Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... and the next version, which gets me down to 61 missing files. it is getting late so i'll have to take another look at this again later... = #!/bin/sh # # debarch="/archives/debian/jessie" dest="/var/cache/apt/archives" pkglist=`dpkg -l | egrep '^ii ' | cut --de

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ok, figured the four that are missing and generating null file names are local or obsolete packages that i have installed... that i can work around. new version of script (with some simple changes to make things go faster and to make it more flexible for other uses): = #

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
my own experience, after reading all the words from those for and against it is seeing the actual code working. this past week it came through Debian testing and installed just fine, i've had zero issues with it so far. in fact the boot time is faster and the shutdown is also faster.

a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory and while i do keep a backup of them in another directory it is along with all the previous versions too, so it isn't as easy as just copying them. instead i have to figure out which is the

Re: IP address of diskless workstation expiriing

2014-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Darac Marjal wrote: > The problem that I have is that the ip address that the workstation > gets at boot has a finite "valid_lft" (as seen in `ip a`). When this > lifetime runs out, the IP is removed from the interface. Now, I > think DHCP does try to pick up at that point, but the root file > syst

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-17 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/17/2014 07:14 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 iul 14, 06:59:53, Virgo Pärna wrote: >> >> I'm actually using both service ... and /etc/init.d/... to restart >> service. Last one is good to use, if I cannot remember if it is >> graylist

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony Baldwin wrote: > What else can I do to diagnose this issue and/or, of course, resolve it? I think this must be something other than mutt. In your description you didn't mention how you were sending email and therefore I know you weren't looking at that part of things. I suspect it is in the

Re: Suspend button greyed out on Xfce on Sid

2014-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 17 Jul 18:58 -0500, José Silva wrote: > I noticed the same but another upgrade today cured the problem. Before doing an upgrade a few minutes ago, the notification popped up the following message after the laptop came out of suspend and I looged back into the desktop from XScreensaver:

Re: [SOLVED!! Hopefully] Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...REVISITED

2014-07-17 Thread A_man_without_clue
On Friday, 18 July, 2014 02:02 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:43:31 +0900 Man_Without_Clue wrote: Now, it Works!!! Actually, I have done this before. I don't know why it worked now, did not before Thank you! Thank you Thank you! You

Re: Suspend button greyed out on Xfce on Sid

2014-07-17 Thread José Silva
On 17/07/14 20:52, Nate Bargmann wrote: I did another "upgrade" a couple of days ago and now Xfce has no idea that power management exists. This is manifested by the logout dialog not having options for suspend and hibernate in it any more and the custom session buttons on my taskbar which have

Re: Twitter-Client

2014-07-17 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/2014 03:09 PM, wi wrote: > Hi you all, > > can you tell me a working twitter-client for debian wheezy? I use icedove since pidgin-microblog no longer works with twitter. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Co

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 iul 14, 06:59:53, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > I'm actually using both service ... and /etc/init.d/... to restart > service. Last one is good to use, if I cannot remember if it is graylist > or graylistd or greylist or greylistd. 'service' also has tab completion. Not sure if this is be

Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6

2014-07-17 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Dear List, I'd like to know if using Google Chrome is safe nowadays. Because I couldn't update to the latest version since Google ended supporting the Debian 6. :( I wouldn't update to Wheezy - because I waiting for Jessy. Please help! Thanks

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:41:20PM +0200, Anthony Baldwin wrote: > Hi, > I am unable to send mail with mutt from my home desktop, either through > one of my own domains (this one, myownsite.me), or through gmx.com's SMTP > server. > Furthermore, I can send through both with mutt when I login into t

NetworkManager/OpenConnect broken on jessie?

2014-07-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Yesterday evening I used NetworkManager and OpenConnect to connect to my employer's VPN. (I use Xfce if that's relevant.) I then installed several updates, including dbus and a couple libnm packages, and I then shut down the system for the night. This morning NetworkManager didn't list that VPN.

mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-17 Thread Anthony Baldwin
Hi, I am unable to send mail with mutt from my home desktop, either through one of my own domains (this one, myownsite.me), or through gmx.com's SMTP server. Furthermore, I can send through both with mutt when I login into the myownsite server (hosted in Germany by contabo.com) just fine. So, I hav

Re: Replacement for dspam

2014-07-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jochen Spieker: > Erwan David: >> >> dspam being removed from debian, I am looking for a replacement, that is : >> an email content filter, working on server with per user rules and >> possibly compatible with dovecot-antispam for training. > > I am looking as well. Dovecot-antispam supports crm1

Re: How to add package sources?

2014-07-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Jul 2014 at 12:09:27 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:24:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > .snip > > > > Consider using > > > >deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free

Re: Twitter-Client

2014-07-17 Thread Rick Valenzuela
> Hi you all, > > can you tell me a working twitter-client for debian wheezy? I like Ttytter. Runs well in the background, and if I see somthing I really want to search more about, I use a web browser. .rv -- Rick Valenzuela photojournalist :: videojournalist Phnom Penh, Cambodia +855 92 470

Re: Replacement for dspam

2014-07-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Erwan David: > > dspam being removed from debian, I am looking for a replacement, that is : > an email content filter, working on server with per user rules and > possibly compatible with dovecot-antispam for training. I am looking as well. Dovecot-antispam supports crm114 which I used with great

Re: What do you guys use instead of youtube-dl and minitube?

2014-07-17 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/12/2014 02:26 PM, Siard wrote: Steve Litt wrote: As far as I can see, Wheezy has no package for either youtube-dl or minitube. What are you guys using to fill that need? AFAIR, youtube-dl was not admitted to stable because it is subject to changes, due to changes in YouTube itself. This

Re: Suspend button greyed out on Xfce on Sid

2014-07-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nate Bargmann: > > I did another "upgrade" a couple of days ago and now Xfce has no idea > that power management exists. This is manifested by the logout dialog > not having options for suspend and hibernate in it any more and the > custom session buttons on my taskbar which have Logout, Lock, Sus

Re: Suspend button greyed out on Xfce on Sid

2014-07-17 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:52:37 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > logout dialog not having options for suspend and hibernate in it The same here (sid, msi laptop). -- Wink : 2s, I'll be back in 10 minutes Mysterius : captain Kirk, a temporal singularity starboard! signature.asc Description: PGP sign

Suspend button greyed out on Xfce on Sid

2014-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
I did another "upgrade" a couple of days ago and now Xfce has no idea that power management exists. This is manifested by the logout dialog not having options for suspend and hibernate in it any more and the custom session buttons on my taskbar which have Logout, Lock, Suspend, Reboot, and Shutdow

Re: Twitter-Client

2014-07-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
wi: > > can you tell me a working twitter-client for debian wheezy? I am not really into Twitter but the last thing I heard was that Twitter essentially shuts out clients from its API as soon as they are successful. The developers have to pay a fee when their software is widely used. So I would n

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:26:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:43:00 + (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > > >> BTW, about "bupsky" script you shared with me... It's very nice while >> working with files in console, like using vim, or nano, or anything >> like this. I do mos

Twitter-Client

2014-07-17 Thread wi
Hi you all, can you tell me a working twitter-client for debian wheezy? Thank you, Lars -- wi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140717210917.89

Re: How to add package sources?

2014-07-17 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:24:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > .snip > > > Consider using > > >deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free > > > > debian.net and not debian.org?? > > "It's cool!" :-) Vis

Re: [SOLVED!! Hopefully] Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...REVISITED

2014-07-17 Thread Tom Ashley
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:43:31 +0900 Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Now, it Works!!! > > Actually, I have done this before. > I don't know why it worked now, did not before > > Thank you! > Thank you Thank you! > > > You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: android connection

2014-07-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Esther Carillo writes: > On 2014-07-12, François Patte wrote: >> I don't know anything to android but I have to connect an android >> device to a computer. > > I run a smbd server on my desktop and ES File Explorer app on my phone. > Scanning my network with the app detects the Samba share and I

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:43:00 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > BTW, about "bupsky" script you shared with me... It's very nice while > working with files in console, like using vim, or nano, or anything > like this. I do most of my file editing work in GUI editors. So, in > this case it's

Re: android connection

2014-07-17 Thread Esther Carillo
On 2014-07-12, François Patte wrote: > I don't know anything to android but I have to connect an android > device to a computer. I run a smbd server on my desktop and ES File Explorer app on my phone. Scanning my network with the app detects the Samba share and I can up/download files wirelessly

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-17 Thread John Bleichert
On 07/17/2014 10:12 AM, John Bleichert wrote: The Nvidia drivers have been removed from testing since they are not compatible with xorg-server 1.16[1,2,3]. Stick to your current 1.15 X server or switch to nouveau. Were you talking about the release clients with the [1,2,3] - sorry, didn't

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-17 Thread John Bleichert
On 07/17/2014 01:49 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-07-17 01:53 +0200, Jonas Lippuner wrote: It looks like the nvidia-driver package disappeared from testing/jessie. When I try to install it from sid, it complains about broken dependencies. Anybody else seeing this? Anybody know how to fix it

[SOLVED!! Hopefully] Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...REVISITED

2014-07-17 Thread Man_Without_Clue
On 07/17/2014 06:54 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:24:06 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/16/2014 8:41 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: On 07/15/2014 11:34 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-07-15, ken wrote: How about this: After moving your own ~/.Skype/ somewhere temporarily, copy your w

Re: System Temperature sensing

2014-07-17 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:06:50 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 07/16/2014 07:42 PM, B wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:24:01 -0700 > > Marc Shapiro wrote: … > > Install a widget that graphically display CPU(s) usage. > Psensors does this. Top also gives CPU usage. PLS, insert a blank line wh

IP address of diskless workstation expiriing

2014-07-17 Thread Darac Marjal
Hello all, I'm in the process of setting up a diskless workstation. Both the workstation and the server are running Jessie and are up-to-date. The problem that I have is that the ip address that the workstation gets at boot has a finite "valid_lft" (as seen in `ip a`). When this lifetime runs out,

Re: error on sid laptop: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493.....085 does not exist.

2014-07-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nick Lidakis: > > [ 2468.452915] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code > [ 2468.452919] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] > [ 2468.452922] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK > [ 2468.452926] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: > [ 2468.452928] Read(10): 28 00 03 7e 20 00 00 00 08 00 > [ 2468.452940] end_

Re: ip address on dhcp client

2014-07-17 Thread rajiv chavan
On 7/17/14, rajiv chavan wrote: > Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:21:19 +0530 > > Mett: > > Modem has ports 23,80,5431. Ssh may not be an option. > > > > On 7/15/14, mett wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:33:11 +0530 >> rajiv chavan wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:53:06 +0530 >>> - Hide quoted text - >>

Re: ip address on dhcp client

2014-07-17 Thread rajiv chavan
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:21:19 +0530 Mett: Modem has ports 23,80,5431. Ssh may not be an option. On 7/15/14, mett wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:33:11 +0530 > rajiv chavan wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:53:06 +0530 >> - Hide quoted text - >> rajiv chavan wrote: >> >> > Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:2

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-17 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:49:51 +0200 schreef Sven Joachim : On 2014-07-17 01:53 +0200, Jonas Lippuner wrote: It looks like the nvidia-driver package disappeared from testing/jessie. When I try to install it from sid, it complains about broken dependencies. Anybody else seeing this? Anybody know