Re: Best practices for updating systems over extremely slow links

2016-10-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 03:45:21PM +, rbraun204 . wrote: > I have a couple of debian boxes in very remote areas that are connected back > to > our wan via a 56kbps satellite link. Most of the time we have a constant > stream of data coming/going to that machine so the link is saturated

Re: systemd - how to run system service by user target

2016-10-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
N will only actually connect when I'm _not_ at home. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen (also KJ)

Re: networking

2016-08-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:43:30PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, I'm helping a friend to create a small network on his office (4 > floors) > > I suggests him to separate each networks: > > floor1 - 192.168.1.0/24 > floor2 - 192.168.2.0/24 > floor3 - 192.168.3.0/24 > floor4 - 192.168.4.0/24

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
etwork have the same IP address, then you will get inconsistent results... To see whether a box suffers from this, obtain it's IP address and disconnect it from the network. If the IP address is still pingable (or just arping'able), then this is a red flag... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: apache and clients

2016-06-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 02:49:42PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > Inside a small lan (less 10 pc) I've a server with apache. > > I've to install bind/dnsmasq to automatically resolve IP of apache or can I > use clients's host file? > > What's the easy/fast way to resolve IP of this

Re: Konqueror - security hole or bug?

2016-06-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:32:18AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Dear community, > > I found a strange behaviour with konqueror (does anyone use it?) and I > believe > it is either a bug or a security problem. > > the problem is the following: > > I discovered, that my network card is doing a lot of

Re: chroot setup problem

2016-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 07:17:14PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I attempt to chroot from /dev/sdb on /dev/sda. > > # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/debinst > > I verify it is mounted and then do: > > # LANG=C.UTF8 /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash > /usr/sbin/chroot: failed to run command

Re: Systemd bybasses fstab mounting root partition(?)

2015-10-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
e root file system. Thus, the system can only examine /etc/fstab _after_ the root file system has been mounted... Instead you may want to examine the kernel command line (e.g. in grub or /proc/cmdline) - it should have "root=" in it. Nowadays that is often specified via a UUID -

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 10:54 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i just had some interesting minutes with this riddle in bash on xterm: $ ls -l .. | wc ls: cannot access .. : No such file or directory The refusal sticks to the command in libreadline's history buffer and to

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 13:02 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup I can run the script manually with #

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-05-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
and efficient format for mailboxes was never designed and adopted. It's a tragedy that many such standards were invented :) Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/927/ -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: An inotifywait question

2015-04-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
: ... ! Expands to the process ID of the job most recently placed into the background, whether executed as an asynchronous command or using the bg builtin (see JOB CONTROL below). Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. Hopefully the log files will contain clues so you don't have to rely on such wild unsubstantiated guesses... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen k...@jorgensen.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
... * Can you reach the access point with ping? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20150313210058.ga12

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to download things once (usually) hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20150313104354.ga30...@xps.home.jorgensen.org.uk

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 09:32 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: Yes, I know I can STFW. I have in fact done so. But I am after personal experience. I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and pleasant to use. GUI based.

Re: Some commands is not working in Linux server

2015-02-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 21:00 +0530, Justinmp wrote: Greetings to all.. Everything was working normally until last day.From today I am not able to execute few commands like ls in cent os machine.Interesting part is ls -al is working fine. When ever I issued ls , du -sh * ,yum update

Re: Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

2015-02-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
package can also tell you what virtualisation you're running under. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/2015013646

Re: A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 22:40 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat sceptical about. But since I could not come up with any technically sound arguments against it (partially caused by my ignorance

A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
I see that there has been a fair amount of talk on this mailing list about system , Gnome 3 and some general dislike of Debian Jessie as a result. So I thought I'd throw in my 2 p I recently upgraded my main laptop (a fancy new Dell XPS with more SSD than I've ever had before) from Wheezy to

Re: Writing files with formatted name

2015-02-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
file.  Something similar to what logrotate is doing. Tlhanks in advance -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to retrieve it. That sounds like the script command - it's in the bsdutils package which should be installed by default. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
; then rm $i echo Removed $i. fi done or if you want to make things *really* simple: rm --force --verbose *.Log :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
is probably not what you want... Similarly, can /dev actually be written to? The output of a command like this would be instructive: touch /dev/somefile-which-doesnt-exist Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? Probably. But it depends on why it was read-only to start with... -- Karl E

Re: user permission inconsistency

2014-12-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
not to have to logout in order to have updated user groups list) Well - if you run id username, this will update immediately. But what matters is the group memberships of your *shell* - which it will get at login-time... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debian by default / Debian jessie

2014-12-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
have sound :( Which application did you expect to emit sound? some more information would be helpful here... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: bind9 needs sometimes a restart after resume from suspend

2014-12-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 03:26:29PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2014 11:59:16 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:26:36PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hi Pascal, On Sunday 30 November 2014 11:15:41 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello

Re: bind9 needs sometimes a restart after resume from suspend

2014-11-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
, not resolving, errors... ? bind9 does not respond. See e.g. the dig command from my previous post blackbox:~# dig heise.de ^Cblackbox:~# That was well hidden :-) Any related messages in /var/log/daemon.log ? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Image cloning software

2014-11-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
' on the other comps (or on itself, in case of an irreparable failure of a working machine)? Thanks. You may want to look at the bootcd package - looks like it will do what you ask... Or at least similar enough to get you most of the way there. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: EXT4-fr error, ext4_find_entry: reading directory...

2014-11-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
sorts of weird and counter-intuitive results. And inconsistently so. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141124122313

Re: Block size confusion.

2014-11-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
? This could possible be due to alignment -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141121124135.GD26871@hawking

Re: LVM: shrinking a logical volume (moving LVM logical volumes to new disks)

2014-11-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
then partition them and/or create PVs on them. Nested stuff galore. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141119003752.GB25922@hawking

Re: Unable to start kvm virtual machines after re-install of testing

2014-11-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
? The differences could be instructive... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141113093507.GA27667@hawking

Re: A Synaptic question

2014-11-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
://bugs.debian.org/synaptic it appears to be new I recommend that you report this bug - tools like reportbug should help you :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

2014-11-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141112225744.GA9128@hawking

Re: exim4 panic log issue

2014-11-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. However I see that they are all related to an issue with the kernel and IPV6 handling. What is the proper way to solve this permanrently whilst leaving IPV6 functional. Thanks! What is the actual error reported in /var/log/exim4/paniclog ? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: alsa-utils save / restore not working http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665

2014-11-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
are the state of the sound card(s) saved / restored? I don't use alsa-utils, but based on my understanding of the FHS, I'd expect somewhere under /var/lib/alsa-utils. But from reading the bug report, I'm led to believe it is /var/lib/alsa/asound.state Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to. Hm.. I don't see auto eth0 anywhere -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141109100954.GB20873@hawking

Re: Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
-in command Well, it *appears* that zsh is more helpful. But only because the which command itself is a built-in for zsh :-) (it isn't for bash) So you have the opposite problem: man which gives you the wrong manual page :-) (but presumably very similar) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the root user is nonsensical. Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141031082118.GA22377@hawking

Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to resolve IP addresses while the machine is down. If you already own/run a domain, you can also add a A record in the DNS for this to point to it - e.g. owncloud.example.com IN A 192.168.0.45. Using an entry in /etc/hosts is also an option. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: LVM on two disks - spin down?

2014-10-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
) - courtesy of the (somewhat misnamed) pvmove command. So even if you start off with the wrong layout, it's relatively easy to fix. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
by a half-competent admin. I doubt this affects the LXDE power off button though. (I do not use LXDE). Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: debian-installer grub install problem

2014-10-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
you to set up the resulting system exactly as you want (e.g. including kicking off puppet, cfgengine and similar), without needing any manual intervention. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Running awesome with Gnome - want gnome-panel too!

2014-10-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
this and/or narrow it down? FWIIW I'm running an up-to-date wheezy install - gnome-panel version 3.4.2.1-4 ... Any help would be appreciated... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
volume groups for e.g. 15krpm and SSD. Or you can just have one big volume group, which makes disk upgrades seamless. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
overhead of a new root file system, new kernel etc. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141002204518.GA25081@hawking

Re: Racoon

2014-09-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of the syntax errors in the config before going further... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140929183443.GA17498@hawking

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
somewhere. [2] I have no reservations about running testing/unstable inside a virtual machine. Those can be thrown away and re-built with a few keystrokes. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: DNS Resolution and Short Names with Dots

2014-09-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the default for 'ndots' ? If so, according to a quick scan of the resolv.conf(5) manual page you should be able add this to /etc/resolv.conf to get your old behaviour back: options ndots:3 Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
/known_hosts to suggest/complete hosts. Brilliant stuff. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140924074126.GA14490@hawking

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the kernel messages) for anything amiss: Misbehaving hardware can really mess things up. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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

Re: No localhost - I'm stumped

2014-08-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
? That would stop ping (a.k.a. ICMP echo) from working, wouldn't it? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140826221205.GA18500@hawking

Re: dropbox install break apt-get

2014-08-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
and apt. i find btw reports of this problem going back to 2012. why is debian allowing the thing in the repository? It does?? At the very least, I hope it is relegated to non-free ... If you can reproduce it, I recommend that you raise a bug on it. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

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

2014-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
is a waste of resources anyway) A little shell function like this will do the trick: debug() { if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then echo $@ fi } so you script can use debug the same way it uses echo. Hope this helps. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

2014-07-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
not get into the whole systemd saga here Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140711105605.GG1336@hawking

Re: building .debs with +b1 on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the version number - this would introduce unnecessary confusion... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140707084715.GA7545@hawking

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of allowing a device to have multiple IP addresses on the same VLAN. This is usually done via the colon notation - e.g. eth0:1, eth0:2 etc. VLANs usually do not apply in a residential setting. But if you're a geek (and your switch supports it), feel free to play away on it. -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: High %wa, irregular blocking

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
/prog/macbookpro/#3 Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140604205400.GB9871@hawking

Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
worked fine... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140526083502.GA24055@hawking

Re: Recommends for hard dependency?

2014-05-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
-sqlite and qtttools5-dev-toos), and let the main package recommend the assistant package? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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

Re: Spacewalk or similar for Debian?

2014-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:30:42AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:15:43AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi Consider this scenario: - 1000+ servers (lenny, squeeze and wheezy) at varying degrees of up-to-datedness with respect to security updates

Re: Laptop pads: was Weird random reboot -- thinkpad x220

2014-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Debian version. It's a browser made to be used with keystrokes reminiscent of Vim: No mouse required. For the emacs users out there: Obviously w3m ! But for a graphical browser: conkeror. If you're used to emacs, it should be natural. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Spacewalk or similar for Debian?

2014-04-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
concern here is the security updates and point releases: I'm pushing for getting all the servers upgraded to wheezy anyway, and as part of the upgrade they'll pick up any pending (at that point in time) security updates. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Network Performance Degrading over random amount of time

2014-04-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:01:25PM +0200, h...@xx0r.eu wrote: Am 2014-04-26 12:44, schrieb h...@xx0r.eu: Am 2014-04-22 10:38, schrieb h...@xx0r.eu: Am 2014-04-20 23:49, schrieb Karl E. Jorgensen: Hi On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 01:01:53PM +0200, h...@xx0r.eu wrote: Hi List, maybe you have

Re: Network Performance Degrading over random amount of time

2014-04-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to resolve the problem as a goat sacrifice ... You haven't got a spare goat[2], have you? :-) Hope this helps [1] I'm assuming eth0 here [2] A live one would constitute a hot spare, right? Yeah. Tangent. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
, signal strength and streetview car location to do this. Just my 2p -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140418115607.GB6307@hawking

Re: Voice control

2014-04-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
methodologies like Dasher may be useful too.. Not for typing, but in my past interweb wanderings I came across this one: http://eviacam.sourceforge.net/ Perhaps that will be helpful? I gave up playing with it when I switched to a laptop without a built-in webcam... -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
as a buffer in case syslog is slow picking it up. Configurable with the log-buf-len kernel parameter if you want to nitpick. But I'm sure you don't :-) Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: getting emails from cron despite redirecting output to a log file

2014-03-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
via syslog as noted above. Then you don't have to bother about maintaining the log files, and can also log to a centralised server etc etc. All the normal syslog stuff. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
it as yourself (= just i3exit) and give yourself the privileges to run reboot, halt and others as sudo. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: List installed packages sorted by size.

2014-03-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:07:58PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Hi, Could be useful to someone: dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n | less Nice. But dpigs -20 (from the debian-goodies package) is still shorter :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
across windows, osx and linux Enjoy -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140307183012.GA9146@hawking

Re: DHCP quickie

2014-03-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
* @ 10:00 and 20:00: cd /etc/dhcp rm curfew-host.conf ln -s curfew-host.conf.deny curfew-host.conf service dhcpd restart Hope this helps. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the default shell dash, rather than bash. dash is significantly faster, and (as far as I can see) a drop-in replacement. This is not an attempt to claim that no futher improvements are wanted - but the difference dash made was significant. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Issue importing a large MYSQL database.

2014-03-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
(the resulting instance will do crash recovery upon startup). Similiar things can probably be achieved with btrfs subvolume snapshots or zfs - although those file systems would probably not be your first choice to store a database on. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
?)he seems to have both a binary *and* a configuration file... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140225102726.GB13544@hawking

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
package from the Debian repository, you should be safe. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140224122513.GA4691

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
${filename} -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140224154804.GB4691@hawking

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:31:49AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: So init knows that you want to shut down/reboot.. My guess is that one of the early init scripts are hanging. Thank you for the hint. I followed your test method

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140217172017.GA9715@hawking

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
with (192.168.0.3 in my example) (2) Another way is to actively scan the whole network, and check your arp cache afterwards, e.g.: # nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24 (lots of nmap output - can be ignored) # arp -an Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
/* scripts in asciibetical sequence. I suspect something like this would do the trick: for file in /etc/rc6.d/K*; do echo == Running $file ...; $file stop; done If my suspicion is correct, then one of the scripts will hang... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
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Re: ssh host ip/id management for dynamic dns servers

2014-02-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
changed due to DNS spoofing. If the option is set to “no”, the check will not be executed. The default is “yes”. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
-- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140209175855.GA30686@hawking

Re: Build binary package from debian sources.New format 3.Errors.

2014-02-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
would be helpful here... Why not just: apt-get source ${packagename} ? I find it does *everything* anyway.. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Florian Götz Rechenzentrum Hochschule Mannheim Paul-Wittsack-Straße 10 68163 Mannheim Tel: 0621/292-6232 EMail: f.go...@hs-mannheim.de Internet: http://www.rz.hs-mannheim.de - -- Karl E

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
for me today. Had lots of fun getting a whole rack playing Fur Elise ... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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

Re: Port 123 and ipv6

2014-01-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
:2628 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3268/0 tcp6 0 0 ::1:631 :::* LISTEN 3288/cupsd cups is only listening on port 631 on localhost (=127.0.0.1 in ipv4 and ::1 in ipv6) - it is not open to the outside world. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: notify if a process take more than X time

2014-01-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
for this is timeout (part of GNU coreutils). This is handy for killing off processes that get stuck... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Changing Hostname?

2013-12-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
-lr localhost-01 /etc) (followed by a reboot to completely eradicate all memory of the old name). Some packages, e.g. require additional attention here. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Shutdown computer after a specific command has been executed

2013-12-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
(but then it is reboot, not shutdown). -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131209131139.GA23207@hawking

Re: HA Active/Active Cluster

2013-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of and behind the web servers... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131127111422.GA7486@hawking

Re: No Video

2013-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of an update, I'd suspect the software, rather than the hardware. A dive into the X logs might help here.. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Debugging segfaults in commercial software on Jessie

2013-11-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Best bet would probably be to look at migrating away from it... But I suspect that the golden rule[1] applies and you're stuck with it because that's what the PHB wanted... [1] The golden rule: Those with the gold make the rules. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: New laptop...........

2013-11-14 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
] Oh the horror! We cannot allow that to happen! -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131114194023.GG23016@hawking

Re: apache2 + munin configuration

2013-11-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
- there must be some interaction between munin and other things in apache... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131113104910

Re: disk cloning ?

2013-11-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
take longer..) Can you please let me know how can I overcome this as the fdisk now returns as #fdisk /dev/sdc I do not know how to handle files with mode 81a4 must set cylinders That error message is new on me... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: disk cloning ?

2013-11-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:31:07AM -0800, hadi motamedi wrote: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 Sorry, I tried for this but getting no space left on device What can I do next? Sounds like you didn't partition the destination drive? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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