Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Richard, On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > To do an install, first you boot from the first DVD. Then switch to the > console, plug in the USB stick and loop mount the BD images it > contains. Then, when prompted, tell the installer to use those as the place >

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 23, 2014, at 12:39 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> [SNIP] > > I keep getting suggestions to approximately meet *SPECIFICATION* by ... ;/ >> >> Can you afford two USB sticks - one 32G and one 64G? > > Wrong question > I accumulate so many that I'm

Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 7, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of > the 8 gigs of built-in "NAND flash"? I'm looking at a Seagate "Solid State > Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 > > Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric Fabrice Vaillant

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:25 AM, PaulNM wrote: > On 02/04/2014 01:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >> >>> Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use >>> one during the u

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use > one during the updating period you would get errors. Could be the problem. What would it take to make a mirror update atomically? For example, download all the updates

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: > Hi. > I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based > distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where > I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone > tell m

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2014-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
lidays ate my brain for a couple of weeks. On Dec 15, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh >> server during the installation? > > Yes. > >> I

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : >> >> Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during >> the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks for responding, Scott! On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh >> server during the installation? > > > Yes - at least with the i38

Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process when the keyboard/mouse are frozen. This is part of my pursuit of Bug#7

How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Scott. See my notes interlineated below… On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. >> >> The one that finally got me off the ground is thi

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. The one that finally got me off the ground is this one… Somehow I missed it in all my googling. https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress By *carefully* following *all* the instructions there, I was able to get a functioning WordPres

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > You could do what I did with my install of Wheezy 64-bit (Replacing > Fedora 12): Abandon the desktop "environment" entirely, and just use a > full-featured window manager and a few utilities. I found Openbox with > LXPanel works just fine. L

Re: My apologies

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Naming no names; There have been a couple of what I would regard as belligerent and confrontational replies to this posting. I found Ralph's original apology to be gentlemanly and entirely appropriate. The belligerent replies were completely out of place. We're all friends here. Let's keep

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/11/13 18:31, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman >> wrote: >> >>> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debi

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package. It >> installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's version >> has nothing to do with the version number of the debian install

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:38 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Hi Rick, >> >> These instructions should work for Debian as well: >> http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/05/09/how-to-wordpress-on-ubuntu-gnu-linux/ >> >> The main thing is to get Apache & PHP configured properly. Once that's >> done, Wordpre

Fwd: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2013-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi, all! I just downloaded the powerpc netinst installer from /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-24 23:02 257M I checked the md5 and sha1 sums, and burned it to CD. All went well. But when I booted it (on two different G4 m

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
or the wiki, so the next person can benefit from our experience. Thanks in advance! Rick On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:39:20 -0800 > Rick Thomas wrote: > >> >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for goin

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 21, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Glenn English wrote: > I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install Hi Glen, Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? I've done "aptitude install wordpress" which dragged in all the necessary other packages, like apache2,

Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the stuff in examples/ b

Re: wheezy & ext4 ?

2013-10-26 Thread Rick Thomas
A few years ago, ext4 was regarded as "experimental". The default filesystem that the Debian-Installer offered was ext3, with ext4 as an option (along with ext2 and some others) for those with special needs or a love of adventure. By 2013, the general opinion is that ext4 has all the important

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete installati

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
> From: rbtho...@pobox.com > I want to be able to make my own --customized-- .iso images, > containing just the list of packages I need. On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:38 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: have you looked at http://wiki.debian.org/Simple-CDD. It looks like it would do what you want That look

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 3, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 07/03/2013 04:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? www.debian.org/CD/‎ First answer from Google "Debian powerp

How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete installation of PowerPC Debian (Wheezy right now, but into the future.

Re: Separate partitions for filesystems (was Re: computer rendered un-usable)

2013-06-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: David Guntner: Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Judging from your usage of "df -k" (instead of -g or -h) and the number of filesystems, you should probably apply at IBM. :-> And yes, I had the great misfortune of being an a

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Brian wrote: At last! Udev does not know about what you have done, so one way of beating it into submission is by rebooting. A gentler approach is udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change Sorry for all the fuss... It's not a fuss but an intere

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Having asked the question, I owe the group answers. Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan to do the tests and report back as soon as I can. Well, I finally got a couple of free hours this afternoon. Here&#

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Brian, You are absolutely right! Having asked the question, I owe the group answers. Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan to do the tests and report back as soon as I can. Rick On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Brian wrote: He could consider providing

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 09 iun 13, 19:27:35, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have -- restart the window manager. I've configured it to d

Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have -- restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard- configuration", but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do the job. Anybody

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk? [SOLVED]

2013-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
rted.sourceforge.net/download.php dan On May 21, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: It turns out that with gparted I was able to create one large 3TB partition in a gpt-type partition table. I was able to mount it and write a few files to it. I haven't tried anything big yet, but I'

How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size. I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition larger than 2TB. I've thought about creating three 1TB partitions then using LVM to merge them into

Re: Use case for aptitude-{create,run}-state-bundle ?

2013-05-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 17, 2013, at 7:30 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:24:21 -0700 Rick Thomas wrote: Can anybody tell me when I might want to use aptitude-{create,run}- state-bundle ? Is it, for example, useful for cloning a machine configuration following a re-install from scratch? Thanks

Use case for aptitude-{create,run}-state-bundle ?

2013-05-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Can anybody tell me when I might want to use aptitude-{create,run}- state-bundle ? Is it, for example, useful for cloning a machine configuration following a re-install from scratch? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: About installation DVD's

2013-05-17 Thread Rick Thomas
OK, Rupesh. Here's the process: 1) Debian releases the downloadable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disk images. For reasons already covered, they release the first three DVD as ".iso" images and the rest as '.jigdo" templates. (As you have pointed out, this doesn't help someone like yourself in a place wit

Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks Andrei! I'm an "aptitude" user most of the time, so I didn't know about that feature of apt. Is there a similar option for aptitude that I've overlooked? Rick On May 10, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 mai 13, 19:57:54, Rick Thomas w

Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-06 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Default User > wrote: > Hello. > > I did a fresh install of Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy), using the > debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso. > > In the past , during the install process, it would ask if the user wanted to > include the contrib and non-free repos

Debian with S/PDIF Toslink digital audio input on the Apple G5-PowerPC MacPro

2013-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Has anybody used the S/PDIF Toslink inputs on the Apple G5-PowerPC MacPro hardware? Does it work? Are there any secrets I should know before I start? I volunteer at a community radio station. They would like to record and archive the digital audio stream just before it goes out on the

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Celejar wrote: Yes: http://m19s28.dyndns.org/iblech/nat-traverse/#technique General discussion: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/How-Skype-Co-get-round-firewalls-747197.html Celejar Thanks! Interesting stuff... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-21 Thread Rick Thomas
Alberto, What you want to do is possible. In particular, skype and bittorrent do it. As I understand it, they make use of a server with a public IP address. I'm not going to get it exactly right, but the general idea is this: Two clients, A and B, both behind NAT firewalls. Server, S, with a

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What are people trying to do? Hi Bob, For an example of where one will want to "manage" the init scripts, take

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

2013-04-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Erwan David wrote: However, booting in level 2 then using telinit 3 do not start the services that I setup not to start in level 2... Thus I'll switch to policy-rd method. I'm surprised to hear that... What did you do to test? If you can give us some detai

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

2013-04-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Erwan David wrote: Le 11/04/2013 20:53, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Erwan David wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx said: Erwan David wrote: 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

2013-04-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Erwan David wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx said: Erwan David wrote: 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop if the encrypted partition is not mounted Neither of those solutions seems acceptable for me. So

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 4, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? Roll your own with an HP Proliant microserver (the N40L

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote: As above, the iomega ix2-200 meets these requirements, and I only paid about AUD$280 for mine including 2x1TB disks 2 years ago. You can probably get them even cheaper these days. They were much cheaper than equivalent QNap or Synology bo

NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? I'm looking for a device that can export a RAID-1, either ext4 or ZFS, capacity in the 1-3TB range (two disks, each of that cap

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Thank you , Wes, for the very complete and helpful explanation. You seem to know a lot about this. I hope you don't mind if I continue to pick your brain on this subject... (-: On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:49 PM, wes wrote: hi rick. But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same d

possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze) I use lynx to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem getting CD ".iso" images. (Except that it seems to prefer IPv6, which is significantly slower for me than IPv4. Is there a config option to change that beh

Re: NEEDED: not quite current buisnesscard and netinst iso images

2013-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Richard, Did you ever get this working for you? Did you notice the "--scan" option to jigdo-lite? It might allow you to use your DVD iso's to avoid downloading a lot of stuff you already have. I seem to remember that internet bandwidth was a problem for you. Note: I believe that the

Re: (Re-)Mounting random crypto disk - how to create file system?

2013-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Simon Hollenbach wrote: Hello. I set up an encrypted partition with randomly regenerated password that I want to mount at /tmp with some older(6w) wheezy netinstall. Apparently I need to create a file system there before mounting on every boot, don't I? I wrot

Re: Keeping backups until storage runs short (deja-dup style) with command line tools?

2013-02-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 21, 2013, at 3:46 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, deja-dup has an option to keep backups forever or until storage on the drive backed up to runs short (at which point it starts deleting old backups). Does someone have any pointers on how to copy that behavior using duplicity and

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-02-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 19, 2013, at 12:10 PM, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2013-02-19 20:36, green wrote: I use LUKS and cryptsetup encryption, but not for the root filesystem. Probably fstab and crypttab are all that you need to change. Grub configuration is another possibility, but I am guessing that you have

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 2, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: Also beware of the screen resolution. It might not be what you think it is. I notice it is missing from the stats above. Staples "technical details" section says this: HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED-backlit LCD Display (1366 x 768) Int

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! For myself those look great. But she is *extremely* price conscious. Rick On Feb 2, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Weaver wrote: Why not go for hardware that is specifically designed for Linux and remove any potential problems completely? https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-01 Thread Rick Thomas
I was googling for an inexpensive laptop for a friend and came across the chromebook C710 from Acer: http://www.staples.com/Acer-C710-2847-116-Chromebook/product_125265 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215914 • Intel Celeron 847 1.1GHz • 2GB Memory (expandab

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Mauro wrote: On 8 December 2012 17:37, Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 8, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Mauro wrote: Have you tried aptitude instead of apt-get? yes, same error. Just a guess, but take a look at backports and see if you can install a more modern

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Mauro wrote: Have you tried aptitude instead of apt-get? yes, same error. Just a guess, but take a look at backports and see if you can install a more modern version of apt or aptitude. FWIW My lenny box has aptitude version "0.4.11.11-1~lenny2". Rick

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 08 dec 12, 12:46:23, Mauro wrote: W: Failed to fetch http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages 302 Moved [IP: 193.62.202.28 80] Hmm, your apt is trying to download the uncompressed Packages file, which is

Installing Lenny on PowerMac?

2012-11-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a temporary need to install Lenny on a PowerMac G4 so I can run some tests on a "fresh" installation for a user who is unable (for various reasons) to upgrade to Squeeze at this time. When I run the netinst installer CD all seems well until it wants to setup sources.list. Then it

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Charles, On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote: Thanks again. I wish these issues had been addressed either by the installer itself or by the installation instructions. Tnere must be many other unsophisticated users that have encountered this problem. You're welcome, of cour

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Charles Blair wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I think I will post a restatement of the question. I would have thought that a dual boot of windows 7 and debian would be a common enough problem that there should be something about it somewhere, perhaps

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: But the phenomena are same, that is, When booting my PC, apache2 failed to start. And when I executed the following: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart apache2 started successfully with the dual stack. Why this phenomena happens ? Is the apache2

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 23, 2012, at 6:13 AM, David L. Craig wrote: On 12Sep23:0208-0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact so the

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact so the admin can make the proper measures) but a different thing is completely killing the service. Hi

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Stan, Calling people names is no way to encourage them to use free software. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bb13d31f-28c7-47b1-b34c-3c121e74f.

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, And so do we all... The problem here is not the network bandwidth, it's that some parts of the update process have to download a lot of small

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives. Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal? If you just put the CD in the CD drive with MacOS-

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Aldridge wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Michael Aldridge Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg After

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Michael Aldridge Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging hardware, and App

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
27;d like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Cheers David On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:47 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: If this is a PowerPC iMac, you should be able to use the Debian PowerPC installer. If so, you can install Debian Squeeze

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
If this is a PowerPC iMac, you should be able to use the Debian PowerPC installer. If so, you can install Debian Squeeze with either http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-CD-1.iso or http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/po

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Mark Allums wrote: No, it's dependency hell. No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not causing any pro

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 23 iul 12, 09:15:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368 MiB gziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to avoid. ... and a gzip/gunzip cycle makes the

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:28:35, Rick Thomas wrote: If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to mind...) and it will all be compressed out. If the empty

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to mind...) and it will all be compressed out. If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depend on just how "random" the junk is. Does that hel

[OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi folks, While fascinating, this discussion has wandered seriously Off Topic. It's no longer appropriate for "debian-user", I think. I'm not a list-guru. Is there a debian list where it would be on-topic? If so, maybe we should take it there. Enjoy! Rick On Jul 18, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Gary

Proposal for stage-1 secure boot Re: [POSTPONED] Re: installation with UEFI

2012-07-05 Thread Rick Thomas
The fundamental problem we must solve is allowing the *user* to securely choose which OS she wants to install. Whether that OS follows thru and verifies all its parts is between the user and the person or group who provided the OS (could be the user, herself, of course!) We need a "st

Re: Very slow network with certain APs -- ipv6 problem?

2012-07-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 4, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Camaleón wrote: You mean you're still using ipv4 with no ipv6 support from the OS at all? I am using an up-to-date install of Squeeze. There were several network related updates when IPv6 was supposed to be activated. So I presume thi

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Your CD, being from the "lenny=stable" era, probably attempts to access "stable" release but it does not exis

[SOLVED] Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I will file a bug report ASAP against openssh-server. It turns out this is bug #422327, which dates all the way back to 2007, and nothing has been done about it. The bug report even suggested a patch (well, not exactly a patch with

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I will file a bug report ASAP against openssh-server. It turns out this is bug #422327, which dates all the way back to 2007, and nothing has been done about it. The bug report even suggested a patch (well, not exactly a patch with

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: Also, while searching for more information on this issue at Google I've found many posts¹, articles and blogs² pointing to a problem with X forwarding and ipv6 though I'm not sure this is going to be the case for this but it can be something to

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2012, at 9:44 PM, Erwan David wrote: On 13/06/12 04:12, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: ... mmm, you can compare the ... openssh versions That got me thinking... Looking at a third server (the same i386 Debian Squeeze machine I was using as a

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: ... mmm, you can compare the ... openssh versions That got me thinking... Looking at a third server (the same i386 Debian Squeeze machine I was using as a "client" in the previous reply) I *can* "slogin -X" and get an X session. On both the

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:03:24 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: Given that you are login on your own computers you can try with "-Y" flag (untrusted X11 forwarding) and see how it goes. Another te

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: Given that you are login on your own computers you can try with "-Y" flag (untrusted X11 forwarding) and see how it goes. Another test you can run is by creating a new user and launching "slogin -X -vvv macs xterm" session from there. Thanks for

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 7, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged from anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot bigger than my RAM. Increase your swap to 4GB -- even if you plan never to swap. The space will be

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's the output. I see it requesting X11 forwarding (near the end) but I don't see anything specifically saying it was granted. Nor do I see it being specifically refused. Fascinating... FWIW, I tried the same 'slogi

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:56:35 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY

what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the environment. It used to work. I don't know what changed for sure. Does anybody know what can cause t

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:05:56 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Yes, I understand that the salt is differe

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, 4 May 2012 02:40:16 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote: free: " :~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 80599647746808 313156 0 54708 1352976 -/+ buffers/cache:63391241720840 Swap: 42860340 66296 42

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Another use for a large swap partition is if you want to put /tmp into tmpfs. Whether doing so is a "good thing(TM)" is a religious debate that I don't want to stir up here. But there are people who do it, and for them a large swap partition can be useful. Rick PS: We haven't heard back

Re: Logs normalization (was: Can no longer mount SDHC card)

2012-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: Well, it's far more simpler than that: I was only "whining" for not having the same log files, located in the same place and holding the same information between the different distributions :-) Ahhh... The joy of Linux! /-; Linux is all about

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