Re: combine two commands via pipe

2024-07-25 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 07:29:10AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: > this could work indeed. but it requires me to input a long path. so I am > asking for a easier way. Try this: $ sudo find /tmp -user apache2 -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking,

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

2024-07-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 05:18:46PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > And it does not matter, because on a personal computer the root account > is not what matters, what matters is the user account where you can > install a key logger and get banking credentials or encrypt all the data > and ask for

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

2024-07-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:17:54AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > The CrowdStrike outage emulated the very thing it is alleged to protect > against - a zero day exploit. It was also a demonstration of a huge vulnerability. If $EvilActor were to get an agent employed at CrowdStrike/whoever then

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

2024-07-20 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:46:24AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > A plug for SELinux. It's been around for a long time. It was invented by the > NSA for use by Government agencies but they kindly open sourced it and it's > available on many Distros including Debian. > > SELinux is a real pain to

Re: web site displays blank page

2024-07-18 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 06:06:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > When I try to visit www.chewy.com a blank page. This is a major pet > supply web site. Other web sites display as usual without problems. > I phoned CHEWY and they say their system is on-line. > > I have tried two different

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On 2024-07-14 22:15:34, "Alan D. Salewski" spake thus: [...] The user's umask value would matter less if the default perms of user $HOME directories were 077 s/were/were from a umask of/

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
t 4096 Jul 14 22:32 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Jul 14 22:32 admin -- a l a n d. s a l e w s k i ads@salewski.email salew...@att.net https://github.com/salewski

Re: Suspicious "invoice" email?

2024-05-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:28:35PM -0400, PMA wrote: > I received the following today from (Jerry Henley at) Ella White > . > > I suspect fraud here, so have not opened the invoice he/she attached. > > Can you possibly tell me whether the message is legitimate? I did not spend much time on it.

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-14 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 03:11:16PM +0200, Richard wrote: >"Top posting" (writing the answer above the text that's being replied >to) is literally industry standard behavior. Many do top post, but many do not. Places where it is often frowned on are technical mail lists such as this one.

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2024-04-11 Thread D
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Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:42:25AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Mike Castle wrote: > > >> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. > >> Should we scour our systems looking for similar issues in > >> other languages? Then in, say, 20 years time when different > >> words will then be

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-25 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 07:44:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > [...] > > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking > > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal > > in what our software

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 09:03:45AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > It was a BLM thing, not sure if it matters the etymology of such > > words. > > The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin > of the *meaning* of the word(s). +1 However that is not the way that the

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. > > how far this has

Re: Thunderbird inbox malfunction

2024-02-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Paul D Schmitt wrote on 2/14/24 10:49: After an upgrade of Debian 11 yesterday, Thunderbird 115.7.0 now has an inbox issue where the listings move making it difficult to save or delete them!  I had this exact issue with Debian based Antix 22 after a recent upgrade.  That problem was resolved

Thunderbird inbox malfunction

2024-02-14 Thread Paul D Schmitt
After an upgrade of Debian 11 yesterday, Thunderbird 115.7.0 now has an inbox issue where the listings move making it difficult to save or delete them!  I had this exact issue with Debian based Antix 22 after a recent upgrade.  That problem was resolved by a subsequent upgrade from

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 07:42:24PM +, Richmond wrote: > You could try Pidgin. It's in the Debian repo. It has various protocols > of which irc is just one. It's a bit confusing because you have to go to > the 'buddy' menu to join an irc channel. Yes: Pidgin UI is dreadful. Lots that is non

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-25 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/24/24 12:24: On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:16:21PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: 4. But now how do I actually run the program? I tried just running: $ acrordrdc Have you looked at the man page for snap? It's very long, so I took a guess and looked for "run".

running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-24 Thread D. R. Evans
1. I've never used a snap package before. 2. I want to run the acrordrdc program, which is available as a snap package. 3. Following instructions found following a search for help with snap, I ran: sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install core sudo snap install acrordrdc There were no

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home > > > > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. > > > > Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it right > > first time! > >

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:32:30PM +0100, sko...@uns.ac.rs wrote: > I am getting the following message at any boot: > > "The volume "Filesystem root" has only 221.1 MB disk space remaining." > > df -h says: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 11:39:40AM -0500, Pocket wrote: > > On 12/21/23 10:50, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > It is NOT a firewall issue. > > > If I am correct you don't want any thing from the outside to hit your web > server? The words "web server" is ambiguo

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:31:06AM -0500, Pocket wrote: > All you should be seeing is scans which you can not prevent. I am looking at incoming packets with tcpdump. This sees packets *before* they are filtered by iptables. > What are you using for a firewall? Something hand rolled. Reasonably

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Pocket wrote: > Use a firewall and set it up correctly. That I have done. The issue is broadband usage - ie before it hits the firewall. > Assuming a residential environment. > > Firewall the router and server(s) as well as all the client machines. >

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 01:39:53PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Okay well 30KiB/s is only about 78GiB/month which isn't really a > lot. I think we're both in UK and it's been hard to find a domestic > Internet connection that you'd run a web server on that can't cope > with 78G/mo. So ignoring it

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:50:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > If your home Internet service has an "allowance", you probably shouldn't > run a web server on it. Yes: I do run a web server at home, but there is only a little/personal stuff, it does not receive much real traffic, I do not want

Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
My home PC is receiving, for hours at a time, 12-30 kB/s input traffic. This is unsolicited. I do not know what it is trying to achieve but suspect no good. It is also eating my broadband allowance. This does not show up in the Apache log files - the TCP connection does not succeed. Sometimes

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-04 Thread D MacDougall
On 12/4/23 16:52, Tom Browder wrote: HP printer and toner, Office Depot labels. I bought so hair spray and will try that. -Tom I just looked at Office Depot website and the only labels I see that are for both laser and inkjet are an off brand.  I see why you went for the off brand, they

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 9/12/23 11:51: You really should eliminate that xorg.conf file, and if the problem continues, don't assume it's the kernel driver at fault. Just report a bug if so inclined. Where would depend on behavior after removing xorg.conf. If it fixes the problem, there is almost

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-12 Thread D. R. Evans
they won't make any practical difference, but might make the system a bit cleaner to administer. And, from what you say here: > D. R. Evans composed on 2023-09-11 11:47 (UTC-0600): > >> Graphics: >> Device-1: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nouveau >

X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-11 Thread D. R. Evans
This is a follow-on to the thread that started with: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/05/msg00657.html Following the upgrade to bookworm that I recently performed, I was hoping that the problem described in the first post in that thread would magically go away. It didn't :-( Felix

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 04:51: Installation over ethernet, no DE - ifupdown provided. Installation over ethernet or wireless with a DE - network-manager provided. Yep, that one's exactly what I experienced. Although the machine is used more like a server than a desktop, it has DE (KDE) to

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 13:01: Send a mail to cont...@bugs.debian.org Ib the mail body put ressign 1051086 installation-report thanks Sorry. That's "reassign". Done. Thank you. I pondered where to assign in, and couldn't see anywhere that the report really fit. (I interpreted

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Michael Kjörling wrote on 9/2/23 03:23: You might want to poke around a little among the files in /etc/NetworkManager, particularly /e/NM/system-connections. That's what NetworkManager _should_ be using to set up the interfaces. See if there's something there to explain the two seemingly being

WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Starting a new thread so that this doesn't get lost in the postings in the original thread. The original thread was started at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/09/msg00024.html That post contains a description of the problem. I now have a workaround (although not an explanation)

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
David Wright wrote on 9/1/23 19:40: I don't see that the OP is doing anything complicated that requires rc.local to run at all. They just need to distinguish between the two Correct. I was simply trying to workaround the problem by putting commands into rc.local that are known to work when I

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Michel Verdier wrote on 9/1/23 15:06: If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" Nice to know, but I'll stay with the new names, I think. network manager is good for changing networks. For a server the network must not change normally. So you could

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Andy Smith wrote on 9/1/23 16:32: Your situation appears to have been triggered by the renaming of your network interfaces (which was warned about in the release These weird names like "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" were names that the debian installer came up with several OS versions ago

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 9/1/23 15:38: In particular, when using /etc/network/interfaces, only interfaces that are marked as "auto" need to be up, to satisfy this criterion. An I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, at least not by default. Certainly

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Thank you for your thoughts... As people are addressing the rc.local issue (I now realise that I shouldn't have mentioned it :-) )... I just checked, and: 1. rc.local is being executed; 2. it is executing the nmcli commands; 3. the commands are successful. But it remains true that when the

bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
ns), with the result that nothing worked. So, after a bit of messing around with an increasing sense of desperation, I discovered that: [Z:~] sudo nmcli connection down "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" Connection 'Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)' successfully deactivated (D-Bu

Re: Trojan

2023-08-27 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:23:06AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:36:02 +0100 > Alain D D Williams wrote: > > Hello Alain, > > >They will look at it and do something - or so they claim, > > Most likely that 'something' will be to compile statisti

Re: Trojan

2023-08-27 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:31:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If you feel like you'd like to learn a bit, study the mail > headers. Ponder about which ones the sender could have faked > and which ones not. Things like that. If you live in the UK you can forward it to here:

Re: Using the bash shell: determine if the root user used 'sudo -i'

2023-08-26 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash shell. > > Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not? I have not tested this but if bash was interactive you will find a .bash_history file

bash $MAIL bug in Bookworm

2023-08-09 Thread Alain D D Williams
I have recently upgraded to Bookworm. I have set: MAIL=/var/spool/mail/addw MAILCHECK=60 I find that when doing filename expansion, by pressing TAB, that the 'You have mail' message appears when it should not. In the example below I pressed TAB after the letter 'T' (which gave

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-05 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 7/5/23 08:59: I'm still waiting for setup details to be provided. Is "sh" the user's I was merely trying to inform the OP that he wasn't alone in seeing this "Transport endpoint is not connected" message coming from bookworm when prior versions of debian stable were

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-05 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 7/4/23 22:23: FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. This seems to be coming from getcwd() (aka get current working directory, see man page). Asking the intertubes,

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-04 Thread D. R. Evans
hlyg wrote on 6/28/23 21:32: notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. I have no idea why. (And, just to be clear, this has never

Re: How do I remotely access the computer in the next room?

2023-07-02 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 06:49:07PM -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, All - > > I need the best way currently available to operate my brother's computer > in the next room through my computer. I think we're both running Debian > 11, the stable version for me, the testing version for him. I've

Re: Qemu Numeric Lock problem

2023-06-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 05:42:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote: > I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu. Caps Lock is also affected the same way. > Sequence as follows: > > I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up. > > I then switch to the

Qemu Numeric Lock problem

2023-06-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu. Sequence as follows: I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up. I then switch to the workspace that contains a running virtual machine. The virtualised OS does not seem to be important, this happens with Debian

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-31 Thread D. R. Evans
I'm sorry I'm so slow to respond... it's all a matter of trying to put aside quality uninterruptible time to work on this. Since the problem is not so bad that I can't perform work with this computer, a lot of other work-related things unfortunately have to take priority. Felix Miata wrote

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/19/23 11:23: How much time did you allow the login screen to show up? I've lately seen on Somewhere between three and five minutes, I'd say. Certainly long after the disk light stopped flickering and the system seemed to have reached a stable state.

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and reboot to see if it makes a difference. I did this, and when I rebooted I was in the Linux console instead of Light DM

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Synaptic is telling me that this will also remove: xserver-xorg-video-all Is it OK that that will also be removed? Doc --

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 11:16: D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 09:49 (UTC-0600): I'm wondering if someone can walk me through how to figure out what video driver I am using, and what other drivers might be available to try? Not without knowing anything about your GPU: Yes, I

video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Following an update this morning to one of my bullseye systems, an irritating video problem has surfaced. The best way I can think of to describe the problem is that if one has a line of black text on what is supposed to be a white background, to the right of the text a clear, short tail of

Thunderbird and font size used to display plain text e-mails?

2023-04-30 Thread D. R. Evans
I have looked everywhere I can think of, and have been unable to find an answer -- among the ridiculous number of ways that fonts appear to be controlled in Thunderbird -- that works for this issue :-( I recently changed to a larger monitor, and, after lots of twiddling, have more-or-less got

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:00:52AM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Okay. Let's open this can of worms. The ONLY reason https is used on > most sites is because Google *mandated* it years ago. ("Mandate" means > we'll downgrade your search ranking if you don't use https.) There is >

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 03:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > [...] > > > While we are talking about this, is there any reason why all the http: > > should > > not be https: ?

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:52:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 15 Apr 2023 at 08:11:17 -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > > --- > > > > > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free > > >

Re: No /

2023-03-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Michael Lee wrote: > Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings, > logins, etc.?  This is what backups are for. I assume that you have something. > Michael Lee -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites,

Libembree, but static

2023-03-07 Thread Julien D Arques
Hi, We currently have libembree in .so shared library. Is it possible for the maintainers to provide the static .a? I use the latest available in testing 3.13.5 Thanks

Re: GPG problems

2022-12-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 04:28:00PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2022-12-04 12:05:56+, Alain D. D. Williams wrote: > > > Part of the problem is the hopeless message "Server indicated a > > failure" which says little. Any idea how I could get something more &g

Re: GPG problems

2022-12-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 02:59:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > keys.openpgp.org should be operational. It responds to ping. > > Also have a look at > https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-June/065261.html . No, that is not the issue. It works on Debian 11 but not Debian 10, both

GPG problems

2022-12-03 Thread Alain D D Williams
I am running Debian 10 (buster). I generated a new key that I wanted to upload, but it fails: $ gpg --send-keys 0xBA366B977C06BAF7 gpg: sending key 0xBA366B977C06BAF7 to hkps://keys.openpgp.org gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a failure gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 10:43:19PM +, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > > > > Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back > > doors. > > Shrug.. as opposed to installing closed source programmes where you know you > are spied upon ? Which may of course have back

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > I have no idea what you mean. It’s open source and you can analyze the code > line by line. Very true ... but how much code have you analyzed line by line ? Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-10 Thread d-u
On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:28:46 +0100 hw wrote: > On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 09:52 +0100, DdB wrote: > > Am 08.11.2022 um 05:31 schrieb hw: > > > > That's only one point. > > > What are the others? > > > > > > >  And it's not really some valid one, I think, as > > > > you do typically not run

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread D. R. Evans
hw wrote on 11/9/22 04:41: configure the controller cards, so that won't really work. And ZFS with Linux isn't so great because it keeps fuse in between. That isn't true. I've been using ZFS with Debian for years without FUSE, through the ZFSonLinux project. The only slightly

Re: Ubuntu

2022-11-04 Thread Alexandre D
forum.php>, ses cahiers du débutant <https://debian-facile.org/projets/lescahiersdudebutant/> ou son iso d'installation <https://debian-facile.org/projets:iso-debian-facile>. Bonne découverte ! Alex (SuShY sur Debian Facile) ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ ⠀⠀ Alexandre

Re: Éteindre ou redémarrer sa machine à partir de son user

2022-11-02 Thread Alexandre D
Bonjour, Problème résolu avec un "apt install polkitd" qui s'était désinstaller par erreur. A++ ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ ⠀⠀ Alexandre D. https://alexbook.fr alexan...@alexbook.fr - - - - - - - System : Debian SID - - - - - - - - Le 02/11/2022 à 13:57, Alexandre D a écrit :

Éteindre ou redémarrer sa machine à partir de son user

2022-11-02 Thread Alexandre D
mon compte utilisateur, voici le retour des commandes : * systemctl poweroff --> Call to PowerOff failed: Access denied * systemctl reboot --> Call to Reboot failed: Access denied Avez-vous une idée pour résoudre le problème ? Par avance, merci. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ ⠀⠀ Alexa

How to use hw vendor EFI diagnostics ?

2022-10-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
I just got myself a new laptop - the old one broke. It is an HP stream, I wiped MS Windows and installed Linux Mint 21. The machine came with some nice hardware diagnostics, written by/for HP. These could be run without booting MS Windows. I would like to have the ability to run these as they

Re: Nouveau - Renseignements

2022-08-06 Thread Alexandre D
/Linux Bullseye <https://debian-facile.org/projets/lescahiersdudebutant/> * Documentation de Debian-Facile <https://debian-facile.org/wiki> Bonne lecture et belle aventure. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ ⠀⠀ Alexandre D. https://alexbook.fr alexan...@alexbook.fr - - - - - - - S

Re: issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
DdB wrote on 6/20/22 10:07: Since i am running dozens of VM's, i can say: Me2 am running into this regularly, when i am trying to purge old kernels. I am seeing this so frequently, that i even wrote a script (meant to be run inside the VM's) to clean up the mess, some apt-scripts happen to leave

acceso full a una ip

2022-06-20 Thread Luis D. Alvarez Navarro
buenas a todos Necesito que me aclaren esto soy nuevo e esto de iptables. Necesito a una ip de mi lan por ej la 192.168.200.3 darle acceso ainternet full y que no tenga nada que ver con el proxy, es para que baje actualizaciones y todo para servidores etc. puede ser así Ahh la ip real par el

issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-20 Thread D. R. Evans
Normally to remove an old kernel from my debian stable systems, I issue the following command: apt purge linux-headers--amd64 linux-headers--common linux-image--amd64 Following this recipe, which has always worked in the past, I issued: apt purge

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 10:02:05PM +0200, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > Hi, > > My first mail provider (in Oslo) promised free mailadress for life. > > Then it was sold to a kapitalist and they started to ask money. > > I do not like that. > > I know it is possible to run a free host. > > By

[SOLVED] Re: postfix + gmail

2022-06-03 Thread D. R. Evans
And, of course, half an hour after giving up and asking for help, I discovered what I needed to change. I did a "journalctl | grep smtp" and noticed that, when my machine was connecting to gmail, it seemed to be doing so on port 25. Aha! So I changed my transport file explicitly to use port

postfix + gmail

2022-06-03 Thread D. R. Evans
I am trying to configure postfix correctly to send e-mail to a gmail.com account, using my gmail credentials. 1. It all works fine if I use Thunderbird, with the following configuration: server name: smtp.googlemail.com port:587 Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication

Re: Choix d'un gestionnaire de mots de passe

2022-05-26 Thread Alexandre D
Bonsoir, Même ressenti et même usage pour moi avec Vaultwarden en auto-hébergé. Multi plateforme et accessible de partout. A++ ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ ⠀⠀ Alexandre D. https://alexbook.fr alexan...@alexbook.fr - - - - - - - System : Debian SID - - - - - - - - Le 26/05/2022 à 20:56

Re: When will Debian book Authors be publishing Debian 11 Bullseye System Administrator's Handbook?

2022-04-29 Thread Tom D.
Respected IL Ka, Thank you very much for your reply. I will right away buy Debian 10 System Administration Handbook. Regards Adrian On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 11:50 AM IL Ka wrote: > Debian 10 handbook (https://debian-handbook.info/) still can be used to > study Debian because lots of things are

Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Tom D.
Respected Everyone, I have installed Debian 11 Bullseye on my Laptop and found the following video tutorial. https://youtu.be/wsh64rjnRas Does this video tutorial coalign with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration? I really need the latest tutorial. Thank you. Regards Adrian

When will Debian book Authors be publishing Debian 11 Bullseye System Administrator's Handbook?

2022-04-29 Thread Tom D.
Respected Debian Book Authors, When will you be going to publish Debian 11 Bullseye System Administrator's Handbook? I cannot wait to buy it from Amazon. I really need it. Please publish it as soon as possible. Is there any website or video site from where I can learn to be a Complete Debian 11

Re: Start ZFS partition on boot.

2022-03-18 Thread D. R. Evans
James Allsopp wrote on 3/18/22 15:20: I'm having lots of trouble starting my zfs /var partition as part of boot, I urge you to post the question on the zfs-discuss reflector. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

Re: jupyter-notebook and bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread D. R. Evans
Reco wrote on 12/31/21 1:47 PM: That was certainly a help (although I wonder why it was necessary for me to do that manually), It's official Debian policy now, believe it or not. python 2.x is /usr/bin/python2. python 3.x is /usr/bin/python3. If the user really wants /usr/bin/python the

Re: jupyter-notebook and bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread D. R. Evans
Reco wrote on 12/17/21 6:10 AM: Hi. On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:43:51PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin/python' ... Can someone suggest how I might get back to the fully-working set of kernels that I had in buster? Try

jupyter-notebook and bullseye

2021-12-16 Thread D. R. Evans
I don't use jupyter-notebook often, so I only just discovered that I am encountering a problem with it following my upgrade from buster to bullseye a couple of months ago. It worked fine on buster, and I have changed nothing related to jupyter since the upgrade. When jupyter-notebook starts

Re: Problème carte son USB

2021-11-22 Thread Alexandre D
éliminer le problème matériel. Aucun problème à signaler sur Mac ou Windows. Même avec les autres périphériques de débranché, le problème se reproduit. Alex. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ ⠀⠀ Alexandre D. https://alexbook.fr alexan...@alexbook.fr - - - - - - - System : Debian SID - - - - - - - - Le

Problème carte son USB

2021-11-22 Thread Alexandre D
mais cela ne résout pas le problème. Je suis sous Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid x86_64 avec un noyau 5.15.0-1-amd64. Merci par avance pour votre aide. Librement -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ ⠀⠀ Alexandre D. https://alexbook.fr alexan...@alexbook.fr - - - - - - - System : Debian SID - - - - - - - -

Re: bullseye and running graphics over ssh

2021-10-07 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 10/7/21 2:21 PM: On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 02:15:45PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: For years (decades, actually) I have routinely executed graphical programs over ssh (i.e., I sit at computer A, ssh into computer B, then run a graphical program on computer B whose windows

bullseye and running graphics over ssh

2021-10-07 Thread D. R. Evans
For years (decades, actually) I have routinely executed graphical programs over ssh (i.e., I sit at computer A, ssh into computer B, then run a graphical program on computer B whose windows, mouse events, etc., all occur on computer A). In bullseye, at least out-of-the-box bullseye, this

Re: failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

2021-10-07 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:36 PM: D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:12 PM: I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. I am suspicious that the problem is related to having root on ZFS on this machine. So I have posted a request for help

Re: failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

2021-10-04 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:12 PM: I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. I am suspicious that the problem is related to having root on ZFS on this machine. So I have posted a request for help on the zfsonlinux reflector, and probably

failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

2021-10-04 Thread D. R. Evans
I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. The upgrade halted with: ... Setting up libgnustep-base1.27 (1.27.0-3) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (2.0-1) ... Setting up gnustep-base-runtime (1.27.0-3) ... Setting up unar

Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-25 Thread James D Freels
all things working now. Man, what a frustration.  Otherwise, the bullseye upgrade has been flawless for me so far. On 8/25/21 2:30 PM, James D Freels wrote: Thanks for responding Georgi, I had already tried "alsactl init" earlier based on other advise found on the WWW.  However, I d

Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-25 Thread James D Freels
message, nor how to correct it. The alsamixer seems to work fine as expected and indicates I have the sound card active and should hear sound. But, it only provides actual sound if I am root. On 8/25/21 1:28 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi James, try to run: # alsactl init as root, reboot

Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-25 Thread James D Freels
occurrence of a pulseaudio configuration file on my system for a clue Any help appreciated.  Is there a good troubleshoot procedure for debian/11/bullseye sound problems ? On 8/24/21 3:05 PM, James D Freels wrote: Hello, I am a long-time debian user, and just recently upgraded my buster amd64

problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine

2021-08-24 Thread James D Freels
    Kernel modules: snd_oxygen Nothing has changed with the hardware, and I know the setup works.  This seems to be a permissions/software issue. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D., P.E. freel...@gmail.com 865-457-6742 (landline) 865-919-0320 (cell)

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