Re: btrfs filesystem full problems (was Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life!)

2016-11-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
fs packages that > were in that as of yesterday. Ah ok, thanks. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

btrfs filesystem full problems (was Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life!)

2016-11-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ere using, if only to confirm my suspicion that even the versions in Debian are not suitable for use in production. I'm going to guess that it was a series of 'btrfs balance' commands that fixed things for you. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. s

Re: Progress report Re: Invoking ddrescue

2016-11-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
GiB) for over a week and I'm not finished (I have interrupted the process however, as I am about to a different optical drive, which can be helpful when recovering from optical media but this is not relevant to HDDs or your situation) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ry; the application has to continue to function with the new library version (and that might not be tested yet) And none of the above is automatic. -- 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

2016-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
t burn it, which isn't that surprising I suppose, because I can't remember burning it :) (stuff of my Wife's) > Have a nice day :) you too! -- 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

2016-11-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:56:36AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:35:02AM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > I'll try the following command with both my current xorriso version and > > 1.4.6, > > against all of my currently imported ISO

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

2016-11-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
e semi-private address in my Envelope-From). I'm going to hazard a guess that the list server's spamassassin is marking mails as LDOSUBSCRIBER if the envelope-from (rather than From: header) matches an address that is known to be subscribed (which my semi-private address is not). -- Jona

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

2016-11-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:35:02AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I'll try the following command with both my current xorriso version and 1.4.6, > against all of my currently imported ISOs, and report back what my results > are: With 1.3.2, at least, only 20/45 of my ISOs fail; t

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

2016-11-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Downloads" folders from a long time ago, and probably just DOOM PWADs... -- 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

2016-11-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ure to make things clear, but I guess most people don't get that far) > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It is probably not about the "RR" records of Rock Ridge, but generally > about the structure of System Use Protocol and its payload Rock Ridge. > I have to investigate

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

2016-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
log files into that space (offset for TOC etc.) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2016-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
xorriso=1.3.2-1.1 from jessie. This happens even with images which isoinfo claims have RR records, and which were 100% successfully recovered with no bad blocks. Can anyone suggest whether I am using xorriso wrong, or another tool to achieve the same result? Thanks, -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

2016-11-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
propose and to which tools. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

2016-11-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:48:46PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > How can I list all the packages installed on my system that are > currently part of the stable distribution but not present in either > testing or sid? This is a good question (sorry I don't have the answer here). I recently hi

Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA?)

2016-10-31 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ackages list, and the additional complexity of managing the source packages for developers and the bugs that would result. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu?

2016-10-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 09:22:00AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > It's not _quite_ an 'XY Problem'. The OP hath declared. > It may be its first cousin. There is a not explicitly stated solution > constraint. > In my case I wish to use default resolution of current driver/monitor > combination. > I

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
a worrying sign of a program with problems. But development activity naturally dies off if a program does what it is supposed to do, so it's not always a certainty that it is doomed. It remains a concern for me, but regardless the tool has worked very well. [1] https://jmtd.net/software/rdifffs

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
sure if that will work how I want), I guess > I'll be stuck doing a local rsync of a smbfs mount ... unless someone > has a better suggestion. Windows has an rsync-like tool called Robocopy, but I'd skip straight to Backup PC for backing up Windows machines. -- Jonathan Dowland P

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
just a normal > and complete file system tree. That's basically a less convenient rsnapshot, with all the caveats (bad performance for large trees of files like mailboxes) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-10-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
d as a monkeypatch in archivemail itself) if anyone wants it. Maybe one day I'll have the time and inclination to try again with Python (it was the beginning of a long road: it would have gone into Python 3, and archivemail needs a lot of other work to get it working in Python 3 anyway) -

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
rdiff-backup.nongnu.org [2] http://obnam.org/ [3] http://www.taobackup.com [4] https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html [5] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: replaygain, soundkonverter, aac/m4a glitch

2016-10-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 04:29:24PM -0700, Seeker wrote: > Am I the only one on the list listening to music off of my phone over > bluetooth in the car or having some other reason to want normalized music > playback? :O :) I've never used replaygain but it's on my "look at" list. Your initial evalu

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ment herself > on regular occasion. Would jessie not be more suitable for your needs? Much less churn in a stable release than the development distribution. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

2016-09-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:14:54PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Can this be adjusted to allow me to install via apt-get this package?: > > https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emacs23 > > My fear is that if I monkey with sources.list I will trigger an unwanted > dist-upgrade. The solution would b

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
filesystem on it, I'd recommend at least ext3, and ideally ext4, which have journals and therefore are more robust in the face of things like power cuts. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Thank you. > Sometimes harware reset is the only thing. > The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/ Your ^C would eventually be honoured by cp. The result will be an incomplete copy, but the filesystem should be in a consisten

Re: [jessie] how to file bug report against update that broke other packages?

2016-09-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
equipped to figure out whether or not the problem needs changes in the gscan2pdf package or elsewhere; the bug can always be reassigned later if needs be. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:23:35PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I'd recommend a residential router with WiFi, Gigabit ports, and full > support for purpose-built FOSS firewall distributions, such as: > > http://dd-wrt.com/site/index Whilst useful, that's a long way from "minimalist" in m

Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd

2016-08-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 03:58:50PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > What is a "socket activation" ? Would that by any chance be a > systemd thing to declare that you plan to listen on some port ? It is also possible via various inetd solutions. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do

Re: nosh and redo have moved

2016-08-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
gt; I'll set that up for a couple more months. When it comes to making assertions about who has or has not posted to the list, perhaps consider using the public archives, which are not subject to your personal pruning policy. -- Jonathan Dowland Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed t

Re: Blocking 445 IP port

2016-07-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ry about why they've done this is in http://bugs.debian.org/740942). But, jessie's systemd will run update-rc.d on your behalf if you run 'systemctl disable/enable smbd'. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: C source

2016-07-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
m directories. Interesting nuance, thanks! I wonder if this is why SDL recommends people just use "" for their own headers. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Crypto implementations (was: C source)

2016-07-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. This is clear in the CoC for lists.debian.org, and it's prominently in the mail signature of my mail you replied to. On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:36:46PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIV, Jonathan Dowland a écr

Re: C source

2016-07-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:23:01PM +0200, Jens Sauer wrote: > I think you are missing dependencies from the ssl library. Have a look into > the docs [1]. Doesn't look like openssl to me. Openssl just happens to also have a md5.h header in it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: using curl/wget to call logout

2016-07-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ff button. You could try getting wget to set the referrer, you could also try asking wget to use the same User-Agent string as your browser. -- Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@dow.land 🔗 jmtd.net Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: C source

2016-07-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
uint8_t and friends, but not without the _t suffix. inttypes.h is part of the ISO C99 standard and perhaps others. You need to find out what the actual dependencies of the code you are trying to compile. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:46:32PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jul 2016, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I finally switched to Jessie (but still using SysV Init) a few months > > ago. This box and its predecessors have uses lilo (and SysV Init) > > since Bo was a pup. I have yet to see any rea

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
most of the GUI tools will be essentially asking libav to do the same thing. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: systemd and plymouth not caching LUKS passphrase

2016-06-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:57:19PM +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > Thanks, but it does not seem to work. I'm sorry to hear that. I will have a go at reproducing this but it will take me a little time to set up some VMs. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: systemd and plymouth not caching LUKS passphrase

2016-06-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
also need to regenerate the initramfs). [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-ask-password.html# -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
till lots of cups-related files on my system, like in > /etc/cups/, /usr/lib/cups, /usr/share/cups, and likely other > places as well. You can use `dpkg -S ` to see which package(s) own files within the paths, then consider removing those packages. You have likely missed one or two cups-rela

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 02:57:29PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > But we have to also remember that mutt is very very loong in the > tooth Lisi. I've looked at it but never used it, so I've no knowledge if > its have any serious TLC in the last decade. These mailing list / reply to arguments a

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
up regime, make a backup. Get a proper backup routine once you've finished. * Use LVM on the destination device. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
t from my question above about the permissions > of /media. mine is just drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 5 17:09 /media -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Firewall - basic config?

2016-04-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ng rule. > 3. So after having installed and enabled ufw, here's the output of my > "iptables -L" command. Others have picked over the bones of this, but I'd be more interested in seeing the output of "ufw status" -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: google-chrome-stable - no longer functional

2016-04-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:49:26AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Follow-up question: when "installing the packages that are needed", from > where are they obtained? > > >From the same directory as that containing the ".deb" file, from an > Internet archive or from my local /var/cache/apt/archive

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ur feelings about systemd, and re-iterating them doesn't help you, me or anyone else. I'd appreciate it if you would not hijack my threads. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:19:46PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I think using mount namespaces is a bit nicer solution for the problem: ... > I'm not sure you can achieve this via systemd's .mount units, although > systemd itself also makes use of mount namespaces. For example, systemd > uses

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 09:40:40PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Did you edit your blog post afterwards or did I just skim over your own > rebuttal of the story? :) No I named it as a hoax from the off -- the tell for me was that one of the replies to the hoax post was a suggestion to use dd(1) f

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
see a solution to do what I just did with bog-standard shellscripts or whatever which is clearer or conciser than this solution, despite the niggles. -- Jonathan Dowland

on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
*also* got all their backups because their backup volume was mounted too. Anyway, in the past I've read some useful tips for using Systemd on this list, so here's the blog post should it be of any interest: https://jmtd.net/log/mount_on_demand_backups/ -- Jonathan Dowland Pleas

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 08:30:43AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > You are missing that the change to systemd makes most of the knowledge > patiently acquired over the years running and caring for a Linux system has > suddenly become unusable. As a former sysadmin wrangling frankly horrid in-house

PS/2 (was Re: mjg59 | Skylake's power management under Linux is dreadful and)x you shouldn't buy one until it's fixed)

2016-04-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:55:59AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Apart from some instability and non-working (sometimes) PS2 mouse I'm amazed to hear of a Skylake machine carrying a PS/2 Port, > Giga-Byte GA-H110M-S2H Then I remember that my Bay Trail SoC is a Gigabyte and also has a PS/2 port.

Re: mjg59 | Skylake's power management under Linux is dreadful and you shouldn't buy one until it's fixed

2016-04-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 03:22:38AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > This looks like a very big OUCH for latest generation of Intel based > laptops! > -- desktops might be okay though. At least until it's fixed. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:59:48PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > Dovecot has two (relevant) plugins. zlib compresses the stored emails. > This is transparent to all clients - exim provides uncompressed emails, > dovecot compresses them to disk and on-the-fly decompresses them when > serving them bac

OT: ownership of Mega.co.nz (was Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System)

2016-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:18:40AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_%28service%29 > > "In July 2015, Dotcom said he doesn't trust Mega service in a Q&A > session with tech website Slashdot, claims the company had "suffered > from a hostile takeover by a Chinese i

Re: Debian security: need recipe for blocking root ssh access AND all ssh password access

2016-02-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
a random password > for each box, and leave it, on paper, in a safe or similar. It's very > rare anyone needs to use it. In my past jobs we've always ended up doing something like that in the end, never getting an algorithmic solution like the above off the ground, but it does soun

Re: Debian security: need recipe for blocking root ssh access AND all ssh password access

2016-02-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 02:24:02PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 08:08:26AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > >2. after initial setup, no ssh access will be allowed via a password > > $ echo "PasswordAuthentication No" | sudo tee -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config Convenient for writing in

Re: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
that you do not speak for Debian as you are not formally affiliated with the project in any way. -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: 5000 Folders in a directory

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 08:13:23PM +0100, Chris wrote: > Would it be better to use "real" subfolders with / as separator? I prefer to do so, not so much for when imapd is reading/writing to them, but for when I am poking about myself. "ls" etc. are going to be painful with that many sub-folders.

Re: systemd Information

2016-02-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ult), see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/unix-services.en.html#sect.systemd If you *do* want systemd to manage networking, you could look at http://sunweavers.net/blog/node/34 -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: BTRFS failed

2016-02-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
t sure how/why you would layer a block device *on top* of a btrfs filesystem. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: changing partition names

2016-02-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
not already using LVM, I'd recommend formatting sda3 as an LVM PV and create a new LVM VG, then an LVM LV; then migrate your data from sda4 into that LV; then format sda4 as an LVM PV and add that into the VG, so you end up with all the space being available, again without changing the part

Re: Does git store machine specific information

2016-02-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:02:05AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Given a git repository, is it possible to extract a list of unique IP > addresses from which commits were performed in the master branch? It > does not have a to be an IP address but something that uniquely > identifies a machin

Re: bad sectors on disk

2016-02-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ow if/when that might appear in Raspbian (which I presume you are using) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
alue of foo to 'this is baz': the contents of the variable bar would be interpolated into the string. Backticks (``) are often used to cause the environment to execute an external command, and then return the output of that command into the program. A shell example currentdate=`date` Ruby and Perl use backticks in a similar way. -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: Headless Wheezy

2016-02-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:00:40PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Not even Xvfb? Is it forbidden? Do I have to stop doing it? > > Of course. The VT100 Protection Squad is on its way to apprehend you. > Please wait patiently at your keyboard until they arrive to take to your > reeduc

Re: Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

2016-01-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
alone. Another vote for Linode. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:59:59PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I *think* enabling lvmetad has indeed fixed the requirement to "vgchange -a y > " upon unlocking the LUKS device. Great! Since it is harmless to leave the vgchange in when lvmetad *is* available, I suppose I sh

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:00:30AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It might be something to do with my LVM configuration. I had a hint > elsewhere that lvmetad might address this, so I'll explore that. I *think* enabling lvmetad has indeed fixed the requirement to "vgchange -a y

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:56:15PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > 2. vgchange -a y ... > I guess having a separate unit for this could be nice, but is it > really necessary? Having used LVM on top of LUKS, I can&#x

setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
e future, so I can do an ssh-in to decrypt the filesystems, including /, but I haven't looked at this yet. There are several dracut modules that seem to do it. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Using bind mount

2016-01-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:38:12AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Now to look up the syntax for putting it into fstab to make it > permanent. THANK YOU AGAIN EVER SO MUCH! The syntax is /olddir /newdir none bind You must put this after the /olddir (/mnt/nas) and /newdir (/hom

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ore reasons than just addressing this issue. -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:36:58AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > I would suggest all of you stop this discussion. It points to no where. Your suggestion would carry more moral weight if you had followed your own advice, rather than suffixing your opinion as if as some kind of definitive coda.

Re: Recommendation for FTP server

2016-01-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:16:39PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Sounds a good plan, except everything available for download is on > remote shared places. You should be able to mount or bind-mount those into the /pub* area. Last time I ran something like this I used vsftpd which was pretty good,

Re: Moving Partitions

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 03:39:15PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Question: Must root be on a primary partition (the 8gig is secondary --- I > had > failed to move root to a currently third disk before this so that 8gig might > be preferred.) No, it can go anywhere.

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, Dan Ritter wrote: > > >Plonk*. > > Sigh. Another satisfied customer. > > >* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet) > > FWIW, I didn't need the wikipedia reference. I've been plonked in classier > joints

Re: Problem with systemd and cryptsetup - how to solve it the systemd way?

2015-12-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
scapes. It's a bit unwieldy on the shell, I have to quote every use so the shell doesn't expand \x2d itself, so I'd recommend avoiding using dashes in device names with systemd.) -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 04:57:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > There s/b a GOOD reason to change something so basic and well > established, and I have not seen that reason adequately explained yet. > Did I miss the memo? You either haven't read the whole thread or just don't agree with the rea

pointless linguistic one-upmanship (was Re: "operating system")

2015-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Why am I not surprised that a large thread ostensibly about "Adobe Flash" has devolved into two people arguing the definition of terms with each other. Can you at least change the Subject when you change the subject, or better yet, take it off-list?

Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

2015-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:45:31AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It would appear it is not receiving enough attention. However, it is > in the collab-maint repository, so in theory any DD could work on it. > Since I use and rely on smartmontools myself, I'm adding this to my >

Re: openjdk 8 on Debian wheezy 7.9

2015-11-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 01:45:32PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/16/2015 12:14 PM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > >I am using Debian Wheezy 7.9. How can I install openjdk 8 on it? ... > 1. For wheezy-backports, there does not appear to be a newer version of > openjdk-7-sdk. ... > 3. For jessi

Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

2015-11-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:36:53AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out. I wonder why a new version is not > compiled even though a bug report > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789721 was filed > almost 5 months ago. May be this package is not being act

Re: dear lazyweb: looking for a special backup tool

2015-11-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I *think* you should be able to achieve this via Bacula and a lot of time configuring it, but I haven't tried myself. I've been considering whether to add some optical discs to my backup system as a 3rd backup after local HDD and remote HDD, and Bacula is where I would start if I ever get to it.

Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

2015-11-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:17:20AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > The hard drive is placed in a Dual Bay external hard drive docking > station which is connected via USB to my computer. Is that a problem? Yes. > Is my only option to connect this hard drive internally? How does one > check t

Re: very naive question iPad as extra monitor

2015-11-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 03:51:02AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Does anyone know a working way to use an iPad as extra monitor with Debian ? That is an interesting question. I have not tried this, however, I know you can get remote desktop clients for iPad, including VNC clients. If your main ma

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote: > What percentage of Debian users does anyone reading this believe to be able > to read the source code (if they even know where to look to find it) and then > to modify it to suit their needs? Surely Linux was a programmer's > wonderland when i

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 08:48:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I don't know -- a sufficiently skilled person (or group) might be able to do > it. I'm not such a person, and don't know of any. Try STFW for an LVM > project or community. Lots of replies on a subject you don't know the answer

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

2015-10-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:10:54PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I suggest "rsync --link-dest" too. Symbolic links are a nice way to > store the previous (and currently newest) backup destination directory. > So maybe like this in the backup destination machine: --link-dest doesn't create symbolic

Re: Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 07:13:36PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 14/07/2015 19:09, Erwan David a écrit : > > > > Sorry, gdebi is the gnome frontend, the cli in gdebi-core package : much > > lighter. > > More precisely : the gdebi cli command is in the gdebi-core package, not > the gdebi one. I'd

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Please don't hijack threads. This doesn't have anything to do with Gary's USB HDD problem. -- 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/20150713102853.gb8...@chew.

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

2015-06-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:46:39AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > If OI were to write documentation it would be "it does not work". Just > because I do not know how to make it work. If you can explain what the things are that "do not work", one at a time, there is some chance somebody can help. Unfor

Re: Fwd: updating debian warnings

2015-06-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 01:22:36PM +0100, Steve Greig wrote: > I put a # in front of 2 of the lines as I think you suggested in order to > comment them out but I am still getting the same problem. I have pasted the > sources.list file below as it currently is. OK thanks for doing that. Can you pas

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > I bought the headless powerpc server here: > http://www.excitostore.com/ If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. That's good for you because ARM is still a supported architecture in Debian, and Power

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
As others have suggested you should file a bug report. The Chromium maintainers do appear to take privacy seriously and have made several privacy-oriented changes already (see e.g. this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783999) If you need to find out how to file a bug, please

Re: httpd virtual package

2015-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I forgot to CC the below On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 06:57:33PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:22:40PM +0800, Anatoly A. Kazantsev wrote: > > $ sudo aptitude install owncloud > > A bit of a long shot, but try just 'apt-get' instead. I think a

Re: httpd virtual package

2015-06-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:22:40PM +0800, Anatoly A. Kazantsev wrote: > $ sudo aptitude install owncloud A bit of a long shot, but try just 'apt-get' instead. I think aptitude has some pretty nasty resolver bugs at the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
n Jessie. I've tried to have a quick browse through the Devuan git repository, but the changes I've found are only essentially 's/Debian/Devuan/'. I haven't dug particularly deep, though. Thanks -- Jonathan Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Systemd for dummies

2015-05-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:52:38PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > You do get switched to systemd on upgrades, which is consistent with > what I saw during my upgrade. This is mentioned in the release notes: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#syst

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