Re: CD DVD drive docs

2015-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > And... how did you survive? Two heads? I did not make an appearance at LKML but rather put my effort in justifying my initially uncomfortable situation. I had a few exhausting weeks before i could show progress towards libburn-0.2. Eduard Bloch, founder-forker of cd

Re: wired network connection has stopped working

2015-08-21 Thread Riley Baird
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 22:07:27 -0700 tom arnall wrote: > Greetings! > > About a year ago my wired modem connection stopped working. I can find > nothing on google which helps. > > In dmesg there is: > > eth0: link is not ready > > Here is ifconfig output, in case it is useful for people trying

Re: wired network connection has stopped working

2015-08-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:07:27PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > Greetings! > > About a year ago my wired modem connection stopped working. I can find > nothing on google which helps. Stupid question, I know: have you checked the cable? (those break som

Re: CD DVD drive docs

2015-08-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 09:13:29PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > David Niklas wrote: > > Well there is a kernel dev mailing list. > > You mean Linux Kernel Mailing List ? > That's a nice place to get your head bitten off. [...] > Beware. J

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:28:11AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/21/2015 12:29 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >what do the log files say? Best is if you look at them (1) just > >after having restarted Apache. The error log should contain > >possible

wired network connection has stopped working

2015-08-21 Thread tom arnall
Greetings! About a year ago my wired modem connection stopped working. I can find nothing on google which helps. In dmesg there is: eth0: link is not ready Here is ifconfig output, in case it is useful for people trying to help me with the problem: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:7

Re: Plasma 5 won"t starting

2015-08-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/21/2015 01:36 AM, അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്. wrote: I'm in Debian Sid with KDE5. But after a recent update done 2 weeks before, KDE wont getting started. Only the mouse pointer is shown after login. I thinks (not sure) something happened to KWin. Any troubleshooting willbe highly appreciated. Regard

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-08-21 08:36:43 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Erwan David (er...@rail.eu.org): > > > 1) You're speaking input, Vincent was speaking output > > > > Eh? The OP was speaking input. To summarise, > > . Q: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPAC

Re: Plasma 5 won"t starting

2015-08-21 Thread അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ് .
Somebody identified what is the actual problem? On 21 Aug 2015 14:21, "Diederik de Haas" wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2015 14:06:58 അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്. wrote: > > I'm in Debian Sid with KDE5. But after a recent update done 2 weeks > before, > > KDE wont getting started. > > Check the debian-kde ML a

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/21/2015 09:29 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Well one reason is if your mail server also has webmail. Then your users, Debian based for 90% or their time, would possibly access your mail server from some other more virus affected OS as well. And be at risk that way. That begs the questio

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-08-21 08:36:43 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Erwan David (er...@rail.eu.org): > > 1) You're speaking input, Vincent was speaking output > > Eh? The OP was speaking input. To summarise, > . Q: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ? > . A: I touched the key to the left of

Re: Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-21 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/21/2015 09:00 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Friday 21 August 2015 10:33:23 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. I personally would a

Re: Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-21 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/21/2015 05:33 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. I personally would avoid all risk of conflict and purge VB with your package

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 06:23:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I'm sitting here at Debconf [3], among literally hundreds of Debian > > > developers, all of them working hard (

Re: Grub destroyed, need help!!!

2015-08-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Aug 2015 at 18:21:47 +0200, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I am rather despaired as I cannot boot into my debian system again. > > What happened? On my first harddrive I have debian/testing with /usr and /var > encrypted. > > Then I installed kali-linux on my second harddrive into one

Re: CD DVD drive docs

2015-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Niklas wrote: > Well there is a kernel dev mailing list. You mean Linux Kernel Mailing List ? That's a nice place to get your head bitten off. At least if you have not done all reasonable research about your problem and invested some ingeniosity. Beware. Just thinking about posting to

Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > But worse, the keyboard has gone american: > > Everybody should have a QWERTY and only use 7-bit ASCII. > This would promote international understanding, world peace, > and C programming. :) > > The output from dumpkeys -f is very different in

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2015 12:29 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: what do the log files say? Best is if you look at them (1) just after having restarted Apache. The error log should contain possible warnings about misconfiguration, etc. (2) after having tried an access. The access log should at least show the at

Re: CD DVD drive docs

2015-08-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 21 August 2015 17:39:59 David Niklas wrote: > > > > error "No medium found" before the drive LED stops blinking. > > > > > > Shouldn't this be reported to the kernel devs as a regression? > > > > There are kernel devs in reach ? > > Well there is a kernel dev mailing list. I've wanted to

Re: CD DVD drive docs

2015-08-21 Thread David Niklas
> > > error "No medium found" before the drive LED stops blinking. > > Shouldn't this be reported to the kernel devs as a regression? > There are kernel devs in reach ? Well there is a kernel dev mailing list. I've wanted to contact them at least twice but my messages always get rejected

Grub destroyed, need help!!!

2015-08-21 Thread Hans
Dear list, I am rather despaired as I cannot boot into my debian system again. What happened? On my first harddrive I have debian/testing with /usr and /var encrypted. Then I installed kali-linux on my second harddrive into one partition. During this installation my kali-installation overwrote

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Michael Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/08/15 12:55, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2015 11:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: >> Could anyone here, honest, as we all are I know, guarantee at >> 100% that the OP won't ever have any virus issue on his Debian >> system ? >>

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Could anyone here, honest, as we all are I know, guarantee at 100% that > the OP won't ever have any virus issue on his Debian system ? [...] > Should he fear viruses as much as on a Windows system ? Wrong questions. The question is whether an anti-virus scanner will provide extra protection on

Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, in the main course of your endeavor i am overwhelmed, i fear. > Note that this bizarre behaviour only happens if X was running (on > VC1) while I was dpkg-reconfiguring on VC2. I had similar problems on a smaller scale when i manipuladed keysyms with xmodmap and assigned meanings to them at

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 21 August 2015 09:25:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2015 08:53:46 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:55:54PM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > My understanding of ClamAV is that it is not suitable to scan an > > > infected Linux com

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Erwan David (er...@rail.eu.org): > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 04:56:54AM CEST, David Wright > said: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > On 2015-08-19 16:33:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > > > > But the typographical pu

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Quoting Brian : On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 15:11:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 19:24:49 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:50 +0400 > > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > > > Hello Dwijesh, > > > > >Hello guys. I wanted

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 August 2015 08:53:46 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:55:54PM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > [...] > > > My understanding of ClamAV is that it is not suitable to scan an > > infected Linux computer from the computer itself. > > The best summary so-far. Thanks f

Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > David Wright wrote: > > An important file is /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz > > What I haven't worked out is: what puts this cache file together? > > It's obviously been constructed because near the end it says: > > # The content of this fi

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-08-21 07:30:18 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 04:56:54AM CEST, David Wright > said: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > On 2015-08-19 16:33:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > > > > But the typograp

Re: Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-21 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday 21 August 2015 10:33:23 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: > > Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows > > on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. > > I personally would avoid all risk of conflict and purge V

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:55:54PM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: [...] > My understanding of ClamAV is that it is not suitable to scan an infected > Linux computer from the computer itself. The best summary so-far. Thanks for it! - -- t -BEGIN

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 21 August 2015 11:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: > Could anyone here, honest, as we all are I know, guarantee at 100% that > the OP won't ever have any virus issue on his Debian system ? > > No. > > Should he fear viruses as much as on a Windows system ? > > Certainly not. > > Security r

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 21 August 2015 12:18:15 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 21 August 2015 10:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > So should you (the OP) run an AV ? > > > > > > Well.. I guess. IMVHO ;) > > > > We are all almost all agreed that he should r

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2015 10:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: > > So should you (the OP) run an AV ? > > > > Well.. I guess. IMVHO ;) > > We are all almost all agreed that he should run one to protect his > Windows using friends from viruses which m

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 21 August 2015 10:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: > So should you (the OP) run an AV ? > > Well.. I guess. IMVHO ;) We are all almost all agreed that he should run one to protect his Windows using friends from viruses which may be contained in forwarded email. If it also protects his own

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dominique Dumon wrote: > https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/improving-update-of-existing-debian copyright-file/ This will be of help when i expand my work to packages where i am not the upstream. For my own ones i rather seem to know too much about the license situation of their various

Re: systemd vs sysvinit: init script arguments

2015-08-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Stuart, Am 20.08.2015 um 23:48 schrieb Stuart Longland: > I've used the OpenVPN init script as a template for creating my init > scripts, which allows me to not only start and stop all drivers, but > also start or stop an individual driver. e.g. > > /etc/init.d/driver-service start foo

Re: Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: > Please advise.  I would love to have a good working version of Windows > on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. I personally would avoid all risk of conflict and purge VB with your package manager of choice before installing the u

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Diogene Laerce
Le 20/08/2015 20:33, Brian a écrit : > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Le 20/08/2015 19:58, Dwijesh Gajadur a écrit : >>> Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or >>> for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the re

Re: systemd vs sysvinit: init script arguments

2015-08-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:48:04AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a silly question regarding systemd. > > I'm currently writing a data collection software package which pulls > data from various sources and provides a real-time and historical data > interface for trending an

Re: Plasma 5 won"t starting

2015-08-21 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Friday 21 August 2015 14:06:58 അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്. wrote: > I'm in Debian Sid with KDE5. But after a recent update done 2 weeks before, > KDE wont getting started. Check the debian-kde ML archives (https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/), there are various posts related to these problems. In short:

Plasma 5 won"t starting

2015-08-21 Thread അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ് .
I'm in Debian Sid with KDE5. But after a recent update done 2 weeks before, KDE wont getting started. Only the mouse pointer is shown after login. I thinks (not sure) something happened to KWin. Any troubleshooting willbe highly appreciated. Regards, Akhilan Off: Eventhough KDM starts up the Icon

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:45 PM, John Hasler wrote: > While it would be possible (though very difficult) to write malware for > Linux the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is > that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals' > time to create it. > The

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Renaud OLGIATI < ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > > > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or > > > > for

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Aug 2015 at 07:21:48 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > Your point is a good one, as is John Hasler's. > > > > But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in > > their $HOME as long as the sys

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Aug 2015 at 00:59:45 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Brian a écrit : > > Yes. Without system integrity a user's files are worthless. Protecting > > the system protects *all* users. That is the responsibility of the > > administrator. > > So basically, yo

Re: metatrader 4

2015-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Ben Case wrote: > can you get metatrader 4 software in Debian or can you use mt4's from > different brokers? > You might have to contact your vendor on that one; I see a Linux version but know nothing of the specifics of what it takes.

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 02:22:12PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/20/2015 02:01 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > >>I would