Re: processing /etc/sysctl.d

2023-05-03 Thread Andy Smith
her possibility is that you have something that is setting net/ipv6/conf/enp1s0/accept_ra back to 0 after systemd-sysctl.service already set it to 1. NetworkManager is known to do this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025073 So, what are you using to manage enp1s0? Cheers,

Re: Impossible to change ownership of a file to user when user is UID 0

2023-05-02 Thread Andy Smith
ory having group write permission. I don't see you list those permissions in your email, so please check if that is the case. i.e. your home directory should be rwxr-xr-x or more restrictive. Cheers, Andy ¹ Since each staff member has full root access they can usually find ways to circumvent

Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens?

2023-04-26 Thread Andy Smith
now I see why cutting off the string on the first space that > appears is safe. I never saw such cases because I always used sha*sums > on files. But it does the same thing with files… Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens?

2023-04-26 Thread Andy Smith
any time you know, so it may not be worth trying to replicate their structure locally. Also maybe you want some sort of web site mirroring solution. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Andy Smith
into "fzf"  (It is packaged in Debian) Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Andy Smith
f malware distribution it is easier to compromise a real Debian developer and get them to upload the bad package in an entirely proper way. THis has already happened at least once, though not to a stable release AFAIK. Unlike tampering of in-flight downloads which has never been reported. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:04:24AM +0200, zithro wrote: > So, I got curious about his claim Well you can't say you haven't been warned. This rabbit hole goes very deep and the bottom will not contain the answers you seek! Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: https://: vs. https://:.

2023-04-10 Thread Andy Smith
DNS:*.islandhosting.com, DNS:islandhosting.com …so my conclusion is that they would only ever expect you to use https://hornby.islandhosting.com:2096, and anything else outside of *.islandhosting.net, including the bare IP address, will result in a TLS warning. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-10 Thread Andy Smith
itself to resolv.conf. A great portion of the advice Gene offers on this list is factually incorrect. It would be best to corroborate anything Gene advises you to do with the documentation and other posters. Sometimes he is correct, but too many times he is not. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfo

Re: apt temporary failure resolving deb.debian.org

2023-04-09 Thread Andy Smith
DDgMSZi4HxMMhjPdzGs2H/o8D CrKUmSE9VBhRoclczsBbMENUftKR0XOl It does seem like your ;local resolver is at fault when it comes to DNSSEC. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-08 Thread Andy Smith
w view of human behaviour. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-06 Thread Andy Smith
run scripts daily for *whatever purpose each script has*. If you have questions about what a specific script does, try looking at it, as it's just an executable script (usually sh or bash). If you're still confused then ask a specific question about a specific script. Cheers, Andy -- https:/

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

2023-04-04 Thread Andy Smith
ng this in my spare time. That is, why are you asking people to convince you to like Perl? There are lots of languages and you appear to have found one you like better. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 05:35:04AM +0200, local10 wrote: > Apr 4, 2023, 00:16 by in...@dataswamp.org: > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > >> The argument being responded to is roughly that "a popular > >> AI coding assistant is written in Python, and Pyt

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Andy Smith
n (which owns the Perl and Raku trademarks) doesn't want Perl 5 to die. So hopefully you can see now that things are different because things are different. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 05:41:14AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > > For example, even if some AI assistant is written in Python, > > and even if you can ask it to spit out a device driver for > > the Linux kernel that does X and Y with Z ha

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Andy Smith
s Perl and writes it nearly every day. I think you should ask a better question, one that more precisely covers what exactly it is that you want to know. Looking back at most of your recent posts to this list I'd give that same advice in response to many of them, I'm afraid. Cheers, Andy --

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Andy Smith
f you can ask it to spit out a device driver for the Linux kernel that does X and Y with Z hardware, do you think the device driver that it spits out will itself be written in Python? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

2023-03-28 Thread Andy Smith
those options in a way you weren't expecting. Some apps might not even support IPv6. For most apps /etc/gai.conf controls this. You mentioned in another email that you had to alter gai.conf to make IPv6 be preferred. That is unusual as it is not the expected default behaviour. Cheers, And

Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's upstreamed?

2023-03-28 Thread Andy Smith
ackage. > uninstalling it will remove it. But will that remove the module from the currently running kernel? That would be undesirable since I would still be relying upon it to make the wifi work until I rebooted! Cheers, Andy

Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's upstreamed?

2023-03-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 04:51:25AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I have to build the kernel driver as an external DKMS > module from: > > https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89 > > Specifically that is the rtw_8852be module. > > That works fine, but it seems that this dr

What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's upstreamed?

2023-03-25 Thread Andy Smith
an upstream kernel package but to be honest I'd rather just consume Debian package updates plus a DKMS until it's included. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ...

2023-03-24 Thread Andy Smith
fy the hardware clock. Typically it's only done at shutdown time by the base OS to save the system clock to the hardware clock ready for next boot, as the system clock is assumed to be more accurate. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: debian for DNS servers

2023-03-11 Thread Andy Smith
llowed, then there's likely no reason why you can't install any of several free authoritative DNS server implementations (even a mix) and have it work fine. Do you have more specific questions? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: mount new block deivce in existing dir

2023-03-05 Thread Andy Smith
our VPS provider's documentation to see if you can simply increase the size of the vda disk and vda1 partition? This is very commonly available with VPS setups and can often even be done without you rebooting. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: slapd access to private key owned by root

2023-03-05 Thread Andy Smith
use POSIX file acl so that openldap user can read TLS key file regardless of file permissions https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Debian_11=acl I've not tried it for this specific case but I use it so that Exim can read its TLS key in the same way, and that works fine. Cheers,

Re: solution to / full

2023-03-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 07:53:19PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12023-03-01): > > > /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 21G 966M 96% / > > > /dev/nvme0n1p6 267M 83M 166M 34% /boot > > > /dev/nvme0n1p1 511M 5.8M 506M 2% /boot/efi > > > /de

Re: solution to / full

2023-03-01 Thread Andy Smith
ot well-suited to this kind of reorganisation of an existing system. Finally, if you are terrified of doing this sort of thing and don't mind gross and ugly hacks, you could just move /opt/, /usr/local and /usr/share into somewhere under /home and symlink them back to where they should be. Cheers, Andy ¹

Re: Perl, cpan Path problems

2023-01-28 Thread Andy Smith
be a bit of a leap anyway. As you say, all the other options only get more complicated from there. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Perl, cpan Path problems

2023-01-28 Thread Andy Smith
nicer to use than "cpan". See its web page at https://metacpan.org/pod/App::cpanminus for full details. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Broken IPv6 / IPv4 configuration, or Gmail brokenness?

2023-01-28 Thread Andy Smith
ill try IPv6 these days if they think it's available). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: fstrim(8) Recommendation

2023-01-15 Thread Andy Smith
time something is deleted. So I would just do nothing out of the ordinary and let the default fstrim service do its job. Things get more complicated if you are running virtual machines, or LVM volumes or things like that, but it sounds like you aren't. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-15 Thread Andy Smith
ork attached storage, and I'm sure there's people reading this who have done this for years and never had a problem, but I've had and seen so many problems with non-trivial use of USB storage. For myself, I'd want any long term setup to be attached by SATA or NVMe or over network to same. Che

Re: stopping mass surveillance

2022-12-12 Thread Andy Smith
ng you haven't elaborated upon. First step, explain why your idea is better than, say, Tor. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Fwd: Xen backup and restore

2022-12-12 Thread Andy Smith
ion for an environment where you do not operate the VMs as you won't be able to trust the VM admins to arrange for all their stuff to be backed up. Your choices are likely to be restricted more towards periodic imaging in that case. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Xen backup and restore

2022-12-10 Thread Andy Smith
thing else)? How are you providing storage for your domUs? Do you run PV domUs, PVH or HVM or a mixture of these? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: just saying

2022-11-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 10:48:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 09:21:51AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > Nevertheless, not all of the licenses we might discuss in the context of > > this thread are considered Free by the FSF, so there is a

Re: just saying

2022-11-25 Thread Andy Smith
orse than that! ESR was involved. Nevertheless, not all of the licenses we might discuss in the context of this thread are considered Free by the FSF, so there is a need for other terminology. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 08:08:46PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 7:28 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > ... > > I think the most obvious counter-argument is that it would be a waste of > > effort and human assets to put exploits in open source software

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Andy Smith
ing them put something malicious in an open source project? Frankly, this whole "the software is designed to take away my control and must be made that way by the concerted effort of dark forces!" thing sounds lke a thinly-veiled reference to one of Gene's favourite rants. Cheers, Andy -

Re: general squawk about unattended-upgrade

2022-11-19 Thread Andy Smith
ght ahead! As a bonus, he will write about it on some Devuan list and not here. Right? Everyone is a winner. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: general squawk about unattended-upgrade

2022-11-19 Thread Andy Smith
configure it in a way that can reboot your computer in the middle of a month-long print job. Truly when Poettering has such awful powers over your actions, humanity is lost. Unless somehow this was solely down to an error on your part that for some reason you don't want to take ownership of! Ch

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
ure installation. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: howto install Debian on software RAID1 when UEFI?

2022-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
System Partition: what do people do in 2020?" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/11/msg00455.html (same answers now in 2022) Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Interpreting debsecan output

2022-11-04 Thread Andy Smith
u2 i386 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2) Maybe I need to file a bug on debsecan just so someone can tell me what I am missing.  Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Good/bad idea to upgrade all packages to backports?

2022-11-04 Thread Andy Smith
ind does not make sense. > Will that make it easier to upgrade the system to next stable when it comes > out? No, it will make it harder. Packages are mostly tested for upgrade from the version in the previous release, i.e. oldstable, not olstable-backports. Cheers, Andy -- https://bi

Re: installing & upgrading backport package & upgrading system

2022-11-01 Thread Andy Smith
not have a working system where every package comes from -backports as most of those packages won't exist. bullseye-backports is only intended to provide a relatively small number of newer packages for systems nominally running Debian bullseye. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Interpreting debsecan output

2022-11-01 Thread Andy Smith
t a lot, but I'm having trouble understanding why it still mentions things like the above. Any ideas? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-21 Thread Andy Smith
we worked out they were trying to remember where they bought things (Amazon)". Imagine what it would be like talking any of these people through a problem with their computer. Someone famous once said, "the only intuitive interface is the nipple". I suspect that most of the re

Re: changing uuid of mdadm array

2022-10-09 Thread Andy Smith
there is a way without either using --create as you did or stopping the array and hand editing the metadata of the device in question. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Duplicating 'boot sector' for GPT disks in RAID1

2022-10-07 Thread Andy Smith
I still have two independent EFI SPs and mirror them at every grub package update. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to configure (aka deal with) /tmp in the best way?

2022-10-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 02:31:01PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 06:23:39PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > I haven't yet felt the need to adjust sizing or permissions on /tmp > > but if I did I'd just put an entry for it in /etc/fstab. > >

Re: How to configure (aka deal with) /tmp in the best way?

2022-10-05 Thread Andy Smith
similar to tell them where to put temporary output. I haven't yet felt the need to adjust sizing or permissions on /tmp but if I did I'd just put an entry for it in /etc/fstab. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Error including file in nftables.conf

2022-10-04 Thread Andy Smith
me=false Of course, there is good reason for ProtectHome. It seems like you could easily store this configuration file outside of /root, which would be more common and would save you all this work. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Error including file in nftables.conf

2022-10-03 Thread Andy Smith
found: /root/nftables/ruleset.txt > > Sounds like the service might be chrooted. … so OP please show us $ systemctl cat nftables.service to see if there are any interesting options about restricting access to the filesystem. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-09-30 Thread Andy Smith
d further down the thread that this is a laptop so maybe you can't do that. Cheers, Andy

Re: Debian 8

2022-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
non-obsolete operating system and there was no way to avoid running the software, I'd be looking into more extreme measures like running just that app in a chroot or container on an otherwise up to date system. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
smartctl -t long /dev/sda4 Then to view progress/result: # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Request: Could the maintainers update the non-free drivers please?

2022-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
report a bug against the package with "wishlist" severity. Unless the lack of a newer version is causing something to break, rather than just resulting in newer functionality being missing, in which case a higher severity might be appropriate. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ --

Re: drive controller Q?

2022-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
a new block device. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: drive controller Q?

2022-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
tually not any different to MD in this regard. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Paying Debian contributors (Was Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software)

2022-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
e that happening in situations where you pay much much more for a bespoke solution. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

2022-09-12 Thread Andy Smith
ing is, I'm not sure there is any level of severity setting that would have made a difference in this case, only perhaps a lot of people experiencing the problem in time and shouting about it (or automated testing to catch it). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

2022-09-12 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 12:00:20PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Obviously, no one desires for there to be bugs, so your question > doesn't really make sense. "Should bugs make it into Debian releases"? Ah, sorry, I think I misunderstood - you are literally asking if the presen

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

2022-09-12 Thread Andy Smith
en team are only being tested to the extent that the maintainers and volunteers are doing their own testing. Clearly bugs WILL make it into Debian releases. It is worth thinking about ways to reduce the chance of this happening. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting s

Re: booting 5.10 686-pae kernel on domU

2022-09-05 Thread Andy Smith
nux kernels should either be run in PVH or HVM mode under Xen. pvshim is strictly for older guests. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: booting 5.10 686-pae kernel on domU

2022-09-04 Thread Andy Smith
how us your domain config file from /etc/xen) type=pvh should work. type=pv is not expected to work. I don't know about type=hvm. Making the domU multiarch and booting it with an amd64 kernel while retaining the i686 userland should work. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Disk error?

2022-08-24 Thread Andy Smith
number of times to check it can be reliably read. If that works then I think I'd move on to a memory stress test. On amd64 I'd use memtest86 but I don't know what is best for arm64. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Errors while performing postgresql backup (Was Re: Softraid & partclone)

2022-08-24 Thread Andy Smith
our database). Are you just doing a pg_dump or are you shutting postgres down and backing up the psql/data directory with usual filesystem tools? Depending on what sort of errors you are seeing you may have a damaged filesystem in which case it would be advisable to set it read only and ta

Re: Softraid & partclone

2022-08-23 Thread Andy Smith
tat". Then we might be able to get you closer to your goal of being able to back up the postgres tables you have in a database that is stored on an MD array. If that is indeed your goal. There might be further questions. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-23 Thread Andy Smith
ns: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Asking_for_help Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chuck, On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 08:20:21PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > Volunteers cannot be forced to do work, else they are not > > volunteers. > > The fact that Debian is created by volunteers and therefore the chances

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
opriate. That's really the strongest thing you can do. Others may be tempted to try to drag more info out of you to determine what the exact history is here and who is right/wrong, but I don't think that will help anyone in these particular cases. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

2022-08-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Andy Smith wrote: > > I had a negative experience with LPI about 15 years ago where I > > signed up for one of their tests at a conference (FOSDEM) just out > > of interest and then in

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

2022-08-10 Thread Andy Smith
ink that RHCE was a decent certification that employers paid attention to, and still do. It helped me in my career and I took notice of its mention when interviewing people myself. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:15:15PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 15:04:13 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not >

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 01:28:16PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-08-06, Andy Smith wrote: > > Anything between (and including) the OP's computer and > > archive.debian.org can [intercept and] deny the HTTP request. > > Is there no way of making this determination?

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 06:52:29AM -0400, Amn wrote: > Black listed?!! > How does that work? Anything between (and including) the OP's computer and archive.debian.org can [intercept and] deny the HTTP request. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
he wheezy repository on archive.debian.org gives these errors as the key has expired and there is no valid key anywhere at this point, so as already mentioned if one wants to use archive,debian.org for wheezy one needs to override these errors, not search for a working key. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:35:44AM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:02:12 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > Why do you believe that having their customer premises equipment do > > this for v6 is any different from having it do default NAT for v4? >

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 06:23:26PM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 16:40:42 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > It's possible that some providers might do IPv6 NAT as well, but I > > think the majority would just apply some default and quite > > rest

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
utable by a matter of convention, the equivalent in IPv6 are just not routable by the protocol. You have to go out of your way to NAT them to/from routable addresses to have IPv6 packets traverse. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
ering already are trusted by most. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Sky broadband, a popular consumer and business ISP in UK. Most of Sky's customers will not know or care that at some point IPv6 got switched on for them. If you host content/services then you might want to increase the priority of learning IPv6 basics so that you can make sure that your content is ava

Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?

2022-08-01 Thread Andy Smith
ike > that w/ Debian Oh, I thought you wanted to stop using DHCPv6 (protocol) entirely. I've never tried any of this, I've only used static v6 setups everywhere, so I'm not much use. But can you not have dhclient6 send a DUID like this? https://superuser.com/a/954133/100242 Cheers,

Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?

2022-08-01 Thread Andy Smith
oice but to use DHCPv6. I don't know if static /56 is an option on fios. Although there is no technical reason to not allocate you a static /56, it is often used as a differentiator for a more costly service "because they can". Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Thoughts on logcheck?

2022-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
noted) plus the risk of missing other interesting things. I don't find writing logcheck filters to be a particularly big time sink. But if you do then it might alter the balance for you. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: mailman3 hyperkitty_import reports sqlite3.OperationalError

2022-07-23 Thread Andy Smith
d the web for articles on importing and found some examples already. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: mailman3 hyperkitty_import reports sqlite3.OperationalError

2022-07-21 Thread Andy Smith
ions you have about mailman3 rather than specifically Debian's packaging of it. I've found it very helpful, though you do have to bear in mind that they can only really talk about installs of mailman3 done in a venv from pip, not through Debian packages. https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists

Re: exiftool

2022-07-19 Thread Andy Smith
his seems to give an example of what you want using exiftool: https://photo.stackexchange.com/a/71428 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 10:31:36PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, July 10, 2022 06:48:10 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Otherwise I'm afraid your claims about IPv6 so far have been quite > > bizarre, on the level of "IPv6 ate my homework" or &q

Re: Twice load - rndc.key ?

2022-07-11 Thread Andy Smith
, what? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: libpq-dev package

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 07:19:08PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Trying to compile my program it fails by not finding the > pg-config script and libpq-fe.h file. You were already shown apt-file. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > What package can I find aclocal in? $ apt-file search bin/aclocal automake: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.16 automake1.11: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.11 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
necessary and at worst a misconfiguration exists somewhere else. DNS is designed to work on IPv4-only networks. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
But you're also doing it on a thread which conclusively has nothing to do with IPv6. Hopefully you can see why this seems like a bit of a theme with you. On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:59:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Andy, you obviously don't live in ipv4 only territory. I travel a lo

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
gt; There is nothing I can find in the exim4 configuration that would inhibit > IPv6. You disabling IPv6 inhibits IPv6 but I really don't know what the fixation is with IPv6 (and why it must be disabled). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
he new way of > disabling IPv6? That directory exists for me on all of my Debian 11 machines, so I guess you have something else wrong. Or maybe have already disabled IPv6 on the kernel command line (don't know if that removes the net.ipv6 sysfs tree as well). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Setting up Mailman3 under Debian (using packages)

2022-07-01 Thread Andy Smith
se list// directory for per-list overrides. Tags that you can use in templates: https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/rest/docs/templates.html#templated-texts I hope some of that helped. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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