Re: Recommendations for RDAP client in Bookworm?

2025-10-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > It looks like Bookworm does not provide a RDAP client. Searching for > rdap and openrdap in Debians packages does not provide meaningful > results: > > $ apt-cache search rdap > ruby-discordrb-webhooks - webhook client for discordrb > libxrda

Re: diff files

2025-10-02 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-10-02 12:24, john doe wrote: > > On 10/2/25 1:13 PM, mick.crane wrote: > > > Please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. > > > I only ever used diff once before. > > > > > > > > > I was trying to get ChatGPT to post a patch file rather than the > > > whole thing

Re: question about debian software development?

2025-09-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Instead, I am seeking, where I can actually ask the question, to get a > sense of what Debian developers charge for their services. > Neither the Links, or elinks developers list are places to which I have > access. > If being financially compensated, what does such work

Re: apt config options to specify the CA of the https repository?

2025-09-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > > hobbit:/usr/share/doc/apt$ zgrep FTP * > changelog.gz: * Change multi sources.list entry example from FTP to HTTPS > > But it's not clear whether that means FTP support is *gone* or simply > no longer given as an example. > As of Trixie: apt (2.9.11) unstable; urgency

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Lister wrote: > On 12/9/2025 19:38, Richard Owlett wrote: > > While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had: > >  1. multiple copies of that file. > >  2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download. > > If you're looking for duplicate (content) files that may have di

Re: [deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk: Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments]

2025-09-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Can I install all of the desktop environments and switch between them as and > when I like? Yes.

Re: RAID & Backups

2025-09-04 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 9/4/25 01:54, Stefan K wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Geoff wrote: > > > One point is that you have to be actively monitoring for any drive > > > failures. > > In all my cases the filesystem (in my case zfs) know that something is > > wrong with the drive long time before

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 9/1/25 14:57, Karl Vogel wrote: > > > > On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: > > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard > > > lin

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 9/2/25 06:05, Dan Ritter wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than h

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links > alone. This is generally not a good thing to recommend; one of the authors of the system wrote a good article which

Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments

2025-08-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > If I want XFCE desktop environment, I need to do a lot with the terminal? No. Almost everything about XFCE is configurable through its control panel / settings manager. -dsr-

Re: ibus notifications on startup

2025-08-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Gary Dale wrote: > > > But doesn't that also kill Zoom? Zoom works in your browser. -dsr-

Re: possible ssh problem

2025-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
> > If so, please post your ddclient.conf after removing any > > passwords. > > > > > If ping works doesn't that suggest that ddclient is working? No. It implied that dyndys has a mapping from your domain name to an IP address which has a machine answering pings. If your ISP has re-assigned the

Re: After fullscreen mode - Window bigger than screen

2025-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > I discovered the following issue: > > Running KDE, and when looking at a video or picture or video in some > application on and make the video fullscreen, then the frame of the > application grows bigger than the screen. > > Biger means, you can see half of the top bar, but click

Re: possible ssh problem

2025-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Paul Scott wrote: > > On 8/28/25 3:00 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Paul Scott wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of > > > view. > > > > > > My desktop compu

Re: possible ssh problem

2025-08-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Paul Scott wrote: > Greetings, > > I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of > view. > > My desktop computer is not always easily accessible. I often access it from > my laptop through dyndns.org. > > I can ping my desktop from my laptop with its dyndns.org address

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi all, > Was going to mark this as off topic. then I realized it may be where many > of you engage with Debian. > Having a discussion on the board of the lug in my area. > someone feels lugs are largely failing. > Do you find this to be true? > If not, why not? The Bos

Re: Uglier emacs font in trixie

2025-08-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Steinar Bang wrote: > >>>>> Dan Ritter : > > However, arguing about font choice is completely ridiculous: find > > something you like. > > But I don't know what I like! Only what I don't like! Oh, OK: https://www.programmingfonts.org/ has about

Re: For Debian 13

2025-08-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Faton Ramadani wrote: > I have Debian 12.11 (64-bit) in my Vps but now need to change in new > version.. > can you send to me a script code to update new version Debian 13.. > I have a lot of files on the VPS, and I want them not to be deleted after > the update. Debian has a complete guide to u

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Fred wrote: > On 8/15/25 09:26, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Fred wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be > > > used for all (browser) use? > > > > A VPN is a network connec

Re: OT: VPN question

2025-08-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Fred wrote: > Hello, > > Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be > used for all (browser) use? A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like another network interface. It can be configured to send all traffic elsewhere, or traffic to a particul

Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color

2025-08-13 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > Dan Ritter (HE12025-08-13): > > > That's correct. gpm doesn't set the pointer color. > > > > > > Whatever application is running on the console gets

Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color

2025-08-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Mike McClain wrote: > I've searched 'man gpm', 'man setterm' but found nothing relating to > pointer color on a text teminal. That's correct. gpm doesn't set the pointer color. Whatever application is running on the console gets to do that, by emitting escape sequences. An article discussing w

Re: Uglier emacs font in trixie

2025-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Steinar Bang wrote: > Upgrade of my laptop from bookworm to trixie went smooth and well. > > Most noticable change was the font used in emacs, which was, I have to > say, uglier. > > Ah well! I will get used to it in time, I guess... Why not change it to what you like? Either you are using em

Re: recognizing an xterm running only bash from the CLI

2025-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 10:31:38 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Recipe: > > 1) Install screen. > 2) On /dev/tty9, run "screen -S shared" to create a named session. > 3) In X, open an xterm (ideally with the same dimensions as the VT). >

Re: recognizing an xterm running only bash from the CLI

2025-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Mike McClain wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 11:28:08PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying here. When you > > say "copy my entry", does that mean you want to type stuff on one > > terminal, and have it appear on the other terminal? > > Sorry I

Re: nginx, and cloudflare (and maybe trixie?)

2025-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Antonio Russo wrote: > In case anyone else is using nginx and cloudflare: > > The documentation for ssl options on your origin server that cloudflare > provides [1] indicate that you should use > > ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; > > I found that setting this option caused a > > SSL_do_handsha

Re: Fn keys don't work on i3wm but work on Xfce

2025-08-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Grigory Fateyev wrote: > I recently installed Debian Trixie on my new Lenovo ThinkPad T16 Gen3 > (Intel Core i7-155H, Meteor Lake-P). While everything works smoothly > under Xfce, my Fn keys (brightness, volume, etc.) stopped functioning > after switching to i3wm. > > Could you advise on how to e

ssl library development

2025-08-07 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-08-05 14:49, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm. > > > > I have been using ssh to login to remote machines for years. Many of > > which I > > use a private key - so I just go "ssh machine-name" and login without > > needing > > to give a pa

Re: Security: Be careful with StarDict!

2025-08-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Max Nikulin wrote: > I decided to post to debian-user rather than to the bug tracker to discuss > it from more general point of view: whether this kind of features should be > considered as controversial and whether Debian maintainers should disable it > in default configuration overriding upstrea

Re: ssh-add no longer accepts passphrase

2025-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Alain D D Williams wrote: > I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm. > > https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Tutorials/Unix-And-Linux/ssh-passwordless-login.html > > I have disk hardware problems, I decided to reboot (first time in ~2 months) > to > see if this would fix it (no it did not - I will buy a new one

Re: Btrfs deduplication and multiple users

2025-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
fred.kite@mailo.com wrote: > My family computer has a main Btrfs partition (@ and @home sub-volumes) and > several users use this computer. I currently use Jdupes to perform the > deduplication of each user's home folder. > > Would it be safe to perform the deduplication with a single comma

Re: Kea Experiment Update

2025-08-04 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Aside: note that I'll say because DHCP leases are persisistent, that > complicates things a little -- I try to address in these notes: > >* load-balancing / sharing with failover (in normal operation two (or > more, > iiuc) servers share the load, if one (and

Re: serial console

2025-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Mike Castle wrote: > > Serial multiplexors used to be common in datacenters. Connect to the > multiplexor over ssh or equivalent, and select which physical device > on the rack to connect to. Most enterprise hardware would output the > boot screens (including BIOS) to the serial port. These da

Re: Handling contact data between Debian, Apple (iCloud) and Gmail (Google)

2025-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I have been using Google contacts since it became available. I have been > sucked into using Apple's contacts since my first iPhone well over 10 years > ago. Keeping them synched has always been a problem, but it's getting worse > over the years. > > I keep reading about thir

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

2025-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Thu 31 Jul 2025 at 19:07:30 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 08:01:56PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > > > > We have learned in this thread that sudo does already have a check in its > > prerm that prevents its removal if the system has a root account wi

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

2025-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
José Esteban wrote: > Is it realistic to hope you to remember such many little things like this > each time you setup some system ? How many headless systems usually work > without sudo ? People who install many headless (or any other kind) of system should use an automated management system. a

Re: Storage tuning

2025-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a "server" running 24/7 with a lot of RAM. I would like to speed up > disk system by giving much higher priority to reads and delaying writes. > > YES, I KNOW THE RISK! > > As I understand, there are two things to tune: > > 1. I/O Scheduler. The default is mq

Re: Hello i am Aryan Wankhede

2025-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Aryan Wankhede wrote: > Hello i am Aryan Wankhede i am a user of Debian i wanted an help from you i > am launching a command line tool for linux and Debian and also i want to > launch it on Apt repository so people can easily download it.The name of > the app is Next and it shows gui and command l

Re: Improving the Web.

2025-07-24 Thread Dan Ritter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Ref. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00110.html > > From: David Wright > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:26:54 -0600 > > "Debian helps fix the Web." Not a headline I expect ever to see, ... > > Too simplisitic and a Web topic rather than Debian topic.

Re: how to delete my bug report

2025-07-23 Thread Dan Ritter
масляков дмитрий wrote: > Hello. > how to delete my bug report > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107874 ? > That nothing was opened at this address. > Don't try to delete it. Send a report to 1107...@bugs.debian.org saying: that you found the problem (and what the solution

Re: Open Source PHP Trouble Ticket System

2025-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
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? I know the best one, but it's not written in PHP. apt install request-tracker5 -dsr-

Re: Old distribution password

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Ivan wrote: > Thank you for quick replay, Dan. > > One detail what is grub prompt? You seem to have missed copying the list on this. Common mistake. Grub is one of the possible boot methods that operates between the computer starting itself and the Linux kernel loading. If Raspbian doesn't us

Re: Old distribution password

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Ivan wrote: > Hallo, > > I wonder if you could help me out. > > Some time ago I got my Raspberry pi and installed Debian distribution - I > have a backup copies with name 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img ... so you > see it is very old one. > > I was not using my Raspberrypi for some time and

Re: Why are bug comment numbers multiples of 5?

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > How come messages are numbered like Message #5, #10, #15, rather than > > Message #1, #2, #3, ...? > > You mean like https://bugs.debian.org/1095863 ? But not https://bugs.debian.org/1095866 which starts with 5 and has a lot of multiples of 3 in it. -dsr-

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
David wrote: > Something that I am curious to learn more about, if anyone has ideas, is > the discussion at the above link about the need to have at least 'chmod > 111' on mountpoint directories. > > I have not found that necessary, and so I wonder if that advice is > outdated, or somehow not rel

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

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Do you have a proposal then for a forum (as in, a platform for group > >> discussion) that's more palatable to the youngsters? > > Zulip? > Discourse? > Lemmy? > > Ideally, such a thing would have good&nice bridges to&from email, but in > practice I don't know any that

Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > > You have to chown/chmod the mount point *after* the drive is mounted. If > > you do it before the drive is mounted it won't have any effect on the > > mounted drive. (As you can see.) I really am not sure what else to say, > > this is how it works. > > Ok, I did as adviced. Change

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

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
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 copy? > > > > The fact that it is on the same disk is not relevant. Apart from that, I > > suggest you re-re

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

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-11, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg (HE12025-07-11): > >> On 2025-07-11, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > > >> > If the target location is on a different filesystem, a "move" is > >> > a full copy followed by a

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

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > > When moving files on the same disk impression is, at least with dragging in > the desktop file manager, it seems instant. Whereas to another disk seems to > make new files. I guess that when on the same disk the OS changes only > something about the file description? That's

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

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing > > > lists) is wise. > > > > > > Debian can support new wa

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

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing > lists) is wise. > > Debian can support new ways to participate, like Social Media and > Chat, for Gen-Z. However, I don't believe it is an either/or > proposition. Debian should support email, mailing

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > On 04/07/2025 5:32 pm, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 04 Jul 2025 at 07:04:32 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote: > > > Excluding two or three packages is much easier, and the suggested > > > approach of appending a - works perfectly if the package was not > > > installed.

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote: > And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt. > It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core. > It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to > inspect which packages are installed, tra

Re: Feature idea: show upstream release dates on packages

2025-07-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Borden wrote: > On a few projects, I've discovered how ancient some software is (like, last > commit more than 15 years ago ancient). Unless I missed something, > `apt-cache show` doesn't show the upstream release date. This runs into problems quickly. Relevant issues include: - no upstream

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-06-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > I could not use tasksel and install only what I want, but then I have to > learn/verify all programs that are required for a functional environment. > Don't use a tasksel desktop. Install one of these metapackages for KDE: kde-full/stable 5:142 amd64 complete KDE S

Re: General question about package building

2025-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > For my own purposes I want to build a package with my own content. > It will content several wordlists I created and need them as package, when I > build a live image. > > All wordlists shall be in /usr/share/wordlists1/. > > Now my question: Is it correct, that I create a folder

Re: unixodbc-bin is not available - what to do?

2025-06-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I'm trying to install the libraries and drivers required to use a > sqlite3 database with libreoffice writer. However when I try to > install the required packages I get an error:- > > root@t470# apt install unixodbc-dev unixodbc-bin unixodbc > Reading package lists..

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply. > > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded. > The poppler-utils package contains: * pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) * pdfseparate -- page extraction tool * pdfunite -- document merging tool Which tog

Re: OT: Malware that causes insertion point to move randomly?

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, on one of my computers, something was going on that caused my > insertion point to move, quite often, in an incorrect manner. > > Often, on typing any letter, the insertion point would move behind the > character I just typed (such that the next characte

Re: How to mount vfat filesystem read/write?

2025-06-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I have an SD card which is vfat formatted. There's a file on it that > I want to remove but when automounted it is read only. How can I get > it to mount with write permission? > > This is on debian 12. First, check to see if the SD card has a readonly switch. (Many SD card

Re: when will trixie become stable?

2025-06-08 Thread Dan Ritter
longwi...@yahoo.com wrote: > how big is difference between rc1 and final release? 42* > where can I find such info? > > freebsd seem more transparent in this regard: > > www.freebsd.org/releases/14.3R/schedule/ FreeBSD isn't more transparent; FreeBSD has a different policy. They have target

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > On 6/6/25 14:44, Dan Ritter wrote: > > ps auwx | grep wm > gene@coyote:~$ ps auwx | grep wm > gene        3863  0.0  0.3 924916 109904 ?       Sl   07:10   0:00 > /usr/bin/akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent --identifier > akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent > ge

Re: virt-manager and networking

2025-06-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Marco Moock wrote: > On 06.06.2025 20:20 Uhr Charles Curley wrote: > > > Is it possible to set things up so that the virtual machines are on > > the same network as the host machine? The host is on > > 192.168.100.0/24. Can I have the virtual machines also on > > 192.168.100.0? > > This is calle

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > The fly in that soup is that although I thought I''ve installed xfce4 as a > task, htop does not find anything xfce4 listed as running.  AND all the > fetch this and that stuff that has been listed in this thread, supposedly > made to tell what is runnin, are not installed to

Re: Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

2025-06-05 Thread Dan Ritter
white-wolf wrote: > Hi, > > Apparently, the era of the Minitel is truly over... > 200€ for an acceptable machine, it's clear that given the price of VPS, > my idea is not profitable... > > Another question, how can I offer a managed IT services for > individuals, more or less on a large scale? T

Re: is it possible to use debian with mini PC when display is not connected to hdmi

2025-06-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > > Or unfortunately, firmware will recognize this fact automatically and > > will not allow me to load GRUB and boot The kernel:? > > It's your bios settings, not Debian issue. > > > I do not see at all so I want to use 20 Watts energy comsumption with no > > need to use

Re: Solutions to notify desktop users of new Debian releases

2025-05-31 Thread Dan Ritter
John Scott wrote: > I'm looking to help a couple people I know personally get up and running with > Debian very soon, and I hope to help many more. Speaking from experience, my > primary concern is that Debian on the desktop does not notify users at all > when a new release is made or when the

Re: Compile VLC from source enabling with live555 RTSP streaming support

2025-05-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi folks, > > Our product is using VLC with RTSP support with live555 > (http://www.live555.com/) - which was disabled in Debian because of licensing > changes by live555. > > I want compile VLC with live555 RTSP streaming support, most of the tutorials > or hints I f

Re: amd rx550

2025-05-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Russell L. Harris wrote: > Should I purchase a used computer with AMD RX550 video? I have a Debian desktop with one; it drives 2 4K monitors just fine. I don't play games; that may factor into your decision. -dsr-

Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

2025-05-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need > the directories > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc > /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi > alongside the already installed > /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi > in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together. > G

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I > did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The upgrade > went through but after I rebooted I did not have any entries in KDE's > application launcher. I created a new acco

Re: Trixie - freeze? Questions

2025-05-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > now as trixie is is in frozen state I am asking myself, when best time to > upgrade to trixie. > > My systems are no important product systems, so small failures do not harm > much. > > First question: Would you recommend to upgrade now or just wait until the > o

Re: No link with BCM57412 (Broadcom Extreme NetXtreme-E 10Gb)

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Mihaly Zachar wrote: > I have never used fibre connection yet. Now I got a server where the HW > (Dell R440) and the network connections are provided by others, my task > is to install a Linux on it. > > I installed a fresh Debian 12, the built-in NIC (BCM5720) is working, it > also can see the

Re: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > When I installed Debian 12.10 on my device : > CPU: 13th GenIntel Core i5-13500x20 > Graphic:Mesa intel UHD Graphics 770(ADL-S GT1) > Memery: 16G > During the installation, it works well, but after finishing the installation, > it will reboot, and then it is stuck wit

Re: kotlin package and dependencies

2025-05-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > I'm using the kotlin package since I wanted to use the kotlinc compiler, and > noticed that it lists following packages as dependencies > > * ant > * libmaven-compiler-plugin-java > * libmaven-plugin-tools-java > * libmaven3-core-java > > > I'm not using ant or ma

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread Dan Ritter
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host > numeric and names > where do they come from Assuming that your shell is bash, it comes from the bash tab completion function, which has an optional package: bash-completion/stable,now 1:2.11-6 all programmabl

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > FYI, some of us have recently re-started an effort to improve the Debian > Wiki. One of the things we need to establish (IMHO) is to determine what > audience the wiki is *for*. For example, it serves a useful function for > Developers, with clusters of pages for Debconfs

Re: "Tips"?

2025-05-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Joe wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager > > Arch Linux, by the way, is based on Debian and has some excellent > documentation, most of which applies to Debian itself. I don't think anyone at the Arch project or the Debian project would say that Arch is based on Debian. It

Re: "Tips"?

2025-05-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Gregory Forster wrote: > Hi, >     On Wednesdays, I volunteer at a Senior Center to teach computers.  Well, > few, if any, showed up. I'm  now known as, "Greg, the gadget guy." helping > people with their cell phones, computers and tablets.  Well, last Wednesday, > nobody showed up for anything. 

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > * If a new machine is genuinely more efficient (and we keep being > >told that they are!), > > The capacity of laptop batteries has been stable around 50-100Wh for > decades, so the detailed and concrete data about potential improvement > in efficiency is readily av

Re: Issue with ffmpeg hevc_qsv Encoder on Debian Trixie – Unclear Package Responsibility

2025-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
amir alavi wrote: > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 7:7.1.1-1+b1 > Package: intel-media-va-driver-non-free > Version: 25.1.4+ds1-1 > Dear Maintainers, > I am encountering an issue when attempting to convert files using ffmpeg with > the hevc_qsv encoder (Intel QuickSync) on Debian Trixie. > Previously

Re: Internet connection in rescue mode

2025-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02): > > What lesson is that? > > Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it > does. That includes the privilege of being you, a user whose data is close at hand and readable, if not even deletable. Creating a n

Re: route all traffic to a internal socket

2025-05-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > I don't want to use set proxy in firefox and other application, but > I want to send any packets to 127.0.0.1: and my program itself > send to eth0. > > OK, there is an underlying assumption that you are not telling > us. > > Why do you want to do

Re: route all traffic to a internal socket

2025-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: >On 4/30/25 4:29 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Wed Apr 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM BST, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > I want to send any packet to 127.0.0.1: and it sends my packets > to internet. my outgoing interface is eth0. > > You can

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Eben King wrote: > I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to > myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, > just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work > reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). Wh

Re: openssh-server uninstallable

2025-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Andy Wood wrote: > Is anybody else being hit by a problem with openssh-server after the > 1:10.0p1-2 migration into testing the other day? > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > openssh-server : Depends: openssh-client (= 1:9.9p2-2) but 1:10.0p1-2 is to > be installed > E: Unabl

Re: Xpra

2025-04-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Mario Marietto wrote: > ->Thanks. But a full desktop is definitely what I do not want. This is the > great thing about Xpra: like the good old remote X11, but fast and > detachable. > > Exactly. A whole new Linux distro can be made following your approach. The > distro that I have had in mind sin

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configuration Uitility Ver A.63, 2010; BIOS Versione > A.09.04151432R. > Chipset Intel 3200 + ICH9R ( > https://www.fujitsu.com/cl/Images/ds-py-tx100-s1.pdf: Intel 3200 server > chipset, ECC memory and RAID 0/1). > This RAID is

Re: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You can find everything about the LSI system I described at this link: > https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7fy-2331-01en.pdf (see page 59). This document is too generic; it does not tell us the most important part: which chipset family is in use. LSI's 2

Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Eben King wrote: > I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I only > log in at the console when it's broken so that networking doesn't work, and > even then I almost always use a text console. So I very rarely need X, but > still want it there to use if I need it. Howev

Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

2025-04-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > Tom Browder (HE12025-04-21): > > $ time raku -e ‘my $s = “a” x 25; my $r = “a?” x 25 ~ “a” x 25; if > > ($s ~= $r) { say “yes” } ‘ > > I almost asked if Raku uses pairs of Unicode quotes instead of the > symmetrical ASCII one; then I noticed the single quotes, and I kn

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Alain D D Williams wrote: > I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I > ssh > in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up like > that). For about a decade, I color-coded the default text in my terminals to indicate where I was SSHd

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Matt Timpson wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to follow up on some problems I had running an x64 emulator on a > Raspberry Pi. I've tried paying for computer help, but no one I spoke to > worked with Linux. You can ask specific questions here, or on the Box mailing list (or on the KVM or QEMU lis

Re: Realtek Wireless USB Network Card and DKMS

2025-04-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Schumacher wrote: > Hello > I recently bought a BrosTrend 650Mbps Linux Compatible Wiki Adapter > (https://www.brostrend.com/products/ac5l) lsusb shows it to be a: > 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC > They seemed rather linux- and especially Debian-friendly and even have >

Re: case fan speed

2025-04-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun Apr 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM BST, Eben King wrote: > > sudo modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728 > > > > then running "sensors" shows > > it8728-isa-0a40 > > Adapter: ISA adapter > > <9 voltages> > > <5 fans, one of which is 0 RPM> > > <3 temps> > > intrusion0: ALARM > > >

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > To avoid this, there seem to be two approaches: > >- remove those dependancies (see below) > >- confine the impact of those dependancies, as proposed > by some developpers, in having those dependancies confined > (not examined here) > > To solve this,

Re: atftpd permission denied

2025-04-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > I am having problems writing to atftpd. I keep getting a permission > > denied > > > error. > &g

Re: atftpd permission denied

2025-04-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > I am having problems writing to atftpd. I keep getting a permission denied > error. > > Switch#$.SED.bin tftp://169.254.180.65/c3550-ipservicesk9-mz.122-25.SED.bin > > > Address or name of remote host [169.254.180.65]? > Destination filename [c3550-ipser

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