Re: Installing Tetex packages now

2016-12-15 Thread deloptes
terryc wrote: > What is the simple procedure to install additional Tetex packages now? > > Been about 2000 since I used LaTeX a lot and I find that wrapfig is > the way to wrap text around a figure these days, so I'd like to use it. > > Is there any aptitude/apt-get equivalent and what was/is th

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 15/12/16 21:47, Sven Hartge wrote: > Brian wrote: >> On Thu 15 Dec 2016 at 10:41:58 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> [..Snip...] > >>> This seems all very complicated (it is), but because of the environment >>> I work in (University) it is very important for us (and our users) to >>> have mor

Installing Tetex packages now

2016-12-15 Thread terryc
What is the simple procedure to install additional Tetex packages now? Been about 2000 since I used LaTeX a lot and I find that wrapfig is the way to wrap text around a figure these days, so I'd like to use it. Is there any aptitude/apt-get equivalent and what was/is the installation update comma

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread terryc
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:18:11 +0100 Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > Over time, I've noticed that the quantity of spam getting through my > Debian mail server has been increasing. > > What steps are people taking to minimize the spam problem, especially > if you are using Debian as both mail server a

Re: network setup

2016-12-15 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 02:14:57PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 14 Dec 2016 at 14:03:09 +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:54:07PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > When I ran machines containing two identical ethernet cards, it > > > was lucky dip as to w

Re: Black Screen on First Boot

2016-12-15 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/14/2016 06:34 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Something else: if your motherboard has onboard video, remove the AGP card and give onboard a go. Most motherboards of that era with Intel CPUs and AGP slots also provide an onboard video port. OK, the following gets p

exotic phone's MTP recognized as high speed camera, not able to write data

2016-12-15 Thread deloptes
I am not sure if I am at the right place here, but I noticed a problem with a newer exotic phone Intex AquaFish. When attached to linux usb (debian jessie), I (and many others) do not see the device as a usb storage but as a camera. [13267.706479] usb-storage 1-5.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device d

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Glenn English wrote: > What Sven suggested is pretty good. But I'd do all the local checks > first, then hit the RBLs on the 'Net -- it reduces the load on the > RBLs and on the local 'Net, and a CPU is faster than a 'Net connection > (I'm on a T1, so I'm very aware of bandwidth usage and speed).

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Brian wrote: > On Thu 15 Dec 2016 at 10:41:58 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > [..Snip...] >> This seems all very complicated (it is), but because of the environment >> I work in (University) it is very important for us (and our users) to >> have more control over which email is rejected, trying to m

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Michael Milliman
It sounds like the status of the /usr/bin/python link is really a mess with some people/distros doing one thing and others doing something else. I imagine it will settle down eventually to a commonly accepted standard. For now, though, it looks like using either a python2 or python3 shebang,

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Dec 2016 at 10:41:58 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: [..Snip...] > This seems all very complicated (it is), but because of the environment > I work in (University) it is very important for us (and our users) to > have more control over which email is rejected, trying to minimize false > posit

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread Glenn English
What Sven suggested is pretty good. But I'd do all the local checks first, then hit the RBLs on the 'Net -- it reduces the load on the RBLs and on the local 'Net, and a CPU is faster than a 'Net connection (I'm on a T1, so I'm very aware of bandwidth usage and speed). Iptables is also useful. You

Re: upnp client for debian

2016-12-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: In case you are using stretch/sid: this was fixed in libupnp on Monday. hi Sebastian, I don't use stretch, but Jessie. Anyhow, I forced the upgrade of libupnp6 from stretch, but that changed nothing for dmmount. For vlc, it's worse, as bef

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:39:27AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >> That would violate Debian Python policy. You are free to do it on your >> own system, but it will likely break many Python packages on Debian, and >> you get to keep all the pieces :-) > > From what I recall

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:39:27AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > That would violate Debian Python policy. You are free to do it on your > own system, but it will likely break many Python packages on Debian, and > you get to keep all the pieces :-) From what I recall the upstream Python community does

Re: Which package for reportbug?

2016-12-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:41:41PM +1100, John Elliot V wrote: > So I will file the bug under 'kdm' (although I'm not sure that is > strictly correct). That's fine, if it turns out the problem isn't in kdm the bug can be easily reassigned to another package. I think finding the right package shoul

Re: Which package for reportbug?

2016-12-15 Thread John Elliot V
On 15/12/16 21:30, John Elliot V wrote: > I'm having an issue logging into my KDE Plasma desktop, > which package should I file the bug under? My apologies. After a little more reading I discovered this: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#findpkgver then this: jj5@orac:~$ dpkg --search /et

Which package for reportbug?

2016-12-15 Thread John Elliot V
Hi there. I'm running Debian jessie with a KDE Plasma desktop, and after I did an apt-get dist-upgrade today when I logged into KDE Plasma after rebooting I got a blank screen (with the Debian logo in the bottom right). Eventually I figured out that if I run: sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart that

Re: Black Screen on First Boot

2016-12-15 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2016-12-14 20:40 (UTC-0500): Until you know what if any grub configuration changes are required, editing is premature. Editing on the fly at boot time is how one troubleshoots grub-related troubles. Not sure what "editing on the fly at boot time" means. Please elaborate

Re: upnp client for debian

2016-12-15 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2016-12-15 10:37:25, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have a Canon camera, which provides a dlna server. I can actually see the > pictures on the android client, but > did not find a working client for Debian: > > 1/ with djmount, I get strange results. In the mounted > directory, I see the

Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Daniel Pocock wrote: > Could anybody provide updates to those pages? What would professional > mail server admins consider best practice today? Problem is: the more (drastic) anti-SPAM measures everyone take, the more broken e-mail as a whole becomes. I noticed in the last two years it became

upnp client for debian

2016-12-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I have a Canon camera, which provides a dlna server. I can actually see the pictures on the android client, but did not find a working client for Debian: 1/ with djmount, I get strange results. In the mounted directory, I see the image files. Their length seems correct (from 3 to 4

best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

2016-12-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
Over time, I've noticed that the quantity of spam getting through my Debian mail server has been increasing. What steps are people taking to minimize the spam problem, especially if you are using Debian as both mail server and desktop? The wiki contains details about SpamAssassin[1] and example