Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

On 2018-05-28, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2018 at 07:54:49 (-0400), Alan Greenberger wrote: >> On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : >> >> On 2018-05-24, André Rodier wrote: >> >>> >&

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : >> On 2018-05-24, André Rodier <an...@rodier.me> wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

On 2018-05-24, André Rodier wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the > external IP address of the machine. > Assuming you are looking for the public internet address of your router, you could try: /usr/sbin/arp -n and it may show up

Re: Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.

On 2016-07-11, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > ... > > It is obvious indeed. :-) > > The number were taken from Daily usage tab in gkrelm. Before making the > test I had purposely not accessed Internet that day

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

On 2015-07-24, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, one of my optical drives automatically pulls in its tray if it stands out for a few minutes. The four others do not try to byte my fingers. The waiting time between manual tray eject and automatic tray load is quite reliably 195 to

Re: Default virtualhost on Debian Jessie with Apache 2.4.10

On 2015-04-30, Daniel Bareiro daniel-lis...@gmx.net wrote: Hi all! Currently I have a unique site in sites-enabled which is accessed only via HTTPS. Hoping to have an access error when trying to access this site via HTTP, Apache sends me to the default site which is It's works! page in

Re: Screen doesn't turn off

On 2014-10-23, Catalin Soare lolinux.so...@gmail.com wrote: --001a11397ac09df76505061dfacf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, I've got 2 computera, both running Debian Wheezy, all updates applied. One of them seems to ignore the Brightness and lock setting which should make the

Re: Stuck in update

On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: Thank you for responding. On 2014-10-20, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content

Re: Stuck in update

Thank you for responding. On 2014-10-20, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote

Re: Stuck in update

On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: Thank you for responding. On 2014-10-20, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 19

Stuck in update

This morning I tried to update a wheezy recently upgraded from squeeze. It didn't work and I am stuck. # aptitude update # aptitude g u These packages could be upgraded, but they have been kept in their current state to avoid breaking dependencies. q b (just beeps) There were some error

Re: Re^2: A persistent name for a sound device.

On 2014-02-04, pe...@easthope.ca pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Alan, * From: Alan Greenberger *Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:34:42 -0500 When I plug in a Logitech C170 webcam, /proc/asound/cards shows: 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

On 2014-02-03, pe...@easthope.ca pe...@easthope.ca wrote: I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. The output of udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... ) follows. What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the introductory paragraph? Must the first

Re: Printer brand recommendations

On 2013-09-10, Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: --001a11c2be66bf88eb04e60200cd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

On 2013-05-11, Mauro mrsan...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I've did not mention that the machine where the new kernel does not work has an amd64 processor. On 11 May 2013 09:53, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 10 May 2013, Mauro wrote: I have two pc, same distro, debian sid,

Re: nfs idmap change

On 2012-01-27, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: I recently rebooted a squeeze client which does nightly backups to a squeeze nfs server with exports (rw,no_root_squash) using rsnapshot (with cmd_cp) and started getting nightly mail from cron that: rsync: chown /the_mount/daily.0/etc

nfs idmap change

I recently rebooted a squeeze client which does nightly backups to a squeeze nfs server with exports (rw,no_root_squash) using rsnapshot (with cmd_cp) and started getting nightly mail from cron that: rsync: chown /the_mount/daily.0/etc/fetchmailrc failed: Invalid argument (22) The only thing

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

On 2012-01-04, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/01/12 19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: The auto fsck/root problem

Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is the path I chose thanks to your chroot tip. It looks like you have gotten Wheezy live to work. I have not been

Re: Force USB low speed on an specific port.

On 2011-12-21, Marc Aymerich glicer...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: On 2011-12-18, Marc Aymerich glicer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Today I've tried to connect my mouse through +10meters USB cable. Seems that it works pretty well despite

Re: Force USB low speed on an specific port.

On 2011-12-18, Marc Aymerich glicer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Today I've tried to connect my mouse through +10meters USB cable. Seems that it works pretty well despite of what the RFC says about maximum cable lenght :) the only problem I have is that ~5% of mouse clicks are lost. I want to try

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

On 2011-10-06, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: Alan's post has broken the thread - but in a previous post I mentioned that The problem seems to be that *both* epson and epson2 backends are being called snipped $ grep epson /etc/sane.d/dll.conf epson epson2 This is

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

On 2011-10-03, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: (...) Tell us your scanner model? :-) Epson Perfection 2400 Photo (...) Just found the following: Script started on Mon 03 Oct 2011 03:38:15 PM EDT tom@dragon:~$ lsusb -s 001:005 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b8:011b Seiko

Re: How to install using apt-get from local .deb files without Internet OR how to bypass sudo apt-get update

On 2011-05-09, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: To install vim-gtk, I am first downloading all deb package (and not installing it.) mkdir -p vim-gtk mkdir -p vim-gtk/partial sudo apt-get -y -o dir::cache::archives=3D./vim-gtk install --download-only vim-gtk sudo rm

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

On 2011-02-17, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com writes: That was yesterday. Today after I start my Desktop Machine, try again and there is no beep again! Wild guess. What does bind -V | grep 'bell-style' show? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

On 2011-01-23, Roman Gelfand rgelfa...@gmail.com wrote: When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it? what is the name of the of the gnome or kde

Re: match across line using grep

On 2010-08-02, Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: however, it does not match the following: select * from mytable where id=1 and name='foo'; How about sed -n '{/id=1/N;/name=.foo/p;d;}' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: why don't scanner permissions get assigned correctly ?

On 2010-07-10, bri...@aracnet.com bri...@aracnet.com wrote: My scanner, a very old epson, shows up in dmesg: Processor EPSONGT-9700 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 scsi 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 3 Try running sane-find-scanner (in package sane-utils). -- To

Re: switching to console and zapping

On 2010-06-25, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-crystal as a window

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

On 2010-05-23, William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org wrote: After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where lilo can reliably determine the payload size. Could you explain what this boundary

Re: New to Debian

On 2009-12-03, deb...@toursbymexico.com deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote: 2) How can I install KDE? Currently it is running with Gnome... I've just download all 5 DVDs plus the updates one... the gnome (un)install shows most KDE applications to install, but not the full window manager... and,

Re: Connecting a video camera

On 2009-11-12, Michael Peek p...@tiem.utk.edu wrote: Hi debian gurus, I'm trying to figure out if I can download the video from a video camera onto my linux box. It's a Sony DCR-H52, tape-based, and firewire only. When I plug it in, I see the following in the log files: kernel:

Re: Redirect internet connection to wireless router (was: Sharing ppp [...])

On 2009-10-02, Vinicius Massuchetto viniciusan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I tried hard a few days ago to share a ppp internet connection through the wlan interface on my laptop. I just found out that this is not possible because my hardware can't do AP. So, I was wondering if I get a

Re: help for kernel panic

On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two weeks, it starts to load Lenny

Re: help for kernel panic

On 2009-08-24, Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boot to level 1. I used rescue to turn on /etc/default/bootlogd but nothing gets logged to /var/log so I guess it doesn't get that far. I would have liked to know

help for kernel panic

I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: Failed to execute /init can't open auto Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Call Trace

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

So, I don't know if you (or anyone else here) has any further thoughts/ suggestions. Google searches are now beginning to either throw back Have you run a mixer and made sure the volume is up and nothing is muted? What happens if you run aplay something.wav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

On 2009-07-13, Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for this advice regarding the KsCD configuration as I'm now happily listening to Mozart from an old CD Previously, KsCD would list the CD tracks and go through the motions of playing, but no sound I

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. Try: kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback presumably: alsa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

On 2009-07-05, Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to .. REMOVED problem? Only occuring on my debian system, windows vista on the same system works

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram net...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do to shrink the Vista install

Telinit question

I have a question about telinit use. For a long time, I occasionally have done telinit 1 before doing a backup. However, I noticed in the man page that it says: On a Debian system, entering runlevel 1 causes all processes to be killed except for kernel threads and the script that does

Chooser failing

For years I have had two linux machines (inside firewall) using the X chooser so that I could log in either to self or other machine. This has worked with kdm or xdm. Now I am failing to get this to work with Debian Lenny on both machines (last worked with Sarge). It allows login to self, but

Losing X fonts

I am having a problem where the X server is intermittently losing most of its fonts. I started seeing this problem a month or so ago. The X server is running on an etch machine logging in to a sarge machine. Both machines have xfs daemon running. The font path is set to

Re: Versioned /etc ?

On 2007-04-25, Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. I would like to: 1. Not have to add files to a list when I add them to etc (like, I don't

Re: CUPS suddenly doesn't like WP8 Postscript

On 2006-09-15, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of a sudden, the Postscript generated by WP8's Passthrough Postscript won't print properly. The first page of a document prints, but no more. I've tried to print to PDF and to a printer which has before printed WP8's Postscript

Re: mini-DV with sd-card

On 2006-08-16, gustavo halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My question is about the video format Mini-DV. This format is Linux compatible? I my camera record the movie in a SD-Card, I will can play the movie with MPlayer and encoded it to DVD format? Thank you, Gustavo

Re: pine

On 2006-07-27, Anton Piatek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigD1CC84142CB70DD9FC331E5E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Anyone know if pine is in debian? I can't find it...

Re: Configuration DB

John Hasler wrote: Tong writes: The '--get-selections' and '--set-selections' only give your the list of packages, they won't save configuration for you. All the configuration data is in files under /etc. Back it up. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin The