Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On 05/11/13 16:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root > filesystem that has run out of inodes. You need to ask yourself why you > have 1.7M files in your rootfs. That's very dumb. Or perhaps "That's not generally advisable." or similar. Richar

aptitude: cancel intended install

Hi all, If I use: # aptitude search ~ainstall I get a list of packages that are marked for installation, but are currently not installed. If I pick one of those, and use: # aptitude remove then the above search, that package is no longer in the list. All good. However, if I use: # aptitude

Re: aptitude: cancel intended install

On 03/12/13 12:55, Tom H wrote: > I don't know whether or not it's a bug but this should work: > > aptitude remove $(aptitude search ~ainstall -F%p) That's great, thanks - the -F option is new to me and will be very useful :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

zabbix upgrade question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've inherited responsibility for a server running zabbix, which I don't know much about. I've upgraded it from squeeze to wheezy, but there are no wheezy packages, so it's still running the squeeze ones. There are wheezy-backports packages, s

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > You are either: > > 1. Horribly lazy > 2. Incompetent > Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or any one of a number of things we don't know about. Suggesting google or debian.org or whatever is fine, but this is way o

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On 22/09/12 21:18, Stan Hoeppner wrote: The clue bat is "uncivilized" by design. If you're going to hit someone in the gut to get their full attention, and make sure what you're telling them sticks, wrapping the blunt instrument in a big pillow of cotton candy defeats the purpose, doesn't it,

Re: Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

On 22/09/12 00:05, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi. fre, 21 09 2012 kl. 13:10 +0200, skrev Michelle Konzack: and the design is for the ass. Just curious.. How do a keyboard look, when it's designed for the ass and exactly HOW do one operate it ? I assume it has large keys, suitable for hooves. :-)

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

On 26/11/12 06:53, Carl Fink wrote: I don't mean Android, a proprietary OS build on the Linux kernel just as MacOS is built on the BSD kernel. Are there any phones or tablets people are aware of that use actual, FOSS, Linux as their OS? Linux _is_ the kernel. Perhaps what you're after is a dev

Re: Debian Jessie Release

On 11/08/14 06:05, Sven Hartge wrote: The release will be sometimes after that, probably in the spring. Ahem. Spring happens at different times in different places (if at all). I don't consider it an appropriate description on an international list ;-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

On 11/04/14 03:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2014 14:57:37 Florian Ernst wrote: >> apt-cache policy openssl > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ apt-cache policy openssl Just a reminder - libssl1.0.0 is the crucial package (though openssl is important as well, but doesn't get used so much) libssl1.

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

On 11/04/14 04:34, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner wrote: >> > what you want to do is >> > create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that >> > points to myhostname.someddns.com. >> > >> > Presto! Now when you try to access your home

apache ssl without virtualhosts?

Hi all, I'm trying to add SSL to my (debian packaged) ledgersmb setup. The ledgersmb package sets up the apache config in conf.d, so it's not in a VirtualHost. But when I put 'SSLEngine on' in the global config, I get an error in the logs that it should be in a VirtualHost block, and the server

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

On 13/04/14 23:43, Curt wrote: > On 2014-04-13, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On 20h20 12 de Abril de 2014, Steve Litt wrote: >>> I'm changing every password: That's about 100 of them. >> >> That's a good thing to do, but only after the server has patched >> openssl and changed its certificate. O

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

On 14/04/14 18:55, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 4/13/2014 10:03 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > ... >> considering it is a catastrophe worse than the Y2K bug. > > This is several orders of magnitude less severe than Y2K. Y2K was extensively predicted, a lot of people did a lot of work to avoid it, an

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

On 14/04/14 21:49, Curt wrote: > On 2014-04-14, Richard Hector wrote: >> > >> > This one, on the other hand, was generally not predicted, and was widely >> > exploited before people got a chance to fix it. That's presumably still >> > going on. >

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

On 14/04/14 23:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> > BTW, you shouldn't focus only on banks either. There are a lot of >> > popular services that use free software a lot, some of which happen to >> > include payment functionality. > I did not "focusing on banks". I replied to Chris Bannister's statement >

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

On 15/04/14 02:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> I certainly wouldn't jump to conclusions that they're a bank therefore >> > they use IBM mainframes therefore they don't use OpenSSL therefore >> > they're invulnerable, > I jumped to no conclusion. Do you see the word "bank" in my original > statement b

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

On 15/04/14 12:59, shawn wilson wrote: >> That statement was made in the sense that at least the bank could have >> > issued a statement along the lines of 'you may have heard of the >> > heartbleed bug, we can assure all of our customers that we are not >> > affected by this bug and there is no ne

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

On 14/04/14 23:41, Richard Hector wrote: > The only local bank I've heard any info about is Kiwibank, who are > apparently not vulnerable due to running their systems on Windows. Heh. It turns out my bank, ASB, apparently uses Windows/IIS as well. I have yet to decide whether I'm

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

On 22/04/14 05:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: > FYI: You're > forced into having a gmail account with an Android phone. I think I have a gmail account somewhere. I've never associated it with my Android phone though. That means of course that I don't have access to Google Play or whatever it's called,

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

On 24/04/14 04:06, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I don't know if a Google/gmail account is really _required_ with Android > phones, but you are strongly advised (and nagged) to set up one. As you > said, without it, no OS or app updates, no app downloads, etc. So for > full phone functionality, you

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

On 24/04/14 10:13, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:29:39 +1200 > Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 22/04/14 05:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> FYI: You're >>> forced into having a gmail account with an Android phone. >> >> I think I have a gmai

Re: Directly connecting two computers

On 27/04/14 05:36, Martin wrote: > Hello, > > I have two computer that I want to connect directly, similarly as I did > long time ago with Null-Modem cable ( or LapLink cable). > > I have obtained a crossover ethernet cable that I plug in network card > of each computer. Now the problem is how t

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

On 07/05/14 10:09, Paul E Condon wrote: > It was a very clever talk, and much talked about at the time. But now > the real innovator of the idea is no longer with us to defend his > priority. I think you're talking about Ken Thompson, and according to Wikipedia at least he's still around. Richard

Re: Is Debian still Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/14 20:54, Slavko wrote: > in last weeks (or months?) i see a lot of daily updates in Debian > testing. I am using the testing for years and i am surprised by > this. My thoughts: If you're running testing, then it's reasonable you get updat

Re: Tails

On 16/05/14 16:42, Weaver wrote: > Greetings all, > > Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? > > There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to > install Tails onto a USB stick, with a persist partition, but she hasn't > got the slightest idea of how to go about

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 19/05/14 14:10, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > But if I catch you violating my copyright, I will have everything you own. I don't think the law goes quite that far ... BTW I'd also like to see evidence for what law prevents linking to someone else's work. Overall, though, this argument seems fairly p

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 19/05/14 15:15, Gary Dale wrote: >> So Gary, how do we handle this problem of lack of educated thinkers? >> Cause that's the real problem as I see it. >> >> Regards >> Zenaan > That problem is not solvable, I'm afraid. That's why people who do think > about issues have a duty to speak up about t

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 19/05/14 15:28, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Oh Richard, bless you. Now you've taken away my excuse to pretend I > didn't really know what Jerry was saying and continue to mock his lack > of precision :) I'm one of those you mentioned that has trouble resisting reading every email. Deliberate troll

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 15:06, Gary Dale wrote: > The Internet is public property in the same way the roads that connect > us are. DRM is a fence. My right to use things that I pay for is > restricted by DRM. DRM is not part of the Internet any more than the lock on my car door is part of the road. (Doesn't

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 16:20, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:50:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 5/19/14, Lee Winter wrote: > >>> But, contrary to Stallman's arguments, intellectual property is real and >>> worth protecting. >> >> RMS never said intellectual creations are not real. >>

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/18/2014 05:49 PM, Tom H wrote: > You s

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 04:00, Lee Winter wrote: > Anyone who proposes to restrict my ability to choose, for or against, > DRM-restricted property is making a proposition that I will _always_ > res/ist./ After all, it is about freedom. Mine. I haven't seen any arguments in this thread threatening that. Fire

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> > A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any) >> > recording that was released _with_DRM_ for which the copyright has now >> > lapsed? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_mouse_law Isn't that the reverse? Mickey Mouse, when fir

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 17:42, Lee Winter wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness > wrote: > > Are you aware that there is a useful (from the perspective of > freedoms) distinction to be made between physical property and > so-called 'intellectual prop

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 19/05/14 20:07, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 19 May 2014 04:15:06 Richard Hector wrote: >> BTW I'd also like to see evidence for what law prevents linking to >> someone else's work. > > Copyright law is not internationally agreed world-wide. It does not hold &

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 22:00, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >> > I wouldn't call real estate a form of intellectual property; it's very >> > physical. Real, even. On the other hand, I would still treat it >> > differen

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 23:20, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/19/2014 6:08 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 5/19/14, Richard Hector wrote: >>> On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >>>>>> A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any) >>>&

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 23:50, Richard Hector wrote: > Jerry - I was attempting to improve on the question Paul asked you. Apologies - I hadn't read all the new messages; I see you responded to me. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: >>>> On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>>> On 5/18/2014 6:39

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 19/05/14 23:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> BTW I'd also like to see evidence for what law prevents linking to >> someone else's work. >> > > Who said anything about preventing linking? I never did. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00931.html From: Jerry Stuckle Date: Thu, 15 May

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >>>> On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>>> On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM,

2 xservers/display managers

Hey all, I'm wondering if it would help me to have 2 potentially simultaneous logins on my computer, one for private use and one for work (I'm working from home). That would give me 2 home directories, 2 icedove profiles etc etc. To that end, does anyone know if it's possible to have 2 instances

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 20/05/14 00:20, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > You cannot link to an image on my site. But you can provide a link to > that image. An important difference. I confess I don't see that difference. Are you saying that the link must be visible and not clickable? Again, I'd still like to see a reference

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 20/05/14 00:23, Richard Hector wrote: > On 20/05/14 00:20, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> You cannot link to an image on my site. But you can provide a link to >> that image. An important difference. > > I confess I don't see that difference. > > Are you saying t

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/05/14 00:32, The Wanderer wrote: > What is your basis for claiming this? > > As far as I can see, there is no basis in the law for the claim > that copyright grants any control whatsoever over the end user's > *use* of the copyrighted thing. In

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 20/05/14 00:37, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Linking to an image on my site makes it look like the image is a part of > your site. If I own the copyright on that image, that is a violation of > the copyright. That appears to be still a subject of debate. My view: If I haven't copied it, how can I be

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

On 20/05/14 00:30, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/19/2014 8:17 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >>>> On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>>> On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, R

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 20/05/14 00:49, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/19/2014 8:33 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 20/05/14 00:23, Richard Hector wrote: >>> On 20/05/14 00:20, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>> You cannot link to an image on my site. But you can provide a link to >>>

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/05/14 01:26, The Wanderer wrote: > If a copy were indeed required to be registered with the Copyright > Office, that would sharply reduce or potentially eliminate the "no > non-DRMed copy available to enter the public domain" objection to > DRM

Re: 2 xservers/display managers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/05/14 04:13, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 05/19/2014 08:20 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hey all, > >> I'm wondering if it would help me to have 2 potentially >> simultaneous logins on my computer, one for private use and

Re: 2 xservers/display managers

On 20/05/14 10:05, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 20/05/14 04:13, Ralph Katz wrote: >>> On 05/19/2014 08:20 AM, Richard Hector wrote:

Re: Large File Systems - Enough inodes?

On 21/05/14 04:24, Sven Hartge wrote: > Kenneth Jacker wrote: > >> I am buying two new SATA hard drives: 1TB and 2TB. > >> I'd like to use the 2TB unit for backups (typical Linux directories >> and files) ... with just a single file system (ext4 most likely). > >> Will 'mkfs' create "enough"

Re: Immediate problem resolved -- Re: Max number of loop devices OR "efficient search of Debian documentation"

On 20/05/14 23:50, Richard Owlett wrote: > I read the man pages for all the commands others referenced but didn't > come with any extrapolation to improve my skills at retrieving > information on my own. > Any suggestions? Experience, I think :-( Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Large File Systems - Enough inodes?

On 21/05/14 09:22, theartloy wrote: > Just a data point, this behaviour has changed; > > wheezy's mke2fs(8) has this: >> > Be warned that it is not possible to expand the number of inodes >> > on a filesystem after it is created, so be careful deciding the >> > correct value for this parameter. >

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

On 24/05/14 12:27, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > So, where is it storing files now? Just because they aren't in /tmp > doesn't mean they don't exist - and won't eventually use up your inodes. Except that if they're in the 'normal' place (/var/lib/php5), there's probably a cronjob (/etc/cron.d/php5) to c

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

On 24/05/14 23:04, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 5/23/2014 11:41 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 24/05/14 12:27, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> So, where is it storing files now? Just because they aren't in /tmp >>> doesn't mean they don't exist - and won't e

Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

On 25/05/14 01:06, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> > Assuming that your 217.17.111.173/24 address on eth0 is correct, you >> > probably need to set up default gateway as 217.17.111.1 (and you really >> > should check it with your ISP, they are the only ones who know this). > I just mail to my ISP and

Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

On 25/05/14 02:04, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:06:52 +0200 > csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Well, I just tried that, but without success. > > /24 net allows 256 addresses. You've tried one (and is using another > one), so it's 254 to go. > > As I wrote, if you don't want to g

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

On 26/05/14 10:09, Steve Litt wrote: > If you know how to find out which window manager Xfce is using, please > let me known I just ran "ps xf" (show my processes, in tree format) Then I looked at the descendents of xfce4-session, and see that the first one is xfwm4. The 'wm' suggests that it's a

Re: about heirloom mailx

On 28/05/14 14:16, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running jessie > > Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and It > works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me think I'm > doing something wrong. > > Here is a typical example > > mailx -v re...@location.com > Subj

Re: about heirloom mailx

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/14 12:49, Bob Proulx wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Trying to use heirloom mailx to test various exim4 settings and >> It works, but there is something in it that bugs me. Makes me >> think I'm doing something wrong. > > I use mailx for sen

svn broken after squeeze->wheezy upgrade?

Hi all, I've just upgraded a machine (which I've just 'inherited') from squeeze to wheezy, and svn users are getting SSL errors like this: 8<--- [Users-Mac-Pro] user% svn up Updating '.': svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://user@firewall:8443/sv

Re: about heirloom mailx

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/05/14 08:48, Bob Proulx wrote: > As to why your command prompt isn't being emitted after the task > is done that seems very strange to me. Definitely not normal. As > you can see from my examples it works fine for me. Please let us > know what

Re: svn broken after squeeze->wheezy upgrade?

On 30/05/14 00:30, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just upgraded a machine (which I've just 'inherited') from squeeze > to wheezy, and svn users are getting SSL errors like this: Fixed - by someone else. Apparently it was related to apache not knowing the

Re: Resizing LVM issue

On 05/06/14 10:17, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 06/01/2014 11:03 PM, emmanuel segura wrote: > >> >> i think the correct steps are: >> >> resize2fs /dev/mapper/localhost-home -2G >> lvresize --size -2G /dev/mapper/localhost-home >> >> > > Thank you. I tried with the first command but it did not wor

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/14 05:22, Bob Holtzman wrote: >> Why should I subscribe to "d-community-offtopic"? Isn't >> chkrootkit a Debian package? > > No, it's a linux package. Debian in merely one of the distros that > carries it in their repos. Um, no. chkrootkit

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

On 06/06/14 21:52, Horatio Leragon wrote: > An example of an awesome answer that I got from an awesome expert on > that awesome AskUbuntu.com is the following: > > apt-cache search java | awk '{print($1)}' | grep -E -e > '^(ia32-)?(sun|oracle)-java' -e '^openjdk-' -e '^icedtea' -e > '^(default|gcj

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

On 07/06/14 03:38, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > *From:* Richard Hector > >> Are they really awesome? What do they do? What were the questions? > > I believe you are new to this mailing list. > &

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/14 11:46, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 09:38:40PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 06/06/14 05:22, Bob Holtzman wrote: >>>> Why s

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

On 07/06/14 23:59, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > > *From:* Richard Hector > *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org > *Sent:* Saturday, June 7, 2014 4:32 PM > *Subject:* Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configu

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

On 08/06/14 07:02, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > The problem with killfiling people like this is you often lose good > comments in a discussion. > > I can put up with a few bad types - I just don't let them bother me. But > the good information they often have is worth a few idiots to me. > > A perfect

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

On 08/06/14 13:48, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Andrew McGlashan comes in a close second whose comments sometimes betray > a severe lack of knowledge of Debian. Lack of knowledge of Debian offends you? Isn't that what we're here for, to gain and share knowledge? > While I acknowledge I'm not a Debian e

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/14 14:00, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Richard, this was NOT my post. This is a fraud. See the headers. Acknowledged. It's sad - do we need to start signing all mailing list posts? Richard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (G

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

On 08/06/14 14:17, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > But the headers easily show these messages don't come from me. Strictly speaking, they show they don't come via the usual path from you - you could easily have sent those messages if you wanted to :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

hardware errors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm seeing this kind of thing in kern.log: http://paste.debian.net/104039/ I've never seen these messages before IIRC, so I'm not entirely sure if I'm interpreting them correctly. It looks like some messages are telling me about RAM ECC err

Re: hardware errors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/14 11:35, B wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector > wrote: > >> I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure out >> which DIMM(s)? > > Install memtest86+ and boot o

Re: hardware errors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/14 23:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 09/06/14 11:35, B wrote: >>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector >>> wrote: >>> >>&

Re: hardware errors

On 10/06/14 23:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 23:07 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 10/06/14 23:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 09/06/14 11:35, B wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector wrote: I assume

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/06/14 11:46, B wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:36:51 +1000 Chris Angelico > wrote: > >> And unlike typical binary document formats (at best, zipped XML >> like ODF), TeX source files are plain text, and work very nicely >> with source con

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

On 24/12/12 05:41, Mark Ford wrote: My iptables is correct? - if so, how come the email comes through? I have the same problem with other /24 netmasks, for example when trying to block mail from Yell. I can't see anything wrong either. I'd start debugging by adding otherwise identical '-j

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

On 06/01/13 06:19, Richard Owlett wrote: When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package I've used http://manpages.debian.net . It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally. Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the web? [I use squeeze.] I have

Re: File descriptor 9 and VLC.

Replying from archive since I'd deleted the original ... > peter@dalton:~$ lsof /home/peter/*.WAV > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFFNODE NAME > vlc 10888 peter9u REG8,620470 3612711 /home/peter/M1357873276.WAV > > man lsof explains, > "The mode character is

Re: sshfp records

On 23/01/13 16:59, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brad Alexander wrote: >> > Rookie mistake from messing with this too late at night. Apparently it >> > only works with fully qualified domain names (therefore working more >> > like dig than host): > I wouldn't call that a rookie mistake. It seems like a miss

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

On 12/02/13 22:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > My machine has got 4GB RAM too, but only 1,000,000,000 hex-bytes ;p. > Serious, there is no other correct sum than 4,294,967,296 bytes. For an > old former Assembler programmer it's disgusting to distinguish between > GB and GiB. OTOH kilos etc. are 10^x, b

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

On 13/02/13 14:32, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 2/12/2013 4:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should be 1 >> fence post, how many fence posts do you need? >> > > 11 :) Depends how you interpret the instructions. If it's "you can leave up to 1m h

Re: FW: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

On 14/02/13 20:18, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hello Ralf, > > Totaly ignoring the other part of your mail but I could not skip over the > this part where I have an ever "better" solution to all the answers given. ;-) > >> Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should be 1 fence >

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

On 16/02/13 17:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Powers of 10 make completely no sense. Why not simply dropping the > powers of 10 and using the prefixes *B and *iB both for the powers of 2? Powers of 2 make sense when you're talking about RAM, where the modules have a certain number of binary address lin

Re: Removing commited versions from git history

On 28/02/13 21:29, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Jeu 28 février 2013 3:53, T o n g a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> >> I want to permanently delete an old revision (or revisions) of single >> file from Git. Specifically, I want to delete from my public git server >> repo my initial published version of one si

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

On 02/03/13 08:46, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On 03/01/13 11:35, Thomas D. Dean wrote: >> The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline >> >> > export TERM=ansi80x25 >> > printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" >> >> produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. >> >>

Re: Installation failed

On 02/03/13 14:11, Mark Filipak wrote: > Miles. will you kindly stop responding to me. Pretty much nobody knows everything. We have a _community_, each member of which knows some stuff. People can help by mentioning the bits that they know, and putting it together with the bits that other people

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

On 02/03/13 13:34, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: >> On 02/03/13 08:46, Thomas D. Dean wrote: >>> On 03/01/13 11:35, Thomas D. Dean wrote: >>>> The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline >>>> >>>> >

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

On 02/03/13 17:33, Mark Filipak wrote: > I'm back. When the GRUB install failed I pressed Alt+F4. The Debian > Installer disappeared and I was immediately back to the LWDE desktop. I > tried Alt+F4 there and nothing happened. Linux has the concept of virtual terminals (VTs). Alt-F switches between

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

On 02/03/13 18:08, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 11:54 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >> Linux has the concept of virtual terminals (VTs). > > Ah, yes. Windows had such a switcher addin about 20 years ago. Linux has had them about that long, too :-) > In the > case of LW

Re: Install failed - USB flash to USB drive [SOLVED]

On 02/03/13 19:25, Mark Filipak wrote: > I successfully installed this: > > debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso > > to a USB flash in Windows with this: > > dd bs=1M if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso od=e: > > (where 'e:' is the USB flash's Windows device letter - note that the >

Re: Installation failed

On 02/03/13 22:08, Joe wrote: > Actually, the most Windows help you can get is from former newsgroups, > now web forums, which are rather like this, though sponsored by > Microsoft. Occasionally MS people look in and often give technically > correct answers, but also often betray limited real-worl

Re: Two copies of E-Mail (Re: I wish to advocate linux)

On 03/03/13 10:30, David Guntner wrote: > Actually, I am seeking no such thing. What I *am* saying, however, is > that if you (again, in the general sense, not necessarily specifically > you) are going to come at someone with a "that solution is no good for > reason X," then it's only polite to p

Re: Not for me.

On 05/03/13 09:53, Mark Filipak wrote: > You snake. I replied to you privately and you published my reply in public. Agreed on this. Replying to a private email on a public list is bad form. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

On 05/03/13 12:02, Chris Davies wrote: > Ah. So your X Windows based emulator understands ESC [4m but your console > window (without X Windows) doesn't. It appears that my console > (TERM=linux) represents underline with cyan text. Yep, likewise. I think it's because it has to be compatible with

Re: Raid 5

On 07/03/13 07:37, Dick Thomas wrote: > What is the best way to setup a raid 5 array (4* 2TB drives) I'd avoid it, if possible. If you lose a disk from a 2-disk raid1, you're back to the reliability of a single disk. If you lose a disk from your 4-disk raid 5, then you've got the reliability of

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