Re: strange execute-command-as dialog pops up

2013-07-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 01 iul 13, 20:35:53, Joel Rees wrote: > > Maybe I should win the lottery so I can afford to write a decent *dm for > XFCE. There is lightdm. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debia

Re: Owner change on USB stick

2013-07-04 Thread st
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I formatted a usb stick on my desktop into two partitions, vfat and ext2 and then setup a directory structure in the Linux partition. I then moved the usb stick to my laptop and inserted files into the directories that were created. When I moved the sub stick back to

kernel: [drm] nouveau: fail ttm_validate

2013-07-04 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi >From time to time I am getting things like this in my syslog: Jul 4 22:22:28 t61whe kernel: [177451.290364] [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: fail ttm_validate Jul 4 22:22:28 t61whe kernel: [177451.290370] [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: validate vram_list Jul 4 22:22:28 t61whe kernel: [177451.29041

Re: No auto-detection of SD cards with Wheezy any more

2013-07-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013, Max Montauk wrote: > Since my Debian system has been upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy the > insertion of SD cards into the "Delock 91628 USB 2.0 CardReader 3.5 57 > in 1" is not detected any longer. Just during the boot process the > detection still works, confer the content of

Owner change on USB stick

2013-07-04 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I formatted a usb stick on my desktop into two partitions, vfat and ext2 and then setup a directory structure in the Linux partition. I then moved the usb stick to my laptop and inserted files into the directories that were created. When I moved the sub stick back to the desktop,

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

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

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-04 Thread David
On 5 July 2013 05:24, green wrote: > David wrote at 2013-07-03 06:10 -0500: >> On 3 July 2013 21:06, David wrote: >> > I did something similar using aptitude: >> >> aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!~M' >package_list >> aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) > > I use and recommend aptitude because of

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete installation of PowerP

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

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

Re: Debian machine not booting

2013-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
James Allsopp wrote: > I'd like to hear about the optimisations, but I think I'll wait till I get > the system rebuilt! Basically I had expected you to use either rescue mode of the d-i or a livecd or other to assemble the arrays. You did. But neither array came up completely correct. One came

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-04 Thread Chris Davies
Slavko wrote: > Dňa 02.07.2013 23:32 John Hasler wrote / napísal(a): >> Look at the access times. Dotfiles that have not been accessed in years >> can probably be safely removed. > Sure, but do not forget, that the "relatime" (default one) and "noatime" > mount options are going into play, then t

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 01:19:37PM -0700, Richard Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:39:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Richard Lawrence wrote: > > > Good to know, thanks. When I try this, Mutt asks me to enter my GPG > > > passphrase for every encrypted message in the folder I'm limiti

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-07-03 00:43:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 19:02:08 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > > Y'all are really taking all of the fun out of this. > > > > Here's the point - this is an exercise. There is no good reason to do > > this. What, you've got a 10 meg disk that is at 9

Re: build-essential question

2013-07-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Πρεκατές, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: > first contains (dpkg-dev,gcc,make,libc) and another one with a longer list > with smaller utilities like (bash,coreutils,grep,gzip,...) . But the build- > essential package depends on package mentiononed only in the first list. So > how will the sec

Re: Squeeze with Chrome version 28 - stable

2013-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 July 2013 19:21:41 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > When I open Chrome it always says doesn't support my system anymore... At a guess, you therefore have Squeeze. I just ignore that message. It will presumably go away when I upgrade to Wheezy. > How to solve this? Upgrade to Wheezy? I

build-essential question

2013-07-04 Thread Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος
in build-essential package there are two files /usr/share/build-essential/list /usr/share/build-essential/essential-packages-list first contains (dpkg-dev,gcc,make,libc) and another one with a longer list with smaller utilities like (bash,coreutils,grep,gzip,...) . But the build- essential p

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-04 Thread Brian
How about editing the amd64 template? On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a > customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? > > I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread Richard Lawrence
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:39:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Lawrence wrote: > > Good to know, thanks. When I try this, Mutt asks me to enter my GPG > > passphrase for every encrypted message in the folder I'm limiting, > > though! (So it's not a good option for my "sent" folder, for exam

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

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

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Rob Owens: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:48:52PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Rob Owens: >>> >>> I just verified that I can search the contents of emails in Mutt and >>> only enter my GPG passphrase once. There were multiple encrypted emails >>> in my inbox when I tested this. >> >> The prob

Squeeze with Chrome version 28 - stable

2013-07-04 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Dear Users, I wish if I could use the newest Chrome with my system. When I open Chrome it always says doesn't support my system anymore... How to solve this?

Re: Debian machine not booting

2013-07-04 Thread James Allsopp
Thanks Bob, like I say, very much appreciated and I'll let you know how it goes! I'd like to hear about the optimisations, but I think I'll wait till I get the system rebuilt! James On 4 July 2013 00:47, Bob Proulx wrote: > James Allsopp wrote: > > Thanks Bob, really can't thank you enough. Jus

No auto-detection of SD cards with Wheezy any more

2013-07-04 Thread Max Montauk
Since my Debian system has been upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy the insertion of SD cards into the "Delock 91628 USB 2.0 CardReader 3.5 57 in 1" is not detected any longer. Just during the boot process the detection still works, confer the content of /var/log/messages: Jul 2 14:33:48 max kernel:

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:48:52PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Rob Owens: > > > > I just verified that I can search the contents of emails in Mutt and > > only enter my GPG passphrase once. There were multiple encrypted emails > > in my inbox when I tested this. > > The problem is that mutt

Re: no powermanagement after dist-upgrade

2013-07-04 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 05:30:47PM +0200, vwf wrote: > After some more testing I can add two more problems: After suspend I > cannot get my USB printer (HP2200) back online This seems to be fixed: I purged cups and reinstalled it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Rob Owens: > > I just verified that I can search the contents of emails in Mutt and > only enter my GPG passphrase once. There were multiple encrypted emails > in my inbox when I tested this. The problem is that mutt's search doesn't use an index. Searching message bodies is painfully slow thi

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:18:54PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Richard Lawrence" > > > > Joey Hess writes: > > > > > > > > Typically, gpg is configured to encrypt mail to multiple > > > recipients, > > > which includes everyone the mail is sent to, as well

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/07/13 15:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/07/13 21:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 03/07/13 20:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> > > Typo corrections. Blame jetlag and just being dumb - sorry. > > You'll also need to consider backing up your custom perl stuff. Thank you, all fo

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-04 Thread Lars Noodén
On 07/04/2013 03:00 AM, Richard Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:18:54PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: >> Icedove/Thunderbird has the Enigmail extension to handle encryption. >> You might want to give that a try as well, particularly since you are >> trying to encourage others to use encryp

Re: no powermanagement after dist-upgrade

2013-07-04 Thread vwf
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 08:06:27AM +0200, vwf wrote: > Before the upgrade powermanagement worked fine: I could select > poweroff/reboot/sleep/hybernate from kdm and xfce. After some more testing I can add two more problems: After suspend I cannot get my USB printer (HP2200) back online, and I can

Re: calling in gnome active window via process number

2013-07-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
thank Erwan and alberto actually i am missing the command context such as shared by alberto and it help me alot. it work for me. Thanks, MYK On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, alberto fuentes wrote: > wmctrl -a "something in tittle of the window" > wmctrl -l #list windows > > There are several

Re: How get login history on NIS server during all months?

2013-07-04 Thread alberto fuentes
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Markos wrote: > > But I have another doubt. This log only the login at this machine. But > how to log the autentication of other machines at the NIS server? > > How keep the login history of NIS clients at only one file at NIS > server? > > Is there any way to do th

Re: How get login history on NIS server during all months?

2013-07-04 Thread Markos
Em Qua, 2013-07-03 às 20:36 +0200, alberto fuentes escreveu: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Markos wrote: > > The command "last -f /var/log/wtmp.1" shows only the month before. > > > > Is there any way to get this information? > > > Im afraid that info is lost. Unless you have more of those

Re: Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Stephen, So should I remove the unstable version of gnome-shell and gnome-common, and install the testing version? I don't want to keep getting the unstable version as I assume it will break more often. Or, does aptitude just go by version numbers, and the unstable version that I am using is now i

Re: Dovecot sieve plugin global rules

2013-07-04 Thread M.Atıf CEYLAN
On 07/04/2013 03:39 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: According tohttp://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Configuration, set sieve_user_log (it'll be ~/.dovecot.sieve.log by default). I know this but " sieve_user_log" is user log path. I want to logging everything for the global rule (info, warning and

Re: Dovecot sieve plugin global rules

2013-07-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:15:42AM +0300, M.Atıf CEYLAN wrote: > How can I write sieve log messages into the log file? According to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Configuration, set sieve_user_log (it'll be ~/.dovecot.sieve.log by default). > > Yurdum Yazılım > > "M.Atıf CEYLAN" wro

Re: simulating a large Windows domain with Samba

2013-07-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:26:31PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > For a project at work, I need to simulate a large Windows domain (100's or > 1000's of member computers). Is there an easy way to do this with Samba, > short of creating 100's or 1000's of real or virtual machines? > > The Domain co

Re: How do I pad files in Linux?

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 02:59:40 -0400 (EDT), Urs Thuermann wrote: > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=64 >> file Thanks, Urs. I haven't tried this, but it looks like this should work too. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: "Operation not permitted" error when using su

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 02:09:35 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ...logged in as root... >>su barney >>vi stuff >>Error: messages not turned on: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted > > The above is basically a normal result of the current environment. At > anothe

Re: Kernel module version from source/package without downloading?

2013-07-04 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 03.07.2013 um 18:34 schrieb Darac Marjal: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 04:05:13PM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: how can I find out the version number of a particular kernel module without downloading, without installing, without booting, from https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/gi

[Fwd: Affected by gnome-shell lockups on wheezy?]

2013-07-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
This might be of interest for some GNOME users on this mailing list. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- --- Begin Message --- Hi all, despite some workarounds added to the gnome-shell package, some users have still complained of more or less frequent deadlocks of the shell

Re: encrypted USB backup.

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Anckaert
On 02/07/13 22:53, Hendrik Boom wrote: > What is the recommended way to set up part of a USB volume as an > encrypted volume, so that I can back up those few of my files that > actually contain secrets? > > This is not a backup over the net. I have no need to encrypt the data > transmission. >