Re: Does Debian crontab support the @NumberOfSeconds scheduling syntax?

2019-08-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Judah Richardson wrote: > In FreeBSD and derived OSes, you can use @n, where n is a number, to > indicate that a task should be started n seconds after its previous > invocation completed. > I couldn't find anything like that in the Debian crontab > documentation. Is it supported or possible? T

Does Debian crontab support the @NumberOfSeconds scheduling syntax?

2019-08-17 Thread Judah Richardson
In FreeBSD and derived OSes, you can use @n, where n is a number, to indicate that a task should be started n seconds after its previous invocation completed. I couldn't find anything like that in the Debian crontab documentation. Is it supported or possible?

Re: Configure apt-get to work through corp internet proxy

2019-08-17 Thread Dan Clery
Are you able to download packages from the URL with wget? If not, you're probably gonna want to talk to IT - sounds like the firewall is scanning or blocking the packages - the security should be able to be loosened for a mirror. Other options would be DVDs or setting up a local mirror. On Fri,

Re: Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

2019-08-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 4:12 PM Mike Kupfer wrote: ... > IIRC, GTK3 lets the user (theme) specify the color to be used for > selection. So something else you could experiment with (using > emacs-gtk) is different themes. Thanks, Mike, very helpful! -Tom

Re: Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

2019-08-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Tom Browder wrote: > When I use -Q highlighting works! That points at something in your .emacs.d settings as being the culprit. > I installed emacs-lucid (which removed emacs-gtk) and now highlighting > works (but other colors are changed). IIRC, GTK3 lets the user (theme) specify the color to

Re: Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

2019-08-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 14:37 Mike Kupfer wrote: > > Since installing buster on a new laptop I have noticed that selected > > text doesn't show as highlighted. ... > I can't reproduce that problem with a fresh installation of buster, using > emacs-lucid in MATE. > > Which build of Emacs are you u

Re: Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

2019-08-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Tom Browder wrote: > Since installing buster on a new laptop I have noticed that selected > text doesn't show as highlighted. > > I have had no such problems with stretch, but they were upgrades > in-place from previous installations--buster was installed new. I can't reproduce that problem with

Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade

2019-08-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 13 Aug 2019 at 20:07:49 +0200, john doe wrote: > Hi, > > While upgrading the dbus deamon, I get the following: > > "A reboot is required to replace the running dbus-daemon. > Please reboot the system when convenient." > > > I have no plan to reboot that server, what are the pros and con

Re: Debian Format Disk

2019-08-17 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, August 17, 2019 12:50:10 PM -04 Finariu Florin wrote: > Hi everyone,Maybe somebody can help me with some explanations. Thank you in > advance!!When I do format disk form accessories → disk → format disk → > erase, I have 3 option:1. Don't overwrite existing data (Quick)2. > Overwrite

Re: Debian Format Disk

2019-08-17 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, August 17, 2019 12:57:02 PM -04 Peter Roger wrote: > Hieveryone, > > Maybesomebody can help me with some explanations. Thank you in advance!! > WhenI do format disk form accessories → disk → format disk → erase, I have 3 > option: 1.Don't overwrite existing data (Quick) > 2.Overwrite

Forwarding reply [Re: Debian Format Disk]

2019-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/17/2019 08:57 AM, Finariu Florin wrote: > Hi, > Is Debian 10 > Cinnamon. > Thank you! Please bottom post. Please reply to list. I can not confidently answer your question as I use neither that release nor Desktop. > > On Saturday, August 17, 2019, 09:12:11 a.m. GMT-4, Richard Owlett >

Re: Debian Format Disk

2019-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/17/2019 07:50 AM, Finariu Florin wrote: Hi everyone, Maybe somebody can help me with some explanations. Thank you in advance!! When I do format disk form accessories → disk → format disk → erase,  I have 3 option: 1. Don't overwrite existing data (Quick) 2. Overwrite existing data with ze

Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade

2019-08-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Aug 2019 at 12:59:16 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:23:48PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > ipptool depends on libcups2. > > Which does not make it require CUPS on the other side - [2]. > And note - a conventional RFC1918 IP is used there. No "discovery" > involved. Anyth

Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade

2019-08-17 Thread Reco
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:23:48PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 16 Aug 2019 at 22:39:09 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 16 Aug 2019 at 09:51:15 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 08:47:34PM +0100, Brian wrote: > >

Re: Debian Wiki and LSB (https://wiki.debian.org/LSB)

2019-08-17 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sat 17/Aug/2019 04:13:28 +0200 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > - https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts > - https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot > > It would be great if someone experienced could take a look. Especially > the last two pages could need more updating, since AFAIK i

Re: Confounding behaviour of Empathy.

2019-08-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-16, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > The Contacts List in Empathy notifies in bold letters, "You haven't > added any contacts yet". Meanwhile the "Add Contact" button is pale > grey; disabled. That goes beyond confounding; it's downright frustrating. Have you installed any of the "recomm

Re: TWAIN in Debian 10.

2019-08-17 Thread didier . gaumet
Le vendredi 16 août 2019 21:50:05 UTC+2, Joe a écrit : > I'm pretty sure that TWAIN was dropped by the time of Win 7, or the 64 > bit version at the latest. In fact TWAIN is Win7 & 64 bits compliant (last stable release: december 2015) twain.org provides support forums, docs and github source do

Re: Why do UID values of system users matter?

2019-08-17 Thread tomas
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 04:18:00AM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your quick reply. > > I see, multiboot with different /etc but shared /usr or /local could invite > a lot of trouble if using different UIDs, indeed! Thanks for the quick > explanation. Not only that. A system

Re: Permissions and delivery of LAN email by exim

2019-08-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-16, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:20:09PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> AIUI exim should be able to deliver emails into a user's mbox, but >> I'm confused about how exim is meant to do that, because it runs as >> user Debian-exim, but mailbox permissions are normally