Re: PS/2 Keyboard and Mice not working (USB is) on X

nt1 ; test, then try 2, etc…) If no to either question, then the issue is at some layer underneath X, the input event subsystem. If yes, then there is an X configuration issue. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: eglibc fails to build from source

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Brian wrote: >sudo apt-get build-dep If you would prefer to be able to remove the build dependencies afterwards easily, you could do (assuming one has devscripts and gdebi installed): mk-build-deps sudo gdebi install sudo dpkg -i

Re: iptables service with debian

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:38:45AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > …or using something more or less non-standard like the > apf-firewall or arno-iptables-firewall packages (or any other iptables > frontend; these are the two that I know of). ufw is another which is quite simple for basic firewall needs. -

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 07:51:52AM +0100, keith wrote: > Try it with:- > > genisoimage -o irishceltic.iso -R -J -l -v -V "Irish Celtic" -hide-rr-moved . In particular, the -R option (although -r is better) and -J options are what do the trick here. -J is good particularly if you want your disc to

Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

I missed your reply because you did not reply to an existing message in your thread. Please do this so that your reply shows up in the same place as your original message, for people who use threaded mail readers. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:17:28AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Split was indeed th

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:16:58PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I use LVM quite a lot, but I am a bit annoyed by having to vgchange -ay > after inserting and vgchange -an before removal. I like to see a removable > flag for LVs that lessens the locking restrictions that are important in >

Re: iptables service with debian

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:14:36AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I have tried to use /etc/network/if-pre-up.d on my laptop (which uses > NetworkManager) and it does not load my iptables rules. But if I call > my script manually, it will load properly. Is NetworkManager > incompatible with /etc/networ

Re: iptables service with debian

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:25:47AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > Well, it didn't take long to find the answer on the internet. Get your > firewall set up and then: > > iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules > > I tested it and it works! What version of the package? It would appear the file should be r

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:53:46PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I haven't had experienced any of that issues in any of my systems so I still > find ReaiserFS the most suitable filesystem for me. As long as you don't have any VM images using reiserfs v3 on top of a reiserfs 3 filesystem, you're probabl

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 03:48:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: > There's something about geniso and long filenames here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/genisoimage > > Check if that's enough for you. That page offers nothing more than a subset of the manpage, and nothing more than the other posts to this

Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

hers where the specific filesystem layout can be important), repacking is almost always going to be a wiser choice, especially if you choose an archive format that handles splitting natively (e.g. zip, or non-free rar) and in-archive checksumming (again zip, rar…) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSC

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:04:38PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > By the way, this looks like a reason to GPG sign everything, like I am > doing. There is sometimes arguing at gnupg-user and enigmail user about > should messages to mailing lists be signed or not. I think that there > was once suc

Re: Script request for files truncating with genisoimage

ot be used again until recombined - and burning each bit individually, *as a file within another ISO image, one per disc*! The net result is going to be five ISO filesystems on DVD-Rs, each containing a single file which is a chunk of a larger ISO filesystem, with the majority of the file metadata

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:08:14PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: > rsync seems like the right choice, but how will it handle job canceling when > I'm done for the day? Yes. But, for the initial sync, I tend to prefer a tarpipe which is a lot quicker. ( cd /srcdir && tar cf - . ) | ssh user@somehost '

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:13:46PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > So everything is fine now? Can you share the script? It was probably 'rename "s/ /_/g" *\ *' which was posted as a reply to Sharon in another thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Exim panics

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:29:19AM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > You need to find out the source of the problem. Do you regularly restart > Exim? In my experience, with the Debian packaging, this is usually caused by exim conflicting with itself. I've never figured the problem out entirely, but

Re: Debian problem

On 02/05/12 11:08, Johan Mazel wrote: > I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. > Can I ask for some help on this list or should I use another way ? That's what the list is for. Please make sure use a descriptive subject for the post with your problem in it. Thanks sign

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:45:25PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i resize the LV from 300 GB to 400 GB Exactly what command did you type, and what feedback did you get? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; > > -? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf > > I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I > have thought of to ge

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 02:15:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > Your version (1.2.10-2.1) of gorm.app appears to be out of date. > > The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive: > > testing: 1.2.10-2.1+b1 > > unstable: 1.2.10-2.1+b1 > > This version is for kfreebsd only. Are

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:09:16PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > No, this isn't a reportbug bug. This is reportbug simply saying "You're > running stable. The bug you're about to report may already have been > reported and fixed in testing or unstable". No, it isn't. He's running version 1.2.10-2.1

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

As Kelly (and later Darac) have said, you can press 'Y' anyway, so please do so. I will attempt to independently confirm the reportbug bug and report it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Where have the mailing lists gone?

Feedback on Debian websites should be directed to debian-...@lists.debian.org (or by filing bugs against a suitable pseudo package: a list of all pseudo is at ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: RAID broken .... /dev/sd? drive name changed

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:13:14AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have got 4 drives. > > /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd > > /dev/sda raid mirror with /dev/sdc > > and > > /dev/sdb was raid mirror with /dev/sdd > > now this time i unplug the /dev/sdd for some problem diagnostic

Re: Signatures (was: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks)

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 02:10:37PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I had to remove 33 lines of wasted text coming from your GPG code and > your extra-large signature :-) Consider using something like t-prot, which does this automatically, or most PGP-aware mailers, which will decode the signature, verif

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:07:25AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:51:48PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > > That keyserver which you are using seems to be offline and I don't > > know how used it is. The recommended keyserver is > > pool.sks-keyservers.net according to g

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:28:35AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > And on top of it, everyone else on the list gets held hostage > and is forced to jump through so many hoopes just to avoid being > inconvenienced. > > So rude... With respect, I don't think you have the right to speak for 'everyone el

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:38:49AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > They don't support the considerate version of gpg/pgp. > Now that I know that people using this actually have a choice and > choose to be rude, it does make it rather tempting to set up an > autoresponder and filter to nag them... Why

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:09:44AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > What's there to throttle? With 56kbits/s (theoretical max. speed) it's > barely usable with today's sites. I think you are being generous - gmail, google reader etc. are completely unusable at that speed unfortunately :( Last time

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Bob's PGP signature is valid - yours is not > You waste our time and bandwidth. In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures are valid. > Bob's key validates his identity - yours does not. > I can verify t

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 04:15:28PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I'm no expert in all this, but can you explain and document what you > mean by the claim that "headers ... must be verified"? All emails have > their headers modified en route (e.g., "Received:" and "Delivered-To" > are added, as are all ki

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:23:06AM +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am 08.05.2012 13:11, schrieb Indulekha: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > >> > >> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPqPsiAAoJECPmYW6gk8JjitcH/

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:20:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 09/05/12 18:56, Jon Dowland wrote: > > In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures > > are valid. > > All his posts? > Is cutting and pasting a hobby? > Do you between

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:18:56PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >(you've trimmed my initial investigation which indicates he > > has at least one signatory.) > > "investigation"? > > Huh? > > How hard was it to see the key is signed by... the key holder (or > another person called Mika?), usin

Re: gpg/pgp noise

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:37:23AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The signature of Tiberius was trusted by Pilatus and Herodes. The > signature of Philippus wasn't trusted by Lysanias or anybody els. > > I couldn't find a key on public servers for Hannas and Kaiphas, but > fortunately the key of Joh

Re: Things we should know about PGP

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > When the subject was "gpg/pgp noise" Jon Dowland wrote: "I clearly > explained that his key was signed by another he owned, which in turn was > signed by *someone else entirely*." > > A chain of

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: > I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a > storage/backup box. I'm aware of Debian/kFreeBSD, which seems to be > the best solution if I want to use Debian, but it does introduce > some limitations, so I haven't decided on it (

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:22:35AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2012 19:18:28 +0100, Jon wrote in message > <20120509181828.GG8272@debian>: > > > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: > > > I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a > > > storage/backup

Re: Things we should know about PGP

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:17:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Regarding to security. Assumed somebody always sign the mails to a > mailing list. Isn't it possible that somebody hacks the view of a > mailing list archive? Make it look like if a nice guy said odd things > for signed mails. He never

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:37:35PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012 16:39:49 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > Hello Camaleón, > > > Enigmail does it with no user intervention. > > I don't use Enigmail, but I'd place a small wager that it can be set up > to either pull public key

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:32:25PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > So, the OP signs his mail to a list. I would guess that no web of trust > exists between him and 99.9% of the list members. > > What is the benefit of such a signature? I don't know Phil Dobbin, I haven't ever met him and I prob

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:57:45PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > That is certainly not the way mailing lists work, so causing a block of > some 400 characters to be sent to each and every subscriber is pure > self-indulgence, on the scale of insisting on sending HTML-formatted > mail. On balanc

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:04:21AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > To me an "audio" CD/DVD is a format of CD/DVD readable by CD players > (music only). WAV files. Audio CDs do not use WAV format, they use an encoding specified in the "red book" standard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:29:29PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Oh right - 2-channel signed 16-bit Linear PCM sampled at 44,100 Hz, as > per the Red Book standard. > > My mistake, I was confusing it with WAV, LPCM-encoded, containing two > channels of 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sampl

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:49:22PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Red Book audio format *is* a WAV format - as described above. It is not. For a start the WAV header is omitted entirely. If you take the literal ones and zeroes of red book audio they cannot be decoded as WAV. > Go back, re-read th

alternatives to CDs and MP3s (was Re: putting audio files onto a DVD)

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:46:09AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Don't use CDs and MP3s as long as you can hear very good. What do you recommend instead: 24bit and upwards digital files, or are you an analog loyalist? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Things we should know about PGP

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:36:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > And why do we need this? We could notarized emails + use or computer > readable ID cards, anyway, this in addition won't make mailing list > mails more true or less true. There's more untruth for notarized papers > than for non-notariz

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:40:53PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..it is (at least in theory) possible to crack both GNU/Linux and > */kfreeBSD at the same time, and it is also possible to attack > GNU Hurd at the same time as the former 2, even if I agree with > Microsoft FUD that by extension hol

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:16:28PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > I wasn't thinking of Enigmail/Mozilla, but Microsoft. Microsoft's > software doesn't produce PGP/MIME sigs and their reading of same is > broken. Or at least was last time I had to use any of their software. MS Exchange at least reco

Re: Overcoming Debian(Linux?) paranoia - a gnome-ppp example

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:02:31AM +0100, elbbit wrote: > myhost$ adduser ricky dialout Furthermore, the user created by the debian installer (uid 1000) is automatically in this group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:14:12AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Wrong again (you're trying too hard). > > header from track on CDDA = "RIFF���WAVEfmt" What ripper did you use to extract the track? Since a raw redbook audio encoded track is not very useful it's highly likely that your ripper ha

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:27:36AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > And it's not a problem as a kernel module either, seeing as though it's the > user who has to manually load it. For that, the license could be > proprietarded. It's a problem if you ever want help if/when there's a bug or problem wit

Re: Regarding installation of xipdump-1.5.2.tgz on red hat linux 5 Enterprise Edition

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:48:17AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Isn't it possible to write to this list, without being subscribed? > Perhaps this person doesn't receive mails from the list :D, I guess we > need too CC. It is, but the mailing list code of conduct says > When replying to messages o

Re: Overcoming Debian(Linux?) paranoia - a gnome-ppp example

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:24:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 12 May 2012 at 09:06:30 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:02:31AM +0100, elbbit wrote: > > > myhost$ adduser ricky dialout > > > > Furthermore, the user created by the d

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 08:25:04AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > If it's a problem with the module, contact the module maintainers. If it's a > problem with the kernel, unload the module, and contact the kernel > maintainers. I don't see the problem. Please read up on tainted mode. You can't just

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:52:49PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..another question is, what kinda performance enhanchement can > zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux deliver, 5%, 50% or even 500%, compared > to the best GPL file systems? And, no risk of vendor lock-in? Performance is a multi-faceted thing: Yo

filesystem/block-level deduplication (was Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux)

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:14:36AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > A word of caution: as tempting as deduplication might be, avoid it. Unless > you have significant RAM, and a fast RAID-0 SSD ZIL, I would advise against > it. It causes massive performance problems, and the benefit isn't worth the > c

Re: Regarding installation of xipdump-1.5.2.tgz on red hat linux 5 Enterprise Edition

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:46:07PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > In this case I suspect CC is wanted ;). I don't think the OP is > subscribed to this list. You may well be right, but how to know? If one posts requests for help on a mailing list, I think the onus is on one to read the list afterwar

Re: Php update killed my wiki site.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:32:20PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > For a couple of years I have used this type of link to bring content > into my mediawiki: Are you using the mediawiki Debian package? > I recently upgraded my Debian Linux Php to: > PHP Version 5.3.3-7+squeeze9 If you can find out

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

keys. I'd suggest at least using a low-level value for keys you haven't validated. -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20120513140517.GB32262@debian

Re: To the list admins: Call for Ban on this SPAM

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:38:08PM +0100, rjc wrote: > You can report SPAM using list's web archive interface. And you can contact the listmasters via listmas...@lists.debian.org - no need to further pollute the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Problem with Dovecot

ng properly, then move up the stack from there. -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20120515150344.GD3484@debian

Re: Datapacker

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:33:42AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Is, or has, anyone used Datapacker here please? If so can we > correspond re my usage of it? I haven't used it, but I think it was I who originally recommended it, so I'll try best to answer your questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: iceaweasel experimental is not true firefox in my hands

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:55:32PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > The message below was intended to > > pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org list > > google mail complains that such address does not exist I'm afraid google mail is wrong. Did you get a bounce? Here's an archive of ot

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > It would be much better to originate a new word, such as "heshe", or > "shehe", and "hisher", instead of overloading an existing plural. Egan proposed/used 've', 'ver', 'vim' etc. in the book "Diaspora". I was never clear what ru

Re: Has anyone successfully installed Cinnamon in Debian?

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 06:34:45PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > What with one thing and another, my GNOME 3 will only run in > fallback mode (GNOME Classic), and I have been looking at > alternatives. There are things to like about Xfce, LXDE, MATE, and > others, but I have not heard of anyone tryi

Re: New netbase's policy for adding new IANA TCP/UDP assignment

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 03:37:30PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012 15:36:50 -0700, Regid Ichira wrote: > > > netbase 5.0 changelog states > > > > * Starting from this release, TCP/UDP ports will be added only for the > > actually implemented protocol even if IANA nowadays assig

Re: Has anyone successfully installed Cinnamon in Debian?

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 09:21:52AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > It's a work-in-progress. You can track progress here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657395 There's a post to that bug that claims you can take the packages from Linux Mint Debian Edition and

Re: OT: Google chrome stable question

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:59:11PM +0200, Siard wrote: > I would suggest, if not urge you to use SRWare Iron instead. > It's the same as Chrome, but freed from Google's privacy issues. > More info & download: www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php How does it differ from chromium, in Debian pr

Re: OT: Google chrome stable question

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:10:05PM +0200, Siard wrote: > Differences are described in this 'Chrome vs Iron' page: > www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php > > I'm not aware of any differences between official Chrome and Chrome in > Debian. They differ a great deal: chromium doe

Re: Unidentified Subjects and loads of headers

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:09:14AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > All the messages appear normally and correctly on the site. > > So I must be getting them mangled. No other list, digest or otherwise, > produces this mess. Just debian-user. Are you subscribed to the list as digest or otherwise? >

Re: Reading luks DVDs using cryptsetup

On 22/05/12 14:42, Chris Bannister wrote: > It suggests the -r argument: > > Does "sudo cryptsetup -r luksOpen /dev/sr1 dsk --key-file ./key" > > work? Yay for undocumented arguments! -r is apparently equivalent to --readonly (which is in the manpage, at least). I've reported a bug and attached

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

ffering one in this reply) > if ! mountpoint -q ${backup_target}/; then risk of races here > if ! mount ${backup_target}; then and here -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20120523071200.GA28792@debian

Re: how to update Debian OS properly

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:17:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "things" for your current install might be /home only. Perhaps xorg.conf > and some other files, using cp -pr while you're root. But in the future > completely backup using e.g. tar. Note, if you sync, you anyway might > lose data, sin

Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:59:03PM +0200, Slavko wrote: > then i see only one solution - delete/rename whole file and collect them > from start. Well, yes - or resolve them one by one when you hit a host that has changed. In this situation, ssh will tell you which lines are troublesome. > Please,

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:52:22PM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > i was reading this article - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html > > It is written by someone related to redhat He's also a former Debian developer, and a former Ubuntu developer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:02:49PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> You can't disable the code signing requirement on ARM. > > > > Really?  So the Raspberry Pi requires signed code?  The Freedom Box > > on ARM hardware requires signed code? > > Secure boot is about future devices, not current

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:31:11PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Not immediately it's not (W7). Perhaps >W7. How about Apple? The irony here is that Apple hardware might end up being the easiest for a beginner to install Linux on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:56:07PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > the only things stopping Debian from getting a key is that not many > manufacturers would use it They wouldn't have to: they have to trust anything signed with a private key that MS/Versign hold, so if Debian paid the 99$ and got a

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

The question is whether having a program which *intended* to do it for you could be signed and whether this would pass whatever requirements you are accepting when you hand over the 99$. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 12:58:16AM +0400, Darren Baginski wrote: > Looks promising. Is there any infrastructure around yet? I mean init scripts > for auto start , /etc/ files like the same for linux-vserver ? This was recently discussed on -devel, and several people commented that there isn't yet

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 12:55:34PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > Have a look at libvirt: > We use it with QEMU/KVM; I haven't tried it with LXC (I haven't > tried LXC at all) Thanks. I use it with QEMU/KVM, and likewise have never used LXC. I shall give it a look. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: How to install an older version (3.0) of OpenOffice?

increasingly less tolerant of problems on my work machine, I'm more inclined to stick my sid environment inside a VM, and hav the "outside" be more stable. thanks, -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Gnome 3 from experimental - how do you change wallpaper

is message was off-list? Either way I'm missing it) have you upgraded gnome-control-center? It's under "Background" in there, and it can be invoked via "System settings" on the drop-down menu from the right-hand side. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Avoid POP3

disagree. When you download from a website, you don't expect the thing you are downloading to be removed from the web server. Same for usenet messages. I tend to take expectations from one context to another. The verb I associate with the common activity of download-and-remove for POP is "

Re: login as root to GUI

g your X up to a third party essentially gives them control over your computer. -- Jon Dowland -- 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

Re: login as root to GUI

3/auth-for-user-XX/database) Of course the aformentioned gksu and gksudo try to be as safe as possible. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

work: x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 x-terminal-emulator -geometry=80x50 xterm --geometry=80x50 xterm -geometry=80x50 Does work: x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x50 xterm -geometry 80x50 -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

tell you which installed packages could be updated. -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20110609093159.gb13...@deckard.alcopop.org

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

ore confusing. • Similarly, for those who do run the wrapper, the gnome-terminal manpage includes many options which the wrapper does not accept. A cursory skim or search through the manpage will show options which it does not accept. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Created RAID wiki page. Please add some information. ; gre

l show: <http://wiki.debian.org/RAID?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=RAID&titlesearch=Titles> What information is missing? What do you want to know? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17:55AM -0400, Dan wrote: > I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will mainly > run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? Former Debian developer and current kernel hacker Matthew Garrett advises against it:

Re: kvm

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 08:08:50PM -0700, Khosrow Hassani wrote: > I am running kvm 0.12.5 from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm > -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp > inside kvm, even when I run it as root. only the first disk where windows is > ins

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

Oh. I missed half the thread when I posted my reply. apologies for the noise. -- 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/20110726091821.GH1860@pris

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

7;, lower = 'a'; for(; upper < CHAR_MAX && isprint(upper + 1); ++upper); for(; lower > CHAR_MIN && isprint(lower - 1); --lower); printf("lower: %d, upper: %d\n", lower, upper); return 0; } output: lower: 32, upper: 126 -- Jon Dowland -- To UN

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

ueing a disk-space puritanism over a pragmatic solution to a problem? -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20110808143613.GD5621@pris

Re: sh command issue

On 30/04/10 19:34, Gary wrote: > system("g++ $files $incl $libs 2>build.log&"); Note this is risky: the system call will return as soon as the g++ process is invoked, rather than when it completes - the trailing '&' should be removed. Also, any stdout output will still hit your console (although

Re: Procmail: re-sort all messages

On 07/05/10 13:38, Alexander Batischev wrote: > So here is what I'm looking for: is there a way to run procmail on > already downloaded messages? Maybe I should download them to separate > directory and run procmail on it? Maybe I can just pass existing > (already sorted) mail directory to procmail

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

On 30/05/2010 14:04, thib wrote: > Like any dist upgrade, squeeze will have release notes with upgrade > instructions and I'm quite confident everything concerning lilo will > be covered. There are probably many upgrade test patterns they'll > have to try, that's true, but I would hope the transit

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

ing to maintain it. Lots of hot air on -user, but nobody prepared to do the work. IMHO the kernel size issue is just the straw that broke the camel's back. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

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