Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-05 Thread Alan Chandler
, relaying only 127.0.0.1 and my home ip addresses, Anyone any idea what is happening - and how I can change the configuration of exim to tell me when mail, like the above, is being refused. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Chandler
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Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Chandler
server normally - I normally use my ISPs normal mail server. This was just so it was already pre-configured IF I SHOULD NEED IT. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/10/12 17:00, Alan Chandler wrote: On 10/10/12 09:49, Chris Davies wrote: 4. Failure (bounce) message to root@avalon is being lost - and this is the issue at stake Absolutely correct. I think I have discovered - at least part of the problem - maybe the whole thing. The inaddr.arpa

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-09 Thread Alan Chandler
site, because it acts as a catchall for any other domains that happen to be pointed at the same IP address. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Alan Chandler
presume that some of the devices will not be the same. Does Windows manage with these changes, or would I be better creating an environment from scratch (including re-installing all my key applications) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/06/12 21:19, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: ... One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up the files on the disk in that virtual machine. The best I can do is back up the entire

Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
going via pulse-audio, or that pulse audio has not found a real device and is using a dummy one. NOTE: the same upgrade seemed to screw up udevd - I get an error message about failing to queue file, and I have to unplug and replug my usb mouse and keyboard to make them work. -- Alan

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 15/06/12 07:28, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard

Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/06/12 06:36, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:23 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log Wow, fortunately my X logs for Debian are limited

Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/06/12 12:53, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:23:44 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log I experienced something similar in my Wheezy system

Using the find command

2012-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
directory which udev is using. However I can't find any real documentation on find which explains why it outputs that error message. Can any gurus out there explain -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using the find command

2012-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
remains, but the files in it do not. The quotes were a red herring - its needed to make all options pass as a single parameter to the routine clean, I am just experimenting with that now. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Kdevelop-php and debugging

2012-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
-php-debugger.html Lots of other posts refer to this. But for a starters - its suggesting I need various kdevelop plugings, but the links he gives don't work, and if you try and look in the same place for later releases of kdevelop, the specific plugins are not there. -- Alan Chandler http

how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-04 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but I then need to tell grub to set up this up as the root for the boot. How do I do this? -- Alan Chandler http

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but I

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 08:15, Alan Chandler wrote: On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 18:56, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/07/12 01:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Alan Chandlera...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Chandler
frustrated with the fact that there was only a suspend and not a power off - but now the shell extensions are available to add that facility back I don't have any issues at all. I don't miss the taskbar or the minimize button, and so far I haven't missed the menu either. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On 08/07/12 04:13, cletusjenkins wrote: I know I go against most people when I say that now I've gotten used to Gnome3 I really like it and would not want to go back. It may be that I run a two screen set-up, but for me the really nice features are -- Alan Chandler

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4ffea8fc.9040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
0.10.1-2 I can see that experimental has that version, but its does not seem to be able to get into sid. I am not sure why Is there a freeze or something on. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/11/12 23:37, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 30.11.2012 18:43, Alan Chandler a écrit : I am trying to install virt-manager on sid, but I am getting a dependancy blockage which I don't understand virt-manager ultimately depends on libvirt0 - which seems to have version (0.9.12-5

Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (severity 9) I have no idea whats wrong, and I find it quite difficult to find some decent instructions of how to set up a dblib connection. Can anyone help me investigate and solve this problem -- Alan Chandler http

Re: Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/12/12 08:06, Alan Chandler wrote: Failed with message: SQLSTATE[HY000] Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (severity 9) I managed to fix this myself. There were two problems 1) Password was one character wrong. 2) The connection string should

node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
/node_modules Can someone give me some definitive instructions of getting buster.js to run in Debian -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/12/12 02:34, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The name conflict of the much too generic node became one of those irreconcilable differences. After a very long discussion it was referred to the technical committee

Re: lightweight dns server

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Chandler
server if you need that too. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/512e29f7.9070...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Menu editing on Gnome 3

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Chandler
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Re: Menu editing on Gnome 3

2011-11-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 01/11/11 10:37, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:50:21 +, Alan Chandler wrote: Anyone any idea how to edit the applications menu in Gnome3. I have KDiff3 in the Other menu and I can't figure out how to move it. GNOME3 or gnome-shell? I don't really know which is which

Re: Menu editing on Gnome 3

2011-11-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/11/11 15:44, Camaleón wrote: El 2011-11-05 a las 14:54 +, Alan Chandler escribió: (sending back to the list) Apologies - finger trouble Make a full search for all of your .desktop files, for instance (as root): I found them ~/.local/share/applications there was an original

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Alan Chandler
button to get one and it just displayed his current one - I now fully understand why it is the way it is and its absolutely right. I can move my mail (icedove) to another workspace, but when I click the mail icon on my dock (on the left side) it jumps straight to it. -- Alan Chandler http

Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-20 Thread Alan Chandler
. This is Gnome3. Is anyone else experiencing this? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4ec8c9ea.2080

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these) and today I seem to have hit a problem. My screen locks solid, and input (mouse or keyboard) no longer has any affect. Screen updates

Little Cron difficulty I would like help with

2011-11-20 Thread Alan Chandler
be done to get around it. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4ec91534.2060...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these) and today I seem to have hit a problem. My screen locks solid, and input (mouse or keyboard

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On 22/11/11 01:43, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 11/21/2011 05:17 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 11/21/2011 12:33 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Chandler
to the bug report this fix is related to it is supposed to have fixed the problem - but it hasn't. I just had nautilus cause the hang up. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
files back to Freemind? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4ece1a2e.1000...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up until recently clicking on the filename would automatically start Freemind. (...) Anyone any idea how I can change the default

Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Alan Chandler
to do with Javascript or Flash - Slashdot is a good candidate to cause this to happen - although it often appears from the status bar at the bottom that it is trying to fetch some advert info. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/11 17:16, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:50:18 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up until recently clicking

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/11 23:52, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
where nautilus gets its list of applications to display to associate file extensions. That I think will be the key to this -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
should see a window with the left pane having three options Wallpaper, Activity and Mouse Actions. Instead I see a window with only two options, View and Mouse Actions. Have I not installed something I should have? or has this changed and all these web pages are out of date? -- Alan

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
able to both find the application and make it the default. Thanks for the persistance. We got there in the end -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 10:43, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/11 20:00, Alan Chandler wrote: With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that most people have with the shell, which I like - but other applications which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on closing a tab

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 09:00, Alan Chandler wrote: ... This shows I have two activities both named New Activity. I should then right click on a desktop and select Desktop Settings I should see a window with the left pane having three options Wallpaper, Activity and Mouse Actions. Instead I see a window

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
/activities-a-change-in-workflow/ Thanks - very useful and I think I understand activities now. Very useful concept for me - and one which makes it worthwhile for me to stick back with KDE for a while. Sorry Gnome3 - I liked your concept, but this just a lot better. -- Alan Chandler http

Gimp acting strangely

2011-11-29 Thread Alan Chandler
they would have come up as unsatisfied dependancies and been reinstalled if gimp needed them. Any one any clues as to what might be going on. I am on Sid. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: AW: Gimp acting strangely

2011-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 29/11/11 23:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: --- Yes, mv ~/.gimp* ~/.gimp.backup Since GNOME3 is a PITA, take a look at gimp --help-gtk, anyway, at least start it by gimp --verbose Tried gimp --verbose and it started up fine. Looks like it was a sid temporary glitch -- Alan Chandler http

Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3

2011-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
of the mouse to the top left corner (or hitting the logo key on my keyboard to shrink in the windows to the desktop and get at the Icons I wish to use. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3

2011-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/12/11 20:45, Erwan David wrote: On 02/12/11 21:26, Alan Chandler wrote: I populate the Activity Bar with those applications I use all the time (Web Browser, Mail, Terminal Window, Text Editor, Virtual Box, MythTV, LibreOffice writer and Freemind) and now its just a flick of the mouse

iceweasel fills in my textareas

2011-12-03 Thread Alan Chandler
what I did last time. I've noticed it when asking a question on Stack Overflow, I noticed again just now when filling in a bug report on my home network using BT Mantis. Does anyone know a way of turning this behaviour off. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: iceweasel fills in my textareas

2011-12-04 Thread Alan Chandler
On 04/12/11 07:55, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: In a recent upgrade (last day or two) iceweasel suddenly started filling in empty text areas with text from a previous visit to the web site. ... Does anyone know a way of turning this behaviour off. Are you talking about form fields

X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
to report a bug, but I am not sure where to go from here to find what actually caused it. I don't think MythTV updated yesterday, so I assume it wasn't that Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote: Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been libdrm-intel1 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: web server migration

2011-12-10 Thread Alan Chandler
# else output nothing -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4ee4628b.5040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Gnome 3 update makes PDFs open in inkscape

2011-12-26 Thread Alan Chandler
it a bit harder because I think you have to set up a desktop file with the right info in. (Take a look at the files in /usr/share/applications - which has the ones which should be installed on your system) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
to be related to the ad system. I thought it might be my add ons - although they are the standard ones - but I disabled all of them and still its occuring. Anyone else seeing this issue -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/12/11 10:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/12/11 19:48, Alan Chandler wrote: I am finding that Iceweasel seems to be really slow at times loading a web site. Whilst it is being slow the user interface is locked solid. I am not talking the odd second - delays of 20/30 seconds are occuring

Re: Gnome3 login failure

2012-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
was running I was working again. This morning it happened just after login - but again I just logged in again and it worked. Running Debian SID -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
that initramfs has the bttrfs driver in it. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4f263e44.3070

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/01/12 13:02, Christian Dysthe wrote: On 01/30/12 at 06:52am, Alan Chandler wrote: On 29/01/12 18:21, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I have an older laptop running Sid I like to play around with. I would like to check out the new btrfs file system and know you can easily convert from ext4

Re: GDM3's prejudiced against a picture of me

2011-08-04 Thread Alan Chandler
On 04/08/11 14:56, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:13:39 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I always had a picture on my old computer. When I got the new one I copied my entire home to the new account and it started occasionally working. I can't remember now = but I have a recollection

Rsync fails on copying large file

2011-08-30 Thread Alan Chandler
the virtual machine was not running, so I am confident that there were no background changes to the file. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file

2011-08-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/08/11 11:43, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo Alan, On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:56:02AM +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: I use Rsync between two of my machines to facilitate regular backups. In the case I have a problem with I am attempting to copy a file using the double colon (::) method to talk

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file

2011-08-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/08/11 09:56, Alan Chandler wrote: I use Rsync between two of my machines to facilitate regular backups. In the case I have a problem with I am attempting to copy a file using the double colon (::) method to talk to the rsync daemon on the receiving end. I have been having regular failures

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file [SOLVED]

2011-08-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On 31/08/11 12:29, Alan Chandler wrote: After several failed attempts I replaced the :: method with a single colon one (ie uses ssh) and it works perfectly. So either there is a setting I need in rsyncd.conf or there is a bug in this form of the protocol? It turns out to be a timeout problem

Rethinking Personal Information Management - Advice and Ideas needed

2011-09-08 Thread Alan Chandler
consider an android alternative if that could achieve my objectives. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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

Re: Rethinking Personal Information Management - Advice and Ideas needed

2011-09-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On 08/09/11 14:13, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:27:32 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I would like better integration between my mobile phone and my desktop environment in terms of calendar and contacts. In other words, I would like to be easily able to see from my desktop what

Re: Rethinking Personal Information Management - Advice and Ideas needed

2011-09-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On 08/09/11 11:54, Jude DaShiell wrote: Why not use org-mode? What does that mean? Could you be a little more explicit On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Alan Chandler wrote: For a little while now I have been slightly concerned that contact/address book management and calendar management is somewhat

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Alan Chandler
it receives mail and stores it there for access by client programs. Then the very easiest package to install is ssmtp. I have quite a few machines in my house, but only one is the mail server. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-04 Thread Alan Chandler
both sides need to be synchronised (in phase and frequency) where as with DC they don't -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Aptitude failing on squeeze with package file problems

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Chandler
can't do anything other than close aptitude. I tried Cancel Pending Actions (from the Actions menu) and got a segfault in aptitude. Anyone else seeing anything like this? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Aptitude failing on squeeze with package file problems

2012-02-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/02/12 14:40, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:59:49 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just tried to do an aptitude update on my Debian squeeze server. I get error message like ... E: Encounted a section with no Package: header E: The problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists

latest chrome won't play videos full screen

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Chandler
Anyone experiencing an issue I have discovered after a chrome update yesterday. Videos will no longer play full screen. Firefox(Iceweasel) display just fine. Is there any known way around the limitation -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Problematic upgrade

2012-03-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-install desktop-utils (which meant for instance that until that point I was unable to run nautilus). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-03-30 Thread Alan Chandler
repositor) that I generally install on the servers are web packages like (for instance) drupal or wordpress. But they just use the underlying LAMP stack. If these extra packages don't work with Squeeze, I just regard that as one more criteria with which to judge them as unsuitable. -- Alan

Re: How to create empty git with master / development branch ?

2012-04-03 Thread Alan Chandler
/github_ssh_access -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4f7ac017.50...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: skype?

2012-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
a NAT box). Unfortunately the convenience of the mobile phone meant they never really used it] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
etc. over the internet. IANL of course! Unfortunately you can't. You still need a TV licence to watch via iPlayer. It says so on the BBC web site. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: TV with Linux

2012-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
to get a clear answer on when I asked - the incoming digital signal is in MPEG2 format and MythTV stores the stream as mpeg2. The PI only has a (firmware) codec for Mpeg4, so not sure if transcoding between mpeg2 and mpeg4 is going to be necessary. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: Happauge Nove-T 500 no channel data

2012-04-12 Thread Alan Chandler
using those preconfigured channels. On 4th April I lost BBC channels, but on a rescan I got them back. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

How do you debug with php

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Chandler
with phpstorm, but it seems to need the entire php code within the web space, and doesn't allow for document root somewhere inside the directory hierarchy (at least i can't find a way to set it up). debian doesn't seem to support the potential addings to vim and emacs. What do others use? -- Alan

Re: How do you debug with php

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
it still doesn't seem to work. This leaves me to believe that I am doing something wrong, but I just don't know what. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How do you debug with php

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/04/12 07:01, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/04/12 01:16, Chris Hiestand wrote: I have never used a debugger for PHP; I think your struggles are part of the reason why. Neither have I until now. But I don't understand why this isn't a typical many eyes make the problems trivial

Mythtv problem with versions

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
works, but I do tend to want to save programs mid way through or want to rapidly skip forward and backward. The media play that is launched by the browser doesn't seem to all any of this.] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/04/12 19:24, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a server running Squeeze. It has mythtv-backend to record all my TV programs. On my desktop I run Sid. After an update over the weekend, my Mythtv Frontend will no longer connect to my backend, complaining that This version of MythTV requires

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Alan Chandler
succeeded. It reading the microphone and putting it out through your headphones. Sorry can't help you turn it off - but presumably doing something your were doing to turn it on. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Chandler
, and I just collect mails from them with Fetchmail (which then forwards in on to my mail server via smtp). I don't however leave the messages on the server, but I think there is a Fetchmail option to do so. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Gnome 3 from experimental - how do you change wallpaper

2011-05-18 Thread Alan Chandler
contains the gsettings program, or is there an alternative way of changing this background? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Gnome 3 from experimental - how do you change wallpaper

2011-05-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On 18/05/11 12:35, Alan Chandler wrote: On 18/05/11 11:56, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2011 07:18:16 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: (...) HOWEVER, I don't like the blue stripped wallpaper that came as standard - I would like to go back to my much lighter picture (from my own images) that I

Re: Gnome 3 from experimental - how do you change wallpaper

2011-05-19 Thread Alan Chandler
On 18/05/11 14:50, Jon Dowland wrote: On 18/05/11 12:35, Alan Chandler wrote: Thanks, I found gsettings now. It looks like I haven't yet got much of gnome3 installed - what is this common display applet? - the new gnome-shell doesn't seem to give me any options to access applets? (I guess

Gnome terminal termcap problem

2011-05-25 Thread Alan Chandler
to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap' and leaves me where enter, backspace etc don't work I have tried to run KDE's konsole within my gnome session and that works perfectly fine. I am at a loss to know where to look to fix this problem. Any ideas? -- Alan Chandler http

Re: Gnome terminal termcap problem

2011-05-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/05/11 12:18, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:26:45 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have just cleaned out (ie uninstalled) gnome as gnome3 and re-installed gnome as gnome2 from unstable. I did this whilst sitting in a kde4.6 session. I then restarted the computer and entered

Samba usershares permissions problem

2011-05-26 Thread Alan Chandler
sees it. I can now read from this share, but not write to it. Looking in the samba log (or more explicitly /var/log/samba/log.smbd I see my windows laptop log in as user nobody and then get permission denied. But I don't understand why. Can anyone help -- Alan Chandler http

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