On 28/11/16 12:30, Richard Hector wrote:
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nas doesn't recognise login as authorised user
Turns out this was the issue - problem solved.For some reason the
interactive successful use of ssh must have used my non-root users key
even when run by (su) root in a graphical terminal. I needed to
On 27/11/16 13:00, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote:
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What user runs the daemon? If it is a separate user then run the ssh
with that user interactively. If the user does not have the
~/.ssh/known_hosts file or the destination host is not in it, then you
will have problems.
I've now discovered that the da
I am trying to add a command into a script to shut down my NAS when the
UPS detects a power loss. There is a daemon apcupsd which gets a signal
from the UPS and runs various scripts which can be modified by the user.
I have a script doshutdown as follows
#!/bin/sh
... various messages and sle
On 24/03/16 00:30, David Wright wrote:
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I don't know what you mean by "login" script because you haven't
yet told us (I believe) what your machine is configured to do when
you boot it up. If you've installed some sort of Desktop Environment,
then the DE has the responsibility of selecting
On 22/03/16 20:20, Seeker wrote:
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Create '~/.xprofile' and put your export commands and extra non-desktop
specific stuff you
always want to run there.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile
Later, Seeker
Thanks. I might try this later.
On 22/03/16 19:00, The Wanderer wrote:
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How did you test? By launching a new terminal (with bash set as your
default shell), by running the command 'bash' in an existing terminal,
by logging all of the way out (to the main login prompt, if not to a
full reboot) and then logging back in, or b
On 22/03/16 02:40, David Christensen wrote:
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Did you remember the 'export' in .profile?
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
It might help to add echo's in the various scripts to check the order in
which they run -- e.g. verify that .bash_profile runs before your bash
login script, so that PAT
The bash login script I have added in to my startup programs does not
recognise /home/user/bin as part of the path, whereas it used to when I
was running Linux Mint (I'm a recent refugee). I've got
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" in ~/.bashrc and also in ~/.profile, together
with a ~/.bash_profile which
On 03/03/16 22:30, Siard wrote:
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After restarting Mate, you will see that windows have wider borders,
so that's an improvement at least.
But they can be made even wider if desired.
As root, edit usr/share/themes/Spidey/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml.
You will see these lines near the beginni
I have just installed Jessie with the Mate desktop. My screen is 1920 x
1080. I find grabbing the edges or corner of a window with the mouse
pointer in order to extend it is very fiddly. Is this due to the border
being very thin? Are there any options to make this easier, such as
choosing a window
I have this in /etc/fstab
//nasbox/dataNAS /mnt/dataNAS cifs
rw,user,exec,iocharset=utf8,user=xyz,password=xxx,uid=1000,gid=1000
Up to recently it used to mount at boot time but doesn't any more. I
assume some update changed things. Unfortunately I only use this
system once or twice a week and I n
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> How is the mount point set? Dynamically or statically?
>
Sorry not sure what you mean by "Dynamically or statically?". I have a
line in fstab as follows:
//nasbox/dataNAS /mnt/nas cifs
rw,user,exec,iocharset=utf8,user=xxx,password=xxx,uid=1000,gid=1000
(not sure if all these options are stric
I have just set up a NAS box and sometimes it comes up from sleep too
late for Nautilus to see it so when I look for it in Nautilus the
mounted drive isn't there, I just see the folder where it should be
mounted. I'm sure it is mounted since I can check this with the mount
command, although if usin
I have today set up a new installation of Linux Mint and it is
exhibiting the same symptoms as my installation of Squeeze as follows
- I have a USB stick permanently plugged in (for backup purposes) and
when the system boots the stick is not mounted. When I first installed
it mounted ok and I could
On 14 May 2011 21:59, Sven Joachim wrote:
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> This will definitely not work. LILO stores the location of kernels
> (their sectors on the disk) in a map file, and if you move those around
> it won't be able to find them anymore.
>
>> Also I'd like to avoid using UUIDs - I think this will be n
On 14 May 2011 21:48, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
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> Maybe LILO's simpler design can be a good choice in many situations,
> where grub fanciness (and complexity) isn't needed.
>
> Glad you solved it somehow in the end.
>
Thanks for your interesting discussion. I appreciate that grub2
I have had a number of problems with using grub2 (running Debian
Squeeze) and am thinking of switching to LILO. I'd like to achieve
these objectives:
1. use a boot manager (BootitNG) in the MBR which will set up the
required partition table and pass control to LILO located in the root
partition of
One of my operating systems (a version of Debian Squeeze) is now
refusing to boot. It just shows a black screen with the 2 words GRUB
GRUB in the top left hand corner. I wonder if anyone has seen this
sort of behaviour before?
More background: I have multiple operating systems on my PC which can
b
On 21/02/11 15:00, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:56:21 +, Russell Gadd wrote:
On 20/02/11 19:30, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:16:12 +, Russell Gadd wrote:
(...)
So I now try right clicking on the file and choose Open with "Other
Application", choose
There is effectively a list reply feature in gmail. Hit "Reply to all"
and debian-user@lists.debian.org appears in the cc field. For this
reply I have removed the To address and just kept the cc address.
However I use Icedove for newsgroups and also a gmail account where I
automatically archive th
On 20/02/11 17:40, Russell Gadd wrote:
I've filed a bug report now
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On 20/02/11 19:30, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:16:12 +, Russell Gadd wrote:
(...)
So I now try right clicking on the file and choose Open with "Other
Application", choose "audacious" and tick the box which says "Remember
this appliction for MP3 audio fi
I'm trying to change the default application which is used to play MP3
files in Gnome. Currently the default application for multimedia player
is Totem Movie Player. I know its not a movie but when I click on an MP3
file in Nautilus it tries for a split second to use Movie Player then
quits. If
On 16/02/11 17:10, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Qua, 16 Fev 2011, Russell Gadd wrote:
Thanks for the response. I didn't know I was using a gateway. All I
know is that I signed up to Usenet-News.net to be able to access
newsgroups and I can download these without problem in Icedove. I
s
On 15/02/11 17:00, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Ter, 15 Fev 2011, Russell Gadd wrote:
I'm having a problem with the moderation robot. I am a member of this
list - joined via googlemail. However I use Thunderbird to view the
newsgroup but when I try to use it to reply to a post the
I'm having a problem with the moderation robot. I am a member of this
list - joined via googlemail. However I use Thunderbird to view the
newsgroup but when I try to use it to reply to a post the robot throws
it out as follows:
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On 13 February 2011 10:54, Klistvud wrote:
>> With Lenny I am able to take an image of a partition with an external
>> imaging tool and rewrite it to a different location on the (first)
>> hard drive. In this configuration I have a proprietary bootloader
>> (BootitNG) in the MBR with Grub in the L
I noticed this in /etc/default/grub:
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
Perhaps uncommenting this as well as not using UUIDs in fstab might do it?
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With Lenny I am able to take an image of a partition with an external
imaging tool and rewrite it to a different location on the (first)
hard drive. In this configuration I have a proprietary bootloader
(BootitNG) in the MBR with Grub in the Lenny partition. My main
objective is to clone a new inst
Hopefully a simple question to answer. I installed Squeeze beta 2
AMD64 a few weeks ago and have accepted all updates. If I continue to
take the updates will it morph into the release version when that is
released or is it advisable to reinstall the final release?
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I have had 2 freezes recently with a kernel bug reported on the
screen. One was at the end of shutdown (on a reboot) and the other
just now on bootup (not the same reboot). I had a look in syslog for
some info but I suspect that the output wasn't able to be added due to
the system halting. I don't
I'm trying to report a bug in gedit and ran reportbug, opting for the
gtk interface. I looked at existing bug reports and none seemed
relevant so I proceeded to create one. After inputting the bug title
and selecting the severity rating (normal) the application quits. When
I look for the report it
On 16 December 2010 17:53, Bob Proulx wrote:
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> Hint: APT'S 'build-dep' makes this easy. Since this is already in
> Squeeze then if you were running squeeze you could install all of the
> build dependencies for that version by using apt.
>
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep hitori
>
Thanks, most us
On 16 December 2010 08:41, Sven Joachim wrote:
> (see above post)
Thanks Sven, you have confirmed with useful detail the vague ideas I had.
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On 16 December 2010 08:14, wrote:
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> One thing I may suggest is look into the use of virtual machines for
> something like this. You can install and run the OS of your choosing in a
> window ontop of your main system,
>
> This has the advantages of sandboxing your experiments, having
I would like to compile a GTK+ application from source (hitori-0.2.5)
so that I can play with the source code. I followed the instructions
up to ./configure which reports missing packages:
No package 'glib-2.0' found
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'gmodule-2.0' found
No package 'cairo' foun
>
> > What reference?
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> This reference. The reference I included.
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> http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index3h2
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>
Ok I didn't associate this part with what I was trying to do.
>
> I would try first one then the other:
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> 1. Use Roman Khomasuridze's suggestion:
> > if you want
Thanks Bob. I'm having some trouble with parts of your response as follows:
> What is in your /etc/apt/preferences file?
>
>
I don't have such a file in /etc/apt
> What is the relative versions shown here:
>
> $ apt-cache policy gnucash
>
# apt-cache policy gnucash
gnucash:
Installed: 2.2.6
I am trying to update my iceweasel via Lenny backports but it wants to also
update my gnucash which I don't want. What am I doing wrong?
I follow the instructions as follows:
Add backports to sources.list (actually added a file to sources.list.d). It
shows up in Synaptic repositories so looks ok
Thanks for all the responses. I'd like to leave Windows alone, therefore
using NTFS has attractions over trying to use ext2. I think I'll try using
it in place of FAT32 / VFAT in Linux using ntfs-3g and see how it goes. I'm
using Debian Lenny 64 bit on a quad core processor so I'm hoping that
perfo
I've been using Vfat for data partitions which I can access from both Linux
and Windows (multibooted). Recently I added another hard drive formatted
NTFS and have had no trouble getting Lenny to use it.
I am wondering now whether to convert my Vfat partitions to NTFS as there
are some advantages.
I had to look up the meaning of idempotent, a most apt word if I may say so
(pun not really intended but serendipitous anyway!). Your answers are very
full and much appreciated.
>You can find preinst/postinst and other package tracking stuff under
> /var/lib/dpkg/info.
I had one look at this dire
d76aed9n8692ec6aaef88...@mail.gmail.com>, Russell
> Gadd wrote:
> >For some time now, in order to add a bit of security I have made /tmp
> >noexec. However I noticed recently looking at the messages scrolling up
> > the screen that some update configuration scripts were failing as they
For some time now, in order to add a bit of security I have made /tmp
noexec. However I noticed recently looking at the messages scrolling up the
screen that some update configuration scripts were failing as they were
trying to be executed in /tmp. After googling I found this article:
http://www.d
There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when
I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening?
Florian Kulzer wrote:
It would be interesting to see if the system recognizes the first USB
stick when you remove it and plug it in again. You should run
tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog
before you unplug it, then plug it in again and wait for at least thirty
seconds. (Press CTRL-C to end the sysl
I ran this command :
# udevtrigger --verbose --subsystem-match=block --attr-match=removable=1
Output was:
/block/fd0
/block/hdc
/block/hdd
These are my floppy drive and my CD and DVD drives.
To check if I have and /dev/sd* devices I ran
ls -l /dev |grep "sd"
which I presume would do it - it prod
Florian Kulzer wrote:
The first thing we need to know is if the device node(s) for the USB
stick are created reliably. When you have a "first boot" and the icon
does not show up, please run
ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ | grep usb
and post the output here (or let us know if there is no output).
Florian Kulzer wrote:
The first thing we need to know is if the device node(s) for the USB
stick are created reliably. When you have a "first boot" and the icon
does not show up, please run
ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ | grep usb
and post the output here (or let us know if there is no output).
I have a bootup problem with a USB stick
I have a USB stick which is permanently plugged in (for backup purposes).
When the PC first boots the stick is never discovered, but if I wait a few
minutes and reboot, it generally gets discovered and mounted with an icon on
the desktop. I'm using Etch. I
I have a bootup problem with a USB stick
I have a USB stick which is permanently plugged in (for backup
purposes). When the PC first boots the stick is never discovered, but if
I wait a few minutes and reboot, it generally gets discovered and
mounted with an icon on the desktop. I'm using Etch. I
Minor question: in Gnome's file browser Nautilus, if you select the list
view and add Octal Permissions to the columns displayed you get results
such as 1600744 for permissions -rwxr--r--. I understand why this should
be 744 but what does the 1600 mean?
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:44:44PM +, Russell Gadd wrote:
I'm trying to install Virtualbox Guest addtions and at one point the
recommended install procedure says do
aptitude install build-essential kernel-header-`uname -r`
The kernel-header bit comes o
I'm trying to install Virtualbox Guest addtions and at one point the
recommended install procedure says do
aptitude install build-essential kernel-header-`uname -r`
The kernel-header bit comes out as kernel-header-2.6.18-6-686
Aptitude reports "could'nt find any package whose name or description
m
Brian McKee wrote:
On 18-Mar-08, at 12:52 PM, Russell Gadd wrote:
Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering
negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1 -
How I loathe thee <http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?t=10025>
One user sugge
I would like to install Truecrypt on Debian Etch. According to recent
posts I have read (see below) there are problems with the new version 5
which means I would like to install version 4.3a. which I am sure will
do all I need. However Debian is not one of their supported distros.
First proble
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Russell Gadd wrote:
I'd like to be able to customise the contents of the left pane of
Nautilus file manager either in "Tree" or "Places" view. I have 2
hard drives and each has 4 primary partitions. Each of the data
partitions shows up as a ro
I'd like to be able to customise the contents of the left pane of Nautilus
file manager either in "Tree" or "Places" view. I have 2 hard drives and
each has 4 primary partitions. Each of the data partitions shows up as a
root in this tree view even though it is mounted under a directory name in
the
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