Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Lars Nooden
On 04/23/2013 09:12 PM, Mark Weyer wrote: 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 th

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:43 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > If you have any suggestions, I'll consider them. I have no dying loyalty to > Yahoo. Stay with Yahoo, but use an MUA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:08 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. Xfce4 has got to many GNOME dependencies. I'm using it since years, but I don't like it, I just couldn't find a good DE until now. Things for Xfce4 are as often broken, as they are for GNOME, assumed

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Are you *really* forced into using yahoo, it really is horrible (not > sure which is worse hotmail or yahoo.) for communicating on mailing > lists. Info: You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address I'm using rig

Indonesia Company Audit Report

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Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Anthony Serio
Why don't you try installing MATE? There is a MATE repo available for Wheezy: 'deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main' Just be sure to apt-get install the mate-archive-keyring package. I'm not sure if you've heard of MATE or not, but basically it's a fork of Gnome 2 develo

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Chris Bannister >  > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>  >> > From: Anthony Campbell >> >  >> > [snip] >> >> >> > >> > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes > which >> > make them annoying to read on a text-

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: cletusjenkins >  > I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the > nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of > gnome. > I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100 android > tablet instead of a p

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2013-04-24 00:24:16 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2013-04-23 23:05:27 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: >> > Here is what I get: >> > , >> > | > ssh -t root@192.168.2.109 bash >> > | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. >> > ` >> >> So, it seems t

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread David Christensen
On 04/23/13 19:08, cletusjenkins wrote: > I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of gnome. ... > I installed several other desktops... > xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. My newest

Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread cletusjenkins
I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of gnome. I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100 android tablet instead of a powerful computer. I can't customize anyt

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:20:02 +0200 Chris Bannister wrote: > When I had shorewall running the console was flooded with messages about > access attempts. I like shorewall, lots of separate configurable files, or if you're lazy just run it configured by way of example files that come with it. Sho

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-24 00:24:16 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-04-23 23:05:27 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > > Here is what I get: > > , > > | > ssh -t root@192.168.2.109 bash > > | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. > > ` > > So, it seems that the problem comes from the "-t". Perhaps it ca

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12:44PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: > > 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

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > From: Anthony Campbell > >  > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > >> > > >> >>> [snip] > >> > >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-23 23:05:27 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > > On 2013-04-22 22:49:23 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > >> thanks for that. Here is what I get: > >> , > >> | + '[' -z '' ']' > >> | + return > >> | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. > >> ` > > > > You said e

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file > downloading. > Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. > I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking > for permission. > The response t

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Brad Alexander
That's really odd. I know that there used to be warnings about ext4 years ago, but I don't recall seeing them as far back as the squeeze release. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > > That is interesting. I have a simi

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 15:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) > Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Snip >> >> Hope the problem is solvable from your end. >> >> > > Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. > > -- cmg > > Seems like overkill. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign -

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:12:44 +0200 Mark Weyer wrote: > > The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list > installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy > dependencies. > aptitude search '~i!~M' -- EMACS is my operating system; Linux is my device driv

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 17:11, staticsafe wrote: > On 4/23/2013 17:12, Mark Weyer wrote: >> >> 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

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
Hi Mark, the following should work, listing only the manually installed packages. aptitude search '?installed?not(?automatic)' -F %p | sed 's/ //g' On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Mark Weyer wrote: > > The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed > packages exc

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 17:12, Mark Weyer wrote: > > 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 li

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2013-04-22 22:49:23 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: >> thanks for that. Here is what I get: >> , >> | + '[' -z '' ']' >> | + return >> | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. >> ` > > You said earlier: > >> (I can, for instance, run a crippled bash with 'ssh root@19

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Guido Martínez writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Andreas Leha > wrote: >> thanks for that. Here is what I get: >> , >> | + '[' -z '' ']' >> | + return >> | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. >> ` >> I guess that means, that "PS1" is unset in this case? > > Looks like i

How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Weyer
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, where in /etc (or whereever) is the inf

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> Snip > > Hope the problem is solvable from your end. > > Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. -- cmg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header.  I can

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:37 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > With almost everything these days graphic and web-based, smartphone > and tablet, the days of pure ASCII e-mail are gone for the most part. No, the experiment "HTML email" miserably failed, that's why more and more people switch to plain t

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: > > /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot > > With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built > (rebuilt) this machine

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Anthony Campbell >  > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. >> > >> >>> [snip] >> >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > reply header.  I cannot have my own custom reply header,

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Richard Owlett: > Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> Also, I had to do a double take to work out which bit was a question, rather >> than a statement. I think that he is asking us to recommend some reading >> matter. >> > > I intended the subject line to convey request for reading material. Hrmmh, it app

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Brad Alexander
That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built (rebuilt) this machine a couple of years ago, and have never had an issue...To include

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where your > kernel resides. > > I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the error > message: initrd.img corrupt. My EEEPC has got an ssd inside and /usr

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 17:32:34 Richard Owlett wrote: > I couldn't ask a specific question as I don't know anything > about it in the Linux world. The problem is, if you don't ask a specific question, we cannot give a specific answer. The result of what you did "ask" is that you have had quite

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 23 April 2013 15:43:23 Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file downloading. Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. I want all programs to access the i

Openvpn frontend

2013-04-23 Thread Erwan David
Hi, I am looking for an openvpn frontend (under KDE) which 1) imports a client config file without removing any part (that's not the case of network manager) 2) Does not need to use root password, root graphical conficuration (that removes kvpnc). DO someone have an idea ? Thank you. -- To

Re: a problem with CUPS

2013-04-23 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/2013 10:27 AM, Paul Condon wrote: > I have a rather complicated CUPS printing setup, which works, mostly, > but not entirely: > > My printer is an old HP 5MP, laser printer, which I purchased before HP > invented the word "laserjet" because I

Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where your kernel resides. I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the error message: initrd.img corrupt. My EEEPC has got an ssd inside and /usr, /home and /var are encrypted partitions. It took me hours a

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/23/2013 11:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file downloading. Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. I want all programs to access the interne

Re: a problem with CUPS

2013-04-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Paul Condon [130423 14:30]: ... > My problem is that CUPS software does not handle .pdf files easily. > If I try to print file, zyx.pdf, by typing "lpr zyx.pdf" , the > command is accepted, the light > flashes on the printer and after a while a piece of paper comes out > of the printer ... but

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file > downloading. > Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. > I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking > for permission. > The response t

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Richard Owlett: > > Apologies, I've just been chastised by relatives and friends for > going in the other direction. Never mind. > I was trying to make clear I want only minimal connectivity. > As to the per program feature, I want to prevent an app from > deciding to update on its schedule not

Re: a problem with CUPS

2013-04-23 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/23/2013 10:27 AM, Paul Condon wrote: I have a rather complicated CUPS printing setup, which works, mostly, but not entirely: My printer is an old HP 5MP, laser printer, which I purchased before HP invented the word "laserjet" because I was committed to Macintosh back then and the HP 5MP of

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 16:06:18 Richard Owlett wrote: > I want to prevent an app from > deciding to update on its schedule not mine. I don't have any applications set to update automatically. That is the simple solution to that problem! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 15:43:23 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file > > downloading. > > Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. > > I want all programs to access the inter

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Richard Owlett: > > I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file > downloading. > Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. > I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking > for permission. > The response to the request may be: >No >Always YES

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Owlett
Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file downloading. Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking for permission. The r

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file > downloading. > Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. > I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking > for permission. > The response t

Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Owlett
I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file downloading. Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking for permission. The response to the request may be: No Always YES Ask each occurrence --

a problem with CUPS

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Condon
I have a rather complicated CUPS printing setup, which works, mostly, but not entirely: My printer is an old HP 5MP, laser printer, which I purchased before HP invented the word "laserjet" because I was committed to Macintosh back then and the HP 5MP offered both parallel port and Apple Talk i

Re: [Debian installer] Problem with umounting hd-media

2013-04-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Apr 2013 at 10:58:16 +0200, Julien Groselle wrote: > We are installing some Debian wheezy on tests servers and we are assuming > some issues : > One of them are really annoying : > - We install the system with USB flash drive. Using a methods from either Section 4.3.2. or Section 4.3.3.

PureFTPd

2013-04-23 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I've a pureFTPD install that I need to increase the quota and max size of one file on. How can I go about doing that? Thanks, James

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2013-04-23 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Bob, Guido, and Vincent Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2013-04-22 22:49:23 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: >> thanks for that. Here is what I get: >> , >> | + '[' -z '' ']' >> | + return >> | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. >> ` > > You said earlier: > >> (I can, for instance, run a cri

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which > > make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. > > Strange. I also use Mutt (with various patches) and I don't see any > problem with Patrick's mail. > Inte

Re: rootfs

2013-04-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. April 2013 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: > > > Don't believe opinion as fact just because it's on a server hosted > > > by freedesktop.org. Rusty Russel and the FHS is a more > > > authoritative (and correct) source, I suggest you read it. > > > > I never split up / and /usr for the last

[Debian installer] Problem with umounting hd-media

2013-04-23 Thread Julien Groselle
Hello debian users, We are installing some Debian wheezy on tests servers and we are assuming some issues : One of them are really annoying : - We install the system with USB flash drive. - After booting on it, the USB stick is mounted on /hd-media/ - The .iso image situated in hd-media is loop mo

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-23 07:57:11 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header.  I cannot have my

automounting /dev/mqueue

2013-04-23 Thread Digby Tarvin
I am making some use of posix messages queues, and in order to interactively view/manipulate these queues on my Debian squeeze system it is necessary, as described in mq_overview(7), in to manually: mkdir /dev/mqueue mount -t mqueue none /dev/mqueue after each boot I am looking for the best w

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 06:26:45PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > You can then apt-get update again and then update as normal. To clear the > database you may also try "dpkg --clear-avail", then do a new "apt-get > update". Will that work? AFAIR, dpkg only knows about locally installed packa