Re: mail log question

2025-09-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I will try to install rsyslog by first. thanks Greg. Another option is Devuan (Debian without systemd) which has less CVEs anyway. -- Regards, Kc

Re: mail log question

2025-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Kevin Chadwick (HE12025-09-10): > Another option is Devuan (Debian without systemd) which has less CVEs > anyway. Can you clarify: does it have fewer CVEs because it has fewer security flaws, or does it have fewer CVEs because it has all the security flaws in Debian but nobody bothered to register

Re: mail log question

2025-09-09 Thread Rob Hoo
On 2025-09-10 10:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 01:25:33 +, Rob Hoo wrote: >> I found that after I installed postfix by apt, mail.log was not appeared >> in /var/log/. >> >> do you know how can I check the mail log then? > > Is the rsyslog package installed? It's not inst

Re: mail log question

2025-09-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
ses, so you would need to add it in order to get human-readable log files under /var/log. Or, if you don't care about those files and just want to read the systemd log files, you can use journalctl(1). Specifically, a command like journalctl -u postfix where "postfix" is the

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-04 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 01/09/2025 at 21:14, David Christensen wrote: > ... (The last time I checked, OpenZFS native encryption has open issues that > I find unsuitable for production.) Some interesting recent discussion on a major issue (data corruption resulting from non-raw sends of zfs-native-encrypted snap

Re: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-09-03 Thread Anssi Saari
John Scott writes: > P.S. In hindsight this email is overly verbose and detailed, perhaps > intimidating, but it's good to have this detailed information in the > list archives for future questions so I'm leaving it. This was great, thank you very much!

Re: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-09-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:24:59 + John Scott wrote: > • can it be used during the installation with the Debian Installer > such as for fetching packages over the network[.] > > To the second question, I don't think it's tested very often, but in > principle it ough

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-03 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard > links alone. This option eats RAM like candy, so make sure you have plenty. >

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-03 Thread debian-user
Andy Smith wrote: > This is the killer for non-trivial use of rsync-based backup methods. > Traversing a directory tree of millions of inodes is expensive. That depends an awful lot on the choice of filesystem. ext4 is hopeless. I found XFS to be quite good, as was reiserfs back in the day.

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/25 17:41, Dan Ritter wrote: From what I have seen on FreeBSD ZFS, under load ZFS can consume as much memory as it needs. For storage servers, this is exactly what I want -- I paid for that memory, I want ZFS to use it. But, I have little experience with ZFS on workstations; where many p

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 9/1/25 14:57, Karl Vogel wrote: > > > > On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: > > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard > > > lin

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/25 16:48, Dan Ritter wrote: It would be interesting to know the OpenZFS developers' opinion of dedup for backup workloads, including special vdev class vs. dedup vdev class. That is addressed at the end, and, in particular, you should note the bit about reflinks... which for any workload

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/25 11:12, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Hello. :-) On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/25 06:05, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone. This is generally not a good thing to recommend; one of the authors of the sys

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/1/25 14:57, Karl Vogel wrote: On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone. This option eats RAM like candy, so

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links > > alone. > > This is generally not a good thing

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 9/2/25 06:05, Dan Ritter wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard > > > links > > > alone. > > > > This is gen

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links > alone. This is generally not a good thing to recommend; one of the authors of the system wrote a good article which

Re: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-09-01 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
the very limited screen and keyboard of the cash register I was working on. I don't recall details of the hardware, or whether it was particularly limited, but the OS in question was RH 7! I've been running linux since 1999, and one thing that I've noticed is that newer ver

Re: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-09-01 Thread John Scott
lled system • can it be used during the installation with the Debian Installer such as for fetching packages over the network To the second question, I don't think it's tested very often, but in principle it ought to and I'll try to do a test after sending this mail. Hereafter

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-01 Thread David Christensen
On 8/31/25 16:05, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 12:20:05PM -, Greg wrote: On 2025-08-29, Andy Smith wrote: For non-trivial amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other rsync-based backup system in 2025. Can we know why not (rsnapshot) I've written about it

Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-08-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 12:20:05PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-08-29, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > I have more than 20 years of experience using rsnpashot. For non-trivial > > amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other > > rsync-based backup system in 2025. "Non-trivial" is s

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-31 Thread Greg
On 2025-08-29, Andy Smith wrote: > > I have more than 20 years of experience using rsnpashot. For non-trivial > amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other > rsync-based backup system in 2025. "Non-trivial" is still a pretty large > amount though and rsnapshot does have the extre

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-30 Thread David Christensen
On 8/30/25 07:45, mick.crane wrote: Hi, I've numerous PCs, old but seem quick enough for me. pfsense one ~120Gb disk Bookworm PC one ~200Gb disk doing Webmail with apache also offering links to documents and that. Bookworm PC one ~200Gb disk and a 3Tb disk mounted in fstab that I work on. Bookw

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-30 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 29 August 2025 02:14:12 pm alain williams wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:15:29PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are backup suites > > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups > >

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-30 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-08-29 23:53, Andy Smith wrote: Also are these three disks currently in three operating bootable other machines, or do you have three disks in one machine and you boot and choose between them via the bootloader, i.e. only one of them is in use at any given time? And are all these disks i

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-30 Thread Greg
On 2025-08-29, alain williams wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 03:57:42PM -, Greg wrote: > > RAID is NOT backup - if you delete a file on a RAID-1 (mirror) system then the > file is deleted on both mirrors. Much the same on other RAID levels. Thank you for this because it provides a succinct

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this is a contribution to the discussion what a plain disk image records intrinsically and what many backup programs record only on special request or don't record at all. Andy Smith wrote: > > Though if the goal is disk imaging there are some complications with > > tar: > > - By default does

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread David Christensen
? Please answer the above questions. This will help clarify what you have, what you want, and what solutions make sense. On 8/29/25 02:55, mick.crane wrote: > I apologise for not being clear in my question I should know by now > not to post if "tired". > For the purpose of ba

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Tom Dial
isks. OK. Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other disks so they boot? Ah, you mean one of them is your OS disk, and that you want to remove that OS disk and put in a new OS disk. I apologise for not being clear in my question I should know by now not to post

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread alain williams
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 11:03:20PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > - By default doesn't preserve extended attributes unless you make use of > some quite obscure options that you'll have to look up in the > documentation: --xattrs --xattrs-include='*.*' (both required, no I > can never remember th

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:25:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are backup suites > > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many back

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:13:54PM +0100, alain williams wrote: > If your purpose is backup - then you are *far* better mounting the disk as a > file system and then copying files somewhere using tar or cpio. That somewhere > could be a disk - although something like a USB memory stick would b

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread alain williams
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:53:11PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > And are all these disks in the same machine? If they are not in the same machine that implies that you are plugging them in & out. If that is so take a lot of care, it is not too hard to damage a connector - I have done that, although

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 06:10:30PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > Yes, I have in the past written to the wrong disk. Tip: Try to stick to using the links in /dev/disk/by-* and keep looking at the output of: $ lsblk -d -oname,size,model,serial to keep fresh in your mind what is what. Thanks, An

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:55:22AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > For the purpose of backing up 3 ~200Gb disks, with Debian operating > systems on them, I wondered if I can put them all on one 1Tb disk and > be able to copy them back. The best way to do this depends upon whether you intend this t

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:25:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are backup suites > > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups >

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > There are backup suites > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups > > without needing to store duplicate copies of the unchanged files. >

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread alain williams
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:15:29PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > There are backup suites > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups > > without needing to store duplicate copies of the unchanged files.

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > There are backup suites > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups > without needing to store duplicate copies of the unchanged files. > Care to list some of those? I need to get some kind of a backup process g

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-08-29 12:43, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Copying back is just a matter swapping if= and of= paths. (That's the part when you need strong nerves. of=/dev/sdX is quite a frightening dd argument.) Yes, I have in the past written to the wrong disk. Have a nice day :) Thomas Thank you for yo

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread alain williams
thing > up). Your understanding is correct. > Now, I am fuzzy on a RAID array (the OP's question calls this to my > mind), which I think is a series of disks with the same content so that > if one fails, you can replace it with another. But not to be used as a > backup strategy.

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Greg
anything up). Now, I am fuzzy on a RAID array (the OP's question calls this to my mind), which I think is a series of disks with the same content so that if one fails, you can replace it with another. But not to be used as a backup strategy. > Why: > > • you are copying the data

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le vendredi 29 août 2025, 01:52:24 heure d’été d’Europe centrale mick.crane a écrit : > If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to > be able to copy and replace the 3 disks. > Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other > disks so they boo

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread alain williams
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:02:43PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > I have my data on a separate disk that I copy to various places every now > and again. > I guess simplest is original plan ( as have been previously given the > incantation ) to get 3 ~200Gb disks and dd to them. If your purpose is bac

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-08-29 12:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:55:22 +0100, mick.crane wrote: For the purpose of backing up 3 ~200Gb disks, with Debian operating systems on them, I wondered if I can put them all on one 1Tb disk and be able to copy them back. Well, yes, you could. Not

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick.crane wrote: > For the purpose of backing up 3 ~200Gb disks, with Debian operating systems > on them, I wondered if I can put them all on one 1Tb disk and be able to > copy them back. Yes. There are a lot of ways to do it. > > Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:55:22 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > For the purpose of backing up 3 ~200Gb disks, with Debian operating systems > on them, I wondered if I can put them all on one 1Tb disk and be able to > copy them back. Well, yes, you could. > Not really understanding how dd works wonder

OT: Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread john doe
os on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other disks so they boot? Ah, you mean one of them is your OS disk, and that you want to remove that OS disk and put in a new OS disk. I apologise for not being clear in my question I should know by now not to post if "tired". For the purpos

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread mick.crane
other disks so they boot? Ah, you mean one of them is your OS disk, and that you want to remove that OS disk and put in a new OS disk. I apologise for not being clear in my question I should know by now not to post if "tired". For the purpose of backing up 3 ~200Gb disks, with D

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-28 Thread David Christensen
On 8/28/25 16:52, mick.crane wrote: If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to be able to copy and replace the 3 disks. Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other disks so they boot? Copy them to 3 partitions on the 1 Tb disk and dd an

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 12:52:24AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to be > able to copy and replace the 3 disks. > Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other > disks so they boot? Nit: those are not .iso

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 00:52:24 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to be > able to copy and replace the 3 disks. OK. > Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other > disks so they boot? Ah, you mean one o

lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-28 Thread mick.crane
If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to be able to copy and replace the 3 disks. Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other disks so they boot? Copy them to 3 partitions on the 1 Tb disk and dd an individual partition to another disk

Re: Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-08-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 8/25/25 09:49, Tran Duc Minh wrote: Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions Dear Debian Community, I have a question about Wi-Fi support on older Debian releases. If my laptop’s built-in Wi-Fi is not supported by Debian 11 or 12, is it possible to use a USB

Re: Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-08-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 06:49:07PM +0300, Tran Duc Minh wrote: > Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions > > Dear Debian Community, > > I have a question about Wi-Fi support on older Debian releases. > If my laptop’s built-in Wi-Fi is not support

Re: Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-08-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 06:49:07PM +0300, Tran Duc Minh wrote: > is it possible to use a USB Wi-Fi adapter during installation to get > internet access? Yes, I have used both USB wifi and USB Ethernet to install Debian on laptops more than 10 years ago. There was no problem as long as the dev

Re: Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-08-25 Thread debian-user
Tran Duc Minh wrote: > Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions > > Dear Debian Community, > > I have a question about Wi-Fi support on older Debian releases. > If my laptop’s built-in Wi-Fi is not supported by Debian 11 or 12, is > it possib

Re: Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-08-25 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 25, 2025, Tran Duc Minh wrote: > Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions > > Dear Debian Community, > > I have a question about Wi-Fi support on older Debian releases. > If my laptop’s built-in Wi-Fi is not supported by Debian 11 or 12, i

Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

2025-08-25 Thread Tran Duc Minh
Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions Dear Debian Community, I have a question about Wi-Fi support on older Debian releases. If my laptop’s built-in Wi-Fi is not supported by Debian 11 or 12, is it possible to use a USB Wi-Fi adapter during installation to get

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-17 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
пт, 15 авг. 2025 г. в 21:13, Fred : > Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be > used for all (browser) use? After reading most of thread (not all): If I understand you right — you need access in the browser to some sites via vpn and direct access to others without

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-16 Thread Fred
On 8/15/25 14:14, Tim Woodall wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2025, Fred wrote: On 8/15/25 09:26, Dan Ritter wrote: Fred wrote: Hello, Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be used for all (browser) use? A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-16 Thread Darac Marjal
ome regional ISP), so you are better off with a popular VPN than a small one. Finally, there's a question of how paranoid are you? What's your threat model? If you're wanting a VPN provider because you're an international spy and getting caught could cost millions of lives, th

Question about compiling the linux kernel

2025-08-16 Thread maria.shrivinski
When compiling the kernel with make -j `getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` deb-pkg the resulting .deb packages are generated in the parent directory. Is there a way to choose a specific directory where those packages will be placed? I have researched this issue and found partial answers about modifying

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 15 Aug 2025, at 21:02, Dan Ritter wrote: > If you are buying a service from someone, you should be asking > them what is possible and what they support, and making > decisions about how trustworthy they are for your use case. How does assess the trustworthiness of a VPN provider? -- Je

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 15 Aug 2025, Fred wrote: On 8/15/25 09:26, Dan Ritter wrote: Fred wrote: Hello, Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be used for all (browser) use? A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like another network interface. It can be c

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Fred wrote: > On 8/15/25 09:26, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Fred wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be > > > used for all (browser) use? > > > > A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like > > another network interfa

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
On 8/15/25 12:38 PM, Fred wrote: On 8/15/25 09:26, Dan Ritter wrote: Fred wrote: Hello, Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be used for all (browser) use? A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like another network interface. It can be

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Fred
On 8/15/25 09:26, Dan Ritter wrote: Fred wrote: Hello, Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be used for all (browser) use? A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like another network interface. It can be configured to send all traffic elsew

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Fred wrote: > Hello, > > Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be > used for all (browser) use? A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like another network interface. It can be configured to send all traffic elsewhere, or traffic to a particul

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread john doe
On 8/15/25 6:07 PM, Fred wrote: Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be used for all (browser) use? We have no context, share with us why you want to know that (the use case)? This is possible to select what traffic goes through the VPN. -- John Doe

OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Fred
Hello, Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be used for all (browser) use? Best regards, Fred

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-30 Thread Joe
On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:58:48 - (UTC) Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-29, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > The problem has become *MOOT*. > > >> No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means. > > > > See the 2nd definition. > > I did. Why would

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-30 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-29, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > The problem has become *MOOT*. >> No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means. > > See the 2nd definition. I did. Why would extracting information from, or converting a PDF to a spreadsheet format, suddenly

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread rhkramer
f no practical importance; irrelevant. Not presenting an open legal question, as a result of the occurrence of some event definitively resolving the issue, or the absence of a genuine case or controversy. '

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread john doe
Can you all please stop. -- John Doe

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:29:25 -0400, Lee Winter wrote: >> Nope! >> DASH is known to be pure garbage. >> -- Lee > > [citation needed] > > A quick Google search shows endorsements by U.S. News and World Report, > the Mayo Clinic, and Harvard's School of Publi

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett wrote: > The problem has become *MOOT*. No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means. > As I reported elsewhere I've found the spreadsheets the PDF was based on. Did you mention spreadsheets in your original problem statement? Did you say, "I would like to conve

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-28, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > >> To be frank, given the question, he'd be significantly better off just >> asking one of the robots, where you can upload PDFs, than here, where >> people go off in any direction and seem to have permanent chips on >

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-29 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote: > > I started off with a degree of sympathy for what you were saying, but > you haven't managed to talk about what it is you DO want, only about > what you DON'T want. No, you're right, though I don't need your sympathy. I don't want anything because Debian Stable

corrected post -- Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially "Why are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly focused question. A correct, but skew answer, could have been "to gain dietary information to lower probability of another heart attack". Nutriti

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:29:25 -0400, Lee Winter wrote: > Nope! > DASH is known to be pure garbage. > -- Lee [citation needed] A quick Google search shows endorsements by U.S. News and World Report, the Mayo Clinic, and Harvard's School of Public Health.

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
responses were essentially "Why are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly focused question. A correct, but skew answer, could have been "to gain dietary information to lower probability of another heart attack". Nutritionists had given me answers that more a set o

Veering severely off-topic and unsubstantiated claims [was: How to ask a question?]

2025-07-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:29:25AM -0400, Lee Winter wrote: > Nope! > DASH is known to be pure garbage. With nutritional things, we are severely OT here. This is, whithin measure, OK. But think, at least, of changing the Subject. While "... is known to be...", well, I could say "the Earth is know

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Lee Winter
DHD}] ask questions in this particular forum? > > > > Why do I ask? > > In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially > > "Why are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly > > focused question. > > > > A corr

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Lee
nses were essentially > "Why are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly > focused question. > > A correct, but skew answer, could have been "to gain dietary information > to lower probability of another heart attack". Nutritionists had given > m

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Joe
list is one of the worse examples in my > >>> (limited) experience. Every question gets non-answered by a bunch > >>> of people who don't really know about your exact situation, but > >>> think they have some valuable input. Often the same bunch of > &g

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/28/25 1:26 PM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:39:21 - (UTC) Greg wrote: On 2025-07-27, Anders Andersson wrote: The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my (limited) experience. Every question gets non-answered by a bunch of people who don't really know

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-28 Thread Thomas Dineen
Don't you people have anything productive to do??? Please stop this nonsense and get back to work! Find a useful job~! On 7/28/2025 9:37 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-07-28, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:04:12 - (UTC) Greg wrote: I don't need support, and in the rare case I do

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Joe
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:39:21 - (UTC) Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-27, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > > The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my > > (limited) experience. Every question gets non-answered by a bunch of > > people who don

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/28/25 12:03 PM, Ralph Aichinger wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:18:22PM -, Greg wrote: His question isn't complex, though. He has *this* PDF from which he wants to extract *that* data so that it is readily exploitable, legible, presentable, etc. If that isn't it, then the

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:18:22PM -, Greg wrote: > His question isn't complex, though. He has *this* PDF from which he > wants to extract *that* data so that it is readily exploitable, legible, > presentable, etc. If that isn't it, then the fault lies with him, not us. Oh

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg wrote: > [...] not one woman among them, to be sure, not one. None. > Not a single, single one [..] We cannot help you until you tell us maker, model and firmware version of your gender bias. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-28 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-28, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:04:12 - (UTC) > Greg wrote: > >> I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions >> here. >> >> I use a search engine and usually find an answer to my query on stack >> exchange, or reddit, or somewhere else,

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 04:04:12PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote: > > It really depends on what you're looking for. > > I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions here. > > I use a search engine and usually find an answer to my query on stack

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:04:12 - (UTC) Greg wrote: > I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions > here. > > I use a search engine and usually find an answer to my query on stack > exchange, or reddit, or somewhere else, but *never* in the debian-list > archives, which

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-28 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote: > > I would encourage you to try some other venues for support. I don't say > that to be dismissive. I say it because it seems like the only practical > choice (and it's the choice that I think ~everyone is going to converge > on). It really depends on what you're

(Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

2025-07-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 02:39:21PM -, Greg wrote: > Every question is non-answered by an intimate clan of aging men with > toxic attitudes and enormous anal-retention, who believe everyone > should be using mutt or gnus like them and don't know or give a shit > ab

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Hans
> This, precisely. They are only talking to themselves, as I have noted > previously (maybe Max N., who seems interested in this kind of > foolishness, can verify the date stamps). Every question is non-answered > by an intimate clan of aging men with toxic attitudes and enormous >

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Nicolas George
Greg (HE12025-07-28): > It's really time for a change here. Everybody loves people who have been there barely more than six months and want to throw everything away. This kind of discourse evokes, more than anything else, somebody who is pissed that the answers they got for their quest

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