Debian contributor Register of Interests (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

2017-05-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:12:47AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > if people felt this was a concern, perhaps a process for voluntarily > "declaring an interest" could be worked out. > > I should stress that I have no concerns about anyone I know, but in the > interest

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
except for an important production service - I'd install stretch over jessie with no hesitation. *Especially* on a throw-away VM or spare laptop (in fact I have done so on several of both, many times, in the last few weeks). -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Ple

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
pointed out in some replies, the discrepancies you are seeing are consistent with comparing a MB (SI unit) with a MiB (base 2, e.g. 1KiB = 1024B)), which suggests you have downloaded them successfully after all. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
connection, in the same way it is possible to multiplex HTTPS and SSH on the same port; but it's a sufficiently niché trick that I don't recommend trying it) -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
, after all). I still use lighttpd for my main web server but I've been investigating nginx for my home NAS web server (which does much more proxying to web apps inside containers and suchlike, rather than serving content itself). I found some limitations with lighttpd's reverse-proxyi

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
t used apache2 myself for many years (and looking back, having since used things like lighttpd and more recently nginx, the configuration language is much worse; stockholm syndrome whilst I was a user perhaps?) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Debian/Raspbian server freezes - how to find out what is causing it?

2017-04-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
before the logging services have a chance to commit the logs to disk, hence my suggestions to fire it over the network instead. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
an reopen the bug. Thank you for wanting to make Debian better! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: spam to aliases and system accounts

2017-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ause the default configuration will accept and store mail for some aliases in /var/mail/, which might be / and could fill up without the admin noticing, especially if legitimate users have mail moved elsewhere (e.g. ~/Maildir) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
on and development of the above. But that ball should probably start rolling on the debian-project list. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
still including HP, I haven't checked) provide or host Debian's infrastructure today. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
have some packages from backports that won't be auto-updated and likewise jessie-updates. I found /var/log/unattended-upgrades useful to establish this. I do not know what is wrong with Gregor's setup. If you Lisi revisit this and it doesn't work, I could try to help. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀

Re: Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

2017-04-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Note: systemd is not for end-users, it is for system administrator and > distribution authors. {systemctl,journalctl,etc.} --user beg to differ. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 02:57:35PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Red Hat employees do have significant involvement in Fedora. This is true. > > May I ask, what model would you prefer? > > Both, actually. You

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:44:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Describing Fedora as 'community-driven' distribution is a gross > oversimplification. It's not that I disagree with initial assessment - > they don't sell you Debian stable like Red Hat does for RHEL. Red Hat employees do have significant inv

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
f SMF, ignores Upstart being adopted by RHEL and seems to carry a bit of an agenda elsewhere, not least by eliding systemd entirely. I would not rely on it in isolation. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signat

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ebian Developers voted, as listed here https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003_voters.txt All this stuff is in the open for anyone to read and catch up on. I hope you find it enlightening. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not C

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
airs.. The best kind of correct, and not splitting hairs at all, since Fedora and RHEL are not the same thing. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: system drive encryption question

2017-04-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
hobos/#index6h3 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
sn't. It was in Fedora before RHEL. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
svinit instead, what blockers remain? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
more than one - > systems that work better with sysvinit than with systemd. That estimate sounds plucked out of the air to me. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
oo!" I have a working unattended-upgrades setup, I will try and remember what I had to do. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt

2017-03-31 Thread Jonathan Dowland
terminii to other parts of the rail network. That's an interesting, if historical, explanation. These days York is definitely up from London. (Writing from Newcastle, up from London and York.) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Future upgrade from Stretch RC2 to release

2017-03-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
onsider jessie now and an upgrade to stretch later, yes. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
dates since then). But you might tire of playing whack'a'mole with missing .deb dependencies with the above technique: it's hard to say how many there might be or how long this process might take, to weigh up whether to do this or just reinstall. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
;correct on the Internet". *Why bother* buying CD-rs if you don't need them? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
d solution. > at a certain point you must simply wash > your hands of them. It's not nice, but it *is* constructive. "Washing your hands" is deleting the thread and moving on; it's not posting aggressive, toxic messages. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Yes... but, a) the whole list is small and vocal, unfortunately b) killfiling on an individual basis (which I do) does not improve the quality of the list for others (nor Debian's reputation) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed t

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
nd constructively or not at all. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
k will be required, even if that's not necessarily true. The problem is a mismatch between the name and function of that installer. It's a very real problem due to the confusion it causes. I'm just not sure yet what best to do about it. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
s relevant to this list as your reply (and mine). We're now as bad as each other. Hopefully the matter can rest. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Are there different Installer Packages between Server and Desktop?

2017-03-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
top or both of them. It's both, but you are right, perhaps we can improve our documentation to reflect this. Thanks -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Suggested edit

2017-03-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
to some other communities. > We neither expect nor demand that Windows be installable by all and sundry, > from scratch, on an empty machine. I don't understand what you mean here; is Windows a mistake, or are you making a comparison of Windows to Debian, or to Ubuntu? Your intent is lost to me. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:18:57AM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: > Cc: Jonathan Dowland Please do not mail me directly, I am subscribed to the list. I put this prominently in my email signature. I also set Mail-Followup-To (MFT[1]) accordingly. Consider switching to a mailer that supports

Re: Suggested edit

2017-03-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ment an unskippable part of the installation, unless you chose > that advanced "base system" would be very user friendly, particularly for > noobs. That would presume that the majority of users of the installer wanted to install a desktop environment. This is not necessarily true even

Re: Where is data stored when Synaptic scans DVDs?

2017-03-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:47:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > /etc/apt/sources.list is obvious, but where is the data about contents of > each DVD stored? /var/cache/apt/* I believe -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: D

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-03-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
t, no matter how much you end up getting. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-03-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:54:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > gedit has caused me to have to start over again, 3 times, on a 600+ line > configuration file for machine control on several occasions. As the file > it trashed was 6 months worth of adding new features to that machines > control, t

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
rdiff-snapshot) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
up system based on Git > (probably not good for whole-system backups, but likely workable for > homedir backups), but I haven't come across such a thing yet. https://packages.debian.org/sid/bup -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:28:22PM +, Joe wrote: > This is a well-known joke (and advert): > > http://www.taobackup.com/ > > but does touch briefly on most backup issues. Great to see someone else recommending this, I do too :) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I a

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 01:50:02PM -0700, Miles Fidelman wrote: > +1 If you're talking about my kill-file, it's actually +2 from this thread so far. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
n for manual package selection; so you can use that to set things as you want them during the install. Everyone gets their cake and can eat it! -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
>various backup topics on -user, too...) and I didn't think to supply -S to > >rsync. > > -S is for sparse files. Sorry, you are right. I did not use -S nor -H, so sparse files would be expanded, and hard links re-referenced in my copy. I'm not sure which (or both) were

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
topics on -user, too...) and I didn't think to supply -S to rsync. The real test will be how long an incremental catch-up will take in the future. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why 2 dhclient processes running for eth0 (IPv4)?

2017-03-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
--forest for example, or pstree(1)) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
this thread) > This document is dated and doesn't cover LUKS, but does indicate that blocks > 1-62 were used for "GRUB stage 1.5": > > http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/ Yes, that was what I thought. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with NetworkManager?

2017-03-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
OP's desire: to have NetworkManager handle the interface, and do what it does. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

2017-03-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
e having enough code to initialise some stuff and then jump to the next stage. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to disable dhclient to control the interfaces with NetworkManager?

2017-03-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ace eth0 inet dhcp', etc. then restart NetworkManager (systemctl restart NetworkManager.service) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ssl certificate on archive.debian.net expired

2017-03-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ot;archive.debian.org" would appear to be multi-hosted in some fashion, I got a certificate warning for klecker.debian.org (neither klecker nor gretchaninov's certificates seem to have subjectAltNames for archive.debian.org) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
rent/doc/html/spec_html/filter_ch-forwarding_and_filtering_in_exim.html Otherwise investigate Sieve as others have said. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ate people use gddrescue instead, rather than cp etc., since (unlike cp, cat, dd, etc.) gddrescue is very careful about which blocks it has read, can do retries, keeps a log file, can be interrupted and resumed safely, and can recover data from failing devices. -- Jonathan Dowland Ple

Re: upgraded config files in /lib/systemd/system

2017-03-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
md/system override scheme instead. The techniques that others in this thread have mentioned for partially overriding or supplanting an existing system file go some way to redress this. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Stretch & Safely Replacing systemd?

2017-03-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
on't like systemd (why is unimportant to this query) It would be better if we stuck to that. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: confusion in /etc/network/interfaces

2017-03-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ot;ip" has no such limitations. I've found my own brain to have a similar limitation, and find interface aliases useful for clarity even when I have ip(8) available. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: CD Audio - sometimes provided as vfs by the kernel?

2017-03-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:57:23PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Let us know, I'm curious :-) Me too, this is remarkable. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

font sizes in LibreOffice (was Re: A minimal relational database in Debian)

2017-03-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Could you please change the Subject going forward? -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
n end-user perspective): each database is just a different > file. There's also a GUI called 'sqlitebrowser' which is in Debian, > but I've never used that. Another vote for SQLite. "sqlitebrowser" is pretty good, IMHO, not great but useful. -- Jonathan Dowland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Swift lang in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> > > P.S. Not _this_(http://swift-lang.org/) swift. > > > > Ah okay, well, there is some intent, at least. Well, there was. The bug has been re-titled "RFP" (Request For Package) due to inactivity from the ITP filer. So, there's currently no recorded effort to pack

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
o in use. What, exactly, do you do to start synaptic? Click on something, or run a command in a terminal? What prompts you for a password? What version of synaptic do you have installed? -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using source packages to bring some programs up to latest version

2017-02-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
uivs could do with a rewrite IMHO) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ke rsync, which means no duplicate UUIDs, you aren't spending time copying sectors that aren't referenced, the SSD gets fewer write cycles and it can be interrupted and resumed. Or pvmove in some cases. -- Jonathan Dowland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using source packages to bring some programs up to latest version

2017-02-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
able. Yes, I think that might actually be easier than wrangling with Debian packaging, especially if the user is not already familiar with it. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using source packages to bring some programs up to latest version

2017-02-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
leave details of that to another email) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: revert package instructions found do not work

2017-02-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:54:22AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > I forgot to hold the non-broken mc version 4.8.17 before upgrading, so want > to revert to the older packages in the cache: > # ll /var/cache/apt/archives/mc* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510906 May 8 2016 mc_3%3a4.8.17-1_amd64.deb > -rw

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
restores are of the last backup. The scheme it uses for increments is quite simple, well documented and third party tools exist to manipulate it, which gives me confidence. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Rie4wudu

2017-02-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:29:39PM +0800, mkprint4u wrote: > Subject: Re: Rie4wudu That looks a *lot* like the output of pwgen. I strongly recommend using a password manager :) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
her files. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reportbug - relevant package

2017-02-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
call, the fixed-size mouse settings window (and all the preferences windows) is a design decision, I'm afraid. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ced, but that's about it. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:07:39AM +0100, Alessandro T. wrote: > echo -e '1\u0336' > > and with mlterm, pterm, rxvt and xterm I got, rightly, strikethrough 1. > Instead with evilvte, gnome-terminal, lilyterm, lxterminal, sakura, > terminator, terminix, termit, vala-terminal and xfce4-terminal (my

Re: LXDE lost menus

2017-01-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
fied https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852316 -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LXDE lost menus

2017-01-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
wrote: > Search for a bugreport for libfm-extra4. Do you mean to suggest that you know that this bug is confirmed to exist in Debian and has already been reported? -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: reportbug and remapped "edit"

2017-01-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
dit' in there which launches emacs as you wish (probably prefixed with 'exec' and suffixed with "$@". Use this approach instead of shell aliases. Don't forget to set it +x -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:49:02PM +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Because man page says so? Because fsck's job is to check fs? > Don't know what systemd interferes at all. See systemd-fsck(8). -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
in the "post-up" stanza for usb0, e.g. post-up brctl addif br0 usb0 (and possibly corresponding for pre-down) but I have lost the specifics. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I'd label the swap partition "swap" (by adding "-L" in the mkswap invocation), use LABEL=swap in the fstab and set that in *all* of the fstabs for each installed OS. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installing Tetex packages now

2016-12-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
k then, tetex was the LaTeX distribution that Debian packaged; these days it's TexLive instead. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
community does not suggest calling Python 3 'python' either. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Which package for reportbug?

2016-12-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:41:41PM +1100, John Elliot V wrote: > So I will file the bug under 'kdm' (although I'm not sure that is > strictly correct). That's fine, if it turns out the problem isn't in kdm the bug can be easily reassigned to another package. I think finding the right package shoul

Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
at that other layer so you wouldn't need (local) RAID either, either LVM or MD based, IMHO. You don't explain why you chose to use LVM RAID over mdadm, but as I said, I wouldn't use either in your case. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: spam filtering question?

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 10:27:50PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > shellworld.net the shell service where I do most of my internet work is > using Ubuntu. > For reasons that I find rather confusing spam assassin is well no longer > filtering at the level it did previously. > Has something happened

Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD

2016-12-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
tly on the disks, and put LVM on top of the MD virtual block devices. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ISO9660 creator in Debian Jessie

2016-12-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 09:46:55AM +, Brian wrote: > genisoimage -o out.iso file1 file2 . I'd echo this, use genisoimage, but read the man page first, you will almost certainly want to also use the -J and -r arguments too. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribe

Re: Detect upgradable packages in shell script ran as a non-root user

2016-12-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
suggest installing and enabling unattended-upgrades iiwy. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30:12 emetib wrote: [use sudo] > The last time I tried that, some years ago, it demanded the old passwd > first. I think that was about Red Hat 7.1's day. I'd been using it since > 1998 and 5.0. > > >

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
From what I recall, raspbian's default user is in the sudoers file by default too. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: router solutions based on Debian?

2016-11-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ww.mini-itx.com/store/?c=105 - this is a Pineview based board, so an older generation than even Bay Trail, but it's a 5x gigabit LAN set up. This vendor do a newer Braswell bundle but only 2x NIC. [4] https://linitx.com/product/cfi-a2060-miniitx-nasserver-case-2-hot-swap-bays/13404 -

Re: orriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 03:40:22PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > But digging into this a little, it seems to be an argument order issue. ...and all of my ISOs now read fine without the RR warnings. I haven't double-checked the docs, if you state that the argument order of -read_fs / -

Re: orriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
dr=, flag=) at xorriso/opts_d_h.c:122 #5 0x00431fc1 in Xorriso_interpreter (xorriso=0x77e21010, argc=5, argv=0x0, idx=0x7fffe424, flag=255, flag@entry=2) at xorriso/parse_exec.c:1389 #6 0x00403dd2 in main (argc=5, argv=0x820150) at xorriso/xorriso_main.c:265 -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: xorriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:46:16PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If they demonstrate the Rock Ridge read error despite -read_fs "norock", > then they might help to solve the riddle. Yes the do. I'm just about to mail you privately with a URL to one. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: orriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
bly can). > > I have four ISOs which are recordings from TV made with a DVD writer > > appliance, > > That's probably UDF filesystems. Interesting anayways. Good catch: you are right, they are. Are they interesting enough for me to put them online somewhere? -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xorriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 03:29:54PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I'm wondering if my hand-built modern xorriso is linking against my old > system libisofs. > I am doing some investigation. I can't see any .so files in my xorriso build directory, but ldd does not show t

Re: xorriso: listing files+offsets in an ISO9660 image w/o RockRidge

2016-11-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
me reason I am missing the ddrescue log file for this rip, which is frustrating, I will re-rip it next time I'm at my office. > If so: Do you still see the error message > "Damaged RR/SUSP information." I'm afraid so yes. I'm wondering if my hand-built modern x

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
putting words in your mouth. I did not mean to mis-represent what you think; but looking back at what you wrote, it very much *looks* like how I interpreted it. It seemed a perfect illustration of the problem, to me, at least. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 06:39:18PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2016 15:18:14 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Your answer highlights the problem, although it's not quite what you said: > > the pay-off is, better docs! Which are very important. > > I s

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
much as the programs themselves; the question is, how important? Unfortunately, many people think nowhere near as important, hence nobody being prepared to pay for it. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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