Re: locating blocked port

This ENTIRE THREAD is a gigantic cautionary tale for developers. This is why trying to minimize the amount of information present in your error messages is NOT helpful. The Microsoft paradigm of "don't show technical details in error messages because it will scare the users" is bullshit. But to

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 11:15:58AM +0100, deb...@sioban.net wrote: > "journalctl -e" ends the 24th of October. > ❯ journalctl -b > -- Journal begins at Sun 2022-10-23 19:55:11 CEST, ends at Mon 2022-10-24 > 14:14:33 CEST. -- > -- No entries -- > ❯ systemctl start systemd-journald.service > A depe

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 05:32:07PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Again, a programming language can easily take an input string, measure > its length in characters, and produce an output string that looks like > a "box" around the input string. (Less easily if full Unicode is

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:06:44PM +0100, Pierre Willaime wrote: > I do not want to do ASCII art, I am only searching a simple way to do > something close to the debian-annouce emails. > > > The Debian Project

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 07:49:18PM +0100, Pierre Willaime wrote: > # > ## some title here ## > # > > (I am using emacs comment-box feature in a buffer to do this and I > replace ; by #, I suppose there is nicer way to do this). > > I often see email signatu

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 01:42:10PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > The question then is why emacs uses ; as a comment character. Because of LISP. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Comments.html

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 05:22:23PM +0100, Sioban wrote: > Here is the output. > > ❯ systemctl cat rsyslog.service That looks exactly like mine. So that's probably fine. > Requires=syslog.socket This is the only part of it that looks like a "dependency". Maybe this is the thing that's breaking

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:52:32PM +0100, deb...@sioban.net wrote: > ❯ df /var/log /var/log/journal > Filesystem 1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/md24   46096212 1620728  42101496   4% /var/log > /dev/md24   46096212 1620728  42101496   4% /var/log OK, not out of disk

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:09:59AM +0100, deb...@sioban.net wrote: > > Le 31/01/2023 à 11:08, Nicolas George a écrit : > > deb...@sioban.net (12023-01-31): > > > A dependency job for rsyslog.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for > > > details. > > Have you considered seeing journalctl -xe for

Re: Openbox documentation.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 09:42:49AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > me@computer:/home/me# head -n 4 /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml > > > > > How would rc.xml be available to edit before Openbox is installed? The > writer had a time machine? On install of a new version, is what I would assume it me

Re: Perl, cpan Path problems

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 10:47:01PM +0100, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > also > > root: ~/.cpan/build/Perl-Critic-1.148-2# perl -e "use XML::Simple " I'm only going to focus on this ONE part of your mail, because the whole thing is just too much for me. Let's suppose that your goal is to write (or us

Re: Vulnerable git in bullseye - what's the process?

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 04:56:31PM +, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 11:28 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > The security-tracker CVE page you cited has links to all the > > information you requested. > > Does it? It links to a bug which says it's been fixed in sid. And the > PTS shows it was

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 06:34:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > About this, Ctrl-U is just a shell feature. Contrary to bash, it is > not really usable in zsh to erase long pastes (unless one changes > the default bindings). But Ctrl-C is fine in zsh. Ctrl-U is bound to "kill" at the terminal l

Re: Unexpected permission denied

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 10:26:34AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > Greg, I agree with your warnings. Just out of curiosity, is there a reason > why the following variant may still be unsafe? > > runas() { local who=$1; shift; su --login "$who" --shell=/bin/bash > --command=

Re: Unexpected permission denied

cause you enormous grief at some point; I can practically guarantee it. It's really easy to come up with an example that breaks this approach: unicorn:~$ touch /tmp/'file with spaces' unicorn:~$ sudo -s [sudo] password for greg: unicorn:~# runas() { local who=$1; shift; su - "$wh

Re: Unexpected permission denied

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 07:34:54AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > jeremy ardley wrote: > > I have vague memories there are more file flags in newer Linux file systems? > > There are extended attributes, of which the only one you are > likely to encounter is i, immutable. It is occasionally useful > t

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 01:51:08PM +, Richmond wrote: > I didn't test it for the reason I stated. I think it would be better for > OP to test it as he won't do any more damage than he has already done. Here's how you can reproduce the problem without having to worry about execution of the past

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 04:15:19AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Actually, I received three old laptops. I got Debian 11 running on > one of them; the BIOS reports: > > Inspiron 3542 > Intel Core i5-4210U > ram = DDR3L > > No indication of 32-bit or 64-bit. All Intel Core i5 processors are

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:51:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot fro

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:54:39PM +, Richmond wrote: > > 3. Type Ctrl-C (one or several times) in the terminal. > > But nothing happens. > You could try pressing ctrl-z at this point to send the application into > background. It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:55:35AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > My previous timeout vale was 180 seconds, which wasn't enough. So my > ancient anemic box needed between 180 and 360 seconds to start postfix. > (But see below.) More multiples of 30 seconds. I'm still thinking "DNS issue".

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:17:37PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > It seems that postfix's startup time has greatly regressed, on my laptop > there are very long delays both at boot: > > , > | $ systemd-analyze blame | head -n1 > | 33.340s postfix@-.service > ` A delay that's a multiple of 3

Re: EOL and EOS for Debian Softwares

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:42:39PM +, Bushra Perveen wrote: > Hi Team, > > Could you please let me know the End of Life and End of Support for the below > Debian software's? > whiptail 0.5 (Linux) > P11 Glue Utilities 0.2 (Linux) > virt-what 1 (Linux) > HTTP Client 6 (Linux) > virt-what 6 (Li

Re: Name or Sevice not known - bind

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 09:12:19PM +0100, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > # host -t A pluto.sternbild.m 127.0.0.1 > Using domain server: > Name: 127.0.0.1 > Address: 127.0.0.1#53 > Aliases: > > Host pluto.sternbild.m not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Hmm. In your previous message, you have: > # cat /etc/bind/nam

Re: Name or Sevice not known - bind

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 07:45:34PM +0100, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > fighting little with bind9, on Debian 10.13, in my opinion appair right, but > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > search sternbild.m > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver A.B.C.D -> other Nameservers > nameserver A.B.C.D -> other Nameservers

Re: reportbug: don't know: bug in apt [list] or in grep

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 02:00:00PM +0100, DdB wrote: > Am 19.01.2023 um 13:13 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > The fact that this *appears* to work is what causes so much confusion. > > It will "work" some of the time, but not all of the time, and you'll > > get

Re: reportbug: don't know: bug in apt [list] or in grep

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:11:43PM +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > For curiosity If have done a small test as below. > Unfortunately there are a few outputs in German. For this comparisons > the exact meanings of the German text has no importance at all. > > 1. The first command of the origina

Re: named.service or bind9.service or both?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 12:25:03PM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I have now, in order: > * Disabled bind9.service > * Corrected /etc/default/named so the named service can start (it was > missing the chroot) > * Stopped bind9.service > * Started named.service and checked that named i actually runni

Re: Bitlbee user

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:10:50AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2023-01-17 at 09:49, Richmond wrote: > > > Why is there a user called bitlbee on my system (nologin) when > > bitlbee is not installed? > > > > Also there is a user saned but sane is not installed. > > At a guess: because those p

Re: Passwords

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 01:53:33PM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 17-01-2023, à 07:19:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:36:03AM +0100, steve wrote: > > > Easier would be to delete the second field in /etc/shadow for root, so > > > the

Re: Passwords

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:36:03AM +0100, steve wrote: > Easier would be to delete the second field in /etc/shadow for root, so there > won't be anymore root password (it's empty). You can then create one with the > 'passwd' command. If you can edit the /etc/shadow file, you're already root, which

Re: Passwords

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 07:38:28AM +0100, Toni Mas Soler wrote: > You don't need a live-usb/cd. > If your boot system is grub you only have to change command to exec=/bin/bash > > Once you are in your system you can change root password and others. For the record, the kernel parameter you wanted

Re: named.service or bind9.service or both?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 03:51:52PM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I'll do that.  Should I then also remove the "Alias=bind9.service" line from > named.service? If Debian put it there, then no. Leave it alone. It's probably just a backward compatibility shim, from when the service name used to be

Re: Missing links of libraries (*.so) on Debian 11

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 03:39:41PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Before accusing the developer, one should make sure that the binary > is indeed linking to .so without SONAME. > This can be checked by > > ldd /...path.../...to.../binary-tool > To be exacting: > The bug would be in the build sy

Re: Missing links of libraries (*.so) on Debian 11

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 11:15:33AM +, piorunz wrote: > On 16/01/2023 10:33, Avtansh Gupta wrote: > > */usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaudit.so* > > > > This is the missing .so file in debian11. This file was present on the > > previous versions of Debian and other Linux distros as well. > > Inco

Re: named.service or bind9.service or both?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 10:42:35AM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote: >  28969163  4 -rw-r--r--   1 root root  255 Jun  2 2016 > /etc/systemd/system/bind9.service > > I suspect that the bind9 service ought to be removed.  Is that correct? It looks like you (or someone acting on your beha

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 03:54:22PM -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote: > PS I had tried ./salome and got the following error: > > ERROR:salomeContext:Unexpected error: > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File > "/home/gary/Salome/SALOME-9.9.0-native-DB10-SRC/BINARIES-DB10/SALOME/bin/ > salome/salomeCo

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 03:46:00PM -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote: > The lack of information is because I never got off the ground with this. You can still tell us basic things like "I downloaded the file from this URL", and use ls -l to show us the downloaded filename sitting somewhere in your $HOME

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 09:12:06PM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > There is: > > https://docs.salome-platform.org/latest/dev/cmake/html/index.html > > Which I suppose is what Gary was referring to? Hmm... maybe. Of course that's on a separate hostname. With a bit more digging, I al

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 12:20:21PM -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been trying to install Salome 9.90 from the tar.gz file. When I unzip > the file the contents look nothing like the installation instructions that I > have found on line. Does anyone have experience with the Debian

Re: need kino. or a substitute that can work with a sony hi-8metal720 by handicam.

/etc/group by the base-passwd.postinst script, if the /etc/group file is not already present. During a standard installation, the "initial user" (the one created during installation, with UID 1000) gets added to this group. unicorn:~$ grep video /etc/group video:x:44:greg Perhaps you're looking

Re: quite the end of an era: Re: Bug#931659: transition: rm python2

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:42:31PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, songbird wrote: > > > kudoes to everyone who helped with this in getting it done, finding > > bugs, fixing problems, converting code, updating docs and testing. :) > > > > What does debian use for moinmoin? Is

Re: Python curses

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 08:24:11AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > What you wrote triggered something. I'd been following the Python > curses docs, which tell you to write, for example, "A_REVERSE". And > Python was throwing exceptions. But based on what you wrote, I > substituted "curses.A

Re: Disable systemd RDRAND usage

On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 07:06:03PM +0100, operation.privacyenforcem...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > Hello, > > I want to set SYSTEMD_RDRAND=0 as implemented here > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17112 > > How can this be done on Debian and how can this be tested?

Re: why some memory are missing

On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 06:49:01AM +0800, lsg wrote: > i have hp dx5150, running buster > > bios shows 4G memory, but in buster, top shows 3282.8M Google gives me which says HP's DX5150 comes in a variety of configurations. The base model ships with a

Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.

> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > Rather, > > > > > > coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers) > > > > > > and this has been around far longer than my lifetime. > > When using slang, the current meaning is the one that will be understo

Re: Debian release criteria.

On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > And cool in this modern sense (and words like awesome, wicked, and so > on) is quite recent. > > Rather, > > coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers) > > and this has been around far longer than my lifetime. >

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 06:12:07PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote: > > > > There are other strange things going on which may or not be related. I tried > > to > > reinstall lightdm and the greeter using apt. (The Debian partition is > > moun

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote: > On 2023-01-04 11:23 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:03:15PM -0500, Frank wrote: > > > ** (process:734): WARNING **: 22:32:38.355: Error reading existing > > > Xauthority: Failed to

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:03:15PM -0500, Frank wrote: > ** (process:734): WARNING **: 22:32:38.355: Error reading existing > Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority?: Permission > denied > Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority > /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority: P

Re: Limiting ssh access: by MAC Address?

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 05:06:30PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > Is it possible to use UFW to limit ssh access to a server by an external > host by its MAC address? "External" meaning not on your Local Area Network? In that case, no. The MAC address of a host that's not on your LAN is not visible.

Re: Network bridge usage.

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 11:30:02AM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 11:31:38AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > It's first quad is 9, binary 0110. > > Eh? 9 is 0101 in binary! 0110 is denary 10. 5 is 0101 6 is 0110 9 is 1001 10 is 1010

Re: Xfce desktop problem

On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 09:43:15PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 03:31:04PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > How to can restore my last configuration? > > > > Try resetting to defaults > > > > mv ~/.config/xfce4-session/ ~/.config/xfce4-session-bak > > mv ~/.conf

Re: What layout should I use to emulate a German keyboard but also be able to type other European characters?

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 12:23:00PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That depemds on your needs and software. For the occasional foreign > character, I like to use X's compose facility. I mapped the compose > key to CAPS LOCK (who needs that, right?), and then I can, for example > do COMPOSE + < + 3

Re: How to request a package update?

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 09:40:35PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > File a bug against smartmontools, explain the problem you experienced, > and explain why you think that upgrading to 7.3 is the correct fix. For the record, 7.3 is already in testing (bookworm).

Re: apt-get under Kali Linux reports wrong data rate.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 07:08:20PM +, Mark wrote: > I have no idea who to report this issue to. > > Under latest build of Kali Linux i have noticed the download speed with > apt-get commands, it shows K Bits/s and should in fact be K bits/s > The difference between Bytes & Bits is important.

Re: xfce install

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:21:44PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, December 24, 2022 09:44:49 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Before asking for help about a command-line, type: > > > > unset LC_ALL > > export LC_MESSAGES=C > > > > … and re-run the command. > > That sounds like good

Re: xfce install

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 03:11:05PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > steef van duin (12022-12-24): > > i am wrestling with a fresh 11.6-black-screen installation to get a > > xfce-desktop going. > > > > allthough I think I used from the commandline the most appropriate commands > > by apt i keep gre

Re: colorscheme in vi

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg > to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line > colorscheme white > that worked, except that each time I open vim, I get the message: >cannot find color s

Re: CR/LF

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 06:46:05PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 08:54:27AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > 3) echo usually, but not always, adds an additional newline character to > >the output. In most cases, this is acceptable, even preferable.

Re: LF (was Re: CR/LF)

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 11:48:23AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2022-12-11 at 08:54 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 08:16:35AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That said. Greg, I was also shaken by your roaring tone. > > > > Ye

Re: CR/LF

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 07:04:37AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > Because you originally asked about a CR/LF (carriage return, and line > feed) sequence. That is a Windows end-of-line indicator. Linux indicates > end of line with LF only. Macs, I believe, use CR only. Mac OS 9 and earlier used

Re: CR/LF

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 08:16:35AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That said. Greg, I was also shaken by your roaring tone. Yeah, well, he was told the same thing, repeatedly, by multiple people, and somehow he managed to ignore every single instance of it. It's rather frustrating. As

Re: CR/LF

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 22:10 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > > > Why does this produce a CR/LF > > There is still no CR. At all.

Re: CR/LF

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 20:35 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 10 Dec 2022 at 21:01:29 (-0500), Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > Why does this produce a CR/LF > > > > > >  ~$ TEST=$(ssh -o LogLevel=QUIET -t user@server "echo -n ''"); ec

Re: CR/LF

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:35:59PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 10 Dec 2022 at 21:01:29 (-0500), Jim Popovitch wrote: > > Why does this produce a CR/LF > > > > ~$ TEST=$(ssh -o LogLevel=QUIET -t user@server "echo -n ''"); echo ${TEST} > > Try echo -n ${TEST} at the end. You mean printf %

Re: CR/LF

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 09:01:29PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > Why does this produce a CR/LF > > ~$ TEST=$(ssh -o LogLevel=QUIET -t user@server "echo -n ''"); echo ${TEST} It does not produce a carriage return, unless you're on Windows. The second echo command (the local one) produces a newli

Re: bash read and field separator

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 07:18:13PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > It took some time for me to realize why you case is different. Please, try > > cd tmp > find leaf leaf/ leaf// -printf '%T@/%TY-%Tm-%Td/%TT/%p\0' | while IFS=/ read > -rd '' _ day time path; do printf '%s\n' "$path"; done unicorn:~/tm

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 02:57:42AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > You don't want to do this. Consider an MUA which stores your mail in > "mbox" format-- one email right after another in one file. The > delimiter is a line which starts at the left margin with the word > "From". Technically

Re: Monitor traffic on a port.

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:25:36PM -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > How is traffic on a specific port monitored now? The only tool I've ever used for that is tcpdump. If you need UDP then I don't know what to recommend. Traffic monitoring is not my forte.

e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

sing the "mail" command on a FreeBSD machine, but I don't remember any solution to the problem. Is there a way to tell the Postfix sendmail command not to alter any such lines in the body of the message? (I'm afraid I wasn't able to discern an answer in the man page for sendma

Re: hangs at boot

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:57:44PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > You and I presumably run our systems with multi-user as the final > target. I think the OP had graphical instead, but hadn't installed > a DM. I didn't change the default target. unicorn:~$ systemctl get-default graphical.target In

Re: bash read and field separator

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 10:23:29PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > find dir dir/ dir// | sed -n l > dir$ > dir/$ > dir//$ > > find dir dir/ dir// -printf '%T@/%TY-%Tm-%Td/%TT/%p\0' | sort -zn | > while IFS=/ read -rd '' _ day time path; do > printf '%s %s %s\n' "$day" "${time%.*}" "$path";

Re: hangs at boot [Solved]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:19:46AM +0100, email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > As it turns out I didn't need to but for future use, do you have any tips on > where one might find documentation about how agetty interacts with the rest > of the debian startup process? I've searched but the results have b

Re: bash read and field separator

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:53:37PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 07/12/2022 19:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > rlart() { > >local day time path > >find "${1:-.}" -type f -printf '%T@ %TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\0' | > > sort

Re: TBird mail

On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 07:56:53AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, December 07, 2022 07:18:57 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Here's my version: > > > > rlart() { > > local day time path > > find "${1:-.}" -type f -prin

Re: TBird mail

On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 09:57:11PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Make a change to your preferences, save it, then: > > $ find . -type f -mmin -1440 -printf '%Ta%TH:%TM:%.5TS%11s %P\n' | sort -n > -k 2 | less # one day > > Edit the . to a reasonable top of tree, 1440 to more like ten, > and the

Re: Getting PC with Ubuntu; change to Debian?

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 07:45:52PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > According to: https://ubuntu.com/certified/202204-30215 > > This system was tested with 20.04 LTS, running the 5.14.0-1033-oem kernel. > > If you got the X1 Carbon Gen 10 then you will likely need to install > Debian Testin

Re: hangs at boot

On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 07:25:24PM +0100, jd wrote: > > On 2022-12-01 19:05, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, jd wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2022-11-30 18:52, Hans wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2022, 18:33:49 CET schrieb jd: > > > > > > > > Try to deinstall cups and remove an

Re: hangs at boot

On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 01:36:05AM +0100, jd wrote: > > On 2022-11-30 18:52, Hans wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2022, 18:33:49 CET schrieb jd: > > > > Try to deinstall cups and remove any usb cameras. I had had the problem, > > that > > cups detected an usb camera as a printer and then st

Re: Logout at apt upgrade

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:16:04AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > FWIW it never happened to me. But: I'm on a pretty minimal system by > today's standards (X, Fvwm). The only application behaving strangely > after a dist-upgrade is... the browser, Firefix: "Ohmigod, something > funny happened, I'

Re: tab completion is sluggish

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 08:16:23AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 11:00:07PM +0100, email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > select(1, [0], NULL, [0], {tv_sec=0, tv_usec=50}) = 0 > ^ > > This (nearly ;-) answers my question: it is waiting for half

Re: Starting Tomcat 10 at bootup

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 07:07:54AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:40:24 -0500 > Amn Ojee Uw wrote: > > > If from the command prompt or a shell script, I run this code sudo > > '/opt/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh run', Tomcat runs nicely, but it grabs > > the Terminal, if I close

Re: just saying

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 06:17:23PM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:05:31 -0500 > Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > > > I have no idea what you mean. It’s open source and you can analyze > > the code line by line. > > Does that include the blobs we're forced to run to make

Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

arently means I need to generate one. So I guess I get to test that "cancel" option after all. unicorn:~$ sudo shutdown -r 23:59 [sudo] password for greg: Reboot scheduled for Tue 2022-11-22 23:59:00 EST, use 'shutdown -c' to cancel. unicorn:~$ cat /run/systemd/shutdown/sched

Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 06:22:57PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hm. With SysV, you can't either (spoiler alert: the shutdown process > itself is the one doing the timing by sleeping until fulfillment of > its task). But you always can cancel it (shutdown -c with SysV, dunno, > again, with syste

Re: tbird broken

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 11:44:49AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > And I'll repeat one more time, then I'm done, there is NO html content in > the messages, not even a mimetype boundary for it. How do you reach this conclusion? > --=_Part_88_360748977.1668870493425 > Content-Type: text/plain;cha

Re: general squawk about unattended-upgrade

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 01:03:20PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > I have removed the execute perms from that utility and restarted the job. Why not simply *remove* the unattended-upgrades package? It sounds like your system is one that should not be using it.

Re: Realplayer seg.fault

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:09:16AM -0800, Joe B wrote: > Hello, This is an old thread about 2003ish i found it browsing the lists, i > noticed that your post dosen't have the >> next to the quote you have pipes | > on all of the quotes. how did you do that? It would be an option in one's MUA (Mail

Re: Causing segmentations fault; Was: Re: No Public Key

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 08:44:54PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-11-14, wrote: > > > >> https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/428 > > > > Is there a non-javascript-ey way to look at those issues? > > > > > Mutt crashes with SIGSEGV when uid -variable is NULL in > pgp_gpgme_extrace_keys(). >

Re: Causing segmentations fault; Was: Re: No Public Key

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 07:33:00PM +0300, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: > > > 14.11.2022 15:26 tarihinde Anssi Saari yazdı: > > > > > So does mutt try to check the PGP signature in Gökşin's message and > > crash due to that or some other issue? > > > > I use Thunderbird for reading, composing,sending

Re: How to increase hard NOFILE limit in debian 11?

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 06:50:53AM -0800, Thomas Nyberg wrote: > Thanks for the help! That worked well with bash (i.e. if I set both > /etc/security/limits.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf, then `ulimit -aH` returns > what you'd expect). > > However, I have a server process and when I check its limits by

Re: How to increase hard NOFILE limit in debian 11?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 08:25:33PM -0800, Thomas Nyberg wrote: > $ ulimit -Hn > 1048576 > ``` > > I would like to increase that The hard limit you're seeing is capped by the sysctl fs.nr_open value. If you want to increase the hard limit, you first have to increase the sysctl value. unicorn:~$ s

Re: ping

your report is an alias. > > Having an alias of ping will never be reported by "which" neither. So I can > > imaging you've defined ping as an alias. > > And as Greg said, try "type ping" to find this out (and not "which ping"). > > As far as

Re: ping

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 09:05:03PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 13 Nov 2022 at 14:50:58 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 06:04:51AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > root@joule:/home/root# /bin/ping -c 3 192.168.0.12 > > > PING 192.168.0.12 (192.168.0.12) 56

Re: ping

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 06:04:51AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > root@joule:/home/root# /bin/ping -c 3 192.168.0.12 > PING 192.168.0.12 (192.168.0.12) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.079 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.12: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.114

Re: Debian 11 Termit

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 09:11:45PM -0500, Amn wrote: > Thanks Mindaugas for your response, but Debian 11's HOME/.config does not > have a 'termit' sub directory, thus it does not have a 'rc.lus' file. > Is there another way to change the indigo colour? I've never used termit, but here's the man pa

Re: Sysstemd question

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 10:41:15AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > I've been reading up on systemd, both from Red Hat's documentation, > Debian's and the man files. One thing I haven't been able to explain is > why systemd has config files in /etc, /lib, /run, and /usr/lib. /li

Re: removing file??

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 07:41:25AM +, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > To resolve the conflict you need to figure out what is the (other) owner of > '/usr/include/codeblocks/Alignment.h'. It says it right there in the error message. > > trying to overwrite '/usr/include/codeblocks/Alignment.h', wh

Re: removing file??

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:21:15PM -0500, Amn wrote: > jamiil@ArbolOne:~$ sudo apt clean > jamiil@ArbolOne:~$ sudo apt install codeblocks-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: >   co

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