Re: Jiost a question, or 2?

2023-10-12 Thread Marco
Am 12.10.2023 schrieb "y...@vienna.at" : > Beside to it a question. With a "normal" DVD, I can't install it on > the stick, because that installation allways finds the UEFI-Part and > tries to format it.. You need to boot it in the mode you want to install. Which boot method do you want?

Jiost a question, or 2?

2023-10-12 Thread y...@vienna.at
I hope, but I also hope someone can help: LifeCD12.2 on a stick, not able to disturbe machine being working on. Perfect. But still can install itselve on just that machine and never never should do it. Never? Which is the program doing that ? Debian installer? Right? Beside to it a question

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-06 Thread tomas
On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:28:03AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: [...] > > E.g. gaining root privileges with "su" vs. "su -i". > > Isn't -i a sudo option rather than an su option? Yes: tomas@trotzki:~$ su -i su: invalid option -- 'i' Try 'su --help' fo

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-06 Thread debian-user
Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 19:47:00 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > At this point, you are not root and so dpkg -i complains. > > Actually she is root (the # in the prompt, and the username@host at > the beginning of the prompt, assuming she hasn't played with her > p

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-06 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/09/2023 05:32, Maureen L Thomas wrote: 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter Does it mean that your Intel wifi card is a USB one? dpkg-query --show firmware-iwlwifi but it is not found root@debiandesktop-4:/home/

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/09/2023 10:12, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2023-09-05, Charles Curley wrote: E.g. gaining root privileges with "su" vs. "su -i". You mean vs "su -" or "su -l" or "su --login" :) Or "sudo -i" ("sudo --login")

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-05, Charles Curley wrote: > E.g. gaining root privileges with "su" vs. "su -i". You mean vs "su -" or "su -l" or "su --login" :)

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You used "su" to become root, I believe. Unfortunately, beginning > with Debian 9, "su" with no arguments and no configuration doesn't > behave the way it used to behave. Specifically, it no longer sets the > PATH variable properly. And so you get the above

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 18:32:08 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE > 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter Bingo. Here's the vendor's information: https://www.realtek.com/en/products/communications-network-ics/item/rtl8821ce With

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 06:32:08PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Here it is and no mention of the wifi. > > ~$ lspci [...] > 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE > 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter It's right there. ^^ See, it says "Wireless" and "Network

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 18:16:54 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > so what you are saying is I should have used su -i and not just su. Correct. > > also I downloaded the file for Bookworm, I did not use the one from > SID. Ah, OK. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.co

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Here it is and no mention of the wifi. ~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core 4-core Desktop Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [Coffee Lake S] (rev 08) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Maureen L Thomas
so what you are saying is I should have used su -i and not just su. also I downloaded the file for Bookworm, I did not use the one from SID. On 9/5/23 4:21 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 19:47:00 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: At this point, you are not root and so dpkg -i co

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 10:59:06PM +0100, piorunz wrote: > On 05/09/2023 05:23, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > I tied su and then apt-install and that didn't > > work. > > 1. Yo logged to root incorrectly. Anyway, I suggest to never use root > account for anything. Use sudo. That's one valid solutio

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread piorunz
On 05/09/2023 05:23, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I keep getting messages that it is not installed. Where? Show exact error.   So I went on line and found a link but it was for Sid.  I have bookworm.  I did not use it but I downloaded the one for bookworm, at least I think I did.  It is in a folde

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 15:43:25 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I ran it and got > > dpkg-query --show firmware-iwlwifi > > but it is not found Ah. Thank you. Now we need to know if you actually need it. Run lspci, and look over the output for likely keywords: wifi, wireless, 802.11, etc. On the l

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 03:39:59PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > This is what I did and the errors it produced. > > root@debiandesktop-4:/home/maureen/Debian# dpkg -i > firmware-iwlwifi_20210315-3_all.deb > dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable > dpkg: warning: 'start-st

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 19:47:00 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > At this point, you are not root and so dpkg -i complains. Actually she is root (the # in the prompt, and the username@host at the beginning of the prompt, assuming she hasn't played with her prompts). What she does not have, apparent

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 03:39:59PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > This is what I did and the errors it produced. > > root@debiandesktop-4:/home/maureen/Debian# dpkg -i > firmware-iwlwifi_20210315-3_all.deb > dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable > dpkg: warning: 'start-st

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I ran it and got dpkg-query --show firmware-iwlwifi but it is not found On 9/5/23 11:12 AM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 00:23:49 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: I keep getting messages that [iwlwifi_20230515-3] is not installed. … Is it important or can I ignore it[?]  I do have

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Maureen L Thomas
This is what I did and the errors it produced. root@debiandesktop-4:/home/maureen/Debian# dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_20210315-3_all.deb dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 2 expected prog

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Yes it is a .deb file and I tried the sudo dpkg -i but did not do the apt  --fix-broken install  I will try using both and see what happens. On 9/5/23 1:40 AM, jeremy ardley wrote: On 5/9/23 12:23, Maureen L Thomas wrote:   I have tried every witch way to install it but am at a complete loss

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Sep 2023 at 09:12:58 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 00:23:49 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > I keep getting messages that [iwlwifi_20230515-3] is not installed. … > > Is it important or can I ignore it[?]  I do have wifi. It might help if you write a little more

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 00:23:49 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I keep getting messages that [iwlwifi_20230515-3] is not installed. … > Is it important or can I ignore it[?]  I do have wifi. What leads you to think you need it? Please show us the exact error message. iwlwifi refers to certain Intel

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 01:40:55PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 5/9/23 12:23, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >   I have tried every witch way to install it but am at a complete loss. > > > Assuming you downloaded a deb file, the usual mechansim is > > sudo dpkg - i .deb > > sudo apt --fix-bro

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 3:55 AM Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I keep getting messages that it is not installed. So I went on line and > found a link but it was for Sid. I have bookworm. I did not use it but I > downloaded the one for bookworm, at least I think I did. It is in a folder > marked Deb

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-04 Thread jeremy ardley
On 5/9/23 12:23, Maureen L Thomas wrote:   I have tried every witch way to install it but am at a complete loss. Assuming you downloaded a deb file, the usual mechansim is sudo dpkg - i .deb sudo apt --fix-broken install

just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-04 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I keep getting messages that it is not installed.  So I went on line and found a link but it was for Sid.  I have bookworm.  I did not use it but I downloaded the one for bookworm, at least I think I did.  It is in a folder marked Debian.  I have tried every witch way to install it but am at a

Re: A question about alsa(1) and sox(1) internals

2022-07-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 8:51 PM John Conover wrote: > The command: > > sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB > > generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale. > > Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps? > > (i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave gene

A question about alsa(1) and sox(1) internals

2022-07-22 Thread John Conover
The command: sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale. Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps? (i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave generation, or post generation?) Thanks, John -- John Co

need to know where to file a bug or ask a question.

2022-07-07 Thread tmcconnell168
Hi list, I've been having a problem with reading local email (like Cron reports etc.) and I tracked it down to either Evolution or WebKitWebProcess. I've opened bugs with both and have been talking with the Evolution mailing list. Milan Crha from that list had me run some backtraces and all he can

Re: A Question About Two Bullseye OS on different Dives.

2022-02-10 Thread Dynosaw
I did something similar a couple of years ago when I installed Arch on a PC with Debian-Buster and a  BIOS Legacy option. I can't say whether this procedure will work with UEFI, since I haven't tried that. You proceed at your own risk. 1.  Power the computer OFF and disconnect all external cabl

Re: A Question About Two Bullseye OS on different Dives.

2022-02-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 05:10:16PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > My main Debian platform has four drives: > > /dev/sda500GB Buster > /dev./sdb 1 TB > /dev/sdc500 GB > /dev/sdd1TB Bullseye > > The boot order is /dev/sr0 then /dev/ssd, which i want to keep. Now grub > comes up

A Question About Two Bullseye OS on different Dives.

2022-02-06 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
My main Debian platform has four drives: /dev/sda500GB Buster /dev./sdb 1 TB /dev/sdc500 GB /dev/sdd1TB Bullseye The boot order is /dev/sr0 then /dev/ssd, which i want to keep. Now grub comes up with /dev/sdd as the default and /dev/sda as the second choice. What I want to do

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/22/2018 08:18 AM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 08:04:08AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Think you for the ingormstion, but, as I pointed out in my origional email, the necessary versions of tcl-tk are in /home/comp/Apps/BDT/tools/tcl-tk8.4/lib How do I use them?

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 08:04:08AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Think you for the ingormstion, but, as I pointed out in my origional email, > the necessary versions of tcl-tk are in > > /home/comp/Apps/BDT/tools/tcl-tk8.4/lib > > How do I use them? > What is the output of 'ls /home/comp/App

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-22 Thread Curt
On 2018-04-2 2, Roberto C Sánchez wrote: >> > > >> > > comp@AbNormal:~/Apps/BDT$ ./bdt >> > > /usr/local/gromacs/lib:/opt/mopac >> > > ./bdt.exec: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.4.so.0: cannot >> > > open shared object file: No such file or directory >> > > comp@AbNormal:~/Apps/BD

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/22/2018 07:20 AM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 06:23:57AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 04/21/2018 04:22 PM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:46:37PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed a GUI for some of my modeling programs

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 06:23:57AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > On 04/21/2018 04:22 PM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:46:37PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > I have installed a GUI for some of my modeling programs > > > (http://www.quimica.urv.cat/~pujadas

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/21/2018 04:22 PM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:46:37PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed a GUI for some of my modeling programs (http://www.quimica.urv.cat/~pujadas/BDT) on my Debian Stretch platform. While there were no warning or error messages

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/21/2018 04:22 PM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:46:37PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed a GUI for some of my modeling programs (http://www.quimica.urv.cat/~pujadas/BDT) on my Debian Stretch platform. While there were no warning or error messages

Re: A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:46:37PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have installed a GUI for some of my modeling programs > (http://www.quimica.urv.cat/~pujadas/BDT) on my Debian Stretch platform. > > While there were no warning or error messages during the installation when I > attempt executi

A Question about a supposedly missing file

2018-04-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have installed a GUI for some of my modeling programs (http://www.quimica.urv.cat/~pujadas/BDT) on my Debian Stretch platform. While there were no warning or error messages during the installation when I attempt execution I get the following: comp@AbNormal:~/Apps/BDT$ ./bdt /usr/local/groma

Re: OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

2017-06-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 04:11:32PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017, 16:01:31 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > Hi Tomas, > > thanks for this quick response. Well, I just do not want to compile something > (however, I believe, some bina

Re: OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

2017-06-21 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017, 16:01:31 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: Hi Tomas, thanks for this quick response. Well, I just do not want to compile something (however, I believe, some binary packages do this at installing, don't they?), just unpack packages to a chroot. But you may be right: The

Re: OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

2017-06-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > sorry, to ask here, but I do not know where to ask else. > > Just a question: Is it possible, to build live-file systems with live-build > for > arm64 cp

OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

2017-06-21 Thread Hans
Hi folks, sorry, to ask here, but I do not know where to ask else. Just a question: Is it possible, to build live-file systems with live-build for arm64 cpu's on an intel based system like i386 or amd64? And can I build amd64 live-file systems on an i386 system? And vice versa,

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Nov 2016 at 14:05:46 (+0100), steve wrote: > Hi David, > > Coming back to this problem now that I have a bit more time. > > As I have been making a lot of testing, this message is a bit long, > sorry for that. > > > >If you follow my recipe, any packages counted twice (as eg in both >

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-14 Thread steve
Dear Axel, I just wrote an extensive answer to David *before* reading your reply and it happens that it answers pretty much to what I discovered, which is that if a backport package exists but the stable one is installed, the search with ~A$a~i are counted twice. Seems strange at first thought bu

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-14 Thread steve
Hi David, Coming back to this problem now that I have a bit more time. As I have been making a lot of testing, this message is a bit long, sorry for that. If you follow my recipe, any packages counted twice (as eg in both the stable and jessie searches) will show up in the diff with a "-".

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-07 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
steve wrote on 11/06/16 20:47: > Le 06-11-2016, à 10:43:58 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz a écrit : > >> What is the output of >> >> aptitude -F "%p" '~o' > > gives an error (unknown command « ~o ») > Sorry, this should be aptitude -F "%p" search '~o' >> ? Seems to me, there are packages installed

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-06 Thread David Wright
On Sun 06 Nov 2016 at 20:53:32 (+0100), steve wrote: > Le 06-11-2016, à 07:05:15 -0600, David Wright a écrit : > > >>so 3507 ≠ 3349. Both figures should be equal as I understand. It seems > >>that some packages are counted two or more times or my calculation is > >>plain wrong. > >> > >>Thoughts?

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Steve, Steve wrote: > Thank you for your explanation, I understand a bit better the logic. But > there is still something that doesn't quite match. Please consider the > following. [...] > a= aptitude search ~A[$a]~i | wc -l > dpkg -l | grep ^i

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-06 Thread steve
Le 06-11-2016, à 07:05:15 -0600, David Wright a écrit : so 3507 ≠ 3349. Both figures should be equal as I understand. It seems that some packages are counted two or more times or my calculation is plain wrong. Thoughts? Piping to wc -l throws most of the information away. I don't see why *h

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-06 Thread steve
Le 06-11-2016, à 10:43:58 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz a écrit : What is the output of aptitude -F "%p" '~o' gives an error (unknown command « ~o ») ? Seems to me, there are packages installed on your system that don't belong to any architecture in sources.list ("obsolete"). However, running

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-06 Thread David Wright
On Sun 06 Nov 2016 at 08:18:52 (+0100), Steve wrote: > Hi Sven and Axel, > > Thank you for your explanation, I understand a bit better the logic. But > there is still something that doesn't quite match. Please consider the > following. > > apt-cache policy | grep 'a=' > release a=now > re

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What is the output of aptitude -F "%p" '~o' ? Seems to me, there are packages installed on your system that don't belong to any architecture in sources.list ("obsolete"). Regards, jvp.

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-06 Thread Steve
Hi Sven and Axel, Thank you for your explanation, I understand a bit better the logic. But there is still something that doesn't quite match. Please consider the following. apt-cache policy | grep 'a=' release a=now release v=14.04,o=LP-PPA-opencpn-opencpn,a=trusty,n=trusty,l=OpenCPN,c=m

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > The main reason is that ~A does (as most of aptitude's patterns) > substring matching, […] > * aptitude's ~A pattern matches substrings of the Archive value in the > Release file. Sven is of course right, and it's regular expression matching and not (only) substr

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Steve, steve wrote: > I'm trying to understand why > > aptitude search ~Ajessie~i | wc -l > 240 > > is different from > > aptitude search ~Astable~i | wc -l > 3243 > > but is the same as > > aptitude search ~Ajessie-backports~i | wc -l > 240 The main reason is that ~A does (as most of apt

i have a question about use zfs-fuse and acl?

2015-08-26 Thread mark
hello, i have a question about use zfs-fuse and acl? Has been authorized rw- to user,but user failed to write file.why? step: 1 i use zfs-fuse in debian7.8 i386 i have update kernel from 3.2 to 3.16 zfs-fuse is 0.7.0.12 acl is 2.5.1 uname -a Linux debian 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae #1 SMP

Re: A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > mail -t needs to be followed by an address, not a message body. Makes sense. Thanks. > If you want to send a full message which has all needed headers, > trust the "sendmail" command which is shipped by anything which > can supply the MTA package role. > > exim, send

Re: A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:40:27PM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > The old "mail" application or "mailx" if one has > heirloom-mail does work but I have a question about piping a > message to it. > > It looks from documentation that mail ca

A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Until I get out-bound messages going through nmh properly, I have found a possible stop-gap measure to use. The old "mail" application or "mailx" if one has heirloom-mail does work but I have a question about piping a message to it. It looks from doc

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150420_1252-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can make the > > > > disk readonly, bu

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > > > I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can make the > > > disk readonly, but sometimes make it disappear altogether (ie it > > >

Small ARM file server (was: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.)

2015-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Stefan Monnier wrote: > (BTW, I now use a Banana Pi connected via ethernet as a "drive > enclosure" instead: it doesn't even consume more power than the > external power supply of my previous enclosure). I have been playing with the Banana Pi recently too. It is quite a nice little dual core ARM

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In the environment you described I would not be worried. I have never > lost any data on my USB mounted disks. You sound like you are > mounting your device for backup, using it, then unmounting it until > needed again. I have never had any problems doing that. I think you > could continue th

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > HOWEVER! It is a big however. I can't find any _new_ eSATA > > enclosures that are not also USB enclosures and do not now include > > active electronics in the connection between the eSATA and the drive. > > That's bad IMNHO. It introduces cheap electronics in

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-07 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-06, Bob Proulx wrote: > > HOWEVER! It is a big however. I can't find any _new_ eSATA > enclosures that are not also USB enclosures and do not now include > active electronics in the connection between the eSATA and the drive. > That's bad IMNHO. It introduces cheap electronics in the

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul E Condon wrote: > On rereading my message, I can see why you are unhappy and offended. I was neither unhappy nor offended. I am sorry if my responses indicated any such thing. I went back and read what I wrote and I am at a loss to know where I went wrong. Please let me know so that I can

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > Reading your previous mails make me a little worried, though. It is > only used as a sort of semi-online backup, that I connect when I run > the backup, but my main backups are on bluray-discs. Now I begin to > wonder if I should invest in another drive for backing up stuff, b

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-05 Thread Linux-Fan
[Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:44:13 +0200] Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:01:26 -0600 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > It could also be that I was unlucky in my purchase of cheap USB disk > > enclosures. Which is why I was careful to relate my experience but > > not cast blame. Your experiences and o

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150403_1501-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > I'm not so unlucky as Bob appears to be (he says, touching wood), but > > > > I think Bob came to his conclusion during a previous period of > > instability in Debian, > > It could also be that I was unl

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I remember similar problems with a USB drive which were due to a broken cable. Did you check with another USB cable? -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https:/

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:01:26 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > It could also be that I was unlucky in my purchase of cheap USB disk > enclosures. Which is why I was careful to relate my experience but > not cast blame. Your experiences and others may very well be > different! You will have different har

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-03 Thread Bob Proulx
David Wright wrote: > I must investigate nice/renice to prevent its taking over. And also check out 'ionice' too in addition to nice/renice. It is useful in this problem space when dealing with I/O bandwidth and priority. And in the problem space of 'nice' there is another very interesting progr

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul E Condon wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > I'm not so unlucky as Bob appears to be (he says, touching wood), but > > I think Bob came to his conclusion during a previous period of > instability in Debian, It could also be that I was unlucky in my purchase of cheap USB disk enclosures. Which

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > > I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can make the > > disk readonly, but sometimes make it disappear altogether (ie it > > gets unmounted, not remounted). > > All of my file system

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > [...] > > Some time ago I decided to a make a copy of these data, > > so I would have more than one copy. > [...] > Is the copying between a USB disk and an internal, or between two > partitions on the

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1746-0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 04/02/2015 04:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian > >computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data > >has been accumulating on an external USB drive in a part

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1803-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian > > computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data > > has been accumulating on an external USB drive in a partition with the > >... > > I'

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): [...] > Some time ago I decided to a make a copy of these data, > so I would have more than one copy. [...] Is the copying between a USB disk and an internal, or between two partitions on the same USB disk, or between two USB disks? (Ranked in decr

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 04/02/2015 04:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data has been accumulating on an external USB drive in a partition with the label, gfx5. Some time ago I decided to a

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul E Condon wrote: > For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian > computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data > has been accumulating on an external USB drive in a partition with the >... > I'm worried about what I found. I want to interest some

A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data has been accumulating on an external USB drive in a partition with the label, gfx5. Some time ago I decided to a make a copy of these data, so I would have more

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-12 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
On 2014-03-07 Paul E Condon wrote: > There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past > within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on > the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black > background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and i

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:02:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote: > > how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it ^^^ > Every single time I do whatever makes it happen, I can

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in > > Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already > > reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', i

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140311_185125, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote: > > In the meantime, I'll > > use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important > > details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude. > > Or even aptitude at the CLI? I had

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in > Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already > reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is referred to > as 'visual'. I'm sure it will b

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote: > In the meantime, I'll > use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important > details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude. Or even aptitude at the CLI? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140311_135115, Klaus wrote: > On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote: > > When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only > > comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of > > this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal > > wo

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-11 Thread Klaus
On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote: > When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only > comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of > this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal > works. There is a short explanation in the

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140310_35, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past > > within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on > > the text display. Now all I get is a whit

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past > within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on > the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black > background. I get this i

A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-07 Thread Paul E Condon
There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and in Xfce terminal. Both terminal emulators are

Re: a question concerning rxvt-unicode and update-alternatives

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:34:13AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > The rxvt-unicode program is now already installed, but when it does not > > seemed to be offered in: > > > > update-alternatives --list x-terminal-emulator > > > > None of the existing options: > > > > /usr/bin/aterm-x

Re: a question concerning rxvt-unicode and update-alternatives

2013-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to set > > rxvt-unicode > > program as x-terminal-enulator. Is this supposed to be possible? Oops, disregard my mail about reporting a bug. I was a bit too quick reading the thread. :( -- "If you're not

Re: a question concerning rxvt-unicode and update-alternatives

2013-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to set > > rxvt-unicode > > program as x-terminal-enulator. Is this supposed to be possible? > > The rxvt-unicode program is now already inst

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