Re: Debian 8 to be called Jessie

2012-07-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
in that vein, we are happy to announce that Debian 8.0 will be known as Jessie. Trying to remember which Toy Story character this was... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_%28Toy_Story%29 -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-security')] 2012-05-10 08:05:42,539 INFO Packages that are upgraded: linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 -- 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: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. I read your 'installation' post, and thought this guy talks sense, so this comes as a severe let-down. I've never had a problem with ASUS boards. YMMV, but let's see some justification for your rubbishing ASUS and Gigabyte. -- Tony van der

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/09/12 18:34, Tom Rausner wrote: Hey Tony... ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 18:18 +0100, skrev Tony van der Hoff: Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. I didn't write this (just for your information

Re: Storage server

2012-09-13 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/5051c085.2030...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
and /usr/local on seperate partitions from /, so that you can happily reformat / without worrying (too much) about your data. Also, you can fill up /home, and still run the system. I would also keep /var on a seperate partition, to guard against some errant application filling it up. -- Tony van

Re: Installation

2012-09-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/09/12 12:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:33 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: When you come to re-install the OS (and it is occasionally necessary), it is vital to have at least /home and /usr/local on seperate partitions from /, so that you can happily reformat / without

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 23/09/12 15:30, Camaleón wrote: please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email I think you meant by telephone. If so, you have to be kidding :-) How did that get changed? The original post most certainly said telephone. I had the same thought as Camaleón -- Tony van der

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
might work, and ls -ls *RET will definitely work (in case that character is not a space). That's the main reason I always use a fixed-pitch font for CLI stuff and email. So why was your post HTML? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire

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

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

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

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

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

Re: 各類廠商存貨 貨辦 倉底貨 碼頭櫃貨 退港貨等

2012-05-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/05/12 15:16, keith wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2012 18:32:53 +0800 manager 010508...@threebb.com.hk wrote: Very pretty, but unreadable to english speakers. :) So you had to reply to it, and quote it in its entirety. That makes you a fuckwit :( -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

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

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

2012-05-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
developing in English (in the UK, at least) for their singular, to denote he or she. I have resisted it so far. It would be much better to originate a new word, such as heshe, or shehe, and hisher, instead of overloading an existing plural. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
command. I now have no mail coming in. Changing the hostname back to the .uk version reverts operation to normal. So some misconfiguration somewhere, but I'm blowed if I can find it. Has anyone any hints, please? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/06/12 15:30, Benjamin Martin wrote: On 08/06/12 13:52, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on my VPS, and using postfix/dovecot/cyrus as my MTA, for a number of users, who pick up mail via IMAP (mostly Thunderbird). Postfix is configured to accept mail for u...@vanderhoff.org

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, Andrei Naa, I tried that first; it didn't seem to do much :( Thanks, anyway. Still looking at the other suggestions. -- 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

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver doesn't exist, and I have so far been unable to establish which package supplies it. However, whilst I'm prepared to pursue this avenue to fix the problem, I have to say that I don't see this error message with the .uk hostname. This does not seem logical to me. -- Tony van

Re: [solved] postfix and hostname

2012-06-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/06/12 12:57, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 09/06/12 11:45, Camaleón wrote: This was from your log: *** Jun 8 16:54:15 shell postfix/trivial-rewrite[10957]: warning: do not list domain vanderhoff.org in BOTH mydestination and virtual_mailbox_domains *** It's almsot self-explicative

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
) trigger_error( failed to compress .$filename.1.pnm ); -- 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

startup script

2012-07-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I have a script (non gui) which I want to run each time I log in. Which is the correct way to do this? -- 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: startup script

2012-07-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 01/07/12 13:01, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Tony, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: Hi, I have a script (non gui) which I want to run each time I log in. Which is the correct way to do this? Log in on a TTY/console or into a desktop environment? KDE, Xfce and GNOME all

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
] if $KDEHOME is not set it defaults to $HOME/.kde4 $KDEHOME is not set, but I have no kde4 directory. [2] http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/zshbash-startup-files-loading-order-bashrc-zshrc-etc/ [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: startup script

2012-07-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/07/12 20:39, rjc wrote: Try here: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/autostart/index.html Ah, thanks. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
we didn't join the Euro! -- 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/508d30d6.6050

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
; it merely licenses designs to chip foundries. The foundations of all your arguments are at best shaky! -- 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

OpenVPN setup woes

2012-11-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
a firewall, I'm terrified of breaking it, and denying myself access, or worse, letting in miscreants. So, can anyone suggest how to proceed from here? Cheers, -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Outrageous sexism

2012-11-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
by harmless jokes, breaking threads, asking the wrong questions, carbon copy, brainstorming etc., not by the people who make harmless jokes, are breaking threads, asking the wrong questions, carbon copy, brainstorm etc.. Your joke was not harmless. Stop playing the injured party. -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
there, a very useful book is Linux in a Nutshell, which calls itself A Desktop Quick Reference. O'Reilly. $50 when I bought mine several years ago. I use it all the time. Or a free PDF download. I got it here: http://it-ebooks.info/book/403/ -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

Re: Outrageous Xenophobia. Was: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
question, because showing what sounds obvious for someone can make him feeling outraged! PS: One Thousand Years of German Humor = nice joke It is alleged, that a certain German Fuerer added a smiley to the order to exterminate the Jews, to indicate it was a joke. It was misunderstood. -- Tony van

Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

2012-12-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
menu, which will be reflected in a *virgin* user's menu. Try http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/howtos/kde-menus.htm, for some hints. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

amavis-clamav fails

2012-12-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, and the problem persists. Can anyone please suggest what's going wrong? 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

Re: amavis-clamav fails

2013-01-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27/12/12 14:32, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running postfix/amavis/clamav on my mail server; of late (last week or two) I'm seeing error messages in syslog: Dec 27 13:52:43 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) ESMTP::10024 /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20121227T130337-18681: bounce

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
to use their hardware scanning utility. I can't speak for Kingston. Lisi -- 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

OT: Caméleòn WAS Install from DVD set

2013-01-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
reminds me of a Spanish lady with excellent English skills. Haven't seen her around for a while. I miss her knowledgeable input. Anyone know what happened to her? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Language(No programming language ) question

2013-01-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
; some are broken more readily than others. -- 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

HDMI output

2013-01-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
this is because Xorg is not correctly set up to drive the HDMI output. Has anyone please got any suggestions on where to look/how to configure this? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: HDMI output

2013-01-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/01/13 19:15, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [You replied to my private address, feel free to put this back on list] Oops, sorry! Hereby back on the list. On Jo, 31 ian 13, 19:03:17, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 disconnected (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS connected (II

Re: HDMI output

2013-02-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/01/13 20:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 31 ian 13, 19:38:39, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 31/01/13 19:15, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [You replied to my private address, feel free to put this back on list] Oops, sorry! Hereby back on the list. On Jo, 31 ian 13, 19:03:17, Tony van der Hoff

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

2013-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
for the exponentation in this extract; I didn't want to edit it. 210, etc should say 2^10). That's official enough for most people. However, if you want to declare the earth flat, then don't be surprised if your opinion is disrespected. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire

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

2013-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
it a standard. And that has not occurred. It certainly won't happen with luddite attitudes like yours prevailing. It IS a standard, whether you like it, or not. Get used to it. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Can't execute binary?

2013-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
used to start it with no problem. However, on the wheezy box, I'm getting: --- tony@tony-dlt:~$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: cannot execute binary file --- Well, WTF, as they say. Does anyone know of a change that causes this? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: Can't execute binary?

2013-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 21/02/13 11:30, Thierry Chatelet wrote: The Thursday 21 February 2013 12:23:44, Tony van der Hoff wrote : Hi, I've just installed wheezy/KDE on a spare machine, to see what we're getting. All seems OK, apart from one mystery: I installed a copy of Firefox-18.0.2 in /usr/local

Re: Debian Wheezy and Command-shell Browser Output

2013-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
bother with a browser? -- 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/512e3b9a

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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: 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: 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

[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

[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

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

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: 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

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: 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

[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

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

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: 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

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