Re: Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

2014-01-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:54:11AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: That got me to thinking. I have a couple of 56-K modems from the early 2000's or late nineties. Maybe I should hook them up and see if they do CallerID as I do have available RS-232 ports and that Apple modem didn't create

Re: Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

2014-01-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:31:05AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: While going through a box of older stuff, I found the Apple usb modem my parents were using on their Mac. My father is now on regular cable-supplied internet service and we haven't used dial-up since about 2000 so here are

Re: Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

2014-01-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:27:14PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Caller id modems are often found used quite cheap on ebay and at thrift stores. I am using a callerid modem for the caller id function myself. I had one die on me a while back and I replaced it with one I found on ebay for less than

Re: How to patch files in a package's debian directory

2014-01-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:49:46PM +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: Hello, I'm testing some changes to an existing package which is using format 3.0 (quilt). I have split my changes into two patches: One modifies the original source, one adapts files in the debian directory. This approach fails

Re: Problems while using Tor Browser on Debian 7

2014-01-03 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 01:21:03AM +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: Now how can I make Tor work? By running it as: invoke-rc.d tor start instead of as your regular user. You did install tor from the debian repositories, right? If not, then maybe someone else can help you if you tell us where

Re: Internet loads too slow

2013-12-30 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:11:41PM +0900, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Ok, Here are what I have done though I really have lost track of things I've done as I just follow what I could find... I see you haven't gotten a response to this. So, I'm going to have a crack at it. echo

carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi Lid Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:15:06PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: That is my normal method of sleeping my laptop. I consider it a feature. It sleeps when I tell it to and not just because I closed the lid. Allows me to carry my laptop from here to there and open it and not have it asleep and

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 08:14:29PM +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: hi everybody! in my network icon in Gnome3 i have wi-fi hardware disabled. How i can enable it? # lspci -k|grep -i wi -A 3 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 07:49:57AM +1100, Charlie wrote: This is probably to silly to even contemplate, but is there a button or key where you have to actually turn on your wifi hardware on your machine? I know people have asked me why their wifi was suddenly down, and they didn't know

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi Lid Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 06:27:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: When you drop the machine the acceleration goes quickly from 1G to zero. I expect that's what it senses. Wow, I see this is quickly going past the two, maybe three replies I expected to get. It is still quite interesting, to myself

Re: Acpi Lid Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:14:09PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: Did my original post below make to the list? Or did it end up being filtered as spam? Just wondering. I saw it, so guess others probably did as well. I guess nobody seems to have an answer for you, not yet anyway. Good luck.

Re: Having weird seqfaults

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:21:21PM -0500, Goren Buckwalk wrote: I have let it run over night, it is still going, but no errors so far. Would memtest restart if it seg faulted midway through? Or just sit there not doing anything or display an error message? As far as I know, memtest will

Re: How to verify install iso?

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 03:52:34AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: And where is a file to check if this is the correct checksum? I honestly can't remember the last time I ran across a list discussion which had replies going all around the question, but didn't satisfactorily answer the actual

Re: [solved] How to verify install iso?

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:13:53AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Thank you Gregory, this is what I (for what reasons ever, maybe because I've got a cold) couldn't find. I clicked on the download and downloaded the iso from the same directory ;), but I wasn't aware about it. As far as I can see,

backup files, was: Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ? a new problem

2013-12-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:58:57PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: But I do have some strange files that I had notice for several months, namely #.Xresources# #.muttrc# #test# and #x# The contents of #.Xresources# and #x# are X resource definitions, but there are conflicting emacs.geometry

Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ?

2013-12-09 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I've just done a fresh netinst of Wheezy and want to proceed with my personal configuring in a way that is not fighting with the Debian view of how things should be done. I've used Debian since Potato, I think, but have always

Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ?

2013-12-09 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:14:19PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131209_134124, Gregory Nowak wrote: I don't know if xfce has any impact on the execution of ~/.profile at login. Have you tried to run your scripts or looking at the output of export from a text console like tty1

Re: Postfix - run script from email

2013-12-07 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 07:22:09AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Look into Procmail, which might already be installed as the LDA for Postfix. Maildrop should also work fine here if you prefer that. If your script runs as a specific user, and that specific user doesn't get any other mail, then a

Re: L2TP VPN configuration

2013-12-03 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I've followed a couple different tutorials on the internet, but I haven't been able to use L2TP to connect to a VPN from my Wheezy desktop. Connecting from an Android device works, so I know the server and my credentials are ok. Has

Re: Ports

2013-11-30 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:34:36AM -0800, Laura F wrote: Hi, I want to install Debian, but am unsure if it will be supported on my laptop. It wasn't specifically mentioned in the list of ports, but I'm not sure if a general series is listed on the page that contains this particular one.

Re: Postfix randomizing outgoing IP using

2013-11-28 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:56:47AM +0200, M.Atıf CEYLAN wrote: Everything is great but when I want to sending an email to a local domain, smtp server looks at the mx record of the domain. Can I use local transport and transport_maps together? Or is there a way to sending to local domains? The

Re: check reboot or black-out

2013-11-27 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:42:40PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: I've a remote server, sometime I see a early uptime (2 days) while I didn't rebooted it. How check if the server has been rebooted or there was a problem like blackout? Every time a machine is rebooted or shutdown/powered up, you

Re: Stable Package: PostgreSQL 9.1 to 9.3 ?

2013-11-26 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 08:45:27PM -0500, Jonathan Fortin wrote: Hi, The latest stable release of Debian contains PostgreSQL 9.1. But, on the PostgreSQL web-site the version 9.3 is available for Debian. So, I would like to know if is a good practice or not to install a new version

Re: Fwd: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-25 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:20:30PM -0500, Wally Lepore wrote: In regards to creating the new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, can anyone recommend the advantages of creating a virtual hard drive verses a large image file on your “real” hard disk? The large image file on your real hard disk which

Re: Installation of Wheezy on a Fujitsu Primergy Raid1

2013-11-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:55:36AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: This machine used to have Lenny but an important component was destroyed so I decided to proceed to Wheezy skipping squeeze (which I do not have as netinst disk!!!) That's a bad idea. You should get a squeeze disk and use it in

Re: Audio from TV capture card

2013-11-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 07:43:26PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: All right, I'm out of ideas. In my wife's sid machine, she has a Hauppague BT878-class TV capture card connected to a cable box. She uses tvtime to watch television when she is on the computer. About a week ago, she suddenly had

Re: New laptop...........

2013-11-14 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:35:50AM +1100, Charlie wrote: Anyone have any ideas how it might be done? I might be stuck with having to use Windows. [sad] Not a big deal. Just install debian in a virtual machine. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key:

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:07:04PM +0800, lina wrote: I checked most, seems none has pop up action before the events. By default, when will print out your appointments for the next two weeks when you run it. This interval is configurable of course, both forward in time, and back in time. I have

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 09:39:55AM +0200, Itay wrote: I don't remember editing /etc/mailname by hand; 'dpkg -S' says it's not owned by any debian package. So how this file gets its content? It was created when you installed exim, and would be changed when running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:09:37PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, Which package I can be installed which may serve as calender, Just remind me when, where and what I need attend or prepare? The when package works fine for me. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key:

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:28:31AM +0200, Itay wrote: I don't understand why ':25' is appended, and what is the meaning of that. There are a number of things I want to reply to in this thread. So, I'm going to do this in each relevant message, since that will be easier for me. Apologies if the

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:50:33AM +0200, Itay wrote: I was using 465 because that's how my email client (alpine) uses the provider's SMTP. It was configured some years ago, and I was not aware that a change is required. Yes, mail.messagingengine.com still seems to accept connections on tcp

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:33:46PM +0200, Itay wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Jonathan Dowland wrote: It looks like your mail configuration is now fixed. I agree, for the most part anyway. Finally -- I don't know if it is significant -- but I note in the output below, for example 3 lines from

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 01:15:26PM +, Chris Davies wrote: IP address or host name of the outgoing smarthost = mail.messagingengine.com::NNN. Should be a single colon, not double. For example, mail.example.net:587 No, this is incorrect. When you run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, it

Re: Copy buffer from a script

2013-11-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 06:29:08PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: How do I get access to the buffer that is presented by clicking the third (or center) mouse button from a script? Install xclip, and read the docs to know how to interface with it. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg

Re: mic not working in wheezy - Asus vivobook S400CA

2013-11-08 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 03:29:42AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: Mine is Asus Vivobook S400CA. I have installed wheezy 7.2. Though output of sound is working , mic is not working. I assume you checked to make sure the mic isn't muted, and that it is being captured? Same thing for your mic boost

Re: mic not working in wheezy - Asus vivobook S400CA

2013-11-08 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 05:17:03AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: Yes. I don't have anymore ideas here. Hopefully someone else will. Greg On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 03:29:42AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: Mine is Asus Vivobook

Re: libxml warnings while upgrading squeeze - wheezy

2013-11-07 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:52:23PM +0200, Itay wrote: Hi, During the upgrade I got many times the following warning: program compiled against libxml 208 using older 207 Shooting in the dark I did: # aptitude show libxml2 Package: libxml2 State: installed Automatically

Re: freeradius on debian 7

2013-10-31 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:10:16PM -0500, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: Failed binding to authenticated address * port 1812: Address alredy in use / etc / freeradius / radiusd.conf [240]: Error binding to port 0.0.0.0 port 1812 Are you sure you don't have another instance of freeradius alredy

Re: Wheezy Installation doesn't work on reboot

2013-10-29 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:35:12AM +0100, Grégoire COUTANT wrote: Ok, someone know how to make the diagnostic ? My suggestion would be to boot your debian install pen drive in rescue mode, mount your installed OS, and grub-install/update-grub. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg

Re: /boot inside luks+lvm

2013-10-24 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +0530, J. Bakshi (জ. বকসী ) wrote: Hello list, I have the grub2 (1.99-27+deb7u2 ) working with luks+lvm but /boot not included in lvm... Can grub2 call /boot from luks+lvm ? If yes, can anyone please share the configuration please ? Mine is debian

Re: /boot inside luks+lvm

2013-10-24 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:35:42PM +, Tom H wrote: I've booted up from /boot on lvm via grub2. I haven't done so with luks of luks+lvm. There are grub2 modules for both: /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/luks.mod /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/lvm.mod Well ... wow! I stand corrected! The question

Re: openvpn question

2013-10-24 Thread Gregory Nowak
Hi all. This is an update to the thread originally started at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00718.html I won't give a summary here, the above URL can give the full story. To recap briefly though, I ended up using NAT to route a public address from my /29 subnet on my VPS to a

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:59:05AM +0200, Veljko wrote: Do you guys have any advice for this? Should I first run dd on those drives. They are part of RAID, so it should be difficult to read data from one drive alone, but what is the best way to be sure? And obviously, I'll have to return more

Re: no .bash_hostory file was found in user home folder

2013-10-20 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:24:04PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for the response. the log that i shared is of a users not root. the username is ykhan and in his home folder history is missing. i also shared History variables output and i have also read via google that user should

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-20 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:37:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't know, but if it's running as a daemon it likely does write a log file. The Internet is your friend, I can't continue now, perhaps I can try to help again tomorrow. Yes, smartd writes info to /var/log/daemon.log. When you

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:04:04PM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: I try it from the command-line ..$ smart-notifier nothing is happening? From the command-line, you probably want something along the lines of: smartctl -a /dev/sda |more Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key:

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: Ok, I entered the command as root (not working as a regular user) and get this edited version (to keep my message short) of information: All your edited version tells us is what drive this is. To actually know what shape the drive

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:50:41PM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: OK, I guess this is the data you are asking for (I trimmed the other part again to make the message short): Ok, according to what you posted, it looks to me like your drive is in very good shape. If you're hearing clicks now that

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 06:26:38PM +0200, Veljko wrote: IIUIC, this is output I should be looking: sda: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 095 094 006Pre-fail Always -

Re: Passing nowait command line option to dhclient

2013-10-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Steffen Dettmer wrote: When booting and one of the DHCP interfaces has no cable attached, booting is delayed about around 60 seconds (seems to be value of dhclient.conf:timeout). Why isn't your DHCP server responding? Your dhcp

solved: Re: wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

2013-10-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:36:15AM +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:33:12PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:33:12 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net To: Gerard ROBIN g.rob...@free.fr Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: Jessie Minimum Kernel Requirement

2013-10-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:30:33PM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: I am using Jessie with the kernel from Wheezy. Don't worry, it's safe to upgrade. As has already been pointed out, the kernel that comes with wheezy is 3.2. The OP stated the kernel being used is 2.6.32, which came with squeeze. So

Re: CF-Firewire adapter

2013-10-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:07:42PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: A photo of a CF-Firewire adapter here. http:/carnot.yi.org/UnityDigitalCF.Firewire.jpg I removed the cover in case anyone is interested. The two largest chips are marked LSI SYM13FW501 and Winbond W27E010P-70. When the

Re: virtual packages missing ?

2013-10-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:40:34PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: After removing some (I thought) un-needed libraries this morning, I ran into a problem of missing virtual packages. When ever I now try to do anything with aptitude, I get this result: The following partially installed

Re: wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

2013-10-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:00:36PM +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote: Hello, (I use wheezy xfce) I'm not subscribed to debian-user but I have a problem that looks like a bug but I do not know which package is concerned. After last upgrade I get this message at boot time:

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:54:18PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I just did a big update with the latest wheezy update (using the aptitude GUI). Several things seemed odd; and I'm not sure if everything is OK. I'm hoping for some info about what's going on. I'll try to do my best. I'm sure

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:54:18PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: 3) Lots of updates I got a whole batch of updates, apparently coinciding with the release of Debian 7.2. Am I missing something in sources.list? Before wheezy these point releases were basically non-events for me because I had

Re: Re: virtualbox fails to compile module on 3.10

2013-10-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Nickolay Todoroff wrote: Dear Ralf, dear Hugo, I'm stuck with the same problem as Kent. I'm running on Wheezy with the 3.10-0.bpo.3-amd64 kernel (backports). The problem is actually that the virtualbox versions (esp. the OSE one) from the

Re: reinstalling Nginx others usin apt from command line

2013-10-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:10:16PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: I suppose I should have asked a more precise question. Thanks to all of you that offered suggestions; I think the real issue with what I need to do is that I do indeed want to know if there is a debian way to completely purge all

Re: Fwd: USB 3.0 Device Enumeration failed on USB 3.0 Port in Debian 6.0 squeeze 64 Bit OS

2013-10-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:20:09AM +0530, Ritesh Prajapati wrote: Hi Gregory, Hi Ritesh, Thanks for reply. I think also same like Debian 6.0 squeezy with kernel 2.6.32 does not give support of USB 3.0. Do you know from which Linux Kernel Version, USB 3.0 support is fully given

Re: Fwd: USB 3.0 Device Enumeration failed on USB 3.0 Port in Debian 6.0 squeeze 64 Bit OS

2013-10-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
, 2013. = On Thursday 10 October 2013 03:04 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:44:52AM +0530, Ritesh Prajapati wrote: Hi ALL, Please find the below mail and let me know your feedback as soon as possible. I do

Re: reinstalling Nginx others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:21:39AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but so far apt uses the

Re: reinstalling Nginx others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:21:55PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: Hello Brad, Not entirely true; Any package that has configuration files/directories in user space will have those left even after an apt-get(1) purge. So, to be sure, one has to delete those as well. $ man 1 apt-get No manual

Re: reinstalling Nginx others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:23:50PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Maybe you, since you know how it works. But, someone with no knowledge would think that it also removes userland configuration files, since it claims to remove all configuration files. Ok, since the man page is

Re: reinstalling Nginx others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:10:24PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: See what Gregory wrote. He, for one, expected a purge to delete user space config files and/or directories as well, based on what he read in the man pages for apt-get. Brad, I would appreciate it if you would please not put words in

Re: reinstalling Nginx others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:59:32AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Yes, I know that this is the normal behavior. It purged system-wide configuration. But, the point is, that for some people, when they read the man page, they think that it removes *all* configuration files,

Re: Fwd: USB 3.0 Device Enumeration failed on USB 3.0 Port in Debian 6.0 squeeze 64 Bit OS

2013-10-09 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:44:52AM +0530, Ritesh Prajapati wrote: Hi ALL, Please find the below mail and let me know your feedback as soon as possible. I do stand to be corrected, but I don't think the kernel that comes with squeeze supports usb 3.0. Try a newer kernel, or wheezy

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-03 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:44:31AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Greg, thanks for explaining this. I'm still puzzled about one point, below. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:40:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Can anyone explain

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:40:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Can anyone explain to me what difference between tap and the bridge is? They both seem to do the same thing*, but apparently tap needs to be hooked in to a bridge. And for some reason the qemu/kvm docs seems to recommend tap. Ok,

Re: Getting Postfix to sort spam into different folders

2013-10-02 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:17:53PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: So, now that spamassassin is flagging junk mail, I really would like a way of having said junk sorted into a different folder for each user. I'm aware this can also be done on the MUA side, but on some end-user devices (such as

Re: kernel tainted

2013-09-25 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:08:08AM -0400, Jim Green wrote: I already have irqpoll in grub.cfg which driver might be causing this problem? Looks to me like it's your nvidia video card. Since I don't have a machine with one of those cards, that's probably as far as I can help here. Greg --

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:59:56AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I then had to manually start pulseaudio with service pulseaudio start. This worked but still no sound. with tools preferences audio pointed it to pulseaudio for its output device. I started an arbitrary icecast and under Audio

Re: GRUB error on encrypted sdcard

2013-09-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:47:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't know how it does work for a full disk encryption on a sdcard, but for averaged installs on a hard disk drive, there are entries in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (GRUB 2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (GRUB legacy). It works more or less the

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:50:04PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: But I finally googled how, and looked at my boot log (/var/log/messages). I got the following that seems relevant, although slighly old: Hmmm, this makes me wonder if maybe your card requires firmware with the new 3.x kernel under

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

2013-09-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:31:06PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: The problem I had is that after installing Linux 3.10 from Backports, I could not start the operating system since then I enter the passrase. The system does not boots and does not even indicate if the password is correct or

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade (and squeeze, previously)

2013-09-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:29:13AM -0500, Damon Getsman wrote: Haven't checked to see what the BIOS menu says yet, but I will as soon as I can take the machine down for a bit. I would definitely do that, since this sounds like a hardware problem to me. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 07:01:55PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I recently got back from holiday. I have found catching up on the list really difficult because so many people now break threads and don't trim quotes, or, even worse, do not quote at all. I was going to just grin and bear it,

Re: package help

2013-09-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:48:10AM -0400, paulmars wrote: Im emailed a bug report. I got no response. I been trying to convince myself to try again, but I have doubts. I dont want to loose my XP install again. I need dual boot and i also need a recovery option if Debian fails again, like last

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'Home directory /root not

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root I do stand

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 02:36:11PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I am still struggling with this. I have come to the conclusion that the only way that I personally am going to succeed with this is to edit a configuration file, but I cannot find what to edit to. I have found advice on editing

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:16:04AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: But, this implies working as root. I prefer building in my home directory as a normal user, and finishing with sudo make install, sudo vi /etc/projectrc, etc.. Does anybody have any compelling arguments for building as

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:32:36PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Why? Seriously, it isn't needed. Just group 'staff'. I'll admit I didn't take the time to look into the rather extensive /etc/group in debian. Thanks for that, and your other info on groups. Given the wealth of packages in debian, I

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:46:37AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide software from source tarballs? For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I had thought that sound was probably muted somewhere - I just couldn't find where! amixer shows it clearly. All (all? ;-) ) I now have to do is use the man pages to find out how to unmute the master at the command line. I have

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:19:17PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I'm afraid that I am woefully ignorant about sound, and cannot interpret anything there. Well, it seems to say that aplay is recognizing your sound hardware. I get something similar when I run aplay -L, but with hardware different

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:58:20AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: FWIW ... On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: No sound :-( but loads of output. I cut the longest one short. See http://paste.ubuntu.com/6112471/ Seeing the output of: pactl list cards

Re: bad management of external devices...

2013-09-14 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:41:11AM +0200, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, Everytime I use a CD/DVD or plug an usb device, logwatch reports kernel errors: UDFUDF-fs: error (device sr0): ud ...: 6 Time(s) end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector ...: 6 Time(s) sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0]

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-14 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:58:27PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. Now, when I run alsamixergui: lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui I get an error box saying: alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid argument User lisi

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-09-09 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:20:34PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: I'm trying to build opus package from source for both amd64 and i386, after having applied the patch by Pino Toscano I've found here: You might want to have a look at apt-src or apt-build. I seem to recall that apt-build can build

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:28:46PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Take two different hosts, make user with the same name, but different uids on those hosts. Take USB stick, format it as ext2 (any filesystem keeping file permissions will do, actually). Now, move some files with this

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:36:12AM -0400, Tom H wrote: If you append text to the kernel commandline, you'll boot into text mode, similar to an RH-based runlevel 3. I stand corrected. I did some research, and there does in fact appear to be a text mode in debian per the text boot option.

Re: Re: Reg: Error in apt-get install in libstdc++ package

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 07:37:03PM +0530, Balamurugan wrote: I tried 'apt-get update' but didn't tried 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. I have simply installed the Debian 7.0(Wheezy), imported the debian repositories near to india and just ran the below: apt-get update apt-get install libstdc++

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:55:51PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: boot Debian into textmode How can I do this?? And thanks, just wondering now how many ways I have got to accomplish what I want to do! This was already mentioned. The answer is ctrl+alt+f1 through ctrl+alt+f6 by default. Let

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:34:05AM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: In short, invoke (after mounting the filesystem): chown -R peter /home/peter/MY I do stand to be corrected, but I don't remember a situation where I had to do chown like this after every mount. All I've ever had to do in

Re: USB adapter for SD card.

2013-09-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:42:49PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Here is a generic PC running Squeeze with a USB multi-slot card reader, branded AtechFlash Technology, Inc., Pro II. I have one SD card marked NexxTech SDHC, Class 4, 4 GB. When the card is plugged into the Atech reader,

Re: Re(2): USB adapter for SD card.

2013-09-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 08:09:13AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: The system mentioned in the original message is at home. Here at work is another machine, with an unbranded similar adapter, running Wheezy. My comments below pertain to the info you provided below. If you believe the two

Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:42:31AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Yes, right now I am doing the same, using virtualbox, and enjoying at the moment, but then I tend to easily move away from terminal if I get stuck at something, and use the gnome environment. And you're sure you wouldn't find some

Re: please read i am not getting satisfaction from mytablet l got it in april i dont download anything on it and it is slow take long to load so what should i do please tell me thank you.

2013-09-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:42:23PM -0400, phillip johnson wrote: Contact the manufacturer. I wasn't aware they made tablets with debian. Also, please don't put your entire message in the subject field. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/pubkey.asc

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