Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 02:50:12PM -0300, Andre N Batista wrote: > > But if what you need is authority arguing for authority, instead of > useless user words, well that's what's happening here: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00061.html > > If you were able to read beyond the

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody wrote: > On Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:40:01 PM UTC+5:30, Nate Bargmann > wrote: > > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my > > laptop running Sid

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:40:01 PM UTC+5:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my laptop > running Sid but find that even with xfce4-power-manager suspend nor > hibernate ar

Re: [exim4] rewrite left hand of email on outgoing mail

2014-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Dowland writes: > My sympathies, I don't think it's an obvious location (ie outside of > /etc/exim4) and I recall feeling similar when I eventually stumbled > over it. > >> On 18 Oct 2014, at 00:52, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> So, I just insert things the way I want them... and restart e

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/10/14 02:29, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 18/10/14 23:28, Peter Nieman wrote: >>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. >>> >>> You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask >>>

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2014 4:41 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:15:16 -0400 > Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > >> >> You obviously don't understand. MX records identify MTAs - that is, >> machines which can receive email. MUAs cannot do that. >> >> To identify an MUA with an MX record would be a violation o

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Andre N Batista
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 09:17:48PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:44:23 -0500 > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my > > laptop running Sid but find that even w

Re: Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:25:12 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Nice! > > This was exactly the kind of stuff I've been looking for. I'll probably > ask you more about it later. > > One look at /etc/wpa_supplicant/functions.sh tells me that > wpa_supplicant is a daemon that's begging to be managed

Re: Lots of updates? OK?

2014-10-18 Thread Andre N Batista
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 09:46:38PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:18:21 -0700 > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > My wheezy system shows 34 packages updated since I last checked, which > > I think was yesterday. Is this legitimate? I got a security warning > > about the keys when I first che

"kworker" writes to disc every 5 seconds on battery

2014-10-18 Thread Teresa e Junior
Hello! I have noticed that my current setup of Chrome writes to disc every second. While hunting for the problem, I have found an old bug report on Google Code about this, and from my tests I concluded my solution for now would be to run Chrome with its profile and cache in a tmpfs. Problem sol

Re: Lots of updates? OK?

2014-10-18 Thread Joe
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:18:21 -0700 Ross Boylan wrote: > My wheezy system shows 34 packages updated since I last checked, which > I think was yesterday. Is this legitimate? I got a security warning > about the keys when I first checked, but that went away after I did > another aptitude update.

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: > The process, the questions it asked, and the automatic collection of > my computer's configuration made submitting the bug trivial. *Every* > project should have one of these. Unfortunately as soon as you mention email their ears close up. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com

Re: Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:20:29 +0100 Keith Peter wrote: > Hello > > On my Jessie laptop with sysvinit, X and IceWM updated to today > installing wicd with --no-install-recommends brings dbus, > wpasupplicant and wireless-tools with it. > > So I just use wpasupplicant in roaming mode with wpa-gtk

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-18 Thread Joe
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:15:16 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > You obviously don't understand. MX records identify MTAs - that is, > machines which can receive email. MUAs cannot do that. > > To identify an MUA with an MX record would be a violation of the > domain name system. > And I'm reaso

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Joe
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:44:23 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my > laptop running Sid but find that even with xfce4-power-manager > suspend nor hibernate are available any

Lots of updates? OK?

2014-10-18 Thread Ross Boylan
My wheezy system shows 34 packages updated since I last checked, which I think was yesterday. Is this legitimate? I got a security warning about the keys when I first checked, but that went away after I did another aptitude update. I haven't installed any of the new packages yet. The update see

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:30:27 +0100 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 18.10.2014 16:14, Brian a écrit : > > Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have > > to do > > with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a > > non-existent problem. > > Db

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:19:26 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > I guess that claws uses (lib)dbus to notify dbus-compliant > > softwares that there is a new mail. > > Also claws might get a signal from (for example) network-manager if > there is a connection

Re: Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-18 Thread Keith Peter
On 17 October 2014 13:02, Pete Orrall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The first task of my project is done. Openbox is systemd-free, and is >> intended to be systemd free. So that will form the GUI foundation. I'll >> come back in the next few days wit

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:16:04 +0100 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 18.10.2014 16:29, Peter Nieman a écrit : > > As far as I am concerned, I don't have the time right now to learn > > the officially accepted procedures of filing bug reports in Debian > > Just run bugreport (or is it repo

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/16/2014 9:25 PM, lee wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: > >> On 10/12/2014 10:24 PM, lee wrote: >>> Jerry Stuckle writes: >>> Among other things, legitimate MTAs have MX records. Anti-spam routines >>> >>> Who prevents a MUA from having an MX record and sending a HELO that >>> matches th

Re: update tool

2014-10-18 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 10/18/2014 05:07 PM, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-10-18 14:24 keltezéssel, Diogene Laerce írta: >>> There are several: apticron, cron-apt, unattended-upgrades and I see >>> update-notifier is being replaced with gnome-packagekit. >> >> I was looking for a portable and simple way to notify the

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 18 October 2014 18:50:12 Andre N Batista wrote: > Beside the quotes on top, I've seen you say this same mantra over and > over the past months on your battle to shut down any complaining related > to the rabbit. Your main line has been from the start: devs are so cute, No, devs do the

All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my laptop running Sid but find that even with xfce4-power-manager suspend nor hibernate are available any more unless I install the policykit-1 package recommended by the

Re: Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Dowland writes: > Did you not see Lisi's answer to the last time you asked this > question? This is an open list. He probably is not subscribed. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Robert Pommrich writes: > Why do you just ask the sirs and not the madams, too? Most likely because he is not a native speaker of english and that was what he was taught to use as a polite form of address. > Is it for the same reason that you are not able or willing to find out > the answer to yo

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Andre N Batista
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:20:25AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2014 21:09:59 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > On Friday 17 October 2014 18:30:31 Andre N Batista wrote:

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, berenge...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 18.10.2014 16:14, Brian a écrit : > > Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have to > > do > > with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a > > non-existent problem.

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Marko Ranđelović
Great, but that's Gentoo way, we should have made a Gentuish Debian, i.e. port certain portage features into APT, such as easily control build flgas. But then it's needed to keep record of not which packages a package depends on, but which parts of which packages a package depends on, though I'm no

Re: Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:24:35PM +0530, Nilesh Kumar wrote: > Sir, can you tell whether Cinnamon desktop environment is available in > jessie release or not. Did you not see Lisi's answer to the last time you asked this question? https://lists.debian.org/201410171545.12315.lisi.re...@gmail.com

Re: Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-18 Thread Robert Pommrich
Why do you just ask the sirs and not the madams, too? Is it for the same reason that you are not able or willing to find out the answer to your simple question just by yourself? On 18 October 2014 18:54:35 CEST, Nilesh Kumar wrote: >Sir, can you tell whether Cinnamon desktop environment is avai

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I guess that claws uses (lib)dbus to notify dbus-compliant softwares > that there is a new mail. Also claws might get a signal from (for example) network-manager if there is a connection available to toggle its offline/online mode to avoid unnecessary trie

Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-18 Thread Nilesh Kumar
Sir, can you tell whether Cinnamon desktop environment is available in jessie release or not. -- Nilesh Kumar

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2014 16:14, Brian a écrit : Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have to do with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a non-existent problem. Dbus is (a crap, but not only) a tool to allow applications to share informations with other app

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/10/14 16:29, Peter Nieman wrote: And I don't understand "TIA", unless it's Spanish. "Thanks In Advance" Well, I thought there was a strong relationship between systemd and dbus. Various parts of the systemd suite, including the systemd init daemon, use dbus to present its control int

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2014 16:29, Peter Nieman a écrit : As far as I am concerned, I don't have the time right now to learn the officially accepted procedures of filing bug reports in Debian Just run bugreport (or is it reportbug? I don't have a Debian currently, but I'm trying to fix that :p) . It'll ask

Monitor does not turn on after suspend

2014-10-18 Thread Marko Ranđelović
I use Wheezy on desktop computer. I use vesa driver for X because radeon is not working. After pm-suspend command, computer is like turned off, when press power button it wakes up, but not monitor and not keyboard. I tried --quirk-dpms-on, but didn't help. I also tried kernel options noapic and ir

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Peter Nieman
On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/10/14 23:28, Peter Nieman wrote: On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus,

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 00:05:08 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 19/10/14 00:29, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > >> On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: > >> > >>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: > Why > it ne

Re: update tool

2014-10-18 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2014-10-18 14:24 keltezéssel, Diogene Laerce írta: >> There are several: apticron, cron-apt, unattended-upgrades and I see >> update-notifier is being replaced with gnome-packagekit. > > I was looking for a portable and simple way to notify the user > of necessary update. But update-manager is no

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Reco writes: > This page tells otherwise: > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/claws-mail > OK, it's 'libdbus-1-3', not 'dbus' dependency, but libdbus-1-3 > recommends dbus. Then it isn't a dependency. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/10/14 00:29, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100 > Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: >> >>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. >>> >>> You're asking the wrong qu

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/10/14 00:14, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:06:17 +0400 > Reco wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:24:16 -0400 >> Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 >>> lee wrote: >>> >>> But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are people >>>

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: > > > On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: > > >Why > > >it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. > > > > You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask > > y

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: > >Why > >it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. > > You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask > yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then > why

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:06:17 +0400 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:24:16 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > > > > But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are people > > > buying it? > > > > > > So how can we sa

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/10/14 23:28, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: >> Why >> it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. > > You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself > is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then why does > Debian ship a v

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Peter Nieman
On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then why does Debian ship a version that depends on it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: update tool

2014-10-18 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 10/17/2014 10:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 17 oct 14, 20:20:29, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> >> Debian does have a specific tool to check if a system needs to be >> updated but many users will just want to manually check if any >> security updates are available for their system. " > ...

displaylink multihead

2014-10-18 Thread Matteo Pellegrini
hi to everyone, i would ask if is possible to connect in multihead a displaylink display (connected by usb 2.0) and an other display connected by a hdmi port (with intel HD grapics gpu). sorry for my poor english and don't hesitate to reply me for any reason. have a nice day, Matteo Pellegrini

Outdated flash plugin

2014-10-18 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there update-flashplugin-nonfree downloads old version; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765457 For i386 that's; http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.411/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/10/14 02:38, Steve Litt wrote: I would add that it should be delegated to an interchangeable part through a well-specified thin interface, without global variables like dbus. Or, if there *must* be a global variable, at least make it purposed only for interaction between init and program, a

Re: how to boot in les than 8 minutes

2014-10-18 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
dn Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: . . . My suspicion at this point would be either a flaw in his smb.conf (which is easy to test by temporarily replacing it with a minimal) or Samba itself. . . . I was on the way to do that, but I first re-installed samba and

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 21:13 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: [...] > > The list will likely be empty, I'm afraid. The whole point of the GR is > > that its proponents can make any required work SEP if it succeeds. > > SEP? Google is no

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-18 10:13 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> The list will likely be empty, I'm afraid. The whole point of the GR is >> that its proponents can make any required work SEP if it succeeds. > > SEP? Google is no help. I mea

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-10-17 21:42 +0200, Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 10/17/2014 01:32 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 10/17/2014 1:29 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>> I finished the thread right before I posted, and there were only 4 > >>> seconds. > >> > >

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:24:16 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 > lee wrote: > > > > But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are people buying > > it? > > > > So how can we safely store large amounts of data? > > I thought Postgres was supposed to b

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 lee wrote: > Reco writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 03:33:15AM +0200, lee wrote: > >> > A correct guess. A recommended minimum is kernel 3.14 - [2]. > >> > >> So this is a rather new feature. How reliable and how well does it > >> work? > > > > I w

Re: update tool

2014-10-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:18:53PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 17 oct 14, 20:20:29, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > > Debian does have a specific tool to check if a system needs to be > > updated but many users will just want to manually check if any > > security updates are available for th

Re: dubious advice on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:25:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 13:11:23 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > For those of you using Claws-Mail, you can keep it systemd-free into > > the foreseeable future by disabling dbus, like this: > > > > ./configure --disable-dbus > > > > I've com

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

2014-10-18 Thread Joe
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:13:54 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:20:44 +0200, lee wrote: > > > Brian writes: > > > > > Not that I'm suggesting setting up exim to offer an invalid HELO; > > > it will lead to trouble sooner or later. However, as a reason for > > > mail being rejected o

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:20:16AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > Here are the first few seconds: Isn't this information available on the debian-vote list? Seems redundant to repost it here. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and l

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/17/2014 10:26 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/18/2014 12:59 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: /snip/ I think that depends on what solution you propose, smart people listen. AMEN! I can say that I long ago upgraded to Jessie/systemd so that I could be the first to yell about it. I'm still looking at