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2023-08-10 Thread glenn green

is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys.

2015-10-18 Thread peter green
Is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys? googling it I only find either instructions to download updated keys or instructions to disable GPG verification completely. In the case I just ran into I was able to find an updated version of the key with a later expiry but i'd like to know

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-29 Thread green
Steve Litt wrote at 2014-09-28 22:04 -0500: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:10:52 -0500 green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Microkernels, as I understand, aim to support a highly modular system *design* but are themselves minimal (Minix 3 has about 4000 lines of executable kernel code). This core

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread green
Steve Litt wrote at 2014-09-29 20:30 -0500: On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:13:10 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: Also, in terms of upgrading a Debian System - Are you aware that prior to each major release, Debian releases a comprehensive upgrade treatise that covers any

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread green
Jonathan Dowland wrote at 2014-09-28 13:05 -0500: The more and more I read people objecting to the modularity of systemd, the more I am reminded of the Tanenbaum/Torvalds debate re microkernels. It does seem to be related, though not so much due to systemd being modular as monolithic. systemd

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-26 Thread green
Ric Moore wrote at 2014-09-26 14:18 -0500: Change is certainly needed when any pimple face kid can edit and hide his doings from a text log with nano. I think the change is necessary to harden up our systems. Otherwise, Microsoft will become the only secure server OS, as they don't mind hiding

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-26 Thread green
Ric Moore wrote at 2014-09-26 18:08 -0500: On 09/26/2014 05:08 PM, green wrote: Ric Moore wrote at 2014-09-26 14:18 -0500: Change is certainly needed when any pimple face kid can edit and hide his doings from a text log with nano. I think the change is necessary to harden up our systems

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-26 Thread green
green wrote at 2014-09-26 21:04 -0500: Ric Moore wrote at 2014-09-26 18:08 -0500: On 09/26/2014 05:08 PM, green wrote: So, all other things being equal, binary logs are more secure than plain text logs. Is that actually what you are saying? Yes. The benefit of using a binary log

Re: Suggestions? A small webserver for file upload

2014-09-24 Thread green
Ron Leach wrote at 2014-09-24 08:53 -0500: What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that would enable co-workers to upload files to us? Though they do not meet all your requirements, you might want to be aware of woof and servefile. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-21 Thread green
lee wrote at 2014-09-21 10:48 -0500: With fvwm, I can have sticky floating windows that stay on top. This allows me to watch the movie, no matter to which desktop I switch, and no other window will come up above the movie, so I can always watch it. Moreover, fvwm is somewhat capable of

a systemd alternative

2014-09-21 Thread green
I had not seen any references on this list to the following yet (perhaps I missed it), so here it is in case someone else is interested: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ A rather interesting bug report about binary log corruption that is linked there:

Re: i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-20 Thread green
lee wrote at 2014-09-20 13:34 -0500: There's also i3, if you can live with a tiling WM that doesn't support sticky floating windows yet. I enjoy using i3. What is this sticky floating windows feature that I am missing? After searching, it seems to be almost the same as i3's scratchpad

Re: qemu on OpenBSD (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-20 Thread green
Reco wrote at 2014-09-20 15:35 -0500: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:34:28 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: My biggest problem is I can't yet get qemu to run Debian or Ubuntu VMs on OpenBSD, for those few programs that don't run on OpenBSD. And you can't use xen? You're probably

Re: qemu on OpenBSD (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-20 Thread green
green wrote at 2014-09-20 21:33 -0500: Reco wrote at 2014-09-20 15:35 -0500: Presumably you can build qemu for OpenBSD, but it would be un-accelerated one (i.e. turtle-slow and very hungry for the CPU). Yes, qemu needs kvm support for good performance. This has been ported to FreeBSD

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-17 Thread green
koanhead wrote at 2014-09-16 19:15 -0500: Lest we forget, you can have FreeBSD *and* Debian at the same time: https://www.debian.org/ports/ Specifically, https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ - but if you get tired of the ease-of-use and hardware support of kFreeBSD, there's always

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread green
Dan Ritter wrote at 2014-09-01 12:26 -0500: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html Dan, thank you for posting this link. It is especially interesting considering it is by Lennart Poettering. Also, I consider it relevant to Debian users and firmly

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread green
B wrote at 2014-08-26 23:16 -0500: I followed all links given by the article, which convince me of one thing: I don't want this on my machines, especially on servers (and a recent unpleasant problem raised by systemd getting in emergency mode just for a bad line into /etc/fstab (that never

Re: wicd difficulties joining some unsecured wireless networks

2014-08-07 Thread green
Joel Roth wrote at 2014-08-06 11:26 -0500: On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 04:54:42PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: In some airports, and today at a university I've failed to join unsecured networks. I've been using wicd-gtk. The failure takes the form of a time-out during the get IP address

Re: FWIW: the modularization of systemd

2014-07-27 Thread green
Miles Fidelman wrote at 2014-07-22 08:25 -0500: Meanwhile, it sure looks like the OpenSolaris spawn (Illumos, OpenIndiana, Nexanta, SmartOS, ... ) are gathering steam as a serious third alternative to Linux and the BSDs. And with enough mid-sized commercial players that we don't have a

Re: Desktop sharing question

2014-07-25 Thread Nelson Green
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:36:47 -0500 Nelson Green nelsongree...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning all, Good afternoon alone, PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see what he is seeing and offer

Re: Desktop sharing question

2014-07-25 Thread Nelson Green
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 24 iul 14, 10:36:47, Nelson Green wrote: Good morning all, I have a new, novice Debian user running the XFCE desktop on his PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see what he

Desktop sharing question

2014-07-24 Thread Nelson Green
Good morning all, I have a new, novice Debian user running the XFCE desktop on his PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see what he is seeing and offer instruction and advice. I have used VNC to connect to a different X screens, but I'm not sure how to arrange

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread green
Andrei POPESCU wrote at 2014-07-20 09:11 -0500: You're aware of course that Debian is one of the last big distros to switch to systemd, with the notable exception of Ubuntu (who was using upstart anyway). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Adoption Also Gentoo (according to the article

Re: microkernels (I'm not a huge fan of systemd)

2014-07-13 Thread green
Steve Litt wrote at 2014-07-11 11:21 -0500: A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who controlled the decision to go to systemd had been the decision makers in 1990, Linux would have a microkernel today. Regarding

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2014-07-05 Thread Nelson Green
Good afternoon, This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-boot system with Debian on a machine that already had windows installed on. I installed a second hard drive, installed Debian, and almost everything works. But I apparently told the installer that the system clock is set to

Re: Tell Debian to use local time?

2014-07-05 Thread Nelson Green
(Added inadvertently omitted subject) On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 05/07/2014 21:38, Nelson Green a écrit : Good afternoon, This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-boot system with Debian on a machine that already had windows

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Nelson Green
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2014 21.38:46 Nelson Green wrote: Good afternoon, This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-boot system with Debian on a machine that already had windows installed on. I

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Nelson Green
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Nelson Green wrote: Thanks Thierry, but I am afraid I have to leave the windows installation alone. Fortunately I rarely have to mess with windows, and as a general rule I don't lower my standards to theirs

Re: Virtualized desktop

2014-06-30 Thread green
Jimmy Thrasibule wrote at 2014-06-28 06:52 -0500: Then came the idea to virtualize everything. Make both computers a hypervisor cluster (using Xen or KVM) and run all systems virtualized. But at which point can this be done for desktop system? You may be interested in http://qubes-os.org.

Re: package recommendation for daily journal

2014-06-01 Thread green
lina wrote at 2014-06-01 01:52 -0500: I am looking for a package, which can act as a smart diary or journal to help me remember the records of small things, such as obtain a licensed software, not installed yet, uninstall the harden-client. If it is for tasks, try taskwarrior. signature.asc

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-16 Thread green
Steve Litt wrote at 2014-04-16 13:05 -0500: I'd feel a lot better with 200 eyes than 4. Even 10 would make me nervous. But the fault is partly mine. I never contributed to the OpenSSL project, either with dollars or eyes. +1 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Postfix not writing to mail log files on wheezy system.

2014-03-06 Thread peter green
While attempting to look into a mail issue on one of my machines I noticed that /var/log/mail/mail.log did not appear to have been updated since december. I belive that this may have been triggered by an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy but I don't remember exactly when I upgraded the machine.

Re: Postfix not writing to mail log files on wheezy system.

2014-03-06 Thread peter green
peter green wrote: While attempting to look into a mail issue on one of my machines I noticed that /var/log/mail/mail.log did not appear to have been updated since december. I belive that this may have been triggered by an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy but I don't remember exactly when I

Re: klondike ( freecell?) gone in jessie?

2014-02-10 Thread green
Paul Cartwright wrote at 2014-02-10 10:24 -0600: I used to have klondike/freecell installed, but it isn't there anymore. You could try out pysolfc. It has lots of card games, including Freecell and Klondike. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: todo list software

2014-02-04 Thread green
Brad Alexander wrote at 2014-02-03 18:17 -0600: can anyone recommend a good todo list software? I like taskwarrior, packaged as `task` (but a rename to `taskwarrior` appears to be pending). See http://taskwarrior.org. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Possibly failing disk and smartctl

2014-02-04 Thread green
Matus Valo wrote at 2014-02-04 15:13 -0600: Feb 4 20:53:18 zsm-debian smartd[1868]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors I have read that important pre-failing parameters are Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate and Reallocated_Sector_Ct but still I can't decide

Re: unable to install stardict

2014-01-07 Thread green
Vincent Lefevre wrote at 2014-01-06 19:45 -0600: On 2014-01-05 21:58:12 -0600, green wrote: I recommend sdcv, which is the StarDict equivalent of dict, but requiring no dictd server. Thanks. I've reported the following bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734409

Re: unable to install stardict

2014-01-05 Thread green
Vincent Lefevre wrote at 2014-01-05 14:13 -0600: On 2014-01-05 19:11:23 +0100, François Patte wrote: I want stardict because goldendict is not nice too much: mant accented characters or characters with diacritical marks are not well displayed and sometimes not displayed at all: I can see a

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-11 Thread green
Ralf Mardorf wrote at 2013-11-11 10:50 -0600: Arch Linux, it has a binary package management like Debian has got and build ports like FreeBSD has got and a so called user repository with packagebuilds, that easily can be modified by the user. That was some interesting notes about Arch Linux,

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-10 Thread green
Stephen Powell wrote at 2013-11-10 08:22 -0600: On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 21:10:45 -0500 (EST), greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: ... Both result in software written and/or maintained *by the user* which will naturally be more useful *to the user*. ... That is true. But all users are not

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-10 Thread green
Rob Owens wrote at 2013-11-10 12:30 -0600: My first permanent Linux distribution (after trying a Knoppix live cd) was Mandrake. When I started using it to rip my music CDs, it defaulted to ogg vorbis. I was expecting mp3. What the hell is this ogg stuff?, I remember asking myself. I

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread green
Alberto Salvia Novella wrote at 2013-11-08 11:57 -0600: Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over Ubuntu? If other responses to this query are an indication, Debian is attractive to people who are interested in productivity and therefore want stable set and forget

Re: free-software phone: neo900

2013-11-05 Thread green
ken wrote at 2013-11-05 04:53 -0600: Is there a microphone? The N900 is a phone and has a microphone. The neo900, also, is a phone and has a microphone. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

free-software phone: neo900

2013-11-04 Thread green
Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at http://neo900.org, is intended to be a successor of the Nokia N900, with significantly improved specifications and features, as well as full free software support (excluding PowerVR 3D acceleration). It is even (as of this

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-12 Thread green
Tom H wrote at 2013-10-12 18:40 -0500: I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC. I use aptitude, and find it to be *more* useful than apt because of its *interactive* dependency resolver. Probably if people have trouble with aptitude it is because the package

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread green
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote at 2013-10-08 20:13 -0500: that it needs 2 other tools: one to fetch mails from server, and another one to send them. mutt is capable of retrieving mail via IMAP or POP3. An alternative option is getmail4. You may want to use msmtp for sending mail.

re: Compatibility of libs for Berkeley DB (libdb5.1-dev or libdb4.8-dev)

2013-10-08 Thread peter green
I cannot install libdb4.8-dev + libdb4.8, because it conflicts with libdb5.1. This does not seem to be true, the dev packages conflict but afaict the libraries themselves (at least the versions from debian squeeze and wheezy) do not. So as long as you don't need libdb5.1-dev installed you

Re: How to create a meta-package?

2013-09-26 Thread green
Richard Owlett wrote at 2013-09-26 12:55 -0500: I think a couple of meta-packages could be convenient for a personal project. You need the equivs package. Then make a file called mymetapackage.ctl: ``` Package: mymetapackage Section: misc Description: metapackage for my project Dummy

kernel tainted

2013-09-25 Thread Jim Green
Sep 25 23:13:30 antec kernel: [12074.506735] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Sep 25 23:45:04 antec kernel: [13967.112791] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Sep 25 23:45:04 antec kernel: [13967.112795] Pid: 8085, comm: Socket Thread

Re: Don't want a desktop environment

2013-09-21 Thread green
Fred wrote at 2013-09-21 14:41 -0500: I manage to install i3 by doing aptitude install i3 but I understand I need to do more than that. Seems like I need some display manager also? I did try to do aptitude install slim which installs, but it's not like it magically autostarts when I boot

Re: swapper tainted

2013-09-20 Thread Jim Green
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 08:58:55AM +0200, emmanuel segura wrote: lspci -vv 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-

Re: swapper tainted

2013-09-20 Thread Jim Green
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:49:32AM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Judging from xchi_hcd, it's a USB 3.0 hub. Try unloading this module on suspend, and loading it at resume. Or, try this: http://www.pcl-developers.org/xhci-hcd-I-hate-you-USB-3-0-and-Primesense-Asus-Xtion-td5707949.html

Re: swapper tainted

2013-09-19 Thread Jim Green
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:51:35AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: Just before the error is the complaint irq event 55: bogus return value ff94 What device have you got on IRQ 55? (Try grep 55: /proc/interrupts to grep 55: /proc/interrupts 55: 1 0 0 0

swapper tainted

2013-09-17 Thread Jim Green
This happens in hibernation. 6143 Sep 16 00:34:30 antec kernel: [28317.484624] ACPI: Waking up from system sleep state S4 6144 Sep 16 00:34:30 antec kernel: [28317.536857] PM: noirq restore of devices complete after 51.993 msecs 6145 Sep 16 00:34:30 antec kernel: [28317.536892] irq event 55: bogus

Re: swapper tainted

2013-09-17 Thread Jim Green
On 17 September 2013 18:58, emmanuel segura emi2f...@gmail.com wrote: Read this link http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3582750 Read it. It must be, How to tell which driver caused the taint?

Re: swapper tainted

2013-09-17 Thread Jim Green
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:10:26PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: If you are using the proprietary Nvidia driver, that's it. I do I am using 304.88 from wheezy repository.. How could I fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: looking for a font pkg that contains...

2013-09-16 Thread green
Eric d'Halibut wrote at 2013-09-15 22:51 -0500: Thank you. I installed these three: - fontmatrix (if you want a tool to compare fonts) - fonts-liberation (Liberation Mono font) - ttf-bitstream-vera (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font) None of the new fonts show up in xfontsel, and I know of

Re: Fail2ban and IPV6

2013-09-15 Thread green
Robin Kipp wrote at 2013-09-14 16:08 -0500: Any workaround for this, or is there a better alternative to Fail2ban? It seems that fail2ban still does not support ipv6. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470417 https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/39 Perhaps it would work to

Re: looking for a font pkg that contains...

2013-09-15 Thread green
Eric d'Halibut wrote at 2013-09-15 20:57 -0500: The following was suggested to me for use as a fairly big font for my failing eyes. -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--33-240-100-100-m-200-iso10646-1 Is there a method that would backtrack me to the deb containing that font? Several

Re: dictd

2013-09-09 Thread green
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:41:50PM +0800, lina wrote: What is the purpose of the dictd, do I need a local server? for dict? lina wrote at 2013-09-09 05:53 -0500: That's why I am confused, thanks, I have purged it. You may be interested in dictionary software that does not require any server,

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-09 Thread green
Beco wrote at 2013-09-09 12:48 -0500: I'm using this site to see compatibility. http://www.openprinting.org/printers Is this a reliable source of information? Do you have any other (pratical) suggestion? Regarding openprinting.org: many/all the forum links refer to a domain that does not

Re: has anybody known what became of the always releaseable testing essay/wishlist thing ?

2013-09-09 Thread green
shirish शिरीष wrote at 2013-09-07 13:29 -0500: Please CC me if somebody replies as I'm not subscribed to the list. Does anybody know what happened to the always releasable testing release goal. I have been wondering about this also; it seems like some good points are made there.

Re: DICT: creating an .index file from a .dict.dz

2013-08-31 Thread green
Franco wrote at 2013-08-31 08:24 -0500: I was searching the Internet to find an Italian vocabulary to use with `dict` - Is there a way to 'rebuild' the index file from a .dict.dz one? How? - is DICT compatible with Stardict? Is there a quick way of converting between

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread green
Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500: Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi: temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40

Re: fsck on boot...revisited

2013-07-26 Thread green
Bob Proulx wrote at 2013-07-26 14:51 -0500: I always set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS and think that is the best default. I agree with Bob's comments about this, in general, and have just now gone and set FSCKFIX=yes on a particular server because it would be better for it to boot with a

Re: fsck on boot...revisited

2013-07-25 Thread green
Tim Nelson wrote at 2013-07-25 09:28 -0500: On occasion, we find that a filesystem error is bad enough that instead of auto{matically|magically} fixing the issue and continuing to boot, the system hangs, needing a root password entered for a manual fsck to be run. My question is thus: How

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-05 Thread green
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote at 2013-07-05 11:14 -0500: dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb You have a reason for not using the [nearly identical] chromium in Debian main? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-05 Thread green
Lisi Reisz wrote at 2013-07-05 17:24 -0500: On Friday 05 July 2013 22:41:15 green wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote at 2013-07-05 11:14 -0500: dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb You have a reason for not using the [nearly identical] chromium in Debian main? It isn't

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-04 Thread green
David wrote at 2013-07-03 06:10 -0500: On 3 July 2013 21:06, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: I did something similar using aptitude: aptitude -F %p search '~i!M' package_list aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) Sorry, there is a typo error above. It should be: aptitude -F %p

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread green
Rob Owens wrote at 2013-07-04 18:05 -0500: On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 01:19:37PM -0700, Richard Lawrence wrote: Thanks! Alas, it didn't turn out to be quite this simple. I had to invoke gpg-agent from my .bash_profile: I didn't have to go through all that, but I have used seahorse in the

Re: Setting up simple VNC Server?

2013-07-01 Thread green
Art Huston wrote at 2013-07-01 14:18 -0500: I'm looking for the simplest, quickest way to setup VNC Server so I can access my Debian machine from Windows. There are a number of ways found on the web -- is there a best practice? I do not know about a best practice, but if I decide that I need

Re: why i can not burn cd ?

2013-07-01 Thread green
pengsir wrote at 2013-07-01 04:43 -0500: when i insert a blank cd to burn iso file into it ,i get the message (please the attachment) how can i solve it? If I understand it correctly, that message is because nautilus or something has noticed that you inserted a CD and is trying to mount a

Re: TRIM support with XFS

2013-06-29 Thread green
John Andreasson wrote at 2013-06-29 13:46 -0500: So my question is: Does TRIM work with XFS in Wheezy and what should I do to use it? See http://xfs.org/index.php/FITRIM/discard. Add the 'discard' mount option in /etc/fstab. I suppose, to trim all old eraseable blocks, you should also remount

Re: Authentication required keeps popping up

2013-06-17 Thread green
Chris Capon wrote at 2013-06-17 11:45 -0500: Since upgrading to Debian Stable (Wheezy), the Gnome desktop has a popup which occurs at least once a day asking for authentication. The exact message is: Authentication is required to update packages It always pops up twice in a row

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread green
Chris Bannister wrote at 2013-06-15 02:01 -0500: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:31:12PM +0800, lina wrote: On Friday 14,June,2013 11:21 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, which, I wish, can save the history of the words I looked up

Re: Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball

2013-06-15 Thread green
To Ro wrote at 2013-06-15 12:14 -0500: I started testing one of the recovered files, with a binary file editor can se a long sequence of zeros at the very beginning of it, took some precautions, and here is what I see ls -lh total 5.8G -r 1 xyz xyz 5.8G Jun 14 17:52 inode_17000

Re: Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball

2013-06-14 Thread green
To Ro wrote at 2013-06-14 06:02 -0500: At this point I have to wait about two weeks before I can afford getting a 2TB drive where I could dump the recovered parts and try to resuscitate it. Is there any site that would have information about forensics? The best way to prepare is by learning

Re: Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball

2013-06-13 Thread green
To Ro wrote at 2013-06-12 14:44 -0500: Where: External SeaGate Drive of 1 TB I had a Big.tar.gz file (about 400gb) with all the contents of my home directory, in a maze of directories and subdirectories. After extracting a directory with all its contents from Big.tar.gz to my hard drive, I

Re: Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball

2013-06-13 Thread green
Bob Proulx wrote at 2013-06-13 11:45 -0500: Good to hear that it was not ext3! For ext3, there is the ext4magic tool. (I have not used it.) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Remove user data of uninstalled packages

2013-06-09 Thread green
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote at 2013-06-09 12:46 -0500: yes, maybe, but after more than 10 years of using debian a lot of unnecessary stuf is in my ~home directory. And as I am now using a SSD drive, space is more important than before. `ncdu` might help you find out what is actually using your

Re: Packageinstallation isolation.

2013-06-04 Thread green
M.Atıf CEYLAN wrote at 2013-06-04 09:16 -0500: On 06/04/2013 05:12 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: Is there a way/trick how i can install a 3rd party package in some kind of isolation from whole system -- so that its binaries can not access any files of whole OS -- being confined in usage only to one

Re: Crossgrade to Amd64

2013-05-27 Thread green
David Baron wrote at 2013-05-26 03:38 -0500: So how do I complete the changeover? Or do I simply reinstall the old dpkg and apt-get update, then hopefully back where I started, await updated crossgrade procedure? Have you tried running aptitude and switching to amd64 packages with it (and

Re: Handbrake Installation removes a lot

2013-05-27 Thread green
Stephen Allen wrote at 2013-05-26 20:00 -0500: Was about to install Handbrake for Wheezy, but stopped when I saw the list of packages that were going to be removed. Screengrab here on my public dropbox fldr: http://goo.gl/Oow9T What the hell, kind of strange it wants to remove my chat

Re: measuring RAID arrays performances

2013-05-25 Thread green
Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2013-05-25 18:32 -0500: For two disks, use RAID1. PERIOD. End of story. Screwing with anything else is a massive waste of your time. If you have 3 or more disks, then you can worry about layouts. Or RAID0? That is, for 2 disks use RAID0 (performance gain) *or* RAID1

ssh tunnel help

2013-05-22 Thread Nelson Green
Hello all, Seems I'm a bit brain dead this morning, and I'm having difficulty remembering how to set up an ssh tunnel to our development server through the public facing system I can ssh into pub1 just fine, and from that shell I can ssh into the development server, dev1. What I want to do is to

Re: USB/IP

2013-05-18 Thread green
Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-05-14 11:01 -0500: With development pretty much stalled on it, I was hoping there was some other way that anyone knew of that would allow this user to access the scanner from the server. sane? http://www.sane-project.org signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread green
John Thoe wrote at 2013-05-05 19:45 -0500: For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS is not a good option since it disables TRIM. I am using cryptsetup, LUKS, and ext4 on a SSD; TRIM seems to work. At least, fstrim seems to work as expected. Note that this is with

Re: debian wiki's mirror

2013-05-04 Thread green
låzaro wrote at 2013-04-16 08:30 -0500: Hi, some peoples in my country have not internet access (please, do not ask whay) and will be very good if we could have mirror of the debian's wiki, so I wonder if exist some way for make a mirror of the wiki. You can use httrack to make an offline copy

Re: [gnome2] disable suspend/hiberante from menu buttons

2013-05-04 Thread green
Pol Hallen wrote at 2013-04-15 06:15 -0500: I need to disable 2 buttons from menu buttons in gnome2 I find consolekit and check /etc/ but I can't resolve :-/ also using gconf-editor, I can't change that settings :-( Any idea to resolve this problem? Have you tried running gconf-editor

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread green
Mark Weyer wrote at 2013-04-23 16:12 -0500: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i A. And if there is no command to list this,

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-20 Thread green
Karen Lewellen wrote at 2013-04-20 15:10 -0500: Any open source Linux programs for this process? Please note I am talking of a .wav file of a voice converted to a text file. I know approximately nothing about speech recognition, but I have noticed http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net; you could

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread green
Lars Nooden wrote at 2013-04-19 10:35 -0500: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make a direct connection between A and B with ssh, you need to have at least on of them be publicly

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-18 Thread green
Darac Marjal wrote at 2013-04-18 04:05 -0500: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:43:27PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Security issues, which affect modules, but not the kernel itself, may not cause the need of a new kernel. When people lik me and others on this list, are using a very small

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread green
alberto fuentes wrote at 2013-04-18 16:18 -0500: Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server, but I just want to use the server to establish the connection Perhaps the nat-traverse package is of interest to you. signature.asc

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread green
sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote at 2013-03-29 16:23 -0500: Apologies. Guess I'll just have to find a more appropriate OS. As already mentioned, squeeze-backports might help, though neither netatalk nor privoxy currently have more recent versions backported. Consider building your own backports.

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-03-17 Thread green
J.A. de Vries wrote at 2013-03-17 13:46 -0500: I have been messing around with fstab, crypttab, blkid.tab, grub and initramfs and every time a new dependency rears its ugly head. The system still keeps asking for the original name of the partition with / on it. I am thinking of giving up and

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread green
Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.comwrote: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb drive or USB hard drive), when it goes to install GRUB, it fails. To help further with this, we will need

Re: tar - unresponsive machine

2013-02-28 Thread green
Darac Marjal wrote at 2013-02-28 10:50 -0600: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:38:23AM -0500, m...@neidorff.com wrote: Yes. You may want to change the nice level of the tar command so that it doesn't take up so much disk time. nice tar won't actually change how heavily tar uses the disk.

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread green
Morel Bérenger wrote at 2013-02-25 03:18 -0600: Le Dim 24 février 2013 23:02, Alois Mahdal a écrit : * Do we want to count dependencies? How deep (we don't want to count libc* 1 times, do we)? * Do we want to separately address * `purge`able ~/.app-data? *

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread green
Jon Dowland wrote at 2013-02-25 11:35 -0600: As for cumulative space, what you want is not how much space a package takes up but to answer the question: for a given set of package operations, what space will be occupied/freed? In my experience, firing up aptitude, programming in the

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