Re: rsync question

2015-02-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 07:58:22PM +, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I need to rsync several, but not all, the Maildir directories under /home. I have a file with all the user accounts, so what would the script be to say take each user account name and then rsync up each Maildir directory. The

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:50:33PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've not tried other solutions. I worry that the ones folks seem to like most do more than I need or want in terms of management. I want my stuff where I can see it, so to speak, and where I can use the ancient tools (tar, dd,

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:19:52PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer. I thought I had it, but i just tried a restore, and it's a miserable failure. I wonder if anyone here can

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:47:01PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen There are two basic kinds of backups: 1. File system -- e.g. a copy of the files and directories on an mounted and operating drive. 2. Raw binary image -- e.g. a copy

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2015-01-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:10:11PM -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Thanks everybody for their help. I will use molly-guard to guard from accidental shut down from the CLI. Is there something like molly-guard for the LXDE power off/close session button?. I must clarify that what I mean by

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:47:08PM +0100, mrr wrote: On 15/01/2015 01:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/01/15 04:26 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. However, today in the process

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but being prevented by

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 02:20:27PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Danny, If you want to inspect further, I would suggest you look at each of the jobs being run. See if they are what you expect them to be. Also check your /etc/crontab and /etc/anacrontab to see what is in them. And if you

Re: Please stop systemd-fsck on _every_ boot!

2015-01-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:23:18PM -0600, ~Stack~ wrote: Greetings, This problem has been a minor annoyance for a while but only recently have I started to use Jessie more and it is has finally peeved me off. I have been trying everything I can find for the last two hours and I still can't

Re: SFTP question

2014-12-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 02:52:28PM +0200, Danny wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to setup SFTP (ssh) with ProFTP. My /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftpd.conf looks like this: ### IfModule mod_sftp.c SFTPEngine on Port 7003 SFTPLog

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find dirname and basename when running at system boot, but it can find them when run from a terminal after boot. Maybe you have

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:55:15AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find dirname and basename when running at system boot, but it can find

init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is this: SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0) Both dirname and basename live in /usr/bin, not /bin. I know I could add a PATH statement to the

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is this: SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 06:07:20PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: I know I could add a PATH statement to the init script, but this problem is my own doing and I'd like to fix it right. I

mounting removable media without systemd on Jessie

2014-12-17 Thread Rob Owens
Just posting something I discovered recently in case anybody's interested... On a Jessie system without systemd you can mount USB sticks and other removable media using the pmount command, as others have pointed out on this list. I was looking for a gui method, and I've found it. Spacefm is a

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 05:38:03PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 08:53:51PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every encrypted email I receive. It's highly

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:47:55PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: On 12/12/2014 at 08:53 PM, Rob Owens wrote: When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every encrypted email I receive. It's highly annoying

change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-12 Thread Rob Owens
When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every encrypted email I receive. It's highly annoying, and the ISP refuses to fix this. What tools can I use to detect this tag and delete it? I'd prefer to modify the

Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: _...@debian.org Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those volunteering to make it what it is. By extension, it is explicitly not defined by those not putting work (but only words) into it; unmaintained software and code paths

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net - Original Message - From: _...@debian.org Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those volunteering to make it what it is. By extension, it is explicitly not defined by those not putting

Re: apt as a user

2014-11-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:29:26AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this polkit: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.foo.apt.pkla [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-user:apt Action=org.debian.apt.* ResultAny=no

Re: Strange hardware problem, any clue is welcome

2014-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: B. M. b-m...@gmx.ch I have a really strange problem with an computer from this fruit company in my family: It's an iMac from 2008, still running osx 10.6, but I put Testing on it several months ago as the second OS (which is much better, as I

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: If uselessd provides ONLY a new init, based on CGroups and lots of cool ideas from systemd itself, then, it worth trying it! Just for fun... I think it's

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:00:21AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I'm not sure what is meant by nobody has taken ownership of the 'request for package' bug. If that's something that needs to be done, tell me what is required

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: goli...@riseup.net Now let's see what happens with this! https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg1.html Very interesting discussion there. Thanks for posting. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org Still only 4 seconds though... Not true: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00012.htm There was an alternate proposal made by the Debian Leader. That may have only gotten 4 seconds (I didn't count), but

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Marty mar...@ix.netcom.com It seems like free software employment and market share come with increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. It's my main concern as a Debian user, as I consider recent trends. I hope that Debian members consider an

find out why a package was installed

2014-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a dependency/recommends of package Y? Thanks -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us I just went ahead and went back to sysvinit-core and in the process started purging packages in Aptitude! At the end policykit, packagekit, rtkit, and systemd were excised and a whole host of other stuff I couldn't find a reason

Re: find out why a package was installed

2014-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Marius Gavrilescu mar...@ieval.ro Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a dependency/recommends of package Y? aptitude why

Re: pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:57:07 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I've filed a bug, but haven't gotten any answers yet. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760397 Is anybody else having

pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-07 Thread Rob Owens
I've filed a bug, but haven't gotten any answers yet. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760397 Is anybody else having trouble mounting a USB stick using pcmanfm? When I try it, I get: Not Authorized: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name

Re: upgrade from 7 to testing no longer possible

2014-10-06 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: To Ja goa.ra...@gmail.com Hi All, Just tried to upgrade my simple LAMP box from Wheezy to Jessie, but this error prevents whole process root@xxx:~# apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:08:37PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: To me, a non-expert user, what sense does this make? jessie is still in development, it has not been released. If you are unduly concerned by running an

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 05:39:20PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: Thank you Clive for your reply. Here are my settings now after doing the change to my sources.list: uname -a shows: Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686 GNU/Linux lsb_release -a shows No LSB

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-26 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com On 26/09/14 00:12, Rob Owens wrote: One thing that may be a factor in my case is that my test webcam is very slow. I am only getting one picture every 2 or 3 seconds when motion is detected. I have

Re: updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-26 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: John Lindsay jclind...@kw.igs.net Greeting I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them with respect to upgrading. snip Obviously it failed to

'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. I have set: # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) ffmpeg_cap_new on and # Gap is the seconds of no motion detection that triggers

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:13:51 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: - Original Message - From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm On 09/22/2014 at 06:54 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: Those

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: I agree that let's wait until we have a good init to move to should have been more seriously considered, but for some reason people were in a big hurry to make a move. The vote held

Re: security camera software

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com I've been using motion for a few years and highly recommend it. Lightweight[*1], simple, and reliable. Minimal configuration required (snapshot mode):- Point your camera at the zone to be monitored.

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com I can't help you with motion but I had a thought as I was reading your predicament.. OpenShot will produce an mpeg video output of multiple images if you find yourself up against a deadline or something and need an

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Bob McGowan bob_mcgo...@symantec.com On 9/25/14, 7:12 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. I have set: # Use ffmpeg

Re: Question about the driver of wifi-card

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:52:52PM +0800, corvuscorax wrote: Hello! I have trouble in installing driver of my wifi card.. (My computer is DELL Inpiron 14 5000 Series, the Os is debian 3.16.2. The wifi card should be Intel AC 3160..I think) I can't see my wifi card by using lspci , it just

security camera software

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
I need to set up a couple usb cameras to record video based on motion detection. I prefer ease of setup to a large feature set, since this is expected to be only temporary. I want to only record when there is motion, so I don't have hours of footage to search through. A quick search shows

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: I'll have to look into doign this too. I'm sure there's an explanation to this considering things like u...@domain.ca and u...@host.domain.ca have different results but if the keys

Re: find

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Gokan Atmaca linux.go...@gmail.com Thanks for the correction. Indeed, will be as follows; find /arsiv/backup/ -mtime +1 -delete The +1 will get rounded up, according to the man page: File was last accessed n*24 hours ago. When find figures out

Re: security camera software

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Bob McGowan bob_mcgo...@symantec.com On 9/24/14, 6:43 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I need to set up a couple usb cameras to record video based on motion detection. I prefer ease of setup to a large feature set, since this is expected to be only

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm On 09/22/2014 at 06:54 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: Those are votes for Debian, but not for systemd, or for Debian with systemd as central. In the case at hand, the latter two are what people are asking to be able to have

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Keith Lawson ke...@nowhere.ca Hello, I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting to for years: The authenticity of host 'blah' can't be

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes: lee writes: what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? I would like to be able to let a user work

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Joe j...@jretrading.com On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:33:53 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? I would like to be able to

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Hi, what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session (preferably with fvwm, if I

systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread Rob Owens
Looking for advice from people in the know... I submitted a general bug regarding packages which require changing your init system to systemd. I pointed out that this runs counter to Debian's goals of supporting multiple init systems. The bug was closed without fixing in a matter of hours.

Re: old PC's as thin client

2014-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:29:01AM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Hi, why there is no login window in the panel controlin last distro ( for exampel linuxMinut : since mint 13 ) ??? . with mint13, I solved my problem, but not with others, here is my Pb: I want to use old PC's as

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:33:39PM +0200, B wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the difference?

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:21:49AM +0200, lee wrote: A desktop system is merely a desktop system, and an init system is merely an init system. It is a bug when a desktop system like xfce depends on a particular init system, or parts thereof, no matter if directly or indirectly, especially

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 03:47:50PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Rob Owens writes: I agree with you that this is a bug. But it is not simple to assign this to a particular package. It's a bug which is the result of the relations between many packages. But in order to get it fixed, we're

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk On 03/09/14 15:40, Rob Owens wrote: xfburn is apparently aware that my cd drive is currently empty. Does anybody know what it uses to detect this? It is not using gvfs. Looking up xfburn in aptitude's interactive

Re: 2 GDM3 questions

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Rob Owens wrote: Paul van der Vlis wrote: Another GDM3 question: How can I change the system default desktop for all users? I *think* this might be set by running update-alternatives --config x-window-manager I

Re: finding a dependency chain

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I'm trying to figure out, for example, what causes brasero to ultimately depend on systemd. I found a utility called debtree, but it produces too much

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com On Tue, 02 Sep 2014, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org Am 02.09.2014 22:18, schrieb Rob Owens: I removed the systemd package from my Jessie system

brasero requires systemd-sysv

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
brasero depends on systemd-sysv. Here is the chain of dependencies I've identified, with the help of some folks on this list: brasero - gvfs - gvfs-daemons - udisks2 - libpam-systemd - systemd-sysv For now I'd like to ignore the option of using systemd-shim and just examine why a cd burning

Re: brasero requires systemd-sysv

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm On 09/03/2014 at 11:41 AM, B wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:12:24 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I'd also like to know if there are any features of brasero that *really* require systemd to be used

Re: 2 GDM3 questions

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl Hello, How can I remove the data GDM3 stores? Background: When I login with GDM with an LDAP user GDM remembers this user and present them the next time. I've used some testusers with strange names and I would like

brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
I removed the systemd package from my Jessie system, and it took brasero with it. Brasero depends on gvfs, and gvfs has some trail of dependencies that leads to systemd. I'm thinking that the gvfs dependency doesn't make sense for brasero, but I wanted to get input from this list before I

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org Am 02.09.2014 22:18, schrieb Rob Owens: I removed the systemd package from my Jessie system, and it took brasero with it. Brasero depends on gvfs, and gvfs has some trail of dependencies that leads to systemd. I'm

finding a dependency chain

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
I'm trying to figure out, for example, what causes brasero to ultimately depend on systemd. I found a utility called debtree, but it produces too much output to be of use to me -- it shows all dependency chains starting at brasero, but I am only interested in the one that ends at systemd. Can

Re: 2 GDM3 questions

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: op 02-09-14 22:04, Rob Owens schreef: - Original Message - From: Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl Hello, How can I remove the data GDM3 stores? Background: When I login with GDM with an LDAP user GDM

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-29 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl 3. Skype-compatible clients for D7++ which could be used to connect directly to an OP running that alternate service? I'm especially interested in evaluations of https://wiki.debian.org/skype free and open

Re: Loking for TV tuner / media player help

2014-08-26 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Timothy Danielson timothydaniel...@yahoo.com Hi, I am looking to finish installing a card= Happauge 2250 dual tuner into Debian. I would also like to have a comparable Media center software that would allow recording as I did in win media center as wekk

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-14 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:36:51 Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:10:58 Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly old. Seems to be no way to run them. Wine64 complains about the .exe format. Placing win32:i386 on top of all this complains that the .wine is for a 64bit

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:10:58 Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly old. Seems to be no way

binary data vs. text (in firefox) -- was Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:28:08 -0400 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I do miss the ability to grep my bookmarks.html file. Maybe there's a way to do it with sqlite, but I never learned. One thing

Re: binary data vs. text (in firefox) -- was Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net - Original Message - From: AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:28:08 -0400 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I do miss the ability to grep my bookmarks.html file. Maybe there's a way

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:28:08 -0400 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: Hello Rob, I do miss the ability to grep my bookmarks.html file. Maybe there's a way to do it with sqlite, but I never learned. Whilst it's

Re: NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com Hi, I made a very simple bash script which loads the iptables configuration from /etc/firewall.conf and /etc/firewall6.conf files: # cat /etc/init.d/firewall #!/bin/bash iptables-restore /etc/firewall.conf

Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server

2014-08-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:11:08AM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 09:11:59AM -0600, Paul Condon wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 02:56:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 28 Jul 2014 at 14:02:29 +0200, Slavko wrote: Dňa Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:02:18 +0100 Brian

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

2014-08-04 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Mark Carroll m...@ixod.org Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2014-07-25, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be cleared by

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Utilities such as NTP are really good at adjusting the counting per second to tune the OS view of time to be very accurate. If that isn't working then I suspect some other problem. Such as two daemons fighting each other both trying to adjust the

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:24:24PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it returns an error failure to parse stream). Movie Player is probably Totem. In my experience, mplayer is better at playing obscure formats than Totem. VLC is good

Re: need a flac utility

2014-05-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 01:18:38PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 03/05/14 11:51 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Frank McCormick: I need a utility to allow me to breakup a FLAC sound file. It's apparently a collection of flac files merged together. I also have a file which ends in the extension

Paying job in northern NJ

2014-05-06 Thread Rob Owens
I have a customer who needs to get a server back up and running. I don't know to many details except they're getting a No Hard Disk error on boot. If you're interested, please email me directly at robowens 13 at gmail dot com. -Rob

Re: Q: LDAP on Debian easy/short way

2014-05-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:39:32PM -0700, Snow Leopard wrote: NOTE: configuration of slapd by editing /etc/ldap/slapd.conf is considered outdated is there a document with good explanation of modern way with good examples I have always used LDAP Account Manager to add LDAP users and groups.

Re: future data grow aticipation

2014-03-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 03:18:17PM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, I need to deploy a Debian virtual machine which will host an apache website with a pictures database. That database will grow of course. ;-) My idea is to have a VM with 2 disks. Disk1 (8GB) Has a 300MB primary partition,

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:49:13AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/03/14 05:54 PM, Mr Queue wrote: Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp ^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose I could even use tar and

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: In Wheezy, I used to be able to use dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration to (among other things) set the option to use control-alt-backspace to terminate the X server. I think you can still terminate the X server with this

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I don't want

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Hi everyone, I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools wouldn't

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. Systemd's real goals are being event driven (so, for example, you don't mount a file system until the device is ready - at the moment, debian does this with a two-pass

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:07:00AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/03/14 10:36, Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. Systemd's real goals are being event driven (so, for example, you

Re: ethernet and wifi together

2014-02-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:32:08PM +0100, S3v3ran . wrote: Hello My scenario is the following. I'm connected to the wired network, which is the default network i'm using. The default gateway, DNS server and everything else is via this interface. On the other side i have some virtual

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:15:20AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: It's been ages since I've done routing on a 2-NIC PC/router. I've probably gotten something a bit wrong. I *think* for the pc to act as a router you need to have: net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf Then you configure your

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:29:40PM -0300, Markos wrote: Tomorrow I'll change the network card of the server and see if the problem is on the network card. Check to see if the network cable is cat 5, cat 5e, or cat 6. If you have a gigabit speed network card, it might reject a cat 5 cable. Or

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:30:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? Very much

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but have not had much success so far. I like avidemux, but handbrake

Re: OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.netwrote: On 1/28/2014 1:42 PM, Rob Owens wrote: I need to set up wifi in a church, and share the wifi with the rectory (a separate building). I've been doing some research, but am looking advice to help me get through

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