Re: Debian policy on alternate init systems

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:11:56AM -0400, Marty wrote: > d-nukem (bold) Could be confused with Duke Nukem! A better name would be system-downgrade -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressin

Re: PHP memory limit upper bound

2014-10-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
Left these off:- not sure if the following is relevant given your "patch" http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-php-fatal-error-allowed-memory-size/ http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.memory_limit suhosin.memory_limit Type: Integer Default: 0 As long scripts ar

Re: PHP memory limit upper bound

2014-10-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/10/14 02:57, Grigor Kolev wrote: >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I need to set the PHP memory limit to more than 512 MB and found that I > >>> can't. Is this caused by the Suhosin patch (my guess), and how to get > >>> around it? > >>> > >>> (I tried to set suhosin.memory_limit to 1024M: no c

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 09:06:17PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > > As such, I'm not clear how this incident is in any way relevant to the > complaint implicit in the remark "And all these things are named as "systemd > alternative" in Debian now and as argument that the systemd is not only one > pos

Re: Data from a serial port

2014-10-02 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
On 10/01/2014 03:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:26:48PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I have an Avery Berkel POS [Point Of Sale] scale which I wish to integrate into a POS system. The output is sent to a RS232 port. I do not know how to extract the data.

Re: apt update problems

2014-10-02 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 10/02/2014 07:19 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 03 Oct 2014 at 00:15:32 +0100, Brian wrote: You have a very poorly /etc/apt/sources/list. Please post its contents. /etc/apt/sources.list I did not see an update file int the ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distribu

Re: apt update problems

2014-10-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Oct 2014 at 00:15:32 +0100, Brian wrote: > You have a very poorly /etc/apt/sources/list. Please post its contents. /etc/apt/sources.list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: apt update problems

2014-10-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Oct 2014 at 18:36:04 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Failed to fetch > ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: > 128.118.2.96 21] Copy and paste ftp://carrol

Re: [solved] fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-10-02 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 17:47:43 +1000 Charlie sent: > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:33:43 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: > Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires > gvfs). > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Charlie > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:41 -

apt update problems

2014-10-02 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I upgraded weezy to the latest 7.6 version. I have not been able to get any updates since then. I tried to get updates today and this is what I got instead. The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the f

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-10-02 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 25-09-14 13:04, Paul van der Vlis schreef: > Hello, > > I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting > services while booting, and on some machines I don't see them. > > Can somebody explain me how this works? I have the idea that I don't see > messages on fast machines

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:20:26PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:16:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Thanks Jonathan. I use Docker from time to time, but never knew about > > LXC. If I use LXC experimentally, what's a good, simple, proof of > > concept use case?

Re: Creating forlders in Gnome Shell 3.12 without Gnome Software

2014-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:17:47AM -0400, Wash-N-Go wrote: > down here, only callous libertarian cattlemen and suspicious > laundromat proprietors can hear your cries (and, i suppose, people > whose email clients don't understand threads). :) I enjoyed that. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:16:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Thanks Jonathan. I use Docker from time to time, but never knew about > LXC. If I use LXC experimentally, what's a good, simple, proof of > concept use case? Well it isn't doing anything useful but I created a generic linux guest using

Re: PHP memory limit upper bound

2014-10-02 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/2/2014 12:57 PM, Grigor Kolev wrote: >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I need to set the PHP memory limit to more than 512 MB and found that I > >>> can't. Is this caused by the Suhosin patch (my guess), and how to get > >>> around it? > >>> > >>> (I tried to set suhosin.memory_limit to 1024M:

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 02 oct 14, 11:15:58, The Wanderer wrote: > > If I'm understanding matters correctly, the problem that caused the > current bad situation isn't something that would be addressed by > coordinating releases. It would have to require coordinating migration > from unstable to testing, which AFAI

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:01:34 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > There's the real problem, and the one that has stopped me in the > > past -- hardware to set up the dev and test environments. The > > hardware I have might be able to handle

Re: Re: PHP memory limit upper bound

2014-10-02 Thread Grigor Kolev
>> Hi all, >> >> I need to set the PHP memory limit to more than 512 MB and found that I >> can't. Is this caused by the Suhosin patch (my guess), and how to get >> around it? >> >> (I tried to set suhosin.memory_limit to 1024M: no change. Was told that >> php5-suhosin might be more configurable

Re: [SOLVED] Re: mirror does not support the specified release (jessie)

2014-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:09:17PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > OK, it was a networking issue; the name server was unavailable. > Shame about the unhelpful error message :( Glad you solved it - my reply to that effect seems to have not made it to the list, probably PEBKAC on my part. -- To

Re: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt

2014-10-02 Thread Joe
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 10:42:11 + (UTC) Angus MacGyver wrote: > > > Subject: Re: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt > > > > > > Am 02.10.2014 um 11:33 schrieb Angus MacGyver > > : > > > > > I am also in that same position as Tobias'- and I suspect others > > > as well. > > > >

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/02/2014 at 09:55 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > From: "Jonathan Dowland" > >> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:08:37PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >>> To me, a non-expert user, what sense does this make? >> >> jessie is still in development, it has not b

Re: gpg errors NO_PUBKEY after aptitude update

2014-10-02 Thread Valery Mamonov
Yes, that solution is more secure, as I think 02 окт. 2014 г. 1:08 пользователь "Floris" написал: > Op Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:18:10 +0200 schreef Valery Mamonov < > valerymamo...@gmail.com>: > > > > 2014-10-01 11:02 GMT+04:00 Ansgar Burchardt : > >> severity 647001 important >> thanks >> >> Hi, >>

Re: Creating forlders in Gnome Shell 3.12 without Gnome Software

2014-10-02 Thread Jape Person
On 10/02/2014 10:17 AM, Wash-N-Go wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, filorin wrote: Hi there ! howdy, pardner. I spent too much time on the Internet to find how to create folders in Gnome Shell. i gather you did not intend to reply to the thread regarding security cameras. i imagine, instead, th

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:22:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > You need to be root for synaptic to work. When you start synaptic, > > it should ask you to enter the root -- not your user -- password. > > That depends on whether the OP configured a root pa

Re: Creating forlders in Gnome Shell 3.12 without Gnome Software

2014-10-02 Thread Wash-N-Go
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, filorin wrote: Hi there ! howdy, pardner. I spent too much time on the Internet to find how to create folders in Gnome Shell. i gather you did not intend to reply to the thread regarding security cameras. i imagine, instead, that you meant to begin a new thread. perha

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Dowland" > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:08:37PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > To me, a non-expert user, what sense does this make? > > jessie is still in development, it has not been released. If you are unduly > concerned by running an in-development

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/02/2014 at 07:24 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > >> On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:08:37, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >>> Looking up the documentation of the package, I see: >>>

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > There's the real problem, and the one that has stopped me in the past -- > > hardware to set up the dev and test environments. The hardware I have might > > be able to handle chroots, but i

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:08:37PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > To me, a non-expert user, what sense does this make? jessie is still in development, it has not been released. If you are unduly concerned by running an in-development suite, stick to stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > There's the real problem, and the one that has stopped me in the past -- > hardware to set up the dev and test environments. The hardware I have might > be able to handle chroots, but it won't do VMs. Too old. LXC is worth a look. --

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/01 21:29 "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" : > > On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Joel Rees wrote: > > Should I use this as my excuse to actually join the dev team, in spite of > > my misgivings about systemd and the API creep? > > Only if you promisse me you are never going to mention systemd again on the

Re: Enabling a second graphic card

2014-10-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 01.10.2014 17:26, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2014-10-01 16:39 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have recently acquired 2 (identical, 4/3 shaped) screens, so I combined them with my current favorite screen on a computer which have 2 graphic cards, but it seems that Debian did n

Re: Debian policy on alternate init systems

2014-10-02 Thread Marty
On 09/28/2014 08:20 PM, Marty wrote: On 09/28/2014 09:25 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: As a disclaimer, the easy path to continued across board interoperability may have been successfully addressed in a Debian-User email that is simply waiting its turn to be read.. I'm saving it for my next m

Re: Enabling a second graphic card

2014-10-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 01.10.2014 18:51, Gábor Hársfalvi a écrit : Hi, Do you use SLI? If answer is yes ->  http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/guide-how-to-enable-use-and-configure-sli-on-linux.52953 [6] is the first thing, what you need. After that I had to use my /etc/default/grub with "vmalloc=320" p

Creating forlders in Gnome Shell 3.12 without Gnome Software

2014-10-02 Thread filorin
Hi there ! I spent too much time on the Internet to find how to create folders in Gnome Shell. At the beginning, there was a simple methode, using the gsettings option, by creating some folders with the name of categories (appeared in GS 3.8). But, it seems that since Gnome Software exists, a

Re: Enabling a second graphic card

2014-10-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.10.2014 03:11, Ric Moore a écrit : On 10/01/2014 10:39 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Does anyone knows if nouveau is supports a configuration with 2 graphic cards, or do I have to install NVidia's drivers to do the job? Does someone have some links to documents which could e

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:08:37, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Looking up the documentation of the package, I see: > > - > > Description: shim for systemd > > This package emulates the systemd function that are required to run

Re: security camera software/RPi

2014-10-02 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-01, Curt wrote: > > Here's a howto about the RPi as a surveillance camera that seems decent > (I've read that all French nuclear power plants have switched to RPi > surveillance due to budget limitations*). > >:-) > > *maybe that's why those Greenpeace people parachute in so easily. >

Re: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt

2014-10-02 Thread Angus MacGyver
> Subject: Re: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt > > > Am 02.10.2014 um 11:33 schrieb Angus MacGyver > : > > > I am also in that same position as Tobias'- and I suspect others as > > well. > > > > So - has anyone got a method for a fix yet ? > > I tried the following and it wo

Re: Enabling a second graphic card

2014-10-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 01.10.2014 23:16, Floris a écrit : Op Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:39:56 +0200 schreef : Hello. I have recently acquired 2 (identical, 4/3 shaped) screens, so I combined them with my current favorite screen on a computer which have 2 graphic cards, but it seems that Debian did not enabled the

Re: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt

2014-10-02 Thread Cyscon
Am 02.10.2014 um 11:33 schrieb Angus MacGyver : > I am also in that same position as Tobias'- and I suspect others as well. > > So - has anyone got a method for a fix yet ? I tried the following and it works for me: I removed squeeze-lts from sources.list apt-get update apt-get upgrade afterw

RE: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt

2014-10-02 Thread Angus MacGyver
I am also in that same position as Tobias'- and I suspect others as well. So - has anyone got a method for a fix yet ? I thought about pulling off debian-archive-keyring package, but that tells me I could be about to really do damage to my system, so I (i think sensibly) refrained. I did try

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:08:37, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Looking up the documentation of the package, I see: > > - > Description: shim for systemd > This package emulates the systemd function that are required to run the > systemd > helpers without using the init service > -- >

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:22:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > You need to be root for synaptic to work. When you start synaptic, it > should ask you to enter the root -- not your user -- password. That depends on whether the OP configured a root password during installation. If not the password of the

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-10-02 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:33:43 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs). > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Charlie > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:41 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: > > Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/