Re: firefox misbehaviour

2022-05-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:18:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I am unfamiliar with "TAB AUTO REFRESH icon (and function)". TAB AUTO REFRESH is an extension which automatically reloads the current page every [specified number of] seconds. I use it to refresh the weather bureau forecast web

Re: firefox misbehaviour

2022-05-20 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 21. Mai 2022, 05:09:38 CEST schrieb Russell L. Harris: Hi Russell, I do not have those issues you describe, but on my system firefox sometimes completely freezes the system when calling some special websites. Then nothing can be done, only the mouse is moving but no mouse clicking, n

Re: firefox misbehaviour

2022-05-20 Thread David Christensen
On 5/20/22 20:09, Russell L. Harris wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with firefox over the past week? At first I noticed that NEW WINDOW sometimes was absent from the menu (FILE > NEW WINDOW).  Then, some bookmarks went missing.  Now the TAB AUTO REFRESH icon (and function) has vanished and

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-20 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 05:25:54PM -0500, Jason wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 09:25:23AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 09:55:54AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > > > Jason writes: > > > > > > > What is the best way to power cycle or reset a USB port? > > Turns out the

firefox misbehaviour

2022-05-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
Is anyone else having trouble with firefox over the past week? At first I noticed that NEW WINDOW sometimes was absent from the menu (FILE > NEW WINDOW). Then, some bookmarks went missing. Now the TAB AUTO REFRESH icon (and function) has vanished and does not reinstall. Debian 11, firefox 91.9

Re: Avoiding command hijacking in shells (was Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11))

2022-05-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 09:36:40PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I wasn't even thinking of it in those terms, although now that you point > it out that's a good thing to be aware of. I was thinking of it in terms > of A: trying to write scripts that are safe against such problematic > elements being

Re: Apache2 404

2022-05-20 Thread IL Ka
How exactly do you go to the second page? Is it a hyperlink in HTML or what? If so, what is url? file:// protocol will not bring you to the server. On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 7:44 PM ldmko...@yahoo.com wrote: > I am having a problem with Apache2. I have set a new configuration and > have three htm

Re: Avoiding command hijacking in shells (was Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11))

2022-05-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-05-20 at 21:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 08:41:43PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-05-20 at 20:28, David Wright wrote: >> >> > $ function /usr/bin/sudo { echo teehee; } >> > $ /usr/bin/sudo whatever >> > teehee >> > $ >> >> A quick test demonstrates that th

Re: Avoiding command hijacking in shells (was Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11))

2022-05-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 08:41:43PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-05-20 at 20:28, David Wright wrote: > > $ function /usr/bin/sudo { echo teehee; } > > $ /usr/bin/sudo whatever > > teehee > > $ > > A quick test demonstrates that this can be worked around via the 'unset' > command: Until yo

Avoiding command hijacking in shells (was Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11))

2022-05-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-05-20 at 20:28, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 May 2022 at 15:42:33 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: >> > Tom Browder writes: >> > >> > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo >> > > su." (...) >> > >> > Just yo

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, May 20, 2022, 7:28 PM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 May 2022 at 15:42:33 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > > > Tom Browder writes: > > > > > > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo > > > > su." (...) > > > >

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 May 2022 at 15:42:33 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > > Tom Browder writes: > > > > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo > > > su." (...) > > > > Just you try like as "sudo su -". Sometimes i use it that way.

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-20 Thread Jason
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 09:25:23AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 09:55:54AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Jason writes: > > > > > What is the best way to power cycle or reset a USB port? Turns out the easiest answer was within reach all the time: In Debian 10, 'usbres

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 May 2022 at 20:24:50 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: [...] > Note, Debian (at least in the Expert Installation Mode) lets me set a Root > Password. Ubuntu doesn't, so one of my early actions after the Install is > to enter "sudo su -" and, on the resulting Root Shell, type "passwd root".

Re: Apache2 404

2022-05-20 Thread Dan Ritter
ldmko...@yahoo.com wrote: > I am having a problem with Apache2.  I have set a new configuration and have > three html pages defined.  The inital html (index.html) displays fine on my > laptop on my home network; however, when I attemp to go to the second page I > get 404 not found on this serve

Apache2 404

2022-05-20 Thread ldmko...@yahoo.com
I am having a problem with Apache2.  I have set a new configuration and have three html pages defined.  The inital html (index.html) displays fine on my laptop on my home network; however, when I attemp to go to the second page I get 404 not found on this server.  If I use localhost on my linux

Re: Firefox context menu and tooltip on wrong display?

2022-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:31:44PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > For those following along, a little while ago the problem "went away". > That is, context menus, tooltips, and application menus now all show in > the expected places in Firefox. I really hope that this is not a > temporary situ

Debian: perl6 package is replaced by raku package

2022-05-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi Some of you may have wondered by perl6 package vanished from Debian Bookworm (aka testing). Belatedly following the rename of Perl6 language to Raku, I've renamed most Debian packages related to Raku. Among them, perl6 package was renamed raku. You can now install raku package to get rakud

Installing mysql-workbench on Debian Sid

2022-05-20 Thread Valerio
Hi, I need to install mysql-workbench package on debian sid, but i get problems about missing dependencies. The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-workbench : Depends: libgdal29 (>= 3.3.0) but it is not installable Depends: python3 (< 3.10) but 3.10.4-1+b1 is to be installed Recomme

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

2022-05-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On 14/05/2022 03:02, ghe2001 wrote: Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster, smartctl v 6.6 I bought a new 12TB Western Digital Gold SATA disk the other day. After testing it, smartctl says, among other things:  22 Unknown_Attribute   0x0023   001   001   025    Pre-fail Always   FAILING_