Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread grumpy
March 13, 2021 7:36:39 PM CET Larry Martell wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:45 AM Brian wrote: On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > [...] > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread grumpy
> > From: The Wanderer > Sent: Fri Mar 12 10:38:54 CET 2021 > To: > Subject: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating > system?) > > > On 2021-03-12 at 03:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:11:16PM

Re: po...@lists.debian.org

2021-01-10 Thread grumpy
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 9:39 AM mm wrote: totally with you on this. but then do smth about the politically motivated techincal discussion starting with the subject line I second that motion. all in favor let go of your momma's teat and raise

Re: po...@lists.debian.org

2021-01-09 Thread grumpy
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, mm wrote: On 1/9/21 6:27 PM, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: W?dniu sob, 09.01.2021 o?godzinie 15?33?+0100, u?ytkownik mm napisa?: Cheers, Please get your right wing propaganda elsewhere. If you deem yourself intelligent you have to revise your understanding of the words: 1.

command file location

2020-12-25 Thread grumpy
over the years i've noticed that some command files are put in what i would call not usual locations for example /usr/lib/dropbear/dropbearconvert and to add insult to injury many times the man pages do not tell you the location does anyone know the reasoning behind this this is not a criticism

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-07 Thread grumpy
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: I am also going to guess that Deepin, like Ubuntu, defaults to giving you a user account with sudo access, and no root password. You can

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-04 Thread grumpy
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, elvis wrote: Just goes to show if you whinge hard enough and pretend to be useless it will irritate someone enough to do your work. You don't even bother to check your robots.txt and complained about some evil bot all year. Priceless. now now little girl don't get your

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-04 Thread grumpy
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 08:39:42AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: But I asked specifically how to enable it for one bot, and I've asked that question several times, getting smoke and mirror answers you all assume are helpfull, but which are useless to a

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread grumpy
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Any suggestions? alpine

Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default

2020-10-19 Thread grumpy
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, Brian wrote: On Mon 19 Oct 2020 at 07:18:39 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Xianwen Chen (?) wrote: Hi, When I hold Ctrl and right click on uxterm, a menu shows up, where I can click to enable TrueType fonts. I would like to enable TrueType fonts by default. I guess

Re: Please be respectful

2020-10-15 Thread grumpy
Reading this thread reinforces just how old I am The whole world seems to be wearing their feelings on the sleeve On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Weaver, On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:12:45AM -0700, Weaver wrote: Being polite is a standard that has to apply to all. And indeed it

Re: ot: hack me

2020-08-17 Thread grumpy
On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, deloptes wrote: gru...@mailfence.com wrote: does anyone know of a reliable site that can stress test my firewall You are looking for online nmap service like this one https://pentest-tools.com/network-vulnerability-scanning/tcp-port-scanner-online-nmap Google can tell

ot: hack me

2020-08-17 Thread grumpy
does anyone know of a reliable site that can stress test my firewall

timeout in initramfs

2020-08-12 Thread grumpy
i set up a machine with wifi with an encrypted root fs i have this "ip=:wlan0:on" in my boot command line during boot it talks to my dhcp to set up a connection so i can remotely unlock the root fs i know that this is not really secure but lets ignore my stupidity for the moment anyway it

Re: How to control mode entered after specific inactivity time?

2020-07-22 Thread grumpy
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: My search attempts likely failed because I didn't know the appropriate terms. After some initial inactivity the screen blanks and can can be brought back to life by mouse movement. After a longer period of inactivity one must touch the power button.

Re: [dm-crypt] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 (fwd)

2020-07-09 Thread grumpy
200 active sync /dev/sdb4 1 841 active sync /dev/sda4 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:20:14 -0500 From: mdadm monitoring To: root@nsa320.grumpy-net Subject: SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320

upgrade stretch to buster on armel fails

2020-07-02 Thread grumpy
i have a device that runs stretch armel if i change my repos to buster i do apt clean all, apt update, apt install systemd when systemd installs it fails to start and i get a series of timeouts when i reboot i get Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... Begin: Stopping dropbear ... done. [

Re: how to stop reboot from delete'n directory

2020-07-01 Thread grumpy
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 02:33:07PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: i create a directory /run/foo to hold sockets for my application when i reboot the directory gets deleted is set'n the immutable flag the way to go unicorn:~$ df /run Filesystem

how to stop reboot from delete'n directory

2020-07-01 Thread grumpy
i create a directory /run/foo to hold sockets for my application when i reboot the directory gets deleted is set'n the immutable flag the way to go

Re: how to: apt --exclude=foo* upgrade

2020-07-01 Thread grumpy
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 01:22:29PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: i build my kernels how can i tell apt to never install a kernel when i upgrade Remove all Debian kernel packages, including and most especially the metapackages such as

how to: apt --exclude=foo* upgrade

2020-07-01 Thread grumpy
i build my kernels how can i tell apt to never install a kernel when i upgrade

cryptsetup gui

2020-05-01 Thread grumpy
i don't know what i have screwed up i am running buster on three machines only one behaves this way i have an encrypted root fs while the system is still running the initial ramdisk it launches a cryptsetup gui it ask for the password and then presents 3 square dots this obscures the rest of the

Re: completion prompting

2020-04-05 Thread grumpy
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 02:31:06PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: with bash completion returns a message like Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) how can i turn this off I don't know what you mean by "turning this off". The helper doing

completion prompting

2020-04-05 Thread grumpy
with bash completion returns a message like Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) how can i turn this off

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-04 Thread grumpy
On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On Monday 02 March 2020 06:28:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the

how to determine who is responsible for a file

2020-02-29 Thread grumpy
how can i find what package is responsible for installing a file. for example /etc/ssh/sshd_config. apt-file returns nothng and dpkg -S returns dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/ssh/sshd_config. on another note, is there a mailing list just for the package manager?