Re: Repositories now in use for Etch.

Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: My Google and Debian.org foo seem to have gone AWOL. I even thought that this question had been answered on this list and searched my emails. All to no avail. I know, or think that I know, that Etch has fallen over the cliff now that Squeeze is on the

iBook multimedia keys and KDE

Hi, I recently switched from GNOME to KDE on my iBook G4, but don't know how to get the multimedia keys working. They worked fine under GNOME, but under KDE only the monitor brightness keys work, albeit with no visual feedback. I tried assigning global shortcuts in kcontrol, but the keys are

Re: .deb compilation

Hi, Please do not put your answer before the quoted text (and only quote the relevant part). It makes you mail easier to read. Jerônimo Bezerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I made apt-src install courier-maildrop. It downloaded 3 files and 1 folder: There isn't a config.log or another file

Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny

Hi, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interesting, the manpage passwd(1) says that 'passwd -l' should also set account expiry to 1, but it doesn't. Either passwd or the manpage is wrong, so I think this should be reported against the package passwd. It sets a value to 1 in my

Re: error messages from apt-get

Hi, Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is only for training (to learn Debian and networking). Therefore, maybe I could install the version of Debian that was

wireless LAN problems with recent kernels

Hi, I'm using a RaLink RT2500 (PCI) wireless NIC. It works without problems with a 2.6.20.1 kernel and the rt2500 drivers. I did try to update to the Debian 2.6.25 kernel, but there the WLAN connection makes problems: Sometimes the connection just drops. dmesg shows this message: wlan0: No

Re: wireless LAN problems with recent kernels

Hi, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 01 August 2008 21:26, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I admit having sometimes connection problems running the older kernel as well, but the network works again after a few moments (and without any manual intervention). The link quality given

Re: wireless LAN problems with recent kernels

Hi, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/8/1 Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [problems with RT2500 and newer kernel version] I'm not sure if you mean the rt2500 drivers as in the debian packages. Also I have a rt73 so what follows may not apply. I think the rt* series have been

Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

Hi, Jimmy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp port 113 was open. Nmap listed the service as ident. I am trying to remove this service since I don't think I need it, but I can't figure out how. I removed the package pidentd,

Re: How dose a package create a database?

Hi, Adam Wakerhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am packaging an application that needs to create a database. By default it uses mysql. What is the debian way of letting a package create a database and database user? Would I use /etc/mysql/debian.cnf? Take a look at dbconfig-common.

Re: need sarge

Hi, Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded Contents-i386.gz from http://ftp.debian.org/dists/sarge/. As I understand it, this is not an archive, but a single compressed file. I gunzipped it, which yields an 111MB file. I am not sure what I have now. If this is sarge, how do I

Re: setting the system time?

Hi, Zach Uram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 The time itself seems to be correct. Note that it says UTC, not EST. You can change

Re: openssl Vs perl encode

Hi, Bhasker C V [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to encode using base64 to get data for SMTP authentication which i am experimenting upon. I stumbled upon this issue. I am not sure why this is happening. Say the text to be encoded is [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ perl use MIME::Base64;

Re: Apache in testing - ServerTokens Prod

Hi, Suno Ano suno@sunoano.org writes: On some host (debian testing), I am running Apache and tried to add ServerSignature Off ServerTokens Prod to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf in order to silence Apache a bit. These settings are set in /etc/apache2/conf.d/security. Changing it there

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

Hi, root mike.j...@nethere.com writes: They are recommends, and recommends are installed by default. But you can change this How can this be changed? I looked through the man pages for apt-get and the config file but didn't see any way to do so. Just add APT { Install-Recommends

Re: aptitude security updates

Hi, roberto robert...@gmail.com writes: # Official Debian mirror deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free

Re: X11 include files..

Hi, I Rattan ratt...@cps.cmich.edu writes: what debian package may include these header files? You can search which packages include a given file using apt-file. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: why can't I delete a file? tipps help

Hi, Soren Orel soren.o...@gmail.com writes: I already tried chattr -i filename but I still can't delete it.. any ideas, why can't I remove a file from my hdd, even when booting with a livecd? Do you have write permissions in the directory containing the file? What error do you get if you

Re: where is mount.cifs

Hi, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Where is the mount.cifs tool? $ apt-file search mount.cifs samba-doc: /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/manpages/mount.cifs.8.html samba-doc: /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/manpages/umount.cifs.8.html smbfs: /sbin/mount.cifs

Re: How does Debian know how to execute my .NET programs even if I don't specify mono?

Hi, Foss User foss...@gmail.com writes: I have a program compiled with mcs meant for mono called: hello.exe. If I just do ./hello.exe it runs automatically. How does it happen? why do I not have to do mono hello.exe. Why does it run only with ./hello.exe You can register interpreters for

LDAP and POSIX groups

Hi, I'm having problems setting up LDAP with POSIX groups. I can see groups and members with getent group mygroup, but am not a member after logging in. To configure LDAP, I added nss_base_group ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com?sub to /etc/libnss-ldap.conf and pam_ldap.conf. This made the

Re: The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Hi, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this keeps coming up when trying to install flash plugin to epiphany flashplugin-nonfree was removed from Debian Etch[1]. There are packages available from backports.org if you wish to install it. Regards, Ansgar [1] http://bugs.debian.org/458550 [2]

Re: LDAP and POSIX groups

Hi, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:48 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I'm having problems setting up LDAP with POSIX groups. I can see groups and members with getent group mygroup, but am not a member after logging in. The ldap documentation is very rare. Have you

Re: LDAP and POSIX groups

Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: plus I started to use libnss-ldapd, found it a bit more stable I gave libnss-ldapd a try and it's now working fine without changes on the configuration. Thanks. Ansgar -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19 -- To

Re: adding a web user?

Hi, Zach Uram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like one of my friends to host some files on my apache webserver, but I only wish him the ability to upload files into the web directory, but don't want to run an FTP server since that is very risky. Any solution? You can create a normal

Re: Emacs22: how do I get the info file?

Hi, Charles Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On previous emacs versions, control-H-i gave me access to an impressive collection of emacs documentation as info files. When I try that now, all I have been able to get is an emacs faq. Is there a separate package that has the info files for

Re: Debian on Blu-ray media

Hi, Ken Teague ktea...@pobox.com writes: Since Blu-ray burners and media has come down in price (burners are as low as $150 and media is down to $8 for 25GB media and $13 for 50GB (dual layer) media), would it be possible for the Debian folks to create the ISOs to also make a Blu-ray ISO

Re: how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

Hi, oneman li...@onemanifest.net writes: chkrootkit is complaining about processes hidden from ps and readdir. So I'd like to run debsums on them to test the integrity of ps and readdir. However, 'debsums ps' doesn't work. Wich package name should I use to check the integrity of these two? $

Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE

lrodrig...@atheros.com Signed-off-by: John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com (Backported for Debian by Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c @@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ static void ath9k_hw_init_config(struct ath_hw *ah) ah

Re: Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE

Hi, Guillermo Garron guillermo.fed...@gmail.com writes: 3. I still have problems connecting the EeePC to my DSL modem. I can connect the EeePC to my other computer via Ethernet, but when I connect it to the DSL modem it does not work correctly: I can see incoming packages, but

Re: /etc/group

Hi, Alexey Salmin alexey.sal...@gmail.com writes: Hello! /etc/group in default debain installation contains dozens of groups and I'm wondering: how to determine their purpose? Which package did some specific group came from? What purpose does it serve? Users and groups that are not created

Re: Fetchmail

Hi, Tero Mäntyvaara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I set fetchmail to automatically fetch mails of all user? Every user have to give command fetchmail -a at the moment to get their mails. Instead of setting up a cron job for every user as suggested by Ron, you could also setup a system-wide

Re: DRM PDFs

Hi, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just thought I'd ask, even though my web searches don't reveal anything but Adobe promises and work-arounds involving printing to postscript on a windows box first - but is there software for linux to read DRM pdfs? Kpdf has an option to ignore DRM

Re: [OFF] Sudo

Hi, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: I wonder if it is possible using the sudo leave with only the user can edit the files that are in /etc/squid. A better option would be to chmod g+w the files in /etc/squid and then add the relevant users to that

Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

Hi! Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes - sorry my mistake - its firebug. It says the version is not compatible with 3.0 - so has been disabled, and there doesn't seem to be an upgrade version yet. There seems to be a version of Firebug compatible with Firefox 3.0: Firebug 1.2

Re: ImageMagick / Imagick / ImageWand

Hi, Ben b...@an3k.de writes: where is the binary called MagickWand-config? Can't find it in any package or source belonging to this. apt-file can search for files in packages that are not installed on the local machine: % apt-file search /usr/bin/MagickWand-config libmagickwand-dev:

Re: kde4: crash after login

Hi, Antonio Diaz Sanchez adiazsanc...@yahoo.es writes: I am using Debian Sid. After doing the login (by using either KDM or GDM) KDE seems to crash, and the only thing I can see is the mouse pointer over a black screen. Do you have plasma-desktop installed? After upgrading to KDE 4.4, I

Re: git: pushing a branch to a remote git repository

Hi, Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il writes: I'm using a clone of a local git repository to backup the repository. The problem is that it seems that when pushing changes, only master is pushed to the remote repository instead of all the branches. Is it possible to push/pull branches into an

Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

Hi, Robert Latest boblat...@googlemail.com writes: OK, but where is the xpdf program now? The only thing with xpdf in its name is some virtual package called xpdf-utils which is provided by poppler-utils which doesn't contain xpdf. It was removed from testing [1] because nobody cared to fix

Re: vsftpd runs then stop for remote access

Hi, abdelkader belahcene abelahc...@gmail.com writes: I install vsftp   as sererver on ubuntu 9.10 Please refer to the Ubuntu user technical support mailing list [1] for problems with Ubuntu. Regards, Ansgar [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: serious problems with mutt

Hi, Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr writes: Now, on my laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), my mutt is still using esmtp. And it seems to operate all right. But, with my 3 months old Lenny system on my desktop, I can't get mutt to work ! Here, I have to use 'exim4', and I have spent many

Re: Showing only files on a virtual desktop

Hi, Ogya Chief ogyach...@hotmail.com writes: I am running sid and kde desktop and I want to see only the files associated with a particular virtual desktop and not all open files on other virtual desktops in the panel. I have checked the online kde manual but I did not see anything on this

Re: Locate older debian packages

Hi, Panayiotis Karabassis pan...@gmail.com writes: I need to downgrade a package due to a bug. However the older package version is no longer available from apt. Is there a way to find the older .deb? If it is of any importance I am searching for the eclipse version prior to 3.5.2-5. Try

Re: aptitude called chromium-browser obsolete

Hi, Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net writes: I don't remember seeing chromium-browser on the removal lists. Did I miss it, or is something else afoot? Chromium has been removed[1] from testing yesterday. See also the discussion[2] on debian-rele...@l.d.o. Regards, Ansgar [1]

Re: how to install on Mac ibook

Hi, abdelkader belahcene abelahc...@gmail.com writes: I want  to install debian on ibook PowerPc,  but !!!m I dont know how to start the machine from the CD. I think you have to press C or some other key during startup. If it's a different key, the included documentation or Google should

Re: Welke Debian versie is goed

Hi, debian-user@l.d.o is an English-speaking list. Please ask your question on the Dutch users' mailing list: debian-user-du...@lists.debian.org (also CCed to this mail). Ruben @ Ziggo ruben.d...@home.nl writes: Hallo, Debian ik heb een vraagje ik heb een server waar ik debian op wil

How to go back to sysvinit (was: Re: systemd-fsck?)

Hi, On 05/09/2014 12:35, Svante Signell wrote: Well, I've not been asked if I wanted to switch to systemd based boot when upgrading. I think this is a bug in init system choice and should be reported. How to go back to sysvinit? Please ask on one of the support mailing lists (CC'ed).

systemd/cgroups changing permissions (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

Hi Joel, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: (6) systemd and cgroups (at minimum) end up overriding the permissions system. It's bad enough having SELinux and ACLs brought in to knock holes in the permissions system, but when arbitrary non-kernel system functions start getting their hands

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: I'm merely participating in the discussion and haven't entirely made up my mind what the issue actually is and what I should do. [...] Debian already lost me (after over 15 years) when they came up with their brokenarch and left users stranded with no possible fix

Re: Let's have a vote!

lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: As I already said: try to get squid 2.7 started and stopped by systemd on a current Fedora installation. This is not the Fedora users list. Sure is, yet why tell me to make software nobody cares about. That won't get systemd out of Debian. Given you don't use

Re: Let's have a vote!

On 09/30/2014 08:13, Mart van de Wege wrote: lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com writes: So, Lee why are you even here complaining about Debian - You've admitted you don't use it?! My server runs on Debian. So technically, I'm using it, and I don't feel

Re: gpg errors NO_PUBKEY after aptitude update

Valery Mamonov valerymamo...@gmail.com writes: I'm experiencing some troubles with updating my debian machine. After aptitude update i'm having multiple errors like these: W: GPG error: http://deb.ianod.es unstable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public

Re: gpg errors NO_PUBKEY after aptitude update

severity 647001 important thanks Hi, Valery Mamonov valerymamo...@gmail.com writes: 2014-10-01 3:30 GMT+04:00 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org: Valery Mamonov valerymamo...@gmail.com writes: I'm experiencing some troubles with updating my debian machine. After aptitude update i'm having

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: This essay practically screams out for somebody to write a C program that takes an argument of an arbitrary string, finds all files in a directory, and returns a long string with those files separated by the

Re: implicit linkage

Hi, On 10/13/2014 12:14, Joel Rees wrote: Get pid 1 down to 100 lines of C, no loops, no functions called, then I'll be impressed. [...] Setting aside initialization code, pid 1 should target less than 1000 lines of C in the main loop. (If we were to use dash or other streamlined shells, we

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Hi, [ Please followup on -user@, there is no need to have this on two lists. ] Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net writes: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: http://popcon.debian.org/ which sure seems to reinforce the popularity of sysvinit 18sysvinit

Re: Way OT: Re. lines of code [was Re: implicit linkage]

Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: If pid 1 gets stalled, lots of things all over the system get to wait for something important that can't happen until pid 1 gets un-stalled, and that's true even with quad core. It may not freeze every process, but it can cause dropped packets and such

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Hi Miles, On 10/14/2014 16:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Actually, udev is the ONLY thing I've had issues with in over a decade of production use. Changed out a nic card, and everything changed - because udev decided to assign the new interface to some other port (or some such - it's been a

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am free to take significant time out of my day job (that feeds my family) and rescue all sorts of software that Red Hat

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am free to take significant

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

On 10/16/2014 14:07, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ansgar Burchardt wrote: No, what I find annoying is telling volunteer what they have to do without doing anything yourself on the issues you raise and repeating don't break Linux endlessly. I think everybody knows by now you believe that, there's

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

Hi, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt writes: On 2014-11-16 11:40, Klistvud wrote: 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them into true, interchangeable drop-in replacements of each other, which do the task assigned, and do it well. Each of them accomplishing at

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

Hi, Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: The problem here is lack of time and/or skills. I would love to help, but I already have my plate full. Additionally, I've done device drivers and applications, but never dealt with init systems. There would be a big learning curve. And

Re: ssh_keygen : command not found

Hi, Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net writes: I hesitate to trouble the list with this but, when trying to generate a key pair on a (lenny) system recently upgraded to wheezy, 7.7, I am seeing this: ron@d7server:~$ ssh-keygen -bash: ssh_keygen : command not found Hmm, bash complaining about

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

Hi, Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: On 11/16/2014 10:29 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: So why, instead of spending all this time on a new init system didn't developers already familiar with sysvinit work on it? Systemd wasn't one person

Re: Joey Hess is out?

On 11/17/2014 03:54 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 11/17/2014 at 08:21 AM, Martin Read wrote: A default Debian jessie configuration has persistent text logs in /var/log written by rsyslog, and *volatile* binary logs in /run/log/journal written by systemd-journald. Removing the binary logs

Re: apt-get update GPG error: Internal error: Good signature, but could not determine key fingerprint?!

Hi, On 11/17/2014 05:26 PM, i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote: I am seeing a rather strange error. I have a wheezy VM which I am trying to update, but I get the above error on the main source and also on security source: W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release: Internal

Re: Welke Debian versie is goed

Hi, debian-user@l.d.o is an English-speaking list. Please ask your question on the Dutch users' mailing list: debian-user-dutch@lists.debian.org (also CCed to this mail). Ruben @ Ziggo ruben.d...@home.nl writes: Hallo, Debian ik heb een vraagje ik heb een server waar ik debian op wil

Re: sendmail on debian testing

Hi, Michael Grant mgr...@grant.org writes: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: A nessesary correction - /etc/init.d/sendmail *tries* to run '/bin/systemctl start sendmail.service'. But, since no sendmail* package provide systemd's service file - nothing

Re: sendmail on debian testing

Hi, Michael Grant mgr...@grant.org writes: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote: Could you try restarting sendmail (systemctl restart sendmail) and show the output of `systemctl status sendmail'? It also shows the most recent log entries, but the output

Re: One more try to post

Hi, On 01/13/2015 11:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Recent debian wheezy install here. Where in the configs, can I get rid of the F10 key stealing by the terminal emulator so it can revert to being the mc exit key? If you use GNOME, there should be a Enable the menu accelerator key (F10 by

Re: Iceape

Hi, On 03/11/2015 04:14 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: Is iceape gone in Jessie? It got removed from everywhere some time ago due to no longer being security-supported. See the last four news entries on https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/iceape.html. I am still using it regularly in Wheezy and it

Re: jessie: `evince`, `atril`, `okular` unable to open PDFs; libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On 05/20/2015 02:47 PM, Alexis wrote: Sven Arvidsson s...@whiz.se writes: Do you have old versions of libraries lying around? Maybe things you compiled and installed yourself? i do[1]; but how can i find out which library is the one calling libtiff4? E.g. do i need to make use of something

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

chris tknch...@gmail.com writes: systemd is a cancer that you should completely eradicate especially on a system like that Please follow Debian's Code of Conduct[1] (or just basic manners) on Debian's mailing lists. Calling free software projects a cancer is not appropriate whether you like

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org writes: People only complain about systemd being a cancer if they love the Debian system otherwise. [...] Remember that every time you tell people to go use something else, you are saying that they are not valued members of the community. I do indeed not

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck, plain and simple. I absolutely agree with the post that systemd is a cancer And I think Debian can do fine without people who only contribute toxic behaviour. And yes, calling other

Re: systemd equivalent

Bob Bernstein b...@fanatick.org writes: My initial question was _meant_ to be, simply: can this (ps ax|grep ssh) be done, or approximated to, using sysctl? No, systemd is not supposed to replace standard system utilities. (Also sysctl is a completely unrelated tool to configure kernel

Re: Install a package marked `debports'

Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: I wanted to install the kazehakase Debian package, but aptitude won't, in fact this is my sources.list: The package was removed from Debian, see [1]. The debports entry on [2] refers to an (outdated) version of the package for the m64k

Re: debian 8 on a raspex raspberry pi2

Hi, Joe Zien joz...@comcast.net writes: I installed raspex on a raspberry pi2 which is using debian 8. Only one problem, can't get sound working. Installed alsaplayer and kmix but can't config to play a sound file. With RaspEX you mean http://raspex.exton.se/? That seems to be a mixture of

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

Hi, tom arnall writes: > i read the piece on installing without systemd. i get the feeling > that the bottom line of it is: good luck. or am i missing something? > On 10/13/15, Joel Rees wrote: >> I tend to be wandering around way out in left field a

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server

Fredrik Jonson writes: > What is the recommended way to set up Systemd user services with Debian? [...] > AFAIU, to make this happen, I need to have a user Systemd instance started on > boot. How do I set up my Debian server to automatically start a user instance > for a

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server

Fredrik Jonson <fred...@jonson.org> writes: > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Fredrik Jonson <fred...@jonson.org> writes: >> > What is the recommended way to set up Systemd user services with Debian? >> Just run 'loginctl enable-linger [USER]' as root. > > In

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

Hi, Lisi Reisz writes: > On Monday 05 October 2015 19:58:19 Timothy Hobbs wrote: >> Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by the >> addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. >> http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the

Re: Compiling coreutils from source

Hi, Florian Pelgrim writes: > I would also be interested what this message means and if it can be > ignored or anything should be done: >> /home/vagrant/coreutils-8.23/src/whoami.c:85: warning: Using >> 'getpwuid' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the >> shared libraries from

Re: repo keys fail

Gene Heskett writes: > sudo apt-get update > ends with this: > W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg > Could not resolve 'http.debian.org' The mirror redirector was at "http.debian.net", but moved to "httpredir.debian.org".

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI writes: >> > I have just added an eSATA outlet on my box; when I plug in a SATA >> > disk, it is visible in gparted, its label is displayed in the Places >> > column of PCManfm, but when I click on it I get an error >> > "Authentication is

Re: "systemd --user" not starting upon login

Pavel Volkov writes: > "systemd --user" instance is not autostarted here on Jessie when > logging remotely via SSH. Does the user manager get started when logging in locally? If not, make sure dbus and libpam-systemd are installed. If only ssh is the problem, make

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

Marc Shapiro writes: > I decided, since this was just a test, to install systemd-sysv (which > should remove sysvinit-core) so that I could see if booting with > systemd would make a difference. But... > > I can't install systemd-sysv. I get the following: [...] > which

Re: Trying to remove "architecture i386"

Sharon Kimble writes: > ╭ > │sudo dpkg --remove-architecture i386 > ╰ > > which failed saying - > > dpkg: error: cannot remove architecture 'i386' currently in use by the > database > > How then can I remove 'i386' please, or should I just cut my losses and >

Re: Can't startx as normal user

"Draco Metallium(Rodrigo S. Cañibano)" writes: > No only root can run startx. If a user tries the following error appears: > > "(EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0" The first error in the log you attached is: > [ 4203.010] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get

Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

Hi, Francis Gerund writes: > The problem may be with dhcp, since xfce has no problem getting to the > outside world, but openbox refuses to go any further than localhost. > > So, does dhcp functionality need to be installed and/or set up > separately for openbox? > > And if

Re: Debian stretch hiberante hooks

Hi, kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes: > There is laptop with "stretch/sid" on it. > I want umount all remote filesysems before suspending/hibernating it. > When google I found only solutions referring to pm-utils and > /etc/pm/sleep.d sripts. But this does not work for me. It looks like

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian stretch hiberante hooks

Hi, kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes: > I put file /etc/systemd/system/remote-umount.service > which contains: > [Unit] > Description=Umount remote cifs/sshfs filesystems > Before=suspend.target > Before=hibernate.target > Before=hybrid-sleep.target Just using "sleep.target" instead

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

Hi Andrew, Andrew McGlashan writes: > Sadly this software version of > cancer is planned to keep spreading. Could you please keep your cancer to lists where people are not expected to follow a minimal code of conduct[1]? I'm sure that you will find the

Re: update-rc.d creates unexpected sequence numbers

Hi, CN writes: > On Sun, May 15, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> That doesn't look correct: unless you defined a "$postgresql" system >> facility (in /etc/insserv.conf), you should require "postgresql" and >> not "$postgresql".

Re: update-rc.d creates unexpected sequence numbers

Hi, CN writes: > /etc/init.d/my-program is correctly prepared with LSB header comments > like this: > > #!/bin/sh > ### BEGIN INIT INFO > # Provides: my-program > # Required-Start: $postgresql > # Required-Stop:$postgresql > # Default-Start:

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

Hi, Jonathan Dowland writes: > I just wrote a blog post about how to use Systemd to configure mount-on-demand > filesystems, e.g. /backup (in my case). This was triggered by recent news in > the UK that a major hosting provider had deleted all their customer VMs by > accident by issuing something

Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd

Andre Majorel writes: > I'm working on a program to make changes to a daemon's > configuration file. The man page helpfully warns against doing > that without immediately restarting it. > > Do you think the following would work on any Debian system, > regardless of its current run level and choice

Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2016, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> That might behave different than expected when current state of the >> daemon and the boot configuration differ: for example the sequence above > > It shouldn't, unless invoke-rc.d is broken

Re: polickit rules - what wrong

Brian writes: > On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 20:38:35 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Kamil Jońca writes: >> > I try to make >> > /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/49-nopasswd_limited.conf >> > which contains: >> > polkit.addRul

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