Re: [0.5 OT] How to grab some entry by command line

2014-06-13 Thread lina
I have been following this thread, thanks all. The uzbl one is great. About which solutions I have found, well, the NCBI they provide some clients, there is one package, namely, ncbi-blast in debian. I tried, but still have not figured out the right way of using it in the last two days. On Fri

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Lisi Reisz writes: > On Friday 13 June 2014 20:34:12 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: >> Lisi Reisz writes: >> > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just >> > too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel >> > first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheez

Re: can't log out and log back in after remove lxde

2014-06-13 Thread tom arnall
thanks very much for getting back to me. remainder inline On 6/13/14, Bob Proulx wrote: > tom arnall wrote: >> because i con't like unused software on my system and because i cdn't >> get the system to go automatically to ice when i login, i completely >> removed lxde. > > Sure. Does that inc

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:02:36PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:06:55 -0700 > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > Running updated Wheezy w/ Iceweasel 24.5.0 on a Thinkpad 420i. > > > > Every time I start the computer from a shutdown or wake it from > > hibernation Iceweasel opens and

Re: /etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread Cam Hutchison
Andrei POPESCU writes: >On Vi, 13 iun 14, 06:10:11, ML mail wrote: >> Thanks for your feedback. I believe my puppet changed the mode of this >> file for some unknown reason and I will reset it back to 644. >There's always a reason (whether intentional or bug or whatever). Do you >specify file

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > Son: What's a word processor Dad? > Dad: Well, you know what a food processor does to food, right? > Son: Ah!, I understand. Thanks Dad. Ah! That explains what happened on Ariel when Simon and River were to be taken away for "processing".

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/14 07:18, Brian wrote: > On Fri 13 Jun 2014 at 23:36:41 +0530, Murukesh Mohanan wrote: > >> That's about the bug report that led to all this: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298138 > > The usual complaint, I see. password1 is an insecure password for root > to use so

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: > I have no idea what you need to do to re-callibrate your /etc/localtime file. > Presumably "dpkg-reconfigure " but which package? It is the tzdata package. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata However... If there are some escape clauses for the user to manually configure things and

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 6/13/14, Lisi Reisz wrote: I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. I have taken to installing Google Chrome for peopl

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
Hmmm... Indeed! Looking at the websites that Bob suggested, I'm reminded that there is yet one more variable that could be affecting your setup: The file, /etc/localtime, is a copy of one of the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo. These are binary files that encode information about a timezone and a

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:28:31 +0100 Brian wrote: > It has cropped up on -user from time to time and the very strange > view that a password login is inherently insecure is sometimes > advanced. Well, if you raise the time between P/W attempts to, lets say 30 seconds, it'll take _some_ (looong) ti

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:02:06 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Just to plug a good tool I like using pwgen to generate truly > random passwords. A long random password is sufficiently > difficult to exploit. If you are using passwords that are easy to > crack then they should definitely be disabled. H

Re: can't log out and log back in after remove lxde

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
tom arnall wrote: > because i con't like unused software on my system and because i cdn't > get the system to go automatically to ice when i login, i completely > removed lxde. Sure. Does that include removing the graphical login manager too? That is usually one of xdm, gdm, gdm3, kdm, lightdm,

Re: MPD on localhost won't work if there's no Wifi!?

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > True. What do think about the lack of '127.0.1.1 localhost' in It is the "127.0.1.1 localhost" to which I was disagreeing. That would be unusual. It is still the loopback device so off the top of my head I think everything should still wor

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jun 2014 at 22:42:49 +0200, B wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:25:28 -0600 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Personally I always use a strong password for root, only very > > rarely log in as root using a password, > > mostly use ssh rsa keys with a strong passphrase for remotely > > loggin

Re: Re: Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jun 2014 at 23:36:41 +0530, Murukesh Mohanan wrote: > That's about the bug report that led to all this: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298138 The usual complaint, I see. password1 is an insecure password for root to use so we mustn't allow root to log in via ssh.

can't log out and log back in after remove lxde

2014-06-13 Thread tom arnall
because i con't like unused software on my system and because i cdn't get the system to go automatically to ice when i login, i completely removed lxde. everything is fine EXCEPT when i log out, the system doesn't return the login screen but just hangs and shows just the mouse cursor and the regul

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 June 2014 21:48:24 Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:21:54 +0100 > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just > > too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel > > first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Personally I always use a strong password for root, only very > > rarely log in as root using a password, > > mostly use ssh rsa keys with a strong passphrase for remotely > > logging in, but do allow remote root login. > > ? You don't need a password (except f

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 June 2014 20:34:12 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just > > too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel > > first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. > > > > Lisi > > Lis

Re: SOLVED was: Re: Networking an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax

2014-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 June 2014 20:11:37 Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/06/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 07 June 2014 08:35:14 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> Two questions. And yes, I am googling and RTFMing, but I am left with > >> two > >> immediate questions. And as of now I have not got access to the de

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:21:54 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just > too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel > first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. > > Lisi Hi Lisi, If the only problem is si

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Frandin wrote: > The TZ variable was unset.. Tried putting an "export TZ=PST8PDT" in > /etc/profile and the problem left... Had completely forgotten about that > piece of the puzzle.. Thanks all, for rebooting my brain.. Instead of setting TZ, the personal timezone configuration variable, it

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:25:28 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Personally I always use a strong password for root, only very > rarely log in as root using a password, > mostly use ssh rsa keys with a strong passphrase for remotely > logging in, but do allow remote root login. ? You don't need a password

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Angelico wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Rick Thomas wrote: > >> Have you tried "rdate -np" ? It does the same thing (pretty much) > >> as your "ntpdate -qu" > > > > The big problem with ntpdate and rdate is that they step the clock. > > That is only appropriate at boot time. > > But -q mean

Re: Re: Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Murukesh Mohanan wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > was documented in the /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/README.Debian.gz > > That's about the bug report that led to all this: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298138 I am familiar with that bug report. It is referenced in the README.

Re: SOLVED was: Re: Networking an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax

2014-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Jun 2014 at 03:11:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > 1. The use of the acronyms can make it difficult to understand such > messages. After a while, I believe that figured out the "AIO" (= All > in One?), but I do not understand the "ULD". If people could avoid the > use of acronyms, it would

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Lisi Reisz writes: > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just > too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel > first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. > > Lisi Lisi, it seems that all you really want is to browse all these sites, r

Re: MPD on localhost won't work if there's no Wifi!?

2014-06-13 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 Jun 2014 at 16:23:37 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Tom H wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > > Teresa e Junior wrote: > > > >> $ cat /etc/hostname > > > >> localhost > > ... > > True. What do think about the lack of '127.0.1.1 localhost' in > > etc/hosts? Squeeze and Wheezy in

Re: SOLVED was: Re: Networking an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax

2014-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 07 June 2014 08:35:14 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> Two questions. And yes, I am googling and RTFMing, but I am left with >> two >> immediate questions. And as of now I have not got access to the device >> and >> network in question. I am trying to do my "h

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Dom
On 13/06/14 18:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 13 iun 14, 08:32:29, Dave Frandin wrote: I think I might have found the problem.. $TZ was unset.. Dunno how/why.. Added a "export TZ='PST8PDT" to /etc/profile and the problem is gone... I'd completely forgotten about the TZ variable... Thanks for t

Re: Re: Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-13 Thread Murukesh Mohanan
> > If some ignoramus sets a weak password and get's exploited, because > > of a old default, I don't see why it should become my problem or > > yours. The Debian maintainers can set whatever default they chose > > to, as is their right, but why make a decision to ignore the user's > > right to ch

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 6/13/14, Lisi Reisz wrote: Subject: Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, June 13, 2014, 9:01 AM https://beta.ovoenergy.com/login I can't login on this one. There are many sites on which I can't shop (can't put things in the b

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

2014-06-13 Thread E:V:A
Andreas Leha wrote > thanks for all your suggestions and help. I chose to re-install now, as > I am not able to spend more time on this issue. > > Although I would have loved to know what caused the error in the end, > the re-install fixed it and was cheaper than a continued search for the > caus

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 08:32:29, Dave Frandin wrote: > I think I might have found the problem.. $TZ was unset.. Dunno how/why.. > Added a "export TZ='PST8PDT" to /etc/profile and the problem is gone... I'd > completely forgotten about the TZ variable... Thanks for the reboot of my > brain, everybody!!

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:06:55 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > Running updated Wheezy w/ Iceweasel 24.5.0 on a Thinkpad 420i. > > Every time I start the computer from a shutdown or wake it from > hibernation Iceweasel opens and I close it 6 consecutive times in > rapid succession. After the 6th time i

Re: Handy ls: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:45:21PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 08:55:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> ls -lart /var/log > > > > Quote button broken? > > Posting in my sleep -- forgetting that the subject line is not a

SOLVED was: Re: Networking an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax

2014-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 June 2014 08:35:14 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Two questions. And yes, I am googling and RTFMing, but I am left with two > immediate questions. And as of now I have not got access to the device and > network in question. I am trying to do my "homework" in advance. > > The AIO in question

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> If you want to compare the local clock with a remote system's clock (often >> called "skew"), the best way I know is with "ntpdate -qu". The "offset" it >> mentions is the difference be

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:07:43 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > Aren't you confounding sept and neuf (cats have nine lives, même à > Paris)? Naaa, this is world crisis: even cats had to reduce their way of death ;-p) -- Joy: Lets fork cat! :) Joy: imagine a big pitchfork and a dead kitten on top of

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-12, B wrote: > > If it had been 7 times, we could have call it catweasel :) Aren't you confounding sept and neuf (cats have nine lives, même à Paris)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:21:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > However, going through the tutorial is a must, especially if one is > > transitioning from word processors, otherwise you'll be very frustrated > > that pressing Ent

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:28:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > That was more of a joke and I meant no disrespect to any of the > JACK contributors. Also, my argument still stands: a programmer is > not necessarily a good systems administrator. When you build a team, it is quite like a car run: you a

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > That was more of a joke and I meant no disrespect to any of the JACK=20 > contributors. Also, my argument still stands: a programmer is not=20 > necessarily a good systems administrator. > "A programmer is not necessarily a good programmer." - Mai Pewter

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Dave Frandin
The TZ variable was unset.. Tried putting an "export TZ=PST8PDT" in /etc/profile and the problem left... Had completely forgotten about that piece of the puzzle.. Thanks all, for rebooting my brain.. LVDave

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Dave Frandin
I think I might have found the problem.. $TZ was unset.. Dunno how/why.. Added a "export TZ='PST8PDT" to /etc/profile and the problem is gone... I'd completely forgotten about the TZ variable... Thanks for the reboot of my brain, everybody!! LVdave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: /etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 06:10:11, ML mail wrote: > Thanks for your feedback. I believe my puppet changed the mode of this > file for some unknown reason and I will reset it back to 644. There's always a reason (whether intentional or bug or whatever). Do you specify file mode in your modules? Kind re

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 10:34:57, The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/13/2014 10:01 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > There are many sites on which I can't shop (can't put things in the > > basket). Here is an example of that: > > > > http://www.damart.co.uk/F-10068-thermal-tops/P-63701--pack-of-2-french-neck-vests

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:01:05 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >There are many sites on which I can't shop (can't put things in the >basket). Here is an example of that: >http://www.damart.co.uk/F-10068-thermal-tops/P-63701--pack-of-2-french-neck-vests Works for me, using Iceweasel 30.0. --

Re: /etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-13, ML mail wrote: > Thanks for your feedback. I believe my puppet changed the mode of this > file for some unknown reason and I will reset it back to 644. > Those damn puppets; I got rid of mine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: [0.5 OT] How to grab some entry by command line

2014-06-13 Thread davidson
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, lina wrote: Hi, I wish to grab part of the CDS entry from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KF699528.2 namely, "MLDHSSVNSTIAPGNLLNLPVWCYLLETEEGPILVDTGMPESAV NNEGLFNGTFVEGQILPKMTEEDRIVNILKRVG

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/13/2014 10:01 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2014 11:57:18 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Vi, 13 iun 14, 10:21:54, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >>> I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( >>> Just too many sites won

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 15:01:05, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > https://beta.ovoenergy.com/login > > I can't login on this one. Neither can I, but then I don't have credentials for it :p, but if I provide some random credentials I get replies (e.g. "Sorry, that's not quite right"). I tried this with icewe

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 June 2014 11:57:18 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Do you have all updates? Wheezy currently has 24.4.0esr-1~deb7u2 (via > the security archive). Sorry, I didn't answer that bit. I have: Version: 24.5.0esr-1~deb7u1 according to . And 24.5.0 according to Iceweasel itself. Lisi -- To U

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 June 2014 11:57:18 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 13 iun 14, 10:21:54, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just too > > many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or > > can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheez

Re: /etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread ML mail
Thanks for your feedback. I believe my puppet changed the mode of this file for some unknown reason and I will reset it back to 644. On Friday, June 13, 2014 12:53 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 13 iun 14, 01:46:03, ML mail wrote: > Hello, > > On my system the /etc/mailname file has permi

Re: Handy ls: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 08:55:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> ls -lart /var/log > > Quote button broken? Posting in my sleep -- forgetting that the subject line is not always exactly visible. So: > Re: Handy ls: was Should I install chkrootk

Re: Signature of wheezy's linux source package

2014-06-13 Thread Simon Hollenbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13/06/2014 14:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 13 iun 14, 14:10:12, Simon Hollenbach wrote: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751480 > > I think it would help if you would mention exactly the issues you > had with the packag

Re: xcb-util-image

2014-06-13 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:33:24PM +0530, shishir tiwari wrote: > when we compile xcb-util-image its say that xcb-util is missing. but > we have already "xcb-util 0.3.9" is installed . still we are face this > issue. Since this is during compiling, my first guess would be that you need the relev

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-13 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:21:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > However, going through the tutorial is a must, especially if one is > transitioning from word processors, otherwise you'll be very frustrated > that pressing Enter twice doesn't have the effect you are used to :) Even in modern w

Re: Signature of wheezy's linux source package

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 14:10:12, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > > I just filed a wishlist bug for this: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751480 > I felt like not needing to explain the request in great lengths, if > anyone of you can contribute further information, I would really > appr

Re: Signature of wheezy's linux source package

2014-06-13 Thread Simon Hollenbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13/06/2014 12:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 13 iun 14, 12:07:00, Simon Hollenbach wrote: >> I am asking myself why the updated debian-keyring package is not >> available from wheezy-backports repository. Can someone shed some >> light on thi

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 04:38:16, Rusi Mody wrote: > > The way I do it, every time apt 'upgrades' iceweasel I run the > following script. > > Assumes firefox (direct download) is in /opt/firefox > > -- > $ cat bin/firefox-afterUpgrade > # replace iceweasel by forefox > # should be run

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, June 13, 2014 3:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just too > many > sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I have > both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. I have been running this for th

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 10:21:54, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just too > many > sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I have > both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. Do you have all updates? Wheezy currently has 24.

Re: /etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 01:46:03, ML mail wrote: > Hello, > > On my system the /etc/mailname file has permission 600 and some tools Both my wheezy and sid installs have 644. > such as git tries to access to this file. Due to this restrictive > permission it can't access it. Now what should be the pe

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 00:42:26, B wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:25:20 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > - hardware clock: the time of your computer's internal clock, > > should be UTC, but local time is also possible > > - system time: the system's internal reference, is always UTC, is > >

Re: Signature of wheezy's linux source package

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 12:07:00, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > On 12/06/2014 21:39, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Matthias Großmann wrote: > >> after downloading the most recent linux source package for wheezy > >> on my wheezy system, I noticed that dpkg-source fails to verify its > >> sign

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 03:47:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 13:22 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Well, they're Pro Audio developers not Pro Admins :p > > I heard that one of those Linux audio coders was responsible for the > software of a famous, if not the most famous internati

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Kruppt
On 2014-06-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( > Just too many > sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall > Iceweasel first or can I have > both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. > > Lisi > > Yes you can have both. Just install the Firefo

xcb-util-image

2014-06-13 Thread shishir tiwari
Package : xcb-util-image version : 0.3.9 when we compile xcb-util-image its say that xcb-util is missing. but we have already "xcb-util 0.3.9" is installed . still we are face this issue. What need to be done here?? xcb-util-image 0.3.9 Configuring Package xorg-macros was not found in the

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 01:46:27, B wrote: > > There's also a word processor WYSIWYG spiting Latex > (don't remember its name, though); but it is better > to learn it manually because this way possibilities > are endless. If you mean LyX then it's WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) not WYSI

Re: Signature of wheezy's linux source package

2014-06-13 Thread Simon Hollenbach
On 12/06/2014 21:39, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Matthias Großmann wrote: >> after downloading the most recent linux source package for wheezy >> on my wheezy system, I noticed that dpkg-source fails to verify its >> signature: > [...] >> I would expect everything required to verify

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/13/14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( > Just too many sites won't talk to me. > Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I > have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. I have taken to installing Google Chrome for people - it's too much h

Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

/etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread ML mail
Hello, On my system the /etc/mailname file has permission 600 and some tools such as git tries to access to this file. Due to this restrictive permission it can't access it. Now what should be the permission of this file on a Debian 7 wheezy server? I guess 644 should be fine, there is in my op

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > If you want to compare the local clock with a remote system's clock (often > called "skew"), the best way I know is with "ntpdate -qu". The "offset" it > mentions is the difference between your clock and the remote clock. Sadly, > "rdate -n