Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread D MacDougall
On 3/9/25 08:35, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: D MacDougall wrote: > On 3/8/25 12: 34, debian-user@ howorth. org. uk wrote: > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything D MacDoug

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread D MacDougall
On 3/8/25 12:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything at any length? Very odd.  On my phone I see exactly what you see plus several other things on the page.  One other thin

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread D MacDougall
On 2025-03-08, D MacDougall wrote: ... > I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for > years and have found that it's gradually been improving to the point that > I seldom have cause to use any other.  Along the way I discovered that > they also make a brow

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread D MacDougall
On 2025-03-07, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I do have uBlock Origin installed and working in the browsers as well. >>> Getting used to this and then using my phone on mobile data is a jarring >>> experience! >> >>I don't understand. Why don't you install uBlock Origin on your phone? >I use a "DNS

Re: Zoom

2025-01-31 Thread D MacDougall
On 1/31/25 23:13, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I just wanted to dispell the impression that "there's no choice". That's what a commercial entity's marketing department wants you to believe -- after all, they get paid for that. As another encouraging datapoint, there's Senfcall [0], a not for profit s

Re: Zoom

2025-01-31 Thread D MacDougall
On 1/31/25 01:50, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I am following this discussion here with great interest. We all know, that Zoom is not quite secure and we all know, that our data are transferred int the US (where they probably will be processed further on). Thus, many alternatives were mentioned li

Re: Zoom

2025-01-31 Thread D MacDougall
On 1/31/25 02:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Thing is -- you always have some. Use it. Sometimes it's direct, sometimes via advocacy groups, the best being to combine both. ... Most of the time, the "normal" size is 30s to 40s of users. And I have seen BBB perform surprisingly well there. Two exam

Re: Zoom

2025-01-31 Thread D MacDougall
On 1/30/25 23:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:02:25PM -0800, D MacDougall wrote: 4. If you want or need to join Zoom meetings that you do not control you [...] Or convince your partners to move to Jitsi. Or BBB. Sometimes that effort works out, and this is

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread D MacDougall
On 1/29/25 05:39, Gregory Forster wrote: Hi, I've been using Debian for about 3 months, still a newbie. I'm trying to get totally off of Windows.One program I'm not sure about is Zoom.If you go to their web site, they detect you're using Linux and ask which distro you're using.  I'm a little appr

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread D MacDougall
On 1/29/25 21:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 12:28:55PM -0800, Donald MacDougall wrote: I've been using Zoom from the beginning of the Corona virus epidemic [...] and haven't had any trouble that I think could be related to Zoom [...] Thanks for your report. Prompted by thi

Re: ssh/ping only works to some systems, not including mine unfortunately

2025-01-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:29:41PM +, Chris Green wrote: > I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to > bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using > ssh but not to others (to which I can connect from everywhere else). > > It also can't ping

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-14 Thread Alain D D Williams
c -l > 19868844 That command will tell you the length of all the file paths (names) that have been created. To see what you have put on the disk you should use: du -sh /mnt/nvme0n1p1 du -shi /mnt/nvme0n1p1 > find /mnt/nvme0n1p1 -type d | wc -l > 9327 To see how full the disk is: df -

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:30:19PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Many list servers serve up their archives with subject line and other > information but not the body. By modifying the subject appropriately one > makes it possible for a reader to quickly scan the subject, making > reading the enti

Re: Recovery help needed for remote server: file system mounted read-only

2024-12-30 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:29:05AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > I suspect a failing disk, My main home PC is 10 years old and still going strong (I over specced it when I bought it). A few years ago I had what looked like disk problems (time outs, failed writes, ...). I replaced the power supply a

Re: How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed? That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away with a logout. I also now seem to be able to see all the emojis that my daughter sends me. Thanks

How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Alain D D Williams
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm. I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean). These do however display properly on my laptop which runs Mint 21.3. I suspect that I could see them if I used the te

Re: Package name question

2024-11-28 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 02:52:29AM +0800, Bitfox wrote: > Hello > > After I installed mysql 8.0 via apt install mysql-server, I tried to restart > mysql server. > > I issued the following commands, > > systemctl restart mysql-server > systemctl restart mysqld > > They got failed, no package was

SOLVED (I think): Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

2024-11-22 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/19/24 09:38: I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. When I originally plugged it in and ran some quick print tests from my Debian stable system, everything seemed to be fine. But now, a few days later, I can no longer persuade it to

Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

2024-11-21 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/21/24 15:59: My wife's Mac seems to be able to print to it just fine, so it doesn't appear to be a problem with the printer. I just tried with a Macbook Air laptop, and that prints fine as well (perhaps not surprisingly, given that a Mac desktop works). S

Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

2024-11-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Tom Browder wrote on 11/19/24 15:35: On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 16:12 D. R. Evans wrote: I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. Based on my recent experience with a new HP MFP, are you using the Debian package 'printer-driver-fujixerox'.? It&#

new Xerox printer doesn't print

2024-11-19 Thread D. R. Evans
I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. When I originally plugged it in and ran some quick print tests from my Debian stable system, everything seemed to be fine. But now, a few days later, I can no longer persuade it to print :-( The printer appears OK in CUP

sudo makes me appear to be logged in again

2024-11-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
I am running Debian 12.7 I logged in via ssh at 16.14 and then went: sudo -s If I run "w" I now appear to be logged in twice (1.52 is the current time): addw pts/02001:4d48:ad51:2 16:14 40.00s 0.02s 0.01s sudo -s addw pts/12001:4d48:ad51:2 01:523.00s 0.00s 0.01s sudo -s

Re: OFF TOPIC How can I help a friend remove coPilot?

2024-11-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 09:38:25AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > I'm pretty sure: > > a) Andy lives on an island generally considered part of Europe > b) you are sufficiently dedicated to being off topic that I'm > putting you in the killfile now. Please do not feed the trolls. The fun is over so

(SOLVED) Re: USB device not mounting

2024-11-04 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 11/3/24 15:13: I have a USB device that has always worked fine in the past, but now I can no longer access it when it is plugged in to my bookworm systems. (I last used the device a couple of weeks ago.) I am an idiot (although somewhat in my defence, there is no mention

USB device not mounting

2024-11-03 Thread D. R. Evans
I have a USB device that has always worked fine in the past, but now I can no longer access it when it is plugged in to my bookworm systems. (I last used the device a couple of weeks ago.) Once plugged in, lsusb shows it: [ZB:~] lsusb ... Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0483:a1de STMicroelectroni

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-09-28 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 10:13:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 14:53:10 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > > Is there a way in bash to guarantee that a trap gets called for cleanup > > in a script? > > #!/bin/bash > trap cleanup EXIT > cleanup() { > ... > } > > This works i

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want > to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more > familiar with school systems and other institutions). I suggest an HP stream. I got

Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)?

2024-08-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 07:38:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Even if that's true, running them all in the same command as Roberto > shows would not give you any benefit. In early Unix sync *did* return immediately after scheduling a buffer flush. > You'd need to physically *type* the command

Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)?

2024-08-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 02:18:44AM CEST, Greg Wooledge > said: > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 20:04:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > sync && sync && sync && swapoff > > > > > > I couldn't tell why I have sync 3 times, but I kno

Re: nginx or apache for php?

2024-08-01 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 08:39:11AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Do you have a performance problem? If not, don't change. More to the point - what does the application do, where does its time go ? Eg if you have complex database selects then the web server overhead prolly only takes a small part of

Re: combine two commands via pipe

2024-07-25 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 07:29:10AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: > this could work indeed. but it requires me to input a long path. so I am > asking for a easier way. Try this: $ sudo find /tmp -user apache2 -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programme

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 05:18:46PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > And it does not matter, because on a personal computer the root account > is not what matters, what matters is the user account where you can > install a key logger and get banking credentials or encrypt all the data > and ask for a

Re: CrowdStrike and drivers (was Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?)

2024-07-20 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:17:54AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > The CrowdStrike outage emulated the very thing it is alleged to protect > against - a zero day exploit. It was also a demonstration of a huge vulnerability. If $EvilActor were to get an agent employed at CrowdStrike/whoever then the

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:46:24AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > A plug for SELinux. It's been around for a long time. It was invented by the > NSA for use by Government agencies but they kindly open sourced it and it's > available on many Distros including Debian. > > SELinux is a real pain to g

Re: web site displays blank page

2024-07-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 06:06:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > When I try to visit www.chewy.com a blank page. This is a major pet > supply web site. Other web sites display as usual without problems. > I phoned CHEWY and they say their system is on-line. > > I have tried two different com

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On 2024-07-14 22:15:34, "Alan D. Salewski" spake thus: [...] The user's umask value would matter less if the default perms of user $HOME directories were 077 s/were/were from a umask of/

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jul 14 22:32 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Jul 14 22:32 admin -- a l a n d. s a l e w s k i ads@salewski.email salew...@att.net https://github.com/salewski

Re: Suspicious "invoice" email?

2024-05-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:28:35PM -0400, PMA wrote: > I received the following today from (Jerry Henley at) Ella White > . > > I suspect fraud here, so have not opened the invoice he/she attached. > > Can you possibly tell me whether the message is legitimate? I did not spend much time on it.

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-14 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 03:11:16PM +0200, Richard wrote: >"Top posting" (writing the answer above the text that's being replied >to) is literally industry standard behavior. Many do top post, but many do not. Places where it is often frowned on are technical mail lists such as this one. T

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Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:42:25AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Mike Castle wrote: > > >> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. > >> Should we scour our systems looking for similar issues in > >> other languages? Then in, say, 20 years time when different > >> words will then be co

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-25 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 07:44:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > [...] > > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking > > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal > > in what our software

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 09:03:45AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > It was a BLM thing, not sure if it matters the etymology of such > > words. > > The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin > of the *meaning* of the word(s). +1 However that is not the way that the wor

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. > > how far this has bee

Re: Thunderbird inbox malfunction

2024-02-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Paul D Schmitt wrote on 2/14/24 10:49: After an upgrade of Debian 11 yesterday, Thunderbird 115.7.0 now has an inbox issue where the listings move making it difficult to save or delete them!  I had this exact issue with Debian based Antix 22 after a recent upgrade.  That problem was resolved by

Thunderbird inbox malfunction

2024-02-14 Thread Paul D Schmitt
After an upgrade of Debian 11 yesterday, Thunderbird 115.7.0 now has an inbox issue where the listings move making it difficult to save or delete them!  I had this exact issue with Debian based Antix 22 after a recent upgrade.  That problem was resolved by a subsequent upgrade from Thunderbird.

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 07:42:24PM +, Richmond wrote: > You could try Pidgin. It's in the Debian repo. It has various protocols > of which irc is just one. It's a bit confusing because you have to go to > the 'buddy' menu to join an irc channel. Yes: Pidgin UI is dreadful. Lots that is non in

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-25 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/24/24 12:24: On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:16:21PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: 4. But now how do I actually run the program? I tried just running: $ acrordrdc Have you looked at the man page for snap? It's very long, so I took a guess and looked for "run&quo

running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-24 Thread D. R. Evans
1. I've never used a snap package before. 2. I want to run the acrordrdc program, which is available as a snap package. 3. Following instructions found following a search for help with snap, I ran: sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install core sudo snap install acrordrdc There were no obvi

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home > > > > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. > > > > Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it right > > first time! > > lvred

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:32:30PM +0100, sko...@uns.ac.rs wrote: > I am getting the following message at any boot: > > "The volume "Filesystem root" has only 221.1 MB disk space remaining." > > df -h says: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 11:39:40AM -0500, Pocket wrote: > > On 12/21/23 10:50, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > It is NOT a firewall issue. > > > If I am correct you don't want any thing from the outside to hit your web > server? The words "web server" is am

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:31:06AM -0500, Pocket wrote: > All you should be seeing is scans which you can not prevent. I am looking at incoming packets with tcpdump. This sees packets *before* they are filtered by iptables. > What are you using for a firewall? Something hand rolled. Reasonably

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Pocket wrote: > Use a firewall and set it up correctly. That I have done. The issue is broadband usage - ie before it hits the firewall. > Assuming a residential environment. > > Firewall the router and server(s) as well as all the client machines. >

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 01:39:53PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Okay well 30KiB/s is only about 78GiB/month which isn't really a > lot. I think we're both in UK and it's been hard to find a domestic > Internet connection that you'd run a web server on that can't cope > with 78G/mo. So ignoring it se

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:50:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > If your home Internet service has an "allowance", you probably shouldn't > run a web server on it. Yes: I do run a web server at home, but there is only a little/personal stuff, it does not receive much real traffic, I do not want i

Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
My home PC is receiving, for hours at a time, 12-30 kB/s input traffic. This is unsolicited. I do not know what it is trying to achieve but suspect no good. It is also eating my broadband allowance. This does not show up in the Apache log files - the TCP connection does not succeed. Sometimes my

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-04 Thread D MacDougall
On 12/4/23 16:52, Tom Browder wrote: HP printer and toner, Office Depot labels. I bought so hair spray and will try that. -Tom I just looked at Office Depot website and the only labels I see that are for both laser and inkjet are an off brand.  I see why you went for the off brand, they ar

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 9/12/23 11:51: You really should eliminate that xorg.conf file, and if the problem continues, don't assume it's the kernel driver at fault. Just report a bug if so inclined. Where would depend on behavior after removing xorg.conf. If it fixes the problem, there is almost a

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-12 Thread D. R. Evans
pectation that they won't make any practical difference, but might make the system a bit cleaner to administer. And, from what you say here: > D. R. Evans composed on 2023-09-11 11:47 (UTC-0600): > >> Graphics: >> Device-1: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430] vendor: Gigabyte

X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

2023-09-11 Thread D. R. Evans
This is a follow-on to the thread that started with: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/05/msg00657.html Following the upgrade to bookworm that I recently performed, I was hoping that the problem described in the first post in that thread would magically go away. It didn't :-( Felix

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 04:51: Installation over ethernet, no DE - ifupdown provided. Installation over ethernet or wireless with a DE - network-manager provided. Yep, that one's exactly what I experienced. Although the machine is used more like a server than a desktop, it has DE (KDE) to make

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 13:01: Send a mail to cont...@bugs.debian.org Ib the mail body put ressign 1051086 installation-report thanks Sorry. That's "reassign". Done. Thank you. I pondered where to assign in, and couldn't see anywhere that the report really fit. (I interpreted "i

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Michael Kjörling wrote on 9/2/23 03:23: You might want to poke around a little among the files in /etc/NetworkManager, particularly /e/NM/system-connections. That's what NetworkManager _should_ be using to set up the interfaces. See if there's something there to explain the two seemingly being

WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Starting a new thread so that this doesn't get lost in the postings in the original thread. The original thread was started at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/09/msg00024.html That post contains a description of the problem. I now have a workaround (although not an explanation) fo

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
David Wright wrote on 9/1/23 19:40: I don't see that the OP is doing anything complicated that requires rc.local to run at all. They just need to distinguish between the two Correct. I was simply trying to workaround the problem by putting commands into rc.local that are known to work when I

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Michel Verdier wrote on 9/1/23 15:06: If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" Nice to know, but I'll stay with the new names, I think. network manager is good for changing networks. For a server the network must not change normally. So you could p

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Andy Smith wrote on 9/1/23 16:32: Your situation appears to have been triggered by the renaming of your network interfaces (which was warned about in the release These weird names like "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" were names that the debian installer came up with several OS versions ago (

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 9/1/23 15:38: In particular, when using /etc/network/interfaces, only interfaces that are marked as "auto" need to be up, to satisfy this criterion. An I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, at least not by default. Certainly there

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Thank you for your thoughts... As people are addressing the rc.local issue (I now realise that I shouldn't have mentioned it :-) )... I just checked, and: 1. rc.local is being executed; 2. it is executing the nmcli commands; 3. the commands are successful. But it remains true that when the bo

bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
ns), with the result that nothing worked. So, after a bit of messing around with an increasing sense of desperation, I discovered that: [Z:~] sudo nmcli connection down "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" Connection 'Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)' successfully deactiv

Re: Trojan

2023-08-27 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:23:06AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:36:02 +0100 > Alain D D Williams wrote: > > Hello Alain, > > >They will look at it and do something - or so they claim, > > Most likely that 'something' will be to compil

Re: Trojan

2023-08-27 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:31:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If you feel like you'd like to learn a bit, study the mail > headers. Ponder about which ones the sender could have faked > and which ones not. Things like that. If you live in the UK you can forward it to here: rep...@phishing.g

Re: Using the bash shell: determine if the root user used 'sudo -i'

2023-08-26 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash shell. > > Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not? I have not tested this but if bash was interactive you will find a .bash_history file in

bash $MAIL bug in Bookworm

2023-08-09 Thread Alain D D Williams
I have recently upgraded to Bookworm. I have set: MAIL=/var/spool/mail/addw MAILCHECK=60 I find that when doing filename expansion, by pressing TAB, that the 'You have mail' message appears when it should not. In the example below I pressed TAB after the letter 'T' (which gave me

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-05 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 7/5/23 08:59: I'm still waiting for setup details to be provided. Is "sh" the user's I was merely trying to inform the OP that he wasn't alone in seeing this "Transport endpoint is not connected" message coming from bookworm when prior versions of debian stable were s

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-05 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 7/4/23 22:23: FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. This seems to be coming from getcwd() (aka get current working directory, see man page). Asking the intertubes, it

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-07-04 Thread D. R. Evans
hlyg wrote on 6/28/23 21:32: notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. I have no idea why. (And, just to be clear, this has never happened

Re: How do I remotely access the computer in the next room?

2023-07-02 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 06:49:07PM -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, All - > > I need the best way currently available to operate my brother's computer > in the next room through my computer. I think we're both running Debian > 11, the stable version for me, the testing version for him. I've trie

Re: Qemu Numeric Lock problem

2023-06-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 05:42:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote: > I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu. Caps Lock is also affected the same way. > Sequence as follows: > > I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up. > > I then switch to the workspace

Qemu Numeric Lock problem

2023-06-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu. Sequence as follows: I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up. I then switch to the workspace that contains a running virtual machine. The virtualised OS does not seem to be important, this happens with Debian a

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-31 Thread D. R. Evans
I'm sorry I'm so slow to respond... it's all a matter of trying to put aside quality uninterruptible time to work on this. Since the problem is not so bad that I can't perform work with this computer, a lot of other work-related things unfortunately have to take priority. Felix Miata wrote on

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/19/23 11:23: How much time did you allow the login screen to show up? I've lately seen on Somewhere between three and five minutes, I'd say. Certainly long after the disk light stopped flickering and the system seemed to have reached a stable state. system

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and reboot to see if it makes a difference. I did this, and when I rebooted I was in the Linux console instead of Light DM (which

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Synaptic is telling me that this will also remove: xserver-xorg-video-all Is it OK that that will also be removed? Doc --

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 11:16: D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 09:49 (UTC-0600): I'm wondering if someone can walk me through how to figure out what video driver I am using, and what other drivers might be available to try? Not without knowing anything about your GPU: Y

video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Following an update this morning to one of my bullseye systems, an irritating video problem has surfaced. The best way I can think of to describe the problem is that if one has a line of black text on what is supposed to be a white background, to the right of the text a clear, short tail of even

Thunderbird and font size used to display plain text e-mails?

2023-04-30 Thread D. R. Evans
I have looked everywhere I can think of, and have been unable to find an answer -- among the ridiculous number of ways that fonts appear to be controlled in Thunderbird -- that works for this issue :-( I recently changed to a larger monitor, and, after lots of twiddling, have more-or-less got

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:00:52AM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Okay. Let's open this can of worms. The ONLY reason https is used on > most sites is because Google *mandated* it years ago. ("Mandate" means > we'll downgrade your search ranking if you don't use https.) There is > otherwi

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 03:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > [...] > > > While we are talking about this, is there any reason why all the http: > > should > > not be https: ? > &

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:52:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 15 Apr 2023 at 08:11:17 -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > > --- > > > > > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free > > > deb-src

Re: No /

2023-03-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Michael Lee wrote: > Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings, > logins, etc.?  This is what backups are for. I assume that you have something. > Michael Lee -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, N

Libembree, but static

2023-03-07 Thread Julien D Arques
Hi, We currently have libembree in .so shared library. Is it possible for the maintainers to provide the static .a? I use the latest available in testing 3.13.5 Thanks

Re: GPG problems

2022-12-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 04:28:00PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2022-12-04 12:05:56+, Alain D. D. Williams wrote: > > > Part of the problem is the hopeless message "Server indicated a > > failure" which says little. Any idea how I could get something more &g

Re: GPG problems

2022-12-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 02:59:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > keys.openpgp.org should be operational. It responds to ping. > > Also have a look at > https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-June/065261.html . No, that is not the issue. It works on Debian 11 but not Debian 10, both

GPG problems

2022-12-03 Thread Alain D D Williams
I am running Debian 10 (buster). I generated a new key that I wanted to upload, but it fails: $ gpg --send-keys 0xBA366B977C06BAF7 gpg: sending key 0xBA366B977C06BAF7 to hkps://keys.openpgp.org gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a failure gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a f

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 10:43:19PM +, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > > > > Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back > > doors. > > Shrug.. as opposed to installing closed source programmes where you know you > are spied upon ? Which may of course have back doors

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > I have no idea what you mean. It’s open source and you can analyze the code > line by line. Very true ... but how much code have you analyzed line by line ? Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-10 Thread d-u
On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:28:46 +0100 hw wrote: > On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 09:52 +0100, DdB wrote: > > Am 08.11.2022 um 05:31 schrieb hw: > > > > That's only one point. > > > What are the others? > > > > > > >  And it's not really some valid one, I think, as > > > > you do typically not run int

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread D. R. Evans
hw wrote on 11/9/22 04:41: configure the controller cards, so that won't really work. And ZFS with Linux isn't so great because it keeps fuse in between. That isn't true. I've been using ZFS with Debian for years without FUSE, through the ZFSonLinux project. The only slightly discomfortin

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