Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-15 Thread Paul E Condon
, as has been recently mentioned by another Bob in another thread on this list. HTH ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

glöm inte säga nej till TIPP.

2015-06-09 Thread e...@erikkylin.net
Hej Debian listan. Vi är alla trötta på mjukvarupatent och dåliga ©lagar Men snälla skriv under det petitionen. Imorgon röstar EU om TIPP avtalet. Be våra parlamentariker att säga en, Det tar 30 sekunder. http://www.no2isds.eu/en/campaign http://www.no2isds.eu/en/campaign Erik Kylin,

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-09 Thread Paul E Condon
is working now, both sound and Cups. The best I can offer is the suspicion that installing task-Mate, brought in some packages that were necessary for both problems, but were not installed by using task-xfce alone. Yes its crazy. YMMV Best regards. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150608_1040+0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:43:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: My printer was working a few weeks ago at printing files in Emacs, but now I get an error message that the default printer has not been set. [...] Questions: - the error

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150607_2026-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] The can't be much wrong except for configuration because I can print documents from a modern MacBook Pro laptop running Mac OS X. In addition, I can print LibreOffice documents with no problems. But LibreOffice has a full function printer

CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
. Suggestions? Please help. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150608022609.ga6...@big.lan.gnu

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-05-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
and efficient format for mailboxes was never designed and adopted. It's a tragedy that many such standards were invented :) Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/927/ -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: where to get testing version of jessie installer?

2015-05-26 Thread Paul E Condon
. It certainly won't make the results of using in future, just like the results you got on Arp 24. Best regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Paul E Condon
of getting the mixer.app .deb to play nicely with xfce. Also, mixer.app may not be the best solution for my screen real estate problem. Alternatives for a smaller area mixer graphic will be happily entertained. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Paul E Condon
be willing to download and install software from the NSA that says it will protect you from Microsoft? Who doubts that NSA has the technology to break Microsoft's UEFI? ;~) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: a replacement for ssh packages in Jessie?

2015-05-13 Thread Paul E Condon
without passwords merely by being stupid? Also, ssh-copy-id doesn't seem to be working. But I've never used it before this episode, so maybe on this I'm misreading the man page. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Paul E Condon
in any URL and port number that you think will work for you (tm). I use it for accessing my approx proxy (with port# ), but it should work for a mirror set up by your neighbor across the street, or a honey pot set up by a certain spy agency, too. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon

a replacement for ssh packages in Jessie?

2015-05-12 Thread Paul E Condon
a switch? And has anyone tried them and decided they are not yet ready, in spite of the fact that Jessie is now blessed with the appellation, Stable. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: need help with approx-gc

2015-05-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150509_1832-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: The following is just a few examples from kern.log: May 8 11:32:49 cmn kernel: [4880283.861051] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 16136192 Ouch! You have a disk that is crying out for help. Oh the pain and suffering

Re: need help with approx-gc

2015-05-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150508_1446-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I run approx on one of my local jessie machines. The approx installation is strictly by using the approx deb, which includes a weekly run of approx-gc , which should just clean out the local repository of debs

need help with approx-gc

2015-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
for diagnosing this? Best Regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150508174703.ga1...@big.lan.gnu

Re: question about jessie-backports Correction

2015-04-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150430_0859-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm rearranging my sources.list file to reflect the recent official release of Jessie. Some examples have entries for jessie-backports, others do not. There seems to be a difference of opinion within the Debian cognoscenti. Where can I read about

question about jessie-backports

2015-04-30 Thread Paul E Condon
file to download. Is this a temporary glitch, or has a decision been made? Cheers to the Jessie release team! -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie? Am I?

2015-04-29 Thread Paul E Condon
and the solution to all ills! Or are you? I don't think the OP did either. He just provided a point of comparison. Richard I have been using msmtp for several months. I think its still working for me. Best Regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-27 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:40:37 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 27 April 2015 11:35:42 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 03:22:33AM -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: I'm considering going back to apt, even though most

Re: jessie: how to suppress emacs24 warnings

2015-04-27 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:49:50 +0300 Juha Heinanen j...@tutpro.com wrote: after upgrading to jessie that came with emacs24, i get the warnings below to terminal window each time i start emacs in x11 environment. any hints on how to get rid of them? -- juha (emacs:12957): Gtk-WARNING **:

Re: jessie: how to suppress emacs24 warnings

2015-04-27 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:39:56 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Erwan David wrote: Juha Heinanen a écrit : Is there anything that can be done to get rid of those warnings? Which package the bug lies? Is there any hope that the bugs are fixed before the next Debian release? To

Re: non-stable packages infestation

2015-04-26 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Teresa e Junior teresaejun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:35:29 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: $ apt-cache policy sudo sudo: Installed: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Candidate: 1.8.5p2-1

Re: No Clipboard Persistence even with clipboard managers

2015-04-26 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:16:21 -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote: I have always used clipboard managers in Linux, but for more than one year already I have noticed that clipboard persistence is lost on the desktop some hours after booting (the ability to paste after closing the source application, see

Re: non-stable packages infestation

2015-04-25 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:35:29 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: $ apt-cache policy sudo sudo: Installed: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Candidate: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Version table: *** 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1 0 500

No Clipboard Persistence even with clipboard managers

2015-04-25 Thread Teresa e Junior
for them all. Thanks for your attention! Teresa e Junior -- 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/553bcbe5.6020...@gmail.com

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1930+0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 10:38:03 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150421_1248+0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 11:30:55 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. It does to me

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150420_1252-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can make the disk readonly, but sometimes

Re: Can't send mail with Jessie

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1048-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150421_1137-0500, John J. Boyer wrote: I am using msmtp to send mail. However, I get the error Remote protocol errot. The log file shows TLS handshake filed. Operation timed out. There is no problem on an older Vinux system, which I am

Re: Can't send mail with Jessie

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
? Thanks, If you see this reply, msmtp is working for me in Jessie. HTH Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
to try it, and they stop reading and start doing. When should that be? Who is qualified to critisize a mistaken decision? Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150420_0911+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:18:58 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20150419_0852-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On your router

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I was running as pec or as root. I forget. Since doing that, I

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... another related question

2015-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150419_0852-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it would be fast and simple. I was very wrong. This install

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it would be fast and simple. I was very wrong. This install

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150418_1222-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it would

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I was running as pec or as root. I forget. Since doing that, I realized that for many years I have been running with my own version of /etc/ssh/ssh.config. Confronted with the evidence, I recall

Re: An inotifywait question

2015-04-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
: ... ! Expands to the process ID of the job most recently placed into the background, whether executed as an asynchronous command or using the bg builtin (see JOB CONTROL below). Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150416_0100-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have installed various releases of debian many times. I have a local proxy using approx that makes it very fast. After posting about a lockup of my desktop Jessie computer, I realized that whatever advice I got would I got would surely be more

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1730-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I am coming to realize that the re-install, not upgrade, of Jessie from RC2 has done something that makes it ignore my /etc/hosts file and go its own way. I can't find the trick to make my desktop

I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Paul E Condon
, and this message breaches global security because I should not be allowed to know that I am being watch? Help, please. Tell me what to read. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Subject: network-console installation and ssh keys

2015-04-15 Thread Paul E Condon
not want to do that, because I am too cautious to commit, long term, to such a departure from what Debian gurus consider to be best practice. ;-) YMMV, Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Need help with a broken Jessie/Xfce4 desktop box

2015-04-15 Thread Paul E Condon
of linux-base?) Thanks, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150415233913.ga1...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. Hopefully the log files will contain clues so you don't have to rely on such wild unsubstantiated guesses... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen k...@jorgensen.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150404_2240+0200, deloptes wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: This is a place where Debian is really not newbie friendly. I think it never aimed to be - therefore you have ubuntu ... at least my feeling In the present, Debian relies on Ubuntu, but there are still short passages of text

Re: Trailing ms at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
character before the non-printing line feed character allowed the carriage to get all the back to the left before a printing character arrived. It was in the design of teletype that this cr/lf feature was baked into our history. Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150403_1501-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: David Wright wrote: I'm not so unlucky as Bob appears to be (he says, touching wood), but I think Bob came to his conclusion during a previous period of instability in Debian, It could also be that I was unlucky in my

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-03 Thread Paul E Condon
all the fine words about using wget and *never* using a browser to download .iso files, but not a word about what to type at the command line to make wget go to where the goodies are. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1142-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I read the prior discussion as taking for granted the idea that one must have only one method of identifying individual partitions, ^^^ ^^ If you're referring to my post (which

A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
, you probably don't understand, IMHO. Kind regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): [...] Some time ago I decided to a make a copy of these data, so I would have more than one copy. [...] Is the copying between a USB disk and an internal, or between two partitions on the same

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1746-0700, David Christensen wrote: On 04/02/2015 04:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data has been accumulating on an external USB drive in a partition

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1803-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data has been accumulating on an external USB drive in a partition with the ... I'm worried

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-04-01 Thread Paul E Condon
scenarios. Peace. On 20150401_1619-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): You can also use disk LABEL=. As implemented, the LABEL is actually applied to individual partition. As long as every partition has a different LABEL values there is no ambiguity

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-31 Thread Paul E Condon
that and treat you with a little more respect. Let me assure you, you are not Rodney Dangerfield -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

e2fsck.conf and ssh_known_hosts: where?

2015-03-31 Thread Paul E Condon
. underscores)? Kind regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150331160944.gb20...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
be kernel developers who are interested in forking systemd and cleaning out the cruft brought on by a rushed development. ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Need help with CUPS printing

2015-03-29 Thread Paul E Condon
than I've ever seen. Its OK with me if 'my' thread is hijacked now. Happy camper, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Need help with CUPS printing [solved?]

2015-03-29 Thread Paul E Condon
in the last batch of bug fix packages from the release team. Now I can't reproduce the malfunction that I was seeing a few days ago. It was software, because the only hardware that I changed during that time was Memorex PS3 mouse and there are some explanations I cannot abide. -- Paul E Condon pecon

Re: Need help with CUPS printing

2015-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150327_0237-0400, ken wrote: On 03/26/2015 07:38 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running Jessie, as close to plain vanilla as my hardware allows. I have a HP Laserjet 5MP. This is an ancient device. It has built-in firmware for Level 2 Postscript printing and a special socket for Apple

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150326_2355-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in a hidden partition on HD... Now, see? That's some hardcore M$ crap right there! Thas what I'm talkin 'bout

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150327021643.gb15...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
than the one containing Win7 and install the new SATA. Check the facts, as best you can. Low price larger SATA drives that I have seen on the web seem all to be refurb HDD. I may be wrong in all these points: Caveat Emptor. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Need help with CUPS printing

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
that I haven't realized might be important. Please help -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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

A discussion on this list a few ago

2015-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
it. Thanks, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150317024224.ga17...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! Questions?

2015-03-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150312_2255-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I realized that I had not tried dd from VC2 just before entering the ... snip ... 2) A problem that I really want to fix: The window in which Iceweasel is displayed does not have toolbar

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
... * Can you reach the access point with ping? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20150313210058.ga12

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to download things once (usually) hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20150313104354.ga30...@xps.home.jorgensen.org.uk

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150311_0406+, Dan Purgert wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [ ... snip ... ] suggestion of running CHKDSK wasn't tried in the manner that I'm sure

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! Questions?

2015-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150311_1304-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150311_0406+, Dan Purgert wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [ ... snip ... ] suggestion

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150310_1157-0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. I starts nicely like I have seen many times

Re: Installing Openbox

2015-03-10 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
There is a very nice Openbox guide in https://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/ -- EMACS is my operating system; Linux is my device driver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. I starts nicely like I have seen

Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-09 Thread Paul E Condon
that contain Windows 7. I think I have read about this and there is some special trick, but I can't find it. Please, someone. Help. Point me to the directions. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-03 Thread Paul E Condon
' UUID. It looks as if there is a lot of new conventional to be learn by people who have learned on Linux internals long ago. Or maybe I'm the last to learn about this innovation. Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: File transfer

2015-02-26 Thread Paul E Condon
. You asked for advice. I think you got some good advice that maybe you don't want to hear. Maybe? The sad fact is that you cannot install Debian on a computer that won't boot from an install CD because some drivers or whatever have been damaged. YMMV -- Paul E Condon pecon

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 09:32 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: Yes, I know I can STFW. I have in fact done so. But I am after personal experience. I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and pleasant to use. GUI based.

Re: Some commands is not working in Linux server

2015-02-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 21:00 +0530, Justinmp wrote: Greetings to all.. Everything was working normally until last day.From today I am not able to execute few commands like ls in cent os machine.Interesting part is ls -al is working fine. When ever I issued ls , du -sh * ,yum update

Re: filesystem questions

2015-02-23 Thread Paul E Condon
yrs) As always, YMMV. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150224055133.ga7...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

2015-02-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
package can also tell you what virtualisation you're running under. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/2015013646

Re: A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 22:40 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat sceptical about. But since I could not come up with any technically sound arguments against it (partially caused by my ignorance

A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
. Which is absolutely excellent - that's the way software *should* be. Keep up the good work! -- Karl E. Jørgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-09 Thread Paul E Condon
-- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150209191333.ga9...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Writing files with formatted name

2015-02-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
file.  Something similar to what logrotate is doing. Tlhanks in advance -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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

Sound in Jessie

2015-01-31 Thread Paul E Condon
in Jessie? Maybe now is a good time to find out. Where should I look? Cheers. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to retrieve it. That sounds like the script command - it's in the bsdutils package which should be installed by default. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Flash på debian

2014-12-27 Thread Anders E. Andersen
Den 27-12-2014 kl. 12:47 skrev Flemming Bjerke: Der er øjensynlig en bug i adobes flashplugin. Man bliver så henvist til en adobeside der kræver en apturl ... og så går der ged i den ... Jeg kan i hvert tilfælde ikke finde ud af at få en brugbar deb-pakke frembragt. (Man kan selvfølgelig bruge

Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
; then rm $i echo Removed $i. fi done or if you want to make things *really* simple: rm --force --verbose *.Log :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
is probably not what you want... Similarly, can /dev actually be written to? The output of a command like this would be instructive: touch /dev/somefile-which-doesnt-exist Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? Probably. But it depends on why it was read-only to start with... -- Karl E

making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
the latest i686 32bit kernel (latest for Jessie) It is HP desktop that's a few years old. I'll be re-installing flashplayer again while waiting for suggestions... TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141213_1643-0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I've been running Jessie on my deaktop from some time before the end of September. The last time a checked, which was quite a while ago, sound was working. But it might have been before I migrated from Wheezy to Jessie. Now realize I don't know what

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

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
an awful lot of work with very little payoff ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20141214042814

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Paul E Condon
with a simple: tune2fs -c 1 /dev/sdXY Andrei: If one were to put the following line into /etc/rc.local: tune2fs -l /dev/sdXY where whould the output go? In particular could it be directed to a place that is easily noticed by the owner/user of the computer? TIA -- Paul E Condon

fsck on boot in Jessie

2014-12-12 Thread Paul E Condon
with something about clean and /dev/sda1. Was there no one in the group discussion who was aware of systemd-fsck ?? Surely, if there was (s)he would have enlighten the rest of us as to this fact and the discussion would have been far less looong. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141211_1332+, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 14:22:59 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20141210_1830+, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Of course, there's also

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
crontab? boot from a live CD, manual action to actually start the fsck? ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-10 Thread Paul E Condon
of the *STRONG* underlying assumptions is the the machine would only ever be used by a specific individual. One of the underlying motivations is personally understanding the the guts of Linux. [snip] Peace. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Paul E Condon
. Asking questions is a nice way to learn how you could do that PoC, anyway. Asking and trying. What is 'PoC'? Probably will be blindly obvious once I've been told. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

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