Re: how to find out HorizSync, VertRefresh and resolution used by X

2020-08-09 Thread David
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 08:10, Long Wind wrote: > which command can show > HorizSync, VertRefresh and screen resolution > used by X Window? Hi, maybe xrandr --verbose | grep -A 2 \*current

Re: ssh key used for login

2020-08-09 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 8. August 2020, 02:26:20 CEST schrieb Kushal Kumaran: > Rainer Dorsch writes: > > Hi, > > > > can anybody tell if there is a way to find out the ssh key (out of the > > ones > > listed in authorized keys) was used for login to the current session? > > See the environment="NAME=value"

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On 8/9/2020 5:26 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-08-09 13:38, David Christensen wrote: Then again, many small drives have higher performance than fewer large drives of the same total capacity. And a higher probability of failure. Not necessarily. If the smaller drives have a greater

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-08-09 15:22, Stefan Monnier wrote: I wasn't thinking of recovery, but rather the case where you're at the office and need to access a file that you accidentally left on your home computer which is now turned off. I have pondered putting my home directory on the Samba server, which is u

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-08-09 13:38, David Christensen wrote: Then again, many small drives have higher performance than fewer large drives of the same total capacity. And a higher probability of failure. David

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, August 09, 2020 05:53:56 PM Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:42:43 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, August 09, 2020 12:22:16 PM Celejar wrote: > > > Are you saying that classic forward-delta > > > based systems don't store backup metadata (or whatever the right ter

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Perhaps, but that has nothing to do with whether the host is down or up > - any time you're doing a recovery, you're going to run into this > issue, insofar as it's an issue. I wasn't thinking of recovery, but rather the case where you're at the office and need to access a file that you accident

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-08-09 07:53, Stefan Monnier wrote: it's convenient to make your latest backup readily accessible so it's very easy to get back yesterday's version of a file in case your fingers fumbled (which might be much more frequent than drive failures). With ZFS and zfs-auto-snapshot, recovery can

how to find out HorizSync, VertRefresh and resolution used by X

2020-08-09 Thread Long Wind
which command can showHorizSync, VertRefresh and screen resolution used by X Window? Thanks!

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:42:43 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, August 09, 2020 12:22:16 PM Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:53:30 -0400 > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > Another advantage is that it lets you access a host's files even when > > > that host is down (as long as t

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, August 09, 2020 12:22:16 PM Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:53:30 -0400 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Another advantage is that it lets you access a host's files even when > > that host is down (as long as the backup server is up, which is likely > > to always be the case). > >

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-08-09 02:07, Jonathan Dowland wrote: We should all be in the habit of regularly performing a restore to test our backups are working. I would add -- "to a spare server". I am loath to overwrite my primary server data, out of subliminal fear conditioned by past bad experiences. High

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-08-07 16:33, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Nonetheless, it is still true a collection of smaller disks can be less expensive than a large disk In the past, that was usually true. But, take a look at the current pricing of Seagate Exos drives on Amazon [1]: $372.30 / 16 TB = 23.27 $/TB $319.

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Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Another advantage is that it lets you access a host's files even when >> that host is down (as long as the backup server is up, which is likely >> to always be the case). > > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but why can't you do that > with ordinary forward deltas, as long as all the

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 10:07:33 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 10:22:51PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >Fair enough. But less applicable in the case of backups, since restores > >are quite rare, as I've been pointing out. > > I'd agree they're probably rare, and certainly less co

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>Fair enough. But less applicable in the case of backups, since restores >>are quite rare, as I've been pointing out. > > I'd agree they're probably rare, and certainly less common than backups. > But in my experience when you do perform a restore it's almost always > the latest version you want.

How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html > > "generate a configuration based on the running kernel and the currently > >loaded modules (make localmodconfig)" n...@dismail.de wrote: > If you want to save yourself some trouble with localmod, s

Re: How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-08-09 at 07:14, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > are people here who make their own kernels and know how to import the > configuration of the originally installed kernel ? > > I got lured by > https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html > into following >

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread David Christensen
On 8/7/20 6:24 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: On 8/7/2020 6:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: ??Filesystem?? Size?? Used Avail Use% Mounted on Your editor seems to replace multiple spaces with two question marks for each leading space (?). Please disable the feature if you can. The NAS ar

Re: How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-09 Thread nito
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 13:14:19 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > are people here who make their own kernels and know how to import the > configuration of the originally installed kernel ? > > What should i do in order to bring the configuration of the original Buster > kernel 4.19.0 to my

How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, are people here who make their own kernels and know how to import the configuration of the originally installed kernel ? I got lured by https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html into following "generate a configuration based on the running kernel and the cu

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 10:22:51PM -0400, Celejar wrote: Fair enough. But less applicable in the case of backups, since restores are quite rare, as I've been pointing out. I'd agree they're probably rare, and certainly less common than backups. But in my experience when you do perform a resto

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-09 Thread tomas
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 06:52:22PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > > What about if you use another window-manager and/or desktop-environment? > > > > I haven't tried that yet. > > I just tried twm and it says "Untitled" even with xterm -T abcd & Oh, that is a hint: it seems xterm is failing to t