Re: popcon use?

Hi, On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:37:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > Do you have a link to instructions for encrypting popcon traffic? > I've already got gnupg installed. zless /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.gz I've not eorsonally tried it however. Thanks, Andy -- https://bi

Re: popcon use?

uthority to — send a list of all their packages and all the binaries within those packages and when they were last used, to a remote site over clear text. You can encrypt it but that requires (a) a conscious decision to do so, and (b) installing gnupg. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

to do this. https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/mdadm/mdadm.8.en.html#MONITOR_MODE There are also plugins for every Linux monitoring system out there to read /proc/mdstat. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

Hi, On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 10:57:12AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-10-08, Andy Smith wrote: > > > When you have hundreds of millions of files in rsnapshot it really > > starts to hurt because every backup run involves: > > > > - Deleting the oldest tre

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

ith df -i) Although it probably matters most how many files you have only in the most recent backup iteration rather than the entire rsnapshot store. For me that is approx 5.8 million. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

hard to track down though. After you do resolve this you should set TLER to some sensible value like 7 seconds. That is not your biggest concern right now though. Here is a thing I wrote about it quite some time ago: https://strugglers.net/~andy/mothballed-blog/2015/11/09/linux-software-ra

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

s, since all hardlinked versions of a file share all this metadata. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 10:42:39PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is it doable with any of the other network configuration frameworks > (systemd-networkd, NetworkManager, netplan, …)? It's not directly doable in ifupdown but can be bodged with hook commands. It's not doable in net

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

) the best you could hope for would be a very long process to get the package declared orphaned. Then you'd be hoping that some other Debian developer would take it on and be more open to applying your patches. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 07:25:37PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I got a reply on Fedi basically to that effect, by someone who had > recently presented on the subject And here's Tobias's presentation (21 minutes; link to slides on that page): https://ripe88.ripe.net/arc

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

atement into a post-up. A reply to that showed how netplan triggers scripts, so both things basically need external commands at the moment. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

Hi, On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 10:00:01AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > On 28/9/24 06:42, Andy Smith wrote: > > # ip address add 85.119.82.225/32 dev enX0 > > # ip -4 route add default via inet6 fe80::1 src 85.119.82.225 > > > > Is it possible to configure that using

ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

re's no actual syntax for this (particularly, the "gateway" option says it expects a dotted quad) possibly it can be done with pre-up commands? Is it doable with any of the other network configuration frameworks (systemd-networkd, NetworkManager, netplan, …)? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: CUPS vulnerability (CVE2024-47176 and related ones)

r that executed something as the "lp" user next time a user did a print job. The reporter asked for a score of 9.9 and made a lot of noise about it, and has since got upset that people asked for a reality check on that. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: CUPS vulnerability (CVE2024-47176 and related ones)

uot;CVE-2024-47176" in to that and the first result was: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-47176 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: subnet subset blocked

2 (with no "netmask" line at all) instead. 😀 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SSL/TLS debugging on MariaDB - tos minclock 4 minsane 1

applications", it's basically free to do so in most circumstances¹ and unless you do this you can't tell if the ntp server is correct or not (with two you can't tell *which* is correct). Thanks, Andy ¹ I can see why some places may have policies about not using third party

Re: logging with iptables

tten up what I do for nftables but here is soemthing I wrote up years ago for iptables and it wasn't hard to adapt for nftables: https://strugglers.net/posts/2021/keeping-firewall-logs-out-of-linuxs-kernel-log-with-ulogd2/ There are of course many other resources online for usi

Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

Hi, On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 08:21:10PM -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > So, what are folks doing these days to mirror /efi and /boot? [ TL;DR: You already found it - have two separate EFI System Partitions, sync one to the other manually using e.g. rsync whenever one changes, add path

Re: iSCSI question

is > would allow slight overbooking of the storage space. …just want to say that I use qemu-nbd to turn things like vmdk images into block devices, which I can then do anything with that I do for other block devices, so that might be an option. https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2021/mount

Re: version control and project management

in Debian or the packaging is limited, I tend to make use of virtual machines or containers and just go with upstream's install instructions. It's not great but it is often the easiest way. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: LVM in LVM

ll versions of Debian up to stable. Haven't tried it on newer. I use it in exactly the scenario you describe. Check your filters in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf as otherwise the system won't scan block devices that are LVs, so won't find PVs on them. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: unwanted crontab message

to use (now and in future). So perhaps the man page for crontab is out of date. It seems that sensible-editor records this choice in ~/.selected_editor. Is this what got called for you? If so, apparently running "select-editor" will change the choice. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: unwanted crontab message

somehow have vim-runtime installed and it's trying to use that while not being able to parse it. So either use a different editor or fix that editor or remove vim-runtime, I suppose. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 01:21:12AM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > Hi, > > Le 11/09/2024, Andy Smith a écrit: > > > Since booting from sdb wasn't working in any case, I thought I'd > > experiment a bit. I copied the first 446 bytes of sda to sdb. This > >

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

07570b033747c0a84a73febc7851c7cf4f2e - $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 2>/dev/null | sha256sum b7ccacdeb89b1fd8c272549c69ff07570b033747c0a84a73febc7851c7cf4f2e - Not understanding quite what is going on is worrying to me, even if things do now work. 🙁 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: hibernate area

e/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Manually_specify_hibernate_location Has anyone tried this? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: hibernate area

to the only swap area available at that time (NVMe) and then boot resume from same. Personally though all of this is a lot of hassle and I would probably only put swap on the NVMe. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

Hi, On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 03:58:58PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > Le 09/09/2024, Andy Smith a écrit: > > Can I simply copy the first 512 bytes of sdb to the start of sda? > > I would not do this, one of the reasons being that AFAICT, the start > offsets of the (up to 4)

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 07:59:58PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I was kind of hoping that there would be something I could run which > would say "yes, this MBR has grub v and is set to find its > grub.cfg on (hdX)", then I might be able to see some difference in > what the

Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

y "yes, this MBR has grub v and is set to find its grub.cfg on (hdX)", then I might be able to see some difference in what the MBR of sda wants to do. I'm particularly interested in seeing if the binary grub data in the MBR actually comes from the grub that is installed from the grub-pc package in the OS. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Re: Further on the DSELECT saga.....

On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 09:32:18PM -0700, Juan Rincon Gonzalez wrote: > Opensource We've got lumps of it round the back!

Re: OT: Question to shell script

Hi, On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 07:32:41AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 11:10:16 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > Is there a reason not to just make these scripts cd to their own > > directory so the caller doesn't have to care? > > > >

Re: OT: Question to shell script

ave to care? cd "$(dirname "$0")" I mean, I don't know any other binary on my system that tells me to run it from a specific directory, so introducing such a requirement in my own tools would seems like poor user interface, as it is surprising. Thanks, Andy -- htt

Re: MAC filter

ow a good way on ipv6, best I can think of is > ping ff02::1 ip neighbor (is also the "new" way for IPv4) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: MAC filter

ddress) | .ifname + ": " + .address' "lo: 00:00:00:00:00:00" "enp0s31f6: 10:7b:44:93:fa:c4" "wlp3s0: 8a:48:9b:8d:09:da" "br0: d2:1d:7d:50:18:08" Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: laptop installs

ff of USB for installation purposes. If that doesn't work, would it be possible to take the HDD/SSD out of the laptop and put it in another machine? You could then install onto that and put it back in the laptop afterwards. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Is anybody maintaining nedit?

s to maintain any longer in Debian. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Which tool for upgrade in commandline?

apt full-upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y && apt autoclean "apt" will say when it is used in a script that its user interface is not yet stable (i.e. its output could change at any time) so it should not be used in scripts. Other replies have already covered the correct answ

Re: What tool(s) reports OS buss width, which processor present?

tep, resulting in a very broken system. Repairing it for them isn't something they pay me for so I've advised reinstall at that point also. So on most of these legacy systems I stopped with just the kernel, since that's the majority of the benefit anyway. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: cannot download bookworm

inistrators? If you need more advice perhaps you could show us which link you're trying to download and what happens when you do. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What tool(s) reports OS buss width, which processor present?

Debian hosts which were partially cross-graded to amd64 only as far as running the amd64 kernel while leaving all of the user land and the primary dpkg architecture as i386. This is a supported configuration. In that case "uname -a" reports the amd64 kernel correctly, while "file

Finding a Debian consultancy for help with large-scale platform upgrade (Was Re: Systems upgrading)

ve automation to deploy and configure a host then an in-lace upgrade also takes longer in my experience. Something to chat to your consultancy about, anyway. It would be really interesting if you or your consultant would write up what you ended up doing. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.

The lack of a future for 32-bit x86 installs (Was Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ])

Hello, On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 03:44:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/19/2024 02:51 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > [32-bit x86] as previously mentioned has a single digit of years > > of remaining lifetime in Debian. > > I don't see anything on https://wiki.d

Re: domain status in registry and registrar

the top, fearing that my email was too long, agrees with you. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ]

itramfs can mount things outside of the direction of fstab but tyoically doesn't. Then the init system from the real root filesystem reads /etc/fstab. Finally there can be systemd .mount units outside of fstab, but again that is not typical and you'd know if you added those. Thanks, Andy

Re: domain status in registry and registrar

Hi, On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 12:46:43PM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 04:35:34PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > TL;DR: I too find it a little odd that whois says this domain is reserved > > but > > querying the DNS shows that it isn't there at

Re: domain status in registry and registrar

that this is an authoritative answer (not froma cache) and "AUTHORITY SECTION" says what this server we queried is authoritative for, in this case "net." zone. So this is an authoritative answer from h.gtld-servers.net that no such name "datafarm" exists in "net.". Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: stop using APT!

whoever made it. If you meant MariaDB, please explain your issues with the packaging. The rest of your email is not actionable. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

different route than the 2021 incident and caused by a different mechanism, namely GMX rejecting a connection from the list software, and not anything to worry about. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 06:49:26PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > What you have interpreted as "a threat" was simply a procedural > > warning that if your address continues to be undeliverable then you > > will be automatically unsubscribe

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

7;d have to submit it to find out. Personally what I do is silently discard spammy emails from known list servers instead of rejecting them at SMTP time (which is otherwise and usually desirable). Doing that does require running your own mail server though, which almost no one does. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Little typo bug - package unknown, kernel version unknown

tself identifying like that? I do not find "Sasmsung" anywhere on codesearch and the code that prints that seems to believe what the device tells it… Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: dot internal and mDNS

Hi, On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 11:54:07PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 22:59 Andy Smith wrote: > > So I want to emphasise again that while standards are useful so > > we're all on the same page, in this particular case it's not a big > > de

Re: dot internal and mDNS

Hi, On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 10:08:55PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On 8/3/24 09:00, Andy Smith wrote: > > > If you use .local for other things it can interfere with mDNS but > > > picking almost anything else has very few repercussions (unless you > > &g

Re: dot internal and mDNS

.1 IP address. > I was going to change everything yet again to home.arpa but now it might be > .internal? At worst I expect both will be reserved for this use. There's unlikely to be any terrible problem with whatever you use now so I wouldn't worry about it. Thanks, Andy -- http

Re: dot internal and mDNS

unless you are very silly about it), so I don't understand why this topic always generates so much debate on this list. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: nsswitch what should come first

and it always seems odd to me that people with lots of interest in DNS, self-hosting, etc are somehow not willing to just register a domain or don't have at least one domain already. Maybe it is my privilege talking to wonder about sums of $5 to $10 US per year. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Hi, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 01:06:38PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/2/24 12:09, Andy Smith wrote: > > Gene';s reply to you misses your point so if/when it does happen > > that .den is delegated I'm sure he will miss the point again anyway. > > > Thanks for

Re: nsswitch what should come first

w set of proposals being entertained right now for new TLDs so there will be some pointless new ones soon. Gene';s reply to you misses your point so if/when it does happen that .den is delegated I'm sure he will miss the point again anyway. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: CLARIFICATIONS Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive

l that matters. > > and bootable from flash, it does not have adequate free space for an > > additional OS. > > No sane person messes with OPERABLE system unless ABSOLUTELY *REQUIRED*! Why are you asking about upgrading it if you don't want to mess with the currently-in

Re: nsswitch what should come first

even when it has no other IP address. If it does have a static IP then it is safe to put that in there. Bypassing /etc/hosts entirely would not be recommended. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: systemd may silently break your system!

xpectations about sid, and I don't understand why. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: nginx or apache for php?

;t think OP is particularly missing out otherwise. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive

uggestion! I should have thought of just downloading an installer and booting it from existing install's grub. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: nginx or apache for php?

Hello, On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 08:54:22AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Au contraire Andy. What a surprise. Here we go again. > The best, most expandable 3d printer driver, klipper, > uses nginx to build its control interface It doesn't matter what niche activities you (or I) enga

Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive

n't boot from USB and have no optical drive, it seems likely that there would be a place inside them to attach another SATA drive which the Debian 9 would then see without any difficulty. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: nginx or apache for php?

will make any noticeable performance difference for you, so I would suggest sticking with apache2 unless you have a stronger need to use nginx or for purely educational purposes. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Editing grub/EFI config on (net) installer ISO for serial install

Hi, On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 12:42:05PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > Should I just edit that into $iso_root/boot/grub/grub.cfg and repack > > the ISO? > > If altering the EFI partition is not viable, then surely: Yes. Is there some advantage in me edi

Editing grub/EFI config on (net) installer ISO for serial install

$iso_root/boot/grub/grub.cfg and repack the ISO? Is there any documentation page about this? Everything I found so far just covers the isolinux bit, which doesn't appear to be relevant here. Thanks, Andy

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behaviorofifupdown package)

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 04:32:43AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/29/24 03:53, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 11:00:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 7/28/24 22:02, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Discourse is not Discord. They are completely differ

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior ofifupdown package)

Hi, On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 11:00:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/28/24 22:02, Andy Smith wrote: > > Discourse is not Discord. They are completely different pieces of > > software made by different people with different purposes. You are > > the first person to have

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

ts are the way to continue going because companies might block the web. I am confident that other communities will do better. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

letely different pieces of software made by different people with different purposes. You are the first person to have mentioned Discord in this thread. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

post stuff in a forum and get a load of > crap responses just because people are trying to push up their score, > or get no responses at all. Bad answers on Stack sites tend to lose people Internet Points and eventually get hidden. It's why useful answers appear more often in web searches. Whereas on this list, volume tends to win by attrition. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

not wanting to change distribution you could try posting questions on ServerFault or Unix&Linux Stack Exchange. If you're specifically wanting to interact with Debian developers though, as previously mentioned you really have to engage with the Debian bug tracking system. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: server latency

oute that uses those kinds of UDP/TCP packets instead of ICMP. Also mtr is quite interesting to provide intermediary hop details and other useful stuff. Just normal traceroute can be made to do UDP/TCP though. Example: http://paste.debian.net/plain/1324660 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- N

Re: SeLinux

problems? "Has any computer software ever been misconfigured?" Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: bash history

n be self-hosted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89zPvQF3tas Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

port by other users, not for reporting bugs or getting the attention of package maintainers. Filing a bug report would have more chance of getting the attention of the package maintainer. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Never receive an unsubscription confirmation e-mail

You'll probably need to contact Debian listmaster to ask for help. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: combine two commands via pipe

Hi, On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:00:48AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: > I found this works though it's ugly. > > $ sudo ls -ltr "/tmp/$(ls /tmp |grep apache)" > total 4 > > Thanks for all help. If you appreciate help then engage with it. Two people now have suggested that you just use a glob, and

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

have some packages like Arch, why? They > have rolling releases? I mean packages, for example, hyprland. Debian sid is not a rolling release. Debian does not have a rolling release. Additionally, Debian sid isn't a release of any description. You should not be using Debian sid. T

Re: update system periodically

getting around to applying the updates yourself. Either way these are solved problems and don't require making your own custom cron scripts. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: CrowdStrike and drivers (was Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?)

s. It's got nothing to do with Linux vs Windows. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

ncident on Linux. So yes, agreed, the software industry needs to grow up and it's pointless arguing for our tribe within it at this level. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

d, "people need to stop running software like this" instead of "people need to run Linux", I would be able to agree with you. Just saying "we need better software" isn't a very catchy polemic though is it. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

onestly think it's an unreasonable expectation to want official guides for every transitory broken state in a development tree. Asking if a specific thing is a known issue that is being worked on? Sure. Expecting it to be documented before any user hits it? Not so much. Thanks, Andy -- https://b

Re: purely local DNS

ted by /etc/resolv.conf). So the assumption that putting an entry in /etc/hosts is just the same as an A record in DNS is not always true. It looks like OP has worked out how to tell Postfix not to use DNS, so it would obey a hosts entry. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Production Ready

n software X do this? Am I doing it wrong?" before you go down the route of assuming you have encountered an actual deficiency. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: General questions

Hi, On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 12:15:00AM +0500, 타토카 wrote: > I mean subscriptions like this "debian-user" The only cost associated with this mailing list is your sanity. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: usb => serial port converter

x27;ll need to know the baud rate that the device expects, though you can just try a few common ones and see what works. e.g. # screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Backup

On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 08:19:54AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Andy Smith > Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:21:45 + > > What is this person doing? > > Keeping a historical backup by an efficient method. While refusing to look into any modern backup

Re: Re (3): Backup.

h faster. When you say "I want /path/to/foo from a week ago, but also show me every copy you have going back 3 years", that is a database query, not a walk of a filesystem with potentially several million inodes in it. But, by doing that you lose the ability to just cp a file

Re: Backup.

functional). Unless you are wanting to have a first hand learning experience about why you should just use borgbackup, restic, amanda or even rsnapshot. (Also I think learning about git is best done by using it for what it was designed for: managing source code in git.) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

Hello, On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 09:21:57AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Do you have a book whose verses are enumerated in octal? No one clarified that this was the *Christian* Bible. 😀 Thanks, Andy

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

otential answers. It's not an authentic Owlett thread unless it contains an enormous XY problem, a monomaniacal obsession with a solution already part-dreamed up by the OP, several factual errors, and a constant trickle of confounding small details that were never provided up front, now de

Re: mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

Hi, On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 12:37:29PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Will I outlive Debian 11/12? Well we're only talking a small single digit number of years here, so I hope you have reason to be optimistic. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

amd64 kernel (or via virtualisation methods). Building your own live images for amd64 and other supported architectures is still pretty easy though. Thanks, Andy > -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Access and Back-up a Root locked laptop

be a lot more convenient. But if for some reason you don't want to do that, pretty much any external storage device should also show up under a "live" environment so the answer is: boot one of those and plug the storage in (or do it over the network to some storage). Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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