Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Petter Adsen
Michael Beattie writes: | I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet | connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an [snip] You can probably do this with tcpwrappers. See the manpages for hosts_access(5) and tcpd(8). Petter -- Petter Adsen

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:06:15 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Stuart Longland wrote: > > Silly question, but why does re-loading a disc take more than 197 seconds? > > It comes out (intentionally) after a backup run is complete > and went well. (See man xorriso example "Incremental backu

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:09:23 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:49 pm, Martin Read wrote: > > Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical > > keyswitches with a rated life in the tens of millions, and the Internet is > > full of mail-order vendors sell

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:45:03 +0200 "Gian Uberto Lauri" wrote: > Petter Adsen writes: > > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:09:23 -0500 > > rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > How much do those things cost? Now that a keyboard can be had for $10 or > > > $15,

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:15:44 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > The Windows software will also auto-update the firmware in the > > keyboard, > > Say what? Since when does a keyboard need a firmware update? > > Hmm. May

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:25:25 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2015 07:04:22 Joel Rees wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:09 PM, wrote: > > > On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:49 pm, Martin Read wrote: > > >> Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical > > >> keys

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:40:22 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Joel Rees writes: > > > > > > Say what? Since when does a keyboard need a firmware update? > > > > > > Hmm. Maybe the USB controller stuff, but still, ... > > > > Nope. Check t

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 00:21:44 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Wed, September 30, 2015 1:08 am, Heracles wrote: > > I just installed Google-Earth using "synaptic" in Debian8 and it worked > > fine. It had to install a few other bits and pieces but as it did all the > > work I was fine with it.

Re: Broadcom 43121 wlan issue

2015-10-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 13:22:44 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I updated my system last night after which I was not able to use network on > my laptop. I tried to install ethernet driver as I had it locally but could > not make the wifi work. > Earlier the /lib/modules folder had 3.16* directory onl

Re: Please tipps for Desktop ( gnome, kde, xfce, etc. ) Debian 8 jessie and some minor issues

2015-10-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:31:11 +0200 Peter Berlau wrote: > WIFI HP Officejet 7500 driver hp-officejet_7500_e910 > prints fine, but i can not scan... xscanimage shows " wrong argument" > I did not know what this mean or > what i should do... Take a look here, there are some good suggestions on

Re: Graphical tools for traffic analysis

2015-10-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:11:29 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I'd like to know your experience based on these tools and what you can > recommend me. > > Specifically I would like some sort of web tool to interact with Squid > and, moreover, have some graphical tool for graphics of band

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:57:11 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > Thanks Darac. > > This is what I've ended up doing - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backa ext4defaults,nofail 0 2 > --8<---cut here---e

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

2015-10-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:29:31 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 17, 2015 3:22 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > No problem! > > I have the first generation EeePC, which I would happily give away, but > > I doubt you plan on visiting Sweden anytime soon? ;) > > Your offer is gracious

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:59:35 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Trying to activate Samba with chkconfig, I get: > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig –add smb 5 ^ >chkconfig -a|--add [names] ^^ Try adding another hyphen. Petter --

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:08:51 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +, Brian wrote: > > For many readers (diligent or otherwise), isn't this a matter of > > updated documentation and re-education. There are still users (an > > example is in this thread) who believe

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-11-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:20:01 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > I have just added an eSATA outlet on my box; when I plug in a SATA > disk, it is visible in gparted, its label is displayed in the Places > column of PCManfm, but when I click on it I get an error > "Authentication is required". >

Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

2015-11-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 12:08:04 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:34:05 +0100 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > I have just added an eSATA outlet on my box; when I plug in a SATA > > > disk, it is visible in gparted, its label is displayed in

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:45:33 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system > > Is there a way to force it to mount read-

Re: missing segfault messages

2015-02-06 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:17:51 -0500 songbird wrote: > a while ago i was looking for a program that would > allow me to copy partition images and restore them -- > now i wish i had been a little more persistent in > that search... :) Like http://partclone.org ? :) P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 07:21:52 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I am apparently using lightdm and I have failed to find a desktop > theme which is 100% pleasing. So I am wondering if we have a theme > editor that might allow me to tweak some colors here and there in an > existing theme?

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 08:49:41 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday, February 09, 2015 08:46:05 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > > I just had a look, and it seems the themes are just CSS files, so > > you could just open for instance (on an Ubuntu machine): > > > > /usr/shar

Re: Google search

2015-02-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:32:09 + Alex PADOLY wrote: > > > Good evening, > > Tthere is a free alternative in the GOOGLE search > engine? I'm a little uncertain what you mean - are you looking for something like https://duckduckgo.com/ ? Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm posit

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:44:13 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday, February 09, 2015 11:01:10 PM David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > [...] > > > > > dm-tool sounds like something I should look at, but it is not in > > > the repo's I address. Fixable? > > > > >

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 03:37:46 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 03:04:44 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:44:13 -0500 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > However I don't see that it was any color editing facilities > &

Re: Writing to 2 TB USB hard drive fails

2015-02-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:28:21 -0500 Rich Hare wrote: > I am new to Debian, but learning. > > My issue involves 2 TB USB hard drives. > > I have been using Debian via the Knoppix bootable CD to back up a > couple of Win XP computers. Has been working wonderfully with a 500 > GB drive I've used >

Re: Writing to 2 TB USB hard drive fails

2015-02-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:17:41 -0500 songbird wrote: > and what file systems have been set up on them? On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:28:21 -0500 Rich Hare wrote: > I've used a Seagate utility to > check if the drives have 512 byte sectors or 4096 byte sectors and > they are 512 byte NTFS > sector driv

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-16 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:39:41 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > As I had earlier posted, I have recently upgraded to Jessie. During > bootup I see lots of stuff being started like Exim, ldap etc. I'd > like to disable lots of these stuff if it doesn't interfere with KDE > the environment tha

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:29:35 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Okay, you've had two supporting replies, that is virtually none. ...and here's one more. I installed Jessie in a VM a while back, and so far I have no complaints. Granted, I don't use it for anything important (yet), but I will probably

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:58:50 +0200 Mehmet Recep Turkoglu wrote: > Hello > > I tried to install both vmware 10 and 11 with sh but I cant succeed. > There are no errors. İt just print the screen: > > The product is ready to be installed. Press Enter to begin > installation or Ctrl-C to cancel. >

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:04:22 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-18, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > You can try running the installer with the "--ignore-errors" > > option, or "--extract=DIR" to extract the bundle at running the > > installer m

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:07:56 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > So, now, this has evovled to the new question; what do I type in at > the GRUB prompt, to make it search for, and, offer as boot options, > the pre-existing, installed, Ubuntu and Debian installations? I found this: http://members.iinet.net/

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:26:03 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Bret Busby wrote: > >>> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into > >>> rescue mode. > >> > >> You could always download the standard debian-i

Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:18:37 +0100 Marko Randjelovic wrote: > While trying to find out how to eliminate messages: > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java > Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev > Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs > > which are made by rkhunter every

Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:24:34 +0100 Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:47:02 +0100 > Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:44:27 +0100 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:18:37 +0100 > > > M

filesystem questions

2015-02-23 Thread Petter Adsen
I hope someone can help me out a bit with this, I'm not an expert on filesystems. I want to set up a small (~300G) drive for online backups, taken with backintime from a nightly cron job. backintime uses rsync/hard links to take the backups, so there will be a lot of links. The source of the backu

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:52:29 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: > Anyway, regardless of the terminology, simply to appropriate the name > "sc" might be perceived as bad manners. I would encourage the OP to > attempt to contact the former developers(s) first if he or she wishes > to use that name. Or

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:23:08 + Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working > reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've > had it a fortnight now and its longest uptime has been just over 3 > days, even though its on all

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:22:45 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: > On 24 February 2015 at 16:11, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Yes, I know I can STFW. I have in fact done so. But I am after > > personal experience. > > > > I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy > > and pleasant > >

Re: Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0

2015-02-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:14:23 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 24 February 2015 10:16:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 February 2015 04:47:14 Curt wrote: > > > On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> Why not print a page range? > > > > > > I fail to understand why you don'

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:38:02 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an > >> "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a > >> s

Re: Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0

2015-02-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:03:17 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 12:48:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 03:30:06 Curt wrote: > > > On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Went around the bush again, turned it off in cups default, > > > > called up i

Re: Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0

2015-02-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:00:01 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 05:11:51 Curt wrote: > > On 2015-02-25, Brian wrote: > > > CUPS has not provided information about them them because it gets > > > its information from the Duplex option in the PPD file. The > > > brothe

Re: Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0

2015-02-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:07:35 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 10:41:30 Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:00:01 -0500 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 05:11:51 Curt wrote:

Re: need help on kvm

2015-02-28 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:52:01 +0800 Long Wind wrote: > during kvm installation it says it fails because my system does not > have CPU extensions ... > > Is it possible to run kvm without CPU extensions?? > > I can accept low performance > I'm developing android app and want to run emulator. >

Sorting directories by size

2015-02-28 Thread Petter Adsen
I want to do a "du -sh *" in a directory, and sort the directories by sizes. The problem is that they are listed (since I use the "-h" option) in human-readable format. Is there an easy way to do this, so that 254G comes before 1,3T? I'm guessing I would need some sort of regexp, and I don't know

Re: Is my disk too crowded ?

2015-02-28 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:11:01 -0600 Charles Blair wrote: >I have been recently noticing that the find > command is taking a long time, and my /usr (see df > output below) is 73% full. Should I do something? > >libreoffice seems to be using a lot of space, and > I only use it to read .doc

Re: Removing sound from mvi files

2015-03-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:11:19 -0600 Emil Payne wrote: > Is there a simple way to remove the audio track from MVI files? > MVI is the format my camera produces and I want to upload to YouTube > without the background sound. > Or can I over write the audio track with a mp3 file? I belive you can d

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:33:22 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a > > toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal > > glasses, I have to strain my neck badly i

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:37:15 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have managed to find a copy of the apparently last properly > functioning grub.cfg file, using the Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD file > manager, and have posted a copy of the file, to the GRUB help mailing > list. > > The file apparen

Re: Debian Customization

2015-03-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 17:46:59 +0400 Gajadur Dwijesh wrote: > Hello..I wanted to know where is the location of files which can be > used to customise the Debian user interface? > i want to customise my screenlock, login screen and panels. > Is there any software package that can be installed to help

Re: Debian 7 and screensavers

2015-03-12 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:44:20 +0100 Linux-Fan wrote: > On 03/12/2015 10:33 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > Hello. > > > > On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver, > > are shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver > > to work, I have downloaded hundreds of

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:27:54 +0100 SL wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the > dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from > debian.org (<10kB/s), which is causing the process to take a very > long time. Is there anything I can d

Re: can't start KDE with 2 monitorsz

2015-03-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 23:37:52 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > So I am stuck with a 3.4-9amd64 kernel as the newest I can run and > have a fighting chance of watching a news video from one of the > mainsleaze sites. So I am waiting until Ubuntu 15.04.2 LTS or so, This may be a bit off topic here, but

Re: customize ligthdm manager

2015-03-21 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:59:57 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-03-20, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > > --089e012277468313560511b679c4 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > > > I want to enter from a local machine using lightdm manager, to a > > re

Re: user can exec the xset, in his crontab, its 100% failure

2015-03-21 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 05:58:44 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 March 2015 05:18:18 Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 05:02:53 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > Running a wheezy based linux here. > > > > > > While I as a user can use xset

Re: customize ligthdm manager

2015-03-21 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:11:39 +0100 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > hi, > > > * know Xephyr does the connection, but in that case you suppose you > are already logged in the "client machine".* > > > *What I want is just to have in login window the menu, where I can > find remote machine aside

Re: qemu with KVM support compared to "professional" virtualization products from VMware or Oracle

2015-03-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:04:16 +0200 Martin T wrote: > Hi, > > I need to virtualize few dozen virtual-machines for production > environment under Debian host-machine. I like the KISS principle > provided by qemu with KVM support where each utility has its own > specific purpose. For example I set

Re: Problem with accessing external USB HDD

2015-03-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:12:24 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 27/03/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> I have an external USB HDD connected to a system running Debian 6 > >> LTS. > > > > I don't really have any great contribution. But since no one else > > seems to have any good res

Re: After upgrade to jessie usb keyboard multimedia keys stopped working

2015-03-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:59:45 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Hi > as the title says I am unable to use the multimedia keys on the > keyboard since upgrade to jessie. > Do you have any hint, because all I find is information on how to fix > the multimedia keys in general, which is of no use. > On the note

xmodmap question

2015-03-29 Thread Petter Adsen
I've been playing with xmodmap to change the comma on the numpad (Norwegian layout) to a period, as I mainly use the numpad for entering IP addresses. According to the man page, section "Expression Grammar", the first keysym is for the key with no modifier, and a second is for the key with Shift as

Re: After upgrade to jessie usb keyboard multimedia keys stopped working

2015-03-30 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:38:14 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > xev -event keyboard > > No they do not - any idea what direction I should dig. Do you use a DE or a WM? Which one? > I see this in the Xorg.0.log > > [143241.089] (**) Option &qu

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:00:58 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community > > Or is it serious ? > > Cheers, > > Ron. It's a joke. Search for the name of the developer named in the post. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positi

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:56:22 +0200 claude juif wrote: > wow, seems real. > > That's funny. Now than everybody has switched to systemd, we would > need to switch to a systemd kernel. (It really seems that systemd > devs get hard time to speak to other people). Read the post. The "developer" that

Re: xmodmap question

2015-03-30 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody wrote: > On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 5:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I've been playing with xmodmap to change the comma on the numpad > > (Norwegian layout) to a period, as I mainly use the numpad for >

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:53:54 +0530 venkat wrote: > HI > > Our system runs with Debian 6 squeeze (2.6.32) Kernel with N2600 > hardware. I know the version is old. Due to business implication we > are not able to update it. > Recently, we tried connecting multiple monitors (CRT and HDMI) and we

Re: jessie: newly add user cannot log into LXDE

2015-03-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:16:11 -0700 Liyu L wrote: > I downloaded and installed debian testing (jessie rc2 netinstall) > today. Then I tried to add user manually (useradd/passwd) or through > the Preferences/Users and Groups GUI. In both cases the newly created > user cannot log into the LXDE sessi

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:35:33 +0530 venkat wrote: > Hi Peter > > Thanks for the response, I really understand the need for the > upgrade. We are definitely working on it.It would definitely take > some time. To handle current situation, I wanted to somehow use > 2.6.32 kernel with newest version

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-01 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:54:02 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Iceweasel commited suicide when I was asked by my bank to delete its > history, so now all I get is a blank terminal screen that is using > 100% of a cpu core until I kill it as root. A total purge and > reinstall didn'

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-02 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 05:16:37 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines. > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 02:35:00 Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:54:02 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > >

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-02 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:08:49 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 05:33:40 Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:16:37AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines. > > > > > > > > > Fun & games but not S&G. Network-Manager had

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-02 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:24:19 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 08:23:32 Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:08:49 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 05:33:40 Darac Marjal wrote: > > &g

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > > I read that at 25 april > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) > > should be available latest debian version. > > > > > What are the expected differences between Debian

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:44:56 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > >> I read that at 25 april > >> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) > >> should be available latest debian version. > >> > > > > > > Wh

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:08:29 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > > > > I read th

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:28:25 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:08:29 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:56:10 + (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:17:02 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > > > Hey all :-) > > > > I looking for a free cloud with almost rsync server-side (or other > > good services to automatically sync data) no http/s transfer. > > > > What's the b

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:55:12 + (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:24:04 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Then you could set up something like OwnCloud... > > So, not being nearly as deep in the "roll my own solution&quo

LVM/btrfs - Was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:15:42 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 05:35:49 Reco wrote: > > But doing it correct way would probably require using LVM > > (snapshots), and LVM is one of those things that are either used > > from the start, or not used at all. > > Tried twice back when

Re: LVM/btrfs - Was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:05:43 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 03:40:58PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > This ties in nicely with something I'm sitting here and wondering > > about right now. I'm preparing to upgrade my home server to Jessie &g

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:29:04 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Does this server take 2.5 megabyte pictures? I'll take them with my > Nikon L100 camera as I go. Thats the size of its usual jpeg output, > per picture. Gene, Please don't post a number of 2.5M pictures here if you can avoid it, even if

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:30:45 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > Not necessarily as easy as you might think. You'd need to be careful > to make sure that nothing got autostarted (or left running on logout) > which would try to access files under /home/*/ - and though I don't > know of anything offhand whi

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:39:46 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote: > > I vaguely recall fighting with the partitioning stage at one point > > in the past but I think the 7.7 netinst I tried recently was much > > improved. > > > > There might be one part

Jessie and /var

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume sizes about right when I first set them up. VM images and containers are stored under /var - is there anything else that systemd stores under /var that might take

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: debian 8

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 01:26:35 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:41:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? > >> > >> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" > >> interfa

Re: Jessie and /var

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:01:47 +0200 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Petter, > > On 04/04/15 09:23, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm > > RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume > > siz

LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
I've just finished setting up Jessie with mdadm and LVM, the latter of which I have never used before. /dev/md0 is a 1G mirror for /boot, no LVM there. /dev/md1 is a mirror, than consists of the major part of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - both 250G. There are also 4G swap partitions on sda and sdb, no R

Re: LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 13:56:33 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:48:32 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > I've just finished setting up Jessie with mdadm and LVM, the latter > > of which I have never used before. > > > > /dev/md0 is a

Re: LVM and mdadm

2015-04-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 15:09:20 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 13:04:16 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > root@fenris:~# vgdisplay -v > > DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed. > > Finding all volume groups > &

Re: Icedove stopped sending and receiving e-mail

2015-04-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 17:44:34 -0400 "Gary Dale" wrote: > I've just had a rather bad time with my Debian/Jessie AMD64 system. > I had to reset it yesterday after a hardware-related lockup (it > doesn't like my optical drive connected to an add-in PCIe SATA card - > usually freezes after writing an

Re: Jessie and /var

2015-04-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 16:35:02 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Petter Adsen wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with > > > > mdadm RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I

Re: add a remote login to the window login

2015-04-06 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 18:21:33 +0100 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I read in the features of lightdm > "Supports remote login (incoming - XDMCP, VNC, outgoing - XDMCP, > pluggable)." > > But I can't find where to configure it. > > > > > > > > *I want to enter from a local machine runni

Permissions on LVM logical volumes

2015-04-06 Thread Petter Adsen
How can I set group ownership of a logical volume to libvirt on Jessie? I assume systemd is now somehow involved, but I have no idea where to start looking. Any hints? Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive." pgp5r_dJ8IrYT.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
This might be a little off-topic, as it is not Debian-specific, but I hope those here with experience will bear with me. I was rummaging through a bunch of books I was given when I did some work for a book distributor, and found a few things that might be interesting. For a long time I've been me

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 23:00:46 +1000 Alexis wrote: > > Petter Adsen writes: > > > For a long time I've been meaning to learn more about regular > > expressions, and I found the following books: "Mastering Regular > > Expressions" and "Sed &

Re: free cloud

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:38:12 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > perspective. I don't feel comfortable with countries that openly > > cooperate with the intelligence services. > > As opposed to those who do it covertly, you mean? > > > Stefan "not funny" Not going into that one, but I mig

Re: Book questions

2015-04-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:32:38 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > For a long time I've been meaning to learn more about regular > > expressions, and I found the following books: "Mastering Regular > > Expressi

Re: debian 8

2015-04-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:46:36 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 10 April 2015 10:28:36 Curt wrote: > > There is something else to try: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key > > > I have occasionally tried that, (when I can remember it) has not > worked yet, for me, even with a wi

Re: Create Plugin or Applet for HDMI output

2015-04-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:48:04 +0400 Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have Debian Jessie with XFCE installed on my Dell inspiron 7537 > laptop. I often connect my laptop with my TV through HDMI. > Each time I have to go to Settings>Display and then select the TV > screen from there.

Re: free cloud

2015-04-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:56:59 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > Switzerland might be good, unfortunately I don't know of any cloud > > services there, but I'm sure there are. But if the NSA wants data > > stored on servers in Switzerland

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