Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-28 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:47:26 -0400 Charles Kroeger sent: > It's very maintained on linux. I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the > best browser I've used in a long time. > > Version: 26.0.1656.8 - Opera is up to date > Update stream:beta > System: Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid (x

Howto add a vnc URL handler to Icedove?

2014-10-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
I want to make things easier for people accepting remote desktop invitations from Krfb. Ideal scenario:- 1. Create a reverse ssh tunnel to "middle" (an internet accessible server) from the "users" computer. e.g. port 1234 to port 1235 "middle" has port forwarding enabled e.g. port 1234 to port 12

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-28 Thread Marty
On 10/28/2014 05:10 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 28.10.2014 20:53, schrieb Marty: This just being one example of context being leaked. Some of this context could be cleaned up if uuidd were setuid root (and not setuid uuidd), but not all of it necessarily. From what you write it's not clear

Re: [Solved] New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2014-10-28 Thread Marty
On 10/28/2014 11:14 PM, tjr0...@gmail.com wrote: Sent from my iPhone Delete the root password "x" in /etc/passwd -- 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.o

Re: Debian and upstream choices

2014-10-28 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/28 20:37 "Chris Bannister" : > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:07:50PM +0100, lee wrote: > > > > The point is that I was right and you were wrong. It wasn't right > > of you to so strongly urge people to "take issues upstream". It's not > > as easy to "faciliate change" as you seem to think.

Re: Re:[Solved] New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2014-10-28 Thread tjr0305
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Re: Handling a machine with GRUB 1

2014-10-28 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Sorry: The question is: How to work around this problem?. -- 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/54503d10.1010...@yandex.com

Re: Thinking about "preserving freedom of choice of init systems" and future of udev...

2014-10-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Hasler wrote: Martinx writes: I'm wondering here about this subject and what it means... So, what if `udev` becomes useless without `systemd` as PID1? The someone will fork it. But it won't happen, partly for that reason. I believe it's called eudev - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eudev

Re: Thinking about "preserving freedom of choice of init systems" and future of udev...

2014-10-28 Thread John Hasler
Martinx writes: > I'm wondering here about this subject and what it means... > So, what if `udev` becomes useless without `systemd` as PID1? The someone will fork it. But it won't happen, partly for that reason. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
Easily solvable - read on. :) On 29/10/14 06:51, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2014 19:27:56 Steve Greig wrote: >> Thanks Scott and Gary. >> >> The problem is now largely sorted out as I have got VLC media player >> to play audio cds now by opening it and asking it to play the cd in

Thinking about "preserving freedom of choice of init systems" and future of udev...

2014-10-28 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Guys, I'm wondering here about this subject and what it means... So, what if `udev` becomes useless without `systemd` as PID1? It [udev package] will then, depends on `systemd-sysv`... Right!? Effectively killing others init systems (including `uselessd`), and Ian's proposal, unless your do

Re: Preseeding options

2014-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > If I specify preseeding options for a netboot image loaded directly from > GRUB as kernel parameter and there are some parameters specifified in the > initrd /preseed.cfg. Will the conflicting parameters specififed in the > kernel parameters replace those of /preseed.

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-28 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 28.10.2014 20:53, schrieb Marty: >> This just being one example of context being leaked. Some of this >> context could be cleaned up if uuidd were setuid root (and not setuid >> uuidd), but not all of it necessarily. > > From what you write it's not clear if a) there is an unavoidable > secur

Preseeding options

2014-10-28 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. If I specify preseeding options for a netboot image loaded directly from GRUB as kernel parameter and there are some parameters specifified in the initrd /preseed.cfg. Will the conflicting parameters specififed in the kernel parameters replace those of /preseed.cfg?. Regards. -- To

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-28 Thread Marty
On 10/27/2014 12:15 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 27.10.2014 15:05, schrieb Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: Btw. the commit you are referencing just updated the init script, the change in libuuid was done over 2 years ago:

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday 28 October 2014 19:27:56 Steve Greig wrote: > Thanks Scott and Gary. > > The problem is now largely sorted out as I have got VLC media player > to play audio cds now by opening it and asking it to play the cd in > the cd drive as Gary suggested. I have also discovered how to make VLC >

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Greig
Thanks Scott and Gary. The problem is now largely sorted out as I have got VLC media player to play audio cds now by opening it and asking it to play the cd in the cd drive as Gary suggested. I have also discovered how to make VLC display the tracks on the cd. Still if I go to dolphin it lists the

Re: Understanding DNS, Create an "Failover"

2014-10-28 Thread Joe
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:51:11 +0100 basti wrote: > Hello, > last weekend my primary DNS-Server goes down, and some of my server > can't find each other. > > I have a Primary and a Secondary DNS-Server using bind9. > The resolv.conf file looks like: > > nameserver > nameserver > nameserver <2'n

UUID changed

2014-10-28 Thread sp113438
Hello, the UUID of / changed for no reason. systemd lets me boot with / ro mounted. after changing fstab my system runs again: #UUID=2348235698... /dev/sda1 / But how can it happen that UUID changed? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-28 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:40:02 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > opera might be closed source and unmaintained on > linux, it's still my favorite. It's very maintained on linux. I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the best browser I've used in a long time. Version:26.0.1656.8 -

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/14 03:01 AM, Steve Greig wrote: If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand side where it sais 'Audio CD'. However if I click on this the contents do not appear in the main window of Dolphin. Also I cant play the CD or find any other way of accessing it. This

Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow

2014-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > Why a web page published to provide information to the public, needs > to be "https", I have no idea. To create more https traffic. If you only encrypt important things then if it is encrypted them it must be important. An attacker now knows that every piece of encrypted traf

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/10/14 01:22, Steve Greig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Scott Ferguson > > wrote: > > On 28/10/14 18:01, Steve Greig wrote: > > If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand > > side where it sais 'A

Re: multiple redmine sites

2014-10-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.10.2014 15:19, Bram Diederik a écrit : I am able to connect to the databases here is the config of the default site , dev site only has a different  X_DEBIAN_SITEID  setting e.g.  FcgidInitialEnv X_DEBIAN_SITEID "dev" --- FcgidInitialEnv RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT ""

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.10.2014 14:34, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : Andrei's reply has lots of useful stuff in it, I just had two things to add: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:20:24AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: If things goes well, I think that `uselessd + new udev` might be a good path to follow, mostly becaus

Re: multiple redmine sites

2014-10-28 Thread Bram Diederik
I am able to connect to the databases here is the config of the default site , dev site only has a different X_DEBIAN_SITEID setting e.g. FcgidInitialEnv X_DEBIAN_SITEID "dev" --- FcgidInitialEnv RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT "" FcgidInitialEnv X_DEBIAN_SITEID "default"

Re: multiple redmine sites

2014-10-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.10.2014 13:37, Bram Diederik a écrit : Hi all, I am setting up a bug tracking envoirment for my new job. And selected redmine for the job. All is going well but now i try to setup an sandbox environment for developers and reporters to play around.. the Debian packages states that you ca

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Andrei's reply has lots of useful stuff in it, I just had two things to add: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:20:24AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > If things goes well, I think that `uselessd + new udev` might be a > good path to follow, mostly because it will not required "double-work" > on maintain

multiple redmine sites

2014-10-28 Thread Bram Diederik
Hi all, I am setting up a bug tracking envoirment for my new job. And selected redmine for the job. All is going well but now i try to setup an sandbox environment for developers and reporters to play around.. the Debian packages states that you can run multiple envoriments on one debian system b

Re: Debian and upstream choices

2014-10-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:07:50PM +0100, lee wrote: > > The point is that I was right and you were wrong. It wasn't right > of you to so strongly urge people to "take issues upstream". It's not > as easy to "faciliate change" as you seem to think. Now I know what the following joke means: "Th

libgl1-mesa-swrast incompatible with GNOME?

2014-10-28 Thread Carl Fink
If I try to install the above package, APT wants to remove caribou caribou-antler cheese empathy eog evolution evolution-plugins gdm3 gedit gedit-plugins gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-gst-2.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.10.2014 03:20, Martinx - ジェームズ a écrit : Hey guys, I would like to evaluate both `eudev` (or any other *udev), plus `uselessd`, on Debian sid/testing. Lets do it?! I' m planning to achieve, at least, "CGroups Process" with `uselessd` (no init scripts). If things goes well, I thi

Re: Understanding DNS, Create an "Failover"

2014-10-28 Thread Laurent Bigonville
basti wrote: > Hello, Hello, > last weekend my primary DNS-Server goes down, and some of my server > can't find each other. > > I have a Primary and a Secondary DNS-Server using bind9. > The resolv.conf file looks like: > > nameserver > nameserver > nameserver <2'ndOfISP> > > For understandi

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
softwatt: > On 10/27/2014 07:53 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> I'd just try the most current daily build. I expect it to work >> for most cases. > > On 10/27/2014 07:56 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote: >> If you want to try it out, the latest named >> beta release is probably the next best. > > Those are tw

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-28 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 23.10.2014 00:18, schrieb Martinx - ジェームズ: > I'm seeing that systemd is spreading itself everywhere, kind of creepy but, > well, I think that it is better to learn about it now, instead of fighting > it. Note that in my eyes, you should differentiate between two different things: - mandatory

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
softwatt: > On 10/27/2014 07:58 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Jochen Spieker >> wrote: | If you read only one document before installing, read our Installation | Howto, a quick walkthrough of the installation process. http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386

Understanding DNS, Create an "Failover"

2014-10-28 Thread basti
Hello, last weekend my primary DNS-Server goes down, and some of my server can't find each other. I have a Primary and a Secondary DNS-Server using bind9. The resolv.conf file looks like: nameserver nameserver nameserver <2'ndOfISP> For understanding: Is the secondary DNS just a backup of the

Re: Who's locking down the code?

2014-10-28 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Marty wrote: > [...] > I looked and did not find the script. I still don't know what the > original problem was (although I didn't dig very deep). In any case I > don't see how the script is more "elegant" than the original > solution. Can anyone explain what's going on here? You mean why is it be

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/10/14 18:01, Steve Greig wrote: > If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand > side where it sais 'Audio CD'. However if I click on this the contents > do not appear in the main window of Dolphin. Also I cant play the CD or > find any other way of accessing it. This

Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Greig
If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand side where it sais 'Audio CD'. However if I click on this the contents do not appear in the main window of Dolphin. Also I cant play the CD or find any other way of accessing it. This applies to other CDs not just Audio. In the p