Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 6/13/2024 10:26, Darac Marjal wrote: On 12/06/2024 23:54, Greg Marks wrote: The problem began a couple weeks ago; previously (and for many years) I had been able to ssh to my server without issue.  The first time it failed, I was using free wireless at an airport; I was able to ssh to my s

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-12 21:16:51 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Note that this is very temporary storage. It will not put the text in > the clipboard, nor will a clipboard stack program like clipman see it. This can be changed with selectToClipboard: selectToClipboard (class SelectToClipboard) Tell

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread fxkl47BF
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of >> laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks > that people

Re: Why isn't the "whois" package (Priority: standard) installed by default?

2024-06-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-13 22:15:05 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hello, > > El jue., 13 jun. 2024 20:48, Vincent Lefevre escribió: > > > On 2024-06-13 14:43:25 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 07:57:59PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > The "whois" package has "Priority: stand

Why isn't the "whois" package (Priority: standard) installed by default?

2024-06-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The "whois" package has "Priority: standard". According to the Debian policy[*]: standard These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited character-mode system. This is what will be installed by default if the user doesn’t select anything else. It doesn’t include many

Re: Why isn't the "whois" package (Priority: standard) installed by default?

2024-06-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-13 14:43:25 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 07:57:59PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The "whois" package has "Priority: standard". > > hobbit:~$ apt-cache show whois | grep Priority > Priority: optional qaa:~> apt-cache show whois | grep Priority Priority: opt

Re: systemrescuecd -- a bit off Debian topics

2024-06-13 Thread Van Snyder
Thanks to Jeff. This provides exactly what I had hoped it would. On Thu, 2024-06-13 at 15:14 +0800, Jeff Peng wrote: > You can use gitlab issues to submit the question. > https://gitlab.com/systemrescue/systemrescue-sources/-/issues > > regards. > > Does anybody know how to contact systemrescuece

Re: Why isn't the "whois" package (Priority: standard) installed by default?

2024-06-13 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, El jue., 13 jun. 2024 20:48, Vincent Lefevre escribió: > On 2024-06-13 14:43:25 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 07:57:59PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The "whois" package has "Priority: standard". > > > > hobbit:~$ apt-cache show whois | grep Priority > > P

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/13/24 13:30, David Wright wrote: Swap:0 0 0 You have no swap. Well, that's another good reason it won't work. 1. Fix /etc/fstab so it has PARTLABEL=swapnone swapsw 0 0 2. Run "sudo swapon PARTLABEL=swap" 3.eben@ce

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread David Wright
> Swap:0 0 0 You have no swap. Cheers, David.

Re: systemrescuecd -- a bit off Debian topics

2024-06-13 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2024, 00:14:09 CEST schrieb Van Snyder: I found these at gitlab: https://gitlab.com/systemrescue/systemrescue-sources/-/project_members[1] [2] [3] _Francois Dupoux _ _@fdupoux _ Direktes Mitglied von _Francois Dupoux_ Owner Juni 04, 2018 Feb 02, 2019 Juni 13, 2024

Re: Why isn't the "whois" package (Priority: standard) installed by default?

2024-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 07:57:59PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The "whois" package has "Priority: standard". hobbit:~$ apt-cache show whois | grep Priority Priority: optional

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/13/24 11:52, Max Nikulin wrote: On 13/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Well that's a no-go, because when you de-power the monitors, ddccontrol gives you no info about what sleep state they're in. Reasonable, I guess. Perhaps there is a command to put the monitor in standby state instead

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On 12/06/2024 23:54, Greg Marks wrote: I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to my server from external locations. When I ssh from a

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Well that's a no-go, because when you de-power the monitors, ddccontrol gives you no info about what sleep state they're in.  Reasonable, I guess. Perhaps there is a command to put the monitor in standby state instead of power off. Maybe it is possible

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/06/2024 12:42, Charlie wrote: Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why? Middle click can be configured for touchpads as 2 or 3 fingers tap or as simultaneous press on both hardware buttons (if they exist), see the libinput(4) man page and https://wayland.freedeskto

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:54, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/11/24 12:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? ddccontrol Thanks. However I am lost if you need to put your monitor to standby state (or to turn it off) or yo

Re: systemctl vs service

2024-06-13 Thread mindaugas
13.06.2024 02:50, Jeff Peng пишет: Hello I was a bit confused, systemctl and service both are used for service control (start|stop|reload etc). what's the suggested way for using them? thanks & regards. Hello. Just check this: https://serverfault.com/questions/867322/what-is-the-diffe

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Aleix Piulachs
Excúseme i don’t know the xterm behavior.. El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 13:28, Greg Wooledge escribió: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of > > laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad > > of laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the

Re: systemd-tmpfiles: file globbing?

2024-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:00:25PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Is there a way to apply max lifetimes to files matching a pattern? I can't > find any way to tell it to, say, remove *.txt files older than a month from > /tmp/foo. If you're willing to turn away from systemd, find(1) can do this.

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of > laptop. As it worked years ago. Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks that people used to mimic the middle button in some X11 setups.

systemd-tmpfiles: file globbing?

2024-06-13 Thread Frank Van Damme
systemd-tmpfiles-clean will watch directories and periodically purge old contents. eg d /var/cache/man 0755 man man 1w will delete files older than a week from /var/cache/man Is there a way to apply max lifetimes to files matching a pattern? I can't find any way to tell it to, say, remove *.txt

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:33 PM Greg Marks wrote: > > I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, > with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than > password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to > my server from external locations.

Re: systemrescuecd -- a bit off Debian topics

2024-06-13 Thread Jeff Peng
Hi You can use gitlab issues to submit the question. https://gitlab.com/systemrescue/systemrescue-sources/-/issues regards. Does anybody know how to contact systemrescuece developers? Their web page https://www.system-rescue.org/ doesn't have a "contact" or "forum" button. My brother has imp

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Just a note Some terminal emulators don't automatically copy highlighted text. You need to copy it manually before moving to the target file It's so long since I've tolerated such terminals I'm not sure but try ctrl-alt-c Else, right click with the mouse pointer outside of highlighted text a

Re: systemctl vs service

2024-06-13 Thread Jeff Peng
On 2024-06-13 08:38, Greg Wooledge wrote: If all you want to do is stop and restart a service, they're both fine. If you want more features, it's worth learning systemctl. that's all right. I will check the doc of systemctl for more details. thanks.