Re: df -h shows insufficient precision

2018-08-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 03:04:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:38:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:25:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > A regular itchy annoyance for years now: > > > > > > df shows bytes, df -h shows only on

Re: df -h shows insufficient precision

2018-08-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:38:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:25:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > A regular itchy annoyance for years now: > > > > df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a > > 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, bu

Re: Re: Re: DHCP to static without reboot?

2018-08-25 Thread Mark Pavlichuk
If I use a completely vanilla freshly installed VM (on VirtualBox)...  LXDE, but otherwise standard options: Even a simple "ifdown " with no configuration changes gives inconsistent results.  Three different results so far: 1) Sometimes it SEEMS like it releases the DHCP address, and complete

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster [RESOLVED]

2018-08-25 Thread Gary Dale
I've been back in Plasma 5 for a couple of days now. I think it was a kernel update that did the trick. On 2018-08-06 03:03 PM, Gary Dale wrote: When I rebooted my computer (AMD64/Buster) yesterday, I couldn't get Plasma to operate. After logging with sddm, the computer locked up hard (wouldn

Re: df -h shows insufficient precision

2018-08-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:25:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > A regular itchy annoyance for years now: > > df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a > 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, but that resolution/ precision > is insufficient. Of course I can fire up bc, se

df -h shows insufficient precision

2018-08-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
A regular itchy annoyance for years now: df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, but that resolution/ precision is insufficient. Of course I can fire up bc, set scale=20 and do some powers of 1024 division, but that's all very clunky.

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

2018-08-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
> I feel like we are missing a trick here. Even with a relatively slow I/O > device (I was faintly amused to see SSD in the list of relatively slow > devices, if SSD is slow what is fast?) it should eventually catch up > UNLESS something is generating an insane amount of I/O over a sustained > peri

Re: question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2018 14:15:38 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 01:49:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Aug 25 12:11:35 coyote spamd[4707]: prefork: child states: II > > > > > > > > Several hundred a day... > > > > > > Try this: > > > > > > cat > /etc/rsyslog.d/spamd.

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-25 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > Or are you talking about some type of "shared channel" of which I have > no knowledge? Cable providers may have a great many customers on a single cable with large (but limited) bandwidth. Some rural providers may have limited backhaul bandwidth. They make promises to customers b

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 19:16:35 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > For marketing reasons they like to advertise very high bandwidth, beyond > > what they can actually support on shared channels, and then block > > potentially high-bandwidth services that most of their customers will > > neve

Re: question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 01:49:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Aug 25 12:11:35 coyote spamd[4707]: prefork: child states: II > > > > > > Several hundred a day... > > > > Try this: > > > > cat > /etc/rsyslog.d/spamd.conf << EOF > > > > :syslogtag, startswith, "spamd" /var/log/spamd

Re: question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2018 13:08:29 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:16:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 25 August 2018 12:12:09 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:27:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > This is expanding the sysl

Re: question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2018 13:08:29 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:16:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 25 August 2018 12:12:09 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:27:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > This is expanding the sysl

Re: question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:16:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 August 2018 12:12:09 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:27:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > This is expanding the syslog to the point of drowning out any real > > > actionable

Re: question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2018 12:12:09 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:27:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This is expanding the syslog to the point of drowning out any real > > actionable messages. > > > > I think it used to have a log of its own. How, it this continues > >

Re: question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:27:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This is expanding the syslog to the point of drowning out any real > actionable messages. > > I think it used to have a log of its own. How, it this continues once > stretch is up and running, can we put those spamd mes

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 06:07:01PM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 August 2018 04:29 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 09:42:31AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing fr

question on spamd logging

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; 32 bit wheezy on 64 bit hardware here, for about 4 or 5 days yet as I have stuff to install stretch on a fedex truck someplace between the left coast and north central WV. Ever since the main log being switched from /v/l/messages to /v/l/syslog, this syslog is getting spammed by

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/25/2018 07:18 AM, John Hasler wrote: Richard writes: I am subscribed to 17 mailing lists and follow 22 USENET groups. The providers that block NNTP are concerned about binary groups (which they most likely believe to be the only kind that exist). Yes. I was just trying to give a data

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
On Saturday 25 August 2018 04:29 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 09:42:31AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: Hi, I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I found out that the I hav

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-25 Thread John Hasler
Richard writes: > I am subscribed to 17 mailing lists and follow 22 USENET groups. The providers that block NNTP are concerned about binary groups (which they most likely believe to be the only kind that exist). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread dekkzz78
On 08/25, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 25, 2018, at 1:15 AM, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2018 01:17 PM, Dekks Herton wrote: Subhadip Ghosh writes: Hi, I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooti

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 09:42:31AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > Hi, > > I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my Debian > system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I found out that > the I have a swap partition with priority set to -2.

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/24/2018 06:08 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 16:18:40 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: The Wanderer writes: If the user chooses a provider which carries those groups, and chooses to subscribe to one or more of them, then surely that is what that user is choosing to do with the b

Re: DHCP to static without reboot?

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2018 06:02:20 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 August 2018 04:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 03:54:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I've experienced that on a armbian install on a rock64, it takes > > > sometimes 2 or 3 po

Re: DHCP to static without reboot?

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2018 04:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 03:54:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I've experienced that on a armbian install on a rock64, it takes > > sometimes 2 or 3 powerdown recycles to make a change in e-n-i.d/name > > of interface to

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 25, 2018, at 1:15 AM, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > > On Saturday 25 August 2018 01:17 PM, Dekks Herton wrote: >> Subhadip Ghosh writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my >>> Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the

Re: DHCP to static without reboot?

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2018 04:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 03:54:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I've experienced that on a armbian install on a rock64, it takes > > sometimes 2 or 3 powerdown recycles to make a change in e-n-i.d/name > > of interface to

Re: DHCP to static without reboot?

2018-08-25 Thread tomas
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 03:54:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I've experienced that on a armbian install on a rock64, it takes > sometimes 2 or 3 powerdown recycles to make a change in e-n-i.d/name of > interface to stick [...] That sounds a bit like Voodoo. But then, there's Clarke's

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
On Saturday 25 August 2018 01:17 PM, Dekks Herton wrote: Subhadip Ghosh writes: Hi, I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I found out that the I have a swap partition with priority set to -2. B

Re: DHCP to static without reboot?

2018-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 August 2018 23:33:49 Mark Pavlichuk wrote: > ifdown doesn't seem to work.  It seems to complete successfully with > messages about a released DHCP address, but ifconfig shows the > interface is still up, a ping will be returned etc...  Though if I try > another ifdown it will say the

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 24 Aug 2018 at 21:06, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:45:00PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> On Friday, 24 Aug 2018 at 20:15, Reco wrote: >> > -INT_MAX. I win. >> >> -1 (wraps around so = INT_MAX) and I win! > > Damn. Should've seen this. Will use long int next tim

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Dekks Herton
Subhadip Ghosh writes: > Hi, > > I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my > Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I > found out that the I have a swap partition with priority set to > -2. But according to the below manpage: > > https://manp