Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Hi all the listers. > > I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I installed > openbox as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and think I'll be using > it for good, so simple fast and essential as it is. As web browser, Midori > was claimed to be

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Memnon Anon
"Martin G. McCormick" writes: > Here is a short snippet from their instructions for > using pop: > >Incoming Mail Server: pop.suddenlink.net >Incoming mail port: 110 >Incoming mail port (SSL): 995 See the note on http://help.suddenlink.com/Internet/Pages/EmailandNewsServerName

Re: any Samba users?

2015-07-08 Thread Myscelus
On 07/08/2015 10:48 PM, Roger Howard wrote: > > I am beginning to suspect that I may be the only Samba user that > subscribes to this list. I have had a problem with printing that started > when I did the upgrade to Jessie. > > I would appreciate hearing from other users, and finding whether they

Debugging a LSB init script under systemd

2015-07-08 Thread Stuart Longland
Hi all, Is there any way to debug a LSB init script under systemd? I'm trying to write an init script for a service that starts multiple daemons, much like OpenVPN and how it starts a separate daemon for each connection. So I've taken the OpenVPN init script and hacked it to make it do what I wa

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: I am trying to get a debian squeeze system to pull mail from my cable provider's pop3 server. Is there a special reason you do not post your .fetchmailrc file? Or, the output of 'fetchmail --version'? And, you have given one or two looks at t

Re: Frequent Network Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-08 Thread Martin G. McCormick
bri...@aracnet.com writes: > have your tried swapping out ethernet cables ? Also, have you tried another computer on the same switch port to see if it has trouble? Have there been any changes made to your network infrastructure especially to switches your system is connected to?

Re: Frequent Network Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:27:39 +0300 David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 08 July 2015 14:53:03 claude juif wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > Please tell us more ! > > - Wireless or not ? > WIred > > - Network Manager or not ? > Yes > > - Hardware ? > On board > > - Do you have any log messages relate

Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Martin G. McCormick
I am trying to get a debian squeeze system to pull mail from my cable provider's pop3 server. It appears they are not doing anything really out of the ordinary but I obviously have something set wrong. Here is a short snippet from their instructions for using pop: Incoming Mail

Slow LTO-5 tape.

2015-07-08 Thread Paul Duncan
Hi All, We are experiencing extremely slow LTO-5 tape access. The basic info is: OS: Debian GNU Linux 7 Hardware: HP Proliant DL160G6 (with both P410 and P411 cards installed) Tape drive: Tandberg SAS LTO-5 I note that the system is using the hpsa module now. In the past (on older

Re: strange journald *.journal file permissions

2015-07-08 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/09/2015 12:17 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > FYI, I installed Jessie then upgraded to unstable. Ah, that explains it, see below: >>grep -r var/log/journal {/etc,/usr/lib}/tmpfiles.d > > /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:z /var/log/journal 2755 root systemd-journal > - - > /usr/lib/tmpfil

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Marc D Ronell wrote: > > Thanks for all of the useful feedback. Some of the constraints which > were not clear from my original post are that the venue specifically > requested that programming be included. The venue requested? The library? An action group

boot hangs when no ethernet cable is plugged in

2015-07-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On my Debian/unstable laptop, when I boot without an ethernet cable plugged in, the boot hangs for several dozens of seconds with the following message: A start job is running for ifup for eth0 I suspect that the default /etc/network/interfaces file is incorrect. It contains: allow-hotplug eth

Re: strange journald *.journal file permissions

2015-07-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-08 17:23:37 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > Are you sure you never used setfacl? Yes, I'm sure. > Because your files have ACLs > (as seen by the + sign next to the mode), but systemd-journald by > default only uses normal permissions (at least under Jessie); FYI, I installed Jessie t

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 11:18:31AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 07/08/2015 10:18 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > I am still not convinced that $350 will be a major obstacle. > > > >>> $350 so

Re: any Samba users?

2015-07-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/07/15 03:48 PM, Roger Howard wrote: I am beginning to suspect that I may be the only Samba user that subscribes to this list. I have had a problem with printing that started when I did the upgrade to Jessie. I would appreciate hearing from other users, and finding whether they have si

any Samba users?

2015-07-08 Thread Roger Howard
I am beginning to suspect that I may be the only Samba user that subscribes to this list. I have had a problem with printing that started when I did the upgrade to Jessie. I would appreciate hearing from other users, and finding whether they have similar problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ffmpeg vs. libav

2015-07-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Jul 2015 at 13:38:29 -0500, David Wright wrote: > BTW, the OP didn't say "getting stuck" but "stuck going back". > Stuck has the sense of "to fail to proceed or advance" and it > often expresses an emotion of defeat at the prospect. The OP's essential question was: Is it possible to

Re: ffmpeg vs. libav

2015-07-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nicolas George (geo...@nsup.org): > Le decadi 20 messidor, an CCXXIII, David Wright a écrit : > > > "stuck"? "back"? Why do you think using ffmpeg is going "back" or getting > > > "stuck"? > > wheezy!loyaldebianuser ~$ avconv > > > Is this flood of quotes supposed to actually answer the q

Re: Wheezy->Jessie upgrade: udev (pre)install issue

2015-07-08 Thread Matthijs van Aalten
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 08:13:18AM +0200, Wessel Nieboer wrote: > Did you fix this issue you were having? My udev is not installing properly > but the kernel is OK for me. Hi Wessel, Looking back to refresh my memory: Yes, this issue was easily fixed by following the advice in the first reply tha

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ralph Katz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2015 10:18 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: I am still not convinced that $350 will be a major obstacle. $350 sound quite a lot to me and buying a whole new computer for the sake of t

Re: ffmpeg vs. libav

2015-07-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 messidor, an CCXXIII, David Wright a écrit : > > "stuck"? "back"? Why do you think using ffmpeg is going "back" or getting > > "stuck"? > wheezy!loyaldebianuser ~$ avconv Is this flood of quotes supposed to actually answer the question? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc

Re: ffmpeg vs. libav

2015-07-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nicolas George (geo...@nsup.org): > L'octidi 18 messidor, an CCXXIII, Paul Zimmerman a écrit : > > Or are you just stuck going back to ffmpeg if you want to make content for > > players? > > "stuck"? "back"? Why do you think using ffmpeg is going "back" or getting > "stuck"? wheezy!loyal

Re: strange journald *.journal file permissions

2015-07-08 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-07-08 16:42, schrieb Vincent Lefevre: On 2015-07-07 13:35:00 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 2015-07-05 13:03, schrieb Vincent Lefevre: >Can anyone explain these strange journald permissions? > >-rw-r-x---+ 1 root root16777216 2015-07-05 12:57:55 >system.journal* >-rw-r-x--

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2015 10:18 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I am still not convinced that $350 will be a major obstacle. > >>> $350 sound quite a lot to me and buying a whole new computer for the >>> sake of this

Re: strange journald *.journal file permissions

2015-07-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-07 13:35:00 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > Am 2015-07-05 13:03, schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > >Can anyone explain these strange journald permissions? > > > >-rw-r-x---+ 1 root root16777216 2015-07-05 12:57:55 > >system.journal* > >-rw-r-x---+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 20

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: I am still not convinced that $350 will be a major obstacle. $350 sound quite a lot to me and buying a whole new computer for the sake of this seems quite wasteful as well. Probably not in Newton, MA. Probably unnecessary, but there will be plent

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gabriel Corona wrote: Hi, I am still not convinced that $350 will be a major obstacle. $350 sound quite a lot to me and buying a whole new computer for the sake of this seems quite wasteful as well. Buying a USB key of USB drive would be cheaper. Debian live [1] can install live systems on U

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-08 Thread James P. Wallen
On 07/08/2015 03:17 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:20:35 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: On 07/07/2015 08:34 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN Have you seen this? It doesn't contain anything particular to wicd, but you could use what is there to set up a

Re: Issue with udev in wheezy -> jessie upgrade

2015-07-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Wessel Am 08.07.2015 um 08:27 schrieb Wessel Nieboer: > Thanks for the help, eventually I ended up fixing it by removing the > input group... > > root@weebl:~# groupdel input > root@weebl:~# dpkg --configure udev > Setting up udev (215-17+deb8u1) ... > + update_hwdb > + udevadm hwdb --update -

Kerberos-secured NFSv4: nss_getpwnam: name '8' does not map into domain

2015-07-08 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi again, I've another annoying issue with my new Kerberos-secured NFSv4 setup. Sometimes when Exim4 writes to the mounted NFS share, it fails to set owner and permissions on the written file. Exim4 runs as local user Debian-exim:Debian-exim but tries to set owner of created files on the NFS shar

Re: Frequent Network Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-08 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 08 July 2015 14:53:03 claude juif wrote: > Hi David, > > Please tell us more ! > - Wireless or not ? WIred > - Network Manager or not ? Yes > - Hardware ? On board > - Do you have any log messages related to this problem ? Daemon.log is loaded with both eth0.IPv4 and IPv6, various

Re: [solved] Re: Kernel message: `base address not set' at boot

2015-07-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Curt writes: > On 2015-07-08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: It seems it is `0x6000': with it, the message didn't appear any more. >>> >>> What were the consequences of the message appearing (besides the message >>> appearing)? >> >> Actually, none at all. But the start off has sometimes its o

Re: pam_shield is blocking allowed networks

2015-07-08 Thread Louis Wust
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015, at 06:42, Mart van de Wege wrote: > I have set up pam_shield to allow my IP; when I test it by generating > 5 bad logins (threshold is 5 per 10m), I see pam_shield print > 'allowing from /255.255.255.255' in the logs; and yet after 5 > login attempts it blocks my ip. This is d

Re: Frequent Network Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-08 Thread claude juif
Hi David, Please tell us more ! - Wireless or not ? - Network Manager or not ? - Hardware ? - Do you have any log messages related to this problem ? Regards, 2015-07-08 14:27 GMT+02:00 David Baron : > On up-to-date 64 bit Sid. This has become a royal pain in the ... > Sometimes, every few m

Frequent Network Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-08 Thread David Baron
On up-to-date 64 bit Sid. This has become a royal pain in the ... Sometimes, every few minutes, ... has disconnected, ... has reconnected, re- enter kwallet password for the email, etc. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [solved] Re: Kernel message: `base address not set' at boot

2015-07-08 Thread Curt
On 2015-07-08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> >>> It seems it is `0x6000': with it, the message didn't appear any more. >> >> What were the consequences of the message appearing (besides the message >> appearing)? > > Actually, none at all. But the start off has sometimes its own form of > `aesthetics

Re: ffmpeg vs. libav

2015-07-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
The Wanderer: > On 07/06/2015 at 05:35 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Paul Zimmerman: >> >>> Something is not right with the libav package that is now the >>> default instead of ffmpeg. >> >> Yes, that's why Debian is going to switch back to ffmpeg: >> >> http://balintreczey.hu/blog/debian-is-prep

Re: Einträge aus der sources.list.de entfernen Versuch2

2015-07-08 Thread Frank Weißer
Hi Diana! Am 07.07.2015 um 21:51 schrieb diana.bett...@gmx.de: Hallo in die Runde, ergänzend dazu: speziell meine ich diesen Eintrag deb http://security.debian.org/ <../../dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsecurity.debian.org%2F> jessie/updates main contrib non-free in der sources.list.d. Wie b

Re: [solved] Re: Kernel message: `base address not set' at boot

2015-07-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Curt writes: > On 2015-07-07, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, I will. The file should be modesetting.conf. But how do I know >>> what the appropriate parameter for `0xaddr' will be? >>> >>> Rodolfo >> >> It seems it is `0x6000': with it, the message didn't appear any more. > > What were

Re: [solved] Re: Kernel message: `base address not set' at boot

2015-07-08 Thread Curt
On 2015-07-07, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> Thanks, I will. The file should be modesetting.conf. But how do I know what >> the appropriate parameter for `0xaddr' will be? >> >> Rodolfo > > It seems it is `0x6000': with it, the message didn't appear any more. What were the consequences of the mes

Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

2015-07-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:20:35 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: > On 07/07/2015 08:34 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN > > > > Have you seen this? It doesn't contain anything particular to > > wicd, but you could use what is there to set up a script. > > > > There are a few

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Gabriel Corona
Hi, > I am still not convinced that $350 will be a major obstacle. $350 sound quite a lot to me and buying a whole new computer for the sake of this seems quite wasteful as well. Buying a USB key of USB drive would be cheaper. Debian live [1] can install live systems on USB keys and HDDs as wel