Re: trouble reconfiguring xserver-xorg

2015-08-20 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:52:50PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2015-08-20 21:17 +0200, Haines Brown wrote: Startx on a jessie desktop machine goes to a VESA display instead of the higher resolution supported by my video card. That could be a kernel bug, or the sign of a failing monitor

trouble reconfiguring xserver-xorg

2015-08-20 Thread Haines Brown
Startx on a jessie desktop machine goes to a VESA display instead of the higher resolution supported by my video card. In Xorg log is the error: (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [COPY] failed to allocate class I searched on line for what this means without luck. Only a hint that it might be a harmless

Re: difficulty entering balance mode

2015-07-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 01:43:12PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2015-07-25 14:53 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I've reduced things to elementals. That is, I do $ emacs -q -l .emacs-test. This .emacs-test file has in it only these lines: (autoload 'balance-mode balance) (setq

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-20 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:25:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): But I did enable a cron log, which for some reason was disabled on my system. I'll have to wait a week to see what that log has to say. I don't know how to set its level

Re: cp output format

2015-07-19 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 03:10:09AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 18/07/2015 9:40 PM, The Wanderer wrote: mmv file.~*~' file.#1 Okay, well from the OP ... $ cp --backup=t file /destination/file First time use of mmv: $ mmv file.~*~ file.#1 However, the next time

cp output format

2015-07-16 Thread Haines Brown
Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file .../destination/file. When periodically run it produces file, file.~1~, file.~2~, etc. How do I get rid of the ~ so that the backups are file.1, file.2, etc.? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:10:08PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager Session and Startup Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver.

Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-13 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: I had a Lenovo ThinkPad i could not get its broadcom wifi to work with debian i think because it had a tranistor based power switch which was off by default and needed windows only drivers to turn it on and then the screen failed

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 06:33:40PM +, Dan Purgert wrote: Perhaps environment variable was the wrong phrase. I've run into issues with cron jobs if I don't have it calling #!/bin/bash at the top (or #!/bin/[whatever]) ... running from a local terminal doesn't catch it because sh

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Dan Purgert wrote: It could also be as simple as a permissions issue. If your syslog isn't showing anything, you might want to push up your logging level. Thanks Miles. I don't know how permissions might come in because the

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:45:47PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I could download the tarball and try

Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup I can run the script manually with # /home/haines/scripts/backup. Cron daemon is running: $ ps -ef |

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 05:11:21PM +, Dan Purgert wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 05:05:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: I'm glad that synclient could do the job. Yes, thanks David, the command is working nicely. When you're in X, and if you type Ctrl-Alt-F2, say, is the VC as screwed up as when you exit X with (I assume) Ctrl-Alt-Rubout. Well, it

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:26:30PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But this needs to be pursued in another thread

GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB key by using grub-rescue-pc package. On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb this takes a while. When I boot to key, I get GRUB in upper left

can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed? What should be a sure fire way is to disable it in BIOS. I do that, but it has no effect.

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that key combination does nothing

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:52:58AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote: On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:08:30PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad

QDBus connection

2015-06-25 Thread Haines Brown
it behaves oddly, it is so conventional under Linux that I doubt it is the source of trouble. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150625180601

Re: QDBus connection

2015-06-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 14:06:01 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I'm running Wheezy and installed k3b to burn an ISO to install aptosid. For some reason the aptosid manual said to use it, but I suspect it was only because the author lives

Re: prevent debian from sleeping

2015-06-17 Thread Haines Brown
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Jack Dangler wrote: Hi, all - Just noticed that my deb sessions are going to sleep. I setup my .xinitrc file to prevent it using xset, but no joy. The .xinitrc contains the following - xset s off# don't activate screensaver xset -dpms#

Debian From Scratch ISO

2015-06-12 Thread Haines Brown
64 and Install options. It will not boot. I suspect this is a 64 bit ISO, and I need a 32 bit. Can anyone point me to one? Is it difficult instead to build Linux from Scratch and then add to it Debian's apt package system? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:07:18PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 08 June 2015 17:00:31 pjw wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2015, at 08:41 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: LMDE 2 is Jessie-based while retaining sysvinit. I get the impression that Linux Mint is only holding off on systemd because it is

Re: fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 06:08:15PM +0200, Siard wrote: Haines Brown wrote: I'm running Twice window style under fluxbox. ... How do I override the Twice style background with black color? AFAIK, you can do that in the style file, i.e. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/Twice. You are quite

usbkey: mount option gid=100

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
or something else? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150608175352.gb23...@engels.historicalmaterialism.info

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:20:41AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone here have any inside information on what is happening (or not happening) with the Devuan project? It seems to be dead, or at least dying. I am (more than)

fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
rgb:db/dc/83 -solid rgb:db/bc/83|style|:0.0 into the last wallpaper file, but when fluxbox is rstarted it reverts to the old gray color. I tried to put fbsetroot -solid black into fluxbox starup file, but it has no effect. How do I override the Twice style background with black color? Haines

Re: Skype video question

2015-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 01:22:49AM +0200, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: I used to run skype without a problem, but now when someone calls, they can hear and see me. I can hear but cannot see them. Try

Skype video question

2015-05-31 Thread Haines Brown
I used to run skype without a problem, but now when someone calls, they can hear and see me. I can hear but cannot see them. My video camera is working fine. I installed guvcview and it has no trouble using my camera. When I go to Skype, options, video device, I see that video is enabled and I

Re: test if fan is working

2015-05-23 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:01:54PM -0700, Anil Duggirala wrote: hello, How can I test if my fan is working in Debian?, thanks, I've installed the xsensors package. It continually reports the RPM of three fans. Would this do? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Systemd debugging

2014-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:06:20AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 26 nov 14, 12:27:00, Haines Brown wrote: I intalled Jessie and ran into troubles. One of them was an error mesage during boot: Failed to Start Load Kernel Modules. Neverthess, I could boot successfully. I do have /lib

Re: Systemd debugging

2014-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 06:23:06PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: If .../kernel/drivers/block/loop.ko was loaded, why not it87.ko? Nov 26 17:15:16 engels systemd-fsck[195]: /dev/sda1: clean, 15827/61056 files, 120381/243968 blocks Nov 26 17:15:16 engels systemd-modules-load[201]:

Re: Systemd debugging

2014-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 05:22:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 06:23:06PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: If .../kernel/drivers/block/loop.ko was loaded, why not it87.ko? Nov 26 17:15:16 engels systemd-fsck[195]: /dev/sda1: clean, 15827/61056 files, 120381

Systemd debugging

2014-11-26 Thread Haines Brown
with systemd. So instead I did: # systemd --test Don't run test mode as root How else is it run? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Systemd debugging

2014-11-26 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 06:56:18PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: I intalled Jessie and ran into troubles. One of them was an error mesage during boot: Failed to Start Load Kernel Modules. Neverthess, I could boot successfully. I do have /lib/modules

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Haines Brown
general constraint is needed to alter that trajectory. I get the impression that at least for Jessie, this means udev rather than eudev and that systemd will be the installation default; alternatives to it will not be incorporated into the installation routine. Is this a fair assessment? Haines

failed spamassassin blacklist

2014-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
It had no effect. I still get about a dozen messages from *.link every day. Shouldn't they be blocked Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-05 Thread Haines Brown
to be useful in relation to the needs and values of its average user. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141105164555.ge4

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-18 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:50:10PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: This leads to a newish trend in systems administration, facilitated by widespread use of virtualisation or container techniques: never upgrade a system to a new release, just spawn a new and fresh

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-01 Thread Haines Brown
. Will the expansion of systemd to acquire a monothic control over my system mean that a non-expert like myself will be less able to maintain their system? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

2014-08-20 Thread Haines Brown
to the webcam mike input. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140820200126.gf3...@historicalmaterialism.info

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-19 Thread Haines Brown
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:03:44PM +0100, Michael Jones wrote: New version socks, no audio due to the removal of alsa support I have similar problem, no audio with new version. So let me ask, did you install pulseaudio and doing that didn't help? How do you know that the problem is due to

/root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Haines Brown
This is such a classic problem that I hesitate to raise the question. The df below shows that the usual suspects for root partition being full are broken out. The / partition is 500 Mb. In the past I have only used about 50 Mb. # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%

Re: /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Haines Brown
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 05:06:22PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Same problem was discussed recently on this list (e.g., https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00665.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00684.html ) I pursued this, but nothing had been deposited

Re: /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Haines Brown
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Haines, Am Dienstag, 29. Juli 2014, 09:22:02 schrieb Haines Brown: The / partition is 500 Mb. In the past I have only used about 50 Mb. Why so little? I forget why I made it so big, but perhaps because I

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Haines Brown
# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs474440 474440 0 100% / udev 102400 10240 0% /dev tmpfs 830924 1572829352 1% /run

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Haines Brown
installed (not many so far because I started with only a base system), work fine. I don't bother with any desktop manager, but use fluxbox instead. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-08 Thread Haines Brown
for /dev/dvd. I put a line in ~/.mplayer/config that points instead to dvd3, and it now works. Thanks for your patience. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 04/06/2008 08:45 PM, Haines Brown wrote: This a common error message, but a search on line didn't resolve it. I'm running debian etch. I installed an application, gmfsk, deb, which went fine. But when I go to run it, I get, as either root or user

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
, raju, that was the answer. I inferred from the package description that it dependend on libstdc++6 and so assumed, incorrectly as it turned out, that it didn't need libstdc++5. I installed the libstdc++5 and all's well. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:48:37AM -0400, Haines Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where did you get that copy of gmfsk from? A couple years ago I had to compile it from source, but I now see

missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
there, even if not needed by this particular application. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Haines Brown wrote: libavformat file format detected. LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed Exiting... (End of file) So I did $ mplayer -v MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C

backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
| cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/$dirName 21 | cat -vT /home/brownh/.backup.log However, it seems to convert ownership of all files backed up to brownh:brownh. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:28:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where helpful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. Now all files backed up have their ownerships changed

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:28:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where helpful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. I did not read it... In brief, I was directing stdout

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
to recover single files as I used to, and doing so does not seem at all difficult with backup2l. I'm giving it a look. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
object file: No such file or directory The application uses libstdc++6 = 4.1.0, but the error suggests it is turning instead to libstdc++.so.5. The libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 is not installed. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
the following to be appended to the stdout of the first terminal: debug1: Server will not fork when running in debugging mode. debug1: rexec start in 4 out 4 newsock 4 pipe -1 sock 7 debug1: inetd sockets after dupping: 3, 3 debug1: Connection refused by tcp wrapper -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Haines Brown wrote: debug1: Server will not fork when running in debugging mode. debug1: rexec start in 4 out 4 newsock 4 pipe -1 sock 7 debug1: inetd sockets after dupping: 3, 3 debug1: Connection refused by tcp wrappe The last line

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
desktop SSH server. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SSH through wireless router

2008-04-01 Thread Haines Brown
is closed by remote host Can't I access all machines connected to the router and running a SSH server merely by using those machines' names for the ssh command? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-01 Thread Haines Brown
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Haines Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop (sidux on Thinkpad X61s) that connects via wi-fi to the wireless router connected to my desktop machine (etch) via CAT5, which has the name teufel. I can

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-01 Thread Haines Brown
. Under Wireless, I have not enabled wireless guess network (SSID is guest). All DSL modulations enabled except AnnexM. SRA capability is not enabled. All LAN access control services are enabled, but no WAN services are enabled. I assume I needn't worry about WAN configuration. -- Haines

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-01 Thread Haines Brown
like it is able to access the port OK. Does this suggest the ssh configuration is OK? As for ssh log files, I've yet to find them. There is no explicit ssh(d) log in /var/logs, and nothing /etc/ssh/. None of the regular logs report any event, which I find peculiar. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-31 Thread Haines Brown
Owen, Thanks for the clear explanation of the redirection. I should be all set now. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-30 Thread Haines Brown
to a temporary log file? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-30 Thread Haines Brown
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cron will send you any output your script has. You just have to rewrite your script so that it doesn't produce any output. Thanks Andrei, but that was my question. I don't know how to do that. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-30 Thread Haines Brown
to complain about the size of the message and terminate the find command. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of allowed rcpt hosts

2008-03-22 Thread Haines Brown
sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] env-from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] env-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not doing mail drop. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP/WIN_WORKSPACE

2008-03-20 Thread Haines Brown
I want to do? If so, is there any reason to have fluxbox do it rather than .xsession? What kind of line would go into ~/.fluxbox/init to do it? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP/WIN_WORKSPACE

2008-03-20 Thread Haines Brown
fluxbox do what I want to do? If so, is there any reason to have fluxbox do it rather than .xsession? What kind of line would go into ~/.fluxbox/init ? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: List of allowed rcpt hosts

2008-03-17 Thread Haines Brown
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I'm setting up exim on a system and find that mutt can receive mail, but not send it. The exim configuration is the same on my desktop (debian etch having the address 192.168.1.2

Re: List of allowed rcpt hosts

2008-03-17 Thread Haines Brown
assume I should have seen a stanza something like this: 2008-03-17 18:50:11 1JbO9j-0006L9-KO = brownh [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=procmail T=procmail_pipe -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

List of allowed rcpt hosts

2008-03-16 Thread Haines Brown
the hookup of the two machines on the router, with the addresses I've used, or is it an exim configuration issue? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

starting mc and rxvt fullscreen

2008-03-14 Thread Haines Brown
. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/media and /mnt ownership and permissions

2008-03-09 Thread Haines Brown
on sidux is owned by root/floppy. Should /media be owned by root/floppy? How about /mnt? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/media and /mnt ownership and permissions

2008-03-08 Thread Haines Brown
/media be owned by root/floppy? How about /mnt? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread Haines Brown
router, would there be any reason for him to install a software firewall such as shorewall? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

e2fsck -c to check for bad blocks

2008-02-13 Thread Haines Brown
blocks as part of a check of hard disk viability. Is the difference only that while badblocks just reports bad blocks, e2fsck -c actually goes ahead and tries to fix them? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: e2fsck -c to check for bad blocks

2008-02-13 Thread Haines Brown
Christopher - thanks for the clarications. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-10 Thread Haines Brown
case, a rack mount case, etc. I followed that California PC with a steel Shin-G case, but I don't see that the company exists any more. Since then I've used the Lian Li aluminum cases. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fetchmail authentication error

2008-02-01 Thread Haines Brown
the warning message? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail authentication error

2008-01-31 Thread Haines Brown
(protocol POP3) at Thu 31 J an 2008 02:15:34 PM EST: poll completed fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 It seems as if I've enabled certificate verification so that the error can no longer be ignored. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

xfstt + urxvt + mc causes crash

2008-01-06 Thread Haines Brown
. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-26 Thread Haines Brown
Uwe, I find that if I revert to exim4 monolithic configuration, my e-mail works, and so I've obviously done something to the split configuration file. I'm subscribing to pkg-exim4-users and will try to resolve the issue there. Thanks. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-25 Thread Haines Brown
Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:01:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I've lost e-mail, and so in desperation turn to news groups. In trying to configure my exim4 to use spamassassin, I apparently messed up the confituration somehow. At first, all downloaded

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-25 Thread Haines Brown
Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:50:01 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: There seems to be a problem getting my fetchmail requests being authenticated at the mail server. Here's what fetchmail tells me: ... fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server

SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-24 Thread Haines Brown
could be broken, so change to # hanme of link target. I tried but failed to revert from target to link. # dc_smarthost='smtp.hartford-hwp.com' dc_smarthost='mymail.myregisteredsite.com' I'm not sure where to start. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

2007-12-12 Thread Haines Brown
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: Benjamin Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command find / -print Instead use tar, like: tar -zcvf /media

Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

2007-12-11 Thread Haines Brown
for the suggestion, but I had a problem with the script: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive I don't understand this error. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

2007-12-09 Thread Haines Brown
: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3 FS on sdd1, internal journal Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel identd[23056]: started -- Haines Brown

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
, as far as I know, which for me is a big advantage (independent of the X windows system). -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
Dominique, Thanks for your reply. Yes, I sometimes run into trouble by having too many different USB drives to mount. I got the impression that configuring udev was the answer, but I was intimidated by the coding necessary to do it. On my side, to be sure that a usb-device is always mounted on

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
Interesting. I see the logic by looking at /dev/disk/by-id, and it looks simple. But I am a bit nervous about experimenting. Can you refer me to a HOWTO, or do I have to play around to see if I can get it to work? It seems this use of by-id is actually part of udev. It's quite simple:

wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
, with no uncommented line in ~/.wgetrc other than the line number 12 --mirror, I get: ~$ wget http://www.USS-Irex.info wget: Syntax error in /home/brownh/.wgetrc at line 13. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
is a common problem, but in all the discussion, I've yet to see a definitive answer. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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