Re: About installation DVD's

2013-05-17 Thread Rick Thomas
can't do the research for you. Does this help? Rick On May 17, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Rupesh Reddy rupeshforu3.li...@gmail.com wrote: No one of you have answered my question ie., what's the process going on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

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 wrote: If you want to be sure

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

2013-05-06 Thread Rick Thomas
driver modules we will have to load to get it working. All advice is welcome! Thanks in advance, 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/4bdb0970-2b4e-40ef

Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-06 Thread Rick Thomas
guess. Enjoy! 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/678b3ffc-b9ad-4b4f-9f80-73e739c2f...@pobox.com

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

2013-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
possible that nat-traverse is a general purpose implementation of this trick, but I haven't read the documentation, so I can't say for sure. Enjoy! Rick On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:18 PM, alberto fuentes wrote: Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using

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

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-15 Thread Rick Thomas
of times and kludged around it (or decided on a different solution entirely) and I'd love to have a solution that just works. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

2013-04-12 Thread Rick Thomas
details, maybe we can figure out how to make it work for you. 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/9bfcd36a-4d0e-4747-9bb9-fad21069a...@pobox.com

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

2013-04-11 Thread Rick Thomas
to be exactly what I need. Are you aware that init supports multiple run-levels (man 8 init) each with its own set of services? I'll bet you can use this to do what you want... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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 b...@proulx.com said: Erwan David wrote: 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
StorCenter ix2-200 2 TB (2 x 1TB) for US$289. Is this the model you have? Enjoy! 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/5b229d41-efb5-4d68-9afa

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 4, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com 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

NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Rick Thomas
of that capacity, mirrored) via NFSv[34] with gigabit networking. Any suggestions? Any experience to share? Thanks! 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

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-04-01 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

possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
that behavior?) But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same directory, I get a few lines of HTML pre-pended to the downloaded file. Has anybody else seen this behavior? Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug in Lynx? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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

2013-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
businesscard did not. Enjoy! Rick On Mar 11, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Following suggestions given in response to Wanted: an internet free minimal Debian install I wish to experiment with using netinst and businesscard images to perform *NO NETWORK AVAILABLE* installs. As what I

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

2013-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
it or if I overlook some handy option with mtab or cryptsetup or..? Any input is highly appreciated, thanks for reading. Kind Regards, Simon Take a look at the cryptmount package. Maybe it does what you're looking for? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

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

2013-02-24 Thread Rick Thomas
and/or other CLI tools? Cheers, Joh Have you looked at the rsnapshot package? 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/22a1c6b2-750e-4fb1-a839-46933a4fe

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

2013-02-19 Thread Rick Thomas
for your time. I think I'll dive into the deep and see what happens. Grx HdV Please give us a report when you're done. I curious how it turns out! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

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

2013-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
) Intel HD Graphics chip 128MB Video Graphics Memory So it's not a huge display (either in physical size or in pixel real- estate) but for the price, it's acceptable. However, the reports of firmware problems, mentioned by others in this thread, are worrisome... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-01 Thread Rick Thomas
think of Chrome-OS? Can it run Libre Office? Thanks! 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/4678b2f4-32b5-4ecc-9a4e-06befe045...@pobox.com

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Have you tried aptitude instead of apt-get? 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/6b39640c-2875-457c

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 9:00 AM, Mauro wrote: On 8 December 2012 17:37, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com 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

Installing Lenny on PowerMac?

2012-11-18 Thread Rick Thomas
from the network mirrors until after the installation is complete? Thanks! 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/49400222-4490-45b2-ad83-382bb0d5b

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
at the clonezilla utility as described at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/clonezilla-live for ideas. 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/28ccce93-8610

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
. Share the effort; share the benefits. Enjoy! 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/b2e189fe-f58c-4849-9e07-eddc86f33...@pobox.com

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
for fdisk (it may be called fdisk.distrib if you have gnu-fdisk installed) which is available on the web at (among other places) http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk . Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-10-22 Thread rick
version 23.7.0-0037 dated 2012-07-31. Thanks, Rick On Oct 21, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Without further details from Chris I'm assuming megaraid_sas is loading but not working. Is this the case Chris? If so I'm thinking the Intel board simply isn't

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-10-21 Thread rick
posted several days ago but no one has replied about why isci is missing on the latest Debian testing release. Rick Anyone have any luck getting this family of new Intel RAID drivers working in Debian Wheezy? It uses the LSI raid controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208

Re: OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

2012-10-19 Thread rick
Hi, Try this: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ./reflash Rick Hi, Am trying to reflash my cellphone from wheezy using reflash program and am getting a weird No such file or directory error for libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0. I had tried adding /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to the PATH but got

isci module is missing in the latest Debian testing amd64 iso

2012-10-18 Thread rick
the driver but require adding the firmware blob - that's much easier to do during an install. Thanks, 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

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-04 Thread Rick Thomas
daemon starting before the ipv6 part of the network configuration is completely up? Try putting ipv6 in your /etc/modules file... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
was adamant on the subject. So that's the way it is. 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/d8b34071-ed17-429b-a6e9-0f602e37f...@pobox.com

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

Sawfish wm won't start from gdm3

2012-08-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
start up gnome with the default wm, metacity, I can kill metacity and run sawfish from an xterm: killall metacity; sawfish Any ideas why it won't start from the gdm3 greeter? Regards, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

LPR printer driver installation under debian Squeeze

2012-08-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
.) Anyone know how to get a LPR driver that works under Lenny to work under Squeeze? -- Rick Lutowski r...@jreality.com -- 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

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-21 Thread Rick Thomas
but at higher bandwidth. Hope this helps to understand what you're seeing. 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/7ab3d910-6448-4533-b9fd-a66cc57cb

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
of fn alt and the F# keys for #=[1..4] . If that doesn't work, add the ctl, shift and cmd/apple keys into the mix in that order. 4) Try an external USB keyboard. Hope this helps! Rick

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 rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Michael Aldridge aldridge@gmail.com Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
-X running, it should mount it. In the terminal window type df it will show (among other things) a volume mounted on /Volumes/Debian... Type cat /Volumes/Debian*/.disk/info (without the quotes) Report what you see. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

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 rbtho...@pobox.com 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

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
to choose from if you're not comfortable with English. Hope this helps... Rick On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:19 PM, David Harrison wrote: Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Cheers David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
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 rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: 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

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-26 Thread Rick Thomas
for discussion. 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/f834da1d-437b-4e95-ae46-d976afabd...@pobox.com

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)?

2012-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
for using the images, it pretty much assumes that the image was produced with dd and gzip as I have described. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic HTH Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2012-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
? Rick On Jul 22, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 22 iul 12, 17:38:58, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Andrei. You worte: Any suggestions? Why don't You copy Your installation w/ cp -a and reconfiguring then grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm

[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

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

2012-07-05 Thread Rick Thomas
interspersed with long timeouts trying IPv6. You can test for that by temporarily disabling IPv6 entirely on your client machine as described in the website Camaleón pointed to. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
is available) the sources.list file yourself after the choose-mirror step. You may have to do it in /target/etc/apt as well as /etc/apt . I haven't tried it myself, so let us know how/whether it works for you. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

[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

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

2012-06-13 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

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

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
disabled IPv6, but you *still* found the necessary magic. You are a wonderful asset to the Debian-user community. We are privileged to have you with us! Thank you! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

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

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
for the help... Neither the -Y option, nor trying a brand-new user made any difference. Any more suggestions? I'm still puzzled by this one! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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 test you can run

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

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
the successful server and the failing server, the version of openssh-server is 1:5.5p1-6+squeeze2. So that's no help, either. Very curious... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Thomas
will be available to act as backing store for tmpfs. I *think* the algorithm for setting the size of tmpfs is one half of RAM + SWAP. Hence the 4GB. If that doesn't work, you can set the size explicitly in /etc/fstab. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography) 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/b7bfe0e229b6aeef169e2e4b1de52...@pobox.com

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

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
this? Thanks! 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/4fd1da63.1030...@pobox.com

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 variable

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 'slogin -vvv -X

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Rick Thomas
plenty of swap space for any normal use. The remaining question is, why do you periodically run out of memory and crash? Or, put another way, what abnormal use is occurring to cause your crashes? Are there any indications in syslog of what may be going on immediately before the crash? Rick

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

limiting mutt search to header

2012-03-26 Thread Rick Pasotto
troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. -- Buddha Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:59:56 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On 03/22/12 10:47, Camaleón wrote: To be sincere, I'm still unsure about what log file holds what information. In openSUSE, the main log was /var/log/messages and you had to look

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

2012-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
choices. Sometimes we like that -- we call it freedom. Sometimes we don't -- then we call it chaos. Enjoy! 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/46370bc3

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-22 Thread Rick Thomas
. Then there are additional small files for authentication, user and other stuff I never remember which is disseminated into small registries files. Take a look at /etc/rsyslog.conf and man rsyslog.conf rsyslogd All your questions will be answered (albeit cryptically) there. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: printing dead slow since squeeze

2012-03-02 Thread Rick Thomas
configuration files lying around. One of them may be causing your problem. You can purge them all by doing sudo aptitude -Pv purge $(aptitude search '~c' -F '%p') if you're confident it won't hurt your system. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. What release are you running? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. What release are you running? This is on Wheezy

how to get gdm3 greeter to display menu of hosts for remote login via xdmcp

2012-01-29 Thread Rick Thomas
? Is there something I can put into one of the files in /etc/gdm3/ that will enable the remote host chooser? Thanks in advance! 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

gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
a picture (or avatar, if you will) of the person. How does one set that avatar to something more interesting than the default shadow head? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/22/12 20:52, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas
(no longer have to maintain/ synchronize two code bases for doing the same things) ntpdate has been dropped from future versions of the ntp package. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
giving the same IP address. Both DHCP servers are dnsmasq. When I kill off one of the servers temporarily, all goes well. Is there a solution that isn't so drastic? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. Rick On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I'm not the OP, but I do have this problem. When I try to do an install (wheezy) on a network with two DHCP servers

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. Rick On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I'm

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/05/12 16:30, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:55 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers... (Rick Thomas)

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/05/12 20:02, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/01/12 20:26, Rick Thomas wrote: On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
stuff, and the IPv4 side will need to do NAT and port translation. Thanks! Rick On Dec 27, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Most of the manufacturers already do (or don't you consider sub-$100AU cheap?) Apple, Allied Telesis, AVM, Buffalo Tech, Cisco, D-Link, Funkwerk E.C., *cough

address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
(a little more), 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/f6bb41a2-9f3c-457a-a53e-d2c7121ef...@pobox.com

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 28, 2011, at 8:48 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:15:59 + (UTC) Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:59:34 -0500, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Unless you are concerned about growing swap at some later date, you should leave swap out

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
contents survive a reboot, and therefor can be read by anyone who has the key to the LVM. 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/a61fcd91-efd5-4d8c-b7e3

Why do I have wpasupplicant installed if I don't have a wifi interface?

2011-11-14 Thread Rick Thomas
, and (consequently?) no wifi mentioned in interfaces... If I try to deinstall wpasuplicant, it then wants to also remove network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Should I just let it? What would be the consequences if I do? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Why do I have wpasupplicant installed if I don't have a wifi interface?

2011-11-14 Thread Rick Thomas
! I did. and it works fine! 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/23554d82-8dfb-4850-8583-0635f1b82...@pobox.com

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-08 Thread Rick Thomas
upstream developers) can pretend it didn't do that -- when the developers glitch their versions, we just move into a different epoch and go on about our lives. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Rick Thomas
that don't strictly fit into the mail server job description, but are necessary all-the-same. And it can grow into a full-fledged mail server if you ever need it. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
to put stuff you don't want to back up (e.g. copies of CDs and DVDs that you think it's convenient to have online, but that you can restore from the original if they get clobbered.) Enjoy! Rick [*] see http://www.rsnapshot.org/; for a description. do aptitude install rsnapshot to install

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2011-08-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
' is useless. Could someone please help me get started? Thanks. -- We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

2TB file system

2011-08-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
', [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare. -- Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net

Re: jigdo-bd

2011-08-14 Thread Rick Thomas
, including source, on a single BD disk. 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/bf642dcd-0bad-48fe-aff5-438428b93...@pobox.com

Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes

2011-08-09 Thread Rick Thomas
. In that case your system board will probably need to be replaced. In many cases, judicious use of adjtimex to trim the system clock can avoid a system board replacement. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
is this: If you're thinking of running Linux, you probably have a friend who has Linux running. Friends are good things to have. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: 6rd vs. interfaces(5)

2011-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 22.7.2011 11:09, piše Ivan Shmakov: Rick Thomasrbtho...@pobox.com writes: On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] And in the case of NAT'ed IPv4, it's still possible to register for a free-of-charge tunnel service

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