Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM tim wade wrote: > > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > backup? I use Duplicity to backup a webserver and MySQL database. The directories

increment backup of home dir

2025-03-13 Thread tim wade
Hello I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? Thank you.

Re: libfreetype6 mitigations?

2025-03-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability > which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited > arbitrary code execution? I looked into upgrading that package to the > testing version but I think it would cause problems. > https:/

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 3/13/25 12:15 PM, David Wright wrote: OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". Why would anybody find a colonoscopy scary? Just geek out and enjoy the guided tour! -- JHHL

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: > > > > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the > > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". > > I've never come across one for the general public, but then it would > never have occurred to me to search

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: > > > > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the > > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". > > I've never come across one for the general public, but then it would > never have occurred to me to sear

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 10:56:47AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:45:32 +0100 > wrote: > > Hello to...@tuxteam.de, > > >I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does > {snipped} > > Okay, fair enough. I'm new to apt-file so haven't fully absorbed al

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: > > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". I've never come across one for the general public, but then it would never have occurred to me to search for an endoscope to inspec

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 13 Mar 2025 at 15:46:17 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. Most of the webcams I see are too bulky, probably because of their mountings and microphone spacing. > The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:36:46 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead > disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to respond. Not quite. The electronics may respond even if the head-disk assembly (HDA) is broken. It probably won't give a co

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 11:35:08AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:36:46 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to respond. Not quite. The electronics may respond even if the

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, wrote: > > You don't need apt-file update anymore. Apt update or apt-get update do > the trick. (Apt-file update won't hurt, though). Maybe you could fix the wiki in this case. https://wiki.debian.org/apt-file

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
Joe wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600 > Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras > > > so I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little > > > ca

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. I've recently > > The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary). When searching for one to buy it's necessary as otherwise you get loads of ordinary webcams which aren't what I want. --

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:08:21PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 3/12/25 à 23:11, Michael Stone a écrit : Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anything from them So this means I can't rely on smartctl to list physical disks, I guess I don't understand how you expect smartc

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 04:29:56PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, wrote: > > > > I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does > > that job, too (I was always wondering to find my apt-file database > > up to date and suspected some well-meaning cron job, but that see

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, wrote: > > I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does > that job, too (I was always wondering to find my apt-file database > up to date and suspected some well-meaning cron job, but that seems > to be the secret :-) apt-get update only updates the packa

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. I've recently The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, mick.crane wrote: >>> > I meant "the following is of minor relevance.." > There wasn't a specific post this observation could reply to, it > happened to be yours. > Probably I should have removed the quoting. I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding. > mick > >

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-13 14:44, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-13, mick.crane wrote: On 2025-03-13 14:22, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-12, David Wright wrote: That's the way I normally look for videos, and ytsearch was also news to me. Is ytsearch limited to finding youtube videos, or more wideranging? One of the b

Re: libfreetype6 mitigations?

2025-03-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Richmond wrote: > >> Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability > >> which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited > >> arbitrary code execution? I looked into upgrading that package to the > >> testin

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-03-13 14:22, Greg wrote: >> On 2025-03-12, David Wright wrote: >>> >>> That's the way I normally look for videos, and ytsearch was also >>> news to me. Is ytsearch limited to finding youtube videos, or more >>> wideranging? One of the benefits of yt-dlp

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-13 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/12/25 à 17:51, Greg a écrit> According to my (very old) scripts you should use something like /dev/cciss/c1d0 instead of /dev//sg? It could be the old driver/kernel module interface. The one I have is /dev/sgx. I have no /dev/cciss* present. Besides, for HP Smart Array, the example found

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-12, David Wright wrote: > > That's the way I normally look for videos, and ytsearch was also > news to me. Is ytsearch limited to finding youtube videos, or more > wideranging? One of the benefits of yt-dlp is that I can grab videos > off news outlets (print and TV), facebook, tiktok, e

Re: libfreetype6 mitigations?

2025-03-13 Thread Richmond
Dan Ritter writes: > Richmond wrote: >> Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability >> which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited >> arbitrary code execution? I looked into upgrading that package to the >> testing version but I think it would

Re: Debian Bookworm Installation Problem

2025-03-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Sorry to not having replied earlier. As a result of much tearing of hair and many instances of unmitigated terror that I had just destroyed my Windows partition, I have successfully installed Debian on a 2tB SSD. Windows 11is still there and doing what it does so poorly. On 3/11/2025 11:11

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-13 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/12/25 à 23:11, Michael Stone a écrit : Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anything from them So this means I can't rely on smartctl to list physical disks, which implies that, for servers I didn't install, I need to know their RAID setup in advance, or at least the total n

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones shouldwork OK?

2025-03-13 Thread gene heskett
On 3/12/25 22:43, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + Chris Green wrote: I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal boat. A little bit of research suggests that most will pr

libfreetype6 mitigations?

2025-03-13 Thread Richmond
Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited arbitrary code execution? I looked into upgrading that package to the testing version but I think it would cause problems.

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:45:32 +0100 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does {snipped} Okay, fair enough. I'm new to apt-file so haven't fully absorbed all required knowledge yet. >Hanlon's Corollary: it's almost never the gremlins

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 09:19:12AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:59:49 +0200 > Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > > Hello Henrik, > > >> Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? > >Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, correct? > > apt-*file* update

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:59:49 +0200 Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Hello Henrik, >> Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? >Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, correct? apt-*file* update (emphasis is mine), surely? -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {das

Re: kdevtmpfsi question

2025-03-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 05:33:41PM +0800, tim wade wrote: > 18817 user 20 0 3075708 2.3g 0 S 392.7 29.6 84:30.28 > kdevtmpfsi > > As you see above (top output), kdevtmpfsi consumes 2.3g Ram and a lot of CPU > (392%). > What's it then? By all means, investigate further. But a fi

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Modaresi Soft Hard writes: > I added our Repo to sources.list.d/ > > Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, correct?

kmail - sending mails run through filter?

2025-03-13 Thread Hans
Hi folks, is someone using kmail? If yes, please verify or deny the following issue: 1. Create a new filter with a unique keyword in Subject line. 2. When the keyword is in the subject it shgall play a soundfile. 3. Now send an email with this keyword in the subject line. Deos it play sound?

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-12 14:26, Chris Green wrote: I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal boat. A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if they claim to work with a 'PC' as that impli