Re: Activate additional monitor

2025-07-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/07/2025 06:10, Van Snyder wrote: xrandr --listmonitors lists only the monitors that were connected at boot. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and output of "journalctl -b" "journalctl -b -1" (as root) with proper boot number or ID references to compare logs when monitors are connected before or

Re: Activate additional monitor

2025-07-21 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2025-07-21 at 14:58 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:35:48 -0700 > Van Snyder wrote: > > > I have a desktop system with HDMI graphics on the motherboard and a > > graphics card. Here's the output from inxi -G: > > > > Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 7

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed. (Resolved)

2025-07-21 Thread Thomas D Dial
Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions. I tried or has already tried a number of them, including much of Greg Wooledge's nicely detailed recommendation and Michael's below (although not neatly packaged into a pipeline). None was fully successful. In wandering through the various zfs s

Re: Activate additional monitor

2025-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:35:48 -0700 Van Snyder wrote: > I have a desktop system with HDMI graphics on the motherboard and a > graphics card. Here's the output from inxi -G: > > Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] driver: i915 v: > kernel > Device-2: NVIDIA GM107GL [Quadro K2200]

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 21. Juli 2025, 21:25:36 CEST schrieb Mike Castle: > Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF > and it is not working. > > When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of > my filling. > > So, treat my previous comment with suspicion. >

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 21. Juli 2025, 21:25:36 CEST schrieb Mike Castle: > Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF > and it is not working. > > When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of > my filling. > > So, treat my previous comment with suspicion. >

Activate additional monitor

2025-07-21 Thread Van Snyder
I have a desktop system with HDMI graphics on the motherboard and a graphics card. Here's the output from inxi -G: Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] driver: i915 v: kernel Device-2: NVIDIA GM107GL [Quadro K2200] driver: nouveau v: kernel It's running Debian 12.11 with kernel 6.

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Kent West
On 7/21/25 2:25 PM, Mike Castle wrote: Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF and it is not working. When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of my filling. So, treat my previous comment with suspicion. mrc I just used Firefox 140.0.

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Mike Castle
Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF and it is not working. When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of my filling. So, treat my previous comment with suspicion. mrc

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Mike Castle
For actually modifying PDFs, I have taken to using Firefox. It not only handles editable PDFs (those with predefined fields to type into), it can also simply overlay text and drawings. It is not likely to work for changing the wording of the document. But if you just want to avoid having to print

Re: Open Microsoft Surface

2025-07-21 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 21. Juli 2025, 02:56:02 CEST schrieb Kent West: > On 7/20/25 07:45, Andrew W Rambus wrote: > > Hello , I have a Microsoft Surface 4 ; I bought at a yard sale. ,and > > I’m trying to turn it on , and I can’t get past the Debian login > > GNU/Linux 12 login & password !! > > Can someone p

How to joind PDF files into one (was: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?)

2025-07-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I used to use pdfjoin to join pdfs (though there was a bug where some > pages would be oriented wrongly) and I needed to join some pdfs > recently. But there were so many dependencies for pdfjoin that I decided > to try pdfunite (that somebody had recently mentioned here), which I > already had i

Re: dkim clarification

2025-07-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 09:10:08AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > (Extra points for anybody who can craft a somewhat similar simple explanation > of DMARC.) This whole topic is quite convoluted and only really relevant to the tiny numbers of us who run our own mail servers. Everyone usin

Re: fwupdmgr refresh → "Host unreachable" - polkkitd issue? (Debian 13)

2025-07-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 01:09:00PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > $ sudo fwupdmgr refresh > Updating lvfs > Failed to download metadata for lvfs: network is unreachable: Host unreachable > > I am not aware of any reason why this host would have limited network > connectivity. I discussed this upstrea

Re: dkim clarification

2025-07-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 21, 2025, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it reasonably accurate (at a simple level) to say that dkim involves > applying a digital signature to an email by the domain (as opposed to a > digital signature applied by the user / sender of an email)? > > And that the domain uses the private k

Re: dkim clarification

2025-07-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 09:10:08AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it reasonably accurate (at a simple level) to say that dkim involves > applying a digital signature to an email by the domain (as opposed to a > digital signature applied by the user / sender of an email)? > > And that the

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-20, Hans wrote: >> > >> > How about >> > >> >mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n >> > >> > where <100-page.pdf> is the original file >> > Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted >> > >> > See man mutool. Roger >> >> pdftk can do what you want, and more. > Try "

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/20/25 9:29 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. For a simple graphical solution, try xpdf. The print option allows you to print specified pages to file. We cann

dkim clarification

2025-07-21 Thread rhkramer
Is it reasonably accurate (at a simple level) to say that dkim involves applying a digital signature to an email by the domain (as opposed to a digital signature applied by the user / sender of an email)? And that the domain uses the private key of a public / private keypair? E.g., if @.com sen

Re: Debian 13 Trixie mysql_secure_installation

2025-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:15:08 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation > script on Debian 13 Trixie? Yes. Oh, you actually wanted to know which package in trixie provides mysql_secure_installation. Well: root@tiassa:~# apt-file se

EXCELLENT solution was [Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?]

2025-07-21 Thread Richard Owlett
"pdfseparate" is the tool I need. I need to tweak content of some tables in a large PDF document. Wish I had known about it ~2 years ago. *THANK YOU* On 7/20/25 9:19 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote: mutool merge -o Pa

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 2025-07-21 at 08:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 13:37:33 +0200, Michael wrote: > >> iirc, i think i have read in your wiki to NOT have variable names >> with leading underscores... > > If you restrict yourself to never using variable names beginning with > _ in normal situ

Re: Open Source PHP Trouble Ticket System

2025-07-21 Thread vbvbrj
Hello. http://osticket.com/ is PHP + javascript frameworks + mysql/mariadb On 18.07.2025 10:21, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Hello, I have been Googling around trying to find a Trouble Ticket System written in PHP, JavaScript and MariaDB. Does anyone know of any good ones? Thanks Tim -- ⢀

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 13:37:33 +0200, Michael wrote: > iirc, i think i have read in your wiki to NOT have variable names with > leading underscores... If you restrict yourself to never using variable names beginning with _ in normal situations, then that gives you the opportunity to use it as a

Re: Open Source PHP Trouble Ticket System

2025-07-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2025-07-18, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > >> This one ([1]) is in PHP. > >> > >> [1] https://glpi-project.org/ > >> > >> -- > >> John Doe > >> > >> > > I looked at this one and it looked promising. I downloaded it and tried > to > > i

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-21 Thread Michael
first: thank you for your valuable input! On Friday, July 18, 2025 1:30:27 PM CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:34:36 +0200, Michael wrote: On Friday, July 18, 2025 12:52:03 AM CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: ... Bash 4.3 and higher have nameref variables, [...] although i wa

Re: Debian 13 Trixie mysql_secure_installation

2025-07-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 06:57:41 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM wrote: > > > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation > > > script on Debian 13 Trixie? > > > > google debian mys

Re: Debian 13 Trixie mysql_secure_installation

2025-07-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM wrote: > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > All, > > > > Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation > > script on Debian 13 Trixie? > > google debian mysql_secure_installation shows me as the first hit > > https://manpages.debian.org/testin

Re: Debian 13 Trixie mysql_secure_installation

2025-07-21 Thread debian-user
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation > script on Debian 13 Trixie? google debian mysql_secure_installation shows me as the first hit https://manpages.debian.org/testing/mariadb-client/mysql_secure_installation.1 and that say

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-21 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-07-21 08:23, Anders Andersson wrote: It's bad enough with everyone's signature and people who quote them when replying. Your name is already in the header. It used to be possible to add custom headers to email messages but I've forgotten how to do it. mick

Debian 13 Trixie mysql_secure_installation

2025-07-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
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Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-21 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/7/25 17:37, Thomas Southerland wrote: > > > > On 7/20/25 5:21 AM, Mathew Alexander wrote: > >> Mathew Alexander > >> mat...@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > > > > To uns

Re: Debian versions

2025-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM Paul Scott wrote: > > I have run sid/unstable for about 20 years. The only active line in my > /etc/apt/sources.list is > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free-firmware > > cat /etc/os-release gives" > > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-21 Thread Michael Paoli
Proceeded to seriously break system using rm on libc6:amd64 files. rmed (or attempted): all files of type ordinary file in libc6:amd64 package (per dpkg -L) plus symbolic links resolving to such, and putting as very last in that sequence, from information from ldd rm the overlapping files between t