Re: roundcube (Was: apache2 error after upgrade Buster->Bookworm)

2024-10-24 Thread Karl Vogel
here, but it resolves syslog LOG_MAIL remove_bcc_headers off # Bcc to myself for an accurate copy from mick.cr...@gmail.com auth on user mick.crane password m/d4sS2aQiCfML# or whatever you use to authenticate... "msmtp" is pretty much set and forget. --

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-12 Thread Karl Vogel
and using something like safesys() would: * let systemctl write something (hopefully an error message), * show exactly what arguments are being passed to it, and * show its exit value. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself In [the movie] "Seven", I put it in my contract: The wife's head stays in the box. --Brad Pitt on early contract negotiations

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-12 Thread Karl Vogel
se it's bitten me in the ass before; any metacharacters in any argument cause the whole thing to be passed to a shell, which can result in all sorts of entertainment. If I ever have to use it in a perl script, I make a safe wrapper. I've attached a small example. -- Karl Vogel

Re: logging with iptables

2024-09-20 Thread Karl Vogel
The first entry in the "RULES" section shows how to put iptables stuff in its own "firewall" log. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself Photographing a volcano is just about the most miserable t

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-09 Thread Karl Vogel
all screen. Have you tried some different fonts? My eyesight is poor, and a good font made all the difference. https://bezoar.org/posts/2023/0214/font-screenshots/ -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself Debugging: when you're the detective, the victim,

Re: bash history

2024-08-01 Thread Karl Vogel
This is how I keep a long-term record of bash commands from different sessions: https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/ak9c3r/ HTH -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself Comment: I use a screwdriver a lot Reply: I'm all out of orange juice. Wil

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 09:48:23AM -0400, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML > into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for > that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. https://github.com/aaro

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Karl Vogel
t from source is easy. https://invisible-island.net/archives/xterm/xterm-390.tgz{,.asc} -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself My mind is like my browser: 19 open tabs, three of them are frozen, and I have no clue where the music is coming from.

Re: Changing The PSI Definition

2024-01-27 Thread Karl Vogel
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "DejaVu Serif"); user_pref("font.size.fixed.x-western", 18); user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 18); -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of all the radio stations in Chicago...we're one of them."

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-24 Thread Karl Vogel
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:05:29AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/23/24 00:30, Karl Vogel wrote: > >>> On 1/22/24 11:31, gene heskett wrote: > > > > G> How does an 8T backup server sound for another $200 in hdwe? Very > > G> enticing and I do have the sh

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-22 Thread Karl Vogel
you buy two, use one for a complete backup and the other for incrementals or differentials? (I know, more than $200...) -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself I yam Popeye of Borg. You will be askimilgrated.

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

2023-12-06 Thread Karl Vogel
7; > > Sadly it looks like I'll need to do this daily, > > It's the browsers eating your memory. That's what they do. I've had problems with Firefox eating my swap on both Linux and FreeBSD. My fix has been to run the swap2ram script below hourly. -- Karl

Re: Work environment

2023-11-24 Thread Karl Vogel
er factor, desktops are bigger than laptops, so > there is room for more hard drives, optical drives, more PCI cards etc. It gives me a big monitor, a good mouse, and a keyboard that doesn't suck. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself Drunk Gri

Re: Too much log for sudo.

2023-10-12 Thread Karl Vogel
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:22:00AM -0400, Erwan David wrote: > I use a script to run borg backup. For it to be able to backup files that > only root may read, i use sudo --preserv-env=BORG_REPO,BORG_PASSPHRASE. > > However I see that in the logs the VALUE of the env variable is loggued. How > to c

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

2023-09-29 Thread Karl Vogel
2nd October, 2023: sunrise at 07:33, sunset at 19:18 Reminders for Tuesday, 3rd October, 2023: sunrise at 07:34, sunset at 19:15 Reminders for Wednesday, 4th October, 2023: sunrise at 07:35, sunset at 19:15 Reminders for Thursday, 5th October, 2023: sunrise at 07:36, sunset at 19:12 -

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-19 Thread Karl Vogel
, Corsairs, Buccaneers: What's the Difference? www.britannica.com > Demystified > Geography & Travel Corsairs were essentially privateers, although the term corsair carried an added religious connotation because the conflict was between Muslim and Christian... HTH. -- Karl Vo

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-30 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 07:55:14AM -0400, songbird wrote: > Karl Vogel wrote: > ... > > If nothing else, it's faster to run "locate" and look for file extensions; > > running "file" on that much crap took nearly 9 hours. > > do you have SSDs

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-30 Thread Karl Vogel
.oga audio/ogg .ogg audio/ogg .opus audio/ogg .raaudio/x-pn-realaudio .voc audio/x-unknown .wav audio/x-wav If nothing else, it's faster to run "locate" and look for file extensions; running "file" on that m

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-29 Thread Karl Vogel
That might point you to an actual device name. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself. Comment: One of my friends drank half a bottle of rum and refilled it with a bodily fluid of similar color. Reply: Your friend should see a doctor and

Re: Using the bash shell: determine if the root user used 'sudo -i'

2023-08-26 Thread Karl Vogel
var/authpf drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 120 26-Aug-2023 07:55:02 /etc/ drwxrwx--- 2 root authpf 2 05-Jul-2019 00:45:45 /var/authpf/ me$ ./try /etc 2023-08-26 18:31:54 try: start working in /etc me$ daemon -f $PWD/try /etc me$ daemon -f $PWD/try /var/authpf

Re: git setup

2023-08-21 Thread Karl Vogel
tem showing my hook ran when the commit was done: me@bkup% tail -1 /var/log/messages Aug 22 00:31:27 bkup autopull[80162]: git pull whatever Replace the "logger ..." part of post-commit to run "git pull" or whatever. Hope this helps. -- Karl Vogel

Re: xterm font and other options

2023-08-21 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:38:34PM -0400, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 20/08/2023 14:55, Karl Vogel wrote: > > #!/bin/sh > ... > > # -fa 'xft:...' font size and weight > ... > > ( $XTERM $geo $topts -fa "$FONT" -title "Remote

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread Karl Vogel
--mandir=$dest/man \ --with-x \ --with-own-terminfo=$TERMINFO make make check make install It comes with a nice terminfo file. I've had problems with "tic" for ncurses >= version 6, so I use the ncurses-5.9 version to compile it:

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-08-01 Thread Karl Vogel
bert protects against power surges, brownouts, blackouts or drops in voltage. That's why they're a little more expensive. -- Karl Vogel / vogelke AT pobox DOT com / I don't speak for anyone at the moment Skills-wise they suck harder than a black hole with daddy issues.

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-08-01 Thread Karl Vogel
fellow Debian folks? > Thanks. I give a solid vote to Liebert. I had a near-miss lightning strike a few nights ago, and all it did was make my display go out for about a second. It came right back, session intact, didn't lose a thing. -- Karl Vogel / vogelke AT pobox DOT com / I

Re: Re: Debian on ARM Chromebook: how to get touchpad working?

2017-11-05 Thread Karl Noss
Yes, I’ve tried installing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, xserver-xorg-input-mtrack, and xf86-input-cmt (https://github.com/hugegreenbug/xf86-input-cmt) and none of them have made any difference.

Debian on ARM Chromebook: how to get touchpad working?

2017-11-05 Thread Karl Noss
I’m running stretch on an ASUS C201 (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C201) and I’m totally lost as to how to make the touchpad work. I’m not sure if the system even sees the device. I’d appreciate it if someone could help me debug this. Here is some info from my system: root@m

Re: Best practices for updating systems over extremely slow links

2016-10-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
hese components: - make sure /etc/sources.list (and /etc/sources.list.d) are identical - rsync /var/lib/apt/* across - on the remote end: run: apt-get upgrade --print-uris # or similar - grab the URLs - download the *.debs and rsync them into /var/cache/apt/archives/ - on the remote end: apt-get upgrade This is entirely off the top of my head, but with a bit more thought and scripting, it _should_ work... Hope this helps -- Karl

Re: systemd - how to run system service by user target

2016-10-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
he VPN will only actually connect when I'm _not_ at home. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen (also KJ)

Re: networking

2016-08-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
here we seem to be talking about wired access. Wireless access probably should have its own IP range (and allow for a sizeable number of devices) as it will probably not be specific to a floor... You could treat this as a different (less trusted) floor Hope this helps -- Karl

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the same network have the same IP address, then you will get inconsistent results... To see whether a box suffers from this, obtain it's IP address and disconnect it from the network. If the IP address is still pingable (or just arping'able), then this is a red flag... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: apache and clients

2016-06-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 02:49:42PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > Inside a small lan (less 10 pc) I've a server with apache. > > I've to install bind/dnsmasq to automatically resolve IP of apache or can I > use clients's host file? > > What's the easy/fast way to resolve IP of this ser

Re: Konqueror - security hole or bug?

2016-06-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
king at the IP addresses, you should be able to see whether it is broadcast, multicast or point-to-point traffic... Hope this helps -- Karl

Re: chroot setup problem

2016-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ists (and the shared libraries it uses...) Hope this helps -- Karl

Re: Systemd bybasses fstab mounting root partition(?)

2015-10-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ab is in the root file system. Thus, the system can only examine /etc/fstab _after_ the root file system has been mounted... Instead you may want to examine the kernel command line (e.g. in grub or /proc/cmdline) - it should have "root=" in it. Nowadays that is often specifie

Stale mount freezes Gnome3 desktop

2015-10-08 Thread Mag. Dr. Karl Kashofer
unresponsive (no dash, no alt-tab, mouse moves but clicking does nothing) until network connectivity is restored. This is really annoying, would anyone have any idea why that happens ? Thanks, Karl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
yboard, and the > problem inbetween managed to produce such a character > in the bash (libreadline) command line of an xterm. > > Does anybody have an idea how to reproduce this ? > (In order to better avoid it.) I can reproduce that with Alt-gr + space space (My Alt-Gr key is my com

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 13:02 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup > with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: > > # crontab -l > 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup > > I can run the script manually with

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-05-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
large-size archival mailboxes in mbox, potentially compressed. The archivemail > tool can assist with moving one to the other. > > > It is a tragedy that a standard, robust and efficient format for mailboxes > > was never designed and adopted. > > It's a tragedy that ma

Re: An inotifywait question

2015-04-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
be studying? > > Thanks for any clues. The bash manual, at around 500 pages, details > aren't that easy to find in that tome. Bash (or sh) is really a programming language :-) You're looking for $! : Special Parameters: ... ! Expands to the process ID of the job mos

Re: Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
configuration files. I'm currently > unable to get into the system so I'll be getting a rescue CD > set up to use later today. Well - it is theoretically possible that a disk corruption has done something to your pam configuration. Hopefully the log files will contain clues so you don&#

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
g/daemon.log will show dhcp-related events here... * Can you reach the access point with ping? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
your local network ... Then you'll only have to download things once (usually) hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
late - sorry] If you are using Gnome, then the normal file manager (nautilus) should be able to fit the bill too. Then users do not have to learn a new interface... Just my 2 p -- Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Some commands is not working in Linux server

2015-02-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 21:00 +0530, Justinmp wrote: > Greetings to all.. > > Everything was working normally until last day.From today I am not > able to execute few commands like ls in cent os machine.Interesting > part is ls -al is working fine. > > When ever I issued ls , du -sh * ,yum upd

Re: Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

2015-02-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the uptime of the host kernel. If you recently rebooted your VPS, you will see an uptime which is "too long". Tools like the "imvirt" package can also tell you what virtualisation you're running under. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 22:40 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat sceptical > > about. But since I could not come up with any technically sound > > arguments against it (p

A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
have not paid attention to - simply because it did not cause problems. Which is absolutely excellent - that's the way software *should* be. Keep up the good work! -- Karl E. Jørgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Writing files with formatted name

2015-02-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
he sequence for each subsequent file.  > Something similar to what logrotate is doing. > > Tlhanks in advance > > -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
t; I understand the typical use of the utility is in a classroom > situation where instructor needs to see exactly what the student > did. I know I saved the message but I can't come up with keywords to > retrieve it. That sounds like the "script" command - it's in the

Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
message you see. This should do the trick: for i in *.Log ; do if test -f "$i"; then rm "$i" echo Removed $i. fi done or if you want to make things *really* simple: rm --force --verbose *.Log :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
robably. But it depends on why it was read-only to start with... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141219120135.GB25008@hawking

Re: user permission inconsistency

2014-12-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of your shell. > I *suspect* this is somehow related to systemd-logind (while systemd > is not running as pid 1) > > I just added user to group dialout (and astonished not to have to > logout in order to have updated user groups list) Well - if you run "id username"

Re: Debian by default / Debian jessie

2014-12-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
reboot > the computer, i don't have sound :( Which application did you expect to emit sound? some more information would be helpful here... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: bind9 needs sometimes a restart after resume from suspend

2014-12-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 03:26:29PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2014 11:59:16 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:26:36PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Hi Pascal, > > > > > > On Sunday

Re: Image cloning software

2014-11-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
t; media for 'cloning' on the other comps (or on itself, in case of an > irreparable failure of a working machine)? Thanks. You may want to look at the bootcd package - looks like it will do what you ask... Or at least similar enough to get you most of the way there. -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: bind9 needs sometimes a restart after resume from suspend

2014-11-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
rt after > > > suspend. > > > > Why ? Not running, not resolving, errors... ? > > bind9 does not respond. > > See e.g. the dig command from my previous post > > blackbox:~# dig heise.de > ^Cblackbox:~# That was well hidden :-) Any related messages

Re: EXT4-fr error, ext4_find_entry: reading directory...

2014-11-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
s It could even be a power issue - lack of sufficient voltage can have all sorts of weird and counter-intuitive results. And inconsistently so. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Block size confusion.

2014-11-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
and cylinder. ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector > > why it is recommended that we should use same size of block in both VG and LV > as the size of PV? This could possible be due to alignment -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: LVM: shrinking a logical volume (moving LVM logical volumes to new disks)

2014-11-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
licing off LVs to be presented to the virtual machines as disks. And the VMs then partition them and/or create PVs on them. Nested stuff galore. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Unable to start kvm virtual machines after re-install of "testing"

2014-11-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
its physical, 48 bits virtual > power management: Not the greatest CPU for virtualisation, but I see no reason it should not work... I wonder: It sounds like the contents of /proc/cpuinfo changed between the two kernel versions... Is the contents the same if you boot the old kernel? T

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

2014-11-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
if you are willing to live with the added latency. Not a good idea for database servers or other IO intensive VMs. It may be a better alternative than extended downtime. As an administrator, you get to make that trade-off. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141112225744.GA9128@hawking

Re: A Synaptic question

2014-11-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ke a bug... And from perusing http://bugs.debian.org/synaptic it appears to be new I recommend that you report this bug - tools like "reportbug" should help you :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: exim4 panic log issue

2014-11-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ns that I found. However I see that they are all related to > an issue with the kernel and IPV6 handling. What is the proper way to solve > this permanrently whilst leaving IPV6 functional. > Thanks! What is the actual error reported in /var/log/exim4/paniclog ? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
nning the route command takes a long time to come back with the > results. However my computer now connects and can be connected to. Hm.. I don't see "auto eth0" anywhere -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: alsa-utils save / restore not working http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665

2014-11-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
2.2/fhs-5.13.html > Where are the state of the sound card(s) saved / restored? I don't use alsa-utils, but based on my understanding of the FHS, I'd expect somewhere under /var/lib/alsa-utils. But from reading the bug report, I'm led to believe it is /var/lib/alsa/asound.state Ho

Re: Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
; > zsh, however, is more helpful: > > $ which umask > umask: shell built-in command Well, it *appears* that zsh is more helpful. But only because the "which" command itself is a built-in for zsh :-) (it isn't for bash) So you have the opposite problem: "ma

Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
That is also a possibility. But if it is only for facilitating a single server, then it's overkill. And it adds a single point of failure too: you would not be able to resolve IP addresses while the machine is down. If you already own/run a domain, you can also add a A record in the DNS for t

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
is up for debate. It only intentds to be a safety net, not a security feature. After all, attempting to protect a system against the root user is nonsensical. Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141031082118.GA22377@hawking

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
And it is reasonably simple to bypass by a half-competent admin. I doubt this affects the LXDE power off button though. (I do not use LXDE). Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: LVM on two disks - spin down?

2014-10-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
time being I'd take care of my new > disk.) Remember that you can move portions of LVs around to suit you if you like (without downtime) - courtesy of the (somewhat misnamed) pvmove command. So even if you start off with the "wrong" layout, it's relatively easy to fix.

Re: debian-installer grub install problem

2014-10-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ding - FAI is much more customizable, and allows you to set up the resulting system exactly as you want (e.g. including kicking off puppet, cfgengine and similar), without needing any manual intervention. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Running awesome with Gnome - want gnome-panel too!

2014-10-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
on how I can diagnose this and/or narrow it down? FWIIW I'm running an up-to-date wheezy install - gnome-panel version 3.4.2.1-4 ... Any help would be appreciated... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
and another set for "guests" ? Once you segregate things like that, then you have to live with them being separate. The volume group concept is for grouping the *disks*, so you can treat a group of disks with similar properties as a interchangeable. So it makes more sense to have vol

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
I find that most people who talk about the benefits of virtualisation, really are talking about the benefits of *isolation*. And isoation of apps does not require the full overhead of a new root file system, new kernel etc. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Racoon

2014-09-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
gorithm 3DES; > authentication_algorithm hmac_md5; > compression_algorithm deflate; > pfs_group modp1024; > } I'd recommend looking in the logs to start with, and getting rid of the syntax errors in the config before going further... Hope this helps --

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
So in conclusion: A big "thank you" to the Debian Developers. The stability of the distribution is a direct result of their work. [1] Yes, I run a fair number of virtual machines which are always re-built from scratch. Gotta test deployment scripts somewhere. [2] I have no reservations

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
t to hash the known_hosts file: bash command completion - after "ssh" or "scp" the bash command completion will use ~/.ssh/known_hosts to suggest/complete hosts. Brilliant stuff. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: DNS Resolution and Short Names with Dots

2014-09-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ess 192.0.2.2 > www.example.com has IPv6 address 2001:db8::2 So... it looks like the number of dots in the query matter Perhaps one of the recent libc upgrades have changed the default for 'ndots' ? If so, according to a quick scan of the resolv.conf(5) manual page you should be abl

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
be able to help if they have that output. It's also worth having a glance in /var/log/kern.log (usually where syslog puts the kernel messages) for anything amiss: Misbehaving hardware can really mess things up. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: No localhost - I'm stumped

2014-08-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
nce. > > 2) strace ping -c2 localhost snipped output - it looks OK to my cursory glances.. > > 4) sysctl --system > sysctl --system > * Applying /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf ... > net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 0 > net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 0 These

Re: dropbox install break apt-get

2014-08-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
e it is relegated to "non-free" ... If you can reproduce it, I recommend that you raise a bug on it. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140824090758.GA8651@hawking

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ad of writing to /dev/null when debugging is off, simply do not perform debugging if it is off! (writing to /dev/null is a waste of resources anyway) A little shell function like this will do the trick: debug() { if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then echo "$@" fi } so you script can use &q

Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

2014-07-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit may be a good starting point. [1] Let's not get into the whole systemd saga here Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ric architecture? If so, there should be no need to change the version number - this would introduce unnecessary confusion... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

2014-07-01 Thread Karl Munch
The stream is restricted to the territory of Romania, so I guess you are there. I was able to watch an ad there, but not the stream due to the above restriction. For your information, I moved the libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 16:59 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote

Re: High %wa, irregular blocking

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
; Bernd > > [1] iMac 8,1: 2008, Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz, GB RAM, 500 GB WD HDD, ATI Radeon HD > 2600 PRO (PCIe) Looks similar to this one? http://www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/#3 Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ing the dot-notation, e.g. eth0.1, eth0.2 etc. Other notations are possible, but us poor puny humans are easily confused. - IP Aliasing is a way of allowing a device to have multiple IP addresses on the same VLAN. This is usually done via the "colon" notation - e.g. eth0:1, eth0:

Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
her tool like xterm, rxvt etc worked fine... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140526083502.GA24055@hawking

Re: "Recommends" for hard dependency?

2014-05-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ven starting up the program! I'd agree with that sentiment :-) Another way to resolve this could be to relegate the assistant into it's own package (which would have hard dependencies on libqt5sql5-sqlite and qtttools5-dev-toos), and let the main package recommend the assistant package?

Re: Laptop pads: was Weird random reboot -- thinkpad x220

2014-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ried the xxxterm browser? It might be called xombrero on > your Debian version. It's a browser made to be used with keystrokes > reminiscent of Vim: No mouse required. For the emacs users out there: Obviously w3m ! But for a graphical browser: conkeror. If you're used to emacs, it sh

Re: Spacewalk or similar for Debian?

2014-05-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:30:42AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:15:43AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hi > > > > Consider this scenario: > > > > - 1000+ servers (lenny, squeeze and wheezy) at varying degrees of >

Spacewalk or similar for Debian?

2014-04-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ers solved this? My main concern here is the security updates and point releases: I'm pushing for getting all the servers upgraded to wheezy anyway, and as part of the upgrade they'll pick up any pending (at that point in time) security updates. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Network Performance Degrading over random amount of time

2014-04-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:01:25PM +0200, h...@xx0r.eu wrote: > Am 2014-04-26 12:44, schrieb h...@xx0r.eu: > >Am 2014-04-22 10:38, schrieb h...@xx0r.eu: > >>Am 2014-04-20 23:49, schrieb Karl E. Jorgensen: > >>>Hi > >>> > >>>On Sun, Apr 20,

Re: Network Performance Degrading over random amount of time

2014-04-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to ANY suggestions here even if they involve building a > custom kernel or other magical hakkery ;D Well - it looks like you have put a fair amount of effort into solving this But until the problem is narrowed down, this would probably be as likely to resolve the problem as a goat sacrif

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
y had no need to save the actual *traffic*, merely the access point MAC address, signal strength and streetview car location to do this. Just my 2p -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Voice control

2014-04-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ke? Other interesting text input methodologies like Dasher may be useful too.. Not for typing, but in my past interweb wanderings I came across this one: http://eviacam.sourceforge.net/ Perhaps that will be helpful? I gave up playing with it when I switched to a laptop without a built-in webcam..

Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
I may have gotten the size wrong. Although limited, it only serves as a buffer in case syslog is slow picking it up. Configurable with the "log-buf-len" kernel parameter if you want to nitpick. But I'm sure you don't :-) Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen --

Re: getting emails from cron despite redirecting output to a log file

2014-03-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
#x27;s a problem that all these jobs are trying to write to the same log file at > once? Probably not. But it's easy to send stuff via syslog as noted above. Then you don't have to bother about maintaining the log files, and can also log to a centralised server etc etc.

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ot. But you don't. You run i3exit as yourself (without sudo), and IT then uses "sudo pm-suspend" (and others). Two possible ways forward: - Call it using "sudo i3exit" and remove the calls to sudo from inside the script - Call it as yourself (= just "i3exit") a

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