Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-29 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2018-05-28, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2018 at 07:54:49 (-0400), Alan Greenberger wrote: >> On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : >> >> On 2018-05-24, André Rodier wrote: >> >>> >&

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-28 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : >> On 2018-05-24, André Rodier wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the >>> external IP address of the machine. >>

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2018-05-24, André Rodier wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the > external IP address of the machine. > Assuming you are looking for the public internet address of your router, you could try: /usr/sbin/arp -n and it may show up on a line with the

Re: Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.

2016-07-12 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2016-07-11, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > ... > > It is obvious indeed. :-) > > The number were taken from Daily usage tab in gkrelm. Before making the > test I had purposely not accessed Internet that day (except loading the > page wit

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-07-26 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2015-07-24, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > one of my optical drives automatically pulls in its tray if it stands > out for a few minutes. The four others do not try to byte my fingers. > > The waiting time between manual tray eject and automatic tray load > is quite reliably 195 to 200 seconds

Re: Default virtualhost on Debian Jessie with Apache 2.4.10

2015-05-02 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2015-04-30, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > Currently I have a unique site in sites-enabled which is accessed only > via HTTPS. Hoping to have an access error when trying to access this > site via HTTP, Apache sends me to the default site which is "It's > works!" page in /var/www/html. > >

Re: Screen doesn't turn off

2014-10-26 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-10-23, Catalin Soare wrote: > --001a11397ac09df76505061dfacf > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > I've got 2 computera, both running Debian Wheezy, all updates applied. One > of them seems to ignore the "Brightness and lock" setting which should make > the screen turn off

Re: Stuck in update

2014-10-21 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger wrote: >> Thank you for responding. >> >> On 2014-10-20, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> >>> --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >>> Content-

Re: Stuck in update

2014-10-20 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger wrote: > Thank you for responding. > > On 2014-10-20, Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> Content-Disposition: inline >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable &

Re: Stuck in update

2014-10-20 Thread Alan Greenberger
Thank you for responding. On 2014-10-20, Darac Marjal wrote: > > --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote: &g

Stuck in update

2014-10-19 Thread Alan Greenberger
This morning I tried to update a wheezy recently upgraded from squeeze. It didn't work and I am stuck. # aptitude update # aptitude g u These packages could be upgraded, but they have been kept in their current state to avoid breaking dependencies. q b (just beeps) There were some error mes

Re: Re^2: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-05 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-02-04, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Alan, > > * From: Alan Greenberger > *Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:34:42 -0500 >> When I plug in a Logitech C170 webcam, /proc/asound/cards shows: >> 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB >>

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-03 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-02-03, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. > The output of "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... )" > follows. > What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the introductory paragraph? > Must the first match occur i

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-11 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2013-09-10, Ross Boylan wrote: > --001a11c2be66bf88eb04e60200cd > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. > > I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to > replace a 5150 I had. It

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-12 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2013-05-11, Mauro wrote: > > Yes I've did not mention that the machine where the new kernel does not > work has an amd64 processor. > > > On 11 May 2013 09:53, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> On 10 May 2013, Mauro wrote: >> >I have two pc, same distro, debian sid, same software, same >> confi

Re: nfs idmap change

2012-02-10 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-27, Alan Greenberger wrote: > I recently rebooted a squeeze client which does nightly backups to a > squeeze nfs server with exports (rw,no_root_squash) using rsnapshot (with > cmd_cp) and started getting nightly mail from cron that: > rsync: chown "/the_mount/daily.

nfs idmap change

2012-01-27 Thread Alan Greenberger
I recently rebooted a squeeze client which does nightly backups to a squeeze nfs server with exports (rw,no_root_squash) using rsnapshot (with cmd_cp) and started getting nightly mail from cron that: rsync: chown "/the_mount/daily.0/etc/fetchmailrc" failed: Invalid argument (22) The only thing t

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-05 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-04, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/01/12 19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. >> >> >> On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: >>> On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> The auto fsck/root prob

Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-03 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by > using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is the path I chose thanks to > your chroot tip. It looks like you have gotten Wheezy live to work. I have not been able to. What I have tried

Re: Force USB low speed on an specific port.

2011-12-22 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-12-21, Marc Aymerich wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Alan Greenberger wrote: >> On 2011-12-18, Marc Aymerich wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Today I've tried to connect my mouse through +10meters USB cable. >>> Seems that it works pretty well despi

Re: Force USB low speed on an specific port.

2011-12-20 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-12-18, Marc Aymerich wrote: > Hi, > Today I've tried to connect my mouse through +10meters USB cable. > Seems that it works pretty well despite of what the RFC says about > maximum cable lenght :) the only problem I have is that ~5% of mouse > clicks are lost. I want to try putting the bus

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-07 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-10-06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Alan's post has broken the thread - but in a previous post I mentioned > that "The problem seems to be that *both* epson and epson2 backends are > being called" > > >>> $ grep epson /etc/sane.d/dll.conf >> epson >> epson2 > > This is where epson *and* epson

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-05 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-10-03, Thomas H. George wrote: (...) >> >> Tell us your scanner model? :-) >> >> >> > Epson Perfection 2400 Photo >> >> (...) > Just found the following: > > > Script started on Mon 03 Oct 2011 03:38:15 PM EDT > tom@dragon:~$ lsusb -s 001:005 > Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b8:011b Seiko Ep

Re: How to install using apt-get from local .deb files without Internet OR how to bypass sudo apt-get update

2011-05-10 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-05-09, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > To install vim-gtk, I am first downloading all deb package (and not > installing it.) > > mkdir -p vim-gtk > mkdir -p vim-gtk/partial > sudo apt-get -y -o dir::cache::archives=3D./vim-gtk install --download-only > vim-gtk > sudo rm vim-gtk/lock > > Now I

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

2011-02-18 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-02-17, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > That was yesterday. > Today after I start my Desktop Machine, try again and there is no beep > again! Wild guess. What does bind -V | grep 'bell-style' show? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-01-23, Roman Gelfand wrote: > When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop > environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if > desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it? what is the name > of the of the gnome or kde packages? > > Thanks in

Re: match across line using grep

2010-08-13 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2010-08-02, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > however, it does not match the following: > > select * from mytable where id=1 > and name='foo'"; > How about sed -n '{/id=1/N;/name=.foo/p;d;}' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: why don't scanner permissions get assigned correctly ?

2010-07-11 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2010-07-10, wrote: > My scanner, a very old epson, shows up in dmesg: > > Processor EPSONGT-9700 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 > scsi 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 3 Try running sane-find-scanner (in package sane-utils). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-30 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2010-06-25, lee wrote: > > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with > Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the > xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-crystal as a window manager. On on

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2010-05-23, William Pitcock wrote: > After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty > much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where > lilo can reliably determine the payload size. Could you explain what this boundary (line) is? Is the proble

Re: New to Debian

2009-12-04 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-12-03, deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote: > > 2) How can I install KDE? Currently it is running with Gnome... I've just > download all 5 DVDs plus the updates one... the gnome (un)install shows > most KDE applications to install, but not the full window manager... and, > once installed, is it

Re: Connecting a video camera

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-11-12, Michael Peek wrote: > Hi debian gurus, > > I'm trying to figure out if I can download the video from a video camera > onto my linux box. It's a Sony DCR-H52, tape-based, and firewire only. > > When I plug it in, I see the following in the log files: > > kernel: [89405.861315]: iee

Re: Redirect internet connection to wireless router (was: Sharing ppp [...])

2009-10-06 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-10-02, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > Hi all! > > I tried hard a few days ago to share a ppp internet connection through > the wlan interface on my laptop. I just found out that this is not > possible because my hardware can't do AP. > > So, I was wondering if I get a standard wireless rout

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-24, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boot >> to level 1. I used rescue to turn on /etc/default/bootlogd but nothing >> gets logged to /var/log so I guess it doesn't get that far. I would >> have liked to know where it fai

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >> weeks, it starts to load

help for kernel panic

2009-08-21 Thread Alan Greenberger
I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: Failed to execute /init can't open auto Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Call Trace befo

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-15 Thread Alan Greenberger
> So, I don't know if you (or anyone else here) has any further thoughts/ > suggestions. Google searches are now beginning to either throw back Have you run a mixer and made sure the volume is up and nothing is muted? What happens if you run aplay something.wav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-07-13, Cousin Stanley wrote: > Thanks for this advice regarding the KsCD configuration > as I'm now happily listening to Mozart from an old CD > > Previously, KsCD would list the CD tracks and go through > the motions of playing, but no sound I discovered that setting

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Alan Greenberger
> unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly > and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. > Try: kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback presumably: alsa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-07-05, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of > resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to > .. REMOVED > problem? Only occuring on my debian system, windows vista on the same > system works fine, and no one e

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. > I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do > to shrink the Vista install by 50% and

Telinit question

2009-05-23 Thread Alan Greenberger
I have a question about telinit use. For a long time, I occasionally have done "telinit 1" before doing a backup. However, I noticed in the man page that it says: On a Debian system, entering runlevel 1 causes all processes to be killed except for kernel threads and the script that does

Chooser failing

2009-05-15 Thread Alan Greenberger
For years I have had two linux machines (inside firewall) using the X chooser so that I could log in either to self or other machine. This has worked with kdm or xdm. Now I am failing to get this to work with Debian Lenny on both machines (last worked with Sarge). It allows login to self, but ch

Losing X fonts

2007-10-17 Thread Alan Greenberger
I am having a problem where the X server is intermittently losing most of its fonts. I started seeing this problem a month or so ago. The X server is running on an etch machine logging in to a sarge machine. Both machines have xfs daemon running. The font path is set to tcp/etchmachine:7100,tcp

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-26 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2007-04-25, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning > for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. > > I would like to: > > 1. Not have to add files to a list when I add them to etc (like, >

Re: CUPS suddenly doesn't like WP8 Postscript

2006-09-16 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2006-09-15, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All of a sudden, the Postscript generated by WP8's Passthrough Postscript > won't print properly. The first page of a document prints, but no more. > I've tried to print to PDF and to a printer which has before printed WP8's > Postscrip

Re: mini-DV with sd-card

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2006-08-16, gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > My question is about the video format Mini-DV. This format is Linux > compatible? I my camera record the movie in a SD-Card, I will can play > the movie with MPlayer and encoded it to DVD format? > >Thank you, >

Re: pine

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2006-07-27, Anton Piatek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enigD1CC84142CB70DD9FC331E5E > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't fin

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-21 Thread Alan Greenberger
John Hasler wrote: >Tong writes: >> The '--get-selections' and '--set-selections' only give your the list >> of >> packages, they won't save configuration for you. > >All the configuration data is in files under /etc. Back it up. >-- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, Wi