Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> craigswin wrote: >> >> > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative >> > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run >> > Vectorworks. >> >> VMs come with a penalty

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Mark Fletcher wrote: > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated -- so not really suitable for an automated backup > solution. And as the conventional wisdom goes, if a backup isn't > automated, you're not doing a backup. > Yes for VM it is

Re: Update Notifier

I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security updates every day. > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > In Debian Stretch install pk-update-icon. > > This package works

Re: Update Notifier

Yvan Masson wrote: > So I suppose that Gnome and KDE should display user notification about > updates. > - I can tell that it is not the case for Gnome in Stretch (at least on > my desktop), which makes me really disappointed. Is there anyone here > who gets update notifications under Gnome in

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-20 07:41 keltezéssel, Mark Fletcher írta: > I'd like to be able to diagnose what's going on here, why the transfer > was so slow. Any recommendations for tools I should research? I am very > willing to read man pages etc, but am a bit lost where to start. Google > gave me a lot of

Re: Wheezy - upgrade Mysql 5.5.55 vers 5.6.35 avec dotdeb

> Mon hebergeur est OVH, donc oui il doit proposer des trucs mais comme je ne > sais pas vraiment ce que je dois chercher je n avais pas vraiment pense > a regarder de ce cote la. > > En fait je ne connais pas le nom de cette technique ou meme celui des > outils a utilser pour mettre en

Re: Samsung ML-1915 printer

Brian writes: > On Thu 18 May 2017 at 17:32:33 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Hi, Brian: >> >> finally I can get back to my printer problem... Thanks a lot for your >> help... I'm trying to follow your instructions but... Well, I don't know, >> maybe I'm missing

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

On Saturday, May 20, 2017 01:41:20 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > The internet access is via Cable. I run an ethernet cable from the cable > modem to the firewall machine, then from the firewall machine to the > Linkstation's WAN port. The firewall machine's WiFi interface is > disabled (I didn't

OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as follows: * [[][]] e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. My first thought (well, actually it's probably the sixth, one of which was trying to get the TWiki

Re: Update Notifier

On 20-05-17, Yvan Masson wrote: > I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue > for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security > updates every day. > > > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > > > In Debian Stretch

Re: OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

> I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as > follows: > >* [[][]] > > e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] > > I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. In my quick test, sort -t '[' -k 4 seemed to do the trick, Stefan

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello! > > I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm > hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. > > My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one > Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:20:15PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > If this is true and it is a doddle to convert an ordinary debian install > with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there all > this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? Fanaticism. For

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

> Yes for VM it is possible only if you use ESX server and licensed VM Ware Then better use Free Software, such as kvm, VirtualBox, ... Stefan

Re: netfilter related regression in linux-image 3.16.43-2?

On 18. 05. 2017 21:14, Tomaž Šolc wrote: > after upgrading a mail server to the recent 8.8 Jessie point release > my monitoring showed a significantly decreased amount of inbound > SMTP traffic. Specifically, after rebooting for kernel upgrade from > linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae 3.16.39-1+deb8u2

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

Michael Milliman wrote: > I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has > ceased to be displayed. [...] > I have attempted to re-set the desktop > background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop > background on the desktop to no effect. I don't know

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

On 18 May 2017 at 18:03, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > >A while ago, I initiated the "If Linux Is About Choice ..." thread > >about why there is no choice of inits during an initial install. > > > >Since that time, I've tested several systemd-less distros[1] as well as >

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

On Sat, 20 May 2017 14:20:15 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: Hello Michael, >with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there >all this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? People complain about all sorts of things. Changing

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

>> There are the so called snapshots, which you can make and then include in >> your back up. No need to down the VM. [...] > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated I have no idea what that means. The way it normally works is that you have a

Re: how to copy files

On 20-05-17, Felix Dietrich wrote: > Dejan Jocic writes: > > > rsync -av /path/to/original/folder /path/to/backup > > > > Notice that there is no need for those / on the end of paths. > > Rsync actually treats a trailing newline on the source path specially; > quoted from the

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

On 20 May 2017 at 14:43, Cat wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:20:15PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > If this is true and it is a doddle to convert an ordinary debian install > > with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there > all > > this sturm

Re: how to copy files

Dejan Jocic writes: > rsync -av /path/to/original/folder /path/to/backup > > Notice that there is no need for those / on the end of paths. Rsync actually treats a trailing newline on the source path specially; quoted from the man page: A trailing slash on the source

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

On 20 May 2017 at 15:59, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2017 14:20:15 +0100 > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > >with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there > >all this sturm und drang and spam on

Comment faire tourner Opendkim sur une Socket ?

Bonjour, Ma question s'adresse uniquement à ceux qui font tourner Opendkim sur une Socket, inutile de me sortir des liens, ça fait 2 jours que j'épluche Google. Le symptôme : === :/etc/opendkim# tail /var/log/syslog May 20 15:00:28 ns3001166 postfix/smtpd[30318]: warning: connect to

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right > click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded > out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that > something is not clickable.

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

Hi, >​If this is true and it is a doddle to convert an ordinary debian >install >with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there >all >this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? Because DDs are listening, but users aren't :D. -nik

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

> On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm >> hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. >> >>

Lire des vidéos sur Vimeo avec Firefox?

Comment faire pour lire des vidéos sur Vimeo avec Firefox sous Debian (testing ou unstable)? Au cas où ça marcherait pour certaines, voici un exemple qui ne fonctionne pas: https://vimeo.com/183181894

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

On Sat, 20 May 2017 14:41:20 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello! > > I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm > hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. ... > I'd like to be able to diagnose what's going on here, why the

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 01:26 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right >> click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded >> out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that >> something is

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Original Message Subject: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome. Local Time: May 21, 2017 3:56 AM UTC Time: May 21, 2017 12:56 AM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE)

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. > [...] >> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop >>

madam scrubbing?

Hello, I have mdadm installed, and have three sets of RAID1 partitions set up. I have not explicitly configured any scrubbing, but do see some entries in the weekly and monthly cron scripts to do so. However, the machine I have this on is down quite often, and I want to run this using

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> >>> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >>> ceased to be displayed. >> [...] >>> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >>> background

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

On 05/19/2017 10:41 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello! Hi! :-) I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine

Re: OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

On 2017-05-20 09:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as > > follows: > > > >* [[][]] > > > > e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] > > > > I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. > > In my quick test, > >

Re: OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

On Saturday, May 20, 2017 09:19:07 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as > > > > follows: > >* [[][]] > > > > e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] > > > > I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. > > In my quick

[RESOLU (presque)] Lire des vidéos sur Vimeo avec Firefox?

On 2017-05-21 02:17:18 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Comment faire pour lire des vidéos sur Vimeo avec Firefox sous Debian > (testing ou unstable)? > > Au cas où ça marcherait pour certaines, voici un exemple qui ne > fonctionne pas: https://vimeo.com/183181894 J'ai fini par trouver la cause

Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) in dual boot (UEFI) and everything was working. I wanted to reinstall Debian, so I installed Debian again by deleting the debian partitions (I think correctly) using the Debian installer partitioner and choosing the Guided use largest

Packaging problem: impossible to build package from source

Hello everyone. I don't know if this is the best suited place for this kind of assistance, but I'm currently trying to create a debian .deb package from the official source obtained from debian repositories. In my case I'm trying to build openvpn, the procedure I follow is: apt-get source

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/19/2017 09:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot >> the problem. The salient information is: OS is

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-20 19:56 (UTC-0500): ... We can help you better if you can provide more information. When was your PC new? What make and model is it? Are you able to Ctrl-Alt-Fn and log in? If yes, try to show us output at least from: inxi -c0 -G or inxi -c0

Packaging problem: impossible to build package from source

Hello everyone. I don't know if this is the best suited place for this kind of assistance, but I'm currently trying to create a debian .deb package from the official source obtained from debian repositories. In my case I'm trying to build openvpn, the procedure I follow is: apt-get source

Re: Lire des vidéos sur Vimeo avec Firefox?

Salut, Pas de soucis avec l'exemple que tu indiques sur testing avec firefox 53.0.is.52.0.2-1 Au niveau gstreamer j'ai ça apt-show-versions | grep gstreamer | grep uptodate gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0:amd64/stretch 1.10.4-1 uptodate gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64/stretch 1.10.4-1 uptodate