Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:52:36AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I change between two internet connections from time to time. > > I use /etc/network/interfaces ("/e/n/i") > > When I modify /e/n/i , I then run a little "reset" script, like so: >

Re: ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 11:52:36 (+1000), Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I change between two internet connections from time to time. > > I use /etc/network/interfaces ("/e/n/i") > > When I modify /e/n/i , I then run a little "reset" script, like so: > > dev=eth0 > ifdown $dev > ifconfig $dev down >

ifconfig/ ifupdown/ ip -

2018-07-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
So I change between two internet connections from time to time. I use /etc/network/interfaces ("/e/n/i") When I modify /e/n/i , I then run a little "reset" script, like so: dev=eth0 ifdown $dev ifconfig $dev down ifup $dev Here and there I've had problems. Recently I discovered the ip command.

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 09/07/18 12:55, Long Wind wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 May 15 20:52 /etc/resolv.conf i can't remove file above, the story behind it: dns servers are usually provided by isp but they can't be used with vpn so vpn provider told me to make a special resolv.conf which contains dns servers not

Re: how to remove a file and change dns server

2018-07-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 12:55:21AM +, Long Wind wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 May 15 20:52 /etc/resolv.conf > >i can't remove file above, the story behind it: >dns servers are usually provided by isp >but they can't be used with vpn >so vpn provider told me to make a spec

Re: debian-installer: call to update translations - looking for new translators

2018-07-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > [ Sorry for cross-posting ] > > > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to get translations updated for our debian-installer for > Buster. > For several languages the translation has some work to do, and there is no > translator active for those languages (or they really ne

Re: viewing font samples

2018-07-08 Thread Siard
Felix Miata: > I thought there was, and was hoping for, one much like Windows had > 20 years ago (and still had last I looked). > > http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-lsansi.gif > > Any idea if exists FOSS clone of it? Oh, but that's the style of gnome-font-viewer as well as kfontview.

Re: viewing font samples

2018-07-08 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2018-07-07 20:40 (UTC-0500): > On Sat 07 Jul 2018 at 21:22:02 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> Can anyone name a freedesktop utility that produces font samples such as >> those >> seen on https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fonts-crosextra-caladea or >> similar? I know

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 18:18, HP Garcia wrote: Can anyone recommend an email client that can handle PGP? I'm currently using Claws-Mail 3.14.1 Thanks in advance roundcube with enigma plugin dunno if it is working mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31 0x4BFEBB31.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.a

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-07-08 14:42:54, Jude DaShiell wrote: If you can live with the configuration mutt or neomutt can fill the bill. I can never truly recommend mutt to people who aren't used to terminal apps. That said, it's a great piece of software and the PGP handling in particular is really nice with

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018, HP Garcia wrote: > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 13:18:25 > From: HP Garcia > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: PGP Email Client > Resent-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 17:18:45 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Can anyone recommend an email client that can

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginn

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 10:18:25 -0700, HP Garcia wrote: >Can anyone recommend an email client that can handle PGP? I'm currently >using Claws-Mail 3.14.1 > Why not Claws-Mail? With the correct plugins (claws-mail-pgpinline or claws-mail-pgpmime) that should be packaged in Debian it handles pgp just f

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same pr

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 10:18:25 -0700 HP Garcia wrote: Hello HP, >Can anyone recommend an email client that can handle PGP? I'm currently >using Claws-Mail 3.14.1 CM; Install the relevant plugin(s) and you're ready. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-08 Thread Dave
On 7/8/18 12:17 PM, John Darrah wrote: On 7/7/2018 6:51 AM, Dave wrote: I wanted to know if this hibernation / waking issue can be solved by using more compatable motherboards, hardware, ect ... or is this issue prevelant regardless of the hardware and bios being used ? Hibernation issue

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread john doe
On 7/8/2018 7:18 PM, HP Garcia wrote: Can anyone recommend an email client that can handle PGP? I'm currently using Claws-Mail 3.14.1 https://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=gpg Thunderbird with enigmail. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-encrypting-messages -

Re: viewing font samples

2018-07-08 Thread Siard
Op Sat, 7 Jul 2018 21:22:02 -0400 schreef Felix Miata: > Can anyone name a freedesktop utility that produces font samples > such as those seen on > https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fonts-crosextra-caladea > or similar? I know one exists, but can't remember its name, or > figure out how to fin

PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread HP Garcia
Can anyone recommend an email client that can handle PGP? I'm currently using Claws-Mail 3.14.1 Thanks in advance -- HP Garcia KM6JBI www.HPGPhotography.com

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread john doe
On 7/8/2018 6:53 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same pro

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
mick crane writes: > On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently >> failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the >> beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when >> trying to

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-08 Thread John Darrah
On 7/8/2018 7:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Until this thread I didn't have concept of "stream editor", much less the existence of "sed". I had heard of "AWK", but had an image of it being a regex parser. Awk is easy to learn because it is a minimal language. It can do anything sed can do and

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-08 Thread John Darrah
On 7/7/2018 6:51 AM, Dave wrote: I wanted to know if this hibernation / waking issue can be solved by using more compatable motherboards, hardware, ect ... or is this issue prevelant regardless of the hardware and bios being used ? Hibernation issues are almost always an issue with the BIOS/

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when trying to install mediawiki from source,

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 13:47, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a separate /home directory. Short answer -- no. I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable. The installer defaults {I assume for cause} t

Re: viewing font samples

2018-07-08 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-08, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Debian package "gwaterfall" > "Times" fonts look the most terrible while quickly toggling through my list. Playing with "Hinting" "Autohinting" "Anti-aliasing" "Subpixel Smoothing" seems to have little or no effect. An eventual impression of losing my

Re: Gimp broken in Debian Sid?

2018-07-08 Thread Thierry Rascle
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 10:37:10 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > I would use ltrace to see where it is hanging: > > ltrace -tt -n4 -S gimp > > You will need to install ltrace and likely the debug packages for > wherever it is hanging. ltrace -tt -n4 -S /usr/bin/gimp outputs a lot lines and the l

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/6/18, ntrfug wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a >> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no. >> >> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable. >> The installer defaults {I assume fo

Re: Gimp broken in Debian Sid?

2018-07-08 Thread Thierry Rascle
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 18:04:31 +0200 Thierry Rascle wrote: > I've tried purging Gimp and some dependencies, and then reinstalling > Gimp but it still doesn't work: > > apt-get purge ufraw gimp gimp-data gimp-ufraw libgimp2.0 \ > libgimp2.0-dev libgimp2.0-doc > > apt-get autoremove

Re: viewing font samples

2018-07-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/7/18, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 08/07/18 13:22, Felix Miata wrote: >> Can anyone name a freedesktop utility that produces font samples such as >> those >> seen on https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fonts-crosextra-caladea or >> similar? I know one exists, but can't remember its name,

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/08/2018 08:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] In some threads I'm chided for lack of details. In this and other threads I lose for giving too many. Y'all will have admit that I did say "Subject line is poorly phrased." Having read the responses, my subject line my not be all that bad. A

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/08/2018 06:18 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:39:07AM +0200, john doe wrote: The issue here is that we don't know what the OP wants A situation sadly familiar when dealing with this particular poster's threads. Also in the general case, if you ever find yourself

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a separate /home directory. Short answer -- no. I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable. The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on one partition/dire

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-08 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 04:16:19PM -0400, Dave wrote: > > > On 7/7/18 11:24 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 09:45:25AM -0400, Dave wrote: > > > I wanted to know if this hibernation / waking issue can be solved by using > > > more compatable motherboards, hardware, ect ... or is

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:39:07AM +0200, john doe wrote: > The issue here is that we don't know what the OP wants A situation sadly familiar when dealing with this particular poster's threads. Also in the general case, if you ever find yourself parsing the output of "ls", you will probab

Eureka;/ Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/07/2018 08:33 PM, David Wright wrote: On 07/06/18 09:17, Richard Owlett wrote: Subject line is poorly phrased. While working on a problem {solved by a different approach} I had:     ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ | cut -f 10,12 -d ' ' > data.txt I would then manually edit data.txt by replaci

unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh install so I think