Re: SFTP question

2014-12-23 Thread Danny
Hi Bob, You were right, SFTP, FileZilla and Proftp confused the hell out of me ... lol ... I must add in my defense though that I was in a state of panic after syslog warned me of an attack by someone during the night via ssh ... So I frantically tried to make ssh and Proftp work together without

Re: GNU Barcodes

2014-12-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
On 12/11/2014 04:59 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:54:08AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and centered. I generate the barcode - yes 12345 | head -84 | barcode -p 5x5.0cm -umm -e CODE39 > test.

Re: wine does nothing

2014-12-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:30:28PM +0100, Siard wrote: [snip] > Googling around, I see that Garmin Express indeed refuses to install > under Wine. But even if it did install, Wine does not work with USB > AFAIK, so you could not access the device anyway. Wild thought, but you could try a virtual

Re: SFTP question

2014-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Danny wrote: > I am trying to setup SFTP (ssh) with ProFTP. It looks to me like you might be confusing ssh sftp with proftpd sftp. I assume you are not using ftps. http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html > My /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftpd.conf looks like this: > > > SFTPEngine on > Por

Re: dpkg/status corruption question

2014-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Simon, Simon Bell wrote: > My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting > this when trying to apt-update: You asked this question before and I posted a reply to it then. Did you miss seeing it? I think you must have because you have apparently asked the same questio

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Re: link opens up with wrong browser in kde

2014-12-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/12/14 03:46 PM, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I am looking for the configuration or the file, where kde (or an application) stores its linking to an url. The problem is, that I want open all links out of applications with the same browser. For example, a link in mediathekview is opened with oper

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 12:49 PM, Hans wrote: > > Did you try to dpkg-reconfigure gdm? I did, but it failed as there is nothing installed as gdm no longer exists in jessie apparently, just gdm3 > > You might try to force the configuration by reconfiguring an

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 12:21:49 schrieb Joris Bolsens: > On 12/23/2014 11:40 AM, Floris wrote: > > maybe you can manually set the display manager to gdm3 > > > > edit "/etc/X11/default-display-manager" to: > > > > /usr/sbin/gdm3 > > That did the trick, it was set to /usr/bin/gdm3 > Any

link opens up with wrong browser in kde

2014-12-23 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I am looking for the configuration or the file, where kde (or an application) stores its linking to an url. The problem is, that I want open all links out of applications with the same browser. For example, a link in mediathekview is opened with opera, a link in kmail2 is opened wi

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 11:40 AM, Floris wrote: > > maybe you can manually set the display manager to gdm3 > > edit "/etc/X11/default-display-manager" to: > > /usr/sbin/gdm3 > That did the trick, it was set to /usr/bin/gdm3 Any idea why dpkg and apt could

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:38:00 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:32 AM, Floris wrote: just to be sure: apt-get update apt-get purge kdm $ sudo apt-get purge kdm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state i

Re: wine does nothing

2014-12-23 Thread Siard
François Patte: > I installed wine on my debian sid and tried to run this program: > > wine GarminExpress.exe You mean GarminExpressInstaller.exe, I guess. Googling around, I see that Garmin Express indeed refuses to install under Wine. But even if it did install, Wine does not work with USB AFAI

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:37 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure gdm $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm dpkg-query: package 'gdm' is not installed and no information is available Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:32 AM, Floris wrote: > just to be sure: > > apt-get update apt-get purge kdm $ sudo apt-get purge kdm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'kdm' is not installed, so not re

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:37:13 +0100 schreef Lisi Reisz : On Tuesday 23 December 2014 18:14:00 Joris Bolsens wrote: On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: > Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens > : > > Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? Not sure what the difference is (

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 December 2014 18:14:00 Joris Bolsens wrote: > On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: > > Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens > > : > > > > Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? > > Not sure what the difference is (sorry). > When the system starts I get multiple m

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:14:00 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? Not sure what the difference is (sorry). When the system starts I get multiple messages alon

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: > Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : > > Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? > Not sure what the difference is (sorry). When the system starts I get multiple messages along the lines of "Gnome Display Manager [FAILED]". startx gi

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : I've restarted multiple times, every time Gnome fails to start and i have to use `startx` to get a working UI, but I am still missing things like the gnome lockscreen/screensaver. Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? success, f

Re: bind mount

2014-12-23 Thread peter
From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:51:47 +0200 > What are you trying to accomplish? Mount a directory on a directory. Scroll down to "--bind". http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount Seems odd that ordinary mounts are available to users but "bind" is only for root. Thanks,

Re: bind mount

2014-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/23/2014 at 11:38 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Mon, 22 Dec > 2014 22:51:47 +0200 >> What are you trying to accomplish? > > Mount a directory on a directory. Scroll down to "--bind". > http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount I think what Andrei meant is asking what y

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/22/2014 10:31 PM, Go Linux wrote: > > Recent discussion (on the Devuan list) mentioned dbus requires a reboot to > restart. Perhaps startx also needs a reboot? Welcome to the world of systemd > - determined to complicate your computing life. Note that Gnome is > terminally infected w

Re: wine does nothing

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:43:13 +0100 schreef François Patte : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have a garmin GPS; in order to register the product and update the maps, there is only a windows application GarminExpress. I have no windows install, so I installed wine on

Re: SFTP question

2014-12-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 02:52:28PM +0200, Danny wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am trying to setup SFTP (ssh) with ProFTP. > > My /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftpd.conf looks like this: > > ### > > SFTPEngine on > Port 7003 > SFTPLog /var/log/

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Go Linux
On Tue, 12/23/14, Jean-Marc wrote: Subject: Re: gnome wont start To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 3:41 AM Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:09:21 -0800 Joris Bolsens écrivait : > PS unfortunately, there are mentions of systemd in your mail; I think it will > be di

Re: wine does nothing

2014-12-23 Thread Simon Bell
On Tuesday 23 December 2014 14:43:13 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > > I have a garmin GPS; in order to register the product and update the > maps, there is only a windows application GarminExpress. > > I have no windows install, so I installed wine on my debian sid and > tried to run this

wine does nothing

2014-12-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have a garmin GPS; in order to register the product and update the maps, there is only a windows application GarminExpress. I have no windows install, so I installed wine on my debian sid and tried to run this program: wine GarminExpress

SFTP question

2014-12-23 Thread Danny
Hi guys, I am trying to setup SFTP (ssh) with ProFTP. My /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftpd.conf looks like this: ### SFTPEngine on Port 7003 SFTPLog /var/log/proftpd/sftp.log # Configure both the RSA and DSA host keys, using the same h

Re: Testing needed for binutils security update

2014-12-23 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
On 2014-12-23 00:38, Luciano Bello wrote: I have been trying to fix the multiple security issues that binutils has pending[1] for wheezy/stable. It have been quite complicated and the patch affects many elements of the code. I would like to avoid regression as much as possible. Please, take a lo

dpkg/status corruption question

2014-12-23 Thread Simon Bell
Hi Everyone, My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting this when trying to apt-update: dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 27803 package 'gcr': field name `°[?@' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) I

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Jean-Marc
Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:09:21 -0800 Joris Bolsens écrivait : > Hello all, hi Joris, > I recently ran into a problem with Gnome. > It fails to start at all. I am able to get a working ui by using the > startx command, and it seems like it is a gnomish environment (windows > key brings up the Activit