Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-27 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Gah no seriously got has nothing to do with your disk size it is just Far far more flexible with partition layouts. Extended partition slices are IMHO a horrible hack. Got hasn't got the 4 primary partitions limits of msdos labels and is just more flexible. I wasn't suggesting uefi which is a slig

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Chris Angelico writes: > >> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>> Well, I don't want to keep two separate files (that's what I'm trying to >>> get away from). It seems like the overlay filesystem would be a bit >>> clea

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-27 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Chris Angelico writes: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Well, I don't want to keep two separate files (that's what I'm trying to >> get away from). It seems like the overlay filesystem would be a bit >> cleaner if it can work, but symbolic links elsewhere would be my se

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Catalin Soare wrote: > In one of my computers I have 2 HDDs. One of them is a 250 GB drive > (debian) and the other is a 300 GB (data). > > I've decided to give one of them to my parents because the one they > have right now makes some strange noises. So I've backed up and >

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/05/14 14:16, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running jessie > > Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and It > works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me think I'm > doing something wrong. > > Here is a typical example > > mailx -v re...@location.com > Subj

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:47:09PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Jonathan Dowland writes: > > > Hi, > > > > This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a time!) > > The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, rather than > > Exim's: > > > > https://wiki.deb

about heirloom mailx

2014-05-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Running jessie Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and It works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me think I'm doing something wrong. Here is a typical example mailx -v re...@location.com Subject: what ever ble bleh . And away it goes and ou

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: [...] >> The exim4 FAQ tells of a way to put the load on fetchmail and diddle >> around with its config, but also says one might change it in exim4 but >> is not clear about where this change is made. > > I put it right at the start of "MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS". Haa... and as

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 26 May 2014 at 05:48:53 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I've tried adding this line: >> >> smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=300 > > I use > >smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=0 > > with the split-file configuration but testing with your setup does not > cause any failu

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Dowland writes: > Hi, > > This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a time!) > The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, rather than > Exim's: > > https://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#Exim_stops_delivery_after_ten_messages_are_received Tha

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-27 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
When I say - will only work with an msdos disklabel, I meant will only work for msdos disklabels IF you have free primary parition slots. GPT doesn't have this issue and if you can boot GPT labeled disks you should go with this. On 28 May 2014 12:22, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > You can do this s

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-27 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
You can do this several ways. Way 1) Filesystem level copy + grub install. a)Use a rescue or minimal live boot environment, partition your new disk as you like; complete the minimal install. b)Drop to a shell in the live environment, and mount the new root and fstab layout under a tmp target mou

Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-27 Thread Catalin Soare
Hello, In one of my computers I have 2 HDDs. One of them is a 250 GB drive (debian) and the other is a 300 GB (data). I've decided to give one of them to my parents because the one they have right now makes some strange noises. So I've backed up and cleaned up the drive, and as we speak I am clon

OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 1000105f, you have 10001080

2014-05-27 Thread S Scharf
I am running Testing (on multiple machines). On only one of them I am now getting the error message in my subject line above. All of the online descriptions seem to show this to be a mismatch between the SSH and SSL packages. But all of my machines seem to have the same packages installed and are

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Joe wrote: > This package is relatively recent, and when I needed to address this > problem, I had just built a Linux-From-Scratch system, so I took their > init script skeleton and made a pseudo-daemon, entering a set of > iptables commands at boot. This is an alt

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-27 Thread Joe
On Tue, 27 May 2014 18:24:41 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello list. > > I am trying to build a virtual network exposing servers accessible > from the LAN. > I have done a lot of searches on the web and it worked last week, but > since then, I have restarted my computer and had

Re: Forcing question to be asked while presseeding

2014-05-27 Thread Brian
On Tue 27 May 2014 at 08:19:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide > Appendix B. Automating the installation using preseeding > B.5.2. Using preseeding to change default values >AND > B.2.2. Using boot parameters to preseed quest

RE: Delivery reports about your e-mail

2014-05-27 Thread Paul Mulderig
I assumed this would not be a good e-mail to open? -Original Message- From: debian-user@lists.debian.org [mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 2:42 PM To: Paul Mulderig Subject: Delivery reports about your e-mail The original message was received at Wed, 28

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Well, I don't want to keep two separate files (that's what I'm trying to > get away from). It seems like the overlay filesystem would be a bit > cleaner if it can work, but symbolic links elsewhere would be my second > choice. > As a variant

[REPOST] Forcing question to be asked while presseeding

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide Appendix B. Automating the installation using preseeding B.5.2. Using preseeding to change default values AND B.2.2. Using boot parameters to preseed questions suggest that I should be able to accomplish my goal. I need some

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 26 mai 14, 08:51:54, Richard Owlett wrote: I had found "somewhere" a description of installing Grub2 to its own partition - I've mislaid the link. The general sequence was: 1. Do a fairly typical install of Squeeze(6.0.5) to primary partition sda1 allowing

[REPOST] Re: Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 26 mai 14, 08:51:54, Richard Owlett wrote: I had found "somewhere" a description of installing Grub2 to its own partition - I've mislaid the link. The general sequence was: 1. Do a fairly typical install of Squeeze(6.0.5) to primary partition sda1 allowin

Forcing question to be asked while presseeding

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide Appendix B. Automating the installation using preseeding B.5.2. Using preseeding to change default values AND B.2.2. Using boot parameters to preseed questions suggest that I should be able to accomplish my goal. I need some

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-27 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Steve Litt writes: > On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:27:56 +0530 > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >> Joe Pfeiffer writes: >> >> > First, here's what I'm trying to do: >> > >> > I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm >> > successfully mounting it automatically using pam_mount when

Re: Ezoic and debianhelp.co.uk

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Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, May 27 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "Note that when building a headers package you must run the entire > make-kpkg command under fakeroot: you can't use the --rootcmd fakeroot > option in this case." - > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg2.html Is that accurate? -

Re: How to get along without an MTA: Was: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Brian
On Tue 27 May 2014 at 13:53:47 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:41:50 +0100 > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a > > time!) The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, > > rather than

How to get along without an MTA: Was: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:41:50 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Hi, > > This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a > time!) The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, > rather than Exim's: > > https://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#Exim_stops_delivery_

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 26 May 2014 at 05:48:53 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've tried adding this line: > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=300 I use smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=0 with the split-file configuration but testing with your setup does not cause any failure when exim4 is reloaded or rest

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Reco
On Tue, 27 May 2014 18:09:56 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > In Germany we are aware that the NSA does absolutely control German Internet > nodes. And most American large enterprises are using SAP ERP (R/3), which is made by Germany-based enterprise :) See - control works both ways. Reco -- To

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi, This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a time!) The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, rather than Exim's: https://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#Exim_stops_delivery_after_ten_messages_are_received -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-27 Thread berenger . morel
Hello list. I am trying to build a virtual network exposing servers accessible from the LAN. I have done a lot of searches on the web and it worked last week, but since then, I have restarted my computer and had the nice surprise to learn that the iptables command does not save it's configurat

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:54 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Ok it seems that nobody is feeling really threaten by the NSA That's something completely different. In Germany we are aware that the NSA does absolutely control German Internet nodes. The German Internet is not German, it's American. Not

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread David Guntner
Ralf, please take this to OFF TOPIC. Thanks. Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: >> Ahoj, >> >> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce >> napísal: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread steef
On 27-05-14 15:13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce napísal: Hi, Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would like to have your advice on that article : http://igurublog.wordp

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 05/27/2014 05:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > >On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > >>Ahoj, > > >> > > >>Dňa Tue, 27 M

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > >> Ahoj, > > >> > > >> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce > > >>

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > >> Ahoj, > >> > >> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce > >> napísal: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Maybe I missed the thread : I was

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: >> Ahoj, >> >> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce >> napísal: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:27:56 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer writes: > > > First, here's what I'm trying to do: > > > > I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm > > successfully mounting it automatically using pam_mount when I log > > in. > > > > My email i

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce > napísal: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would > > like to have your advice on that article : > > > > http://igurublog.wordpress.com/

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce napísal: > Hi, > > Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would > like to have your advice on that article : > > http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/julian-assange-debian-is-owned-by-the-nsa/ From end of the

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Tamer Higazi
Wrong thread people! Look for a mailinglist where "politics, Unidentified Flying Objects, world theories" are subject. This is the DEBIAN LINUX Mailinglist OMG! Thank you Am 27.05.2014 16:21, schrieb Diogene Laerce: > Hi, > > Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 09:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > The title of the blog tells you all you need to know. JFTR the article includes a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owned. Anyway, I already at the beginning of the Julian Assange affair got the impression, that Julian Assange isn't worki

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread John Hasler
The title of the blog tells you all you need to know. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87mwe3p9mb.

Re: Error message: Possible missing firmware during linux-image upgrade

2014-05-27 Thread Reco
On Tue, 27 May 2014 10:06:07 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > lscpi, dmidecode, hwinfo. > > typo: that should be 'lspci' My mistake. > > First one comes out of the box in Debian. > > For usual values of "out of the box" (i.e. it's in Standard, which can > be deselected during installation).

Assange and NSA

2014-05-27 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi, Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would like to have your advice on that article : http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/julian-assange-debian-is-owned-by-the-nsa/ Thank you -- “One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.” “Le vrai n'est pas p

Re: Installing Thunderbird

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Running Debian testing [Jessie] 64 bit system, and a POP3 email system. > I have to ask the obvious question: Why are you unable to use IMAP? The normal way to share your mailstore between multiple clients would be to leave everything

Re: Installing Thunderbird

2014-05-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 05/26/2014 04:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 26 May 2014 21:09:50 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The object is to be able to close Thunderbird, leave the computer on, and read my email via webmail w/o any extra manipulations. Yes, but is not usual for Icedove to run in the background all

Re: 'Authentication is required' while mounting drives in any Window Manager

2014-05-27 Thread Brian
On Tue 27 May 2014 at 14:16:04 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 13:10:31 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque > napísal: > > > Using different WMs and FMs didn't make any difference for me. I used > > i3, Awesome, Openbox WMs while using Nautilus, Thunar FMs. Nautilus > > in GNOME and Thunar in X

Re: 'Authentication is required' while mounting drives in any Window Manager

2014-05-27 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 13:10:31 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque napísal: > Using different WMs and FMs didn't make any difference for me. I used > i3, Awesome, Openbox WMs while using Nautilus, Thunar FMs. Nautilus > in GNOME and Thunar in Xfce work perfectly. But cannot mount drives > while using

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
"Note that when building a headers package you must run the entire make-kpkg command under fakeroot: you can't use the --rootcmd fakeroot option in this case." - https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg2.html So I'm 50% mistaken and 50% right ;). I anyway need to run my scripts as root

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:20:01AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 05/27/2014 11:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>>On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: > >fakeroot > >>> > >>>... regarding to some claims on

Re: Error message: Possible missing firmware during linux-image upgrade

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:05:34PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > I happen to have Realtek RTL8111/8168B Gigabit card which works > > flawlessly with any Debian kernel starting with Squeeze's backported > > 3.1. > > How does one find out if the Realtek Gigabit card is 8168B, 8168A, > 8168E?

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 05/27/2014 11:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: > >fakeroot > >... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when >building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rt

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: > > fakeroot > > ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when > building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root. It's a good idea to recommend best

Re: Re: 'Authentication is required' while mounting drives in any Window Manager

2014-05-27 Thread Muntasim Ul Haque
Using different WMs and FMs didn't make any difference for me. I used i3, Awesome, Openbox WMs while using Nautilus, Thunar FMs. Nautilus in GNOME and Thunar in Xfce work perfectly. But cannot mount drives while using these FMs in WMs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Can't force unmount device

2014-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 26 mai 14, 10:15:40, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Also updatedb never seems to index the NSF-mounted files. There are also other indexers. KDE had one, but I forgot the name. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and

Re: Error message: Possible missing firmware during linux-image upgrade

2014-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 mai 14, 09:25:04, Reco wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2014 18:05:34 -0700 (PDT) > Horatio Leragon wrote: > > > How does one find out if the Realtek Gigabit card is 8168B, 8168A, > > 8168E? > > lscpi, dmidecode, hwinfo. typo: that should be 'lspci' > First one comes out of the box in D