Re: rsync question

2015-02-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 07:58:22PM +, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I need to rsync several, but not all, the Maildir directories under /home. > I have a file with all the user accounts, so what would the script be to > say take each user account name and then rsync up each Maildir directory. > > T

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:50:33PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've not tried other solutions. I worry that the ones folks seem to like > most do more > than I need or want in terms of management. I want my stuff where I can > see it, so > to speak, and where I can use the ancient tools (tar,

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:47:01PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen < > > There are two basic kinds of "backups": > > > > 1. File system -- e.g. a copy of the files and directories on an mounted > > and operating drive. > > > > 2. Raw binary image

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:19:52PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use > proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer. I thought I had it, > but i just tried a restore, and it's a miserable failure. I wonder if > anyone here can

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2015-01-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:10:11PM -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Thanks everybody for their help. I will use molly-guard to guard > from accidental shut down from the CLI. Is there something like > molly-guard for the LXDE power off/close session button?. > > I must clarify that what I mea

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:47:08PM +0100, mrr wrote: > On 15/01/2015 01:00, Gary Dale wrote: > >On 14/01/15 04:26 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >>On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: > >>>I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 a

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: > I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. > > However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in > Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but > being prevented

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 02:20:27PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Danny, > > If you want to inspect further, I would suggest you look at each of the > jobs being run. See if they are what you expect them to be. Also check > your /etc/crontab and /etc/anacrontab to see what is in them. > And if y

Re: Please stop systemd-fsck on _every_ boot!

2015-01-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:23:18PM -0600, ~Stack~ wrote: > Greetings, > > This problem has been a minor annoyance for a while but only recently > have I started to use Jessie more and it is has finally peeved me off. I > have been trying everything I can find for the last two hours and I > still c

Re: SFTP question

2014-12-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 02:52:28PM +0200, Danny wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am trying to setup SFTP (ssh) with ProFTP. > > My /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftpd.conf looks like this: > > ### > > SFTPEngine on > Port 7003 > SFTPLog /var/log/

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:55:15AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find "dirname" and > > > &

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find "dirname" and > > "basename" when running at system boot, but it can find them when run &g

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 06:07:20PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I know I could add a PATH statement to the init script, but this problem > > > is my own d

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it > > can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is > > this

init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is this: SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0) Both dirname and basename live in /usr/bin, not /bin. I know I could add a PATH statement to the init

mounting removable media without systemd on Jessie

2014-12-17 Thread Rob Owens
Just posting something I discovered recently in case anybody's interested... On a Jessie system without systemd you can mount USB sticks and other removable media using the pmount command, as others have pointed out on this list. I was looking for a gui method, and I've found it. Spacefm is a fi

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 05:38:03PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 08:53:51PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it > > prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every encrypted > > e

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:47:55PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 12/12/2014 at 08:53 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it > > prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every > > encrypted email

change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-12 Thread Rob Owens
When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every encrypted email I receive. It's highly annoying, and the ISP refuses to fix this. What tools can I use to detect this tag and delete it? I'd prefer to modify the sub

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Rob Owens" > > - Original Message - > > From: <_...@debian.org> > > > Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those > > volunteering to make it what it is. By extension,

Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: <_...@debian.org> > Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those > volunteering to make it what it is. By extension, it is explicitly not > defined by those not putting work (but only words) into it; unmaintained > software and code

Re: apt as a user

2014-11-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:29:26AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this polkit: > > /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.foo.apt.pkla > > [Configuration] > AdminIdentities=unix-user:apt > Action=org.debian.apt.* > ResultAny=

Re: Strange hardware problem, any clue is welcome

2014-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "B. M." > > I have a really strange problem with an computer from this fruit company > in my family: > > It's an iMac from 2008, still running osx 10.6, but I put Testing on it > several months ago as the second OS (which is much better, as I > think...). Th

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Dowland" > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:00:21AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > I'm not sure what is meant by "nobody has taken ownership of the 'request > > for > > package' bug". If that&#

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Dowland" > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > If uselessd provides ONLY a new init, based on CGroups and lots of > > cool ideas from systemd itself, then, it worth trying it! Just for > > fun... > > I think it's an i

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Tanstaafl" > > Still only 4 seconds though... Not true: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00012.htm There was an alternate proposal made by the Debian Leader. That may have only gotten 4 seconds (I didn't count), but apparently it does not

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: goli...@riseup.net > > Now let's see what happens with this! > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg1.html Very interesting discussion there. Thanks for posting. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Marty" > > It seems like free software employment and market share come with > increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. It's my main > concern as a Debian user, as I consider recent trends. > > I hope that Debian members consider an amendment to

Re: find out why a package was installed

2014-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Marius Gavrilescu" > Rob Owens writes: > > > Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? > > For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a > > dependency/recommends of package Y?

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Nate Bargmann" > > I just went ahead and went back to sysvinit-core and in the process > started purging packages in Aptitude! At the end policykit, packagekit, > rtkit, and systemd were excised and a whole host of other stuff I > couldn't find a reason to ke

find out why a package was installed

2014-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a dependency/recommends of package Y? Thanks -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Steve Litt" > On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:57:07 -0400 (EDT) > Rob Owens wrote: > > > I've filed a bug, but haven't gotten any answers yet. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760397 > > >

pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-07 Thread Rob Owens
I've filed a bug, but haven't gotten any answers yet. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760397 Is anybody else having trouble mounting a USB stick using pcmanfm? When I try it, I get: "Not Authorized: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedes

Re: upgrade from 7 to testing no longer possible

2014-10-06 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "To Ja" > > Hi All, > Just tried to upgrade my simple LAMP box from Wheezy to Jessie, but this > error prevents whole process > > root@xxx:~# apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state infor

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-02 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Dowland" > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:08:37PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > To me, a non-expert user, what sense does this make? > > jessie is still in development, it has not been released. If you are unduly > concerned by running an in-development

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 05:39:20PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Thank you Clive for your reply. Here are my settings now after doing > the change to my sources.list: > > >uname -a shows: > >Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686 GNU/Linux > > >lsb_release -a shows > >No

Re: updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-26 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "John Lindsay" > > Greeting > > I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). > I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them > with respect to upgrading. > > > Obviously it failed to upgrade to wheezy.

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-26 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Scott Ferguson" > On 26/09/14 00:12, Rob Owens wrote: > > One thing that may be a factor in my case is that my test webcam is > > very slow. I am only getting one picture every 2 or 3 seconds when > > motion is detect

Re: Question about the driver of wifi-card

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:52:52PM +0800, corvuscorax wrote: > Hello! I have trouble in installing driver of my wifi card.. > (My computer is "DELL Inpiron 14 5000 Series", the Os is debian 3.16.2. The > wifi card should be Intel AC 3160..I think) > > I can't see my wifi card by using "lspci ", >

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Bob McGowan" > > On 9/25/14, 7:12 AM, "Rob Owens" wrote: > > >I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still > >shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots.

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Cindy-Sue Causey" > > I can't help you with "motion" but I had a thought as I was reading > your predicament.. OpenShot will produce an mpeg video output of > multiple images if you find yourself up against a deadline or > something and need an alternative. >

Re: security camera software

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Scott Ferguson" > > I've been using motion for a few years and highly recommend it. > Lightweight[*1], simple, and reliable. > > Minimal configuration required (snapshot mode):- > Point your camera at the zone to be monitored. > Take a picture. > Edit the pi

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Martin Read" > > On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: > > I agree that "let's wait until we have a good init to move to" should have > > been more seriously considered, but for some reason people were in a big &g

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Steve Litt" > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:13:51 -0400 (EDT) > Rob Owens wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "The Wanderer" > > > > > > On 09/22/2014 at 06:54 AM, Dara

'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. I have set: # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) ffmpeg_cap_new on and # Gap is the seconds of no motion detection that triggers the

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "The Wanderer" > > On 09/22/2014 at 06:54 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > Those are votes for Debian, but not for systemd, or for "Debian with > systemd as central". > > In the case at hand, the latter two are what people are asking to be > able to have a vote (

Re: security camera software

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Bob McGowan" > > On 9/24/14, 6:43 AM, "Rob Owens" wrote: > > >I need to set up a couple usb cameras to record video based on motion > >detection. I prefer ease of setup to a large feature set, since this is

Re: find

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Gokan Atmaca" > > Thanks for the correction. > > Indeed, will be as follows; > find /arsiv/backup/ -mtime +1 -delete > The +1 will get rounded up, according to the man page: File was last accessed n*24 hours ago. When find figures out how many 24-h

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Don Armstrong" > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: > > I'll have to look into doign this too. I'm sure there's an explanation > > to this considering things like u...@domain.ca and u...@host.domain.ca > > have different results but if the keys weren'

security camera software

2014-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
I need to set up a couple usb cameras to record video based on motion detection. I prefer ease of setup to a large feature set, since this is expected to be only temporary. I want to only record when there is motion, so I don't have hours of footage to search through. A quick search shows rec

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Chris Bannister" > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + > > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find what > > > breaks, to help us to get a Deb

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Keith Lawson" > > Hello, > > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday > I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been > connecting to for years: > > The authenticity of host 'blah' can't be established. > R

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "lee" > > Hi, > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce,

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Joe" > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:33:53 +0200 > lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > > > I would like to be able to let a user work remo

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "lee" > > John Hasler writes: > > > lee writes: > >> what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > >> sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > > >> I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session

systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread Rob Owens
Looking for advice from people in the know... I submitted a general bug regarding packages which require changing your init system to systemd. I pointed out that this runs counter to Debian's goals of supporting multiple init systems. The bug was closed without fixing in a matter of hours. Perh

Re: old PC's as thin client

2014-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:29:01AM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > Hi, > > why there is no login window in the panel controlin last distro ( > for exampel linuxMinut : since mint 13 ) ??? . > > with mint13, I solved my problem, but not with others, here is my Pb: > I want to use old PC's

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:33:39PM +0200, B wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion > > to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the > > difference? > > First,

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 03:47:50PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Rob Owens writes: > > I agree with you that this is a bug. But it is not simple to assign > > this to a particular package. It's a bug which is the result of the > > relations between many packages. Bu

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:21:49AM +0200, lee wrote: > > A "desktop system" is merely a "desktop system", and an init system is > merely an init system. It is a bug when a "desktop system" like xfce > depends on a particular init system, or parts thereof, no matter if > directly or indirectly, es

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Martin Read" > > On 03/09/14 15:40, Rob Owens wrote: > > xfburn is apparently aware that my cd drive is currently empty. Does > > anybody know what it uses to detect this? It is not using gvfs. > > Looking up xfburn i

Re: brasero requires systemd-sysv

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "The Wanderer" > > On 09/03/2014 at 11:41 AM, B wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:12:24 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens > > wrote: > > > >> I'd also like to know if there are any features of brasero tha

brasero requires systemd-sysv

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
brasero depends on systemd-sysv. Here is the chain of dependencies I've identified, with the help of some folks on this list: brasero -> gvfs -> gvfs-daemons -> udisks2 -> libpam-systemd -> systemd-sysv For now I'd like to ignore the option of using systemd-shim and just examine why a cd burn

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Patrick Bartek" > > On Tue, 02 Sep 2014, Rob Owens wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Michael Biebl" > > > > > > Am 02.09.2014 22:18, schrieb Rob Owens: > &g

Re: finding a dependency chain

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Kelly Clowers" > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out, for example, what causes brasero to ultimately > > depend on systemd. I found a utility called debtree, but it produces to

Re: 2 GDM3 questions

2014-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Bob Proulx" > > Rob Owens wrote: > > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > Another GDM3 question: > > > How can I change the "system default" desktop for all users? > > > > I *think* this might be

Re: 2 GDM3 questions

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 02-09-14 22:04, Rob Owens schreef: > > - Original Message - > >> From: "Paul van der Vlis" > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> How can I remove the data GDM3

finding a dependency chain

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
I'm trying to figure out, for example, what causes brasero to ultimately depend on systemd. I found a utility called debtree, but it produces too much output to be of use to me -- it shows all dependency chains starting at brasero, but I am only interested in the one that ends at systemd. Can

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Biebl" > > Am 02.09.2014 22:18, schrieb Rob Owens: > > I removed the systemd package from my Jessie system, and it took brasero > > with it. Brasero depends on gvfs, and gvfs has some trail of dependencies > >

brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
I removed the systemd package from my Jessie system, and it took brasero with it. Brasero depends on gvfs, and gvfs has some trail of dependencies that leads to systemd. I'm thinking that the gvfs dependency doesn't make sense for brasero, but I wanted to get input from this list before I file

Re: 2 GDM3 questions

2014-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Paul van der Vlis" > > Hello, > > How can I remove the data GDM3 stores? > Background: When I login with GDM with an LDAP user GDM remembers this > user and present them the next time. I've used some testusers with > strange names and I would like to remove

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-29 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Paul van der Vlis" > > > 3. Skype-compatible clients for D7++ which could be used to connect > > directly to an OP running that alternate service? > > > > I'm especially interested in evaluations of > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/skype > >> free and open s

Re: Loking for TV tuner / media player help

2014-08-26 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Timothy Danielson" > > Hi, > > I am looking to finish installing a card= Happauge 2250 dual tuner into > Debian. I would also like to have a comparable Media center software that > would allow recording as I did in win media center as wekk as watch live tv >

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-14 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "David Baron" > > On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:36:51 Rob Owens wrote: > > - Original Message - > > > > > From: "David Baron" > > > > > > On Tuesday 12

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "David Baron" > > On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:10:58 Rob Owens wrote: > > - Original Message - > > > > > From: "David Baron" > > > > > > I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few ap

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-12 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "David Baron" > > I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly old. Seems > to be no way to run them. > > Wine64 complains about the .exe format. Placing win32:i386 on top of all this > complains that the .wine is for a 64bit installatio

Re: NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Martin T" > > Hi, > > I made a very simple bash script which loads the iptables > configuration from /etc/firewall.conf and /etc/firewall6.conf files: > > # cat /etc/init.d/firewall > #!/bin/bash > > iptables-restore < /etc/firewall.conf > ip6tables-restor

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Brad Rogers" > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:28:08 -0400 > Rob Owens wrote: > > Hello Rob, > > >I do miss the ability to grep my bookmarks.html file. Maybe there's a > >way to do it with sqlite, but I neve

Re: binary data vs. text (in firefox) -- was Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Rob Owens" > > - Original Message - > > From: "AW" > > > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:28:08 -0400 > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I do miss the ability to grep my bookmarks.html

binary data vs. text (in firefox) -- was Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "AW" > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:28:08 -0400 > Rob Owens wrote: > > > I do miss the ability to grep my bookmarks.html file. Maybe there's a > > way to do it with sqlite, but I never learned. > > > &g

Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server

2014-08-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:11:08AM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 09:11:59AM -0600, Paul Condon wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 02:56:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 28 Jul 2014 at 14:02:29 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > > > > > > Dňa Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:02:18 +0100 Brian

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-04 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Mark Carroll" > > Curt writes: > > > On 2014-07-25, Brian wrote: > >> > >> With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly > >> past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be cleared by > >> agetty. Nobody particularily

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-26 Thread Rob Owens
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Utilities such as NTP are really good at adjusting the counting per > > second to tune the OS view of time to be very accurate. If that isn't > > working then I suspect some other problem. Such as two daemons > > fighting each other both trying to adju

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:24:24PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it > returns an error "failure to parse stream"). > Movie Player is probably Totem. In my experience, mplayer is better at playing obscure formats than Totem. VLC is go

Re: need a flac utility

2014-05-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 01:18:38PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 03/05/14 11:51 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >Frank McCormick: > >> > >>I need a utility to allow me to breakup a FLAC sound file. It's > >>apparently a collection of flac files merged together. > >>I also have a file which ends in

Paying job in northern NJ

2014-05-06 Thread Rob Owens
I have a customer who needs to get a server back up and running. I don't know to many details except they're getting a "No Hard Disk" error on boot. If you're interested, please email me directly at robowens 13 at gmail dot com. -Rob

Re: Q: LDAP on Debian easy/short way

2014-05-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:39:32PM -0700, Snow Leopard wrote: > NOTE: configuration of slapd by editing /etc/ldap/slapd.conf is > considered "outdated" is there a document with good explanation of > "modern way" with good examples > I have always used LDAP Account Manager to add LDAP users and gro

Re: future data grow aticipation

2014-03-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 03:18:17PM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > I need to deploy a Debian virtual machine which will host an apache website > with a pictures database. That database will grow of course. ;-) > My idea is to have a VM with 2 disks. > Disk1 (8GB) > Has a 300MB primary parti

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:49:13AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/03/14 05:54 PM, Mr Queue wrote: > >Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? > > > >https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp > > > >^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose > >I could even us

Re: What happened to "use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?"

2014-03-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > In Wheezy, I used to be able to use > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > to (among other things) set the option to use control-alt-backspace to > terminate the X server. > I think you can still terminate the X server with t

Re: Brand new install, now how do I play a Youtube video?

2014-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail: > > $ uname -a > Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux > > I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I > don't

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:07:00AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 05/03/14 10:36, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. > >> > >> S

Re: mounting nfs on boot -- Was: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > Boot speed isn't systemd's goal. It's just a side-effect. > > Systemd's real goals are being event driven (so, for example, you don't > mount a file system until the device is ready - at the moment, debian > does this with a two-pass

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wou

Re: ethernet and wifi together

2014-02-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:32:08PM +0100, S3v3ran . wrote: > Hello > > My scenario is the following. I'm connected to the wired network, which is > the default network i'm using. The default gateway, DNS server and > everything else is via this interface. On the other side i have some > virtual ma

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:29:40PM -0300, Markos wrote: > Tomorrow I'll change the network card of the server and see if the > problem is on the network card. > Check to see if the network cable is cat 5, cat 5e, or cat 6. If you have a gigabit speed network card, it might reject a cat 5 cable.

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:15:20AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > It's been ages since I've done routing on a 2-NIC PC/router. I've probably > gotten something a bit wrong. > I *think* for the pc to act as a router you need to have: net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf Then you configure yo

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:30:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send &

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send > them by email? > > I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but > have not had much success so far. > I like avidemux, but handbrak

Re: OT: setting up public wifi

2014-01-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John L. Ries wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John L. Ries >> wrote: >> I actually had a similar job when my wife asked me to set up >> public WiFi >> for her y

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