Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/09/12 12:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:33 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> When you come to re-install the OS (and it is occasionally necessary), >> it is vital to have at least /home and /usr/local on seperate partitions >> from /, so that you

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I had the same thought as Camaleón -- 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/505f1f82.4070...@vanderhoff.org

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
; > > Look closer: there's a space you are overlooking. > > ls -ls " RET" > > might work, and > > ls -ls *RET > > will definitely work (in case that character is not a space). > > > > That's the main reason I always use a fixed-p

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
similar bargains to be had in UK if you're willing to search. Glad we didn't join the Euro! -- 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". Tro

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ofitable? No, you wouldn't. > Well, maybe the've got more insight than you: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/30/amd_to_partner_with_arm_for_server_cpus/ Now what do your "simple" economics have to say? You also seem to be unaware that ARM does not manufacture anythin

OpenVPN setup woes

2012-11-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
uring a firewall, I'm terrified of breaking it, and denying myself access, or worse, letting in miscreants. So, can anyone suggest how to proceed from here? Cheers, -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Outrageous sexism

2012-11-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
eel offended by harmless jokes, > breaking threads, asking the wrong questions, carbon copy, brainstorming > etc., not by the people who make harmless jokes, are breaking threads, > asking the wrong questions, carbon copy, brainstorm etc.. Your joke was not harmless. Stop playing the inj

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
hort example to the second... >> >> > Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be specific to certain > distros > may not be found there, a very useful book is "Linux in a Nutshell," > which calls > itself "A Desktop Quick Reference." O'Reilly.

Re: Outrageous Xenophobia. Was: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ke > > It is alleged, that a certain German Fuerer added a smiley to the order to exterminate the Jews, to indicate it was a joke. It was misunderstood. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
effect. It's crap design... I'm not sure whether you may be able to edit the root user's menu, which will be reflected in a *virgin* user's menu. Try http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/howtos/kde-menus.htm, for some hints. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderho

sudo path

2014-07-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Can anyone please tell me where $PATH is set for sudo with wheezy? It seems that my sudoer has no access to /sbin on one of my machines, but does on others, with a seemingly identical installation. Thanks, Tony. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England

Re: sudo path

2014-07-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/07/14 13:11, Klaus wrote: > On 03/07/14 12:16, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Can anyone please tell me where $PATH is set for sudo with wheezy? >> >> It seems that my sudoer has no access to /sbin on one of my machines, >> but does on others, with a seemi

Re: sudo path

2014-07-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/07/14 23:01, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Klaus wrote: >>> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> Can anyone please tell me where $PATH is set for sudo with wheezy? >>>> >>>> It seems that my sudoer has no access to /sbin

Re: sudo path

2014-07-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/07/14 09:42, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I still don't understand why sudo works on two systems (both upgraded > from squeeze) but not on the third (bare metal wheezy installation), Hum, that's not the entire truth. I rsync'd most of /etc after installation.

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
it, then don't use it. End of discussion, I hope. -- 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/53b7d0a3.9090...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Gratuitous reverse rabble rousing? (was Re: why do we use systemd?)

2014-07-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/07/14 19:21, Curt wrote: > > I prefer an utter piece of shit to someone who is totally > full of it. > So, the OP has achieved his objective. Normally sane people are hurling insults at one another. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamsh

apt-get update fails

2014-07-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
heezy-updates main contrib non-free #deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-backports wheezy-backports main Any suggestions as to what's wrong here? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: apt-get update fails

2014-07-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
o fetch >> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages >> >> 403 Forbidden >> >> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old >> ones used instead. > >> Any suggestions as to w

Re: apt-get update fails

2014-07-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/07/14 21:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages >> 403 Forbidden >> ... >> Any suggestions as to what's wrong here? > > Do you have any other apt config settings such as

internet traffic does not traverse openvpn server

2014-07-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
eers, Tony -- 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: https://lists.debian.org/53c16337.1060...@vanderhoff.org

Re: internet traffic does not traverse openvpn server

2014-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/07/14 18:47, B wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:32:55 +0200 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Clearly I'm missing something; can anyone tell me what magic >> incantation is necessary for all internet traffif from my local >> client to go over the VPN? >

Re: [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
space. Nowadays, > both restrictions are, largely, gone but 'txtspk' persists in some > quarters. > Cobblers. Txtspk came about because kids (the main users of the form) are lazy, and their thumbs get tired. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: internet traffic does not traverse openvpn server

2014-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/07/14 16:14, B wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:39:00 +0200 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > According to this: > https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#redirect1 > did you _push_ this toward the client? > Yes, indeed: push "redir

mysql re-instate debian-sys-maint user

2014-07-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I seem to have lost my debian-sys-maint user on mysql-server. I had expected to be able to run dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server, but that does nothing obvious. Any suggestions, please as to how to correctly recover this user and password and permissions? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t

Re: mysql re-instate debian-sys-maint user [SOLVED]

2014-07-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 18/07/14 17:23, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I seem to have lost my debian-sys-maint user on mysql-server. I had > expected to be able to run dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server, but that does > nothing obvious. > > Any suggestions, please as to how to correctly recover this user and

missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'modutils' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'iptables' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'kerneld' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'a

Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 23/07/14 15:24, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:41:08AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Any suggestions on how to fix this please? >> >> >> insserv: warning: script 'K01kerneld' missing LSB tags and overrides >> insserv: warni

Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
cure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes rc dovecot-imapd 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 i386 secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes and many more. How do I join this output into the purge command to save typing in each package name? --

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
t then I use stable in order to avoid such occurrences. Your luck had to run out sometime... -- 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: https://lists.debian.org/53d10060.5070...@vanderhoff.org

[SOLVED] Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
got there without it. And I learned a tiny bit more about the packaging commands ;) Cheers! -- 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: https://lists.debian.org/53d20cbe.4090...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
) To get closer to the Unix Philosophy > > Within months of my switch, oops, here comes systemd. > > Sometimes, you just have to laugh. Why not have another go at starting a contentious thread? I am rapidly gaining the impression that slitt is no more than a (rather clever) troll, and a

Suppressing pushd output

2014-08-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
otally ineffective. Any suggestions as to why this might be so? -- 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

Re: Suppressing pushd output

2014-08-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/08/14 17:15, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:03:20 +0200 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> DEBUG=1 >> if [ $DEBUG -eq 0 ]; then >> NULLOUT='>/dev/null' >> fi >> pushd $dir ${NULLOUT}; do_something; popd ${NULLOU

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
However, I think Gnome is the most popular DE, which is probably why the installer selects it by default. Which, in turn makes it the most popular . Anyway, I think the installer should offer *all* the DEs. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCR

writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
but when called as a cron task, same user, it fails with /home/tony/scripts/test: line 10: /dev/stdout: Permission denied Any suggestions on how to fix this, please? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/08/14 11:35, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Running up-to-date Wheezy. > >> I have a script, simplified like this: > >> - >> #!/bin/bash >> DEBUG=1 > >> OUT=/dev/null > >&g

Fwd: Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
sorry - wrong button :( Original Message Subject: Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:58:20 +0200 From: Tony van der Hoff To: Sven Hartge On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Cron task is

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/08/14 18:02, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> >>>> Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: >>>> # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user t

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/08/14 22:53, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:23:37AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Running up-to-date Wheezy. >> >> I have a script, simplified like this: >> >> - >

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
art Debian finally makes the move > and people question "rolling out into production". > > I want butter and honey on my popcorn thanks... > Wonderful, thank you! To paraphrase: Zenaan Harkness said everything I wanted to say, and said it so much better. To all you systemd zealots

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ill available here, amongst the dross. > Well said, Lisi. -- 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: https://lists.debian.org/53fe0be2.3070...@vanderhoff.org

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ive in any way, > shape, manner, or form. Subject lines, delete keys, and kill files are > very useful tools. > Then again, endless spreading of FUD on a list that is powerless to do anything about the situation, could, and should, be regarded as trolling. We have seen countless thread

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
hen/what was > the last commit?". Why should I have to transfer large or huge amounts > of data to get an information which doesn't need to take more than 4 > bytes (i. e. a unix timestamp)? > > It seems to me that you're approaching this from the wrong

Re: Forewarned is forearmed

2014-09-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/09/14 23:01, Steve Litt wrote: > > This isn't really a problem for me, but if I'm making a mistake that > kills lo, chances are it's causing other side effects of which I'm not > aware. > > I'd blame systemd :/ -- Tony van der Hoff|

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
;> I stopped with KDE when it came with the same look (and terrible >> "functionalities") as vi$ta ;-p) > > I.e. KDE 4 > > Lisi > > Hey, I like KDE4 Chacon a son gout, as we might say in France :) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vand

cron in UTC?

2014-09-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ive, found by googling, appears to be to wrap cron in a script, satting TZ=UTC. I guess this would not be update-proof. Has anyone here found any other solutions, or have any suggestions, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
e people are still on dial-up. > I don't think he did. But maybe I'm feeling a little more generous than you are today. You should give up the birch twigs :-) He posted twice, realised his mistake, and quoted his last post to apologise. OK, a bit OTT, but surely not worth making a f

Re: mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/04/14 15:25, Lisi Reisz wrote: ("One" is very clumsy in > English, but in this case I felt that the second person would appear > to target Zenaan.) Best Queen's English, Lisi ;) -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To

Re: SASL borked after upgrade to wheezy [SOLVED]

2014-05-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
_passw: Something has changed to make this unacceptable, and changing it to: sql_passwd: has resolved the problem. Don't know about the testsaslauthd. Sorry for the noise. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: OT: n guilty men: what is n? [Was: Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe...]

2014-05-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
N is guilty. Hang the bastard! -- 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 Arch

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
(root) CMD ( [ -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/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2>/dev/null \; -delete) I don't pretend to under

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
P v6 has been mainstream for at least a decade, why would they expect me to wait another year. I have lots of "things" connected to the network, and really need that net block. So, they lost a customer. Apart from the IP v6 issue, they seemed well set up, so I'm quite disappoint

amavis-clamav fails

2012-12-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
!!)WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups I've tried restarting clamav-daemon, amavis and postscript; no obvious error messages, and the problem persists. Can anyone please suggest what's going wrong? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Arièg

Re: amavis-clamav fails

2013-01-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27/12/12 14:32, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > Running postfix/amavis/clamav on my mail server; of late (last week or > two) I'm seeing error messages in syslog: > > Dec 27 13:52:43 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) ESMTP::10024 > /var/lib/amavis/tmp/am

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
lot. > No, Lisi, not to use their web site, but you need Windows to use their hardware scanning utility. > I can't speak for Kingston. > > Lisi > > -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

OT: Caméleòn WAS Install from DVD set

2013-01-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
f. > Which reminds me of a Spanish lady with excellent English skills. Haven't seen her around for a while. I miss her knowledgeable input. Anyone know what happened to her? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] Language(No programming language ) question

2013-01-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
t rules are there to be broken; some are broken more readily than others. -- 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

HDMI output

2013-01-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Presumably this is because Xorg is not correctly set up to drive the HDMI output. Has anyone please got any suggestions on where to look/how to configure this? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: HDMI output

2013-01-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/01/13 19:15, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [You replied to my private address, feel free to put this back on list] > Oops, sorry! Hereby back on the list. > On Jo, 31 ian 13, 19:03:17, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 disconnected >> (II

Re: HDMI output

2013-02-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/01/13 20:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 31 ian 13, 19:38:39, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 31/01/13 19:15, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> [You replied to my private address, feel free to put this back on list] >>> >> Oops, sorry! Hereby back on the list.

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
e B denotes a byte. Although these prefixes are not part of the SI, they should be used in the field of information technology to avoid the incorrect usage of the SI prefixes." (Apologies for the exponentation in this extract; I didn't want to edit it. 210, etc should say 2^10). T

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
takes a tiny "i" >> inserted in the notation to avoid confusion ! Are you just so lazy ? >> >> > > Using an extra "i" will be confusing to the majority of the world. > > Please show me one major manufacturer which uses it, for instance. Or a >

Can't execute binary?

2013-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
firefox" always used to start it with no problem. However, on the wheezy box, I'm getting: --- tony@tony-dlt:~$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: cannot execute binary file --- Well, WTF, as they say. Does anyone know of a change that causes this? Cheers, To

Re: Can't execute binary?

2013-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 21/02/13 11:30, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > The Thursday 21 February 2013 12:23:44, Tony van der Hoff wrote : >> Hi, >> I've just installed wheezy/KDE on a spare machine, to see what we're >> getting. All seems OK, apart from one mystery: >> >> I insta

Re: Can't execute binary?

2013-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
> bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: cannot execute binary file >> --- >> >> Well, WTF, as they say. Does anyone know of a change that causes this? > > Is the copy of firefox the same architetcture of the spare machine? Aren't > you trying to run a 64bit executa

Re: Debian Wheezy and Command-shell Browser Output

2013-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
outers have an optional telnet interface. Why bother with a browser? -- 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.deb

Re: using microphone

2013-03-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ry them all even if >>> they seem strange. The one that worked on my system (a webcam with >>> microphone) read "USB Device 0x46d:0x81a, USB Audio Default Audio >>> Device (default:CARD=U0x46d0x81a)" which looks pretty meaningless and >>> not

Run script at boot time

2013-03-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
r the chroot. I don't really understand the boot sequence nowadays. Any advice appreciated. -- 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". Trou

Re: Run script at boot time

2013-03-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 20/03/13 14:29, Adam Wolfe wrote: > I'd go with /etc/rc.local > That's what it is for. > > > On 03/20/2013 10:23 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Running Squeeze, I would like to run a script (ltsp-update-sshkeys) on >> each system

Re: Run script at boot time

2013-03-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 20/03/13 19:24, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:53:09 + > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> On 20/03/13 14:29, Adam Wolfe wrote: >>> I'd go with /etc/rc.local >>> That's what it is for. >>> >>> >>> On 03/20/2013 10

Re: Run script at boot time

2013-03-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/03/13 14:38, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:50:15AM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> >> >> >> Unfortunately, that solution didn't seem to work. >> >> Indeed, in this instance, it doesn't matter when the script is run, &

Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

2013-04-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
id... http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/landing/nose Your area may vary :) -- 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?

network unrachable problem

2013-04-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
; my wan once again works correctly. I guess udev should be bringing down the eth0 automatically, but is not doing so. Any suggestions on how to fix this, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: network unrachable problem

2013-04-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/04/13 01:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have a (headless) SBC (actually a raspberry pi, but I think that's >> unimportant) running wheezy, with both wireless and wired networking >> interfaces, each with ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. > >

Re: network unrachable problem [SOLVED]

2013-04-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/04/13 16:25, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Certainly, with eth0 unplugged, ifconfig shows it to be still up, and ip >> route show shows both interfaces, so that's very likely the cause. > > Sounds like the problem. Because I am pretty sure tha

Re: network unrachable problem [SOLVED]

2013-04-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/04/13 23:46, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Well, From reading the man pages (always a good idea) I discovered that >> ifplugd calls ifup/ifdown to do its actual work. >> Manually invoking "ifdown eth0" returned an error "eth0 not c

Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

2013-04-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
iron fisted moderator. > Just killfile the troll! -- 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 Arc

Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

2013-04-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ved. Anyway, this is way off topic for this list, so please let the discussion end here. -- 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&qu

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
reflected > here?. > thanks. > The *net* installer contains only sufficient software to get a minimal system running, which then completes a full installation over the net. The full install will contain all necessary updates. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.o

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/04/13 11:35, agroconsultor wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:41:03AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 12/04/13 21:25, agroconsultor0 wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> I have seen at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ that the >&g

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/04/13 18:30, Paul Condon wrote: > On 04/13/2013 10:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> On 13/04/13 11:35, agroconsultor wrote: >>>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:41:03AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>>> On 12/04/13 21:

Wheezy release date: 5 May

2013-04-19 Thread Tony van der Hoff
chnically unable to release that weekend (e.g. a required machine crashes or d-i explodes in a giant ball of fire). Every other RC fix that does not make it in time will be r1 material. Please be sure to contact us about the RC fixes you would like included in the point release! -- T

Re: LILO documentation

2013-04-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
questions. > Hint: man pages and mini-HOTO's don't hack it. They presume and > summarize too much. > {I'm installing using the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5} > I don't know about "one" document, but there's the user documentation and the technical (i.e. inte

Re: LILO documentation

2013-04-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 20/04/13 15:50, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 20/04/13 15:12, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I need complete documentation on LILO with emphasis on lilo.conf . >>> Assume I'm stranded on a desert isle (SW Missouri is a fair >>> ap

Re: LILO documentation

2013-04-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 20/04/13 16:19, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 20/04/13 15:50, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> On 20/04/13 15:12, Richard Owlett wrote: >>>>> I need complete documentation on LILO with emphasis on lilo

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
; > If your current system uses Stable, you might want to switch that to > Squeeze for a while. I wouldn't advise upgrading servers, etc. to Wheezy > until you've had the chance to test the upgrade on things that aren't > critical. An HTML top-poster handing out adv

Re: Arora project

2013-06-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
this list. > > Thnak you in anticipation, for assitance with contacting the Arora > project people. > Well, now... Typing "arora browser" into google, gives me, as first hit, code.google.com/p/arora/‎, which seems to be a live link to the project page, with a wiki and a

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
im. > > Lisi > > I have had him in my killfile for some time now. The problem comes when people keep quoting him, thus giving him the pleasure of seeing his radical views perpetuated. Please don't quote the fool! -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France

Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I'm hoping that all I need is to copy one or more files from the squeeze box onto the wheezy box, which will tell apt what needs installing, but my apt-fu is lacking. Does anyone here have experience/knowledge of this process? All help much appreciated! -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/07/13 15:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/07/13 21:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 03/07/13 20:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> > > Typo corrections. Blame jetlag and just being dumb - sorry. > > You'll also need to consider backin

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
directories such as $HOME/work; $HOME/documents, etc to contain youre working files. That way the dot files will be out of your way. You are, of course totally at liberty to do whatever you like within your $HOME, so feel free to ignore my advice. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailt

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
an DVD in Nepal. > I am a big fan of Linux, specially of Debian so please do something > about it. > > Sincerely yours > Manoj Ghimire -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: unable to mount a vfat filesystem.

2013-07-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 18/07/13 11:48, atar wrote: > > Note: it's worth to note here that I'm using at the Live version of > Debian from the Debian Live Project. > No, you're not: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Win32) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckingh

home/end keys over ssh

2013-07-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
heers, Tony -- 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/51f64851.5050...@vanderhoff.org

Re: home/end keys over ssh

2013-07-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/07/13 13:08, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 7/29/13, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have a remote server running squeezy, which I access from a KDE >> terminal via ssh from my squeeze/wheezy hosts. >> All works well, except that the home and end keys don't work as >

Network unavailable without desktop

2013-08-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-- 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/5200e6ac.9080...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Network unavailable without desktop

2013-08-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/08/13 13:34, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 06.08.2013 14:06, schrieb Tony van der Hoff: >> Hi all, >> >> I normally run my wheezy laptop under KDE, and the network management is >> provided by NetworkManager. This generally works fine. >> >> However, When

Re: your thoughts: special post for Debian birthday

2013-08-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html The date is Aug 16, 1993, so it is indeed 20 years, Yay, 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

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
/usr/local/bin/pnmscale -xysize 110 140 ".$filename.".pnm > ".$filename."1.pnm 2>> ../errlog.txt" ) == "FALSE" ) trigger_error( "failed to scale ".$filename.".pnm" ); if ( system( "/usr/local/bin/cjpeg -smooth 10 -qual 50 &q

startup script

2012-07-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I have a script (non gui) which I want to run each time I log in. Which is the correct way to do this? -- 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"

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