On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 1:32 PM Dominique Dumont
wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 December 2024 23:40:36 CET George at Clug wrote:
> > Are you going to use Virtual Box on a number of different physical
> > computers?
>
> No. I use VirtualBox only on the compute of a customer that requires me to
> work on his
[Sorry about breaking the thread structure - I read this group
via Usenet and e-mail replies.]
On Mon Dec 9 20:53:54 2024 David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 15:23:18 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> Some of you may recall my account of trying to install a new disk (in
>> my case a 1
On 09/12/2024 00:14, Michael Stone wrote:
Not all drives
support 4k, and many that do get no benefit from such a configuration.
[...]
# nvme id-ns -H /dev/nvme0n1 | grep Rel
LBA Format 0 : Metadata Size: 0 bytes - Data Size: 512 bytes -
Relative Performance: 0x2 Good (in use)
LBA Format 1
On 09/12/2024 19:53, Anssi Saari wrote:
I think every desktop environment has this. Even X has this. 'This'
being a timer since last mouse or keyboard event and the ability to
trigger a command on the timer. I looked recently but didn't really find
a way to do the Windows like thing, turn off scr
On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 15:23:18 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> Some of you may recall my account of trying to install a new disk (in
> my case a 1TB NVMe stick) for use as a boot device. There has been
> another thread or two from other people dealing with the same issue,
> so it seems to be a hot
Charlie Gibbs writes:
> No, I've been good about installing things the approved way, e.g.
> apt install zip
Then what files do you think you will lose?
> Yes, not even zip is present after an installation from scratch -
zip is priority: optional. It won't be installed unless you ask for it.
--
On 12/9/24 06:59, gene heskett wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
If your computer is crashing within a minute, consider printing this e-mail.
I assume the subject "restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze"
refers to your Asus PRIME Z370-A II desktop/ workstation/ storage server
compu
On Mon Dec 9 17:25:55 2024 John Hasler wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs writes:
>
>> But many binaries have been installed in places like /usr/bin; their
>> configuration files may or may not be in /home, but I'd rather not
>> lose them wherever they are.
>
> Do you mean that you have placed stuff not un
Charlie Gibbs writes:
> But many binaries have been installed in places like /usr/bin; their
> configuration files may or may not be in /home, but I'd rather not
> lose them wherever they are.
Do you mean that you have placed stuff not under control of the package
management system in /usr/bin?
--
Some of you may recall my account of trying to install a new disk (in
my case a 1TB NVMe stick) for use as a boot device. There has been
another thread or two from other people dealing with the same issue,
so it seems to be a hot topic.
I'm still unwilling to give up all my installed packages an
Hi,
> I use VirtualBox only on the compute of a customer that requires me
to work on his Windows PC.
> VirtualBox is my preferred solution to work with Linux on a Windows
machine.
For me, Debian Bookworm KDE with Wayland runs well as a guest in
VirtualBox on Windows.
On Tuesday, 10-12-202
On 12/9/24 14:45, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 09:59:17AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
Hi Gene,
We need more details than this.
1. Which version of Debian? 12 fully uptodate a/o yesterday and again this
morning
2. Any log files? can't find any for t-bird, where would they b
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 December 2024 23:40:36 CET George at Clug wrote:
> > Are you going to use Virtual Box on a number of different physical
> > computers?
>
> > Sorry, I was not clear, "What physical video card/s are in the host (the
> >
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 09:59:17AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
Hi Gene,
We need more details than this.
1. Which version of Debian?
2. Any log files?
3. What's running when the machine crashes?
4. What's changed recently
All best, as ever,
Andy Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
> Cheers, Gene He
I have never been completely clear about the format for sources.list.
Can someone tell what to add to sources.list to get mozillavpn (sid)
TIA,
Paul
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 17:08:31 +, Darac Marjal wrote:
> A helpful tool here might be "cronic" (in the "cronic" package). "cronic"
> will swallow the output of the command it runs UNLESS that command exits
> with an error code.
>
> So one would write:
>
> 3 8 * * * cronic /usr/local/bin/hear
On 10/12/24 02:59, Dominique Dumont wrote:
As the guest Pc runs Windows, I cannot try kvm/qemu.
I've run Windows in kvm/qemu before.
Richard
On 09/12/2024 15:30, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
I added lines to /etc/crontab such as
# Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 hr every day
38* * * nut/usr/loc
On 09/12/2024 15:30, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
I added lines to /etc/crontab such as
# Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 hr every day
38* * * nut/usr/loc
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
.. let it email the output to you (or whoever "nut" is).
nut is the user created by the NUT (Network UPS Tools) package which manages my
UPS units. Anyone who installs nut to manage UPS's will have this user.
Roger
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:31:38 -0500
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate
> > user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I
> > conjecture he is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and
> > probably should be.
>
> The redirec
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
I added a username, but crontab -e didn't complain.
I still fear your crontab won't do what you expect it to do.
Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user
name as part
On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
What line did you add to /etc/crontab? Please paste it here. Note
that /etc/crontab uses a different format than personal crontab
files (there's an extra username field).
I added lines to /etc/crontab such as
# Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 h
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 08:30:16 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100
> wrote:
>
> > Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user
> > name as part of the command:
> >
> > rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > will run the
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> > I added lines to /etc/crontab such as
> >
> > # Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 hr every day
> > 38* * * nut/usr/local/bin/heartbeat-watcher.sh > /
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100
wrote:
> Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user
> name as part of the command:
>
> rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of
> the time this will be a "no s
On 9/12/24 22:59, gene heskett wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
That message is about as useful, as ...
If your email provider has webmail, assuming that you do not have
installed, a more stable email user application, such as alpine, then I
suggest that you use the email provider's webmail
On 9/12/24 23:07, Bret Busby wrote:
On 9/12/24 22:53, gene heskett wrote:
I don't know if it will last long enough to send this msg. Help plz
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Why do you not
1. post the query to the Thunderbird email list (at
https://groups.io/g/ThunderbirdEmail
after subscribing to
On 9/12/24 22:53, gene heskett wrote:
I don't know if it will last long enough to send this msg. Help plz
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Why do you not
1. post the query to the Thunderbird email list (at
https://groups.io/g/ThunderbirdEmail
after subscribing to that list), as the appropriate list,
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > What line did you add to /etc/crontab? Please paste it here. Note
> > that /etc/crontab uses a different format than personal crontab
> > files (there's an extra username field).
>
> I
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
I don't know if it will last long enough to send this msg. Help plz
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make t
On Sunday, 8 December 2024 23:40:36 CET George at Clug wrote:
> Are you going to use Virtual Box on a number of different physical
> computers?
No. I use VirtualBox only on the compute of a customer that requires me to
work on his Windows PC. VirtualBox is my preferred solution to work with Linux
Felix Natter writes:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> I am looking for an automatic suspend-to-ram (I know "sudo systemctl
> suspend" ;-)) solution for workstations: I would like the system to
> suspend if and only if:
>
> - there is no gui interaction from any user (especially with VNC
> sessions) AND
I have Debian 12 with XFCE and firefox on my Laptop. The XFCE window
manager is configured such that a window is not raised when I click or
double click (select) inside it. This works for all X11 windows
except for firefox, which is raised when I click inside.
Why is firefox's behavior so differ
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