s were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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wrong.
The MUAs who write “Re : ” are wrong.
The MUAs who write “AW: ” are wrong.
The MUAs who put it in base64 are wrong.
It is not a string that is designed to be internationalized, we cannot
expect every MUA to know every stupid local or vanity variant of “Re: ”.
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is urgent, have a local *copy* of
it.
> reach back a limited time span into history before I a-sume Gmail cut
> off access to touching older emails.
If you want mail that works well, start by avoiding services meant for
the lowest common denominator of the general public.
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ther
> HTML or markdown format.
Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it.
> The best course of action in this case is to drop it
Indeed. But we can still discuss cultural issues relevant to
mailing-lists around it.
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ct : virtually—used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a
statement or description that is not literally true or possible
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally>
* used to emphasize what you are saying:
* simply or just:
<https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/literal
label=$1
> cmd=$(sed -n "/$label:/{:a;n;p;ba};" $0 | grep -v ':$')
> eval "$cmd"
> exit
> }
You seem to be investing a lot of effort into a fragile solution to
emulate a deprecated execution control primitive.
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Richmond (12024-05-13):
> sudo bash -c "echo 1 > hello"
Use sh for that.
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to...@tuxteam.de (12024-05-13):
> That's like slicing your morning baguette with the chainsaw.
Worse than that, it will only work from an X11 environment. Certainly
not at boot.
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first tries to redirect the output to the
file and then (if it succeeds) runs sudo that way.
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> `sudo` *is* root.
No need to “investigate”, the answer is obvious: in
sudo foo > bar
… the > bar comes before the sudo.
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ggestions,
Check the PCI ids of your Ethernet controller. Download the kernel image
you are considering, check if any of its modules matches these ids.
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an.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00294.html
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Hans (12024-04-18):
> As I can not fix it
You can manually remove “*SPAM*” from the mail when you reply.
You could even automate it on your end.
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able
> to jury-rig something using the provider's API if necessary.
You probably can. But first check if your VM has an emulated hardware
watchdog.
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st install
and enable the corresponding daemon, and check it works by SIGSTOPing
it.
If your motherboard does not have one, you can probably DIY one from a
RPi or an Arduino.
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Hans (12024-04-11):
> But can this be done in config-files, too?
Depends entirely on the software reading the config file. Some will use
\, some will use something else, some will offer no solution.
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ve some kind of remote access enabled or do you intend to in
the near future?
If not, then you do not need to worry. Even less if you have a firewall
to block any service that might appear by mistake.
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't expecting "username" to be the salt. It looked like a non-option
> argument at first.
Yes, that is super weird, possibly a mistake. All the more reason to
have the original poster clarify their needs.
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not
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d", "\$6\$username\$"), "\n"'
$6$username$7Vzj6uFI0bs770qb.tIdqyMDbBWCoF93TKbZ7GSmU0ktiCcMu5rxgjpumDUram2ulYhVlWycvUMf1jGKbu8sC1
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ur
terminal.
Also, do not be root when you do not need to.
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och, 6. März 2024, 12:22:53 CET schrieb Brad Rogers:
Please remember not to top-post.
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e
same install command again. See also remove below.
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mentation.
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Mariusz Gronczewski (12024-02-23):
> Like, really what kind of person gets angry when they get too much
> details in instruction?
What kind of person writes pages of angry mail when the details are not
liked?
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nce by the phrasing and
accuracy of the question.
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n the
one-line answer.
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Mariusz Gronczewski (12024-02-23):
> So to say it short: It is horrid.
Generic bashing of systemd in favor of a blind cult of the good old ways
are not what I am looking for either, and the unbalanced tone of your
reply makes it look like precisely that.
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systemd's infrastructure. Answers
about the old systlog/logrotate infrastructure are a waste of time since
I already know how they work and they are amply documented elsewhere.
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Hi.
It might be an obvious question, but I do not manage to find the obvious
answer:
How do I tell systemd's logging system to keep authentication logs for
one year and mail logs for one month?
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ou reached this state?
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c() and probably some dynamic linking.
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ou missed part of the question, what you are showing is not “inline of
the command”.
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l shells, at the cost of being slightly less efficient.
And even without a shell.
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anybody know if this syntax works on all shells
> other than bash? csh, korn, dash, zsh …
apt-get install csh
csh
LC_CTYPE=C ls /doesnotexist
^D
apt-get purge csh
Repeat with other shells. And then tell us what you found out.
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.org/~george/comp/live_iso_usb/grub_hybrid.html
https://nsup.org/~george/comp/live_iso_usb/
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ive if you can explain
the issue clearly, I am not surprised it was fixed.
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copy-selection(CLIPBOARD)
… is simpler.
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hw (12024-01-31):
> Well, I doubt it.
Well, doubt it all you want. In the meantime, we will continue to use
it.
Did not read the rest, not interested in red herring nightmare
scenarios.
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hw (12024-01-30):
> Yes, and how much effort and how reliable is doing that?
Very little effort and probably more reliable than hardware RAID with
closed-source hardware.
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hw (12024-01-29):
> Ok in that case, hardware RAID is a requirement for machines with UEFI
That is not true, you can still put the RAID in a partition and keep the
boot partitions in sync manually or with scripts.
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at is
almost what I want, but the small gap is blocking: cryptsetup might ask
for the password several times (if the user types it wrong), and the
sound must be played again too in that case.
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asked directly. I
wrote to this list in the small hope of having an answer from somebody
competent who knows what about the issue.
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ssword is
asked”?
In fact, what relation do you see between a timer and cryptsetup asking
for a password?
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Curt (12024-01-26):
> I guess a systemd timer unit constitutes a hack.
A systemd timer in the initrd? Can you elaborate?
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he EFI partition
just contains the data.
Of course, it only works with RAID1, where the data on disk is the data
in RAID.
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nice to
propose I think.
Thanks.
1: No need to suggest I can hack the initrd to replace askpass by a
script that plays the sound before running the real askpass, I already
thought of it. I would like something robust, avoid hacks.
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> This layout was invented by Matthew J. Garrett for Fedora and is still
> the most bootable of all possible weird ways to present boot stuff for
> legacy BIOS and EFI on USB stick in the same image.
I think I invented independently something similar.
https://nsup.org/~george/comp/live_iso_usb/grub_hybrid.html
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=30712, type=lvm
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Tim Woodall (12024-01-26):
> Until your UEFI bios writes to the disk before the system has booted.
Hi. Have you ever observed an UEFI firmware doing that? Without explicit
admin instructions?
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FI
└─LVM
It is rather ugly to have the same device be both a RAID with its
superblock in the hole between GPT and first partition and the GPT in
the hole before the RAID superblock, but it serves its purpose: the EFI
partition is kept in sync over all devices.
It still requires setting the non-volatile variables, though.
Thanks.
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should it be investigated?
Do you believe it used to work? To the better of my knowledge it never
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tick to rescue boot from.
Looks you are confusing RAID with backups. Yes, OS can be reinstalled,
but that still makes “a nominal amount of time” during which your
computer is not available.
Your “spare” SSD would be more usefully used in a RAID array than
corroding on your shelves.
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nd that's that.
If the SSD dies, your system does not boot. Somewhat wasting the benefit
of RAID.
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of booting the
system (inside the LVM) inside the RAID inside the partition.
Which leads me to wonder if there is an automated way to install GRUB on
all the EFI partitions.
The manual way is not that bad, but automated would be nice.
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Franco Martelli (12024-01-19):
> > One case against using partitions on mdraid: if your array gets messed
> > up, you get to recreate those partition tables yourself and that's just
> > hilarious if you don't have a backup. Happened to a friend of mine,
> > reason was a UPS brownout.
> How can I
Nicholas Geovanis (12024-01-15):
> In your dd commands that moved these filesystems, did you specify ibs=
> and/or obs=
> ?
> If so, what values did you use?
Why do you ask this information? How do you think it will be useful?
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Hi.
Andy Smith (12024-01-13):
> As usual you have not bothered to show us what you are talking about
> (the email from smartd)
And that leads you to write a patient and detailed answer, so surely it
was the best way to proceed.
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Show what you get if you cannot read it.
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talking in excess of 20,000 (not difficult to achieve with
> over 1000 CDs to rip) files here, mixed case, and long file names, all.
Pictures or it did not happen.
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way below the
limitations of FAT.
> Even with the smaller sticks, I had to use all upper case, and stick to
> 8.3 names for the files, otherwise the FAT still got overloaded.
What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long
filenames.
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D
r CD: just make the script a little
more powerful and it will rip them at the same time.
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ve not been
abandoned, like old geezers like to pretend, but rather has moved to
using solutions that do not suffer the ugly limitations of
implementations in the kernel?
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next
they seek back a few sectors and check that the overlap matches.
But on the other hand, an audio CD can contain up to 807 mega-octets of
audio, compared to only 703 for a data CD.
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unless you cannot spare 60 megaoctets somewhere, save yourself a lot
of trouble: just run cdparanoia -B then opusenc and put back the audio
CD at the back of the shelf where it belongs.
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elsewhere in the thread) and one
to catch URLs in the text, probably urlview (mentioned by somebody
else).
No need to blame Mutt at all.
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stand what is going on.
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out links displayed by “lynx -dump”.
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raphical web browsers I know are actually very tolerant
of spurious newline characters inserted in pasted URLs, and I suspect it
is on purpose. PDFs from magazines might also have wrapped links.
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Greg Wooledge (12023-12-31):
> Have your browser load THAT file.
Or just have this:
text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput
in your .mailcap file. Possibly along with:
auto_view text/html
in the .muttrc.
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t I observed the new one replaces the old one in the list of
boot options: you might need call efobootmgr manually to set up things
exactly how you want them, using what grub-install did as a reference.
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is a very common word when diagnosing problems.
The best way to deal with that is to ignore the rare honest mistakes and
ban deliberate repeat offenders.
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k their
computer, but that would not be nice to people stumbling upon the
archives (but probably no worse than the average Ubuntu webforum).
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terpreter for the
OCaml language accept “let pi = 3.14;;” and output
“val pi : float = 3.”.
Yet, (some) localized functions now exist with a _l variant taking a
locale_t argument, but no such thing exists for timezone.
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e ability to put back everything in place by quitting and
restarting. Now they are losing the concept of multiple users, and they
are also losing the ability to run several independent instances of the
same program.
Desktop environment suck.
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u move to a mail operator that respects
you.
If you cannot do that easily, all the more reason to do it.
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s://www.generation-nt.com/reponses/la-gestion-de-l-heure-sous-linux-entraide-500251.html
I think it might be of interest, and nowadays LLMs can translate it
correctly I guess.
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ipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
Or possibly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs
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Greg Wooledge (12023-12-15):
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 01:42:14PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Also, note that file names can also contain newlines in general. The
> > only robust delimiter is the NUL character.
>
> True. In order to be 100% safe, the OP's code would nee
batch. For simple scripts, do standard shell. For complex
scripts and interactive use, zsh rulz:
fndar=(${(f)"$(...)"})
fndar=(${(ps:\0:)"$(...)"})
fndar=(**/*(O))
(I do not think zsh can sort version numbers easily, though.)
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ng proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for
>> org.gtk.vfs.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)
That means the issue is in the DBus monster moussaka¹. The odds of
finding a solution in the current circumstances are vanishingly thin.
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gt; After removing raid, I completely redesigned my network to be more inline
> with the howtos and other information.
You know that RAID has nothing to do with the setup of your network,
right?
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Christmas's
> wish :-)
Oh, you mean that. That is not telnet, that comes from the kernel. Even
sleep has this.
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ould be a market niche, wouldn't it?
I am not sure what you are saying: telnet does not have a line mode with
readline editing; anything of that kind you observe is on the server
side. socat, OTOH, has.
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telnet is not bad per se, provided we know
(1) that they happen, (2) if we need them in our use case and (3) how to
turn them off. I guess most people who use telnet as a general network
client do not know either (1) nor (2) nor (3).
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seems to be able to do TCP server.)
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Curt (12023-12-04):
> I think you're buggering yet another fly here.
I think you should read the docs and shut up. I know what I am saying.
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Curt (12023-12-04):
> Telnet doesn't alter the actual data being transmitted
Yes it does, read the doc before posting wrong information here.
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Marco Moock (12023-12-04):
> Is that really the case?
Yes.
> Other applications like telnet or vi don't care about it, so I
> assume(d), it is up to the application to handle it.
Applications can decide to change the mode of the tty or catch SIGINT.
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Marco Moock (12023-12-04):
> ncat also uses ^C to kill the process.
No, this effect of ^C is part of the operating system.
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etwork protocol, you should use a really
transparent client. Traditionally people use netcat (nc), but it handles
EOF approximatively.
For that use, I strongly recommend socat.
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Max Nikulin (12023-11-22):
> Is there a document that describes shell behavior in respect to stdin in
> such cases?
The shell did not eat your stdin here, ssh did.
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Marco Moock (12023-11-22):
> Sorry, not gracious-arp, proxy-arp can be responsible for that.
Thanks for clarifying. But AFAIK, with proxy ARP, the network mask
covers all the networks covered by the proxy. That is not the case here.
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you mean?
On the server, we never enabled an option to accept ARP information that
does not come as a reply to a request from the network stack, if such an
option even exists, so even if such a packet came it should not have
reached the ARP tables.
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Hi.
Since last we have four MAC addresses in the ARP table of a server that
should not be there:
$ ip route
default via XXX.XXX.98.254 dev eth0 onlink
XXX.XXX.96.0/22 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src XXX.XXX.98.94
But:
$ ip neigh | grep -v 'XXX.XXX.9[6789]'
XXX.XXX.103.161 dev eth0
ribed with '--new --help'.
>
> Unfortunately I'm unable to translate to the new interface.
> Any suggestions?
Hi.
What have you tried?
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input and output, going
directly into operation mode skipping the authentication phase.
That way, if a client supports it, you can connect to a IMAP server
through SSH and a key, for example.
It is a tragedy that not more authenticated protocols do not support the
same thing.
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jeremy ardley (12023-11-14):
> I use Bluemail on android. It claims to do threading though I don't use it.
> Bluemail seems competent.
A quick search for screenshots on the web leads to the conclusion that
no, Bluemail does not do threading, just linear conversation.
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| | | | | | /o-o
\o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
\o-o-o
I am sad that so few software implement this one.
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Hi.
hlyg (12023-11-09):
> list doesn't seem to accept my mail, because of big attachment i believe
Good, I do not want to receive big attachments from mailing-lists — and
no attachments at all from this one. And I am far from alone in that
aspect.
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