Re: bash, dash and sh

Glenn English wrote: > May I suggest just changing the pointer from Dash back to Bash. You > sound like somebody that stays with a release for a while, and this > is would be a lot less work than editing all those scripts. But trivial to change those scripts. Test it this way: find . -type f

Re: bash, dash and sh

On Apr 22, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > jeremy bentham wrote: >> I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny >> for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer >> (tm) I never buy anything new if I can avoid it) and, right now, >> it has a start at Wheezy

wheezy multiarch: binutils:amd64 conflicts with binutils:i386?

summary: 3 questions: 1. Can one install both `binutils:amd64` and `binutils:i386` on the same device? 2. If one can: how? or, what am I doing wrong? 3. If one cannot: why not? details: I need to setup a 32-bit app (don't ask!) on a 64-bit linode with > $ lsb_release -ds > Debian GNU/Linux 7.8

Gnumeric's DAYS function

Seeing some spreadsheet discussion reminded me that I had noticed a change in the behaviour of gnumeric between wheezy and jessie, which affected some of my spreadsheets. The order of the arguments to DAYS() has been reversed. DAYS() returns the number of days between two dates. I've used it in mo

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-21 10:35:12 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > So, there's still something I don't understand: after dropping the > > > caches, why is Mutt fast to read the mailbox (about 1 minute), but > > > not my tool (about 30 mi

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-21 12:47:14 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > This mailbox is constantly open in a Mutt running in screen (in > > > read-only mode). I often read it, and I modify it from time to time, > > >

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-21 11:05:58 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > On 2015-04-20 13:04:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > > > But with the current solution (

Re: LibreOffice 64 bit suddenly wont save.

Changes made to a spreadsheet and saved were reloaded correctly after exiting and restarting LibreOffice. A new text document saved from Writer also loaded just fine. No problems here. Marc On 04/20/2015 12:54 AM, lina wrote: I do not have problem with LibreOffice Impress in "Save File". Ho

Re: bash, dash and sh

On 04/22/2015 08:02 PM, jeremy bentham wrote: I have a bunch of scripts ... with the first line #!/bin/sh that use bashisms, ... How about changing the shebang line of the scripts with Perl? http://debian-administration.org/article/298/Search_and_replace_across_many_files_with_a_perl_one-line

Re: bash, dash and sh

jeremy bentham wrote: > I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny > for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer > (tm) I never buy anything new if I can avoid it) and, right now, > it has a start at Wheezy on it. Congratulations on your recent upgrade. I am s

bash, dash and sh

I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer (tm) I never buy anything new if I can avoid it) and, right now, it has a start at Wheezy on it. I happened to read on another list, and then verified for myself, that /bin/s

Re: empty directories need disk space

basti wrote: > on different servers I have cache folders with a lot of small files. Now > all the files are delete but the folder "need" 151 MB. > Whats gonig on here? What is the problem? How can I fix? Delete and > create would be impracticable. With ext2, ext3 and ext4 directories can only grow

Re: can't automatically launch lxde

On 04/21/2015 11:46 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/04/15 08:21 PM, James wrote: I installed lxde as a gui desktop but I can't get it to run automatically. I need to login as me and then do sudo kdm (sudo lxdm doesn't work). It sounds like kdm isn't starting automatically, so you probably don't

Re: boot logo in Jessie?

German wrote: > Is that possible to set up boot logo in Jessie? Black screen during boot > is not nice. Thanks > install plymouth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

Eric Gamess wrote: >> If you install this for a VM running on ESX then you can ignore this >> error, since HGFS (Host-Guest-Filsystem) does not work with ESX and >> vmsync is for the experimental VSS-like snapshot feature for Linux which >> I never saw used in any production environment. > I am

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

> If you install this for a VM running on ESX then you can ignore this > error, since HGFS (Host-Guest-Filsystem) does not work with ESX and > vmsync is for the experimental VSS-like snapshot feature for Linux which > I never saw used in any production environment. Sven, I am using VMware Workst

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

Dear Darac, > Sounds like Bug #779081, which suggests an upgrade to version > 2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2+deb7u1. Yes, you are right!!! This is the bug. I found information on it in the Internet. So now, can someone point me to how to move to version 2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2+deb7u1 ?

Re: can't automatically launch lxde

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, James wrote: > I installed lxde as a gui desktop but I can't get it to run > automatically. I need to login as me and then do sudo kdm (sudo lxdm > doesn't work). Exactly how did you install LXDE? What other desktop environments do you have installed? Does that desktop run

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

Eric Gamess wrote: > And I got an error message: > Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686) > Consult the make.log in the build directory > /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/ for more information. > Setting up open-vm-tools (2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2) ... >

Re: Need help fixing an unhandled irq

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > OK, I found a way to turn off one of the two snd_hda_intel, > but it turned out to be the one on IRQ 45. (In any case, > doing this did not solve the problem.) The method I used was > 1. find the prefix of the audio device(s) in the output o

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 08:04:14AM -0700, Eric Gamess wrote: > Thank you Liam, > > > The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package > > description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver > > (DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work >

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

Thank you Liam, > The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package > description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver > (DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work > with DKMS. Therefore the module(s) will automaticaly be recompiled on

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

Quoting Liam O'Toole (liam.p.oto...@gmail.com): > The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package > description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver > (DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work > with DKMS. Therefore the module(s) will

Re: Proxy authentication on gnome

On 2015-04-22, Iuri Guilherme wrote: > --=_09865548c132c4c9e7ee8a86ad210a78 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > I couldn't search the list archives for this, but I am having trouble > trying to authenticate on proxies servers. > > In the system network

squid and apt

Hi all I've squid with transparent proxy, why linux clients has problems with apt? (apt-get update) Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/non-free armhf Packages 400 Bad Request on every clients I've: iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination ip:port Do

Debian Testing: Upgrade XFCE from v-4.10 to v-4.12

Has anyone upgraded XFCE v-4.10 to v-4.12 in Debian Testing without having to compile the tarballs? I am currently running RC3 in a VM and willing to experiment if there might be some guidance available. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set www.Fo

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

Am 22.04.2015 um 10:21 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > On 2015-04-21 17:27:46 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> The ifup@.service is triggered by a udev rule and responsible to handle >> allow-hotplug interfaces. > > I hope that this will remain always optional. For a laptop at least, > that's not the cor

(Solved)Re: define a new keyboard shortcuts in "settings/keyboard/shortcuts"

Thank you very much! The problem is solved. On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 11:04 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-04-22, mudongliang wrote: > > I want to define a new keyboard shortcuts in the graphic > > "settings/keyboard/shortcuts" to start-up the gitlab! > > Name: Gitlab Panel > > Commands: su -

Re: define a new keyboard shortcuts in "settings/keyboard/shortcuts"

On 2015-04-22, mudongliang wrote: > I want to define a new keyboard shortcuts in the graphic > "settings/keyboard/shortcuts" to start-up the gitlab! > Name: Gitlab Panel > Commands: su -c "/opt/gitlab-7.9.3-0/manager-linux-x64.run" > The attribute of this file is following : > /opt/gitlab-7.9.3-0

define a new keyboard shortcuts in "settings/keyboard/shortcuts"

I want to define a new keyboard shortcuts in the graphic "settings/keyboard/shortcuts" to start-up the gitlab! Name: Gitlab Panel Commands: su -c "/opt/gitlab-7.9.3-0/manager-linux-x64.run" The attribute of this file is following : /opt/gitlab-7.9.3-0/manager-linux-x64.run: ELF 64-bit LSB executab

Re: Grub is not showing after install debian on windows 8.1 laptop

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 01:29:24PM +0800, 丁海江 wrote: >I tried to install debian whizzey into my laptop which runs windows 8.1 >now, and the last step i have chosen to install grub with mbr. >Then it asked me to reboot, after reboot, there is no grub and directly >launching the windo

Re: Need help fixing an unhandled irq

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:03 PM, James wrote: > What kind of connection for the mouse? > Does unplugging it and plugging it back in help? Sorry, I should have covered those questions in my original post! It's a USB2 mouse, and no, unplugging/re-plugging it back in does not help. kj

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

On 2015-04-21 12:47:14 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > This mailbox is constantly open in a Mutt running in screen (in > > read-only mode). I often read it, and I modify it from time to time, > > either by adding new messages in the usual way, or by mo

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

On 2015-04-21 10:35:12 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > So, there's still something I don't understand: after dropping the > > caches, why is Mutt fast to read the mailbox (about 1 minute), but > > not my tool (about 30 minutes)? > > Are you using mutt's header_cache feature?

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

On 2015-04-21 17:27:46 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > The ifup@.service is triggered by a udev rule and responsible to handle > allow-hotplug interfaces. I hope that this will remain always optional. For a laptop at least, that's not the correct way to do. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

On 2015-04-21 11:05:58 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > On 2015-04-20 13:04:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > > But with the current solution (no automatic moving of an entry), you > > > > can't miss

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

On 2015-04-22, Eric Gamess wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to install open-vm-tools in Debian 7.8 i386. > I tried: >apt-get install open-vm-tools > > > And I got an error message: > Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686) > Consult the make.log in the build directory

Re: How to bypass login screen in Jessie?

On Tuesday 21 April 2015 16:35:18, German wrote : > hi. I'd like to bypass the login screen and boot straight to LXDE desktop. > How do I accomplish this? I am the only user on this system. Thanks It depends on the Display Manager started during boot. Some of the biggest players support autologin