Re: [DNG] meta: list

2022-09-08 Thread marc
n't held by the user, and the mail isn't private, and google spams me anyway - WTF, where did we go wrong ? I suppose I am derailing things - but if you think the admin@ list is something worth doing, let me know (off list is fine too) regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] meta: list

2022-09-02 Thread marc
quot;google-site-verification=2XoWrMMTQ7jmgcB_76Y_TQSnWDGhR4e-y_KLqoKOK1Q" Maybe it is not the spf line that makes a difference here but the other gunk. I worry that takes us ever closer to changing the E in email to a G. Maybe related news, and some more

Re: [DNG] meta: list

2022-09-01 Thread marc
I suppose that is just another instance of the Availability vs Integrity vs Confidentiality Tradeoff that underlies most of Computer Security... though I for one like to make that call myself rather than having some AI try infer that from my mail reading behaviour. rega

Re: [DNG] meta: list

2022-09-01 Thread marc
ly by google despite having only a proper MX and reverse DNS entry - nothing else, not even SPF. And given that real people answered to those mails, most of them did not end up in their spam folders either. But this seems to have changed recently... hence

[DNG] meta: list

2022-08-31 Thread marc
n be a bit of a PITA, but if you maximise for convenience rather than knowledge/privacy, shouldn't you be using MacOS/Android instead than Devuan ? regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Init respawns - was: Be prepared for the fall of systemd

2022-08-03 Thread marc
he satisfaction of building something really good - be it just for fun, the desire to leave a legacy or building a contemplative mandala. TL;DR: just install better daemons ;) regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] no mails from dng :-( [maybe OT]

2022-07-28 Thread marc
> I think the first step would be to fix the reverse DNS entry for the host > lists.dyne.org Or more precisely, 162.19.139.95 which claims to be sending mail as lists.dyne.org - at least to me Perhaps this is a live server migration/restore/update ? regards

Re: [DNG] no mails from dng :-( [maybe OT]

2022-07-28 Thread marc
DNS entry for the host lists.dyne.org regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] no mails from dng :-( [maybe OT]

2022-07-28 Thread marc
d as spam by quite a number of MTAs. regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Firefox unwilling to install extensions

2022-07-25 Thread marc
the airlock and venture forth out into the corporate wasteland that is the modern web to scavenge a last few bits of useful information, underneath the heaps of used dopamine syringes, ad-excrement and other web-addict paraphernalia ? regards marc ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread marc
urs truly... though given that gpm appears to be present in the upgraded distribution, just making sure that it runs with the correct options might be the easiest ? regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] [OT] files disappearing reproducibly

2022-02-20 Thread marc
your own init. It also happens to be why this mailing list exists: init processes can't crash and so should be simple. regards marc [1] There is some fine print - modern linux allows you to delegate this function to other processes, but just because you can does not mean y

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-18 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/17/21 14:29, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 17/12/2021 à 20:32, Marc Shapiro via Dng a écrit : On 12/16/21 04:44, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 16/12/2021 à 07:08, Marc Shapiro via Dng a écrit : I don't think I'm up for compiling firefox from source.  And it would have to be recompiled every time

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-17 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/16/21 09:59, Steve Litt wrote: Gregory Nowak via Dng said on Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:32:11 -0700 On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 03:34:09PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: You need to use /usr/bin/apulse as a wrapper around every application you want to use it. Something got clipped wrong

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-17 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/16/21 04:44, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 16/12/2021 à 07:08, Marc Shapiro via Dng a écrit : I don't think I'm up for compiling firefox from source.  And it would have to be recompiled every time mozilla releases a new version.     Why do you need to track the very last version from Mozilla

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
: ac_add_options --enable-alsa I removed pulseaudio, apulse and libpulse0, and the sound is working for me. Cheers, Aitor. I don't think I'm up for compiling firefox from source.  And it would have to be recompiled every time mozilla releases a new version. Marc

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/15/21 18:32, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 03:34:09PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: Installed apulse.  Still no sound in firefox, or xine. Simply installing apulse doesn't mean applications will start using it. You need to use /usr/bin/apulse as a wrapper

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/14/21 17:00, Steve Litt wrote: Marc Shapiro via Dng said on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:09:31 -0800 On 12/14/21 06:00, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 14/12/2021 à 13:37, ael via Dng a écrit : Firefox works fine on my systems for playing audio without pulseaudio or apulse. So, I suggest verifying

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/14/21 06:00, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 14/12/2021 à 13:37, ael via Dng a écrit : Firefox works fine on my systems for playing audio without pulseaudio or apulse. So, I suggest verifying firefox works for you without apulse first. Interesting. I only use firefox occasionally, but some

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio

2021-12-13 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/13/21 12:24, ael via Dng wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 08:04:35AM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: On 12/13/21 01:05, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:40:20PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I am not at all sure that I want pipewire.  It was brought in by zoom

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio

2021-12-13 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/13/21 00:30, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 13/12/2021 à 06:40, Marc Shapiro via Dng a écrit : I was scrolling though my e-mail from the debian user group and I saw mention of pipewire, as a replacement for pulseaudio.  It seemed to suggest that it was in Testing, so would not be available on my

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio

2021-12-13 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/13/21 01:05, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:40:20PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I was scrolling though my e-mail from the debian user group and I saw mention of pipewire, as a replacement for pulseaudio.  It seemed to suggest that it was in Testing, so would

[DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio

2021-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
pulseaudio?  Or is it using pipewire? Is zoom using pipewire and everything else is using pulseaudio? If pipewire is meant as a replacement for pulseaudio, can I delete pulseaudio.  Will my sound, including upstream firefox, continue to work? Marc

Re: [DNG] (SOLVED. Definately) Re: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-05 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/2/21 01:19, Marc Shapiro wrote: I THINK it's working now. I found the line in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template 'file = /var/mail/$local_part' that needs to be changed to 'file = /var/mail/$local_part_+data'.  (The line is 72% of the way through a 79K file.)  Then I needed to run 'update

[DNG] (SOLVED. I Think) Re: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/2/21 00:38, Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote: Den 2021-12-02 kl. 09:16, skrev Marc Shapiro via Dng: No luck.  I rebooted and got the paniclog error during the boot. After booting, I stopped exim4, deleted the paniclog, and restarted exim4.  It created a paniclog containing the following

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 12/1/21 23:56, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/1/21 10:10, Ludovic Bellière via Dng wrote: If you do not need your mail system to talk to the world, then you should replace exim with something that is a lot simpler to use and configure. I would suggest msmtp (https://marlam.de/msmtp/) as its

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On Wed, 01 Dec 2021, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: This is very likely the problem, as I now have version 4.94.2-7 installed.  I know virtually nothing, however, about how MTAs do their work.  Where and how do I make these config changes.  I use Thunderbird for mail coming from outside the local

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
(such as e-mail from cron jobs). Marc On 11/30/21 18:56, Ludovic Bellière via Dng wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I am getting e-mails like the one below all the time, now. I had this problem once before and I think that all I had to do was clear the paniclog

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
This is what is in /var/log/exim4. As you can see, thae paniclog still has the same ownership and rights as everything else in the directory. Marc root@quixote:/var/log/exim4# ls total 88 -rw-r- 1 Debian-exim adm 10728 Nov 30 15:13 mainlog -rw-r- 1 Debian-exim adm 31961 Nov 30 07:53

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
root@quixote:/usr/local/bin# ls -al /var/mail/ total 396 drwxrwsr-x  2 root mail   4096 Nov 30 07:59 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root   4096 Dec  3  2020 .. -rw-rw  1 marc mail 136846 Nov 30 07:53 marc -rw-r--r--  1 marc mail   9864 Nov 30 15:15 marc.msf -rw-r--r--  1 marc mail 25 Nov 25 23:36

[DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
ain. It looks like I get three lines every half hour. This is preventing me from receiving e-mails sent by a cron job that runs a backup script. Any ideas on how to get rid of this and not have it come back would be greatly appreciated. Marc e-mail showing paniclog: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/panic

Re: [DNG] Wanting to set up an email system

2021-11-28 Thread marc
not believe the naysayers who claim it is all too complex. They might value convenience over liberty, but not everybody has to be that shortsighted. regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Viewing file content (was Re: system administration of non-systemd distros and releases)

2021-11-26 Thread marc
If (any of) you still prefer to use an editor, consider invoking it in read-only mode. Eg "vim" can also be invoked as "view" regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] [OT] historical note

2021-06-17 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
the releases until I got to Buster.  Then I hit a wall.  It MAY be possible to run a very minimal system (with no chance of running X) and still avoid systemd.  While I have been told that this is the case, I have no personal evidence of this. That is what caused me to switch to Devuan. Marc

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 5/31/21 1:10 PM, g4sra via Dng wrote: No, don't delete it, empty it, this should be the standard practice when manually manipulating daemon log files. I have emptied the paniclog, per you prior directions. Thanks. ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 5/31/21 12:36 PM, Antony Stone wrote: On Monday 31 May 2021 at 21:25:18, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I couldn't even switch to a terminal where I could kill Firefox. I finally had to simply power down the system. (How I hate doing that!) Hint for the future - if you have sshd running

[DNG] exim paniclog

2021-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
shutdown and rebooted, again. After that, everything seems to be running just fine. Is that likely the cause of the above message? If so, is deleting the paniclog the proper way to stop receiving these e-mails? Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-07 Thread marc
n. > If you were to speculate that my employer was VA Linux Systems and that > the embarassing theft of a token happened when a VA sysadmin ssh'd out > to shells.sourceforge.net (a shared public host that he didn't know > someone had rooted), and then ssh'd or scp'd back into the sensi

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-06 Thread marc
both. Maybe even make the install an XOR. Having both ssh client and server available makes it a lot easier for a bad guy to hop along from one compromised system to another. regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space (SOLVED)

2021-03-21 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
618 GB of space (some files when back to October). Now, '/media/archives' is about 46% used, instead of 84%, and I am much happier. Thank you to all who have responded to my request for help.  We can now put this issue to rest. Marc ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-19 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 3/16/21 2:06 PM, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 07:41:42 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: ... tmpfs 2466616 24 2466592 1% /run/user/1001 tmpfs 2466616 24 2466592 1% /run/user/1002 tmpfs 2466616 32 2466584 1% /run/user/1000 Is it possible that one of the users runs

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-19 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 3/16/21 11:17 AM, g4sra via Dng wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 2:32 PM, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: On 3/16/21 2:32 AM, g4sra via Dng wrote: --snip-- With your removable drive attached and mounted... Paste the outputs of 'mount' and 'df' when run

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-16 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
r. root:/home/marc# df Filesystem    1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on udev   12281428  0  12281428   0% /dev tmpfs   2466620   1116   2465504   1% /run /dev/mapper/vg1-root--devuan    3030800    2089220   

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-16 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 3/16/21 2:32 AM, g4sra via Dng wrote: <--snip--> With your removable drive attached and mounted... Paste the outputs of 'mount' and 'df' when run as root. The drive in question is /dev/sdb1. root:/home/marc# mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
What does it do and what package is it in.  It is not currently installed here. Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 3/15/21 8:23 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:54:20 -0700, Marc wrote in message <74553f6b-2616-70e1-e742-1ce9275b3...@gmail.com>: On 3/15/21 6:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:28:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: On 3/14/21 10:09 PM, L

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 3/15/21 6:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:28:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: On 3/14/21 10:09 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote: I assume you read the man page of fsck, as it's return code is what you want to pay attention to. As for lsof, the correct parameters

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
with the stuff that occupies the space, done so in order for you to review. On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:10:03 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I had some large files (over 200GB in total size) that I no longer needed.  So I removed them.  They no longer show up in the directory. However, df, still shows

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
undeleted files.  How does this help? Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
.  It says the partition is clean. Marc On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:10:03 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I had some large files (over 200GB in total size) that I no longer needed.  So I removed them.  They no longer show up in the directory. However, df, still shows the space as being used.  I

[DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
? Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] What does this remind you of?

2021-03-07 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
?  Or can I just uninstall it? Marc On 3/7/21 10:11 AM, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 07-03-2021 18:20, tito via Dng wrote: On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 18:03:30 +0100 Antony Stone wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2021 at 17:59:22, Steve Litt wrote: See this web page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern I'd say

[DNG] (SOLVED _ I hope) Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

2020-11-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 11/15/20 6:40 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/15/20 5:00 AM, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: If this is a cron job running on your local machine then rather than having to fully comnfigure your MTA to send acceptable emails to gmail (i.e. static ip, spf, dkim, etcetera) it would be simpler

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

2020-11-15 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 11/15/20 5:00 AM, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 16:03 -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with configuring an MTA. I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I would like to receive an e-mail

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

2020-11-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 11/14/20 4:12 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 15-11-2020 01:03, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with configuring an MTA. I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I would like to receive an e-mail when the job is completed

[DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

2020-11-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
that will rpovide this information? Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] HPLIP issues (SOLVED)

2020-11-13 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 11/13/20 7:56 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/13/20 12:09 AM, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 13-11-2020 07:21, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: Has anyone managed to get HPLIP isnstalled and fully running on Beowulf? hp-info works, with a gui interface. hp-levels works on the command-line from

Re: [DNG] HPLIP issues

2020-11-13 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 11/13/20 12:09 AM, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 13-11-2020 07:21, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: Has anyone managed to get HPLIP isnstalled and fully running on Beowulf? hp-info works, with a gui interface. hp-levels works on the command-line from a terminal. hp-testpage brings up a gui and prints

[DNG] HPLIP issues

2020-11-12 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
. Any help will be appreciated. Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] No Sound in XFCE Beowulf - Pulsaudio

2020-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
reason, not starting for all users.  I added a line to start pulseaudio in each user's .bashrc file and that fixed the problem on their next login.  YMMV. Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] [OT] YouTube archivism targeted

2020-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 10/31/20 3:43 AM, spiralofhope wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:22:34 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: Sorry, spiralofhope.  I didn't6 mean to send this to you, but to the list. I'll re-send this to the list then. :) On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:15:42 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: I think

Re: [DNG] [OT] YouTube archivism targeted

2020-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
Sorry, spiralofhope.  I didn't6 mean to send this to you, but to the list. On 10/26/20 11:47 AM, spiralofhope wrote: TL;DR: YouTube-dl DMCA The RIAA successfully applied a DMCA takedown to GitHub (Microsoft) for an archivism program which downloads YouTube video/audio (although it

Re: [DNG] the email universe

2020-10-29 Thread marc
substantial documentation, and the distribution defaults should get you going too... Once that is set up you could try using multiple computers on a lan, or move on to points 1 and 2. regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailingli

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread marc
ich didn't allow certain User-agents to subscribe. It would be nifty if there were a mailing list, with another pretentious title - say inet-lords@ or net-kings@ which only allowed posting from addresses starting with admin@ or, even better, abuse@ as these addresses are reserved and unlikely to be

Re: [DNG] Unexpected behavior in Python 3 and QT Designer program

2020-10-03 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 10/3/20 4:09 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote: Both python and Qt have been upgraded between stretch and buster, as such you have to expect changes in behavior. From what you said, it doesn't seem to be breaking. On 4/10/20 00:45, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I have a program written in Python 3

[DNG] Unexpected behavior in Python 3 and QT Designer program

2020-10-03 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
behavior.  I can't just change the link, because I get an error loading the QT module when I link to python3.5. Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf (SOLVED)

2020-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
Oops!  I forgot to add (SOLVED) to my last subject line. Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:34:33 -0700 From: Marc Shapiro To: dng@lists.dyne.org On 9/26/20 6:55 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Fri

Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf

2020-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 9/26/20 6:55 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:54:14PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: The issue that I am having is with sound.  My daughter reported that it was not working.  I tried playing a video (in Firefox) from my login and also got no sound. You've already

[DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf

2020-09-25 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
to play an mp3 file.  Using 'aplay' to play .wav files works fine.  What do I need to do to play mp3s from the commandline? (NOTE: I boot to console only.  Each user switches to a different VT and runs startx from there.) Thanks for any help. Marc

Re: [DNG] Xorg stopped working after upgrade to Beowulf

2020-09-22 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
Actually, it says that it cannot connect to the Wicd daemon, or something to that effect. Sorry, Marc On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 9:52 PM Marc Shapiro wrote: > Yes, that solved the issue. I installed elogind and libpam-elogind, > rebooted and X now starts up for all three users. > > T

Re: [DNG] Xorg stopped working after upgrade to Beowulf

2020-09-22 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
is in the netdev group.  Well, she wasn't in the netdev group, so I logged her out, added her to the group, logged her back in and verified that she was in netdev, then ran startx.  I am still getting the same error.  Is there something else that is required for the Wicd client? Marc On 9/22/20

Re: [DNG] Xorg stopped working after upgrade to Beowulf

2020-09-22 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
I do use startx from a terminal login, so this sounds like it could be the problem.  I'll check it out when I get home, tonight and pass the results to the list. Thanks. Marc On 9/21/20 11:16 PM, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: On 22 Sep 2020, at 12:36, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I

[DNG] Xorg stopped working after upgrade to Beowulf

2020-09-21 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
starts up to know where to look.  Anything that you want me to post to help debug this? Any help appreciated. Marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-21 Thread marc
ery day when extending the distribution - that makes a sysadmin equal to the distribution maintainer, instead of specialising that into a different caste... regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Zoom? Rather not...

2020-08-06 Thread marc
cal privilege escalation exploit (kernel or CPU bug, or even back door). regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] LILO Framebuffer and X screen resolution (SOLVED)

2020-05-27 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 5/23/20 2:36 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been using Debian for the last 20+ years.  I don't like systemd and that has kept me on Stretch, where I can still use SysV as init.  I have tried several times to upgrade to Buster without SysV, but have had no luck.  So here I am at Devuan. I

[DNG] LILO Framebuffer and X screen resolution

2020-05-27 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
ng these issues?  Any ideas on how to get my full screen resolution in X will be greatly appreciated.  I am looking forward to working in an OS that is guaranteed not to slip systemd in on me. Marc Shapiro ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists

Re: [DNG] When spaces aren't just spaces [Was] Has anybody else experienced Raspberry Pi breakage ?

2020-05-19 Thread marc
ts,noatimeM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- > 0M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- 1$ > /dev/zram0 M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- swapM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- > swapM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- pri=1M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- > M-BM- 0M-BM- M-BM- M-

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-24 Thread marc
type xxx"). There is even a fancy word we can use for "control-alt-F2", the "trusted path" or maybe even the "secure attention" keys. Maybe even reserve a certain tty so that a login there spawns the package management tool... regards marc ___

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed? dropin replacement

2020-02-23 Thread marc
probably the way to go after all. Do note that sudo (or su) might not accept input from a plain pipe - you might have to allocate a pseudotty via /dev/pts/ptmx, then fork, exec su or sudo in the child and in the parent write the password down the filedescriptor... regards marc __

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2020-01-28 Thread marc
Hello > I apologize for the time gap, but ill health put me out of > commission for two months. Hope you are recovering well > $ tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl > [nothing returns] But does the title bar of your terminal say hello ? r

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

2019-12-10 Thread marc
> Ah, but zero the whole disk and it will > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M > > It'll use one write cycle on the media. I wonder if writing 0xff instead of 0x00 is kinder to flash media. In particular, if the controller is dumb/smart enough to only erase, not write...

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-11 Thread marc
effort to trim things, many distributions ship only a small subset of the terminfo database by default, and relegate the rest to an optional package... regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] long delays in waterfox

2019-11-10 Thread marc
, in particular the search autocompletion logic ? regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-10 Thread marc
to check on a working system... regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Mail message headers - was: I wrote IBM

2019-10-24 Thread marc
to you, just in case you want to unsubscribe ? Maybe check the change notes for the mail client ? Let me know if I have misunderstood your question... regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] why does mount expect NTFS?

2019-08-11 Thread marc
out. It does make sense - sensibly enough the kernel has no other[1] facility to work out what filesystem is really on a given partition - it has to invoke the filesystem driver to find out. regards marc [1] partition ids, etc may provide a clue but consider the case of your magic new filesys

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
; > at 8.8.8.8) to chromium or firefox/iceweasel. For the time > > being these designed-in phone home packages are few, so it > > should not be a hardship to label them with a "leaking::" > > tag. > > > > I am sorry marc, but that's incorrect. popcon does not ever

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
> Dear marc, > > unwanted "calls-home" are normally found and disclosed if the software > is free, so I really don't think this is a problem. Asking the > development team of a distribution with 50k+ packages to guarantee > that nothing ever uses user informatio

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
yourself: #include #include int main() { int id; id = gethostid(); printf("my id is 0x%08x\n", id); return 0; } regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
either - one pays for it in personal data. regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
systemd-* looking at machine ids. Dnsmasq might warrant a close look - hopefully that id does not get disclosed during dhcp negotiation... The other three in that list I disable whenever possible already, and the above provides yet further confirmation this is prudent. regards marc _

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
ackages would not only described as being "implemented-in::c" but also as "leaking::host-id" or "leaking::clickstream". Then one could aim to have a "leak-free" build, like people try to have a "reproducible build"... regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] excessive bounces

2019-01-04 Thread marc
6:52 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 84 ~$ telnet ns1.samba.org 25 Trying 144.76.82.137... Connection failed: Connection refused Trying 2a01:4f8:192:486::b0... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable regards marc ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread marc
t's not what it > is. > > Does anyone have any ideas here other than begging, borrowing, or > buying a Windows system? Try mtools ? But also consider the possibility that the card may be corrupted in somehow... regards marc ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

2018-07-27 Thread marc
> Am 2018-07-27 08:37, schrieb marc: > >It could be that your process table is full - Run ps fax and > >understand what each process does. > > > >Alternatively /dev/pts isn't mounted, or (less likely) you > >are running something like fail2ban ? > >

Re: [DNG] ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

2018-07-27 Thread marc
Alternatively /dev/pts isn't mounted, or (less likely) you are running something like fail2ban ? regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] A Devuan kernel?

2018-07-09 Thread marc
view that spying is socially acceptable. So: I struggle to reconcile your security concerns with your use of gmail. So maybe once you stop using gmail I'll examine your views on the NSAs kernel ownership more seriously Sorry marc ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] noisy computer

2018-07-03 Thread marc
n't. There are other less likely things to consider: Hard disks are computers in their own right (often dual core ARMs, soon some might be RISC5s). They can do things like thermal recalibration which can make noise. regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] It's far from being over. Sigh!

2018-05-05 Thread marc
mines or chemical weapons - as having no place in a civilised world. regards marc ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

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