Re: [OT] Helpful attitude

2019-08-09 Thread John Hasler
Étienne writes: > ...profanity... Profanity is a matter of context. As used in this discussion "shit" is just a synonym for "manure". -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-09 Thread John Hasler
nted to replace it some time but I want something ARM-based. This is the first suitable board I've seen that has dual ethernet. I'll stick it in a box along with the modem, the switch, and a power supply. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
ts, but does not appear to actually be available. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
ent for you. It is a tort, and is grounds for the patent owner to sue for actual damages (there are no statutory damages as with copyright). Thus while there is no statutory exemption for personal use there is an effective one. Illustrative is how Debian deals with software patents: it ignores them. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
cludes an entire operating system. It can completely bypass Linux without you even knowing that it is there. Very useful for large organizations with thousands of machines that they need to centrally administer, but... -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
a copy of the book the buyer agreed not to resell the copy. That publisher lost in court. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread John Conover
Does this mean ntp(1) is running periodically? Thanks, John BTW, the reason for the question is that the RPi documentation claims ntp(1) is run ONLY AT BOOT to set the system time. I have a 3b+ that has been running many weeks with less than a 100 mS system clock error, implying that ntp

Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread John Conover
Raspbian sets its system clock on power up. Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock periodically? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
"free" services such as Gmail. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
gineering for compatibility purposes and lost in court. These sorts of "licenses" are actually attempts at a civil contract. They really have nothing to do with patent or copyright law. A civil contract requires agreement in advance, though. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
l a "free" text editor that was distributed on the Net back in the last century that barred use by the South African police. It would have qualified for inclusion in Non-free. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread John Hasler
pyware coded into it[1] might not work right. [1] Or maybe there isn't any and they are really just fixing bugs that could be security risks. Or maybe both. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-07 Thread john doe
code_3.20160316.3_amd64.deb > > Size: 31116 > MD5sum: 7056e449d8bac87d85a4e434379d0e6e > SHA256: f7bddaf712ffaa833ff65ef94bdd86720d55c2c56ae982c3db58181bbe70f147 > None-free is a repository that you enable if you need to, it is not the default in Debian if I am not mistaking. -- John Doe

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Joe Pfeiffer writes: > The LICENCE.amd-ucode file > includes the paragraph: >You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this >Software or any portion thereof. Quite unenforceable, of course. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread john doe
eco > > [1] https://kobol.io/ > [2] http://gnubee.org/ > [3] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/ > I don't have a room dedicated to my devices, is there any solution that is fan less? Url (3) looks to be the case. -- John Doe

Re: 3 phase power converters

2019-08-04 Thread John Hasler
ree-phase machines is that VFDs operating from single phase are limited by the need for large filter capacitors. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: 3 phase power converters

2019-08-03 Thread John Hasler
mation of three phase but note that two of the phases are connected to the single phase lines. This means that you have neither a neutral nor a grounded conductor (unless you are in Europe in which case you have corner-grounded delta). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-02 Thread john doe
On 8/2/2019 11:09 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:15:43AM +0200, john doe wrote: >>>> cvlc >>>> https://bcsecurelivehls-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/621275/153909771/master.m3u8 >>>> \ >>>> --sout '#stan

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-02 Thread john doe
On 8/1/2019 10:06 PM, john doe wrote: > On 8/1/2019 9:55 PM, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 09:25:53PM +0200, john doe wrote: >>> I'm trying to follow the example of (1, 9.2.4. HTTP streaming) but I'm >>> getting nowhere:

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-01 Thread john doe
On 8/1/2019 9:55 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 09:25:53PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> I'm trying to follow the example of (1, 9.2.4. HTTP streaming) but I'm >> getting nowhere: >> >> "9.2.4. HTTP streaming >> Stream in H

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-01 Thread john doe
On 8/1/2019 5:27 PM, john doe wrote: > On 8/1/2019 4:10 PM, Reco wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 03:56:16PM +0200, john doe wrote: >>> On 8/1/2019 1:26 PM, Reco wrote: >>>>Hi. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:33:26PM +0200, john doe w

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-01 Thread john doe
On 8/1/2019 4:10 PM, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 03:56:16PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> On 8/1/2019 1:26 PM, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:33:26PM +0200, john doe wrote: >>>> On 8/1/2019 10:42 AM, Kevin DAGNEAU

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-01 Thread john doe
On 8/1/2019 1:26 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:33:26PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> On 8/1/2019 10:42 AM, Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: >>> Le 01/08/2019 à 09:41, john doe a écrit : >>>> On 7/31/2019 1:04 PM, john doe wrote: >>>>&g

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-01 Thread john doe
On 8/1/2019 10:42 AM, Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: > Le 01/08/2019 à 09:41, john doe a écrit : >> On 7/31/2019 1:04 PM, john doe wrote: >>> Answering from this e-mail to all of the answers. >>> >>> On 7/30/2019 1:50 PM, Celejar wrote: >>>> On Tue,

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-01 Thread john doe
On 7/31/2019 1:04 PM, john doe wrote: > Answering from this e-mail to all of the answers. > > On 7/30/2019 1:50 PM, Celejar wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:04:10 +0200 >> john doe wrote: >> > stream from the above (VLC does it, so I should be able to do the same)

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread John Hasler
ar but not connected to the neutral. Hilarity ensued. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-31 Thread john doe
Answering from this e-mail to all of the answers. On 7/30/2019 1:50 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:04:10 +0200 > john doe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I listen to a webradio for which I have a direct URL but my network >> music players do not support the

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
ver that > the boot sequence has fallen back to the useless one where the > floppy drive is first, followed by the hard drive followed by the > CDROM. > Why not "simply" deconnecting the hdd once booted reconnecting it? Granted, it's clearly not ideal! :) -- John Doe

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
> > They're also pleasantly low-noise and fairly power-efficient. > For a fanless solution the 'apu' from 'pcengines' are not that bad. -- John Doe

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread John Hasler
ted equally between the two 120 V lines in the breaker panel. Electricians incorrectly refer two the two 120 V lines as phases and the grounded conductor as the neutral. Three phase is perfectly legal if you are willing to pay for it, though. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread John Hasler
ouse wiring would have gone to every house on the block... -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
ay forward, how would I go about it? Obviously, asking for a compatible stream would be ideal but if I find a way to do it on my own I could also apply this method to other stream. I'd like to only do it with Debian packages. Any help is appreciated. -- John Doe

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-29 Thread John Hasler
They don't have to be on the same branch circuit: just on the same "phase"[1]. There is probably a gadget available that bridges the signal between phases. [1] They aren't really phases but everyone calls them that. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-29 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > Most people won't have RF blocking filters at their house electricity > inlet, so there may be some leakage to the next house that's on the > same phase. But if you are the only one on your transformer (common in low-density areas) you are safe from that. --

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-29 Thread John Hasler
tend to use it for your machines, not for talking to your bank. Note that you are free to add application-level encryption. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-29 Thread john doe
entional computing needs. Smartphones and tablets may convince you > to use WiFi, but these devices are insecure anyway, so there's no loss. > What about Powerline (PLC), any better then Wireless with regard to security? -- John Doe

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-27 Thread John Hasler
oks and printed material. It soon became clear to them that the courts would agree that the same material in digital form would get the same protection. The export control laws are not an Official Secrets Act, though the export control bureaucracy would have you believe it is. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-27 Thread John Hasler
difference to the end result. If that level of sanity existed in the export control bureaucracy most of their rules would not exist. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-27 Thread John Hasler
ch. Exporting copies of closed source proprietary software, however, is not. This means that Microsoft has to avoid knowingly exporting restricted material to certain countries. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-26 Thread John Hasler
use they could lose their export licenses for doing things that would not be illegal if they didn't have any. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster

2019-07-18 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-18 14:53, Richard Hector wrote: On 18/07/19 1:29 PM, John Crawley wrote: However, try running in a terminal: echo $$ exec #Then, in the new terminal: echo $$ The two PIDs are different! (or were here) Yes. You exec'd a terminal, which then started a shell. You'll probab

Re: terminal window returns prompt (was: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster)

2019-07-17 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-18 10:29, John Crawley wrote: Hi tomas and Thomas, thanks for your input. I think I have a basic idea of what exec does. However, try running in a terminal: echo $$ exec #Then, in the new terminal: echo $$ The two PIDs are different! (or were here) On 2019-07-17 17:37, Thomas

Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster

2019-07-17 Thread John Crawley
Hi tomas and Thomas, thanks for your input. I think I have a basic idea of what exec does. However, try running in a terminal: echo $$ exec #Then, in the new terminal: echo $$ The two PIDs are different! (or were here) On 2019-07-17 17:37, Thomas Schmitt wrote: John Crawley wrote: In Buster

dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster

2019-07-17 Thread John Crawley
erminal is destroyed, the difference being in whether that's immediate or after closing the new one. Was this a bug in Stretch? I haven't been able to find any references to it. As it happens, I was using that behaviour in a script, but I'll hold that question for a bit... -- John

Re: iOS AirPlay and CUPS

2019-07-12 Thread john doe
drivers (it’s an SCX-3200) > > I can print successfully from my other GNU/Linux boxes... our iOS devices > see the printer, but nothing happens when jobs are sent - they don’t show > up in the queue. > Are you using the 'Bonjour' protocol (1)? 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) -- John Doe

Re: Don't disable recoomends by default

2019-07-12 Thread John Crawley
ng anything beyond the package asked for. If the list looks too long (s)he can always hit (N) and try again with 'apt-get install --no-install-recommends ' -- John

[Off-topic]

2019-07-12 Thread John Hasler
o offend > anyone, but I had my share of devil and then some. These days I prefer > to make do without If you still believe in evil you haven't entirely overcome your religious indoctrination. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Looking for a Couple of Programs in Buster

2019-07-11 Thread John Crawley
version eg: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/ckermit On the Right, "Debian Resources" with, especially, bug reports, the changelog, and labelled as "Developer Information" is the above tracker site page. -- John

Re: chromebook

2019-07-11 Thread John Hasler
useful to talk about evil at all. They are just people doing what works for them (even in government, the biggest and most powerful bigcorp of all). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: systemd-networkd, bridge and containers: unable to ping host from guest

2019-07-11 Thread john doe
s question, but I'm open to suggestions for a > more appropriate place to ask for assistance... > If you can, I would turn off iptables to see if iptables is the culprit. -- John Doe

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread John Hasler
#x27;t know that anything else exists. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-11 16:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 11 iul 19, 15:52:56, John Crawley wrote: On 2019-07-11 15:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote: ...user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and without exposing the recipient to attacks

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-10 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-11 15:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote: ...user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and without exposing the recipient to attacks. Simply not following any web links would be enough I'd have thought? Or are there some more s

Re: HTML mail (was: chromebook)

2019-07-10 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-10 15:31, Reco wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:35:33AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: On 2019-07-10 01:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 06:48:22PM +0200, mjonsson1...@gmail.com wrote: Please post only text, not HTML. If your email agent *cannot* do plain text alone

Re: chromebook

2019-07-09 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-10 01:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 06:48:22PM +0200, mjonsson1...@gmail.com wrote: http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>

Re: fix for no ssh

2019-07-08 Thread John Hasler
nspection > would probably require a complete reworking of the modern economy, > i.e. make it less purely capitalist for a start. More capitalist: eliminate copyrights and patents. Eliminating the capital gains tax break would also help. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [OT] send all email from certain From: addresses into a spam

2019-07-07 Thread John Hasler
I use Mailagent. It can sort on anything in the headers using lex-like rules. You can add rules using Perl regular expressions. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread john doe
le' >> N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository >> can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details. >> E: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease' >> changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing-updates' to 'stable-updates' >> N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository >> can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details. > > root@martha:~# apt-secure > -bash: apt-secure: command not found > > > What do I do? > Don't you have 'testing' in your '/etc/apt/sources.list'? If so, try to change it to 'stable'. -- John Doe

Re: etiquette of sharing executable files

2019-07-07 Thread john doe
step 2 ...). Be verbose as possible in your script by progress messages, error handler. That is every questions that you ask here should be addressed in your script! :) -- John Doe

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread john doe
d -u) ]; then if [ $1 != /home/$USER ]; then echo " Directory (${1}) not allowed." >&2 exit 1 fi The idea here is to eider only allow a specific directory to work in or to deny access to some specific directories. The former is easier to implement. While you could execute your script in a chroot, not everyone will be able to use a chroot. -- John Doe

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

2019-06-30 Thread john doe
> Because Debian can easily run as a virtual machine guest. > > Debian has several available virtual machine hosts at its disposal. > Check out the wiki: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization#Using_Debian_to_host_Virtual_Computers > > Cheers, > Depending on what you want to do you could also consider using chroot: https://wiki.debian.org/chroot -- John Doe

Re: Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-06-28 Thread john doe
and tips! > I'm not so sure why you need DNS if it is already working assuming that you are starting with DNS I would suggest you to use Dnsmasq instead of Bind. As far as I understand your question, I would simply "open access" to your web server for all your hosts. -- John Doe

Re: cannot install from backports

2019-06-26 Thread john doe
Gimp 2.10 (from "Debian testing") onto my "Debian > stable" system?* > Simply add in '/etc/apt/sources.list' the lines for Buster but be extremely careful when mixing stable and non-stable pkgs. -- John Doe

Re: Off topic: Carbon.

2019-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe wrote: > "Does history record any case in which the majority was right?" > R A Heinlein Does history record any case in which the opinion of the majority was actually known and recorded correctly and objectively? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-22 Thread John Hasler
ole cluster of servers to cover > locally, the whole ipv6 address space. I don't know what you mean by that. The number of servers does not depend on the size of the address space. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-22 Thread John Hasler
et. https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-699 -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread john doe
wall (OPN Sense) level yet. > > Instead of files, I probably would use 'ipset', that way, you can use the ipset in exim iptables ... -- John Doe

Re: Unreliable systemd user service

2019-06-21 Thread john doe
t of a startup script, but I have > not been able to find any mechanism to delay starting a /user/ service > until the graphical login is ready. > Is it always working if you run the command manually? -- John Doe

Re: Error on Buster while signing rpms

2019-06-20 Thread john doe
On 6/20/2019 9:45 AM, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 19/06/2019 à 20:29, john doe a écrit : >> On 6/19/2019 8:10 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: >>> On 19.06.19 17:03, john doe wrote: >>>> Hi, I'm trying to gpg sign rpms on Debian Buster but I'm getting the >&g

Re: Error on Buster while signing rpms

2019-06-19 Thread john doe
On 6/19/2019 8:10 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 19.06.19 17:03, john doe wrote: >> Hi, I'm trying to gpg sign rpms on Debian Buster but I'm getting the >> following: >> >> $ rpm --resign *.rpm >> *.rpm: >> error: Could not exec gpg: No such file or di

Re: Error on Buster while signing rpms

2019-06-19 Thread john doe
On 6/19/2019 5:34 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 05:31:41PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> On 6/19/2019 5:25 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 05:03:20PM +0200, john doe wrote: >>>> Hi, I'm trying to gpg sign rpms o

Re: Error on Buster while signing rpms

2019-06-19 Thread john doe
On 6/19/2019 5:25 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 05:03:20PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> Hi, I'm trying to gpg sign rpms on Debian Buster but I'm getting the >> following: >> >> $ rpm --resign *.rpm >> *.rpm: >> error: Could no

Error on Buster while signing rpms

2019-06-19 Thread john doe
sh install of Buster. Googling didn't turn up something useful. Is anyone facing the same issue? -- John Doe

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-18 Thread john doe
gt; The rationale for above is most programs on such systems can only be > accessed by users which are member of remaja (teens) group via sudo, so > their sysadmins giving remaja user group full administrator privileges. > Is it dangerous? > We can't answer to this, the pros and cons are to be weighed. -- John Doe

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-17 Thread John Hasler
but only if you were really being random. Humans are > terrible at doing that unaided. An address selected by a human isn't random. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-17 Thread John Hasler
y unroutable address blocks such as > 192.168.xx.xx is now? In addition to the points made by others, the IPv6 address space is so large that were you to assign a random IPv6 address to every computer in existence (including all the embedded systems) the probability of a collision would be negli

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread john doe
reseed file with something like: d-i preseed/late_command string ... Or as kernel boot parameter. >>    before answering the UTC question. The newly installed system >>    will boot via its fresh UUID, but all your old systems will >>    carry on using your LABEL as usual. (I assume that if you're >>    going to keep the new system for any length of time, you will >>    be editing its /etc/fstab anyway, and can set your usual LABEL >>    there, as in the example above.) > > I can't parse that. > D-i allows customisation of the system to be installed to your liking by use of 'kernel boot parameter' or a 'preseed' file. -- John Doe

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread john doe
t; TIA > > Maybe: '/etc/fstab' -- John Doe

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

2019-06-13 Thread john doe
r now I am puzzled about why I have to use 2 > different programs to connect to 2 machines that are largely identical. > Not realy an answer, depending on what you need vnc for, one alternative would be to use Cygwin as an ssh server on the Windows boxes. I would not spend my time on non-up-to-date systems when Windows is involved, one can only hope that the issues you are facing are fixed on up-to-date Windows systems! :) -- John Doe

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-12 Thread john doe
On 6/12/2019 1:38 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Jun 2019 at 11:12:45 +0200, john doe wrote: > >> On 6/11/2019 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 18:25:47 +0200, john doe wrote: >>> >>>> On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: >>>>&g

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-12 Thread john doe
On 6/11/2019 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 18:25:47 +0200, john doe wrote: > >> On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: >>> Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, the preseed file >>> is common for multiple hosts with the exception

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-11 Thread john doe
On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: > Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, the preseed file > is common for multiple hosts with the exception of the hostname. > > boot: auto hostname=try domain=example.com ... > url=tftp://hostname/preseed.cfg > >

Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-10 Thread john doe
s set to 'bad'. I understand the limitations but what is the proper way to specify the desired hostname or are workarounds (1) the way to go? Any help/hints is appriciated. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106614/preseed-cfg-ignoring-hostname-setting -- John Doe

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

2019-06-10 Thread John Hasler
can just barely understand it yourself because *you* will have to understand it in the future and you won't be this clever then. On the other hand "What idiot designed this? Oh. It was me." is an ordinary engineering experience. You can help the maintainers by running Unst

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-10 Thread john doe
ing strategy: >> >> I created, as root, the directory /home/reading_room >> Is '/home/reading_room' a defined user on the host? If no, choosing a home directory with an non-existing user might not be the best idea. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs02.html.en -- John Doe

Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s

2019-06-06 Thread John Hasler
tually I rarely even see them), I'm costing them money by using their search engine. [1] Yes, they could track my (dynamic) ip and/or "fingerprint" my system. They won't. I'm not worth it to them. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s

2019-06-06 Thread John Hasler
arch results. This works pretty well for the average user who is really only interested in major league sports and celebrities. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Recover data from unallocated space

2019-06-05 Thread John Crawley
, but another tool I found quite effective in recovering data from a failing hard disk was ddrescue: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/gddrescue You might want to have a look at it. -- John

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread John Conover
One thing you might try is to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, and set: flat-volumes = no This will fix most problems with pulseaudio, and alsa will work pretty much as expected. John BTW, automatic volume control was added in Windows 10. This was the era that pulseaudio was developed

Re: tftp problem

2019-06-04 Thread john doe
On 6/4/2019 6:27 PM, ghe wrote: > On 6/3/19 11:39 PM, john doe wrote: > > >> 'Bind' means use this adress only. > > Thanks. It means different things in different contexts. Wasn't sure > about this one. > >> 's.*d'? > > That was int

Re: tftp problem

2019-06-03 Thread john doe
kidding. I think -- I don't know what they mean by 'bind'. 'Bind' means use this adress only. > When I ran the file as a shell script, it chatted a bit. And most most > importantly, the daemon started and it started writing into the correct > directory. I need to see if I can get the s.*d word to do that. > 's.*d'? -- John Doe

Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user?

2019-06-03 Thread John Hasler
the USA, and its powers over the Internet here are weak. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: tftp problem

2019-06-03 Thread john doe
On 6/3/2019 4:08 PM, john doe wrote: > On 6/3/2019 3:24 PM, ghe wrote: >> On 6/2/19 11:46 PM, john doe wrote: >> >>> I assume that you have restarted the service? >> >> Yup. Several times on multiple computers. No joy. >> >> I haven't,

Re: tftp problem

2019-06-03 Thread john doe
On 6/3/2019 3:24 PM, ghe wrote: > On 6/2/19 11:46 PM, john doe wrote: > >> I assume that you have restarted the service? > > Yup. Several times on multiple computers. No joy. > > I haven't, though, tried starting with the options added by hand... > $ atftp

Re: Prompt restart services during pkg upgrades preseed file

2019-06-03 Thread john doe
On 6/3/2019 11:40 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 03 Jun 2019 at 09:58:38 +0200, john doe wrote: > >> Hi, while installing Buster using a preseed file I'm getting the following: >> >> Select and install software >> Configuring libpam0g:amd64 >> --

Prompt restart services during pkg upgrades preseed file

2019-06-03 Thread john doe
ny output on the screen. I don't see what I need to change in (1) to avoied that prompt and I can't specify the value of my choise? Any help is appriciated. 1) https://d-i.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt -- John Doe

Re: tftp problem

2019-06-02 Thread john doe
ce of software, but I have to put a link in /srv to /tftpboot to > make it do what tftp is supposed to do. Anybody seen this? Or know how > to fix it? > I assume that you have restarted the service? -- John Doe

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-26 Thread john doe
ice 'rc.local'.: $ systemctl status/enable rc.local The real question here is why the services that you use don't have a service file. -- John Doe

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread john doe
pen right now. > '/bin/sh' on Debian is Dash. So I would say, general shell scripting ability and POSIX compliance (Dash/Posh). Avoiding Bashism if Bash is to be used. -- John Doe

Re: What happened to svn?

2019-05-19 Thread John ff
Arh!  I should have llooked for subversion. Not sure what went wrong but is ok now Sorry ⁣Sent from TypeApp ​ On May 19, 2019, 13:09, at 13:09, John ff wrote: >I tried my usual update from an svn server and it said there was no >such command.  Apt and aptitude say it does not exist.

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