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

2025-07-17 Thread David Wright
-date argument of that complexity (mixing an absolute and relative time), so using date at all is just a nasty hack. Cheers, David.

Re: would like to do install from local mirror

2025-07-17 Thread David Wright
g the fastest mirror, have you tried netselect-apt? Like Charles, I think the Content Delivery Network does this for you more effectively than you can. For more information, browse: https://deb.debian.org Cheers, David.

Re: problem installing trixie

2025-07-17 Thread David Christensen
your Setup utility does not have secure erase, check the drive manufacturer. 3. If neither Setup nor your manufacturer have secure erase, boot the Debian installer into a rescue shell and zero fill the drive that you want to install Debian onto. David

Re: problem installing trixie - no EFI

2025-07-17 Thread David Wright
t; but booting is only possible over the BIOS menu. Like John Doe, no idea what this means. Cheers, David.

Re: kmail: Sound at sending mail

2025-07-14 Thread David Wright
n a mail with the word "advice" in > the > headline. I don't know what a headline is. > This suddenly appeared, but I could not find, why this happens. Isuppose, it > is a bug in kmail, but be not sure. Perhaps make Subject part of the pattern: ^Subject: .*advice Cheers, David.

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-14 Thread David Christensen
about 40 years. > So I'm not losing sleep, and neither should you. The consensus appears to be that continuous erasure (e.g. fstab(5) "discard" option) is undesirable and that periodic erasure (e.g. fstrim.timer or fstrim(8)) is preferred. And, there are plenty of other possibilities if you care to STFW, including fstab(5) / mount(8) "noatime", "nodiratime", "relatime", and "commit", RAM disks, sync tools, etc.. David

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

2025-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Jul 2025 at 09:06:19 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 23:47:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > You can write your own sequences, so that they are meaningful to you. > > For example: > > : "𝄫" U1d12b #

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-13 Thread David Christensen
On 7/13/25 13:23, David Christensen wrote: `dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M /dev/sdX` I apologize -- that command is wrong, in more than one way. Here is an console session from when I zeroed a 1 TB HDD: 1. Find the number of sectors: 2024-11-28 13:59:57 root@bullseye-bios ~ # parted /dev/disk/by

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-13 Thread David Christensen
On 7/13/25 09:29, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: ... I would expect a new SSD to be securely erased by the factory, but would check this assumption (and do an informal sequential read benchmark): 2025-07-12 12:13:02 root@laalaa ~ # time dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1M | hexdump -C 00

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-13 Thread David Christensen
On 7/13/25 04:37, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: ... Yes, things get very bad when bad people control the SSD firmware. I can only hope the firmware in my SSD's is legitimate, and updates are cryptographically signed. When using d-i to initialize a physical volume for encrypti

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-13 Thread David Christensen
On 7/12/25 21:46, songbird wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote: On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote: I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them to my existing setup, Be sure to do a secure erase before you put

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-13 Thread David Christensen
On 7/12/25 20:33, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/07/2025 09:41, David Christensen wrote: AIUI SSD over-provisioning combined with setting the discard flag in fstab(5) provides maximum performance for write intensive workloads. Is it better than fstrim.timer mentioned in this thread? Some years ago

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

2025-07-12 Thread David Wright
e to remember whether it's Compose co or Compose oc. (Only the latter is defined by the system.) You can just place your definitions into the file ~/.XCompose, but do put: include "%S/en_US.UTF-8/Compose" at the top of your file, because creating this file _replaces_ the system's version in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose, so you need to include the latter to retain its ~6000 definitions. Cheers, David.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Jul 2025 at 02:51:25 (+), David wrote: > Again: when you mount something on a mountpoint, all underlying data of > that mountpoint becomes hidden and inaccessible and irrelevant. In linux, that isn't entirely true, as you can use a bind mount to read what lies "

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-12 Thread David Christensen
On 7/12/25 06:19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote: On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote: I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them to my existing setup, Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the SSD's

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-11 Thread David
On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 at 18:49, Hans wrote: > > Permissions are stored for the root directory of each filesystem, which > > are used as the permissions of the mount point when the drive is > > mounted. > Thanks, this is explaining all my questions. I always thought wrong, that > mounted devices an

Re: Fwd: more trouble with HP Laser Jet Pro 4301 8023 CB

2025-07-11 Thread David Christensen
apologize for not thinking about that sooner.  I do appreciate you guys and especially David. Thank you a million times over. Moe I'm glad the printer is working. :-) Thank you for providing closure on the list -- this may help others in the future. David

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-10 Thread David Christensen
etwork idea, you may want to add entries to hosts(5) -- so that you can use names, rather than IP addresses, to identify hosts. David

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-10 Thread David Christensen
t near-site/ off-site rotation. A related subject to consider is archiving -- burning backups to write-once discs periodically -- CD-R, DVD-R, BD-R, DL, XL, etc.. David

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread David Christensen
On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 2025-07-09 18:43, David Christensen wrote: On 7/9/25 10:39, Rick Macdonald wrote: I had a question that I forgot to add to my initial long post. This was since "top" didn't show any great CPU usage, could the encryption have been perfo

Re: more trouble with HP Laser Jet Pro 4301 8023 CB

2025-07-09 Thread David Christensen
st the URL. What files have you downloaded (e.g. file names) and from where (e.g. URL)? David

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread David Christensen
, and wait to see if the attacks resume. If so, find the source. If not, add a suspect computer to the isolated network segment and repeat. If you want to remove malware from the Windows computer, run Windows Update, run a Windows Defender full scan, and run a Windows Defender offline scan. David

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread David Christensen
On 7/6/25 19:47, Rick Macdonald wrote: After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. On 7/7/25 17:18, David Christensen wrote: Please boot live media in the server, open a root terminal, mount

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread David Christensen
rver/etc/ssh/sshd_config # find /mnt/server/ -name '*___READ_THIS___*' -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -r -0 ls -l # find /mnt/server/ -name '*___READ_THIS___*' -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -r -0 dirname -z | xargs -r -0 ls -ld Please provide `ls -l` listings for some example malware encrypted files and for the directories that contain them. Document changes. David

Re: Folders from user suddenly in trash

2025-07-06 Thread David Wright
t; In the web, most messages of disappeared folders were related to Windows, not > linux. Presumably you can lose those by including KDE, and perhaps Trash, among the search terms. Most of the hits I read seemed to be about whether the Trash folder had special properties in its behaviour (like its icon, and its right-click menu, for example). Cheers, David.

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-04 Thread David Wright
install the DE itself, and APT/dpkg will see that those _recommendations_ are already installed. But repeat the -s run after installing your first set of equivalents in case there are any second-order recommendations. Cheers, David.

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-03 Thread David Wright
ies are satisfied. If an extra dependency is added (rare), it gets installed.¹ If an extra Recommends is added, you might not even notice the fact when --no-install-recommends is in force: and if it were to be undesirable, you wouldn't have to do anything about eliminating it, like blacklisting it. ¹ apt-get users might require dist-upgrade or --with-new-pkgs when this happens. Cheers, David.

Re: how to delete an attached file bugs.debian.org

2025-07-03 Thread David Christensen
been submitted. A bug report moderator may be able to. I would just ignore it and try to be more careful next time. David

Re: Feature idea: show upstream release dates on packages

2025-07-03 Thread David Wright
next step would be refining the idea as a Debian > Enhancement Proposal (DEP): https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/ So does this fit somewhere into DEP-12? "DRAFT DEP-12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream" Cheers, David.

Re: Feature idea: show upstream release dates on packages

2025-07-03 Thread David Wright
ackages that I add to new installations, and I couldn't see any where upstream release date would be my criterion for choosing one over another, rather than functionality, suitable interface, length of my previous experience, etc. Cheers, David.

Re: readers running debian

2025-07-03 Thread Erwan David
r a hardware specialized for reading documents, that you'd like to be running a debian based system ? -- Erwan David

Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-07-01 Thread David Christensen
On 7/1/25 04:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 21:36:14 -0700, David Christensen wrote: The next time you log in, sudo(8) should work: $ sudo pia-linux-3.6.1-08339.run Even if sudo works, that command won't. It would need to be something like: sudo chmod +x pia-

Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-06-30 Thread David Christensen
# exit 6. Close all windows/ apps and log out. The next time you log in, sudo(8) should work: $ sudo pia-linux-3.6.1-08339.run David

Re: Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread David Christensen
On 6/30/25 17:36, David Christensen wrote: +1 for multi-boot via multiple drives. Mobile racks facilitate changing drives: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/mobile-racks https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/m2-removable-pcie-n1 I should add -- only insert one bootable drive at a time

Re: Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread David Christensen
edicated drive(s) and use common-denominator techniques -- motherboard HBA/RAID, NTFS. David

Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare

2025-06-30 Thread David Kennedy
I was informed on the Debian Subreddit that this is where I should report an issue so just adding my post here too. I wasn't sure what package this would be related to so happy to resent this if anybody would like to suggest it and I can resubmit for a particular package to the bugs email. Thank

Debian reset root password (was: Re: Debian Users problem)

2025-06-25 Thread David Christensen
"With physical access to hard disk, resetting the password ..." on the following Debian wiki page: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html#_securing_the_root_password I would advise making a copy of your current /etc/passwd before modifying it. David

Re: My computer crashes and freezes when:

2025-06-23 Thread David Christensen
but my steam crashing my whole computer its still there Have you completed all of the steps listed on the Steam Support -> Steam Client Crashes? https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithSteamIssue/?issueid=707 David

Re: My computer crashes and freezes when:

2025-06-21 Thread David Christensen
ch.com/en-us/hdd/drw150satbk https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/hsb220sat25b https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/s25slotr https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/m2-removable-pcie-n1 David

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list

2025-06-20 Thread David Wright
ting/unstable users, but that is what they've signed up for. > > The entire system was designed and built around the idea that conffiles > > would be hand edited and must be preserved. And for Debian, one documentation source is §5 of the Policy Manual, in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ap-pkg-conffiles.html. And for those who feel that all changes should be made in .d/ directories and not the conffiles themselves, one kicker is here: "However, note that dpkg will not replace a conffile that was removed by the user (or by a script). This is necessary because with some programs a missing file produces an effect hard or impossible to achieve in another way, so that a missing file needs to be kept that way if the user did it." Cheers, David.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list

2025-06-20 Thread David Wright
efault action is to keep your current version. *** (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y Installing new version of config file ... So sources.list is a configuration file, but not a conffile. Cheers, David.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list

2025-06-19 Thread David Wright
step in the upgrade process, described typically at §4.3 in the Release Notes. Do check the preceding sections as well, which could mean your editing the sources.list more than once over the course of the upgrade. Cheers, David.

Re: Run script after package install, update

2025-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 15 Jun 2025 at 13:33:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 12:14:30 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Well, I just plagiarised /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99needrestart: > > > > $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99redogrub > > DPkg::Post-Invoke {"tes

Re: Run script after package install, update

2025-06-15 Thread David Wright
info (6.7.0.dfsg.2-6) ... Processing triggers for doc-base (0.11.1) ... Processing 2 added doc-base files... Registering documents with dhelp... Scanning processes... Scanning processor microcode... Scanning linux images... Running kernel seems to be up-to-date. The processor microcode seems to be up-to-date. No services need to be restarted. No containers need to be restarted. No user sessions are running outdated binaries. # So the script runs whenever grub.cfg gets updated. Note that grub-install does not update grub.cfg, IIRC, but the script can be triggered manually whenever necessary (as I did above). Cheers, David.

Re: Run script after package install, update

2025-06-15 Thread David Wright
.) > Unless there's some way for the command being run to receive information > about the dpkg session involved (in which case this would boil down to > "write a shell script and use that as the command"), or a way for a > command running independent of apt to *detect* whether such an update > has happened, that doesn't look like it would satisfy the need. Cheers, David.

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

2025-06-05 Thread David Christensen
of Microsoft certificates, and make customers sign long-term service agreements with up-front and monthly payments. David

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

2025-06-05 Thread David Christensen
on+8gb+ssd Finally -- if you want to do "heavy computations and operations" in the cloud, also take a look at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ David

Re: how to install debian to external USB ssd harddisk

2025-06-04 Thread David Christensen
of Setup utilities with text-to-voice capabilities, you may need a sighted person to help you with this step. David

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread David Wright
m the text > in atril to at least 400%. You can also invert the colours, which may > increase the contrast. https://att.vtp-media.com/products/CL/CL84XX7/CL84XX7_CIB_i6.0_20190821.pdf It also means that with Xpdf you can copy and paste the text into an editor and display it in whatever your usual manner for text is. (It's a bit more tedious copying the two-column sections if your display isn't wide enough for two text columns side by side.) Cheers, David.

Re: aptitude configuration

2025-06-02 Thread David Wright
e past in I missed that? I'm a little > confused. I can trace back hints to the former version being mentioned > in 2007. There is at least a good chance I missed something. > > [1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/aptitude You should browse /usr/share/doc/aptitude/changelog.Debian.gz Cheers, David.

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread David Wright
l (Shift-3) nor the pipe character. What language is your keyboard, what do those keys type, and where is your pipe key? Cheers, David.

Re: exim configuration.

2025-05-31 Thread David Wright
d. Thanks. I reviewed exim4 more for interest than necessity. > When there is time, can follow up on your suggestions. I'm not sure it's worth trying to configure Exim without having a clear picture of what you want it to do with it, and how it will fit into your overall email strategy. (Obviously I'm talking about going beyond sole use of dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config in a LAN with a single PC.) Cheers, David.

Re: amd rx550

2025-05-30 Thread David Christensen
On 5/30/25 10:20, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 02:18:06AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Perhaps you could take Debian Live media to Blair and test before purchase? Regrettably, no.  Blair is in Kentucky; I am in Texas. Okay. Reading ahead, Debian should work fine on

Re: amd rx550

2025-05-30 Thread David Christensen
, sound cards, network cards, PCIe drive cards, disk drives, etc., it would be better to start with a full tower case, vibration isolated internal drive bays, sound absorbing liner, big power supply, large fans, and suitable motherboard/ CPU/ memory. This is how I built my SOHO servers. David

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Erwan David
me to work, you need some svg lib which is recommended by one of the plasma* package. Check whether you install recommended packages, or only dependencies. I am not on my trixie, thus cannot give you now the package name for the library -- Erwan David

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-27 Thread David
On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 23:37, 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

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 5/26/25 13:02, David Wright wrote: On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: Now I connect a SATA to USB adapter cable to a 2.5" SATA SSD and install Debian onto the SSD: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb Can you boot it on both BIOS and EFI mac

Re: dual boot or windows vm?

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
oting: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/hsb220sat25b https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/s25slotr For laptops: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb David

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote: > > Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I > > need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I > > can use

Re: Random locks ups in qemu

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
Debian, I tried running without swap. The computers always crashed under load. When I added a 1G swap partition, the crashes stopped. Since then, I always provide a 1G swap partition when installing. David

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
ash drives do not have a substantial RAM buffer, so interactive use was choppy. Now I connect a SATA to USB adapter cable to a 2.5" SATA SSD and install Debian onto the SSD: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb David

Re: Strange (cosmic ray?) corruption.

2025-05-25 Thread David Christensen
/.ssh/id_rsa_backup backup@backup17 'cat >/dumps/proxy17.20250525.1/_.log' Please run and post: # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a Does your computer have ECC memory? Are you using integrity assured filesystems (e.g. btrfs or ZFS)? Can you reduce your process to a minimal Bourne shell script that exits with 0 on success and exits with 1 on error that readers can run on their computers to debug the issue? David

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-24 Thread David Christensen
ot flag on sda1 and/or sdb1, install/configure LVM to access the contents of your 2T drives, and install/configure software. David

Re: Repair or Replace

2025-05-20 Thread David Christensen
drive into the computer. Mount the old drive filesystems read-only. Install desired software. Configure software by referring to contents of old filesystems. Shutdown. Remove old drive. Take an image. Backup all filesystems. David

Re: Trixie - freeze? Questions

2025-05-20 Thread Erwan David
estion: Would you recommend to upgrade now or just wait until the > official release? Clearly, I would recommend to wait for some weeks : you'll get then a tested upgrade path with documentation, and most integration bugs corrected. -- Erwan David

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-19 Thread David Christensen
ow the command(s) to do so, state that and ask for clarification. David

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread David Christensen
cludes .gz compressed log file backups, Flatpak crud, and /var/cache/apt/archives buildup. I frequently do: # apt-get autoremove and # apt-get autoclean And when I really want to go on a diet, I do: # apt-get clean Thanks again to all! YW. :-) David

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-17 Thread David Wright
.bashrc # enable bash completion in interactive shells #if ! shopt -oq posix; then # if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then #. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion # elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then #. /etc/bash_completion # fi #fi $ Cheers, David.

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-17 Thread David Christensen
#x27;s my story. Again, thanks for the input! I use a version control system to track all of the relevant details for each of my systems. This makes backup-wipe-install-restore much easier. David

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-15 Thread David Christensen
l, I would use the Setup utility on the old laptop to reset the settings to factory defaults, wipe the NVMe drive, reinstall Windows over the Internet (including Dell bloatware), and unlink the Windows license from any Microsoft account. You could then repurpose the old laptop. David

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread David Wright
> > ifupdown, network manager, systemd-networkd or whatever. > > > > (With ifupdown I can help a bit, with the others there are > > far more knowledgeable folks than me around here). > > > > Cheers > > Thank you. I just found the first of those commands. > > sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up gives: > > RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill $ /sbin/rfkill should show what's blocked, and sudo rfkill unblock all should unblock it. Cheers, David.

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 May 2025 at 19:04:55 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 02/05/2025 02:34, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > > > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file p

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread David Christensen
onents via craigslist. In more recent years, eBay seems to be the best source. When myself or people I support want recent hardware with warranties and Windows support, Dell Outlet and Dell Refurbished work. David

Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade

2025-05-08 Thread David Christensen
> not work I installed debian 12.2 along side the other one and now it > works I suggest that you take an image of your OS drive now. Raw dd(1) works. Clonezilla is the canonical FOSS live distribution for imaging: https://clonezilla.org/ David

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-06 Thread David Wright
prohibitively expensive to replace. Yes, though in that case it would be unwise not to have a number of systems available for spare parts, including interfaces. But other possibilities include as a personal hobby, or for a museum. Cheers, David.

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-05 Thread David Wright
sarge from 2005–2007 on two machines: Pentium II (Klamath) with 384MB Pentium III (Coppermine) with 512MB Cheers, David.

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-05 Thread David Christensen
mple. Failure can include catching on fire (!). I would recycle that computer, rather than burn my house down. David

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

2025-05-04 Thread David Wright
(I don't see any report of the "bug", 482194, being reproduced by anyone, and I didn't catch up with the change for another nine years, as you may or may not remember.) Cheers, David.

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

2025-05-03 Thread David Wright
reverts to root. There are several answers posted, but after you have finished and unmounted all the filesystems in /media, remember to revert the permissions/ownership of /media to drwxr-xr-x root root and leave it like that. Cheers, David.

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

2025-05-03 Thread David
On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 11:09, Haines Brown wrote: The private message that I have quoted here ... > On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 10:51:17AM +0000, David wrote: > > On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 10:23, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key moun

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

2025-05-03 Thread David
On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 10:23, Haines Brown wrote: > I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory > under /media. Hi, what type of filesystem is on the USB key? extt4? vfat? Something else? > I can change the ownership of that directory to that of the user, but >

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if > > that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly > > possible that the Debian v

Re: keyboard light MacBook Pro mid 2009 running Debian.

2025-05-01 Thread David Wright
difiers to press at the same time: shift, fn, control, option, command (some modifiers have left and right), or even none. Cheers, David.

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Apr 2025 at 16:53:43 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote: > > And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult > > to see whether anything had changed. > > Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it > > m

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-29 Thread David Wright
/local/lib/ ls -ult Now we run into another problem: the OS could be caching the targets of the symlinks and the contents of the libraries, avoiding the necessity of rereading them. # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches each time, should prevent it doing that. Cheers, David.

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

2025-04-29 Thread David Wright
├─┼───┤ │5│ graphical.target │ ├─┼───┤ Is the break in communication between Grub and the kernel, or the kernel and systemd? I'm not best qualified to answer that, because my graphical.target.wants includes solely udisks2.service, and I suspect that I don't even depend on that. Is a DM startup placed only in graphical.target.wants, and not multi-user.t.w? Cheers, David.

Re: How do I start the Handbrake GUI?

2025-04-26 Thread David
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 at 12:32, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:01:06 +0000 David wrote: > >Because you are running this: > > > > https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-arm64/package/handbrake > >which is not packaged by Debian. >

Re: How do I start the Handbrake GUI?

2025-04-26 Thread David
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 at 11:53, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-04-26 07:32, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:15:41 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > >> I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed > >> Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it. > > Install handbrake-

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 15:29:39 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-25, David Wright wrote: > >> > >> Considerable extra typing susceptible to error, and as I suffer from a > >> digital deformity, I prefer less to more. > > > > You could read man bash

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 22:44, Lee wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:33:54 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > Also, you should quote "$tempf". [...] > > But why take the chance? > You're right - I should be working on the habit of putting quote

Re: How do I start the Handbrake GUI?

2025-04-25 Thread David
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 16:55, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed > Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it. > > The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop > menu and the command line program has too many options for

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/25 07:43, Gareth Evans wrote: On Fri 25/04/2025 at 02:54, David Christensen wrote: If all you need is an SSH or Samba file server for a SOHO network, most any x86_64 computer built in the last ~15 years can work. Hi David, I thought it was still the case that some NICs, for example

Re: systemd misses services

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
d. > > Why are exim and spamassassin automatically present as services? You could try installing bash-completion. Subsequently: $ systemctl status exi← TAB pressed twice exim4-base.service exim4-base.timerexim4.service exit.target $ systemctl status exi Cheers, David.

Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Apr 2025 at 02:14:47 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright wrote: > > > I would assume that uninstalling the Display Manager would free up > > > the

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
e. You could read man bash from the line that starts with ALIASES and save yourself a lot of typing. For example, when I want to check up on my clock synchronisation, I type: $ clock Its alias is: alias clock='chronyc activity; echo; chronyc sourcestats; echo; chronyc sources -a -v; echo; chronyc tracking; echo; timedatectl; echo; systemctl status chrony.service' Cheers, David.

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread David Christensen
d to use HDD's for data storage and to use SSD's for caches and/or metadata. David

Re: Staples Dell refurbished computer for bookworm and trixie

2025-04-24 Thread David Christensen
E3-1225 v5 processor, 2 @ 8 GB ECC memory, and a 60 GB SATA 6 Gbps SSD (Debian). Performance is good and standard fans are adequate (and quiet). David

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-23 Thread David
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 20:54, Van Snyder wrote: > > KDE discover put a popup on my screen saying there are updates available. > > I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." > > So I pushed the little button in the tool tray with the little red dot > and Discover said there were

Re: [Bookworm] ZFS shutdown

2025-04-23 Thread David Christensen
On 4/23/25 16:21, David Christensen wrote: On 4/23/25 14:49, Greg wrote: Hi there, What is the proper way of shutting down ZFS? After: # /etc/init.d/zfs-share stop # /etc/init.d/zfs-mount stop # /etc/init.d/zfs-import stop pool 'backup' is not mounted but: # zpool export bac

Re: [Bookworm] ZFS shutdown

2025-04-23 Thread David Christensen
How it is possible that it is not mounted but is still busy? PS. Shutting down the server is not an option. Regards Greg On FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE-p4, `zpool export ` works for me. David

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