Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/30/22 11:00 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 05:55:23PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Can someone please help me diagnose why dynupdater is not seeming to update my ip address so I cna access my local computer from somewhere else. ps ax |grep dyn    5237 ?    Sl   170:

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-30 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 05:55:23PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Can someone please help me diagnose why dynupdater is not seeming to update > my ip address so I cna access my local computer from somewhere else. > > ps ax |grep dyn >    5237 ?    Sl   170:43 dyn_updater >    5269 ?    Sl

dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
Can someone please help me diagnose why dynupdater is not seeming to update my ip address so I cna access my local computer from somewhere else. ps ax |grep dyn    5237 ?    Sl   170:43 dyn_updater    5269 ?    Sl 5:38 /usr/bin/dyn_updater --daemon start  719685 pts/2    R+ 0:00

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > Logging in as root has become taboo. Sudo is the prefered mechanism for > > > running administrator functions. I have root set t

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-30 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 22:26 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Rumour goes that the processor in the stick/card can cope better with > FAT. I don't know whether it's true, though. A long time ago I heard something along the lines that the first blocks in the storage device (where the the FAT woul

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-30 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 09:37:37PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > pe...@easthope.ca writes: > > > David, > > thanks for the reply. > > > > From: David Wright > > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:29 -0500 > > > When you copy files that have varied permissions onto the FAT, you may > > > get warnin

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:13:55 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > * In Linux, an ext file system avoids those complications. To my > knowledge, all SD cards are preformatted with a FAT. Therefore ext > requires reformatting. Not quite. The preparation of any storage medium requires at least two s

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-30 Thread Linux-Fan
pe...@easthope.ca writes: David, thanks for the reply. From: David Wright Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:29 -0500 > When you copy files that have varied permissions onto the FAT, you may > get warnings about permissions that can't be honoured. (IIRC, copying > ug=r,o= would not complain,

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Jul 2022 at 20:21:00 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > Logging in as root has become taboo. Sudo is the prefered mechanism for > > > running adm

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-30 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Logging in as root has become taboo. Sudo is the prefered mechanism for > > running administrator functions. I have root set to nologin with a null > > passwor

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Logging in as root has become taboo. Sudo is the prefered mechanism for > running administrator functions. I have root set to nologin with a null > password to force sudo usage. This makes entering single-user mode ("rescue m

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-30 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 7:08 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:39:01PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > Open the Terminal > > Become root by running su > > Try to run ldconfig -> "Command not found" > > Try to run /sbin/ldconfig -> execution successful > > https://wiki.debian.org/N

Re:

2022-07-30 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 09:33:17AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:22:53 +0200 > > No. A FAT file system has no permissions (and no user/group ownership). > > All is faked one layer above. > > Understood. > > Aren't we saying the same thing in two wa

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-30 Thread peter
David, thanks for the reply. From: David Wright Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:29 -0500 > When you copy files that have varied permissions onto the FAT, you may > get warnings about permissions that can't be honoured. (IIRC, copying > ug=r,o= would not complain, whereas u=r,go= would.) Pr

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-30 Thread peter
From: Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:22:53 +0200 > No. A FAT file system has no permissions (and no user/group ownership). > All is faked one layer above. Understood. Aren't we saying the same thing in two ways. In natural language, 777 just means anyone can read & write & execute. 555 mea

2022-07-30 Thread peter
From: Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:22:53 +0200 > No. A FAT file system has no permissions (and no user/group ownership). > All is faked one layer above. Understood. Aren't we saying the same thing in two ways. In natural language, 777 just means anyone can read & write & execute. 555 jus

Re: Installing on Rock Pi 4

2022-07-30 Thread Nicolas George
Anssi Saari (12022-07-21): > Well, upgrading that to current Debian could be one way forward. There > are tools in Debian you can use to weed out the proprietary stuff if > that's a concern. Upgrades in Debian work in case you're unaware but > follow the release notes. Or I could debootstrap a bra

Re: needrestart and xfce4-session

2022-07-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:10:33 -0500 David Wright wrote: > This machine has got as far as apt-get upgrade with the recent point > release, so I've yet to dist-upgrade for the new kernel and reboot. > At the moment it shows: > > $ /sbin/needrestart > Scanning processes... > Your outdated processe

Re: Thoughts on logcheck?

2022-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/07/22 10:20, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:30:19PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: My thought is to configure rsyslog to create extra logfiles, equivalent to syslog and auth.log (the two files that logcheck monitors by default), which only log messages at priority 'warn