Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

On 2024-11-08 16:51, Chris Green wrote: I am just a novice with Python (migrating from perl, which I have programmed in for more than 25 years), but wouldn't a Python Virtual Environment (venv) be just the thing for this? I've been tinkering with that in pycharm and it seems like it could do wha

Re: umask - default user settings?

On 2024-07-14 19:57, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 07:44:35PM +0200, Lists wrote: On 2024-07-14 19:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 19:09:54 +0200, Hans wrote: I am wondering, why on a multiuser system like debian the rights for a normal user are "rw- r-- r--"

Re: umask - default user settings?

On 2024-07-14 19:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 19:09:54 +0200, Hans wrote: I am wondering, why on a multiuser system like debian the rights for a normal user are "rw- r-- r--", (owner: user and ownergroup: usergroup) Tradition, and a culture based around sharing. The Unix c

Re: simple virt-manager setup

On 2024-02-14 09:40, Felix Natter wrote: Dear Michael, many thanks for the detailed answer, I will keep all of this for reference as I learn about libvirt! Am I right that it is not possible to backup/restore VMs using virt-manager GUI (on Debian12)? ChatGPT suggested this is possible, but conf

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

On 2023-06-15 12:54, Susmita/Rajib wrote: My dear illustrious Leaders of the Debian-user List and Senior List Members, There is Wiki.js but a Debian package for wiki.js isn't available. Then there is libreoffice-wiki-publisher in Debian, the LibreOffice extension for working with MediaWiki arti

Re: SSH session audit

On 2018-02-19 16:52, john doe wrote: Isn't pam enough?: https://linux.die.net/man/8/pam No need to install anything and it's quite versatile. Yes, this is in line with the other suggested options such as snoopy or pam_tty_audit. It could work as audit system, but it seems

Re: SSH session audit

On 2018-02-19 14:11, Eero Volotinen wrote: Commercial solution: https://www.ssh.com/products/cryptoauditor/ Thanks for the option and sorry if I hadn't specified in my previous: commercial solution are against the TOS of the project. We have the requirement, commitment and wish to be 100% fre

SSH session audit

), or too basic (like using /usr/bin/script). So far none of those that I've found satisfy me. About that I remember that some time ago (maybe one or two years ago) I read a post on planet debian about such a method for session audit. It was suggesting as an easy to run solution for exte

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

It's bug 814081 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814081 . Le lun. 15 févr. 2016 15:29, Sven Arvidsson a écrit : > On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 10:57 +0100, Me wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, I reported it to the Debian GNOME maintainer. > > > > Do yo

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Le jeudi 11 février 2016 à 11:57 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > All I can say is it works, caveats you mentioned aside. No > problems in 3 years of use. Your system probably doesn't use caching then, unlike the default Debian+GNOME install. Since you are careful not to unplug your drives when

Re: I need help

Le jeudi 11 février 2016 à 02:01 +0200, Ghaith Etaiwi a écrit : > I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, > can it run Debian? Yes, probably. > Also, I want to know what version of Debian to download, I saw > something about DVD1, DVD2...etc which one should I get

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Le mardi 09 février 2016 à 09:00 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > Yes, I know about caching, but on my system read/writes to removable > devices are almost instantaneous. Maybe it's just luck ? As I said, I frequently get a message from GNOME saying the writes are not finished, and that although

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

ak. But with Wheezy which I've been using for 3+ years have > had no problems with just plug/unplug. The only precaution is to check > the drive activity light isn't flickering. Just because you didn't lose data doesn't mean it's safe. All systems are known to use cach

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 10:06 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > It looks more a GNOME thing to me -- but I guess the Debian GNOME > maintainers are able to cope with it (plus your report would be > targetting the specific version you're using). So Debian seems > to me the

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 08:35 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > Otherwise you either lose the last writes to the device (if you're > lucky and/or have a civilised file system on your stick, like ext3/ext4), > or the whole file system is thrashed (more likely when you have an > uncivilised file

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Le dimanche 07 février 2016 à 15:20 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > You shouldn't have to "eject" it all. Just plug it in and when done, > pull it out. The system should mount and unmount it automatically. We're > not talking Windows here. What if some program, like my backup software, began to

GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Hello, In GNOME Shell, when I click on the "Eject" option in the notification bar to unmount my USB key, it unmounts correctly and then immediately mounts again, as if I just plugged it. It happens only with the Kingston DataTraveler I own. I've tried on several desktops, and it seems to happen o

Re: problems with router

well, means that i'll have to call the ISP so they exchange the router. Thanks anyway for the help, greetings, vitaminx 2009/7/4 Joe > me wrote: > >> hello, >> >> i know, this is not really a debian related problem, nethertheless maybe >> someone could

problems with router

hello, i know, this is not really a debian related problem, nethertheless maybe someone could help me with this topic. I have a D-Link DSL-G624T wireless router which just worked fine... until 3 weeks before. the ethernet connections (all 4 ports) started to loose pings (sometimes until 50%), i

Re: how can i limit system resources for a particular process?

Hi, maybe you should take a look at the *cpulimit* package. greetings, vitaminx 2009/7/2 Jordi Moles Blanco > hi everyone, > > let's say i want to create an .img file of 50GB with "dd" command. After > that, i will give it a format with mkfs.ext3. > > The problem is that while "dd" is running

Re: how to grep error messages

hehe, answered at the same time :D 2009/6/28 me > Hi, > > how about: > > > cd "$1" > > if [ $? != '0' ]; then > echo "damn." > exit; > fi > > > greetings, > vitaminx > > > 2009/6/28 Soren Orel > > I

Re: how to grep error messages

Hi, how about: cd "$1" if [ $? != '0' ]; then echo "damn." exit; fi greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/28 Soren Orel > I can /dev/null the error messages like: > > cd "$1" 2> /dev/null > > e.g.: I get error If "$1" has spaces in it > > Ok, but how can I grep the error message? I tried: > > if

Re: Can't remove LVM swap device

Hi found this on http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Linux/LINUX_ManagingPhysicalLogicalVolumes.shtml : *Delete Physical / Logical Volumes* Before going into the details of how to drop all of the physical and logical volumes created in this article, it is very common to only want to remove

Re: Can't remove LVM swap device

hi, try: swapoff remove the LV swapon greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/27 Klaus Pieper > Hi, > > I have to replace a disk that contains a lvm volume group with a logical > partition previously used as swap device (dev/vg01/swap). > > I replaced the swap partition with another one, changed /etc/f

Uptimes - any guidance? [moving OT]

horse - just keeps on going and going. I'm sure I have clocked > uptimes of 90+ days on that without a problem. > > > Open BSD and Debian are similar in terms of stability. I personally > think OpenBSD is crap and the guy doing it is a totally arrogant jerk, > and not in the sel

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

mand syntax, so it's easy to confuse between KVM and QEMU. greets, vitaminx 2009/6/24 Sthu Deus > Thank You for Your time and answer, me: > > > NOTE: the *kvm-modules-2.6.26-2-686* package was created by compiling * > > kvm-source*. > > Things become more and more s

Re: X-server restart console command

hi, when you use gdm as login manager: /etc/init.d/gdm restart greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/24 Sthu Deus > Good day. > > I have a dell laptop on which after latest bios update, in X, the keyboard > often becomes unworkable (as well as impossible to switch to console). So I > try > to solve

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

Linux (kernel 2.6.26-2-686). ii kvm-source72+dfsg-5 Source for the KVM driver Take care to use the same versions. NOTE: the *kvm-modules-2.6.26-2-686* package was created by compiling * kvm-source*. Greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/22 me > hi, > > right now

Re: OT: launching jobs in a combined serial parallel way

a shell script that works as below. > 1) launch proga, progb in the background using nohup. > 2) Ask proga, progb to write a file when they finish. > 3) Every five minutes check if these files are present. If they are > present, > launch progc. > > This gets me going for no

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

hi, right now i can't access my server but i'll take a look tomorrow, then i'll write you what i have installed. greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/22 Sthu Deus > Thank You for Your time and answer, me: > > > no, that file is automatically created, if not, a reboot shou

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

cussion over copying our movies. > > 2. Play her games. They are all windowz based games like call of duty and > the like. > > Can I meet the above requirements in either etch or lenny and if so can > someone please point me to where I can get the information to allow me to >

Re: Backup config files in home directory

hi, i prefer to use dar, it can do incremental backups as well. greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/20 ronggui wong > Hi all, > > I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just > want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and > directories. Now I use tar a

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

Hi, no, that file is automatically created, if not, a reboot should do it. greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/19 Sthu Deus > Thank You for Your time and answer, me: > > > which distribution are you running? testing? > > True. It was testing. > > Now I did reinstall them

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

Hi, which distribution are you running? testing? i had the same problem and i've had to install an earlier version of the kqemu module, i think i was running testing and installed the kqemu from stable. That fixed the issue for me. greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/18 Sthu Deus >

Re: Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

On May 16, 10:00 am, "Eric A. Bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them > installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop > or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I > would like to

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

512 MB of memory to run well. That URL you cited seems laughable to me; there is no real data, no testing, etc. KDE itself, without actual apps running, can take up about 80 MB of memory. From there, it just depends on how many apps you run at the same time, which is true of any situation. And re

Re: Kanguru USB MP3 player

able to mount and umount the device from KDE desktop. (Remember to unmount it, before unplugging it..) Hope that helps. Call Me Ishmael -- a^n+b^n=c^n has no integer roots for n>2 I have a wonderful demonstration, but it doesn't fit in this signature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Kanguru USB MP3 player

DE reads your fstab!) Now you'll be able to mount and umount the device from KDE desktop. (Remember to unmount it, before unplugging it..) Hope that helps. Call Me Ishmael -- a^n+b^n=c^n has no integer roots for n>2 I have a wonderful demonstration, but it doesn't fit in this

RE: re: your archive

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Re: burning from .ogg

Antony Gelberg had the gall to say: > Hi all, > > Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. > without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, > infact I'd rather not have one. Here's something I posted to d-u a while back: Fwd: --- A couple of

Re: Lean and clean IMAP client

* Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030103 16:08]: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:53:16PM +0100, me wrote: > > | At the moment I am giving mutt a try, and so far have been successful with > | a few glitches in sending mail (the from field is a mess) and the &

Re: Lean and clean IMAP client

* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021226 02:15]: > An alternative you may not have considered is just picking whatever > mailer works best for you (mutt is quite lean and mean for example), and > then use an external program to do the imap. Both isync and offlineimap > do an excellent job of synchro

Re: Emacs question

Le 13/03/02 à 18:08, Dan Griswold a écrit: Dan> Try putting the following in your .Xdefaults file: Dan> Dan> Emacs*menubar*Background: #9F9FB5 Dan> Emacs*menubar*Foreground: DarkBlue Dan> Dan> fin du message de Dan Griswold Thanks all folk, I've have already written

Mutt and Time

Hi, I would like to know how to display time in a column beside the date for my mailboxes. Thanks R.Pac

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:05:05PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: ... > Internet Explorer issue. I installed Opera on a test Win 98 workstation > and it worked perfectly. I have now taken steps to move over to Opera as > our browser of choice. The free version does have adverts, but I have > config

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

mpliant > > > Linux system. > > > > That's a nice description of the LSB. > Yes it is. > Mind if I use that somewhere, Me? > -drew If this is all jokes piled on my original (the above is lifted from the LSB mission statement), then, well, ya got me. If instead

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

> When I've mentioned about incompabilities between > distros then I've mentioned about not only packaging > format. I can only repeat that you expect to much if you > think that common packaging format is the only problem > of differences between distros. > > Please try to use something different

Re: corel photopaint

I believe that 'sketch' may be worth a look, even though it is a 'work in progress'. Raymond On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:40:01AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've been > using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ...

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: >Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at > ? Regrettably. >Anyone else have any thoughts on this article? More than a couple: 1) 2.2's a huuuge improv

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Problem with ISP16

d module it should (through 'cdromsymlink' script file) link files /dev/cdrom and /dev/cd.driver, and isp16 and cdrom don't do that. Later when installation trys to mount cdrom (mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom) /dev/cdrom just don't exist, or in case of cdu-535 can'

X11 'fixed' font error

After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: "could not open default font 'fixed'" but: locate fixed gives "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz." "/etc/X11/XF86Config" shows this path as well, so I know I have the font. What should I do?

Hey girls and boys

Hey there! I'm new. I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on Intel and Alpha platforms): "Fatal server error: could not open defualt font 'fixed' " I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on my part, but I can't find any mismatched dependencies. Oh: Inte

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Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: > me wrote: > > > thanks, yes, this works, and i can run cfdisk fine. cfdisk works fine. I > > didn't change anything, but i tried to write the partition table, and > > here's the error cfdisk gives: > > >

Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > NEVER play with the partitions on a system without making a > backup! yep, i know. > Have you tried looking at it in normal fdisk? fdisk /dev/hda will show me the partition table clearly. no probs there. if i try to write & e

Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

FAT16 LBA partition, not thinking that this might pose a problem. (/dev/hda1 has win95 loaded on it, but I corrupted all the long filenames when I was repartitioning it. when it was labeled as a DOS partition, I could get into it using linux.) cfdisk returned an error as it was trying to write; sill

fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

I installed Debian 2.0 from a bootable cd. Everythinng went fine until I rebooted and began deselect. I received the message "fs type iso9660 not supported by kernal. I did not see any option to enable NLS or anything that mention iso9660 file system. What do I need to do. If you can help please

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Re: simple questions

Un*x. Mike --- Operating System(s) of CHOICE: Debian (Linux) and OS2Warp3 me ISAT corecom.net http://www.corecom.net/endsley/ --- On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote:

Re: simple questions

wife likes 95, and until I can totally conquer Linux (I got the Debian CD from the mag, BOOT), I am forced to live with it. Of course, if all fails, I still have my Amiga3000, but thats a different subject! Also, thanks to all in helping me get things going with Debian. Mike

Quitting pppd

ologies ;) Mike --- Operating System(s) of CHOICE: Debian (Linux) and OS2Warp3 me ISAT corecom.net http://www.corecom.net/endsley/ --- -- TO UNSUBS

netscape installation

d followed each step. It showed netscape as under "broken-contribution" (if memory serves me right). What can I try next, or what have I missed? Thanks for your help. Mike --- Operating System(s) of CHOICE: De

Re: PPPD ERRORS: Via FTP

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Me wrote: > > > *.deb's install them and configure them. I reboot the system, and pppd > > doesn't work corectly. Looking at the logs, it initiates chat just like > > normal, dials, gives lo

PPPD ERRORS: Via FTP

ives login/password, then returns to pppd, which says something like "Conection established". Then it says " ppp0 <---> /dev/ttyS2" That is all good and dandy. Then it stops and times out...looking at the previous logs, it should have said some stuff about my ip, but i

Orientation documentation please (was: Re: Changing mouse drivers)

(Hoping I have the attributions correct:) > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: > > > > > I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the > > > steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)? > > > > Reload the OS? That's wind

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

> From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Bo is the current stable release; hamm is unstable. The names are just > codenames, which never change. ... > For some reason, some people object to the user of these codenames (don't > ask me why; every project in

Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(

Rob Browning wrote: > > Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :>) > > 501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail > total 59 > drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 . > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. > -rw--- 1 user1mail

Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(

Well, even though you're all stumped as to why that .gnus file doesn't work, I think i've tracked the problem down to something other than Gnus. When I "inc" my mail for mh, i get this message: inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/lars And when Gnus calls movemail to get my mail from th

More Gnus problems

Thanks to the people who sent me mail regarding Gnus... but I guess I'm such a dunce that it'll take more than that to get me reading my mail with Gnus... I read deeper into the info pages, followed the cookie cutter recipe, and still have no luck, so I made nnml the main select metho

Gnus as a mailer

pages, but not enough to get me going. Thanks -lars louder -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacs troubles

I'm trying to install emacs. Why, I don't know. I can't find the 'elf-x11r6lib'. I shouldn't need Xwindows to run this do I? Just need pointing in the right direction. Thanks.

Re: Console Setup

I get the same thing but I don't worry about it and everything seems to work.

Re: Gcc won't compile :-)

Thanks everybody I didn't have the crt*.o in my lib directory. It should be in the libc-dev*.deb right? Also another question how do I swich ELF compile to a.out compile? I've seen it in the documentation but I thought since I have *.deb it was by default ELF. Thanks again.

Three Probs

e from its user mainly me. Also I can't use my mouse pad (Linux is on my laptop) without linux locking up. I have to suspend the computer then come back into it for things to work again. Is there a way to tell Linux to ignore output from the mouse pad. One more thing how do I make sure I have

Debian Package Setup

Now I run dselect and I pick that I have a mounted hardrive I want to work from. After this point I get lost. I get a bunch of queation asking where package.gz is and some other stuff I type in /mnt/linux for all of them because thats where all *.deb and packages.gz are. It then ask me to configur