Re: Future of systemd-shim?

On 2018-07-12 13:48:39 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Stephan Seitz [2018-07-12 12:59 +0200]: > > > Hi! > > > > I noticed that systemd-shim isn’t compatible anymore to the last systemd > > version in testing, so systemd-sysv will be installed. > > > > This is mentioned in bug > > https://

Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6

On 2018-07-31 00:37:38 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > I just noticed that there are two packages for libmpfr: > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr4 > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr6 > > > Funny thing is, this is what the versioning says on those pages: > Package: libmpfr4 (3

Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6

On 2018-07-31 10:01:00 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > As for the "6", I'm guessing that they chose that because the library > > version (yes, another versioning sequence) is 6.0.1 as opposed to 4.1.5. > > That's right, this is an "API version", so I guess it means that the > 4.0.1 upstream code

Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6

On 2018-08-01 13:41:32 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > That > [the 4.0.1 source code can build both versions under discussion] > > > seems unlikely to me. I'm not going to bother to download the > > > source to find out, but I suspect that the 4 in Packages's "Source: > > > mpfr4" line is spurious

Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32

On 2018-08-12 00:13:31 +, Dale Forsyth wrote: > > From: Pétùr > Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2018 7:41 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 > > Using 'su' generates now an path error when launching programs such as > 'shutdown'. The

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

On 2018-08-13 09:38:48 -0300, Samuel Henrique wrote: > If you pass a file as parameter to apt install, like: > apt install ./package.deb > It will work, at least on buster. And the "./" is important, otherwise it will not work (until now, for this reason, I didn't know that passing a file was supp

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

On 2018-08-17 13:48:11 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 17 Aug 2018 at 07:31:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 17 August 2018 05:29:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > On 2018-08-13 09:38:48 -0300, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > > > If you pass a fi

Re: connecting to two networks simultaneously on buster

On 2018-08-22 19:09:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 22 Aug 2018 at 10:29:01 (+1000), Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Static configuration is by necessity (basically) custom setup - i.e. > > requires manual intervention. > > > > Automatic means the above /e/n/i lines would look like this instead:

Re: Downgrade to Stable

On 2018-09-04 12:31:03 +0200, Pétùr wrote: > As suggested by the link of Dan Ritter, you can change the behavior for > apt and force the installation of a selected version of packages (ie > stable). However, I do not recommend this. For example, there is no > guarantee the configuration of packages

Re: pdfjoin loses web links in the PDFs

On 2018-11-18 16:16:21 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > This is frustrating. I'm running Debian/Buster (AMD64) and just finished > creating web links (mostly mailto: in a two-part directory I > created using Scribus. I exported the files to PDF on a Debian/Stretch > machine because Buster uses a version o

Re: PSA: anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed

On 2022-11-21 07:21:12 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > To see if a system is affected you can use these commands: > >zgrep -i anacron.*2.3-33 /var/log/apt/history.log* >systemctl status anacron.service anacron.timer In the first command, the quotes for the grep regexp are missing. The correct c

Re: Cannot get ssh access to the new Debian server on my local network

On 2023-01-13 15:01:48 -0600, David Wright wrote: > ssh -v -v -v Or shorter: ssh -vvv -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Missing links of libraries (*.so) on Debian 11

On 2023-01-16 17:02:19 +0530, Anurag Aggarwal wrote: > The tool is looking for .so file to run, not for build. This tool is buggy since the .so symlink may point to any version of the library, and the various versions are not compatible to each other. The symlink with the supported version number

Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

The following issue is reproducible in several terminals, e.g. xterm and GNOME Terminal, and several shells, e.g. bash and zsh. 1. From the shell in an X terminal emulator, run an X application in foreground, e.g. emacs-gtk or xterm. 2. Paste a long text (e.g. the contents of /usr/share/doc/libc6

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-21 21:19:06 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 22 Jan 2023 at 03:50:17 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > 3. Type Ctrl-C (one or several times) in the terminal. > > But nothing happens. > > I presume that's because the input buffer is already full, so >

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-22 11:33:57 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > This might be a limitation of Linux's pty(7) subsystem. The xterm > manpage mentions the following: > > , > | BUGS > | Large pastes do not work on some systems. This is not a bug in > | xterm; it is a bug in the pseudo terminal dr

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-21 23:04:30 -0600, David Wright wrote: > The only suggestion I can give is that you start the applications > concerned with &, so that you get the xterm prompt back. Perhaps. For Emacs, this is more complex because it can also run in the terminal, and the ultimate solution could be to w

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-22 23:27:11 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 23 Jan 2023 at 04:15:38 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-01-21 23:04:30 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > > In this case, if I paste the large file, I do see almost the start > > > of the fi

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-22 23:27:27 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 23 Jan 2023 at 03:17:43 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-01-22 11:33:57 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > This might be a limitation of Linux's pty(7) subsystem. The xterm > > >

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-22 15:35:08 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. > The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard > input from that point forward. They are actually not ignored, but delayed by the terminal em

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-24 10:03:31 +, Richmond wrote: > No that wasn't the entire point of the thread. The OP didn't know the > cause, it was presumed by David Wright that it was caused by the buffer > filling up. But it could have been caused by some spurious character in > the file, e.g. ctrl-s. I know

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-24 10:34:01 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 17:18:17 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-01-22 15:35:08 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. > > > T

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-24 10:36:05 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 15:34:49 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] > > For instance, if I paste the following 3 lines > > > > foo1 > > foo2 > > foo3 > > > > in dash, I get: > > > > $ f

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-25 14:08:07 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 18:29:38 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-01-24 10:36:05 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 15:34:49 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > [...] > > > > For

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-26 13:09:31 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 06:34:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > About this, Ctrl-U is just a shell feature. Contrary to bash, it is > > not really usable in zsh to erase long pastes (unless one changes > > the default

Re: what method do you prefer for data transfer between nodes?

On 2023-03-05 16:22:25 +0800, Ken Young wrote: > 1. scp > pros: the native tool in the OS > cons: you will either input password or put key pairs into servers for > authentication. I would not see this as a cons. > 2. rsync > pros: it can transfer data by increasement > cons: you need to setup rs

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

On 2023-03-08 18:02:42 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > Using testing with KDE, I have an issue since last update: for many QT > applications and some GTK applications, menus (File, Edit…) or even > drop-down lists are difficult to trigger (Moste often I need to click and > then press Alt). I would like

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

On 2023-03-09 08:33:08 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > I might be the same issue indeed. A temporary workaround I have just found > is to run KDE on Wayland. But I suppose it is not possible with FVWM. In any case, I sometimes need to run remote X applications transparently, so Wayland is not an optio

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

On 2023-03-09 04:32:05 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:06 AM Timothy Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Try running apt fully upgrade > > > `sudo apt full-upgrade` sorry about that my tablet auto-corrected. AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is for

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf' > > cups-filters needs to be on the system. But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 15:11:05 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. > > And apparently that is not its only flaw, a quick test had it just skip > non-ascii characters. > > I wish so

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 15:12:17 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 3/9/23 à 12:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > look for text2pdf/text2ps. > It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf. a2ps is old and does not support Unicode. AFAIK, paps is suggested as a replacement, but it is strange tha

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 15:29:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > TeX is perfectly fine as a PDF backend. Especially if you go for the > more "modern" variants, like LuaTeX, which grok UTF-8 natively. Yes, but has anyone written a nice wrapper that fully supports Unicode (selecting the right fonts...)? I k

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 21:42:24 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 09/03/2023 17:32, Corey Hickman wrote: > > > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > > And is there a VIM plugin for that? > > If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then there is > an alterna

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 15:55:13 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 21:42:24 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then > > there is an alternative to LaTeX workflow: > > > > chromium --headless --disable-gpu -

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 15:13:21 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > > > > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/textto

Re: question about rc.local

On 2023-03-09 17:22:01 +0100, Michel Verdier wrote: > Le 9 mars 2023 Greg Wooledge a écrit : > > > So... apparently this service is enabled by default (I didn't touch it), > > and simply needs one to create an /etc/rsyncd.conf file in order to make > > it work upon the next boot. > > > > If you do

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 17:38:54 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > > If you want a PDF of better quality, use a workflow that includes TeX. Not really. This can be better, but this can also be

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 18:07:24 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > >libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt > > > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > [...] > > Hello, > > I do no

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

On 2023-03-09 15:34:05 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is for stable to the next stable, > >> > not for testing and unstable (one typically resolves conflicts > >> > interactively). > >> > >> Interesting. I don't use `apt` but "full-upgrade" is what I've been > >> us

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 19:24:20 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If everything else fails, read the instructions [1]. > > --pdf-engine=PROGRAM > > Use the specified engine when producing PDF output. Valid values > are pdflatex, lualatex, xelatex, latexmk, tectonic, wkhtmltopdf, > weasyprint, p

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-09 17:58:37 +, Brian wrote: > That would be a big drawback for a printing filter. > > CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 UTF-8-demo.txt > >out.pdf The only good thing is that box drawing is fine (while the other converters don't work well for that). However, t

Re: question about rc.local

On 2023-03-10 09:05:24 +0800, Corey Hickman wrote: > I found debian 11 doesn't need to change /etc/default/rsync for rsync > daemon starting. > But ubuntu 22.04 should have to edit that. > Where can I check the startup mech for these two systems? As said in Greg's message: systemctl cat rsync.s

Re: PDF on debian

On 2023-03-10 08:50:08 +0800, Corey Hickman wrote: > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested way? I > know I can program with java to implement that, but if there are existing > command-line solutions I would like to try them. I've just tried on some Excel file: unoconv

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-10 12:01:57 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > p...@ymail.ne.jp (12023-03-10): > > Can I setup a mail server (postfix, dovecot, dkim, rspamd etc) on > > this box to receive/send email normally? > > Probably not: ISP declare IP blocks attributed to clients as “domestic” > and a lot of import

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-10 20:03:53 +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: > On 10/03/2023 19:57, Nicolas George wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-10): > > > Mail may still be sent via the ISP's smarthost. > > > > Unless the ISP's relay refuses to take mail not from the ISP&#x

Re: question about rc.local

On 2023-03-10 09:58:55 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:55:03PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Nicolas George writes: > > > > > Anssi Saari (12023-03-09): > > >> Perhaps a note, since today in Debian by default it's systemd which runs > > >> /etc/rc.local. There's no guaran

Re: question about rc.local

On 2023-03-10 18:00:41 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > Am Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:29:34PM +0100 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > Bonjour Vincent, > > > On 2023-03-10 09:58:55 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:55:03PM +0200, Anssi Saari wr

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-11 05:13:36 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > I just checked the headers of this mail as received from the list. I was a > bit surprised (pleasantly) to see debian is using IPv6 mail services. > > The headers show my dual stack edge router/mailer used an IPv6 connection to > Bendel rather t

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-11 05:39:20 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > Sort of off topic. I've given up entirely on rbl. Every commented out option > has had some type of intermittent failure resulting in lost or delayed valid > incoming mail. > > I now put up with a tiny fraction of spam that's managed well enough

Re: question about rc.local

On 2023-03-11 10:22:15 +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 11/03/2023 00:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Moreover, the above path > >/usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf > > is incorrect. This should be > >/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d

Re: debian 12 installers

On 2023-03-11 23:19:56 +0100, digital...@gmx.de wrote: > Am Samstag, 11. März 2023, 23:07:53 CET schrieb Van Snyder: > > On Sat, 2023-03-11 at 22:26 +0100, digital...@gmx.de wrote: > > > My installation is a complete new one from the alpha2 installer. > > > > What's the "alpha2 installer?" > > >

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-12 07:21:55 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 11:43:35PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But what's the point of a certificate in this particular case > > (the server bendel.debian.org does not need to authenticate > > the client)? &

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-13 06:06:11 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 13/3/23 05:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Yes, but here, that's optional. So I'm wondering whether you really > > miss anything. Note also that a client certificate may be sent only > > if it is request

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-13 09:05:28 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > I'm not assuming DNS attacks rather I was wondering if a valid certificate > could give better 'customer service' i.e. quicker delivery of mail. Spammers can present valid certificates (or spam through existing mail services with a valid certifi

Re: home server for email box

On 2023-03-12 22:30:50 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Security on a channel (like HTTPS) usually makes it tougher to inspect > traffic. Or at least it makes it tougher in HTTPS. In fact, spam > filters are mostly useless for messages encrypted with a tool like GPG > or GnuPG. Are there spammers wh

wifi with no encryption: No DHCPOFFERS received

I get the following error when I try to connect to wifi hotspots with no encryption. This is from the wicd log: [...] 2018/12/11 18:44:15 :: Putting interface up... 2018/12/11 18:44:15 :: ifconfig wlp61s0 up 2018/12/11 18:44:17 :: enctype is None 2018/12/11 18:44:17 :: ['iwconfig', 'wlp61s0', 'ess

Re: wifi with no encryption: No DHCPOFFERS received

On 2018-12-11 15:45:19 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Check the link status: > > iw dev wlp61s0 link > > Look for the hotspot: > > iw dev wlp61s0 scan > > Connect to one: > > iw dev wlp61s0 connect "$ESSID" > > Run dhclient by hand: > > dhclient wlp61s0 > > Tell us where it falls down along tha

Re: wifi with no encryption: No DHCPOFFERS received

On 2018-12-12 10:30:44 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Yeah, I think you had a link problem, not a DHCP problem. I've tried today, and the issue is not always reproducible. But since there are several access points with the same ESSID, a reason might be that wicd doesn't always try to connect to the sa

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

On 2019-01-06 10:30:26 +, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Hi, > > my weekly upgrade on testing failed yesterday as,  after an initrd.img was > generated, lilo could not run successfully. > > > After checking my /etc/lilo.conf, where I had my boot disk identified by ID > as : > > > "boo

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > This issue is not specific to lilo. It would affect grub-pc updates too, > because the boot device is specified by device id. > > For example on my system : > $ debconf-show grub-pc > (...) > * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

On 2019-01-14 11:06:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > This issue is not specific to lilo. It would affect grub-pc updates too, > > because the boot device is specified by device id. > > > > For example on my

Re: kernel "unsigned" in sid

On 2019-01-11 09:52:04 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 09:55:45AM +0100, dot...@gmail.com wrote: > > I recently came across an inconsistency in sid that it seems difficult (to > > me) > > to overcome. > > > > A kernel package named linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64-unsigned provide

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

On 2019-01-14 20:20:49 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 14/01/2019 à 11:09, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > On 2019-01-14 11:06:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > This issue is not specific to lilo. I

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

On 2019-04-08 18:26:23 +0300, Reco wrote: > stretch$ TZ=UTC date > Mon Apr 8 15:22:02 UTC 2019 > buster$ TZ=UTC date > Mon 08 Apr 2019 03:22:04 PM UTC This is unrelated to your issue, but note that the correct TZ string for UTC is "UTC0", not "UTC". See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/969

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

On 2019-04-09 13:28:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 09 Apr 2019 at 15:38:43 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2019-04-08 18:26:23 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > stretch$ TZ=UTC date > > > Mon Apr 8 15:22:02 UTC 2019 > > > buster$ TZ=UTC date &

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

On 2019-04-11 08:19:13 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:28:18AM -0400, Lee wrote: > > so another package I need to install.. > > > > .. which breaks the login process for me :( > > > > $ echo xinput > ~/.xsession > > If you use a .xsession file, you have to go all in. Yo

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

On 2019-04-15 12:53:03 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > If you want to replace the system default X11 session, do this > with a .xinitrc script. By default, it is /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, > which does: . /etc/X11/Xsession Actually startx (via xinit) honors .xinitrc, but not the graphi

Re: shell script: test for graphical session

On 2019-10-29 14:32:39 +0900, John Crawley wrote: > A (bash) script wants to put up a GUI (yad) if it can, or otherwise try to > interact with the user on the terminal. > > Previously I was using loginctl: > loginctl show-session -p Type $XDG_SESSION_ID > and looking for 'Type=x11' or 'Type=waylan

swap filled, but still much free memory - Slab issue

My Debian 10 (buster) server swaps (it became indeed very slow) while there is still much free memory: joooj:~> free totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem: 489260 2162527704 24 265304 257188 Swap:360376

Re: ssh

On 2007-02-28 17:17:27 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:29:11PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > > I use this method, (without passphrase) to be able to run script (with > > cronjob) from one machine into other, if I put a passphrase that is > > not going to work, am I

Re: ssh

On 2007-03-01 09:28:47 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Right, but with keychain they persist even after you log out. This is > nice because then your keys *can* have a passphrase and you can still > use them for unattended things like cron jobs. Of course, if the > machine suts down, you need

Re: PATH question

On 2007-03-15 16:06:40 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > $PATH is "universal" environment variable. (t)csh maps path to PATH, but > only PATH exists in (ba|z|k|)sh $path exists in zsh and is an array tied to $PATH. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100%

Re: A silly question about tar

On 2007-03-17 18:49:59 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > unp, orange. Right. Never heard of either of them. I have now. unp doesn't do proper character escaping, though. So, never do things like "unp *.tar.bz2" on files that come from an external source, as I fear that this may execute arbitrary code on

Re: PATH question

On 2007-03-19 16:06:05 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 2007-03-15 16:06:40 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > $PATH is "universal" environment variable. (t)csh maps path to PATH, but > > > only PATH exists in (ba|z|k|)sh > > On 19.03.07

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

On 2007-03-26 17:49:38 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Also, I was unconvinced by the reasoning of several posters that > they use fetchmail and have never been bothered by losing email: If > I were losing email, how would I know? [...] If you don't receive anything, this may be an indication. FYI,

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

On 2007-03-28 11:50:42 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc > color body brightred brightdefault > "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))" [...] But how can you do this for log messages only? For instance, I'd like to do the same thin

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

On 2007-03-28 10:54:41 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > can you use auto_view for this? Not possible: the diffs are in the body of the message (text/plain). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: Nvidia Card - nvidia driver or nv ?

On 2007-06-25 07:33:31 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > I have a nvidia card, and I was wondering if I should be using the > nv driver or the nvidia driver. I don't do any thing flash, watch > movies with mplayer and some development work with eclipse and > firefox. I do use the TV out on one of my machi

restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On a machine in a local network, I have in my /etc/network/interfaces file: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp But after a power outage, my machine sometimes restarts while the network isn't available yet. In this case, I can no longer ssh to it. And I can't reboot it remotely. How can I make pump (

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On 2007-06-28 15:17:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Change the 'auto eth0' line to 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead. That > triggers the dhcp to happen when the device becomes available. That > will probably workaround whatever problem you are experiencing. The > allow-hotplug is now the default in Et

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On 2007-06-29 12:50:14 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-06-28 15:17:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Change the 'auto eth0' line to 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead. That > > triggers the dhcp to happen when the device becomes available. That > > will

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On 2007-07-01 15:57:23 -0400, Celejar wrote: > I use dhclient (I know you said in a different message in this thread > that you don't like it), which by default does a bunch of > DHCPDISCOVERS, and if they all fail, it then goes to sleep (for 5 > minutes by default), and then begins the process aga

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On 2007-07-02 23:16:22 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This doesn't work. Probably a kernel problem then. I've reported > > the bug. > > I doubt this would be related to the kernel in any way. Since this > works for other people I can only

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

On 2007-07-03 13:40:47 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Me have been struggling to access a subversion repo (svn checkout > svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/trunk) due to being behind a proxy server. I > wonder if there's a way to download such repos without having an svn > client since I can access t

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

On 2007-07-03 16:26:40 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 7/3/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-07-03 13:40:47 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> > Me have been struggling to access a subversion repo (svn checkout >> > svn.gnome.or

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On 2007-07-03 17:44:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The problem with dhclient is that it disconfigures the loopback > > interface under some conditions. A bug is still open after 7 years! > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On 2007-07-03 17:33:46 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But then, I don't see why I should use 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead of > > 'auto eth0'. > > It is not required to use allow-hotplug but that is the new way of > doing thi

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

On 2007-07-10 15:09:25 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > but I think that maybe you simply need to remove all of the 'auto' > > > and 'allow-hotplug' lines from the file. Then it won't be started > > > automatically. > > > > But I want it to be started automatically on some networks. This is > > very

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 2007-07-28 15:10:31 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > I might suggest that you install the 2.6.22 kernel from unstable. I > had problems building the kernel module for k7 because of a GPL-only > export that isn't an issue with 2.6.22 kernels. But for another reason, it doesn't work with 2.6.22: ht

replacement for apt-listchanges?

Is there a replacement for apt-listchanges, not written in python? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBS

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-05 21:56:00 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Vincent Lefevre, 05.08.2007 20:36: > > Is there a replacement for apt-listchanges, not written in python? > > Not that I knew of. What’s the problem with apt-listchanges written > in Python? Python breaks too often (at lea

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-05 16:53:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/05/07 15:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Python breaks too often (at least on Debian). The problem is that in > > > > Can you be more specific. It's been a while since I've seen it break. I

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-05 17:46:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > python-apt broke, and was fixed soon after. Unless you are running > Stable, you are supposed to tolerate this kind of activity. These kinds of answers really become annoying. Why should I if there is a better solution? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMA

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-05 21:21:21 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Vincent Lefèvre writes: > > These kinds of answers really become annoying. Why should I if > > there is a better solution? > > What is it? Just look at the subject of this thread. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-05 23:01:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/05/07 20:33, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2007-08-05 17:46:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> python-apt broke, and was fixed soon after. Unless you are r

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-06 08:16:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Your original question was woefully lacking in detail. I didn't want to enter into technical details as this would lead to nowhere, IMHO. > > I've reported the problem. The bug was tagged as wontfix > > because the maintainer of the

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-06 07:20:45 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Vincent Lefèvre writes: > > Just look at the subject of this thread. > > Threads drift. What is your better solution to the general problem of > brokenness in Unstable? The wanted solution concerns a particular problem amongst the general proble

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-06 08:04:16 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Brokenness in Unstable: > 1. Research Bugs + google lists. > 2. If you find a hit apply the fix. > 3. If not, wait a while and upgrade again. > > Unstable being Unstable this is the best possible solution. No, you forgot: tools to handle broke

Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

On 2007-08-06 12:08:50 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > To the OP, sadly there is no alternative for apt-listchanges other than > manually going to http://packages.debian.org/changelog:packagename and > checking out the changelogs manually. Yes, and this isn't easy when one has upgraded seve

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