Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:41:21 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > > Question. There are (at least) two different ways to mount removable > media. > > 1) Is there an entry in /etc/fstab for it? If so does it have the > "user" flag on it? Here is a typical entry for a cdrom showing the > "user" flag. And a custom entry after it also showing the flag but > that entry isn't a standard one. > > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/sdg1 /media/usbdisk autouser,noauto,noatime 0 0 > > The "user" flag is what allows the mount to happen as the user > invoking the mount command. In which case the owership and permission > is the same as that of the invoking user. > There is no entry for /dev/mmcblk01p1 in fstab. > 2) If nothing like the above /etc/fstab entry exists then some desktop > session daemon is automatically mounting the media for you upon > insertion. Such as the gnome-volume-manager. In which case you would > need to find out which daemon is doing it and configure it. > How do I find out which daemon is mounting the card? Thx -- 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/20131222004137.3c322ec8@eb8540
Unable to run 'evernote-mode'
Has anyone got emacs 'evernote-mode' to work on debian please? Every time that I try I'm left with this error message which I don’t understand - error in process sentinel: enclient.rb exited abnormally with code 1 -e:1: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END :1: Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config. ^ enutil-aget: Wrong type argument: listp, -e:1: If I try to run 'RbConfig' then it says 'Command not found'. So whats the next step forward in getting it to run please? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 Registered Linux user 561944 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
COMPATIBILIDAD DEBIAN CON HP ML310 GEN8 INTEL XEON QUAD-CORE E3-1220v2
Buenas Noches, por favor agradecere me comenten si el sistema operativo debian es compatible con el servidor HP ML310 GEN8 INTEL XEON QUAD-CORE E3-1220v2. Slds crdls y gracias Marcos -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/COMPATIBILIDAD-DEBIAN-CON-HP-ML310-GEN8-INTEL-XEON-QUAD-CORE-E3-1220v2-tp3132849.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/1387684696898-3132849.p...@n7.nabble.com
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On 20131221_212840, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-12-21 20:53 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > > application, > > such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine > > between gnome-terminal and other applications. > > How exactly did you copy the text? > > > But I'm using XFCE now, and > > xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE. > > Nothing stops you from using gnome-terminal under XFCE, I suppose… I use gnome-terminal with Xfce with no problems. I like it because I know where the configuation parameter values are stored ( in .gconf ) and I have developed a collection of named preference sets which I use for different tasks. One does NOT have to have the whole of Gnome installed to use Gnome terminal. > > > Before you tell me that "Google is my friend", or some other trite brush-off > > saying, let me tell you that I have done my homework on this. I have > > searched > > the internet. I have learned about the difference between the PRIMARY > > buffer > > and the CLIPBOARD buffer, I have learned about settings to put in > > .Xdefaults, > > etc. But none of the techniques I have found work for me. I use a > > traditional > > PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse buttons. It has no thumbwheel. > > > > Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE environment? > > I don't use XFCE, but I have set xterm's selectToClipboard resource to > true, meaning that text you select in xterm can be pasted into other > applications with Ctrl-V, and Shift-Ins pastes text from the clipboard > into xterm. > > Cheers, >Sven > > > -- > 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/87lhzene2v@turtle.gmx.de > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20131222033231.gb2...@big.lan.gnu
Re: Changing Hostname?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jon N wrote: >> Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session >> opened for user lightdm by (uid=0) > > "(none)"? It thinks the hostname is "(none)"? That's not right. > Unless you named your new system "(none)" with the parens which > shouldn't work. > >> Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) avahi-daemon[2285]: Server startup complete. >> Host name is none.local. Local service cookie is 3853520009. > > "none.local"? > >> Based on the time stamp these happened during the most recent boot. >> All the previous lines have 'localhost-01' then all the subsequent >> lines have '(none)'. > > I think there is an error with setting the new name. Just for > verification what does hostname say? > > $ hostname > > It should return the hostname of your system. If it doesn't then > something is wrong with /etc/hostname. It does return the new hostname. But, I started wondering about legal characters. If you remember my old one was 'localhost-01' but in my new one I used an underscore (_). According to netregister.biz/faqit.htm no symbols are usable except the hyphen (-). No accented characters either. So I changed the name again and rebooted once more. This time everything started just fine. > > I am thinking the hostname is empty for some reason. Not empty, but if it contains illegal characters it won't make any difference. I didn't find any error messages that would clue me in to the problem (like: "Warning, you have illegal characters in your hostname" :-)). I did notice on one boot an error message that 'hostname.sh' (in /etc/init.d) had failed, but I searched all my log files and could not find any reference to it at all. I guess not everything you see on screen during boot makes it into one of the log files. > > Bob Thank you very much Bob (and everyone else), Jon -- 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/CANcvmg0G=m+no9myhoqvdmhspfvfrp+uxc-4jt+n-mewvot...@mail.gmail.com
Re: fail2ban fails to ban apache...
Sorry, I meant this to go to the list... On 12/21/2013 12:01 PM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I try to configure fail2ban in order to ban IP which try to connect to directories protected by .htaccess. Here is my [apache] section in jail.conf: enabled = true port = http,https filter = apache-auth logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log maxretry = 3 But I tested filling the auth form with erroneous login/password and nothing happens! Nothing appeared in /var/log/fail2ban.log... You did stop and restart fail2ban after making the changes, right? I don't use Apache authorization on any of my sites, so I can't duplicate your problem. However, look at your /var/log/apache2.error.log - what is the entry you get there when you get an authorization failure? (btw - I don't use wildcards in my fail2ban entries - don't know if it makes a difference or not.) Then look at /etc/fail2ban/filter.d - the regex in there must match the entry in your /var/log/apache2/error.log file. The regex in your apache-auth.conf file must match the entry in your error.log file for fail2ban to work (I've found not all fail2ban regex's are accurate). I tried the same for ssh connections and the IP of the computer from which I tried was banned after the third attempt. What is missing in my config? Here is the ssh section in jail.conf: enabled = true port = ssh filter = sshd logpath = /var/log/auth.log maxretry = 6 Thanks See above. As a side, I use iptables ipt_recent module to handle ssh violations. I find it more reliable (no waiting for log entries to be written out). Jerry -- 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/52b655f8.70...@attglobal.net
Re: [SOLVED] Re: setting up usb wireless
Frank McCormick wrote: > Yes I noticed on the Ralink Tech site that some of the drivers > cover a wide range of chipsets. It was weird that the adapter seemed > to be setup but couldn't function under dhcp. I have seen wifi associate and then not obtain a dhcp address on a variety of chipsets and drivers. Intel, Broadcom, Realtek. And so I conclude that the problem must be at a different layer since there is no commonality below. > But today I had different problems with the passphrase which I > finally sorted out. And then the adapter kept dropping out and > reverting to wired...and it's only a few feet from the router. You have a wire? If I have a wire then I always use it. Wired connections are always going to be more reliable than radio because radio is susceptible to noise among other problems. > Wireless under Linux can be a PITA. All I have to do is mention "Limited or no connectivity" and cringe. I am sure others reading this will too. If you type that into a search engine with auto-prompting on the only hits after that are for MS Windows. Typically that means network connected but no DNS servers are configured. But useless error messages like that make it very difficult for people. Things are much better under Debian GNU/Linux than under MS-Windows by a long distance! Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SOLVED was: Re: Gmail Grrrr. [web usernames and logins]
On 22/12/13 12:54, Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> 1. Logout of your gmail account. >>> 2. Wipe cookies (Iceweasel -> Edit -> Preferences... -> Privacy -> >>> Remove individual cookies... -> Remove all cookies -> Close. >>> (google "saves" your account login using cookies). >>> 3. Login to his gmail account. (now the default google login for >>> that browser is his). >> >> That worked! \o/ Thank you very much. > > Yay! > > I have had an additional problem before. A buddy that I help with the > computer wanted his credentials to be remembered in the browser. That > is fine. But because he had other failed logins the browser form > history was remembering these other lines and suggesting them in the > login fields. Those erroneous suggestions were in the way. There are two elements:- ;login/profile stored in cookie (sometimes as a lash cookie which is another kettle of spit) ;password (and login) stored by password manager The sites, i.e. google use cookies to store the login The browser stores the passwd OR you can use a password manager (I recommend KWallet). If the browsers stores the password the "key" is the URL. The Iceweasel browser can store many username and password combinations against a given URL. These can be weeded with Iceweasel -> Edit -> Preferences... -> Security -> Search for part of the interesting URL -> Remove bad password/username. Sometimes the problem is that the browser won't store a username and/or password. This may be solved (sometimes) by creating a blank bookmark for the site and reloading the page. Other times the inablity to save a username and password is the result of dedicated stupidity verging on criminal negligence i.e. the site/application was designed so that password managers could *not* be used (I'm looking at you OpenERP). This happens when company employ idiots as "programmers" and the idiots can't manage their own passwords for testing so they design the interface accordingly. If the "trick" is done with javascript saving the following single-line of code to a bookmark will allow the browser to save the username/password:- javascript:(function(){var%20ac,c,f,fa,fe,fea,x,y,z;ac="autocomplete";c=0;f=document.forms;for(x=0;x > If you find yourself in a similar situation you can remove them > individually. To remove them you can of course completely clear the > browser history. Or you in Iceweasel at least you can hover the mouse > over the undesired entry suggestions and press the keypad Delete key. > That will remove that individual entry from the browser history > without needing to clear the entire form history. It's probably a good idea to clear all cookies and History as default everytime you start a browser if privacy is a concern, but judicious use of the Private Browsing feature of most good browsers is a safe substitute (IMO). With Iceweasel it 'used' to be possible to set Privacy so that history and cookies were always deleted from previous sessions. I suspect you need an extension to do that now. NOTE: form history, and browsing history are different. A site can "read" your previous browsing history but not your form history. tl;dr? browsing history bad, form history useful. > > Bob > Kind regards -- 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/52b64da9.3050...@gmail.com
Re: [SOLVED] Re: setting up usb wireless
On 21/12/13 04:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Frank McCormick, 19.12.2013: Solved my problem. +1 for wicd in the Debian repositories...-10 for gnome-nettool :) If you are having wireless setup problems, it's the tool to goto. FWIW, I have a cheap usb wireless adabter with the same identifier listed in your lsusb (ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter) and it's been working fine with Network Manager in Gnome (in fallback mode) in wheezy. Haven't needed wicd, or anything else for that matter, to get it working. (The performance isn't too great but that's probably due to the driver and/or hardware.) I don't like NM but the symptoms you reported don't seem to be due to the difference between wicd and NM. The symptoms showed that the wifi was associated but no dhcp response was received. I sometimes get this too using the Intel 2200BG driver. I think it might more likely have been a driver issue. I find that unloading and reloading the driver fixes the problem. And another list member reported the same thing recently too. //snip// I am using the ralink driver with a USB RT3070 device. That is different from the RT5370 device you are using but I think the driver is the same? For me it is the rt2800usb family. The ralink driver has been working well for me. I am using one as a client and two as an access points and found they work pretty well for me. So far I would give them a thumbs up. Yes I noticed on the Ralink Tech site that some of the drivers cover a wide range of chipsets. It was weird that the adapter seemed to be setup but couldn't function under dhcp. But today I had different problems with the passphrase which I finally sorted out. And then the adapter kept dropping out and reverting to wired...and it's only a few feet from the router. Wireless under Linux can be a PITA. Anyway, it's good that you solved your problem, whichever way was handy. Any port in a storm :) Agreed. Glad that your problem is solved. For now anyway :) -- Your mail is being read by tight-lipped NSA agents who fail to see the humor in Doctor Strangelove. -- 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/52b64a21.6030...@videotron.ca
Re: Changing Hostname?
Jon N wrote: > Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session > opened for user lightdm by (uid=0) "(none)"? It thinks the hostname is "(none)"? That's not right. Unless you named your new system "(none)" with the parens which shouldn't work. > Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) avahi-daemon[2285]: Server startup complete. > Host name is none.local. Local service cookie is 3853520009. "none.local"? > Based on the time stamp these happened during the most recent boot. > All the previous lines have 'localhost-01' then all the subsequent > lines have '(none)'. I think there is an error with setting the new name. Just for verification what does hostname say? $ hostname It should return the hostname of your system. If it doesn't then something is wrong with /etc/hostname. I am thinking the hostname is empty for some reason. > One other thing - I rebooted again and tried the command 'service > lightdm restart'. It worked, sort of. I was able to log in, but my > desktop didn't start right. There were no panels, and when I tried to > run a Mate configuration app they wouldn't run. I switched back to > the virtual terminal I ran 'service lightdm restart' from, and there > were no error messages. Darn :-(. Usually the X system communicates with itself through a communication socket. The network communication socket connection could be tcp over the network or it could be a local unix comain socket. As I recall the hostname is encoded in there somewhere. Meaning that if you change the hostname while the system is up and running that it loses communication. As I recall this causes current windows to continue but causes failure to open any new windows. You can close windows but can't open them. But that knowledge is from years ago and things might be different now. Now everything should use a local unix domain socket by default for speed and security. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SOLVED was: Re: Gmail Grrrr.
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > 1. Logout of your gmail account. > > 2. Wipe cookies (Iceweasel -> Edit -> Preferences... -> Privacy -> > > Remove individual cookies... -> Remove all cookies -> Close. > > (google "saves" your account login using cookies). > > 3. Login to his gmail account. (now the default google login for > > that browser is his). > > That worked! \o/ Thank you very much. Yay! I have had an additional problem before. A buddy that I help with the computer wanted his credentials to be remembered in the browser. That is fine. But because he had other failed logins the browser form history was remembering these other lines and suggesting them in the login fields. Those erroneous suggestions were in the way. If you find yourself in a similar situation you can remove them individually. To remove them you can of course completely clear the browser history. Or you in Iceweasel at least you can hover the mouse over the undesired entry suggestions and press the keypad Delete key. That will remove that individual entry from the browser history without needing to clear the entire form history. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
Stephen Powell wrote: > Installing xfce4-terminal worked for me. Actually, based on someone > else's post, I installed task-xfce-desktop, which brought in a whole > slew of stuff, including xfce4-terminal, then purged xterm, the lightdm* > stuff, and task-xfce-desktop itself, which has a dependency on lightdm. > (I'm using xdm and don't want to use lightdm or even have it installed.) > xfce4-terminal is now my default terminal emulator in the XFCE desktop > environment. Shift+Ctrl+C copies and Shift+Ctrl+V pastes in xfce4-terminal. > > In most other applications, such as iceweasel, Ctrl+C copies and Ctrl+V > pastes. That makes sense to require the Shift in the terminal emulator, > since Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V need to retain their historic functions for > terminals. (Of course, you can also copy and paste via the mouse > and the action bar Edit menu.) I take it from the above you wish to use C-c, C-x, C-v in the terminal, okay to use Shift-C-c, Shift-C-x, Shift-C-v in the terminal, instead of the mouse for cutting and pasting? Because those do all tend to imply using the clipboard instead of the primary selection. And this is a very personal thing. People either like using one or the other. X has traditionally used the mouse with the primary selection. MS-Windows has traditionally used the keyboard with the clipboard. And the two worlds have been clashing ever since! :-) > I tried all sorts of stuff regarding .Xresources, as suggested by other > posts, but nothing worked for me in that area. (That was while I was > still using xterm, of course.) I still think it should work fine (X primary selection cutting and pasting with the mouse) in the default configuration without any additional configuration added. But regardless I am glad to hear that you have something you are happy with for you. :-) > I couldn't find any documented options in xorg.conf for emulating a > 3-button mouse with a 2-button mouse either. I remember that option > from older versions of the X server. These days, input devices, > such as keyboards and mice, are expected to be auto-detected. If you don't have anything set then I believe the default will work okay without any specific configuration. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
Paul Cartwright wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Put XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true in your ~/.Xresources file for > > permanent configuration. > > > > $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" >> ~/.Xresources > > $ xrdb -m ~/.Xresources > > I don't have a .Xresources file.. in all my years of UNIX/Linux, I've > never edited a .xresources file.. > pauls-server:~$ ls -l ~.Xresources > ls: cannot access ~.Xresources: No such file or directory Then I assume you have a .Xdefaults file? Put it there. There are something like a half dozen different locations that X resource data can be stored. An X program will look through each location in turn in priority order. I posted on this topic before so instead of annoying the list with another long posting today I will simply point to the previous. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/09/msg01385.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg00395.html Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Gmail Grrrr.
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:37:47 -0500 Rob Owens sent: > > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook > > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. I can sign > > into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and then in > > future sign into his account from my account. But I don't want > > that. I want to sign straight into his account and leave it like > > that for him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line? Any ideas? > > > In gmail, click on the "person" icon (it's blue on my screen) and > that'll let you select "Sign out". > > Next time you go to gmail, it should ask you for a user name and > password, and it'll let you check "stay signed in" or something like > that. That works for me as well, as I have need at times to check into different gmail accounts for family members. I suppose if it is a real problem rid yourself of all gmail or google cookies and then try again. A bit desperate though I would think? Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller *** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic - -- 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/20131222124001.30c44f53@taogypsy.wildlife
jwm
Hi, I need help to configure jwm from stable. FWIW some audio packages and their dependencies are from testing or unstable. Icons for the menu are ignored, but at least editing the program does work. [rocketmouse@archlinux debi386]$ grep Browser etc/jwm/system.jwmrc gnome-www-browser [rocketmouse@archlinux debi386]$ grep Browser home/rocketmouse/.jwmrc qupzilla Is there a way to display icons? How can I change the wallpaper to /usr/share/wallpapers/Grass/[...]? [rocketmouse@archlinux debi386]$ grep 'Background type' etc/jwm/system.jwmrc /export0/images/formulae.jpg [rocketmouse@archlinux debi386]$ grep 'Background type' home/rocketmouse/.jwmrc [...] Do I have to edit the whole menu myself or is there a way to use the same menu as other DE's do use? At least for categories like "Internet" it would be nice to automatically get a menu entry when installing a browser. Regards, Ralf -- 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/1387676409.653.17.camel@archlinux
Re: [SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:32:23 -0500 (EST), Frank McCormick wrote: > >This works for me in xterm in .Xresources : > > XTerm*VT100.translations: #override : select-end(PRIMARY, > CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0) > > Sorry it wrapped That's one I didn't try. But now that I have a solution by means of xfce4-terminal, I'm not going to re-install xterm and give it a try. Maybe it will help someone else, though. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/1079228897.98901.1387676153528.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
Email MTA /etc/mailname Configuration (was: Changing Hostname?)
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Here are the places that need to be changed on every system. A non-exclusive list. There will also be other places too. > > /etc/hosts > > /etc/hostname > > /etc/mailname > > Would (or should) it be necessary to change /etc/mailname? mailname(5) > describes this file as containing ". . . the fully qualified domain > name that the program wishing to get the mail name should use (that is, > everything after the @)." I guess it depends upon what you have in that file but in 100% of my machines I have the FQDN (fully qualified domain name) of the system. I think that is typical and therefore it would always need to be changed. But it might not be typical for everyone. Others may do things quite differently. That is the problem with a flexible configurable system. There are many different ways to do things. Everyone thinks the way they do things is best. :-) All of my email behind my site router can send mail from the machine itself. This is very useful on headless servers for notifications. On the private network I want to see the actual hostname. Hiding the hostname would be counterproductive. My desktop that I am sending this message from is being sent from such a configuration. But wait you say you don't see the FQDN on this email. That's right. On my site mail relay I configure Postfix for site masquerading. I set the following in my site router relay configuration. masquerade_domains = proulx.com masquerade_exceptions = root masquerade_classes = envelope_sender, header_sender local_header_rewrite_clients = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated That causes mail outbound from my desktop to change from my local hostname over to the shorter domain only address. This is the best plan for me since I may send email from my desktop or from my laptop. When I break my laptop and buy another one the new one will be masqueraded. When I change desktops the new desktop is usually up and running in parallel with the previous one for some time. Because the masquerading configuration is in my site mail relay I don't have to do anything special on the local client workstations. But as with all things other people may have other ideas. If they want to masquerade at each system then they might set the myorigin to be their domain email address. They might only have one system. (Horrors! ) Then all email will be sent to and from that domain address. In which case that file won't change when the hostname changes. The upstream Postfix docs even recommend this. The Debian specific change to allow "myorigin = /etc/mailname" supports this. It just doesn't happen to be best for everyone. Among other things it means you should also set up a domain wide alias database for all addresses in use. Most large sites have this. It just so happens that I don't. You could argue that I should. As a side note I always block outgoing port 25 traffic at the site router. This prevents a virus infected MS Windows machine from being able to send mail outbound from my network and putting me on a DNSBL. > I use Exim but I'd expect Postfix's manpage to be identical. I expect so too. Since /etc/mailname is a Debian specific thing I expect it to be Policy across all mail transport agents so I assume that includes Exim too. But I wouldn't expect to find that on other non-Debian systems. The idea is to give a global place to configure whatever is installed without really knowing what might actually be installed. One place didn't exist for all of them and therefore Debian created that location for use in Debian. Other non-Debian systems won't have that file. And won't have a centralized place to configure all of the MTAs either. Or if they do it will likely be in a different location. In Postfix the configuration is up to the local admin to keep or remove. It is "myorigin = /etc/mailname" and the Debian specific part is that it is allowed to be a file. A lot of Postfix admins will not need that setting and will have a custom file of their choosing replacing the entire default template. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#myorigin myorigin (default: $myhostname) The domain name that locally-posted mail appears to come from, and that locally posted mail is delivered to. The default, $myhostname, is adequate for small sites. If you run a domain with multiple machines, you should (1) change this to $mydomain and (2) set up a domain-wide alias database that aliases each user to user@that.users.mailhost. Example: myorigin = $mydomain Since the default is myhostname and on Debian the default hostname is the short name not the FQDN then for Postfix one value or the other always needs to be set. Either myhostname needs to be set to the FQDN or myorigin needs to be set to something. To understand the myhostname issue you have to understand that Postfix by default wants to see the FQDN set as the hostname but that i
Re: Collecting information after installation
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:01:52 -0700 Bob Proulx sent: > Yes. Between util-linux 2.17.2-9 and 2.20.1-4 getty has changed and > it now clears the screen. This seems like a good thing on the surface > until you find out that it destroys the boot time messages including > any errors that are on the screen at the time. To prevent this a new > option --noclear has appeared. Editing the /etc/inittab to add the > --noclear option to getty will prevent the new screen clearing > behavior and allow the error messages there to be seen. > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --noclear 38400 tty1 Thank you Bob. I also didn't like all that information suddenly disappearing before my eyes before I log in. But didn't know how to do that. You have helped me with your advice. Much better. Thank you, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** Drugs are marvellous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? - Geraldine Chaplin *** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic - -- 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/20131222121836.35f4de93@taogypsy.wildlife
Re: Changing Hostname?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >> In general, if you're changing host name, *ALL* references to the old >> name should be tweaked. >> >> I would recommend: >> >> # sed --in-place=.bak -e 's/localhost-01/yournewname/g' $(grep -lr >> localhost-01 /etc) > > Good intention but that will corrupt many binary files. Beware! Here > are some interesting binary ones that I would not edit in place from > my system. Well, I wouldn't run a command if I wasn't able to figure out at least the basics of what it was going to do. But from other replies I thought I wouldn't need anything too fancy to accomplish my goals anyway. And, based on other replies I edited 'hosts', 'hostname' and 'mailname'. Then rebooted. The DM (LightDM) still will not start. I changed to another virtual terminal (by that I mean I pressed ), logged in a root and ran 'startx'. That worked OK. To look for references to my old and new hostnames I ran the following command: "grep -rH "HOSTNAME" in /etc and substituted both old and new names for HOSTNAME. The 3 files I edited earlier still had the new name. The only file with the old name is exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, and that doesn't look like it would cause the problem. There are over 20 files with the word 'localhost' in them, but not with '-01', so far my guess is that it is just used to reference the host machine even when it is not the actual hostname. So, maybe this is something specific to LightDM. I did check the files in /etc/lightdm but there were no reference to "host', local or otherwise. I started searching through my log files and thought this might help. These are entries from the most recent boot up, which is when LightDM would not load: Auth.log - Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm by (uid=0) Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session closed for user lightdm Dec 21 16:37:13 (none) login[3563]: pam_unix(login:auth): check pass; user unknown Dec 21 16:37:13 (none) login[3563]: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= rhost= Dec 21 16:37:15 (none) login[3563]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on '/dev/tty1' FOR 'UNKNOWN', Authentication failure Syslog - Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) avahi-daemon[2285]: Server startup complete. Host name is none.local. Local service cookie is 3853520009. Then, still in syslog, I noticed two consecutive lines: Dec 21 16:36:01 localhost-01 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="7.4.4" x-pid="1899" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] exiting on signal 15. Dec 21 16:36:36 (none) rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="7.4.4" x-pid="1922" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] start Based on the time stamp these happened during the most recent boot. All the previous lines have 'localhost-01' then all the subsequent lines have '(none)'. One other thing - I rebooted again and tried the command 'service lightdm restart'. It worked, sort of. I was able to log in, but my desktop didn't start right. There were no panels, and when I tried to run a Mate configuration app they wouldn't run. I switched back to the virtual terminal I ran 'service lightdm restart' from, and there were no error messages. Darn :-(. Other suggestions? Thanks Jon -- 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/CANcvmg1OJmfOUkWj0vszBs=47jvewuobo1qw6vuqmz3f_7z...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On 21/12/13 07:18 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:24:00 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 14:53 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE. No, it's xfce4-terminal. Using xfce4-terminal shouldn't cause copy and paste issues. I tried all sorts of stuff regarding .Xresources, as suggested by other posts, but nothing worked for me in that area. (That was while I was still using xterm, of course.) This works for me in xterm in .Xresources : XTerm*VT100.translations: #override : select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0) Sorry it wrapped -- Your mail is being read by tight-lipped NSA agents who fail to see the humor in Doctor Strangelove. -- 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/52b63317.6070...@videotron.ca
[SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:24:00 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 14:53 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >> But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the default terminal >> emulator application under XFCE. > > No, it's xfce4-terminal. Using xfce4-terminal shouldn't cause copy and > paste issues. Installing xfce4-terminal worked for me. Actually, based on someone else's post, I installed task-xfce-desktop, which brought in a whole slew of stuff, including xfce4-terminal, then purged xterm, the lightdm* stuff, and task-xfce-desktop itself, which has a dependency on lightdm. (I'm using xdm and don't want to use lightdm or even have it installed.) xfce4-terminal is now my default terminal emulator in the XFCE desktop environment. Shift+Ctrl+C copies and Shift+Ctrl+V pastes in xfce4-terminal. In most other applications, such as iceweasel, Ctrl+C copies and Ctrl+V pastes. That makes sense to require the Shift in the terminal emulator, since Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V need to retain their historic functions for terminals. (Of course, you can also copy and paste via the mouse and the action bar Edit menu.) I tried all sorts of stuff regarding .Xresources, as suggested by other posts, but nothing worked for me in that area. (That was while I was still using xterm, of course.) I couldn't find any documented options in xorg.conf for emulating a 3-button mouse with a 2-button mouse either. I remember that option from older versions of the X server. These days, input devices, such as keyboards and mice, are expected to be auto-detected. Thanks to all who participated in this thread. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/1362939266.98192.1387671504461.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
SOLVED was: Re: Gmail Grrrr.
On Saturday 21 December 2013 22:59:34 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/12/13 09:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to > > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in > > the morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up > > with his emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just > > freak out when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't > > just lean over and help.. I.T. = PANIC! > > > > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on > > which there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then > > click on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either > > (optimum solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer > > him the chance to sign in to his Gmail account. > > > > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook > > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. > > 1. Logout of your gmail account. > 2. Wipe cookies (Iceweasel -> Edit -> Preferences... -> Privacy -> > Remove individual cookies... -> Remove all cookies -> Close. > (google "saves" your account login using cookies). > 3. Login to his gmail account. (now the default google login for > that browser is his). That worked! \o/ Thank you very much. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312220002.52818.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Gmail Grrrr.
On Saturday 21 December 2013 22:37:47 Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:31:16PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to > > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in > > the morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up > > with his emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just > > freak out when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't > > just lean over and help.. I.T. = PANIC! > > > > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on > > which there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then > > click on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either > > (optimum solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer > > him the chance to sign in to his Gmail account. > > > > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook > > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. I can > > sign into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and > > then in future sign into his account from my account. But I > > don't want that. I want to sign straight into his account and > > leave it like that for him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line? > > Any ideas? > > In gmail, click on the "person" icon (it's blue on my screen) and > that'll let you select "Sign out". > > Next time you go to gmail, it should ask you for a user name and > password, and it'll let you check "stay signed in" or something > like that. Should have. I had already tried. It didn't. :-( But thank you very much for taking the trouble to make a suggestion. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312212359.52133.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Gmail Grrrr.
On 22/12/13 09:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in the > morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up with his > emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just freak out > when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't just lean over > and help.. I.T. = PANIC! > > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on which > there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then click > on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either (optimum > solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer him the chance > to sign in to his Gmail account. > > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. 1. Logout of your gmail account. 2. Wipe cookies (Iceweasel -> Edit -> Preferences... -> Privacy -> Remove individual cookies... -> Remove all cookies -> Close. (google "saves" your account login using cookies). 3. Login to his gmail account. (now the default google login for that browser is his). > I can sign > into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and then in > future sign into his account from my account. But I don't want that. > I want to sign straight into his account and leave it like that for > him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line? Any ideas? > > I haven't got time before he leaves to wipe the HDD and start again. > > I shall multi-post this to the Debian, Surrey and Portsmouth lists, > because I am fairly desperate. It's the Saturday before Christmas > here. People on this longitude will be either in bed or out on the > town. > > Thanks, > Lisi > > Kind regards -- 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/52b61d56.3040...@gmail.com
Re: Changing Hostname?
On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 12:56:35 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Changing the system hostname is a simple process. But it depends upon > what is installed since often the hostname is embedded in the > configuration of a package. For example the Postfix mail transport > agent needs to know the hostname in order for mail to work properly. > (I assume Exim does too but I don't run it and so don't know.) So > does Apache. And so forth. Each of those packages that need to know > the hostname need to change. Each of those changes are simple. Just > make sure you look and change all of them. > > Here are the places that need to be changed on every system. > > /etc/hosts > /etc/hostname > /etc/mailname Would (or should) it be necessary to change /etc/mailname? mailname(5) describes this file as containing ". . . the fully qualified domain name that the program wishing to get the mail name should use (that is, everything after the @)." I use Exim but I'd expect Postfix's manpage to be identical. -- 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/20131221225157.gv5...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Gmail Grrrr.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:31:16PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in the > morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up with his > emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just freak out > when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't just lean over > and help.. I.T. = PANIC! > > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on which > there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then click > on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either (optimum > solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer him the chance > to sign in to his Gmail account. > > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. I can sign > into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and then in > future sign into his account from my account. But I don't want that. > I want to sign straight into his account and leave it like that for > him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line? Any ideas? > In gmail, click on the "person" icon (it's blue on my screen) and that'll let you select "Sign out". Next time you go to gmail, it should ask you for a user name and password, and it'll let you check "stay signed in" or something like that. -Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 02:53:20PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > application, > such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine > between gnome-terminal and other applications. But I'm using XFCE now, and > xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE. > Others have already answered about the copy and pasting, but I figured I'd give you another xterm trick. You can specify the font type and size like this: uxterm -fn a14 I use uxterm instead of xterm (can't remember exactly why). I found the default font size too small. There is a utility called xfontsel which helps you choose the appropriate font type and size. -Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Gmail Grrrr.
My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in the morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up with his emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just freak out when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't just lean over and help.. I.T. = PANIC! I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on which there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then click on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either (optimum solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer him the chance to sign in to his Gmail account. But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. I can sign into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and then in future sign into his account from my account. But I don't want that. I want to sign straight into his account and leave it like that for him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line? Any ideas? I haven't got time before he leaves to wipe the HDD and start again. I shall multi-post this to the Debian, Surrey and Portsmouth lists, because I am fairly desperate. It's the Saturday before Christmas here. People on this longitude will be either in bed or out on the town. Thanks, Lisi -- 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/201312212231.16703.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/21/2013 04:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> where do you set this?? > Either interactively with control-middle-mouse-drag down to "Select to > Clipboard" and check it _or_ set it in your .Xresources. > > man xterm > >selectToClipboard (class SelectToClipboard) >Tells xterm whether to use the PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD for SELECT >tokens in the selection mechanism. The set-select action can >change this at runtime, allowing the user to work with programs >that handle only one of these mechanisms. The default is >“false”, which tells it to use PRIMARY. > > To set this on the fly for testing (session only, not permanent): > > $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" | xrdb -m > > Put XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true in your ~/.Xresources file for > permanent configuration. > > $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" >> ~/.Xresources > $ xrdb -m ~/.Xresources I don't have a .Xresources file.. in all my years of UNIX/Linux, I've never edited a .xresources file.. pauls-server:~$ ls -l ~.Xresources ls: cannot access ~.Xresources: No such file or directory - -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSthXQAAoJEFOC6wwM39g1csgH/2/Ja7rZbcU6P9r7CzduF7jL mEH1bjN5EG2VmUxNaeXCTholx+caULAFNdtZUAIXKLZ3H2WoNucdtfkEQMK8VxF4 PYzVdIu/p+94PMX3n+G8x1eu0nxggweVUy11KNjPdSJn2lk3mFoU+p6J0vbCOUA+ BOY7J2s6I1/hep+/bvQkzJ/OKYgV15moTQIzkSEjqtKh31dWw2oL+Is+4O+KSPKv p8VfqJaHYuOOoSV2971pJ0PB6zNAi07nAYaSZ05hWhkh5wgJYaCZ8ILCzO9/ZQJl HCcgkM1FOEZ2jHd1pRkvrw5abbySej4mg/Enlux1XJlVycLO6DL7bxgsS8gzaBI= =a5u9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/52b615d0.4020...@gmail.com
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 21:09:56 +, Tom H wrote: > 2) OT: I don't use XFCE but isn't xfce4-terminal its default terminal? It is if task-xfce-desktop is installed (and recommends enabled): Recommends: xfprint4, xfce4-terminal, Installing xfce4: Depends: thunar (>= 1.2.0), xfce4-utils (>= 4.8.0), xfce4-utils has Depends: libxfce4util4 (>= 4.3.99.2), xterm | x-terminal-emulator, -- 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/21122013220437.00fdef8ce...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working
Installed Wheezy-LXDE 32-bit off LXDE flavor ISO via thumb drive to replace Eeebuntu 3.0 that I installed on it 3 years ago or so. Chose Base, Desktop GUI and Laptop tasks. Nothing else. All went well and as far as I can tell everything works, except Suspend (sleep, not hibernate) when the lid is closed. Don't want hibernate anyway. Instead of sleeping, the display is shutdown, but the computer itself is still fully powered and running. (The "sleep" key combo FnF1 works however.) I installed the eeepc-apci-scripts from the repo thinking that might solve the problem. It didn't, but fortunately those scripts are compatible with the others, so no conflicts. I finally traced the "problem" to lid.sh from the original acpi scripts. Full script is below. Toward the top, this if-then is not being triggered. Don't know why. if [ x$LID_SLEEP = xtrue]; then pm-suspend Any answers come to mind? I did a work-around by having the "lid" event call my own suspend.sh action directly. It works, sort of: Goes back to sleep after initially waking up, requiring a second key press, then it sticks. Thanks. B /etc/acpi/lid.sh follows = >8 == #!/bin/sh test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs || exit 0 . /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs . /usr/share/acpi-support/policy-funcs . /etc/default/acpi-support [ -x /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre ] && /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre CheckPolicy && exit grep -q closed /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state if [ $? = 0 ] then . /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank if [ x$LID_SLEEP = xtrue ]; then pm-suspend fi else d=/tmp/.X11-unix for x in $d/X*; do displaynum=${x#$d/X} getXuser; if [ x$XAUTHORITY != x ]; then export DISPLAY=:$displaynum if [ x$RADEON_LIGHT = xtrue ]; then [ -x /usr/sbin/radeontool ] && radeontool light on fi case "$DISPLAY_DPMS" in xset) su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xset dpms force on" ;; xrandr) su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xrandr --output LVDS --auto" ;; vbetool) /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on ;; esac if pidof xscreensaver > /dev/null; then if on_ac_power; then su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xscreensaver-command -unthrottle" fi su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" fi else if [ -x$DISPLAY_DPMS_NO_USER = xtrue ]; then [ -x /usr/sbin/vbetool ] && /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on fi fi done fi [ -x /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.post ] && /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.post -- 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/20131221134220.3f944...@debian7.boseck208.net
Re: [SOLVED] Re: setting up usb wireless
Frank McCormick wrote: > Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > >Frank McCormick, 19.12.2013: > > >Solved my problem. +1 for wicd in the Debian repositories...-10 > > > for gnome-nettool :) > > > > > > If you are having wireless setup problems, it's the tool to goto. > > > > FWIW, I have a cheap usb wireless adabter with the same identifier > > listed in your lsusb (ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 > > Wireless Adapter) and it's been working fine with Network Manager in > > Gnome (in fallback mode) in wheezy. Haven't needed wicd, or anything > > else for that matter, to get it working. (The performance isn't too > > great but that's probably due to the driver and/or hardware.) > > Well try as I might..I could not get the darned thing to operate. > It was setup properly but I couldn't use it. As I said wicd solved > the problem for me in Debian. On the other hand, I just booted into > Fedora 19 and it recognized the device, set it up..called dhcp and > it was ready and waiting when I reached the desktop. Weird or what. I don't like NM but the symptoms you reported don't seem to be due to the difference between wicd and NM. The symptoms showed that the wifi was associated but no dhcp response was received. I sometimes get this too using the Intel 2200BG driver. I think it might more likely have been a driver issue. I find that unloading and reloading the driver fixes the problem. And another list member reported the same thing recently too. I think that may have been more likely the issue rather than the choice of system management software. I think for this particular case either wicd or NetworkManager would have been okay and that it isn't a particular problem with NM. On the surface if there isn't a dhcp received then I would expect that one wasn't sent on the server side. However in practice I find that I have had kernel driver issues more often and reloading the driver fixes it and therefore it cannot be due to missing dhcp frames. The unanswered question is what situation causes the device to report being associated but fails to communicate data? Don't know. I am using the ralink driver with a USB RT3070 device. That is different from the RT5370 device you are using but I think the driver is the same? For me it is the rt2800usb family. The ralink driver has been working well for me. I am using one as a client and two as an access points and found they work pretty well for me. So far I would give them a thumbs up. > >Anyway, it's good that you solved your problem, whichever way was handy. > > Any port in a storm :) Agreed. Glad that your problem is solved. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 12/21/2013 03:28 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > I don't use XFCE, but I have set xterm's selectToClipboard resource to > > true, meaning that text you select in xterm can be pasted into other > > applications with Ctrl-V, and Shift-Ins pastes text from the clipboard > > into xterm. > > where do you set this?? Either interactively with control-middle-mouse-drag down to "Select to Clipboard" and check it _or_ set it in your .Xresources. man xterm selectToClipboard (class SelectToClipboard) Tells xterm whether to use the PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD for SELECT tokens in the selection mechanism. The set-select action can change this at runtime, allowing the user to work with programs that handle only one of these mechanisms. The default is “false”, which tells it to use PRIMARY. To set this on the fly for testing (session only, not permanent): $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" | xrdb -m Put XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true in your ~/.Xresources file for permanent configuration. $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" >> ~/.Xresources $ xrdb -m ~/.Xresources Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Collecting information after installation
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > By default the screen is cleared of boot messages, There is only a login > > > prompt. > > > > Yes. Between util-linux 2.17.2-9 and 2.20.1-4 getty has changed and > > it now clears the screen. This seems like a good thing on the surface > > until you find out that it destroys the boot time messages including > > any errors that are on the screen at the time. To prevent this a new > > The screen clearing was implemented by upstream as a response to > concerns about security. Debian itself has never done it. > > > option --noclear has appeared. Editing the /etc/inittab to add the > > --noclear option to getty will prevent the new screen clearing > > behavior and allow the error messages there to be seen. > > > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --noclear 38400 tty1 I can see that Debian wouldn't want to be different from upstream on this. But I wish upstream had not gone this way. Because the intent is to protect a clueless user from being clueless. But the practice hurts a cluefull user from being cluefull. The damage to the latter group is worse than the damage to the former group. And this is one of those features that both affects everyone and affects almost no one. When things are working with a graphical login manager then no one will be looking at this information. When there are problems then the messages are cleared and gone and the information is then missing. I really dislike things that cause problems only when there are problems. It is like having a failure to print an error message. > This is one of the first things I do on any install ; I prefer the > traditional way. Me too. It is now part of my standard system setup since Wheezy 7. In this context of console logins and security I am compelled to mention the Secure Attention Key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key > > Also in Wheezy 7 the "bootlogd" is broken out into a separate package. > > If you want bootlogs in /var/log as it was in Squeezy 6 then you need > > to install the new package. > > > > apt-get install bootlogd > > This lucid tip encourages me to consider including it as part of my > normal practice. It is part of my standard system setup since Wheezy 7 too. :-) Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 14:53 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the default terminal > emulator application under XFCE. No, it's xfce4-terminal. Using xfce4-terminal shouldn't cause copy and paste issues. -- Windows 8 Pro floppy disk 1 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-December/255074.html -- 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/1387661040.942.0.camel@archlinux
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On 12/21/2013 03:28 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't use XFCE, but I have set xterm's selectToClipboard resource to > true, meaning that text you select in xterm can be pasted into other > applications with Ctrl-V, and Shift-Ins pastes text from the clipboard > into xterm. where do you set this?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- 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/52b60598.2010...@gmail.com
Re: Network services started before NIC UP.
Erwan David wrote: > Everything in /etc/networkinterfaces. > > It is a bit complicated let me explain the situation before going to > configuration: Actually your situation sounds pretty normal to me. > # The primary network interface > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 88.190.17.120 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 88.190.17.1 > up ip addr add 88.191.245.121/32 dev eth0 label eth0:0 > up ip -6 addr add 2001:0bc8:30d3::1/64 dev eth0 > down ip addr del 88.191.245.121/32 dev eth0 label eth0:0 > down ip -6 addr del 2001:0bc8:30d3::1/64 dev eth0 I don't see anything unusual there. However I am not an IPv6 expert and still need to learn the details of it. The IPv4 parts look perfectly reasonable. I have no reason to doubt the IPv6 parts. > 88.190.17.120 is the "private" address (if I change server I will get > another address) 88.191.245.121 and 2001:0bc8:30d3::1 are the "public > addresses", becaus I may migrate them to another machine at same > hoster, making them more robust for public facing services (web email > and ntp server in pool.ntp.org for this one) Yes. A common strategy. Looks good. > The router for IPv6 is given through the RA (I have the correct sysctl > set up for accepting teh RA *and* routing IPv6) I will assume it is good. The important thing is that it will start up using ifupdown. It is set to use "auto" meaning that it will start synchronously at system boot time. If it were using "allow-hotplug" then it would use the current standard event driven interface. The two startup paths should both work but they are different. It is certainly possible for them to behave differently with one path working and one not working. I have problems with NIS/yp with the allow-hotplug event driven path but it works with the auto path for example. (I need to debug that to root cause some day.) > > Just for the purposes of debugging if you are using "allow-hotplug" > > then try switching that to "auto". In theory allow-hotplug should > > always work but since it is the newer event driven method sometimes > > there are still bugs to be found. It is possible that your case is > > one of those. Try "auto" instead and see if that older start ordering > > causes things to work in the correct way. > > I always use auto for fixed machines, like this server. I see by this that you are already aware of the issues and understand the differences between. I will still say a lot for the archive because it might help someone else looking at the problem later. But then my question would be the reverse. If you were to switch to allow-hotplug would that cause things to happen differently and perhaps work? It would be something to try. Although I am sure you don't want to thrash your production server. Trying these experiments on a local victim development machine or VM would be good. Since you are using "auto" then the numbers defined in the LSB headers in the /etc/init.d/* scripts should drive the placement in the boot order in the /etc/rc2.d/S* symlinks. Things should work in that order. If things do not work in that order then that is the problem to find and fix. Also when the interface starts up it will execute the scripts registered in /etc/network/if-*.d/* and those will happen at the time when the interface status changes. But I doubt that is the problem here since by definition if-up.d/foo would happen after the interface is up and your problem is something happening before then. > resolv.conf is > > search rail.eu.org > nameserver 127.0.0.1 Just to verify, no "resolvconf" installed? > unbound listen on loopback when it is started: > > unbound 3048 unbound3u IPv4 11035 0t0 UDP 127.0.0.1:domain > unbound 3048 unbound4u IPv4 11036 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:domain > (LISTEN) > unbound 3048 unbound5u IPv6 11037 0t0 UDP [::1]:domain > unbound 3048 unbound6u IPv6 11038 0t0 TCP [::1]:domain (LISTEN) I think I will guess that the problem is that "auto" is the old path through the system boot. Something in your use of 'unbound' isn't set up for that path. Dig into how unbound starts. $ ls -1 /etc/rcS.d/S* $ ls -1 /etc/rc2.d/S* Look over that list and verify that it should be starting networking in /etc/rcS.d/S*networking and that unbound starts up when it is supposed to start up. For example for me: /etc/rcS.d/S15networking /etc/rc2.d/S03bind9 Everyone's numbers will be different of course since those are determined by the installed set of LSB headers from the /etc/init.d/* files. The numbers do not matter. They are set dynamically by 'insserv'. > > The errors you showed in the log file were from dns name resolution > > failures. How are nameservers configured for your machine? Are you > > using DHCP to set them? Or are they statically definited? Are you > > running a local machine nameserver daemon such as bind9 or dnsmasq or > > other? What is in the /etc/resolv.conf file? >
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > application, > such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine > between gnome-terminal and other applications. But I'm using XFCE now, and > xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE. > > Before you tell me that "Google is my friend", or some other trite brush-off > saying, let me tell you that I have done my homework on this. I have searched > the internet. I have learned about the difference between the PRIMARY buffer > and the CLIPBOARD buffer, I have learned about settings to put in .Xdefaults, > etc. But none of the techniques I have found work for me. I use a traditional > PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse buttons. It has no thumbwheel. > > Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE environment? 1) What did you try in ".Xresources"? Did you merge the new resource(s) via xrdb after setting it(them)? I use "XTerm*VT100.translations: #override : select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0)". 2) OT: I don't use XFCE but isn't xfce4-terminal its default terminal? -- 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/CAOdo=sw1qpc5abpyywmh1dyb3zjfzhvmu29xtgf2bl_v+zn...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On 2013-12-21 20:53 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > application, > such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine > between gnome-terminal and other applications. How exactly did you copy the text? > But I'm using XFCE now, and > xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE. Nothing stops you from using gnome-terminal under XFCE, I suppose… > Before you tell me that "Google is my friend", or some other trite brush-off > saying, let me tell you that I have done my homework on this. I have searched > the internet. I have learned about the difference between the PRIMARY buffer > and the CLIPBOARD buffer, I have learned about settings to put in .Xdefaults, > etc. But none of the techniques I have found work for me. I use a > traditional > PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse buttons. It has no thumbwheel. > > Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE environment? I don't use XFCE, but I have set xterm's selectToClipboard resource to true, meaning that text you select in xterm can be pasted into other applications with Ctrl-V, and Shift-Ins pastes text from the clipboard into xterm. Cheers, Sven -- 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/87lhzene2v@turtle.gmx.de
Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
Stephen Powell wrote: > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > application, such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using > GNOME, this worked fine between gnome-terminal and other > applications. But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the > default terminal emulator application under XFCE. > ... > Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE > environment? Works perfectly for me. I use left-mouse drag for cut. I use right-mouse for extend. I use middle-mouse for paste. In both XTerm and in Iceweasel and Chromium. Except for extend which doesn't work in the web browsers. Extend only works in traditional X clients like XTerm. In the web browsers if you use C-c, C-x, C-v those operate on the clipboard and not the primary selection and so will be mismatched. But if you use left-mouse, right-mouse, (and middle-mouse in XTerm) in both then both will use the primary selection. > I have learned about the difference between the PRIMARY buffer and > the CLIPBOARD buffer, I have learned about settings to put in > .Xdefaults, etc. But none of the techniques I have found work for > me. But this is configurable. Since you have found this perhaps you have configured it? $ xrdb -q | grep -i -e cut -e paste ...nothing for me...using the defaults... In an XTerm control-middle-drag to see the menu. I do not have Select to Clipboard checked. You said .Xdefaults. Do you want the simple and short answer or the long and detailed answer? The short answer is don't use .Xdefaults but use .Xresources with xrdb instead. They are subtly different. If 'xrdb -q' has any output then your .Xdefaults will be ignored. Almost every desktop session manager sets something in xrdb which will cause the .Xdefaults to be ignored. Ask if you want the longer explanation. To be simple use xrdb to show what you have in memory. What you see there is what is there. If you don't see it then it isn't there. $ xrdb -q | less To make changes: $ $EDITOR .Xresources $ xrdb -m .Xresources # merges your _additions_ with the current Or: $ xrdb -l .Xresources # loads your complete total set overwriting all The choice of -m or -l depends upon if you want to merge or completely overwrite. For example I remember that with KDE it always wanted to have its own settings elsewhere and so it was always -m "merge" when using KDE. But for example with fvwm where the user controls everything then -l "load" and overwrite would be appropriate. > I use a traditional PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse > buttons. It has no thumbwheel. You said two mouse buttons. In which case the default is to simulate the middle button by pressing both left and right simultaneously. X emulates the three button mouse through the two button interface. In the old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file this would have had this option in the mouse section. Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" It is possible that one of the problems is the middle button emulation isn't working correctly. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0 more
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 08:50:15AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: ...snip.. > > He's running Windows on this - Debian should fly in comparison! > 512Mb is quite enough for a lot of people. Heck, I've got a Debian > VPS running Apache and MySQL with only 512MB - and that's plenty of > memory for even a moderately active web server (with several sites). If he's a EE and going to use Debian for his work, he may be looking at some serious number crunching. I would add RAM on general principles. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove Key ID 8D549279 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Changing Hostname?
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > In general, if you're changing host name, *ALL* references to the old > name should be tweaked. > > I would recommend: > > # sed --in-place=.bak -e 's/localhost-01/yournewname/g' $(grep -lr > localhost-01 /etc) Good intention but that will corrupt many binary files. Beware! Here are some interesting binary ones that I would not edit in place from my system. /etc/.etckeeper /etc/.git/index /etc/aliases.db /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc /etc/htdig/english.0 /etc/lvm/archive/t4_0-1479803495.vg /etc/lvm/archive/v1_00024-177866804.vg /etc/lvm/backup/t4 /etc/lvm/backup/v1 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts Every system would be different depending upon what is installed. Plus the english.0 just happens to hit upon the word since my system name is a word in the word list. So it is an example of a file that should not be changed. But hopefully won't hit on localhost-01 either. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Changing Hostname?
Jon N wrote: > I recently installed Jessie on a new computer. Now that I have the > system up and running I decided that I would like to have a different > hostname than the rather unimaginative 'localhost-01' I picked during > install. I used the "mate-network-admin" utility to change it, and > checked /etc/hostname and saw that the change was reflected there > also. Changing the system hostname is a simple process. But it depends upon what is installed since often the hostname is embedded in the configuration of a package. For example the Postfix mail transport agent needs to know the hostname in order for mail to work properly. (I assume Exim does too but I don't run it and so don't know.) So does Apache. And so forth. Each of those packages that need to know the hostname need to change. Each of those changes are simple. Just make sure you look and change all of them. Here are the places that need to be changed on every system. /etc/hosts /etc/hostname /etc/mailname On systems running Postfix: /etc/postfix/main.cf An unknown list of other files are possible depending upon what you have installed and the configuration of those. I would find them all and change them. Ignore binary files but note them as some files may need to be recompiled and rebuilt. find /etc -type f -exec grep -l OLDHOSTNAME {} + Typical files that you can ignore are encryption key .pub files. The hostname will be in the commend field and does not matter. Ignore them such as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub or other ssh_host_*_key.pub files. Or change them if you want to be completely clean. Doesn't matter. Also ignore any /etc/lvm/* files if you are using lvm. Ignore /etc/aliases.db but feel free to run 'newaliases' afterward to recreate it with the new name. (I don't know why the Berkeley db builds the hostname in the .db file.) You will probably end up ignoring more files than you care about. If you see something that is obviously a hostname then update it. If in doubt ask on this list. Someone will either know about it or will know how to figure it out. > Then I rebooted. Good. So many daemons need to be restarted that it isn't worth it trying to avoid the reboot. Possible yes but not worth it. > The display manager wouldn't load, leaving me with > an almost blank screen (there was a blinking cursor in the upper left > corner). What display manager are you using? There are many available. This sounds like the display manager you have used has configured the hostname into its configuration. I personally have not seen that problem with display managers before. > I switched to another virtual terminal, edited /etc/hostname > back and was able to boot normally. Note that you were almost certainly booting normally before. The hostname will not prevent the system from booting. But starting a graphical login manager is NOT something most of us would consider as critical to the system boot process. It sounds like a small part of your system, the graphical login manager, doesn't start. It not starting does not invalidate all of the rest of the system. I realize that to you not having a mouse might be catastrophic but really it is only a small part of the system. :-) You mentioned mate-network-admin so I assume you are running mate. But I don't know if that implies gdm for the login manager or not. Or is there a mate fork equiv of it? If it were me I would log in at the Linux console and start it manually and look for error messages. login: root password: ** root@localhost:~# service gdm restart ...possible errors might be seen here... > Although when I just opened "mate-network-admin" again it still had > the new name in there. Apparently mate-network-manager changes > /etc/hostname, but changing /etc/hostname doesn't reverse it > completely??? Probably the mate-network-admin caches the answer you gave it and is using the cached answer regardless of the actual system configuration. > (I'm thinking I must have done something wrong, because that doesn't > make sense). I am thinking that you are using a opaque blackbox tool that doesn't show what it is doing and therefore not learning anything useful about the system. Personally I despise those opaque wrapper blackbox tools that try to make things easy for the user but keep them ignorant of what is happening and prevent them from learning anything. Everyone who drives a car should know how to change a flat tire. I believe system adminstration is similar. > Anyway, the main question is, how do i change the hostname for my system? As described above. > I did do some searching online, and so far I found that I have to change: > > /etc/hostname > /etc/hosts Certainly those files need to be changed. But also other files too. Look for the previous hostname and see what files contain it on your system. This is where setting a very unique hostname on a system is easier than "localhost" which will be everywhere. If th
Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another application, such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine between gnome-terminal and other applications. But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE. Before you tell me that "Google is my friend", or some other trite brush-off saying, let me tell you that I have done my homework on this. I have searched the internet. I have learned about the difference between the PRIMARY buffer and the CLIPBOARD buffer, I have learned about settings to put in .Xdefaults, etc. But none of the techniques I have found work for me. I use a traditional PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse buttons. It has no thumbwheel. Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE environment? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/16737753.96033.1387655600392.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
Re: Changing Hostname?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Jon N wrote: > > sysctl kernel hostname=NEW_HOSTNAME. It's "sysctl -w kernel.hostname=NEW_HOSTNAME". -- 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/CAOdo=SyJ8x-zjarxi6bt=aurnoang-roeu-cv4fx_izgjr+...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Backports pinning
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 22:24 +, Tom H wrote: >> >> apt-cache policy > > Thank you, that's a useful command :). You're welcome. -- 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/CAOdo=swvwn3x-_6xxy+yd-yi2gtpo8aamp85osezd+bneng...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Changing Hostname?
Hi On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 01:45:11PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > I recently installed Jessie on a new computer. Now that I have the > system up and running I decided that I would like to have a different > hostname than the rather unimaginative 'localhost-01' I picked during > install. I used the "mate-network-admin" utility to change it, and > checked /etc/hostname and saw that the change was reflected there > also. > > Then I rebooted. The display manager wouldn't load, leaving me with > an almost blank screen (there was a blinking cursor in the upper left > corner). I switched to another virtual terminal, edited /etc/hostname > back and was able to boot normally. Although when I just opened > "mate-network-admin" again it still had the new name in there. > Apparently mate-network-manager changes /etc/hostname, but changing > /etc/hostname doesn't reverse it completely??? (I'm thinking I must > have done something wrong, because that doesn't make sense). > > Anyway, the main question is, how do i change the hostname for my system? > > I did do some searching online, and so far I found that I have to change: > > /etc/hostname > /etc/hosts > > then run the command > > sysctl kernel hostname=NEW_HOSTNAME. > > There were also directions on how to change config files for some > specific packages. Am I missing anything? In general, if you're changing host name, *ALL* references to the old name should be tweaked. I would recommend: # sed --in-place=.bak -e 's/localhost-01/yournewname/g' $(grep -lr localhost-01 /etc) (followed by a reboot to completely eradicate all memory of the old name). Some packages, e.g. require additional attention here. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131221193715.GA31023@hawking
Re: Collecting information after installation
On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 12:01:52 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > > By default the screen is cleared of boot messages, There is only a login > > prompt. > > Yes. Between util-linux 2.17.2-9 and 2.20.1-4 getty has changed and > it now clears the screen. This seems like a good thing on the surface > until you find out that it destroys the boot time messages including > any errors that are on the screen at the time. To prevent this a new The screen clearing was implemented by upstream as a response to concerns about security. Debian itself has never done it. > option --noclear has appeared. Editing the /etc/inittab to add the > --noclear option to getty will prevent the new screen clearing > behavior and allow the error messages there to be seen. > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --noclear 38400 tty1 This is one of the first things I do on any install ; I prefer the traditional way. > Also in Wheezy 7 the "bootlogd" is broken out into a separate package. > If you want bootlogs in /var/log as it was in Squeezy 6 then you need > to install the new package. > > apt-get install bootlogd > > The changelog for the package says: > > sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-17) unstable; urgency=low > > bootlogd has moved from sysvinit-utils to a separate bootlogd package. If > you wish to continue using bootlogd, please install the bootlogd package. > Note that the configuration file /etc/default/bootlogd and its option > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE no longer exist; if you do not wish to run bootlogd, remove > the bootlogd package. This lucid tip encourages me to consider including it as part of my normal practice. -- 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/21122013191646.ba585acff...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: How to load non-free firmware driver
Robert Parker wrote: > But now when I connect to my wirelees access point it gives me a > 'connecting' message and finally connects only to immediately drop > out and start connecting all over again. What configuration are you using to connect to it? Are there any clues to the problem in /var/log/syslog around the problem? Basically unless we see something it isn't going to be possible to help. (And unfortunately since you are the one seeing the problem it may not be possible for us to guess correctly at the reason anyway.) > My access point is unsecured, I don't know if that has any bearing > on the problem. In theory it shouldn't. But the difference between theory and practice is the difference between theory and practice. Your device is an Atheros and that has a good reputation. YMMV. Always worked well for me. There are several steps in the WiFi connection process. Off the top of my head: 1. Associate. 2. If DHCP is configured then perform DHCP protocol. If your wifi is associating and immediately disassociating then there could be a problem with the driver. Try unloading and reloading the driver. This sometimes works for me and others on the list have reported it similar. rmmod drivername ; sleep 1 ; modprobe drivername If the wifi is associating okay then it will typically DHCP. (Unless a static configuration has been chosen.) If the DHCP fails then the device will be deconfigured. If the device associates then it should be able to transmit and receive dhcp packets. If this is prevented then dhcp will fail and the device will be deconfigured. The dhcp might fail if the device is not tranfering dhcp packets properly. Or if a firewall is blocking those packets. If you have a firewall then try the connection with the firewall disabled. I often use tcpdump to try to capture the dhcp protocol but this is trickier since the device is always going up and down. For tcpdump use the device "any" to listten to any configured network. Another useful tool is 'dhcpdump'. But usually if packets are being transfered then it will work and if packets are not being transferred then it won't work. It is also possible for all to work okay on the client end but to have the dhcp on the server end to fail. A typical failure configuration is to have too few dynamic IP addresses available on the pool. For example one open wifi access point that I know at one of the local airports has only 25 IP addresses in the pool. It allocates those addresses for 24 hours. At 6am in the morning you can associate and get an IP address. By 10am in the morning all of the 25 IP addresses have been allocated and leased for 24 hours. They will not free up again until the next day. This is a misconfiguration of the wifi access point's dhcp server configuration for the task that it is trying to do but it creates this behavior of not being able to get wifi access from it due to a server configuration issue even though the client is okay. (Workaround hack: If you know the configuration then you can bypass DHCP and set a static configuration for it.) This next item I am going to mention isn't really associated particularly with wifi. The DHCP will transfer routing information. That is usually always good. The DHCP will transfer nameserver information. This is sometimes troublesome. If the nameserver is broken then it leads to a confusing situation where the network connection is established but no names can be looked up. Since humans generally deal with names it makes it appear as if the network is both up and down at the same time. If you hear people suggesting a particular known good nameserver such as 8.8.8.8 that is the problem they are addressing. However I believe it is better to fix the real underlying problem rather than work around it. Good luck! Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Changing Hostname?
On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 13:45:11 -0500, Jon N wrote: > Anyway, the main question is, how do i change the hostname for my system? I would edit /etc/hostname and change 'foo' to 'bar' Then (because networking will now be confused), edit /etc/hosts and change instances of 'foo' to 'bar'. -- 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/21122013191226.df650a617...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Collecting information after installation
On 21 December 2013 17:47, Brian wrote: > On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 14:38:30 +, Robin wrote: > > > Assuming it should be booting to a graphical login screen, hit > Ctrl-Alt-F1 > > which will take you to a text console which may show some errors that you > > can post here. > > By default the screen is cleared of boot messages, There is only a login > prompt. > > Depends when it froze. Won't there be xorg errors if it's a graphics driver problem? My sid install is 3.5 years old so I may be out of date:) -- *rob *
Re: Collecting information after installation
Brian wrote: > On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 14:38:30 +, Robin wrote: > > > Assuming it should be booting to a graphical login screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 > > which will take you to a text console which may show some errors that you > > can post here. > > By default the screen is cleared of boot messages, There is only a login > prompt. Yes. Between util-linux 2.17.2-9 and 2.20.1-4 getty has changed and it now clears the screen. This seems like a good thing on the surface until you find out that it destroys the boot time messages including any errors that are on the screen at the time. To prevent this a new option --noclear has appeared. Editing the /etc/inittab to add the --noclear option to getty will prevent the new screen clearing behavior and allow the error messages there to be seen. 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --noclear 38400 tty1 Also in Wheezy 7 the "bootlogd" is broken out into a separate package. If you want bootlogs in /var/log as it was in Squeezy 6 then you need to install the new package. apt-get install bootlogd The changelog for the package says: sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-17) unstable; urgency=low bootlogd has moved from sysvinit-utils to a separate bootlogd package. If you wish to continue using bootlogd, please install the bootlogd package. Note that the configuration file /etc/default/bootlogd and its option BOOTLOGD_ENABLE no longer exist; if you do not wish to run bootlogd, remove the bootlogd package. -- Josh Triplett Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:03:08 + Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Changing Hostname?
I recently installed Jessie on a new computer. Now that I have the system up and running I decided that I would like to have a different hostname than the rather unimaginative 'localhost-01' I picked during install. I used the "mate-network-admin" utility to change it, and checked /etc/hostname and saw that the change was reflected there also. Then I rebooted. The display manager wouldn't load, leaving me with an almost blank screen (there was a blinking cursor in the upper left corner). I switched to another virtual terminal, edited /etc/hostname back and was able to boot normally. Although when I just opened "mate-network-admin" again it still had the new name in there. Apparently mate-network-manager changes /etc/hostname, but changing /etc/hostname doesn't reverse it completely??? (I'm thinking I must have done something wrong, because that doesn't make sense). Anyway, the main question is, how do i change the hostname for my system? I did do some searching online, and so far I found that I have to change: /etc/hostname /etc/hosts then run the command sysctl kernel hostname=NEW_HOSTNAME. There were also directions on how to change config files for some specific packages. Am I missing anything? Thanks, Jon -- 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/CANcvmg3+gxrEZovCPGNf1=pf05j6ze+onpytktnx-8bojbb...@mail.gmail.com
Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?
Lawrence Galka wrote: > I am running debian wheezy with the lxde desktop environment. When I > insert a mmc card, it gets detected as /dev/mmcblk0p1 and mounted in > /media/. Unfortunately, the /media/ directory is owned by root > and other users do not have write permission. When I try to copy files to > this card it throws a permissions error. How do I configure the system to > allow a non-root user to insert a mmc card and obtain write access to the > mmc? Question. There are (at least) two different ways to mount removable media. 1) Is there an entry in /etc/fstab for it? If so does it have the "user" flag on it? Here is a typical entry for a cdrom showing the "user" flag. And a custom entry after it also showing the flag but that entry isn't a standard one. /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdg1 /media/usbdisk autouser,noauto,noatime 0 0 The "user" flag is what allows the mount to happen as the user invoking the mount command. In which case the owership and permission is the same as that of the invoking user. 2) If nothing like the above /etc/fstab entry exists then some desktop session daemon is automatically mounting the media for you upon insertion. Such as the gnome-volume-manager. In which case you would need to find out which daemon is doing it and configure it. Bob -- 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/20131221184121.gb26...@hysteria.proulx.com
Re: Collecting information after installation
Ali ISIN wrote: >Hi, > >Since the "7.x" version does my computer freeze; In what way? No more messages are logged? Doesn't respond to pings? SysRq doesn't reboot it (is the kernel totally hosed)? >and that after installing "GRUB" and "rebooting". > >My system seem to work correctly but I thougth to inform you. Installing or upgrading? If you copy the first, say, 448 bytes (I think that's right - 512-64 but it doesn't matter) to a file and then copy it back, does the same thing happen as with grub-install (grub-install has helper scripts to figure out things and it might be an issue with something done in there). -- 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/04902e62-9090-4ca6-80c8-cb8549bc3...@email.android.com
Re: Collecting information after installation
On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 14:38:30 +, Robin wrote: > Assuming it should be booting to a graphical login screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 > which will take you to a text console which may show some errors that you > can post here. By default the screen is cleared of boot messages, There is only a login prompt. -- 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/21122013174527.792b7cab5...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB
On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 16:13:28 +, Chris Davies wrote: > Brian wrote: > > This technique should not be required to be used ; the stick with the > > dd'ed image should boot directly. Does it not? > > According to the OP it does, but it's irrelevant to the question that > they asked. Sometimes my reading skills desert me. It would be nice to be pointed to the question asked in the message I responded to. -- 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/20131221174234.gu5...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB
Brian wrote: > This technique should not be required to be used ; the stick with the > dd'ed image should boot directly. Does it not? According to the OP it does, but it's irrelevant to the question that they asked. Chris -- 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/8argoaxufr@news.roaima.co.uk
fail2ban fails to ban apache...
Bonjour, I try to configure fail2ban in order to ban IP which try to connect to directories protected by .htaccess. Here is my [apache] section in jail.conf: enabled = true port = http,https filter = apache-auth logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log maxretry = 3 But I tested filling the auth form with erroneous login/password and nothing happens! Nothing appeared in /var/log/fail2ban.log... I tried the same for ssh connections and the IP of the computer from which I tried was banned after the third attempt. What is missing in my config? Here is the ssh section in jail.conf: enabled = true port = ssh filter = sshd logpath = /var/log/auth.log maxretry = 6 Thanks -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to load non-free firmware driver
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-12-21 16:44 +0100, Robert Parker wrote: > > > I have a USB wifi dongle which does not work. > > dmesg gives me 'agent aborted loading htc_9271.fw(not found?)' > > I do have that driver because I downloaded the non-free firmware tarball > on > > anothe machine. > > It is also contained in the firmware-atheros package (in non-free). > > > My question is, where do I install this firmware? > > Put it into /lib/firmware. > > Thanks Sven, Driver issue solved. But now when I connect to my wirelees access point it gives me a 'connecting' message and finally connects only to immediately drop out and start connecting all over again. My access point is unsecured, I don't know if that has any bearing on the problem. Bob -- > 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/87txe2nqqv@turtle.gmx.de > > -- The healthy eating pyramid as published by the USDA and it's satellites all over the world is purposely designed to bring about an epidemic of obesity, hypertension and diabetes. It is wildly successful in this aim.
Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0
On 12/21/2013 09:10 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:29:40PM -0800, Alireza Bahrami wrote: According to Debian website it's enough for installing Debian on a system. There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with specs as below which I chose to for this purpose: Mobile Pentium4: 1.8GHz CPU Speed: 1.8GHz Level 2 Cache: 512KB System Memory: 256MB Video Memory: 32MB Hard Drive: 40GB Since you've got only 256MB of system memory, I recommend you use a lightweight desktop such as LXDE. A lightweight window manager that would be a smooth transition for those familiar with Windows 95/98 vintage OS's would be JWM, aka Joe's Window Manager. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/jwm A companion file manager could be ROX-filer: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/rox-filer And yes, Puppy Linux was one of my stepping stones to Debian ;) -- 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/52b5c119.5060...@charter.net
Re: Install on HP Elitebook 8460p
Yes, I found that a hour after my post. Sorry for unnecessary topic. I installed write image and every thing work. Thank you and best regards Sent from my iPad > On 21.12.2013, at 14:50, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Vi, 20 dec 13, 23:35:25, Kostadin Slavkov wrote: >> >> I am not sure why can not boot from install media. I use iso-dvd from next >> link >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ia64/iso-dvd/ > ^^^ > Wrong image, unless your laptop has an Itanium[1] processor ;) > You probably want the amd64 image instead. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt -- 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/fe32b3c0-a12e-400a-96ea-897214db3...@gmail.com
Re: How to load non-free firmware driver
On 2013-12-21 16:44 +0100, Robert Parker wrote: > I have a USB wifi dongle which does not work. > dmesg gives me 'agent aborted loading htc_9271.fw(not found?)' > I do have that driver because I downloaded the non-free firmware tarball on > anothe machine. It is also contained in the firmware-atheros package (in non-free). > My question is, where do I install this firmware? Put it into /lib/firmware. Cheers, Sven -- 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/87txe2nqqv@turtle.gmx.de
How to load non-free firmware driver
Returning to Debian after a few years with Ubuntu. I have a USB wifi dongle which does not work. dmesg gives me 'agent aborted loading htc_9271.fw(not found?)' I do have that driver because I downloaded the non-free firmware tarball on anothe machine. My question is, where do I install this firmware? Thanks -- The healthy eating pyramid as published by the USDA and it's satellites all over the world is purposely designed to bring about an epidemic of obesity, hypertension and diabetes. It is wildly successful in this aim.
Re: Collecting information after installation
Assuming it should be booting to a graphical login screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 which will take you to a text console which may show some errors that you can post here. rob On 21 December 2013 12:58, Ali ISIN wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Ali, and I am a spoiled user of Debian. > > Debian is smooth and fast. > Debian is sober and really what I expect from an operating system. > > But, that's not why I write to you: > > Since the "7.x" version does my computer freeze; > and that after installing "GRUB" and "rebooting". > > My system seem to work correctly but I thougth to inform you. > > > > A. ISIN > Student > > NB: I use "Multimedia PC MEDION® AKOYA® P7350 D (MD8860)" with only > Debian as OS. > > > -- > 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/blu0-smtp19983192980a09d1d0ca28f97...@phx.gbl > > -- *rob*
Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:29:40PM -0800, Alireza Bahrami wrote: > Hi, > > I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial automation projects. > After some years of work experience I've come to the conclusion that I should > learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent way. Unfortunately I > don't know any thing about it and I'm completely new. The first step of > course is installing it. Here I don't have access to any Debian OS > distributor to buy the CDs from, so I downloaded debian-7.3.0-i386-CD-1.iso > sized 648MB and copied it on a CD. According to Debian website it's enough > for installing Debian on a system. There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with > specs as below which I chose to for this purpose: > > Mobile Pentium4: 1.8GHz > CPU Speed: 1.8GHz > Level 2 Cache: 512KB > System Memory: 256MB > Video Memory: 32MB > Hard Drive: 40GB > Since you've got only 256MB of system memory, I recommend you use a lightweight desktop such as LXDE. When you boot off of the installation CD, don't select "Install". Instead, select "Advanced" and then "Alternative Desktop Environments" (or something like that). Then I believe you select "Back" until you're at the main menu again. Then select "Install". The desktop environment is what you see when you're using the computer. Unlike Windows, Linux has many choices of desktop environment. Some have more features, but require more system resources. Some, like LXDE, are designed to be lightweight while still providing you with all the basic functionality you would expect to have. -Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0 more
On 12/21/2013 2:23 AM, Doug wrote: On 12/21/2013 01:57 AM, Doug wrote: On 12/21/2013 01:47 AM, Go Linux wrote: On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami wrote: Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0 To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM Hi, I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial automation projects. After some years of work experience I've come to the conclusion that I should learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent way. Unfortunately I don't know any thing about it and I'm completely new. The first step of course is installing it. Here I don't have access to any Debian OS distributor to buy the CDs from, so I downloaded debian-7.3.0-i386-CD-1.iso sized 648MB and copied it on a CD. According to Debian website it's enough for installing Debian on a system. There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with specs as below which I chose to for this purpose: Mobile Pentium4: 1.8GHz CPU Speed: 1.8GHz Level 2 Cache: 512KB System Memory: 256MB Video Memory: 32MB Hard Drive: 40GB Its current OS is windows. Then I chose CD ROM drive as the first boot system on the laptop and inserted the CD and restarted the PC. It tried to run the CD, but Linux didn't come up and after few seconds windows booted up. First I thought it was due to a bios setup, so I tried the CD with a desktop pc. Again I had the same problem. Is there any one who could Kindly give me some directives to overcome this problem. - You cannot just copy the iso to CD as a data file. You need to burn the iso as an image for it to be bootable. I have no idea how to do that with Windows apps. With those specs you probably want a minimal desktop environment. I suggest avoiding Gnome and KDE as they are resource hogs. To burn an iso image to a cd or dvd in Windows, first download a free file called CDCC from this place http://burncdcc.en.softonic.com/ and install it to your Windows machine. It *only* burns iso files, so you can't screw up! When you have it installed, just snap on the icon, and point it at your downloaded iso. Put a blank disk --in this case, a DVD--into your drive and let 'er rip! (I'm pretty sure the Debian distro is too big to fit on a CD.) --doug You can probably put more memory into your Dell lap. This will be important with a large dsitro like debian, or any of the modern main-stream do-it-all distros. I would guess, without looking at the manual, you could put 2GB memory into the machine, but you might have to put two 1GB cards. There is the possibility that you could put just one 2GB card in. (I put 4GB into a Dell Inspiron, on two 2GB cards, altho the manual says it will only take 2GB. This allows me to use up to 3.3GB or so.) --doug He's running Windows on this - Debian should fly in comparison! 512Mb is quite enough for a lot of people. Heck, I've got a Debian VPS running Apache and MySQL with only 512MB - and that's plenty of memory for even a moderately active web server (with several sites). Not a gamer's machine, of course - but not everyone needs that much. Jerry -- 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/52b59c97.60...@attglobal.net
Re: Collecting information after installation
> Since the "7.x" version does my computer freeze; > and that after installing "GRUB" and "rebooting". Installing GRUB and rebooting is the last process of installation, but your information is not enough, so we can hardly help. Do you mean that, it cannot be shut down, or it cannot boot? What was the information on your screen? > My system seem to work correctly but I thougth to inform you. Do you mean you have already found a workaround? If yes, how did you fix it? Like what Ralf Mardorf said, if you think it is a bug, you can consider to report it. For more information about bug reporting, please read: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Sincerely, Bo -- 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/1387633719.24794.7.camel@debian-bo
Re: Collecting information after installation
Don't inform the list, report a bug ;). -- 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/1387632364.688.6.camel@archlinux
Collecting information after installation
Hi, My name is Ali, and I am a spoiled user of Debian. Debian is smooth and fast. Debian is sober and really what I expect from an operating system. But, that's not why I write to you: Since the "7.x" version does my computer freeze; and that after installing "GRUB" and "rebooting". My system seem to work correctly but I thougth to inform you. A. ISIN Student NB: I use "Multimedia PC MEDION® AKOYA® P7350 D (MD8860)" with only Debian as OS. -- 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/blu0-smtp19983192980a09d1d0ca28f97...@phx.gbl
Re: Backports pinning
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 22:24 +, Tom H wrote: > apt-cache policy Thank you, that's a useful command :). -- Windows 8 Pro floppy disk 1 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-December/255074.html -- 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/1387630983.688.0.camel@archlinux
Re: Install on HP Elitebook 8460p
On Vi, 20 dec 13, 23:35:25, Kostadin Slavkov wrote: > > I am not sure why can not boot from install media. I use iso-dvd from next > link > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ia64/iso-dvd/ ^^^ Wrong image, unless your laptop has an Itanium[1] processor ;) You probably want the amd64 image instead. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Distro upgrade
On Jo, 19 dec 13, 18:39:07, John Hasler wrote: > > There is no need for him to "track" Jessie once he has upgraded enough > to run his program. Just read the security list and upgrade individual > packages as needed. This smells like dependency hell. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Distro upgrade
On Jo, 19 dec 13, 10:23:35, John Hasler wrote: > Read and follow the release notes and you'll be ok. For Jessie? They don't exist yet. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0 more
Dear Doug, Thanks for your directives. As you advised, I downloaded CDCC and burnt the iso image on a CD. The CD was enough for it. this time it worked when I inserted the Cd into the Dell lap. Thanks & Regards Alireza From: Doug To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0 more On 12/21/2013 01:57 AM, Doug wrote: > On 12/21/2013 01:47 AM, Go Linux wrote: >> On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami wrote: >> >> Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0 >> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >> Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM >> Hi, >> I'm >> an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial >> automation projects. After some years of work >> experience I've come to the conclusion that I should >> learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent >> way. Unfortunately I don't know any thing about it >> and I'm completely new. The first step of course is >> installing it. Here I don't have access to any Debian OS >> distributor to buy the CDs from, so I downloaded >> debian-7.3.0-i386-CD-1.iso sized >> 648MB and copied it on a CD. According to >> Debian website it's enough for installing Debian on >> a system. There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with >> specs as below which I chose to for this purpose: >> Mobile Pentium4: 1.8GHz >> CPU >> Speed: 1.8GHz >> Level >> 2 Cache: 512KB >> System Memory: 256MB >> Video >> Memory: 32MB >> Hard >> Drive: 40GB >> Its >> current OS is windows. Then I chose CD ROM drive as the >> first boot system on the laptop and inserted the CD and >> restarted the PC. It tried to run the CD, but Linux >> didn't come up and after few seconds windows booted up. >> First >> I thought it was due to a bios setup, so I tried the CD with >> a desktop pc. Again I had the same problem. >> Is there any one who could Kindly give me some >> directives to overcome this problem. >> - >> >> You cannot just copy the iso to CD as a data file. You need to burn >> the iso as an image for it to be bootable. I have no idea how to do >> that with Windows apps. With those specs you probably want a minimal >> desktop environment. I suggest avoiding Gnome and KDE as they are >> resource hogs. > > To burn an iso image to a cd or dvd in Windows, first download a free > file called CDCC from this place > > http://burncdcc.en.softonic.com/ > > and install it to your Windows machine. It *only* burns iso files, so > you can't screw up! > > When you have it installed, just snap on the icon, and point it at > your downloaded iso. Put a blank disk > --in this case, a DVD--into your drive and let 'er rip! (I'm pretty > sure the Debian distro is too big to fit > on a CD.) > > --doug >> >> > You can probably put more memory into your Dell lap. This will be important with a large dsitro like debian, or any of the modern main-stream do-it-all distros. I would guess, without looking at the manual, you could put 2GB memory into the machine, but you might have to put two 1GB cards. There is the possibility that you could put just one 2GB card in. (I put 4GB into a Dell Inspiron, on two 2GB cards, altho the manual says it will only take 2GB. This allows me to use up to 3.3GB or so.) --doug -- 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/52b541e9.30...@optonline.net
Re: how to upgrade only from stable.
Thanks Bo lan ,Rob Owens and all others for your input. >
Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 01:57:42 -0500 Doug wrote: > > > > Its > > current OS is windows. Then I chose CD ROM drive as the > > first boot system on the laptop and inserted the CD and > > restarted the PC. It tried to run the CD, but Linux > > didn't come up and after few seconds windows booted up. > > > > > > You cannot just copy the iso to CD as a data file. You need to > > burn the iso as an image for it to be bootable. I have no idea how > > to do that with Windows apps. With those specs you probably want a > > minimal desktop environment. I suggest avoiding Gnome and KDE as > > they are resource hogs. > > To burn an iso image to a cd or dvd in Windows, first download a > free file called CDCC from this place > > http://burncdcc.en.softonic.com/ > > and install it to your Windows machine. It *only* burns iso files, so > you can't screw up! > Most Windows systems have a limited version of Nero or Roxio disc writing software installed. They will burn ISOs, but it may take a little time to find out how, the main usage of them is just burning files. If such software is installed, just double-clicking on a .iso file *may* be enough to start it off. > When you have it installed, just snap on the icon, and point it at > your downloaded iso. Put a blank disk > --in this case, a DVD--into your drive and let 'er rip! (I'm pretty > sure the Debian distro is too big to fit > on a CD.) > Debian comes in several ways, including multiple CDs, of which Disc 1 is enough to get a working system running. 256MB is a little on the light side, as others have said. You need to go back to Win2000 to find a Windows version that runs comfortably in that. XP did at first, but updates have increased its requirements. -- Joe -- 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/20131221085041.0f6be...@jretrading.com
Re: Elthnic TRALNNY Gtets Abss Lpicked
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