chewmail is probably the best substitute. It has a very similar usage,
I only had to change the -o option and replace -u with -R.
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Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> > I can set up a script for backup with cron or anacron, but how can I
> > prevent the computer from shutting down while the backup is being
> > performed so as to not to leave it incomplete?.
>
> If you're using systemd, t
Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> If I specify preseeding options for a netboot image loaded directly from
> GRUB as kernel parameter and there are some parameters specifified in the
> initrd /preseed.cfg. Will the conflicting parameters specififed in the
> kernel parameters replace those of /preseed.
Try running this:
journalctl -u systemd-logind -f
That will show messages logged by logind, for example:
Oct 23 23:30:10 darkstar systemd-logind[733]: Lid closed.
Oct 23 23:30:12 darkstar systemd-logind[733]: Lid opened.
It should also log if it thinks a suspend key is being pressed. It's
possi
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On all my systems, initramfs-tools 0.116 works fine,
> installing 0.118 just gives some message about rebooting in 5 seconds that is
> not
> enough time to read. I.e., the system becomes unbootable.
Sounds like the below code, which is triggered if fsck fails and for som
Brian wrote:
> I'd suggest that the principal udeb package to consider as responsible
> for installing the base system is bootstrap-base. It runs debootstrap.
> Debian Policy specifies the base packages as being of Priority: required
> and Priority: important.
>
> You can get lists of these packag
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 1. Whether or not there's a clear statement regarding the installer - will
> users be presented with a clear choice of init systems during installation,
> or is it going to be left to folks to figure out how to work around the
> default installation of systemd?
It's not bee
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to
> do so, particularly when this concerns production servers.
Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie)
release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your production se
Bas Wijnen wrote:
> I'll speak for myself here: I don't really care about the init system.
> I am unhappy with the emotions that this debate is causing, but I'm not
> very interested in the technical parts. From what I see on the mailing
> lists, it seems that a few users are very unhappy and they
Reco wrote:
> You haven't took into account journald, which uses /run (mounted
> in-memory) to write its' own blobs. With the limit of 1/2 of available
> physical memory by default.
That's wrong by nearly 2 orders of magnitude..
journald avoids using more than 10% of the size of /run by default,
Philippe Clérié wrote:
> I'm curious to know how fast obnam is for other users.
>
> My home network is mostly Gigabit Ethernet. Measuring with iperf, the best
> speed I get is around 600Mbps, maybe 700Mbps depending on the computers
> involved.
>
> With obnam, speeds are anywhere below 50Mbps. Ev
Steve Litt wrote:
> 25: Paul Tagliamonte moves the bug somewhere else, tells Thorsten
> Glaser not to re-add it to the current bug discussion. If any of
> you wonder why other inits aren't supported, you now see that Paul
> Tagliamonte had the admin priveleges to move bugs, and was feel
Stephen Allen wrote:
> Deservedly so, in my opinion. I'm sure the silent majority are as sick
> as I am of several people beating this dead horse to death. Most Linux
> distributions are DoCractic, those that do the work, make the rules.
Not to mention drive-by attacks on development communication
Tom H wrote:
> Adding this to the kernel's cmcline is one of the simplest changes
> when upgrading from wheezy to jessie whether you have one or many
> servers.
Any existing Debian system with udev installed has a file
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
that forces udev to use the same netw
quietis wrote:
> I don't really want the us speyez knowing what software I use or
> really anything. If they want to know they can ask. So I would
> prefer that all my info transferred to and from repositories be
> secure and private. I know some individual package's and personal
> repositories
Richard Lawrence wrote:
> Good to know, thanks. When I try this, Mutt asks me to enter my GPG
> passphrase for every encrypted message in the folder I'm limiting,
> though! (So it's not a good option for my "sent" folder, for example.)
> Any way to avoid that?
Yes, use a gpg agent. Installing gn
Richard Lawrence wrote:
> I've recently (re-)decided to make an effort to use PGP, and to convince
> others to use it too. (My effort to do so:
> http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rwl/encryption.html, linked from my
> .signature. Comments welcome.) But I've run into a couple of problems
> fairly quickl
Lionel Trésaugues wrote:
> Debian and Ubuntu deal with fonts existed. But the unpleasant
> feeling is present (even if not so intense), just by looking at the
> background of an empty desktop. It seems that the light is too
> intense, too violent (even when I reduce the brightness) and that my
> ey
Paul Condon wrote:
> If I have recalled incorrectly, and the netinstall CD does ask for
> tasksel selection before popping out the CD, then there is very
> little observable difference between the two.
There is no difference between the two other than the amount of data
they need to download from
bibop554 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made a custom debian CD that installs fully automatically thanks to a
> preseed
> file.
> But i try to understand what happens between the reading of the "recipe" in
> the
> preseed file and the creation of partitions on the disk, because i don't have
> expected parti
Josef Wetzel wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to install Debian wheezy in VMWare Fusion 4.1.2 on Mac
> OS X 10.7.4.
> I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (on 13. may 12) and
> configured Fusion to use this iso image as a cd drive.
> When I power up the virtual machine, a blinking cursor i
Indulekha wrote:
> Anyone know a way to simply filter out all that annoying gpg/pgp noise?
> I don't actually care if it really works, just don't want to see the garbage
> huge
> blocks of text and error messages.
If you don't care about signatures, tell mutt to not check them:
set pgp_verify_
Curt Howland wrote:
> It used to be that the Business-card and Net-install images would do a
> base install without a network connection
No, the businesscard image has never contained the Debian base system;
it has always required a network connection to download and install Debian.
> "Expert" mo
Scott Ferguson wrote (remainder of your trolling ignored):
> > as this will habituate people to expect your mail to be signed,
>
> Nope. Wishful thinking at best.
True story: Last weekend, I sent a friend an email to get him come
help me move a couch. For complex reasons I neglected to sign it. M
Indulekha wrote:
> So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet and
> legs dry and clean, I should just wear my big rubber boots everywhere all
> time then, right? That way whether I'm at the grocery store, the office, or
> the barn there'll be no worries. :D
A better
Wayne Topa wrote:
> Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail.
>
> I have been on this list for 19 years now and do not recall anyone being
> spoofed. From the tenor of your mails, I doubt anyone would gain
> anything from it.
This is fallacious, dangerous, and probably insulting thinking.
I'm sure tha
Mika Suomalainen wrote:
> As far as I know, I have valid signature. That block which was pasted
> here is shown as invalid, because the one who first started
> complaining about it didn't use Enigmail and/or pasted only the
> signature block without message which it belongs to.
You may have a vali
shirish शिरीष wrote:
> I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ?
>
> Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec,
> texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta
> Error: applying of delta for texlive-latex-extra-doc failed: :
> Sorry, not enough dis
Rob Owens wrote:
> But I also don't see an obvious alternative that most GNOME 2 users are
> switching to. XFCE and LXDE get mentioned a lot, but I don't think it's
> clear yet which desktop environment will get most of the GNOME 2
> refugees.
This graph clearly shows a spike in xfce in the past
Pete Orrall wrote:
> Recently my weather plugin for xfce has stopped showing any weather
> information at all. Now it displays "No Data." When hovering my pointer
> over it, it reads "Cannot display weather data." Regardless of location
> or zip code used there is no weather information displayed
Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a
> pkg at:
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev
>
> It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must
> have that information somewhere.
dpkg-query can display the information i
Mark Panen wrote:
> Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS?
Take a look at /var/log/installer/ , the timestamps should give you a
good idea.
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Weaver wrote:
> The point has often been made that this list is for Debian 'Users' and
> not therefore strictly Debian subject matter. I think a bit of social
> interaction does have the tendency to create 'community' which is
> Debian's strength, so it could be viewed as productive.
While this is
Bob Proulx wrote:
> So that explains how users are set up to use sudo in that installation
> case. However I haven't looked to see what configures Synaptic to use
> one method or the other for authorizing the user. I will research
> that and report what I learn. It would be good to know about it
Nicolas Bercher wrote:
> I can actually see two little cons:
> 1. no "easy way" to stop rtorrent, but that's not a big deal (any
> kill/pkill command could do the job for example, just like my script
> does it),
Or screen -R and press Q or whatever it is.
> 2. since I like to track my scripts &
Nicolas Bercher wrote:
> http://users.klvb-larve.org/nico/bin/bash/rtorrent-user.username
>
> You must copy it in /etc/init.d and more importantly name it
> /etc/init.d/rtorrent-user. where is your actual
> username. Hence, you can set it up for any number of users on the
> same system. Then, t
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> But I'm stuck. The next step is to issue
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> but I can't figure out where to type this in. I can log in using gdm,
> but terminals found there may expire during the upgrade, leaving
> everything in an inconsistent state.
Debian takes care to kee
Andrew Wood wrote:
> My question is, if i replace the source tree with an updated
> version, say 4.0.2 when its released, I will loose the debian
> directory, and withit, the changelog file.
Install devscripts and look at the uupdate program. Or, copy and modify
the debian directory. You will need
Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> From active terminal:
> Waarning: Untrusted versions of the following software will be installed!
> Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security
> You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain
> that this is what you want to do
>
> in-targe
Camaleón wrote:
> But be prepared for the worst, USB modems can be very difficult to
> support in linux if the manufacturer did not provide the drivers nor
> specifications. In this regard, old serial modems are much better than
> USB ones (no drivers needed) ;-(
This is less the case now than
Jason Hsu wrote:
> When I boot up the Debian CD, I am never offered the option of adding boot
> codes. How do I add "vga=normal fb=false"?
Press Tab.
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Jason Hsu wrote:
> I've also had problems installing Debian 6.0.0 on my 10-year-old IBM
> NetVista computer using the full CD-1 ISO. When I selected “Install”
> or “Graphical Install” on the installer boot menu, the screen froze up
> and then flickered.
Boot the kernel with the parameters: vga=no
Peter Tynan wrote:
> One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki
> is so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact
> of life is that nine times out of ten I find the information I'm
> looking for on the Arch or Gentoo wikis - not the Debian wiki. I am
Peter Smith wrote:
> Last four lines of debootstrap.log:
>
> -
> Preparing to replace coreutils 8.5-1 (using .../coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
> dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:823: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size'
> failed.
> Aborted
dpkg does a sani
Camaleón wrote:
> Should you want to use sudo, you can select it with the expert install or
> you can configure after the installation (if standard root login was
> selected).
There is no need to use any expert install option with squeeze. Simply
follow the instructions it presents:
You need t
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2011 19:59:51 peter_someone wrote:
> > ...that since lenny it's safe to mix the two because a. apt-get now
> > handles (or can handle)orphans similarly thanks to autoremove and also
> > uses the same database or better yet, has the same markings
T o n g wrote:
> That seems to me an absurd reason.
Here is the actual reason, from http://bugs.debian.org/608098#31
| in squeeze, the gnome-session package now
| depends on the basic components that are actually needed for running a
| GNOME session. Since this change was made, I hadn’t known wh
John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I'm not suggesting that Debian needs to be on a fancy, professional CD,
> because Debian is not really aiming at the newbie Linux user like
> Ubuntu. I'm just saying that a professionally created CD enhances your
> credibility.
http://www.debian.org/CD/artwork/
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Rob Owens wrote:
> When I go to "Info" on this torrent, rtorrent says "Connection type:
> leech". What do I need to do to be a good bittorrent citizen?
A confusing thing about bittorrent is that "leech" is used as both a
technical term, meaning a peer that is not currently seeding (even if it
has
Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 8/1/2010 1:23 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
> >Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> >>On 8/1/2010 10:19 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> >>>dpkg-query -W -f='${Package}\t${Architecture}\n'
> >>
> >>You are awesome man, this is exactly what I was
Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 8/1/2010 10:19 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> >dpkg-query -W -f='${Package}\t${Architecture}\n'
>
> You are awesome man, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks :D
Except the architecture will be "amd64" or "all" for every package,
since as the other "childish" poster tol
Merciadri Luca wrote:
> First, I always found the `mount point' expression weird in this
> context, because, for me, the mount point _is_ always the partition,
> during the installation, but this is not the problem.
You have this common terminology exactly backwards. One mounts /dev/hda1
on mount
sasha mal wrote:
> The bug exists, the iceweasel package maintainer is lazy and refuses to
> handle it.
No, iceweael's maintainer has applied basic debugging logic and
deduced that the problem is somewhere in your network connection.
You have, in turn, repeatedly called him "lazy"[1] and refused
Rob Owens wrote:
> When I
>
> apt-get source somepackage
>
> as a regular user, does the system do a signature check on the source
> that is downloaded? Where does the signature reside?
Yes; in the .dsc file.
A failure to verify the signature will only result in a warning message.
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Mark wrote:
> I wonder the same, since the Debian installer even states the best mirror
> choice may not be the one physically closest to you.
It's not really accurate to say that cdn.debian.net chooses the mirror
with the closest geographical location to you. It does something much
more useful: I
Sven Joachim wrote:
> > What will the boot sequence be when I convert?
> > Anybody know how to wring that out of insserv?
>
> Try the following (you don't have to be root for that):
>
> $ cp -a /etc/{init,rc?}.d /tmp/
> $ /sbin/insserv -p /tmp/init.d/
>
> And inspect the /tmp/rc?.d directories.
Scarletdown wrote:
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486
> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes]
>
> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off.
>
> This is obviously a problem with initrd. Set too large for such a low memory
> system perhaps?
I doubt it, since you
Michael R. Head wrote:
> I recently noticed that ipmasq has been removed from the archive,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538384
>
> I've been using the package for years now, and I'm happy to migrate to a
> modern replacement, but I don't know which package I should choose (th
Sven Joachim wrote:
> You are shooting the messenger. lshw is a userspace program, not a
> device driver. If running it locks up your system, this is almost
> surely a bug in the kernel.
Userspace programs run as root, such as lshw, have access to the entire
machine memory, registers, and data b
Stephen Powell wrote:
>Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?
>
> s/Dial/lilo/
Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family
members through fixing machines that booted to "LI" or "LIL" .. no.
I only wish lilo on enemies -- but still prefer ene
Paul E Condon wrote:
> As a matter of fact, the current rule is helpful to me in assessing
> the advice that I get. If I get a CC, I think this guy isn't a real
> DD --- I wonder if he knows what he's talking about.
Well, the only problem with that thought is that if you take a quick
look at, say,
Martin Wuertele wrote:
> > I am beginner in Linux. I install Debian 5.0.3 "Lenny". I have several
> > warnings:
> > - in install I can't choose Gnome or Kde
>
> "Graphical desktop environment" will install both
This is not the case in Debian 5.0. Nor was it the case with Debian 4.0.
Debian 3.1 (
Roger Leigh wrote:
> % setfacl -m g:www-data:rx ~ ~/public_html
Many web servers are configured to run user-supplied CGI scripts as
www-data, so this approach is not particularly secure.
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whereislibertyandjust...@safe-mail.net wrote:
> __gmon_start__
A minute with a search engine will tell you this symbol is included
in the standard glibc, and is a hook into early program runtime provided
by sysdeps/generic/initfini.c
> _Jv_RegisterClasses
This is part of GCC's libgcc library, an
John Jason Jordan wrote:
> But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be using
> aptitude.
> I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new stuff. After a
> graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I'll have to delete
> some of the old stuff. Bah.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> This is only a guess, so hopefully someone who knows will chime in. It
> sounds like typical forking behavior to me.
ssh's privilege separation is somewhat atypical. From sshd_config(5):
UsePrivilegeSeparation
Specifies whether sshd(8) separates pr
martin f krafft wrote:
> If you install a third party deb, you should inspect its contents
> exactly to make sure it doesn't touch files in /etc. Also check the
> hooks. If there are no problems, then it's probably safe.
Did you know that dpkg will not install /var/lib/dpkg/info/* if it's in
the p
Adam Hardy wrote:
> Not shown: 65529 closed ports
> PORT STATE SERVICE
> 22/tcpopen ssh
> 25/tcpopen smtp
> 80/tcpopen http
> 443/tcp open https
> 3306/tcp open mysql
> 12121/tcp open unknown
>
>
> But when I run nmap from my home machine to scan it remotely, I see these
Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> I don't think it's that important. chkrootkit seems a little hazardous
> since there was a bug about chkrootkit killing a random process (in
> fact one of its test was sending a signal to process 12345, this bug
> has been corrected).
That anyone could code such a th
Sebastian Günther wrote:
> Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users,
>
> please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated.
>
> I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients
> from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here?
>
> So go to to your enigmail pref
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Dave Rave wrote:
> when running apt-get update, and its reading the files, it says
>
> "file rred" instead of "file read"
>
> Its been that way for a while now. maybe whoever updated the updater
> didn't speaka d'englishe.
rred is a
David Barrett wrote:
> Following up on my previous post: I've figured out some of the steps,
> but I'm stuck on installing Grub. Do you know how to install grub on a
> raw device file?
You may be able to get grub-install to work using the --grub-mkdevicemap
option and a dummied up device map
H.S. wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was cleaning up some directories in an acquaintance's machine running
> Ubuntu Linux (whenever needed, I SSH to his machine from my Debian
> Lenny) and noticed that one of the directories had a file called "ik"
> which had this in it:
> ---
Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the -5.
> My guess is that the -x is the debian build version, but why the
> different numbers?
The -2 and -5 are ABI version numbers. Not all builds of the same
version of the kernel are compatible with e
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
> I once saw a similar problem. I don't know if this is your case, but I
> will explain what I did.
>
> I checked everything from the hard drive with iostat to the memory, my
> cpu was being hammered much like yours but nothing seemed to fess up to
> doing it. I installed h
Lee Glidewell wrote:
> On Sunday 15 June 2008 01:23:17 pm Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:35:41PM +0800, Bob wrote:
> > > Does such a thing exist?
> >
> > If you do a networked installation, you'll get the latest version at
> > install time anyway.
>
> The issue here would be u
Peter Tynan wrote:
> I was under the impression that although Iceweasel started off as a
> simple rebranding project that the maintainers had greater ambitions
> and that they already made changes to the source that have nothing to
> do with the branding - am I wrong?
So, let’s dig into our fi
Adam Hardy wrote:
> popcon has installed itself as a crontab.weekly job which is executed by
> user root, I presume, but I get a 'mail delivery failed' turn up in my
> user account, not in root. I checked the config for popcon and I can see
> how it is picking up my user account. How can it be d
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> It is easy to scan your own signature and convert it into a compact
> vector-based PDF that can be scaled without loss of quality. I doubt
> that this constitutes a true signature in the legal sense
Amazingly, even typing your name into a form is considered a legal
signatur
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of
> Well, the sysadmin should be able to put whatever they want in
> /usr/local without messing up debian automated systems. Why is apt or
> grub or whatever trying to run perl from /usr/local? If
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote:
>
> > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of
> > it and the proper module at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm will be
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> After keys are regenerated and all old keys are removed, would a reboot
> be in order to ensure that no apps are using old files that have been
> unlinked but still open?
If replacing a key for a daemon like ssh, or apache, or postfix, restart
the daemon. Some of these da
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Here I ran /etc/init.d/ssh restart after purging the host keys, is that
> enough or does dpkg-reconfigure do something extra that is necessary?
dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server generates any missing host keys, and
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Ross Boylan wrote:
> 2) cd /etc/ssh; invoke-rc.d ssh stop; rm *host*;
> dpkg-reconfigure --default-priority openssh-server
There's no need to stop ssh. Just
rm /etc/ssh/*host*; dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
And then go fix all your ~/.authorized_keys files. And also openvpn and
SSL certificat
Rody wrote:
> In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my
> packages
> with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys
> are not available on:
> www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/
> as the security advisory tells us.
> According to google
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> If I have accidentally deleted a file that is still being used by some
> application (read or write mode), is it possible to recover such a file?
> Especially since the file is not really deleted until the descriptor is
> closed by the application?
>
> Just wondering.
Russ Cook wrote:
> Or you could tilt at windmills and complain to Netflix, your
> congressmen, the media, and anyone else who will smile
> pleasantly, nod, and then ignore you. I hate DRM.
Or you could crack the DRM. Which is, after all, the only way that all
us linux netflix subscribers are able
Sven Joachim wrote:
> This is because initramfs-tools already uses triggers, see #447611¹.
> I'm not convinced that it is a very good idea to do this in Lenny
> packages, since the Etch versions of apt and aptitude lack support for
> the new trigger states. While dpkg 1.14.18 conflicts with these
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has
> lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation.
> Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual
> installation choices made? The instructions I followed a
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > The crucial bit that many miss is that new packages don't move into
> > > testing unless they've sat in unstable with no new b
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> The crucial bit that many miss is that new packages don't move into
> testing unless they've sat in unstable with no new bug reports for 10
> days (I think).
Or 5 days (urgency=medium in changelog).
Or 2 days (urgency=high).
Or 1 day if it's a bad enough problem (urg
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Can anybody explain why the first ping takes 5 times longer, while getting
> more than 5 times faster ping replies?
Because ping does a DNS lookup, which has to time out as the first IP
has no reverse DNS assignment. ping -n.
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Juha Tuuna wrote:
> Do 'losing users' correlate 1:1 (or with some other ratio) to using the
> word 'Debian' as a search word in ?
> Maybe someone maintaining a _major_ mirror could tell something about
> installer downloads.
http://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-i386.png
As with all statistics, it
David Fox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Johannes Wiedersich
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Have you informed sculpture.cz or wherever the mail originated? I'd
> > rather have them know that they have to reconfigure their mail system.
>
> I CCed the first message to their Postmas
KS wrote:
> Is it the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Joey replied to a similar
> query about kernel clock yesterday.
I'd need to see hwclock output to know for sure. Probably though.
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Frank wrote:
> Mon Feb 11 20:51:12 2008: Setting the system clock.
> Mon Feb 11 20:51:12 2008: select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick
> timed out
> Mon Feb 11 20:51:12 2008: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Unable to set System Clock
> to: Tue Feb 12 01:51:12 UTC 2008
>
> Should I file a bug or wait to see
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful
> FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X.
>
> I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and
> look at some passwords that I have forgotten.
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Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> For nr 2 I realized that apt-get was being run through a python script
> which was using commands.getstatusoutput. Changing this with an
> os.system call fixed the problem.
Yes, if you redirect whiptail's output, you obviously won't see it on
screen.
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Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs
> * pvrfs/partition: /dev/hda2
> pvalex:~# apt-get --purge remove pvrfs
> pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs
> pvalex:~#
> pvalex:~# apt-get install pvrfs
> debconf (developer): <-- INPUT high pvrfs/partition
> debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipp
Adam Porter wrote:
>return 1
> if check_stamp $UPDATE_STAMP $UpdateInterval; then
>if apt-get -qq update 2>/dev/null; then
> As you can see, I haven't enabled the perodic updates in apt.conf, but
> the check_stamp function returns true if the interval is set to 0,
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