Re: Re: Systemd with chroot and under unprivileged user

d.pid" --chuid user:group --chroot "/srv/inst" --exec "/usr/sbin/rsyslogd" -- -i /var/run/rsyslogd.pid -4 -x -- Peter

Systemd with chroot and under unprivileged user

PermissionsStartOnly=true WorkingDirectory=/var/spool/rsyslog AmbientCapabilities=CAP_SYS_CHROOT RootDirectory=/srv/%i RootDirectoryStartOnly=true ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n StandardOutput=journal [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Alias=syslog-chroot.service -- Peter

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

On 5/4/19 9:27 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: Running firefox-esr on buster I don't seem to be able to install addons. I tried selenium IDE and katalon. Has Debian blocked the installation of addons? I don't see indications of that in the docs or the net. Likewise, I know selenium (and maybe

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

I have been just waiting for Mozilla. A few moments ago I saw this: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-addons-disabled-bug.html simple and logical work-around... just remember to check back and re-enable. Peter running ESR on Buster Mate On 5/4/19 2:34 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: Just

Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts."

ktop and can be more efficient than the desktop site. Eg. https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/m/ vs. https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/Personal/ Can debian imitate a mobile system to a server? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by softw

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

ple local HTML home page requires roughly a minute rather than roughly a second. > I tried Opera on a slow laptop ... Thanks for mentioning that. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication and vulnerability of antivirus software.

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

From: Curt Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:08:49 - (UTC) > I've read that setting "Clear history when Firefox closes" is one way to > obviate the problem (you might not want to lose your history, though). Losing the history wouldn't be so bad but I don't see how firefox would have a

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

volatile store and applied to a new process after the reboot. Seems perverse. Firefox now has too much automation and it's causing trouble. We need a way to disable some of this paraphernalia. Or a simpler browser. Can the automatic search capability of the URL bar be disabled? Other ideas? Thank

firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts

Hello again, The configuration mentioned in the subject line is set to "Show your home page". Here the home page is file:///home/peter/html, a local page. Nevertheless startup sometimes displays "Sorry. We're having trouble getting your pages back.&q

Re: A call to drop gnome

On April 18, 2019 7:56:06 PM Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 4/17/19 5:57 AM, songbird wrote: what? synaptic is a GUI interface to package installation and removal. why should this block anything? dpkg and apt do those tasks just fine in a terminal. i only used synaptic in the past to get a

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

same duration? I had some webservers which were also prone to death spiraling, the only real solution was to throw RAM at them until they were able to process the requests and to optimize the database indices to speed up the time spent fetching and sorting rows. Peter

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

Reco writes: Hi Reco, > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:32PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: >> VSZ is the Virtual Memory Size. (...), >>including memory that is swapped out, >> memory that is allocated, but not used, >> and

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

ze. It includes all memory that the process can access, including memory that is swapped out, memory that is allocated, but not used, and memory that is from shared libraries."" Peter

Re: Exploring package interrelationships

ude when you disable the solver there and pick the resulting installation by hand, and decide which suggest/recommend you follow, and which non-essential package you might even not install. Peter

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

Dan Ritter writes: > Peter Wiersig wrote: > > ZFS is now in two incompatible versions: Oracle's, and ZFSonLinux, > which is now effectively the parent for all the other efforts including > FreeBSD's ZFS. The biggest problem is the incompatible license which makes the code un

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

s license protects me better as a developer and as a user, is a non-malicous cancer from my point of view. And yes, the FSF GFDL is a mistake. Peter

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

Peter Wiersig writes: > > I would be pissed if my OS removes snapshots I might or might not need > in the future. That's a release critical bug in my eyes. Yeah, I know > Microsoft and Apple do that automatically if your capacity runs out, but > that's also why I don't recomm

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

like a debian desktop/notebook/tablet where snapshots were implemented in a openSUSE manner, so that I can simply forget about updates, have them installed in background und can go to the snapshot if problems arise. Peter

Detour: notmuch advertisement (was: emacs save and kill buffer for (neo)mutt)

isplay the search results, where I filtered for debian-user and unread before. Yours, Peter

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

Lee writes: > > How does one tell if putty (0.67-3+deb9u1) has all the security fixes > that are in 0.71? I think that's what p.d.o is trying to communicate with the bold red [SECURITY] badge I cut out while pasting the info. Peter

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

ings on the fly with the > debian version of putty is .. disappointing at best. I only saw screenshots of linux PuTTY but the settings menu was featured in the Gnome Desktop screenshot. Peter

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

ian.org/stretch/putty also available in jessie or buster Peter

Re: putty go slow

o, coming from the monitoring solution defaults, which we use here in our datacenter. Peter [1] german presenter, english slides https://youtu.be/KiKOaeEaKis?t=377 english dubbed https://youtu.be/E9_S1rDJZIQ?t=371

Re: putty go slow

ost relevant info but with little to zero context. Have fun. Peter

Re: putty go slow

Michael Stone writes: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:00:01PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: >>> /sbin/ifconfig >>> enp0s25: flags=4163 mtu 1500 >>> inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 >>> inet6 fe80::219:d1f

Re: putty go slow

mick crane writes: > On 2019-04-09 07:46, Peter Wiersig wrote: >> >> Is anything else connected to this hub? If your problems occur, is >> anything else using the hub concurrently? Can you reduce the >> connections only to server and client and maybe a internet upli

Re: putty go slow

both wires from the machines to the hub with new cables. Peter

Re: Tracking the next Stable release

-announce/ get's notified. You'd probably want to subscribe there. Peter

Re: putty go slow

You'd at least have to explain the type of connection from the putty client to the server. But your symptoms don't ring a bell over here aside from a saturated uplink. Peter

Re: php.ini ignored

r changes in apache2/php.ini are ignored, check if they are in any of the conf.d files. Peter

Re: chroot jail for user with rssh

basti writes: > On 28.03.19 08:21, Peter Wiersig wrote: >> basti writes: > Try scp: > > /usr/sbin/sshd -d -p > > Starting session: command for alice from 2.206.185.146 port 45296 id 0 So that reads as if all is fine, but then the next line indicates that t

Re: chroot jail for user with rssh

te that environment? My contents after that script look quite different to your presented files. Did you act on the logging notice after using the script, so that the syslogd listens to the ./dev/log in the chroot? Peter

Re: chroot jail for user with rssh

t doesn't help: a) if necessary modify the firewall b) launch sshd on a different port with no backgrounding and debug output => sshd -d -p 1234 c) retry above steps with the alternate port Peter

Re: trying to find a US debian.net with a 9.8.0 jigdo template where?

Bad link On March 27, 2019 9:41:30 AM Gene Heskett wrote: Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

nerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Pender Is., BC: +1 604 670 0140 Washington State: +1 360 639 0202 http://easthope.ca/Peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: Debian specific tools/apps

https://wiki.debian.org/ On 3/1/19 10:40 PM, Josef Bailey wrote: Hello I’m new to Debian and wanted to know what are some good Debian specific tools/apps I should know so I don’t write emails like this. I know of 1. Dpkg 2. Apt-file 3. Apt 4. Aptitude 5. I know how to use backports for stable

Re: guacamole - recording

¡Saludos! Esta lista es para correos enviados en inglés. Si necesita ayuda en español, escriba a la lista debian-users-spanish en https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/. Saludos, Peter On 19.02.19 21:53, Eriel Perez wrote: > Saludos amigos de la lista. > > Tengo guacamole ins

Re: Peter -- Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

On 2/16/19 5:41 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 15, 2019 10:39:58 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: I don't really know, What don't you really know? It would be a lot easier to know what you're talking about if you put your answer under the relevant question (i.e., not top posting

Re: Peter -- Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

even get to "testing" aka Buster, I suspect there will be little change before it goes mainstream. On 2/15/19 8:49 AM, deb wrote: On 2/15/2019 11:01 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: Buster install on 820 Friday, February 15 2019 on USB #1: firmware-buster-DI-alpha5-amd64-netinst.iso I also

Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

Buster install on 820 Friday, February 15 2019 on USB #1: firmware-buster-DI-alpha5-amd64-netinst.iso I also have on USB #2: firmware-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso booted with #1, ... It did ask for firmware, I put #2 in and pressed "continue" and install continued and I was able to select my wifi

Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

the last time I had such a problem (Buster net install using wifi) I bookmarked this https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#Firmware_during_the_installation I believe restarting the installer (from USB) with a second USB inserted with the firmware solved it... needed packages were found and used.

Re: Stretch to buster

The freeze for buster will happen according to the following timeline: * 2019-01-12 - Transition freeze * 2019-02-12 - Soft-freeze * 2019-03-12 - Full-freeze via https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html On 2/9/19 3:01 PM, deloptes wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: As for me, I'm

Re: Stretch to buster

On 2/8/19 11:09 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:06:34 + Paul Sutton wrote: Updated from Stretch to Buster (non-free) the other day all went fine, just undertaken Why? Buster is still alpha. A lot can still go wrong. Hope it's not your primary use distro. Why?: 1.

Re: Stretch to buster

I did the same on a test install, a couple times. (mate desktop) The first try failed, I forgot to also edit the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/base.list the second worked quite well. I am a bit nervous about updating my daily drivers. On 2/8/19 7:06 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi Updated from Stretch

Re: Package dependancies.

* From: Michael Lange

Package dependancies.

ile or directory root@imager:/etc/apt# ls -ld preferences.d/* ls: cannot access 'preferences.d/*': No such file or directory No evidence of a hold there. Thanks,... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication, overh

Re: Partition information as text file?

+1 On 1/29/19 7:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Gparted displays the desired data in the GUI, but I see no way to get that information as a text stream. I need a text file

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

I avoid USB drives, in preference to internal drives... speed and security. When I use them I am extremely careful, because they all seem to have a spinning disk inside, not shock resistant, and subject to early failure due to heat. I do have several, but they are not what I really Trust to

Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7

9.7 is not a new version. It is a new ISO to install Debian 9 with the latest updates. Just update and your "old version" becomes the New On January 25, 2019 4:38:42 PM David Wright wrote: On Fri 25 Jan 2019 at 23:46:22 (+), Katnip wrote: or sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-update

Synaptic failure to function

by creating the new user. I hope this helps others. Peter HB Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.12-1 (2018-12-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: Password policy.

uessable words for the password. ... pets, ... are all bad choice for the password." > You are going to have to say what you mean > by "brute force", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack Regards,... Peter E. -- Message composed and tra

Re: Password policy.

v 2018 20:22:58 +0300 > So, 6 characters is somewhat low (that GPU is outdated by today's > standards). 8 characters seem ok. Good. Thanks Reco. I'll keep the present 8 characters and not start shifting to 9 or 10. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed

Re (2): Password policy.

giving away the hashed password file exists? Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 3

Re: Password policy.

quently. ... Unless magic is involved. (?) Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234

Password policy.

Hi, https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html#_good_password specifies "6 to 8 characters". Is that adequate against currently available brute force? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by softwar

Subject: Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

> That's unusual, to say the least. Definitely beyond my experience. > And what about this: > udevadm test /sys/class/net/LocLCS218301788 Will report on that when at the site again November 20 or so. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

atus when possible; root status when necessary. Arbitrary use of root status opens unnecessary vulnerability. > But clearly you're going to ignore all advice I give, so fine. Not ignoring advice. Replies concerning pushd, popd, tar and xorriso have been invaluable. Thanks,

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

. Can discuss these stages 2 and 3 later. Thanks, ... Peter E. Backup() { \ if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then echo "Too many arguments."; else echo "0 or 1 arguments are OK."; if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "0 arguments is OK.&quo

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

u over > simply putting the commands in a script so that you can run something like > "sudo backup" on demand. How are multiple commands defined in one file? Then invoke? sudo backup1 sudo backup2 sudo backup3 Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitte

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

* From: Reco * Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 19:56:24 +0300 > Ok, let's do it the hard way. > > udevadm info /sys/class/net/LocLCS218301788 peter@joule:~$ udevadm info /sys/class/net/LocLCS218301788 P: /devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:02:08.0/net/LocLCS218301788 E: DEVPATH

Re: pushd/popd

reason to avoid pushd/popd? Not in POSIX merely because it isn't done yet? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

tml .) peter@joule:~$ collect /etc/udev/rules.d/70* SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1d:7e:00:ee:9f", \ ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="LocLCS1788" SUBSYSTE

Re: pushd/popd

nterested in the reasoning behind this choice. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Te

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

. Are they in POSIX? Best avoided? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 360 639 0202

Re : Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

rectories. Subdirectories are excluded from the first stage of backup. I can't think of a reason for a symlink to exist but will keep the possibility in mind. An exception is a likely source of trouble. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

) and writing a file system hadn't crystalized well. Software can take an action, or not, without direct evidence. To my thinking, all the examples in https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/ assume an ISO 9660 filesystem. No issue for an experienced user but a ready trap for a novice. Thanks again

Recognition of SiS900 Ethernet driver by Debian 9.5 installer.

The 8.7 and 9.3 installers had no difficulty recognizing the SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC. The 9.5 installer complains that no NIC is available. If the driver is chosen from the list presented, the NIC is still not recognized. Any ideas about this? Thanks, ... Peter E

Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

ed in DVD-R." ; popd ; And retrival. pushd ; printf "Insert a DVD-R containing a tar archive."; read t ; xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -toc 2>&1 ; xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -extract / -- | tar -vxf ; xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -eject ; popd ; Comments?

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

w this dodgy picture and make a better reply. About a week hence. Thanks, ... P. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Te

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

th*", NAME="LocLCS1788" The old name "LocLCS218301788" was dredged up from somewhere outside /etc/. Where? Old NIC names are cached? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability

Mystery interface reported by ip.

re in /etc/. Where does the name originate? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 36

Re: SVG in SVG.

ow Document Viewer derives the numbers "270 x 349". Regards, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12

Paper size reported in Document Viewer.

o the PDF file. Ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567

Re: add IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT macro to Exim

hare/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz: "2.1.3 Using Exim Macros to control the configuration ... For a non-split configuration, /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros gets read before /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template." Good luck, Peter

Problem with fcheck job on Debian9 after kernel update

nvestigate the root cause in more details? Already opened bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908647 -- Peter

A reliable SIP registrar?

w any specification or best practice published by IETF that I'm aware of." Diamondcard.us works for any system I use but is paid gateway to the PSTN. Can anyone recommend a SIP registrar for general use beyond Debian? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and t

Re: a dh keys question?

Karen Lewellen writes: > 1. > I am not using Linux, but an ssh client compiled from a combination of > tools, Linux and otherwise, including putty. Putty has a "Event Log" entry in its system menu. Peter

Re: LTE router usage.

the tower > to split them. It would double the number of packets and if the ISP is > counting packets instead of bytes, then it would easily explain a factor > of 2 increase. Thanks Roberto, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed

Re: LTE router usage.

in communication between router and cell tower, which degrades efficiency.. Has anyone encountered a question such as this? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus softwa

Sane via GIMP.

) The result is at http://easthope.ca/SanePreview.png Ie. previewing and scanning appears to be impossible. Ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 1234

Re: apache 2.4 envvars ? Deb 9.4

c/init.d/apache2', apachectl, or apache2ctl. Calling '/usr/bin/apache2' directly will not work with the default configuration. To call apache2 with specific command line arguments, just call apache2ctl with the same arguments. I guess both of your problems vanish after you use apache2ctl instead. Peter

Re: Failure of cups printing.

From: kamaraju kusumanchi Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:00:46 -0400 > The bug report says that it was fixed in 5.2.10~pre2-2 . You can try > installing that version and see if that solves your problem. This is in the current Debian 9. peter@computer:~$ dpkg -l | grep r-guten ii printer-

Failure of cups printing.

Hi, Since upgrading from Debian 8 to 9, CUPS printing has failed with this log message. "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2" not available: No such file or directory Whereas, peter@computer:~$ ls -ld /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42972 Fe

PostScript Manuals.

1.1, Fifth printing, May 1994 Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 360 639 0202

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

curl https://icanhazip.com Regards, /peter On 2018-05-24 08:22, André Rodier wrote: Hello, I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the external IP address of the machine. So far, I used internet sites, but I am sure there is a package that do that properly, especially

Aw: Re: Stretch kernel vulnerable to meltdown

> 15. März 2018, 18:05 Uhr, "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh": > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Peter Steinmetz wrote: > > should be fixed wrt meltdown. But I see this > > # grep -R . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/ > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilitie

Stretch kernel vulnerable to meltdown

/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic retpoline /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Vulnerable Why / what am I missing? TIA, Peter

Debian on flash a store.

ve article about running a Linux system from a flash store? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- This message was transmitted by software carefully written to avoid the vulnerability and additional overhead of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567

Re: bug filing question: Gnome session crashes on resume from suspend or hibernate; Nvidia driver suspected

I submitted this bug to the nvidia-driver package: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891960

bug filing question: Gnome session crashes on resume from suspend or hibernate; Nvidia driver suspected

m3", "xorg", or some other package? "nvidia-driver" bugs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=nvidia-driver;dist=unstable "xorg" bugs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xorg;dist=unstable "gdm3" bugs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=gdm3;dist=unstable Thanks for your time,   Peter

Specifying a device for sox output.

This system has three snd devices. peter@dalton:~$ ls /dev/snd/by-id/* /dev/snd/by-id/usb-046d_0807_C9748B60-02 /dev/snd/by-id/usb-0d8c_C-Media_USB_Audio_Device-00 /dev/snd/by-id/usb-0d8c_C-Media_USB_Headphone_Set-00 peter@dalton:~$ ls /dev/snd/by-path/* /dev/snd/by-path/pci-:00:03.0-usb-0

Re: Sound devices.

* From: deloptes delop...@gmail.com * Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:24:25 +0100 > I am not 100% sure but I think you need > alsa-oss - ALSA wrapper for OSS applications > to be able to use dsp. root@dalton:/home/peter# dpkg -l | grep alsa-oss ii alsa-oss 1.0.28-1 i386 ALS

Re (2): Configuration of router.

* From: David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk * Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:18:45 -0600 > Write bashrc ; wake ; sleep 5' > and give yourself 5 seconds to read what it says in the xterm. Interactively. peter@hertz:~$ declare -f wake wake () { input="";

Re: at based alarm.

Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 360 639 0202 Pender Is.: +1 250 629 3757 http://easthope.ca/Peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: at based alarm.

guess): OK, thanks. wake is now simplified to this. peter@computer:~$ cat wake #!/bin/bash input="" until [[ $input != "" ]] ; do echo Beginning until loop. /usr/bin/play /home/peter/ring.wav read -n 1 -t 4 input done Test the script. peter@computer:~$ xterm -e ./

at based alarm.

Given a file named wake containing this script, an alarm can be started with at. at -f wake 6:30 How can the xterm be started with std{in,out,err} connected there? Thanks, ... Peter E. #!/bin/sh xterm input="" until [[ $input != "" ]] ; do echo Beginning until l

Sound devices.

0:2:1.0 cat: write error: Invalid argument Invalid argument? It's a sound device. Seems either the wiki is outdated or there is a snag in the system. Ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 360 639 0202

The TP-Link TL-WN722N USB WiFi adapter ...

... worked in Squeeze or Wheezy. In Stretch, Network Manager fails to report wlan0 automatically. After wlan0 is specified in Perferences, extant networks are visible. Nevertheless, connection fails even with authentication off in the router. peter@computer:~$ lsmod | grep ath ath9k_htc

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

On 26/01/18 16:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:45:22PM +0000, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: >>> $ while true; do echo a>>a; done >>> >>> makes bash crash when file size is reached > &

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

hed. > > $ du a > 1024 /home/felipe/a > > I would expect an error or something else (exit?) > > Is it a bug? > > bash:amd64/stretch 4.4-5 uptodate A crash is always a bug. I suggest that you report it as such - if not already reported. Peter HB signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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