Re: portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-12 Thread Fabrice Bauzac
Hello, 12 sept. 2020 14:09:14 Dan Ritter : > John Conover wrote: >> >> Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? >> > Yes and no. If you want to know that machines are scanning > ports, yes. If you want to effectively block IPs, no. Why would it not be able to block ip

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-12 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sorry not to have sent to the list. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, September 12, 2020 10:39 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: > According tohttps://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin, > the weat

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread rhkramer
Thank you! (Nothing new below this line.) On Saturday, September 12, 2020 06:14:33 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > > within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:26:27 + ghe2001 wrote: > I have 2 computers running Debian/xfce4, and the WR widget says "? No > Data" on both of them. > > I've set it to several locations, and WR finds the locations just > fine. It just can't get the weather data. According to https://docs.xfce.or

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-12 12:14, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). Why do you want a file system inside a file?

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-09-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:32:58 > From: Greg Wooledge > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment > Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:33:17 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I wr

xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-12 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Debian Buster, apt says everything's up to date Did xfce4's Weather Report go away? I have 2 computers running Debian/xfce4, and the WR widget says "? No Data" on both of them. I've set it to several locations, and WR finds the locations just fi

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-12 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On 11/09/2020 01.40, Michael Morgan wrote: I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during installation. Later I decided to remove

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-09-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 04:28:46PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Some package you are trying to install must either depend on that package or recommend it. Try installing that package with --no-install-recommends. The entire purpose of that package is to prevent the installation of other packages

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Some package you are trying to install must either depend on that package or recommend it. Try installing that package with --no-install-recommends. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-09-12 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Stefan. On 12/09/2020 17.30, Stefan Monnier wrote: APT keeps wanting to install `sse2-support` on my dear Thinkpad X30, but that machine's CPU does not support SSE2, so the package's installation always fails. How can I tell APT that it shouldn't *try* to install `sse2-support`? I tried to

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-09-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > APT keeps wanting to install `sse2-support` on my dear Thinkpad X30, but > that machine's CPU does not support SSE2, so the package's installation > always fails. > > How can I tell APT that it shouldn't *try* to install `sse2-support`? > > I tried to put a "hold" on the

How do I blacklist a package?

2020-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
APT keeps wanting to install `sse2-support` on my dear Thinkpad X30, but that machine's CPU does not support SSE2, so the package's installation always fails. How can I tell APT that it shouldn't *try* to install `sse2-support`? I tried to put a "hold" on the package with echo "sse2-support"

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 13:47:04 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 19:19:50 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > > On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS > filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a > few reasons). Why do you want a file system inside a file? The only reason I can think of to do tha

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 19:19:50 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > > On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Vi, 11 sep 2

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread Bob Weber
On 9/12/20 12:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I wr

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 19:19:50 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06,

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > > > > > I've also been bitten by this. I

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > > > > > > > I've also been bitten by this. I think it is a UI issue,

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 12. September 2020, 18:10:48 CEST schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: Hi, > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). > > I have two questions about that: > >* if I don't have that LU

Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread rhkramer
I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I write to it, I assume (or hope) that nothing will

Re: Why does Debian not include POSIX-specified commands like bc and ed by default?

2020-09-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 12 Sep 02:06 -0500, Lone Learner wrote: > POSIX.1-2001 Utilities[1] and POSIX.1-2008 Utilities[2] both list the > commands "bc" and "ed" to be part of POSIX. > > Yet, in a brand new Debian installation (version 10 for example), > these commands are missing by default: > > $ bc > bash: b

Re: portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-12 Thread Dan Ritter
John Conover wrote: > > Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? > Yes and no. If you want to know that machines are scanning ports, yes. If you want to effectively block IPs, no. You can, of course, block well known IPv6 addresses -- I block Google's DNS resolvers

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-12 Thread David
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 05:18, Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted > >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018

JESEN NA KOPAH | GRATIS VEČERJE | PESTER ANIMACIJSKI PROGRAM

2020-09-12 Thread KOPE
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Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > I've also been bitten by this. I think it is a UI issue, the options > are ambiguous. Would it be possible to simply change the dialog box

Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

2020-09-12 Thread Toni Mas Soler
I do this job using aptitude instead apt: /usr/bin/aptitude search '~i !~M' -F '%p' --disable-columns Toni Mas Missatge de Sven Joachim del dia ds., 12 de set. 2020 a les 9:29: > > On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT includ

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > > > I've also been bitten by this. I think it is a UI issue, the options > > are ambiguous. Would it be possible to simply change the dialog box as > > follows? -- > > >

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 sep 20, 10:35:46, David Wright wrote: > > I don't use a DE so I can't check. Who owns the X server nowadays > when running a DM? (With no DM running, ownership changed from root > to the user some time ago.) As far as I know it depends on the DM, e.g. with lightdm it's root, at least o

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > I've also been bitten by this. I think it is a UI issue, the options > are ambiguous. Would it be possible to simply change the dialog box as > follows? -- > > Debian desktop environments: > [ ] ... GNOME (default) > [ ] ... Xf

Signing mails in kmail

2020-09-12 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I am searching a setting in kmail. When I try to sign a mail which has an attachement in kmail, a popup appears and I get warned, that the signing is only partly of the mail, and if I want to change this. So I suppose, there is somewhere a setting of this ("sign mails partly" or "s

Re: Why does Debian not include POSIX-specified commands like bc and ed by default?

2020-09-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 9/12/20 9:05 AM, Lone Learner wrote: > POSIX.1-2001 Utilities[1] and POSIX.1-2008 Utilities[2] both list the > commands "bc" and "ed" to be part of POSIX. > > Yet, in a brand new Debian installation (version 10 for example), > these commands are missing by default: > > $ bc > bash: bc: command

Re: Why does Debian not include POSIX-specified commands like bc and ed by default?

2020-09-12 Thread Fabrice Bauzac
12 sept. 2020 09:06:19 Lone Learner : > Why does Debian not include these [posix] commands by default? > I guess many debian users don't care about these commands, so it would be rude to impose something wanted by only a part of the users.  And there's the case of tiny embedded scarce systems t

Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

2020-09-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include > automatically installed packages? No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an apt concept. > Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including

Why does Debian not include POSIX-specified commands like bc and ed by default?

2020-09-12 Thread Lone Learner
POSIX.1-2001 Utilities[1] and POSIX.1-2008 Utilities[2] both list the commands "bc" and "ed" to be part of POSIX. Yet, in a brand new Debian installation (version 10 for example), these commands are missing by default: $ bc bash: bc: command not found $ ed bash: ed: command not found Why does De

portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-12 Thread John Conover
Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/