Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I > should. The fstab(5) and mount(8) manual pages are unclear if > 'discard' applies to swap or ext4. swapon(8): -d, --discard[=policy]

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-10 Thread David Christensen
On 6/10/21 9:31 PM, David Wright wrote: I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am interested in any pitfalls with that. I will also encrypt the new /h

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-10 Thread songbird
David Wright wrote: ... > I don't work for the CIA, so "basic" erasure methods are sufficient, > ie so-called logical and digital sanitisation, but not analogue > sanitisation/purging. I'm just encrypting stuff like personal bank > records etc, and not looking for anything like plausible deniabili

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-10 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 11/6/21 12:31 pm, David Wright wrote: I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am interested in any pitfalls with that. I will also encrypt the new

Re: Automating tasks on wifi association

2021-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Jun 2021 at 17:33:53 (-0700), L L wrote: > I'm writing a script that generates a randomized valid MAC address and > assigns it to the wireless card. It would be nice to make it run > automatically as part of connecting to an access point. What will I have to > edit to make this happen? F

Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-10 Thread David Wright
I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am interested in any pitfalls with that. I will also encrypt the new /home partition, but for the remaining parti

Touch screen monitor recommendations?

2021-06-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, I have a use case which could use a touchscreen monitor with a standard desktop running Debian. Does anyone have any recommendations for units known to work with Debian? Thanks, Bob

Re: Automating tasks on wifi association

2021-06-10 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/11/21 8:33 AM, L L wrote: I'm writing a script that generates a randomized valid MAC address and assigns it to the wireless card. It would be nice to make it run automatically as part of connecting to an access point. What will I have to edit to make this happen? Luke somthing like thi

Automating tasks on wifi association

2021-06-10 Thread L L
I'm writing a script that generates a randomized valid MAC address and assigns it to the wireless card. It would be nice to make it run automatically as part of connecting to an access point. What will I have to edit to make this happen? Luke

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-06-10 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/11/21 1:51 AM, john doe wrote: I would file a bug report to the Debian package and maybe upstream. It on upstream https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/commit/cadc68b5aef20f28648072cf07a8f155639b81dd#diff-561d5175f923c2ffd7764768f8e3cd6e1fdb41806bf1b0e4da699ab21bb31930 -- Robbi Nespu

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
On 6/10/21 4:39 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > My advice to you would be the same as the advice I gave to Polyna: ftpsync > "just works" for most things and relies only on rsync. > > It's what I and several others use - it's Debian native and is widely > understood and used. Oh, I'm not l

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 01:34:56PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Hello again, > > On 6/5/21 4:33 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > I used to make my own mirror using aptly but as it need to sign with a > > new key all the mirror it does, it does take lot of time and that's > > exce

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-06-10 Thread john doe
On 6/10/2021 6:08 PM, kaye n wrote: Hello guys kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.0.2', 'console_scripts', 'speedtest-cli')() File "/us

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hello again, On 6/5/21 4:33 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I used to make my own mirror using aptly but as it need to sign with a > new key all the mirror it does, it does take lot of time and that's > excessive for the full debian repository with backports and source. Eh, I

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hello! On 6/5/21 4:27 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >>> I've did a mirror with debmirror. >>> All seem good when I look at the folders and files. >>> But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd64 file missing !? >>> >>> Got some ideas? >> > I already know this one. > But

Re: thunderbird vs clawsmail

2021-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hello! On 6/6/21 11:43 AM, fxkl47BF wrote: > i've gone back and forth between thunderbird and clawsmail Been there, brother. > clawsmail is lightweight and clean, i like that > debian stable only has an old version, i don't like that > to get an up to date version i have to continuously

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-06-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: >Hello guys >kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli >Retrieving [1]speedtest.net configuration... >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in >load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.0.2', 'con

problem with speedtest-cli

2021-06-10 Thread kaye n
Hello guys kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.0.2', 'console_scripts', 'speedtest-cli')() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py"

RE: ISC-DHCP server number of active leases

2021-06-10 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Dan / list, >> I am running multiple isc-dhcp servers on Debian Linux. >> I have several sites with multiple networks and I use the isc-dhcp-server to >> hand out ip numbers in the various network segments. In most of the networks >> I have more then enough free ip numbers all the time. >> Ho