also take
into account how active the maintainer is, and how old the code
base.
--
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: :' : proud Debian developer
`. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
an egg h
y to map names to multicast groups, and manage the namespace.
--
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: :' : proud Debian developer
`. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
now I lay me back to sleep.
the speaker&
OP's needs, but I don't know of any implementation for SSH.
--
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: :' : proud Debian developer
`. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
"we did
:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9276#issuecomment-442514543
applies here as well and by setting this to the desired swappiness value
and rebooting the system so far it seems to work as before and swapping
out is only done if it can't be avoided.
Martin
On 06/07/2020 23:27, deloptes wrote:
> May be look deeper in documentation - I recall asking few years ago and was
> answered that now it would cache whatever it can and will free on demand.
> swap is done only if memory is really insufficient.
>
> I don't recall when or where I asked read this
>
On 06/07/2020 18:11, songbird wrote:
> Martin Reissner wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> ever since upgrading machines to Buster the vm.swappiness sysctl
>> parameter doesn't seem to do anything anymore and regardless on how I
>> set it via sysctl or directl
ually set the
swappiness to 1 so to only swap if the box runs out of memory and then
trigger an alarm to let us know something is up. This is much more
convenient than the oomkiller striking down a mysqld process just
because it was allowed to use a bit too much memory.
Cheers,
Martin
it cuts through a lot of jungle if you put the operating system you are asking
about as the first
word so that something like
debian buster end of line character
will instantly weed out how Windows does it as an example. If it
doesn't completely remove all the irrelevant info, the unwanted
things tend to be near the bottom of your search.
Martin
e. I just wasn't thinking, I guess and used the all-caps
names to indicate that they stood for files. If one collided
with an environment variable name, it could make the script fail
in strange ways that would be totally unpredictable, depending on
which variable one preempted.
Martin
opped so cron and other system utilities don't stop
running which is what happens when systems get too busy.
Thanks for any constructive suggestions.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
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Info Voice
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possibly with security consequences.
>
> Just imagine a malicious (or just incompetent) third-party repository
> suddenly claiming to be "buster-security" on a system configured to
> install security updates automatically.
It makes perfect sense to me. Thanks to all who responded and
$sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for martin:
Get:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [121 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [49.3 kB]
Get:4 http://security.debian.org buster
She, by the way, wasn't involved with the outage so we
were just having a conversation and I was glad I caught the AM
and PM parts before making a fool of myself which is easily done.
Martin
ng up the
alias, cheering when the date command worked, and then about 10
or 15 seconds later, swearing when something else, I forget what,
filled the screen with a cacophony of error messages and I
immediately realized why and put things back the way they had
been.
Martin
nning 2 other installations of buster on other
old PC's and since the environment variable is exported with each
new screen window, their responses to the date command magically fixed
themselves.
Martin
Is there any environment variable or local configuration
variable which will make date produce the 24-hour time stamp
similar to past implementations of date?
Martin McCormick
Hi,
Thank you, I will check this out.
Thomas
Le mar. 21 avr. 2020 à 15:45, Reco a écrit :
>
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:23:37PM +0200, Thomas Martin wrote:
> > My goal is simple : I'm applying few modifications on some Debian
> > packages and wo
Hello,
I would like to know what is the simplest way to rebuild Debian
packages automatically when a new version of the package is released ?
My goal is simple : I'm applying few modifications on some Debian
packages and would like those packages to be rebuilt with my changes
when a new package v
> $ lsmod | grep amdgpu
amdgpu 4923392 0
gpu_sched 36864 1 amdgpu
mfd_core 16384 1 amdgpu
ttm 122880 2 amdgpu,radeon
i2c_algo_bit 16384 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915
drm_kms_helper212992 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915
drm
Hi Jörg-Volker and Felix,
appreciate your help!
Here is the complete output for: sudo dpkg -i
amdgpu-core_19.30-934563_all.deb amdgpu-dkms_19.30-934563_all.deb
https://pastebin.com/kadr0nyH
My sources list is (apart from docker, and skype repos):
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non
fload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:Intel
Regards,
Martin
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 13:48, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>
> Try it without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and read the Debian Stretch part in
> the Debian wiki. What's the output of the "xrandr" commands listed in the
> wiki?
>
> Regards,
> Jörg.
>
Thank you Jörg-Volker,
I have been trying around quote long but I have not managed to make my
Radeon card show up for xarand as described here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#XRandR_specifies_only_1_output_provider
Not sure what exactly is your question aiming at. Each desktop
environment is different, kind of like the controls inside a car,
while they all are made to bring you from A to B.
Still for my trying out tiling window managers was a big step in
becoming more productive. I love my i3wm. Try them out
Hello everyone,
my laptop has two graphic devices. According to my hardware probe it
does not utilize the actual graphic card or at least something seems
wrong with it. I tried installing additional driver packages:
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu mesa-va-drivers but it did not change
anything it seems
it with just the microcom app but this is not a show stopper
at all. At least there is still a serial terminal that can talk
to devices whose only connection to the outside world is a RS-232
cable.
Again, thanks for everybody's help.
Martin McCormick
r than +12 for one state and -12 for the
other while there are serial ports that can handle state changes
of + or - 3 volts so they safely handle logic-level signals and
also can handle the old-school RS-232 levels. Then there are
some that handle logic-level signals and would figuratively melt
if you hit them with +-12 volts.
Martin
itten but that's no mystery.
The unix convention of typing the Up-Arrow and starting
microcom is very handy since one does not have to type
microcom -f -p/dev/ttyUSB4 -s9600
each time. Actually, I usually get away with !mic followed by
Enter and it starts. Good work to everybody who c
nd make it
run at it's maximum speed.
Martin
The Wanderer writes:
> On 2020-04-03 at 17:40, elvis wrote:
>
> > On 3/4/20 11:04 pm, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >
> >> The only thing that I truly miss after upgrading to buster is that
> >> the package known a
mes in without having to write a whole new
program each time.
John Hasler writes:
> look at screen.
I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing
something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each
window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232 ports.
Martin
that could mechanize RS-232 communications if you
needed to do that.
Basically, what is the best way in command-line mode to
deal with serial comm ports these days?
Thanks.
Martin McCormick
en the drive
is powered up and goes away when the drive is disconnected.
Thanks.
Martin
WB5AGZ
local10 writes:
On 2020-04-01 18:07, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> >> Out of curiosity, I wondered what might happen if I had
> >> two thumb drives containing the same UUID.
>
king right up to when it stopped working.
Thanks.
Martin McCormick
WB5AGZ
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 20:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> According to your 'apt policy' you also had repositories configured for
> Skype and Docker. Did you remove those as well?
They remain, just were in their own files.
>
> > For my apt preferences I had:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=tes
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 13:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> So you have a multiarch (amd64 and i386) system, with amd64 repositories
> for Skype and Docker.
>
> Why do you need i386? I'm guessing you might have some locally installed
> packages as well. Please show also the output of
>
> aptitude
2020 at 07:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> On Sb, 28 mar 20, 23:59:17, Martin wrote:
> >
> > I have a debian bullseye/testing machine on a 2017 HP i7 machine that
> > I used daily for many months but was not running since end of November
> > 2019. I upgraded everything
ar 2020 at 07:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> On Sb, 28 mar 20, 23:59:17, Martin wrote:
> >
> > I have a debian bullseye/testing machine on a 2017 HP i7 machine that
> > I used daily for many months but was not running since end of November
> > 2019. I upgraded everyth
Dear all,
I have a debian bullseye/testing machine on a 2017 HP i7 machine that
I used daily for many months but was not running since end of November
2019. I upgraded everything with apt update + dist-upgrade +
autoremove + clean this week.
I can't exactly say how but while everything appeared fi
s the cost of a call in
those days, so that was the end of it.
mick
--
Martin
e MacOS and even Windows these days but
having the machine my mail was on just suddenly vaporize without
any warning soured me a bit and I never put another VM on that
Mac.
Martin
David Christensen writes:
> I typically enable all CPU virtualization features in CMOS Setup, and
> assume
About the only thing these days that is still
inaccessible on most computers that aren't enterprise servers,
etc, is the BIOS setup and selection of boot sources. That's
still back in the stone age.
Many thanks to everyone who helped with information.
Martin
drive came in.
There is a small pocket in the tray containing a pamflet
that one suddenly realizes is too deep to be just the booklet.
Everything was there and I do believe that is the first
usb-C cable I have ever encountered.
Again, thanks for clearing up the confusion.
Martin
Dan Ritter writes:
> If I recall correctly, Martin doesn't see well, which explains a
> chunk of the confusion here.
Well, my wife has excellent vision and we were talking
about how pictures can be almost worthless after a certain point.
Several of those small connectors look
nd and the disk drive on the other.
There's an old saying: "Standards are great. Everybody
should have one."
Thanks.
Martin McCormick
ructive suggestions as to how
to go from Setup to recovery shell.
Martin McCormick
he image
would also need to be for AMD64.
Any constructive suggestions are much appreciated.
Martin McCormick
Mac, the
Mac says it can't read the disk and immediately offers to
initialize it for you.
Thanks.
Martin McCormick
ave got right now is usable but not right. Any
constructive ideas are appreciated.
Thank you
Martin McCormick
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s morning when it ran. After running apt-get
update, all was quite well.
Martin
with --fix-mis
sing?
I ran the following to be safe:
wb5agz martin tmp $ sudo apt-get purge dovecot-imapd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'dovecot-imapd' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newl
ponding to the Linux box.
Thank you. That is essentially what I am thinking of. I
setup a similar setup before I retired. The only difference was
that all of the hosts at work had fully-qualified domain names
but dovecot worked fine on the Linux box and the mac received any
mail I sent without any problem.
Martin McCormick
n email to the Mac
which normally doesn't send or receive emails. What would be the
simplest way to "forward" an email from the Linux box to the
Mac's mailer?
The Mac only needs to be able to receive, not send any
email.
Thank you
Martin WB5AGZ
nothing. Shift-printscrn
just did the same thing as printscrn by itself.
Is there anything else I can try?
Martin McCormick
On 09/10/2019 14:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:53:43PM +, Frederic Robert wrote:
On 10/9/19 12:38 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:04:06AM +, Frederic Robert wrote:
How to find the card model? lspci?
lspci -nn
This will include the 8-digit h
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:01:09PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
> So, perhaps try an apt-get update first.
Thanks, I forgot to update my instalation first :(
Martin
::Get::Fix-Missing=true' to
continue with missing packages
I am using debian sid version :
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
How do I install libsdl2-dev package?
Martin
drives.
If you ever end up recovering any data with floppies,
write protect them especially if you are not sure how they were
made in the first place.
Martin McCormick
ned out to be. I am amazed that the corrupted disk worked at
all.
Thanks for clearing up the confusion.
Martin McCormick
is is a
good training session if nothing else.
Most of the standard unix utilities like ls, mount cd and
a bunch more are there and work properly as nearly as I can tell.
Martin McCormick
> Remember to make yourself part of the video group.
Oh, yes. Interestingly enough, I am part of that group. I was
going to do that and first did groups martin and, what do you
know, I'm already in the group. How I got there I do not know.
So, here's what has
Dan Ritter writes:
> Martin was just sense-of-wondering at modern technology. I'm
> guessing his eventual project will snap frames for OCR on
> demand, then send the output through a braille terminal or
> a speech synthesizer.
Our messages basically crossed due to
cent
screen grab with the previous grab to see what changed rather than
read all the unchanged portions of the screen.
Keep in mind that this is not motion video and a blinking
cursor is probably the only change over many seconds.
Martin
lock rate
is 3.7945 million plus a few more decimal places per second and
PAL along with SECAM are just above 4 MHZ. The A/D converter has
to sample at twice that rate to keep Mr. Nyquist from haunting
anybody from his grave.
Martin McCormick
etch in 2018. The Pi runs 24/7 and
I've not had a bit of trouble with ntp keeping it to within a
second which is about as good as it normally gets on any
unix-like system.
Martin McCormick
x27;t know yet is what needs to happen to
convert .uvc in to something that looks like it came from a
digital TV camera or flat-bed scanner?
Thanks for any and all constructive ideas.
Martin McCormick
the more accurate it gets to a certain point.
If you do have a hardware clock, Linux automatically
updates it. If you look at system shutdown messages, that's one
of them as processes are being shut off.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
as I can relate.
The university would have put the defective server in
Surplus and state law required that it be sold at auction at
which point, some poor bloak would buy it and make the same
discovery we had made.:-)
Martin
A LCD-type monitor
might work much better as they have almost no flicker.
This is definitely one of those projects in which one
must not let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Thanks for the good ideas.
Martin
john doe writes:
> On 7/30/2019 7:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >
> > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running
> > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention
> > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly ot
to why the fancy light
switches.
The building had 3-phase wiring for the air handlers and
the lights were powered phase-to-phase at 208 volts. This would
have been dangerous if someone took the plate off of a switch for
any reason because every wire would be hot between it and
anything else.
Martin
ngs so we didn't get it all
cleaned up for literally weeks. It was mostly okay that
afternoon but we would get calls from departments across the
university that this or that printer or VT100 terminal wasn't
working when somebody tried to use it and the fault turned out to
be another randomly deconfigured port.
The down phase created an apocalyptic scene what with
overhead lighting mostly absent but occasionally trying to
flicker on and the wailing power supplies.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
drive
in. Six or eight months later, one will suddenly discover that
the boot sequence has fallen back to the useless one where the
floppy drive is first, followed by the hard drive followed by the
CDROM.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
as it's been quite some years since I used
> it.
Thanks for this information. I have installed schroot
as this seems to be the missing link I didn't know about.
I knew one had to have all the resources turned on so to
speak and it looks like schroot makes getting it right in this
century much more likely.
martin
and /dev/ttyUSB0 was there
so I tried to test it as user martin, not root as in "Safety,
first."
When I tried to access the port, I got Permission denied
which means one isn't in the dialout group. This always happens
if you forget to add yourself via usermod as root.
cker to cause a denial of service."
At MITRE, this CVE exists, but I did not get any about it from the DSA or
oss-security list. Does one of you know about more this?
Martin
vice
we use to flash the PIC eprom connects to a native serial port or
a usb-to-serial converter and if those work through the walls of
the jail, there should be no trouble.
If the programmer still works, that is a winner and many
thanks.
Martin McCormick
Pascal Hambourg writes:
> Le 23/07/2019 à 04:53, Martin McCormick a écrit :
> Do you mean that GRUB is installed on an internal drive ?
Yes.
> By default, GRUB relies on the BIOS disk services to access drives. But it
> also has native ATA and USB drivers which are not loaded by
The PC is old enough that it can not natively boot via a serial
port but it might if grub knew about the bootable drive sitting
in one of the ports.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
do gnome but good enough for email,
audio and general tinkering.
Again, thanks for the tracker info.
Martin McCormick
n.org/debian-security buster/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
# buster-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main
Thanks.
M
ot;dialout" and an upgrade doesn't remove anybody who is
there now from dialout so one doesn't even have to give it a
second thought.
In this case, this was more like starting from bare metal
and I simply forgot to add me to dialout which is done by
sudo usermod -a -G dialout
00 [TERM="linux" TTY="/dev/pts/7"
COLUMNS="80" LINES="25"]
1wb5agz martin tmp $ p2 sts
Can't call method "baudrate" on an undefined value at /home/martin/etc/p2 line
37.
2wb5agz martin tmp $ ls -l /dev/ttyACM0
crw-rw 1 root dialout 166, 0
serial ports that I got by with
violating in earlier Linux and now the chickens have come home to
roost and I need to do it differently but much of what I wrote is
stolen from other code examples so I bet it is something in
buster that isn't right yet.
Any suggestions are much app
Stratford computer
fair lots of good quality secondhand stuff
--
Martin
nterface name #1i1 (note the i1), then turn it off again, then get
interface name #2 ad nauseatum. This is all but predictable.
(on a side note, systemd-networkd can't properly Match= these things
on name as well).
I file it under "systemd promises not kept", which fills several binders,
shrug, cope with it, and move on.
Regards,
-Martin
initial e-mail was enough to
disable core dumps? After reading the "man 5 core", I also set the
"kernel.core_uses_pid" to 0.
thanks,
Martin
ed:
$ ./testprogram
Floating point exception (core dumped)
$
..then no actual core dump does not seem to be created.
Is the configuration above enough to disable core dumps or am I
missing something?
thanks,
Martin
rcelist="sources.list.d/digitalocean-agent.list" -o
Dir::Etc::sourceparts="-" -o APT::Get::List-Cleanup="1"
apt-get -qq install -y --only-upgrade do-agent
/* output removed for brevity */
'-o APT::Get::List-Cleanup="1"' flushes other repositories..
Martin
yslogd was HUPed
$
What and why is sending those signals to processes? Could it somehow
affect the repository list..?
thanks,
Martin
tory have not been updated.
What could cause such behavior? How to debug this further?
thanks,
Martin
by unattended-upgrades
ignored the /etc/apt/sources.list file and used only
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/digitalocean-agent.list as a source for
repositories.
What might cause this behavior?
thanks,
Martin
ecode -f /qp | \
/usr/bin/mailx -t
$
Andrew,
I guess it works for you because bsd-mailx depends on virtual packet
mail-transport-agent.
regards,
Martin
the most elegant workaround in this situation? Create a
/usr/sbin/sendmail wrapper script which processes the
"/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" command called by apt_listchanges.py and
sends the mail using mailx? Modify the apt_listchanges.py? Something
else?
thanks,
Martin
o read
how your version blacklists kernel modules to keep them from ever
loading.
This is one of the many things about unix that are really
useful since you can tweak your system to fix seemingly
intractable problems at times.
Martin McCormick
ead to weird results.
Yes, I thought about this. However, I use strictly IP addresses or
prefixes in my firewall rules.
Martin
correct way to do this? Are there any
general disadvantages of such approach?
thanks,
Martin
Am 09.05.19 um 02:32 schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com:
> On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep
> (through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep
> that
> used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I
> even
Am 09.05.19 um 14:43 schrieb Lothar Schilling:
> Am 09.05.2019 um 13:27 schrieb Martin:
>> [..]
>>> hdparm -tT /dev/sda
>>> /dev/sda:
>>> Timing cached reads: 13348 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec
>>> Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in
99.99 % dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/daten/testfile bs=1G count=10 oflag=direct
Show us the 'dd if=/daten/testfile bs=1G oflag=direct of=/dev/null', please.
If this is as slow as this ~480k/s above, check your disk's health status. Like
with smartmontools or some disk-utility software.
Martin
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