Re: popcon use?

2024-10-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 11:20 PM Lee wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 7:40 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > [...] > > You can encrypt it but that requires (a) a conscious decision to do so, > > and (b) installing gnupg. > > Do you have a link to instructions for encrypting popcon traffic? > I've already g

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/10/2024 06:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager Have you had a look into mailing list archives? E.g. Password managers. Thu, 9 Nov 2023 11:05:53 -0500

Re: popcon use?

2024-10-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:37:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > Do you have a link to instructions for encrypting popcon traffic? > I've already got gnupg installed. zless /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.gz I've not eorsonally tried it however. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nons

Re: popcon use?

2024-10-09 Thread Lee
On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 7:40 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 04:09:11PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > If you don't have popcon enabled, why not? > > > > I have it enabled and I'm not seeing a real downside to having it > > enabled. What am I missing? > > People who don't see it as a good i

Re: popcon use?

2024-10-09 Thread Lee
Thanks for the response - replies inline On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 4:48 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Lee wrote: > > There was this bit in the debian-devel mailing list > > > > >> To make this happen for trixie, I don't see how to do it. Anyone having > > >> the old 'signify' package on their system wou

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 17:39:53 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Wow. Thanks for explaining that. Fortunately, I only have Debian and plan > to change things as little as possible in the future, so I think that if I > leave things as they are, they'll keep working for a while. I do have > ~/.xsessio

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread eben
On 10/9/24 17:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 15:55:35 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: That worked. Maybe ~/.xinitrc is an old location? I'll probably leave it there unless there's a good reason to move it. [algorithm from heck] If reading this leads you to scream "WHY in the HE

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30:36 AM CEST, Alexis Grigoriou wrote: root@architect:~# dpkg -l 'linux-image*' if someone would ask me, i would recommend to type (as root): get rid of the old/unnecessary files: # apt-get --purge autoremove reinstall the current kernel: # apt-get --reinstall

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Le 09/10/2024, Greg Wooledge a écrit: > If reading this leads you to scream "WHY in the HELL is it this > COMPLICATED?!", know that you are not alone. Unfortunately, this is > only a small part of the picture. The full picture is even worse. Yup, I'm pretty sure there was also ~/.dmrc at

Re: popcon use?

2024-10-09 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 04:09:11PM -0400, Lee wrote: > If you don't have popcon enabled, why not? > > I have it enabled and I'm not seeing a real downside to having it > enabled. What am I missing? People who don't see it as a good idea to — or don't have the authority to — send a list of all th

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 15:55:35 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > That worked. Maybe ~/.xinitrc is an old location? I'll probably leave it > there unless there's a good reason to move it. .xinitrc is the dotfile used by startx across multiple Unix/Linux implementations. Debian's startx will use that

Re: popcon use?

2024-10-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Lee wrote: > There was this bit in the debian-devel mailing list > > >> To make this happen for trixie, I don't see how to do it. Anyone having > >> the old 'signify' package on their system would get OpenBSD's signify > >> instead of the new 'signify-mail' package after an upgrade. Is that > >

popcon use?

2024-10-09 Thread Lee
There was this bit in the debian-devel mailing list >> To make this happen for trixie, I don't see how to do it. Anyone having >> the old 'signify' package on their system would get OpenBSD's signify >> instead of the new 'signify-mail' package after an upgrade. Is that >> problem really worth c

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread eben
On 10/9/24 10:05, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 10/8/24 22:11, Ash Joubert wrote: To set environment variables for applications started by XFCE, add lines before the last line in ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc That file doesn't exist, but this one might work: eben@cerberus:~$ stat ~/.xinitrc ... I put

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Andy Smith: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: >> Do you know whether MD is clever enough to send an email to root when it >> fails the device? Or have I to keep an eye on /proc/mdstat? > > For more than a decade mdadm has shipped with a service that runs i

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > Do you know whether MD is clever enough to send an email to root when it > fails the device? Or have I to keep an eye on /proc/mdstat? For more than a decade mdadm has shipped with a service that runs in monitor mode to do thi

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Franco Martelli
On 08/10/24 at 20:40, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:58:46PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Why is the RAID still considered healthy? At some point I would expect the disk to be kicked from the RAID. This will happen when/if MD can't compensate by reading data from other m

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Like I say I like and use rsnapshot in some places, but speed and > resource efficiency are not its winning points. I have never used Rsnapshot, but I used Rsync backups for many years and then moved to Bup. The time to perform backups has been *very* substantially shortened by moving to Bup.

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread emneo
Hello, I would personally recommend Bitwarden[1], it has pretty good functionalities with proper syncing out of the box. Though if you want 2fa included in it you will have to either pay or self-host an instance (I self host my own Vaultwarden[2] instance and it is fairly easy.) [1] https:/

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
KeepPass here as well, and (not my choice) a proprietary locker at work. Can't help responding to someone with a Life glider in their sig :-) On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 9:30 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > On Oct 08, 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manag

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread eben
On 10/8/24 22:11, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 10/8/24 20:13, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx.  The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small.  It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Michael Kjörling: > On 8 Oct 2024 11:29 -0400, from d...@randomstring.org (Dan Ritter): >> >> This looks like a drive which is old and starting to wear out >> but is not there yet. The raw read error rate is starting to >> creep up but isn't at a threshold. > > I agree. The almost 62000 hours is

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
e...@gmx.us: > On 10/8/24 16:07, Jochen Spieker wrote: >>| Oct 06 14:27:11 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9361257600 op >>0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 150 prio class 3 >>| Oct 06 14:27:30 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9361275264 op >>0x0:(READ) flags 0x4000 phys_seg 161 pr

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/10/2024 16:30, Alexis Grigoriou wrote: root@architect:~# apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64: Installed: (none) Install this package and it will pull latest kernel. Perhaps you need to fix nvidia issues as well.

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

2024-10-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/10/2024 08:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: In this case, the network state is not changing. Other applications, including wget, continue uninterrupted across vt-switches (Screen lock or User switching or Ctrl+Alt+Fn). Sometimes, the firefox gui is also a bit sluggish after returning from a vt-

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 05:55:34 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > What version of Debian are you running? You should not have kernel 5.10.0 > and 6.1.0. He doesn't. The vast majority of those kernel packages are in the "rc" state (removed, but configuration files are not purged). Most likel

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 10:57:12AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-10-08, Andy Smith wrote: > > > When you have hundreds of millions of files in rsnapshot it really > > starts to hurt because every backup run involves: > > > > - Deleting the oldest tree of files; > > rsnapshot can ren

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 05:55 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > What version of Debian are you running? You should not have kernel > 5.10.0 and 6.1.0. Please post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list. > It looks like you have repo's from two different Debian releases. root@architect:~# cat /et

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 5:31 AM Alexis Grigoriou wrote: > On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 08:59 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 9 Oct 2024 11:05 +0300, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): > > > It seems like one of my Debian Bookworm installations is stuck on > > > this kernel. All other Bookw

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 9 Oct 2024 12:30 +0300, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): > This is an excerpt from /etc/syslog: > > 2024-10-07T19:33:45.474746+03:00 architect systemd-modules-load[320]: > Error running install command 'modprobe nvidia-modeset ; modprobe -i > nvidia-current-drm ' for module nvidia_drm

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 08:59 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 9 Oct 2024 11:05 +0300, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): > >  It seems like one of my Debian Bookworm installations is stuck on > > this kernel. All other Bookworm installations are running 6.1.0.26- > > amd64. I installed 6.

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 9 Oct 2024 11:05 +0300, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): > It seems like one of my Debian Bookworm installations is stuck on > this kernel. All other Bookworm installations are running 6.1.0.26- > amd64. I installed 6.1.0.26 manually but I got a lot of errors during > boot and no GUI.

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-08, Andy Smith wrote: > When you have hundreds of millions of files in rsnapshot it really > starts to hurt because every backup run involves: > > - Deleting the oldest tree of files; rsnapshot can rename it apart and delete it after backup is done. Thus involving only the backup syste

Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
Hello list, It seems like one of my Debian Bookworm installations is stuck on this kernel. All other Bookworm installations are running 6.1.0.26- amd64. I installed 6.1.0.26 manually but I got a lot of errors during boot and no GUI. I remember there was an issue regarding a kernel update a few