Re: Best practices for updating systems over extremely slow links

2016-10-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 03:45:21PM +, rbraun204 . wrote: > I have a couple of debian boxes in very remote areas that are connected back > to > our wan via a 56kbps satellite link. Most of the time we have a constant > stream of data coming/going to that machine so the link is saturated qu

Re: systemd - how to run system service by user target

2016-10-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
he VPN will only actually connect when I'm _not_ at home. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen (also KJ)

Re: networking

2016-08-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:43:30PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, I'm helping a friend to create a small network on his office (4 > floors) > > I suggests him to separate each networks: > > floor1 - 192.168.1.0/24 > floor2 - 192.168.2.0/24 > floor3 - 192.168.3.0/24 > floor4 - 192.168.4.0/24 >

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the same network have the same IP address, then you will get inconsistent results... To see whether a box suffers from this, obtain it's IP address and disconnect it from the network. If the IP address is still pingable (or just arping'able), then this is a red flag... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: apache and clients

2016-06-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 02:49:42PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > Inside a small lan (less 10 pc) I've a server with apache. > > I've to install bind/dnsmasq to automatically resolve IP of apache or can I > use clients's host file? > > What's the easy/fast way to resolve IP of this ser

Re: Konqueror - security hole or bug?

2016-06-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:32:18AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Dear community, > > I found a strange behaviour with konqueror (does anyone use it?) and I > believe > it is either a bug or a security problem. > > the problem is the following: > > I discovered, that my network card is doing a lot of

Re: chroot setup problem

2016-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 07:17:14PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I attempt to chroot from /dev/sdb on /dev/sda. > > # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/debinst > > I verify it is mounted and then do: > > # LANG=C.UTF8 /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash > /usr/sbin/chroot: failed to run command `/b

Re: Systemd bybasses fstab mounting root partition(?)

2015-10-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ab is in the root file system. Thus, the system can only examine /etc/fstab _after_ the root file system has been mounted... Instead you may want to examine the kernel command line (e.g. in grub or /proc/cmdline) - it should have "root=" in it. Nowadays that is often specifie

Re: How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash ?

2015-08-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
pose key): karl@xps:~$ od -t u1 000 194 160 10 003 I suspect you may be able to do the same, although you may have configured your compose key differently (I cannot remember whether mine is the default). Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jørgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 13:02 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup > with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: > > # crontab -l > 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup > > I can run the script manually with

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-05-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
large-size archival mailboxes in mbox, potentially compressed. The archivemail > tool can assist with moving one to the other. > > > It is a tragedy that a standard, robust and efficient format for mailboxes > > was never designed and adopted. > > It's a tragedy that ma

Re: An inotifywait question

2015-04-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
be studying? > > Thanks for any clues. The bash manual, at around 500 pages, details > aren't that easy to find in that tome. Bash (or sh) is really a programming language :-) You're looking for $! : Special Parameters: ... ! Expands to the process ID of the job mos

Re: Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
configuration files. I'm currently > unable to get into the system so I'll be getting a rescue CD > set up to use later today. Well - it is theoretically possible that a disk corruption has done something to your pam configuration. Hopefully the log files will contain clues so you don&#

Re: Jessie regularly loses wifi connection though signal is strong

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
g/daemon.log will show dhcp-related events here... * Can you reach the access point with ping? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
your local network ... Then you'll only have to download things once (usually) hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 09:32 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Yes, I know I can STFW. I have in fact done so. But I am after > > personal experience. > > > > I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and > > pleasant to use. G

Re: Some commands is not working in Linux server

2015-02-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 21:00 +0530, Justinmp wrote: > Greetings to all.. > > Everything was working normally until last day.From today I am not > able to execute few commands like ls in cent os machine.Interesting > part is ls -al is working fine. > > When ever I issued ls , du -sh * ,yum upd

Re: Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

2015-02-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the uptime of the host kernel. If you recently rebooted your VPS, you will see an uptime which is "too long". Tools like the "imvirt" package can also tell you what virtualisation you're running under. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 22:40 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat sceptical > > about. But since I could not come up with any technically sound > > arguments against it (p

A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
have not paid attention to - simply because it did not cause problems. Which is absolutely excellent - that's the way software *should* be. Keep up the good work! -- Karl E. Jørgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Writing files with formatted name

2015-02-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
he sequence for each subsequent file.  > Something similar to what logrotate is doing. > > Tlhanks in advance > > -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
t; I understand the typical use of the utility is in a classroom > situation where instructor needs to see exactly what the student > did. I know I saved the message but I can't come up with keywords to > retrieve it. That sounds like the "script" command - it's in the

Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
message you see. This should do the trick: for i in *.Log ; do if test -f "$i"; then rm "$i" echo Removed $i. fi done or if you want to make things *really* simple: rm --force --verbose *.Log :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
robably. But it depends on why it was read-only to start with... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141219120135.GB25008@hawking

Re: user permission inconsistency

2014-12-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
of your shell. > I *suspect* this is somehow related to systemd-logind (while systemd > is not running as pid 1) > > I just added user to group dialout (and astonished not to have to > logout in order to have updated user groups list) Well - if you run "id username"

Re: Debian by default / Debian jessie

2014-12-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
reboot > the computer, i don't have sound :( Which application did you expect to emit sound? some more information would be helpful here... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: bind9 needs sometimes a restart after resume from suspend

2014-12-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 03:26:29PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2014 11:59:16 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:26:36PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Hi Pascal, > > > > > > On Sunday

Re: Image cloning software

2014-11-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
t; media for 'cloning' on the other comps (or on itself, in case of an > irreparable failure of a working machine)? Thanks. You may want to look at the bootcd package - looks like it will do what you ask... Or at least similar enough to get you most of the way there. -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: bind9 needs sometimes a restart after resume from suspend

2014-11-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
rt after > > > suspend. > > > > Why ? Not running, not resolving, errors... ? > > bind9 does not respond. > > See e.g. the dig command from my previous post > > blackbox:~# dig heise.de > ^Cblackbox:~# That was well hidden :-) Any related messages

Re: EXT4-fr error, ext4_find_entry: reading directory...

2014-11-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
s It could even be a power issue - lack of sufficient voltage can have all sorts of weird and counter-intuitive results. And inconsistently so. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Block size confusion.

2014-11-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
and cylinder. ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector > > why it is recommended that we should use same size of block in both VG and LV > as the size of PV? This could possible be due to alignment -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: LVM: shrinking a logical volume (moving LVM logical volumes to new disks)

2014-11-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
licing off LVs to be presented to the virtual machines as disks. And the VMs then partition them and/or create PVs on them. Nested stuff galore. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Unable to start kvm virtual machines after re-install of "testing"

2014-11-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
its physical, 48 bits virtual > power management: Not the greatest CPU for virtualisation, but I see no reason it should not work... I wonder: It sounds like the contents of /proc/cpuinfo changed between the two kernel versions... Is the contents the same if you boot the old kernel? T

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

2014-11-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
if you are willing to live with the added latency. Not a good idea for database servers or other IO intensive VMs. It may be a better alternative than extended downtime. As an administrator, you get to make that trade-off. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141112225744.GA9128@hawking

Re: A Synaptic question

2014-11-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ke a bug... And from perusing http://bugs.debian.org/synaptic it appears to be new I recommend that you report this bug - tools like "reportbug" should help you :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: exim4 panic log issue

2014-11-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ns that I found. However I see that they are all related to > an issue with the kernel and IPV6 handling. What is the proper way to solve > this permanrently whilst leaving IPV6 functional. > Thanks! What is the actual error reported in /var/log/exim4/paniclog ? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
nning the route command takes a long time to come back with the > results. However my computer now connects and can be connected to. Hm.. I don't see "auto eth0" anywhere -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: alsa-utils save / restore not working http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665

2014-11-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
2.2/fhs-5.13.html > Where are the state of the sound card(s) saved / restored? I don't use alsa-utils, but based on my understanding of the FHS, I'd expect somewhere under /var/lib/alsa-utils. But from reading the bug report, I'm led to believe it is /var/lib/alsa/asound.state Ho

Re: Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
; > zsh, however, is more helpful: > > $ which umask > umask: shell built-in command Well, it *appears* that zsh is more helpful. But only because the "which" command itself is a built-in for zsh :-) (it isn't for bash) So you have the opposite problem: "ma

Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
That is also a possibility. But if it is only for facilitating a single server, then it's overkill. And it adds a single point of failure too: you would not be able to resolve IP addresses while the machine is down. If you already own/run a domain, you can also add a A record in the DNS for t

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
is up for debate. It only intentds to be a safety net, not a security feature. After all, attempting to protect a system against the root user is nonsensical. Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20141031082118.GA22377@hawking

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
And it is reasonably simple to bypass by a half-competent admin. I doubt this affects the LXDE power off button though. (I do not use LXDE). Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: LVM on two disks - spin down?

2014-10-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
time being I'd take care of my new > disk.) Remember that you can move portions of LVs around to suit you if you like (without downtime) - courtesy of the (somewhat misnamed) pvmove command. So even if you start off with the "wrong" layout, it's relatively easy to fix.

Re: debian-installer grub install problem

2014-10-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ding - FAI is much more customizable, and allows you to set up the resulting system exactly as you want (e.g. including kicking off puppet, cfgengine and similar), without needing any manual intervention. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Running awesome with Gnome - want gnome-panel too!

2014-10-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
on how I can diagnose this and/or narrow it down? FWIIW I'm running an up-to-date wheezy install - gnome-panel version 3.4.2.1-4 ... Any help would be appreciated... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
and another set for "guests" ? Once you segregate things like that, then you have to live with them being separate. The volume group concept is for grouping the *disks*, so you can treat a group of disks with similar properties as a interchangeable. So it makes more sense to have vol

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
I find that most people who talk about the benefits of virtualisation, really are talking about the benefits of *isolation*. And isoation of apps does not require the full overhead of a new root file system, new kernel etc. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Racoon

2014-09-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
gorithm 3DES; > authentication_algorithm hmac_md5; > compression_algorithm deflate; > pfs_group modp1024; > } I'd recommend looking in the logs to start with, and getting rid of the syntax errors in the config before going further... Hope this helps --

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
So in conclusion: A big "thank you" to the Debian Developers. The stability of the distribution is a direct result of their work. [1] Yes, I run a fair number of virtual machines which are always re-built from scratch. Gotta test deployment scripts somewhere. [2] I have no reservations

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
t to hash the known_hosts file: bash command completion - after "ssh" or "scp" the bash command completion will use ~/.ssh/known_hosts to suggest/complete hosts. Brilliant stuff. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: DNS Resolution and Short Names with Dots

2014-09-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ess 192.0.2.2 > www.example.com has IPv6 address 2001:db8::2 So... it looks like the number of dots in the query matter Perhaps one of the recent libc upgrades have changed the default for 'ndots' ? If so, according to a quick scan of the resolv.conf(5) manual page you should be abl

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
be able to help if they have that output. It's also worth having a glance in /var/log/kern.log (usually where syslog puts the kernel messages) for anything amiss: Misbehaving hardware can really mess things up. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: No localhost - I'm stumped

2014-08-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
nce. > > 2) strace ping -c2 localhost snipped output - it looks OK to my cursory glances.. > > 4) sysctl --system > sysctl --system > * Applying /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf ... > net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 0 > net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 0 These

Re: dropbox install break apt-get

2014-08-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
e it is relegated to "non-free" ... If you can reproduce it, I recommend that you raise a bug on it. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140824090758.GA8651@hawking

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ad of writing to /dev/null when debugging is off, simply do not perform debugging if it is off! (writing to /dev/null is a waste of resources anyway) A little shell function like this will do the trick: debug() { if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then echo "$@" fi } so you script can use &q

Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

2014-07-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit may be a good starting point. [1] Let's not get into the whole systemd saga here Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ric architecture? If so, there should be no need to change the version number - this would introduce unnecessary confusion... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: High %wa, irregular blocking

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
; Bernd > > [1] iMac 8,1: 2008, Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz, GB RAM, 500 GB WD HDD, ATI Radeon HD > 2600 PRO (PCIe) Looks similar to this one? http://www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/#3 Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ing the dot-notation, e.g. eth0.1, eth0.2 etc. Other notations are possible, but us poor puny humans are easily confused. - IP Aliasing is a way of allowing a device to have multiple IP addresses on the same VLAN. This is usually done via the "colon" notation - e.g. eth0:1, eth0:

Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
her tool like xterm, rxvt etc worked fine... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140526083502.GA24055@hawking

Re: "Recommends" for hard dependency?

2014-05-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ven starting up the program! I'd agree with that sentiment :-) Another way to resolve this could be to relegate the assistant into it's own package (which would have hard dependencies on libqt5sql5-sqlite and qtttools5-dev-toos), and let the main package recommend the assistant package?

Re: Laptop pads: was Weird random reboot -- thinkpad x220

2014-05-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ried the xxxterm browser? It might be called xombrero on > your Debian version. It's a browser made to be used with keystrokes > reminiscent of Vim: No mouse required. For the emacs users out there: Obviously w3m ! But for a graphical browser: conkeror. If you're used to emacs, it sh

Re: Spacewalk or similar for Debian?

2014-05-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:30:42AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:15:43AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hi > > > > Consider this scenario: > > > > - 1000+ servers (lenny, squeeze and wheezy) at varying degrees of >

Spacewalk or similar for Debian?

2014-04-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ers solved this? My main concern here is the security updates and point releases: I'm pushing for getting all the servers upgraded to wheezy anyway, and as part of the upgrade they'll pick up any pending (at that point in time) security updates. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Network Performance Degrading over random amount of time

2014-04-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:01:25PM +0200, h...@xx0r.eu wrote: > Am 2014-04-26 12:44, schrieb h...@xx0r.eu: > >Am 2014-04-22 10:38, schrieb h...@xx0r.eu: > >>Am 2014-04-20 23:49, schrieb Karl E. Jorgensen: > >>>Hi > >>> > >>>On Sun, Apr 20,

Re: Network Performance Degrading over random amount of time

2014-04-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to ANY suggestions here even if they involve building a > custom kernel or other magical hakkery ;D Well - it looks like you have put a fair amount of effort into solving this But until the problem is narrowed down, this would probably be as likely to resolve the problem as a goat sacrif

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
y had no need to save the actual *traffic*, merely the access point MAC address, signal strength and streetview car location to do this. Just my 2p -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Voice control

2014-04-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ke? Other interesting text input methodologies like Dasher may be useful too.. Not for typing, but in my past interweb wanderings I came across this one: http://eviacam.sourceforge.net/ Perhaps that will be helpful? I gave up playing with it when I switched to a laptop without a built-in webcam..

Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
I may have gotten the size wrong. Although limited, it only serves as a buffer in case syslog is slow picking it up. Configurable with the "log-buf-len" kernel parameter if you want to nitpick. But I'm sure you don't :-) Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen --

Re: getting emails from cron despite redirecting output to a log file

2014-03-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
#x27;s a problem that all these jobs are trying to write to the same log file at > once? Probably not. But it's easy to send stuff via syslog as noted above. Then you don't have to bother about maintaining the log files, and can also log to a centralised server etc etc.

Re: Unable to execute a script without asking for sudo password, even after editing sudoers file.

2014-03-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ot. But you don't. You run i3exit as yourself (without sudo), and IT then uses "sudo pm-suspend" (and others). Two possible ways forward: - Call it using "sudo i3exit" and remove the calls to sudo from inside the script - Call it as yourself (= just "i3exit") a

Re: List installed packages sorted by size.

2014-03-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:07:58PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > Could be useful to someone: > dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n | less Nice. But dpigs -20 (from the debian-goodies package) is still shorter :-) -- Karl E. Jorgense

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
: is there an option that will work on Windows, OSX, and > Linux? Something where I can keep it on a USB flash drive? keepassx ? Combined with dropbox (only keep the encrypted version in dropbox). This seems to work across windows, osx and linux Enjoy -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: DHCP quickie

2014-03-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
special". * @ 06:00 and 18:00: cd /etc/dhcp && rm curfew-host.conf && ln -s /dev/null curfew-host.conf && service dhcpd restart * @ 10:00 and 20:00: cd /etc/dhcp && rm curfew-host.conf && ln -s curfew-host.conf.deny curfe

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
s (at least partly) been achieved by making the default shell "dash", rather than "bash". dash is significantly faster, and (as far as I can see) a drop-in replacement. This is not an attempt to claim that no futher improvements are wanted - but the difference dash made was signific

Re: Issue importing a large MYSQL database.

2014-03-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
with much smaller databases. There are faster ways of copying MySQL databases about - if /var/lib/mysql is on a LVM logical volume, you can create a snapshot and copy *that* across (the resulting instance will do crash recovery upon startup). Similiar things can probably be achieved with btrfs subvolume

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
most people are not too bothered about the difference. However Neither seems to match the situation of the original poster - (s?)he seems to have both a binary *and* a configuration file... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ore than > APT. Pacman features a command (pacman -Qo ) that explicitly checks a > file > you specify for package ownership. dpkg --search ${filename} -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140224154804.GB4691@hawking

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
to > lead me. I would not suspect this to be the case here. If you have the open-vm-tools package from the Debian repository, you should be safe. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:31:49AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > >So init knows that you want to shut down/reboot.. > > > >My guess is that one of the "early" init scripts are hanging. > >

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
anging. To verify that this is the case, you could try to execute each of the scripts in /etc/rc6.d/* scripts in asciibetical sequence. I suspect something like this would do the trick: for file in /etc/rc6.d/K*; do echo == Running $file ...; $file stop; done If my suspicion is correct, then o

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
IP address ${mac_address} is associated with (192.168.0.3 in my example) (2) Another way is to actively scan the whole network, and check your arp cache afterwards, e.g.: # nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24 (lots of nmap output - can be ignored) # arp -an Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSU

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
it still happens even with cron stopped, then cron is unlikely to be the culprit. Or at least: unlikely to be the *only* culprit. Same goes for logging - e.g. (r)syslogd activity. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140217172017.GA9715@hawking

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
f my knowledge and experience here. [2] I'm not even 100% sure of the package name. But bear with me. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140213202046.GD2934@hawking

Re: ssh host ip/id management for dynamic dns servers

2014-02-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
a host key changed due to DNS spoofing. If the option is set to “no”, the check will not be executed. The default is “yes”. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ails. Not sure about other file managers... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140209175855.GA30686@hawking

Re: Build binary package from debian sources.New format 3.Errors.

2014-02-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
-uc > > And does not work.What am I doing wrong? An error message would be helpful here... Why not just: apt-get source ${packagename} ? I find it does *everything* anyway.. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
an Götz > Rechenzentrum Hochschule Mannheim > Paul-Wittsack-Straße 10 > 68163 Mannheim > Tel: 0621/292-6232 > > EMail: f.go...@hs-mannheim.de > Internet: http://www.rz.hs-mannheim.de > > - > > -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20140203131626.GA23592@hawking

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
t. I *think* it was called "ditty" but my apt-fu is not working for me today. Had lots of fun getting a whole rack playing "Fur Elise" ... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Port 123 and ipv6

2014-01-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
STEN 3288/cupsd > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 3776/exim4 > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:2628 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 3268/0 > tcp6 0 0 ::1:631 :::* > LISTEN 3288/cupsd cups is only listening on p

Re: notify if a process take more than X time

2014-01-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ending process if it takes more than a certain time - the command you need for this is "timeout" (part of GNU coreutils). This is handy for killing off processes that get "stuck"... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Changing Hostname?

2013-12-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ral, if you're changing host name, *ALL* references to the old name should be tweaked. I would recommend: # sed --in-place=.bak -e 's/localhost-01/yournewname/g' $(grep -lr localhost-01 /etc) (followed by a reboot to completely eradicate all memory of the old name). Some packages, e

Re: Shutdown computer after a specific command has been executed

2013-12-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
desktop (perhaps: suspend-to-disk seems better here), or after a kernel upgrade (but then it is "reboot", not "shutdown"). -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131209131139.GA23207@hawking

Re: No Video

2013-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ince it happened as a result of an update, I'd suspect the software, rather than the hardware. A dive into the X logs might help here.. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: HA Active/Active Cluster

2013-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ll have single points of failures elsewhere, both in front of and behind the web servers... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131127111422.GA7486@hawking

Re: Debugging segfaults in commercial software on Jessie

2013-11-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
on either side because its commercial software on a > non-stable distribution version. Well - if the developers are worth their salt, they probably *want* to know about this not working on the next version of Debian. I know that I would Best bet would probably be to look at migrating away

Re: New laptop...........

2013-11-14 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
might be stuck with > having to use Windows. [sad] Oh the horror! We cannot allow that to happen! -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131114194023.GG23016@hawking

Re: apache2 + munin configuration

2013-11-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
.. Isn't that the apache module that is used for user authentication? Makes me wonder what the rest of your apache configuration is like - there must be some interaction between munin and other things in apache... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131113104910.GI11883@hawking

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
irtual machine - should run fine inside e.g. VirtualBox. > So, to sum it up, what do I need to know about Linux, or Debian, and UEFI? It probably "just works" :-) Only booting a single OS makes things much less error-prone here. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
ased in installs from upstream (and I'm not talking Gentoo, > where Portage is a packaging system for source code - I'm talking > semi-automatic management and updates from upstream source. Any > thoughts? You'll still end up with some "package" concept - not necessar

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