Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3 now working

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/22 10:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 07:35:46AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Greetings, Having done many Debian installs I am now trying to install on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3. I have disabled Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot. I used Balena Etcher to install

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/2022 10:28 AM, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-03-29 19:20 UTC+0200, Paul Scott wrote: Which ISO? debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso This could be the root cause for the networking problems. Try the "unofficial" ISO which supports binary blobs. Thank you, That makes se

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/2022 9:26 AM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:35:46 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Having done many Debian installs I am now trying to install on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3. Is that the complete model name? I have a "Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13". If you can boot pretty much

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 3/29/2022 8:44 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 07:35:46AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Greetings, Having done many Debian installs I am now trying to install on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3. I have disabled Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot. I used Balena Etcher to

installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
options for booting.  USB has been enable for all of my many attempts. TIA for any ideas on how to solve and/or diagnose this. Paul

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 1/5/22 09:05, Richard Hector wrote: On 6/01/22 02:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade it. Before I restarted the machine, I had a Thunderbird email ac

Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Paul M. Foster
this on the Internet, and the dialogs shown are no longer in Thunderbird. I am unable to create a localhost email account in Thunderbird. Any help? Did Thunderbird make some change I don't know about? Paul

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-03 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 1/2/22 11:03 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 09:59:08PM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: Regarding "patch", let's consider a "stock" config file from a fresh install (call it NEW), and an existing config which is tweaked for my purposes (call it OLD)

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
ear in mind that we aren't working with C files here, but config files, where changes are minimal and possibly confined to a small area. I'm not being sarcastic or argumentative. I'm genuinely trying to understand how patch would be a real/superior solution. Paul

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
st the conditions, in order. If any of the conditions matches the input line, then the corresponding action block is executed. Awk is another tool I'm only vaguely familiar with. I'm much more familiar with sed and grep. If I had your expertise, I might look at it differently. Paul

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 1/2/22 6:20 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2022-01-02 at 17:52, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: In a script, I'd like to search for a pattern in a file, and replace that line entirely with a new line, once (not globally). I've tried What do you mean by "globally"? "Gl

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 1/2/22 6:18 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 05:52:36PM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: In a script, I'd like to search for a pattern in a file, and replace that line entirely with a new line, once (not globally). I've tried sed -i s/search/new_line/ but

Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
the whole line with my replacement line. Anyone know how to do this? Paul

Konqueror gives undocumented error while starting

2021-12-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, When I start Konqueror in a KDE-plasma environment, I get an "undocumented error". It lookslike this is a problem with the startpage. Dus somebody know a work-arround? With regards, Paul https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894340 -- Paul van der

Re: Don't try this at home kids

2021-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers > >> to do it. A file placed in /etc/sudoers.d with permissions of 0440 >

Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up

2021-11-30 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 11/30/21 6:24 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: Here's a curious thing. I have a 10th gen Intel i3 CPU with four cores. When I look at /proc/cpuinfo, it actually shows eight cores. There's a line in the output of each core which is cpu cores : 4 But

Non-working CPU cores showing up

2021-11-29 Thread Paul M. Foster
7. Is it possible that there were eight cores on this CPU, and four of them were non-working (I know it's typical to have non-working cores on a die), and this file shows all the original cores? Or does someone have a better explanation? Paul

Re: No video after boot SOLVED

2021-11-11 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 11/11/21 4:58 PM, Paul M. Foster wrote: On 11/11/21 4:39 PM, keithrbaugro...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/21 08:25, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: This is a shot in the dark, but I'll try it. I have a new ASUS Prime H570M-Plus/CSM motherboard (LGA1200 socket) with an Intel i3 10100 CPU

Re: No video after boot

2021-11-11 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 11/11/21 4:39 PM, keithrbaugro...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/21 08:25, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: This is a shot in the dark, but I'll try it. I have a new ASUS Prime H570M-Plus/CSM motherboard (LGA1200 socket) with an Intel i3 10100 CPU (10th gen, with UHD630 graphics) in it. I h

No video after boot

2021-11-11 Thread Paul M. Foster
e the way the i3 handles video mode changes, or something like that. Does anyone have a clue about this? Paul

Man pages for gcc

2021-10-31 Thread Paul M. Foster
Folks: I'm sure everyone but me knows this, but I can't find a man page for gcc. There must be some docs somewhere. First question: why isn't there a man page? Second question: what docs are available (or what package provides them)? Running Debian 11. Paul

Re: OpenSMTPD won't start as part of systemd

2021-10-29 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 10/29/21 7:44 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 12:39:09AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: "Stock install" in this case means I just let the installer set up the networking, etc. How that happens depends on which tasks you selected during the installation. If y

Re: OpenSMTPD won't start as part of systemd

2021-10-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 10/28/21 10:17 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 21:34:26 (-0400), Paul M. Foster wrote: On 10/28/21 5:11 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 04:42:52PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: This is just an annoyance, but it really shouldn't happen. As my syst

Re: OpenSMTPD won't start as part of systemd

2021-10-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 10/28/21 9:59 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:34:26PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Well, that's interesting. Here is my /etc/network/interfaces: === source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback === Th

Re: OpenSMTPD won't start as part of systemd

2021-10-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 10/28/21 5:11 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 04:42:52PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: This is just an annoyance, but it really shouldn't happen. As my system is rebooting, and all the startup chatter echos to the screen, I notice that OpenSMTPd fails to start.

OpenSMTPD won't start as part of systemd

2021-10-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
xecuted after "network.target" ("After=network.target"). I'm not that familiar with systemd. Any clues on how to fix this? Is it a systemd problem, or something else? Paul

Change eth0 to eno1

2021-10-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
Folks: Along about Debian 10, the standard first ethernet card interface for a desktop machine, referred to as "eth0", was changed to "eno1". Just out of idle curiosity, does anyone know why this was done? (It broke some stuff on my machine.) Paul

Re: Keep config?

2021-09-27 Thread Paul M. Foster
f possible, doing a diff might be a good idea. Then edit/overwrite as feasible. Paul

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Paul M. Foster
x27;t. On upgrade from Buster, bsdmainutils will no longer provide /usr/bin/cal. There's no dependency in place to automatically pull in the ncal package, you have to do that yourself. Thanks for the further info. Paul

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 1:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default. "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me that only bsdmainutils depends on it. "apt-cache

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
rom that source: https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/bsdmainutils https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/bsdmainutils/filelist Have a nice day :) Thomas Excellent. Thanks for the info. That answers the question. Paul

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It

What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Paul M. Foster
e, I don't see the command nor a package containing it. There is a command "gcal" which appears to do the same thing. Am I missing something? Was there a separate package called "cal" which was automatically installed in earlier versions of Debian? Or was there an automatic alias to the gcal program? Paul

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-21 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/21/21 11:42 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 9/22/21 06:09, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: This is probably a stupid question for many of you, but I've been struggling with it since I started using Linux in 1996. Say you have a directory in which there are development files. A numb

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-21 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/21/21 11:26 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:09:41 -0400 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: Say you have a directory in which there are development files. A number of users will be creating, deleting and modifying the files there. This is the type of situation which

Development permissions

2021-09-21 Thread Paul M. Foster
allow the above? What combinations of groups, directory owners/permissions and file owners/permissions might make this possible? Paul

Re: Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-01 Thread Paul Duncan
ure others more knowledgeable than me will chime in with ideas too. Best Regards, Paul. On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 10:39, Ilkka Huotari wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Thanks. I should have said, that also apt-get autoremove fails: > > $ sudo apt-get autoremove > Reading package lists... Done &

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-01 Thread Paul Duncan
Hi Ilkka, Try doing "apt autoremove". This should get rid of all the old, no-longer used kernels and other software on your system. You should then be able to get the new stuff on :-) Best Regards, Paul. On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 04:36, Ilkka Huotari wrote: > Hi, > > I&#x

Re: Logitech C270 webcam

2021-07-27 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 7/27/21 12:21 PM, Thomas Amm wrote: On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 11:44 -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I bought a Logitech C270 webcam, which is supposed to work in Linux. It does, EXCEPT the microphone isn't picking up sound. I've checked in alsamixer, and the microphone dev

Logitech C270 webcam

2021-07-27 Thread Paul M. Foster
gled this, but it's Linux, so there are few answers and none of them work for me. Any help? Paul

Re: when will bullseye become stable?

2021-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:52 PM Long Wind wrote: > > i always use stable or old releases When it's ready. But we're coming up rapidly on full freeze in a couple weeks. https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#full

Re: Btrfs scrub going past 100%

2021-07-02 Thread Paul
On 7/2/21 5:48 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Paul wrote: I run regular btrfs scrubs through btrfsmaintenance on my disk array without issues. This time, though, the scrub percentage went over 100%. I kept it running so that I can file a bug if this is one. Which package do I file this against? I

Btrfs scrub going past 100%

2021-07-02 Thread Paul
Hello, I run regular btrfs scrubs through btrfsmaintenance on my disk array without issues. This time, though, the scrub percentage went over 100%. I kept it running so that I can file a bug if this is one. Which package do I file this against? I believe it's in the Linux kernel not btrfs-p

Re: Bullseye (mostly) not booting on Proliant DL380 G7

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Wise
Claudio Kuenzler wrote: > I currently suspect a Kernel bug in 5.10. You could try booting a bullseye install with the buster kernel, if that works then it sounds like you need a kernel git bisect. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/GitBisect -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise s

Re: Cross compilation error

2021-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
Jonathan Tremesaygues wrote: > If you don’t mind, I would prefer that you take care of the bug > report. Will do. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Cross compilation error

2021-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
tomas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 06:07:00PM +0200, Jonathan Tremesaygues wrote: > > But it is not the job of ’dpkg-buildpackage -a’ to set the > > right compiler and other stuff? Neither the wiki, the manpage nor > > the unofficial guides found on Internet say I have to set manually > > the

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Paul M. Foster
. it's a helluva lot easier to just ask the question here. A lot of the people here don't have to look up the answer; they know it already. And as demonstrated, the answer isn't that difficult to express. I've been using Debian from probably 20 years now. I'm just advocating for some more tolerance. Paul

Re: IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:40 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:24:20PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:22 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside < > > deb...@polynamaude.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi ! > > > Is there some IRC channel for Debian ? > > > > > > > http

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 11:39 AM George Shuklin wrote: > It looks to me like they desperately want to jump away from debs into > 'vendor friendly packaging' > There's nothing user-unfriendly about .debs. They just don't want to maintain their software and are looking for a "fire and forget" solu

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 10:46:09PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Paul M Foster writes: > > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I try, > > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other > > similar con

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:12:40PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:41:30 +0100 > Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > > > try

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:41:30PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > > try, > > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or so

Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
this, but I don't know what it is. Does anyone else know? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: Wayland and GNOME 3

2021-03-31 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:24:25PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 05:31:59PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, and > > now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things

Wayland and GNOME 3

2021-03-31 Thread Paul M Foster
A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, and now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things (like Synaptic) don't work with it. Is there a way to run GNOME 3 on Xorg? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-22 Thread Paul Duncan
I have seen a few systems (such as HP Proliant servers) where you need to populate the DIMM slots in order, or it won't necessarily see all the RAM. Wonder if thats the problem. Back to lurking/clearing my E-mail backlog. Paul. On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 16:06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN - some success

2021-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/17/21 10:03 AM, IL Ka wrote: paul@Joy4:~/music/pima$ systemctl status ssh`` ● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)   Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-02-16 11

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/16/21 1:07 PM, IL Ka wrote: systemctl status ssh`` paul@Joy4:~/music/pima$ systemctl status ssh`` ● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-02-16 11

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/16/21 11:57 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 2/16/21 10:50 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 11:56 AM IL Ka <mailto:kazakevichi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Check that * connection is not blocked by firewall: ``sudo iptables -L`` paul@Joy4:~$ sudo iptables

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/16/21 10:50 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 11:56 AM IL Ka <mailto:kazakevichi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Check that * connection is not blocked by firewall: ``sudo iptables -L`` paul@Joy4:~$ sudo iptables -L [sudo] password for paul: Chain INPUT (poli

identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Scott
ilure as I possible clue. TIA for any help, Paul

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-12 Thread Paul Scott
know what works for Gnome on sid? Thank you, Paul

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 09:15:22AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > For what it's worth, I drafted this last night but couldn't send it - > > kicking self as I knew most of you would be active whi

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:45:01AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I made various minor changes (like changing the mount to /music) and now > > the problem appears to be resolved. As is sometimes the case, the > > problem ge

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:52:02PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:34:24 -0500 > > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > > > > > > > > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone &

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 08:19:00PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:14:15PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > >> > >> There is too much level of complexity in this issue from what I read > >> already: > >> &

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
on startup. I don't manually mount this disk. > 3. Who knows how is exactly samba pre-configured I already posted the smb.conf file. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:11:57AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 10 dec 20, 21:42:49, Paul M Foster wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > > For various reasons, I've set the perms on this mount as 777. > > Please sh

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 05:35:37PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 11/12/20 1:42 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > > For various reasons, I've set the perms on this mount as 777. Anything > > on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy by default. I > > could

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
S. Where the disc mounts is an incidental detail. Samba, whether on Fedora, Arch or Debian, is configured more or less the same way. Since I've been running Debian alone for the last 20 years, this seemed to be the best place to ask the question. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
rs like me generally presume that you're using > Debian and not some other (presumably Debian-derivative) OS. > > > Stefan > -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > Any idea why contents are not showing up, and what can be done to remedy > > this? > > could be permissions on /media/pi/music ? > > I use it here as domain controller - only de

Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
ser usershare allow guests = yes [music] comment = Music path = /media/pi/music browseable = yes read only = yes guest ok = yes guest only = yes Any idea why contents are not showing up, and what can be done to remedy this? Paul -- Paul M

Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-09 Thread Paul M Foster
importantly, if I copy files to this share from the client, they will look like they belong to pi (user 1000) on the server. Is there some way in the /etc/exports file to adjust the parameters so that files retain my ownership on the server? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: Replying

2020-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 3:14 AM Teemu Likonen wrote: > I guess we all know by now that mail user agent software don't agree > with all the different semantics of replying. Widely supported features > are "reply to sender" (Reply-To, From) and "reply to all". Debian > mailing list policy (send only

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:18 PM John Hasler wrote: > Mike writes: > > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and CST6CDT > > are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of any use to me > > at all? If so how? > > Do you ever need to convert the time and date in some d

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:51 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > I got that tar ball and I think i am doing the right thing, but > something is not going well: The firmware-b43-installer package uses b43-fwcutter to extract the firmware from the tarball, I suggest using firmware-b43-installer instead o

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:43 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > Thank you for all the leads and I was installing > firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all > dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the > Internet to some lwfinder? > > Resolving http://www.lw

Gnome software and policykit question

2020-10-08 Thread Paul van der Vlis
ith diff. I've tested this with XFCE and Cinnamon. Both desktops are using the policykit-1-gnome authentication agent what's installed. Anyone an idea what will be wrong on the second machine? Maybe I need an extra package? With regards, Paul -- Paul van der Vlis Linux syst

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

2020-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:46 PM local10 wrote: > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux > and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able > decrypt and read them? > GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and

Re: Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

2020-08-15 Thread Paul M Foster
e the reminders, but it does show them in a nice calendar format on a web page. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Paul M Foster
r your interface is in the server and the browser; you just have to write some HTML, which is pretty easy. Otherwise, you're looking at fiddly code with GTK or QT (or ncurses). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

How do I report bug on Old machine via this New Laptop?

2020-07-13 Thread Paul Gerken
g it? Or does someone else need to change the source and re-gen? Tkx, Paul Gerken

Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE

2020-06-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in > KDE. > > I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there > doesn't > > seem to be a w

Disable touchpad completely in KDE

2020-06-26 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in KDE. I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it always off. I've got a trackpoint and the touchpad just exists to get in the way. Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10

Re: Thank you [was: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct]

2020-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:13 AM wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:29:43PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > [...] > > > > Perhaps OP can solve this mystery for us. > > nyah, nyah. > > > The fact that my email is not in reply to a specific message is > > intentional and is done to avoid fin

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:14 PM deloptes wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > It's only a good solution if people actually adopt and use them. > > They/them/their has caught on, but it's kind of hard to differentiate > > singular/plural when you use them to be gender neutral. > > No people will

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:14 PM Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On the danger of starting a flame war ... > thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian > > instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: > "allowlist" and "rejectlist" > instead of (for example on d

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:17 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Stone (12020-06-10): > > Properly configured mailing list software does no such thing, since it's > a > > misuse of the reply-to header. > > A misuse that works, compared to non-misuses that regularly bring back > "don't cc me" subth

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM Default User wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User wrote: > >> Hi, all. >> >> As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, >> and installed kde on it. >> >> I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with i

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:49 AM wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 01:06:02PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > [...] Btw BBB is also far away from a secure platform imho. > > Quite possible. Still, you can choose a server run by people you > trust. And the developers seem to be quite responsiv

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:45 AM Peter Ehlert wrote: > Family is using Zoom, International. > They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. > > I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR > > I am concerned about security, duh! > Looking for ideas. > Look into Big Blue Button and see if you can ge

Re: GPU support for Linux 4.19

2020-05-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:42 AM Liam Powell wrote: > I only need Debian GNU/Linux to detect it and know which GPU is to > passthrough it to my Windows gaming VM, to play Windows-only games. > Might I suggest a better way? You don't generally need a fullblown VM for gaming and you'll take a dece

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/12/20 11:23 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/12/20 3:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/12/20 3:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of related problems within online i

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of related problems within online information including finding the fi

X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso

2020-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
easily post log contents from that machine since it doesn't have email installed yet. I am now at: open /dev/dri/card0: no such file... What I find online refers to the firmware problems I think I have solved. TIA for any ideas, Paul

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:34 PM Aidan Gauland wrote: > I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade > hardware, and run Debian stable on it. For hardware, I am probably > going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA > drive capacity, and put W

Re: Sudo

2020-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:40 AM Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 09:39:28 -0700 > "Harold Hartley" wrote: > > > I did a net-install and installed with no problems. > > The only problem I’m having is when I want to check for updates or > install a file, it tells me that I’m not in the

Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Paul Sutton
to allow serial connection. "Something that gives as close to a proper RS232 serial port operation as possible." As there seems to be a wide range of options presented by 'apt search serial' I decided to ask here for recommendations please. Thanks Paul -- Paul Sutton htt

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