Re: passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-01 Thread Tom Dial
On 9/1/20 17:39, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 02:42:50 PM Mike McClain wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:41:06PM +, Long Wind wrote: >> >> >>> my memory is poor, i can't remember many accounts and passwords >> >> The more experience you have the harder i

how to rescue lxc?

2020-09-01 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lxc lxc is in bad shape. I would love to help. How can I help? I already filed a patch for #966998, verified lxc 4.0.4 (#969229) and (meaning no offense, but) #961584 looks like a home-made problem to me. Anyway, lxc 4.0.4 is supposed to fix

Re: virt-install returns error

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:58 PM Charles Zeitler wrote: > i get: > > debian@debian:~$ su -c 'virt-install --name test --cdrom > /home/debian/mnt/sdi/Downloads/0_distros/windows/Win10* --memory 4000 > --disk size=5 --cpu=host' > Password: > > Starting install... > Allocating 'test.qcow2' >

virt-install returns error

2020-09-01 Thread Charles Zeitler
i get: debian@debian:~$ su -c 'virt-install --name test --cdrom /home/debian/mnt/sdi/Downloads/0_distros/windows/Win10* --memory 4000 --disk size=5 --cpu=host' Password: Starting install... Allocating 'test.qcow2' | 5.0 GB 00:00:00 ERRORintern

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
That said, Wheezy is  *way*  too far away from Buster!  For example,  "Update in Place" is likely to fail, because of SystemD changes.  (Heck, I had trouble updating Stretch to Buster in Place, but some of that was User Error). I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 2/9/20 3:56 am, Kenneth Parker wrote: My Recommendation, if it isn't too late, is to Install Buster in a separate Partition, and then copy /home files as desired. Reclaim the Wheezy Partition when you are sure that you don't need it anymore. +1 FWIW I'd recommend this course for most ma

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread John Crawley
On 2020-09-01 23:11, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:03:27AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 04:29:55 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do th

Re: passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-01 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 02:42:50 PM Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:41:06PM +, Long Wind wrote: > > > > my memory is poor, i can't remember many accounts and passwords > > The more experience you have the harder it is to find the > memory you're searching for. Tha

Re: passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 02/09/2020 06:42, Mike McClain wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:41:06PM +, Long Wind wrote: my memory is poor, i can't remember many accounts and passwords The more experience you have the harder it is to find the memory you're searching for. That's my story and I'm sticking to it

Re: reset/change hwaddr/mac in a lxc?

2020-09-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 1/09/20 11:49 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 17:45 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 1/09/20 4:23 am, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> > Hello! >> > >> > lxc-create (Debian Buster) assigns MAC addresses to new containers. >> > Somehow, 2 new containers (Ubuntu Focal) both got created

passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-01 Thread Mike McClain
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:41:06PM +, Long Wind wrote: > my memory is poor, i can't remember many accounts and passwords The more experience you have the harder it is to find the memory you're searching for. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Mnemonics can make passwords relativ

Re: unable to log in

2020-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:09:04PM +0300, Roland Müller wrote: > *(A) sudo chown /USER/. /~USER// > * > > *(B) find . -xdev ! -user /USER/* Your email user agent took your HTML and converted to ASCII in a highly unfortunate way. I believe only one of the forward slashes shown here is supposed to

Re: unable to log in

2020-09-01 Thread Roland Müller
On 2020-09-01 17:38, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 03:24:08PM +0100, anthony gennard wrote: I am gradually getting to grips with Jessie although its difficult without any memory. Now I am lockout of my user account and do not understand the error message which is as follows:- "c

Re: folders (was Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED])

2020-09-01 Thread Marek Mosiewicz
In fact it used to be called directory, before GUI shells emerged. So MS DOS to dispaly content of "folder" used command named dir. Cheers, Marek Mosiewicz W dniu wto, 01.09.2020 o godzinie 06∶48 -0400, użytkownik The Wanderer napisał: > On 2020-09-01 at 04:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 12:17 PM R. Ramesh wrote: > My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the > information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and > jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue > copy of the current install di

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue copy of the current install disk (only 64GB, so easy) first and then directly upgra

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:34:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:08:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That depends on context, program, etc. But if you give the program > > an absolute path, every directory from the root down to the file > > has to be readable for y

Re: unable to log in

2020-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 03:24:08PM +0100, anthony gennard wrote: > I am gradually getting to grips with Jessie although its difficult without > any memory. Now I am lockout of my user account and do not understand the > error message which is as follows:- > > "could not update ICE authority file /

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:08:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That depends on context, program, etc. But if you give the program > an absolute path, every directory from the root down to the file > has to be readable for your program. Every directory in the path must have the +x bit for you.

unable to log in

2020-09-01 Thread anthony gennard
I am gradually getting to grips with Jessie although its difficult without any memory. Now I am lockout of my user account and do not understand the error message which is as follows:- "could not update ICE authority file /home/john/.ICEauthority" and I cannot even see the file by going into the

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:03:27AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 04:29:55 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is > >beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? > > (My day to make extraneous resp

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 11:02:18PM +1000, elvis wrote: > > On 1/9/20 6:29 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >>Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the > >> >>document root, > >To be able to access

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 04:29:55 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is >beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? (My day to make extraneous responses? ;-) Historical: file folders hold documents in file cabinets...

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 9:34 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:30:15AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > Directories go back, even before Windows: The MSDOS Equivalent to ls is > > dir, which I "guess" means "List Directory". > > > > Ah yes, the "Good old days". > > Yup, but very

Folders [was: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]]

2020-09-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:05:32AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:29:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is > >beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? > > It's a Microsoft Windows thing. Wind

Re: folders (was Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED])

2020-09-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 06:48:22AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-09-01 at 04:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is > >beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? > > As I understand matters, it's an extension of the "de

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:30:15AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Directories go back, even before Windows: The MSDOS Equivalent to ls is > dir, which I "guess" means "List Directory". > > Ah yes, the "Good old days". Yup, but very few of the Microsoft Windows users today have a background in MS

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread Dan Ritter
elvis wrote: > > On 1/9/20 6:29 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the > > > > > document root, > > To be able to access a file given its path, you nee

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 8:05 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:29:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is > >beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? > > It's a Microsoft Windows thing. Windows presents

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread elvis
On 1/9/20 6:29 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the To be able to access a file given its path, you need to have read access to each directory [1] along that path. Ther

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:29:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is >beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? It's a Microsoft Windows thing. Windows presents directories and files graphically, and the icon for a direct

Re: reset/change hwaddr/mac in a lxc?

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 7:49 AM Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 17:45 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 1/09/20 4:23 am, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > lxc-create (Debian Buster) assigns MAC addresses to new containers. > > > Somehow, 2 new containers (Ubuntu Focal) bot

Re: reset/change hwaddr/mac in a lxc?

2020-09-01 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 17:45 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 1/09/20 4:23 am, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > Hello! > > > > lxc-create (Debian Buster) assigns MAC addresses to new containers. > > Somehow, 2 new containers (Ubuntu Focal) both got created with the same > > MAC/hwaddr. What are my optio

folders (was Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED])

2020-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-09-01 at 04:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is >beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? As I understand matters, it's an extension of the "desktop" metaphor. Back before computers (and to some extent afterward), pe

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-09-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: [...] > Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the > document root, To be able to access a file given its path, you need to have read access to each directory [1] along that path. There isn't another way, and thi