Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/15 01:19 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Sex, 13 Mar 2015, Gary Dale wrote: My update-exim4.conf.conf file is (replacing with the actual name). If dc_smarthost has the port set to 26, mail gets sent. However with it set to 465, it stays in the mailq. dc_eximconfig_configtype='sma

Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/15 01:28 PM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@torfree.net): I'm running a Wheezy/64 server and am trying to get exim4 to send e-mail using an SSL connection. My current configuration works when I use their normal smtp port (which is 26, not 25) but fails when I use their

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Rani Ahmed
Well.. I tested all CAD applications that have to have "dwg" file format and also run on Linux. The interface of the app is very important. and BricsCAD really suits them. It's almost a clone of AutoCAD. You know.. such people have been years and years on Windows and AutoCAD, and suddenly they get

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Doug
On 03/13/2015 11:00 PM, Rani Ahmed wrote: Thank you guys. That was more than I expected. After I searched in HP website, I found thier latest HP DesignJet plotters do completely run from not only usual desktop Linux distributions, but also Android and iOS. Anyways, They told me in the office th

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Rani Ahmed
I'm a Palestinian guys, I live in Lebanon. But I lived three years in Australia . I earned my Masters degree in Information Technology from Australia. On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2015 20:42:00 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 14 March 2015 00:17:31 Gene

Re: Why no security update of apache2 concerning SSLv3?

2015-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 March 2015 20:55:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2015 20:23:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 12 March 2015 15:15:31 Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 12 Mar 2015 at 11:01:00 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The info on how to do that has not exactly been front page news > >

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 March 2015 20:42:00 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 14 March 2015 00:17:31 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 13 March 2015 19:51:36 Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 03/13/2015 07:39 PM, Doug wrote: > > > > On 03/13/2015 04:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:35

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Rani Ahmed
Thank you guys. That was more than I expected. After I searched in HP website, I found thier latest HP DesignJet plotters do completely run from not only usual desktop Linux distributions, but also Android and iOS. Anyways, They told me in the office that they rarely print a huge map. If they neede

Re: What happened to my mail log?

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.03.2015 um 02:55 schrieb Stephen R Guglielmo: > Maybe it would be better if I installed a plain old simple syslog > daemon. Is there an alternative one to syslog-ng? If you want a simple, yet powerful solution, you could just use the journal and enable the persistent storage (see /usr/share/

Re: What happened to my mail log?

2015-03-13 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:51:06 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2015-03-13 21:12 +0100, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > > I have Postfix and Dovecot running on my Debian Jessie/testing > > system. When I first setup the system a few months ago, I know that > > Postfix and Dovecot were both logging to

Re: Why no security update of apache2 concerning SSLv3?

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 12 March 2015 20:23:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2015 15:15:31 Brian wrote: > > On Thu 12 Mar 2015 at 11:01:00 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The info on how to do that has not exactly been front page news in > > > my local fishwrap. > > > > Considering that you are

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 14 March 2015 00:17:31 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2015 19:51:36 Ric Moore wrote: > > On 03/13/2015 07:39 PM, Doug wrote: > > > On 03/13/2015 04:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Rani Ahmed wrote: > > >>> Hello mailing list! Wh

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 March 2015 19:51:36 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/13/2015 07:39 PM, Doug wrote: > > On 03/13/2015 04:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Rani Ahmed wrote: > >>> Hello mailing list! Which plotter printer would you recommend for > >>> construction

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Joe
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:47:16 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Doug > wrote: > > > Another reason to buy the HP: if they are abundant, then inks > > should be abundantly available also. If you get something else, > > supplies might be difficult to come by in such an o

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/13/2015 07:39 PM, Doug wrote: On 03/13/2015 04:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Rani Ahmed wrote: Hello mailing list! Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux? Such device is usually used to pri

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Doug wrote: > Another reason to buy the HP: if they are abundant, then inks should be > abundantly available also. If you get something else, supplies might be > difficult to come by in such an out-of-the-way area. Something to > check out before you commit! > He

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 13, 2015 5:41 PM, "Ric Moore" wrote: > > > You might want to go at this from another direction. I suppose you have > already chosen your software?? Ask them. They would know better than anyone > what plotter works with their software. Ric > I agree with this. But besides that, even if y

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Doug
On 03/13/2015 04:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Rani Ahmed wrote: Hello mailing list! Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux? Such device is usually used to print big large huge maps. Of course the

Re: NFS client in 'rescue shell' from install DVD?

2015-03-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ron Leach (ronle...@tesco.net): > List, good morning, > > I started and continuing with a separate thread about a boot problem > but have a specific query about the rescue shell and NFS, which I > thought worth having as a separate short topic. > > It's a wheezy system, running under the

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/13/2015 04:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Rani Ahmed wrote: Hello mailing list! Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux? Such device is usually used to print big large huge maps. Of course the

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:58:05AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Very frustrating. Wifi says it is connected though it is not. > After reset the connection works for a time, then just stops. > > Any suggestions? More diagnostics is needed to make sensible suggestions. A couple of things to lo

Re: What happened to my mail log?

2015-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-03-13 21:12 +0100, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > I have Postfix and Dovecot running on my Debian Jessie/testing system. > When I first setup the system a few months ago, I know that Postfix and > Dovecot were both logging to /var/log/mail.log through syslog because I > was using it to diagn

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Rani Ahmed wrote: > Hello mailing list! Which plotter printer would you recommend for > construction engineers who will be using Linux? > > Such device is usually used to print big large huge maps. Of course the > plotter must be compatible with Linux. >

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 2015-03-13 19:33, schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >For remote systems, where you don't have a sideband channel like iLO, >you could use "grub-set-default", to choose the boot entry for the next >boot. See man 8 grub-set-default. [..] # grub-reboot "

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Mar 2015 at 16:00:43 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:14:01AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:07:41 +0100 > > Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > > > On Friday 13 March 2015 03:58:05 PM Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > Very frustrating. Wifi says it i

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Jape Person
On 03/13/2015 04:05 PM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net): On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: touch /forcefsck is deprecated under systemd, but still supported. What sysvinit's shutdown -F does, is simply create that flag file. That parameter was removed

Re: Undocumented manpages

2015-03-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Google is your friend: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mkisofs8.html Can't seem to find mkisofs in later versions of Debian, I expect its been superseded by something with a different package name, and/or subsumed under mkfs: - try man mkfs -- I expect that ultimately the command the command

What happened to my mail log?

2015-03-13 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
I have Postfix and Dovecot running on my Debian Jessie/testing system. When I first setup the system a few months ago, I know that Postfix and Dovecot were both logging to /var/log/mail.log through syslog because I was using it to diagnose issues. I can also view entries in the old rotated files (/

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net): > > > On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > >touch /forcefsck is deprecated under systemd, but still supported. > > > >What sysvinit's shutdown -F does, is simply create that flag file. > >That parameter was removed from systemd's shutdown co

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:14:01AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:07:41 +0100 > Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > On Friday 13 March 2015 03:58:05 PM Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Very frustrating. Wifi says it is connected though it is not. > > > After reset the connection works for a

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-13 Thread David Christensen
On 03/13/2015 12:34 AM, Ron Leach wrote: Some progress. ... 1. Please read this post: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg01113.html 2. It's been my experience that trying to "find the needle in the haystack" is an exercise in futility -- even if I do "fix" something an

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:02:07PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/13/2015 11:03 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:11:55AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >>On 13/03/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > >>>On 13/03/2015, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:39:44AM +08

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Jape Person
On 03/13/2015 02:44 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Elimar Riesebieter [2015-03-13 19:33 +0100]: * Jape Person [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]: [...] However, I can't get grub-set-default to redesignate that new menu entry as the default. Here is how I use it: The first menu entry is 0 which

Undocumented manpages

2015-03-13 Thread Ruudino Eglefino
Dear Sir/Miss, Via the commands 'man mkisofs', 'man 7 undocumented' (a manpage of aug, 24 2003) and 'mandb' I came on your e-mailaddress for any help. So here is my ask for help, I'm Dutch and working with 'Ubuntu Trusty Tahr AMD64'. The directory/map of 'foo' wasn't there. By the way, I don't

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Jape Person
On 03/13/2015 02:38 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 2015-03-13 19:35, schrieb Michael Biebl: Maybe [1] has the missing clue. If your mentry is under the Advanced menu, you need to use a special syntax. I just tried the following 1. Set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved, as you did and ran update-grub 2. Checked w

Re: Bank draft code 16471

2015-03-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:30:02 +0100 Gene Heskett wrote: > Dr.Jim Ovia. Bank Name : Zenith Bank Plc Isn't that Dr. Ovia from Port Harcourt, Nigeria? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/13/2015 11:03 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:11:55AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/03/2015, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/03/2015, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:39:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 12/03/2015, Thomas H. George wrote: Ok, iceape

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 2015-03-13 19:35, schrieb Michael Biebl: Maybe [1] has the missing clue. If your mentry is under the Advanced menu, you need to use a special syntax. I just tried the following 1. Set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved, as you did and ran update-grub 2. Checked which menu entries I had: grep menuentry /bo

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Jape, Am 2015-03-13 19:12, schrieb Jape Person: However, I can't get grub-set-default to redesignate that new menu entry as the default. What I did to try to get it to work: 1. changed the "GRUB_DEFAULT=0" entry in /etc/default/grub to "GRUB_DEFAULT=1" (Also tried "GRUB_DEFAULT=saved", jus

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Elimar Riesebieter [2015-03-13 19:33 +0100]: > * Jape Person [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]: [...] > > However, I can't get grub-set-default to redesignate that new menu entry as > > the default. > > Here is how I use it: > > The first menu entry is 0 which points to my latest kernel. > > The s

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Jape Person [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]: > > > On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: [...] > >For remote systems, where you don't have a sideband channel like iLO, > >you could use "grub-set-default", to choose the boot entry for the next > >boot. See man 8 grub-set-default. > > > > Hi

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Jape Person
On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: touch /forcefsck is deprecated under systemd, but still supported. What sysvinit's shutdown -F does, is simply create that flag file. That parameter was removed from systemd's shutdown command, as its use is discouraged, but as said, still supporte

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Mar 2015 at 10:58:05 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Very frustrating. Wifi says it is connected though it is not. > After reset the connection works for a time, then just stops. > > Any suggestions? Resist providing opportunities for responses based on pure guessing? You know your ne

Re: No feedback from systemd / "systemctl stop X"... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-13 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 13 March 2015 at 12:52, Michael Biebl wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > >> On 13 March 2015 at 07:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: But what's the point of such a symlink? >>> >>> >>> It doe

Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@torfree.net): > I'm running a Wheezy/64 server and am trying to get exim4 to send > e-mail using an SSL connection. My current configuration works when > I use their normal smtp port (which is 26, not 25) but fails when I > use their smtp/SSL port (465). > > However Thu

Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 13 Mar 2015, Gary Dale wrote: My update-exim4.conf.conf file is (replacing with the actual name). If dc_smarthost has the port set to 26, mail gets sent. However with it set to 465, it stays in the mailq. dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' dc_other_hostnames='' dc_local_interfaces

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/03/2015, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I've not really messed with them in YEARS so I've never gone to the > extent of noticing which one matches to what other. Looking at them > side by side as presented by The Wanderer now, it's: > > * bird names > * weasely names Ah. Them'd be Ron Weasely

configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running a Wheezy/64 server and am trying to get exim4 to send e-mail using an SSL connection. My current configuration works when I use their normal smtp port (which is 26, not 25) but fails when I use their smtp/SSL port (465). However Thunderbird is able to send e-mail from workstations

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 March 2015 16:30:33 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Looking at them > side by side as presented by The Wanderer now, it's: > > * bird names > * weasely names > * ape names Yes. Deliberately done to match. And FIREfox ICEweasel, less obvious but THUNDERbird IceDOVE. Ice and Sea don't wor

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/13/15, The Wanderer wrote: > On 03/13/2015 at 11:03 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> OK. Seamonkey is Icedove in Jessie, looks familiar. > > No. > > Icedove is a renamed version of Thunderbird. > > Iceweasel is a renamed version of Firefox. > > Iceape is a renamed version of Seamonkey. I've

Re: Insert a script into systemd boot order at a specific location

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 2015-03-13 16:03, schrieb Christoph Pleger: [Unit] Description=Installation and configuration Requires=basic.target Before=multi-user.target After=basic.target [Install] RequiredBy=multi-user.target Then, I called systemctl to set the correct symlinks for script.target and script.service.

Re: Insert a script into systemd boot order at a specific location

2015-03-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christoph Pleger (christoph.ple...@cs.tu-dortmund.de): > Hello, > > > According to > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html you > > can specify "After=" and "Before=" in order to force your unit to start > > in a specified position. The documentation suggests t

Re: No feedback from systemd / "systemctl stop X"... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Biebl
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: On 13 March 2015 at 07:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: But what's the point of such a symlink? It does no harm, and if a beginner is following a tutorial that expects /etc/httpd/log, i

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 03/13/2015 at 11:03 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > OK. Seamonkey is Icedove in Jessie, looks familiar. No. Icedove is a renamed version of Thunderbird. Iceweasel is a renamed version of Firefox. Iceape is a renamed version of Seamonkey. Icedove and Iceweasel are still available in jessie.

Re: Insert a script into systemd boot order at a specific location

2015-03-13 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > According to > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html you > can specify "After=" and "Before=" in order to force your unit to start > in a specified position. The documentation suggests that you typically > list your "After=" units also in "Requires=" so that st

Re: No feedback from systemd / "systemctl stop X"... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-13 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 13 March 2015 at 07:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But what's the point of such a symlink? > > It does no harm, and if a beginner is following a tutorial that expects > /etc/httpd/log, it will still work. The symlink `/etc/h

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Dejan Jocic
On Friday 13 March 2015 03:58:05 PM Thomas H. George wrote: > Very frustrating. Wifi says it is connected though it is not. > After reset the connection works for a time, then just stops. > > Any suggestions? > > Tom Try newish kernel, from backports? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Best replacement for iceape?

2015-03-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:11:55AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/03/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 13/03/2015, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:39:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> On 12/03/2015, Thomas H. George wrote: > >>> > Ok, iceape must go. What next? > >>> > >

Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Very frustrating. Wifi says it is connected though it is not. After reset the connection works for a time, then just stops. Any suggestions? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:46:41 +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >[...] > > If you have more than a few servers, it is really beneficial to use a > caching HTTP proxy (e.g. squid configured to cache big files) on your > local network ... Then you'll only have to download things once > (usually) > >

Re: NFS client in 'rescue shell' from install DVD?

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:15:24 +, Ron Leach wrote: > List, good morning, > > I started and continuing with a separate thread about a boot problem but > have a specific query about the rescue shell and NFS, which I thought > worth having as a separate short topic. > > It's a wheezy system, runn

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-03-12 12:34:06 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > xscreensaver is not safe: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403557 > > > > (concerning the "when the system has no external input for a > > defined period of time"). > > I read through that bug

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 March 2015 10:58:38 Brian wrote: > deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main It will choose the best mirror at that moment for that download. See http://http.debian.net/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Mar 2015 at 11:27:54 +0100, SL wrote: > I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the > dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org > (<10kB/s), which is causing the process to take a very long time. Is there > anything I can do to sp

Re: No feedback from systemd / "systemctl stop X"... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > But what's the point of such a symlink? It does no harm, and if a beginner is following a tutorial that expects /etc/httpd/log, it will still work. > The binary is called apache2, so that I prefer /etc/apache2. Why use > /etc/http

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:27:54 +0100 SL wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the > dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from > debian.org (<10kB/s), which is causing the process to take a very > long time. Is there anything I can d

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:27:54AM +0100, SL wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy.  During the > dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org > (<10kB/ > s), which is causing the process to take a very long time.  Is there anyth

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 12 March 2015 18:00:53 Jape Person wrote: > Sorry for the long quote, but I think the context is important here. > > I'll look forward to your thoughts regarding reverting to sysvinit, and > will look for them in the other thread. > > I've switched back-and-forth between these two init

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 March 2015 10:18:23 Curt wrote: > On 2015-03-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 13 March 2015 03:33:41 David Wright wrote: > >> But I'm still waiting for someone to convince me to use a DE instead > >> of my old WM. > > > > Why? > > I believe he means he has yet to be convinced of an

Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread SL
Hi, I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org (<10kB/s), which is causing the process to take a very long time. Is there anything I can do to speed things up? Could anyone suggest e.g. a mirror I

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-13 Thread Curt
On 2015-03-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2015 03:33:41 David Wright wrote: >> But I'm still waiting for someone to convince me to use a DE instead >> of my old WM. > > Why? I believe he means he has yet to be convinced of any DE's superiority over his old WM; if he had put the thing

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 March 2015 03:33:41 David Wright wrote: > But I'm still waiting for someone to convince me to use a DE instead > of my old WM. Why? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Insert a script into systemd boot order at a specific location

2015-03-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:20:53AM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > for many years and up to Debian 7, I am using update-rc.d to define a > specific location in the boot order, where a script is executed which > automatically performs some administrative tasks. The script is executed >

Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread Rani Ahmed
Hello mailing list! Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux? Such device is usually used to print big large huge maps. Of course the plotter must be compatible with Linux. And I am migrating a construction engineers office to Linux. I know HP

Insert a script into systemd boot order at a specific location

2015-03-13 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, for many years and up to Debian 7, I am using update-rc.d to define a specific location in the boot order, where a script is executed which automatically performs some administrative tasks. The script is executed after only very basic tasks have been performed, and before all other tasks. T

Re: Why no security update of apache2 concerning SSLv3?

2015-03-13 Thread David Guyot
Le jeudi 12 mars 2015 à 17:26 +0100, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > But SSLv3-only clients are unsafe and already break with many sites. > It might still be useful for some intranets, that's why it may be > better to just change the config file for now, and I don't see any > problem with that. An adm

NFS client in 'rescue shell' from install DVD?

2015-03-13 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, I started and continuing with a separate thread about a boot problem but have a specific query about the rescue shell and NFS, which I thought worth having as a separate short topic. It's a wheezy system, running under the rescue shell provided by the install DVD. I want

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-13 Thread Ron Leach
Some progress. The CDROM problem that was preventing the D7.7 install DVD from running in rescue mode was due to a defective USB DVD device. Replacing that enables the rescue mode of the install DVD to run properly. Rescue mode has assembled 7 raid partitions, and '/' was on the 2nd partitio