Re: startup script

2012-07-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 01/07/12 13:01, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Tony, > > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> 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? > > Log in on a TTY/console or into a desktop envi

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
OK, thanks for the information; I'll try to get it working for KDE login first. > [0] if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set it defaults to $HOME/.config > [1] if $KDEHOME is not set it defaults to $HOME/.kde4 $KDEHOME is not set, but I have no kde4 directory. > [2] > http://shreevatsa.wordpr

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/07/12 20:39, rjc wrote: > > Try here: > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/autostart/index.html > Ah, thanks. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

2012-07-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
t release. Continuing in that vein, we are happy to >> announce that Debian 8.0 will be known as "Jessie". >> > > Trying to remember which Toy Story character this was... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_%28Toy_Story%29 -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

Postfix - run script from email

2013-12-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ons, or would anyone like to suggest a better solution? Cheers, 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...@lis

Re: Postfix - run script from email

2013-12-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 07/12/13 15:22, David Guntner wrote: > Tony van der Hoff grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> Hi, list, >> >> I have a squeezy VPS, running Postfix to handle all my mail, plus >> several virtual users, with which I'm entirely satisfied. >> >> I also

Re: Postfix - run script from email

2013-12-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thnks, Greg; this looks useful. I'm not familiar with maildrop, but shall investigate. One problem is that all email users are virtual; no home directories, and they pick up mail via imap. Cheers -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To

Re: Shutdown computer after a specific command has been executed

2013-12-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
the byte, more likely. Shutting down the computer won't disconnect the session. Therefore one must conclude he's actually on dial-up, in which case both of his concerns (connect time and transmission rate) are valid. As someone else said, the sensible thing to do would be to drop theline, r

taming syslog

2013-12-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
least expect the usual crop of iptables reports, unless the baddies have given up for christmas. Mail is still logged to mail.log, so that's OK. Can anyone please tell me the correct way to go about this, please? Cheers -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshir

Re: taming syslog

2013-12-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 15/12/13 05:43, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> So I thought I'd try to suppress these messages in syslog. Some googling >> and reading man (5) syslog.conf, I decided that the line > > On Debian Wheezy the default is now rsyslog which has replac

Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

2014-01-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 18/01/14 20:24, Go Linux wrote: > Please cease and desist this stupid off topic chatter. I gave up reading > this thread days ago . > > +1, but ... How then are you able to respond to it? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBS

Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

2011-03-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Think it was wireless. I gave up, and tried Ubuntu, which installed without problem. Still running Lenny on my desktop and server, though. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or your wife might (as I do) dislike the way that v4 works. Care to elaborate on what you dislike about it? -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
laint from chrome users against FF. That, in itself, justifies it's existence. But, hey, YMMV ... -- 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". Tro

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
uot;w"). World Wide Web = 3 syllables. www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables. "dub-dub-dub" is becoming quite popular in my circles. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
2 users (who knows the root passwords of their own distro) can use 1 pc? (so that they cannot see each others files..) Thanks.. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
k, but had problems, and Ubuntu just worked. I've stuck with it through several dist-upgrades, and have never encountered a problem. Similarly, I've gone from etch via Lenny to Squeeze without problem. They're both pretty good; but from what I hear, ubuntu might be going

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. This is the only full solution: sudo rm -rf / -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/05/11 15:56, Lisi wrote: On Monday 09 May 2011 10:57:55 Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. This is

No mail after reboot

2017-04-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running Jessie, postfix/courier on my VPS. I don't often need to restart, which is just as well, as after a reboot, I'm unable to access mail over IMAP. It turns out, that if I run service courier-imap-ssl restart and/or service courier-imap restart, mail functionality is restored. Does

Re: No mail after reboot

2017-04-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26/04/17 11:31, Henning wrote: On Apr 26, 2017, at 3:39 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Jessie, postfix/courier on my VPS. I don't often need to restart, which is just as well, as after a reboot, I'm unable to access mail over IMAP. It turns out, that if I run servi

Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default?

2017-08-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/08/17 15:48, Gene Heskett wrote: > Interesting Thomas, but what the heck is PIE? I know about PAE, but PIE? > Whats it do? Searching the above wiki returned only this thread. > > Thanks, you too. >> Have a nice day :) >> >> Thomas > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Position-independent executable:

Re: More then 2800 spams from the list...

2018-03-19 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 19/03/18 17:38, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Comments at end. > Where they should be. If you can avoid the HTML, and change your sig.sep to , you're on your way to becoming a hero on this list.

Packagekit spamming syslog

2018-05-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
s May  2 15:55:29 tony-lx PackageKit: get-updates transaction /144838_bddedcad from uid 1000 finished with success after 451ms Can someone please explain why PackageKit needs to update so often, and maybe how to tame it. Thanks, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff    | mailto:t...@vanderhof

Re: Packagekit spamming syslog

2018-05-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/05/18 17:19, Curt wrote: > On 2018-05-02, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Running fully up to date stretch, I'm seeing the following in my syslog >> every 5 minutes: >> >> May  2 15:55:25 tony-lx PackageKit: refresh-cache transaction >> /144833_aadbeecc fro

Re: Packagekit spamming syslog

2018-05-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
nneth Parker  > > On Wed, May 2, 2018, 11:30 AM Tony van der Hoff <mailto:li...@vanderhoff.org>> wrote: > > Running fully up to date stretch, I'm seeing the following in my > syslog > every 5 minutes: > > May  2 15:55:25 tony-lx PackageKit:

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
error, it just closes. I'm running Jessie KDE same as: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=128931 Thanks and regards Emile Ditto here, same environment. Yep, I see that too; sometimes it just disappears without my touching it. Same environment. -- Tony van de

postfix mail filtering

2016-08-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
from:, or to: fields, but feel certain such must exist. Can any kind person direct me to a suitable tutorial, please? Thanks, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: postfix mail filtering

2016-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/08/16 13:33, Perry E. Metzger wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:21:13 +0100 Tony van der Hoff wrote: So, I'd like to perform the filtering on the server (for my user initially, then perhaps for others). My extensive googling reveals that there are many tutorials for filtering spam

Re: postfix mail filtering

2016-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/08/16 15:02, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 01:21:13PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi list, I'm running postfix under Wheezy on my VPS, using a more or less out-of-the-box configuration. My users access their mail via IMAP. I subscribe to a number of mail lists, su

mysql broken after jessie upgrade

2016-09-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running Jessie here. Performed apt-get upgrade yesterday, which included a new version of mysql. I now cannot connect to mysql: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) Any suggestions on how to fix, please? -

Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade

2016-09-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/09/16 12:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:43:18PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, > >> Running Jessie here. Performed apt-get upgrade yesterday, which included >> a new version of mysql. > >> I now cannot connect to mysql: >

SOLVED Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade

2016-09-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/09/16 13:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 01:07:49PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 22/09/16 12:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:43:18PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> Hi, >>> >>>

Re: SOLVED Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade

2016-09-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/09/16 16:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:02:37PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>>>> Running Jessie here. Performed apt-get upgrade yesterday, which included >>>>>> a new version of mysql. > >> It turns out that t

system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, For the last few days, my jessie VM has apparently run out of disk space overnight. df shows 100% usage on / but du does not show any enormous files. If I reboot, the disk usage goes back to 50% on a 40GB volume. How can I determine what is eating the space? -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
N9JEJ (deleted) My interpretation is that mysql has 5 deleted files of 0 size open which are each taking up an inode. ls /tmp is empty. I guess, if there were many (how many?) such entries, the disk would appear full, if it ran out of inodes. Is that correct? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26/09/16 17:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:38:01PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 26/09/16 16:03, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: >>> >>>> A possibility is that

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27/09/16 13:09, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:55:52AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 26/09/16 17:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:38:01PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> On 26/09/16 16:03, to...@tuxteam.

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27/09/16 17:53, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> However, it wouldn't work in this case. Various other applications >> rely on the names of the compressed files being in a particular >> format, which I can't easily achieve with logrotate.

[SOLVED] Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26/09/16 11:42, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > For the last few days, my jessie VM has apparently run out of disk space > overnight. df shows 100% usage on / but du does not show any enormous files. > > If I reboot, the disk usage goes back to 50% on a 40GB volume. Pl

Upgrade fails

2016-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-plugin-pulse 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. I have no packages (deliberately) held back., so how do I get out of this situation? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

Re: Upgrade fails

2016-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/16 11:21, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-09-29 11:13:17 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Trying apt-get upgrade: >> >> 11:10:17 root@tony-fr:~# apt-get upgrade >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state inf

Re: Upgrade fails

2016-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-updates main non-free contrib #deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main non-free contrib # jessie-backports #deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main non-free contrib # multimedia # deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

Re: Upgrade fails

2016-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
pt-batch* ruby-kde4* ruby-plasma* software-properties-kde* sweeper* systemsettings* task-kde-desktop* vlc* vlc-data* vlc-nox* vlc-plugin-notify* vlc-plugin-pulse* -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

Re: Upgrade fails

2016-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/16 12:11, Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:07:47 +0200 schreef Tony van der Hoff > : > > > re-enable the deb-multimedia repo > (don't forget to run apt-get update) > and try to update your system with > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > Floris >

[SOLVED] Re: Upgrade fails

2016-09-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/16 12:51, Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:44:10 +0200 schreef Tony van der Hoff > : > >> On 29/09/16 12:11, Floris wrote: >>> Op Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:07:47 +0200 schreef Tony van der Hoff >>> : >>> >>> >>> re-enable the

apt-get fails to install pylint3

2016-11-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
oken packages. # Has anyone got any suggestions? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: apt-get fails to install pylint3

2016-11-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/11/16 16:45, janm wrote: Hi Tony What if you tell APT specifically to use Backports via "-t jessie-backports"? Please see my simulation install below. Thank you, Jan; that seems to have worked. Best regards, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vand

Re: A_Message_Regarding_Your_DEBT_Situation. vs78

2016-11-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/11/16 11:46, Jude DaShiell wrote: Why the hell are people discussing obvious spam on this list? Take it private, or let it drop! Most of us are not interested. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Mysql failed

2016-11-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
alled PreDepends: mysql-common (>= 5.5.50-0+deb8u1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. but they ARE installed!! Any suggestions as to what to do next, p

Re: Mysql failed

2016-11-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/11/16 16:10, Joe wrote: On 16/11/2016 15:48, Tony van der Hoff wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-server-5.5 : Depends: mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.50-0+deb8u1) but it is not going to be installed PreDepends: mysql-common (>= 5.5.50-0+

cyrus-imap-ssl crashing

2016-11-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
way forward to resolve this issue? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1" So, how do I get the network active? Thanks, -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: New motherboard, no network

2017-03-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
xing the problem. I ended up deleting all the rules in udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, and rebooting. Both interfaces came up as desired, so I'm back on-line. (I actually tried systemctlrestart networking.service before I rebooted, but that had no effect - wierd) So, thanks again for the input. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/08/15 03:51, Martin McCormick wrote: > For those in the UK, We in North America could > occasionally receive BBC1 from transmitters across the British > Aisles when Solar activity was high. British Aisles?? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

/var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition

2015-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
loped over the last few days. A partial directory listing is attached (to circumvent wrapping). Can anyone suggest a remedy to this problem, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | root@tony-lt:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial# ls -l total 283456 -rw

Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition

2015-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 01/09/15 16:43, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/1/15, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> * Tony van der Hoff [2015-09-01 14:17 +0200]: >> >>> On this jessie box I have started to see /var/lib/apt/lists/partial >>> gradually filling the entire 2.7 GiB /var partit

Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition [SOLVED]

2015-09-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 01/09/15 17:47, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 01/09/15 16:43, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 9/1/15, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >>> * Tony van der Hoff [2015-09-01 14:17 +0200]: >>> >>>> On this jessie box I have started to see /var/lib/apt/lists/partia

Kernel crash message help

2015-09-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
attached set of messages. I have no idea what it all means; can somebody perhaps interpret it, please? Is there any indidation that this may be a hardware fault? Thanks, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | kernel:[60888.072774] flags: 0x80268(uptodate|lru

Re: Kernel crash message help

2015-09-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/09/15 19:47, Glenn English wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2015, at 4:04 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> > > Don't ya just love it when there's an error and the message is "Oops" :-) > > A guess from a for sure non-expert in case nobody knowle

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-09-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 30/09/15 17:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> UUOR > > http://www.acronymfinder.com/~/search/af.aspx?Acronym=UUOR&string=exact > 0 matches -- very helpful :) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: KDE file copy to usb device without file cache

2015-10-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
n the task bar, and then click on the "safely remove" (uparrow) before removing USB device. You should get into the habit of doing this each time you remove a USB device. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ing kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead [1267669.932889] tun: Unknown symbol ipv6_proxy_select_ident (err 0) So, the tun module is failing to load; but now I'm out of ideas to try further. Can anyone please point me in th

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 16:31, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:51:17PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a VPS running up to date wheezy, with an OpenVPN server, and a >> wheezy box at home running an OpenVPN client. this used to work

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 17:05, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:46:01PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 05/10/15 16:31, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:51:17PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> Hi, >

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 17:38, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> Thanks for the quick response, Reco. >>>> >>>> 1. Kernel is stock wheezy: >>>> 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linu

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 18:33, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 05/10/15 17:38, Reco wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>>>> Thanks for the quick respon

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/10/15 13:22, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:46:31AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 05/10/15 18:33, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> On

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
raid1 from grub.cfg, and rebooted. In grub, sll boot entries still contain that stanza. Wouldn't that be expected, having not run update-grub? After reboot, Uname -v still yields 3.2.57-3+deb7u2 -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
30.0GB 40.0GB MB logical ext4raid 9 40.0GB 45.0GB 4999MB logical ext2raid 10 45.0GB 55.0GB MB logical linux-swap(v1) raid 11 55.0GB 500GB 445GB logical ext4raid That doesn't look too good, does it? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
? apt-get install --reinstall grub? >> 6) Reboot. >> >> 7) Check /proc/mdstat to ensure that there are no degraded RAIDs this >> time. Check kernel version while you're at it. >> >> 8) ... >> >> 9) Profit. > > PS. Almost forgot it

Re: OpenVPN fails [SOLVED]

2015-10-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
working RAID1, and, of course openvpn is now happily working. That must be some degree of success. Thank you, Reco for your help and advice; really appreciated. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

impending disk failure?

2015-10-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
92521] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.099092] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.099121] ata3: EH complete Can anyone please explain what it means, and whether I should be worried? Thanks, -- Tony va

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 17/10/15 17:47, Miles Fidelman wrote: Dominique Dumont wrote: On Saturday 17 October 2015 14:15:52 Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone please explain what it means, and whether I should be worried? You should check the drive with smartctl. See http://www.smartmontools.org/ HTH Yes

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-20 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 20/10/15 11:22, Ondřej Grover wrote: Does this error occur by any chance after resuming from suspended state? No, this machine doesn't suspend. But thanks, anyway. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

2015-10-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
recreate previous users if need be but that does not touch the other errors.)<‭‮ Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?" Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ? well, it was perfectly legible here, suggesting the problem may be at your end. ;) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

2015-10-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Ds be used in RAID arrays? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: Recommendations for interactive use shell

2015-10-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/10/15 17:30, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Hello. For interactive use, I have only seriously used Bash and Fish <http://fishshell.com/>. Oh, yes; from that web site: "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s" Woo, cutting edge, or what! -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: apt-get error messages

2015-12-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/12/15 13:41, Chris Bannister wrote: *groan* *sigh* ... I wonder why there's not a 'dpkg --print-architectures' which prints out *all* the architectures it knows about. Because you haven't written it yet? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

KVM guest display

2014-12-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
dr on the guest only shows a VGA display. Is there any way I can persuade it to use the same display settings as the host? Thanks, Tonyh -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-15 Thread Tony van der Hoff
989, with a 15-year implementation time. A reading of 220V on a nominal 230V +/- 6% (i.e 216.2 .. 243.8) is quite legitimate, and even to be expected -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ntication is handled by Polkit. > I don't believe Synaptic works that way, but Apper, available in Wheezy repositories, does. However, it's a KDE utility, so may not suit your purpose. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
a KVM client for several months now, with zero problems. -- 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/54abd4b7.4010...@vanderhoff.org

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/01/15 13:48, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:27:35 +0100 >> From: Tony van der Hoff >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie >> Us

Debugging ipv6

2015-02-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
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: https://lists.debian.org/54d8ad0b.3090...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Debugging ipv6

2015-02-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/02/15 13:02, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:50:19PM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have a VPS, with an ipv6 address. It responds correctly to ping packets: >> >> tony@tony-lx:~$ ping6 vanderhoff.org >> PING vanderhoff.org(2a03:9800:10:54::1

Re: Debugging ipv6

2015-02-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/02/15 13:02, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:50:19PM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have a VPS, with an ipv6 address. It responds correctly to ping packets: >> >> tony@tony-lx:~$ ping6 vanderhoff.org >> PING vanderhoff.org(2a03:9800:10:54::1

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Oh, dear, it was so nice to have a break from the systemd flame-wars. Could the troll-feeders please desist? -- 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

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
empt to contact the former developers(s) first if he or she wishes >> to use that name. > > Or, if that fails, what about "sc2"? > > Petter > Scoot? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/03/15 14:29, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > People believed the spaghetti tree hoax, you know. (I remember it!!) > Do you remember the (much later) san-seriffe hoax? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France |

OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
local network, until I run . Google doesn't make any useful suggestions, so does anyone here know how to fix 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&quo

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/04/15 12:02, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > Hi, during installation (of Wheezy) I picked the wrong time > zone respect to my own. > > So: where does that information live in the system? > How can I set it to a new one? > > Thanks > > dpkg-reconfigure

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
did you? This list is not intended as a replacement for google! LMGTFU: http://bit.ly/1NGl5FG -- 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 listma

Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/04/15 00:11, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have OpenVPN on my KDE Wheezy laptop configured to connect to my >> wheezy VPS. When booting from scratch this works fine. > > Works for me too. Note that I am not using KDE however. Doesn't seem

Re: [OT] Use of language on this list was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
is asking for help, he's unlikely to get it from me. -- 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/551faa0d.9020...@vanderhoff.org

Fwd: Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Forward to list, having replied directly to Bob in error. Original Message Subject: Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:10:29 +0200 From: Tony van der Hoff To: Bob Proulx Thanks for your reply, Bob. I have now risen from my sick-bed, an

Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
gt; lukn > > Thanks for your reply. It certainly helps; but I was already aware that restarting OpenVPN was aa effective work-around. I hadn't got round to doing it programatically, though. However, whilst the work-around is effective, I would rather find out what the underl

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
ce.com/Category?c_id=105&cp_id=10208&cs_id=1020814 > > Bob > > Beware: These cables tend to be prone to UV degradation; best to run them in some sort of conduit for use outdoors. Outdoor grade cable is available, though, as is armoured cable. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t

Logrotate failure

2015-07-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
$MYADMIN flush-logs fi endscript } I actually installed mariadb, not mysql, not sure whether that matters. Any suggestions as to what's wrong, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Logrotate failure SOLVED

2015-07-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 07/07/15 09:24, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 06:16:37PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Since installing Jessie from scratch on this laptop, I'm getting a >> nightly error message from logrotate: >> > >> if [ -z "`$MYAD

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