On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:50:58AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> Although, if we wanted to get really crazy, we could say this is a bug in
> the spec of ld. But if we go there, we have to acknowledge that the spec of
> ld matches the general C/*nix run-time spec, so the bug is in ... (chasing
> our se
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:44:30AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> Well, okay, we need to start somewhere, and, while we suspect ld, we don't
> really know for sure. And we suspect that the actual fix may not end up
> being in ld.
>
> So, what is the name of the package that is trying to load libc6:i38
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 04:04:30PM -0400, Tom Roche wrote:
> summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on
> libgif4:i386, but
>
> - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64
> - important apps depend on libgif4:amd64
Is this the same box that you were having the f
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:03:17PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> But installing libc6:i386 and a few others allows firefox to work:
Meaning installing the :i386 versions of the libraries was (part of) the
solution, not the problem. Any bug report would have to go against a
part of the system that was par
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:23:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Roche wrote:
>
> >
> > summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al
> >
>
> Well, you've actually pinned the problem pretty well. Who, or, rather,
> which tool should be responsible for
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have added to my sources.list the following line:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
>
> But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't
> make the backport appear in interactive
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:19:50PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >
> > tasks-xfce-desktop is a meta package that includes xfce, and also a set
> > of additional packages that are typically used on a desktop system,
> > like libreoffice and iceweasel.
>
> Those packages should be part of an OS
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:04:46PM +0200, Slavko wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:29:08PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> > > Here, have a wrapper script
> > >
> > > --8x
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > >
> > > xh
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:19:59PM +, Артур Истомин wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> > 'xhost +' allows anyone anywhere access to your X server. If you must use
> > xhost in this situation it would be much safer to use 'xhost
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:30:11PM +, Артур Истомин wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > For years I have used sudo both in server administration and on the desktop.
> >
> > Lately I get the following error message and I do not really know what to do
> > a
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:16:32PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> Thanks for your replies.
No problem, glad I could help.
> I guess I'll have to submit some reports, for example that the man
> does not says explicitly the order of the arguments. I'll do some
> other tries before t
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:41:52AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 29/04/14 23:53, Tom Furie wrote:
> > What does apt-cache policy doc-linux-text show?
>
> doc-linux-text:
>
> Installed: 2008.08-1
>
> Candidate: 2008.08-1
>
> Version table:
>
>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 05:00:03PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> The URI needs to be the last element of the command. You will find most
> of the required files if you mount the iso and pass the mount point with
> --scan, passing the iso file finds 0 files. Using --scan causes jigdo to
>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:27:20PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am trying to update some iso images ( I have downloaded ISOs last
> week, but it seems that there were an update since, my images are in
> 7.4 and last debian stable is 7.5 ) through jigdo, and wanted to
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:29:45PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 29/04/14 20:22, Paul Lane wrote:
> > Searched archive and found nothing regarding any discussion of it
> > being removed. I did find it available for Squeeze. However, as I
> > stated it is not found in the package lists for Wheez
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 09:49:18PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 15:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Kinda seems like the (de) evolution of cars, doesn't it? As a kid,
> > I could tune up my beater flat head 6 1959 Plymouth in 20 minutes with
> > a 10 inch adjustable and a gapp
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:38:13AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Those concepts are fine for concrete packages. My MUD client Gypsum,
> if I were to package it as a .deb, would Depend on Pike and GTK, would
> Recommend the latest Pike (if it's possible to depend on one version
> and recommend ano
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:37:50AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Tom Furie wrote:
> > In your example above, while gnome depends on openoffice, openoffice
> > cannot be removed without also removing gnome and thus anything that was
> &g
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:05:09AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tom Furie wrote:
> > This seems an odd choice to make. If I installed a meta-package because
> > I couldn't be bothered to investigate which individual packages I
> >
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:22:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 22 apr 14, 22:56:27, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Unfortunately this may not have the desired effect with at least Gnome,
> due to circular Depends/Recommends of the installed packages. Besides,
> recently[1] meta-packages have been
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:06:41PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> I'm writing a bash script that runs several routing commands. I would
> like these commands, on a part of the script, plus run, are saved to a
> log file.
I'm having trouble processing this paragraph. Are you saying that you
want t
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:06:00PM -0500, c. marlow wrote:
> What the heck
> Sorry I'm new to the whole group email / NEWSGROUP thing.
It was spam. Sometimes it gets through the filters. Best course of
action is to not reply to it, and *never* quote it.
Cheers,
Tom
--
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 02:43:31PM -0500, c. marlow wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 19:50 +0100, Brian wrote:
> > You have joined your mail to an existing one and your topic has nothing
> > to do with the one you have added your mail to.
> >
> > This doesn't benefit the person who sent the origin
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote:
> > As is the light originating inside peoples' homes and passing out of
> > their windows. In which case it is arguable that it is perfectly
> > acceptable to collect and record that light with a camer
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:32:37PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
> I apologize. I should have vetted these before posting them. Best as I can
> tell, ez-ip, penguinpowered, and hn seem to be gone, dhs, ods, easydns are
> no longer free, tzo got acquired by dyndns (thus under the 30 days left
> clau
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:03:26PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
> Over lo these many years, I have run ez-ipupdate on my perimeter to keep my
> dynamic hostname in sync. So I pulled up the description, which says:
>
> " Currently supported are: ez-ip (http://www.EZ-IP.Net/), Penguinpowered
> (ht
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days
> will no longer be gratis.
> I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog.
> Are there other free alternatives?
This news disappointed me too, giv
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:19:25PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> Ah, I tested with wheezy. I'll load up a jessie vm and test again. In
> theory it shouldn't make any difference, but that's the difference
> between theory and practice :)
With a fresh install of Jessie p
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:57PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Tom Furie writes:
> > What version of Debian are you on?
>
> Much of what I mentioned about falling behind has been corrected in
> the course of this problem.
>
> jessie
Ah, I tested with wheezy. I'll
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:35:39PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> One thing should be mentioned... I've allowed my debian system to fall
> badly behind in updates and general maintenance. Now face a bit of a
> job getting back on track. But doubt that is the cause of my troubles.
What version of
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Tom Furie writes:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> >> ./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain
> >> pkgs installed con
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> ./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain
> pkgs installed concerning X.
>
> Tail of output:
> [...]
> checking whether gcc understands -MMD -MF... yes
> checking for long file names... yes
> checkin
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:43:51PM -0700, ray wrote:
> Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change.
> For example, I understand the Gnome has the date and menu at the top
> and KDE at the bottom of the screen. After switching to KDE and
> rebooting, I see a new log in windo
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:05:09PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> First of all, you've broken the thread. The thread was broken once
> already by the March / April forced break at the end of the month.
> You can't help that. But this time, you've broken it yourself by
> starting a new thread.
T
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 12:20:34AM +0300, Dalios wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A few weeks back while I was still following Stable (wheezy) I used
> gdebi to install a package (minitube if that matters). Later I
> upgraded to Testing (jessie) and now I used the command "apt-get
> purge minitube" to uninst
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:12:15PM -0700, ray wrote:
> > Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be
> > able to tell you how to switch.
> > I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything.
> I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the
> terminology.
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 07:05:28PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> Uberto Lauri has been a source of great help, And so far I've
> gotten this far towards a multiscreen screensaver
> by running one directly like this:
> ric@iam:/usr/lib/xscreensaver$ ./glschool -geometry 5440x1024+1
>
> ...for four mo
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:40:13PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what
> your goal is. As far as I'm aware 'less' has a higher priority than
> 'more' in the alternatives system, so...
Oops. No there ar
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:34:54PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more'
> is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list
> with the 'less' pager.
There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what
Aimed primarily at Ralf and Hans, but may be of interest to other
parties.
MX lookups for loop.de and alice-dsl.de both resolve to
megamailservers.eu, I would suggest that your mail problems lie there.
Cheers,
Tom
--
Finally, Zippy drives his 1958 RAMBLER METROPOLITAN into the faculty
dining ro
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:50:49AM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> Is there a tool that would take down and disable a service based on a
> configurable criteria?
Depending what your "configurable criteria" are, there are probably
several tools that could be used.
Cheers,
Tom
--
Hand, n.:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:29:23AM +0100, basti wrote:
> SRV1 -> Node 1
> client -->|(shared IP) \/
> | /\
> SRV2 -> Node 2
> :
> Node n
>
> Can
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32:44AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> pecondon writes:
> > I tried to access cdimages.debian.org on it using FireFox, and could
> > not.
> There is no such site. Try https://www.debian.org/CD/
There is no such site as cdimages.debian.org, but there *is*
cdimage.debian.o
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 09:51:25PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
> Since reading your post I discovered that the latest kernel now
> available is 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 which I will now install. There are
> other kernels mentioned in wheezy-backports labelled "pae". Since I
> don't know what that means I
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote:
> Last question is there a way to set this option by default or should i just
> set an alias?
That's all covered in the apt man pages.
Cheers,
Tom
--
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:43:59PM +, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote:
> > Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages?
> Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it would pull in
I forgot to ment
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote:
> Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages?
Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it would pull in
latex packages. The package doesn't 'depend' on latex though, it's only
a 'recommends' relationship,
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:35:18PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I could write what ever I want to send to this list, but as soon
> "systemd" is part of the subject, my mails are delayed or won't come
> through the list.
It isn't only you this happens to. *All* messages with systemd in the
subject
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:25:41AM -0400, Steve Litt of
Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:01:15 +0000 Tom Furie wrote:
> > The classic approach to this problem is to pass 'init=/bin/sh' to
> > the kernel.
> Do you think this is going to contin
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:45:14AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The complete hard drive is wiped at least once a month. I
> consistently use my name as the login on the first install of any
> series. The login of any subsequent install will be a mnemonic
> associated associated with the current
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:21:27PM +, Tom Furie wrote:
> It does seem much more likely that Scott is correct and root logins are
> only disabled at the graphical login - as Scott says, that is the
> default configuration - in which case Richard should be able to
> ctrl-alt-Fn
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:58:59PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Tom is smarter than we are, it's likely that his guess is correct. The
> OP confused the term for
I am far from it, and Lisi and Scott have both made excellent points
that illustrate that.
> no root account, but the first user has g
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > If another OS had not been available but I knew the root
> > password, is there some way I could have gained access as root?
>
> If you remember the root password, than I
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:09:33PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 15/03/14 21:45, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password, is
> > there some way I could have gained access as root?
> # passwd `grep 1000 /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f1`
That doesn
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:45:14AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password,
> is there some way I could have gained access as root?
The classic approach to this problem is to pass 'init=/bin/sh' to the
kernel. The method for doing so depend
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:44:14PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> >>On 3/14/2014 9:20 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> >>>I would expect they go somewhere under /usr/share/.
^
> /usr/lib is not a subdirectory of /usr/lib/cgi-bin. A web user can
> access anythin
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:43:41PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> This is what we ended up doing, rolling back to an older version of
> mariadb, libmysqlclient18, etc.
>
> I posted the relevant instructions (where to get the older pkgs, etc.)
> earlier.
> Both Taz' server and the other are both sen
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:02:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote:
> > how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it
^^^
> Every single time I do whatever m
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:36:55PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
> There are few users on either server, and all I've tested are unable to
> send mail.
> In both servers, there is 1 mail DB for both dovecot and postfix, yes.
If both dovecot and postfix are using the same authentication mechanism
i
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in
> Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already
> reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is referred to
> as 'visual'. I'm sure it will b
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 04:22:45PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
> They both use mysql (well, mariadb) auth for both dovecot and postfix.
> I have confirmed that I can connect to the DB on either server with the
> mail admin account configured in postfix.
> Yet, I can not send mail.
Do they connec
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:49:34PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:41:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
> > both servers show similar in mail.warn:
> > Mar 11 13:52:16 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16685]: warning: SASL
> > authentication failure: Password verification failed
>
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 05:11:05PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:24:36PM +0000, Tom Furie wrote:
> > This is the snippet from my .procmailrc for handling Debian mailing
> > lists. Each list gets sorted into it's own directory.
> >
> >
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:51:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 3/8/2014 2:18 PM, Patrick Alouidor wrote:
> > Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian 7
> > on laptop Toshiba C-55A5310. and For some reason I cannot enable my wifi
> > switch. I have been pressing the
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:44:42PM +0800, lina wrote:
> I have never realized that until you pointed out. Thanks,
No problem, I see my good deed for today is done :)
BTW, did you delete line 12, the 'allow-hotplug eth0' line? If so,
you'll probably want to add it back in, or replace it with an '
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:53:24AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 07/03/14 01:59, lina wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >>From syslog, it shows me:
> >
> > Mar 6 10:47:05 debian NetworkManager[6729]: Error: Can't parse
> > interface line '#015'
> >
> > # cat -n interfaces
> > 1 # This file des
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:31:23PM +, Tom Furie wrote:
> I honestly thought I was joking when I mentioned them being intercepted
> en-route.
Yep, there's the delay. My confidence is shaken, and my curiosity is
piqued.
Cheers,
Tom
--
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-
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:06:47PM +, Brian wrote:
> There is a thread at present on -user:
>
>https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg00279.html
>
> Its Subject: is "Read-only rootfs on systemd"
Hmm... I now suspect that any message with systemd in the subject is
being delayed
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:08:03AM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
> I use Procmail to do my mail filtering for me. The recipe I use is:
>
> # Debian list processing
> # Look for the list address here and put them in their own file
> :0:
> * ^TO_ .*@lists.debian.org
> $MAILDIR/debian/
This is the s
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:29:52PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> The device had available, a software suite, named the Samsung
> Unified Print Driver.
>
> That worked with Debian Linux 5.
>
> It apparently does not work with Debian Linux 6.
>
> Something changed from Debian Linux 5, to Debian Linu
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:53:35AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Actually, you just need to pass the proper 'init=' parameter to the
> kernel.
That works too, but by default the kernel will look for /sbin/init. For
testing purposes passing the parameter would obviously be the safer
choice.
Che
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:44:33PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> I was just wondering something. How much effort would it take for me,
> personally, just me, to make my Debian Stable start all its processes
> with DJB's Daemontools. I know Daemontools, I understand it, I know how
> to work with it an
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 12:24:26PM +, Brian wrote:
> The interesting questions involve what is happening on bendel after a
> mail is accepted.
>
> 1. Why is any mail delayed for 15 minutes before onward transmission?
Could be any of many reasons. System load, SMTP transmission failure,
rout
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:06:17AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> PS: I'll set up msmtp ASAP and then replace Evolutions SMTP thingy, to
> see if I get information about the issue.
If you look at the headers on your posts (or anyone else's for that
matter), you can track the progress from origin to
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:41:48AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> My apologies, I'm aware that no test mails should be send to the Debian
> user mailing list. If I reply (several times) I don't come through the
> list anymore. Some time ago I needed to reply 3 or 4 times and then one
> reply did cam
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:41:48AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> My apologies, I'm aware that no test mails should be send to the Debian
> user mailing list. If I reply (several times) I don't come through the
> list anymore. Some time ago I needed to reply 3 or 4 times and then one
> reply did came
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> BTW: there is something more than just KDE since I didn't get a
> slowdown when I tried it with a new user without having the raid
> array /home. The differences besides the raid array are:
> - new user configuration with almost no files
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
> I find that shutdown can take a time argument
> so why do I bother with cron
>
> Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway!
Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdown or reboot the
machine on some definable interval without us
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:20:50AM +, Dom wrote:
> From the original post, Long Wind seems to have used the original
> method of creating crontabs:
>
> crontab
>
> The usual sequence (on the old Unix systems I used to admin) was:
>
> crontab -l > mycronfile
> vi mycronfile (to edit)
> cron
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56:50AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
> I want to shutdown at 5:03
> I check with crontab -l
> it seems OK
Depending on how you created the file the format may or may not be okay.
Did you create the file in /etc/cron.d, or as a user with 'crontab -e'?
Given that you say 'cron
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:26:38AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
> I want to shutdown at some time,
> so I create a file named cmd with a line below:
>
> 3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now
>
> I run the command : " crontab cmd"
>
> but it doesn't shutdown
> Why?
Where did you create the file? Are
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:35:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> >> iface eth0 inet static
> >> address 172.16.4.104
>
> >> netmask 255.255.248.0
>
> Just in case it makes a difference - that's a /29 network
> i.e. 192 possible hosts (32 subnets with 6 hosts each) unless that's not
Easy
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:21:18PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
> I have 2 classes of users - SFTP users (customers), and SFTP managers
> (company users that manage customer data).
>
> I want a highly secure and privacy safe SFTP server. But I also want it to
> appear to users as simple and easy as
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:40:03AM +, Артур Истомин wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:21:30PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> > So is there a way to boot an entire 4gb dvd-iso from a server, so that I
> > can install it on PC connected on a network??
>
> You can create local mirror of repos.
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
>
> I wanted to see if I can rejuvenate this thread or if should I start a new
> one.
>
> My debian stable (now is sid but no new behavior) ps2 keyboards keep
> maniacally repeating keys.
>
> occasionally it seems almost spontane
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:22:15PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Better presupposes good. If something doesn't approach good, e.g.
> someone misses the target by 10 metres are they "better" than the person
> who missed by 20 metres? Or "less worse". To call the 10 miss "better"
> is a version of
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:24:13AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> The package is already installed. (JFTR I installed KDE before I
> installed JWM, perhaps it was installed with KDE. The KDE menu is ok.)
>
> How do I use update-menues and install-menu? I couldn't find a howto.
Did you look at /usr
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 04:04:37PM +0530, Balamurugan wrote:
> Do you mean there is no such package like libstdc++?
That is correct, there is no package "libstdc++"
> I have just ran the commands on a fresh install of Debian 7 (Wheezy) 64-bit
> system.
>
> root@debian:/home/user# apt-get insta
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:49:24PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> What the f...
>
> I got this, after sending my reply (to the list only) to the request
> from Pol Hallen :
I received the same error replying to an unrelated thread, so I don't
think this is a problem at Pol's mail host.
Cheers,
To
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:06:23PM +0530, Rupesh Reddy wrote:
> Sir please explain what's the process going on and why the remaining seven
> DVD's are not released yet.
If you *really* need DVD images beyond the first three, you can produce
them using jigdo.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:03:14AM -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote:
> Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image:
>
> 1. On debian PC running squeeze, only since recent apt-get update.
> 2. On WinXPSP3 laptop, the same document prints perfectly with the
> same p
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:27:06AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is there an archive that I can simply build a
> sources.lst file for which then makes aptitude or apt-get work to
> pull in the Lenny files? This would be quicker, easier and less
> of a possibility for human error on my par
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:28:47AM +, T o n g wrote:
> Can I use something like root="ID=ata-IBM-DBCA-203240_HP0HPL43952"? I
> remember nothing worked well, so I reverted to the (now troublesome)
> "safe" /dev/sdXn.
I think the idea is to replace /dev/sdXn with e.g.
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-IBM
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:46:07PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> *QUESTION:* Is there a way to defeat/disable OS_PROBER(sp?) during
> installation?
Os-prober is at most a 'recommends' of grub. You can quite easily not
install it if you wish.
I'm not sure if os-prober can be skipped if it's inst
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:43:53PM -0300, francis picabia wrote:
> I am beginning to think this system is glitchy when PS/2 is detached
> and reattached.
That's entirely possible. PS/2 was never designed to be hot-swappable.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:38:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> These days it is != :) (I think <> was "not equal to", was it?)
Technically, it's "less than or greater than", but I suppose it amounts
to the same thing :)
Cheers,
Tom
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 07:54:25PM -0300, Roberto Scattini wrote:
> ~# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
> Iface
> XX.220.XX.176 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth3
> YY.20.YY.0 0.0.0.0
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:47:02PM -0300, Roberto Scattini wrote:
> i also tried a different approach, found somewhere with google, that is
> more in line with my understanding of the problem.
> basically, it marks the packets so they can be routed back to the same nic
> they came in:
>
> ip rout
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 05:10:45AM -0800, Mark Ford wrote:
> I am hoping someone can help show me where I'm going wrong.
> I have iptables setup in the following way, basically, I am
> using the chain "pests" to drop data from certain IPs.
>
>
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:09:32PM -0800, Vaibhav Niku wrote:
> pdf2ps, which is a frontend to gs, inserts a copyright notice in all PS files
> it produces. I am using `GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10)'. Files look like
> this:
>
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> ...
> %%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 871 (pswrite
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