Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lars Noodén
On 06/15/2016 02:54 AM, emetib wrote: [snip] > dan has a good point about having your own nameserver. yet with only > three computers in your home network it's not necessarily needed. > > wait i did that before. > > they are easy to set up and [snip] Even easier is dnsmasq. It has both DHCP an

Re: network managet and 10.42.0.1/24

2016-06-14 Thread Rodary Jacques
I had (and still partly have) the same questions. I know where to find the answers, but didn't dare to use them. --First "nmcli -p connection show --active" will show all your connections. Or me the access point has name (not id) "Hotspot" (I don't know if the name depends on the device and d

Need help setting up debian dual boot on Macbook Pro (with El Capitan)

2016-06-14 Thread Paul Condon
The Macbook Pro is described as ‘Early 2015’, which is 64bit. q1: Should I tray to use testing or jessie? q2: I have used netinst on some previous debian installs on different hardware, but Macbook Pro doesn’t have a CD drive. How do I make the Macbook boot from a .iso file on USB thumb drive or

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread emetib
On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 5:00:09 PM UTC-5, Dan Purgert wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:08:45 Brian wrote: > >> With avahi-daemon installed on both machines > >> > >> ssh hostname.local > >> > >> should just work. No messing with config files or anything like that. >

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Dan Purgert
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:08:45 Brian wrote: >> With avahi-daemon installed on both machines >> >> ssh hostname.local >> >> should just work. No messing with config files or anything like that. >> >> /etc/hosts is fine if you are more comfortable with it but an IP address >>

Re: KDE & removing items from the panel

2016-06-14 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 14/06/16 18:17, Hans wrote: > Did you unlock the widgets? > > Hans > They've never been locked, but locking and un-locking did not improve the situation. > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:10:48 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> I've recently noticed that the right-click menu no longer offers an >> opt

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread David Christensen
On 06/14/2016 08:27 AM, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: ...If I create a USB dongle with # cd /tmp # wget http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.11.0-amd64-standard.iso # cp debian-live-7.11.0-amd64-standard.iso /def/sdf Are you cut

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread David Christensen
On 06/14/2016 07:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: ... I am now trying to copy files aroind. ... scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination .. host names, ... ssh into two computers that I administer 11 miles away, ... their ISP uses dynamic I use scp if I'm copying files for the first time -- e

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:08:45 Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 16:06:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > >

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 04:57:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 13 June 2016 14:46:42 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Monday 13 June 2016 19:35:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And I am not sure that this tempest in a teapot is all about, the > > > older kmail that I use and the older TBird that

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 06:31:11PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/13/2016 04:09 PM, Erwan David wrote: > >Le 13/06/2016 à 23:08, Doug a écrit : > >> > >>On 06/13/2016 02:36 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > >>>Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Bob Holtzman a écrit : > >>> > >>/snip/ > >> > >>Just what

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Joe
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:23:23 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote on 06/14/16 16:32: > > > After all this, my main motivation for learning right now was to > > ssh into two computers that I administer 11 miles away, without > > having to bother the owners (I would just have to say:

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 09:36:05PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Bob Holtzman a écrit : > > I have always found that when using mutt, as we both seem to do, "L" > > replys to a message and sends that reply to the list only. > > For the last time: this command wo

Re: Fwd: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Leon.37428
On 06/14/2016 01:06 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> Here is a repeat of my earlier failed attempt. >> >> peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ scp /home/peter/Pictures/Winter\ Dream\ II.jpg >> lisi@192.168.0.2:/home/lisi/Pictures?Winter\ Dream\ II.jpg >

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Lisi Reisz wrote on 06/14/16 16:32: > After all this, my main motivation for learning right now was to ssh into two > computers that I administer 11 miles away, without having to bother the > owners (I would just have to say: leave your computers turned on), and I'm > not going to be able to do

Re: KDE & removing items from the panel

2016-06-14 Thread Hans
Did you unlock the widgets? Hans On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:10:48 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > I've recently noticed that the right-click menu no longer offers an > option to remove the clicked-upon icon from the panel. Anyone any > suggestions for removing icons (not the application). > > I'm r

KDE & removing items from the panel

2016-06-14 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
I've recently noticed that the right-click menu no longer offers an option to remove the clicked-upon icon from the panel. Anyone any suggestions for removing icons (not the application). I'm running up-to-date Debian 8.5 (64 bit). Thanks in advance. Peter HB

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 16:06:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lis

Re: Fwd: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Here is a repeat of my earlier failed attempt. > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ scp /home/peter/Pictures/Winter\ Dream\ II.jpg > lisi@192.168.0.2:/home/lisi/Pictures?Winter\ Dream\ II.jpg > lisi@192.168.0.2's password: > scp: ambiguous target

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 17:44:53 +0100, Brian wrote: > 5. Write a grub.cfg. Here is one of mine you can adopt: You might prefer to adapt it if you feel you are unable to give it a good home and nurture it.

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 08:50:28 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the instructions on > >https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb > > to make a live USB from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0-live/amd64/

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
> I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the > instructions on > >https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb > > to make a live USB from > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.11.0-amd64-standar

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 16:32:45 emetib wrote: > > That's my project after next - if I live that long!!! ;-) Probably a > > quick way of getting rid of the rest of my hair. And/or turning it grey. > > > > Lisi > > lisi, > > hopefully this is to the list and not private. :-)) It was. :-) > > for

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread emetib
> > Lisi for you home network use /etc/hosts i.e 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 hestia 192.168.122.10 testing 192.168.122.11 stable 192.168.122.12 one-i386 this will make it so you can ssh user@hostname instead of ssh user@ipaddress. this works with scp and sftp also. take care

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
> I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the instructions on Why wheezy ... it's old. I have been running wheezy for about 5 years without any problem. The machine has two partitions / and /aux. I attempted a fresh install of jessie in /. But the install failed and the machin

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:50:28AM -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the instructions on Why wheezy ... it's old. >https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb > > to make a live USB from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cd

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread emetib
> That's my project after next - if I live that long!!! ;-) Probably a quick > way of getting rid of the rest of my hair. And/or turning it grey. > > Lisi lisi, hopefully this is to the list and not private. for your home network - /etc/hosts add the ipaddress followed by the hostname i.

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Hostnames, here I come. > > > > For hostnames

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 13:50:28 Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > Can someone point me to a howto for making a bootable live wheezy > USB dongle that doesn't use isohybrid? From where are you going to get a non-hybrid Wheezy .iso? I have come across computers that won't boot from USB for various

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 13:50:28 Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the instructions on > >https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb > > to make a live USB from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0-live/amd64/iso-hybr >

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:42:17 Lars Noodén wrote: > On 06/14/2016 05:32 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/ > > cp: cannot create regular file ‘Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/’: No such > > file or directory > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-B

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Hostnames, here I come. > > For hostnames within your own network, consider installing avahi. That's how I got it w

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/ > > cp: cannot create regular file ‘Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/’: No such > > file or directory > > pete

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lars Noodén
On 06/14/2016 05:32 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/ > cp: cannot create regular file ‘Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/’: No such file > or > directory > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg > Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/Ken-Blue-test >

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/ > cp: cannot create regular file ‘Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/’: No such file > or > directory > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg > Lisi@192.168.

Fwd: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
Here is a repeat of my earlier failed attempt. peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ scp /home/peter/Pictures/Winter\ Dream\ II.jpg lisi@192.168.0.2:/home/lisi/Pictures?Winter\ Dream\ II.jpg lisi@192.168.0.2's password: scp: ambiguous target peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ This was the method that had worked from .2 to .3.

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the > instructions on > >https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb > > to make a live USB from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debi

ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
Having got ssh working reliably oevr my home network, tahnks ot teh opatient help of thsi list, I am now trying to copy files aroind. I am on 192.168.0.2, but have sshed in to 192.268.0.3 (I must get hostnames working :-( ). The other day I successfully ciopied a pictiyure from .2 to .3, and

how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the instructions on https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb to make a live USB from http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.11.0-amd64-standard.iso but apparently my machine, an old

Re: Mailing-list configuration (was: Big dummy at work again)

2016-06-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 09:06:14PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희) wrote: [...] > Hey tomas! You are always welcome! > There is no issue in here for your commests. Just take this as my personal opinion. Others may disagree. In any case thank you very

Re: Clock

2016-06-14 Thread Johann Klammer
On 06/14/2016 06:40 AM, Richard Barmann wrote: > About once a week when I boot up I find the clock is exactly 4 hours slow. I > am using Kubuntu 16.04. If I am asking the question in the wrong place please > send me to the correct forum. > Thank you. Try changing /etc/adjtime to have LOCAL at the

Re: Mailing-list configuration (was: Big dummy at work again)

2016-06-14 Thread cbannister
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 06:36:53PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Morten Bo Johansen a écrit : > > Since you are using Mutt, all you need to do to be well behaved > > (i.e. not send personal CCs) is to hit 'L' when you reply > > As I already explained twice, a so

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread cbannister
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 02:57:29PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > But we have to also remember that mutt is very very loong in the > tooth Lisi. I've looked at it but never used it, so I've no knowledge if > its have any serious TLC in the last decade. "Mutt 1.6.1 was released on May 1, 2016."

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 02:57:29PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > But we have to also remember that mutt is very very loong in the > tooth Lisi. I've looked at it but never used it, so I've no knowledge if > its have any serious TLC in the last decade. These mailing list / reply to arguments a

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread cbannister
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:12:57PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Tanstaafl a écrit : > > This is why Reply-To-List is the way to reply when engaged in a mailing > > list. > > > > If your client doesn't have this, then maybe it is time to consider > > changing. >

Re: Clock

2016-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 June 2016 07:20:28 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Richard Barmann wrote on 06/14/16 05:36: > > About once a week when I boot up I find the clock is exactly 4 hours > > slow. I am using Kubuntu 16.04. If I am asking the question in the wrong > > place please send me to the correct forum. >