Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> always give an option to do a dry run without any actual changes
>> being made
>
> But what difference would that make ?
just me and a preference to err on the side
of caution when dealing with devices that might
alter a very basic thing.
> If the pr
kAt wrote:
> All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced
> with my problem statement as an inspiration.
> I am doing research on the topic trying to learn all that feels like a
> huge gap of how disks and data relate.
>
> Have a nice day Thomas
it is very useful to th
Niclas Arndt wrote:
...
> Hi,
>
>
> I am considering changing from OpenSUSE to Debian for my e-mail server but =
> I expect a learning curve. I'm sorry if my questions are basic, but please =
> bear with me.
saying what kind of experience you have so far
would help a great deal. i'm assuming yo
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 07:44:15PM +, Niclas Arndt wrote:
> I am considering changing from OpenSUSE to Debian for my e-mail server but I
> expect a learning curve. I'm sorry if my questions are basic, but please bear
> with me.
>
>
> * Is there any chance that Stretch will be stable by 2017
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
> Howdy,
> I have a WAN/LAN challenge I'm hoping for help with.
>
> I'm runniing Debian 7.11 on a Pentium 3 with 250MB ram.
>
> mike@/deb7:~> uname -a
> Linux playground 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.84-2 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>
> The
Hi,
I am considering changing from OpenSUSE to Debian for my e-mail server but I
expect a learning curve. I'm sorry if my questions are basic, but please bear
with me.
* Is there any chance that Stretch will be stable by 2017-05-16 when OpenSUSE
Leap 42.1 goes EOL?
* Is it advisable to ins
Howdy,
I have a WAN/LAN challenge I'm hoping for help with.
I'm runniing Debian 7.11 on a Pentium 3 with 250MB ram.
mike@/deb7:~> uname -a
Linux playground 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.84-2 i686 GNU/Linux
The situation is this:
phoneeth0 eth1
AT&T---| ||
All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced
with my problem statement as an inspiration.
I am doing research on the topic trying to learn all that feels like a
huge gap of how disks and data relate.
Have a nice day Thomas
kAt
Thomas Schmitt:
> Hi,
>
> i wrote a small
I made some discoveries on a test system:
root@IDTest:/etc# date; usermod -u 204 Debian-exim
Tue Mar 28 15:01:19 PDT 2017
usermod: user Debian-exim is currently used by process 664
and this left everything, including the running process and passwd untouched.
So I don't have to worry about what h
Brian writes:
> On Mon 27 Mar 2017 at 19:57:01 +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> I give in! Your ULD package doesn't work for you on unstable. Let us see
> how mine goes on.
Many thanks. I'll be testing everyhing in the next few days and then let you
know... Let's hope it's worked out now...
Thanks ag
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:47:58PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:14:15 -0300
> Daniel Bareiro wrote:
>
> > Hi, Joe.
> >
>
> >
> > >> Do you think the problem might be in the charger?
> >
> > > Yes, certainly. That's why I said it's
Op Tue, 28 Mar 2017 04:03:20 +0200 schreef Jason :
On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:03:33 +0200
Floris wrote:
Op Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:33:06 +0100 schreef Jason
:
In interactive shell scripts I like piping output into zenity
--text-info for display. If
the output is more than fits in the zenity windo
On Tue 28 Mar 2017 at 15:46:36 (-0300), Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> I was observing these values:
>
>
> $ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
> (...)
> battery
> (...)
> percentage: 37%
> cap
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2017-03-28 13:24 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>
> > I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu.
> >
> > I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt
> to
> > connect to:
> >
> > # apt update
> > 0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl
On Tue 28 Mar 2017 at 16:10:57 (+), Curt wrote:
> On 2017-03-28, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 26 Mar 2017 at 11:31:57 (+), Curt wrote:
> >> On 2017-03-25, David Wright wrote:
> >> > On Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 10:50:50 (+), Curt wrote:
> >> >> Actually, srcpkgcache.bin includes the inform
On 2017-03-28 13:24 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu.
>
> I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt to
> connect to:
>
> # apt update
> 0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2)
>
> but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete
Hi, David.
On 27/03/17 00:08, David Wright wrote:
>>> Complete discharge is instantly fatal, they can never wake up again.
>>> All lithium cells have rudimentary electronics to cut off discharge
>>> earlier than this, typically 2.8-3.0V per cell. Charging is relatively
>>> complex, constant curre
Hi,
songbird wrote:
> always give an option to do a dry run without any actual changes
> being made
But what difference would that make ?
If the program thinks it's not ok, then it will refuse.
If it thinks it's ok, then shall the user refrain nevertheless ?
Of course it's safer to know what is
Greetings,
I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu.
I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt to
connect to:
# apt update
0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2)
but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete its connection.
If I look at my sources lists:
% gre
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:14:15 -0300
Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> Hi, Joe.
>
>
> >> Do you think the problem might be in the charger?
>
> > Yes, certainly. That's why I said it's difficult to know what's
> > going on without either a known good battery or a known good
> > charger. You'd better hop
On Tue 28 Mar 2017 at 13:09:57 -0400, songbird wrote:
> kAt wrote:
> ...
> > I have an example where this might be useful or then I am not
> > understanding the difference.
> >
> > Let's say you have an executable package in the system and let's call it
> > pkgX
> > If you type pkgX in any prompt
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
...
>
>
> See a test run with rescatux ISO on /dev/sdc (any current Debian i386
> or amd64 ISO would be suitable, too).
>
> Still less dangerous than manipulating /dev files as superuser is
> to give the
On Tue 28 Mar 2017 at 17:12:30 +0100, Ron Leach wrote:
> List, good afternoon,
>
> Does anyone know whether there is a Debian-Installer boot parameter that
> enables a specific, static, IP to be set for use during the installation
> process?
>
> I've checked the Installer guide, s 5.3 boot param
kAt wrote:
...
> I have an example where this might be useful or then I am not
> understanding the difference.
>
> Let's say you have an executable package in the system and let's call it
> pkgX
> If you type pkgX in any prompt then /usr/bin/pkgX will be executed
maybe, maybe not (depends upon p
Hi, Joe.
On 27/03/17 16:01, Joe wrote:
I remember that when I bought this battery, I was advised to leave
the charger plugged in for a little more than an hour after the
charging level reaches 100%. And for the subsequent times, try to
avoid having the charger plugged in when
Michael Lange wrote:
...
> I believe that it is probably a good idea to dist-upgrade Jessie into an
> up-to-date state before starting the upgrade to Stretch, but it is
> certainly a good idea to do the intermediate steps of upgrading Squeeze
> to Wheezy first and then to Jessie before starting the
Hi,
i wrote:
> > One may well try to manage the stick by a partition editor.
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Appropriate search terms that would lead to learning "howto"?
"linux"-or-"yourdesktop" together with "partition editor".
The reason to start this thread was about "gparted". We saw output of
"f
List, good afternoon,
Does anyone know whether there is a Debian-Installer boot parameter
that enables a specific, static, IP to be set for use during the
installation process?
I've checked the Installer guide, s 5.3 boot parameters [1], where a
parameter to disable DHCP autoconfig is descri
On 2017-03-28, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 26 Mar 2017 at 11:31:57 (+), Curt wrote:
>> On 2017-03-25, David Wright wrote:
>> > On Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 10:50:50 (+), Curt wrote:
>> >> Actually, srcpkgcache.bin includes the information contained in the files
>> >> in /var/lib/apt/lists; that
On 03/28/2017 09:20 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
/dev/sdb3 1140736 15130623 13989888 6.7G 83 Linux
For the records (as Richard obviously knew it already):
If you believe that line, would you like to by a Brooklyn Bridge?
It was legitimately for sale in late 196
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> /dev/sdb3 1140736 15130623 13989888 6.7G 83 Linux
For the records (as Richard obviously knew it already):
After the run of make_isombr_part, the new partition has no
filesystem.
The commands mkfs or mkdosfs would be the next step, or some GUI tool
for managing
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>>> Possibly stupid question -- this is Jessie, does this mechanism of
>>> dropping the files in trusted.gpg.d work properly in Jessie or is it
>>> new?
>> It works properly. I have sev
On Tue 28 Mar 2017 at 12:46:18 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i wrote:
> > > Just wait until you read my alternative facts about the raison d'être
> > > of systemd.
>
> kAt wrote:
> > I want to read it
>
> If you test
>
> http://scdbackup.webframe.org/make_isombr_part
>
> as descri
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 08:41:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/28/2017 07:17 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >I'd guess there's a difference between Thomas's processor architecture
> >and yours. [snip]
>
> Recompiled for my archit
On 03/28/2017 07:17 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[snip]
I'd guess there's a difference between Thomas's processor architecture
and yours. [snip]
Recompiled for my architecture successfully.
Did a successful minimal install from my modified flash drive.
Operator error or other?
It's always
On 03/28/2017 07:16 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
[snip]
To build your own binary, do in the directory where you have the
file make_isombr_part.c :
cc -g -Wall -o make_isombr_part make_isombr_part.c
This command should end quickly without any messages.
If messages appear, then please show them.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> Op 28-03-17 om 07:48 schreef Frank:
> Mark,
>
> As it turns out the ID 1397BC53640DB551 refers to a subkey of key
> 7721F63BD38B4796. Both seem to be present in google's key file, so I can't
> explain why apt ignores one of them.
> I'll leav
On 03/28/2017 07:16 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
I am running Debian 8.6.0 with MATE desktop.
...
bash: /home/richard/Downloads/make_isombr_part: cannot execute binary file:
Exec format error
Can it be your system is equipped with Debian for architecture i386 ?
Yepp ;
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > Possibly stupid question -- this is Jessie, does this mechanism of
> > dropping the files in trusted.gpg.d work properly in Jessie or is it
> > new?
>
> It works properly. I have several hundred servers as
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:16:24PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
[...]
> http://scdbackup.webframe.org/make_isombr_part.c
Yummy source. Now we're talking :-)
(trapped at work ATM. But I'll sure look into that)
regards
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:53:08AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/28/2017 05:10 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >It would be interesting to see how various partition editors react on
> >this state of the USB stick. Can they reduce the s
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I am running Debian 8.6.0 with MATE desktop.
> ...
> bash: /home/richard/Downloads/make_isombr_part: cannot execute binary file:
> Exec format error
Can it be your system is equipped with Debian for architecture i386 ?
I forgot to mention that my system is amd64.
> O
On 03/28/2017 05:10 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
[snip]
It would be interesting to see how various partition editors react on
this state of the USB stick. Can they reduce the size of partition 3 ?
Can they remove partition 3 and add on new one ?
That looked interesting. As I had a flash drive wi
Op 28-03-17 om 07:48 schreef Frank:
Op 28-03-17 om 00:57 schreef Mark Fletcher:
Right, for the key issue, that has taken me right back to where I
started:
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
1397BC53640DB551
Odd. If you do a web search with that number, you'll find
Hi,
i wrote:
> > Just wait until you read my alternative facts about the raison d'être
> > of systemd.
kAt wrote:
> I want to read it
If you test
http://scdbackup.webframe.org/make_isombr_part
as described in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg01215.html
on your USB stick and
Hi,
i wrote a small program which shall make a USB stick with isohybrid ISO
more digestible for partition editors by removing all partition tables
except MBR partitions.
It then creates a new partition in the first MBR partition slot which
is found with block count 0.
usage: ./make_isombr_part
Op 28-03-17 om 09:54 schreef Sven Hartge:
in this case we know this is the ID of Googles key, but my argument
still holds in general
In general, yes.
On Mon 27 Mar 2017 at 19:57:01 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 27 Mar 2017 at 18:38:25 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> > Brian writes:
> >
> > > The HOWTO looks fine for 2010. In 2017 CUPS has changed but, more
> > > importantly for this thread and its sister one at
> > >
> > > https://lists.deb
Frank wrote:
> Op 28-03-17 om 00:57 schreef Mark Fletcher:
>> Right, for the key issue, that has taken me right back to where I started:
>>
>> W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
>> 1397BC53640DB551
> Odd. If you do a web search with that number, you'll find a lot of p
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Possibly stupid question -- this is Jessie, does this mechanism of
> dropping the files in trusted.gpg.d work properly in Jessie or is it
> new?
It works properly. I have several hundred servers as proof.
Grüße,
Sven.
--
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
David Griffith wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> David Griffith wrote:
>>> I also saw this
>>> https://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jasper/news/20170212T221713Z.html, which
>>> suggests that the original maintainer has stepped back up. In any case, I
>>> should perhaps convert my
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