Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread hdv
On 2017-08-31 23:36, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:39:38 PM ray wrote: >> ...snip >> >> Yes, I would like to work with this. I should be able to modify the perl >> script to also save a tag file to hold the metadata. So now I have a >> reason to learn some perl. >

Re: Encrypted RAID1 for storage with Debian Stretch

2017-08-31 Thread David Christensen
On 08/31/17 06:35, commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: I don't [have a CPU with AES-NI): https://ark.intel.com/products/78867/Intel-Celeron-Processor-J1900-2M-Cache-up-to-2_42-GHz So, what would be the most efficient? I guess that encrypting one drive and having the other one blindly copying every b

Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed

2017-08-31 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/30/2017 11:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Over an hour I've been searching in vain, apparently using broken Google-fu, for something using examples to explain how to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed via pinning when apt-mark's hold is being disregarded. Anyone familiar with an UR

Re: I just installed "tomcat8" and "tomcat8-admin" on a Debian 8.9 box, via an apt-get

2017-08-31 Thread davidson
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, James H. H. Lampert wrote: I wrote: I want to put Tomcat 8.5 on the box I've spent the past week configuring. What my apt-get got me was Tomcat 8.0.14. Can I get Tomcat 8.5 via an apt-get? If so, how? On 8/30/17, 5:04 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: The apt-cache command sa

Re: Computer friendly blood pressure?

2017-08-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/29/2017 12:55 PM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-29, Terence wrote: Thanks, it is, Curt, and I hope yours is, and stays, good! I would be grateful for the link, though- I use Garmin Connect for my Fenix watch, and it would be good to check both on the same screen(s). https://github.com/LazyT/

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

2017-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Aug 2017 at 19:13:47 (+0200), Christian Seiler wrote: > Hi there, > > On 08/11/2017 06:29 PM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > On 11-08-17, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> You can also set DefaultTimeoutStopSec= in /etc/systemd/system.conf > >> to alter the default for all units (though individual se

Re: Computer friendly blood pressure?

2017-08-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/30/2017 02:33 PM, Wilko Fokken wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:44:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: For sometime I've been causally looking for a blood pressure cuff with communication capability that does NOT require a "smart" phone [be it Apple or Android]. A recent hospital stay prom

Re: Configure_GnuPG 2

2017-08-31 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 31/08/17 16:40, miz...@elude.in wrote: > unregistered user > > hello, > > i configured s2k but i would like use 25519 , i would like harden .conf > do i need add some special options ? s2k means “string to key” (the 2 is a play on words for “to” since it sounds similar). It refers to th

Re: I just installed "tomcat8" and "tomcat8-admin" on a Debian 8.9 box, via an apt-get

2017-08-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I wrote: I want to put Tomcat 8.5 on the box I've spent the past week configuring. What my apt-get got me was Tomcat 8.0.14. Can I get Tomcat 8.5 via an apt-get? If so, how? On 8/30/17, 5:04 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: The apt-cache command says that the backports repository has Tomcat 8.5.14

Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed

2017-08-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/31/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/31/17, Felix Miata wrote: >> Dejan Jocic composed on 2017-08-31 08:51 (UTC+0200): >> >>> Felix Miata wrote: >> Over an hour I've been searching in vain, apparently using broken Google-fu, for something using examples to explain how to prev

4.12 won't wake from sleep

2017-08-31 Thread Boyan Penkov
Howdy, I have installed sid's linux-image-4.12, since I wanted to experiment with the BFQ scheduler. I selected the bfq scheduler as a module at boot by following the approach laid out here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/375600/how-to-enable-and-use-the-bfq-scheduler/376136#376136 Whe

Re: lilypond workaround against lilypond-removal

2017-08-31 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
When a package is not in Debian there is also the option of compiling from source. Sometimes this is not practical, though (because it has too many dependencies which are in turn hard to build). -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you respect people. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+(become+OR

Configure_GnuPG 2

2017-08-31 Thread mizett
unregistered user hello, i configured s2k but i would like use 25519 , i would like harden .conf do i need add some special options ? thx. GnuPG 2.x has a separate gpg-agent that is the custodian o

Re: lilypond workaround against lilypond-removal

2017-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Thu 31 Aug 2017 at 20:43:34 (+0200), rrbuer...@freenet.de wrote: > My lilypond - experience and workaround-solution with debian stretch: > > I updated 2 PCs (precisely a pc and a laptop) at the beginning of July > 2017 from a zero-errors-running Jessie to a (censored by vice squad > ;-) ) Stret

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:56:44 PM ray wrote: > Thank you. This is an interesting way to store the broken system. It will > be like a junk yard that I can copy out of. > > Partitioning will be a challenge. Currently, this is laptop runs LVM. I > have two groups. The system is on one, t

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:39:38 PM ray wrote: > ...snip > > Yes, I would like to work with this. I should be able to modify the perl > script to also save a tag file to hold the metadata. So now I have a > reason to learn some perl. I'm interested as well, if you could send a copy to me.

dhcp restart with bad config

2017-08-31 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Bonno Bloksma: There is the strange fact that it seems the config is tested twice but I guess systemd will try to start a service twice before giving up. I recommend less guessing and more reading your own posts. (-: You yourself posted the very script fragment where /the script itself/ runs

Re: lilypond workaround against lilypond-removal

2017-08-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rrbuer...@freenet.de wrote: > lilypond is removed > in Stretch "because" an unsolved Guile-"Problem". Isn't this solved meanwhile ? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746005#278 30 Jan 2017 "a new Debian version of lilypond (2.18.2-7), with its own privately bundled g

Re: One-line password generator

2017-08-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:00:54PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 30 Aug 2017 at 00:59:15 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 08:50:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > 'Us'? Do not speak for all the list please. > > It is a construct; intended to involve everyone in the conversat

Re: One-line password generator

2017-08-31 Thread Fungi4All
> From: a...@cityscape.co.uk > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Wed 30 Aug 2017 at 00:59:15 +0300, Reco wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 08:50:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> "Us"? Do not speak for all the list please. > > It is a construct; intended to involve everyone in the conversation.

lilypond workaround against lilypond-removal

2017-08-31 Thread rrbuer...@freenet.de
My lilypond - experience and workaround-solution with debian stretch: I updated 2 PCs (precisely a pc and a laptop) at the beginning of July 2017 from a zero-errors-running Jessie to a (censored by vice squad ;-) ) Stretch. One of the knockouts was: I had overlooked, that lilypond is removed in S

Re: One-line password generator

2017-08-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Aug 2017 at 00:59:15 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 08:50:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: > 'Us'? Do not speak for all the list please. It is a construct; intended to involve everyone in the conversation. > Admit that you just did not read the pdf. It is not concerned with onli

Re: systemd says "org.freedesktop.systemd1.TransactionIsDestructive"

2017-08-31 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Dave Sherohman: The mention of freedesktop in one of the messages suggests that this may be somehow X/GUI related, No, it does not. That is not the only place where one finds such names. Or, rather, the mechanism that uses such names is not only used for graphical user interfaces. It is,

Re: Bcrypt hash program on Debian 8 without python-pip ?

2017-08-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, on the second try i found out that the way to avoid the need for pip is package "python-bcrypt". I asked the wrong question to apt-file on the first try. Thanks to python's help("bcrypt") i can also avoid passlib: $ python >>> import bcrypt >>> bcrypt.gensalt(16) '$2b$16$joRzQDFBqWzi

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2017-08-31 Thread arun . cirri
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Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i > texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. Thanks you for your reply. Won't dpkg refuse to install because of missing “dependencies”? -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you respect people.

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

2017-08-31 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 8/31/17, 5:16 AM, Reco wrote: $ bash -c 'cd foo; echo $?' bash: line 0: cd: foo: No such file or directory 1 To this: $ dash -c 'cd foo; echo $?' dash: 1: cd: can't cd to foo 2 Aha! That's what it was! Thanks! At any rate, changing the test script's utterly nonspecific shebang (that, I g

Bcrypt hash program on Debian 8 without python-pip ?

2017-08-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wanted to make some experiments with bcrypt's timing and it seems that i need to make a wide detour over fat python stuff. First i installed package "bcrypt" which turned out to provide an application of the original Blowfish algorithm, which is so poor that the Debian version is not allowe

Re: Selecting text

2017-08-31 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 30/08/17 22:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I now have a strange situation that on one system running Stretch + Sid > the piece of text does not turn color when selecting it. Mixing releases is one quick way to break your system. -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you respect people. https:/

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Thu 31 Aug 2017 at 17:13:52 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:36:30AM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: > > > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i > > > texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. >

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

2017-08-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 04:22:50PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > I think this depends entirely on the Release Managers and the Security > Team if they allow new upstream versions to fix security bugs instead > of backporting the fixes to the original version in a release. > > Until now IIRC only Fir

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-31, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: >> One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i=20 >> texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. > > Thanks you for your reply. > > Won't dpkg refuse to install because of missing dependencies? d

Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed

2017-08-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/31/17, Felix Miata wrote: > Dejan Jocic composed on 2017-08-31 08:51 (UTC+0200): > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> Over an hour I've been searching in vain, apparently using broken >>> Google-fu, for >>> something using examples to explain how to prevent unwanted package(s) >>> from >>> being ins

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

2017-08-31 Thread Sven Hartge
The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-08-11 at 07:18, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Robert Menes wrote: >>> Is there a reason why virtualbox hasn't migrated into stretch or >>> buster yet? >> >> Short Answer: Because of Oracle. >> >> Longer Answer: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:36:30AM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: > > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i > > texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. > > Thanks you for your reply. > > Won't dpkg refuse to insta

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

2017-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-11 at 07:18, Sven Hartge wrote: > Robert Menes wrote: > >> Is there a reason why virtualbox hasn't migrated into stretch or >> buster yet? > > Short Answer: Because of Oracle. > > Longer Answer: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466 > > Summary: Virtualbox wil

Re: Encrypted RAID1 for storage with Debian Stretch

2017-08-31 Thread commentsabout
Hello, Thank you for your answer. On 2017-08-31 03:56, David Christensen wrote: > On 08/30/17 04:28, commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > ... >> Here is a picture of what I'm trying to achieve: >> https://imgur.com/a/DAM8D (the "Today" column). >> >> I am trying to build a home backup system. The sy

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Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

2017-08-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:03:51AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:52:28AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > > James H. H. Lampert: > > > > > Could it be that |cron| is running it an entirely different shell, that > > > doesn't understand the |if| stat

Re: Weird shell script behavior in a cron job

2017-08-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:52:28AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > James H. H. Lampert: > > > Could it be that |cron| is running it an entirely different shell, that > > doesn't understand the |if| statement? > > > Despite what others have said, the answer to this question is no. Whils

Re: Selecting text

2017-08-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:12:09PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I usually select pieces of text on the screen running X with the mouse by pointing to it and then dragging to where the end is. The piece will turn blue. Then cntrl+c will copy the piece to the clipboard and cntrl+v will pas

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2017-08-31 04:39, ray wrote: > On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 6:50:06 AM UTC-5, hdv@gmail wrote: >> On 2017-08-26 05:14, ray wrote: >>> I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. >>> ...snip >> Hi Ray, >> >> I just returned from a short holiday, so I am a bit late

systemd says "org.freedesktop.systemd1.TransactionIsDestructive"

2017-08-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
Since being upgraded from jessie to stretch, several of my machines have started emitting the following messages while processing cron.daily: (in /var/log/syslog) Aug 31 06:30:48 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction is destructive. (in /var/log/auth.l

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-30, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > > Hello. > > I want to install some fonts to use in LaTeX that seem to be available > only in the texive-fonts-extra package. The problem, is that >texive-fonts-extra depends on a lot of fonts packages t hat I do not >want. Is there a way to install

Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed

2017-08-31 Thread Felix Miata
Dejan Jocic composed on 2017-08-31 08:51 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Over an hour I've been searching in vain, apparently using broken Google-fu, >> for >> something using examples to explain how to prevent unwanted package(s) from >> being installed via pinning when apt-mark's hold is b

Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed

2017-08-31 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 31-08-17, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 31-08-17, Felix Miata wrote: > > Over an hour I've been searching in vain, apparently using broken > > Google-fu, for > > something using examples to explain how to prevent unwanted package(s) from > > being installed via pinning when apt-mark's hold is being d