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: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 20, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > > And it'd break signatures for those of us who use them. I *hated* yahoo > > groups (and, now, groups.io) for doing that. > > Can you explain what it means? I am subscribed to > <https://f

Re: Open Microsoft Surface

2025-07-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 20, 2025, 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 please help me , open this laptop Reinstall your preferred OS over the

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 20, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to > > the mailing list messages, something like > > > > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or view the

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

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 18, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > OK, it makes some more sense now. The range of digits in the octal > system is from 0 to 7, so it would complain with "08" and "09" (but > not with "10" which would then be "8" in octal), but why would command > line utilities assume you are encoding n

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

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 17, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > Video durations are formatted in youtube's .info.json files as "HH:MM:SS"; > so, I went monkey and did the conversion myself, but I got two errors which I > can't make sense of whatsoever with only two values: > > _HHMMSS="19:09" > _HHMMSS="19:08" >

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 14, 2025, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:45:56 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > Only reason my wife's not on linux (anymore) is because the new > > paper-cutter thing (by cricut) needs windows-only drivers and I'm not > > all

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-14, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > >> I think that's already happened, more or less. The issue is that to get > >> my wife to use Debian it would need to be preinstalled [...] > > > > But that's why she has

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-14, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg (HE12025-07-12): > >> That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority. > > > > As long as you acknowledge that not being in the majority is not a flaw > > in any way… > > I do completely acknowledge that.

Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I am struggeling with a strange behavior when automounting my inbuilt > harddrives. > > I have 3 harddrives, which are mounted to > > /space(sdc1) ext4 > /daten1 (sdd1) ext4 > /daten2 (sde1) ext4 > > So all are the sam

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Greg (HE12025-07-11): > > > > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move > > > > rather > > > > than a

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-11, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > >> I use a mail to news gateway (gmane) that I find more convenient than > >> email (to tell the truth, I don't even know how people handle the shitload > >> of emails flooding int

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg (HE12025-07-11): > > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move rather > > than a copy? > > The fact that it is on the same disk is not relevant. Apart from that, I > suggest you re-read Dan's mail more carefully, everything

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-11, Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:13:05 +0200 > > Philipp Ewald wrote: > > > >> Am 10.07.25 um 15:14 schrieb Andy Smith: > >> > I know a large number of people under the age of 20 who literally > >> > say things like, "email is only for password r

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-07-11 10:52, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to > > > > another with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, > > > > when the number o

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Loris Bennett wrote: > John Dow writes: > > > On 11 Jul 2025, at 09:58, Anssi Saari > > wrote: > > > > Andy Smith writes: > > > > I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are > > increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email

Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, hw wrote: > On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 13:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > Nowadays it seems like scp and sftp are the norm, not ftp. > > (S)FTP is still in use like for cameras, scanners (printers) and phones. > For local usages I don't want to do all the hassle the certi

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > > On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to another > > > with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, when the > > > number of files in the distination folder is about 4,500, t

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, John Dow wrote: > [...] > Granted, I’m an old fuddy-duddy who’s been using Linux since day 1 > (and UNIX before then), but email is the *perfect* medium for this > type of interaction. I'm not, but I agree here. ... though I did just notice the first bit of grey in my beard this

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to another > with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, when the number of > files in the distination folder is about 4,500, the "Files" application > deadly hangs, and only restaring the

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 09:44:05AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > What "trend"? That kids don't use (or perhaps understand) stuff they've > > had no real *need* of yet? > > The trend that peo

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 08:48:18AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > To make it REALLY clear - anybody and everybody is welcome here: if they > > need us to answer questions that should be fine. > > I think it's worth considering the fact that new co

Re: Bugs?

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, Lee Winter wrote: > Got a dell 5400 workstation configured fully (8 cores, 32gb RAM, 160gb > fast disk & 1.0tb slow disk) and I netinstalled debian Bookworm > 12.10.0 on it. I also got the 20 DVDs with 92.5gb of Source packages. > The machine seems OK, but I am finding some [probl

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, songbird wrote: > hello all, some questions at last... it's been a while. :) > > I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them > to my existing setup, but in previous years I recall that there > was some recommendation to leave some part of the SSD unallocated >

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 25, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/24/25 7:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote: > > > Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: > > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > > > > I looking for a USB device to

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 24, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > [https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 approaches my goal] > > > > That adafruit one is OK. I'm not a big fan of the MCX connector,

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > > > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debi

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so > I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record > as MP3 for listening at a more convenient tim

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply. > > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded. Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in that sense (ignoring Adobe Acrobat or whatever it's called). -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments: > is there a simple way to delete them ? re-generate the PDF without the embedded files. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 7

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

2025-05-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 21, 2025, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM BST, Dan Purgert wrote: > > I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while the > > backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive). The > > backup script did the m

Re: Repair or Replace

2025-05-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 20, 2025, Steve Matzura wrote: > After a year in storage, I'm trying to get a version 11 system back online. > I connected it to power and network, then booted it. Interestingly, it > appeared on my network not at the address it had when it went into storage, > but one given it by my local D

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 20, 2025, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM BST, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > why not > > > if ! mountpoint /mnt/usb-drive-b ; then ... > > > ? > > > > I'd not heard of either `mountpoint` or `findmnt` before. I see they'

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 19, 2025, Lee wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > >

Re: System Crash in LibreOffice When Using Large Fonts with Black Text (Debian, Mint, Kali --Suspected i915 Issue on Debian)

2025-05-09 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 09, 2025, Rohin S Nair wrote: > Dear Debian Team, > > I am experiencing a severe issue on Debian and Debian-based distributions > when using LibreOffice with large fonts. > When attempting to display content particularly with large fonts and black > text the system becomes completely unresp

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 14, 2025, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > I wrote: > > > If you > >sudo systemctl disable cups # and maybe others > > Actually, if you follow the discussion, the CUPS Bonjour auto-discovery > >- it presumably handled by the cups-browsed package > (you can uninstall it, or systemctl di

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 11, 2025, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > (That doesn't mean you have to use > > > > mdns, it just means that if you instead decide to do something like > > > > copy hosts files around

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 10, 2025, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Or you use mdns, which is the standard way of dealing with dynamic > > resources on an unmanaged network. > > The resources stay fixed during their lifetime, and any changes that > occur are

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

2025-04-09 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 09, 2025, Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > i want to map the sata hardware connections to fixed device names. This be > done even the hdd on the cable is changed. > > So - when i connect a hdd to sata port 4 i want to get (for example) > /dev/sdd created even /dev/sda to /dev/sdc (respecti

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 04, 2025, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > > > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2025 at 6:10 AM > > From: "Dan Purgert" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: > > Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 04, 2025, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I'm just going to assume that it worked similarly to traditional X > > sessions (e.g. the ones on HP-UX), where it looked up the system's > > hostname, and used whatever IP address that returned for connections > > be

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 03, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-03, Dan Purgert wrote: > > >> That's what you want: as the address is in the 127.0.0.0 network, > >> pinging it will ping itself, and it gets a reply. It doesn't > >> require your LAN to be set up, and AIUI it&#

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 02, 2025, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > Experimenting I find the duplication does not seem to generate an > > error, other than I now had to ping itself by address, since the name > > is now found at 127.0.1.1 by pings lookup?

Re: Different HTTP download speeds over Wi-Fi (but not cable)

2025-03-31 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 31, 2025, Paul Menzel wrote: > [Please Cc me on replies.] > > Dear Debian folks, > > > In the Eduroam Wi-Fi network of the TU Chemnitz (X-WiN, Cisco CW9164i, > CW9166i, C9124AXE-E) I noticed too low download speeds from Debian archive > mirrors. Using a cable full adapter speed is achieve

Re: confusing printer definitions

2025-03-28 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 20, 2025, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > The software setup for my Brother DCP-L2640DW driverless laser printer is > confusing the hell out of me. I'm running bookworm. > > The printer is connected via USB only (not wireless). When I first connected > it, CUPS (apparently) set up a pr

Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

2025-03-19 Thread Dan Purgert
it might be > interesting. If not, sorry for the noise. > > Best > > Hans > > Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2025, 10:31:26 CET schrieb Dan Purgert: > > On Mar 19, 2025, Hans wrote: > > > Hi Geert, > > > > > > the desired goal is, that my origi

Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

2025-03-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 19, 2025, Hans wrote: > Hi Geert, > > the desired goal is, that my original MAC will never appear after > boot. As dpkg-reconfigure macchanger claims this to do, in real it > does not. Is this PC physically leaving your LAN? If not, changing the MAC isn't going to do all that much. > >

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 09, 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 08/03/2025 11:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > [...] > > Meanwhile, I discovered that HostGator has the Roundcube web > > interface, and that works for now. > > Isn't roundcube an IMAP client under the hood? Ideally. I think it can also do POP3 though.

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-06 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 07, 2025, David wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 at 10:03, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote: > > > > [...] > > > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED > > > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > > > 1

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 05, 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:38:41AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > er, "second" address, just from a MUA? > > I should have said that an extra email address is handly to have. > Sorry for the confusion. > > > > Sev

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 05, 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On my Debian 12 desktop, I installed Evolution, primarily for easy > access to HTML messages. Also, it gives me a second mail address. er, "second" address, just from a MUA? > > Several days ago, Evolution began causing a "Mail Authentication > Req

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote: > [...] > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED  > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE >   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   082   064   006    Pre-fail > Always   -   146369262 146 million read-errors. >   7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000

Re: Best terminology to distiguish groups such as "debian-user" from webmail whatevers

2025-02-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 26, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/26/25 12:20 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm communicating with a state level peer-to-peer support group. > > > The national organization has a peer-to-peer "mailing

Re: Best terminology to distiguish groups such as "debian-user" from webmail whatevers

2025-02-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 26, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm communicating with a state level peer-to-peer support group. > The national organization has a peer-to-peer "mailing list" built around > webmail as a complement/alternative to their sponsored social media groups. > I find the web based system unusable.

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-22 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 22, 2025, gene heskett wrote: > On 2/21/25 11:42, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > That was 2+ years ago, and 2T's were brand new. > > With a lot of emphasis on the "+" I guess, since I bought my first 2½" > > 2TB HDD in 2012. > > > > > > Stefan > I was shopping in the 3.5" drives at

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 21, 2025, gene heskett wrote: > > On 2/21/25 07:11, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2025, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:07:10 -0500 > > > gene heskett wrote: > > > > my home net, is behind dd-wrt, in plain text. on an addr

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 21, 2025, Frank Guthausen wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:07:10 -0500 > gene heskett wrote: > > > > my home net, is behind dd-wrt, in plain text. on an address block > > that does not get thru a router. And in 30 years I have not been > > touched. > > LUKS addresses a completely different

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

2025-02-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 17, 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > > about the lack of media. Not 10

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

2025-02-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 17, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-02-17 01:09, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: > > > /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: tr

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

2025-02-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: > *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: > /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: trying to eject using CD-ROM > eject commandeject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded* > > I can't eject the optical drive, i try mount th

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install?

2025-02-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 12, 2025, Chris Green wrote: > When I run CUPS 'add printer' with a new (to the network) Laserjet > M15W I see four possible printers to add:- > > HP LaserJet M15w (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17) > HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17) > HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

2025-02-06 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 06, 2025, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On 2/6/25 8:20 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 07:53:07 + > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > Having said that, I am not sure how the complaint could be addressed > > > since from what I understand you are basically asking for other

Re: add user to a group and logout/login to apply

2025-02-02 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 02, 2025, Vasyl Vavrychuk wrote: > Debian reference > (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_permissions_for_groups_of_users_group) > says one of the option to apply change of group user configuration is > > > Logout via GUI menu and login. > > It is not marked

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 20, 2025, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi all, > > An update on my struggle. > > I followed the extfat path but I likely somehow make a noobish mistake > and a partition was not created... > > Despite that, I was able to mount it an copy all the data across to it! > > Now when I try to mount

Re: nvidia driver not loaded after install

2025-01-15 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 15, 2025, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > I am trying to install the Nvidia driver on my Dell XPS 9550 fresh > Debian 12 machine. > > [ 16.905450] Loading of module with unavailable key is rejected > ... > > Can anyone please help me out. Getting Debian to work in this laptop > has been a big

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 09, 2025, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units > > >are much more convenient, not just to measure

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-09 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 09, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > For example...let's take the 18B drive discussed earlier. That's > > 18TB or 16TiB. Annoying, but ok. Now that's also 18000MB but 16763MiB. And > > it's 1800MB or 17166137MiB. So if you have a display in MB and you want > > to know the valu

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 07, 2025, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:44:00AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > > > > only though! After fromating

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable > > space. > > 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this > into "computer units"

Re: Hardware Error Messages

2025-01-06 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 06, 2025, Michael wrote: >- I have a Debian Bullseye desktop PC. From time to time I receive >several Hardware Error Messages which begin with a Hardware Error Message >of the form :- > > Message from syslogd@piglit at Jan 5 02:49:03 ... > kernel:[1064021.151590] [Hardware Err

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-31 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 31, 2024, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 12/31/24 07:44, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > >> 2. I have a virtualbox Windows XP machine. With the HP printer, it > >> worked through CUPS and needed to find /dev/lp0. So I just mad

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-31 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote: > > > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser > > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). ... > > With advice from the group, I bought a Brother DCP-L2640DW driverles

Re: sudo fails to save IPTables rules

2024-12-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 23, 2024, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > sudo fails with a permission denied error. > tmb@hp-debian:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4 > bash: /etc/iptables/rules.v4: Permission denied "sudo" only modifies "iptables-save", and not the redirect (it happens as your user,

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 23, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 06:24:56 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2024, Arbol One wrote: > > > In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. > > > > Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? > >

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 22, 2024, Arbol One wrote: > Hello. > > In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. To select it as browser in > Netbeans I need to know the location of the executable. > Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? Assuming you installed it from *deb package, I'd imagine "/

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 11, 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you > > > read https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? > > > > Oh. I've learne

Re: [solved, more] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-11-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 02, 2024, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: pe...@easthope.ca > Date: 27 Oct 2024 11:26:12 -0700 > > Rather than spend more time investigating, will put the HDD in the > > target machine and work there. Remove some of the complications. > > Happened to connect a USB hub before deal

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/17/2024 08:39 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > > > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpo

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by > following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". > > That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose

Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 13, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/13/2024 04:57 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 08:27:55AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > It has been my habit since days of Squeeze to install the new Debian to a > > > fresh fresh partition and then use Grub to chose which

Re: Debian and open source scroungers

2024-10-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 11, 2024, Andre Rodier wrote: > [...] > Please, tell me what are your thoughts on this. Am I too pessimistic ? Are > you, like me, thinking these companies as open source "scroungers" ? I think it's more that "companies" tend to need assurances (i.e. someone to call and blame when [insert s

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 08, 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager keepassxc here. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 1. (sudo) dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb > > 2. (sudo) apt-get update && apt-get -f install > > Of course, such manual install of `.deb` files means that you won't > automatically get future updates, e.g. to fix security bugs. Given our friends a

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 10:53:30 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > When I ran linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.4-1 it downloaded: > > > > > > > [...] $

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 10/03/2024 09:17 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > I am running Bookworm and have just updated the Brother MFC-L2710DW Laser > > > Printer Drivers. > > > [...]

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Bookworm and have just updated the Brother MFC-L2710DW Laser > Printer Drivers. > [...] > > E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an > > archive for it. > > E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report. brs

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-02 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sep 30, 2024, Default User wrote: > (...) > So, is there a consensus on which would be better:  > 1) continue to "mirror" drive A to drive B? > or, > 2) alternate backups daily between drives A and B? Primarily, I do (1); though every so often I do a variation of (2). Backups from all the PCs

Re: Is "How-To use MATE" documented?

2024-09-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sep 05, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > I found: > I need to know how icons are placed on the default screen which > displays the contents of "/home/richard/.config/Desktop". > > Placement is where ever cursor happens to to be. > How can I get them into nice even rows and columns. Isn't that bas

Re: DEBIAN documentation: which 64 bit processors run current release?

2024-08-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 27, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for for where *Debian* documents which processors support > current Debian release. > > I have three machines whose processors are 64 bit capable. > Processors identified by running lscpu: > > Machine 1: > Architecture: i686 > Model name: Int

Re: domain status in registry and registrar

2024-08-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 19, 2024, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 03:49:11PM +0800, Wesley wrote: > > First of all, I apologize for my lack of knowledge about the domain name > > registration industry. > > No need. We all stumble in the dark :-) > > > I checked a domain name, datafarm.net, and i

Re: stop using APT!

2024-08-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 14, 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Stop using apt, apt support for mysql is so poor! > > What does that mean? I think it means the person doesn't understand that mysql is dead. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 04, 2024, George at Clug wrote: > > > On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 16:15 john doe wrote: > > On 8/4/24 06:48, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > On 4/08/2024 12:26 pm, George at Clug wrote: > > >> > > >> If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, > > >> which incoming

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 16, 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Somehow I'm glad I stayed away from DEs and systemd up to now. Perhaps I > > just retire before the alternatives aren't viable anymore. Or perhaps, as > > with PulseAudio, I can leapfrog that "tech". > > Retirement is no

Re: General questions

2024-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 17:23:43 +0500, 타토카 wrote: > > But, what do you mean: "Because you haven't established a chain of trust > > from yourself to any of the signatures." > > Imagine someone walks up to you on the street and hands you a contract, > which i

Re: Results of Testmail_1-3

2024-07-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 04, 2024, Hans wrote: > So, these are th eresults: > > 1. A new created maiil does not have a spam tag. > > 2. Reply to my own mail does also not have a spam tag. > > 3. Reply to any user mail DOES have a spam tag. > > So it looks like there is something , which some mailservers do not l

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 10, 2024, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > On one machine, I have > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2023-10-07 13:43:24 > /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dm-event.socket -> > /lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket > > and on another one, I have > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2024-01-0

Re: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)

2024-01-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 12, 2024, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In one of my new machines, I have a DVD+/-RW drive. There were > no issues on January 8 and 9. But today, I'm getting > > ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) > > errors at boot time. > [...] > > Any idea? It's an I/O error between

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-02 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jan 02, 2024, Charles Curley wrote: > I have a brand new NVME device, details below, in a brand new computer. > smartd just started returning pending sector errors. Means you've got "N" bad sector(s) on the drive. It happens, even on new drives. > > A recent extended (long) test run since th

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 21, 2023, Alain D D Williams wrote: > 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. > > Questions: > > • What is going on ? Looks

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 19, 2023, Felix Miata wrote: > Alexander V. Makartsev composed on 2023-12-19 11:37 (UTC-0500): > > > local10 wrote: > > >> I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they > >> sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within > >> 10-20ms) instead of a single clic

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