fooling a non-"stdin redirection accepting" app (colortail)??

colortail is not a full replacement for tail - namely, it precludes pipe/|/stdin systemd-journalctl -f gives a non colorized output. Here's my failed attempt to fool colortail into accepting a bash file descriptor in order to pipe journal through colortail: Refer: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/htm

Re: change hostname without rebooting

Final step: $ sudo ./systemd-hostnamed Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname! # indefinite pause/hang at this point... # I did CTRL-C to exit after about 2min. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: change hostname without rebooting

# Me, wonders why systemd-hostnamed does not run, google says it should: $ echo $PATH /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin:/home/justa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games $ dpkg -L systemd|grep hostnamed /lib/systemd/system/systemd-hostnamed.service /lib/systemd/sys

change hostname without rebooting

So I change hostname from "localhost" to "x". I run /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start I'm still logged in. I have many firefox tabs open. Actually, I changed the hostname a day ago. Now, when I try to start an xterm, it takes about 9s. I run xterm from an existing xterm, to see what might be happeni

Re: Guide / Tools

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 03:13:31AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 14:48 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:35 -0500, Doug wrote: > > > > Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be s

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Re: Guide / Tools

On 11/24/12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 14:48 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:35 -0500, Doug wrote: >> > > Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be specific to certain >> > > distr

Re: screensaver recommendation

On Saturday 24,November,2012 06:32 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > You just type in your password. > You won't get a prompt, like in xscreensaver. > For all practical purposes, to the uninitiated, it looks like your > machine or monitor is off. Tricky. Wow ... indeed very Tricky. Thanks. I will use the

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Ralf Mardorf wrote: It's wise not to run a complete session as root. It's better to e.g. use a su frontend, e.g. kind of depends on what you're doing - if you're doing software installs and admin on a server (most of what I do), one spends a lot of time in root sessions -- In theory, there

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 02:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 02:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:28 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > >> As in, you were not able to log in as root, even though > > > >> you'd enabled ro

Re: Guide / Tools

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 14:48 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:35 -0500, Doug wrote: > > > Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be specific to certain > > > distros > > > > Some distros use aliases fo

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 02:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:28 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > >> As in, you were not able to log in as root, even though > > >> you'd enabled root and provided a root password during > > >> installation? That's

Re: Guide / Tools

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:35 -0500, Doug wrote: > > Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be specific to certain > > distros > > Some distros use aliases for commands, e.g. something like ls -a has an > alias, this IMO should

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:28 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> As in, you were not able to log in as root, even though > >> you'd enabled root and provided a root password during > >> installation? That's also kind of weird. What about logging > >> in as a normal user, a

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Richard Owlett wrote: As in, you were not able to log in as root, even though you'd enabled root and provided a root password during installation? That's also kind of weird. What about logging in as a normal user, and then opening a terminal window and typing "su" ? That was *NOT* my goal .

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Miles Fidelman wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: you might try using expert mode when installing, and then answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root login, That did not work. That's rather odd. The installer al

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Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 11:02 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/24/12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 23 nov 12, 07:25:29, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> * On 2012 23 Nov 05:43 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> > > >> > Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible. > >> > >> Why? > > > > The free drive

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Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Ralf Mardorf wrote: spinymouse@q:~$ sudo -i [sudo] password for spinymouse: root@q:~# ahh... that's a good one, I've always used: sudo su which does the same thing Miles -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: you might try using expert mode when installing, and then answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root login, That did not work. That's rather odd. The installer always asks me to set up

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 17:23 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Nate writes: > > Some things seem to fail with 'sudo'. > > Sudo applies only to the single command that follows it. Thus if you > type 'sudo' followed by a pipeline, for example, you may not get the > result you expect. http://ubuntuforu

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 17:04 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 23 Nov 16:18 -0600, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > > > > Le 23.11.2012 22:19, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > > >Richard Owlett wrote: > > >>Miles Fidelman wrote: > > >>> > > >>>you might try using expert mode when install

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

On 11/24/12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 23 nov 12, 07:25:29, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> * On 2012 23 Nov 05:43 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > >> > Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible. >> >> Why? > > The free driver seems to be good, but low performance. I've had issues > with the non-free

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Miles Fidelman wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: you might try using expert mode when installing, and then answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root login, That did not work. That's rather odd. The installer always asks me to set up a root account, before

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Nate writes: > Some things seem to fail with 'sudo'. Sudo applies only to the single command that follows it. Thus if you type 'sudo' followed by a pipeline, for example, you may not get the result you expect. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no dat

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no dat

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

* On 2012 23 Nov 16:18 -0600, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 23.11.2012 22:19, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > >Richard Owlett wrote: > >>Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>> > >>>you might try using expert mode when installing, and then > >>>answering yes when the installer asks about enabling

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 17:13 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Decent desktop environments allow you to use the window manager of > > your choice. > > Decency seems to be a dying breed, sadly ;-) It started a long time ago with some insane hard dependencies and for many distros it has become much m

Re: screensaver recommendation

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:18:17PM +0800, lina wrote: > > On 23 Nov, 2012, at 12:02, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:58:52PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I wish to have a screensaver. > >>> > >>

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:43 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > MPR wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett > > wrote: > >> Darac Marjal wrote: > >>> > >>> Log in as root? > >> > >> Effectively that's what I want. > >> BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Le 23.11.2012 22:19, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: you might try using expert mode when installing, and then answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root login, That did not work. That's rather odd. The installer always asks me to set

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

> Decent desktop environments allow you to use the window manager of > your choice. Decency seems to be a dying breed, sadly ;-) Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: List of current apt sources?

you could apt-get netselect-apt and then run it. Not only does that package get you the current list, it also shows you which server for your local conditions is now running the fastest for you whether you're signed up to it or not. -

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

>> Le 22.11.2012 18:00, Richard Owlett a écrit : >> >I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner >> >that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. >> >It has intrinsically the best security in place >> > Only _*I*_ have physical access to the machine. >>

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Richard Owlett wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: you might try using expert mode when installing, and then answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root login, That did not work. That's rather odd. The installer always asks me to set up a root account, before setting up an account

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Miles Fidelman wrote: MPR wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: Log in as root? Effectively that's what I want. BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login t

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

MPR wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: Log in as root? Effectively that's what I want. BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login to 0 (which effective

Re: Guide / Tools

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 15:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 21 nov 12, 09:25:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > > > top > > > > > > In this context > > > > > > killall -9 -w > > > > > > is very helpful. > > > > Just stumbled ac

Re: List of current apt sources?

The Wanderer: > > Is there any way to get a list of what sources are *currently* active, i.e., > the > ones which were in sources.list during the *most recent* successful 'apt-get > update'? apt-cache policy, without any further arguments. J. -- Americans have a better life. [Agree] [Disagre

Re: Guide / Tools

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 15:20 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 21 nov 12, 23:06:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I noticed that visudo isn't vi, but nano on my current Ubuntu. Nano > > seems to be more comfortable than vi. > > Set $VISUAL or $EDITOR as needed. Or change your /usr/bin/editor >

Re: Guide / Tools

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 15:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 21 nov 12, 09:25:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > top > > > > In this context > > > > killall -9 -w > > > > is very helpful. > > Just stumbled across: > > http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter > > I prefer 'ki

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 12:10 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > A little CLI typing will fix right up that lack of a GUI root login. > Sometimes it's necessary. A suggestion, though: when you do manage to get > root in a GUI, make the background a bright, solid red to remind yourself of > where you ar

Re: Guide / Tools

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:35 -0500, Doug wrote: > Altho some of the Linux commands that seem to be specific to certain > distros Some distros use aliases for commands, e.g. something like ls -a has an alias, this IMO should be avoided. For at least one distro it was possible to type "unmount" inst

Re: screensaver recommendation

On 11/23/2012 10:52 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I wish to have a screensaver. Thanks ahead for recommendation. Below are some background info.: lightdm

Re: screensaver recommendation

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wish to have a screensaver. >> >> Thanks ahead for recommendation. >> >> >> Below are some background info.: >> >> lightdm insta

Re: List of current apt sources?

Hello Wanderer, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there any way to get a list of what sources are *currently* active, i.e., > the > ones which were in sources.list during the *most recent* successful 'apt-get > update'? $ ls -1 /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages will give you a list of the currently loade

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RE: commonly used services/processes

Team, I would like to know the list of services/processes commonly used in Debian. I am thinking to create a solution to monitor key processes/services on Debian os. Thanks in advance for your inputs. Regards Raghavendra

List of current apt sources?

Looking in /etc/apt/sources.list tells you what sources will be active after the next 'apt-get update' (assuming all of them are valid). Is there any way to get a list of what sources are *currently* active, i.e., the ones which were in sources.list during the *most recent* successful 'apt-get up

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Re: Question about deb versioning

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > It's most probably a packaging mistake in our custom > > package, but I just can't figure why. > > Try "aptitude -s install acesso" (you don't have to be root for that), > and look what solutions, if any, aptitude proposes. There is a pro

Re: vim

* On 2012 23 Nov 06:14 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 16 nov 12, 16:33:17, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2012 16 Nov 14:02 -0600, james gray wrote: > > > i am using vim to add the one and only name in a usr account to the groups > > > file for printing. > > > > I would use, as super user: >

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

On Vi, 23 nov 12, 07:25:29, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 23 Nov 05:43 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible. > > Why? The free driver seems to be good, but low performance. I've had issues with the non-free driver. If you don't care about performance

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible. > I think you spelled nVidia wrong. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/

Re: Guide / Tools

On Ma, 20 nov 12, 18:59:49, Crypticmofo wrote: > > From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a > list of the most common commands that you use According to 'popularity-contest | head -100' I'm using these a lot: sudo screen yeahconsole rxvt-unicode mutt Note: my /usr is m

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

* On 2012 23 Nov 05:43 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 12 nov 12, 12:21:30, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My backup desktop died and I am thinking of replacing it with a laptop. > > I am not a gamer but a bit more than a routine user, i.e. occasionally > > use big programs and am interested in

Re: Guide / Tools

On Mi, 21 nov 12, 23:06:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I noticed that visudo isn't vi, but nano on my current Ubuntu. Nano > seems to be more comfortable than vi. Set $VISUAL or $EDITOR as needed. Or change your /usr/bin/editor alternative. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debia

Re: Guide / Tools

On Mi, 21 nov 12, 15:54:03, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > > When I need calculations, I want a tool which can understand simple > things. If I need complex ones, I will take my vim and do some > programming. qalc, can do conversions as well. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian

Re: Guide / Tools

On Mi, 21 nov 12, 09:25:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > top > > In this context > > killall -9 -w > > is very helpful. Just stumbled across: http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter I prefer 'killall ' (which sends 15 by default) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions amon

Re: Sources.list Question

On Mi, 21 nov 12, 13:22:14, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:18:48AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: > > > > > Hello List, > > > > > > It is considered (well, a

Re: Sources.list Question

On Mi, 21 nov 12, 09:18:48, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on > > mailing lists. > > According

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

On Mi, 21 nov 12, 14:40:58, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Obviously, Debian is working so well, for everybody, that we need > something to keep the list from becoming dead air :-) It happens during the freeze. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://li

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

On Ma, 20 nov 12, 13:02:03, Mark Allums wrote: > > I guess I can't call it a Wheezy system, anymore. Qt, the libs in > ia32-libs (and dependencies) and the build toolchain are now at Sid > versions. Now I will need to watch updates carefully if I want to > restore it to a pure Testing state.

Re: systemd intermittent startup

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Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On 23 Nov, 2012, at 20:13, Richard Owlett wrote: > lina wrote: >> On Friday 23,November,2012 01:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner >>> that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. >>> It has intrinsically the be

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 23.11.2012 02:06, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Remove gdm, and put in the file "/root/.bash_profile" following lines: === if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then startx fi === To have a au

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

lina wrote: On Friday 23,November,2012 01:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. It has intrinsically the best security in place Only _*I*_ have physical access to the ma

Re: vim

On Vi, 16 nov 12, 16:33:17, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 16 Nov 14:02 -0600, james gray wrote: > > i am using vim to add the one and only name in a usr account to the groups > > file for printing. > > I would use, as super user: > > # usermod -Ga lp On Debian the 'adduser' tool should be us

Re: [CPUFREQ] Can't modify freq scale

On Friday 23,November,2012 07:40 PM, Clément Savalle wrote: > Le vendredi 23 novembre 2012 12:20:03 UTC+1, Darac Marjal a écrit : > >> OK. This says that the "performance" governor may choose to set the >> >> frequency between 800 and 800 MHz. Have a look in >> >> /etc/default/cpufrequtils and see

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

On Mi, 14 nov 12, 10:48:10, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > My opinion is that Debian offer a very nice of doing things for > releases: > _ one stable release, like the one you can find in proprietary > software world, with a consequence of stability, ease of use, and > you know that ther

Re: [CPUFREQ] Can't modify freq scale

Le vendredi 23 novembre 2012 12:20:03 UTC+1, Darac Marjal a écrit : > OK. This says that the "performance" governor may choose to set the > > frequency between 800 and 800 MHz. Have a look in > > /etc/default/cpufrequtils and see if that has MAX_SPEED set (if so, > > either remove the line or s

Re: Knowledge based solution package?

On Ma, 13 nov 12, 10:57:51, Nelson Green wrote: > > Good morning, > > Many years ago I worked as a support engineer for a large IT firm. We had a > proprietary knowledge based system for maintaining a database of problems and > solutions. It was a fairly simple system that allowed one to categori

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

On Lu, 12 nov 12, 12:21:30, Thomas H. George wrote: > My backup desktop died and I am thinking of replacing it with a laptop. > I am not a gamer but a bit more than a routine user, i.e. occasionally > use big programs and am interested in experimenting with Blender. I > want to stick with Debian a

Re: Mounting of USB flash drives - observed strangeness

On Lu, 12 nov 12, 09:59:47, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've a 64 GB USB stick formatted as FAT32 as it will be occasionally > used on a Windows machine. > > Right now I'm trying to use it on two Debian 6.0.5 machines created > from the same DVD. One is physically a desktop machine whose install > was

Re: squeeze - apt-cache policy don't report additional info

On Lu, 12 nov 12, 10:31:52, Nicolas T wrote: > > My Release files on mirrors are correct : > It reports for exemples headers like this : > > Origin: Debian > Label: Debian > Suite: stable-updates > Codename: squeeze-updates > Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:17:11 UTC > Valid-Until: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:

Re: encfs over sshfs suffering with permission problem

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:02:28 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > "J. B" writes: > > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:28:21 +0530 > > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > > > >> > >> 1. Ensure both encfs and sshfs are running as you, not root or any other > >> user. > >> > > > > Confirmed > > > >> 2. Check for I/O

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

On Du, 11 nov 12, 18:49:43, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I've found instructions about netbooting the Debian installer, but the > instructions seem to be for a system that is diskless but not headless. > I haven't found anything indicating the installer can be run via ssh. It can. However, you need a p

Re: version question 32bit vs 64bit

On Du, 11 nov 12, 15:29:34, Jim Pazarena wrote: > does the following output from "uname -a" identify if this server > has been loaded with 32 bit or 64 bit Debian? > > Linux netmon 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:27:25 UTC 2012 > i686 GNU/Linux Since that kernel is available only on i386

Re: Directory ownership [SOLVED]

On Du, 11 nov 12, 17:15:38, Gean Ceretta wrote: > > my /etc/fstab now is: > * /dev/sda3 /home auto defaults,umask=007,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0* Unless you want to run stuff from your home[1] I would tighten this to: fmask=117,dmask=007 [1] though one can still use 'sh program' Kind regards, And

Re: [CPUFREQ] Can't modify freq scale

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:48:04AM -0800, Clément Savalle wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have trouble with the frequence of my CPU. It's seemed to be lock on 800M= > Hz. Idle or stressing, the freq is always 800MHz. > I'm trying to set it by `# cpufreq-set -u 1.6GHz` but that command doesn't = > retu

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

On Lu, 12 nov 12, 16:24:04, David Guntner wrote: > > Ok, try this just for grins. Edit your /etc/mtab file, and add the > following line: > > /dev/ad6s1 /mnt/ad6s1 ext2fs ro 0 0 Just for the archives: this might be dangerous (if at all possible) on recent Debian GNU/Linux: $ ls -l /etc/mtab l

Re: screensaver recommendation

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to have a screensaver. > > Thanks ahead for recommendation. > > > Below are some background info.: > > lightdm install > lightdm-gtk-greeter install >

[CPUFREQ] Can't modify freq scale

Hi everyone, I have trouble with the frequence of my CPU. It's seemed to be lock on 800M= Hz. Idle or stressing, the freq is always 800MHz. I'm trying to set it by `# cpufreq-set -u 1.6GHz` but that command doesn't = return an error but doesn't change anything. I tried it in all governors avaible

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Friday 23,November,2012 01:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner > that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. > It has intrinsically the best security in place > Only _*I*_ have physical access to the machine. >

Re: encfs over sshfs suffering with permission problem

"J. B" writes: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:28:21 +0530 > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > >> >> 1. Ensure both encfs and sshfs are running as you, not root or any other >> user. >> > > Confirmed > >> 2. Check for I/O errors both on the local box and the remote box (run >> dmesg and look for suspicious l

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Display managers, and particularly window managers and desktop environments are often confounded. A window manager is a component of a desktop environment. Decent desktop environments allow you to use the window manager of your choice. True, but

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Le 23.11.2012 02:06, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Remove gdm, and put in the file "/root/.bash_profile" following lines: === if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then startx fi === To have a auto-login, you can also modify "/etc/in