Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-15 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 10:04:13PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 21:05:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:56:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wr

Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 21:05:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:56:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: > > > > > > Isn't mbox (seen elsewhere) like one file? > > > > W

Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On 1/15/24 14:56, David Wright wrote: On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: Isn't mbox (seen elsewhere) like one file? Without knowing what I'm doing I reckoned maildir would be safer. I've always found it to be safer as long as the

Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-15 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:56:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: > > > > Isn't mbox (seen elsewhere) like one file? > > > Without knowing what I'm doing I reckoned maildir would be safer. > > > > >

Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: > > Isn't mbox (seen elsewhere) like one file? > > Without knowing what I'm doing I reckoned maildir would be safer. > > > > I've always found it to be safer as long as the max # of entries is > not

Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-14 Thread gene heskett
On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-01-12 13:31, gene heskett wrote: I'm using tbird as an email agent, but it just did something both strange and scary. Its filters have been working very spotty, only when the phase of the moon was right. And it missed moving a msg from the nut list to

Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-14 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-01-12 13:31, gene heskett wrote: I'm using tbird as an email agent, but it just did something both strange and scary. Its filters have been working very spotty, only when the phase of the moon was right. And it missed moving a msg from the nut list to the local nut sbbdir, so I went to t

Thunderbird filters (was: call me puzzled.)

2024-01-12 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi Gene, Am 12.01.2024 um 14:31 schrieb gene heskett: I'm using tbird as an email agent, but it just did something both strange and scary. Its filters have been working very spotty, only when the phase of the moon was right. And it missed moving a msg from the nut list to the local nut sbbdi

call me puzzled.

2024-01-12 Thread gene heskett
I'm using tbird as an email agent, but it just did something both strange and scary. Its filters have been working very spotty, only when the phase of the moon was right. And it missed moving a msg from the nut list to the local nut sbbdir, so I went to the filter menu and had it add a new fi

Re: puzzled: debian 9.8 already?

2019-02-17 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 16/02/19 21:22, Ryan Campbell Cunningham ha scritto: If you would like to, you may read the Debian 9.8 release announcement at . Thank you, Ryan. And also Steve for the additional info on the interim security release. In other

Re: puzzled: debian 9.8 already?

2019-02-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrea wrote: >Hi. > >apt-get just gave me this warning: >N: Il repository "http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch >Release" ha modificato il valore "Version" da "9.7" a "9.8" >(In Italian, that is "value for version changed from 9.7 to 9.8") > >Given that 9.7 was just released (I checked

Re: puzzled: debian 9.8 already?

2019-02-16 Thread Ryan Campbell Cunningham
If you would like to, you may read the Debian 9.8 release announcement at . El 16/2/19 a las 12:12 p. m., Andrea Borgia escribiᅵ: Hi. apt-get just gave me this warning: N: Il repository "http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stre

puzzled: debian 9.8 already?

2019-02-16 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. apt-get just gave me this warning: N: Il repository "http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release" ha modificato il valore "Version" da "9.7" a "9.8" (In Italian, that is "value for version changed from 9.7 to 9.8") Given that 9.7 was just released (I checked the website), is it

Re: Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-07 Thread David Edmondson
On Mon, Apr 07 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 07 apr 14, 11:02:29, David Edmondson wrote: >> >> Whenever this happens to me it's because my clock is a long way from >> being correct, perhaps that is worth checking? > > 'apt-get install ntp'? Indeed, that's always the solution (last week for

Re: Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 07 apr 14, 11:02:29, David Edmondson wrote: > > Whenever this happens to me it's because my clock is a long way from > being correct, perhaps that is worth checking? 'apt-get install ntp'? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian

Re: Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-07 Thread Ron Leach
On 07/04/2014 10:53, Joel Rees wrote: I understand that every now and then, less well managed mirrors (or perhaps less well-funded?) get cross-wise of their updates. In the meantime, you might clear your cache and try again? It seems to work fine this morning, so it may have been a cache pro

Re: Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-07 Thread David Edmondson
On Sun, Apr 06 2014, Ron Leach wrote: > List, I must have done something odd or, maybe, missed a Debian > release certificate change, or something. But I'm not sure how to > reinstate security for software upgrades or installations. > > Wheezy 64, using synaptic, on a laptop with a pretty normal s

Re: Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Ron Leach wrote: > List, I must have done something odd or, maybe, missed a Debian release > certificate change, or something. But I'm not sure how to reinstate > security for software upgrades or installations. > > Wheezy 64, using synaptic, on a laptop with a pr

Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-06 Thread Ron Leach
List, I must have done something odd or, maybe, missed a Debian release certificate change, or something. But I'm not sure how to reinstate security for software upgrades or installations. Wheezy 64, using synaptic, on a laptop with a pretty normal set of desktop applications. Synaptic marke

Re: puzzled about cron and anacron

2009-06-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With anacron installed /etc/crontab actually does not start a daily task in /etc/cron.daily; the line 25 6* * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) (without line break) just tests if anacron is executable. Actually, anacron itself is startet

Re: puzzled about cron and anacron

2009-06-17 Thread Suno Ano
[skipping a lot of lines ...] Paul> I leave my computer on overnight just so I can have this job Paul> done, but there are indications in the log that seem, to my Paul> untrained eye, to be anacron restarting cron jobs every morning Paul> --- why? And how does it arrive at 7:35? The README.De

puzzled about cron and anacron

2009-06-17 Thread Paul E Condon
I am setting up a cron job to do a daily backup of files on disk. I have put a call to the backup program in /etc/cron.daily and it does run daily, but not at the time that I would like it to run. The puzzle is that /etc/crontab specifies that the jobs in /etc/cron.daily should be run starting a

Re: Sound But No Sound - Finally Puzzled It Out

2008-11-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:07:33PM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Sound: alsaplayer plays cd's & totem plays videos. alsamixer adjusts > > volume. > > > > No Sound: Audacity has no input control - input options are determined > > by the sound card so presumably Audac

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:20:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] > > I now have all the lines in sources.list commented out except those for > > testing. I ran "apt-get install -f" followed by "apt-get update" then > > "apt

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006

Re: CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread N . Pauli
On Mon, 27 Feb, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > N.Pauli wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing > > setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool > > and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well > as an

Re: CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
N.Pauli wrote: Dear All, Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well as an HP printer both of which are network printers. During my trial

Re: CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
N.Pauli wrote: Dear All, Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well as an HP printer both of which are network printers. During my trial

CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well as an HP printer both of which are network printers. During my trial and error I could

Re: Puzzled by linux 2.6 and /dev

2004-01-27 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Chandler wrote: > A few weeks ago I managed to install the kernel-images for linux 2.6, and > at the same time removed devfsd (reading that it had been depreciated with > 2.6) Deprecated doesn't mean that it has been removed. From what I can see

Re: Puzzled by linux 2.6 and /dev

2004-01-27 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > devfs/udev do this from the kernel side - I don't know but your post > suggests that hotplug tampers with device nodes on the user side? devfs is both userlevel and kernellevel. udev is completely a userprocess. > Afaik ud

Re: Puzzled by linux 2.6 and /dev

2004-01-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:34:05PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > But now I am not getting any devices being built automatically in /dev. devfs/udev do this from the kernel side - I don't know but your post suggests that hotplug tampers with device nodes on the user side? > I saw some talk about

Puzzled by linux 2.6 and /dev

2004-01-24 Thread Alan Chandler
A few weeks ago I managed to install the kernel-images for linux 2.6, and at the same time removed devfsd (reading that it had been depreciated with 2.6) Even so, something (hotplug?) was overwriting the entries in /dev with valid links. For instance I had manually made device nodes for hda, hd

puzzled

2000-09-24 Thread DMGrant
I am new and trying to install debian 2.0 I did the fips thing on my fat32 (V.2.0) and now have the following on a total disk space of 3682 MB: Partition 1non dos299MB Partition 2non dos201MB (I don't know where these came from, they were there when I got here) Partition C:

Puzzled with segfault in the "speakfree" package

1998-09-17 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have two almost identical PCs with fresh Debian 2.0 installs on them. I installed the speakfree package and while it runs well in one workstation it seg-faults in the other. I've reinstalled all involved packages from the same CD, including shared libraries, and I'm using the same con