Re: curl and form submission

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 05:34:25AM +, Bob wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 June 2016 05:01 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, at 17:16, Bob wrote: [...] > Thanks for your explanation. I did "curl -c" but no luck as it > doesn't have any c

Emacs 23?

Can Debian Wheezy 7.x Emacs 23 be installed in Debian Jessie 8.x? Anyone tried this? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Unexpected \Gamma's in tex

EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > I compiled this tex source by > $ platex 3.tex > But unexpected \Gamma's as the attached file appeared. > Why? > what is platex? $ apt-cache search platex ptex-base - basic ASCII pTeX library files texlive-lang-japanese - TeX Live: Japanese pdflatex does it right ...

Re: curl and form submission

On Thursday 09 June 2016 07:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] Thanks for your explanation. I did "curl -c" but no luck as it doesn't have any cookie. curl -c mycookie " http:///login1.html?a=%3F%2B%2F%40&b=%3F%2B%2F%40 " # ls mycookie ls: cannot access 'mycookie': No such file or direct

Re: curl and form submission

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 07:49:28AM +, Bob wrote: > > > On Thursday 09 June 2016 07:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >[...] > > > >>Thanks for your explanation. I did "curl -c" but no luck as it > >>doesn't have any cookie. > >> > >>curl -c mycook

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the wheezy-backports i386 target release which is set to priority 100. These priorities are normally set in /etc/apt/preferences. What is the contents of this file on your system? The easiest to try for y

Re: Unattended-upgrades do not seem to be able to restart services

Hello, On 16-06-08 22:11:33, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > At the end of unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log, I see: > > >Services to be restarted: > >Skipping dbus.service... > >systemctl restart apache2.service cron.service > >Log ended: 2016-06-08 04:36:36 > > However, apache2 and cron have not been resta

Re: Emacs 23?

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > Can Debian Wheezy 7.x Emacs 23 be installed in Debian Jessie 8.x? Yes, it seems so. > Anyone tried this? Yes, just tried that on a jessie chroot using both wheezy and jessie lines in sources.list and it worked. However, be careful

Re: curl and form submission

On Thursday 09 June 2016 08:10 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 07:49:28AM +, Bob wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2016 07:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] Thanks for your explanation. I did "curl -c" but no luck as it does

Re: curl and form submission

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:14:53AM +, Bob wrote: [...] > Hello Tomas & Jeremy, > > Finally I got the combination. The redirected links along with > username/password is not providing any cookie jar. So I went back to > the main page i.e. form pa

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 19:30 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote: > I'm using an ASUS X555U laptop with an Intel Core i7-6500U CPU > > I have no touchpad or audio support. I hear these can be fixed by > installing a linux-image v4.X or greater. Though if I use > linux-image-4.5.0-2-amd64 I get an infinite

[Solved] Re: Delay at boot - network

Hi Brian, as promised, I want to report my last experiences. The problem with the delay on both of my notebooks is solved. Due to your help, I could figured out, that the process network-manager caused the delay. This happened, because the purge of the package was not completed, so that binary

Re: rkhunter -c, doesnt show any rootkit

David Wright wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 22:16:03 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> David Wright wrote: >> > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 20:51:55 (+0300), Nikos Macheras wrote: >> >> On 06/07/2016 01:50 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:29:28PM +0300, perlj...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 07:37 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote: > I do have a separate testing sources.list. I'm a bit hesitant to > completely > upgrade to testing because I always seem to get boot errors whenever > I > install new firmware/kernel. > > Are there any specific packages related to firmwar

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >Skylake have had some serious >problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the hardware >being damaged or at least the lifespan shortened without running an OS >with proper support) Guess I'll back up everything and upgrade to tes

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 08:40 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > Skylake have had some serious > > problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the > > hardware > > being damaged or at least the lifespan shortened without running

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:24 AM David Christensen wrote: > On 06/05/2016 04:40 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > ... Any clever ploys to deal with [changing UID's and GID's after a > > fresh install]? > > For users, I track usernames, UID's, and GID's, and refer to that when > creating accounts. >

Re: wrong owner of /run/user/1000/dconf/user causes X to freeze

Thanks for your answers. Helpful - and funny :-) > no, this is a perfectly fine list to ask that question. Good. > The problem is that the answer is "systemd". > In this case dconf, So I have 2 choices now. Thanks! > and ask the maintainer to reassign the bug if it's wrong. Good point, tha

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Thursday 09 June 2016 05:39:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) > > The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the > wheezy-backports i386 target release which is set to priority 100. > These priorities are normally set in /etc/apt/preferences. What i

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

I upgraded to stretch, installed firmware-realtek, and set pci=noaer. Everything in the title has been fixed. This thread can be renamed to solved. Thanks for the help.

Locales, Keyboard Layouts

Hi Debian Users List, I am using the lxde desktop environment with xorg. I have installed the "Keyboard Layout Handler" applet, and I am attempting to use the French and Latin American keyboard layouts. Single-keystroke characters, such as ñ οr ç work just fine, but I am having difficulty inputtin

Changing tty shells

Hi Debian Users List, My computer is set to boot into a tty shell. I manually enter X Server by issuing the startx command. Previously, I had been able to switch tty shells with the keystroke combination Alt + F[1-6]. After attempting to reconfigure they keyboard and locales to solve an unrelated

Re: mutt, w3m and firefox

On 2016-06-08 Johann Spies wrote: > Until a few weeks ago, I could open firefox from mutt by 'v' and then > select the html-part of the email and press enter. > > Now firefox does not but w3m handles everything - which is not preferred > when some links are important. I use the following in ~/.ma

Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

Hi, In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day" sysvinit. It was much simpler and worked very, very well and extremely reliably. How can we get that back on modern Debian? I mean simple, just like th

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 14:13:58 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > Just one thing I wasn't sure about -- what should the permissions of the > /media directory be? drwxr-xr-x 75 root root 4096 Jul 10 2015 media/ I make the mountpoints within: drwx-- 2 root root 4096 May 5 2014 cdrom0/ which

Re: Unattended-upgrades do not seem to be able to restart services

On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 11:39:36 +0200, Wolfgang Karall wrote: >It's not unattended-upgrades, what you're seeing is the output of >needrestart, which is configured by default to only showing what it >would do, but not actually restarting anything. > >Take a look at the configuration below /etc/needres

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very > simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day" > sysvinit. It was much simpler and worked very, very well and extremely > reliably. How can we get that back on modern De

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On Fri 10 Jun 2016 at 03:46:18 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very > simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day" > sysvinit. It was much simpler and worked very, very well and extremely > reliably. How ca

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

Hi, Thanks for your reply. On 10/06/2016 5:06 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very >> simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day" >> sysvinit. It was much simpler and worked very, very w

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 10/06/2016 5:24 AM, Brian wrote: > Otherwise, hobby-horses probably require a different venue. If you do > not have a problem please try to find somewhere which does not require > Debian support). As per the subject, required script will NOT run and in my message: My script is meant to crea

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On Fri 10 Jun 2016 at 05:29:59 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On 10/06/2016 5:24 AM, Brian wrote: > > Otherwise, hobby-horses probably require a different venue. If you do > > not have a problem please try to find somewhere which does not require > > Debian support). > > As per the subjec

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 10/06/2016 6:02 AM, Brian wrote: > Your premable was enough: > > In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very > simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day > sysvinit. It was much simpler and worked very, very well and extremely > reli

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 10/06/2016 5:06 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> [snip] >>> Now, I want the archiving script to run on system startup, I don't >>> want dovecot or exim4 to be running when the script starts, it >>> simply needs to have the /backup and /var file syst

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 10/06/2016 6:17 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Perhaps, but why? I'm not asking it to log anything to syslog; just to >> create it's own log file in the /var/log directory. > > Just going off the comments at the top -- states "required-start: > $syslog". Although, I suppose that you could've jus

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

Gene Heskett wrote on 06/09/16 17:59: > On Thursday 09 June 2016 05:39:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) >> >> The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the >> wheezy-backports i386 target release which is set to priority 100. >> These priorities a

network managet and 10.42.0.1/24

Hi all, I am at a loss to find out how to change 10.42.0.1/24 and 10.42.0.x/24 as ip and dhcp range which is used by network manager when configuring a wireless card as an AP. I dont see the setting anywhere and cant find a valid doc in the internet too Is this value had-coded in the source-code

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

Andrew McGlashan wrote: >[snip] > The script does have #! /bin/sh at the top and /bin/sh does point to > /bin/dash as follows: > > # ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 21 17:40 /bin/sh -> dash Try running it as 'sh ' or 'dash ' -- you're probably doing "bashisms" in there somewhere that'

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

The Jessie Debian Handbook states: "The two-figures number that follows had historically been used to define the order in which services had to be started, but nowadays the default boot system uses insserv , which schedules everything automatically based on the scripts’ dependencies." on pg 188. O

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 06/09/2016 12:17 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> On 10/06/2016 5:06 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> Andrew McGlashan wrote: [snip] Now, I want the archiving script to run on system startup, I don't want dovecot or exim4 to be running when the script starts, it

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 06/09/2016 07:46 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > The order of the scripts alone allowed for everything to be very, very > simple and no script relied upon any other; they were self dependent. > If you wanted something to be available before your script, you made > sure your numeric number after th

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Thursday 09 June 2016 16:33:45 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 06/09/16 17:59: > > On Thursday 09 June 2016 05:39:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) > >> > >> The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the > >> wheezy-backports i3

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:01:16 Gene Heskett wrote: >  org.kde.kcalc-6112 Probably absolutely irrelevant - but why have you got kde-anything?? (For general info, Gene is running TDE 14, not kde.) Lisi

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 06/09/2016 10:10 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > What I have now is that with some extra "smarts" that stops the original > concept from working as intended. The smarts is meant to allow for > faster startup and to tie in dependancies; to me, it is trying to be too > smart and that is where the p

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Thursday 09 June 2016 18:05:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:01:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > >  org.kde.kcalc-6112 > > Probably absolutely irrelevant - but why have you got kde-anything?? > (For general info, Gene is running TDE 14, not kde.) > > Lisi That particular kcalc is an

Re: network managet and 10.42.0.1/24

On 06/09/2016 03:59 PM, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, I am at a loss to find out how to change 10.42.0.1/24 and 10.42.0.x/24 as ip and dhcp range which is used by network manager when configuring a wireless card as an AP. I dont see the setting anywhere and cant find a v

Re: Version and Release

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 11:19:19AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > There aren't 3 versions of each release, there's only one. Stable, testing > and unstable are nicknames / status codes applied to a given release at any > stage of its lifecycle. Right now Jessie is stable, Stretch is testing. The > u

Re: Version and Release

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 04:45:50PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Buster - Debian 10 - will be the release after Stretch ooops, should read whole thread before replying to a message. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to

Re: Unexpected \Gamma's in tex

"platex" is a command used by Japanese-tex user. I'm sorry. There was two-byte blanks in my tex source ,though they aren't apparent in my e-mail. When I removed them, everything was OK. Below is a log when compiling a tex source with two-byte blanks. $ platex 3.tex This is e-pTeX, Version 3.14159

bash help please

Greetings; A bash script that has worked most of a decade now refuses. For instance, assume that var InMail is = "gene", and can be echoed from the command line using $InMail like this. gene@coyote:~$ echo $InMail gene But I'll be switched if I can get a result from a line of code resembling t

Re: bash help please

On 06/10/2016 05:41 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ echo `test [${InMail} = "gene"]` > > All I get is the linefeed. Obviously I'm losing it, so how do I > translate and get usefull output for troubleshooting? One option is to use 'set -x' there in the script. It can go anywhere above

Re: bash help please

On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 22:41:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > A bash script that has worked most of a decade now refuses. > > For instance, assume that var InMail is = "gene", and can be echoed from > the command line using $InMail like this. > gene@coyote:~$ echo $InMail > gene > But I'll be swi

Re: bash help please

On 06/09/2016 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: A bash script that has worked most of a decade now refuses. For instance, assume that var InMail is = "gene", and can be echoed from the command line using $InMail like this. gene@coyote:~$ echo $InMail gene But I'll be switched if I can get a result f

Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts

On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 10:56:44 (-0600), Levi Darrell wrote: > I am using the lxde desktop environment with xorg. I have installed the > "Keyboard Layout Handler" applet, and I am attempting to use the French and > Latin American keyboard layouts. Single-keystroke characters, such as ñ οr > ç work j

Re: bash help please

On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:08:32 Lars Noodén wrote: > On 06/10/2016 05:41 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > gene@coyote:~$ echo `test [${InMail} = "gene"]` > > > > All I get is the linefeed. Obviously I'm losing it, so how do I > > translate and get usefull output for troubleshooting? > > One option i

Re: bash help please

On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:50:35 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 22:41:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > A bash script that has worked most of a decade now refuses. > > > > For instance, assume that var InMail is = "gene", and can be echoed > > from the command line using $InMail li

Re: bash help please

On Friday 10 June 2016 00:00:12 David Christensen wrote: > On 06/09/2016 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > A bash script that has worked most of a decade now refuses. > > > > For instance, assume that var InMail is = "gene", and can be echoed > > from the command line using $InMail like this. > >

Re: bash help please

On Fri 10 Jun 2016 at 01:04:40 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:50:35 David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 22:41:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > A bash script that has worked most of a decade now refuses. > > > > > > For instance, assume that var InMail is =

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

Hi, I'm not sure my end solution is the best. TLDR; -- I've now got the script working as desired, but I have more to say below, including a thank you for Christian in particular. And I do have other queries. I want the script to run once only at bootup, before exim4 and also before dovecot, i

Re: Changing tty shells

On 06/09/2016 10:00 AM, Levi Darrell wrote: Hi Debian Users List, My computer is set to boot into a tty shell. I manually enter X Server by issuing the startx command. Previously, I had been able to switch tty shells with the keystroke combination Alt + F[1-6]. After attempting to reconfigure

Re: bash help please

On Friday 10 June 2016 01:34:14 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 10 Jun 2016 at 01:04:40 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:50:35 David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 22:41:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > A bash script that has worked most of a decade now r

Re: Bluetooth speaker: visible, but no sound

On 2016-06-08 10:30, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > pavucontrol shows the speaker as "Output Device". But xfce4-mixer, > while showing the speaker in the "Sound card" dropdown, does not > allow me to actually select the device. Also, I wonder what device > string I have to put into my .quodlibet/config

need help on Debian machine monitoring.

i have been using different monitoring tools for different time period. like cacti and nagios. now this time for few different level of requirement i have selected VNSTATI. to create bandwidth usage graphs. The problem with vnstati is when i use -d it shows the result of last 30 days and now i nee