Re: need help on using crontab

[Tom Furie]

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 'crontab -l' seems okay I suspect the latter.

Cheers,
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Re: need help on using crontab

[Raffaele Morelli]

2014-02-19 6:26 GMT+01:00 Long Wind :

> 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?


First of all, is cron running?
Have a `grep for CRON syslog`

Re: need help on using crontab

[Long Wind]

On 2/19/14, Tom Furie  wrote:
>
> Where did you create the file? Are you expecting the machine to shutdown
> when you invoke 'crontab cmd'?
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> --

I want to shutdown at 5:03
I check with crontab -l
it seems OK


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Re: need help on using crontab

[Tom Furie]

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 you expecting the machine to shutdown
when you invoke 'crontab cmd'?

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Re: Trouble replacing an LVM disk

[st]

Nuno Magalhães wrote:


Does pvcreate imply pvscan? I.e. is LVM aware of the new pv so you can
move onto it?


It becomes aware when the PV is added to VG. That's also when pvdisplay
starts showing how many extents LVM thinks the volume's got so I have
to do it anyway.

LVM doesn't start moving because I end up with 1 less PE than Debian
Installer managed to create on drives of exactly the same size.

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need help on using crontab

[Long Wind]

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?


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kernel debug package ??

[Zenaan Harkness]

OK, so I'm subscribed to tor-relay mailing list, and my relay node
jumps a couple minutes forward a few times a day, and it has been
suggested that I install a debug kernel, so that I can then check the
logs around the time the jump happens and see if there's any
interesting correlation.

So, I installed linux-image...-dbg but there's no new image. That
package seems to intsall symbols only.

Here's the suggestion:
> Can you rebuild you kernel with debug option and
> check what kernel events have the same timestamps

So, I'm wondering how to achieve this suggestion in our Debian
context. Any pointers appreciated - how to "check kernel events".

TIA
Zenaan


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tor-arm - unable to read tor log files

[Zenaan Harkness]

arm gives the following error:

[ARM_WARN] Unable to read tor's log file: /var/log/tor/log [1 duplicate hidden]

I created the tor-arm user as suggested.

The log file dir /var/log/tor is ownership debian-tor.debian-tor
The log files /var/log/tor/log are ownership debian-tor.adm

Am I supposed to add the tor-arm user to the adm group?
Doing so does not "feel" like the optimal solution from a security
perspective - suggestions sought.

Again, seems like arm is a relatively young package, at least in
wheezy; can't speak to sid's tor-arm package yet.

TIA
Zenaan


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Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?

[Bob Bernstein]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:


I have just finished one on the brain.


Now, and I have a reason for asking this, after taking that 
brain course, were you left feeling more, or less, 
comfortable with your brain, such as it is now?


I've often imagined that, if I were put in charge of a good 
old-fashioned insane asylum, I would simply write out 
detailed directions for the inmates, showing them how to get 
out of the place. Then it dawned on me with stunning clarity 
that I had not taken account of my intended readership's, 
shall we say, um, somewhat special cognitive facilities. In 
short, I had not made adjustment for the fact that my 
readers were all psychotic and might not "get" the intended 
meaning of my escape booklet. God knows what they might see 
in it, right?


So I extend that sort of thinking to brain courses. What 
would someone, like me, whose brain has taken a fair beating 
over the years (hey, it was the Sixties, what can I say?) 
get out of the course? Isn't it highly likely that a, shall 
we say, "non-standard" brain might not properly understand 
the course material? And hence go away very unhappy with the 
state of my poor little brain!


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Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

[Scott Ferguson]

On 18/02/14 22:17, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Scott Ferguson writes:
>  > 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2010-November/97.html
> 
> I have to check wheter the "seamless" X11 support in Snow Leopard is still
> not so "seamless" as it was Panther (i.e. character rendering, sometimes
> close to unreadable). Gotta check this evening.

I'm not sure Apple is an appropriate reference for Linux, but then also
you've previously made the point the Linux is not POSIX and seem to find
that a problem (GNU?). I don't see why Linux shouldn't lead instead of
follow flawed models - but it's not my call.

> 
> Anyway:
> 
> "You're right, using  X for remote applications is not  a full answer.
> I do think HTML5 is a  better answer than most people acknowledge"

That's not my statement - I only referenced that post because it
mentions some of the failings of X. I have no opinion on the HTML comment.

> 
> I  am  not  sure  I  would  use  such  an  architecture  for  a  local
> application, at least today.
> 
> That would mean to use some sort of application server, the
> application within the application server and then a browser to run
> the app.
> 
> Very heavy for the machine. 

Not necessarily. e.g. https://apps.rutgers.edu/novnc/
http://www.cybelesoft.com/thinrdp/

Try x2go http://wiki.x2go.org/

On the few occasions that I need more than a remote terminal I find x2go
has more useful features and uses less resources than x forwarding and
the vnc variants. If I can use it on a Thinkpad T22 to display a remote
KDE workstation it can't be that "heavy".
It's in the Debian repositories.

> 
> I know that HTML 5 can do wonderful things. I am working on a program
> thad does HEAVY use of html 5 and javascript, a program meant to run
> on either the desktop or a tablet. I had to beef mine to 8G mostly
> because of the JavaScript/HTML5 part of the architecture

I'm definitely not an expert on javascript[*1] - but 8GiB RAM
requirement seems like it could use some optimising. Have you made use
of HTML5s full local capabilities?

[*1]There seem to be a lot of "apps" that do a lot of heavy remote work
in javascript but don't require anywhere near that amount of resources.
The gmail interface is also very javascript heavy but runs fine, for
those that like it, on mobile devices.



> 
> Then what? two output modules for the same program? 

Huh?

> Are you kidding or
> are you drunk?

I'd have to ask you the same question. You seem to be extrapolating from
imagination and then conflating it with something I wrote.

> 
> Could things improve? Probably. If you design an environment that has
> an HTML5 rendering engine as its graphic engine (acting also as a
> server for remote rendering requests) and is some sort of javascript
> machine.

See the earlier reference to novnc (and .

> 
> By  the way,  the application  I  am working  on relies  on a  certain
> implementation (webkit) and does not run on, say, firefox.

Then you don't ask anyone else why some applications don't respect
standards. :)

> 
> Wonderful, HTML 5  succeeded in turning the clock about  20 years back
> when IE3  understood (non  standard) tags that  Netscape did  not (and
> vice versa).

I'm not sure what you're trying to say there... HTML4 is a standard, but
not all browsers support all the tags recognised by the various browsers.
HTML5 has only recently (4th Feb) become a W3C *Candidate*
Recommendation Standard, I expect it'll take a while from when the
developers of various browsers were trying out proposed capabilities for
their camps model, and implementing those of others (trying to nail
smoke to the wall). Expect Opera and IE to continue to bork valid HTML,
expect others to continue to support non-standard tags - expect code
that'll render on all browsers equally to require work. Expect "experts"
to continue to *not* recommend we write *only* valid HTML (sigh).

> 
>  > https://github.com/kempj/remote-wayland
> 
> Could you explain a bit more? BTW, AFAIK X11 does move bitmaps around
> the net only when it has no other mean to request some kind of drawing.

Why not ask the relevant developers? I don't presume to know their
thinking and fail to understand why you'd think otherwise (but I'm a bit
thick).

Let's not lose sight of the original point - *KDE is dropping KDM in
future releases*. Wayland is a topical digression that leads to wooly
thinking don't you think? So I don't know what it makes this tangent.

Kind regards
> 


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Re: tor-arm warning

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 2/18/14, André Nunes Batista  wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 11:35 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> Does anyone know if tor arm can be run locally and tunnelled (rather
>> than remotely logging in and viewing the remote instance)? I tried but
>> arm seems to want to still talk to a local tor instance. Sorry this is
>> a separate question.
>
> Did I understand you correctly? You want to use arm on local machine to
> monitor Tor relay on a remote one?

Yes. I thought that would be a simple ssh tunnel away...


> If so, did you try to open on local machine a ssh tunnel to remote port
> 9051 and then firing arm with the "-i" argument?

Yes and yes. And yes, it doesn't work for me.


> It never occurred to me doing so, I usually install arm alongside every
> tor relay.

Of course arm is console, so runs fine in a screen session (which
tracks bandwidth usage over time which is good), but I have a
high-latency link, so it can look a little ugly occasionally and I
thought I'd experiment to see if arm could run locally.

This is my first relay, so just learning the ropes.


Here is my .ssh/config line:
LocalForward localhost:9051 127.0.0.1:9051

and here is my arm command:
arm -i 127.0.0.1:9051

and here is the error shown on the server side (ssh session doing the tunnel):
channel 11: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

and here is the error on the client side (when attempting the above
arm command):
Unable to query PROTOCOLINFO for the authentication type


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Re: Trouble replacing an LVM disk

[Nuno Magalhães]

Does pvcreate imply pvscan? I.e. is LVM aware of the new pv so you can
move onto it?


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Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 18 February 2014 16:55:35 Ron Leach wrote:
> What do others on the list use to play similar video material on
> Wheezy?

I've done a couple of Futurelearn courses, and have just tried the 
video on yours.  I can use both Iceweasel and Google Chrome.  I 
haven't tried any other browser for this purpose.  I have Flash 
installed, I'm afraid.  (flashplugin-nonfree)

I thought of doing that Java course, but there are so many interesting 
courses.  I have just finished one on the brain.

But you have wet my appetite for the Java course again

Lisi


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Re: Lotus Notes on Wheezy

[Pascal Obry]

Le mardi 18 février 2014 à 14:49 -0500, Marc Auslander a écrit : 
> In the slim chance that any of you run Lotus Notes on Debian -

I'm using it on an old chroot that I never ever update.

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Trouble replacing an LVM disk

[st]

So there's an LVM volume consisting of 3 disks that was created
by the Debian Installer. One of the disks develops problems
(offline uncorrectable sectors) so I buy a fourth, the same size
exactly. Now, I pvcreate /dev/sde, and I vgextend bigstore /dev/sde,
and I try to pvmove /dev/sdb1. Doesn't work.

Somehow, creating and adding a disk manually gives 1 PE less:

  PV Name   /dev/sdb1
  VG Name   bigstore
  PV Size   3000592939.52 kB / not usable 440.83 kB
  Allocatable   yes (but full)
  PE Size   4194.30 kB
  Total PE  715397

  PV Name   /dev/sde
  VG Name   bigstore
  PV Size   3000590369.28 kB / not usable 2064.90 kB
  Allocatable   yes
  PE Size   4194.30 kB
  Total PE  715396

Once again, the disks are as similar as can be. Here's the relevant
part of /proc/partitions:

   8   16 2930266584 sdb
   8   17 2930266542 sdb1
   8   64 2930266584 sde

Is there a way to safely reclaim my lost PE?

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debootstrap etch unknown key

[Mike Fitzgerald]

Hi

I've got a Cobalt Raq4 and am trying install etch (that's the most 
recent version it will take) but when issuing:


root@debian:/# debootstrap --arch i386 etch /nfsroot-x86 
http://archive.debian.org/debian/


I get the following error messages:

I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
I: Checking Release signature
E: Release signed by unknown key (key id B5D0C804ADB11277)

Any ideas what is wrong? This is my first foray into this territory

Thanks

Mike Fitzgerald

Re: .xsession-errors

[Ralf Mardorf]

> > Bug#739444

Oops, by accident I posted a wrong link.


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Lotus Notes on Wheezy

[Marc Auslander]

In the slim chance that any of you run Lotus Notes on Debian -

Notes is broken on Wheezy - it's apparently incompatible with the
level of Gnome included.  It works on squeeze/gnome.

Has any one built a successful workaround?  There are lots of
partial suggestions from Google but nothing that looks sound to me.

What I was hoping for was some way to force Notes to use back level
libraries that don't cause the issue.  Of course I'd need to get those
libraries from someplace.

Failing versions of notes are 8.5.3FP6 and 9.2.
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Re: .xsession-errors

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 11:19 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> This is probably not the best advice but: If nothing slows
> down/crashes/screws up data, then you can probably ignore it.

It's a good advice, it's only missing that people should do some
Internet research.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732136




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Re: .xsession-errors

[Frank McCormick]

On 18/02/14 02:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:

On 2014-02-18 18:12 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote:


I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately:


glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680

Can someone explain what's this about ?


It's glibtop complaining about the Debian kernel version which contains
only two parts rather than three in Jessie (i.e. it's 3.12 rather than
3.12.0).


Should I be concerned?


No, but please file a bug against libgtop2-7 or the source package
libgtop2.  For the reference, the message is in sysdeps/linux/open.c in
the libgtop2 source code:

,
|   if (sscanf(uts.release, "%u.%u.%u", &x, &y, &z) < 3)
|   glibtop_warn_r(server,
|  "Non-standard uts for running kernel:\n"
|  "release %s=%u.%u.%u gives version code %d\n",
|  uts.release, x, y, z, LINUX_VERSION_CODE(x,y,z));
`

Cheers,
Sven





  Apparently already done by Paul Cartwright - I did add my comment re 
my system being 32 bit.


Thanks


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Re: .xsession-errors

[Frank McCormick]

On 18/02/14 02:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:

On 18/02/14 02:39 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

On 02/18/2014 02:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:

No, but please file a bug against libgtop2-7 or the source package
libgtop2.  For the reference, the message is in sysdeps/linux/open.c in
the libgtop2 source code:

Fwd: Bug#739444: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:

Package: libgtop2-7
Version: 2.28.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,


* What led up to the situation?
..xsession-errors entry:
glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
release 3.12-1-amd64=3.12.0 gives version code 199680





   I have a comment to the bug...re my system being 32-bit.

Thanks to all







  Err...that should be " I added a comment". Need more
coffee...or something.



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Re: .xsession-errors

[Frank McCormick]

On 18/02/14 02:39 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

On 02/18/2014 02:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:

No, but please file a bug against libgtop2-7 or the source package
libgtop2.  For the reference, the message is in sysdeps/linux/open.c in
the libgtop2 source code:

Fwd: Bug#739444: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:

Package: libgtop2-7
Version: 2.28.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,


* What led up to the situation?
..xsession-errors entry:
glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
release 3.12-1-amd64=3.12.0 gives version code 199680





  I have a comment to the bug...re my system being 32-bit.

Thanks to all




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Re: .xsession-errors

[Paul Cartwright]

On 02/18/2014 02:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> No, but please file a bug against libgtop2-7 or the source package
> libgtop2.  For the reference, the message is in sysdeps/linux/open.c in
> the libgtop2 source code:
Fwd: Bug#739444: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:

Package: libgtop2-7
Version: 2.28.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?
..xsession-errors entry:
glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
release 3.12-1-amd64=3.12.0 gives version code 199680



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Apache fpm with multiple PHP versions

[komodo]

Hi,

is there any chance to install multiple PHP versions with apache 
mod_proxy_fcgi and fpm without own compiling ?

I have apache 2.4 and PHP 5.5.9, and i need also PHP 5.3 for one project.

So are there any precompiled packages and setup ?

Thanks

Martin


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Re: .xsession-errors

[Sven Joachim]

On 2014-02-18 18:12 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote:

> I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately:
>
>
> glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
> release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680
>
> Can someone explain what's this about ?

It's glibtop complaining about the Debian kernel version which contains
only two parts rather than three in Jessie (i.e. it's 3.12 rather than
3.12.0).

> Should I be concerned?

No, but please file a bug against libgtop2-7 or the source package
libgtop2.  For the reference, the message is in sysdeps/linux/open.c in
the libgtop2 source code:

,
|   if (sscanf(uts.release, "%u.%u.%u", &x, &y, &z) < 3)
|   glibtop_warn_r(server,
|  "Non-standard uts for running kernel:\n"
|  "release %s=%u.%u.%u gives version code %d\n",
|  uts.release, x, y, z, LINUX_VERSION_CODE(x,y,z));
`

Cheers,
   Sven


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Re: squirrelmail and smtp authentication

[Dan Purgert]

On 18/02/2014 07:26, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On 18/02/2014 07:01, Pol Hallen wrote:
>> Hi all :-)
>>
>> for long years I using squirrelmail without authentication (smtp).
>>
>> Now I'd like migrate to smtp with ssl authentication, I already 
>> configured postfix to do this, so...
>>
>> Do I need enter manually each credetials for each user? Or can I solve 
>> with other way? (I don't use mysql) - smtp db is saslpasswd2
>>
>> thanks for help
>>
>> Pol
>>
>>
> 
> It should use whatever SASL authentication method(s) you have already setup in
> Dovecot/Cyrus.  So there's nothing "new" that you need to add as far as
> authentication credentials go.
> 
> Might need to restart dovecot/cyrus though.
> 
> -Dan
> 
> 

Ugh, re-reading this and realized I missed the squirrelmail part of your 
question.

You should not need to do anything special to squirrelmail on a per-user basis,
but you will need to go into the "global" configuration in squirrelmail and tell
it to use port 587 (TLS/SSL) and provide the logged-in user's credentials for 
SMTP.

- Dan


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Re: Wheezy and parallel port

[Brian]

On Tue 18 Feb 2014 at 11:13:44 +0100, francesco scaglione wrote:

> On a newly installed Wheezy machine I'm desperately trying to
> configure an old HP LaserJet 6P printer connected to the parallel
> port.

[Snip]
 
> But this is what I get when I launch hplip:

[Snip]

> Enter number 0...2 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 2
> 
> Using connection type: par
> 
> error: No device selected/specified or that supports this
> functionality.

Reboot with the printer connected and switched on. Then provide us with
the information from:

lsmod | grep par

dmesg | grep par

cat /etc/default/cups

ls -l /dev/lp*

ls -l /dev/parport*


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Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?

[Mark Carroll]

Ron Leach  writes:
(snip)
> The Iceweasel announcement goes on to add
>
> "or install Flash Player."
>
> and provides a link to the Adobe site.
(snip)
> What do others on the list use to play similar video material on Wheezy?

I installed the non-free package flashplugin-nonfree which exactly
downloads it from Adobe so that Iceweasel can use it. It works fairly
well and that's what I use.

I also have the rtmpdump package installed: legal rights permitting, I
expect that could be used to download the Flash video and something like
mencoder could perhaps re-encode it into an open format of your choice,
but that's a fair bit of effort reading manual pages and playing with
options and I've not tried it myself, but if you wanted to go down that
kind of route those are the places I'd start.

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Re: .xsession-errors

[yaro]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12:12:20 PM Frank McCormick wrote:
> I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately:
> 
> 
> glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
> release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680
> 
> 
> Can someone explain what's this about ? Should I be concerned?
> 
> Thanks

This is probably not the best advice but: If nothing slows down/crashes/screws 
up data, then you can probably ignore it.

Conrad


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.xsession-errors

[Frank McCormick]

I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately:


glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel:
release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680


Can someone explain what's this about ? Should I be concerned?

Thanks


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Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

Ron Leach writes:
 > List, good evening,
 > 
 > "Your browser does not support HTML5/mp4 video playback.  If possible, 
 > please use a different browser to watch this video"

Chromium/Chrome? The latter comes from a Google repository.

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

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Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

[Curt]

On 2014-02-18, Richard Owlett  wrote:
>
> Like "beauty", "minor" is in the eye of the beholder ;/
> That is _exactly_ the sticking point causing to say "clean and 
> very peculiar".

man apt-secure 

will tell you how to "provide archive signatures in an archive under
your maintenance"

which would obviate the sticking point, if I'm understanding you
correctly.


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Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?

[Ron Leach]

List, good evening,

I have Iceweasel on a Wheezy laptop, and I wanted to use it for an 
online educational course, which starts in a few days.  The course 
will employ video (among other teaching methods).  Checking that 
Iceweasel will play the video from the course website, Iceweasel loads 
a player from Vzaar and then displays a black box announcing


"Your browser does not support HTML5/mp4 video playback.  If possible, 
please use a different browser to watch this video"


I'm a little bit cautious about installing other browsers and I feel 
more secure with Iceweasel because of the additional security-oriented 
plug-ins that are available (and we've used).  But is there another 
browser that will 'support HTML5/mp4'?  I also tried the same site and 
video on a Windows machine, with current Firefox and the current VLC 
plug-in, and had the same result, so I'm wondering whether the message 
is slightly misleading in suggesting that HTML5/mp4 is the problem.


The Iceweasel announcement goes on to add

"or install Flash Player."

and provides a link to the Adobe site.  Possibly the site is using a 
Flash video and that this is, perhaps, the primary issue.  If so, I 
guess I will have no open-source choice, and simply employ Adobe's 
Flash plug-in.  I've not done that previously because the player is 
proprietary.  The course introduction is here,


https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/begin-programming-2014

That page contains the sample video I was testing.  Using the 
Iceweasel 'page source' I couldn't see Flash or anything with '.swf' 
mentioned, though.


What do others on the list use to play similar video material on Wheezy?

Grateful for any comment,

regards, Ron


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Re: Run a small script at shutdown/reboot

[Jon Danniken]

On 02/18/2014 03:13 AM, Jaikumar Sharma wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Jon Danniken  wrote:
> 
>> Hello list, I have a small script (foobar.sh) which I would like to run
>> at shutdown or reboot:
>>
>>> So what am I missing here?   I'm guessing that using update-rc.d is
>>> probably more heavy duty/involved than I need for this little script
>>> (not to mention beyond my current understanding), but what else would
>>> work?
>>
> 
>  You probably need to read https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts if you
> want to get your scripts on different runlevels in a right way.

Nice, thanks Jaikumar, I appreciate it.

Jon


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Re: Run a small script at shutdown/reboot

[Jon Danniken]

On 02/18/2014 05:57 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> If you have cron on your machine, I think the easiest thing to do is to
> use the '@reboot' cron time specification, either in /etc/crontab, a
> file in /etc/cron.d or root's personal crontab. e.g.
> 
> @reboot /usr/local/bin/foobar.sh
> 
> assuming that's where the script is and it's +x

Perfect, thanks Jonathan that's what I was looking for.

Jon


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Re: video compression?

[Rob Owens]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:30:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send
> > > them by email?
> 
> Very much doubt it. How long does the video run for? What size is it?
> 
> > > I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but
> > > have not had much success so far.
> > > 
> > I like avidemux, but handbrake might be a little easier since it's got a
> > lot of presets.   You can get it in the 3rd party deb-multimedia.org
> > repository.
> 
> root@tal:~# apt-cache policy handbrake
> handbrake:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 0.9.9+dfsg-2~2.gbpa4c3e9
>   Version table:
>  0.9.9+dfsg-2~2.gbpa4c3e9 0
> 990 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
> root@tal:~#
> 
> Actually, It is probably not in Wheezy.
> 
Actually it is.  My mistake.  Wheezy has "handbrake", while
deb-multimedia.org has "handbrake-gtk".

-Rob


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Re: (toughed out) Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

[Marc Auslander]

At one point you reported that reboot did nothing.
Was that reboot -f or just reboot - which calls shutdown if you're
running at 0 or 6 according to the man page.


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Re: mount as read/write on demand

[Erwan David]

Le 18/02/2014 15:42, binary dreamer a écrit :
> Hello everyone.
>  
>  
> I am running some services in a remote headless system. the system
> runs debian 6.
> I would like the system to be read only by default. in case of an
> update/upgrade I could run in read/write to process the job.
> the filesystem is ext2 and it runs in a cf card.
>  
> I have seen voyage Linux that has this functionality but it misses
> kernel headers. It is a real pain to compile the headers in this
> underpowered box.
>  
> I would like to ask if someone could help me create a system
> read/write on demand.
>  
>  
> Thanks in advance.
>  
>  

mount -o remount,rw  should do the trick (and mount -o
remount,ro after use)


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Re: video compression?

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:

> Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send
> them by email?
>

why not upload it to your youtube account, make it unlisted and email the
link(s)?

If it is too big may be chop it in parts and then upload each part to
youtube.



> I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but
> have not had much success so far.
>
> Tom
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mount as read/write on demand

[binary dreamer]

Hello everyone.


I am running some services in a remote headless system. the system runs
debian 6.
I would like the system to be read only by default. in case of an
update/upgrade I could run in read/write to process the job.
the filesystem is ext2 and it runs in a cf card.

I have seen voyage Linux that has this functionality but it misses kernel
headers. It is a real pain to compile the headers in this underpowered box.

I would like to ask if someone could help me create a system read/write on
demand.


Thanks in advance.

Re: Make aptitude's limit function list installed packages from testing

[Peter Schott]

Thank you Tom, this works as expected.

I was expecting ~A to match far less, but on second thought there will 
be enough cases where the broader scope is essential.


All the best,
Peter

On 17.02.2014 22:04, Tom H wrote:

What is the correct filter to:
- list all installed packages coming from testing release;
- while *not* listing installed packages from other releases (e.g. stable)
for which an alternative version from testing is available?


aptitude search "~S~i ~Atesting'



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Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

[Richard Owlett]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

On 2/18/14, Richard Owlett  wrote:

Zenaan Harkness wrote:



I really am happy to help, and it is clear that so are others.
Creating your own personal "quick and dirty" repo is a relatively easy
thing to do (in my world at least :)


I've reached the limit of "quick and dirty". I'm well into "clean
and very peculiar" ;/


OK, ok, marketing taken on board. Let us change the wording (which I
copied from the procedure I originally found on the net):

The "quick, clean and functional" solution to a local repo is, well,
quick, simple, clean and functional.

:)

How's that sound?

*) It's quick and simple - just a few commands.
*) It's clean - a single repo index file, voila!
*) It's functional - a full, working, local repo! Great!

Not sure if we need more marketing here ... oh I know:

*) Inspiring - witness the power of Debian in a few minutes!
*) Powerful - take control of your repo, your pc, your world!
*) Awesome - almost nothing else needed you could ask for.

The _only_, _minor_, downside was that the apt signature checking was
not automatic - BUT WAIT! there's more! You are relying on the DVD set
you purchased, so that doesn't matter. At all!


Like "beauty", "minor" is in the eye of the beholder ;/
That is _exactly_ the sticking point causing to say "clean and 
very peculiar".

Synaptic would issue a warning for every app installed.
That would be unacceptable in my environment for two reasons:
  1. I would get in habit of ignoring warning messages (I do plan on
 installing applications not in the official repositories).
  2. I was planning on using volunteers to install some systems 
at church.

 Though I might know what was "safe" it could cause confusion.




The only "problem" and it can be ignored! How wonderful :)

...

So, if you wish to create your own bootable USB stick, which also
contains a full local Debian mirror, I and I'm sure others here will
be glad to assist you creating that. Being comfortable creating that
would be a very good thing for you particularly, given your
dialup-only Internet.

So, have a crack, and just ask again when/if you get stuck :)


I will.



From memory, someone suggested that a command as simple as the

following will turn your usb stick into a bootable debian-installer
DVD style USB stick:
dd if=/my/debian-boot-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdBLAH bs=1M


I saw a link to that in one of the links from 
https://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb which you mentioned in your other 
message. I'll have a chance to experiment with that latter today.




(With the bs=1M just meaning set a large blocksize, which is just to
improve performance of the usb stick creation step.)

That's awesome! A single command, and you don't even need a gui to do
it! (Personally, I really love such power, simplicity and
functionality, at the fingertip keypressing of a few keyboard keys :)

The only thing I'm not sure on is expanding the thusly created ISO9660
(or whatever) filesystem, so it can contain your repo, or creating two
partitions on the usb stick and putting your repo on the second
partition (although I think the only thing that changes, is the dd
command above, eg create two partitions, one a bit larger than your
DVD image, then use dd to copy the DVD debian isntall disk1 image, to
the first partition - but I'm not sure on this detail sorry, I'm sure
someone else will pipe up).


And the manpage for dd is not enlightening either.



Happy power learning :)
Zenaan




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Re: Run a small script at shutdown/reboot

[Jonathan Dowland]

If you have cron on your machine, I think the easiest thing to do is to
use the '@reboot' cron time specification, either in /etc/crontab, a
file in /etc/cron.d or root's personal crontab. e.g.

@reboot /usr/local/bin/foobar.sh

assuming that's where the script is and it's +x


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Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

[Joel Rees]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:26 AM,   wrote:
> [...]
> RDP takes less bandwidth than X forwarding, because it doesn't need to send
> all those X protocols over the network, just a bitmap display and input data.
> I've always found it faster.

If you can't use the grammar correctly, you could at least talk about
sending layers of protocol, so that your arguments could be more
visible for what they are?

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Look first in your own heart.


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Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

[Richard Owlett]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

https://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb

Might also be enjoyable to read..




Educational even!
I recommend following the many chains of links.


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Re: tor-arm warning

[André Nunes Batista]

On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 11:35 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Does anyone know if tor arm can be run locally and tunnelled (rather
> than remotely logging in and viewing the remote instance)? I tried but
> arm seems to want to still talk to a local tor instance. Sorry this is
> a separate question.

Did I understand you correctly? You want to use arm on local machine to
monitor Tor relay on a remote one?

If so, did you try to open on local machine a ssh tunnel to remote port
9051 and then firing arm with the "-i" argument?

It never occurred to me doing so, I usually install arm alongside every
tor relay.

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Re: squirrelmail and smtp authentication

[Dan Purgert]

On 18/02/2014 07:01, Pol Hallen wrote:
> Hi all :-)
> 
> for long years I using squirrelmail without authentication (smtp).
> 
> Now I'd like migrate to smtp with ssl authentication, I already 
> configured postfix to do this, so...
> 
> Do I need enter manually each credetials for each user? Or can I solve 
> with other way? (I don't use mysql) - smtp db is saslpasswd2
> 
> thanks for help
> 
> Pol
> 
> 

It should use whatever SASL authentication method(s) you have already setup in
Dovecot/Cyrus.  So there's nothing "new" that you need to add as far as
authentication credentials go.

Might need to restart dovecot/cyrus though.

-Dan


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squirrelmail and smtp authentication

[Pol Hallen]

Hi all :-)

for long years I using squirrelmail without authentication (smtp).

Now I'd like migrate to smtp with ssl authentication, I already 
configured postfix to do this, so...


Do I need enter manually each credetials for each user? Or can I solve 
with other way? (I don't use mysql) - smtp db is saslpasswd2


thanks for help

Pol


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Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

[Zenaan Harkness]

https://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb

Might also be enjoyable to read..


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Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 2/18/14, Richard Owlett  wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:

>> I really am happy to help, and it is clear that so are others.
>> Creating your own personal "quick and dirty" repo is a relatively easy
>> thing to do (in my world at least :)
>
> I've reached the limit of "quick and dirty". I'm well into "clean
> and very peculiar" ;/

OK, ok, marketing taken on board. Let us change the wording (which I
copied from the procedure I originally found on the net):

The "quick, clean and functional" solution to a local repo is, well,
quick, simple, clean and functional.

:)

How's that sound?

*) It's quick and simple - just a few commands.
*) It's clean - a single repo index file, voila!
*) It's functional - a full, working, local repo! Great!

Not sure if we need more marketing here ... oh I know:

*) Inspiring - witness the power of Debian in a few minutes!
*) Powerful - take control of your repo, your pc, your world!
*) Awesome - almost nothing else needed you could ask for.

The _only_, _minor_, downside was that the apt signature checking was
not automatic - BUT WAIT! there's more! You are relying on the DVD set
you purchased, so that doesn't matter. At all!

The only "problem" and it can be ignored! How wonderful :)

...
>> So, if you wish to create your own bootable USB stick, which also
>> contains a full local Debian mirror, I and I'm sure others here will
>> be glad to assist you creating that. Being comfortable creating that
>> would be a very good thing for you particularly, given your
>> dialup-only Internet.
>>
>> So, have a crack, and just ask again when/if you get stuck :)
>
> I will.

>From memory, someone suggested that a command as simple as the
following will turn your usb stick into a bootable debian-installer
DVD style USB stick:
dd if=/my/debian-boot-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdBLAH bs=1M

(With the bs=1M just meaning set a large blocksize, which is just to
improve performance of the usb stick creation step.)

That's awesome! A single command, and you don't even need a gui to do
it! (Personally, I really love such power, simplicity and
functionality, at the fingertip keypressing of a few keyboard keys :)

The only thing I'm not sure on is expanding the thusly created ISO9660
(or whatever) filesystem, so it can contain your repo, or creating two
partitions on the usb stick and putting your repo on the second
partition (although I think the only thing that changes, is the dd
command above, eg create two partitions, one a bit larger than your
DVD image, then use dd to copy the DVD debian isntall disk1 image, to
the first partition - but I'm not sure on this detail sorry, I'm sure
someone else will pipe up).

Happy power learning :)
Zenaan


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Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

Scott Ferguson writes:
 > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2010-November/97.html

I have to check wheter the "seamless" X11 support in Snow Leopard is still
not so "seamless" as it was Panther (i.e. character rendering, sometimes
close to unreadable). Gotta check this evening.

Anyway:

"You're right, using  X for remote applications is not  a full answer.
I do think HTML5 is a  better answer than most people acknowledge"

I  am  not  sure  I  would  use  such  an  architecture  for  a  local
application, at least today.

That would mean to use some sort of application server, the
application within the application server and then a browser to run
the app.

Very heavy for the machine. 

I know that HTML 5 can do wonderful things. I am working on a program
thad does HEAVY use of html 5 and javascript, a program meant to run
on either the desktop or a tablet. I had to beef mine to 8G mostly
because of the JavaScript/HTML5 part of the architecture

Then what? two output modules for the same program? Are you kidding or
are you drunk?

Could things improve? Probably. If you design an environment that has
an HTML5 rendering engine as its graphic engine (acting also as a
server for remote rendering requests) and is some sort of javascript
machine.

By  the way,  the application  I  am working  on relies  on a  certain
implementation (webkit) and does not run on, say, firefox.

Wonderful, HTML 5  succeeded in turning the clock about  20 years back
when IE3  understood (non  standard) tags that  Netscape did  not (and
vice versa).

 > https://github.com/kempj/remote-wayland

Could you explain a bit more? BTW, AFAIK X11 does move bitmaps around
the net only when it has no other mean to request some kind of drawing.

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Re: Run a small script at shutdown/reboot

[Jaikumar Sharma]

Hi Jon,

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Jon Danniken  wrote:

> Hello list, I have a small script (foobar.sh) which I would like to run
> at shutdown or reboot:
>
> >So what am I missing here?   I'm guessing that using update-rc.d is
> >probably more heavy duty/involved than I need for this little script
> >(not to mention beyond my current understanding), but what else would
> >work?
>

 You probably need to read https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts if you
want to get your scripts on different runlevels in a right way.

Regards,
Jaikumar

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

[Scott Ferguson]

On 18/02/14 20:49, Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2014-02-17 12:26 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> 
>> But for 99.9% of Linux users most of the features in X11 are
>> useless
> 
> That's a pretty bold statement. Do you have a link listing all
> the features of X, so we can get an idea of which of them are
> used by less than 1 in 1000 Linux users ?
> 
> I hope you don't count the ability to use remote displays among
> them. Because, among the people I've seen use Linux, the
> proportion is way above 1 in 1000. It's closer to 1 in 2 !
> 

Reposting a selective quote from kde-debian is dangerously close to FUD.
Though I do enjoy x forwarding it has *lots* of room for improvement.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2010-November/97.html

https://github.com/kempj/remote-wayland

After the 42 minute mark
http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/The_real_story_behind_Wayland_and_X.mp4

Kind regards


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Wheezy and parallel port

[francesco scaglione]

On a newly installed Wheezy machine I'm desperately trying to
configure an old HP LaserJet 6P printer connected to the parallel
port.

The card is well recognized, it seems:

francesco@desk:~$ lspci -vv

[...]

03:00.0 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology Device 9900 (prog-if 03
[IEEE1284])
Subsystem: Device a000:2000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
SERR- 

-

But this is what I get when I launch hplip:

francesco@desk:~$ hp-setup -i

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.6)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

(Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press 
to accept the default.)



| SELECT CONNECTION (I/O) TYPE |


  Num   Connection  Description 
  
Type
  
    --
--
  0*usb Universal Serial Bus (USB)  
  
  1 net Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct connection
or JetDirect)
  2 par Parallel Port (LPT:)
  

Enter number 0...2 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 2

Using connection type: par

error: No device selected/specified or that supports this
functionality.

-

Since I don't see /lp0 in my /dev, I've come to think that this
could be a problem of udev, non creating the right device.

Actually, I've found a couple of bugs that might concern my
installation as well. This is an older one:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351668

while this is quite recent:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711891

-

Has anybody stumbled on the same problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Francesco


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Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

Andre Majorel writes:
 > On 2014-02-17 12:26 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
 > 
 > > But for 99.9% of Linux users most of the features in X11 are
 > > useless
 > 
 > That's a pretty bold statement.

Agreed!

 > I hope you don't count the ability to use remote displays among
 > them. Because, among the people I've seen use Linux, the
 > proportion is way above 1 in 1000. It's closer to 1 in 2 !

Remote display is the most useful feature of X. Discarding it "because
in our opion is not so used" would be a terrible loss.

At home the remote display is used by 100% of the user and 100% of the
user consider that fundamental :).

And I heard project-manager working in "some kind of fruit company"
dearly misses the network transparence in their O.S.

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Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

[Richard Owlett]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

On 2/17/14, Richard Owlett  wrote:

I've been purchasing the multiple DVD sets as I am limited to a
dial-up connection.


It is great to support suppliers who service our "libre community" markets!


They provide a service/convenience I'm willing to pay for.





As 64GB flash drives are readily available I would find it
convenient to have a complete distro on a single device.


Did you fail with the instructions I have posted a couple of times now?


I have Squeeze on a flash  drive - don't recall just which 
suggestions I followed. It was an "educational" experience by 
fleshing out what I wanted/expected as opposed to what I had 
described in my posts.


I've been sidetracked working on non-computer projects for a few 
months. I've now discovered that Wheezy includes some tools that 
motivate me to move onward.





I really am happy to help, and it is clear that so are others.
Creating your own personal "quick and dirty" repo is a relatively easy
thing to do (in my world at least :)


I've reached the limit of "quick and dirty". I'm well into "clean 
and very peculiar" ;/




I've queried the company I've been buying the DVDs from with no
response.


They may find it a saleable product, although I daresay niche, perhaps
too niche for them to bother.


niche^2




Aagain, it's not difficult to achieve, since you have a DVD set.

Also, unless you really need an updated set, then an existing, eg
wheezy, DVD set will be absolutely heaps for your learning escapades
:)

In general, if you are not Internet-connected, then "security" updates
are not so important, _especially_ when what you are doing is a
learning exercise anyway. The only time updates really make sense, are
if there are bugs biting you, in your current network-disconnected
installation!

Finally, if you run with the "stable" distribution, namely wheezy at
this point, then when the next point-release (bug fix release) is
available, a single 'update' CD or DVD is generally all you need to
get _all_ the updates for that point-release (eg I think the most
recent wheezy point release was 7.4).

I.e., it may be worth checking if your DVD supplier provides the
update DVD, for each point release. On the other hand, I have
absolutely no objections to your support of such service providers by
purchasing full DVD sets - I heartily encourage that of course.


So, if you wish to create your own bootable USB stick, which also
contains a full local Debian mirror, I and I'm sure others here will
be glad to assist you creating that. Being comfortable creating that
would be a very good thing for you particularly, given your
dialup-only Internet.

So, have a crack, and just ask again when/if you get stuck :)


I will.
I *DO* appreciate the advice received from this group.



Good luck,
Zenaan





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Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

[Andre Majorel]

On 2014-02-17 12:26 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:

> But for 99.9% of Linux users most of the features in X11 are
> useless

That's a pretty bold statement. Do you have a link listing all
the features of X, so we can get an idea of which of them are
used by less than 1 in 1000 Linux users ?

I hope you don't count the ability to use remote displays among
them. Because, among the people I've seen use Linux, the
proportion is way above 1 in 1000. It's closer to 1 in 2 !

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Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 09:51 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote and
"The last update" of the archive "was on 10:00 GMT Tue Feb 18." -
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/mail2.html :
> On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 11:18 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> > But Asus bios doesn't seem to have a setting to disable bios.
> 
> I suspect it's just a typo, anyway, you should disable the integrated
> graphics, not the BIOS.
>  
> It might be that your machine automatically does turn of the integrated
> graphics, if there is a graphics connected to a slot, however, the BIOS
> at least should inform about the used graphics, e.g. settings for the
> frame buffer might be shadowed, IOW not accessible when a graphics is
> inserted.
>  
> What happens if you remove the module for the integrated graphics and
> load the nvidia module at startup?
>  
> Regards,
> Ralf
>  
> PS: Try not to forget to always remove people from the "To" and "Cc"
> field. It's common only to send to the mailing lists.



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Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

[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 and the test
> result show this problem has nothing to do with a hanging service.
> 
> The first in asciibetic order is 'apache2'.

Is it?  I may be misreading you - and if so I apologize
beforehand. But I mean "ascibetically" to mean the order of the
symlink names, including the "K" bit - e.g. "K02alsa-utils". Basically the 
order of 

ls -1 /etc/rc6.d/*
 
> In my past years I came across many services that refuses to die,
> and they were killed after timed out, so normally init daemon knows
> how to kill without grace.

Hm. Fair point. Unfortunately, in my experience, a hanging init script
has halted shutdown many times for me - perhaps there's a setting
somewhere I can tweak.

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Re: video compression?

[Chris Bannister]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send
> > them by email?

Very much doubt it. How long does the video run for? What size is it?

> > I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but
> > have not had much success so far.
> > 
> I like avidemux, but handbrake might be a little easier since it's got a
> lot of presets.   You can get it in the 3rd party deb-multimedia.org
> repository.

root@tal:~# apt-cache policy handbrake
handbrake:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.9.9+dfsg-2~2.gbpa4c3e9
  Version table:
 0.9.9+dfsg-2~2.gbpa4c3e9 0
990 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
root@tal:~#

Actually, It is probably not in Wheezy.

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Has anyone got apache-websocket working?

[Philip Ashmore]

Hi there.

While looking for a web socket implementation for html5 I found this:
https://github.com/disconnect/apache-websocket

If someone got apache-websocket working on Wheezy amd64 with its example
programs using Google chrome or firefox, then I'm doing something wrong.

If not then I'd like to know when someone does, so I can give it another
try.

Any takers?

Regards,
Philip Ashmore


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