Re: Stretch => Buster: obsolete packages

2020-10-23 Thread Clive Standbridge
ntinue to work in buster. It wasn't working for me, and I removed it before realising my immediate problem was an expired SSL certificate, not squirrelmail itself. -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: apt-get build-dep emacs-gtk: unmet dependencies

2020-02-03 Thread Clive Standbridge
ian.org but now it's not in your sources.list. If you add a line like deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free then do "apt-get update", does that help the "apt-get build-dep"? -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working?

2018-08-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
h file or directory $ RET=$? $ test $RET -eq 0 && echo ok || echo error $RET error 2 -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: [OT] An easier database

2018-07-25 Thread Clive Standbridge
ng something like Package: unwanted-package other-unwanted-package Pin: release * Pin-Priority: -1 The apt_preferences(5) man page is the reference. As it says, a priority value P < 0 prevents the version from being installed, although I don't think it removes already-installed packages. -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Much less was I trying to criticize you, Oh I didn't think you were :-) > Just trying to raise awareness about (the few) shell variation idiosyncracies > I know about, to help making people's lives easier. Sounds good to me. -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
I'd often prefer awk in such a situation (like Erik and Greg have mentioned). -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
face="lo" declare -- interface="eth0" declare -- interface="br0" declare -- interface="vethJWC4DL" -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

2016-12-08 Thread Clive Standbridge
> 0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from > testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without > additional efforts. The great debian-reference has a guide to doing that: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_porting_a

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On 01/10/16 18:40, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2016 12:39:58 Clive Menzies wrote: Quick question. Are your backups incremental or complete every night? This is probably better explained in the manpages. Amanda has the concept of doing a full backup of everything in its disklist

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
back up with nightly backups totaling 11 to 14 Gb per night. Hi Gene Quick question. Are your backups incremental or complete every night? Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies http://freecriticalthinking.org

Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

2016-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
pretty nice logging format i think ;) Hi Mo I tried to send this with a .pdf yesterday d'oh! Anyway, we've just reinstalled our servers with mail and automated backup and updated our notes. They're not finalised and hence not on the web yet but you can access them here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63603283/InstallationNotes2016.9.24.pdf Bit's of it may help. Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies http://freecriticalthinking.org

fetchmail ssl issue - was Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade

2016-09-20 Thread Clive Menzies
the fingerprint method instead but any options we add seem to break fetchmail. It appears to be a syntax error. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks Clive -- Clive Menzies http://freecriticalthinking.org

Re: Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - SOLVED

2016-09-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines since upgrading jessie on Monday: This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three days, since Monday afternoon. Never before have I questioned the decisi

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script

2016-09-19 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Thomas The absolute path was the answer. Your explanation has added to my limited knowledge :-) Thanks Clive On 19/09/16 23:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Clive Menzies wrote: rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded" exclude_

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script - SOLVED

2016-09-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On 19/09/16 22:10, Clive Menzies wrote: It didn't find the exclude_list I created. I modified the script to point to it but clearly the syntax is not right # Good rsync options for uhuru_backups. rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded"

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script

2016-09-19 Thread Clive Menzies
No such file or directory (2) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at exclude.c(1179) [client=3.1.1] Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies http://freecriticalthinking.org

Crontab doesn't complete a script - was Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

2016-09-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On 17/09/16 17:12, Clive Menzies wrote: WORKING version: # Good rsync options for uhuru_backups. rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded" The exclude_list is a file with one excluded directory per line with an asterisk at the end dire

Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes - SOLVED

2016-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On 17/09/16 13:32, Mike Bird wrote $rsync $rsync_opts $password FileServer::rsync \ /home/backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log I don't see where the $excludes you built is actually used. On 17/09/16 13:44, Clive Menzies wrote: The script wasn't changed an

Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

2016-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log The incremental backups have worked seamlessly for over 10 years but recently, possibly related to the upgrade of Debian Jessie, the exclude options have ceased to have effect. I've dug around the docs but haven't found anything rel

Re: Systemd and Init was Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On 12/09/16 19:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:32:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Most of the common server-oriented packages in jessie have systemd units written for them. E.g. openssh-server: ~$ dpkg -L openssh-server | grep systemd /lib/systemd /lib/systemd/system /lib

Systemd and Init was Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote: On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines since upgrading jessie on Monday: apt/log: Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10 Commandline: apt-get upgrade Upgrade: libgcrypt20

Re: Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-09 Thread Clive Menzies
Please ignore this last message about dovecot - my brain was scrambled. I hadn't installed it yet. On 09/09/16 09:16, Clive Menzies wrote: On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote: On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three

Re: Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote: On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three days, since Monday afternoon. Never before have I questioned the decision to base our business (and our lives) on Debian and I remain a firm

Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade

2016-09-08 Thread Clive Menzies
nce. Apologies if this sounds like a complaint, it's not. It is a concern, which someone may be able to allay, that Debian is not as rock solid as it was. You guys have done brilliant work and I'm aware that my contribution to the project has been very small and pretty non-ex

Re: Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines since upgrading jessie on Monday: apt/log: Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10 Commandline: apt-get upgrade Upgrade: libgcrypt20:i386 (1.6.3-2+deb8u1, 1.6.3-2+deb8u2), gnupg

Re: Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-22 Thread Clive Standbridge
lar or same results. You get > to speak the dialect you feel most comfortable with!!:-) You get to write unportable scripts. -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-12 Thread Clive Standbridge
gt; > :-) classic filesystems like ext4, fat, btrfs only. > > > > Thanks, > > Jan > > A small utility, if it does not already exist, to do this would be > nice. Perhaps df -PTl | egrep '^(/|Filesystem)' or df -PT -x nfs -x devtmpfs -x tmpfs or df -PTl -x devtmpfs -x tmpfs -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: get software list of one software repository

2015-09-08 Thread Clive Standbridge
's with > the cats, anyway? UUOG. Just awk without a grep, e.g. awk -F ": " '/Package/{print $2}' /var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages There's no need for a separate grep to match patterns, when awk has perfectly good pattern matching itself. :-) -- Cheers, Clive

Dell brightness issue

2015-09-01 Thread Clive Akem
I have the same issue that when changing brightness, everything runs slowly even after restarting. Have you managed to solve it? Thanks Clive

Re: Re: Ric Moore

2015-01-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
which then downloads only the packages that will be installed. See https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https:/

Re: Re: Iceweasel Latest update stealing bandwidth uselessly

2014-12-07 Thread Clive Standbridge
> I think the Dali Llama is a Spanish surrealistic painting of a South > American ruminant, noted for fleecing the tin foil crowd. You win! -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Re: Iceweasel Latest update stealing bandwidth uselessly

2014-12-07 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Do you subscribe to the Dali Llama somehow? :) Ric Is that some kind of mystical Tibetan woolly creature? Maybe the origin of the yeti myth. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Lots of updates? OK?

2014-10-19 Thread Clive Standbridge
updates with reasons, including for the linux kernel. I hop that helps:-) -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141019151640.GA7099@rimmer.localdomain

Re: Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
following the "enable programmable completion features" comment, and start a new shell. Now when you start typing and press Tab, it will offer all sorts of completions in context, e.g. command options, hostnames, and more. Rock on! -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread Clive Standbridge
it would be advisable to change 'stable' to 'wheezy' in that line. It's no problem now, but could become an unwelcome surprise when jessie is released as stable in a year or two. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
pkg -l '*wicd*' | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs -r sudo apt-get -s purge To really purge those packages, remove the "-s" option. That will suffice unless any of the wicd functionality is in packages without "wicd" as part of their names. -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: how to reinstall bash

2014-09-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
. > 2] apt-get install --reinstall bash I'm not sure whether that would repair the damage caused by [1]. To check, please run this command and paste the output into your reply: ls -l /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/dash -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Re: How to find dirs with single item

2014-05-29 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > directory or file. > > Try this (yep, links should be 3, not 1): > > find -type d -links 3 > > Reco That looked neat (just a single process) but it doesn't quite answer the question. It finds directories containing exactly one subdirectory and any number of other

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Clive Standbridge
completions (On) If set to On, readline uses an internal more-like pager to display a screenful of possible completions at a time. It looks like your choices are the more-like pager, or no pager. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Why don't I get a beep with: > > echo -e \a Because the shell absorbs the \ and the echo command sees only the letter a. Try this: echo -e '\a' -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Clive Standbridge
rd for upgrades between major releases. You might want to view the fine release notes, at least the chapter on upgrading, at http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes > That as far as memory serves -- which is getting shakier and shakier > with the advance of years :-( I know the

Re: Re: upgrade dist from squeeze to wheezy

2013-12-18 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > > is the correct process: > > The recommended process is to read and follow the upgrade instructions > in the release notes. Except that openvz has been dropped from wheezy. If the squeeze system is the openvz host, that's not covered in the release notes. --

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Which package I can be installed which may serve as calender, > > Just remind me when, where and what I need attend or prepare? gkrellm-reminder (a plugin for gkrellm) does what you said. It's graphical, but does not depend on any desktop environment. -- Cheers, Clive --

Re: Consistent mouse and scrollbar behavior in X?

2013-10-12 Thread Clive Standbridge
a window manager function, but as you've observed, it seems to be built into each application. [...] > Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. Did you know that xterm has the same scrollbar behaviour? Unlike every other terminal emulator that I'm aware of. -- Cheers, Clive -- To

Re: Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
s/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_porting_a_package_to_the_stable_system -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130413115929.GA7336@rimmer.localdomain

Re: "su" - timeout for dbus/system_bus_socket if $DISPLAY set but unreachable

2013-03-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
st:10" or similar. I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130317015308.GA32005@rimmer.localdomain

Re: Basic USB Automounter?

2013-01-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
xec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime" FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=vfat,flush,gid=plugdev,dmask=0002,fmask=0113" VERBOSE=no Add yourself to whatever group(s) you use in the config, e.g. plugdev. The device appears under /media/usb. Use pumount to unmount it. I hope this helps. -- Ch

Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
it up manually, you can install the package flashplugin-nonfree, then you don't need to care where its library is installed. Note that when new versions of flashplayer are released you will need to run, as root, dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
r Debian Lenny and found it very helpful; it both tells you what to do and explains things. The tutorial has since been updated for Squeeze although I haven't looked at that version. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: which layer to configure so Alt-x does Meta-x in bash?

2012-07-04 Thread Clive Standbridge
a e gives æ Compose 1 2 gives ½ Compose " o gives ö Compose o c gives © and so on. I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120704214551.GA3692@rimmer.localdomain

Re: Re: how to update Debian OS properly

2012-05-25 Thread Clive Standbridge
ople who have commented here, so I can choose a convenient time to perform the upgrade to the next release. I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525150915.GA5209@lister.localdomain

Spam complaints

2012-05-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
org/debian-user/recent and press the "Report as spam" button. DO visit http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam for more information. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Re: Re: backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Forgive me for being thick but how do I get the gb dictionary please? No problem, you need to install the myspell-en-gb package. Then you need to restart LibreOffice before you can use it in the auto-spellcheck. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Re: backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
-us myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us > Yes the autocheck button is ticked, but its still only working > intermittently, not all the time unfortunately. Unfortunately nothing above explains intermittent working. If you can identify a repeatable pattern of behaviour then you could report a bug

Re: backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-07 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Mon 7 May 2012 11:08:53 +0100(+0100), Clive Standbridge wrote: [...] > > First suggestion - do you have a myspell dictionary installed? Search > for package names beginning "myspell-" and install one or more of them. Oh and you'll need to restart LibreOffice af

Re: backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-07 Thread Clive Standbridge
in case you have overlooked it), but is your auto spell check switched on? There's a toolbar button or you can set it under Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids -> Options -> Check spelling as you type. I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Splitting digest into separate mails (was OT: Broken digest)

2012-05-06 Thread Clive Standbridge
org | formail +1 -ds procmail You should be able to add procmail into your mail delivery chain if you receive mail locally, but probably not if you keep mail on a remote IMAP or webmail server. I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: ls sorting order change

2012-05-02 Thread Clive Standbridge
its . and ..). Maybe you had one of these in an alias on a previous system? Alternatively, if you want to see hidden files when you type "ls *" you can set "shopt -s dotglob" (this is specific to bash). -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread Clive Standbridge
1100.10101000.0010. Hosts/Net: 254 Class C, Private Internet I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: set nameserver on boot in /etc/network/interfaces

2012-03-29 Thread Clive Standbridge
s-nameservers, dns-domain, dns-search etc. i.e. resolv.conf parameter names prefixed with "dns-". I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias

2012-03-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Tue 13 Mar 2012 15:49:52 +(+), Clive Standbridge wrote: > > Dear Debian users, > > > > Anyone knows why this command: > > > > :~$ alias muda='find . -name "*" -mtime -$1' > > > > and all this variations I tried: > [...

Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias

2012-03-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
ork because aliases don't take arguments. You can use a shell function instead. For example, muda() { find . -name "*" -mtime -$1 } -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-20 Thread Clive Standbridge
before typing your compose sequence. It's also worth noting that the compose sequences in Debian work only one order, i.e. "Compose ^ c" works but "Compose c ^" doesn't (unlike at least some versions of Unix which work in either order). -- Cheers, Clive -- To

Re: Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-15 Thread Clive Standbridge
es. Similarly for unlink. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120215225049.ga8...@rimmer.esmertec.com

Re: usbmount and user permissions

2012-01-26 Thread Clive Standbridge
rself to the plugdev group. 3. Log in again to for the group membership change to take effect. To unmount the drive as an unprivileged user, enter this: pumount /media/usb Also read the comments about the sync option in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf, and modify MOUNTOPTIONS accordingly. -- Cheers, C

Re: how to kill 120 jobs at once.

2012-01-21 Thread Clive Standbridge
;s the alternative choice, Hi Lina, You can install the procps package, then use pkill nvt Like kill, pkill takes a signal number as an option, so more aggressively: pkill -9 nvt -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-11-30 Thread Clive Standbridge
Paul Isambert wrote: > Thanks Clive for your help. Unfortunately Icedove stays attached to the > uppermost terminal (which I want to close too, perhaps that wasn't > clear). Even with the simplest form: > > bash --rcfile <(echo icedove \&) > > when I clos

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-11-30 Thread Clive Standbridge
ven't figured out: This does not to allow you to bring the icedove to the foreground. Nor does it seem to show stdout/stderr from icedove in the xterm, which I guess you want. Hopefully someone will provide a better answer. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2030132934.ga9...@rimmer.esmertec.com

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Clive Standbridge
; as specified by Internet RFC 934, this is taken into account. After removing indenting or encapsulation, lines beginning with # are ignored, as they are considered to be com- ments. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Re: How to get an IP address

2011-11-14 Thread Clive Standbridge
t. A good suggestion. That's good to know, thanks. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2014213831.ga21...@rimmer.esmertec.com

Re: How to get an IP address

2011-11-14 Thread Clive Standbridge
y not be installed. I hope this helps. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2014193126.ga14...@rimmer.esmertec.com

Re: Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
t;>> /var/log/nightly-git.log 2>&1" -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2009090420.ga3...@rimmer.esmertec.com

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Clive Standbridge
3 bash-doc=4.1-3 To use "-" as a delimiter you could do e.g. wajig snapshot | tr = - | egrep bash bash-4.1-3 bash-completion-1:1.2-3 bash-doc-4.1-3 -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-03 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Now I wounder, if "pissed" in British English already means not to know > where you are ... in what condition is somebody who isn't "pissed", but > "totally pissed"? He or she would be "pissed as a newt". I hope that's clearer now. -

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-30 Thread Clive Standbridge
g its command on an empty file list. The pair of -0 options deals with white-space and non-printing characters in file names. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: Maximum file size?

2011-07-25 Thread Clive Standbridge
> What is the maximum file size supported by Debian 32 bit and 54 bit > kernel? Alo, what is the maximum capacity of harddisk supported by > ext3 FS? More than you think with the 54 bit kernel; you get 10 bonus bits absolutely free. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1154

2011-06-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
gt; > > John > > > Try groupadd in the commandline. In KDE you can use kusers, which > > > does the job > > > very well. Kusers is my favourite tool. > > > > groupadd creates a new group. vigr is a command line method. > > > This wil

Re: Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with "Unable to canonicalise path"

2011-05-19 Thread Clive Standbridge
the job. You can connect to an sftp server with lftp using a command like lftp sftp://username@host/path/to/dir Another alternative would be to use rsync e.g. rsync -aiz files username@host:/path/to/dir -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Command history

2011-04-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
r such things) Apart from beginning the command with a space as already mentioned, you could enter just the command "sha512sum" then as input type some string and stuff followed by Ctrl-D. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Re: Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-01 Thread Clive Standbridge
way, Camaleon's suggestion helped. I went to the openoffice site, > downloaded the spell checkers and installed them through the Writer > extensions "wizard". Okay, good :-) -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-01 Thread Clive Standbridge
ll-it and myspell-sl packages. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110401163346.ga7...@rimmer.esmertec.com

Re: adzapper help needed

2011-03-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
ZAP_MODE="CLEAR" otherwise some pages get splattered with surprisingly large numbers of "ad zapped" strings. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: Re: need help with sed problem

2011-03-19 Thread Clive Standbridge
all the backslashes in $PWD using a shell expansion: $ sed "s/.*/:${PWD//\//\\/}/" text.txt :/home/clive/temp You can see its effect on the string passed to sed using set -x: $ (set -x; sed s/.*/:${PWD//\//\\/}/ text.txt) + sed 's/.*/:\/home

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Clive Standbridge
guration questions can occur at any time. Also if you rely on the system for anything important, you need to allow time to diagnose and fix the fallout i.e. breakages that aren't covered in the release notes. It happens unfortunately. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Clive Standbridge
fects just xterm, but the former affects anything that uses a font resource (xterm, rxvt, emacs, etc.). You can test changes without restarting X by running xrdb -load ~/.Xresources PS I'm not sure whether .Xdefaults is a valid alternative name to .Xresources -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSU

Re: Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?

2011-02-10 Thread Clive Standbridge
> However MS users running Outlook have only the subject for message > threading. This is a long standing bug in Outlook. Recent version(s) appear to have been fixed, thankfully. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Re: xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
Make sure the session "Xclient" is selected in GDM. Now you should be able to use any client in GDM. But please note I don't have gdm installed to test this; I use wdm. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

2010-07-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
> for MAGFILE in `ls *.[Zz][Ii][Pp] $MAGDIR/`; do > #lots of other stuff > done As others noted, the ls command is superfluous and possibly harmful here. One more thing you can do is case-insensitive pathname expansion: shopt -s nocaseglob for MAGFILE in $MAGDIR/*.zip do #lots of other

Re: Re: Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.

2010-07-21 Thread Clive Standbridge
". -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100721165736.ga6...@rimmer.esmertec.com

Re: Re: mashup "apt-cache search "

2010-06-29 Thread Clive Standbridge
ing parted-doc. No packages found matching qtparted. Note that dpkg is not aware of all the packages returned by apt-cache search, and prints a message on standard error for each one. Hence the use of 2>&1 above. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: How to run an X program as a different user?

2010-05-18 Thread Clive Standbridge
word. Requires package sux. If you have sshd set up with X forwarding enabled, you could also do ssh -X b...@localhost /path/to/app arg1 arg2 arg3 but this one feels like overkill. -- Cheers, Clive (end of message) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Re: Authentication unsuccessful relaying from Postfix to Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service

2010-05-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
eck where (and > why) > it stops now :-) Ahem, good point. The attachments contain the lines written to /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/mail.log when the attempt to mail via NEWSERVER:587 failed, also my /etc/postfix/main.cf (without comments). -- Cheers, Clive /var/log/auth.log: May 10 12:59:

Re: Re: Authentication unsuccessful relaying from Postfix to Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service

2010-05-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
TLS, and you'll > see, for any combination of connection and authentication options > that you try, what works and what errors are received on failure. Hi Celejar, Thanks for that advice. I will take a look at swaks. I have run out of weekend now, so it may take a day or two. -- Cheers,

Re: Re: Authentication unsuccessful relaying from Postfix to MicrosoftESMTP MAIL Service

2010-05-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
; established to NEWSERVER[NEWSERVER-IPADDR]:587: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 > > (128/128 bits) > > I guess your are having problems with the certificate itself. It > cannot > be verified by the remote server. The TLS part seems to be sorted now (see my reply to Sven). But the a

Re: Re: Authentication unsuccessful relaying from Postfix to Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service

2010-05-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
02/0.03/5.4/0, dsn=4.7.3, status=deferred (SASL authentication failed; server NEWSERVER[NEWSERVER-IPADDR] said: 535 5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful) Thanks, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Authentication unsuccessful relaying from Postfix to Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service

2010-05-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
Hi, I'm trying in vain to relay external mail from postfix on a Debian lenny machine to a Microsoft SMTP server on the Internet. I've been reading and searching for days. I've tried numerous combinations of settings although I'm note certain what they all do and am experiencing information overlo

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-29 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: > On 4/26/2010 5:24 PM, Clive McBarton wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Mark Allums wrote: >>> Some people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors,

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Rob Owens put forth on 4/28/2010 8:26 PM: >> Many/most >> users don't run a UPS and sudden unexpected power loss is a real >> possibility for them. > > Really? I was under the impression that laptops and netbooks are now the >

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-26 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: > Some people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors, thus > security risks. What exactly are those risks? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

2010-04-26 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Ross wrote: > "Reply to List" button (which I know > was available as an add-on before) You remember what the add-on is called? Searching for "reply to list" in add-ons didn't give me anything. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

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