Re: Edge on debian

On 04/11/2024 12:15, Hwa Peer wrote: Hello list, Have you anybody tried MS Edge browser on Debian desktop? I would be happy to hear your viewpoints on this app. Microsoft Edge is currently based on Chromium (the "Blink" engine); it used to be based on Internet Explorer (the "Trident" engine)

Re: battery tester

On 20/10/2024 18:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this device (available online) it talks about the ability to print the data. Which requires yo

Re: Request for Clarification on Debian Installation Modes

On 15/10/2024 21:03, deb...@nexgntech.com wrote: Dear All, A few days back, I had the opportunity to dive into the OpenWISP / OpenWRT project, and I learned that it is best supported on Debian. (For the benefit of other list members, OpenWISP appears to be something that installs on top of

Re: Direct Messaging

On 31/08/2024 14:26, Tom Browder wrote: Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from one’s own website and server without hiring  DM provider? What I've done in the past is to get a cheap Android phone, and connect it to the server using USB. You can then use "adb" to

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On 25/08/2024 17:01, Max Nikulin wrote: On 25/08/2024 12:39, Joe B wrote: On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? [...] I gave up and now using K-9 mail and it seems to be working fine. I use Thunderbird an

Re: tbird hot keys.

On 24/08/2024 23:50, gene heskett wrote: I need to know how to totally disable t-birds hot keys. I mean I don't want it to happen unless I have actually clicked on a command with the mouse. If I didn't click on it, it doesn't happen, it can't happen. I have a feeling that, strictly speaking, t

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On 04/08/2024 05:23, gene heskett wrote: Nice, but no pi clone has ever booted from a usb stick, ever, not even real pi's can do that. You are one of today's lucky 10,000: https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/how-to-boot-your-raspberry-pi-from-a-usb-mass-storage-device OpenP

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On 03/08/2024 21:08, Lee wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM George at Clug wrote: Hi, What is the purpose of mDNS ? "zero-configuration networking" seems to be the search term eg -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) It seems to be for multicast? no, it _uses_ multicast.

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On 02/08/2024 17:09, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:39:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:29:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: ISP's dns. I suppose eventually they'll issue .den and I be forced to pick some other 3 letter name for my local domain. https

Re: Tool to store on IMAP server

On 29/07/2024 14:36, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. I am looking for a tool that reads a mail from its input and stores it into an IMAP mailbox: cat mail_file | imapupload imaps://george@server/Mail/incoming The goal would be to provide our users an alternative to forwarding their mail to another m

Re: umask - default user settings?

Debian is a multi-user operating system. Decisions should be made accordingly. I suppose umask is a moot point on phones and tablets, where single-user is often the use case. On the contrary, modern Android is strongly multi-user. Each "app" tends to be allocated its own user ID. The logic is

Re: umask - default user settings?

I'm not saying that what you did was wrong, but systemd provides a few shortcuts which can make things a bit more user-friendly. On 16/07/2024 04:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: OK. Let's follow this path a bit. I googled "how to create a systemd user service" and got

Re: Shell UA

Apologies for the double-post. I installed a new Extension in Thunderbird and it changed my From address when I didn't want it to. On 01/07/2024 19:41, Darac Marjal wrote: On 01/07/2024 19:33, Jeff Peng wrote: Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? It&

Re: Shell UA

On 01/07/2024 19:33, Jeff Peng wrote: Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? It's not a shell, but assuming you mean "has a Text User Interface (TUI)", then mutt supports Gmail out of the box. You can either define an "application password" (i.e. a unique pas

Re: Shell UA

On 01/07/2024 19:33, Jeff Peng wrote: Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? It's not a shell, but assuming you mean "has a Text User Interface (TUI)", then mutt supports Gmail out of the box. You can either define an "application password" (i.e. a unique pas

Re: Strange Problem

On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing. Often, this is an indication that the window manager

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

On 12/06/2024 23:54, Greg Marks wrote: I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to my server from external locations. When I ssh from a

Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

On 02/06/2024 19:03, Chris M wrote: I noticed that in SeaMonkey Mail's latest version 2.53.18.2 that the text is small in SOME emails, and in some emails its fine. And I can't figure out what to change to make the text a little bigger without having to use CTRL ++ on those certain emails. An

Re: Markup in mail messages

On 15/05/2024 03:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. [...] The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks

Re: grub requirements for fonts

On 01/05/2024 10:45, Richard wrote: I'd like to increase the font size in Grub (v2.12, at least I think that's the better alternative to just lowering the resolution) and opted to just use a custom font as there seems to be an OTF version of "GNU Unifont", though it seems to be jagged by desig

Re: autofs for /home: exclude admin users

On 01/04/2024 07:55, Felix Natter wrote: hello debian-users, I configured autofs for /home: * -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,bg,intr SERVER:/share/& Just to point out that this is "/share", not "/home". You might have set user's home directories to be /share/, but you've not mentioned that explicitly.

Re: trying to parse lines from an awkwardly formatted HAR file ...

On 23/03/2024 16:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 11:55:04AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: 1) That HAR file is not properly formatted. Instead of "attribute":value pairs in the standard way, they have used front

Re: distribution archives became unusable

On 06/03/2024 08:09, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, the repositories listed on https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive have been signed using expired keys. Unfortunately this page doesn't deal with this problem. Do you think this could be improved? No, I wouldn't have said so. The packages we

Re: GRUB lost graphical terminal mode

On 16/02/2024 17:27, Borden wrote: For a couple weeks now, I can't use graphical terminal in my GRUB configuration. Setting `GRUB_TERMINAL=console` works fine. With that line commented out, (thus using default settings), I get a blank screen on boot, 5 second timeout, then normal boot. Curio

Re: [ *** ] Job anacron.service/stop running (15min 49s / no limit)

On 11/02/2024 11:21, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I saw during a reboot [ *** ] Job anacron.service/stop running (15min 49s / no limit) eventually I did a hard reset, since I was not sure if the system simply hang. I have two quick questions: - How can I found out which process anacro

Re: -new HP AMD ryzen with realtec audio. The HP is mo1-F3xxx It has winblows 11 on it and I want it gone. It does have a 256GB SSD. Is there any thing i need to know before i try to install Bookworm.

On 10/02/2024 21:48, Maureen Thomas wrote: So can I please get some help.  I have a portable CD/DVD and I made a USB with a ISO on it.  The computer does not have a cd/dvd burner but I have a portable one.  Can some one tell me if there are any special things I need to do to put Debian 12 on t

Re: chrony date months off

On 31/01/2024 12:12, Max Nikulin wrote: On 31/01/2024 17:54, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I think you want "maxstep". It's in the man page chrony.conf(5). But if the time is "months off" perhaps you've got another problem to fix first? I think, the problem is no RTC on some *pi board, certainly c

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

On 24/01/2024 10:17, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. We have drives in mdadm RAID1. Since they are potential boot drives, we have to put a GPT on them. Since mdadm can only put its superblock at the end of the device (1.0), at the beginning of the device (1.1) and 4 Ko from the beginning (1.2), but

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

On 16/12/2023 15:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`, really. What am I missing? Or is it just a historical accident?

Re: what is a tasklet

On 06/12/2023 12:32, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: DI: DI: tasklet schedule cost 12ms. this interesting message started showing up in syslog a week or so ago i've never noticed them before any ideas whet this is According to https://lwn.net/Articles/830964/, they were a way to defer the ex

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 04/12/2023 20:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 03:19:33PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 12/4/23 07:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: ls -hal /etc/localtime Aha! You found it, but how do I change it? root@mkspi:/etc# cat timezone America/New_York root@mkspi:/etc# ls -hal /etc/localti

Re: Telnet

On 04/12/2023 11:30, gene heskett wrote: On 12/4/23 05:22, Anssi Saari wrote: debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: I concur, and would add that even on an isolated network one should prefer ssh. First, to be in the right habit. Second because it will do things that telnet won't, like tunnel X.

Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...

On 02/12/2023 04:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 10:01:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 01 Dec 2023 at 21:55:42 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: apt install ./myfile.deb That requires you to be online, aka "exposed mode". The OP only exposes a live USB to the outside

Re: Work environment

On 26/11/2023 13:38, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 10:11 AM Darac Marjal wrote: On 23/11/2023 04:34, William Torrez Corea wrote: Why the people use two desktops and one laptop? What is the purpose? I could use a main laptop with Debian for software

Re: Work environment

On 23/11/2023 04:34, William Torrez Corea wrote: Why the people use two desktops and one laptop? What is the purpose? I could use a main laptop with Debian for software development (write code) and the other two desktop: 1. Testing 2. Server Without any context, it's hard to answer. But

Re: IMAP vs POP was Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

On 19/11/2023 17:50, Tixy wrote: On Sun, 2023-11-19 at 07:58 -0800, Peter Ehlert wrote: Question: with IMAP is it feasible for a mail client to Leave messages on the server? My question was incomplete.  I should have added that I must have local copies of almost everything, for Me to filter an

Re: [Bookworm] collecting sensors data

On 29/10/2023 12:00, mick.crane wrote: On 2023-10-28 18:31, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2023 07:25:39 am gene heskett wrote: On 10/28/23 00:14, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/10/2023 01:39, Greg wrote: >> I just noticed that there is no rrdcollect in Bookworm. What is the >>

Re: [Bookworm] collecting sensors data

On 28/10/2023 12:25, gene heskett wrote: On 10/28/23 00:14, Max Nikulin wrote: On 28/10/2023 01:39, Greg wrote: I just noticed that there is no rrdcollect in Bookworm. What is the "proper" way of collecting sensors readings? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029995 : please

Re: Problem with apt update (is not signed)

As another data point, I've tried the following: $ docker run -it debian apt update $ docker run -it debian:bullseye apt update $ docker run -it debian@sha256:c141beaa9e0767774221cc82efe3a6712a1cc4f75d2699334dfd9a28a6f7357b apt update And these all complete successfully: ❯ docker run -it

Re: network bonding on Debian/Trixie

On 17/10/2023 02:11, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-10-16 18:52, Igor Cicimov wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 8:00 AM Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system running Debian/Trixie. I've got a wired connection and a wifi connection, both of which

Re: network bonding on Debian/Trixie

On 16/10/2023 21:59, Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system running Debian/Trixie. I've got a wired connection and a wifi connection, both of which work individually. I'd like them to work together to improve the throughput but for now I'm just trying to get

Re: Enter passphrase for SSL/TLS keys for 192.168.0.30:443 (RSA)

On 08/10/2023 12:53, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I have one machine on which I see during upgrade messages like: Setting up udev (252.17-1~deb12u1) ... 🔐 Enter passphrase for SSL/TLS keys for 192.168.0.30:443 (RSA): Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-13-armmp (6.1.55-1) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/in

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

On 01/10/2023 09:31, gene heskett wrote: Fedora has it by default since a while, and at first I thought it's a very stupid idea.  In practise, I can't be bothered anymore to create these annoying swap partitions.  They're only a waste of disc space. There haven't been any issues with it, and

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

On 23/09/2023 22:51, s...@gmx.com wrote: Is there a way to get sunrise and sunset time from command interpreter? I want to use its output for a script! I use "Sunwait" from https://github.com/risacher/sunwait which is a tool you can download and compile. I believe it works entirely offline, bu

Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages

On 17/09/2023 11:39, gene heskett wrote: On 9/17/23 05:35, Phil Wyett wrote: On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 17:06 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/16/23 14:55, Phil Wyett wrote: On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 08:17 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; gkrellm has traditionally used mbmon to collect the m

Re: bookworm and network connections

On 02/09/2023 13:09, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 12:08:37 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, I did not write any of the text you quote. You did, but it was not what Timothy was responding to. What you wrote was quoted right at the bottom of the message, and irrelevant to Timothy's

Re: Security question about daemon-init

On 29/08/2023 18:35, Bhasker C V wrote: Apologies in advance for cross-group posting. I have enabled selinux  and after carefully allowing certain permissions, I have put my system in enforcing mode I do see a suspicious line like this [  115.089395] audit: type=1400 audit(1693329979.841:1

Re: problem with sway package

On 16/08/2023 13:19, K S R PHANI BHUSHAN wrote: i have tried installing sway package in debian bookworm but it was not displaying any thing and also the terminal was getting stuck in the login page it self when i tried to run sway in the default terminal. i have tried this in virtual machine s

Re: Swap size in debain 12

On 12/08/2023 15:32, Erwan David wrote: Le 12/08/2023 à 16:24, David Wright a écrit : On Sat 12 Aug 2023 at 15:45:52 (+0200), Erwan David wrote: Installing a new debian 12 I see that the installer setups a 1G swap on a 24G RAM laptop. Is the hibernation out of swap now ? (I chose to have a bi

Re: 11 to 12 - fresh install or upgrade

On 07/08/2023 02:22, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 17:45:25 -0400 "Juan R.D. Silva" wrote: Hi folks, It's time to move from bullseye to bookworm. Based on the previous years experience I've always preferred a fresh install vs. an upgrade, since the freshly installed syste

Re: about PTR for an IP

On 06/08/2023 13:01, Jon Smart wrote: Hello, I know a hostname can point to multi-IPs. but can an IP have multi hostnames in PTR? 164.0.217.172.in-addr.arpa. 86400 INPTR mia09s16-in-f4.1e100.net. 164.0.217.172.in-addr.arpa. 86400 INPTR ord38s42-in-f4.1e100.net. 164.0.217.172.i

Re: chrome web browser worthless

On 01/08/2023 10:33, gene heskett wrote: Google seems to have high jacked port 80, I cannot use it as a browser to run klipper as a google search intercepts port 80, so localhost:80 cannot be used for troubleshooting or for running a 3d printer with klipper.. I think this comes down to an amb

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

On 26/06/2023 09:18, Roger Price wrote: I have difficulty remembering the Debian code names for releases Buzz Rex Bo Hamm Slink Potato Woody Sarge Etch Lenny Squeeze Wheezy Jessie Stretch Buster Bullseye Bookworm Trixie and Forky. It's much easier to remember that release numbers are in a seq

Re: chroot: can't execute command "/bin/bash": No such file or directory

On 18/06/2023 10:02, Mario Marietto wrote: Hello. Maybe a little problem for you,but a bigger problem for me. I've debootstrapped jessie on Ubuntu 14.04 with this command : debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

On 10/06/2023 16:08, S M wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:12:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: Is command-line editing part of POSIX, then? Are you suggesting that dash is missing some bit of POSIX compliance? That's possible. Command-line editing in vi-mode is defined by POSIX, but it&

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

On 10/06/2023 01:32, S M wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:00:51PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:45:04PM -0500, S M wrote: Regarding a workaround, I ended up creating a symlink /usr/local/bin/sh pointing to bash and chsh to that. Why? Why not simply chsh to /bin/bash

Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

On 07/06/2023 15:37, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; /dev/serial/by-id has not been created for quite some time. The arm folks have had a patch script for quite a while but it has not been fixed in debian that we know of. I have 4 identical banana pi's, 3 of which seem to work, but the pa

Re: Request for guidance to output(print, i.e.) mouse movements, key press, perepherals insert, etc., on a terminal

Note that the subject of an email should be just that - an indication of the subject matter. Putting important information JUST in the subject line can be confusing. On 24/04/2023 14:40, Susmita/Rajib wrote: The output could be simple dots for mouse movement, dashes for key press, and colon fo

Re: Starting stunnel with systemd.

1. stunnel hasn't been in Debian since etch (Debian 4.0). 2. stunnel4 comes with a service file template (https://sources.debian.org/src/stunnel4/3%3A5.68-2/debian/stunnel4%40.stunnel.service/), which is likely to have been tested to work. 3. Could the warning about protecting your POP3 conne

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

On 08/04/2023 15:17, songbird wrote: i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website). probably a bug, but it got me to wondering how i could limit the CPU temperature to a range well below the max

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: BIND: managed-keys-zone: Unable to fetch DNSKEY set '.': timed out

On 13/03/2023 23:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 07:04:02AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I replicated your test above and it seems your listing has been accidentally truncated... Pipe it through cat to avoid the "left/right scrolling" crap. If you want to do this regularly, yo

Re: Building binary package, howto enable init.d/systemd start

On 02/03/2023 19:56, Konstantin Kletschke wrote: Dear debian-user Folks, i am trying to build a binary debian package consisting of a python script, shell scripts and a config file as daemon with either init.d or systemd start. The init.d script gets installed also the systemd file, but both a

Re: Remove route '169.254.0.0/16 dev ovs-system'

On 22/02/2023 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 02:04:58PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Maybe the 'w' is not matching anything. I thought eth0 and wlan0 went the way of the dinosaurs. I thought with Consistent Network Device Names and biosdevname, the name will begin with a

Re: clamav eating memory

On 13/02/2023 14:11, Maurizio Caloro wrote: hello Debian group here iam running Debian 10.13, clamav 0.103.7+dfsg-0+deb10u1 but it's this possible that clamav-daemon use 1.2G memory? Entirely possible. As I recall, clamav-daemon caches the virus definitions in RAM in order to minimise start

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On 10/02/2023 13:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 05:58:07AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: hosts: files mymachines dns myhostname This is wrong. I don't know where you got it from, but "mymachines" and "myhostname" are not valid entries in this file. NOT EVEN IF THEY AR

Re: Trouble with ansible and apt. Is this a known problem?

On 21/11/2022 08:59, Nathanael Schweers wrote: Hello people, I recently installed Debian Bullseye on my desktop machine, having previously used Debian sid. So far it all went well.  Yet two days ago, ansible suddenly reported the following message when attempting to use either the `apt` or

Re: install missing unicode fonts

On 17/11/2022 19:32, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Greetings, I've done some searching but came up empty with the correct way to install missing unicode fonts. For example, in my terminal I type "exa -l --icons" and I see:  (that is a rectangle with the codepoint: F158) I don't see what F158 is

Re: No Public Key

On 13/11/2022 19:14, Thomas George wrote: I want to do a new verified instillation of a debian iso. I have the iso and SHA512SUMS.sign.txt and SHHA512SUMS.txt and have tried gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign.txt SHA512SUMS.txt with the result No Public Key I thought to skip this step and tried

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

On 13/11/2022 16:07, hw wrote: Hi, the subject says it ... I have an interface that is being configured with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via dhcp. I need to assign an additional IPv6 address to the interface. This is all very easy with network-manager but that seems to be kinda deprecated and we'

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

On 20/10/2022 15:47, Anssi Saari wrote: Philipp Ewald writes: Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? First try, its super complicated for me. For me it has been. ssh loops work too though. Sometimes I've felt Ansible whines needlessly, something like "please don't do

Re: firmware-iwlwifi

On 05/10/2022 05:18, David Wright wrote: On Mon 03 Oct 2022 at 13:27:13 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 20:53:46 +0300 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Actually I think I found out what was happening: - for failed connection attempts trough SSH - the notebook sometimes switches

Re: apt-cacher internal error (died)

On 21/09/2022 14:07, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hi David, There is still something wrong with my /etc/apt/sources.list Perhaps caused by stretch reaching end of life on 30 June 2022. Can somebody provide me with a tested list of mirrors for stretch working in Sep 2022 for apt-cacher-ng server and

Re: systemd automount unit: run only when server is reachable

systemd has a number of Condition* rules which can be added to units: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#Conditions%20and%20Asserts You could maybe rig something up with that. Alternatively, if the mount always takes at least 10 seconds, then that sounds like it

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

On 16/07/2022 16:26, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. Debian hasn't supported 80386 processors for many years. According to https://

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

On 22/06/2022 18:04, Person the human wrote: I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from the developers or possibly try to add it myself. Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so that a package could be installed without first downloadin

Re: Needless DNS queries

On 07/06/2022 17:53, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: search Search list for host-name lookup. By default, the search [...] This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path following the search keyword with spaces

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

On 14/05/2022 03:02, ghe2001 wrote: Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster, smartctl v 6.6 I bought a new 12TB Western Digital Gold SATA disk the other day. After testing it, smartctl says, among other things:  22 Unknown_Attribute   0x0023   001   001   025    Pre-fail Always   FAILING_

Re: Dino

On 07/05/2022 02:17, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: On 3/13/22 08:24, Stefan Kropp wrote: On Sa, 2022-03-12 23:00:33, Mongoose wrote: When may we see Dino messenger included in Debian stable? The dino XMPP IM Messenger is part of Debian [1] Version 0.2.0-3 in stable Version 0.3.0-2~bpo11+1 in st

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On 10/04/2022 15:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 06:03:13AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Thats fine, as long as the systemd stuff is disabled by finding an entry in the presently logged in users ~/.config, but I do not consider that as a user item. thats (updatedb) sysadmin stuff

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

On 08/04/2022 20:27, David Wright wrote: On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 07:18:28 (+0100), Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for *OFFLINE* use. The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable

Re: [OT] Online CPU configuration tool

For Intel processors, https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefilter.html?productType=873 might be of use to you. For AMD, it seems to need to choose a processor type first https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications If you're after other manufacturers or other architectures,

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

On 17/01/2022 22:43, piorunz wrote: Hello, I run Firefox via firejail. I let Firefox use only one network adapter, because that cuts off Firefox from my LAN. I run several profiles of Firefox on my machine. Only one of them has access to LAN for security reasons. This is my example shortcut in

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

On 18/12/2021 16:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: Today I rebooted my machine for the first time in quite a while, after the kernel update that was released along with Debian 11.2. When it reached the GRUB screen, I pressed Enter, and nothing happened as far as I could see. I was initially worried tha

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

On 10/12/2021 12:21, Dan Ritter wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote: In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not otherwise be treated as swap space. It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap appears to be the logical choice for

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

On 10/12/2021 04:53, David Wright wrote: On Thu 09 Dec 2021 at 17:12:01 (-), Curt wrote: On 2021-12-09, hdv@gmail wrote: Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM.

Re: how to open mht file

MHTML files are "MIME-encapsulation of aggregate HTML documents": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML In other words, you can treat this file very similar to a saved email. Some web browsers may be able to open it, too. Try the usual interfaces for opening a file with (for example in a file br

Re: Don't try this at home kids

On 29/11/2021 22:41, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 30/11/21 6:25 am, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> How do I tell sudo not to ask me for my password? >> >> It's me. I'm on my computer. I already logged in with my password. No >> one else is logged on. >> >> I know all you purists out there are rending your

Re: If the variable has its 'integer' attribute set,

On 21/11/2021 01:37, sim sim wrote: > Hi, all. > My question may be in the wrong place but I'm already exhausted. > Started reading https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.pdf. > > 3.4 Shell Parameters > . > > A parameter is set if it has been assigned a value.  The null string

Re: why Debian?

On 14/11/2021 12:56, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions > from experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and > reliable OS (the policy of the OS

Re: Where is a list of kernel messages ?

On 18/10/2021 22:16, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > > Where is there a list of linux kernel messages ? > So far not found on : > > - google > - Debian linux or kernel documentation, specifically linux-doc etc. > - not seem in /usr/share/doc > > - www.kernel.org > >

Re: debian-installer RAID question

On 11/09/2021 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: > hello fellow Debian users, > > I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for > /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade > fails. Just want to check that you've not missed something obvious here. You don't *

Re: Bash script problem

On 06/08/2021 00:30, David wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 06:03, Gary L. Roach wrote: > >> Second, why am I separating out the Path the way I am doing? I need to >> check each level for existence then, if the level doesn't exist, create >> the directory, cd to the directory, set chown and -x chmo

Re: Thunderbird add-on for SMS

On 06/08/2021 07:36, ellanios82 wrote: > Good Day, List ! > > >  - is there a way to send an SMS to a mobile phone,  from Thunderbird ? Talk to the service provider for the mobile phone. Some providers offer an email to SMS service, whereby you are given an email address that maps to your phone nu

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

On 01/08/2021 23:51, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 03:29:07PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> 2021-08-01 13:52:37 root@dipsy ~ >> # file /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 >> /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun >> Jul 25 19:43:38 2021, from

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

On 01/08/2021 13:34, didier gaumet wrote: > Hello, > > Disclaimer: I have never tested what is following. > > Perhaps another way of keeping two kernels without increasing the size oft > the /boot partition would be to decrease the size of the initrd files: by > default they are built with all

Re: Synaptic error message

On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install > some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known > base to start from I extracted the contents of

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

On 19/06/2021 21:07, Marco Möller wrote: > > Hello, > Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but > do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that > keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/  . But how > should I manage the keys saved th

Re: apt error not understood

On 22/05/2021 16:48, ghe2001 wrote: > Buster everywhere, latest update. > > I update/upgrade using apt on 3 different computers (SuperMicro > desktop, Dell laptop, Raspberry Pi cute thing). Sample from a few > minutes ago, on the desktop: > > root@sbox:~# apt update > Hit:1 http://security.debian.

Re: Missing SSL/https root cert(s)?

On 20/05/2021 12:03, d...@sherohman.org wrote: > Although everything works properly for actual (human) users, a coworker > has informed me that some of his automated tests are failing with > invalid https certificate errors. I checked and, sure enough, it's not > just his tests: > > $ curl https:

Re: Signed Email PAM authentication

On 14/05/2021 15:29, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > Hello, > > I think of idea of having additional PAM module which passes login > after receiving and validating signed email (for some scenarios it > could even requires emails from many persons). Signing emails can be > done easliy in secure way and it

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