Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 03:06:59PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > "allow-hotplug" tells udev to raise a network interface after it's > > attached to the kernel. This result of ifup is expected. > > OK, thanks. Same as "auto "? No. "auto" means (taken directly from interfaces(5)): Lines beg

Printer not Ready after Scan

My printer on the desktop became not ready and my attempts to make it ready have bit the dust. I don't print much, usually just text, using the lp command. My printer worked fine until I used gscan2pdf to scan one page to a pdf for an email. The pdf was created but gscan2pdf did not terminate clean

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

On 11/25/2020 4:34 AM, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello Al the previous issues I published are now solved. Relative to the RTL8821CE, I searched for a module rtl8821ce.ko but the generated module was just 8821ce.ko so when I loaded the only RTL* (rtl8821ae.ko) the right 8821ce.ko was already loaded and

Re: Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard

Hi Sven, thanks for the response! On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, at 02:40, Sven Hartge wrote: > Which would mean that the Kernel does not have a driver for the chip > driving SATA0_3 as it seems. Makes sense. > Can you provide more information, for example a lspci listing? No problem, here you go, with

NTFS partitions can't be mounted

Hello Al the previous issues I published are now solved. Relative to the RTL8821CE, I searched for a module rtl8821ce.ko but the generated module was just 8821ce.ko so when I loaded the only RTL* (rtl8821ae.ko) the right 8821ce.ko was already loaded and I thought it was the rtl8821ae activating

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

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 01:07:10PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really super clever to treat

Re: color border in image, drop everything outside of it

David Wright wrote: > Original Scanned > > d→ > d→ > ss > skkksskkks > ddd

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

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:48:12PM +0100, Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > Mike McClain writes: > > [...] > > Locale is another area where there is a lot of data that the > > average user, I suspect, has no use for and localepurge in Debian, at > > least, is hamstrung by the packagers, hooking it to dpk

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d - Does this avoid the hijack?

On 2020-11-23 12:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 23 nov 20, 14:27:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: So does htis get a new subject in the list? Good afternon All I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail collection, sendmail and thunderbird. Some of the replies sound like this i

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:50:34 -0600 John Hasler wrote: >> I use Fetchmail to fetch my mail every five minutes from Newsguy. >> This means that my mail is never on anyone else's server for more >> than a few minutes. Fetchmail hands it off to Exim which passes it >> through Mailagent and Spamass

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

From: Reco Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 08:25:39 +0300 > The wpasupplicant package provides wpa-* ifupdown options for > /etc/network/interfaces. If these options are specified, wpa_supplicant > is started in the background when your wireless interface is raised and > stopped when brought down.

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:19:16 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Lu, 23 nov 20, 14:27:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >>> > So does htis get a new subject in the list? >>> > >>> > Good afternon All >>> > >>> > I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail >>> > collection, sendmail an

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 23:34:56 -0600 David Wright wrote: >>> On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 14:27:36 (+1100), Keith Bainbridge wrote: >>> > So does htis get a new subject in the list? Interesting. I'll try it next time I want to use a comment from one thread as a separate topic. BUT I wrote a totally new

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On 25.11.2020 00:56, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: URL doesn't open for me either. It looks like this ppa was removed and "now been folded into Ubuntu itself". [1] [1] https://launchpad.net/~wireguard Ah...thanks for finding the way into that rabbi

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:11:05 -0500 (EST) Bob Bernstein wrote: > > It is permitted! You get to keep any broken bits, of course! > > Hrrmm...I read your observation as a cautionary tale. And rightly so. Fortunately, there may be a better solution. Wireguard is available in buster backports, bu

Re: color border in image, drop everything outside of it

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:39:08PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: [...] > BTW maybe the AI people already have a true and tested algorithm > for this problem? I repeat myself. It is a variant of flood fill [1]. AI not needed. Classical raster computer graphics stuff. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedi

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

Bob, quite a few times Ive installed Debian on Ubuntu ☺ Keep an eye on gcc and the versions of its libraries. Especially when building from source. Ubuntu is usually in advance of Debian in that respect. Bob are you the same BB I knew at UIC? I live down the road these days. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020,

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

rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 01:07:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: >> As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on >> our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who >> devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it w

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, Brian wrote: It is permitted! You get to keep any broken bits, of course! Hrrmm...I read your observation as a cautionary tale. Perhaps I need to investigate this a bit further, with, for example, the vendor of the application that requires that "Wireguard" stuff. Than

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 01:44:28PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 07:24:37 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > > Joe wrote: > > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > > > The IMAP protocal

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On Tue 24 Nov 2020 at 14:56:46 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Do you think it is permitted for a debian install to point its apt-get at a > Ubuntu repository? It is permitted! You get to keep any broken bits, of course! -- Brian.

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: URL doesn't open for me either. It looks like this ppa was removed and "now been folded into Ubuntu itself". [1] [1] https://launchpad.net/~wireguard Ah...thanks for finding the way into that rabbit-hole. Do you think it is permitted for

Re: LaTeX to epub

Tom Browder wrote: > Thanks, I'll try that :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: color border in image, drop everything outside of it

On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 06:23:50 (+0100), Emanuel Berg wrote: > > I don't understand what you mean by "sensible" data. > > Your example > > > > . > > ...sss... > > ..skkks.. > > ..s.. > > ss... > > > > is a completely convex blob. Are we to understand that as > > a constrain

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 07:24:37 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > Joe wrote: > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. I didn't think this thread w

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

On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 22:16:47 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:51:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > > > about 1 GB there. > > > > unicorn:

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

On Tue 24 Nov 2020 at 13:07:10 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:45:53PM +, Curt wrote: > > I have a problem: > > > > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=EST date > > Tue Nov 24 11:43:42 EST 2020 > > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=PST date > > Tue Nov 24 16:43:54 PST 2020 > > As I said, figur

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On 25.11.2020 00:19, Bob Bernstein wrote: At least, that's my diagnosis. Here's the pertinent line from an entry in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu focal main Here's the output of 'apt-get update': --snip-- 0% [Working] 0% [Connecting to d

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

On 11/24/2020 8:19 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: At least, that's my diagnosis. Here's the pertinent line from an entry in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu focal main Here's the output of 'apt-get update': --snip-- 0% [Working] 0% [Connecting to

An apt repository has changed its key

At least, that's my diagnosis. Here's the pertinent line from an entry in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu focal main Here's the output of 'apt-get update': --snip-- 0% [Working] 0% [Connecting to debian.map.fastlydns.net (2a04:4e4

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

On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 01:07:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on > our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who > devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really > super clever to

Re: New User Error Problems

On 11/24/2020 6:30 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hello, I am new to linux and have installed Debian 10. I have added some new packages without problems until now. Using the "apt-get update" command (once a week) I am getting the following Error Messages. Any help will be appreciated. root@UNIX:/# apt-

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

Mike McClain writes: [...] > Locale is another area where there is a lot of data that the > average user, I suspect, has no use for and localepurge in Debian, at > least, is hamstrung by the packagers, hooking it to dpkg and I disagree. Even quite small enterprises work internationally now. A

Re: RTL8821CE does not load automatically at boot time

On 24.11.2020 21:07, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello community I have (almost) ready mylaptop, but there are still a few details to fix... I've used an external driver for my RTL8821CE wifi(https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce ) but it is not loaded during

Re: RTL8821CE does not load automatically at boot time

Hi. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:07:22PM +, Kanito 73 wrote: > My question is: How can I load automatically the driver? Perhaps the > kernel detects RTL8821CE and expects for rtl8821ce.ko... Is there some > way to load it explicitly maybe adding rtl8821ae.ko to a list of > modules to loa

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

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:45:53PM +, Curt wrote: > I have a problem: > > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=EST date > Tue Nov 24 11:43:42 EST 2020 > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=PST date > Tue Nov 24 16:43:54 PST 2020 As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on our planet is a challenge.

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

On 2020-11-23, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: >> Joe wrote: >> > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. >> >> The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. > > Well, they do in a way -- if you use IMAP from your I

New User Error Problems

Hello, I am new to linux and have installed Debian 10. I have added some new packages without problems until now. Using the "apt-get update" command (once a week) I am getting the following Error Messages. Any help will be appreciated. root@UNIX:/# apt-get update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian

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

On Tuesday 24 November 2020 11:18:00 John Hasler wrote: > Mike McClain writes: > > I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had > > no storage > > Likewise. > > > ...and my first hard drive was 20M... > > Likewise. > > > ...so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using

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

On 2020-11-24, John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: >> To find out the time in some other time zone, I find it convenient to >> just google [time in ] (e.g., time in China). > > "TZ= date" is quicker. "date -d 'time and date in other timezone'" > converts a given time and date to local time and

RTL8821CE does not load automatically at boot time

Hello community I have (almost) ready mylaptop, but there are still a few details to fix... I've used an external driver for my RTL8821CE wifi (https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce) but it is not loaded during the boot process. The generated module is "rtl8821ae.ko" (not "rtl8821ce.ko") but

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

rhkramer writes: > To find out the time in some other time zone, I find it convenient to > just google [time in ] (e.g., time in China). "TZ= date" is quicker. "date -d 'time and date in other timezone'" converts a given time and date to local time and date. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com

Re: Certbot in Buster

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 05:17:08PM +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote: (security)update i have to install manual? yes

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

Mike McClain writes: > I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had > no storage Likewise. > ...and my first hard drive was 20M... Likewise. > ...so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is > less than 10KB just doesn't sit well with me. I have 278GB of

Re: Certbot in Buster

Many thank! i had now finely the time to test this (as far as possible) last test is when Lets Encrypt change there Chain. (security)update i have to install manual? On 11/18/20 7:01 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 06:42:27PM +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote: can i install th

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

On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 08:09:16 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > A few times a year, at most. For others, it will depend on how often > you travel to other time zones, or interact with people in other time > zones, or would simply like to know what time it is in . To find out the time in some oth

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

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:16:47PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had no storage and my first hard drive was 20M so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is less than 10KB just doesn't sit well with me. The kernel,

Re: LaTeX to epub

> On 2020-11-24, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Can I compile LaTeX to epub? ebook-convert gives an encoding error > > ebook-convert from the PDF I mean and, if "PDF sucks" as people > > say, how is one supposed to do it? what markup is preferred > > for epub? I'm sure you know 'ebook-convert' and 'eboo

Re: 4Second DecTalk Delay? (fwd)

On 11/24/2020 12:49 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 24/11/20 9:05 am, Karen Lewellen wrote: I am posting the below as requested. Please send any solutions their way. Thanks, From: Chime Hart Subject: 4Second DecTalk Delay? Hi All: Over the years, rather randemly, after ocasional changes in hard-

Re: Size of initrd

> Sorry for that. I know it's a sleazy way of learning -- spewing out some > nonsense, being corrected and caching that for the next time. You're describing the scientific method, Stefan

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

> I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had > no storage and my first hard drive was 20M so having a directory > taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is less than 10KB just > doesn't sit well with me. I can related to that. Note that you can also remove all of that di

Re: Size of initrd

On 2020-11-24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:09:51AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> Sorry for that. I know it's a sleazy way of learning -- spewing out some >> nonsense, being corrected and caching that for the next time. > > It's only sleazy if you do it on purpose. If tha

Re: Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

On 11/24/20 5:05 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 4:58 AM Reco > wrote:         Hi. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:05:26AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: . > > Thanks for the gory details.

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

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:16:47PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > In over 20 years running Linux I've never found a use for that > extra 3.5MB data and I wonder how many do. I'm curious Greg, how often > have you used that data? A few times a year, at most. For others, it will depend on how oft

Re: LaTeX to epub

On 2020-11-24, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Can I compile LaTeX to epub? ebook-convert gives an encoding error > ebook-convert from the PDF I mean and, if "PDF sucks" as people > say, how is one supposed to do it? what markup is preferred > for epub? > I've only ever heard about 'tex4ebook' and haven't

Re: Size of initrd

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:09:51AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Sorry for that. I know it's a sleazy way of learning -- spewing out some > nonsense, being corrected and caching that for the next time. It's only sleazy if you do it on purpose.

Re: any tool that demonstrate font?

Ive always used xfontdisplay, but I dont think it's installed by default. And it's an old X app that feels a little clunky. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 2:32 AM Long Wind wrote: > i want to try some new Chinese font > of course i can remove installed font, then install new Chinese font > but, is there

Re: Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 06:05:14AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: [...] > It must be said: Kuhscheiß, bullshit. > > Voices said that systemd was over-engineered before it was even really > available [...] My take (if it matters at all) is that I don't like that overcomplex design (not only sys

Re: Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 4:58 AM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:05:26AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > . > > > > Thanks for the gory details. You spoilt my breakfast ;-) > > I really feel sorry for that. > But in this regard systemd is akin to many other things in lif

Re: 4Second DecTalk Delay? (fwd)

On 24/11/20 9:05 am, Karen Lewellen wrote: I am posting the below as requested. Please send any solutions their way. Thanks, From: Chime Hart Subject: 4Second DecTalk Delay? Hi All: Over the years, rather randemly, after ocasional changes in hard-drives, my DecTalk U S B has an anoying 4secon

Re: LaTeX to epub

>> Can I compile LaTeX to epub? > > pandoc can do this but it starts trashing, let's try with > > systemd-run --scope -p MemoryLimit=500M pandoc -o x.epub x.tex Runs out of memory after processing for a long time ... a baad memory leak? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe857

Re: Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

Hi. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:05:26AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:32:49AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:55:50PM -, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > > 1. Why, when the script is run by the user cron job, the execution > > > requires authe

Re: LaTeX to epub

> Can I compile LaTeX to epub? pandoc can do this but it starts trashing, let's try with systemd-run --scope -p MemoryLimit=500M pandoc -o x.epub x.tex -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:21:45AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: [...] > Correction - Win 10 requires iTunes with Mobile Device Helper Service running > https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/1038#issuecomment-702915815 Hm. I don't get a clear conclusion from that long-winding

Re: Size of initrd

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 06:30:46PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Use unmkinitramfs. It appears you've only looked at the first archive, > > the early one, which gets the kernel into shape. The second, main one > > is the big one. > > OK, for those interested I tracked it down: indeed the machin

Re: Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:32:49AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:55:50PM -, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > 1. Why, when the script is run by the user cron job, the execution > > requires authentication, while run from the same user terminal, it does > > not. > >