Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 06:49:29PM -0500, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > Would there be a text based editor for svg? (top-posting confuses the hell out of me) Yes, Emacs is happy to edit an SVG. It will even switch between view as image and view at te

Re: USB key and lost space

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rodary Jacques wrote: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.fr > Pour cela, vous devez créer une deuxième partition FAT, https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html "Create a second, FAT partition on the stick" Well, the "second" is a bit outdated. Meanwhi

USB key and lost space

2018-02-14 Thread Rodary Jacques
On several USB keys used for installation (or try of) I copied iso files of more or less MB, and the remaining space (of 15 or 31MB is inaccessible (non alloué in french). in https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.fr it is said you can recover this: L'image hybride n'occupe

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 18:49:29 (-0500), Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > > On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 14:40:09 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 02/14/2018 01:56 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > > >On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: >

Re: Ethernet Connection Dropped Again

2018-02-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 18:44:55 -0500, Thomas George wrote: > Starting last month the PC Ethernet connection is sometimes not made > atbootup or is occasionally lost. When this happens the only way I havefound > to re-establish the connection is to turn the TP-Link AC1750 router off and > on again.

Ethernet Connection Dropped Again

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas George
Starting last month the PC Ethernet connection is sometimes not made atbootup or is occasionally lost. When this happens the only way I havefound to re-establish the connection is to turn the TP-Link AC1750 router off and on again. The system is Debian Stretch. The connection was just dropped

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Would there be a text based editor for svg? On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 14:40:09 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 02/14/2018 01:56 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > >On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >>I use Stretch with MATE as de

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 14:40:09 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/14/2018 01:56 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>I use Stretch with MATE as desktop. > >>My current icons are from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 . > >>I have multiple configurations of s

BIND and iptables config

2018-02-14 Thread Rodary Jacques
I have my own DNS config t so that my home LAN can access internet (with SNAT) to "the" internet which I created under Redhat 7.2! It did work on a Redhat box with Systemd, NetworkManager , and the bind9 RPM. On Debian the bind9.service tries to start when the net interfaces are not ready.But

Re: Iptables at boot

2018-02-14 Thread Bob Weber
On 2/14/18 4:51 PM, Rodary Jacques wrote: I was just going to give up , and I even installed shorewall, when my last attempt with my very old iptables config (from redhat 7.2) did work. I of course to still get rid of stupid systemd config, but I don't really care since my server is allways up

Re: Iptables at boot

2018-02-14 Thread Rodary Jacques
I was just going to give up , and I even installed shorewall, when my last attempt with my very old iptables config (from redhat 7.2) did work. I of course to still get rid of stupid systemd config, but I don't really care since my server is allways up!. Thank you anyway for your hints. Jacques

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 February 2018 10:42:09 Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/13/2018 05:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 February 2018 16:00:20 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> Does anyone have a MIDI-to-USB adapter they could recommend for > >> Debian and/or linux? > >> This is just for a point-to-po

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 February 2018 09:59:00 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 07:19:05PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 February 2018 18:11:55 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 03:00:20PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a MIDI-to-USB adapte

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/14/2018 01:56 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: I use Stretch with MATE as desktop. My current icons are from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 . I have multiple configurations of some programs installed. I would like to use icons that are semantically rel

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread David Christensen
On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: I use Stretch with MATE as desktop. My current icons are from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 . I have multiple configurations of some programs installed. I would like to use icons that are semantically related. I would like to use custom icons that are 48

Re: Duplicati?

2018-02-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Hi Boyan, On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 02:32:32PM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: >Hello Roberto, > >Thanks for the particularly detailed explanation; it's quite apropos, >since: > >-- I'm new to actually thinking about what it takes to make stuff work. Packaging software for Debian is ce

Re: Duplicati?

2018-02-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello Roberto, Thanks for the particularly detailed explanation; it's quite apropos, since: -- I'm new to actually thinking about what it takes to make stuff work. -- I had wrongly assumed the existence of some .deb floating around would make the packaging more straightforward As for Duplic

Re: Duplicati?

2018-02-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 02:03:01PM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: >Hey folks, > >Anybody know of any conversations underway to add >[1]https://www.duplicati.com/ to debian?  They do ship .debs they compile >themselves, so this may not be a steep hill to climb... > I took a quick look

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

2018-02-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 02:28:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On a secondary note, I see armel and armhf? listed there, but what about arm64 since there are now, shipping versions of arm64 out in the wild for at least a year. The first Debian release to support arm64 is the current one. Freexia

Duplicati?

2018-02-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey folks, Anybody know of any conversations underway to add https://www.duplicati.com/ to debian?  They do ship .debs they compile themselves, so this may not be a steep hill to climb... Cheers!

Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread Richard Owlett
I use Stretch with MATE as desktop. My current icons are from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 . I have multiple configurations of some programs installed. I would like to use icons that are semantically related. I would like to use custom icons that are 48 high X 96 wide. These would be created jo

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Bob Weber
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 03:00:20PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Does anyone have a MIDI-to-USB adapter they could recommend for Debian and/or linux? This is just for a point-to-point connection from a Yamaha keyboard to a laptop. Software on the laptop remains undetermined, probably some combi

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/14/2018 11:33 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Ric Moore wrote: Gene, they are cheap as dirt. Check Ebay. If the OP really wants midi rolling full-blown install Ubuntu Studio. It uses a RT kernel and Jack audio for low low latency. The fun part will be the se

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > Gene, they are cheap as dirt. Check Ebay. If the OP really wants midi > rolling full-blown install Ubuntu Studio. It uses a RT kernel and Jack audio > for low low latency. The fun part will be the setup. I'm just starting out > myself, and it ta

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Doug wrote: > > Look for a PS2 to USB adapter. I have one that allows me to plug an IBM > model M keyboard into a Dell laptop, and it works perfectly. (No > manufacturer's name on it--it just says > "Made in China" like so much else these days. Yeah, not a compute

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

2018-02-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/13/2018 06:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I agree Deloptes, debian's newer releases are generally better, if the ever increasing paranoia can be worked around. The major problems are with the difficulties in building and installing, a newer, realtime kernel for machine control usage, when the

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/13/2018 05:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2018 16:00:20 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Does anyone have a MIDI-to-USB adapter they could recommend for Debian and/or linux? This is just for a point-to-point connection from a Yamaha keyboard to a laptop. Software on the laptop

Re: MIDI-to-USB on Debian?

2018-02-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 07:19:05PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2018 18:11:55 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 03:00:20PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Does anyone have a MIDI-to-USB adapter they could recommend for > > > Debian and/or linux? > > > Thi

Re: /lib/lsb/init-functions on LXC servers

2018-02-14 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Reco, On 02/14/18 14:55, Reco wrote: True. There's one tiny bit though - try pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/sbin/sshd and watch it output several pids as well. Yes, indeed. If pidofproc would rely upon the pidfile only, then there is no reason to call pidof. And you don't have to spawn yet ano

Re: /lib/lsb/init-functions on LXC servers

2018-02-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 02:33:16PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi Reco, > > wrt "pgrep --ns 1 -f /usr/sbin/sshd": > > The executable path simply doesn't tell if this is the right service > to stop. If I run 2 services in parallel (e.g. for different network > interfaces), then this

Re: /lib/lsb/init-functions on LXC servers

2018-02-14 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Reco, wrt "pgrep --ns 1 -f /usr/sbin/sshd": The executable path simply doesn't tell if this is the right service to stop. If I run 2 services in parallel (e.g. for different network interfaces), then this approach is already broken. Sample: # pgrep --ns 1 -f /usr/sbin/sshd 12602 # ps -ef | g

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

2018-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 February 2018 03:20:58 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > That, and fighting with my printer because theres no pdf of this > > doco, > > > > > > Hi, agreed that staged boot on non i386 machines is really fun. > At least wit

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

2018-02-14 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > That, and fighting with my printer because theres no pdf of this doco, > > Hi, agreed that staged boot on non i386 machines is really fun. At least with raspberri and the Geode thing I used PXE boot to test the kernel itse