Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/05/12 13:23, Rob Owens wrote: Or you could manually download all the public keys that you're interested in. On this list, that equates to zero. Which is why all those who sign their messages are wasting their time on an ego-trip. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
the sender's public key? How, where, why? Maybe I've not set up Enigmail correctly? Alternatively, should I just ignore the signature, in which case why is the sender polluting the list with useless crap? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/05/12 16:45, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 10/05/12 16:14, Tony van der Hoff wrote: So, this message was signed. Having recently installed enigmail, to see what all the fuss is about in the other thread. I find I'm at a loss to understand how to interpret

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
that both you and the keyholder know. 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? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/05/12 17:39, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:18:04 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012 16:03:56 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, On Thu, 10 May 2012 16:14:12 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Am I expected to go to some keyserver to find

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
it to a keyserver, I'm no longer seeing the block of hex at the end of messages. I can live with that. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/05/12 17:54, Camaleón wrote: you don't have to do nothing A double negative, Camaleón? ;) You have to do something? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
else. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- 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/4fac0199.7060

mySQL workbench

2012-05-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- 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/4fa5287b.2010...@vanderhoff.org

Re: mySQL workbench

2012-05-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/05/12 15:27, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-05-05 15:58 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 14:17:47 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Part way through the configure script, I get the error: - checking for CAIRO

Re: mySQL workbench

2012-05-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/05/12 14:58, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 14:17:47 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Sadly, MySQL workbench doesn't appear to be available as a Debian package, It is... since wheezy :-) so I'm trying to build it from source. There's a deb file available upstream. Did you try

Re: mySQL workbench

2012-05-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/05/12 16:13, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 16:09:10 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 05/05/12 14:58, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 14:17:47 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Sadly, MySQL workbench doesn't appear to be available as a Debian package, It is... since wheezy

Re: mySQL workbench

2012-05-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/05/12 18:08, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:52:22 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 05/05/12 16:13, Camaleón wrote: There's a Ubuntu deb. Did you mean that? Yep, that one. I saw it, but I'm always a bit suspicious of 'buntu things! Will it work? I have not tried but I

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/05/12 16:52, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 May 2012 18:05:56 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: tony@tony-lx:~$ sudo ifconfig lo [sudo] password for tony: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/05/12 20:55, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:07:05 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 03/05/12 16:52, Camaleón wrote: (...) Check you /etc/hosts file. You should have this line which enables the ipv6 loopback interface: *** ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
abandoned 2012-04-29 16:55:16 socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned --- What would be the preferred way of overcoming this problem? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:116280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:116280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:21992844 (20.9 MiB) TX bytes:21992844 (20.9 MiB) -- Tony van der Hoff

ethernet device assignments

2012-04-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
In trying to track down some networking problems, I swapped the ethernet adapter in my server. Since re-booting, it has been assigned the moniker eth2 rather than eth1 (the motherbaord device is eth0). So, how do I reset the second adapter to become eth1 again? -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: ethernet device assignments

2012-04-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/04/12 15:00, Jochen Spieker wrote: Tony van der Hoff: So, how do I reset the second adapter to become eth1 again? Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules or just remove it and reboot. J. Great, thanks very much... -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: ethernet device assignments

2012-04-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
another device configured to run as eth1, so look at the other files / other lines in that file and see which device is configured to work as eth1. Thank you all for the helpful replies. It's all working fine again :) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire

Re: skype?

2012-04-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
the impression that Skype was so proprietary that nothing else would co-exist! -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

skype?

2012-04-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Has anyone here managed to get skype working reliably under Squeeze? I have 2.2.0.35-1 for AMD64, but I'm encountering many problems; intermittent sound, no video, system crashes. Google doesn't provide much enlightenment, has anyone got any tips, please? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t

[OT] Re: correct English usage

2012-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
not a synonym for posterior, and a Latin Lover is something totally different ;) But, as I said before, it doesn't really matter... -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] Re: correct English usage

2012-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/04/12 19:21, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:39:03 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: In this post, indicated for is probably the wrong term for the context. It roughly means prescribed. It is unclear what you really mean, but I would guess capable of. Mmm... yes. How about

Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom

2012-03-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
efficient and pleasant. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- 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/4f7728f3.8000

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-03-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
is better than your god, as is my editor, my car, and my posting style. Anyone who disagrees is unworthy ;) -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Xen vs KVM

2012-03-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
doing it quite well, but let's stop responding to his ranting, and he'll get bored. Just IMHO! -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: sound issues

2012-03-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
this thread, without contributing, I'm afraid, but it's sorted out my sound problems. Thanks all! -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

MDNS?

2012-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
(or ia32-libnss-mdns), or uninstall libnss-mdns. I guess the 32-bit libraries are inappropriate, but is it safe to uninstall libnss-mdns? It doesn't seem to have any dependencies, and as far as I'm aware I've no use for mDNS. Cheers, -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
the problem with AND for yourself! -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- 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/4f43c88a

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 21/02/12 16:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 21/02/12 15:48, lina wrote: Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard Here is what I

Re: Bind errors in syslog

2012-02-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/02/12 18:02, Bob Proulx wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: From time to time, folloing appears in my syslog. Always in pairs, always 10 mins apart: Feb 16 13:44:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use Feb 16 13:54:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address

Bind errors in syslog

2012-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
the cause of these messages? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Debian VPS

2012-02-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Greetings, -- Camaleón Thanks. I missed that page. My search fu is weak tonight Presumably you're looking for someone down-under. FWIW, in the UK, I use www.memset.com, which I can't praise too highly. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England

Missing sound module after upgrade

2012-02-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. Any suggestions, please? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: getting source packages with synaptic

2012-01-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/01/12 21:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 29 ian 12, 18:55:00, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Much googling on the subject suggests that it might not be possible to do that. Anyone know whether that's true, if so, why, and if not how can I do it? Probably nobody bothered to implement

getting source packages with synaptic

2012-01-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
whether that's true, if so, why, and if not how can I do it? cheers -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: directory synchronisation

2012-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 21/01/12 16:23, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:55:07 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (...) Whilst this is usable, I can't help but think it's a bit clumsy. Does anyone know of a replacement for (or addition to) rsync that will synchronise both ways? Something like Unison

directory synchronisation

2012-01-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
in two places if the file specification changes (or set variables). Whilst this is usable, I can't help but think it's a bit clumsy. Does anyone know of a replacement for (or addition to) rsync that will synchronise both ways? Thanks, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

Re: directory synchronisation

2012-01-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 21/01/12 16:23, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:55:07 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (...) Whilst this is usable, I can't help but think it's a bit clumsy. Does anyone know of a replacement for (or addition to) rsync that will synchronise both ways? Something like Unison

Re: hi, how to get more software from debian repo?

2012-01-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
no benefits over self-compiling the source. Simply get the source, compile it on your debian system, and enjoy the results. Simple! If you were then really magnanimous, you'd package the results as a deb, and offer to maintain it. That's how deb repos work! -- Tony van der Hoff

[SOLVED] SATA disk errors

2012-01-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/12/11 16:59, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/12/11 17:15, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:37:53 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I'm getting irrregular reports on a Squeeze software raid1 array with two 500GB disks like this: Dec 30 09:53:39 tony-lx kernel: [143496.872684] ata3.00

[OT] Ownership of words

2012-01-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
affliction, Lisi, but if you tell people you're allergic to nuts, I'm sure they wont confuse it with a dislike for people with oddball ideas, although they may kill you. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
this to set up Courier http://edin.no-ip.com/blog/hswong3i/exim4-courier-ssl-debian-etch-mini-howto Which contains this: If you have an existing user account without Maildir under home directory, run the following command: maildirmake ~/Maildir HTH, -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

Re: Order of cron.daily jobs

2012-01-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/01/12 17:27, T o n g wrote: Hi, How is the execution order of cron.daily jobs determined? I want inject my own cron job before and after certain predefined jobs. the same order as ls -s, ie. alphanumerically. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire

Re: disabling ipV6

2012-01-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks for your time, Pascal. On 31/12/11 14:20, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Tony van der Hoff a écrit : I run my own caching BIND9 under squeeze, and as far as I'm aware it's correctly set up. I'm using Thunderbird as my MUA, with an IMAP host on my VPS, smtp.vanderhoff.org. When trying

Re: SATA disk errors

2012-01-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks for your time Stan. On 31/12/11 23:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 12/31/2011 12:21 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: /dev/sda 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 243530983 7 Seek_Error_Rate 18363743 /dev/sdb 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 138763088 7 Seek_Error_Rate 1374378

Re: SATA disk errors

2012-01-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
for the hard disk manufacturer disc utilities. I think good backups are key to this issue :) Thanks all for your help! -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: SATA disk errors

2011-12-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 30/12/11 17:15, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:37:53 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I'm getting irrregular reports on a Squeeze software raid1 array with two 500GB disks like this: Dec 30 09:53:39 tony-lx kernel: [143496.872684] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x3 SErr

Re: SATA disk errors

2011-12-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/12/11 08:55, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 12/30/2011 4:37 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I'm getting irrregular reports on a Squeeze software raid1 array with two 500GB disks like this: Dec 30 09:53:39 tony-lx kernel: [143496.872684] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x40 action

SATA disk errors

2011-12-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
tony-lx kernel: [143497.359005] ata3: EH complete Can anyone please enlighten me to what it means; Am I about to lose a disk? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27/12/11 20:05, Don Juan wrote: On 12/27/2011 07:49 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Bump this - Has anyone any suggestions, please? Original Message Subject: Running kwrite with root privelige Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:21:08 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user

disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- 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/4efaef15.1000...@vanderhoff.org

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 11:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 28 dec 11, 10:27:33, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Well, that appears to be looking for an IPv6 address, and as my router doesn't support IPv6, it's bound to go wrong. It shouldn't, but I have encountered this with several SOHO routers. The fix

Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 11:00, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2011 10:11:21 Tony van der Hoff wrote: However, kdesu doesn't seem to appear in the standard squeeze repositories; any clues as to where to find it? It's part of KDE and Trinity. There is also gksu for Gnome. Many thanks for the tip

Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 12:39, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 28/12/11 11:00, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2011 10:11:21 Tony van der Hoff wrote: However, kdesu doesn't seem to appear in the standard squeeze repositories; any clues as to where to find it? It's part of KDE and Trinity. There is also

Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige [SOLVED]

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 13:11, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 28/12/11 12:39, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 28/12/11 11:00, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2011 10:11:21 Tony van der Hoff wrote: However, kdesu doesn't seem to appear in the standard squeeze repositories; any clues as to where to find

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 17:28, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 28 dec 11, 11:35:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Not sure that I understand what you mean by bypass the router; I don't use it for DNS directly, but packages have to pass through it. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the symptoms of the problem. Perhaps

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 19:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 28 dec 11, 17:43:24, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I seem to have worked round the problem by adding mail.vanderhoff.org and smtp.vanderhoff.org to my local hosts file. Not seen any timeouts since, but I don't feel it's the right thing to do... Do

Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige

2011-12-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Bump this - Has anyone any suggestions, please? Original Message Subject: Running kwrite with root privelige Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:21:08 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:46:29 + From: Tony van der Hoff t

Running kwrite with root privelige

2011-12-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
to double-click on a text file to open it with root privs. I can no longer do so; the error message being KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwrite'. I can call sudo kwrite file; thus have a work-round, but does anyone know how to allow me to invoke it from dolphin? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van

Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Should have gone to the list; sorry Lina: Original Message Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:35:29 + From: Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org To: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com On 24/12/11 15:43

Re: Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24/12/11 17:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's IMHO the worst programming language ever invented. Totally non-intuitive

NNTP server

2011-11-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
desktop, and on the VPS? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Alphabetical order in Synaptic

2011-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/11 13:36, Richard wrote: Hi, How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ? Click on the Package heading of the list. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
time I looked, firefox, at least, supported proxying via socks. I use Firefox over socks regularly. Socks host 127.0.0.1 port 8080. To set up the tunnel: ssh -CNfqD8080 u...@server.tld It helps to have passwordless access to the server -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège

Re: ubuntu.

2011-10-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 25/10/11 11:23, Luca Cappelletti wrote: 2011/10/25 Mauromrsan...@gmail.com ... I appear to have subscribed to the wrong mail list. Can anyone here point me at the ENGLISH DEBIAN list, please. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/10/11 22:56, Walter Hurry wrote: It was crystal clear in the first place. Only a moron could have thought that it referred to the GRUB timeout. You really are a lovable character, Hasty. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
it? Cheers, -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- 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/4e981e3c.6000...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/10/11 16:22, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (...) So, apart from reallocating user names/numbers at this late stage, what dou you recommend using to map across the various systems without my having to think too hard about it? What

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/10/11 17:45, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:16:39 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 14/10/11 16:22, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (...) So, apart from reallocating user names/numbers at this late stage, what dou you

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
help and advice. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- 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/4e98608a.9050

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. However, if you want respect from your peers, as you deserve, don't use words or expressions that suggest you are less educated than you evidently are. Let's leave it at that. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/10/11 00:28, Joe wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 19:37:03 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:25:03 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 06/10/11 17:33, Camaleón wrote: OTOH, I dunno how Claws manages this, Camaleón, I know English isn't your first

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
student who takes it upon herself to disconnect a lab computer. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: imap with claws mail problem

2011-10-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
know. I'll probably get mightily flamed for this, but it makes me bristle every time I see it! Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Walter Overeager

2011-09-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 23/09/11 18:54, Walter Hurry wrote: And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at liszt.debian.org I am. Apart from the fact that it lets through HTML formatted emails (i.e. sent by fuckwits), it lets through very little spam. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/09/11 07:29, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:01:51PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 01/09/11 15:55, Chris Brennan wrote: Every e-mail I've gotten so far, has had the foot on it... So I think it's safe to say, always does apply in my case. ... but this one didn't

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
:-?) - They're text based - They have no e-mail footer They do here (see attached) This is the point. Different people are seeing different effects. Having a mbox archive would help to diagnose such cases :-) Greetings, -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 01/09/11 11:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:30:37 -0600, Esteban Monge wrote: Nice try... but not that way :-) If the OP is incapable of reading the footer on every post to the list, what makes you think (s)he is able to read your instructions? ;-) -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 01/09/11 12:53, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:04:35 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 01/09/11 11:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:30:37 -0600, Esteban Monge wrote: Nice try... but not that way :-) If the OP is incapable of reading the footer on every post

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
think it's safe to say, always does apply in my case. ... but this one didn't here. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
* contain the footer. This one didn't (here). Is there any concensus on what/how/when these footers are added? It seems quite random to me. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/08/11 12:17, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 19:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30

error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
failed QLayout unnamed added to Klamav KlamAV , which already has a layout Does anyone have any clues to what this means, and more importantly, how to fix it? Thanks in advance, -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon) To: t...@tony-lx.xxx Subject: Cron tony@tony-lx /home/tony/.klamav/ScanWithKlamav_170811104108.sh '/home

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx

Re: how to add exec permission to other users

2011-08-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. Running mozilla as root is an invitation to all sorts of nasties. Finally, if you need help with mandr{ake|iva} you should be asking on their forums, who will have a much better knowlege than us on this DEBIAN group. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire

[SOLVED] Running Wireshark as non-root in Squeeze

2011-08-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
my user to it, and it all works fine! Thank you so much for your ever-useful on the nail help, Cameleón. Now to sort out my network problem ;( Cheers -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Running Wireshark as non-root in Squeeze

2011-08-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
anybody give me some hints, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Running Wireshark as non-root in Squeeze

2011-08-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks for your reply Cameleón. On 04/08/11 15:26, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:02:09 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I'm trying to get Wireshark to work in non-root mode in Squeeze. There is a sort of how-to at /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian, but to be honest, I

Re: broken dpkg status

2011-07-15 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/07/11 11:44, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake! For the archives, there is a useful script at http

Re: Flash in 64-bit environment

2011-07-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Of course I know it's there, in /lib, so why doesn't firefox? sigh this is turning into an uphill struggle. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

broken dpkg status

2011-07-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
: E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or directory) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. How do I recover from this? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Flash in 64-bit environment - Solved

2011-07-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/07/11 11:45, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-14 12:14 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I have no strong objection to running genuine firefox, but on starting it, it returns /usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file

Re: broken dpkg status

2011-07-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/07/11 13:06, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: A daily backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status is maintained by the system in /var/backups. Has this directory survived your accident? Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it hasn't. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire

mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
fails. I've been looking at ways of getting the script (which runs with root privs) to mount the disk, but have failed. Can anyone make any suggestions as to how to go about it, please? Cheers, -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/07/11 15:13, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Runnung Squeeze here. I have a script which runs nightly, to backup certain directories to a USB disk, which does a fine job, provided the disk is mounted. Why not run blkid and if you find the right device by it's UUID

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