Re: Posting a message on all desktops

2016-01-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
Renaud OLGIATI [2016-01-30 16:33:31-03] wrote: > Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of > all the machines on a LAN ? I'm doing the same thing in a network where every machine gets their IP through DHCP. The network is scanned with nmap for open ssh servers. Luckil

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> For Jessie, we patched update-notification support back into > gnome-settings-daemon: > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-settings-daemon/ news/20141204T233404Z.html > > So, in Jessie, gnome-setting-daemon is responsible for the update > notifications. In stretch and sid, gnome-software

Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.

2016-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Jan 2016 at 13:26:30 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. > > evince afile.pdf > > A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. > "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". > File type HTML d

Re: Posting a message on all desktops

2016-01-30 Thread Ron
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:59:13 -0500 ken wrote: > > Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of all > > the machines on a LAN ? > If all the desktops are just terminals (text), you could use "wall". > But they're probably not. (?) No, they are all GUI > You could pu

Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.

2016-01-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. > > evince afile.pdf > > A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. > "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". > File type HTML document (text/html

Re: Posting a message on all desktops

2016-01-30 Thread ken
On 01/30/2016 02:33 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of all the machines on a LAN ? Cheers, Ron. If all the desktops are just terminals (text), you could use "wall". But they're probably not. (?) You could put the desire

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:54:31AM -0500, Louis Wust wrote: Louis, thanks for your helpful reply. In answering one of your questions I may have solved the problem. > On 1/27/16, Haines Brown wrote: > This is strange for a number of reasons: > 1) How did Pin: and Pin-Priority: wind up on the sa

Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.

2016-01-30 Thread jdd
Le 30/01/2016 22:26, pe...@easthope.ca a écrit : Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. evince afile.pdf A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". File type HTML document (text/html) is not

Failure of evince to open a PDF.

2016-01-30 Thread peter
Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. evince afile.pdf A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported OK, but the command is not to open an HTM

Re: (Repeat) Incessant Random Eth Disconnect/Reconnect

2016-01-30 Thread Reco
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:31:51 +0200 David Baron wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > Note: The reported dmesg sequence is on start up, not on expiry problem. > > > > > > ~$ sudo ethtool eth0 > > > > > Settings for eth0: > > > > > > >

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Brian
On Sat 30 Jan 2016 at 09:28:23 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > out. Perhaps I have to re-install Sid. Probably best. For you and for us. :)

Posting a message on all desktops

2016-01-30 Thread Ron
Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of all the machines on a LAN ? Cheers, Ron. -- La marine est un art, une science, et un snobisme. -- Roger Glachant

Re: (Repeat) Incessant Random Eth Disconnect/Reconnect

2016-01-30 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 30 January 2016 19:31:51 David Baron wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > Note: The reported dmesg sequence is on start up, not on expiry problem. > > > > > > ~$ sudo ethtool eth0 > > > > > Settings for eth0: > > > > > > >

Re: (Repeat) Incessant Random Eth Disconnect/Reconnect

2016-01-30 Thread David Baron
> Hi. > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > Note: The reported dmesg sequence is on start up, not on expiry problem. > > > > ~$ sudo ethtool eth0 > > > Settings for eth0: > > > > Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes > > > > > ~$ sudo eth

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread jdd
Le 30/01/2016 13:53, Markos a écrit : Does anyone have any tip about an FTP client, with GUI, equivalent to gftp? in Kde, I simply use Dolphin jdd

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2016 30 Jan 08:58 -0600, Markos wrote: > OK! > > I searched ftp clients and met the following programs: > > bareftp > filezilla > ftpcopy > ncftp I chose Filezilla. Works nicely. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears th

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Louis Wust
On 1/27/16, Haines Brown wrote: > My sense there is something strange going on, but I don't want to mess > things up more by mindless experimenting. Unfortunately all that I have for you is some mindless experimenting! But hopefully something in what I've written here will be fruitful. You've me

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread B.V. Raghav
Markos writes: >>> >>> I used to use gftp as a ftp client, but I don't find it in Jessie. >>> What happened to it? https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gftp shows, that `gftp' is in wheezy, and all the same in stretch --- v2.0.19 FWIW, you may have a temporary /etc/apt/sources.list having

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Markos wrote: > > > Em 27-01-2016 15:54, Frank McCormick escreveu: >> On 01/27/2016 08:36 AM, Markos wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I used to use gftp as a ftp client, but I don't find it in Jessie. >>> What happened to it? >>> What is another similar alternative to gftp in Jessie? >>> >>>

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread Saša Janiška
On Sub, 2016-01-30 at 12:53 +, Markos wrote: > Does anyone have any tip about an FTP client, with GUI, equivalent to > gftp? For my occasional usage of (S)FTP, Filezilla does the job well. Sincerely, Gour --  Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and in

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread Joe
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:53:55 + Markos wrote: > Em 27-01-2016 15:54, Frank McCormick escreveu: > > On 01/27/2016 08:36 AM, Markos wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I used to use gftp as a ftp client, but I don't find it in Jessie. > >> What happened to it? > >> What is another similar alternative to

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Teemu Likonen wrote: > --=-=-= > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Liam O'Toole [2016-01-30 14:20:30Z] wrote: > >> aptitude search ~new > > You mean: > > aptitude search \?new > Oops yes, you are correct. The short form ~N also w

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread Markos
Em 27-01-2016 15:54, Frank McCormick escreveu: On 01/27/2016 08:36 AM, Markos wrote: Hi, I used to use gftp as a ftp client, but I don't find it in Jessie. What happened to it? What is another similar alternative to gftp in Jessie? Thanks, Markos http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
Liam O'Toole [2016-01-30 14:20:30Z] wrote: > aptitude search ~new You mean: aptitude search \?new -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 09:28:34AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: My question remains unanswered: on a Sid machine lacking systemd, after an installation of pulseaudio and pavucontrol, aptitude or apt-get connects to sever but fails to fetch from ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/InRelease The

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 01/27/2016 11:37 PM, Tixy wrote: >> On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 05:54 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> [...] I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things, >>> since I still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be nice to have >>> as a re

Re: inetd/xindet

2016-01-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 07:25:01PM -0200, moises wrote: > Boa tarde. Alguém sabe informar onde foi parar esses deamons? No > Mint não achei. Ha um paquete para inetd: inetutils-inetd e para xinetd: xinetd. Consulta la lista para Debian en portugues:

Re: avidemux

2016-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2016-01-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> It is available at Debian Multimedia > > Do you mean https://www.deb-multimedia.org/ ? If so, it isn't Debian. > > Lisi > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-May/026678.html After all these years, confusion still reig