Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Bret Busby b...@busby.net writes: Hello. I have a server that is running Firestarter on Debian 5. I have forgotten the root password, and have not logged into root on that computer, or updated the system, for about a year, I think. I do remember a user login, and have successfully ssh'd

disabling slowkeys in gdm3

2012-08-10 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657969 It isn't clear to me why the display manager has anything to do with this, but apparently the solution is to

Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3

2012-08-10 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657969 It isn't clear to me why the display manager has anything to do

Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3

2012-08-12 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:17:43 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657969 It isn't

Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3

2012-08-12 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: On 2012-08-12 14:02:01 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:17:43 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in http

Re: Obtaining a Newer Kernel

2012-08-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com writes: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:01 +0200 Alex Robbins alexdotrobb...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, there are 2 ways to go about this. I could build from the kernel.org source, or I could install from unstable. or you could install:

Re: Obtaining a Newer Kernel

2012-08-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com writes: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:01 +0200 Alex Robbins alexdotrobb...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, there are 2 ways to go about this. I could build from the kernel.org source, or I could install from unstable. or you could install:

Re: Obtaining a Newer Kernel

2012-08-27 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosu...@pp.nic.fi writes: On 27.8.2012 6:32, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: That will get him the latest kernel for his particular distribution (testing, wheezy, etc). The current kernel for either testing or unstable is 3.2; the current for experimental is 3.4; the current

import version and changelog into deb?

2012-08-27 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I've got a specialized piece of software I wrote and maintain (it's a theatre sound system, for playing music cues and sound effects for live theatre). In order to distribute among the various computers I use it on, I've packaged it as a .deb. I also use svn for version control, and autotools to

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-27 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:42:54 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I know enough to be dangerous, but not always enough to be competent. That's why I opened this thread in the first place. In this case the solution is as

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can only access 4G of real (extended) memory, right? So why are there motherboards available

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can only access 4G of real (extended) memory

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: On 9/20/2012 4:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: You are either: 1. Horribly lazy 2. Incompetent Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or any one of a number of things we

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com writes: - Original Message - From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a primary technical support resource.  People should be making at least a cursory effort to search for information before asking

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

2012-09-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com writes: $ ls -lrt total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list $ ls -lrt RET ls: cannot access RET: No such file or directory $ cat RET cat: RET: No such file or directory $ rm RET rm:

Dymo 450 ejects label on login

2012-10-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
The issue is as above: new machine running xfce4 desktop, with two printers attached. One of them is an Epson Workforce 645, the other is a Dymo 450 label printer. The Epson is, of course, the default printer on the system. When I log in to the desktop, the Dymo ejects one blank label. Any

profile function: not found. Was: Dymo 450 ejects label on login

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:47:07PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: The issue is as above: new machine running xfce4 desktop, with two printers attached. One of them is an Epson Workforce 645, the other is a Dymo 450 label printer. The Epson

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning

Re: php5 not running

2012-10-24 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
abdelkader belahcene abelahc...@gmail.com writes: hi, I just install php5  and the list of software apache2, mysql ( the LAMP). ( last version on wheezy ) apache2 run nice , same for mysql,  but wwhen I try  a simple file  containning for example phpinfo(),  it is not executed. the

relationship between pam_module and PAM chains

2012-11-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
My question takes enough explanation that I'll just start by asking it; afterwards I'll explain where it arises. I'm trying to understand how PAM works, and have a question regarding the relationship between PAM chains as defined in /etc/pam.d/* and fields in struct pam_module. When a module is

Re: relationship between pam_module and PAM chains

2012-11-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com writes: Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: So where I'm confused is with pam_setcred(). When the program calls pam_setcred(), which modules' pam_sm_setcred() functions get called? Are they associated with one of the chains, and if so

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2012-12-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi writes: 31.12.2012 20:33, Zbigniew Komarnicki kirjoitti: Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is initializing by negative value? There no any warning. Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted to unsigned but probably this should by printed

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Mark Allums m...@allums.com writes: Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is initializing by negative value? There no any warning. Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, when this is a constant value. What do

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net writes: On 12/31/2012 7:30 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi writes: This is a known bug in Debian GNU/Linux. Happy new year ;) Where does the standard require a warning in this case? If no warning is required, the behavior

Re: lilypond?

2013-01-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net writes: No I cannot access the Internet from my debian machine. Still never mind before I start a tangent thread. You answered the question. When I can find out it should be here, if not, it can be obtained. That is what I wished to know. It isn't

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com writes: Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install packages from repository not by compiling. i

Re: why my simple ? hasn't get answered?

2013-02-12 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I was able to extract the URL mms://a937.l211056936.c2110.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/937/2110/v0001/reflector:56936 from the file and play it with both gxine and mplayer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2013-02-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net writes: On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Agreed. And now there are official binary prefixes, so there is no excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead of abusing SI decimal prefixes. And who declared these made-up

determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups (notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines. Is there a way to determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the packages? I realize I could just create the groups by hand, but presumably there are

Re: determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups (notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines. Is there a way to determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the packages? I would grep

Re: determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: This is exactly what I needed -- thanks! Great! (I wasn't aware the postinst scripts were kept around) They are used by dpkg-reconfigure to re-configure the package. # dpkg-reconfigure foopackage That runs the postinst script

ptrace suid?

2012-01-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I've got a very strange virtualbox problem: I have two hosts sharing /home with NFS. The two machines are very close to identical: same CPU, same motherboard, same amount of memory. Same kernel version, same virtualbox version, same versions of all the libraries virtualbox depends on. If I

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com writes: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote: Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net wrote: Hello richard, richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form was blank. Always worth checking a file

Re: ptrace suid?

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: snip Check out this recent VB forum thread: [Solved] VBox 4.1.8 fails as non-root user https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7t=47199 I have to confess to being a little bit mystified by the description there (I'll note that the user was having

Re: ptrace suid?

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
And the actual problem with virtualbox, alsaplayer, gxine, and presumably more programs I hadn't found yet was: Somehow, at some point in the past, a bunch of opengl-related files landed in my /usr/lib (only on the machine where things were failing, of course): snowball:511$ ls /usr/lib/libGL*

painfully slow grub2 boot times

2012-02-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
This isn't a cry for help, it's a what worked for me, in hopes that it'll get indexed and other people can be saved the two days I spent finding it. As with many other people, I was experiencing a long delay (on the order of a minute) between the Welcome to GRUB message and the appearance of the

Re: painfully slow grub2 boot times

2012-02-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:02 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: (...) As with many other people, I was experiencing a long delay (on the order of a minute) between the Welcome to GRUB message and the appearance of the boot menu when booting. Is that on Squeezy

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Is there any chance the OP might have the filesystem mounted with the 'sync' option? -- 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/1bobsw2fc7@pfeifferfamily.net

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local time. I have no idea where

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Maximilien Noal noal.maximil...@gmail.com writes: On 02/23/2012 06:47 PM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, Recently my xfce started behaving with strange issues that make me unable to use it. I can login to xfce, but... I notice 2 major problems: 1) the windows have no frame, no

Re: Restrict a user to a set of binaries?

2012-03-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Bijoy Lobo bijoy.l...@paladion.net writes: Is there a way where i can only assign a few binaries to  user like, su - ls ? I do not want him to access anything else from /bin or /usr/local/bin Whenever I see a request like this, my first question is, what do you really want to do?. As others

exim4 TLS errors

2012-03-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Monday my exim4 server began reporting errors trying to deliver email to a number of sites, as follows: 2012-03-07 09:04:42 1S5JM2-0001iQ-Rz = jos...@pfeifferfamily.net U=pfeiffer P=local S=398 2012-03-07 09:04:44 1S5JM2-0001iQ-Rz TLS error on connection to creepinglunacy.com [199.85.212.11]

Re: exim4 TLS errors

2012-03-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Camaleón noelamac+gm...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:29:15 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Monday my exim4 server began reporting errors trying to deliver email to a number of sites, as follows: (...) 2012-03-07 09:04:44 1S5JM2-0001iQ-Rz ** m...@creepinglunacy.com R=dnslookup T

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Paul E Condon wrote: As far as I know, Squeeze is posterior to Lenny, and the recommended ^ This is the wrong word in English to describe the relation between Squeeze and Lenny.

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it, even though I removed all partitions and repartitioned it? Is there a utility out there that can wipe the MBR of a

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

2013-08-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it, even though I removed all

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com writes: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and

Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hello, This morning I have been puzzled by bash. After typing the following command: for i in

Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: Interesting. If break appears out of context, you should get an error message something like: bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop You didn't get an error message, so part of bash thinks it is in context. Yet it

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

2013-09-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
phillip johnson jamaicabarne...@gmail.com writes: silence When your subject line is three lines long (on my display, anyway) maybe you should move it to the body of your post. When the body of your post is empty, you should *definitely* move something in there. Does your table run Debian Linux?

Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 09/03/13 at 03:45pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: Interesting. If break appears out of context, you should get an error message something like: bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes: On 09/09/2013 06:16 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote: I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. HP cartridges

Re: endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:29:33PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Speaking about endianness, it really is hard to manage: void myfunction( ... ) { #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN move_bytes_in_a_specific_order #else

Re: sudo and UNIXes

2013-10-27 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not updated unless local

Re: sudo and UNIXes

2013-10-28 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 09:28:51PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: True, you need to add to the picture that curious user who just read on Bugtraq or Full Disclosure about fresh vulnerability in sudo. Or that disgruntled

Re: sudo and UNIXes

2013-11-01 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:19:43AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: You also have to add to the picture such a vulnerability, and I haven't noticed any. If we're speaking of public vulnerabilities: CVE-2010-0427

Re: sudo and UNIXes

2013-11-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2013-11-02, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Again -- isn't basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0. Permits someone who *has* sudo access to avoid retyping a password. Not only that. Permits someone who already has sudo access to continue

Re: sudo and UNIXes

2013-11-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: Hi. On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:46:48 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard cybe_r_wiz...@earthlink.net wrote: How about this bug: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html Impact: Successful exploitation of the bug will allow a user to run arbitrary commands

Re: console mode

2013-03-29 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
james gray kmz...@gmail.com writes: hello Question: what are the default use assigned to the f1 through f7 consoles. i do understand that f7 is gui. i have found  http://wiki.debian.org/Console and at that address there is not a writ on f1 through f7 default assignments. i would

Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /dev devtmpfs devtmpfs

ssh corrupt packets with aes encryption

2013-05-11 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
On a fresh install, I can neither ssh in to nor out of one of my machines using aes encryption -- I get the error lcct@projections:~$ ssh localhost Bad packet length 3783539029. Disconnecting: Packet corrupt If I delete the known_hosts file turn on some debugging, I get lcct@projections:~$ ssh

Re: ssh corrupt packets with aes encryption

2013-05-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
recovery...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 11 May 2013 09:41:49 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: So... any idea where to go next? Hi. 1) Try to unload kernel module aes_x86_64 and it's dependants, restart sshd, try once more. 2) Boot from livecd, if possible, see if openssh

Re: ssh corrupt packets with aes encryption

2013-05-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
recovery...@gmail.com writes: Can you provide a result of tcpdump -nn -s0 -i lo tcp port 22 ? I don't have any experience with tcpdump, so I'm just blindly following instructions here -- let me know if you need more! tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode

Re: a browser for debian that will play pandora.com?

2013-06-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes: On 5/31/2013 7:40 PM, Carl Fink wrote: /snip/ Epiphany-browser works fine. Have you ever listened to Pandora? The folks that run it don't seem to know anything about music genres. I did listen to it on the computer--I think it was from PCLOS, but not

Re: a browser for debian that will play pandora.com?

2013-06-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Britton Kerin britton.ke...@gmail.com writes: iceweasel doesn't seem to, I downloaded firefox and ran it but it doesn't seem to either (just hangs forever). Now my GF is saying just use Ubuntu blah blah is there any non-horrible way to get a browser that will play internet radio? I used

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com writes: Dear all, My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC time, so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct.  I do these actions to disable UTC: 1.  add UTC=no in /etc/init.d/rcS 2. remove UTC , add LOCAL

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com writes: I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get it... but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock? I did. As I mentioned in the previous email, I set the BIOS clock as UTC time and set my time zone as UTC+8, this works. My machine

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com writes: Dear List - With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel, with no results. I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. This is

Re: UPC Fonts

2013-07-23 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com writes: Dear List - I hope that this is not too much off topic. Does anyone know the name of the UPC font that is used for example: grocery packages? Where can I download the fonts? This isn't quite the answer to your question, but a

Re: Moved MAC addresses

2013-07-24 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
M.Atıf CEYLAN meh...@atifceylan.com writes: Hi, I have two debian servers. They have two interfaces on each server. For example, server1: eth0  e8:b7:48:7b:35:f6 10.10.10.2 eth1 is e8:b7:48:7b:35:f7   172.16.1.2 There is a pfsense firewall on frontend. PF syslogs contain below lines;

Re: Moved MAC addresses

2013-07-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
M.Atıf CEYLAN meh...@atifceylan.com writes: On 07/25/2013 03:14 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: You haven't said a lot about your topology; are both interfaces visible to the firewall through whatever series of switches you might have? Yes Actually, that pretty much has to be the case, otherwise

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Robert Baron robertbartlettba...@gmail.com writes: Aren't many of the  constructs used as examples in the paper are commonly used in c programming.  For example it is very common to see a function that has a pointer as a parameter defined as: int func(void *ptr)     {     if(!ptr) return

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Robert Baron robertbartlettba...@gmail.com writes: Second question: Doesn't memcpy allow for overlapping memory, but strcpy does not?  Isn't this why memcpy is preferred over strcpy? According to the man page for memcpy, The memory areas must not overlap. Use memmove(3) if the memory

GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
My goal here is to be able to have a bootable, running system in the event of a disk failure. I've been running two disks in a RAID-1 configuration, with grub installed on both disks, for some time. My /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf is essentially empty, as mdadm has been successfully finding my RAID

Re: GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de writes: PaulNM deb...@paulscrap.com writes: snip Thank you both for your help -- your suggestions were exactly what I needed (I delayed responding until I was confident I had everything working). I'm puzzled as to why parted refers to these partition types as

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Muntasim-Ul-Haque tranjees...@inventati.org writes: Hi, How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? -Muntasim Ul Haque The fact that you already have the MAC address doesn't matter in finding out your IP address.

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: Muntasim-Ul-Haque tranjees...@inventati.org writes: Hi, How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? -Muntasim Ul Haque The fact that you already have the MAC address

Re: Netflix on Sid, no wine.

2014-03-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Hi, A few days ago Google News carried this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-enable-silverlight-watch-netflix-linux/ I tried it and it works as advertized, an easy installation and Netflix works. IMO the latter is overrated: mostly old hat

clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'll be neede (which will be very minor). So, while I'm at it, I'm curious -- is there any clean

Re: clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-29 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-01 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
ray r...@aarden.us writes: The URL in the default source.list doesn't seem correct: /etc/apt/sources.list - deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free The above path is to a directory with other folders. But Wheezy is a subdirectory of dists, not debian. So it

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
ray r...@aarden.us writes: Marc, Thank you for your efforts. I tried it again and reached http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ which seems like the URL in source.list is just a relay. ray One small note -- it would be helpful to include a little bit of context in your messages (like I

Re: Systemd

2014-04-24 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca writes: On 4/24/2014 19:15, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello list: Have you read this stupid things? http://boycottsystemd.org/ https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rage-against-systemd/ What a waste of bits indeed. But

Re: Systemd

2014-04-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ralf Mardorf info.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 21:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 15:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Kinda seems like the (de) evolution of cars, doesn't it? As a kid, I could tune up my beater flat head 6 1959 Plymouth in 20 minutes

Re: 'box' as noun, was: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?

2014-05-23 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com writes: Lisi Reisz Fri, 23 May 2014 17:10:49 +0100 box is a verb, so I found it confusing. You are indeed confused. As a native speaker of English, I can assure you, 'box' is both noun and verb. Also, having been in computing in the US for decades, I can assure

preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
First, here's what I'm trying to do: I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm successfully mounting it automatically using pam_mount when I log in. My email is processed by a .procmailrc file in my home directory, and I'm passing the email through bogofilter. So, at

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-27 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:27:56 +0530 Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: First, here's what I'm trying to do: I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-28 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Well, I don't want to keep two separate files

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 5:08 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks very promising. There is a Perl

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 10:39 Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 5:08 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I am still

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: 2014/07/07 10:39 Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 5:08 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I am still exploring all

Re: android connection

2014-07-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Esther Carillo ecarillo1...@gmail.com writes: On 2014-07-12, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: I don't know anything to android but I have to connect an android device to a computer. I run a smbd server on my desktop and ES File Explorer app on my phone. Scanning my

Re: Pin package to any version, don't remove?

2014-07-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost removals;

Re: since demise of encfs what to use for encrypting dir

2014-08-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Harry Putnam wrote: I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at least in jessie repos. What are people using as a replacement? Hopefully something as easy to use and encfs was. Do you have more

Re: since demise of encfs what to use for encrypting dir

2014-08-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
B lazyvi...@gmx.com writes: On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:10:10 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Do you have more information on encfs being declared a security hazard? Your post is the first I've heard of it. http://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm (You'll note that dangerous

Re: apache2 what is the standard way to enable modules?

2014-09-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: googling to learn how to enable modules in apache2-2.4.10-1+b1 I'm getting a little too much input to really see what to do. what is the name of cgi module? That would be very useful for the `a2enmod' cmd. And for something real simple like making

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com writes: When I wanted the options for umask, I typed 'man umask' and got the man page for it as a C header diretive? (I'm not a C programmer, but it seemed to be for C header files and came from section 2.) This is darn confusing for a new user. I have been

Re: FW: Time for compassion and the Init GR

2014-11-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net writes: The tone is subtle, and not necessarily something a native English speaker would see. But I see it there. Are you seriously claiming that a non-native speaker would be likelier to pick up on subtle, and quite possibly subconcious, cues than a

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Carl ca...@panix.com writes: Really? I may have unthinkingly assumed everyone reading was a native speaker is American English. In my dialect, out means openly homosexual far more often than quitting. The joke had nothing to do with Mr. Hess and everything to do with mocking my own first

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