where I can't
access the time shift files on /timeshift I'm in deep trouble. I just
re-install. / has only system files on it. /home/keith is sym-linked
from another partition.
In any case, copying /timeshift from your system OR your first backup
drive should be trivial for rsync.
have found that
rsync -avHb --remove-source-files dir /mnt/disk/newdir
moves files in one process. If it is interupted, re-running will simply
pick up where it was halted.
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more that I am missing?
Tim
Thanks for the link to Gunnar's image. My next project, well maybe the
one after. Thanks
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Good afternoon Kaz
I suggest you install mate-terminal and try from that. If that works,
compare the preferences and check out a few options that I've not found in
gnome-terminal, like auto copy highlighted text to clipboard.
I don't recall trying to copy into win10, so I can't answer that
specif
than the panel and making that look how I
want is pretty easy in Mate. My tastes are simple so I go for a solid
colour.
But from memory, you can have a background image.
Desktop and log in screen are an image I choose outside of Mint.
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ing fine with one mod
to he original sources list, uncommenting this line:
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
Since I didn't know that Buster was not yet in LTS, and that there are
no changes needed, I thought I should ask first in case there were
repo changes.
Thanks for your comments.
Keith
ss.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
=LISTING END
Keith
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:31 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:25:35AM -0700, Keith Christian wrote:
> > My first search brought me to wiki.debian.org, where I landed on the
> > /LTS/Using page, but it contained no Buster-specific instructions.
&
I plan to bring a Buster machine which has been shut down for quite a
while online again.
Before connecting it to the internet, I looked for instructions on how
to add the LTS security updates entries to sources.list.
My first search brought me to wiki.debian.org, where I landed on the
/LTS/Using
ork controllers
I've used b43 firmware in the past and it worked; but that macbook died
about 5 years ago, so no recent knowledge
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in / would this do what you want
cd /dir1
mv dirA /
cd /dir2
mv dir* /
I'd suggest you would be safer doing this in mc (a cli file manager) so
you can see where you are sending the files
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On 31/12/21 12:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, December 30, 2021 11:33:03 AM Julius Hamilton wrote:
Yes, it’s fishy and nonsensical, I encourage you not to interact with it.
Google would never intentionally send an email like that.
+1
Who would subscribe with a 'noreply' type a
One could run 'tcpdump' or a while loop logging the output of 'netstat -an'
to a file for the duration of the interaction with the Debian servers,
then, examine the file afterward.
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 04:37 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Free(dom) Software was never meant to exclude comercial use or
> developers earning a living (or a fortune) from it.
>
>
> Agreed,.Andrei!
>
>
On 6/12/21 13:15, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
On 6/12/21 06:56, David Christensen wrote:
On Debian 9 (and 10, and earlier?) with Xfce Terminal, when I select
an entire line of text in one terminal and then middle click paste in
another terminal window, the entire line is pasted; including the
copy text on highlight option in preferences.
As I recall, right click in xterm to get preferences.
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On 4/12/21 13:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:30:52PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
netinst is cli only
... what? NO!
try
sudo tasksel
and choose desktop options. xfce is listed
The netinst image contains the same installer as the full DVD-1 image
does.
Good
Good morning Kenneth
netinst is cli only
try
sudo tasksel
and choose desktop options. xfce is listed
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On 4/12/21 10:44, Kenneth Parker wrote:
When reading about changes to Bookworm (i.e. Enforcement of usrmerge), I
rrors/debian-cdimage/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/
Good afternoon lou
I often download files larger than 2G with wget
Have you tried the debian download site?
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. You
may not want that situation
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:57:23 +0100 steve wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have an external ssd with two partitions. One is for Windows and the
>>other one is an ext4 partitio
inux 5.14 for 64-bit PCs
(signed)
# apt-get -y install --install-recommends -t bullseye-backports
(maybe???) linux-image-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64from my list of available
images
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n the 'noauto' amongst the uid= gid= options
Are you sure it should be first item in the entry?
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on't be able to switch to root using su in future?
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rootpw
to /etc/sudoers.
You should need a fresh terminal to test this.
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On 17/10/21 00:33, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 03:00:28PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
On 15/10/21 00:14, Greg Wooledge wrote:
If for some reason you've forgotten the root password that you used
during installation, or you've lost your membership in the sudo g
stem read/write, run the "passwd root" command
to set a new root password, and then reboot again.
Good afternoon
My experience is that if you chose a root passwd at installation, sudo
is NOT installed.
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find a solution by adjusting settings, try starting your
config again
delet: .config/xfce4/
You'll be asked if you want a new default set up
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96:00 06CB:CD50 Touchpad"
Any suggestions on how I could get the mouse to not freeze randomly?
Thanks in advance,
John
Good mrning
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t/software/wine/?platform=linux
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ktop environment and the desktop/s you prefer. Web
server and/or ssh server as you wish
Reboot and you should get the desktop login screen you chose
It'll be 12 hours before I see your results. It's 21:15 here
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-F1 to get back to the menu.
As you are working within virtualbox. that would ctrl-f2 and ctrl-f1.
ctrl-alt-f2 would take you to the host terminal
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Good afternoon
Have you considered backports?
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On 26/9/21 13:30, Martin McCormick wrote:
So, what is the easiest route to end up with a kernel that has
this patch in it?
The image for the current kernel is
image,
but I'm sure it works in my extracted .tar.gz version
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27;s been a couple of
years.
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uffice?
> I think we can assume that Debian users will be able to recognise
> the name of their own language in English.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
Very good
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ere,
> e.g go through the list of languages in alphabetic order, or
> something like that ;)
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
Or supply the link to the list of alternate languages - to save having
to check/update the template email every month
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your USB.
My other suggestion: is there a boot flag on the USB somewhere, perhaps
the efi partition?
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On 31/8/21 05:09, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Console font can be configured with
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
Thanks Andrei
Frankly, I was almost up to asking this myself.
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, including the output from the process
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ter: Forbidden
is this normal behavior? I do want to add another printer
Have you (username) joined lpadmin (group)?
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 10:58 Georgios wrote:
> Hi!
> I upgraded from debian 10 to debian 11 today and I noticed that a gnome
> extension I really liked dont work on the latest gnome.
>
George,
See:
https://github.com/passingthru67/workspaces-to-dock
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wifi is working
much better than ever with the 5.11 kernel
I sat listening to Keith Packard at linux.conf.au 2016, quite impressed
with his support for OSS in general. Pity about this wifi card in his
laptop. And no, I don't know model details. It was pretty cheap.
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:57:46 +0200
wrote:
> What I'm not sure is whether the whitespace between the '%' and
> the 'sudo' is relevant. My /etc/sudoers hasn't that.
Mine is the same - no space = %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
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On 7/8/21 17:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Then: why didn't*you* change the Subject: line in your reply?
Your topic changed radically, so... please do
Only because there was something of a who-ha when people do change
topics in stead of starting afresh.
Next time.
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on I go looking at a forum, I am fussy which
topics I open. Some I clearly won't know the answer; some are not
inviting enough to tempt me. I find it harder to flick email as easily
as I skip a forum topic.
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On 7/8/21 02:34, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
Maybe ask on a Fedora mailing list / support group / stack overflow ?
In reality, perhaps we should have left this thread here?
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On 7/8/21 08:58, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Not "you're wrong", but "you can't prove it".
To me, that's a tacit ADMISSION of guilt.
Ah I see another avid watcher of Police drama speaking here
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about
creating a bootable usb
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On 4/8/21 10:03, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
a Master Password. What is it, and where is it, and should I need it?
go: edit|preferences|privacy& Security
and on my screen 'Passwords' is close to the bottom before you start
scrolling
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On 29/7/21 02:30, Dan Ritter wrote:
and mount where you will.
G'day Gene
I make back-up disks at fstab options
noauto,noexec
and mount/unmount as part of the cron script. makes them 'less visible'
to an uninvited visitor.
Also, I run the back-up as root
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instala automaticamente o firefox e o mesmo acontede ao desistalar o
firefox. Como resolver isso? Obrigado.
Good Morning Andre
Could you please explain the process you used.
Are you using pure Debian or an alternate, like MX or lmde
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Good Morning Gunnar
The boot command requires a mount point, but I'm never sure how to do
this well outside of file manager
In any case, if you're confident that the USB was correctly written,
just try booting to it
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x27;t know why claws hasn't marked the quoted text properly.
Suggestion?
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ady to install? I do that much via cron.
Or did the original question imply that the background operation is
also installing the new packages? That I would want stopped, and is
probably why I have not investigated auto upgrades.
Maybe I'm missing something else.
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Running Bullseye with XFCE. light-locker is running.
When the PC is locked, by default it is the username field that has focus
rather than the password field. Most screen lockers focus on the password
field. If I just start typing my password, it appears in the username
field and is in plain text
I have set the compose key (settings, keyboard, Layout tab) to Right Ctrl,
but it has no effect. Tried a couple of other keys too.
Same setup worked on Buster without problem (this is a new install, not an
upgrade). Am I missing something obvious, or is this a bug in Bullseye?
Looking on the www, some people recommend using apt-get -y upgrade or
apt-get -y install to avoid the following message:
"NNN packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list
--upgradable' to see them."
Is "apt" unable to perform an "upgrade," or am I missing a command
line option (e.g
Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1 https://www.debian.org/
debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Adam D. Barratt
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My 2 cents worth, Deb10 with either Mate or xfce desktop. KDE/plasma is great,
but I find it slow to load on i7 with 8G ram and add. It has more config
options, but I've gotten over that. Oh, I don't boot often, but I've grown
impatient.
As I said, my 2 cent
On 3/3/21 07:31, Brian wrote:
Just write the ISO there with dd
+1 I proved my back-up worked one day by dd of=/dev/sda maybe
ignore cp in this scenario, PLEASE.
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onnected to the net.
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On 3/3/21 07:31, Brian wrote:
Just write the ISO there with dd
+1 I proved my back-up worked one day by dd of=sda
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and a
re-install isn't much of a waste of effort.
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On 8/2/21 19:40, Marco Möller wrote:
After starting the system, I get a request for the user's password.
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:23:01 +0200
Anssi Saari wrote:
> Keith Bainbridge writes:
>
> > On 25/1/21 7:41 am, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> >> Is anybody still using MH mailboxes?
> >
> > I think that means each mail in its own file? If so YES, because if
> >
over the last year
Seriously, am I a pessimist? Or am I just taking the maxim about 2 kinds
of drives - the ones that have failed and the drives that are going to
fail - too seriously.
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I'll just add that if you make this change, run
source .profile
to activate it.
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2506547212G 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
Before OP installs the new drive, hadn't we better sort out the claimed
fstab. I think it is output from fdisk, but if grub is looking for sda1
to boot from and the new disk is assigned /dev/sda, he won't boot.
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renamed to `sdb`.
Stefan
YES
This has happened to me. I suspect because the system recognises the
conventional drive before the m.2, but not positive.
I had to set the m.2 as the boot in cmos. And remove the conventional
drive when I want to install a new OS.
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I was not offered to set a root passwd during the last 2 Buster installs I
did. Admittedly, with mateDE and MAYBE that makes a difference. Who's going
to try it to prove the point? It'll be several days before I can. Will do if I
don't see somebody beat me to it.
K
Deloptes, Joe,
SUCCESS. Thanks for all the help.
Keith
need a differently-named account with
> all privileges, including GRANT.
Joe,
Thanks for the GRANT hint and the reminder to configure users in a
terminal as root.
No phpmyadmin in use here, I'm using the terminal for everything, same
as in my $realjob.
Appreciate the reply, I'll try this new info from you and Deloptes and
see how it goes.
Keith
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:01 AM deloptes wrote:
>
> Keith Christian wrote:
> When installed in Debian it does not have password (AFAIR). It is sufficient
> to execute "mysql -u root -p" and press ENTER to log in. You then change
> the password.
> Regarding --skip-g
I start out with:
sudo apt -y install mediawiki
and it installs all packages including mariadb without problems.
Then, when starting to configure mediawiki with the web page, a
database has to be created along with a db user for mediawiki's use:
http://localhost/mediawiki/mw-config/index
It's pretty simple. AFTER you have tested your root password
add
Defaultsrootpw
to /etc/sudoers
The result:
keith@asus3 Sat12Dec2020@22:49:38 :~$ sudo nano /etc/sudoers
[sudo] password for root: ***
You'll understand that root password must be working BEFORE you amend
/etc/s
salvage a virtual machine
for which I had lost access to my non-root account. You'd better have
the root password around.
AND run sudo as root, for additional safety
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te sun is shining I
a clear sky. It can only get better. Ah, I've got only 3 family
birthdays between now and Christmas.
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d the tech people hopped in on 1
query I had.
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On 12/12/20 10:01 am, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
On 12/12/20 6:24 am, deloptes wrote:
I heard it would work with some 5+ kernel from debian. My experience with
the RPi4B was negative, because of the kernel (4.19) in buster. I
ended up
using the Raspberry Kernel in Debian.
My almost stock raspiOS
5.4 around
3 months ago, maybe earlier. It only really came to notice when our
local importer questioned my sanity in trying kernel 5.4
Must say I haven't had success with DebianPiOS. Must try it again if
people are saying it is working for them.
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i and make sure user pi has a strong password. Having
user pi available is likely the prime target of any attack, simply
because it used have a default.
Once you start logging in as paul, you'll find that automount USB item
go to /media/paul.
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-to-use-your-phone-as-a-webcam-on-windows-linux-and-macos/
AFAICT these are all proprietary software, so I wouldn't recommend them.
Stefan
Thanks Stefan for the update
Hoping I'm not duplicating - but better than not saying thanks, huh.
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 20:37 Dan Hitt wrote:
> One of the local government agencies that i would like to interact with
> communicates using Microsoft Team. The software actually has a debian
> package, which i have downloaded, but not installed yet.
>
> I have a computer running debian 10.3, but i
://www.bytesin.com/how-to-use-your-phone-as-a-webcam-on-windows-linux-and-macos/
I've put that off for weeks now, but will HAVE to do it early new year.
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e debugging/tuning process.
Then, run this command line to test:
# fail2ban-regex --print-all-matched
/tmp/access_log.2020-12-03-00_00_00 /tmp/apache-200.conf
See what this produces.
That should help you get started.
Keith
do loose something. Will I get to leaving nothing
out there?
Can you point me to a simple how-to, please. As I said to another
response, a good URI is an excellent answer.
Next, what is the most efficient way to search 20,000 plus files for a
string of text, especially when the string may om
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:19:16 +0200 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
>>> On Lu, 23 nov 20, 14:27:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>>> > So does htis get a new subject in the list?
>>> >
>>> > Good afternon All
>>> >
>>> > I was interested to
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 23:34:56 -0600 David Wright
wrote:
>>> On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 14:27:36 (+1100), Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>>> > So does htis get a new subject in the list?
Interesting. I'll try it next time I want to use a comment from one
thread as a separate top
7;Get Messages' doesn't
work anymore.
Does anyone know about this issue? Any hints to solve it? I could try a
different pop3 server?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Flo
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?
Would it save me from my fairly regular 'can't find profile' errors?
Thanks
PS Am I wrong to avoid 'everyting in 1 file' where possible (mail dir
rather than mbox in this case)? OK this is probably a whole separate topic.
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done?
Any clue will be greatly appreciated
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nstalling Mint 20 on that same machine, so
maybe there is a deeper problem. We've been meeting on-line most of the
year, so haven't been able to get hands-on help.
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+111
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On 18/11/20 9:51 am, ellanios82 wrote:
: just my prefs. : do much prefer mail-lists over forums : in
general :)
e due to visit RI shortly.
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look interesting, but I haven't tried them yet.
The thoughts about when/why back up are more food for thought.
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clean instead of from the /home/user files you had before reboot; and
with them your wifi settings. Is /home on a separate partition? If so,
did that partition mount properly?
Have you lost any other config type files following reboot?
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d=281
and choose the download point closest to you.
There are several how-to's here
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
including how to create an installer USB etc.
I have found mint easier than straight ubuntu for a long time now.
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lable from the website. As it hasn't been added
to buster, perhaps somebody at Oracle can help you?
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