Proper use of checkrestart

2023-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have a script that fully updates a machine each night around 4:00 AM. It also reboots the machine as required. I noticed Debian has checkrestart. The man page is at https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/debian-goodies/checkrestart.8.en.html. I want to ensure I understand "Exit

Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens?

2023-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 3:42 AM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > This is not a debian question per se (more like a Linux bash one), > but I wasn't able to find an answer on the Internet. > > Here is first the problem I am having before you start reading a > conspiracy theory into it ;-) > > I need

Re: Putting important stuff exclusively in the subject [was: is it imminent that bookworm becomes stable?]

2023-04-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 5:36 AM hl wrote: > > > On 4/25/23 15:39, dmacdoug wrote: > > It's not that readers can't see both the message and the subject line at > > the same time, it's more a matter of expectations. > > > > There are a large number of ways to read messages from the list. I happen

Re: AW: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you areusing the wrong driver

2023-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 1:44 PM Curt wrote: > [ ...] > > I bought a HL-L2350DW not too long ago after my HL-2030 experienced a paper > jam > that wouldn't go away even though there was no longer any visible paper > stuck anywhere and in my infinite patience I kind of ripped the thing > apart and

Re: Starting stunnel with systemd.

2023-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:57 PM wrote: > > After starting interactively, stunnel works. > > To automate, this service file was created. > > $ cat /etc/systemd/system/stunnel.service > [Unit] > Description=StunnelStarter > Documentation=man:stunnel(8) > After=network.target auditd.service > >

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 4:49 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On April 22, 2023 12:58:24 PM Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >> On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 at 20:53, William Torrez Corea >> wrote: >>> >>> I want to delete the Gnome desktop environment. >>> >>> What command is used for an elimination complete? >>>

Re: tmp on tmpfs

2023-04-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:14 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-04-19 08:34:50 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > There is one downside to /tmp on tmpfs: it eats RAM. You gotta > > have some of it (currently I've 9G free on / and 16G RAM). > > True, and when I used tmpfs in the past (in

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:46 PM Frank wrote: > > Op 18-04-2023 om 16:33 schreef Vincent Lefevre: > > On 2023-04-15 21:59:19 +0200, Frank wrote: > >> Op 15-04-2023 om 18:12 schreef Tixy: > >>> Testing doesn't get explicit security support so there's no point in > >>> having 'testing-security'

Disable laptop suspend and hibernate when plugged-in or charging?

2023-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have a Pinebook Pro, https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ . The laptop suspends or hibernates even when charging. I cannot SSH into it. I want to disable suspend or hibernate while the laptop is plugged-in. I visited https://wiki.debian.org/Suspend , but it does not discuss the

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:45 AM wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 09:20:22PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > Corporations don't need browser cooperation for Data Loss Prevention > > > (DLP) (but they already have it). Corporations just run an > >

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 4:52 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:06 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > > > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > Now, personally I don't feel this is a threat model that I need to > > > worry

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:06 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Now, personally I don't feel this is a threat model that I need to > > worry about. I just use plain old http sources at home, and if "They" > > learn that I've downloaded rxvt-unicode and

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 10:08 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > ... > In the long term, now that I'm retired, I hope to drop Windows > completely - but not quite today :-). ++ My family went Windows-free about 2014. Grandparents, parents and me are all using Linux. I cut them over to Linux because of

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:09 AM wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:01:27 +0100 > Alain D D Williams wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:52:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > While we are talking about this, is there any reason why all the > > http: should not be https: ? > > > > I have done

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 4:26 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 16/4/23 03:57, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 15/4/23 19:41, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > >>> Why not just everyone attack each other? > >> > >> There have not been any attacks whatsoever on any users. > >> > >>> This looks like an uncontrolled

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:06 PM wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 02:02:39PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > If you wish to wander from the convention, then don't be surprised > > when unexpected things happen. > > Unexpected things happen to me

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 1:52 PM wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:12 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > Some mail services apparently treat this "discard incoming mess

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:12 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > ... > Some mail services apparently treat this "discard incoming messages that > look like duplicates of ones you already have a copy of" behavior as a > feature; Gmail is the best-known example. That has problems when (as > with this

Re: https://: vs. https://:.

2023-04-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 3:30 PM wrote: > > Noticed this oddity when working with the new service. > > $ nslookup hornby.islandhosting.com > Server: 192.168.0.1 > Address:192.168.0.1#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: hornby.islandhosting.com > Address: 158.69.159.172 >

Re: the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?")

2023-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 1:29 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > > >> I recommend to go fanless whenever possible. > >> Computers should be silent. > > > > Yeah, optimally ... > > What would happen, if we started a political movement based on > nationalism and Unix? > > What would be the first thing we would

Re: How: Require root password instead of user password for GUI programs

2023-04-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 8:36 AM B.M. wrote: > > I configured my system such that some users are in group sudo, but they are > asked for the root password instead of just their user password by creating a > file within /etc/sudoers.d/ with the line: > > Defaults rootpw > > This is working just

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 1:37 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 06:29:50PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > But cropping and ignoring the actual point of Stefan's mail rather > > misses the point and insults him. For example, three CVEs chosen at > > random from the

Re: package libxnvctrl0 installed by xfce, but nouveau is installed

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 9:18 AM zithro wrote: > > I have a bug with the nouveau driver shown in dmesg, so I looked up for > solutions. > On freedesktop.org, they say to remove everything concerning nvidia > first, and only installing/using "nouveau" packages. > On my system, I found the package

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 9:46 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Here are three more data points. > > > >* Emacs - 41 CVEs since 2000 [1] > >* Vi - 61 CVEs since 1999 [2] > >* Vim - 656 CVEs since 2001 [3] > > > > I'm not sure how many CVEs overlap for Vim due to Vi. > > I don't know what

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:31 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > >> I saw many commands in /bin and /usr/bin are written by > >> perl. is perl still the first choice for sysadmin on linux? > > > > I am surprised this thread has not start

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 4:59 AM wrote: > > I saw many commands in /bin and /usr/bin are written by perl. > is perl still the first choice for sysadmin on linux? I am surprised this thread has not started a mini-flame war. About the best you can say is, Perl is one of the more popular scripting

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. For completeness, here is the Debian procedure for a release upgrade: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade . Jeff

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. > > This morning, I got a mail from unattended-upgrades, which said: > > > Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: > > Debian stable: > >guile-2.2-libs w3m > > and > > Package

Re: ssh-add after graphical login

2023-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:57 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 08:53:48AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:43 AM Yassine Chaouche > > wrote: > > > > > > I'd like something to run ssh-add right after I login to m

Re: ssh-add after graphical login

2023-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:43 AM Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > I'd like something to run ssh-add right after I login to my desktop > (KDE). > ssh-add needs to prompt me for my passphrase, > and doesn't need any privileges. > > What are my options? You can remove the passphrase from the key. Then

Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

2023-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:10 PM Yvan Masson wrote: > > Using Debian testing with KDE, can someone tell me which package > provides a virtual keyboard for KDE ? I installed > qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin but it does not appear in KDE preferences > (although it works on SDDM). > > I already tried

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:55 PM Default User wrote: > [...] > My new machine does not seem to be listed there. Not surprising, since > manufactured in 2023-January. Components used in the machine may be listed. I got lucky on a HP laptop with an Ice Lake processor

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:55 PM Default User wrote: > > I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 laptop. Came with > Windows (ugh!) preinstalled. > My old Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3542 laptop (made in 2014) just died. So > this one should work, right? > > No. Also see

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:36 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum > verification file and am wondering if that program and the rest of the > shaxxxsum programs have one or more bugs that could account for these > failures. That

Re: auto restarting in crontab

2023-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 7:03 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > p...@ymail.ne.jp wrote: > > > > For dev stuff, for example, I have many versions of ruby installed > > > > in the system by rbenv. > > > > > > > > Since I often change default ruby

Re: home server for email box

2023-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 9:05 PM Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 13/3/23 06:39, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > O > >> Each of those options has been chosen by the mail list administrator. > >> > >> As a general principal it's a good thing to know the system sending you > >> mail > >> is genuine. Given

Re: real debian or true debian?

2023-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 9:02 PM wrote: > > When such a debian (the digital product) is authentic, should we say it > "real debian" or "true debian"? > > I am not sure about this statement. I am having trouble parsing what you are asking... What is the context? Debian provides distribution

Re: SIP servers.

2023-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 7:54 PM wrote: > > Appears that repro remains unavailable. > https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Repro > > Also ekiga is gone. > > What are the current recommendations for SIP servers? There's also osip, https://www.gnu.org/software/osip/ . The last time I checked

Re: List admin email address?

2023-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 1:32 AM john doe wrote: > > On 3/11/23 06:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > I receive bounces when using the debian-users list (see below). I'd > > like to get the bad email address removed from the list. > > > > I want to conta

List admin email address?

2023-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I receive bounces when using the debian-users list (see below). I'd like to get the bad email address removed from the list. I want to contact the list admin, but I cannot find a contact at [1] or [2]. How do we contact the list admin? Thanks in advance. [1]

Re: Excel Spreadsheet to PDF (was: Re: PDF on debian)

2023-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:42 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:50:08 +0800 > Corey Hickman wrote: > > > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested > > way? I know I can program with java to implement that, but if there > > are existing command-line

Re: No /

2023-03-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 11:34 AM Michael Lee wrote: > > Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings, logins, > etc.? Also see Data Management, https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html . Jeff

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 01:02:54 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > The 'p

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface > > does not move around once installed, the interface will always have > > th

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 10:46 AM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > [...] > $ sudo lshw -class network > *-network DISABLED >description: Ethernet interface >product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller >vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >physical id: 0

Re: ssh bug known_hosts?

2023-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jeremy Ardley wrote: > [...] > However I've found the cause of the problem, but not necessarily > resolved the bug. > > For some reason on my journey /etc/ssh/ssh_config had acquired > > UserKnownHostsFile /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts > > changing to > > #

Re: solution to / full

2023-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:35 AM lina wrote: > > My / is almost full. > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev126G 0 126G 0% /dev > tmpfs26G 2.3M 26G 1% /run > /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 21G 966M 96% / > tmpfs 126G 15M 126G

Re: ssh bug known_hosts?

2023-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:49 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > I may have found a bug in openssh. > [...] > I have created a ~/.ssh/config file with contents > > Host jeremy_client > HostName client.example.com > User jeremy > IdentityFile ~/.ssh/com.example.jeremy.id_rsa Does

Re: ssh bug known_hosts?

2023-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:49 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > I may have found a bug in openssh. > > I raise it here as the ssh mailing list is actually a newsgroup that > no-one seems to use. You might give comp.security.openssh a try: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.security.ssh . That is the

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 4:03 PM Brian wrote: > > On Tue 28 Feb 2023 at 15:35:43 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:53 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:32:27PM +, Tixy wrote: > > > >

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:53 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:32:27PM +, Tixy wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 13:16 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > [...] > > > All I did was modify /etc/apt/sources.list from Bullseye to Bookworm, then > > > I ran apt update and

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:17 PM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > [...] > All I did was modify /etc/apt/sources.list from Bullseye to Bookworm, then I > ran apt update and apt upgrade. I guess I could have run apt full-upgrade and > that probably would have worked better. Yeah, you were supposed

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

2023-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:51 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 24 Feb 2023 at 22:43:49 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > > [...] > I see you rebooted, and you get the same address. It's ambiguous as > to why: it could have been stored, which makes things more efficient > when a number of machines

Re: dell OptiPlex

2023-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 3:24 AM Matthew Norris wrote: > > [...] I have this Dell Optiplex with 32 RAM and an SSD with an Intel i5-4590 > CPU. Can I install and use Debian as my daily driver? Most likely. A Core i5 is a 64-bit processor circa 2014; see

Re: Evolution doesn't receive messages in Debian 11.

2023-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 2:47 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-02-23 at 13:54 +1100, David wrote: > > The command I suggested reports packages whose origin is unknown to the apt > database. There's 118 of them in your output, including g++-9, many libs > and 6 kernels, pythons 2.7 and 3.9

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

2023-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 1:43 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 21 Feb 2023 at 13:48:58 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:26 PM Christoph Brinkhaus > > wrote: > > > [...] > > > > But backing up... I suspect there's something wr

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

2023-02-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:26 PM Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > [...] > > But backing up... I suspect there's something wrong with your static > > ip address assignment. The address is already taken, the netmask is > > wrong, or the gateway is wrong. > > > > Looking back through this thread, I did

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

2023-02-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:45 PM Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > Am Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:00:56PM +0700 schrieb Max Nikulin: > > On 20/02/2023 21:44, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > > Am Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 09:59:20AM +0700 schrieb Max > > > > Perhaps to > > > get rid of 169.254.x.y addresses, it

Re: Looking for an advanced offline touch typing tutor

2023-02-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 9:04 AM Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > I've been thinking : > why does the space bar span 6 keys? The space originated as two keys, one on each side of the typewriter. When it was implemented, the designers decided to join the two keys into a bar.

Re: ssh pub.key

2023-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 8:21 PM wrote: > > Normaly i use the same ssh.pub.key for different servers; Does this mean you use the same SSH keys for your user account, and SSH into servers with the one key pair? If so, I think this is expected. Or do you mean all the servers/sshd use the same SSH

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

2023-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 9:28 AM wrote: >[...] > -- > rhk > > (sig revised 20221206) > > If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again; leave attributions; avoid HTML; > avoid top posting; and keep it "on list". (Oxford comma (and semi-colon) > included at no charge.) If you revise the topic, change

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

2023-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 2:27 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 12:53:25AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 11:22 AM Geert Stappers > > wrote: > > > > > > Having installed package openvswitch-switch and doing `ip route` I do get

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

2023-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 11:22 AM Geert Stappers wrote: > > Having installed package openvswitch-switch and doing `ip route` I do get > > 169.254.0.0/16 dev ovs-system scope link src 169.254.201.7 metric 1004 Those are called "APIPA's". Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA). The host parts

Re: cpu supported?

2023-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 1:57 AM Tom wrote: > > IsIntel® Core™ i5-10600K Processor > > Is this processor supported? Which release be best. The Core i5-10600K is a 10th gen/IceLake processor. It is supported by the linux kernel. There are no microcode updates (yet?) on my Core i5-1035G1 10th gen:

Re: snapd vs apt

2023-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 4:56 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 01:48:15 +0800 > winnie hw wrote: > > > When both snapd and apt sources are available, which one should I > > choose for package installation? Though I found the package versions > > in snapd are a bit newer than apt.

Re: Flatpak memory usage

2023-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 1:11 AM wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:36:12PM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > [...] > > > I find the trend disturbing. If you have a lot of apps running, and > > they're all these types of packages, you're going to be using > > considerably more memory

Re: Fw: locating blocked port

2023-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 5:24 PM wrote: > > [...] > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 06:09:32 -0500 > From: Haines Brown > To: debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > Subject: Re: locating blocked port > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:09:28PM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > >

Re: OT: Charities (a rant)

2023-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 9:59 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I use Amazon Smile with SPI so my shopping benefits open source. > > Of course, it benefits Amazon first and foremost :-) > The program is going away. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/tech/amazon-smile-shut-down/index.html My guess is, it

Re: Unexpected permission denied

2023-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 2:54 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > [...] > Rechecked, thanks. The vendor directory didn't have x permissions. > Fixed. Now to track down all the other files similarly afflicted in the > screaming pile of manure called drupal. > > root@gram01:/# ls -ld

Re: Unexpected permission denied

2023-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 2:34 AM wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 02:51:05PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > [...] > > > 0.41 lstat("/var/www/grammartiste.com/web/vendor/autoload.php", > > 0x7fffdc580970) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > 0.34

Re: USB enumeration issue

2023-01-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:12 PM Matthew McAllister wrote: > > > Also, looking at old kernel logs from back when it was working would be > > useful (/var/log/kernel.N.gz where N if the biggest number there is). > > Hopefully that will show what device is on usb 1-5 (though I believe port > >

Re: laptop frozen when opening apps, debian testing with gnome

2023-01-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 1:00 PM Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz wrote: > > since the latest full-upgrade three days ago on my laptop the computer gets > completely frozen sometimes, yesterday got frozen few times when i tried to > open zoom. today few times when i tried to open brave browser. completely

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

2023-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:15 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:47:02PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris > >wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > &

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

2023-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM 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 from a Debian

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

2023-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [...] > >How did you create the flash device - what command did you use? > > After downloading the official netinst iso image, I copied it to the > flash stick (I

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 11:37 AM Charles Curley wrote: > > I upgraded an i386 machine from bullseye to bookworm. Postfix now > refuses to run. > > root@white:/var/spool# systemctl start postfix@-.service > Job for postfix@-.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. > See "systemctl status

Re: Cloning a disk: partclone?

2023-01-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:50 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > On my main PC, I would like to clone my boot drive onto another disk for 2 > reasons: > > 1. Use a larger disk for the main drive > 2. Create an emergency recovery disk > > A new Debian package to me is "partclone". Questions: > > + Can that

Re: OpenSolaris Boot Environements equivalent

2023-01-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 6:28 AM Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > Hello all, > > I was wondering if there was anyone working on an equivalent of OpenSolaris > BE? > Basically, > It automatically creates ZFS snapshots of the whole system each time you do a > system upgrade. > Next time you boot, >

Re: OpenSSL 3.0 support for Debian11

2023-01-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 1:19 AM David wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 10:24, Ben Lavender wrote: > > > Stable releases don't always provide the latest software, generally that > > isn't always respectively "stable". > > > > The latest seems to be available via the repositories Debian testing

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

2023-01-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 6:25 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > > On 2023-01-16 13:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > 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

Re: Passwords

2023-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:55 AM DdB wrote: > > Am 17.01.2023 um 07:14 schrieb Stanislav Vlasov: > > вт, 17 янв. 2023 г. в 11:01, David : > >> Looking on the internet it says the passwords are stored in /etc/passwd > >> and /etc/shadow > > > > In /etc/shadow only password's hashes, some data,

Re: Dependency omitted in the details of passwd package

2023-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 4:39 PM Horia Marandoiu wrote: > > Package: passwd (1:4.8.1-1) does not work without libpam-ldap , being a > library which is not listed on the dependency section of the page dedicated > to the package passwd https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028917

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 8:43 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have a Freedom Box Pioneer (hardware is an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 > unit with a Samsung 128 GB micro-SD card. The micro-SD is partitioned > into 2GB boot ext2 and the remainder as the root partition as BTRFS. > > The thing has been

Re: fstrim(8) Recommendation

2023-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 9:45 PM John Conover wrote: > > I'm installing an SSD replacement for an HD in a small 24/7 mail > server. > > I would appreciate suggestions for the most reliable way to do > fstrim(8). Reliability is more important than speed, and the machine > will require a swap

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

2023-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
nnection. > > The advice of Jeffrey Walton to change the permission would be my first help > too. > > fw1 indicates to be a FireWire device, so I'm out; never possessed one. > > But I stumble about the uncommon naming: usually it's fw0, not fw1. > Do you have a second FireW

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

2023-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 3:08 PM gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/11/23 12:17, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > gene heskett wrote: > >> What happened to kino? That was an all in one package, and while kdenlive > >> is > >> pretty, it can't capture from the camera... > > > > Thought everyone is using VLC

Re: PowerBook G4 OS

2023-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 4:04 PM Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > On 1/10/23 22:45, Bob Crochelt wrote: > > Good afternoon: > > I have a Powerbook G4 currently running Debian 8 (Jessie). Is there a > > more recent release supported on PPC, and where could I find it please? > > No, there is no release

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

2023-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 6:43 PM Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > > If I remember correctly, all Windows EXE have an string saying: > > This program cannot be run in DOS mode. A couple of small nits... They are called PE/PE+ programs. The string "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" is called the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2023 #7

2023-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 7:57 PM Ramão Mamoré Luciano Martins wrote: > > Peço para sair desta lista. > Desejo não receber e-mail dessa lista https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe

Re: Limiting ssh access: by MAC Address?

2023-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 11:34 PM Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On 3 Jan 2023, at 22:07, Tom Browder wrote: > > I ... would like to access my home server from my laptop ... > > > > On 5 Jan 2023, at 04:13, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > ... > > Avoiding the ke

Re: Limiting ssh access: by MAC Address?

2023-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 5:45 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 2:20 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> I've also thought about TOTP dns requests as a type of port knocking : a > &g

Re: Limiting ssh access: by MAC Address?

2023-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 2:20 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > ... > > I've also thought about TOTP dns requests as a type of port knocking : a > dns request to .knock.example.com would open the ssh port for a > minute. Small local webpage to do the TOTP port knock in javascript > should work anywhere.

Re: Limiting ssh access: by MAC Address?

2023-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 5:07 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > Is it possible to use UFW to limit ssh access to a server by an external host > by its MAC address? > > I now have a permanent IPv4 address for my home IP router and would like to > access my home server from my laptop when away from home,

[OT] The DIY D-Day A movement taking on the likes of Apple is winning a major battle for consumers.

2023-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
A good article on the Right to Repair in the US in general, and New York in particular. For New Yorkers, the state has a comprehensive law going into effect on July 1, 2023. New Yorkers will have reasonable priced access to tools, parts, and manuals required to fix their devices.

Re: request a replacement for Thunderbird + Enigmail

2023-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 2:47 AM DdB wrote: > > i feel the time has come to find a more up-to-date replacement for my > email-solution, but ... > > Up til now, i am using Thunderbird (52.9.1 (64-Bit) + Enigmail + > ToneQuilla + Virtual Identity and more ...) on stretch from inside a >

Re: Network bridge usage.

2023-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 8:47 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > 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.

How to request a package update?

2022-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I bought a new SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GYM5F8G). When I inserted the thumbdrive, smartmontools reported the drive as failing. I think the problem is in smartmontools, and I think smartmontools needs an update from 7.2 to 7.3. I want to file

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

2022-12-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 1:25 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > > [...] > > It had a 16GB sandisk microSD card although I was only using c 3GB at > the beginning. > > On 21st December the kernel remounted the card ro - but (almost) > everything continued to work - my daily backups take a snapshot (which >

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

2022-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 2:27 PM Mark <196...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > I have no idea who to report this issue to. For Kali issues, see https://www.kali.org/community/ Jeff

Re: Dell CMOS Setup -> System Configuration -> SATA Operation -> RAID On vs AHCI

2022-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 3:59 AM David Christensen wrote: > On 12/23/22 23:16, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 10:29 PM David Christensen wrote: > >> [...] > >> When I boot the flash drive in a Dell Precision 3630 Tower that has > >> Windows 1

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