Re: qemu not grabbing control keys

2014-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojs...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, if I try to run images with kvm I cant switch to virtual consoles with ctrl-alt-(1/2/3) no matter what key combination I use (default is ctrl-alt, starting kvm with -alt-grab makes it ctrl-alt-shift, starting

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-01 Thread Tom Furie
machine to connect. Just be sure to run 'xhost - si:localuser:root' as soon as you are done. You can run xhost without any arguments to see exactly who is alowed to connect to you. Cheers, Tom -- If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. -- Edward A. Murphy Jr

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Артур Истомин art.is...@yandex.ru wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: For years I have used sudo both in server administration and on the desktop. Lately I get the following error message and I do not really know what to do

Re: qemu not grabbing control keys

2014-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojs...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:13:16AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojs...@gmail.com wrote: There may be a less keyboard-intensive way but it's the only way that I know

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-01 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:19:59PM +, Артур Истомин wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: 'xhost +' allows anyone anywhere access to your X server. If you must use xhost in this situation it would be much safer to use 'xhost + si:localuser:root', this would

Re: [solved] Re: jigdo various questions ( --noask does not work + how to use /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb as source )

2014-04-30 Thread Tom Furie
they are available in a single jigdo-lite call. Cheers, Tom -- A little pain never hurt anyone. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: doc-linux-text Not in Wheezy?

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Furie
and FAQs in Japanese (TEXT format) doc-linux-pl - Linux docs in Polish: HOWTO - ascii version doc-linux-pl-html - Linux docs in Polish: HOWTO - html version Cheers, Tom -- Bit off more than my mind could chew, Shower or suicide, what do I do? -- Julie Brown, Will I Make it Through

Re: jigdo various questions ( --noask does not work + how to use /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb as source )

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Furie
on the command line so the iso mount point and the cache could both be checked. Hmm, I think I feel a wishlist bug report coming along. Cheers, Tom -- miracle: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment. -- Webster's Dictionary signature.asc Description

Re: jigdo various questions ( --noask does not work + how to use /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb as source )

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 05:00:03PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: The URI needs to be the last element of the command. You will find most of the required files if you mount the iso and pass the mount point with --scan, passing the iso file finds 0 files. Using --scan causes jigdo to not ask

Re: doc-linux-text Not in Wheezy?

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:41:52AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/04/14 23:53, Tom Furie wrote: What does apt-cache policy doc-linux-text show? doc-linux-text: Installed: 2008.08-1 Candidate: 2008.08-1 Version table: *** 2008.08-1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Re: Systemd

2014-04-25 Thread Tom Furie
and a credit card. Cheers, Tom -- Everybody needs a little love sometime; stop hacking and fall in love! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Details behind a GRUB2 warning message?

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Tom H wrote: Let's assume that you have two Linux installations on sda, on sda1 and sda2, and that grub is embedded in the mbr of sda for sda1 and in the pbr/vbr of sda2 for sda2. I have two distinct use cases 1

Re: Well I am in XFCE for right now since LDXE keeps crapping out

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Dňa Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:51:33 -0500 c. marlow ch...@marlows.org napísal: Im so exhausted I just about give up on Linux, just about ready to scrape up the money, go to walmart and buy me a Windows Machine.. In the last week I

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf kde.li...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 14:08 +, mailer-dae...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address. debian-user@lists.debian.org: Remote host said: 550 5.7.1

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Grub used to be good software. Predictable, non-surprising, one config file you edited with an editor. Those days are gone. Now, with grub 2, I need to be an expert on seven or so files that get processed into one

Re: Q: nfs server fails to mount own exported resource, but other client able to mount

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Snow Leopard snow.leopard@gmail.com wrote: I came across strange mount problem on nfs server -- it refuses to mount it's own directory while other nfs clients able mount nfs server exported directory just fine 1. nfs server name: install.myclub.com

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Kruppt krupp...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 2014-04-23, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't want to wade through

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:35:18PM +0200, maderios wrote: On 04/23/2014 06:18 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Now, with grub 2, I need to be an expert on seven or so files that get processed into one big one, which acts as

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 09:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf kde.li...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 14:08 +, mailer-dae...@yahoo.com wrote: OK, now this doesn't

Re: Q: nfs server fails to mount own exported resource, but other client able to mount

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Snow Leopard snow.leopard@gmail.com wrote: the mystery has been resolved -- question how did I not catch it right away? I found that my old Red Hat system and Debian Wheezy/Squeezy resolve computer name into ip address in different ways. Red Hat mount

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Furie
to run a script and have the commands within the script (and their output) recorded in another file? Cheers, Tom -- Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human kind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. -- Oliver Goldsmith signature.asc

Re: Sudo Autoremove wanting to kill my system?

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Furie
even better than they already do. Cheers, Tom -- A closed mouth gathers no foot. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Sudo Autoremove wanting to kill my system?

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:05:09AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: This seems an odd choice to make. If I installed a meta-package because I couldn't be bothered to investigate which individual packages I wanted, or just

Re: Sudo Autoremove wanting to kill my system?

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:37:50AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: In your example above, while gnome depends on openoffice, openoffice cannot be removed without also removing gnome and thus anything that was pulled

Package dependencies

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Furie
issues. Cheers, Tom -- Trying to establish voice contact ... please yell into keyboard. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: install cinnamon

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Furie
are that it will not get buried in the existing thread and it will not pollute the existing thread. Potential respondents to the cinnamon question may have seen the original thread, not been interested in it, killed the thread and so would not see the question that they would be able to help with. Cheers, Tom

Re: Spam on the list

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:06:00PM -0500, c. marlow wrote: What the heck Sorry I'm new to the whole group email / NEWSGROUP thing. It was spam. Sometimes it gets through the filters. Best course of action is to not reply to it, and *never* quote it. Cheers, Tom -- Support your local

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread Tom Furie
). There is a very large difference between the gaze of passers-by and actively attempting to see something, especially where recording equipment is involved. Cheers, Tom -- I'm ANN LANDERS!! I can SHOPLIFT!! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
interface which would require manual intervention whenever my IP changes (rather defeating the purpose, I think). Cheers, Tom -- But you'll notice Perl has a goto. -- Larry Wall in 199710211624.jaa17...@wall.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
://www.zoneedit.com/) and Hurricane Electric's IPv6 Tunnel Broker (http://ipv6tb.he.net/). I've been using ddclient for so long I didn't even think to look for alternative options in the Debian repos (shame on me). Thank you for the pointers, I shall go exploring :) Cheers, Tom -- We can

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
end up either using dnsdynamic or dnspark. Cheers, Tom -- A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him what he meant. -- Wilson Mizner signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes: On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: ./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain pkgs installed concerning X. Tail of output

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-07 Thread Tom Furie
to install emacs to? Also, while it usually works it's not normally recommended to build in a sub-dir of the source tree, a better option would be for example if your source tree is at src/emacs/trunk to build in src/emacs/build. Cheers, Tom -- Humor in the Court: Q: Are you qualified to give

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:57PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes: What version of Debian are you on? Much of what I mentioned about falling behind has been corrected in the course of this problem. jessie Ah, I tested with wheezy. I'll load up a jessie vm

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:19:25PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: Ah, I tested with wheezy. I'll load up a jessie vm and test again. In theory it shouldn't make any difference, but that's the difference between theory and practice :) With a fresh install of Jessie plus xorg-dev, libgif-dev, libtiff

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote: Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information is used about the package so that dpkg-ftparchive knows with which distribution to associate each package.

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Peter Michaux petermich...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote: Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information is used about the package so that

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-06 Thread Tom Furie
handling, i.e. tiff, gif, jpeg, png and xpm. [...] As indicated by the error, you require at a minimum the X development packages. Install xorg-dev. You will also need -dev packages for whatever toolkit you're using. Cheers, Tom -- The Wright Bothers weren't the first to fly. They were just

Re: Details behind a GRUB2 warning message?

2014-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Thank you. My individual use case appears to be adequately safe, perhaps more due to good luck than good management. However a couple of side comments plus something I read somewhere hints at a more elegant solution.

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
. There are several of these available in Debian, but given that you are new to Linux and using Gnome (probably a default install) I would expect the display manager you are using is gdm3. Some other display managers that are available are xdm, kdm, lightdm for example. Cheers, Tom -- An authority is a person who

Re: aptitude search says package will be installed

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
there are other packages that aptitude wants to add or remove, you can set them to the desired status in the preview screen. Cheers, Tom -- BOFH excuse #140: LBNC (luser brain not connected) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
: headers. Cheers, Tom -- The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait! -- Jim Warner signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
be apparent as soon as you log in, you shouldn't need to reboot. Cheers, Tom -- Debian Hint #34: If you want to track Debian sid and have a small download quota or a really slow connection, check out the debdelta package. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Details behind a GRUB2 warning message?

2014-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 03 Apr 2014 at 14:32:26 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I posted this to help-g...@gnu.org a week ago and got no response. Specifically I'm using GRUB 1.98 as installed by Squeeze. I wish to install GRUB2 in a way that

Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-04 Thread Tom Furie
of the display area. Since you give a height of 1024 I'll assume you are running screens of 1280x1024, in which case '-geometry 5120x1024+0+0' should give what I think you're looking for. Cheers, Tom -- You mean you don't want to watch WRESTLING from ATLANTA? signature.asc Description: Digital

how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread tom arnall
if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list with the 'less' pager. example: ~/$ cdtab will get: Display all 150 possibilities? (y or n) if i enter 'y', the 'more' pager is used to display

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:34:54PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list with the 'less' pager. There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:40:13PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what your goal is. As far as I'm aware 'less' has a higher priority than 'more' in the alternatives system, so... Oops. No there aren't. That should teach me to read more

Re: Disabling services

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:50:49AM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote: Is there a tool that would take down and disable a service based on a configurable criteria? Depending what your configurable criteria are, there are probably several tools that could be used. Cheers, Tom -- Hand, n

loop.de and alice-dsl.de mail problems suggestion

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Furie
Aimed primarily at Ralf and Hans, but may be of interest to other parties. MX lookups for loop.de and alice-dsl.de both resolve to megamailservers.eu, I would suggest that your mail problems lie there. Cheers, Tom -- Finally, Zippy drives his 1958 RAMBLER METROPOLITAN into the faculty dining

Re: Hardware failover webserver cluster

2014-03-28 Thread Tom Furie
a VPS for SRV1/SRV2 or should I use dedicated hardware? SRV1 2 need to be separate hardware, otherwise if the hardware fails you've achieved nothing. Cheers, Tom -- You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? [solved]

2014-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: Hello everyone, I'm OP and I'm still adamant about what I did, and what I saw. The URL, https://www.debian.org/CD/ does lead one to images of CDs as stated by John H. So, my initial problem is solved. But what is

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Furie
will avoid them. Thanks for the tip. PAE stands for Physical Address Extension, it's a 32-bit extension to allow access to memory beyond 4gig. Since you are running 64-bit you don't need it anyway. Cheers, Tom -- * Simunye is on a oc3-oc12 daem0n simmy: bite me. :) Simunye daemon: okay

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives?

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Furie
. However, it is only a redirect to the page linked above. Cheers, Tom -- Boling's postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Tom Furie
, so you can install just texstudio without latex. The easiest way to do this is using aptitude's visual mode, just deselect the latex packages in the preview screen. Cheers, Tom -- The only thing cheaper than hardware is talk. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:43:59PM +, Tom Furie wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages? Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it would pull in I forgot to mention the --no-install

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: Last question is there a way to set this option by default or should i just set an alias? That's all covered in the apt man pages. Cheers, Tom -- Courage is your greatest present need. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
on which boot manager you might be using. Cheers, Tom -- To be a kind of moral Unix, he touched the hem of Nature's shift. -- Shelley signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
help him until he's logged into the system. Cheers, Tom -- Love is staying up all night with a sick child, or a healthy adult. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
understand your problem. My first instinct would be to suppose that he's disabled root logins. Cheers, Tom -- For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. -- Harrison signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:58:59PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Tom is smarter than we are, it's likely that his guess is correct. The OP confused the term for I am far from it, and Lisi and Scott have both made excellent points that illustrate that. no root account, but the first user has got

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:21:27PM +, Tom Furie wrote: It does seem much more likely that Scott is correct and root logins are only disabled at the graphical login - as Scott says, that is the default configuration - in which case Richard should be able to ctrl-alt-Fn to a virtual console

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
I just tried to bring up an install..., by this do you mean you *have* installed and are trying to log in, or that you are now doing a text mode install but have forgotten the previous username you used so don't know what this username should be? Cheers, Tom -- Without love intelligence

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:25:41AM -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:01:15 + Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: The classic approach to this problem is to pass 'init=/bin/sh' to the kernel. Do you think this is going to continue working when we

Re: [Fwd: Re: systemd - boot messages]

2014-03-15 Thread Tom Furie
delayed by the system. Remember the recent threads? Cheers, Tom -- Rebellion Postponement: The tendency in one's youth to avoid traditionally youthful activities and artistic experiences in order to obtain serious career experience. Sometimes results in the mourning for lost youth

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 01:10:11PM +1100, Charlie Schroeder wrote: Life isn't about second guessing if you write or speak to someone if they will take offence surely? Isn't it so that you say your piece and people can

Re: Apache default directories

2014-03-14 Thread Tom Furie
in the directory and any subdirectories (based on system permissions, of course). But the web user cannot access anything in higher directories. I think you missed an important word I've highlighted above. Cheers, Tom -- Kites rise highest against the wind

Re: SASL auth failure dovecot/postfix

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
using the same backend? Cheers, Tom -- Experience varies directly with equipment ruined. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SASL auth failure dovecot/postfix

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
auth is failing, which I know. They do not tell me why or wherein lies the failure. Does /var/log/auth.log have any further details? Cheers, Tom signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
the colours), but how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it isn't often another alternative would be just to change that to something that contrasts better against the black. Cheers, Tom signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SASL auth failure dovecot/postfix

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
in /var/cache/apt/), install them by dpkg and set them to hold status. Make sure you have good backups before doing any of that. Cheers, Tom -- You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:02:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote: how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it ^^^ Every single time I do whatever makes it happen, I cannot

Re: SASL auth failure dovecot/postfix

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
and what the fix was. Cheers, Tom -- Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad. -- Rob Pike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: feature request for this mailing list

2014-03-10 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 05:11:05PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:24:36PM +, Tom Furie wrote: This is the snippet from my .procmailrc for handling Debian mailing lists. Each list gets sorted into it's own directory. :0 * ^List-id: debian-.+\.lists\.debian

Re: Wifi

2014-03-08 Thread Tom Furie
of the 802.11 a/b/g/n standard. It will connect to a wireless router or wireless access point. Given the context I would surmise that wifi switch means a switch on the laptop to enable/disable the wireless adapter, whether that be an actual switch, button, or key-combo. Cheers, Tom -- All over

Re: feature request for this mailing list

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Furie
from my .procmailrc for handling Debian mailing lists. Each list gets sorted into it's own directory. :0 * ^List-id: debian-.+\.lists\.debian\.org * ^List-id: debian-\/[^\.]+ $MAILDIR/.Debian.$MATCH/ Cheers, Tom -- Someone is unenthusiastic about your work. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Test (impact of systemd)

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Furie
, Tom -- VMS Beer: Requires minimal user interaction, except for popping the top and sipping. However cans have been known on occasion to explode, or contain extremely un-beer-like contents. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Test

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:31:23PM +, Tom Furie wrote: I honestly thought I was joking when I mentioned them being intercepted en-route. Yep, there's the delay. My confidence is shaken, and my curiosity is piqued. Cheers, Tom -- Leave no stone unturned. -- Euripides

Re: Can't parse interface line '#015'

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Furie
to save, followed by y to save changes. By standard practice #015 doesn't represent decimal 15, but octal 15, which equates to decimal 13, the very line that was causing the problem. Cheers, Tom -- The more the merrier. -- John Heywood signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Can't parse interface line '#015'

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Furie
it with an 'auto eth0' line. Otherwise eth0 won't come up automatically (unless you're using Network Manager, then it's anybody's guess though I hear it's better behaved than it once was). Cheers, Tom -- Coach: Can I draw you a beer, Norm? Norm: No, I know what they look like. Just pour me one

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-04 Thread Tom Furie
be rebuilt, linking to the later versions of those libraries, most likely working fine possibly with some minor tweaks required. Cheers, Tom -- Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander? Up, down, near or far, here, there or yonder? Sharp-ears, Wise-nose, Swish-tail and Bumpkin, White-socks my

Re: Test

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Furie
communication system, sometimes there are delays, or even failures, at any step along the route. Cheers, Tom -- Two heads are better than one. -- John Heywood signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Test

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Furie
in the systemd thread. In fact, it looks as if *all* messages in that thread were delayed by roughly the same amount of time. My guess is extra processing for particularly suspicious looking messages. Or for the conspiracists out there, perhaps they were intercepted en route... ;) Cheers, Tom

Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Furie
longer, which I don't care about that much? You can put any executable binary in /sbin/init and the kernel will run it when it's finished loading. Cheers, Tom -- Love thy neighbor, tune thy piano. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Furie
. Cheers, Tom -- The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move. -- Frank Crane signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Tom Furie
are the symptoms with a new user on raid /home but no NFS mounts? What are the symptoms with a new user on non-raid /home and NFS mounts? Cheers, Tom -- That does not compute. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Test

2014-03-01 Thread Tom Furie
replies from you on the systemd thread, all within fifteen minutes. Perhaps you just need to be a little more patient, or maybe there's a problem with your evolution settings or your Alice account. Cheers, Tom signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Test

2014-03-01 Thread Tom Furie
, your first reply on that systemd thread arrived here roughly fifteen minutes after you sent it, at about the same time you were submitting your fourth attempt. Cheers, Tom -- The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Debian live USB install fails to boot

2014-02-21 Thread Tom Heuser
is missing operating system. Does anyone know why this is happening? I previous had tails on this USB and it was always able to boot just fine. Cura ut valeas! -Tom Heuser Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - Virgil

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-19 Thread Tom Furie
as arguments. If the intention is to run a cronjob as some system user the simplest method is to create a file in /etc/cron.d, which would require the user field to be populated. Cheers, Tom -- BOFH excuse #221: The mainframe needs to rest. It's getting old, you know. signature.asc Description

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-19 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I find that shutdown can take a time argument so why do I bother with cron Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway! Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdown or reboot the machine on some definable interval without

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Furie
expecting the machine to shutdown when you invoke 'crontab cmd'? Cheers, Tom -- Fakir, n: A psychologist whose charismatic data have inspired almost religious devotion in his followers, even though the sources seem to have shinnied up a rope and vanished. signature.asc

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Furie
'crontab -l' seems okay I suspect the latter. Cheers, Tom -- The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Make aptitude's limit function list installed packages from testing

2014-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Peter Schott peter.sch...@ivao.de wrote: What is the correct filter to: - list all installed packages coming from testing release; - while *not* listing installed packages from other releases (e.g. stable) for which an alternative version from testing is

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: 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

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: Tom H writes: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: let's assume that I have to execute a script after S10checkfs/ S11mountall and before S13networking. Do I find a clear, reliable set

Re: [SOLVED] Re: systemd: some questions

2014-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:57:36PM +0100, Hans wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, 16:05:47 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Hans wrote: Maybe I missed something? Or is systemd

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: Ralf Mardorf writes: On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 06:59 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I still cringe when I think of the first time I replaced ethernet card in a server and udev changed the name I had to patch the udev conf in a

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:42:54 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: Brian writes: On Fri 14 Feb 2014 at 14:11:30 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Ralf Mardorf writes: During setting up Arch Linux with systemd the device

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:49:03 -0500 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: It has nothing to do with Red Hat's ifcfg network scripts or with network Manager. Apparently that's why it was introduced in Fedora before anybody else

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