Re: Are these instructions meant to be executed on Debian 9.5.0?

2018-10-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-08 13:47, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:27:17AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Good afternoon from Singapore, I came across this Linux Journal article titled "DIY: Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source", written by Petros Koutoupis. Link:

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

2018-10-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-08 12:06, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-07 20:04, songbird wrote: i used to run on dialup and hated how long it took for some things to download. the package debdelta did help some at that time, but i have no idea if the service is even still there let alone

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

2018-10-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-07 20:04, songbird wrote: i used to run on dialup and hated how long it took for some things to download. the package debdelta did help some at that time, but i have no idea if the service is even still there let alone functional. I installed Gentoo once over dialup It took two w

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-07 20:12, Linux-Fan wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does gparted run from a terminal? It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does gparted run from a terminal? It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show-stopper. I never made a menu entry, it looks a bit complicate

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-04 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I observed the current problem. Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0 Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch. Attempt

Re: Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-10-03 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-02 17:09, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You have the revocation key, don't you? somewhere safe hopefully -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-10-02 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-30 18:39, deloptes wrote: Here is something I do not get - to encrypt I am asked for password - I guess it is for my secret key, no? with the mail GPG plugin I never use but tested between 2 email identities. you can choose to generate a passphrase when you first make key pair to

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

2018-10-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 19:45, Gary Dale wrote: For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the document

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 12:58, mick crane wrote: On 2018-09-26 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient t

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager open - [o

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-25 10:08, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hi! Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else? have a look in /usr/bin ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-22 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-21 18:29, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: Debian is a Universal OS. I wouldn't say whatever you said, doesn't make sense. I wish there were an easier way to know about it when I started using the OS, something to warn me that I need to configure the firewall to suit my needs. Maybe because I c

Re: Installing from live, was Re: booting

2018-09-17 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-17 16:01, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Dear David, if you do not complicate, then tell me why the network is better? https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ If unfamiliar perhaps you want to run live to see what software you want -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: booting

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-16 12:52, mick crane wrote: On 2018-09-16 12:05, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hello dears! Tell me, please, when the system is booted over the network, is it enough to simply Internet via modem? Do I need to install an additional program on a flash drive? Where is the checksum for the

Re: booting

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-16 12:05, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hello dears! Tell me, please, when the system is booted over the network, is it enough to simply Internet via modem? Do I need to install an additional program on a flash drive? Where is the checksum for the image that is in the upper right corner of t

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-16 08:38, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i wrote: > You could even use program fdisk to delete partition entry 2 in the ISO mick crane wrote: never really understanding this. If mount iso as loopback does it show up in fdisk ? No loopback is needed. fdisk will operate directly

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-15 19:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Can't you talk its firmware into BIOS emulating legacy mode ? You could even use program fdisk to delete partition entry 2 in the ISO in order to take away the USB boot lure for EFI. Some firmwares are said to fall back to BIOS emulation automatically.

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-11 18:45, Pétùr wrote: Le 11/09/2018 à 19:34, Martin a écrit : don't get crazy about FS corruption. There is no sign this is the case so far. Date and UID's are odd, but valid within ext4. Remove the immutable flag (chattr -i), you will be able to alter the files as you like. On

Re: Encrypted e-mails?

2018-09-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-08 14:15, Martin Smith wrote: On 07/09/2018 20:54, Dan Purgert wrote: wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 09:53:08AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 03:47:33PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Darn. I was already planning to only send encrypted messages to this list

Re: Bash-Problem with cursor position after calling a function with READLINE_LINE

2018-09-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-07 11:07, Stefan Krusche wrote: Hallo Norbert, Am Donnerstag, 6. September 2018 schrieb Norbert Gruener: Hi all, In my Bash shell (».bashrc«) I have »bind« a command to the »F1« key bind -x '"\eOP":"_bash_man"'# F1 man The script »_bash_man« looks like (it is simplifie

Re: changing the desktop environment

2018-09-06 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-06 12:14, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Thursday, 6 Sep 2018 at 11:53, mick crane wrote: How do I change desktop environment ? If you are using lightdm, there should be a pull down menu in the login screen where you can choose a different window manager. Ah, Ok. I see it now. cheers

changing the desktop environment

2018-09-06 Thread mick crane
hello, It is a long time since I fiddled with the display. is buster. there are the names display manager which is lightdm desktop environment which is mate and window manager which I think is part of mate If I want to change desktop environment do I need a window manager ? I'm not seeing anythin

Re: Strange Network Problem

2018-09-02 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-02 19:39, David Christensen wrote: On 09/02/2018 05:48 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-09-02 13:16, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The Firewall Passthrough is set to Allocation Mode set to 'Passthrough with the Passthrough Mode set to 'DHCPS-dynamic '. It's my int

Re: Strange Network Problem

2018-09-02 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-02 13:16, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The Firewall Passthrough is set to Allocation Mode set to 'Passthrough with the Passthrough Mode set to 'DHCPS-dynamic '. It's my intention to change the Allocation Mode to 'Off', as soon as I talk to AT&T Tech Support to make sure that doesn't mess

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-09-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-29 17:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:01:44AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: [...] > Massive proprietary email providers are just such points of failure. True. Explain that to your neighbor and try to convince him that it's a good reason for him to quit using Gm

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-09-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-29 10:54, Gene Heskett wrote: Thats all about 10x easier than launching a ^@& browser, logging into the mail server and reading the crap presented, in the order of arrivasl there. But because 99% of my ISP's users use IMAP, my ISP has disabled fetchmails ability to delete a success

Re: Strange Network Problem

2018-09-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-31 20:50, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my Linux platform. I have noticed low internet traffic when I have not been doing anything outside of my LAN. This has made me a tad suspicious. Now: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ifconfig enp2s0: flags=4163 mtu 1500

Re: Odd problem with MATE Search Tool

2018-08-31 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-31 13:29, Richard Owlett wrote: I just installed SciTE text editor from the repository. The default font size was too small so I went looking for the appropriate properties file. I entered "scite" in the "Name contains:" box and chose "Filesystem" in the "Look in folder:" box. Got no

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-29 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-29 12:09, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:05:21 +0100 mick crane wrote: Hello mick, I'm a bit fed up with that stupid cookie notification I have to close on every website anyway. If you use Firefox, install "I don't care about cookies", which disa

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-29 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-29 10:00, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Aug 2018 at 09:49, mick crane wrote: But surely email will stop working after Brexit ? Maybe, maybe not, but you can get that UK residents will lose any data protection they may currently have. I'm a bit fed up with that s

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-29 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-29 09:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Francesco Porro wrote: Ciao, As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: which is the best free email service around to receive mailing lists? As many others have pointed out

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-29 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-28 17:12, Francesco Porro wrote: Ciao, As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: which is the best free email service around to receive mailing lists? <> I'm not knowledge enough to have my own email server advertising its presence or host my own dom

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

2018-08-27 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-27 10:48, Zenaan Harkness wrote: So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it to sleep with: sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda sorry cannot help but I have similar disk and this seems like a good idea.

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-24 19:06, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:45:00PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Friday, 24 Aug 2018 at 20:15, Reco wrote: > -INT_MAX. I win. -1 (wraps around so = INT_MAX) and I win! Damn. Should've seen this. Will use long int next time. Reco mailing list are great un

Re: Repository Problem

2018-08-18 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-19 02:37, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 8/18/18, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/18/2018 01:54 PM, Brian wrote: What does 'ip a' give you? And 'ping -cwww.debian.org? Thanksfot the reply. root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ip a 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default q

Re: Debian 9 network management

2018-08-14 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-14 09:08, Remigio wrote: Hi there, recently I installed Debian 9 Stretch and I noticed that the network configuration management method was substantially changed. Infact the file /etc/network/interfaces is almost empty despite I've inserted the network parameters during the installatio

Re: Kernel 4.9.0-7-686 Installed RAM vs. uabale RAM

2018-08-12 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-12 19:17, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 12/08/2018 à 19:53, deloptes a écrit : Dale Forsyth wrote: Hello, I have a system with Kernel 4.9.0-7-686, installed RAM are 3x 1GB but free -m only show 2GB. Please pay attention when reading, replying and quoting. "Dale Forsyth" did not write

Re: manuals

2018-08-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-10 20:31, Brian wrote: On Fri 10 Aug 2018 at 20:16:33 +0100, mick crane wrote: Is it OK if I wget the webpages from https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ ? to look at locally or are there handy archives I could download ? We expect you have explored the links on that page and

manuals

2018-08-10 Thread mick crane
Is it OK if I wget the webpages from https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ ? to look at locally or are there handy archives I could download ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

question about the kernel

2018-08-09 Thread mick crane
Am I right in thinking that the kernel is a single codebase agreed between all the kernel developers at any particular date and that Linux distributions can take bits out from that for their release but shouldn't add bespoke stuff that isn't agreed by everybody else ? just wondering how that w

Re: need help with sftp

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-08 02:54, Fred wrote: On 08/07/2018 12:30 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:15:34PM -0700, Fred wrote: I need to ftp some files from a new Sid installation to either of two other computers on the network. Neither is configured for a "secure" version of ftp and th

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
I think as a general philosophy it used to be this is your computer, as user we make sure it works and you can do some things. You can also be root but if you break it you get to keep the bits. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-07 10:58, Martin Drescher wrote: Hi members, I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed at some points in this list. I have a strong opinion about su, which is, avoid it whenever it is possible and use 'sudo' instead. This is the case in close to a 100% in al

Re: question about sound

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-07 07:30, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I'm not very good at sound. Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then there will become some sound event that is very loud. It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is i

Re: Please help with error message

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-07 12:47, mick crane wrote: On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: $ echo $PATH /home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su Password: You are using testing

Re: Please help with error message

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: $ echo $PATH /home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su Password: You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you? The su binary was replac

Re: Please help with error message

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: $ echo $PATH /home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su Password: You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you? The su binary was replac

Re: question about sound

2018-08-06 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-06 21:39, T BkRl wrote: It sounds like a limiter is what you need? Ah, OK seems like VLC might do it in the menu items tools - FROM: mick crane SENT: Monday, August 6, 2018 3:24 PM TO: Debian Users SUBJECT: question about sound hello, sorry is this is

question about sound

2018-08-06 Thread mick crane
hello, sorry is this is not on-topic I'm not very good at sound. Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then there will become some sound event that is very loud. It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is it. I'm not exactly sure what controls

Re: Unwanted emails

2018-07-27 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-27 14:09, Maria Rosatto wrote: I have been unsubscribing for months now with you assholes from Spokane and you claim my address is not in your system yet now you come out of Austin. Tx. Why don’t you assholes get a real job and stop trying to scam others Sent from my iPhone I love e

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-25 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-25 14:05, Dave wrote: On 07/22/2018 01:55 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 17:52, john doe wrote: Also what is the output of: $ systemctl status NetworkManager-wait-online what would be handy is a way to get a verbose output to the apache2 log on boot. mick ah - i found

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-23 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-23 12:13, john doe wrote: For testing you should read the advice from: https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/howto/Apache_HowToConfigure.html#zz-1. Basically, use the listen directive with only a port above 1024: listen 8000 from that link can assume then that there is

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-22 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-22 23:30, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 23:14, Dave wrote: On 7/22/18 1:04 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 7/22/18, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 16:13, Dave wrote: i can't imagine why Deb, is not automatically configuring apache2 to auto start, a well know server f

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-22 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-22 23:14, Dave wrote: On 7/22/18 1:04 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 7/22/18, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 16:13, Dave wrote: i can't imagine why Deb, is not automatically configuring apache2 to auto start, a well know server for 10+ years and yet it seems in my case i

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-22 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-22 17:52, john doe wrote: Also what is the output of: $ systemctl status NetworkManager-wait-online what would be handy is a way to get a verbose output to the apache2 log on boot. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-22 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-22 16:13, Dave wrote: i can't imagine why Deb, is not automatically configuring apache2 to auto start, a well know server for 10+ years and yet it seems in my case it was not configured properly. Please if anyone out there may have the answer, let us know. as it seems that the netw

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-21 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-21 14:46, Dave wrote: On 07/21/2018 08:42 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 13:00, john doe wrote: On 7/21/2018 11:21 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:56, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so it is

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-21 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-21 13:00, john doe wrote: On 7/21/2018 11:21 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:56, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so it is probably something else. in /lib/systemd/system/apache2.target do you have

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-21 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-21 09:56, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so it is probably something else. in /lib/systemd/system/apache2.target do you have the "after" bit   1 [Unit]   2 Description=The Apache H

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-21 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so it is probably something else. in /lib/systemd/system/apache2.target do you have the "after" bit   1 [Unit]   2 Description=The Apache HTTP Server   3 After=network.target remote-fs.tar

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-20 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-21 05:40, メット wrote: On 2018年7月21日 12:53:32 JST, Dave wrote: On 07/19/2018 06:57 PM, Dave wrote: On 7/19/18 4:27 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-07-19, Dave wrote: after boot apache is not running, if i run systemctl status apache2, i get the address bind error shown above at the com

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-18 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-19 01:57, Dave wrote: On 07/18/2018 04:41 PM, Dave wrote: On 07/18/2018 10:12 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:36:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: Sounds like the service may be disabled for some reason. What is the output of: systemctl status apache2 If you

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-12 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-12 16:17, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently faili

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-10 13:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:16:09PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I'd like to learn some awk having found it handy once. apt says mawk is installed in /usr/bin I have lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Apr 2 22:29 awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk -r

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 12:18, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:39:07AM +0200, john doe wrote: The issue here is that we don't know what the OP wants A situation sadly familiar when dealing with this particular poster's threads. Also in the general case, if you ever find yourself pa

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

2018-07-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 17:41, John Darrah wrote: On 7/8/2018 7:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Until this thread I didn't have concept of "stream editor", much less the existence of "sed". I had heard of "AWK", but had an image of it being a regex parser. Awk is easy to learn because it is a minimal la

Re: PGP Email Client

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 18:18, HP Garcia wrote: Can anyone recommend an email client that can handle PGP? I'm currently using Claws-Mail 3.14.1 Thanks in advance roundcube with enigma plugin dunno if it is working mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31 0x4BFEBB31.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.a

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently&#x

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when trying to install mediawiki from source,

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 13:47, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a separate /home directory. Short answer -- no. I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable. The installer defaults {I assume for cause} t

Re: Outgoing email with exim, was Re: Strange LAN IP Address.

2018-07-04 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-04 04:40, Mike McClain wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:42:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Tue 03 Jul 2018 at 08:52:22 (-0700), Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 03:17:27PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > Should anyone reading this know hjow to get exim4 to co

Re: gathering trace rute output to a file?

2018-07-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-01 19:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 07:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-01 06:00, Karen Lewellen wrote: >Well it seems it works like this. >traceroute domain-to-be-traced.com > trace-results.txt >or something like that. >process wor

Re: gathering trace rute output to a file?

2018-07-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-01 06:00, Karen Lewellen wrote: Well it seems it works like this. traceroute domain-to-be-traced.com > trace-results.txt or something like that. process worked for me just now. Thanks as usual, Karen I'm asking 'cause I don't really know. What's the difference between a pipe "|" an

Re: Webmail?

2018-06-30 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-30 08:42, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 08:25:41 +0100 mick crane wrote: On 2018-06-29 21:04, Joe wrote: > Anyone know of a webmail that works on stretch? > > I've just spent half an afternoon trying first roundcube then > prayer. been using dovecot, roundcube,

Re: Webmail?

2018-06-30 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-30 08:42, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 08:25:41 +0100 mick crane wrote: On 2018-06-29 21:04, Joe wrote: > Anyone know of a webmail that works on stretch? > > I've just spent half an afternoon trying first roundcube then > prayer. been using dovecot, roundcube,

Re: Webmail?

2018-06-30 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-29 21:04, Joe wrote: Anyone know of a webmail that works on stretch? I've just spent half an afternoon trying first roundcube then prayer. been using dovecot, roundcube, getmail for some time just for home network. getting sieve to work was a chore for me but I'm not very good at t

Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

2018-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended. The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other print jobs not at all. Again, print

Re: Failure of cups printing.

2018-06-21 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-21 00:53, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi, Since upgrading from Debian 8 to 9, CUPS printing has failed with this log message. "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2" not available: No such file or directory Whereas, peter@computer:~$ ls -ld /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.

Re: self identifying computer

2018-06-05 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-05 07:57, john doe wrote: On 6/5/2018 12:56 AM, mick crane wrote: I changed the domain name for couple of home computers from "local" to "home" one of them is win 10 PC. I have ipfire box doing hopefully firewall and DNS and so while I changed domain I let all

self identifying computer

2018-06-04 Thread mick crane
I changed the domain name for couple of home computers from "local" to "home" one of them is win 10 PC. I have ipfire box doing hopefully firewall and DNS and so while I changed domain I let all get address from its DHCP and gave them fixed leases. I have 2 debian PCs I try to find IP address

Re: running arecord via ssh

2018-05-17 Thread mick crane
On 2018-05-16 18:10, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I try to record some old vinyls with arecord, the output being sent to my desktop via a radio transmitter/receiver couple. On the desktop xterm window, its works perfectly, but if I run arecord via a ssh connection: 1/ from an other computer:

Re: Email tutorial?

2018-04-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-04-24 20:56, J.W. Foster wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 4.7.1 : Relay access denied. if using external SMTP server you sometimes have to register who is allowed to send mail with them. I had problem not been able to send mail when changed domai

getting too old for this

2018-04-17 Thread mick crane
hello, apt update seems to have stopped working # # apt update Err:1 http://debian.heanet.ie/debian buster InRelease Could not connect to debian.heanet.ie:80 (193.1.193.65). - connect (111: Connection refused) Cannot initiate the connection to debian.heanet.ie:80 (2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c141

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2018-04-10 04:48, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 10/04/18 14:01, mick crane wrote: hello, Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? mick Mostly. I once had a disk that

transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread mick crane
hello, Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread mick crane
On 2018-03-29 19:34, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-29, mick crane wrote: following recent about hostname it seems I've been under misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to ".home" . It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's eve

changing local domain name

2018-03-29 Thread mick crane
following recent about hostname it seems I've been under misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to ".home" . It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigging where. apache roundcube postfix now my ISP SMTP server is moaning. think I got them all except cu

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-03-24 03:31, Chris Anderson wrote: Hello I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen different flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system for slackware but I managed to get i

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-21 Thread mick crane
On 2018-02-23 12:54, Dan Purgert wrote: David Wright wrote: On Mon 19 Feb 2018 at 18:39:02 (+), Brian wrote: [...] alum is the canonical_hostname. It is used by exim to HELO with. Many mail servers will not accept mail directly from you because it is not a FQDN. This is why I wrote "bro

Re: set default print options on printer

2018-03-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-03-08 02:35, Gary Dale wrote: I have a Samsung C410 printer attached to a Stretch server via USB and also available via wifi. There doesn't seem to be a default print setting for paper size but the cups listing for the printer shows:    Defaults:job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x

sshd fails to start on boot

2018-02-25 Thread mick crane
hello, on boot sshd seems to be starting before the network is ready so fails. How/where do I tell it to start after network is up ? debian testing (buster) cheers mick -- Key ID 4BFEBB31

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-02-20 Thread mick crane
On 2018-02-21 00:33, Dan Purgert wrote: mick crane wrote: On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: ,snipped> Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it makes more sense to leave domain name unset, or to provide a value (picked carefully, perhaps ending ".t

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-02-20 Thread mick crane
On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: ,snipped> Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it makes more sense to leave domain name unset, or to provide a value (picked carefully, perhaps ending ".test" or ".invalid"). In some ways I like the idea of providing a pla

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