Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-28 Thread andreimpopescu
On Sb, 08 iun 19, 10:22:54, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 11:04:54AM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > I count 182 systemd related manual pages on my Sid machine. > > Fortunately, among the lot, there is : > > > > systemd.index (7)- List all manpages from the systemd pr

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-28 Thread andreimpopescu
On Vi, 28 iun 19, 11:26:43, Dennis Wicks wrote: > andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM: > > On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > > > > How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on > > > with the boot process? > > > > You could start by att

Re: how to use systemd to delete old files and directories on stretch?

2019-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-06-28 17:33 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > My reading of the man page for tmpfiles.d suggests that if I edit the file > /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf so that it contains the line: > > d /tmp 1777 root root 35d You probably want to use 'D' rather than 'd' to ensure that /tmp is completely emptied

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

2019-06-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-06-23 at 13:32, Teemu Likonen wrote: > The Wanderer [2019-06-23 11:46:34-04:00] wrote: > >> On 2019-06-23 at 11:23, Teemu Likonen wrote: >>> If you add line "auto-key-retrieve" to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf >>> then GnuPG will automatically try to retrieve keys from >>> keyservers when you ve

Re: FossaMail

2019-06-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Does anyone out there have a copy of FossaMail  they would be willing to share.  I had a catastrophic failure of Stretch, had to reinstall and can't find my copy of FossaMail. Many thanks in advance. I just asked for the rpm--then I found a copy. I don't know how

Re: FossaMail

2019-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
On 6/28/19 7:06 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Does anyone out there have a copy of FossaMail  they would be willing to share.  I had a catastrophic failure of Stretch, had to reinstall and can't find my copy of FossaMail. Many thanks in advance. Have you looked here? ftp://archive.palemoon.o

how to use systemd to delete old files and directories on stretch?

2019-06-28 Thread D. R. Evans
My reading of the man page for tmpfiles.d suggests that if I edit the file /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf so that it contains the line: d /tmp 1777 root root 35d then files in /tmp will be deleted after 35 days. However, that isn't happening; I see for example: drwxr-xr-x 18 n7dr n7dr4096 Ma

FossaMail

2019-06-28 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Does anyone out there have a copy of FossaMail they would be willing to share. I had a catastrophic failure of Stretch, had to reinstall and can't find my copy of FossaMail. Many thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry

Re: OT:hardware query

2019-06-28 Thread Martin Smith
On 28/06/2019 17:11, mick crane wrote: The first concern if getting a new PC is that it can play the steam games and they are getting really pushy what they need to work. I never have proper available funds for this stuff these days and generally buy used.. The idea is each year or so get someth

Re: Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-06-28 Thread Joe
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:44:54 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings, > > I have apache2 installed on my local machine with a bunch of > virtual hosts that I use for test and development of html, > wordpress, etc. It works fine to access the virt hosts > locally, but I want to access them from

Re: Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-06-28 Thread Bob Weber
On 6/28/19 12:44 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings, I have apache2 installed on my local machine with a bunch of virtual hosts that I use for test and development of html, wordpress, etc. It works fine to access the virt hosts locally, but I want to access them from other systems on my local

Re: Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-06-28 Thread john doe
On 6/28/2019 6:44 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings, > > I have apache2 installed on my local machine with a bunch of virtual > hosts that I use for test and development of html, wordpress, etc. It > works fine to access the virt hosts locally, but I want to access them > from other systems on my

Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-06-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings, I have apache2 installed on my local machine with a bunch of virtual hosts that I use for test and development of html, wordpress, etc. It works fine to access the virt hosts locally, but I want to access them from other systems on my local network; windows/IE of various versions,

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM: On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on with the boot process? You could start by attaching your /etc/fstab and copy-pasting the output of 'lsblk -f' with all pa

OT:hardware query

2019-06-28 Thread mick crane
The first concern if getting a new PC is that it can play the steam games and they are getting really pushy what they need to work. I never have proper available funds for this stuff these days and generally buy used.. The idea is each year or so get something else and move the last one down to

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 June 2019 11:21:45 Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-28, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I read the OP's question as "the total installed size including > >> dependencies" -- assuming none of those dependencies has been > >> installed before (ex nihilo, so to speak). > > > > Explicitly *YES*! > >

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-28, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> I read the OP's question as "the total installed size including >> dependencies" -- assuming none of those dependencies has been >> installed before (ex nihilo, so to speak). > > Explicitly *YES*! > It's nice to have someone actually read what I write ;)

Re: gtk-config problem

2019-06-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, trying to compile xdialog, I get the following error when running ./configure: *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG env

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-06-28 16:21:31) > On 06/28/2019 08:58 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:50:02AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > >> On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> "apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be > >

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2019 08:58 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:50:02AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: "apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be installed when it asks for confirmation. I'm looking for som

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:57:24AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > READ my second sentence! > ESPECIALLY from "{" to "}". Cool down, Richard, and accept that your questions may be difficult for others to understand (although their meaning always seem crystal clear for /you/). Communication

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:50:02AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > "apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be > > installed when it asks for confirmation. > > > > I'm looking for something similar which will base its

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2019 08:50 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: "apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be installed when it asks for confirmation. I'm looking for something similar which will base its calculation *ONLY* on the conten

Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > "apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be > installed when it asks for confirmation. > > I'm looking for something similar which will base its calculation > *ONLY* on the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists/ {ignoring w

Re: Problem to locate bug

2019-06-28 Thread sj126
Hi, I tried to shut down the pc with ctrl + alt + 1 -> [login] -> sudo poweroff -> no reaction. I had some music file playing. A snippet (< 1 s) was repeated roughly between 5 and 10 times before I didn't hear anything further on. Ctrl + SysRq + k normally reboot immediately. In my case, no react

Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

2019-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
"apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be installed when it asks for confirmation. I'm looking for something similar which will base its calculation *ONLY* on the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists/ {ignoring what is already on the current system}.

Re: Problem to locate bug

2019-06-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Julian Schreck wrote: > I could narrow it down to lxterminal (autostarted), You could start another terminal program from the lxterminal and then end the lxterminal. (I use "xterm", the old and sparse one.) You could also check whether the lxterm menus give you an opportunity to disable any f

Re: Problem to locate bug

2019-06-28 Thread Julian Schreck
Hi, I could narrow it down to lxterminal (autostarted), openbox or an automatically started process. Any other advice than changing the window manager (in case that was suggested/your intention)? - A rough description of the kind of computer: ”# lshw“ gives debian descr

Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster

2019-06-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 17:57, Lazar Tadić wrote: > Chromium is currently 2 major and 3 minor versions behind upstream in > both Stretch and Buster. Please consider uploading a recent version to > address 34 open security issues, before the complete freeze on 25th of > June. > I have recently ins

Re: My external disks no longer mont

2019-06-28 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Thanks for your reply. After reboot, the problem is fixed. Frankly it is strange as I had already rebooted, I just have one kernel release, but well... it works. Thanks for your help Regards Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Le 28/06/2019 à 11:21, Reco a écrit : > Hi. > > On Fri, Jun 28, 201

Re: My external disks no longer mont

2019-06-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:09:37AM +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > > Here is what I get now when I plug in a USB stick or disk: > https://paste.debian.net/1089600/ > > I think it is a bug, as I use Sid. Where should I report? Kernel? udev? > systemd? A relevant part of dmesg

My external disks no longer mont

2019-06-28 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Here is what I get now when I plug in a USB stick or disk: https://paste.debian.net/1089600/ I think it is a bug, as I use Sid. Where should I report? Kernel? udev? systemd? Best regards, -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

2019-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 June 2019 02:14:42 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > There was a period a decade back where the capacitors > > were legendarily bad.  Your unit may have some of them in it. > > It was around 2004. From a trustful source I understood that the > Chinese manage to steal the formu

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

2019-06-28 Thread Joe
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:14:42 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > There was a period a decade back where the capacitors > > were legendarily bad.  Your unit may have some of them in it. > > It was around 2004. From a trustful source I understood that the > Chinese manage to steal

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

2019-06-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-28, deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> There was a period a decade back where the capacitors >> were legendarily bad.  Your unit may have some of them in it. > > It was around 2004. From a trustful source I understood that the Chinese > manage to steal the formula from Japan, bu