Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Alef Farah wrote: However, no APs are found at my place ... Is there a hardware rf kill switch? My T60 has a slide switch in the lower left. There is also an rfkill package in Debian. It might help. Don't know. Try this. Does it show any access points? # iwlist wlan0 scan Are you aware

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-04 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: Maybe it's got something to do with the way I install Debian? I don't quite follow the normal installer defaults 100%; I do partitioning manually, and I disable all tasks except for the base system, then install everything I need (including X) separately afterwards. I

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Yes, that's what I meant, sysvinit is not broken. I rather agree. But the opponents cite corner cases where the previous security model doesn't handle every possible access case. I always hate it when people say such vague statements such as modern or is broken without

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: Brian wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Just for the record I complain about that behavior. I don't like the fancy tty colors and always disable them. I don't like the screen clearing those away and so I always set the getty --noclear option. The problem is that while

Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
David Baron wrote: Replying from the digest breaks threads. I eschew KDE 4, so I don't know about KMail in KDE4, but KDE3 KMail does not break threads. I do not understand the difference. If I hit reply, so I get the title of the digest which I replace with the desired re: Should

Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: I used a variety of mailers back then and I don't recall which ones handled digests nicely and which did not. I just tested mutt and digests and mutt handles message digests quite well. And furthermore because the Debian lists includes the individual messages as MIME

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: The Wanderer wrote: Where do you set this, exactly? /etc/inittab ? Note that Squeeze 6 /sbin/getting does not support --noclear so don't set this on Squeeze systems. But for Wheezy 7 and later this snippet will make automate the change

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Tom, Tom H wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: kill -1 1 # Tell init to re-read the inittab file. You can use telinit q instead of kill -1 1. It is the same thing. Six of one or a half dozen of the other. Use whichever one you prefer. I prefer sending SIGHUP. Among other things

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I must have a higher resolution monitor than you. (shrug) I have 44 lines of console boot messages. The monitor is an older 1280x1024 monitor. The default console size is 48 lines and annoyingly doesn't use the bottom third of the screen

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be cleared by agetty. Nobody particularily complains about this behaviour. Unless you have an excellent visual memory you are in the dark as regards what

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote: I have copied the muttrc for this account to http://tonyb.myownsite.me/pages/muttrc.txt (password removed, of course). Same muttrc on both the server and desktop. mutt works perfectly with both accounts from the server, not from the desktop. Same

Re: /var partition seems locked or read only

2014-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have identified with lot of find /var/DIRECTORY -name '*' that the problem comes from the cache, and especially from apt-cacher-ng, but I think ... I also use apt-cacher-ng but of late there is a problem that prevents it from running its daily

Re: manual Packages file download?

2014-07-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Zenaan Harkness wrote: BTW, my entire sources.list file is th single line: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian sid main contrib non-free Now trying with http instead of ftp... ... TADA! Works fine. Note that if you are running sid that it is recommended to also include testing in the

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony Baldwin wrote: What else can I do to diagnose this issue and/or, of course, resolve it? I think this must be something other than mutt. In your description you didn't mention how you were sending email and therefore I know you weren't looking at that part of things. I suspect it is in the

Re: IP address of diskless workstation expiriing

2014-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Darac Marjal wrote: The problem that I have is that the ip address that the workstation gets at boot has a finite valid_lft (as seen in `ip a`). When this lifetime runs out, the IP is removed from the interface. Now, I think DHCP does try to pick up at that point, but the root file system is

Re: Time in Emacs status bar

2014-07-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Johann Spies wrote: js@artikel ~ date Di Jul 15 09:06:38 SAST 2014 js@artikel ~ date -R Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:06:45 +0200 I assume +0200 SAST is the correct timezone for you. If so then emacs should provide the same time too. js@artikel ~ echo $TZ But TZ is empty. That was the first

Re: Debian on Intel NUC?

2014-07-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Intel NUC i5 Intel HD Graphics 5000 ... Does anyone have something like this running Debian? Any problems? * Graphics? This has the Intel HD Graphics 5000. * UEFI? * USB 3.0 ports? As a side question does anyone know if it is possible to use both the display port

Re: How to add package sources?

2014-07-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Holtzman wrote: Brian wrote: .snip Consider using deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free debian.net and not debian.org?? It's cool! :-) Visit http://http.debian.net/ and read about it. Here is the original announcement of it.

Re: Time in Emacs status bar

2014-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Johann Spies wrote: When emacs show the time in the status bar, the time zone is not correct. Is it correct when you ask for it directly? What is this output? $ date $ date -R Do you have TZ set? echo $TZ I have tried to correct it by putting this in ~/.emacs: (set-time-zone-rule

Debian on Intel NUC?

2014-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
I have been asked if there are any issues running Debian Stable on one of the newer Intel NUC hardware. Something like this. Intel NUC i5 Intel HD Graphics 5000 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102054 I don't have any experience with this hardware yet. My search fu

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Litt wrote: Cool! I just got the same results on my system, *unless* I closed the terminal with the window manager's close window command (Alt+F4 on I think there might be some confusion between SIGHUP and SIGTERM. The nohup command will ignore SIGHUP but not SIGTERM. I think (not sure)

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Litt wrote: I don't understand the question because I don't know what a session is, so there's the Perl code. I have these things in Ruby and Lua too, and I think also in C. Looks okay to me. But I do have a comment or two. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use POSIX qw(setsid);

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: Bob Proulx: The referenced thread has much good information concerning trim (aka the discard option) and I recommend reading through the entire thread. You are fine with trim enabled. In some cases using trim may help. In some cases using trim may hurt. I haven't

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
KS wrote: I have read some stuff on pros and cons for /tmp on tmpfs. One case case be a powerloss (just a desktop without UPS) or kernel panic and I loose files that I might have on /tmp temporarily. Isn't the default to purge /tmp on reboot normally anyway? man rcS TMPTIME

Re: UEFI

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Litt wrote: Thierry de Coulon wrote: I would not call a 256 BG SSd small - the biggest I own is 60GB, and all the system runs on it (on a laptop). You're not going to save much money going below 256GB. I think below 128GB, the law of diminishing returns makes it useless to go any

Re: bonding

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Pol Hallen wrote: using two switches without 802.3ad support I can configure bonding mode 4? ie: server linux with 2nics: put nic1 cable on switch1, nic2 cable on switch2 and put another cable from switch1 to pc1 and another cable from switch2 to pc1? Obviously with bonding active on both pc.

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by most of the tools anyway. Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later installation

Re: HTML5 = png or HTML5 = jpg.

2014-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Does The Gimp do what you need? Should work by command line. I hadn't considered it. Reco wrote: ... cutycapt ... Probably the simplest package for the task. I will also throw ImageMagick's import command in there too. $

Re: apt-get update fails

2014-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages 403 Forbidden ... Any suggestions as to what's wrong here? Do you have any other apt config settings such as for a proxy server that would get in the middle? Look in /etc/apt/apt.conf and

Re: IEEE 802.11-USB adapters with RTL8187L

2014-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: According to https://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x these inexpensive adapters should work for Wheezy and later. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/171177227057 ... And an incidental question: has anyone examined an adapter with a dish antenna such as the first on the list above.

Re: Time synchronization problem

2014-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Erwan David wrote: Roman Gelfand a écrit : I have just installed ntpd using apt-get. It appears that after sync the time is 22 minutes ahead of the true time. when I do ntpq -p, I get remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
KS wrote: I have done the following for optimization (ref: https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization?action=showredirect=SSDoptimization): I wanted to say that I think that page needs an update for Wheezy. At one time there were many things needed for SSDs. The biggest being alignment to 4k

Re: MPD on localhost won't work if there's no Wifi!?

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Brian wrote: or, if the domain name is left blank, 127.0.1.1 foo would be seen. Doesn't it create an entry like this? I will need to test it in order to see what it creates in that case. 127.0.1.1 foo.localdomain foo I

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Zenaan Harkness wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: No worries. The fact that it is documented in rcS is historical at this point. It always used to be set in the /etc/default/rcS file. But in recent times they moved it to /etc/adjtime instead. However as far as I know there isn't a man page

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I have some data in text format organized as follows field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 ... val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 I want to do database (sql) like operations on

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Of course now with SSDs that standard thinking needs to be thought out again. I haven't seen any benchmark data for full SSDs. I imagine that it will have much flatter performance curves up to very full on an SSD. It would super awesome

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Are you aware of SQLite? I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what I am after. Using Perl with DBI with an SQLite database works very

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: ken wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists for Debian Linux. Just for the archives, the file extension is a poor indicator of the file type and was originally meant more as information

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Nelson Green wrote: Thanks Thierry, but I am afraid I have to leave the windows installation alone. Fortunately I rarely have to mess with windows, and as a general rule I don't lower my standards to theirs, but in this case I have no choice, at least until we can eliminate windows from the

Re: Chown Foibles

2014-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: David Baron wrote: Any attempt to chown -R thisuser:thisuser /home/thisuser/.* Gack! :-( For example,to reset permissions of hidden items, will change ALL users' home folders, everything. Actually, on the surface, this might seem correct behavior because of the

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Nelson Green wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: But... Read the man page for rcS and then edit /etc/adjtime and set LOCAL there. man rcS Boy do I feel dumb. I didn't even realize there was a man page for rcS. Thanks for pointing that out (I really did start with man). No worries. The fact

Re: Different behaviour handling NFS mounts after login

2014-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Joerg Desch wrote: Am Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:12:15 -0700 schrieb Joseph Loo: rw,_netdev,hard,intr,user,nosuid,exec,async,auto You might want to try soft instead of hard. Thanks for your tip. I will try it this evening. Warning. Using soft can cause silent data corruption. $ man 5 nfs

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Rainer Dorsch wrote: Another non-standard behavior might be that the system (Cubox-i) has no RTC, i.e. when the system boots, it always thinks it is in Jan 1st, 1970. That is the same as the Raspberry Pi. On the Pi they use a clever hack. At shutdown a file holds the timestamp of the time

Re: Install both PHP53 and PHP54 with dotdeb on squeeze ?

2014-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Grégoire COUTANT wrote: Darac Marjal a écrit : Your best bet is to use some sort of virtualisation to create two distinct environments. Depending on what you want, that could be anywhere from a full virtual machine down to a container or a chroot. Alternatively, there may be some sort of

Re: sudo path

2014-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Klaus wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone please tell me where $PATH is set for sudo with wheezy? It seems that my sudoer has no access to /sbin on one of my machines, but does on others, with a seemingly identical installation. Thanks, Tony.

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Bannister wrote: Curt wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: A proactive admin should be aware of these things and schedule appropriate preventative maintenance. May I suggest Qualitative Maintenance as a better strategy. http://assetinsights.net/Glossary

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Anyway, the fact that this problem appeared just a few days ago on a machine running since about 5 years seems indicate a hardware problem (battery?) Yes, the lower voltage caused by a dying battery can increase the systematic

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Joseph Loo wrote: B wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: ... ... I think you are missing the problem associated with SSd. The wear problem is associated with the amount of free space. If the drive is 99.99% full, you could probably wear the drive out in no time at all. The wear problem is

Re: No MD5SUM for old stable live debian

2014-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
laur...@leboucher.net wrote: div Please no HTML email. It is terribly difficult to read. divMay I ask why there is nonbsp;span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 15px; white-space: pre;MD5SUM /spanspan

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodney D. Myers wrote: it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and it's stopped. This is what I see; /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat output? It would be useful before rendering an opinion. cat

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: Tom H wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again here. If you do really want to do so please use the off-topic mailing list d

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Rainer Dorsch wrote: my fritz.box is a DSL router from AVM, which unfortunately does not give me access to syslog. Oh. I didn't realize that. The way you talked about it I thought it was another Debian system. What I noticed is that 192.168.178.87 shows up without MAC address in the list

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Diogene Laerce wrote: Hi Bob, Hi! First thank you for the detailed answer, you kind of preventively answered to all my doubts or interrogations. :) Yay! Then I was successful! :-) \o/ I try to set up a new line of security (files and network) as I just changed country and instead of

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodney D. Myers wrote: Linux-Fan wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the exact thing(s) the online

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Rees wrote: Last week, when the kernel update came down the pipe, most of the packages had decent speed, but the kernel and some others were cut down to about a fifth normal speed. What archive name are you using? I am in the US and use ftp.us.debian.org and when I do I am actually using

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Diogene Laerce wrote: I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents and : chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents Unfortunately that command was a mistake. That will set rwx for owner on all files unconditionally. For directories

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: completely out of disk space. For that the reasonable amount of disk space reserved is an absolute value that a system might need on that partitions. That part really shouldn't be a percentage of the disk but should be a finite reserved amount. It isn't

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Erasing error output just doesn't erase the cause, and the cause might be very dangerous to the system's health... Erasing the error output? Why are you erasing error output? I never suggested any such thing. So you're following attentively

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: email, for the latter, due to the power of PINE), and both show no presence of a Reply-To value having been set. This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again here. If you do really

Re: need to roll back nvidia driver

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Ric Moore wrote: I'm having a bunch of java problems and it seems many are rolling their nVidia driver back to 327.23. I currently have 331.67 installed. What is the Debian package name for the driver you have installed? Since I refuse to use anything other than debian packages, and I am

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Martin Richard wrote: In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really something else. More likely xfs

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Rainer Dorsch wrote: I have a system which comes up with one IP address 192.168.178.87 via dhclient, then after one day it gets eventually a different address 192.168.178.88 from my fritz.box, which runs the dhcp server: On your fritz.box what does the dhcpd log to the syslog? grep dhcpd

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this partition, I would suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace which may only be allocated by privileged processes. It is normally 5% of the diskspace of a partition. In your case this makes ca. 1.8 GB. To

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Richard wrote: In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really something else. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: What practical alternative suggestion do you have in response? First, try to understand why fsck has failed; is it just a small error?, may be due to a power failure, or is it a big failure? may be due to the HD falling apart. What exactly failed, etc

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Richard wrote: I would like to configure an access to a console during runlevel 1.The idea is that sometimes, checkfs (performed at runlevel 1) may hang, and I'd like to have access to a terminal to confirm. If the system needs to run an fsck and if the fsck fails I have always had it

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: That will automatically run fsck -y at boot time. See the This is terribly dangerous and might rid all possibilities to recover sensitive data. What practical alternative suggestion do you have in response? Please don't just say don't do it out of FUD

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Miroslav Skoric wrote: 1. What would you do if you need more space in /tmp and you know you have some spare space in /home or else, but do not want to reinstall? No need to re-install. Brute force works. I would use a second disk large enough to hold everything. Copy off the old,

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Just to plug a good tool I like using pwgen to generate truly random passwords. A long random password is sufficiently difficult to exploit. If you are using passwords that are easy to crack then they should definitely be disabled. Here is an example

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: Chris Davies wrote: For day-to-day usage I would agree with your recommendation of ntp to ntpdate. However, I have yet to find a useful alternative to the very convenient ntpdate -qu {server}. Is there one? Have you tried rdate -np ? It does the same thing (pretty

Re: Please delete all my Post from my E-Mail adress !

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Finjan, Salam wrote: please delete my post from mailing list! It wouldn't help, anyway. This email list is archived a lot more places than just on debian.org. Usenet, for a start. And then there is the Streisand effect. Trying to suppress information calls more

Re: Re: Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Murukesh Mohanan wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: was documented in the /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/README.Debian.gz That's about the bug report that led to all this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298138 I am familiar with that bug report. It is referenced

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Angelico wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Have you tried rdate -np ? It does the same thing (pretty much) as your ntpdate -qu The big problem with ntpdate and rdate is that they step the clock. That is only appropriate at boot time. But -q means not to actually

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Frandin wrote: The TZ variable was unset.. Tried putting an export TZ=PST8PDT in /etc/profile and the problem left... Had completely forgotten about that piece of the puzzle.. Thanks all, for rebooting my brain.. Instead of setting TZ, the personal timezone configuration variable, it

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Personally I always use a strong password for root, only very rarely log in as root using a password, mostly use ssh rsa keys with a strong passphrase for remotely logging in, but do allow remote root login. ? You don't need a password (except for local

Re: MPD on localhost won't work if there's no Wifi!?

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Brian wrote: True. What do think about the lack of '127.0.1.1 localhost' in It is the 127.0.1.1 localhost to which I was disagreeing. That would be unusual. It is still the loopback device so off the top of my head I think everything should still work okay

Re: can't log out and log back in after remove lxde

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
tom arnall wrote: because i con't like unused software on my system and because i cdn't get the system to go automatically to ice when i login, i completely removed lxde. Sure. Does that include removing the graphical login manager too? That is usually one of xdm, gdm, gdm3, kdm, lightdm, or

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: I have no idea what you need to do to re-callibrate your /etc/localtime file. Presumably dpkg-reconfigure some package but which package? It is the tzdata package. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata However... If there are some escape clauses for the user to manually configure

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Prunk Dump wrote: Yes I installed libreoffice-l10n-fr but in libreoffice draw the paper size stay on US letter... Configure the default paper settings with libpaper1. # dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1 That will present a dialog box allowing you to select the default paper size. Because you have

Re: Kernel 3.14.x bug? rm, mv root-owned files

2014-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: By this, I meant that I think 'rm' should refuse permission to remove a particular hardlink to the file when there are multiple such hardlinks, just as I think it should when there is only one. Hmm... That would be a completely different operating model. A valid model

Re: Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Murukesh Mohanan wrote: 1. I have explicitly stated that I am automating new installations. I don't understand what repeating that statement back to me means. I have read README.Debian, and I don't see how it answers my question, which is: *why* are you totally ignoring a user-made selection

Re: MPD on localhost won't work if there's no Wifi!?

2014-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: Tom H wrote: Brian wrote: Teresa e Junior wrote: $ cat /etc/hostname localhost ... True. What do think about the lack of '127.0.1.1 localhost' in etc/hosts? Squeeze and Wheezy installs would both put this line in. Process check! I think you have mixed up the two

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: If you have indeed a UTC vs. local problem you need to check /etc/adjtime on all systems. If all files show the same ntp can take care of your hardware clock. Try this and see if it says something different between the two different booted operating systems. #

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Prunk Dump wrote: This is exactly what I want to know. On Debian, the stable release is very stable ! Only the critical bugs are corrected. Yes. And I for one count upon this to be able to maintain production systems and to enable setting up new production systems. On any given day the

Re: Debian Testing Jess: Server Randomly Reboots - No Logs / Indication - Rsyslog Issue?

2014-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Brenner wrote: The issue I am facing is that at random, unrepeatable times, the server locks up and requires a reboot. However, none of the system generated logs in /var/logs/ report any kernel panic or memory dump. I have ran a number of grep commands and even manually spent time tracing

Re: Kernel 3.14.x bug? rm, mv root-owned files

2014-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: jimmy wrote: // --- remove (delete) a file owned by root, should not be allowed, but is allowed. Here, it says the file is 'read-only' so it warns about it, but of course rm -f would work, too: Why do you think it should not be allowed

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Horatio Leragon wrote: Brian wrote: I wish the Debian Reference told us things like this and was available on t'internet. :) I'm puzzled by your weird behavior, Brian. The above statement of yours contradicts what you advised me earlier in 2 replies of 1 June and 1 reply of 2 June 2014.

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Horatio Leragon wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: dmesg | grep -i Eth That assumes you have that hardware. Other hardware will show up with their own id strings. Sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean by That assumes you have that hardware ? I have the network card installed in my

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Prunk Dump wrote: My debian wheezy clients are all affected by the following bug in gdm-3.4.1 : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683338 This bug is marked as Fixed, because it does not appear in gdm-3.8.3-1 witch is in the Debian archive. Ah, yes. A typical situation. The

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Hector wrote: I prefer not to get in the situation where I have to shrink a filesystem though - xfs doesn't support it anyway. Agreed. Even better is to avoid it. Small ext{3,4} file systems shrink acceptably well. But larger ext{3,4} file systems can take a very long time to shrink.

Re: Do I need configure bridge interface?

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Henning Follmann wrote: Pol Hallen wrote: eth0 -- 192.168.1.0/24 ip 192.168.1.2 wlan0 (with hostapd) -- 192.168.1.0/24 ip 192.168.1.3 iface br0 inet static bridge_ports eth0 wlan0 address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 If you previously had a DHCP daemon

Re: Kernel 3.14.x bug? rm, mv root-owned files

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Proulx
jimmy wrote: Could anyone verify this bug I ran into, please? I don't know for sure if it is the new kernel, or any combination of various packages (pam, rm, mv...). I see no bug here. $ mkdir -p /tmp/testing/ $ ls -altr /tmp | grep testing drwxr-xr-x 2 tst1 tst1 4096 Jun 5 13:48

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: The fact though is that most users do not avoid startx or a DM. Anyone who uses xinit has gone to some trouble to avoid either of these two ways of getting X running. You would expect them to know what they are doing. But people using xinit have not gone to any trouble to avoid

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-06-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: Brian wrote: I looked in the place that startx and the DMs look with a default install of X. Which is not to deny your valid point. However. a user would have to put in the extra effort to use .Xdefaults-hostname or, if they know it is possible, a

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew McGlashan wrote: [ 3839.679711] INFO: task kworker/3:3:392 blocked for more than 120 seconds. This message and the ones that follow seem the most concerning to me. First, I don't know. If I were having those messages I would suspect that my hardware was having problems. Or that the

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Horatio Leragon wrote: What do you think of the following method? (I found it on Google today). Your feedback would be appreciated. ... dmesg | grep -i Eth and next strings should appear: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdf822c00,

Re: How does one restore the original stable linux-image after it has been removed and purged?

2014-05-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: $ apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 That will work. It will also cause linux-image-amd64 to be removed. Why should that happen? You are right. That by itself won't. I was wrong. I had thought (incorrectly) that apt-get install

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Hector wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: This is what I see: rwp@havoc:~$ echo test test test | mailx -s heirloom-mailx test b...@proulx.com rwp@havoc:~$ You're not using the -v option, which tells the MTA to be verbose. Exim then spits out the SMTP session, while postfix captures

Re: How does one restore the original stable linux-image after it has been removed and purged?

2014-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Horatio Leragon wrote: The Wanderer wrote: First, check to see whether the old version is still available through your configured repositories: $ apt-get update $ apt-cache policy linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 ... If that is the case, then you should be able to reinstall the old kernel

Re: How to find dirs with single item

2014-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Wicks wrote: I'd like to be able to scan a Volume or directory and find all directories that have only one item in them. Either directory or file. What is a Volume? I immediately think of an LVM volume group. But that isn't exposed as a file system. Technically speaking a directory

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