Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-12 Thread Tom Browder
ght from Amazon Best regards, -Tom

Re: GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 14:34 Felix Miata wrote: > Tom Browder composed on 2019-04-11 08:42 (UTC-0500): > ... > > Does GPT partitioning on Windows 10 allow a user-friendly label along > with > > its UUID for a partition? > > > If so, is that label visible wit

Re: GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:44 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 11/04/2019 à 15:42, Tom Browder a écrit : > > > > Does GPT partitioning on Windows 10 allow a user-friendly label along with > > its UUID for a partition? > > Why do you care ? You can manage it in Debia

GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-11 Thread Tom Browder
allow a user-friendly label along with its UUID for a partition? If so, is that label visible with Debian system administration programs as well? Thanks very much. Warm regards, -Tom

New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-11 Thread Tom Browder
see partion manager mentioned. Thanks so much. Best regards, -Tom

Re: Acess Devian 9 laptop by another devica via wifi

2019-03-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 5:12 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > > > Is there any reliable way to either (1) always connect via the LAN or (2) > > > make the laptop broadcast its own LAN so I can login to it wirelessly from > > > the iPad? Solved!! I tried using my

Re: Acess Devian 9 laptop by another devica via wifi

2019-03-23 Thread Tom Browder
the Ipad and the laptop are connected to the > wireless infrastructure of the guest (hotel airport ...). Both are connected to the same wireless LAN. Thanks. -Tom

Acess Devian 9 laptop by another devica via wifi

2019-03-22 Thread Tom Browder
st its own LAN so I can login to it wirelessly from the iPad? Thanks. With warmest regards, -Tom

Re: Why do we have a default activated man-db.timer?

2019-02-17 Thread Tom Bachreier
Hi Étienne! Thanks for your comprehensive explanation. I appreciate it very much. Feb 12, 2019, 1:38 AM by etienne.moll...@mailoo.org: > Tom Bachreier, on 2019-02-11: > >> BUT wait... >> >> I was wondering why do we have man-db.timer in the first place? >> &g

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-12 Thread Tom Bachreier
quot;${i}"; sleep 3; done or: for i in /dev/sd{b..f}; do echo "DISK: ${i}"; fdisk -l "${i}"; sleep 3; done My RAID disks are sdb, sdc, sdd, sde, sdf. You have to change sd{b..f} above according to your setup. I use a 3 second delay between the disk to be able to tell which disk was responsible for the block. Hope this helps a little. Tom

Why do we have a default activated man-db.timer?

2019-02-10 Thread Tom Bachreier
led timer for folk who need it f.ex. who install packages without dpkg/apt and so on. What do you think? Tom

Re: Windows 10 & Debian 9: Win 10 not updating

2019-02-01 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 16:08 Scarletdown wrote: > On 1/31/2019 2:02 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > Problem: Neither Win 10 OS has been able to successfully update since > > about last April. I have tried all the things I have found in an ... >> Has anyone had the same probl

Windows 10 & Debian 9: Win 10 not updating

2019-01-31 Thread Tom Browder
here first, but at last I'm here. Has anyone had the same problem (no Win 10 updates) with dual-bootable Debian 9? Thanks. Best regards, -Tom

Re: E: Unable to locate package zimlib . . .

2019-01-15 Thread Tom Bachreier
Hi! Jan 16, 2019, 8:00 AM by lbrt...@gmail.com: > Why is it I can't install zimlib? > I don't know what zimlib is but you mean maybe libzim? In stretch is libzim0v5: <https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libzim0v5> <https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libzim0v5> Tom

Re: Software RAID blocks

2019-01-13 Thread Tom Bachreier
Hi Reco! Jan 13, 2019, 1:47 PM by recovery...@enotuniq.net: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:20:50PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > >> Jan 13, 2019, 12:46 PM by >> recovery...@enotuniq.net >> <mailto:recovery...@enotuniq.net>>> : >> >> > On S

Re: Software RAID blocks

2019-01-13 Thread Tom Bachreier
Hi Reco! Jan 13, 2019, 12:46 PM by recovery...@enotuniq.net: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:27:19PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > >> TLDR; >> My /home on dmcrypt -> software Raid5 blocks irregular usually without >> any error messages. >> >> I can get

Software RAID blocks

2019-01-13 Thread Tom Bachreier
n md127_raid5. So it is most likely that I have a problem with the software raid or the harddisks, isn't it? SMART is activated on all disks and does not show any error. How can I debug this further to solve the problem? Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Tom ---

Re: Log in details

2019-01-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 03:05:46AM +, Johndy Laviña wrote: > > May I know what is the login and password for Debian GNU / Linux 9? They're whatever you set them to when installing the system. Cheers, Tom -- You could get a new lease on life -- if only you didn't need the first an

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 4:11 PM Andy Smith wrote:> Hi Tom, > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:42:28AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > > > Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > > > Um, you're right > >

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:26 PM Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > > ... > >> Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > > > Um, you're right, I should be able to use that now tha

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
server works, but whether other mail servers will > accept mail from it. Thanks, Joe. -Tom

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: ... > Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? Um, you're right, I should be able to use that now that ACME v2 lets us use wild cards. Thanks, "John." -Tom

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
ve > three such web servers operating as a round robin, then you will have > to put in some work to figure out which of the three it came from. > > But if the email comes from a machine which self-identifies as > "www1.yourdomain", then you have a better idea where to fix the issue. Thanks, Greg. -Tom

Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
with individual A records (with the same IP) with my domain host provider, but will that cause problems conflicting with a single physical hostname of, say, "pluto.example2.net"? In other words, is the physical hostname of any server of any importance except for logged in users? Thanks. -Tom

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Tom Browder
VM route, I would try installing the latest clang or gcc on the host you use normally. Rather than chasing OS's, you need to get that software more portable IMHO. Best regards, -Tom

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Tom D.
of nouveau blacklisting for you, among the other >> things. >> >> >> On 11/15/2018 08:13 PM, Tom D. wrote: >> >> Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver from >> www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver. >> >> It

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Tom D.
Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver from www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver. It was a shell script with sh extension. So until I blacklist nouveau completely from the Debian OS, Nvidia driver won't install. As a result, I had to blacklist nouveau

Re: Permission issues - operator error?

2018-09-23 Thread Tom Furie
Possibly non-existent device? You have overwritten the whole sdb device with zeros, including the partition table. You'll have to recreate your partitions before you can create filesystems on them. Cheers, Tom -- BOFH excuse #431: Borg implants are failing signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop

2018-08-17 Thread tom arnall
I keep getting the following error when my machine boots: [radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting the system finally comes up, after a delay of several minutes. I'm running Debian Stretch on a Lenovo T400. Previous to the system upgrade to Stretch, I ran Jessie

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2018-08-16 Thread tom arnall
I keep getting the following error when my machine boots: [radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting the system finally comes up, after a delay of several minutes. I'm running Debian Stretch on a Lenovo T400. Previous to the system upgrade to Stretch, I ran Jessie

Re: can't map visual mode copy ("+y) OOPS

2018-07-25 Thread tom arnall
I forgot to show my debian version. here it is: :~/$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="9" VERSION="9 (stretch)" ID=debian On 7/25/18, tom arnall wrote: > bottom line here is that when

can't map visual mode copy ("+y)

2018-07-25 Thread tom arnall
bottom line here is that when i map "+y to , it dos not work in visual mode. below are the specifics. Here is output of 'version' :version VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Sep 30 2017 18:21:38) Included patches: 1-197, 322, 377-378, 550, 703, 706-707 Modified by

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-22 Thread Tom Browder
Perl 6 (https://perl6.org) and join a nice group of people who will appreciate your help in fixing bugs, improving documentation, and leaving a legacy 100-year programming language for your descendants. Best regards, -Tom

color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread tom arnall
Greetings! over the last few weeks i've been having trouble on my system with color. the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going into a state where most of the color is pink. has anyone else had this problem. Regards, Tom Arnall

Re: Network Problems

2018-03-22 Thread Tom Furie
itered and, in theory, it is up to > you to ensure uniqueness (at least, unique within the boundary of your > Ethernet domain). Also x3, x7, xB and xF - but those should only be used for multicast addressing. Cheers, Tom -- Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Broken kernel?

2018-03-12 Thread Tom Furie
bit on a couple of 64-bit capable systems due to the factors that they were originally built on 32-bit hardware and their configuration and workload really wouldn't benefit in any real terms from 64-bit, so the work involved in the transfer wouldn't be well spent. Cheers, Tom -- 1: No code table

Re: Broken kernel?

2018-03-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:20:07AM +0100, floris wrote: > Intel says the Intel Atom CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz is 64bit[1]. The am64 kernel > is the right one. Either a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel could be equally valid, depending on other parameters. Cheers, Tom -- All God's children are not bea

Re: Broken kernel?

2018-03-12 Thread Tom Furie
derly kernel, a kernel that says its for an i686-pae. Not an AMD64. Yes, all 64-bit x86 compatible CPUs are also 32-bit compatible. Cheers, Tom -- Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Broken kernel?

2018-03-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 11:42:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > AMD64 would be like its built for an AMD phenom or newer. You want a > kernel built for an intel cpu. AMD64, in the context of package naming, is for any 64-bit x86 compatible CPU. Cheers, Tom -- A girl's best friend

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread Tom Furie
Cheers, Tom -- Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism. -- Donald Kaul signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: html page for bug report

2018-01-12 Thread Tom Furie
k. > > I will maybe create a html page with a form myself. But I don't see > how the visitor can modify an bug report (to mark as fixed). That's where the "complexity" of a database comes in. You need *somewhere* to store the submitted bugs so that they can be recorded, ret

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 08:32:17PM -0500, SDA wrote: > Show who you're quoting with an attribution line, please! With proper attribution, we might know who you are addressing with this statement... Cheers, Tom -- What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wr

Re: How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

2018-01-03 Thread Tom Dial
On 01/02/2018 11:14 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 02/01/2018 à 00:56, Tom Dial a écrit : >> >>> Which is the boot disk ? >> >> /dev/sda > > Then you didn't need to make room for GRUB on /dev/sdb. > >> So maybe the right plan i

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

2018-01-02 Thread Tom Furie
eway = 192.168.1.1 As has already been mentioned, 'ip -r route' (or 'ip -r r', for short) will work. However if you want to use the 'route' command, or 'netstat -r' which is equivalent, it is still available in the 'net-tools' package. Cheers, Tom -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indi

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

2018-01-01 Thread Tom Furie
ame. It has nothing at all to do with routing. Cheers, Tom -- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

2018-01-01 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 07:38:54AM +0100, john doe wrote: > Looks like 192.168.1.1 is not your default route. What led you to that conclusion? Cheers, Tom -- A good scapegoat is hard to find. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. -- Carolyn Wells signature.

Re: How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

2018-01-01 Thread Tom Dial
On 01/01/2018 02:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/01/2018 à 06:51, Tom Dial a écrit : >> Upgrading a workstation from Jessie to Stretch I found that the original >> disk partitioning left insufficient space for grub (re)install. The >> system has two identical ~233 G

How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Dial
ile system backups from before the interrupted update and, before I can see any possible responses, also will have a backup of the current state of all file systems. The system appears to be running normally and I do not plan to shut it down before finalizing a recovery plan. Thanks in advance, Tom Dial

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-27 Thread Tom Dial
e system. Reports of actual use, pointers, and gotchas, if any, would be useful to me and probably others. Thanks, Tom Dial >

Re: aplay fails on amd64 laptop

2017-12-22 Thread Tom Furie
ats: >- S16_LE >- S32_LE Are the 1:0 and 1,0 above typos in the mail? If not, they should be 1.0. Cheers, Tom -- And now for something completely different. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian networking - accessing public-side servers from a private network

2017-12-20 Thread Tom Furie
, at present I can work with it. If some other solution (other > than the pinnacle, IPv6-enabled Zoiper) can be found, that would be > even better. One potential solution would be to split your DNS so that hostnames resolve to public addresses for external queries, but private addresses

Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Dial
oping or managing a web application I would not go out of my way to develop for, or test on, anything but reasonably current Microsoft and Apple operating systems, along with similarly current versions of standards-compliant browsers. To do so makes no economic sense. I've used Linux-based systems pretty much exclusively for about 20 years, but do not expect to be catered for when nearly everyone else uses either Windows or Mac (or Android or iOS, for which Navy Federal has banking applications that, at least on Android, work decently). Tom Dial

Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Dial
t the case for navyfederal.org. > A careful look at exactly what the firewall mentioned in the initial post might reveal something, especially as the presenting symptom appears to be a hang, maybe waiting for something blocked. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-09 Thread Tom Furie
tions > Log Out" menu path. > > Thank you Cindy, now I don't have to point out the obvious! :) Ric Apart from the minor detail where in a properly network transparent environment X sessions do not always occur at the console. Cheers, Tom -- A man may sometimes be forgiven the kis

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread Tom Furie
ts source to stretch at the same time as the others? Cheers, Tom -- If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end. -- Bert Whitney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-03 Thread Tom Furie
elf", the closest that immediately comes to mind is something like a Microsoft Surface or similar. For the amount of "DIY" involved, a Raspberry Pi - the Model 3B comes with built in wifi - with touchscreen (available in several sizes) and wireless keyboard and mouse would seem to fi

Re: unsure how to track down kernel stack traces in debian 9.2 on vmware ESXi

2017-11-28 Thread Tom Stocker
direction. Tom Stocker

unsure how to track down kernel stack traces in debian 9.2 on vmware ESXi

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Stocker
-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 (2017-09-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux Any ideas what I can do? Any help would be greately appreciated Best regards Tom Stocker More infos: root@hostname:# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 121711504 kB MemFree: 8760844 kB MemAvailable: 119331608 kB Buffers

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-22 Thread Tom Furie
u package on a Debian system is not about any problem with the packaging system, it's about the differences between the distributions. Cheers, Tom -- Not for human consumption. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > ...and all of Dan's mails to the list... > All? How far back? That was my error, somehow my fingers typed "list" when my brain was thinking "thread". Cheers, Tom -- BOFH excuse #185: system cons

Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Furie
Shame about breaking the threading though :p Cheers, Tom -- "Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- Codoso diBlini signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Furie
edibly badly constructed html part at that. Cheers, Tom -- Charlie Brown: Why was I put on this earth? Linus: To make others happy. Charlie Brown: Why were others put on this earth? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-19 Thread Tom Dial
e root LV, already formatted as ext4, and offered the option of not reformatting it. The installation went forward normally, and at stage 1 completion I chose a relatively local mirror. I did not see the deb.debian.org redirector listed, which might be a nice thing. Tom Dial

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread Tom Furie
, it's as simple as adding the user to the sudo group: # adduser sudo where is the user you want to add. The user will be in the group the next time they log in. Cheers, Tom -- I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acut

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

2017-11-07 Thread Tom Furie
email you were still talking about Ubiquity. Why would it be obvious you were talking about Debian? Cheers, Tom -- "I'd love to go out with you, but the last time I went out, I never came back." signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Not really OffTopic

2017-11-06 Thread Tom Furie
ing and polishing Linux." Ubuntu may have originated as a Debian derivative, there is now so much difference between them I can't see how the claim can still stand. Cheers, Tom -- "It ain't over until it's over." -- Casey Stengel signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread Tom Furie
if you ask Ubuntu related questions on the Ubuntu channels. Cheers, Tom -- The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Cannot copy files from usb source

2017-10-19 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:31:25PM +0200, Pétùr wrote: > I cannot copy files from my laptop (with SSD formated in ext4) to my > external HDD (formated also in ext4). I have an input/outpur error. The > I can do the opposite, i.e. transfert files from my laptop to my > external HDD (or other usb

Re: Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-13 Thread Tom Dial
d idea to upgrade the BIOS anyhow, as later revisions have security fixes with some frequency. > > Never did it on HP, so not sure how well it would go. But I know that > method like that/similar to that was successful on Dell laptops before. > As for how to find BIOS version, you can use dmidecode command, with > root privs to find out. > > Hope that this helps. > Tom Dial

Re: Postresql: need a way to initiate a database with a test user

2017-09-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:03 Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get the following error when trying to create a table with psql: > Re: OP subject: s/Postresql/PostgreSQL/ -Tom

Postresql: need a way to initiate a database with a test user

2017-09-15 Thread Tom Browder
d the user 'sql92' with password = '' and createdb privileges. Is there any way to create a user that can be used outside an open database connection in a script? Thanks. Best regards, -Tom

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-03 Thread Tom Dial
On 09/02/2017 12:21 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > My Linux user group is setting up one desktop computer and one laptop > computer for lending to our local library as an educational resource for > folks who want to explore what Linux is all about. We are using Debian > 9 for now. &g

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 05:03 Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) <soyeo...@doraji.xyz> wrote: > In Article < > cafmgiz_yn+qa52wb2nfhphv6g2thj-azjisu1xznytv8hui...@mail.gmail.com>, > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> writes: > > > My Linux user group is setting up

Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-02 Thread Tom Browder
have already installed gcc and friends as well as Scilab, R, Perl 6, and some other stuff, including emacs. I would especially appreciate other ideas for programming editors for novice programmers. Thanks. Best regards, -Tom

Re: How can I enable ufw firewall tool with an existing set of iptables rules?

2017-08-28 Thread Tom Browder
again if necessary. Alexander's idea is a good one, and I really should have taken his advice. However, all worked out well, fortunately. Thanks, Joe. -Tom

Re: How can I enable ufw firewall tool with an existing set of iptables rules?

2017-08-28 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 15:49 Alexander V. Makartsev <avbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Smart way to do it is to setup a cron job to run shell script that will > flush (or restore to default working ruleset) iptables rules every 10 > minutes. Thanks, Alexander. -Tom

How can I enable ufw firewall tool with an existing set of iptables rules?

2017-08-28 Thread Tom Browder
Installing and enabling ufw sounds easy, but how is the existing set of iptables rules treated? I want to use ufw on a remote server and losing ssh would be disastrous! Thanks. -Tom

Re: How does one create virtual ethernet devices with modern tools on Debian 8 (jessie)?

2017-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
ng any service that you configure to > wait for network-online will wait for all "auto" interfaces to be > brought up. It will not wait for "allow-hotplug" interfaces. That's very helpful. Sounds like it's the "auto" for my situation. Thanks much, Greg. Best, -Tom

Re: How does one create virtual ethernet devices with modern tools on Debian 8 (jessie)?

2017-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 09:26 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Before we start: > > "virtual ethernet devices" are something totally different than you are > doing here. You just want to

How does one create virtual ethernet devices with modern tools on Debian 8 (jessie)?

2017-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
eth0: link becomes ready #= So how does one do the same thing with "modern" tools? Thanks. -Tom

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 02:36 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:30 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > > > So the question I have is how does it all work? There is no in

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:30 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The contents of the postfix.service file are; > ... > That unit file does effectivly nothing. It just starts "/bin/true" and >

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:30 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The contents of the postfix.service file are; > ... > > That unit file does effectivly nothing. It just starts "/bin/true" and

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXV, Tom Browder a écrit : >> So "disabled" is normal? > > Indeed. See: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXV, Tom Browder a écrit : >> > # systemctl start postfix >> > # systemctl status postfix >> > >> > and got several lines basically saying posfix

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:17 Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXV, Tom Browder a écrit : > > > # systemctl start postfix > > > # systemctl status postfix > > > > > > and got several lines basically saying

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got a postfix.service file from a postfix developer and installed it in > /etc/systemd/system as the docs mention. > > I then moved the /etc/init.d/postfix file away, reloaded the systemd

Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
for any help. With warmest regards, -Tom

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-31 Thread Tom Browder
ities. 50th wedding anniversary. Do they give out medals for that? No, but we got lots of congratulations for staying the course and remaining friends! -Tom

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: ... >> , >> | auto eth0 >> | iface eth0 inet static >> | address 142.54.186.

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > >> So can the above be simplified by leaving out the repeated i

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > Georgi Naplatanov <go...@oles.biz> wrote: >> On 07/26/2017 09:22 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You don't need those up/down part

Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-26 Thread Tom Browder
:a:95::6/64 dev $IFACE label $IFACE:7 # end = Thanks for your help. Best regards, -Tom

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-24 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: ... >> Greg, I appreciate your advice, and I would love to stay with the >> debian packages. However, I also want to be able to use a debian >> i

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-24 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:55:09AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >> I would like to remove all bind9 packages from servers running bind9 >> and install the latest bind9 from source. > > Because y

Re: Firewalld

2017-07-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 14:17 Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:29:54 + > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Webmin uses firewalld to manage firewalls. Is there any reason not to use > > web

Firewalld

2017-07-23 Thread Tom Browder
Webmin uses firewalld to manage firewalls. Is there any reason not to use webmin for my servers' firewall management? Thanks. -Tom

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 07:13 Lck Ras <likco...@riseup.net> wrote: > On 07/23/2017 08:55 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I would like to remove all bind9 packages from servers running bind9 > > and install the latest bind9 from source. > > > > Two questions, plea

Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-23 Thread Tom Browder
=usr? Thanks. With warmest regards, -Tom

Re: Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Tom Dial
es. Same thing with cups. > > If apt insists on installing unwanted packages into your system - I can > only suggest you to consider learning the way apt works. > > > Besides, there's no point in complaining about it here. > To actually change something they suggest users to invoke an excellent > reportbug utility and transfer their wishes directly to bugs.debian.org. > > Reco > Tom Dial

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