Re: apt key handling needs to be properly documented--what to do?

2022-06-11 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Ross Boylan (2022-06-11 09:07:14) > The apt-secure man page in Debian 11 notes that repository signing is > a key part of the Debian security infrastructure. But key parts of it > are not documented. In my opinion that is a significant security > problem, but the apt maintainers clearly do

Re: Question related to Sbuild CLEAN_SOURCE

2022-02-08 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to debian-user@l.d.o. Quoting quirin.gylsto...@siemens.com (2022-02-08 15:40:40) > we are currently testing the integration of sbuild in ISAR[1] and have a > question related to the CLEAN_SOURCE behavior. > > > "When running sbuild from within an u

Debian-raspberrypi buster does not boot up properly without a monitor connected

2022-01-07 Thread Johannes Pieper
monitor is connected and the pi is powered up it is not even possible to ping the device. It seems the boot /startup process hangs somewhere. Can someone point me to what to check for? Thanks in advance and Best regards Johannes Pieper

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2020-08-11 Thread johannes nortje
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Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-09 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, (please CC me, I'm not subscribed to d-user@l.d.o) Quoting Christoph Müllner (2020-02-09 12:54:56) > I'd like to run the second stage of debootstrap without root rights, but for > another architecture (host is x86_64 and target is arm64). > > I know how to do all that with root rights (i.e q

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
gn is really wrong, but I can't be bothered to find out what exactly it is (don't need the module).. Thanks for your hints, Best regards, Johannes -- >> Wo hattest Du das Beben nochmal GENAU vorhergesagt? > Zumindest nicht öffentlich! Ah, der neueste und bis heute genialste

Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
output as well. So I've tried adding "nomodeset", "nofb" and "vga=normal" to my kernel cmdline, changed grub to GRUB_TERMINAL=console. The problem remains. Can anyone's crystal ball reveal some clues on what's going on here and how I could fix th

Wireless Hard Lock on a Dell XPS 15in (releasable only during waking up from suspend)

2015-05-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I have installed Jessie on a Dell XPS 9530 (late 2013) and am encountering problems (that are shared by others on the web) using the wireless card: it appears hard locked upon boot under all tested circumstances and no mocking with blacklisting wmi, dell-laptop, or other googled remedies ha

Re: jessie and unpriviledged lxc containers

2015-05-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Christian Seiler wrote: > On 05/03/2015 08:43 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> I'm playing with unpriviledged lxc containers according to >> http://tinyurl.com/kvzxlvj on jessie. In order to lxc-create as a >> non-root user I have to do >> >>

Re: LXC unprivileged containers

2015-05-02 Thread Johannes Graumann
Darren Baginski wrote: > Hello! > > > I'm trying to spawn unprivileged LXC containers as described here > http://www.flockport.com/lxc-using-unprivileged-containers/ , however > getting: > > lxc-create -n myvm -t debian -- -r jessie > unshare: Operation not permitted > read pipe: No such file

jessie and unpriviledged lxc containers

2015-05-02 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm playing with unpriviledged lxc containers according to http://tinyurl.com/kvzxlvj on jessie. In order to lxc-create as a non-root user I have to do PROMPT> echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/cgroup.clone_children PROMPT> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone How can I make

Re: NetworkManager & tun/br enigma

2015-03-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Johannes Graumann wrote: > Johannes Graumann wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to get a NetworkManager-independent bridg up and running to be >> able to have my firewall manage traffic to/from lxc containers. >> >> My '/etc/network/interf

Re: NetworkManager & tun/br enigma

2015-03-29 Thread Johannes Graumann
Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get a NetworkManager-independent bridg up and running to be > able to have my firewall manage traffic to/from lxc containers. > > My '/etc/network/interfaces' looks like this: >> auto lo >> iface lo

NetworkManager & tun/br enigma

2015-03-28 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm trying to get a NetworkManager-independent bridg up and running to be able to have my firewall manage traffic to/from lxc containers. My '/etc/network/interfaces' looks like this: > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # tun/tap/bridge combo for lxc container networking > auto tun0

Re: nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field

2015-01-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:01:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:03:44PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward

nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field

2015-01-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account. That account requires that "From" in the header matches the account email. Cron on my system insists to send email (as e.g. produced by a logcheck cron job) using "Fro

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Outstanding! Thank you, both Steve and Thomas! Based on Steve's hint I had it mostly right, but the isobybrid business was beyond my capabilities (and would have come to bite me once actually in front of the machine to be installed). I'll report back once I got a chance to try the new i

How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, To fix some configurations needed to install via a serial connection, I would like to edit txt.cfg in isolinux of the stable installation CD. Following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD I try: 1) mkdir /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod 2) bsdtar -C /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-

Re: unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-12 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Selim T. Erdoğan (2015-01-12 22:38:08) > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > I'm unable to boot my laptop with systemd which worked before. I'm unable to > > tell the changes I made since the last time it worked because accord

unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I'm not subscribed, so please keep me CC-ed. I'm unable to boot my laptop with systemd which worked before. I'm unable to tell the changes I made since the last time it worked because according to my uptime, the last time I rebooted was September last year. The output of `journalctl -xb` in

Updating remote system (testing) through aptitude - non-bootable ... was it intel-microcode?

2013-07-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I administer a remote server running testing and updated it yesterday (apt history and dpkg log below). After that the system wouldn't reboot. I have access through the hosting companies "rescue system" and can rummage around, but am at a loss how to trouble shoot this, as messages,dmesg et

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
time). This would not explain, why the same battery runs for 3 hours on windows. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/513f02b7.2070...@aktendiener.de

Keeping backups until storage runs short (deja-dup style) with command line tools?

2013-02-21 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, deja-dup has an option to keep backups forever or until storage on the drive backed up to runs short (at which point it starts deleting old backups). Does someone have any pointers on how to copy that behavior using duplicity and/or other CLI tools? Cheers, Joh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Make your life happier - uninstall FGLRX drivers!

2013-01-14 Thread Johannes Rohr
a happy life - get rid of the proprietary fglrx drivers. Thanks, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kd0ofr$uoq$1...@ger.gmane.org

Elegant solution for network-dependent cifs/smb mounting?

2012-09-28 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I am looking for a debian- (and optimally kde-) compatible solution that would allow me to mount cifs/smb network drives ONLY if on the network where they are expected to exist. I there was a solution that would upon attempted access to adrive a) check whether on the right network b) check

python-augeas enigma: error on lxc-container, none on desktop

2012-09-17 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I have to wheezy setups. One is my desktop and another one is a lxc container. Their python setup seems identical and the same version of python-augeas is installed on both. On the desktop calling $ python >>> from augeas import Augeas works just fine, but on the container I get Python 2.

Re: Backup

2012-08-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
s the mount point of your existing disk; /path/to/backup is mountpoint and path of your backup disk) My 2ct, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502eba27.2070...@aktendiener.de

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
nnections) or fear thereof, you need a fast *and* a reliable tool. I suggest you stick with rsync. IMHO it is the best tool for your task. With the -c option, eg. you could check, whether all files transferred correctly, without much demand on the network. Cheers, Johannes -- To

Re: wheezy: non-free latex fonts no longer work

2012-05-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thanks for your help! On 23/05/12 18:55, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2012 22:40:56 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > According to this bug report (message #30) the script is not available > anymore: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664646 Yes, that&#

wheezy: non-free latex fonts no longer work

2012-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ivate the optima font? Thanks, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fbbf9d8.4030...@aktendiener.de

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Karl, > Perhaps the sleepenh package will help you? > > Not a solution per se, but possibly a useful building block.. It works perfectly and was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot! In case anybody ever finds this thread later on, this is what I now wrote based on sleepenh which doe

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Paul, > Use crontab (see man crontab). But as far as I see, cron doesnt do what I want. First of all, it will run as a daemon in the background so there is no way (at least as far as I am aware) to make it output a counter/timer in my terminal. Second, as also mentioned in my initial email,

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Darac, > I'm not entirely sure if such a tool exists, but one thing you will > need to bear in mind is that you will need to make sure you're running > a real-time kernel (apt-cache search linux-image-rt). This will allow > you to run your look with real-time priority. If you don't have > real-

unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I'm looking for a unix tool that does nothing else than increment and print an integer with a fixed frequency. As a bonus it should be able to execute a command with a fixed frequency. The special requirement: it should precise in the interval. Thus, the following will not work: #!/b

libfprint: configure pam to only (and exclusively) use for xscreensaver

2012-03-18 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, Below you find my (testing stock) /etc/pam.d/common-auth & xscreensaver files. I have endlessly played around but this eludes me, so any help would be appreciated ... I'm trying to configure pam such that normal password authentication is used UNLESS we are unlocking xscreensaver, when it

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-24 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Tony, > aptitude isntall newbeuter > http://www.newsbeuter.org/ In my original email (that I was replying to with my last mail) I wrote: > - There are readers for the terminal but I have several feeds with > images and I dont want to open another window of my browser each time. I'm in grea

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-24 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi again, about half a year ago, I complained about the lack of a good, minimal RSS reader: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:20:47AM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > I've been looking for a good RSS feed reader for years now but I still > seem not to be able to find a sane, minimal gr

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

2011-07-28 Thread Johannes Obermueller
On 07/26/2011 08:18 AM, Christoph Pilka wrote: Hi folks, in the last months I've published more than 150 Debian howtos which are online now at http://www.asconix.com/howtos/debian The howtos are covering the following topics so far: * Debian as infrastructure (BIND, Samba ...) * Webservers (A

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-25 Thread Johannes Fichtinger
Hi On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 06:07:58 Victor Munoz wrote: > Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had I just wonder, are there any changes on this? If not, should we submit a bug report in Debian? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Johannes Fichtinger
orning on I see exactly the same problem on my machine. I am running latest SID here. On another machine with SID updated the last time one week ago running unison 2.32.52-3+b1 unison works perfectly. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread Johannes Obermueller
On 07/18/2011 05:27 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I have put my windows machine behind my debian firewall server with just one NIC. At now, the windows machine can ping 192.9.9.3 but cannot resolve valid url (like www.google.com). I have set DNS for it as well. Can you please let me know what

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-16 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 01:21:53PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Our of curiosity, why choose a local app over a central service like > Reader or any of the others out there? > > I used to be a big fan of such local ap

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-15 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 06:11:56PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > I prefer RSSOwl: www.rssowl.org They have Debian repository. Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately, if you want a html renderer, you need libswt-gnome-gtk-3-jni which (since I do not use gnome) pulls in a few hundred megabytes of libgn

Re: Multiple Network Gateways

2011-07-15 Thread Johannes Obermueller
Hi, reyiz# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.10.98.96 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 00 eth0 192.168.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 0.0.0.0 19

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-15 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 06:55:01AM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Try gpodder? Depends only on python and some python libs. Reads > podcasts and rss feeds. Enjoy I really like the minimalism of that piece of software - my ideal rss reader would be exactly like that! Unfortunately I didnt ma

is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-15 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I've been looking for a good RSS feed reader for years now but I still seem not to be able to find a sane, minimal graphical RSS reader. What I'm using now is liferea which is okay but could be more minimal and mainly, is way too slow to enjoy using it (search for the fsync issue). So what i

Re: Finnishing apt/aptitude runs with a script?

2011-03-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-03-31 08:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Jo, 31 mar 11, 08:01:46, Johannes Graumann wrote: >>> >>> I'm running a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and have to >>> update it's database

Finnishing apt/aptitude runs with a script?

2011-03-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I'm running a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and have to update it's database whenever I upgrade the system using apt/aptitude. Does that package management suite provide the functionality to run a script/shell command when it's quitting? I'd prefer such a solution over the c

Re: Squeeze: No sound in YouTube

2011-02-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ystem to use my #1 card instead of #0? What > utilities might I be missing to solve the issue? >From what you write, it seems it is not the 'system' that uses the wrong card, but just flashplugin-nonfree. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?

2011-02-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
pressing need at the moment is to find a way to download podcasts and synchronize mp3s and podcasts with the ipod. Thanks for any suggestions! Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d4d2f5c.1060...@aktendiener.de

Re: KDE4 and other WM: user-specific avoiding of plasma-autostart?

2011-01-18 Thread Johannes Graumann
Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-01-18, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is an u to date Debian testing installation. >> >> I'm running kde4 through awesome (having set the KDEWM environment >> variable). To prevent plasma to start i

KDE4 and other WM: user-specific avoiding of plasma-autostart?

2011-01-17 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, This is an u to date Debian testing installation. I'm running kde4 through awesome (having set the KDEWM environment variable). To prevent plasma to start in this environment, I have renamed both plasma-desktop.desktop and plasma-netbook.desktop, yet I do not like this setup, as it is syst

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ssed a simple but important point. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Furie wrote: > On 09/12/2010 22:19, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >>>> As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies >>>> if you >>>> weren't CC'd on them, you could chan

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
sed. Ehm, no. If you have 'squeeze' in your /etc/apt/sources.list it will stay at 'squeeze' until you change 'squeeze' to something else, no matter if debian moves beyond wheezy or not. In order to upgrade to 'wheezy' you'd have to edit your /etc/apt/sou

Re: jpg2pdf :-)

2010-12-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > works for txt too: > > convert abc.txt abc.pdf not on my lenny system: $ convert abc.txt abc.pdf convert: Improper image header `abc.txt'. convert: missing an image filename `abc.pdf'. - -- Johann

Re: jpg2pdf :-)

2010-12-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
are probably best converted by opening and exporting to pdf manually. Except for graphic formats, there is now universal tool, as far as I know. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, p

Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

2010-12-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 30 nov 10, 15:39:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> 1. Is this setup possible and/or feasible? >> Probably yes, though I have never tried this. This would mean that your >> disks ie. the raid has

Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

2010-12-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
the data in case of loss. Backups can be automated, though ;-) YMMV, of course. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

2010-11-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
merging (mainly usefull for text files) in case you modify your files on both replicas in between two runs of unison. Effectively you will always have one 'offline' backup: either the external disk (when working on the home laptop) or the laptop at home (when working with the externa

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2010-11-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:32:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Last backup was from a year ago, that should give you some hints about > how valuable is data for the user. Daughter is a banker, not computer scientis

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2010-11-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
o strain the fragile device with time consuming windows defrag instead on focussing on getting the data off the dying disk. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galil

[OT] Re: sed with several lines, how?

2010-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ng the newline at the end, then replacing the full expression. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cf12c37.3000...@aktendiener.de

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
own kernel and compile all packages from source, but > that is beyond the scope of this manual. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id2756691 - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single ind

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
Decided to solve my issues with migrating my domain to dyndns.org's custom offering. Joh Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a hosting outfit in Germany that will provide a virtual > server running debian with >=75GB HD space, full root access and back

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:36PM +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking for a hosting outfit in Germany that will provide a virtual >> server running debian with >=75GB HD space, full root access and backup >> man

Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-13 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I'm looking for a hosting outfit in Germany that will provide a virtual server running debian with >=75GB HD space, full root access and backup management. I'm with strato.de right now and happy, BUT they will NOT allow me to set an MX-Record for the server-associated domain directly. I'm

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
bian than about fedora, it might be helpful, if you could just tell us what you would like to do with that package... My guess is that its name would start with linux- (there are not only linux kernels in debian). You could just search and check the descriptions of these packages with aptitude.

Re: Maildrop problem

2010-09-08 Thread Johannes Bunte
I found the problem. maildrop seems to not like it when it is called with the user it becomes to deliver the mail. When I call it from my normal user account, the mail is delivered correctly. And if I change the user=vmail (which owns the mails and maildrop does setuid() to) to user=mail, then

Maildrop problem

2010-09-07 Thread Johannes Bunte
i, it creates/appends the mail to ~/Maildir. Here is some output: # maildrop -V5 -d m...@my-domain.de < mail.eml maildrop: authlib: groupid=2000 maildrop: authlib: userid=2000 maildrop: authlib: logname...@my-domain.de, home=/var/kunden/mail/, mail=johannes/m...@my-domain.de/ maildrop: Changing

Re: [OT] permissions on samba share

2010-09-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:32:09 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> I have some problem with permissions of files saved from a windows XP to >> a samba share. Some files from a proprietary software are saved with >> permissions > > (...) > >

[OT] permissions on samba share

2010-09-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dear all! I have some problem with permissions of files saved from a windows XP to a samba share. Some files from a proprietary software are saved with permissions -rwxrw 1 johannes tandem 4686 2010-09-06 11:24 BCK2000.DAT other data from the same software are saved with permissions -rw

control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Johannes Schauer
hi!let me explain with the example of xserver-xorg. amongst others it has dependencies of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all but both dependencies can also be provided by the packages xserver-xorg-input-7 and xserver-xorg-video-6. as you all know, the difference is that th

debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-09 Thread Johannes Rohr
Dear all, does anyone know, what has happened to debian-multimedia.org? The web page is gone and the repository is empty. Has Christian Marillat given up? Thanks Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
of 200 GB each. Why not just copy the data off the mounted partition. Even more simple and faster. -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

2010-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers >> and it will >> be rather difficult to remove the watermark. > I did not merge the layers b

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

2010-04-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
se a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers and it will be rather difficult to remove the watermark. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564

Re: Plagiarism (was Re: PDF is blocked for ...)

2010-04-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
h your name on it, it will be easy to prove later plagiarism. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

2010-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Yeah, and 'beginners' bank robbers can be mislead by not writing "bank" above the door of banks. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

2010-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Why would an >> honest soul ever allow information to be read, but not printed? >> > To maintain honesty? An honest soul (i.e. me, here) has to send some > data to

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

2010-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Why would an honest soul ever allow information to be read, but not printed? Even with acroread it is possible to print screenshots of the documents. Might be a pain to reconstruct a multipage document, but not impossible. -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not wo

Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?

2010-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Merciadri Luca wrote: > I have no answer to your question, but I am wondering... NB: Apparently, the original post you replied to was to debian-laptop, not debian-user... -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individ

Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?

2010-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Ionreflex wrote: >> [quote] >> Linux lol 2.4.27-3-586tsc #1 Tue Dec 5 22:06:26 UTC 2006 i586 GNU/Linux >> [/quote] > What does `lol' mean here? I guess it's just the hostname of the comput

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
high volume here cannot also subscribe the the low-volume > "announce" lists. And even users tolerating the high volume of d-u might want to have an important announcement stand out (with a different 'to') for easy filtering. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: GUI for IPv6

2010-03-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
network is configured and autoconnects. Don't even bother to authenticate as root. It's damn smart simple. 8-) YMMV, of course, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bb369f5.2070...@aktendiener.de

Re: netstat ?

2010-02-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
as already in preparation > before that date. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2010/msg00043.html So, I would not expect any further security updates. I read this as 'get this on courtesy of the security team, but don't expect more' ;-) - -- Johannes In questions

Re: ext4dev stability

2010-02-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
.backports.org/ if you want a more recent kernel without compiling your own. -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
t;root" > instead of "user". What about your concern am I missing? Well, never mind. It's really cool that anyone can customize to his or her liking. For my purposes, I usually just document the command and the '#', not the whole prompt. As I wrote, YMMV. H

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rtctl -a /dev/whatever' and got a replacement from the shop. HTH, Johannes <===> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read fail

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-file, the color information is lost. IMHO it is therefore usefull to have a different prompt for root. YMMV, of course. Just my humble 2ct. - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
icd. (People on lenny should use backport's wicd). It just hides all the unnecessary complexity of wireless behind a rather intuitive and simple interface. You configure it once for a new environment and it will work henceforth. I have multiple different wireless and wired networks configured o

Re: Recording website audio

2010-01-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
vices but none seems to work. [snip] > Does anyone have some hints ? I use streamripper, ie. avoid the use of the sound card altogether: streamripper -d ~/some/path -D %D%A%T -l 3600 - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their

Re: selected debian questions: raid & performance tips

2010-01-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ter performance by tweaking, but for a proof of concept, I'd think that is overkill. YMMV. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: opening and searching old staroffice mails

2010-01-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
l IMAP server and > manually copy the e-mails from one application to another. IMHO, this does not only apply to _transfering_ between applications but also to *archiving*. You will be able to access your mails with _any_ MUA and from any computer, as long as both computers are on and online 8-)

Re: How to shrink a LVM partition

2010-01-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
he partition in the partition table. Shouldn't vitaminx first resize the underlying file system(s)??? - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wiki

Re: only sftp

2010-01-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ess energy to persue their work on improving all our software. -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSU

Re: chrooted rssh

2010-01-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
at allows users to perform only scp, sftp, cvs, rdist, and/or rsync operations. It can also optionally chroot user logins into a restricted jail. Cheers, - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burm

Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated

2010-01-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
before it is possible to upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5. The release notes have been published at the time of the release, ie. on 15 Feb last year. I can assure you with the help of the release notes most upgrades are rather simple and straightforward. - -- Johannes Three nations have not offic

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -BEGIN PGP

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
otplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.11.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.11.255 More information is found in 'man interfaces' and online [1]. Use .101 instead of .100 at the end of the respective line for the 2nd computer. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference

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