Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Alessandro Baggi
On 02/11/19 20:24, Konstantin Nebel wrote: Hi, this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and already after a couple days I do not know how I lived without it. So why Raspberrypi. In the past I

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 11:06:26PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That will depend on whether apache is compiled with tcpwrappers (that's > the library implementing the hosts.{allow,deny} policies). I don't > know whether Debian's distribution does that (perhaps others will). It's not. arc3:~$

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 06:46:25PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I'll make sure its installed. Right now. But that is a problem: > root@coyote:etc$ apt install tcpwrappers ... no, Gene. TCP wrappers is a *library*, and its package name in Debian is libwrap0. wooledg:~$ apt-cache search tcp wrappe

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I'll respond on the issue of triggering the backup, rather than the specific backup software itself, because my solution for triggering is separate from the backup software I use (rdiff-backup). I trigger (some) backup jobs via systemd units, that are triggered by the insertion of my removeable

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 02:47:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Just 4 or 5 days ago, I had to recover the linuxcnc configs from a backup of the pi3, making a scratch dir here at home, then scanned my database for the last level0 of the pi3b, pulled that out with amrecover then copied what I needed

Re: neovim and less

2019-11-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 02:27:19PM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote: Issuing a ex command like :! perldoc -f close or :! cat some_file | less brings me directly to the end of the file output, leaving me with the nvim message: Press ENTER or type command to continue requiring me to navigat

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 November 2019 08:45:42 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 11:06:26PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That will depend on whether apache is compiled with tcpwrappers > > (that's the library implementing the hosts.{allow,deny} policies). I > > don't know whether Debian's

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Does apache2 have its own module that would prevent its responding to an > ipv4 address presented in a .conf file as "xx.xx.xx.xx/24" format? Well, looking at your larger issue, you might find it more useful to block these bots based

Re: Want to install info node for elisp in emacs on stretch

2019-11-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 oct 19, 17:10:49, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I will keep my oar out of the water about the complex beast, but since > i'm in oldstable, does that mean i need to upgrade before too long? > (I've been using debian 9 since February 2017.) If your expectation is to receive security updates from

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 04 November 2019 08:45:42 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 11:06:26PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That will depend on whether apache is compiled with tcpwrappers > > > (that's the library implement

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread deloptes
Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Borg seems very promising but I performs only push request at the moment > and I need pull request. It offers deduplication, encryption and much > more. > > One word on deduplication: it is a great feature to save space, with > deduplication compression ops (that could r

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 November 2019 08:50:20 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 06:46:25PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'll make sure its installed. Right now. But that is a problem: > > root@coyote:etc$ apt install tcpwrappers > > ... no, Gene. > > TCP wrappers is a *library*, and its packa

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:44:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > If its not built to use libwrap0, then I assume it has its own module to > similarly restrict its response to a specified incoming source address? > > And it is? See above :) Much more flexible than tcpwrappers. And once yo

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Linux-Fan
deloptes writes: Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Borg seems very promising but I performs only push request at the moment > and I need pull request. It offers deduplication, encryption and much > more. > > One word on deduplication: it is a great feature to save space, with > deduplication compressio

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-04 Thread Linux-Fan
David writes: On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the desktop. Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever output you get will depend on whatever environm

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Alessandro Baggi
On 04/11/19 15:41, deloptes wrote: Not sure if true - for example you make daily, weekly and monthly backups (classical) Lets focus on the daily part. On day 3 the files is broken. You have to recover from day 2. The file is not broken for day 2 - correct?! If I'm not wrong deduplication "is a

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019, Konstantin Nebel wrote: > So now I am thinking. How should I approach backups. On windows it does > magically backups and remind me when they didnt run for a while. I like that > attitude. (...) > I like to turn off > my computer at night. So a backup running in night is not

Re: MP30-AR0 arm64 sdcard slot not detected

2019-11-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 oct 19, 18:18:13, Michael Howard wrote: > I've just re-installed debian (stretch) on the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 board using > the installer netinst iso (any later install images fail) and the sdcard > slot is not showing up. The kernel is vmlinuz-4.9.0-11-arm64 and I have also > rebuilt it ens

Re: [SOLVED] Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-11-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 oct 19, 18:02:12, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > leaves sysvinit-core in place. I double-checked (with apt -s and capturing > the output). I browsed a little bit through firefox-esr's dependencies with aptitude, but couldn't find a dependency chain to systemd-sysv. Could you post that ou

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 November 2019 09:29:48 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Does apache2 have its own module that would prevent its responding > > to an ipv4 address presented in a .conf file as "xx.xx.xx.xx/24" > > format? > > Well, looking at your

Re: Easiest Way to forward an email Message from Linux to a Mac

2019-11-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Bob Weber writes: > Why not create a user on the Linux box to receive such emails and have the > MAC client connect to that user on the Linux box. You might have to > install a pop server (popa3d ... easiest to install and configure) or imac > server (dovecot-imapd ... harder to configure and pro

Re: Easiest Way to forward an email Message from Linux to a Mac

2019-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 12:06:44PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Then the wheels flew off: > > Err:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster/main i386 dovecot-core i386 > 1:2.3.4 > .1-5 > 404 Not Found [IP: 208.80.154.15 80] Either you didn't run "apt-get update" first, or your mirror is ou

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread deloptes
Alessandro Baggi wrote: > If I'm not wrong deduplication "is a technique for eliminating duplicate > copies of repeating data". > > I'm not a borg expert and it performs deduplication on data chunk. > > Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup a > chunk is deduped and r

Re: Easiest Way to forward an email Message from Linux to a Mac

2019-11-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Wooledge writes: > Either you didn't run "apt-get update" first, or your mirror is out of > sync. The current version of dovecot-core in buster is > 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u1. Thank you. It was the former. I failed to run apt-get update but I didn't just forget. Ever since I upgraded

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:01:54 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > > These days I use rsync with the --link-dest option to make > > complete Time-Machine(tm) style backups using hardlinks to > > avoid file duplication in the common case. In this > > scenario,

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:01:54 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > These days I use rsync with the --link-dest option to make > complete Time-Machine(tm) style backups using hardlinks to > avoid file duplication in the common case. In this > scenario, the top-level directory is typically named based > on date

Re: Cannot open Chromium browser in same workspace (from which it was launched)

2019-11-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/3/19, Vipul wrote: > Hi, > > I'm facing an issue with **Chromium** web browser (Debian's official > build). Chromium browser isn't opening in same workspace (workspace from > which I launched it). It always opens in workspace in which its last > window was closed, no matter whether that work

installed nginx, now what? Need srartup tut, nginx site won't let me download any docs.

2019-11-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I guess the subject says it all. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: installed nginx, now what? Need srartup tut, nginx site won't let me download any docs.

2019-11-04 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 Nov 2019 at 16:14:17 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I guess the subject says it all. Any other user submitting a mail like this to the list would be slated. And quite correctly. As usual, you've cocked up somewhere. -- Brian.

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-04 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 12:48:00PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 04 November 2019 09:29:48 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > And that looks like nginx is a lot easier to program than apache2. Nearly anything is -- except pe

Re: [SOLVED] Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-11-04 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 07:04:34PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 oct 19, 18:02:12, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > leaves sysvinit-core in place. I double-checked (with apt -s and capturing > > the output). > > I browsed a little bit through firefox-esr's dependencies with aptitude, >

auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) seems not to be a good solution for such messages. What is a decent, simple GUI client which I can point at my maildir structure to read such messages and b

Re: neovim and less

2019-11-04 Thread R Ransbottom
Hi Jonathan, I was more on the path of confirming a bug. I got the same behavior on vim and vim-nox on gnome terminal and the console tty. Updating everything updateable and finally rebooting fixed it. So I suspect some kernel issue, but I don't know. For all my efforts, I am no wiser just ha

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:22:58 > From: Russell L. Harris > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: auxiliary mail client for HTML > Resent-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:43:57 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Several times a

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:46:14PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: urlscan and a macro to bring urlscan up once a link got highlighted would help if you still want to use mutt or neomutt. I am using urlscan. I would be happy to forward to you one or two sample messages; each has a dozen links, and

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:04:57 > From: Russell L. Harris > To: Jude DaShiell > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML > Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 03:51:38 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debia

Re: Want to install info node for elisp in emacs on stretch

2019-11-04 Thread Dan Hitt
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 6:31 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 15 oct 19, 17:10:49, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > > I will keep my oar out of the water about the complex beast, but since > > i'm in oldstable, does that mean i need to upgrade before too long? > > (I've been using debian 9 since February 20

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Rousell
On 05/11/2019 03:04, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I installed Thunderbird -- what a huge truck-load of stuff! But the > configuration wizard would not allow me simply to point Thunderbird to > the maildir to which getmail delivers incoming messages. Thunderbird has *experimental* maildir (actually

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 04:10:17AM +, Mark Rousell wrote: Set up a local IMAP server instead? :-) I found a HOWTO: https://www.linux.com/news/how-build-local-imap-server/ but I have not read though it. Is it necessary to route all my mail through the local IMAP server? Mail with getmail an

Re: raspberry pi installation with debian installer

2019-11-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
basti dijo [Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 09:58:11PM +0100]: > Hello Mailinglist, > Hello Gunnar, Hi, and thanks for the explicit mention :-] > I get the debian installer running on my rpi3. > This post is just to inform about the general possibility and for > documentation propose on debian wiki. OK, th

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Rousell
Before I go on, I should say that this is now an area with which I am not overly familiar in detail. I know Thunderbird very well but I am not familiar in detail with getmail, Dovecot or maildir structures. However, I know the principles and I'll do my best to reply usefully below. On 05/11/2019 0

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:22:58 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. > > What is a decent, simple GUI clie

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread darb
* Russell L. Harris wrote: > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. > > What is a decent, simple GUI client which I can point at my maildir >

Re: can not update/upgrade Debian 10 when using apt-cacher-ng

2019-11-04 Thread john doe
On 10/29/2019 4:10 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 03:58:04PM +0100, john doe wrote: >> On 10/29/2019 2:01 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:36:35PM +0100, john doe wrote: On 10/29/2019 12:50 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:30:10AM +, Mark Rousell wrote: Before I go on, I should say that this is now an area with which I am not overly familiar in detail. I know Thunderbird very well but I am not familiar in detail with getmail, Dovecot or maildir structures. No problem; I know getmail

Re: raspberry pi installation with debian installer

2019-11-04 Thread Florian La Roche
Hello, Am Di., 5. Nov. 2019 um 06:20 Uhr schrieb Gunnar Wolf : > OK, this is quite exciting news! It's great to see the Raspberries > being closer to a first-tier architecture in Debian. TBH, I believe > for almost all RPi users it will be easier to use the installed images > — But yes, I can perf

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Rousell
On 05/11/2019 05:57, Russell L. Harris wrote: > For some reason which I do not immediately recall, I chose POP3 over > IMAP the last time I had the option. That would make sense. POP3 is best for when you want to download everything for local processing, as you are doing. IMAP makes more sense wh