Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/21/2015 2:06 AM, Javi Barroso wrote: Hello, El 18 de noviembre de 2015 1:08:49 CET, Richard Owlett escribió: In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Joel Rees a écrit : > > Thinking in terms of partitions as the things you mount in /etc/fstab. Err, no. The things you mount in /etc/fstab are filesystems, not partitions. A filesystem may not even lie in a partition or volume (think about tmpfs, nfs...).

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-21 Thread Javi Barroso
Hello, El 18 de noviembre de 2015 1:08:49 CET, Richard Owlett escribió: >In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for >ease of adjusting space. > >When searching for more information all I'm finding are >essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" >and "

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data >> than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way. Thinking in terms of partitions as the thin

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Joel Rees a écrit : > > I think I have heard of people booting straight out of LVM partitions, > but that takes more gum tape than I like to use. I do believe grub is > able to look into LVM partitions somewhat these days, Indeed. And Linux software RAID. > so you may want > to play with having

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data > than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way. You do > still have to exercise common sense, however. > > I've lost a re-sized partition permanently us

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Joel Rees > wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: >> > [...] >> > >> >> No information on dual boot. >> > >> > If with not Linux, it won't work. > >> That's news to me. > >> I've mulit-booted op

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > [...] > > > >> No information on dual boot. > > > > If with not Linux, it won't work. > That's news to me. > I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora in a non-VM LVM, debian, SUSE, and a > previous version of t

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > [...] > >> No information on dual boot. > > If with not Linux, it won't work. That's news to me. I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora in a non-VM LVM, debian, SUSE, and a previous version of the OSS fork of Solaris. Not all at once, but thr

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> 2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett": >>> >>> >>> In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease >>> of adjusting space. >> >> >> Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come i

Re: info

2015-11-19 Thread Darac Marjal
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Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2015 9:58 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Richard Owlett wrote: > When searching for more information all I'm finding are > essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" > and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not". One good use is when you're encrypting / (and /home if it's own) and swap. I use luks t

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 19/11/2015 6:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Windows XP runs on a dedicated machine whose functions are browsing and > email. XP -- that's dead now; lots of security issues that will never get fixed. Do you really need Windows now? What is it that XP does for you that you can't do with Windows

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread John L. Ries
PHYSICALLY ISOLATED* from internet "for cause" ;/ [ don't ask ;] On Tuesday 2015-11-17 17:08, Richard Owlett wrote: Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:08:49 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user Subject: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's In some of my reading I came across a page

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
d Owlett wrote: Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:08:49 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user Subject: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:29:01PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: LVM is a kludge. Not at all. LVM can increase the size of partitions by giving them more space on either an empty section of disk or another disk. Either way, you Yes. then need to increase the filesystem size on that partition,

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
d...@randomstring.org wrote: > >Here's why not: > >LVM is a kludge. Not at all, no. LVM *as a concept* has been around for ages in a lot of enterprise systems. The Linux implementation using device-mapper works reasonably well and provides a lot of features that people use a lot. >That doesn't me

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease > of adjusting space. > > When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially > HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". > E

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread John L. Ries
(619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Tuesday 2015-11-17 17:08, Richard Owlett wrote: Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:08:49 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user Subject: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's In some of my reading I came across a page recommendi

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". Essenti

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote: 2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett": In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come in handy when I was still getting a feeling for partitioning. I've a machine set as

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Joel Rees
2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett" : > > In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come in handy when I was still getting a feeling for partitioning. > When searching for more information all I'm finding are essen

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2015 2:03 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Richard Owlett a écrit : In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". Ess

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Richard Owlett a écrit : > In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for > ease of adjusting space. > > When searching for more information all I'm finding are > essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" > and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not". >

LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-17 Thread Richard Owlett
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not". No information on dual boot. Suggest

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:05:20PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: [...] > > Hmmm. Sorry to be so unspecific. > > No prob. Everybody's happy now. I just have some data to copy over from the > old disk. At least it wasn't the hardware... In any case, g

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts matching your actual IP to the content in > /etc/hostname when you observe this delay? Yup. I rely on the host files, so I keep then correct and accurate. -- Glenn English

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:53 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hmm. Weird. I dimly remember that tcpwrappers did something > similar: to check the host name they sometimes tried a > reverse host lookup, which took its time when it failed. I've never seen or heard of anything like this -- the kernel comp

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Felix Miata
Glenn English composed on 2015-10-04 18:14 (UTC-0600): > I disabled XDM (sure is nice to have text config files) and rebooted. It > came up at a regular login prompt, and no error messages. startx took a > *very* long time -- said it couldn't find the hostname (something like > that) -- but it eve

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:53:06AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2015, at 1:04 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Then try "ssh @localhost". > > Works, kinda. It does the same thing to localhost or the hostname, from the > console or fro

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 1:04 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Then try "ssh @localhost". Works, kinda. It does the same thing to localhost or the hostname, from the console or from a terminal in XFCE. (I've got SSH running with keys around the local net(s) (no login required)). The MOTD comes up right

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 1:04 AM, wrote: > All those 30-ish seconds timeout and the error message you mention > above smell of something trying to resolve a host name, failing > and giving up (timeout). Yup. The timeouts do, anyway. The error messages from the kernel when I start XFCE never time ou

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 06:14:44PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I disabled XDM (sure is nice to have text config files) and rebooted. It came > up at a regular login prompt, and no error messages. startx took a *very* > long time -- said it couldn't

bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-04 Thread Glenn English
I disabled XDM (sure is nice to have text config files) and rebooted. It came up at a regular login prompt, and no error messages. startx took a *very* long time -- said it couldn't find the hostname (something like that) -- but it eventually started XFCE. And the messages were back. Something

Re: Debian's contact info

2015-09-12 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 01:35:06PM +, Uroš Jarc via Brewster wrote: Next time post in plain text. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: Debian's contact info

2015-09-12 Thread Uroš Jarc via Brewster
Title: Join Brewster         Uroš asked us to reach out and confirm they have your latest info Here's what they have for you now:   debian-user@lists.debian.org Mobile Number     Confirm/Update for

Which program shows info about virtual packages --- apt-cache no good. (was ... Re: Re : adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie)

2015-09-08 Thread Chris Bannister
27; as it is purely virtual N: No packages found I tried this from the man page: apt-cache show --all-names flashplayer-mozilla but got this as output: E: Command line option --all-names is not understood seems like the man page is out of sync. Is there another way of seeing the info about fl

Re: Gnome-terminal in Mate, How? (more info. and questions)

2015-06-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I looked at my post. I didn't like the words that I saw. I do need to study Mate documentation Please accept my appology. Thanks for your help. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Gnome-terminal in Mate, How? (more info. and questions)

2015-06-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 19:33 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > What is a shortcut in the context of Mate/Gnome? > No errors are reported to me the user. So how do you launch gnome-terminal? What happens when you open mate -terminal and type "gnome-terminal"? I don't use MATE, but I'm sure there is

Re: Gnome-terminal in Mate, How? (more info. and questions)

2015-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150624_1151+0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 14:38 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm running Jessie with Mate as desktop GUI. I notice that Mate > > terminal, which I use a lot, is very similar in function to > > Gnome-terminal. But Mate terminal does not have the function

Re: rsync: on remote machine: --info=NAME: unknown option

2014-03-26 Thread Emanuel Berg
un...@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes: > I see no such option in my version of rsync (3.0.9) No, that was the case - while I had 3.1.0 on my local Debian, on the remote Solaris, the version 3.0.9 did not support the '--info' option. > If you had it the wrong options o

Re: rsync: on remote machine: --info=NAME: unknown option

2014-03-25 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Emanuel Berg writes: > In an alias, I setup the following command to copy > files: > >> rsync -Lprtu --info=name --delete-excluded --exclude="*~" > > It works on my local Debian but when I try to use it > (instead of scp) to copy files to a remote > SunOS/So

rsync: on remote machine: --info=NAME: unknown option

2014-03-22 Thread Emanuel Berg
In an alias, I setup the following command to copy files: > rsync -Lprtu --info=name --delete-excluded --exclude="*~" It works on my local Debian but when I try to use it (instead of scp) to copy files to a remote SunOS/Solaris system, it says: > rsync: on remote machine: --in

Re: Problems with Testing Install - More Info

2014-02-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
; Sent: > Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:02:16 +0100 > Subject: > Re: Problems with Testing Install - More Info > > > erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com > <mailto:erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Eth an >

Re: Problems with Testing Install - More Info

2014-02-27 Thread erosenberg
  - Original Message - From: debian-user@lists.debian.org To: Cc: Sent:Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:02:16 +0100 Subject:Re: Problems with Testing Install - More Info erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com [1] wrote: > > > In the installation, at the end of the screen that loads the >

Re: Problems with Testing Install - More Info

2014-02-27 Thread Schrey
erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: In the installation, at the end of the screen that loads the executables, the last statement is "cleaning up". At that point I get a blank [blue] screen. [...] When the system asks" do I want to scan any more disks", and I then insert a new disk, th

Fwd: Problems with Testing Install - More Info

2014-02-26 Thread erosenberg
- Original Message - From: To: "debian user group" Cc: Sent: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:38:53 -0500 Subject: Problems with Testing Install Dear List - In the installation, at the end of  the screen that loads the executables, the last statement is "cleaning up".  At that point I get a blank

Re: additional info on pkgs of Debian 7 Install

2014-02-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:54:37PM -0500, W. Anderson wrote: >I have just recently installed Debian 7.3 via Net Install.  > >There was "no" problem with the install, however I could find "pkg >install" info on the : >Standard Systems Utiliti

Re: additional info on pkgs of Debian 7 Install

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 feb 14, 16:54:37, W. Anderson wrote: > I have just recently installed Debian 7.3 via Net Install. > > There was /"no"/ problem with the install, however I could find "pkg > install" info on the : > /*Standard Systems Utilities*//* > *//*Web serv

additional info on pkgs of Debian 7 Install

2014-02-17 Thread W. Anderson
I have just recently installed Debian 7.3 via Net Install. There was /"no"/ problem with the install, however I could find "pkg install" info on the : /*Standard Systems Utilities*//* *//*Web server *//* *//*File server*/ Where exactly are applications installed for Web S

Re: Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
ow is Qt5. >>> My book has never been updated. >>> >>> So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best >>> develop a new app with it. >>> >>> Anybody with ideas? > I've just bought and started reading "The Book

Re: Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-27 Thread lina
On Tuesday 28,January,2014 10:58 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see > that what's installed now is Qt5. > My book has never been updated. > > So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to

Re: Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/14 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see > that what's installed now is Qt5. > My book has never been updated. > > So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best > develo

Re: Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-27 Thread Dan Hitt
concerned about Qt is that by being so cross-platform there may be some lowest-common-denominator effect. (Of course Qt is hardly unique in attempting to be cross-platform.) Other questions are whether it allows you to use C++11. So good luck, and hoping to learn from your experience. dan > >

Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see that what's installed now is Qt5. My book has never been updated. So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best develop a new app with it. Anybody with ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman pr

Re: gpm dumping info to /var/log/messages

2014-01-12 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Wednesday 08 January 2014 01:17 PM, Mike McClain wrote: Is there any way to stop gpm from dumping to /var/log/messages every time I copy/paste without stopping other deamons from writing info there too? I see no such provisions in the man pages. Thanks, Mike -- Who knows what evil lurks in

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2014-01-07 Thread Mike McClain
Is there any way to stop gpm from dumping to /var/log/messages every time I copy/paste without stopping other deamons from writing info there too? I see no such provisions in the man pages. Thanks, Mike -- Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Frozen screen; Info lacks C-n; (Jessie)

2013-11-26 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
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2013-08-17 Thread Ста Деюс
Good time of the day. This letter is additional data on my investigation of the problem, started here . It turns that system deadly freezes due to disk's IO operation: . ps shows that CPU is 0 idle and 100 waiting . iotop shows that l

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info, and yet more

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mou

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mounts as /dev/sda) - now

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy - more info

2013-07-10 Thread André Nunes Batista
Kind of a typo on the name of mate deb package, no?! Someone shall say shutthafuckup sometime, but I'm very happy using slim + openbox + tint2 + i3lock. Not that I hated gnome 3 at first, but after a while of using it, I couldn't help but feel desperate with its huge memory consumption and its unc

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy - more info

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Personally I am using on my Desktop MATE .. here's how you will installing http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download On 07/10/2013 07:31 PM, John Tate wrote: You can alter the menu options by hitting super and typing "main menu" and you will surely find it. Extensions make it pretty damn good. It

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend added info

2013-07-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Resending to list. where it ought to have been in the first place. > > On Sunday 07 July 2013 06:43:28 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > > Dear List - > > > > This is what I tried next > > > > 1. Open a terminal window. > > > > 2. Type in t

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend added info

2013-07-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
Resending to list. where it ought to have been in the first place. On Sunday 07 July 2013 06:43:28 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > This is what I tried next > > 1. Open a terminal window. > > 2. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each. > > For 32-bit systems: > > wge

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend added info

2013-07-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - This is what I tried next 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each. For 32-bit systems: wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb dpkg -i google-chrome-*.deb apt-get install -f These are the

Setting hostname and dnsdomainname from DHCP lease info (wheezy)

2013-05-16 Thread Joao Roscoe
Dear Gurus, I have several desktop boxes running debian (new image with wheezy is in the oven right now). I got those boxes networking configured via DHCP, and the addresses are reserved by MAC address. To get the hostname/IP/MAC info in a single place, I configured the windows based DHCP

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Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 26/04/13 11:06, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jerome BENOIT > wrote: >>Somehow I am looking for the opposite tool of dpkg-genchanges: >>given a .changes file, I would like to check whether the associated files >>(source fil

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >Somehow I am looking for the opposite tool of dpkg-genchanges: >given a .changes file, I would like to check whether the associated files (source files + debballs) >are the correct one. I have not met such tool in debian which does this. Probab

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Jaikumar, On 26/04/13 07:23, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Jerome BENOIT <mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net>> wrote: >>is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian >>files ? > Can you mention as to what you

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-25 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Can you mention as to what you want to achieve? Probably, *man dpkg-genchanges* would give your more hints. --Jaikumar

check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 3/13/2013 7:31:19 PM Subject: Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive] > João Luis Meloni Assirati wr

Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has >> to be mounted with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it >> is plugged through USB and you have a mount desktop service >> communicating with dbus, all should be automatic. However, >

Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread Richard Owlett
João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: [snip] Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has to be mounted with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it is plugged through USB and you have a mount desktop service communicating with dbus, all should be automatic. However, if User mounts it

Re: no .info info on info (was Re: dselect fun)

2013-02-01 Thread wes davidson
I was speaking about the integrated aptitude help page, which is using exactly same interface as info. ah, now i understand. at least, i think i do. i'm assuming by "exactly the same interface" you mean they both take input from and provide output to a terminal? since

Re: no .info info on info (was Re: dselect fun)

2013-01-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 27 janvier 2013 17:02, wes davidson a écrit : > hi morel. > > you wrote: >> Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude. >> > > i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if i am > wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn

Re: no .info info on info (was Re: dselect fun)

2013-01-28 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Jan 2013 at 11:02:22 -0500, wes davidson wrote: > hi morel. > > you wrote: > > >I do not like info at all: this is a software which pretends to help > >you, but you have to learn how it works before being able to use it. > > when i first read a unix man

no .info info on info (was Re: dselect fun)

2013-01-27 Thread wes davidson
hi morel. you wrote: Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude. i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if i am wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn where it can be obtained. i am aware of various manpages and the html documentation for aptitude

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-18 Thread Tom H
On 12/16/12 6:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> On the topic of pkgsel/include: >> >> Here is an example from my preseed configuration: >> >> d-i pkgsel/include string dnsutils less nvi openssh-server postfix >> rsync sudo >> >> All of those packages will be installed. Any dep

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Here is an example from my preseed configuration: d-i pkgsel/include string dnsutils less nvi openssh-server postfix rsync sudo All of those packages will be installed. Any dependencies that they declare will be installed. The eff

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Here is an example from my preseed configuration: > > > > d-i pkgsel/include string dnsutils less nvi openssh-server postfix rsync > > sudo > > > >All of those packages will be installed. Any dependencies that they > >declare will be installed. The

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Does this helps? No :( Those only tell me the commands exist. I need to know what constraints exist for using them. On the topic of pkgsel/include: Here is an example from my preseed configuration:

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Owlett
Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Does this helps? No :( Those only tell me the commands exist. I need to know what constraints exist for using them. On the topic of pkgsel/include: Here is an example from my preseed configuration: d-i pkgsel/include s

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: > Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > >Does this helps? > > No :( > Those only tell me the commands exist. > I need to know what constraints exist for using them. On the topic of pkgsel/include: Here is an example from my preseed configuration: d-i pkgsel/include string dnsuti

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Hi Richard On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:39:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm following the example preseed.cfg given at http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt . It gives no detailed information on correct usage of d-i pkgsel/include string ...

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-13 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Richard On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:39:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm following the example preseed.cfg given at > http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt . > > It gives no detailed information on correct usage of > d-i pkgsel/include string ... > AND > d-i preseed/l

Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-13 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm following the example preseed.cfg given at http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt . It gives no detailed information on correct usage of d-i pkgsel/include string ... AND d-i preseed/late_command string ... I unsuccessfully attempted to use the first. I suspect the seco

Re: squeeze - apt-cache policy don't report additional info

2012-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 12 nov 12, 10:31:52, Nicolas T wrote: > > My Release files on mirrors are correct : > It reports for exemples headers like this : > > Origin: Debian > Label: Debian > Suite: stable-updates > Codename: squeeze-updates > Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:17:11 UTC > Valid-Until: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:

squeeze - apt-cache policy don't report additional info

2012-11-12 Thread Nicolas T
n, 05 Nov 2012 08:17:11 UTC Valid-Until: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:17:11 UTC I tried to clean /var/cache/apt /var/lib/apt/ then rerun apt-get update.. It doesn't change anything! Here is my preferences that don't match (because additional info are not matched) : Package: sun-java6-jre sun-ja

Re: Bug#684293: Info received (Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug])

2012-08-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:18:34 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-08-11 21:06 +0200, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> On 11.08.2012 21:18, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >>> Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding >>> this Bug report. (...) >> What is this email? Isn

Re: Bug#684293: Info received (Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug])

2012-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-08-11 21:06 +0200, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 11.08.2012 21:18, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >> Thank you for the additional information you have supplied >> regarding this Bug report. >> >> This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your >> message has been received.

Re: Bug#684293: Info received (Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug])

2012-08-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11.08.2012 21:18, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Thank you for the additional information you have supplied > regarding this Bug report. > > This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your > message has been received. > > Your

Bug#684293: Info received (Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug])

2012-08-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this Bug report. This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message has been received. Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other interested parties for their attention; they will rep

getting ldap info for user authentication

2012-07-05 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Hi, I installed ownCloud on Squeeze and want to get these info to get users from zimbra-ldap (openldap) to be used as login user for owncloud Host: (i assume openldap server's IP) Base: (i assume dc=mydomain,dc=com as per email's domain) Name: Password: User Login Filter: User List Fil

Clobbered digest volumes (more info)

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Roach
Looking closer at the problem, (see "Clobbered digest volumes" in Volume 2012 #1342) I find that I occasionally receive a correct message. The returns of my own are correct and some others. The bad messages all have the header information after the text and trigger the error message: Error:

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