Re: index.html

On 04/30/2017 08:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Imagine my surprise when I looked at /var/www/html/index.html, and found that somehow, it was native to a PCLos install I was running half a decade or more ago! Now, do we have a script that will rebuild a new index.html for the defined

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

On 04/17/2017 07:21 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:30:47AM +0300, Karagkiaouris Diamantis wrote: Dear All, How can i install debian with UEFI support? Is there any simple tutorial? Also do i have to disable the secure boot and then proceed with uefi installation? I have

Re: Remove topic

On 03/30/2017 05:21 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:42:58 -0400 Catherine Gramze wrote: Hello Catherine, The Debian mailing lists are publicly available. Perhaps the Debian IRC chat channels would give you the anonymity you want. I am sorry if this disclosure

Re: Remove topic

On 03/30/2017 04:16 PM, Lounis ILLOURMANE wrote: Hello, Can you please remove the topic on this URL https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/06/msg02062.html There's my first and family name, some people try to use this informations to hurt me. Please help me. Please do not make this message

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 02/15/2017 03:38 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 12:50:33 (-0500), Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 02/15/2017 11:05 AM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 10:49:06 (-0500), Tony Baldwin wrote: I get random ID crashes, pretty well daily, but no consistently identifiable

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 02/15/2017 10:49 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 02/15/2017 09:36 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, Many peope (not all) have problems because Icedove crashes since an update last year. Icedove on my laptop with Debian stable crashes random about one time per week. I have many customers

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 02/15/2017 09:36 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, Many peope (not all) have problems because Icedove crashes since an update last year. Icedove on my laptop with Debian stable crashes random about one time per week. I have many customers with Debian stable and oldstable. Most of them

Re: No. ,,l

Cat? My cat once kept #tcl on freenode entertained while I was making a sandwich. The channel enjoyed him (Flaquito RIP) so much, when I got back on and explained the garbled gibberish, they suggested I go take a bath and let him have the computer for a while... On 02/13/2017 07:27 PM, Imara

Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr

almost feel I've been jettisoned into Windows-Land?! Tony On 02/05/2017 09:15 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 02/04/2017 11:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote: 'lspci -nnk | grep -A6 VGA', and/or 'inxi -c0 -v6 | head -n20 This just gave me errors, however, lspci | grep -i VGA gave me: 00:01.0 VGA compatible

Re: Set resolution options without xrandr

On 02/04/2017 11:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote: 'lspci -nnk | grep -A6 VGA', and/or 'inxi -c0 -v6 | head -n20 This just gave me errors, however, lspci | grep -i VGA gave me: 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D] Xorg log pasted

Set resolution options without xrandr

In the past, of course I'd have dug up /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vi, and edited it, but there is no such file on this system (Jessie). I've been trying to use xrandr, but I'm clearly missing something that the instructions I'm finding on superuser isn't giving me.

Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space

On 01/31/2017 08:03 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 31 Jan 2017, Kynn Jones wrote: Hi everyone! When I tried to install `ntp`, there was a "No space left on device" at the end of `apt-get`'s output, but `df` shows no shortage of space: Try 'df -i', you're probably out of inodes. I

Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space

On 01/31/2017 08:01 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: Hi everyone! When I tried to install `ntp`, there was a "No space left on device" at the end of `apt-get`'s output, but `df` shows no shortage of space: # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5

Re: How to not start ssh-agent with XFCE4 desktop (only gpg-agent)?

On 01/26/2017 03:38 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2017-01-26, Teemu Likonen wrote: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a Debian testing XFCE4 desktop system and use gpg-agent to manager ssh-agent protocol as well. There is

Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work

On 01/25/2017 12:58 PM, ken wrote: On 01/24/2017 02:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running stretch/AMD64 and I'm having extreme problems accessing my Samsung S5 phone from my Plasma5 desktop. When I plug the phone in, I get the notification with 2 suggested actions. They both read "Open with

Re: hostname drops off between remote sessions

On 01/23/2017 08:38 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:48:19PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: I rent a VPS from Contabo, in Germany (as if the location were relevant), which is still running wheezy. Lately, when I access it (generally via ssh) the hostname appears to be changed

hostname drops off between remote sessions

I rent a VPS from Contabo, in Germany (as if the location were relevant), which is still running wheezy. Lately, when I access it (generally via ssh) the hostname appears to be changed to (none). I have yet to determine if this is only when I've had to remotely restart is from the contabo

Re: MTP device mount gnome 3

My experience has been that this whole "MTP" thing, instead of just mounting phones like they used to, as a storage device, has been a real horror show, I've given up on getting it to work consistently and have installed dropbox on my phone and desktop to move stuff back and forth, which also

Re: Cannot autostart apps after boot

Are these programmes, or services? if the latter, use rcconf I wish I could you give you my simple solution for programmes, but I use openbox, not gnome. Good luck, Tony On 01/12/2017 04:41 PM, Вадим Колчев wrote: Hello, Cannot autostart apps after boot. Tried 3 methods: 1) used

Re: Icedove calendar not syncing to google calendar

On 01/07/2017 08:07 AM, Boyan Penkov wrote: Hello folks, I have icedove and the google calendar provider installed. I have three calendars: a work one tied to a work google account, and a personal and one shared with my partner tied to my personal gmail. Both the work one and the partner

Re: productivity tips

On 12/31/2016 07:45 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2017 00:36:42 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Hi.. I can't remember if it was this year or last so we can pretend it was this year that I stumbled upon the concept of "mindmapping" (mind mapping). I just ran a quick "apt-cache search" on

Re: Not Resolved: no sound again!

On 11/13/2016 02:50 PM, deloptes wrote: Anthony Baldwin wrote: Definitely not a new chip...I built this machine in 2010, and It didn't have such problems with lenny, squeeze, or wheezy, just now with jessie, probably another thing systemd screwed up? Sorry for top posting but the gmx web

Re: Resolved: sound disappeared

On 11/10/2016 04:40 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 05:08:28PM -0500, Anthony Baldwin wrote: Still getting messages on this: issue resolve, brethren (and sisters, too!) I believe the analog to "brethren" is "sistren". Never heard or saw the word in my life, but I just

Re: Debian repository: no updates for PygreSQL package

On 11/09/2016 06:59 AM, Loren Dvid wrote: Hello, In debian 6.0 and 7.0 the latest stable version of PygreSQL package is 4.0 http://www.pygresql.org/contents/changelog.html This version is from 2009. The newest stable version is 5.0.2 Why the repository is not being updated? This is common

Re: sound disappeared

On 11/08/2016 06:07 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:11:14PM -0500, Anthony Baldwin wrote: I did pulseaudio --dump-modules -v > pavumods.txt and in there, I find: Name: module-detect Version: 5.0 Description: Detect available audio hardware and load matching drivers

Re: can't reboot

On 11/08/2016 02:57 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: I've been hvaving trouble for over a month, I can't boot the same system twice. I replaced a hardrive because it was suggested the problem was a hard drive, but now, with a brand spanking new hard drive, any time Ihave to halt the system and boot

Re: sound disappeared

On 11/08/2016 02:39 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 11/08/2016 01:49 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 11/08/2016 01:22 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: Tony Baldwin writes: looks like Built-in Audio Analog Stereo Line Out (plugged in) Here's a screen-shot of pavucontrol: http://tonybaldwin.me/images

Re: sound disappeared

On 11/08/2016 12:06 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: Anthony Baldwin writes: On 11/08/2016 11:04 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: Yesterday, I was listening to music with mocp, and watching videos on YT Without issue, and today, for no apparent reason, I've lost all sound. I can't hear modp, smplayer, vlc

Re: sound disappeared

On 11/08/2016 11:17 AM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 11/08/2016 11:04 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: Yesterday, I was listening to music with mocp, and watching videos on YT Without issue, and today, for no apparent reason, I've lost all sound. I can't hear modp, smplayer, vlc, youtube, nothing. I

sound disappeared

Yesterday, I was listening to music with mocp, and watching videos on YT Without issue, and today, for no apparent reason, I've lost all sound. I can't hear modp, smplayer, vlc, youtube, nothing. I checked alsamixer and pavucontrol, nothing is muted. What happened? TIA Tony --

Re: Installing Gutenprint

On 11/06/2016 06:41 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 22 October 2016 20:51:28 Stefan Monnier wrote: I am an 86 year old Photoshop Guru and having trouble printing from PS in OS 10.12. So I found Gutenprint and downloaded the latest version for my Epson 4880. But what do I do now? First

Resolved: No ffmpeg?, howto convert/extract audio from webmd ,write to ogg?

On 11/04/2016 11:31 PM, Michael J. Ford wrote: It's also in debian testing: mford@voyager:~$ apt list | grep ^ffmpeg/ ffmpeg/testing,now 7:3.1.5-1 amd64 [installed] On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 22:47 +0100, sp113438 wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:35:49 -0400 Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com>

No ffmpeg?, howto convert/extract audio from webmd ,write to ogg?

There seems to be no plain ffmpeg in the jessie repos. Terminal output quote $ aptitude search ffmpeg p cmus-plugin-ffmpeg - lightweight ncurses audio player (FFmpeg plugin) p ffmpeg2theora - Theora video encoder using ffmpeg p ffmpegthumbnailer -

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

On 10/12/2016 08:55 AM, Mario Pereyra wrote: I'm also having the same problem for about the same mentioned time, but I use Debian wheezy & gnome No report of error, no log, ... no information, only the application disappear. similar experience. Seems to occur randomly here, like when I

Re: My bash script is missing something - what?

Forwarded Message Subject: Re: My bash script is missing something - what? To: Richard Owlett References: <57fb8f79.9010...@cloud85.net> From: Anthony Baldwin Message-ID: <3e26c189-eab5-d400-c3c7-5cc1d7321...@gmx.com> Date: Mon,

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

website. (do not log in before). The only things i can think of is broken extension. I've never see this happening, it's really strange. If that happens on windows i would have say, search for malware and delete them. 2016-10-09 15:00 GMT+02:00 Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com <mailto:to

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

On 10/09/2016 07:36 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 10/10/16 00:28, Tony Baldwin wrote: But we're getting a bit off-topic :-) Richard Indeed we are, but I thank you for humoring my curiosity. Thanks, Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

On 10/09/2016 07:23 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 10/10/16 00:20, Tony Baldwin wrote: What country is .me? here in th US, of course, it could be the State of Maine. Montenegro, apparently. According to a quick web search ;-) Richard Thanks, I was curious, couldn't think of anything, all

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

On 10/09/2016 07:11 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 08/10/16 07:00, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm getting

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

On 10/08/2016 11:28 AM, claude juif wrote: 2016-10-08 3:53 GMT+02:00 Anthony Baldwin <baldwinling...@gmx.com <mailto:baldwinling...@gmx.com>>: On 10/07/2016 06:42 PM, david...@freevolt.org <mailto:david...@freevolt.org> wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2016,

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

On 10/08/2016 11:28 AM, claude juif wrote: 2016-10-08 3:53 GMT+02:00 Anthony Baldwin <baldwinling...@gmx.com <mailto:baldwinling...@gmx.com>>: On 10/07/2016 06:42 PM, david...@freevolt.org <mailto:david...@freevolt.org> wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2016,

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

On 10/07/2016 05:58 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: export EDITOR=vim.tin I've learned recently whil using this to configure $PATH, Tat this is going to set it for the current session only. How can I make it permanent? thanks, Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

On 10/07/2016 05:38 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course, mc is set to NOT use mcedit, its internal editor What does "echo $E

mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course, mc is set to NOT use mcedit, its internal editor tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm getting redirected to a yahoo! search for "create web", If I try to load it in the floss chromium,

Re: A psgmlx that plays nice with emacs24?

On 09/27/2016 05:19 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 27 Sep 2016 at 16:35:44 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: I think (hope) the subject says it all. It does: it says - I cannot be bothered to explain in any way what I want. But I am relying on everyone to read my mind and realise how important this

Resolved: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On 09/22/2016 10:15 AM, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 09:11 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:19:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: But I don't understand the concept of "user configuration" for a DM. Wouldn't that be like a user configuring /etc/issue, the login prompt

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On 09/21/2016 10:01 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:43:15AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have various scripts in $HOME/bin, many of which I have put in my .config/openbox/rc.xml so I can fire them off with a keybinding combo, like How do you login? With a display manager

Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

Greetings, friends, I have various scripts in $HOME/bin, many of which I have put in my .config/openbox/rc.xml so I can fire them off with a keybinding combo, like true bid bid (This particular one does cat ~/Documents/bid |

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

On 09/19/2016 05:36 PM, emetib wrote: well thank you then ric. glad it's not after hours or i would be doing the same thing. no, i just noticed it today, and i can run the script on my other virtual machines without issue. it's just the debian testing that is the problem. whether i am

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie

Re: WordPress on Debian

I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the Debian Way, aka the Right Way for most stuff), and then ask any questions on #wordpress on

Re: change password prompt

On 09/19/2016 11:21 AM, Reco wrote: Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" Thanks, this was exactly what I needed! and I'll use visudo, of course. Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Re: change password prompt

On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding something (it was "ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" in fact) to the sudoers file, but at the mo

Re: random I/O errors

On 09/19/2016 09:57 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:27:43AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 09:07 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Go make a backup of everything you care about, today. Copy to a new disk, check it, then disconnect and label your backup. After that, go look

change password prompt

I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding something (it was "ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" in fact) to the sudoers file, but at the moment I can not recall what/how I did it, but I'd like to do it again. Anyone? TIA Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all

random I/O errors

Yesterday I was getting random I/O errors for stuff as simple as clear (to clear a terminal), and I got one for halt, even (I manually shut the machine off, and rebooted) haven't seen the problem since then but things are sluggish and weird. Is this a warning I should heed? This is on a brand

Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

On 09/16/2016 06:19 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-09-16, Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> wrote: On 09/16/2016 10:52 AM, The Wanderer wrote: (Is there a particular reason you replied to me privately, rather than to the mailing list?) I should probably mention that I'm using ch

Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

On 09/16/2016 06:20 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/16/2016 10:56 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: But in my old age, I can't remember for the life of me how I did it. I don't believe it was with update-alternatives. I think I edited some config file somewhere, but for the life of me, I can't recall where

Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

On 09/16/2016 10:52 AM, The Wanderer wrote: (Is there a particular reason you replied to me privately, rather than to the mailing list?) I should probably mention that I'm using chromium as my browser; getting firefox or iceweasel to use icedove is like falling off a log it's so easy. I had it

Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

On 09/16/2016 10:29 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2016-09-16 at 10:10, Tony Baldwin wrote: I'm having another headache... I want to make Icedove the default mail client. I had this done on the last Jessie system I had (on a now defunct hdd). But I can't recall how I did it, if it was with update

update-alternatives, list alternatives?

I'm having another headache... I want to make Icedove the default mail client. I had this done on the last Jessie system I had (on a now defunct hdd). But I can't recall how I did it, if it was with update-alternative or some other means.. And something that's been bothering me for a while is:

permanently add dir to $PATH

as mentioned, I'm working with a new Jessie installation and having a coupl headaches, the first had to do with getting a kernel module to load on boot (already wrote to the list about it.) The other problem is trying to permanently add $HOME/bin to the $PATH. I have in .bash_profile

load module on boot?

Greetings, friends, so something went wrong with my old Debian installation and it won't boot (dumps to emergency mode every time). Consequently, I installed Jessie on the other hdd (that had win7), and I'm having a couple of minor troubles: First, I need the snd-mixer-oss module to load on

Re: internet connectivity from Comcast

On 09/15/2016 12:17 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 20:05:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-14 17:11 (UTC-0400): My final problem is: how to get my Jessie to get on line. I don't think this is anything anyone here can help me with, since I live

Re: mount problems Please Help! Can't sshfs mount remote debian server, mount local 2nd hdd, nothing...

On 09/11/2016 08:59 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Sonntag, 11. September 2016 08:12:24 PYT Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/11/2016 06:37 AM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 07:57 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 03:34 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 03:28 PM, Tony Baldwin

Resolved: no sound?

On 09/10/2016 08:07 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 06:24 PM, deloptes wrote: Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 12:35 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: Suddenly I have no sound. Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to Opeth. Pulseaudio is running: ps aux | grep

Re: mount problems

On 09/10/2016 03:07 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Anthony Baldwin a écrit : I apologize, but, I've never quite figured out what to do with dmesg, or what to look for in its output, etc.. it really just confuses me... I saw this: 15.690807] EXT3-fs (sda1):

Re: mount problems

On 09/10/2016 01:53 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Tony Baldwin a écrit : ls: cannot access winhome: Input/output error ls: cannot access myown: Permission denied ls: cannot access win7: Input/output error If you are lucky, fsck (or the windows equivalent

mount problems

Suddenly I can't mount my 2nd hdd, it's been fine, but after a reboot today, I get I/O errors trying to mount the two partitions on it with this script: #!/bin/bash if [ $(whoami) != "root" ]; then echo "must be root, bitch" exit else mount /media/win7 mount

no sound?

Suddenly I have no sound. Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to Opeth. Pulseaudio is running: ps aux | grep pulseaudio tony 2340 0.5 0.0 370052 6788 ?S/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start tony 2402 0.0 0.0 4324 104 ?S12:24 0:00

Re: mount MTP phone

On 09/05/2016 11:09 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Curt Howland a écrit : I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, nada. I have. With FUSE and gvfs, something like (the

Resolved: update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

On 09/05/2016 08:39 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Hi, Am 5. September 2016 14:31:45 MESZ, schrieb Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com>: I have done sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links

update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

I have done sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links from icedove keep opening in iceweasel, no matter what. ??? Thanks, Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Re: mount MTP phone

On 09/05/2016 06:50 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote: I'm at a loss, friends: I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP device, and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8. [snip] I don't know what else to do to try and diagnose or resolve the matter. Anyone

Re: mount MTP phone

On 09/04/2016 09:35 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 09:30:38PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/04/2016 09:22 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On 09/04/2016 09:13 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I'm at a loss, friends: I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP device, and auto

Re: mount MTP phone

On 09/04/2016 09:22 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On 09/04/2016 09:13 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I'm at a loss, friends: I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP device, and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8. AFAIK, I have all the requisite MTP packages installed . When I

mount MTP phone

I'm at a loss, friends: I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP device, and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8. AFAIK, I have all the requisite MTP packages installed . When I plug it in, lsusb doesn't show it at all, however. I don't know what else to do to try

Re: Disable server so it does not start on reboot (even after upgrade)?

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:49:38PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 09 ian 15, 15:02:34, Xavi wrote: First I do: sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove and then, to assert the rc.d links are not recreated, I recreate them stopped in all runlevels: sudo update-rc.d apache2 stop

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:09:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Brian wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote: I have copied the muttrc for this account to http://tonyb.myownsite.me/pages/muttrc.txt (password removed, of course). Same muttrc on both the server and desktop. mutt works perfectly

Re: vps supporting debian dist-upgrade.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:07:06PM +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: My vps provider informed (after me having trouble upgrading to wheezy) that such upgrades are unsupported and the suggest to switch to a new server. My question is if that kind of support is really difficult to find , or

Re: FWIW: script vs. configurtion file

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:46:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Programming is a field of mathematics. Mathematically speaking, limiting a language to a declarative syntax does not mean that the language ceases to be a language. I would argue that programming is linguistics (being a linguist,

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 02:33:50PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 16:08:25 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:55:09PM +, Curt wrote: I understood that he is using Mutt's native smtp support and the default exim configuration, which only handles

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:38:10PM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-07-22, Tony Baldwin to...@myownsite.me wrote: There is probably a good reason for you to use mutt's native smtp support but you could consider using exim to sidestep the issue. How would I change from one to the other

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 06:50:54PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 22 Jul 2014 at 13:50:13 +, Curt wrote: On 2014-07-22, Tony Baldwin to...@myownsite.me wrote: Ultimately, that's what I'd like to determine, but have so far not been able to. The error is too vague (Interrupted System

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:55:55PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 02:06:31 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:45:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: Assuming a valid username is tony, mainlog should show a record of mail -s TEST tony@localhost being

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:55:09PM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-07-20, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Yeah, it does. But that doesn't tell me anything about why mutt is faiilng. It shows me that mail works for local users. Does 'mail' also work with remote users? Does mutt work with

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:45:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Fri 18 Jul 2014 at 15:26:50 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: /var/log/exim4/mainlog shows nothing I deem useful. Lots of stuff like: 2014-07-18 07:53:14 Start queue run: pid=13117 2014-07-18 07:53:14 End queue run: pid=13117 2014-07

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 08:52:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote: What else can I do to diagnose this issue and/or, of course, resolve it? I think this must be something other than mutt. In your description you didn't mention how you were sending email and therefore I know

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:14:09PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 08:52:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: If you have not customized it then you are using /usr/sbin/sendmail and the message is handed off to your system MTA for delivery. If so then the system MTA will log

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:41:20PM +0200, Anthony Baldwin wrote: Hi, I am unable to send mail with mutt from my home desktop, either through one of my own domains (this one, myownsite.me), or through gmx.com's SMTP server. Furthermore, I can send through both with mutt when I login into the

Re: OT: programming languages

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:40:28PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joe wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:46:58 +0100 Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of times you need to

Re: Synaptic messed up

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:16:56PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/25/2014 09:21 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:18:41PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I had an orange triangle show up where the upstate square usually shows. I clicked on it and got the following

Re: Synaptic messed up

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 04:59:30PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/26/2014 08:13 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:16:56PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/25/2014 09:21 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:18:41PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I had

Re: Synaptic messed up

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:18:41PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I had an orange triangle show up where the upstate square usually shows. I clicked on it and got the following messages. Error message: Fetch failed: W:Failed to fetch

Re: package recommendation for daily journal

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:47:47PM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-06-04, Tazman Deville tazmande...@gmx.com wrote: Here is a bash script for writing and managing a personal log, by Tony, who is also on this list. I'm surprised he didn't mention it himself.

Re: fastest linux distro

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 02:09:53PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2014 10:38:50 +0200 Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: David Dušanić writes: Ok, we have to be even more correct on this, even JWM is just a window manager. One may agree with the precision of your

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:59:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:13 -0400 Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.info wrote: Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last just manages windows category, and, in fact, don't even include a panel, which I think JWM

Re: fastest linux distro

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 08:49:01AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 29 mai 14, 23:07:40, Gour wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: A tiling WM isn't a DE. Can you tell me what is missing? - file manager - text editor - image viewer - terminal emulator -

Re: fastest linux distro

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 06:50:22AM +0200, Gour wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: If so, then still resizing and moving windows by the mouse is missing, This is also possible... assumed even this isn't missing, then it's not a tiling WM anymore. ...but not to the

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