Re: Debian upgrade is failing

2023-05-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Sayali Gole wrote: > Upgrading 8 to 9 version. Please check PFA Debian 9 has been archived. You will need to use https://snapshot.debian.org/ Also, you inexplicably forgot to copy debian-user@lists.debian.org I've fixed that for you. -dsr-

Re: Debian upgrade is failing

2023-05-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Sayali Gole wrote: > Debian 9 upgrade is failing ,failed to fetch url of source.list file Are you trying to upgrade from 8 to 9, or 9 to 10? Please show us the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list, and any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

Re: netmask question

2023-05-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 23, 2023, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: > > On May 22, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > > > I don't see it, 255 is all 8 bits set, 256 is all 8 bits cleared > > > and carry set. > > > > In "natural counting", 2^8

Re: netmask question

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Ritter
> > Why are you asking these questions? What's your ACTUAL issue? > > > > IIRC, last year my ISP gives me 8 IPv4, they said the first is network > addr, the last is broadcast addr, then I have to calculate the netmask by > myself. Well, they told you the additional necessary information: 8 addr

Re: netmask question

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 22, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/22/23 15:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:16:09PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 5/22/23 03:32, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 May 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > >  number; for (human) display it is su

Re: netmask question

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Reed wrote: > > > > If I know the network addr: 192.168.1.0 > And know the broadcast addr: 192.168.1.255 > Then I should have the possibility to cal the netmask addr: 255.255.255.0 > > Isn't it? No. What's the netmask if you have: IP: 192.168.255.132 broadcast: 192.168.255.255 ? -dsr-

Re: netmask question

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Reed wrote: > > > > > That's right, but then they go 0 .. 2^8 - 1. 2^8 is still 256, Tim does > > have a point there :-) > > > > For a given ipv4, if I know net addr and broadcast addr, how will I > calculate the netmask? You can't. You can assume that the broadcast address is the last us

Re: virtualisation

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > On 2023-05-22 20:10, Dan Ritter wrote: > > mick.crane wrote: > > > This is a request for best practice, perceived knowledge. > > Try KVM/QEMU, which is available via the libvirt tools; the > > primary graphical interface is virt-manager, an

Re: virtualisation

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > This is a request for best practice, perceived knowledge. > For one reason and another this PC/Workstation (what is the difference?) > boots in legacy mode. It was something to do with the SS usb port not > booting the installer in EFI mode. > I forget exactly. > Anyway, it's a

Re: netmask question

2023-05-22 Thread Dan Ritter
cor...@free.fr wrote: > On 22/05/2023 11:08, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Mon, 22 May 2023, cor...@free.fr wrote: > > > In CIDR a host address is xx.xx.xx.xx/32 which means 255.255.255.255. > > > isn't it? > > > > > > > It depends on what question you're asking. > > > > An individual address is a

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Default User wrote: > On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 13:48 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Wed, 17 May 2023 12:48:28 -0400 > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > Assuming you have network access close to boot time, you might > > > want to run an NTP daemon to get t

homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-05-17 Thread Dan Hitt
installing homebrew (tempting though it is) without having a reason. Thanks in advance for any info. dan

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > In case someone runs into the same problem, for some reason I can't > quite understand "sudo hwclock --set" wasn't working. Someone helped > me: > > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/util-linux/hwclock.8.en.html > https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime > > and "date" wo

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2023 20:30:38 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > > I also have an ancient i386 IBM R51 running Bookworm, dragon. On > > > dragon, using system-config-printer, I can see the printer > > > automagically discovered. I can open up the queue window for t

Re: Help with Debian for ARM

2023-05-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Mario Marietto wrote: > I still have the old "Samsung / Google Nexus 10" tablet. I don't like > Android. Any help to install Ubuntu instead of Android on this device is > appreciated. Thanks. First, this is a Debian list, not an Ubuntu list. Second, as far as I know, there are proprietary compo

Re: sudoers question

2023-05-13 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Security is engineering: always looking for a good tradeoff. > Not magic. > > (That's why I cringe when people around here scaremonger about > "you NEED to have a password" and things. People should know > what they are getting into, for sure, but at the same time they >

Re: Logging off an X session closes all ssh -X connections started previously from outside X

2023-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
zithro wrote: > On 09 May 2023 17:47, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > BTW, you should also try GNU Screen to see if you have the same issue > > with it (this could help debugging). > > Do you mean trying "ssh u@h screen" ? > Never tried screen with GUI apps, does that work ? Not in a useful way. For

Re: User is not in the sudoers file

2023-05-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Igor Korot wrote: > Hi, ALL, > Is there a reason for the default install > I immediately get the error in the subj? > > Basically trying to run: > > [code] > sudo apt-get install > [/code] Depending on the choices you made during installation, either: - root has a password and sudo is not in

Re: User is not in the sudoers file

2023-05-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 08, 2023, Igor Korot wrote: > Hi, ALL, > Is there a reason for the default install > I immediately get the error in the subj? You likely created a root account during the initial setup. Doing that skips over adding the first user (created during install) to sudoers (i.e. "the operator crea

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Дмитрий wrote: > > the stable version of Neodim 9.0 in debian 12 is the SEVENTH version, and in > order to get the current version, you need to drag something like Homebrew, > it really pisses you off and pushes you away from using the distribution At packages.debian.org, I put in "neodim" a

Re: thunderbird missing arrows for scrolling through list of email messages

2023-05-04 Thread Dan Ritter
zithro wrote: > > Well, I'm currently using "Greybird-dark" (so not the default). > But it seems there's no GUI to alter the theme itself. Right, you have to select a different theme. Or write your own. -dsr-

Re: thunderbird missing arrows for scrolling through list of email messages

2023-05-04 Thread Dan Ritter
zithro wrote: > On 04 May 2023 21:38, Dan Ritter wrote: > > It's not hidden, it's part of the theme. You can install and > > change themes -- look for packages with the keyword gtk theme, > > and in XFCE's settings manager, it's under appearance/style.

Re: thunderbird missing arrows for scrolling through list of email messages

2023-05-04 Thread Dan Ritter
zithro wrote: > On 28 Apr 2023 00:58, dmacdoug wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 02:46:38PM +, charlie derr wrote: > > > A number of years ago, the little arrows at the top and bottom of the > > > scrollbar to the right of my "message list" view in thunderbird (I'm > > > currently using debia

Re: OT: Using my (new) cable based ISP with their modem in bridge mode and my existing router

2023-04-28 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Some key phrases / sub topics: >* Astound (cable based) ISP in eastern Pa. area >* Arris DG2470A modem / router in bridge mode with Ubiquiti Edge Router X >* Ubiquiti Edge Router X in DMZ > I've now signed up to a new ISP (Astound / RCN) that provides acce

Re: Alternative to port 25 for SMTP submission.

2023-04-27 Thread Dan Ritter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Until exim connects to the smarthost with implicit TLS, I think of > having a non-TLS MUA send messages to the smarthost directly through > the stunnel tunnel. As mentioned a few days ago, the analogue for > POP3 works with no difficulty. > > If I try to remove exim, t

Re: AMD ryzen 5 2400G VGA drivers required for Debian 10 based linux OS

2023-04-27 Thread Dan Ritter
karans wrote: > We have Debian 10 based linux system > > And we are unable to boot into desktop > > VGA -AMD RAVEN RIDGE RADEON VEGA SERIES > Subsystem - Elitegroup Computer Systems raven ridge Radeo Vega series > > Is there any suitable drivers for it I listed the three packages tha

Re: AMD ryzen 5 2400G VGA drivers required for Debian 10 based linux OS

2023-04-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 10:12 AM karans wrote: > > > Dear Debian Team > > > > We have Debian 10 buster based linux OS but we are facing issue after > > install linux > > > > I forwarded this to the Debian User mailing list, which is the end user > support list. De

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

2023-04-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 4/26/23, Andy Smith wrote: > > If you're referring to the space and then the file name ("-" in case > > of stdin) on the end, you can just select only the first output up > > to whitespace with e.g. awk: > > > > _SHA256=$(printf '%s' "${_TXT}" | sha256sum | awk '{

Re: Putting important stuff exclusively in the subject [was: is it imminent that bookworm becomes stable?]

2023-04-25 Thread Dan Ritter
hl wrote: > Thanks! how many users are using mail reader without gui? anyway gui is more > friendly for many users. i suppose more users use gui. gui can show mail > body along subject easily. it's waste of time to repeat subject in mail > body. > > it seems impossible to please everyone. That's

Re: Putting important stuff exclusively in the subject [was: is it imminent that bookworm becomes stable?]

2023-04-25 Thread Dan Ritter
hl wrote: > why not use mail reader with gui, (e.g. Thunderbird)? gui allows you to get > info easily. you don't have to remember lots of things, just a few clicks, > you can get info you need. We have users who are blind. We have users who are using low-bandwidth connections. We have users who

Re: Looking for inspiration/advice/best practices on system upgrade

2023-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
DdB wrote: > while still on debian buster (old-old-stable soon), i am approaching the > point, where i will be ready to upgrade. I do have backup(s) from > different points in time, and can carry out restore to a VM, that is > almost identical to my main system, that i can use as a playground for

Re: is nft running? how do I get info?

2023-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > After years of using ipchains and later iptables as firewall I am now trying > to use nft. :-) > > I thought I understood it all and as far as I know I have a working config. > But just trying to get a listing of the running config shows NOTHING. > linbookwormtes

Re: Map URL to a container...

2023-04-21 Thread Dan Ritter
nimrod wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a web server inside an LXD container which is only > accessible from the host. I mapped the container's 80 port to the 82 > host's port, so I can access the container's web server as > http://host:82. The host itself runs Apache on the usual 80 port. What > I w

Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)?

2023-04-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Default User wrote: > > Well, now I am totally confused.  > > I had hoped for, and really expected, an easy, obvious, intuitive > solution. But I guess that may be a distant memory of the good old > days, before [insert string of four-letter words here] like dbus, > systemd, and Gnome 3. And wh

Re: hi res pdf needs posterized

2023-04-17 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all printing experts; > > I have an extremely high res pdf of a 3d printer controller board. > I need to print it in the same or close, resolution I can see it on screen > in libreoffice draw. But its equ to 26" wide! So the ideal printout would be > posterized on

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Dan Ritter
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 > otherwise no earthly reason to have an encrypt

Re: bookworm multimedia scripts silent in console but play in mate-terminal

2023-04-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Here's one script that works that way. Standard package install choices > were done desktop environment, mate, and standard utilities. > An install with only standard utilities and no desktop environment and no > mate prevents this script from playing at all. > #!/usr/bin/

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Dan Ritter
zithro wrote: > On 13 Apr 2023 01:15, Dan Ritter wrote: > > zithro wrote: > > > On 12 Apr 2023 22:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > RFCs are there for having a common ground, right ? > > > > Sort of. > > > > At various meetings, a

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Dan Ritter
zithro wrote: > On 12 Apr 2023 22:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > RFCs are there for having a common ground, right ? Sort of. At various meetings, a grad student was "volunteered" to take notes. Not quite certain of how accurately he had transcribed things, he typed up "Request For Comments" at th

Re: ICMP router advertisement (ipv4)

2023-04-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Anssi Saari wrote: > If "public IPv4 address" is not understood by you it can also be > formulated as "the OP has an RFC1918 IPv4 address which is not routable > on the public internet and hence a 6to4 tunnel can't work for him." Oh, it's hidden behind CGNAT. No, that won't work. My mistake. -ds

Re: ICMP router advertisement (ipv4)

2023-04-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Anssi Saari wrote: > Jeremy Ardley writes: > > > Your only option seems to be to sign up with some external IPv6 > > provider. This service (I've never used it so beware) says it gives > > you ipv6 etc for free. What their business model is I'm not sure > > https://tunnelbroker.net/ > > I doub

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-09 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > I should have qualified that advice as this machine will never be moved > beyond its quasi annual trip to the back porch for an air hose D&C. Not a > lappy, but a huge tower. I think you'll be fine, Gene. -dsr-

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:43 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Timothy Butterworth wrote: > > > After you edit resolv.conf make the file immutable with chattr. Chattr > > +i makes immutable chattr -i removes immmutable. > > > > &g

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy Butterworth wrote: > After you edit resolv.conf make the file immutable with chattr. Chattr +i > makes immutable chattr -i removes immmutable. This works, but you should also leave yourself a comment in the file to prevent later confusion. It's also unsuitable for most laptops, or othe

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Furie wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 08:05:18AM +0800, k...@openmbox.net wrote: > > Are the time format in /etc/crontab just random? why they are 6:25, 6:47 > > etc? > > They aren't *random*, though they are somewhat arbitrary. The daily tasks > run at 6:25, a time chosen by someone somewhe

Re: vtty & X terminal color scourge

2023-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > Once upon a time, I could count on minimal coloring on vttys and X terminals. > This > was unaffected by my inclusion of > > setterm -foreground white -bold -background blue -blank 59 -store > > in .bashrc, which after some years needed to be changed to > > tty=$(tty);

Re: How to enable the audio on the Kinect 1 so that I can talk without having the microphone attached to my mouth...on Debian.

2023-04-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Mario Marietto wrote: > Seems like they moved them, I found the devs here: > > http://archive.hark.jp/harkoldrepos/dists/precise/non-free/binary-amd64/ > > but It does not work : > > marietto@marietto:/mnt/zroot2/zroot2/AlexaChatGPT$ sudo dpkg -i > hark-kinect_1.2.0.4440_amd64.deb That reposi

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-30 Thread Dan Ritter
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Nicolas George wrote: > > The issue is not what you CAN express with different media: any > > program can be expressed as a flowchart. > > Is that true? Genuine question - I don't know the answer. But are the > two mathematically equal/equivalent? I wonder how

Re: gradle wants openjdk-11 even if a newer version is installed? ...

2023-03-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/29/23, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > As others have pointed out, apt-get doesn't work like that. It seems to > > me that the gradle package is wrong in having java as a dependency, > > since the need can be resolved at run-time rather than install time, > >

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > >From an end user's point of view, the three main differences between > "apt-get" and "apt" are: > > 3) apt uses a horrible yellow color that is nigh-unreadable on a white >background. (This is not configurable.) It appears that it is, just badly documented. In /etc/

Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate > privileges when necessary. Unfortunately I don't have write access on > /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled. You can re-answer all the cpan questions by typing: cpan o conf init -dsr-

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-24 Thread Dan Ritter
cor...@free.fr wrote: > Should CLI (command line interface) have a nice UI library? There are many. The generic underlying library is usually ncurses. On top of that are more libraries than there are languages. > But CLI is still in dull mode. That should be improved in these days. > for example

Re: MariaDB Server is not installing on Debian 12

2023-03-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I am unable to install MariaDB on debian 12. apt show says the > mariadb-server is Version: 1:10.11.2-1. > > Failed to stop mariadb.service: Unit mariadb.service not loaded. > invoke-rc.d: initscript mariadb, action "stop" failed. > Failed to stop mysql.service: Uni

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-18 Thread Dan Ritter
ting it. Build a RAID1 > using two local disks. Benchmark it. Run it through various > failure-recovery use-cases. Then add an iSCSI volume on another host in the > LAN, repeat the benchmarks, and repeat the failure-recovery use-cases. Then > add an iSCSI volume in the cloud, repe

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 06:00:46PM +0300, Reco wrote: > [...] > > PS There's that old saying, "RAID is not a substitute for a backup". > > What you're trying to do sounds suspiciously similar to an old "RAID > > split-mirror" backup technique. Just saying. ... > It soun

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Another contact has done repeated testing on both local and remote > instances of these files and has no failures. I'm suspecting the solid > state drive is going south. Fortunately this computer came with two > internal so I'll start using the other drive from now on and

Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network

2023-03-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > Reco (12023-03-17): > > Well, theoretically you can use Btrfs instead. > > No, I cannot. Obviously. > > > What you're trying to do sounds suspiciously similar to an old "RAID > > split-mirror" backup technique. > > Absolutely not. > > If you do not understand the questi

Re: auto restarting in crontab

2023-03-16 Thread Dan Ritter
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > p...@ymail.ne.jp wrote: > > > For dev stuff, for example, I have many versions of ruby installed > > > in the system by rbenv. > > > > > > Since I often change default ruby in interac

Re: auto restarting in crontab

2023-03-16 Thread Dan Ritter
p...@ymail.ne.jp wrote: > For dev stuff, for example, I have many versions of ruby installed in the > system by rbenv. > > Since I often change default ruby in interactive shell, this may break the > ruby for sysadmin job in crontab. What’s the solution for this? Everywhere it matters, set an

Re: Something tweaked my Firefox appearance

2023-03-16 Thread Dan Ritter
hobie of RMN wrote: > Current stable Debian; Firefox 91.13.0esr; xfce4; xfwm4. > > Two days ago I restarted my GUI when I saw the disk swap file was growing > too large. On logging back in I found Firefox's appearance was different > and harder to work with. Menu bar and Bookmarks toolbar have

Re: change synaptic repositories

2023-03-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Russell L. Harris wrote: > Where can I find a list of URLs for Synaptic repositories such as that > displayed by the installer? > > I need to switch from a local Approx repository to one of the > publically-accessible repositories such as maintained by debian.org. Regardless of what interface yo

Re: Network stack setup

2023-03-15 Thread Dan Ritter
krys...@ibse.cz wrote: > Dne středa 15. března 2023 12:55:55 CET, Henning Follmann napsal(a): > > This is indeed not right. > > Please try to ping any other host on the 192.168.1.0/24 network from > > 192.168.0.0/24 network. This might be just the case that the host with the > > two interfaces rep

Re: Debian Server

2023-03-13 Thread Dan Ritter
malpaso wrote: > *Hello!!!Please, I'm looking for guidance to set up a Server, it will not > be public, to host a flight simulator called Falcon BMS, about 12 people > flying online, the machine would be an I5 with 16 GB of RAM, Video Card GTX > 1050 TI and a 480 GB SSD, please what would you guid

Re: Debian docker image for development

2023-03-13 Thread Dan Ritter
p...@ymail.ne.jp wrote: > Hello, > > Do you have a reference for the image of Debian devbox? > Which would have the most modern development tools included, such as > C/java/python/golang/node etc. > I just don't want to re-make the wheels if there was already one. There are too many different de

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Curt wrote: > On 2023-03-12, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > > >> > Many (most?) printers do not understand PostScript. The > >> > printing system itself is based on processing PDFs. > >> > > >> > >> Oh. > >> Times hav

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 3/12/23 à 14:18, Brian a écrit : > > On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 10:45:02 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > > > > Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > > > it is strange that the choice was to generate > > > > PostScript and not PDF. > > > > > > Isn't postscrip

Re: "(Server) Protocol versions: remote=31, negotiated=31". How to you rsync just certain file extensions? . . .

2023-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > The one liner reporting that error is: > > time( sudo rsync --rsync-path="/usr/local/bin/rsync" --debug=ALL > --archive --verbose --compress --recursive --checksum --include="*/" > --include=".${_X}" --exclude="*" --prune-empty-dirs "${_SRC}" > "${_DST}" 1> "${_LOG

Re: debian for DNS servers

2023-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
cor...@free.fr wrote: > Now I have three debian nodes in different DCs. > Can I deploy a distributed DNS service for fault tolerance? You need to say what you want more specifically. Do you want to provide the same services (web servers, usually) on all three nodes with the ability to redirect t

Re: Suricata not starting

2023-03-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 2:10 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > What happens when you run the daemon by hand? > > > > -dsr- > > > > suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -s signatures.rules -i wlo1 > Error opening file /var/log/suricat

Re: Suricata not starting

2023-03-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Is anyone else having problems getting suricata to start? > > Mar 10 13:43:33 debian-testing systemd[1]: suricata.service: Scheduled > restart job, restart counter is at 5. > Mar 10 13:43:33 debian-testing systemd[1]: Stopped suricata.service - > Suricata IDS/IDP da

Re: No /

2023-03-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Michael Lee wrote: > Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings, > logins, etc.?  Not as such. That said: what do you actually want to accomplish? There may be ways to do what you want with less effort. -dsr-

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > since it was included in the Linux kernel anyway I (apparently > wrongly) thought I didn't have to install any packages. After > downloading and installing the required firmware: > > $ sudo dpkg --install firmware-atheros_20210315-3_all.deb > Selecting previously unsele

Re: dmesg ... XFS (sdb1): log I/O error ...

2023-02-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 2/25/23, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I am not using a USB enclosure per se, but a regular internal disk > externally attached using a USB/power interface. I will test the USB > cabling using a better looking, newer USB cable. If you can swap the USB/SATA interface too

Re: dell OptiPlex

2023-02-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Norris wrote: > Hi everyone! > Matt here. Years ago I had Debian on a disk with an awesome package and I > told myself I was always going to start again. I have been out of > circulation for some time. I have this Dell Optiplex with 32 RAM and an SSD > with an Intel i5-4590 CPU. Can I ins

Re: ASM1166

2023-02-23 Thread Dan Ritter
A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know if Asmedia ASM1166 PCIe to SATA chip based SATA expansion > cards work well under Debian? Apparently some variants may cause a slow boot process as the chip is incorrectly detected as having 32 SATA ports instead of 6. Other than that, n

Re: Evolution doesn't receive messages in Debian 11.

2023-02-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Van Snyder wrote: > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 15:42 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 22 Feb 2023 at 06:34:27 (+1000), David wrote: > > > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 12:09 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > > > > > > > When I installed Debian 11, I didn't destroy Debian 10. I still > > > > have > > > > Debia

Re: Whole-disk RAID and GPT/UEFI

2023-02-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > Is there a solution to have a whole-disk RAID (software, mdadm) that is > also partitioned in GPT and bootable in UEFI? Not that I know of. An EFI partition needs to be FAT32 or VFAT. What I think you could do: Partition the disks with GPT: 2 partitions each, EF

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Dan Ritter
krys...@ibse.cz wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > The kernel announces readiness during boot with: > > dmesg:[ 18.331561] EDAC amd64: Node 0: DRAM ECC enabled. > > > > and then an event looks like this: > > Message from syslogd@HOSTNAME at Jan 25 15:05:51 ... >

Re: Nedit opens in a different workspace

2023-02-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Van Snyder wrote: > I was convinced to do > > apt-get update; apt-get upgrade > > to try to repair a problem in my Debian 10 installation. Now it has a > mish-mash of 10 & 11 pieces. That's not possible unless you also edited /etc/apt/sources.list (or a file in sources.list.d/). Complete

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Anssi Saari wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > We see ECC errors irregularly and infrequently on both Intel and > > AMD CPUs. > > How/where do you see those on a Debian system? I looked into this > briefly but didn't get anywhere. The kernel announces r

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread Dan Ritter
krys...@ibse.cz wrote: > Dear Debian community, > we recently started using AMD Ryzen CPUs, ASRock Rack motherboards and > Kingston unbuffered ECC DIMMs for our small bussiness servers. All the > servers are running on ZFS for which ECC memory is recommended. So I naively > tried to test it act

Re: Fw: python thinking at debian

2023-02-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Vic Cekvenich wrote: > Hi Dan, thx for a response. > > I am trying to avoid building python. > > I currently do that via pyenv for the system python and it makes debian > unstable(as 'my' python in /usr/local fights with other system packages in > /bin. I'd

Re: Fw: python thinking at debian

2023-02-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Vic Cekvenich wrote: > > I can't figure out how to file a bug. But I see a bug related to ensurepip - > and some maintainer said that ensurepip is used by developers and won't be > fixed by debian. > > But you also won't let us that develop fix it. In ubuntu, they even have a > repo for ptyh

Re: snapd vs apt

2023-02-18 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 06:55:52PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > I can't stand those "applications" (Ruby, Python, I'm looking at > you) which have to run in some kind of "virtual environment". It's not a requirement; it's a support system for developers to manage d

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-02-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Default User wrote: > [0.160240] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio) > [7.598040] snd_hda_intel :00:1f.3: bound :00:02.0 (ops > i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915]) > [7.673391] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for Generic: > line_outs=1 (0x2c/0x0/0x0/0x0

Re: OT: (KVM) Splitting a combined USB mouse and keyboard cable to feed separate mouse and keyboard inputs

2023-02-11 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Leading up to the Problem: My problem is this: one of the computers that I > need / want to keep in service for some time yet has separate inputs for the > keyboard and mouse -- the existing KVMs have separate outputs for the > keyboard > and mouse, so all is (was)

Re: I have successfully mounted iSCSI targets from Synology NAS in Debian 11 Linux server for a construction company at Defu Lane 10, Singapore on 10 Feb 2023 Fri

2023-02-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Please also note that openssh-server was not installed. To install it, run > > # apt install openssh-server > > Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > and set > > PermitRootLogin yes This is usually a bad move. PermitRootLogin prohibit-password is a much safe

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

2023-02-09 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > > Chuckle... I might, but there also several switches in this lashup, the main > one claims to be managed but the other 2 are just glorified hubs. There's > even another router out in the shed but its running as a hub, radio turned > off just as are all the others here. They

Re: Web page management.

2023-02-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Peter Easthope wrote: > In-reply-to: <20230208191831.x6zp7ybzizmbq...@randomstring.org> > References: > > <20230208191831.x6zp7ybzizmbq...@randomstring.org> > > From: Dan Ritter > Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 14:18:31 -0500 > > The thing you're loo

Re: How to use bridge-utils to enable connection sharing?

2023-02-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2023 12:30:42 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > > RJ45 is a physical connector with 8 pairs of twisted wires. > > Eight wires, _four_ twisted pairs. Correct, my flub. -dsr-

Re: How to use bridge-utils to enable connection sharing?

2023-02-05 Thread Dan Ritter
DdB wrote: > What i am trying to setup is to have an older unused pc act as a > backup-server. The first thing to do would be to install a current > debian (disks are already pluged in). And the installation absolutely > wants an internet connection. > > Due to physical restrictions, my router ha

Re: OT: Charities (a rant) (was: Re: Who pays Debian developement)

2023-01-31 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 02:05:16PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > The reasons that there are quite a few charities that I do not contribute > > to > > has to do with two (related) things: > > Quite the Scientific Method (TM). Making a few things up

Re: EOL and EOS for Debian Softwares

2023-01-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Bushra Perveen wrote: > Hi Team, > > Please provide the EOL and EOS dates for the below mentioned software's. > > > whiptail 0.5 (Linux) > > P11 Glue Utilities 0.2 (Linux) > > virt-what 1 (Linux) > > HTTP Client 6 (Linux) > > virt-what 6 (Linux) > > DStat 0.7 (Linux) If you would like t

Re: Unexpected permission denied

2023-01-25 Thread Dan Ritter
jeremy ardley wrote: > I have vague memories there are more file flags in newer Linux file systems? There are extended attributes, of which the only one you are likely to encounter is i, immutable. It is occasionally useful to nail down the state of a file even when something properly has write p

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > > 11

Re: Syncing Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account

2023-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
John Hasler wrote: > Is there a way to Sync Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account? Yes, but it requires you to run a Mozilla Sync Server and a Mozilla Accounts Server. https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run-fxa.html -dsr-

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

2023-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > Hello, > > My Debian Sid system, including its networking system, has been > working fine for a while. Recently, Gmail has not been working properly > on the system: sending (via SMTP with SSL) times out, and receiving > (via POP3 and IMAP) takes abnormally long. Today I finally

Re: Web page management. Was: Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-20 Thread Dan Ritter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Unwieldly References list truncated. > > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:45:52 -0500 > > I use uMatrix, which I find strikes a fairly good balance between > > keeping sites working and letting me control how much crap is loaded. > > Another he

Re: Periodic refresh (or rwrite?) of data on an SSD (was: Re: Recommended SSDs and 4-bay internal dock)

2023-01-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, at 15:33, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > The whole issue makes me wonder if, say, I should plan on having several > SSDs for each set of backup data (I mean separately from the common- > sense approach of having more than one copy of anything anyway).

Re: Cannot get ssh access to the new Debian server on my local network

2023-01-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I have my new host working and ssh from it to the other local Debian host. > > BUT, I have not so far been able to ssh the other way from the old server > to the new one. Both servers have password access blocked (thanks for the > reminder from several folks in the other thre

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