Create Live image from installed Debian?

2021-06-01 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; been playing with MX Linux lately on a virtual machine and enjoyed its "snapshot" feature which apparently allows for creating a bootable / installable Live image of my installed system. As I usually configure and tweak my Debian systems a bit, too, especially for desktop purposes, I

Grub on Dead Disk solved

2021-06-01 Thread Martin McCormick
I missed the INSTALL_DEVICE and now the script works. The next step is to see if the drive boots but I just forgot that one important detail. Sorry to waste anyone's time. Martin

Grub on Dead Disk

2021-06-01 Thread Martin McCormick
I had this same problem late last Fall on this same drive and am not sure what is going on because there is another Linux system here whose drive is arranged exactly the same way. An update in March modified grub and I didn't even give it a thought because that system just works but after

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, virtual private message to John Conover: I answered to your private mail of 1 Jun 2021 12:51:26 -0700. But my mail provider's server reports that your mail provider's server refuses to take it: From: GMX Mailer Daemon ... cono...@rahul.net: SMTP error from remote server for TEXT com

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Conover wrote: > Odd, root can not access the /run/user/601/ directory, but the user > can This is said to be a fuse filesystem feature. See e.g. https://superuser.com/questions/169977/mount-point-permission-denied > dr-x-- 2 theuser users 0 Dec 31 1969 doc/ > Odd tim

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
John Conover writes: > Thomas Schmitt writes: > > > > > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > > > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? > > On Debian 10 Buster, both fvwm and xfce. Odd, root can not access the /run/user/601/ directory, but the user can: ls -al /run/use

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Joe
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 19:19:23 +0200 Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hi > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 at 9:26 PM > > From: "Joe" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > > software/security updates? > First of all, id you surf usin

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 07:27:22PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > I'm curious what will be shown in this configuration by: > > > > apt-config dump | grep Periodic > > > One kind person has already asked me for the output of My bad. I haven't followed this thread closely until now.

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Stella Ashburne wrote: > As you can see from the screenshot, my OS has surreptitiously downloaded > software/security updates without my manual intervention. This behavior is > not what I like and it's the subject of my original post. > > > > > The devil is in the details, as they say. > > "sud

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 at 9:39 PM > From: "Reco" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > As you can see from the screenshot, my OS has surreptitiously downloaded software/security updates wi

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
Thomas Schmitt writes: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? > > John Conover wrote: > > As the user, or as root. > > Then it could be owned by another user id. > (Hard to guess while stat(2) fails even for the

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 at 9:26 PM > From: "Joe" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > First of all, id you surf using the link to the screenshot? Here's the URL again: https://ibb.co/5xP7r

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? John Conover wrote: > As the user, or as root. Then it could be owned by another user id. (Hard to guess while stat(2) fails even for the boss.) But you could at least verify that y

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
Thomas Schmitt writes: > Hi, > > John Conover wrote: > > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: > >d? ? ?? ?? doc/ > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? > As the user, or as root.

debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-06-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific for exam

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
=?UTF-8?Q?Markus_Sch=c3=b6nhaber?= writes: > 01.06.21, 17:28 +0200, John Conover: > > > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: > > > > d? ? ?? ?? doc/ > > > > and it can not be changed as root. > > > > Logging out, then in, same thing. > > >

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Conover wrote: > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: >d? ? ?? ?? doc/ Are you already the user with id 601 ? If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? The web knows about problems of program df with /run/user/*/doc ht

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Markus Schönhaber
01.06.21, 17:28 +0200, John Conover: > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: > > d? ? ?? ?? doc/ > > and it can not be changed as root. > > Logging out, then in, same thing. > > Any help on fixing it would be greatly appreciated. There's l

Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: d? ? ?? ?? doc/ and it can not be changed as root. Logging out, then in, same thing. Any help on fixing it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-06-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 10:21:42AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > (I am not aware of any method of overriding TERM on a per-host basis > in .ssh/config but if such a method *does* exist, it would be far better > than this shell function hack.) There's a hack, but it's not pretty, and i

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-06-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 05:04:38PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 09:49:36PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say > > > > how

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-06-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 09:49:36PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say > > > how to obtain it. > > > > i'd put in my .bashrc the

Re: how to let smartmontool / smartd ignore specific hard disk?

2021-06-01 Thread Robbi Nespu
Now it working On 5/31/21 1:26 PM, Reco wrote: I.e you should probably specify DEVICESCAN and -d in other order, i.e Thanks you -- Email : Robbi Nespu PGP fingerprint : D311 B5FF EEE6 0BE8 9C91 FA9E 0C81 FA30 3B3A 80BA PGP key : https://keybase.io/robbinespu/pgp_keys.asc

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 02:26:50PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > Automatic downloads of software/security downloads took place today, > > June 1, 2021. > > > > Please click the link to the screenshot: https://ibb.co/5xP7r5t > > > > Please see below for the details: > > > > username@localhos

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Joe
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 13:15:30 +0200 Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hi > > > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 at 8:05 PM > > From: l0f...@tuta.io > > To: "Debian User" > > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > > software/security updates? > > > > 28 mai 2021, 13:43 de l0f...@tuta

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/31/2021 08:49 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say how to obtain it. i'd put in my .bashrc the line: TERM="vt102" && export TERM That's unwi

Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

2021-06-01 Thread deloptes
Marco Möller wrote: > So, unfortunately I am still in need to find more information about the > two different (or in the end not different?) GUI tools concerning their > PGP functionality. > Focus on kgpg for now and start with PGP and OpenGPG (gnupg) https://www.openpgp.org/ There are also man

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-01 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 at 8:05 PM > From: l0f...@tuta.io > To: "Debian User" > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > > 28 mai 2021, 13:43 de l0f...@tuta.io: > > > I think you won't update/upgrade automatically anymore (by the wa

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Amm
On Mon, 2021-05-31 at 00:22 +, Long Wind wrote: > i have new usb 3 disk > i want to find out if usb 3 is used when it's connected to stretch dmesg should tell you when it is discovered and which device class, module and speed are used. -- Jun 01 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967 Jun 0

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-06-01 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-06-01 4:54 a.m., Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 31 mai 21, 13:41:43, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> >> On 2021-05-31 5:14 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:47:13AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside >>> wrote: What is foolish is not to

Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

2021-06-01 Thread Marco Möller
On 31.05.21 22:57, deloptes wrote: apt-cache show kleopatra apt-cache show kgpg I think the above parts of the package description explains quite well the use cases. With kleopatra you manage certificates in KDE (such like SSL) With Kgpg you manage GPG keys and you can encrypt/decrypt GU

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 31 mai 21, 13:41:43, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On 2021-05-31 5:14 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:47:13AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > > wrote: > >> > >> What is foolish is not to even check in the specifications of one's > >> compu

Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

2021-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 31 mai 21, 22:57:26, deloptes wrote: > > gnupg is the mother of all open source pgp stuff. In fact you must know that > PGP is the commercial implementation of a standard for symetric encryption > (I hope I am not wrong in my wording while citing from memory) PGP supports asymmetric encryp

Re: thunderbird

2021-06-01 Thread Weaver
On 01-06-2021 18:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 31 mai 21, 08:48:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 08:55:32PM +, ghe2001 wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA256 >> > >> > >> > >> > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ >> > On Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:

Re: thunderbird

2021-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 31 mai 21, 08:48:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 08:55:32PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > > > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:24 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > >... (snip) > >

Re: thunderbird

2021-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 31 mai 21, 17:52:00, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 05:38:48PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > > Concerning the server, You could also run your own matrix server, if > > you cannot find a provider which you trust, it is all open source. > > > > Good Luck, and sorry for ha