Re: Password managers
On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > user-defined information for each login, and not store that > information > on the internet (and which is free as in beer)? > Take a look at 'secrets' which is a Gnome native app. It uses a database and key file compatible with Password Safe. -- john
Re: duplicate package
On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 16:56 -0800, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 08:50:01AM +0800, winnie hw wrote: > > When I ping from a debian system to a host destination, sometimes I > > get the > > duplicated package. What does this mean? > > I believe you mean "duplicate packet". > > One of the possible causes for that would be having two hosts with > the > same IP address on the same network. > It can also happen when there are two DHCP services active on the same network, like two routers serving DHCP requests which can cause duplicate IP's to be assigned. -- john
Re: How i do upgrade my operating system to Debian “buster”?
On Sat, 2021-01-09 at 13:26 -0800, William Torrez Corea wrote: > My version actually is Debian 4.19.146-1 (2020-09-17) x86_64 > GNU/Linux. > See this: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade -- john
Re: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data
On 2/14/2019 10:46 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Hi, Could you recommend affordable and reliable cloud storage for 50 TB of data? Here are some important factors to consider: 1. Personal/non-commercial use. 2. Must be affordable, since I am unemployed most of the time and have super low levels of income for the past 12 years since I graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2007. 3. Cloud storage provider must not be a fly-by-night company, that is, it will not suddenly close down the next day. Please advise. Thank you. Backblaze costs .005/GB/Month which would be about $250/Month for 50,000GB. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html -- john
Re: system stops
On 1/28/2019 11:08 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, it might be my day to be disagreeable, and I'm not the OP, nor (iirc) have I posted in this thread prior to this, but ... On Monday, January 28, 2019 01:41:41 PM John Darrah wrote: On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: Where is that documented? David Right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key I don't consider that documentation. You should read all of wikipedia before using a piece of software? Or some selection based on words you can remember / think of? (I guess I don't doubt that it is documented somewhere in something that I would consider documentation (like a man page associated with Linux or the specific app), but an entry in wikipedia is not documentation. Hmm, should I wait and rethink before posting this -- nah, even if I wait, at most I'll do something like add some musing just like this ;-) Is this better?: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/admin-guide/sysrq.html -- john
Re: system stops
On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of mouse can move, but nothing else, keyboard doesn't respond, even ctrl+alt+F1 , or F2, ... So the only thing todo is stop button. Install the package: openssh-server Configure your host and/or network so that you can log in over the network. Holding alt-sysrq (print screen key usually) and then typing RSEIUB may also restart the system but cleanly as in unmounting file systems etc. however I agree with the above option too. Where is that documented? David Right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key -- john
Re: need help with sftp
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:02:57AM -0700, Fred wrote: > Hi, > > On a new Sid installation I need to ftp some files to another computer on > the network. sftp appears to be the only ftp program available. The other > computers on the network do not use ssl so the ftp connection is refused > from both directions. One computer is using vsftp under Jessie. I don't > see any option that makes sftp just do plain ordinary ftp. Is this > hopeless? > apt install lftp -- john
Re: Calculator with "tapes"
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 09:59:10AM -0700, Ken Heard wrote: > Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of the tape > produced by mechanical machines to show the entire calculation. I find such > "tapes" essential when for example I am adding a long list of numbers and > need to check after the addition is done to verify that all the numbers were > entered correctly. > > Regards, Ken > I believe that "apcalc" is something you should look at. It has a nice command line history similar to using bash nd you can review your work by just typing "less .calc_history". -- john
Re: Editing a piped in stream?
On 7/8/2018 7:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Until this thread I didn't have concept of "stream editor", much less the existence of "sed". I had heard of "AWK", but had an image of it being a regex parser. Awk is easy to learn because it is a minimal language. It can do anything sed can do and much more. I am always surprised that so many people opt to build long commands with cut/sed instead of using awk. FWIW, I use mawk because it is orders of magnitude faster than gawk. -- john
Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation
On 7/7/2018 6:51 AM, Dave wrote: I wanted to know if this hibernation / waking issue can be solved by using more compatable motherboards, hardware, ect ... or is this issue prevelant regardless of the hardware and bios being used ? Hibernation issues are almost always an issue with the BIOS/Motherbord firmware... make sure your BIOS is up to date. -- john
Re: An Odd File Name
On 2/13/2017 9:09 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: gunzip InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz Just quote the filename like this: gunzip 'InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script.gz' -- john
Re: A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2duuid- ...
On 1/29/2017 7:38 PM, River Chiang wrote: A start job is running for dev-disk-by Try this link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/319382/a-start-job-is-running-for-dev-disk-by-x2duuid-error-take-1min-30s-to-boot-de -- john
Re: Samba help.
On 1/29/2017 11:25 AM, John Darrah wrote: On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote: I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba guest access to this box stopped working. I did not update smb.conf file any time before or after. I vaguely remember that there was a flash of notes flying by when samba was upgraded, but do not recall what it is. BTW, I can mount if I provide an actual valid user with password. Only guest access does not work. Linux host 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) i686 GNU/Linux Samba Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2 Guest access to the following share fails after the upgrade: [data] path = /data create mask = 0755 directory mask = 0755 public = yes browseable = yes writable = yes guest ok = yes If it is not too much trouble, please copy me your responses Thanks Ramesh Check to see that smb.conf was not replaced. If it was, the previous version will be called smb.conf.dpkg-dist or smb.conf.ucf-dist. You will have to compare them with your smb.conf file and merge any differences. -- john Also check the following in [global] settings: Change: map to guest = Bad User to: map to guest = nobody -- john
Re: Samba help.
On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote: I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba guest access to this box stopped working. I did not update smb.conf file any time before or after. I vaguely remember that there was a flash of notes flying by when samba was upgraded, but do not recall what it is. BTW, I can mount if I provide an actual valid user with password. Only guest access does not work. Linux host 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) i686 GNU/Linux Samba Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2 Guest access to the following share fails after the upgrade: [data] path = /data create mask = 0755 directory mask = 0755 public = yes browseable = yes writable = yes guest ok = yes If it is not too much trouble, please copy me your responses Thanks Ramesh Check to see that smb.conf was not replaced. If it was, the previous version will be called smb.conf.dpkg-dist or smb.conf.ucf-dist. You will have to compare them with your smb.conf file and merge any differences. -- john
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved.
On 1/15/2017 3:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: And any drive thats 10 years old & maybe even some newer ones are desperately in need of being pulled out, and any covers that are blocking good access to the carriage drive screw, need to be uncovered for a serious cleaning with alcohol or even acetone so that no debris or solidified grease can be found on the screw, followed by a pebble of lithium chassis grease worked back into the groove of the screw. Put it back together & back into the computer. It the q-tip isn't too dirty, wipe a thin film of grease on the rails the head carriage slides on, but more likely it would get a fresh & some clean grease. It might work another for another ten years! Cheers, Gene Heskett Just curious if you looked at the 'ufiformat' command. -- john
