Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks Chris! On Feb 26, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Christopher Swingley wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Is there some systemd/udev/whatever way to force repeatable naming for the >> /dev/ttyUSB* devices? I'd be happy if I could get something like >> /dev/ttyUSB wher

user History File.

2016-02-26 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I have been trying one user to monitor his history. however every time i "cat /home/username/.bash_history" i see always the same history as old one. I want to monitor his history. no matter how many sessions but every command should go to same history file. Any advice or guidance will be highly a

Re: how to encode in mp4

2016-02-26 Thread jdd
Le 27/02/2016 02:56, Li Wei a écrit : I have a TV card and can watch TV with xawtv it use bttv driver, the sound comes from linein of sound card My ? is how to encode TV programs in mp4 so it can be played on cell phones? Thanks!!! if you have any video file as source: http://dodin.info/wiki/

Android emulator

2016-02-26 Thread Peter Easthope
https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools indiates  that Android SDK is a rather complex beast. Suppose a user needs one or a few Android apps  but is not particularly interested in owning an  Android device.  Is installation of Android SDK  to a small laptop and app usage there feasible?   Or not wort

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Feb 2016 at 10:58:56 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, David Wright a écrit : > > Well, md5 beats md4 > > There is something wrong in your library. Thanks for your misplaced confidence in me. It was my timing that wasn't rigorous enough. Cheers, David.

how to encode in mp4

2016-02-26 Thread Li Wei
I have a TV card and can watch TV with xawtv it use bttv driver, the sound comes from linein of sound card My ? is how to encode TV programs in mp4 so it can be played on cell phones? Thanks!!!

Re: Need mentorship and support

2016-02-26 Thread deloptes
Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Mark Zuckerberg who's that guy? (with irony) my advise - grab some 10y old unix book, you'll learn more from the older school than from Mark. regards

Re: Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Albin Ludvig Otterhäll
On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 22:06 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-02-26, Albin Ludvig Otterhäll wrote: > > I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is > > connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop > > screen is blacked out and the two monitors st

Re: Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-02-26, Albin Ludvig Otterhäll wrote: > I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is > connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop > screen is blacked out and the two monitors starts showing the desktop. > No problems here. > > But when I di

Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Albin Ludvig Otterhäll
I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop screen is blacked out and the two monitors starts showing the desktop. No problems here. But when I disconnect the laptop from the docking station the desktop

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Feb 2016 at 15:24:04 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >For known rootkits you can use the chkrootkit tool (available >also as a Debian package), but that also has it's limitations. Being incapable of detecting anything sigificant being its main limitation, I imagine.

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-26 Thread David Christensen
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:11:17AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: I found that the Wheezy installer offers btrfs (xfs also?), but only boots ext[234] On 02/26/2016 11:24 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: My wheezy box has an ext4 /boot and a btrfs /. No problems booting that. Yes -- checking my notes,

Re: Need mentorship and support

2016-02-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
De: "Himanshu Shekhar" > The problem is about reading metacharacters. For example, username is > "harry", password is "harry@123" , proxy server "10.101.12.1:8080". > Thus, apt.conf would have text > "http://harry:harry@123@10.101.12.1:8080";. > > This leads to unwanted behaviour. Apt stops readi

Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Yes, but can you define RAID devices by UUID or Label? mdadm RAID devices have their own UUID as well as the UUID of the array that they are part of. > Those drives are not showing via UUID or label here... % sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sda1 /d

Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 06:43:44 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On 27/02/2016 6:22 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:10:49AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> > >> On 27/02/2016 5:46 AM, Christopher Swingley wrote: > >>> udevadm info --query=name --name=/dev/t

Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 27/02/2016 6:22 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:10:49AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> On 27/02/2016 5:46 AM, Christopher Swingley wrote: >>> udevadm info --query=name --name=/dev/ttyUSB0 --attribute-walk >> >> udevadm info --query=name --name=/dev/sdg --attribute-wa

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:11:17AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 02/26/2016 07:40 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > > >I plan to > >buy a new 2TB disk and the old 1TB disk use as additional storage, but > >this time to put XFS (under lvm2) on all disks (my desktop has UPS > >unit), but wonder what

Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:10:49AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 27/02/2016 5:46 AM, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > udevadm info --query=name --name=/dev/ttyUSB0 --attribute-walk > > udevadm info --query=name --name=/dev/sdg --attribute-walk > > Could you do something similar for mdad

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-26 Thread David Christensen
On 02/26/2016 07:40 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: at the moment I use 2x1TB disks in btrfs raid1 array, but one disk is failing/dying and not having enough money for two 2TB disks, Been there, done that, and lost data. If you can't afford 2 @ 2 TB disks right now, get a replacement 1 TB disk until

Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 27/02/2016 5:46 AM, Christopher Swingley wrote: > udevadm info --query=name --name=/dev/ttyUSB0 --attribute-walk udevadm info --query=name --name=/dev/sdg --attribute-walk Could you do something similar for mdadm RAID [external USB drives] devices? Probably only need the serial number form

Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Christopher Swingley
Rick, On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Is there some systemd/udev/whatever way to force repeatable naming for the > /dev/ttyUSB* devices? I'd be happy if I could get something like > /dev/ttyUSB where is found by doing something like I have some systems that have multipl

Re: Need mentorship and support

2016-02-26 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Feb 26, 2016 11:08 PM, "Jean-Baptiste Thomas" wrote: > > De: "Himanshu Shekhar" > > > Also, I would love to know about good sources to learn and practice > > Bash. I followed "The Linux Command Line by William E. Shotts". > > Chris F A Johnson has written two books on the subject. Haven't > re

Re: Need mentorship and support

2016-02-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
De: "Himanshu Shekhar" > Also, I would love to know about good sources to learn and practice > Bash. I followed "The Linux Command Line by William E. Shotts". Chris F A Johnson has written two books on the subject. Haven't read them but he used to be a regular on comp.unix.shell and he seems to

Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel [SOLVED]

2016-02-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:10:06 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On 22/02/2016 2:02 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:59:26 + Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > And how is password-protection incompatible with free software > > principles anyway? > > It's not /really/ free if it ne

LVM read failed after 0 of 4096

2016-02-26 Thread basti
Hello, when I run 'lvs' I get the following error: root@srv-0001:~# lvs /dev/vg01/srv-007-data_1427894434: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 214748299264: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler /dev/vg01/srv-007-data_1427894434: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 214748356608: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler /dev/vg01/srv

Re: Can't recover my graphic session

2016-02-26 Thread Eric
Le 17/02/2016 00:54, debian-u...@vvmail.fr a écrit : Le 16/02/2016 16:44, debian-u...@vvmail.fr a écrit : Le 16/02/2016 16:10, Adam Wilson a écrit : On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:08:24 +0100 Eric wrote: And thanks for helping me! I tried dpkg-reconfigure gdm3, but it didn't changed anything unf

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Seeker
On 2/25/2016 12:39 PM, H Kyu wrote: ​Hello - Recently, Mozilla's Firefox browser introduced a few new features that got me to remove Firefox on my Windows PC altogether. The features were Hello, Camera Access (Android), and screen-sharing. Every single one of those features did not sit we

XFS on root

2016-02-26 Thread Saša Janiška
Hello, at the moment I use 2x1TB disks in btrfs raid1 array, but one disk is failing/dying and not having enough money for two 2TB disks, I plan to buy a new 2TB disk and the old 1TB disk use as additional storage, but this time to put XFS (under lvm2) on all disks (my desktop has UPS unit), but w

LVM read failed after 0 of 4096

2016-02-26 Thread basti
Hello, when I run 'lvs' I get the following error: root@srv-0001:~# lvs /dev/vg01/srv-007-data_1427894434: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 214748299264: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler /dev/vg01/srv-007-data_1427894434: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 214748356608: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler /dev/vg01/srv

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/26/2016 03:05 PM, Hans wrote: >> Please try (don't need to be root): >> [...] > great! This helped. It was tvbrowser and fakturama (both Debian/Ubuntu > packages and not from the repo) which interfered. > > I moved teh md5sums out of the way during the test. I would like to note two things

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Hans
Hi Christian, > Works fine on my system, so it will likely be a problem with one > of your packages. Maybe the system crashed while installing a > package at some point? > > Please try (don't need to be root): > > for fn in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums ; do > if grep -qvE '^[a-f0-9]{32}[ ][ ][A

Re: iceape availability

2016-02-26 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-02-26 16:33, Bret Busby wrote: > On 26/02/2016, Ken Heard wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2016-02-25 22:46, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >>> >>> I currently have and use, seamonkey v 2.29 (.1, I think), a

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:42:12 +0100 Jerome BENOIT wrote: >Hello Charlie: > >On 26/02/16 03:53, Charlie Kravetz wrote: >> if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have to also >> switch away from Debian. > > >Is it not an extreme

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/26/2016 12:01 PM, Hans wrote: >> 'sudo dpkg --verify' will tell you what files have been altered from >> the ones installed by packages. > thanks for the advice. But it looks like dpkg has a bug. I get: > > dpkg: error: control file 'md5sums' missing value separator > > However, maybe a bro

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:17:45 +0800 mudongliang wrote: >On 02/26/2016 10:53 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:01:43 +1100 >> "Daniel" wrote: >> >> > While not relevant to Debian, Pale Moon for Windows is neat. >> >> >> >> > F

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Hans
an I use apt or aptitude? > > 'sudo dpkg --verify' will tell you what files have been altered from > the ones installed by packages. > > Petter Hi Petter, thanks for the advice. But it looks like dpkg has a bug. I get: dpkg: error: control file 'md5sums' missing value separator However, mayb

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:42:07 +0100 Hans wrote: > Hello list, > > is there an easy way to verify installed packages against the repo? > > I want to secure, that my installed files are still the same as those > in the repo. > > Can I use apt or aptitude? 'sudo dpkg --verify' will tell you what

How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Given a machine that provides serial consoles for several other machines via usb-serial connections: If the console server is rebooted the usb ports come up in a random order and it's impossible to tell which /dev/ttyUSB* device points to which client machine. Is there some systemd/udev/whate

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello On Friday 26 February 2016 11:42:07 Hans wrote: > is there an easy way to verify installed packages against the repo? > > I want to secure, that my installed files are still the same as those in the > repo. > > Can I use apt or aptitude? You can use debsums All the best -- https://git

Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Hans
Hello list, is there an easy way to verify installed packages against the repo? I want to secure, that my installed files are still the same as those in the repo. Can I use apt or aptitude? Thanks for your answers. Best Hans

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

2016-02-26 Thread Curt
On 2016-02-26, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 February 2016 20:39:59 H Kyu wrote: >> But if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have >> to also switch away from Debian. > > You are confusing Debian with Gnome. Debian is the distro. Gnome is the > Desktop environment. I b

conservative automatic updating with cron-apt

2016-02-26 Thread Michael Grant
I feel the need to do some updates automatically but sometimes this just isn't a good idea. I use cron-apt. But I don't have it auto installing because if something starts asking questions I have no way to intervene. However, for many (most!) updates, they go without problems and do not require

Re: iceape availability

2016-02-26 Thread Bret Busby
On 26/02/2016, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2016-02-25 22:46, Bret Busby wrote: >>> >> >> I currently have and use, seamonkey v 2.29 (.1, I think), as the >> latest version of which I have been aware, has been available as a >> .deb package. > > Is t

Re: a server question?

2016-02-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:21:38AM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > Let me speak to your fine questions below, the ones I can answer I mean. > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >This is Alpine complaining that it lost its conn