specs: VGA front camera 5.0 MP camera, autofocus -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetim

2013-11-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I recently did a dist-upgrede from squeezy to wheezy, and all went -apparently- well. I'm now getting the following message from cron at half-hourly intervals. No big deal, but I'd rather not. I think php5 has now abandoned suhosin in favour of its own improvements, so how do I get rid of the mes

Re: Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlif

2013-11-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/11/13 14:39, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > I recommend to run "aptitude purge ~c" after a dist-upgrade to get rid > of all removed but still un-purged packages. > > ~c matches all removed, but still configured packages. Purging them &

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ny problem to aim at, at the > moment. > > regards, Ron > This, and the previous, looks fine here; I suspect the problem might be at Jonathan's end. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Privacy Debian 7

2013-11-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
tion about Users or monitoring? > > I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, NO Linux distribution > does. Debian *optionally* collects data about packages you have installed, to assess package popularity, but you need to enable it on installation. See http://popcon.debia

Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Sorry, sent to steve instead of list by mistake Original Message Subject: Re: cron in UTC? Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:18:35 +0100 From: Tony van der Hoff To: Steve Litt > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Greetings, >>

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/14 17:13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always >> UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm >> misunderstan

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/14 17:48, John Hasler wrote: > Tony van der Hoff writes: >> My problem is that cron works to localtime. I want my cron tasks to be >> triggered at the same time (UTC) each day, regardless of the current >> localtime, wherever I may be. > > man 5 crontab >

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/14 17:30, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100 >> On 24/09/14 16:01, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> My #1 suggestion is to have system time be GMT, and every shell/user set >>> TZ appr

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/14 17:29, John Hasler wrote: > Tony van der Hoff writes: >> Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer. >> Perhaps you'd like to give a more detailed pointer into that manual? > > See the part about setting environment variables.

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 30/09/14 11:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, John Hasler wrote: >>> Tony van der Hoff writes: >>>> Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer. >>>

mirror does not support the specified release (jessie)

2014-10-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ttp.debian.net mirror.ox.ac.uk debian.man.ac.uk http.debian.net Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to overcome this? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

[SOLVED] Re: mirror does not support the specified release (jessie)

2014-10-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 01/10/14 15:17, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I've set up a KVM client on my wheezy box in which I'm trying to install > jessie from the netinst iso. > > I've got as far as "Configure the package manager", but it seems that > whatever mirror I choose,

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

2014-10-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ease, ban anyone whose "discussion" descends to this low level. It's probably best to just ignore/killfile these trolls, Lisi. They revelin the attention they get. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

2014-10-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/10/14 17:07, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:31:43 +0100 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: >>>> Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed.

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
; Well, you should have no problem with the "vocal" bit :| -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
conspiracy against Debian! -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54478d3d.7050...@vanderhoff.org

Re: exim4 panic log issue

2014-11-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
uot; remove the entry ::1. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5460e00e.30...@vanderhoff.org

emdebian.org off-line?

2014-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Can anyone confirm that http://www.emdebian.org/ is currently not responding? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: emdebian.org off-line?

2014-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/14 16:58, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:54:33 + > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > Hello Tony, > >> Can anyone confirm that http://www.emdebian.org/ is currently not >> responding? > > At times like this, I use http://www.isup.me to see

Re: emdebian.org off-line?

2014-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/14 17:04, Frank wrote: > > On 11/11/2014 11:54 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Can anyone confirm that http://www.emdebian.org/ is currently not >> responding? >> > > Yes it's apparently down. Accessing a cached copy of the site reveals > the who

Re: cross toolchains

2014-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/14 19:12, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-11-11 18:18 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> On 11/11/14 17:04, Frank wrote: >>> >>> On 11/11/2014 11:54 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> Can anyone confirm that http://www.emdebian.org/ is current

Re: HowTo Fork Debian? At first, just for fun... Plus a new home for kFreeBSD!

2014-11-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
l your pals, of like mind, can also decamp! Bye! -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: HowTo Fork Debian? At first, just for fun... Plus a new home for kFreeBSD!

2014-11-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/11/14 16:46, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > On 12 November 2014 14:27, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 12/11/14 16:11, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> I think that is time to start working on a `Debian Fork`. >>> >> >> >>>

Installing Chrome

2014-11-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
h the Debian package managers is sadly lacking, Could someone kindly either give me the incantation to install this .deb, or point me at a concise resource containing the basic package management information. tia, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire

Re: Installing Chrome

2014-11-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/11/14 12:33, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:16:32 + > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> I want to try Chrome, in order to view mpeg-dash streams without Flash. >> >> I don't think there's a Debian package for it, given its origi

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-12-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/12/14 00:52, lee wrote: > Whatever ... You should have snipped your own posts to begin with. > > Anyway, you didn't contribute anthing to what the OP said, and I don't > find this part of the discussion worthwhile at all. > Then why are you persisting with it

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
mpletely alter what he said. > > If you are not happy with Debian, then please stop using it. If you are > happy, use it. Don't misquote "the great and the good" to pretend they > support you. ++ What he said didn't require interpreting. Just take it at face v

Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
n non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main Anyone know how to fix this? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Fwd: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Apologies to Andrei -- inadvertently sent by mail: Original Message Subject: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:16:47 +0100 From: Tony van der Hoff To: Andrei POPESCU On 09/12/14 00:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 08 dec 14, 17:30

Re: Fwd: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ckage. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'libavutil52' has no installation candidate E: Package 'libavcodec-extra-54' has no installation candidate I think something must be seriously broken ... Ch

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
"('Debian', 'stable')", "('Debian', 'squeeze-security')"] 2012-05-10 08:05:42,539 INFO Packages that are upgraded: linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | --

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
te is the worst crap > you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. > > I read your 'installation' post, and thought "this guy talks sense", so this comes as a severe let-down. I've never had a problem with ASUS boards. YMMV, but let's s

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/09/12 18:34, Tom Rausner wrote: > Hey Tony... > > ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 18:18 +0100, skrev Tony van der Hoff: > >>> Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap >>> you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. >

Re: Storage server

2012-09-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
essively complex, and was happy to abandon it in favour of some scripts around rsync to a NAS, which is much easier to administer. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5051c085.2030...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
t some errant application filling it up. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5051c497.6040...@vanderhoff.org

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