Re: Fdisk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:05:26PM +0300, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > I did it. I first erased all parts. Without saying "W". Then I called > the new section and gave default values. > I've done it the next time I restart. :) > > #resize2fs /dev/sda1

Re: Fdisk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:59:36AM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 01/20/2017 11:54 AM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > > Hello > > > > Debian is running as a VM on the KVM. I enlarged the disk with QEMU. > > But the disk is as follows. > > So he did not

Re: A minimalist network

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:41:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > As I had said in last paragraph of > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/08/msg00609.html : > "Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on my > desk

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:17:56AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. Hm. A strange "relational" database indeed... > What is a functional equivalent in

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:04:24AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 07:59:01AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On 27-02-2017 21:03, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I'm attempting to install a

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:52:56AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > My comment below: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:30:25PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:04:24AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > > > On Tue,

Re: Cepstral swift on Debian and on Arch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:28:22PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Okay, I think we're closing in on it. > > The Cepstral swift package runs fine on archlinux, where using ldd -r > on the executable lists eleven libraries, all but one of which is >

Re: Recap: Cepstral Swift and Debian Stretch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 08:30:13AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Here is a summary of what we now know: > > The only package in play now is > Cepstral_William_x86-64-linux_6.2.3.873.tar.gz > > > It was downloaded with wget from a link given to

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian stretch: problem solved.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > My thanks for all the help and suggestions, and my apologies for all > the floundering. Cepstral support spotted the problem pretty quickly. > > Evidently somehow I managed to

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 09:30:00AM +, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > Boy Microsoft10 and Office-Access and share all your data with the > seattle bureau in a cloud and have no annoyance what so ever. Veering dangerously off-topic. But my $EMPLOYER just did

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 06:33:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > >How do you increase fontsize on the LibeOffice (writer) toolbar and dropdown > >meuns?? [closed] - Ask LibreOffice >

Contributing [was: A minimal relational database in Debian]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:48:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/01/2017 06:37 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > >How about filing a bug report? That won't solve your problem > >*right now*, but... you know, giving back and that. > I'm not

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:40:10AM +0100, Hans wrote: > Checked my system again. > It looks like have allowed the standard user to execute applications like > synaptic with root rights. I know, this is going to be asked in KDE, when you > start a

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:19:00PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi Tomas > > Hm. I'm not sure I've got that one right. Who has allowed the standard > > user to execute applications with root rights? How? > It was me, beeing haven asked by of

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:07:19AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >>> I would like to hear some ideas on how to set various environment > >>> variables (PATH, MANPATH, EDITOR etc.) in one place that would make them > >>> effective

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > A little research indicates that Tcl/Tk plays well with sqlite. A > couple of years ago I started learning it for a now abandoned > project. I'll follow up on that combo. Funny

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:43:44AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:46AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were > > encountered. > > That means the target filesystem

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 07:29:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition >

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:03:33PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi, > > I was just about to order some usb2serial hardware when I read this. [...] > I'll try it when I get the first server assembled. Thanks a lot! Hey, glad to help :-) - -- t

Re: Tool that says whether IP addresses are routable or reserved

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 07:36:11PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > Is there a tool which would take IPv4 addresses on the command > line and say whether or not they are regular and routable ? > > host(1) is not very useful for that as it doesn't seem

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:26:59PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in > Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for > longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:04:53PM +0200, Siard wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I haven't yet seen a complete table (nor have I yet bothered to find out > > how one configures that in X -- some day I'll do). > > Well, there is a complete listing

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 04:05:28PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > On 09/09/16 15:05, Stephan Beck wrote: [...] > H... I do not quite understand this situation. That is, lkeusa.com > asked to use SMTP authentication, but this would make

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:10:53PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > On 9/9/2016 4:26 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >You know what, though, I did have two entries in there the other day. > >And I found that tip because I was getting the "RTNETLINK

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 05:07:28AM +, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: [...] > >And ½, ⅓, ⅜, ©, 75°, µF, 17¢, and others.) > > I see recognisable glyphs for five out of seven of those. My > environment does not

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:41:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > Thank you very much, Tomás. glad to help. [...] > But once my user's (in your terminology, steph's) public key is in the > test account's authorized_keys file, user steph can login

Re: system gobbles disk space

ses writing into deleted files. You > >> can see them with lsof +L1 (as root) > > > > Short and sweet. That's even better :-) > > > That's great; thanks Tomas and Erwan (and others who replied). > > So, I'm seeing this: > > root@shell:~# lsof +L1 > COMM

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 11:35:21AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: [...] > >Can you use the chrome developper tools to see what's going on ? (Press > >the F12 key while chrome is open) Select the network tab, and type the > >url in your address bar. >

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:38:41AM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Although it is a different topic > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26066535/ps2pdf-creates-a-very-big-pdf-file-from-paps-created-ps-file > > backs up your "pretty funny"

Re: Need a tutorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all, Dr Klepp in particular; > > Where can I get a tut on doing the ssh keyfile login, and where can I > find a tutorial that is essentialy what Dr. Klepp had me do about a

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 08:57:18AM +, Curt wrote: [...] > Nicolas Georges gave some interesting information once when I said that > .Xdefaults was "deprecated" concerning what is read by what where and > why (went over my head, of course). > >

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:31:20AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > It makes a big difference for remote applications, since they will see the > > .Xresources from the server but the .Xdefaults from the client. Forgot to say that

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

[mumble] > > > >>> This is the bird's view. Ask if you get stuck. > > > > > >> Sorry, Tomas, it's not Gene, it's me who has a special question > > > > No need to be sorry :-) > > Fine! :-) > > > > But I see you found a solution an

Re: SOLVED Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:02:37PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: [...] > It turns out that the recent upgrade took mysql from 5.5 to 5.6. It > uninstalled mysql-server-5.5, but failed to install mysql-server-5.6, > due to an unmet dependency on

Re: Need a tutorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:44:28AM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/21/2016 11:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 September 2016 10:23:09 Greg Wooledge wrote: > ... > >> man ssh-keygen > >> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/SshKeys > > > > I

Google [was: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED] [slightly OT]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:20:24PM +0200, deloptes wrote: [...] > I still use google and if I type in "debian p1109w", the first 10 results > cover both threads. > About 1999 doing a research on search engine algos, we (at the university) > came to

Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:43:18PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > Running Jessie here. Performed apt-get upgrade yesterday, which included > a new version of mysql. > > I now cannot connect to mysql: > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to

Re: Need a tutorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:35:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > > > to...@tuxteam.de: [mumble] > > This is the bird's view. Ask if you get stuck. > Sorry, Tomas, it's not Gene, it's me who has a special question No need to b

Re: Need a tutorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:09:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 September 2016 03:44:28 Lars Noodén wrote: > > > On 09/21/2016 11:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 21 September 2016 10:23:09 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > ...

Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade

>> Any suggestions on how to fix, please? > > > > Is the mysql daemon running? Try "service mysqld status" or however > > that's named in the brave new systemd world (I'm still in the messy > > old sysv world, mind you ;-) > > > Thanks tomas;

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:30:10PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 16:12:35 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Monday 19 September 2016 14:15:03 Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:14:37 -0400 > > > Haines Brown

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:01:09AM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > Sorry, missed out a step. The paps output is filtered through ps2pdf > so that could explain a lot. Thanks for reminding me. (The clue is in > the name!) See above. I can

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

sion setup when changing the DM and remember: in the good ol' times DM and X proper didn't have to run on the same box). Here's one of those typical Xsession files (I hacked it to give me, as a user, the power to configure my environment): tomas@rasputin:~$ cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80x1

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:49:39PM +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > Afaik you cant shrink xfs

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 04:59:04AM -0400, brian wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:06:16 +0200, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >So it is 12 years later; > > > >has someone found something working? > > > > This will be a recommendation which most likely

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:15:23AM -0400, brian wrote: [Gnus] > But will it download from multiple newsfeeds *simultaneously*, and > combine the feeds if you subscribe to the same group from more than > one source? [...] TBH I never tried that,

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 05:03:26PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > As a general rule, I find that using Debian packaging for perl makes > absolutely no sense - and often problematic. It's more complicated than this. There are other (non-Perl,

Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Bob. Welcome. First, a meta-suggestions Try to use a good subject line (I tried to modify it). This list is read by many volunteers, and is pretty high volume. Nobody reads everything. A good subject line will make it more probable that

Re: missing subject

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:34:13PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > Sorry. Hit the send key too soon. Subject should have been network > configuration. and you already got two proposals for a nicer Subject. Ain't we a nice bunch ;-) regards - -- t

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 08:36:00AM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > Hi Lars, > > Lars Noodén: > > On 09/27/2016 06:07 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: > >> Lars Noodén: > >>> On 09/27/2016 02:02 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: > >>> Can you tell more about how your login

Re: system gobbles disk space

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:53:05PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: [...] > You should add this _after_ fiddling with the files [...] Exactly. regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Extending file system after enlarging a logical volume

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 04:24:42PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > In my jessie box I need to increase the non-encrypted root partition > (/) size from 14G to 19G. I was able successfully to increase the

Re: system gobbles disk space

sk yourself in each case whether the file behind this symlink migh be responsible for the missing space. A practical example: First, I create a process which keeps a file open, writing into it from time to time: | tomas@rasputin:~$ ( while true ; do echo "bip"; sleep 5 ; done ) > /tmp/lo

Re: system gobbles disk space

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > A possibility is that you have processes writing into deleted files. You can > see them with lsof +L1 (as root) Short and sweet. That's even better :-) - -- t -BEGIN PGP

Re: system gobbles disk space

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:55:52AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 26/09/16 17:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:38:01PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> On 26/09/16 16:03, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >>> On Mon, Sep

Re: qemu installed but not found

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 04:00:08PM +, Matyas A. Sustik wrote: > I installed qemu with apt-get. However the qemu command is not found. What > am I missing? Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm assuming you installed "plain qemu", i.e.

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

sda2 > > > > Not really. > > That gives "-bash: /dev/sda2: Permission denied" for me with a fixed > disk. It's the same for a removable disk. The system came like that. Hopefully. But that's not because bash checks that (as parted is). It's because the permis

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:41:45PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. > >>> Suggestions? > >>> TIA > > Futzing with partitions is the admin's job. > > Could be, but it's

Re: upgraded testing and now gpg is not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 07:42:40AM +0100, Frank wrote: > Op 06-11-16 om 04:52 schreef H.S.: > >So, how do I tell gpg to work on std in when on a terminal instead of > >relying on a graphical session? > > The man page for gpg-agent suggests you can

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:29:32PM +, Brian wrote: [...] > Raw disk access to a device the user does not own *is* sacred. YES! And the OS takes care of that part! > Access to a device the user does own is up to the user. Again:

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 05:38:01PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 08 Nov 2016 at 17:54:41 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > >> > Futzing with partitions is the admin's job. > > >> Could be, but it's not (g)parted's job to enforce these kinds of rules:

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 08:48:04PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 09 Nov 2016 at 21:35:14 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Hm. Layering error. > > Sorry. I'm unfamiliar with this term ("layering errors") Sorry. Was meaning to say "layering

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:45:52AM +, Brian wrote: [...] > I hope cfdisk is an acceptable alternative to gparted, which is not on > my system. 'fakeroot /sbin/cfdisk' gives "cfdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: > Permission denied". We are talking

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 08:39:51PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 08 Nov 2016 at 14:41:45 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > >>> *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. > > >>> Suggestions? > > >>> TIA > > >

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 09:35:32AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 03:27:12PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Two things: [...] > I started writing that in my previous message, but then I actually > tested it on my own

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:48:29AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/7/2016 7:57 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:12:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > I

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

lves (or more > >>accurately, > >>the devices via which your operating system makes the partitions > >>available to user space). By default (and there are some reasons > >>for it) they're not readable by everyone. They are writable by > >>even less. On my box, f

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 09:27:11AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:18:28AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Evidently not a solution. Added myself to both "disk" and "root" > > groups. > > Had no effect when attempting to run

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

sons > > for it) they're not readable by everyone. They are writable by > > even less. On my box, for example: > > > > tomas@rasputin:~$ ls -al /dev/sd* > > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda > > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov 7 09:06 /de

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:25:33AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > >>*HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. > >>Suggestions? [...] > >So you'd have to be associated to the "disk" group to read those > >things and

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:37:53AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/7/2016 6:20 AM, Felipe Salvador wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>*HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. >

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

ailable to user space). By default (and there are some reasons for it) they're not readable by everyone. They are writable by even less. On my box, for example: tomas@rasputin:~$ ls -al /dev/sd* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda1 brw

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:12:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > >Debian is trying to protect you from someone taking over your... > >say Apache [...] > > My Debian machines do not physically have networking capability. > See my email

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:54:23PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:05:17PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 09:35:32AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I started writing that in my previous

Re: how to turn off backlight in console (without any X server)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Laurent Debian wrote: > Hi and thanks for your ideas > > Unfortunately there is no directory /sys/class/backlight on my system. > After a > > > locate backlight > > > I juste had the following files as

Re: Problem attempting to use xorriso

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:40:06AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/10/2016 5:20 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:53:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 04:56:36PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Brian writes: [...] > >> Hopefully. But that's not because bash checks that (as parted is). > >> It's because the permissions on the device file are set right! >

Re: Problem attempting to use xorriso

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:53:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/9/2016 5:16 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Sunday 06 November 2016 16:47:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > >>[snip] > >>Based on responses to previous posts titled "Trivial script will >

Re: Problem attempting to use xorriso

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:27:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/10/2016 7:58 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > >>I don't understand. > > > >Hm. Too concise (both of us ;-) > > > >I'll give it a shot. By "you" I meant "user owl, i.e. any

Re: Problem attempting to use xorriso

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 02:53:14PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 10 November 2016 10:53:47 Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 11/9/2016 5:16 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 November 2016 16:47:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> [snip] > > >>

Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:37:08AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 18 Oct 2016 at 10:22:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 10/18/2016 9:20 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > >On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:51:00AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >>With

Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 09:22:00AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/19/2016 6:08 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:37:08AM +0100, Brian wrote: > >>On Tue 18 Oct 2016

Re: WiFi works during install, not after

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 05:09:06PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > So I have a ThinkPad Yoga 11s ultrabook. > > If I copy over the firmware-realtek package, Debian can install just > fine over the WiFi connection. (I don't have wired internet at my >

Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:22:24AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/18/2016 9:20 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: [...] > >You will need to convert a font of your choice to GRUB's pf2 format: [...] > I'm confused. We may be using the term "font"

Re: bash NEWBIE I/O and I/O redirection problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 07:58:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I suspect an appropriate response would be being pointed an > *atypical* tutorial. > A Google search for "bash tutorial pipe redirect" [w/o quotes] gave > results for "normal" users. I

Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 03:30:52PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:31:28AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > My abject apologies for the delay in this reply. just got back in town > and am just catching up on my email. No

Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:59:20AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 11:16:49 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > > > > This is the "local"

Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:05:54PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Uncharacteristically, I did wander a bit off topic, didn't I? This way I (and perhaps others) learnt something. > Back on the straight and narrow now. :) But not too much: everything

Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:54:27AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 12:36:11 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:59:20AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 11:16:49 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >

Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:40:10AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:32:29AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm in a multi-boot environment, multiple installs of Debian. > > I want all install to have read/write/execute

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:17:21PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > CONCLUSION > Can *NOT* blame Microsoft Windows for EVERYTHING ;/ My conclusion too. There's something else acting up. Linux should pick up the hw clock and *know* it's not in

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > Relavant lines of preseed.cfg are > > > > ### Clock and time zone setup > > #d-i clock-setup/utc

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > Relavant lines of preseed.cfg are > > ### Clock and time zone setup > #d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false > d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true > d-i time/zone string US/Central >

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:09:46PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] If you want to get to the ground of things, on my system (yes, I'm on SysV init, for systemd you'll have to find out for yourself), the magic happens in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh.

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a > dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two > distinct use cases: >1. Two of my machines

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:28:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: [...] > I went with vfat, but I'd like to resolve the question of exfat if > possible, out of curiosity. I was curious too, so I dropped the thing into my favourite search engine (no,

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 01:25:50PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/12/2016 12:26 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >Le 12/11/2016 à 18:22, Richard Owlett a écrit : > >> > ddrescue /dev/sda /mnt/defective_drive.img > /mnt/defective_drive.log >

Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:26:06 + (UTC) Latincom > wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:31:54 +, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +,

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:27:07AM +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:02:50 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > If you do a normal dist-upgrade Wheezy to

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