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ather either an upstream issue or something about
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February; and current is now 6.1.0-22 (6.1.94). (Upstream 6.1 is
at 6.1.96 since a few days ago.)
I suggest upgrading first, and seeing if the problem persists.
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:20:24PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
>
> > After an update today, sendmail is refusing to accept mail. I'm
> > seeing this in the logs:
> >
>
> Hmmm, this update seems to have done a lot of odd
> Jun 30 11:43:00 bottom sm-mta[18852]: AUTH: available mech=DIGEST-MD5
> CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN, allowed mech=EXTERNAL
Update here, it's not apparently an STARTTLS error, it's an AUTH
error. Something in the update last night altered my list of
available AUTH mechanisms.
I manually updated
After an update today, sendmail is refusing to accept mail. I'm
seeing this in the logs:
STARTTLS=read, info: fds=9/4, err=2
Here's the full log from when I try to send a message through my
server with authentication:
Jun 30 11:42:59 bottom sm-mta[18852]: NOQUEUE: connect from [1.2.3.4]
Jun 30
I wonder about another approach where
> files are in a local Git repository. That would allow tracing the
> history of any file. A backup of the extant repository would still be
> necessary.
That sounds a lot like etckeeper, except on a larger scale.
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in a few specific packages might be to point e.g. rss2email at the
package events RSS feed available through tracker.debian.org. At that
point you can use typical email filtering to further filter it down to
only those events you are interested in (for example, only those that
mention "into st
venue to
report bugs. For that, see <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting>.
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that a nailgun is the _appropriate_ tool for that particular job;
without detracting from its usability in _other_ applications.
Sometimes really all you are looking for is a small hammer.
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either of this was stated in the original
question. Please don't add arbitrary requirements later to invalidate
potential answers.
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ression matches
precisely what you want it to match. But unless this is something you
will do very often, I tend to prefer readability over being clever,
even if the readable version is somewhat less performant.
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ne a complete copy of A
>> onto an external drive for each backup; but with most files in A not
>> changing during the backup interval, that is inefficient.
>
> rnapshot
Yes, rsnapshot.
Which is essentially a front-end to rsync --link-dest; so, for
mostly-static data, v
TML.
Once you have HTML, the next step (generating an epub out of it)
should be relatively trivial, possibly to the point that you could
even do it manually.
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s it save money, it also saves on limited physical
resources and results in significantly less e-waste. Yes, _one_
computer may be relatively inconsequential, but in aggregate it does
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On Thursday, June 20, 2024 5:09:35 AM CEST, Jeff Peng wrote:
I am running a small mailserver with debian 11 for many years.
It's quite solid.
Though I have read this article:
https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/debian-12-bookworm-release
do you think there is any need for me to upgrade from 11
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 02:16:14PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
Reading the link that Walton sent, the only case where RTC clock in UTC is
recommended is in the linux/windows dual-boot case. There's no statement that
RTC should be set to UTC besides that. And they say right there why it isn't
m (unlikely), or (b) an unrelated
issue. It's hard to tell from simply a "sometimes it fails" what that
issue might be; maybe this "doveadm" program is doing some extra
validation of some kind, and a rapid execution fails this validation?
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g that the problem in the first place was lack of space, you
should definitely be able to log in to a graphical session and
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before proceeding to the upgrade to
12, to catch any issues that take a while to manifest themselves.
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parameters), add one of vga=0; vga=0x0f04 (leave current settings); or
vga=ask followed by "scan" at the prompt and then select a reasonable
one. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/svga.html.
In /etc/default/console-setup, try setting VIDEOMODE to the empty
string
ing on
the complexity of your setup, you may want to start planning the
upgrade process. (I assume that there is some reason why you haven't
yet upgraded to Debian 12.)
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blem.
In other words, a minimal (non)working example.
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On 3 Jun 2024 11:29 -0500, from tom.brow...@gmail.com (Tom Browder):
> Thanks for your concern and help.
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pecially if
you are seeing the same behavior across two different hosting
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ed) 6.1.0-13 was around the kernel data
corruption bug incident. Check your apt pins to ensure that you're not
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nto the OS. Apparently works between phones and Windows. No internet
connection required, perfect. Doesn't work between ios as you say.
Learn something new every day!
Thanks for that!
Michael Grant
ch a thing. The key word here is EASY. I
can't be hacking someone's phone for an hour just to transfer them a
file.
Michael Grant
gt; I didn't try your script, but may be there is a "\n" missing down
> there?
>
>>> printf "%s\n" "sleep 3;exit" >&6
> ^^^
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keygen -l -f $pubkeyfile
The first field of the output is the key length in bits (for RSA keys,
this is the length of the modulus).
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From "Monte Milanuk"
To debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date 28/05/2024 22:42:07
Subject Re: "Repeaters", etc.
On 5/28/24 11:03, rtnetz...@windstream.net wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Paul M Foster"
I've never see a 3 phase in a house.
Quite some years ago my father inquired
Max, your list looks very similiar to what I'm seeing.
I seem to have suceeded in removing all of the testing packages from
my backup instance, now, just need to flip the ips around and see if
the ship still floats.
The culprits that seemed to be causing the massive dependencies were
libsasl2-2
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 06:11:48PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Most houses in the UK are wired to a single phase, so everything is
> connected together at the consumer unit and powerline works just fine.
> If you have a specific problem, then there are DIN rail powerline units
>
> > # apt remove -s libc6
>
> DO NOT do this.
>
> Downgrade it. DO NOT remove it and then hope to reinstall it later.
> Removing libc6 will break everything.
>
> You seem to be flailing, so let me spell this out as explicitly as
> possible. When I say "downgrade a library package", I mean:
>
> So, which part are you confused about? Did you think there was some
> easy way to FIX a frankendebian? Are you confused because you keep
> thinking "there must be some single apt command that will do all the
> work for me"?
>
> There's not. You get to do all the work by hand.
I am trying to
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 06:59:50AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 06:10:11AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > [...] libdb5.3t64 [...]
>
> You've *clearly* still got testing packages installed.
YES. As
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:59:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> So what did it say after that?
Sorry, here's the entire output of one of the tries:
[bottom /etc/mail #1168] apt install libdb5.3/bookworm db5.3-util/bookworm
db-util/bookworm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency
or more than a decade. But it rarely freezes here. Your
mileage/kilometerage may vary!
Michael Grant
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Hans, thanks for that but I am a bit confused following your
instructions. Did you mean to I should remove the lines for 'stable'
from sources.list? Or remove the lines for 'testing'? I am trying to
get the packages to go back to stable.
I am more familiar with apt than aptitude.
I managed to
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 10:19:48AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 09:56:54AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> > I needed to install a version of sendmail from testing a while back to
> > test it.
>
> Your subject header says "bookworm stable&q
guilty of creating this mess, let's not dwell on that.
Michael Grant
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inning can be wrangled into creating a system with a
mix of bookworm, trixie and sid package versions doesn't mean that
using it to do that is a good idea, or that the resulting system will
perform as expected. Apt pinning is a power tool that requires
understanding of the consequences of the results.
for years with
f2b. Cleaner looking, easier to read rules, structured syntax. I like it.
I can't speak to the performance, i don't have any way to test that.
Michael Grant
, it's _something_
about your Firefox settings.
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/fail2ban/releases lists 0.11.2 (Nov 2020),
1.0.1 (Sep 2022), 1.0.2 (Nov 2022) and 1.1.0 (April 2024).
The release notes for 1.1.0 says 0.11 or 1.0 can be used if you have
Python < 3.5; and 1.0.1 says 0.11 can be used if you have Python < 2.7.
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manage its own /var/log/$subsystem directory itself; it doesn't need
to do anything to anything in /var/log, it only needs to be able to
descend into its own directory.
Yes, you _can_ do it in other ways. But the above is definitely _one_
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he kernel you currently have
installed and which does not exhibit the problem to the same degree,
to reduce the risk that it gets purged for being among the older ones
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is something somehow introduced by Debian, or an upstream bug.
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heck that you get the
+deb12u2 or newer glib package versions; and see if that fixes the
problem before you poke around too much with the configuration (and
risk breaking something else in the process). Then let us know whether
you're still having the same issue or whether that r
so try with --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests
to apt-get install; but there's no denying that present-day Emacs is
fairly heavy-weight.
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me people; for others,
other alternatives provide better trade-offs.
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oject, then filing a bug against the
specific package through the Debian bug tracker is the correct way to
do it. _If so_, then start at <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting>.
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ke there has
otherwise been any _two_ consecutive releases (ignoring Sid) where the
codenames began with the same letter, much less three.
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ion (Debian 12.5
shipped with kernel ABI 6.1.0-18 <https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240210>.)
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the point you're making, but especially if you elaborate at
length (and I would certainly call ~1700 words "at length" in this
context), the specific point you're making should ideally be up front
so that people can quickly and easily tell what you're talking about
and whether that
ferences. If you
have a concrete suggestion for how this could be made clearer, I
suspect that the Debian Installer and Debian Webmaster teams would
appreciate suggestions.
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e host ip.add.re.ss provide any further details?
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e year and month).
Given that 7.6 was released in August 2023 and 24.2 _just_ before
February 2024 (Wikipedia puts it at 31 Jan 2024), the jump from 7.6 to
24.2 represents about half a year's worth of development.
And please trim your mail system's "SPAM" markers from subject lines
when replyi
fects of bugs being
closed incorrectly; but my understanding from the sidelines of this
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ld get me closer to my desired state, I would still like to know
which one and perhaps even what might be an appropriate value for it.
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at scenario?
This happened on a VM that I can't directly influence the hardware
configuration of (a commercially provided VPS), but I should be able
to jury-rig something using the provider's API if necessary.
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to set some more settings to ensure that the system will
automatically reboot on a panic? If so, what?
I know that best is to not crash; this is _in case of_.
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t defaults to resolving IPs and ports to names. At a minimum,
add -n if you are grepping its output for a specific port number. (You
may also want to use grep -w.)
I also suggest to double-check to make sure that you don't have a
firewall blocking the traffic.
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I have built dcc myself from their most recent source. I guess I could
send that to whoever wants it, or the debian dir.
Michael Grant
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From "Marco Moock"
To debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date 08/04/2024 13:25:26
Subject Re: Debian 12, Pyzor, Razor,
On 2 Apr 2024 10:27 +0200, from jch...@student.ethz.ch (Jonathan Chung):
> Can someone help me to file a bug report?
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
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loppy (on a system that couldn't boot from CD) but actually
installing from a CD.
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wishlist against
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data, your network and your usage.
Which will almost certainly be very different from mine, or Alice's,
or Bob's; never mind between my desktop system, Carol's server and
Mallory's laptop; and therefore will require a different
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r wall, I have apcupsd set up to send
notifications to everywhere if there's a power failure, and ahead of a
power-failure system shutdown. Doesn't make much difference if I am at
the console, but is very useful if I'm logged in remotely.
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mt_misc, portal
>
> is there "simple" documentation to explain what these are
Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but have you looked at the
filesystems(5) man page?
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end node is
not much of an issue.
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ing on a PC. The solution is much the same:
use supported software, and install updates promptly. For a firewall,
get one where the vendor offers, or can at least be expected to offer,
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e code but _not_ the built binaries) or
configuration files created later; but that shouldn't be an issue with
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ld's page at its current URL.
The XKCD comic isn't bad, but it completely ignores the issue of just
_how_ the constituent words in the passphrase are chosen. Diceware
_explicitly_ addresses that.
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rarily forced to change them every few months.
Committing _every_ password to memory is completely impractical.
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rases that meet those requirements they usually fail.
Which is why I keep recommending Diceware.
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measly 10^15 times the age of the universe.
I sincerely doubt that guessability of such a password will be the
weak link in overall system security.
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the contents of ~/.ssh/my_key_.pub; do not ever, no matter what
anyone tells you, share the contents of ~/.ssh/my_key_
Step 4: Update ~/.ssh/config to indicate IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_key_
It's not _that_ hard. I'm pretty sure pretty much anyone who can
meaningfully use SSH to start with can f
is generated under the user's control should not present
any significant difficulties.
Also, I suspect that you use the term "certificate" here in a
different sense than elsewhere, because aside from the issues
surrounding PKI certificate revocations (as opposed to
o not let users rotate their keys
themselves; and if so, why on Earth not?
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ord-strong/
[3]: https://www.diceware.com/
[4]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases
[5]: https://xkcd.com/936/
[6]: https://xkcd.com/538/
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that came with
debian have been)?
Second, Tk does not support jpegs without third-party
extensions; probably img::jpeg can help, so you could try to
install libtk-img with apt and then do the Perl equivalent of
package require img::jpeg
Have a nice day,
Michael
I have fail2ban working for sshd on Bookworm. My jail.local file looks like
this:
[sshd]
bantime = 2d
enabled = true
mode = extra
port =
filter = sshd[mode=aggressive]
backend = systemd
journalmatch = _SYSTEMD_UNIT=ssh.service + _COMM=sshd
maxretry = 1
findtime = 300
finger, tmux, or something that manages the utmp getting out of sync.
Any ideas what to do about this?
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onsidered essentially plaintext authentication. Still, it does reduce
the impact of background noise scanning.
And of course, again, having a plan and process to apply updates
(especially but not necessarily restricted to security-related
updates) quickly as they become available.
https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
And the main page
https://www.mailop.org/
On 1 March 2024 05:43:44 GMT, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 01:42:07AM +, Gareth Evans wrote:
>> I have somehow only just discovered that Gmail, Apple and Yahoo are
>> introducing, or have
ontab(1) man
page, as well as in the NOTES section of the cron(8) man page.
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Killing those would have potentially severe negative impacts on my
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_That a process is doing a lot of work doesn't by itself mean that it
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ming ext[234]fs, it looks like you can use tune2fs, udisks and
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See
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On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 5:23:35 AM CET, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I'm not sure how to interpret this combination of things. Do these
default settings mean "the update/upgrade script will run, but it won't
actually do anything"?
kind of...
lines 354-360 (on bookworm) of said script
tion is working at all and not dumping you to a grub> rescue
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lank screen GRUB?
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
What Thomas was trying to do is to get a cheap, fast random number
generator. Shred seems to have such.
You're better off with /dev/urandom, it's much easier to understand what
it's trying to do, vs the rather baroque logic in
snapshot of the data onto the backup
drive, even in the presence of live changes while the backup is
running. (It's not necessarily _quite_ point-in-time atomic because I
have two ZFS pools plus an ext4 file system; but it's close enough to
be a workable approximation.)
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quot; in
libvirt/KVM parlace) will allow you to recreate the VM to that point
in time. You can also clone VMs.
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prudent.
You may want to consider subscribing to
https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/us...@lists.libvirt.org/;
subscription is mailto:users-j...@lists.libvirt.org.
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outSec=,
TimeoutStartSec= and TimeoutStopSec=.
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