Re: New open source project

2023-06-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
it, but why should anyone care (beyond the intellectual exercise) that you did it? This isn't to say it's a waste or not worth doing, just that you haven't explained why it isn't. > Regards > the2nd --Gregory

Re: Fetchmail in Bullseye?

2023-05-08 Thread Gregory Seidman
Fetchmail continues to retrieve my email successfully. Could your clock possibly be skewed enough to affect TLS negotiation? --Gregory On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 01:39:14AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > My fetchmail, (from the repository,) has started timing out with a > SOC

Re: what's the right way to resolve localhost's IPs

2023-03-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
.[0].local } | select(.addr) | .name + ": " + .addr' > you can do > > ip -j a | ./ipv4_addresses.py > lo: 127.0.0.1 > enp7s0: 10.31.40.68 > > or on a fancier setup > > ip -j a | ./ipv4_addresses.py > lo: 127.0.0.1 > eth0: 10.31.40.4 > eth0: 10.31.40.5 > eth0: 10.31.40.101 > docker0: 172.17.0.1 > > > -- > > Jeremy > (Lists) --Gregory

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 06:05:27PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/17/23 12:36, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] > > This thread has piqued my interest, because I have been lax in doing proper > > backups. I currently run a RAID1 mirroring across three disks (plus a hot >

RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
ackup approach. Ignoring cost, what am I missing? > Reco --Gregory

Re: exim4 smarthost selection based on sender

2022-11-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
n addition, is the header match case insensitive and/or can it be? --Gregory On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > On 11/27/2022 12:20 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I send email from several email addresses. I pay for an email service for > > both se

exim4 smarthost selection based on sender

2022-11-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
? --Gregory

Re: Keep config?

2021-09-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
other responses in this thread, I'll put in a plug for the etckeeper package. I'm a big fan of keeping versioned history of my configs in a local git repo. > Best regards > Hans --Gregory

Re: Postgresql ODBC driver not found

2021-09-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
condescending. > Strike one. > > > >You installed odbcunix I assume. > > >How did you configure it? > > Correctly. > > Really? REALLY? > Strike two. Wow, seriously rude. [...] > can you please connect to your database with: > > isql "PostgreSQL Unicode" > > and perform a minimum check like: > select 1; [...] That's helpful, and I look forward to seeing the response to this. > -H > > -- > Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com --Gregory

Re: Conseils sur l'exploitation d'un cluster Keepalived

2021-08-19 Thread Gregory
Hello Le Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:35:23 +0200, Olivier a écrit : > 1. Le doc [1] mentionne un mécanisme de track file avec lequel il me > semble possible de changer à la volée la priorité d'un noeud et donc > de forcer son état Actif ou Passif. Ai-je bien compris ce mécanisme ? > Y a-t-il des

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-06 Thread Gregory Seidman

Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

2021-07-13 Thread Gregory McPherran
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 6:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 06:55:30PM +, Gregory McPherran wrote: > Hi, > > This shows the new security line form as: > DebianBullseye - Debian

APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates - Documentation Discrepancy

2021-07-12 Thread Gregory McPherran
g/debian-security;or "http://security.debian.org<http://security.debian.org/>" the correct format ? Or is the "debian-security" portion optional ? Thank you, Greg McPherran ____ From: Gregory McPherran Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 2:55 PM To:

APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

2021-07-12 Thread Gregory McPherran
Hi, This shows the new security line form as: DebianBullseye - Debian Wiki deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main This shows the new security line form as:

Re: scanner recommendation

2021-04-18 Thread Gregory Seidman
https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/scanners/photo-scanner/canoscan-lide-110 It's a cheap workhorse. I haven't tried it with Linux but it doesn't require any special software or drivers on macOS, which makes me think it is entirely open standard. --Gregory On Sun

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
pretty foggy about sshing into windows). There is also definitely a way to set up Cygwin's ssh as a Windows service (and it might be automatic, though I'm not sure). That may be what you want for getting in, then you can use WSL2 from that shell for your other purposes. > Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers. > dan Good luck, --Gregory

Re: Jus thinking - Low level X GUI with shaders

2021-02-07 Thread Gregory Seidman
ld be unhappy with every GUI app I use running a web server and launching a browser to http://localhost:/ > Stefan --Gregory

Re: Jus thinking - Low level X GUI with shaders

2021-02-07 Thread Gregory Seidman
time, and not especially well (or efficiently) implemented at the time, so it may well be ripe for reinvention. Given that we have much better facilities for sandboxing and hardware accelerated graphics than we did at the time, now might be the time. > Cheers, > Marek Mosiewicz >http://marekmosiewicz.pl --Gregory

Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

2021-02-07 Thread Gregory Seidman
itches, networks, 802.11 (wifi) radios, SSIDs, firewalls, etc. which substantially simplifies handling the issues you are encountering. Its web interface (luci) works directly with the UCI config files, so it's easy to switch between editing a file and working in the web UI. --Gregory On Sat, Feb 06, 2021

ZFS guidance

2021-01-02 Thread Gregory Seidman
available storage. 3. Is there any equivalent off-site backup mechanism like my current fail-and-remove approach? Note that I am not worried about the effort involved in moving data. This is a home setup and downtime is tolerable. Thanks, --Gregory

Re: package of cfdisk

2020-11-01 Thread Gregory Seidman
f the mail body). > Unfortunately, I couldn't determine what package cfdisk was part of. If you > could give me its name, it would be very helpful! You can determine what package a file comes from using dpkg -S: % dpkg -S $(which cfdisk) fdisk: /sbin/cfdisk > Sincerely, > Grégoire Roumache --Gregory

Bizarre packet loss

2020-10-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
coming from the Debian server at all, but a ping from it has some magical effect on the network. I've been fighting this for days and I'm just at a loss. I'd very much appreciate any advice or options to try. Thanks, --Gregory

Re: Lost usb wifi device

2020-07-10 Thread Gregory Sharp
On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 08:38:54 PM EDT, Dan Ritter wrote: Gregory Sharp wrote: > Hi all, > > My usb wifi connection has been working for two years, and it just stopped > and can't figure out why. This is on Debian testing. Help! > If you boot with a Debian stable live

Re: Release netboot installer fails

2019-05-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 11:32:46AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 26 May 2019 at 11:18:52 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > > This is mostly to document what I encountered, because I haven't had time > > to put it in a bug. (I don't know if I will get around to it, honestly. I

Release netboot installer fails

2019-05-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
This is mostly to document what I encountered, because I haven't had time to put it in a bug. (I don't know if I will get around to it, honestly. If someone else wants to put it in they should feel free and post a response to the list with the bug link.) I also have a bonus warning regarding

Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

2018-11-09 Thread Gregory Sharp
On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:38 +0100 floris wrote: > Gregory Sharp schreef op 2018-11-08 19:01: > > > > Questions: > > > > 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed? > > > > 2) What might be a recommended upgrade

Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

2018-11-08 Thread Gregory Sharp
I am currently running stretch with the nvidia display driver. The nvidia-driver package is not installed. Instead, the nvidia-kernel-dkms package and other packages needed for the display driver and CUDA are installed. While attempting an upgrade to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that

Re: AI spam filter

2018-05-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
Spamassassin has a Bayesian classifier (a standard AI technique) in addition to its rules-base classification. You train it on positive (spam) and negative (non-spam) messages. I've been using it for at least a decade and I've been very happy with its increasing accuracy as I retrain it on correct

Re: Does bash have a tool ?

2018-03-05 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 09:26:51AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > My eventual goal is to create a personalized FAQ. > To that end I've collected all my outgoing mail which DOES NOT have "Re:" in > the Subject into a single file {used standard SeaMonkey tools}. > > Using a text editor's search

Re: Κενό ασφαλείας από Εθνική Τράπεζα Ελλάδος για Android

2017-10-02 Thread Gregory Potamianos
2017-09-26 23:21 GMT+03:00 Ioannis Proios : > Καλησπέρα σε όλους. > > Κοινοποιώ το συγκεκριμένο θέμα στην λίστα όχι γιατί την ενδιαφέρει άμεσα, > αλλά γιατί νομίζω θα ενημερωθούν οι ενδιαφερόμενοι γρηγορότερα . > > Η εφαρμογή λοιπόν για Android της Εθνικής Τράπεζας της

Re: customizing systemd config

2017-08-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 07:04:54PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > Hi there, > > On 08/11/2017 04:42 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I'm trying to recreate under systemd something I had previously cobbled > > together with shell scripts and init levels under sysvinit. > &g

customizing systemd config

2017-08-10 Thread Gregory Seidman
I'm trying to recreate under systemd something I had previously cobbled together with shell scripts and init levels under sysvinit. Only a few services ran under init 2, the default set in /etc/inittab, including privoxy and ssh; the rest of the services I wanted running, such as fetchmail,

Re: Failing disk advice

2017-03-06 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:17:03PM +0100, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 08:38:27PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 03/05/2017 01:02 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > >I have a disk that is reporting SMART errors. It is an active disk in > > >a (

Failing disk advice

2017-03-05 Thread Gregory Seidman
I have a disk that is reporting SMART errors. It is an active disk in a (kernel, not hardware) RAID1 configuration. I also have a hot spare in the RAID1, and md hasn't decided it should fail the disk and switch to the hot spare. Should I proactively tell md to fail the disk (and let the hot spare

Compiler une version supérieur de cups (sur jessie)

2015-08-21 Thread gregory
Bonjour, Pour des fonctionnalité disponible à partir de CUPS 2.x j'ai essayé de compiler depuis le site cups une version 2.0.4. La compilation se passe bien. 1er point, plus possible de faire du https sur le port 631 (cups multiplexe du ipp, http et https sur le même port) Ensuite après avoir

Re: Mac OS x intergration

2015-02-03 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 02:44:29PM +0100, Valerio Pachera wrote: Hi, is there a way to use debian edu as centralized authentication system for mac os x and host the users' home directories on it? If yes, did anyone tried it? :-) I haven't tried it, but I know OS X can use LDAP for

Re: 2 fork or ~2 fork

2014-09-26 Thread Gregory Smith
First: I hope you are correct. Indeed, it doesn't have solely to do with init, but this init change to systemd is the straw that brings everything to the fore. There is the disregard of the users of debian (who are not just users but programmers in various free software projects), a betrayal of

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-26 Thread Gregory Smith
Club or not, common law criminal fraud applies. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/25/2014 02:25 PM, Joel Roth wrote: I would say that systemd takeover of major Linux distributions and of Debian in particular would be a perfect subject for

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-26 Thread Gregory Smith
but they never get through after that. Shown below: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org 6:26 PM (11 hours ago) to listmasters, me On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Gregory Smith wrote: That is the story, that is what has happened. They have taken our Linux distribution from us. The Frenchman above me is one of that number

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-26 Thread Gregory Smith
Debian was not created as a doacracy of package maintainers, that is a falsehood that the coupists keep repeating. Debian was created as a universal operating system for the users. Just as the Free Software movement itself was created NOT for the developers and package maintainers of the software

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
And the answer is no! Of course. The debian founding documents state that debian was created for the benefit of the user. (The premise of the whole free software movement is the rights of the user: the developers rights are clearly best served by the standard proprietary copyright regime) We are

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message. I posted the message found here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html It was deleted twice and then: You have been *permanently* banned from this board. Please contact the Board Administrator

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream (fraud)

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
The debian developers did NOT select systemd. 4 people decided on systemd in a technical committee, a split decision, which happened to be decided by a vote from a chairman. There was no general resolution. Bringing this non technical issue to the technical committee in the first place was an

systemd support for init level use case

2014-07-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
I'm on stable, but I'm reading the threads about systemd and I want to be prepared for the next stable release. I run a RAID1 with an encryption loop and LVM on top of that for my home directories and a number of data volumes (i.e. nothing system-critical like /usr or /var). I boot into init

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:47:09PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: Hi, This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a time!) The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, rather than Exim's:

Re: Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

2014-01-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:54:11AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: That got me to thinking. I have a couple of 56-K modems from the early 2000's or late nineties. Maybe I should hook them up and see if they do CallerID as I do have available RS-232 ports and that Apple modem didn't create

Re: Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

2014-01-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:31:05AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: While going through a box of older stuff, I found the Apple usb modem my parents were using on their Mac. My father is now on regular cable-supplied internet service and we haven't used dial-up since about 2000 so here are

Re: Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

2014-01-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:27:14PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Caller id modems are often found used quite cheap on ebay and at thrift stores. I am using a callerid modem for the caller id function myself. I had one die on me a while back and I replaced it with one I found on ebay for less than

Re: How to patch files in a package's debian directory

2014-01-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:49:46PM +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: Hello, I'm testing some changes to an existing package which is using format 3.0 (quilt). I have split my changes into two patches: One modifies the original source, one adapts files in the debian directory. This approach fails

Re: Problems while using Tor Browser on Debian 7

2014-01-03 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 01:21:03AM +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: Now how can I make Tor work? By running it as: invoke-rc.d tor start instead of as your regular user. You did install tor from the debian repositories, right? If not, then maybe someone else can help you if you tell us where

Re: Internet loads too slow

2013-12-30 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:11:41PM +0900, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Ok, Here are what I have done though I really have lost track of things I've done as I just follow what I could find... I see you haven't gotten a response to this. So, I'm going to have a crack at it. echo

carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi Lid Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:15:06PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: That is my normal method of sleeping my laptop. I consider it a feature. It sleeps when I tell it to and not just because I closed the lid. Allows me to carry my laptop from here to there and open it and not have it asleep and

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 08:14:29PM +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: hi everybody! in my network icon in Gnome3 i have wi-fi hardware disabled. How i can enable it? # lspci -k|grep -i wi -A 3 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Re: wi-fi hardware disabled

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 07:49:57AM +1100, Charlie wrote: This is probably to silly to even contemplate, but is there a button or key where you have to actually turn on your wifi hardware on your machine? I know people have asked me why their wifi was suddenly down, and they didn't know

Re: carrying running laptop, was: Re: Acpi Lid Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 06:27:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: When you drop the machine the acceleration goes quickly from 1G to zero. I expect that's what it senses. Wow, I see this is quickly going past the two, maybe three replies I expected to get. It is still quite interesting, to myself

Re: Acpi Lid Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:14:09PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: Did my original post below make to the list? Or did it end up being filtered as spam? Just wondering. I saw it, so guess others probably did as well. I guess nobody seems to have an answer for you, not yet anyway. Good luck.

Re: Having weird seqfaults

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:21:21PM -0500, Goren Buckwalk wrote: I have let it run over night, it is still going, but no errors so far. Would memtest restart if it seg faulted midway through? Or just sit there not doing anything or display an error message? As far as I know, memtest will

Re: How to verify install iso?

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 03:52:34AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: And where is a file to check if this is the correct checksum? I honestly can't remember the last time I ran across a list discussion which had replies going all around the question, but didn't satisfactorily answer the actual

Re: [solved] How to verify install iso?

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:13:53AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Thank you Gregory, this is what I (for what reasons ever, maybe because I've got a cold) couldn't find. I clicked on the download and downloaded the iso from the same directory ;), but I wasn't aware about it. As far as I can see

backup files, was: Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ? a new problem

2013-12-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:58:57PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: But I do have some strange files that I had notice for several months, namely #.Xresources# #.muttrc# #test# and #x# The contents of #.Xresources# and #x# are X resource definitions, but there are conflicting emacs.geometry

Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ?

2013-12-09 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I've just done a fresh netinst of Wheezy and want to proceed with my personal configuring in a way that is not fighting with the Debian view of how things should be done. I've used Debian since Potato, I think, but have always

Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ?

2013-12-09 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:14:19PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131209_134124, Gregory Nowak wrote: I don't know if xfce has any impact on the execution of ~/.profile at login. Have you tried to run your scripts or looking at the output of export from a text console like tty1

Re: Postfix - run script from email

2013-12-07 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 07:22:09AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Look into Procmail, which might already be installed as the LDA for Postfix. Maildrop should also work fine here if you prefer that. If your script runs as a specific user, and that specific user doesn't get any other mail, then a

Re: L2TP VPN configuration

2013-12-03 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I've followed a couple different tutorials on the internet, but I haven't been able to use L2TP to connect to a VPN from my Wheezy desktop. Connecting from an Android device works, so I know the server and my credentials are ok. Has

Re: Ports

2013-11-30 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:34:36AM -0800, Laura F wrote: Hi, I want to install Debian, but am unsure if it will be supported on my laptop. It wasn't specifically mentioned in the list of ports, but I'm not sure if a general series is listed on the page that contains this particular one.

Re: Postfix randomizing outgoing IP using

2013-11-28 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:56:47AM +0200, M.Atıf CEYLAN wrote: Everything is great but when I want to sending an email to a local domain, smtp server looks at the mx record of the domain. Can I use local transport and transport_maps together? Or is there a way to sending to local domains? The

Re: check reboot or black-out

2013-11-27 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:42:40PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: I've a remote server, sometime I see a early uptime (2 days) while I didn't rebooted it. How check if the server has been rebooted or there was a problem like blackout? Every time a machine is rebooted or shutdown/powered up, you

Re: Stable Package: PostgreSQL 9.1 to 9.3 ?

2013-11-26 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 08:45:27PM -0500, Jonathan Fortin wrote: Hi, The latest stable release of Debian contains PostgreSQL 9.1. But, on the PostgreSQL web-site the version 9.3 is available for Debian. So, I would like to know if is a good practice or not to install a new version

Re: Fwd: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-25 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:20:30PM -0500, Wally Lepore wrote: In regards to creating the new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, can anyone recommend the advantages of creating a virtual hard drive verses a large image file on your “real” hard disk? The large image file on your real hard disk which

Re: Installation of Wheezy on a Fujitsu Primergy Raid1

2013-11-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:55:36AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: This machine used to have Lenny but an important component was destroyed so I decided to proceed to Wheezy skipping squeeze (which I do not have as netinst disk!!!) That's a bad idea. You should get a squeeze disk and use it in

Re: Audio from TV capture card

2013-11-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 07:43:26PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: All right, I'm out of ideas. In my wife's sid machine, she has a Hauppague BT878-class TV capture card connected to a cable box. She uses tvtime to watch television when she is on the computer. About a week ago, she suddenly had

Re: New laptop...........

2013-11-14 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:35:50AM +1100, Charlie wrote: Anyone have any ideas how it might be done? I might be stuck with having to use Windows. [sad] Not a big deal. Just install debian in a virtual machine. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key:

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:07:04PM +0800, lina wrote: I checked most, seems none has pop up action before the events. By default, when will print out your appointments for the next two weeks when you run it. This interval is configurable of course, both forward in time, and back in time. I have

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 09:39:55AM +0200, Itay wrote: I don't remember editing /etc/mailname by hand; 'dpkg -S' says it's not owned by any debian package. So how this file gets its content? It was created when you installed exim, and would be changed when running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:09:37PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, Which package I can be installed which may serve as calender, Just remind me when, where and what I need attend or prepare? The when package works fine for me. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key:

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:28:31AM +0200, Itay wrote: I don't understand why ':25' is appended, and what is the meaning of that. There are a number of things I want to reply to in this thread. So, I'm going to do this in each relevant message, since that will be easier for me. Apologies if the

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:50:33AM +0200, Itay wrote: I was using 465 because that's how my email client (alpine) uses the provider's SMTP. It was configured some years ago, and I was not aware that a change is required. Yes, mail.messagingengine.com still seems to accept connections on tcp

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:33:46PM +0200, Itay wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Jonathan Dowland wrote: It looks like your mail configuration is now fixed. I agree, for the most part anyway. Finally -- I don't know if it is significant -- but I note in the output below, for example 3 lines from

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 01:15:26PM +, Chris Davies wrote: IP address or host name of the outgoing smarthost = mail.messagingengine.com::NNN. Should be a single colon, not double. For example, mail.example.net:587 No, this is incorrect. When you run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, it

Re: Copy buffer from a script

2013-11-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 06:29:08PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: How do I get access to the buffer that is presented by clicking the third (or center) mouse button from a script? Install xclip, and read the docs to know how to interface with it. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg

Re: mic not working in wheezy - Asus vivobook S400CA

2013-11-08 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 03:29:42AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: Mine is Asus Vivobook S400CA. I have installed wheezy 7.2. Though output of sound is working , mic is not working. I assume you checked to make sure the mic isn't muted, and that it is being captured? Same thing for your mic boost

Re: mic not working in wheezy - Asus vivobook S400CA

2013-11-08 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 05:17:03AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: Yes. I don't have anymore ideas here. Hopefully someone else will. Greg On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 03:29:42AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: Mine is Asus Vivobook

Re: libxml warnings while upgrading squeeze - wheezy

2013-11-07 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:52:23PM +0200, Itay wrote: Hi, During the upgrade I got many times the following warning: program compiled against libxml 208 using older 207 Shooting in the dark I did: # aptitude show libxml2 Package: libxml2 State: installed Automatically

Re: freeradius on debian 7

2013-10-31 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:10:16PM -0500, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: Failed binding to authenticated address * port 1812: Address alredy in use / etc / freeradius / radiusd.conf [240]: Error binding to port 0.0.0.0 port 1812 Are you sure you don't have another instance of freeradius alredy

Re: Wheezy Installation doesn't work on reboot

2013-10-29 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:35:12AM +0100, Grégoire COUTANT wrote: Ok, someone know how to make the diagnostic ? My suggestion would be to boot your debian install pen drive in rescue mode, mount your installed OS, and grub-install/update-grub. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg

Re: /boot inside luks+lvm

2013-10-24 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +0530, J. Bakshi (জ. বকসী ) wrote: Hello list, I have the grub2 (1.99-27+deb7u2 ) working with luks+lvm but /boot not included in lvm... Can grub2 call /boot from luks+lvm ? If yes, can anyone please share the configuration please ? Mine is debian

Re: /boot inside luks+lvm

2013-10-24 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:35:42PM +, Tom H wrote: I've booted up from /boot on lvm via grub2. I haven't done so with luks of luks+lvm. There are grub2 modules for both: /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/luks.mod /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/lvm.mod Well ... wow! I stand corrected! The question

Re: openvpn question

2013-10-24 Thread Gregory Nowak
Hi all. This is an update to the thread originally started at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00718.html I won't give a summary here, the above URL can give the full story. To recap briefly though, I ended up using NAT to route a public address from my /29 subnet on my VPS to a

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:59:05AM +0200, Veljko wrote: Do you guys have any advice for this? Should I first run dd on those drives. They are part of RAID, so it should be difficult to read data from one drive alone, but what is the best way to be sure? And obviously, I'll have to return more

Re: no .bash_hostory file was found in user home folder

2013-10-20 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:24:04PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for the response. the log that i shared is of a users not root. the username is ykhan and in his home folder history is missing. i also shared History variables output and i have also read via google that user should

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-20 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:37:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't know, but if it's running as a daemon it likely does write a log file. The Internet is your friend, I can't continue now, perhaps I can try to help again tomorrow. Yes, smartd writes info to /var/log/daemon.log. When you

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:04:04PM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: I try it from the command-line ..$ smart-notifier nothing is happening? From the command-line, you probably want something along the lines of: smartctl -a /dev/sda |more Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key:

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: Ok, I entered the command as root (not working as a regular user) and get this edited version (to keep my message short) of information: All your edited version tells us is what drive this is. To actually know what shape the drive

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:50:41PM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: OK, I guess this is the data you are asking for (I trimmed the other part again to make the message short): Ok, according to what you posted, it looks to me like your drive is in very good shape. If you're hearing clicks now that

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 06:26:38PM +0200, Veljko wrote: IIUIC, this is output I should be looking: sda: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 095 094 006Pre-fail Always -

Re: Passing nowait command line option to dhclient

2013-10-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Steffen Dettmer wrote: When booting and one of the DHCP interfaces has no cable attached, booting is delayed about around 60 seconds (seems to be value of dhclient.conf:timeout). Why isn't your DHCP server responding? Your dhcp

solved: Re: wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

2013-10-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:36:15AM +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:33:12PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:33:12 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net To: Gerard ROBIN g.rob...@free.fr Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: Jessie Minimum Kernel Requirement

2013-10-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:30:33PM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: I am using Jessie with the kernel from Wheezy. Don't worry, it's safe to upgrade. As has already been pointed out, the kernel that comes with wheezy is 3.2. The OP stated the kernel being used is 2.6.32, which came with squeeze. So

Re: CF-Firewire adapter

2013-10-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:07:42PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: A photo of a CF-Firewire adapter here. http:/carnot.yi.org/UnityDigitalCF.Firewire.jpg I removed the cover in case anyone is interested. The two largest chips are marked LSI SYM13FW501 and Winbond W27E010P-70. When the

Re: virtual packages missing ?

2013-10-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:40:34PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: After removing some (I thought) un-needed libraries this morning, I ran into a problem of missing virtual packages. When ever I now try to do anything with aptitude, I get this result: The following partially installed

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