Re: macchanger - is it still working?

2022-05-08 Thread Hans
So, tried again. The param in /etc/default/macchanger is set to "=true" # before bringing up any network interface, run macchanger. Careful, this is # not guaranteed to prevent leaking your real MAC address before the new one # gets assigned! # ENABLE_ON_POST_UP_DOWN=t

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/22 15:00, ghe2001 wrote: On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:51 PM, David Christensen wrote: My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0 0 Well, damned if it didn't work. And I had all of my non-root fstab entrie

Re: Networking pb

2022-05-08 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Mon, 09 May 2022 04:10:01 +0200 Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2022 01:31:35 +0200 > Hussein Yahia wrote: > >> What exactly do you mean by "connect"? SSH? ping? If you mean via >> SMB, that suggests you successfully set the Linux computer up as >> an SMB server. Did you? >> >> I don'

Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup

2022-05-08 Thread AC
On 2022-05-08 18:27, AC wrote: On 2022-05-08 18:03, David wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 10:53, AC wrote: On 2022-05-08 16:45, David wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:24, AC wrote: Now here's a new discovery on the machines having problems: as a normal user I can rsync just fine to a remote m

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

2022-05-08 Thread Felix Miata
pa...@quillandmouse.com composed on 2022-05-08 21:54 (UTC-0400): > Situation: I have a 500G boot drive (root, swap, home) I'd like to copy > to a new 250G drive which must then also be bootable (yes, there's > enough room). This are EFI drives. I can use "dd", but I don't know > the proper paramet

Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED)

2022-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 May 2022 at 19:20:05 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2022 19:42:57 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > > I'm really not sure who, and under what circumstances, > > hostnamectl is for. > > Nor am I, especially after this. According to apt-file, it is in the > package systemd. >

Re: Networking pb

2022-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 09 May 2022 01:31:35 +0200 Hussein Yahia wrote: > > What exactly do you mean by "connect"? SSH? ping? If you mean via > > SMB, > > that suggests you successfully set the Linux computer up as an SMB > > server. Did you? > > I don't remeber to have installed smb on my Linux. I just downl

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-08 11:19:33 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > Of note: Using systemd-networkd you should not use NetworkManager or > networking services. I think both use the ISC dhcp client And what about NetworkManager users? Note: it has its own internal DHCP client, but it is not robust on buggy netwo

Copying one drive to a smaller one.

2022-05-08 Thread paulf
Folks: Situation: I have a 500G boot drive (root, swap, home) I'd like to copy to a new 250G drive which must then also be bootable (yes, there's enough room). This are EFI drives. I can use "dd", but I don't know the proper parameters, and as I understand it, copying a 500G to a 250G drive is Bad

Re: Wi-Fi USB dongle disconnects

2022-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 May 2022 at 21:10:18 (-0300), riveravaldez wrote: > On 5/2/22, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 02 May 2022 at 12:26:44 (-0300), riveravaldez wrote: > But nothing I remember to have created (at least manually). > > > Or has the upgrade tried to revert the system back to a more > > conven

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 May 2022 at 09:24:35 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David Wright > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 11:08:28 -0600 > > I can't understand this. I'm not sure why you quoted this after three months without any indication of its referent. What I didn't understand was why you had t

Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup

2022-05-08 Thread AC
On 2022-05-08 18:03, David wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 10:53, AC wrote: On 2022-05-08 16:45, David wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:24, AC wrote: Now here's a new discovery on the machines having problems: as a normal user I can rsync just fine to a remote machine. But if I'm using rsync

Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED)

2022-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 8 May 2022 19:42:57 -0500 David Wright wrote: > I'm really not sure who, and under what circumstances, > hostnamectl is for. Nor am I, especially after this. According to apt-file, it is in the package systemd. > I ran: > > # hostnamectl set-hostname acerx > > and /etc/hostname was ch

Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup

2022-05-08 Thread David
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 10:53, AC wrote: > On 2022-05-08 16:45, David wrote: > > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:24, AC wrote: > Now here's a new discovery on the machines having problems: as a normal > user I can rsync just fine to a remote machine. But if I'm using rsync > as root to send a backup to

Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup

2022-05-08 Thread AC
On 2022-05-08 16:45, David wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:24, AC wrote: Due to some version mismatch issues I'm trying to switch over to rsync from rdiff-backup for backing up some files on my systems. On most of them this has worked with no issue but I have one system that appears to be try

Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED)

2022-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 May 2022 at 11:08:08 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2022 12:07:00 -0400 > Haines Brown wrote: > > > When I installed the operating systme, the host name some how at a > > numvber appended. I inteded to have nost name lenin, but it ended up > > lenin-16. When I discovre

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 May 2022 at 09:34:56 (+1000), David wrote: > The only reason to that =defaults exists is so that > a non-default value can be specified for either or , > while not specifying any non-default . > > Because there can't be a fifth or sixth column unless there is > also a fourth column. "d

Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup

2022-05-08 Thread David
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:24, AC wrote: > > Due to some version mismatch issues I'm trying to switch over to rsync > from rdiff-backup for backing up some files on my systems. > > On most of them this has worked with no issue but I have one system that > appears to be trying to load rdiff-backup wh

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread David
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 05:30, ghe2001 wrote: > The fstab: > # > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 08:00, ghe2001 wrote: > > My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. > > > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0

Re: Networking pb

2022-05-08 Thread Hussein Yahia
Hi Charles, Thank you for quick answering me. I'm going to guess that this is a simple network, such as a home, > with > just the two computers on it. Yes ! > What exactly do you mean by "connect"? SSH? ping? If you mean via > SMB, > that suggests you successfully set the Linux computer up as

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 4:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > My proof reading of the options was obviously worse than your > pasting of the UUID (I thought you might have accidentally > chosen to use the PARTUUID

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 May 2022 at 22:00:23 (+), ghe2001 wrote: > On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:51 PM, David Christensen > wrote: > > > My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. > > > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0 0 > > Well, damned if it didn't work. An

Re: Networking pb

2022-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 08 May 2022 23:58:28 +0200 Hussein Yahia wrote: > I'm new to Linux, sorry if my question is naive. Your question isn't naive. But we need a lot more information from you in order to help you. Some of it may be obtained by executing command line commands we provide. Open a terminal, copy

Networking pb

2022-05-08 Thread Hussein Yahia
Hi, I'm new to Linux, sorry if my question is naive. I just installed debian 11 on my computer. It's wire-connected to internet. I have another computer, a mac, which is connected through wifi. I can connect from my mac to the Linux desktop. But I can't connect from the Linux to the mac: when I go

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:51 PM, David Christensen wrote: > My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0 0 Well, damned if it

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/22 14:25, ghe2001 wrote: --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:11 PM, David Christensen wrote: What happens if you put the following into /etc/fstab? UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 default 0 0 "wrong fs type..." Like before

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:31 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Is it possible that ext4 is the wrong file system type for that partition? Nope, unless gparted is bent -- just looked. -- Glenn English -BEGIN

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 09:25:21PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:11 PM, David Christensen > wrote: > > > What happens if you put the following into /etc/fstab? > > > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 default 0 0 > > "wrong fs type..." Like bef

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:11 PM, David Christensen wrote: > What happens if you put the following into /etc/fstab? > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 default 0 0 "wrong fs type..

rsync trying to load rdiff-backup

2022-05-08 Thread AC
Due to some version mismatch issues I'm trying to switch over to rsync from rdiff-backup for backing up some files on my systems. On most of them this has worked with no issue but I have one system that appears to be trying to load rdiff-backup whenever I run rsync: root:~# /usr/bin/rsync tes

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 2:09 PM, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 default 1 1 > > > Are you sure you have good uuid here? Yes. Read it a few times. > I

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/22 12:13, ghe2001 wrote: Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster Mounting disks isn't working with UUIDs. At boot or manually mounting: UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4default 1 1 says: mount: /backupDisk: wrong fs type, bad

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 2:35 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 08 May 2022 at 15:46:39 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > ghe2001 composed on 2022-05-08 19:13 (UTC): > > > > > # > > > ... > > > Any ide

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 May 2022 at 15:46:39 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > ghe2001 composed on 2022-05-08 19:13 (UTC): > > > # > ... > > Any ideas?? > > The only fstab line where 1 belongs in the pass column is the / filesystem. > The > rest should be 0 or 2. The dump column should be 0 unle

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread Kamil Jońca
ghe2001 writes: > Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster > > Mounting disks isn't working with UUIDs. At boot or manually mounting: SOA#1 --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ grep UUID /etc/fstab UUID=a967fe27-9c42-4442-b71a-74b2c43c68be /boot ext4 defaults,e

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread Felix Miata
ghe2001 composed on 2022-05-08 19:13 (UTC): > # ... > Any ideas?? The only fstab line where 1 belongs in the pass column is the / filesystem. The rest should be 0 or 2. The dump column should be 0 unless you need that filesystem dumped. Most configurations don't need dumped.

fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster Mounting disks isn't working with UUIDs. At boot or manually mounting: UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4default 1 1 says: mount: /backupDisk: wron

Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED)

2022-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 8 May 2022 12:07:00 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > When I installed the operating systme, the host name some how at a > numvber appended. I inteded to have nost name lenin, but it ended up > lenin-16. When I discovred that afer installation I corrrected the > host name in /etc/hsots and /e

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread john doe
On 5/8/2022 6:33 PM, Kamil Jońca wrote: Kamil Jońca writes: [...] But systemd-networkd also has a huge number of configuration options that may do what you want anyway https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html Hm. Can you create bridge without ports with systemd

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Kamil Jońca
Kamil Jońca writes: [...] >> >> But systemd-networkd also has a huge number of configuration options >> that may do what you want anyway >> >> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html > > Hm. Can you create bridge without ports with systemd-networkd? > i.e. > Another

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote: Alternatively there's dhcpcd5, Be careful with this one unless you have a simple network configuration--by default it will attempt to get addresses on all interfaces that don't have them, not only ones you set to dhcp in /etc/ne

Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED)

2022-05-08 Thread Haines Brown
I appreciate tbe rich reponses to my question. I believe I found the answer. Not sure but at least the messages I've been sending now get to ter recipients When I installed the operating systme, the host name some how at a numvber appended. I inteded to have nost name lenin, but it ended up l

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sun, 8 May 2022 09:20:25 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Rick Thomas [2022-05-07 19:47:57] wrote: > > > According to the ISC webpage: > > >> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early > > >> 2022. This client implementation is no longer maintained and > >

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > Rick Thomas [2022-05-07 19:47:57] wrote: > > According to the ISC webpage: > >> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early 2022. > >> This client implementation is no longer maintained and should not be > >> used in production any longer. > > Can anybody r

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-05-08 at 07:06, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2022, at 7:47 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> According to the ISC webpage: >> >>> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early >>> 2022. This client implementation is no longer maintained and >>> should not be used in produ

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 7, 2022, at 7:47 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > According to the ISC webpage: > >> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early 2022. >> This client implementation is no longer maintained and should not be >> used in production any longer. > > Can anybody recommend a good repl

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Kamil Jońca
Jeremy Ardley writes: > On 8/5/22 3:19 pm, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> I cannot see if systemd-networkd can run scripts[1] after change in >> lease. Am I missing something? >> > The top answer below is a partial answer to your question. > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/469716/systemd-networ

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 8/5/22 2:27 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks! Rick PS: I'll also do the IPv6 part, because I'm interested in that too. One word of caution moving away from ISC dhcp client is that any possibility of it being started by the networking daemon will result in very bad behaviour if you have any

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 8/5/22 3:19 pm, Kamil Jońca wrote: I cannot see if systemd-networkd can run scripts[1] after change in lease. Am I missing something? The top answer below is a partial answer to your question. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/469716/systemd-networkd-run-script-after-dhcp-client-aqc

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Kamil Jońca
Jeremy Ardley writes: [...] > > You can just use systemd-networkd as an IPv4 dhcp client. I cannot see if systemd-networkd can run scripts[1] after change in lease. Am I missing something? KJ [1] similar to /etc/dhcp/dhclient*hooks.d -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/