Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-04-05 Thread Erwan David
, ssh is usually a lot easier to tunnel to > > sneak through than a VPN. > > My bet was that 443 is always open because otherwise mid- and hi- > level mgmt would be on top of the poor admins because they couldn't > go to their share trading casinos: I won :) Admins would also have problems to get security updates (and not accessing *overflow) -- Erwan David

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Erwan David
had to use dpkg to purge old kernels and old initramfs files. Beware that some firmware packages include huge data and are by default included in initramfs (since firmwares may be necessary to boot. -- Erwan David

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-15 Thread Erwan David
that, > for servers I didn't install, > I need to know their RAID setup in advance, > or at least the total number of disks, > then compare with the output of smartctl or cciss_vol_status. You can get the layout with lsblk, IIRC -- Erwan David

Re: Non packaged hplip on trixie (testing) ?

2025-01-28 Thread Erwan David
Le 28/01/2025 à 20:40, Brad Rogers a écrit : AIUI, that's what people want; Hplip depending on 3.12 is causing the issues. From the bug report at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1075069 it seems it's possible to build hplip such that it no longer depends on python 3.12 and thu

Re: Non packaged hplip on trixie (testing) ?

2025-01-28 Thread Erwan David
Le 28/01/2025 à 15:16, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Tue Jan 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM GMT, Erwan David wrote: Current hplip package in testing and sid requires python 3.12 Several packages in testing now require 3.13 (eg libreoffice and borg). Since there is no newer package in sid, and Trixie

Re: Non packaged hplip on trixie (testing) ?

2025-01-28 Thread Erwan David
Le 28/01/2025 à 15:16, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Tue Jan 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM GMT, Erwan David wrote: Current hplip package in testing and sid requires python 3.12 Several packages in testing now require 3.13 (eg libreoffice and borg). Since there is no newer package in sid, and Trixie

Non packaged hplip on trixie (testing) ?

2025-01-28 Thread Erwan David
Current hplip package in testing and sid requires python 3.12 Several packages in testing now require 3.13 (eg libreoffice and borg). Since there is no newer package in sid, and Trixie freeze approaches, I worry on the usability of hplip in Trixie. Did someone try the non packaged verion on a

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-05 Thread Erwan David
of the computer and let it running for ca. an hour. Then restart > > the computer. > > I am curious which way OS notifies a drive that it is mounted. I believed > that drivers read and write blocks, maybe switch power save states, but > mount is performed on a higher level. > We w

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/12/2024 à 19:41, Bruno Schneider a écrit : In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. The new one then would have /dev/nvme* as entries (that is clear), but if I am using only UUID, the question: I would recommend changing from UUID to labels. Doing so, all you need to w

Debugging systemd-tmpfiles

2024-11-28 Thread Erwan David
are not cleaned. What should I check ? -- Erwan David

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-28 Thread Erwan David
usr/share/doc/bash-doc/ does *NOT* exist on my Debian 12.7 machine > All defaults were accepted during install. It is in the bash-doc package, which is optional -- Erwan David

Re: sudo question

2024-11-20 Thread Erwan David
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 07:39:33AM CET, Bitfox said: > > BTW, what’s the difference between [[ ]] and [ ] here? I know only the > latter. IIRC, [[ ]] is a bash/zsh builtin, [ ] is /bin/[ other name of /bin/test -- Erwan David

Re: needrestart no longer depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl?

2024-11-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/11/2024 à 20:39, Mike Kupfer a écrit : Christian Britz wrote: See the changelog: * debian/control: Drop Depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl Thanks. I had tried looking at the changelog, but Synaptic and apt were unable to find it. Okay. After some poking around, I now see a couple ways

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

2024-11-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 13/11/2024 à 00:07, Dan Ritter a écrit : hlyg wrote: easiest way to identify usb3 is look at color, both connector and connectee shall be blue As it turns out, that's not a requirement. USB A ports can be white, black, blue, red, yellow, green, teal or purple... or pretty much any other col

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

2024-10-31 Thread Erwan David
rmware/Updates#fwupd > though I did not yet try that approach myself. I use it with no problem on Dell Latitude and Lenovo Thinkpad. -- Erwan David

Re: subnet subset blocked

2024-09-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/09/2024 à 12:30, Adam Weremczuk a écrit : On 24/09/2024 22:29, Dan Ritter wrote: What does ip route show give you on the VM in question? ip route show default via 192.168.4.1 dev ens192 onlink 192.168.4.0/24 dev ens192 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.4.12 BINGO! 192.168.4.0/24 i

/var/backups, how to restore ?

2024-09-03 Thread Erwan David
ge}\n' -W > /var/backups/installed_pkgs.txt - apt-mark showmanual > /var/backups/manualpkgs.txt - debconf-get-selections > /var/backups/debconf.txt -- Erwan David

Re: KDE - Wayland vs X11

2024-09-02 Thread Erwan David
wayland support is still incomplete, and X11 support won't disappear soon -- Erwan David

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-30 Thread Erwan David
d by '1000' RT at priority 5. Aug 30 13:29:26 lp053 rtkit-daemon[1659]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Aug 30 13:29:26 lp053 systemd[1767]: Reloading requested from client PID 1797 ('startplasma-x11')... Aug 30 13:29:26 lp053 systemd[1767]: Reloading... (thats without the require/wants) I'll continue investigating in this direction. -- Erwan David

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-30 Thread Erwan David
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 05:14:06PM CEST, Max Nikulin said: > On 29/08/2024 12:56, Erwan David wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 06:13:23PM CEST, Max Nikulin said: > > > > > > On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > > It is start

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-28 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 06:13:23PM CEST, Max Nikulin said: > On 26/08/2024 18:37, Erwan David wrote: > > > > On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent > > > &

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-26 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:08:49AM CEST, Erwan David said: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 05:17:35AM CEST, Max Nikulin > said: > > On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: > > > > Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-ag

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-26 Thread Erwan David
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 05:17:35AM CEST, Max Nikulin said: > On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: > > > Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-agent was not started with a random > > > socket name... > > > > > &g

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-23 Thread Erwan David
Le 23/08/2024 à 11:11, didier gaumet a écrit : Le 23/08/2024 à 10:08, Erwan David a écrit : I enabled the emacs user service (starts emacs as daemon). The ssh-agent is the one started by plasma. However, emacs (more exactly tram in emacs) does not see the ssh-agent. If I restart the emacs

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-23 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 11:11:48AM CEST, didier gaumet said: > Le 23/08/2024 à 10:08, Erwan David a écrit : > > I enabled the emacs user service (starts emacs as daemon). The > > ssh-agent is the one started by plasma. However, emacs (more exactly > > tram in emacs)

emacs service and session start

2024-08-23 Thread Erwan David
ordering ? I a on bookworm -- Erwan David

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

2024-08-20 Thread Erwan David
first one indeed completed all its writes. But it was already false in SunOS 4 (~1990) -- Erwan David

Re: UEFI multiboot (was: Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ])

2024-08-20 Thread Erwan David
├── mmx64.efi └── shimx64.efi -- Erwan David

Re: Upgrading systemd may silently break your Unstable/Sid system!; was: systemd may silently break your system!

2024-07-28 Thread Erwan David
Le 28/07/2024 à 14:28, allan a écrit : I would agree with you *if* the change had been publicized. I found the 99-sysctl.conf symlink accidentally. I removed the symlink and moved sysctl.conf to 99-sysctl.conf since the original config was not being read. This turned out to be a lousy idea sin

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-22 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 04:06:55PM CEST, Michael Kjörling said: > On 22 Jul 2024 05:47 +0800, from cor...@free.fr: > > I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. > > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > > for example put them into crontab. > > `apt update` (a

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-14 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/07/2024 à 11:44, Nicolas George a écrit : Erwan David (12024-07-14): You are a bit cryptic here : should it be installed or should it be removed Sorry. For me it was not installed and installing it fixed the problem. ? I am running testing without problem and systemd-cryptsetup is not

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-14 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/07/2024 à 11:00, Nicolas George a écrit : Hi. In case you are running unstable or testing and it recently started blocking at boot waiting for encrypted swap or something to do with encrypted disks: Check if systemd-cryptsetup is installed. HtH You are a bit cryptic here : should it be

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-27 Thread Erwan DAVID
lock at night). Although noon can be expressed as 12:00 m. (m. = meridies), very few use that form. And the term 12:00 p.m. is ambiguous, if not illogical.” I was taught that at school in the 1950s. It seems it got forgotten. ¹ various editions of US Government Printing Office Style Manual. Cheers, David. Seen in Japan that noon is 0:00 pm Quite logical -- Erwan David

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-24 Thread Erwan David
Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit : On 2024-06-23, gene heskett wrote: A attribute the FCC forced on broadcasters as they like to see transmitter logs kept in 24 hour time. I got so used to it that when I retired in 2002, I'd been on 24 hour time for 40 years and didn't convert back to two 12

Re: sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward [was: How to run automatically a script as soon root login]

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 13/05/2024 à 19:45, Stefan Monnier a écrit : $ su - Password: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # ^D logout $ I don't need no stinkin' sudo :-) And if you only have `sudo`, but not the root password, of course: % sudo zsh -l # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # ^

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 13/05/2024 à 15:03, Richmond a écrit : Erwan David writes: Le 13/05/2024 à 14:36, Richmond a écrit : I was experimenting, and found this works: sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it without being root even tho

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
do exceutes a xterm as root then this xterm executes a shell (as root) and this root shell does the redirection. -- Erwan David

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
n use sudo. For this it is sufficient to  use /etc/sysctl.conf You find in the file shipped by debian # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4 #net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 So you just have to uncomment and it will be done at boot time. (You have the ipv6 equivalent in the same file, if needed) -- Erwan David

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread Erwan David
en a little attention and sometimes patience, it works. -- Erwan David

Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-04-30 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 03:51:01PM CEST, Gary Dale said: > I'm running Trixie on an AMD64 system. > > Yesterday after doing my usual morning full-upgrade, I rebooted because > there were a lot of Plasma-related updates. When I logged in, I found I > wasn't connected to my file server shares. I e

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-18 Thread Erwan David
Le 17/04/2024 à 15:26, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:12:39 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, Is there any reason why LibreOffice has been removed from Debian??? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libreoffice Has all the info you need, and more. Expect it to be removed

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Erwan David
a package tries to remove other (except wait) ? eg, now in testing upgrading nextcloud-desktop would remove plasma-discover, and fwbuilder would remove cups. -- Erwan David

Re: Question about what package to report bug

2024-03-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/03/2024 à 18:19, ke6jti a écrit : Hi, I have a possible kernel regression for a usb-dvb tuner card.  I know the error in dmesg points to kernel : au0828 but I am not sure what package this belongs to.  I think it belongs to v4l(video for linux) but I am still not sure what specific v4l

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/02/2024 à 12:46, Andy Smith a écrit : Hi, On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 08:52:09AM +0100, Erwan David wrote: I use KDE, and I do not know wether discover does an update by itself. I do not thind any setting about this I think it is very likely that KDE has an equivalent to GNOME, which does

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/02/2024 à 01:58, Andy Smith a écrit : Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 08:35:18PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: Sorry il was packagekit, I made a mistake while writing. If it's packagekit then isn't it going to be some part of your desktop environment? Which desktop environment are

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/02/2024 à 03:20, Max Nikulin a écrit : On 20/02/2024 02:35, Erwan David wrote: Le 19/02/2024 à 18:00, Max Nikulin a écrit :     systemctl disable --now apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer Perhaps it is possible to write a script that will respect connection.metered property set by

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/02/2024 à 18:00, Max Nikulin a écrit : On 19/02/2024 14:35, Erwan David wrote: After each boot, the equivalent of apt update is automatically done in background, through policykit (apt database is locked by policykitd). So I think there is a timer triggroing this. I'd like to di

Timer doing apt update

2024-02-18 Thread Erwan David
;d like to disable this timer, but I did not find it. If someone knws better than me... -- Erwan David

Re: Problem between kernel 6.5.0-5 (testing) and Realtek NICs ?

2023-12-07 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/12/2023 à 16:44, Erwan David a écrit : Le 06/12/2023 à 15:55, Erwan David a écrit : After upgrade to 6.5.0-5 (a 6.5.13 kernel in testing), impossible to use the laptop when Realtek card present (in dock). it boots, sddm works but anything which tries to access networking (even the ip

Re: Problem between kernel 6.5.0-5 (testing) and Realtek NICs ?

2023-12-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/12/2023 à 15:55, Erwan David a écrit : After upgrade to 6.5.0-5 (a 6.5.13 kernel in testing), impossible to use the laptop when Realtek card present (in dock). it boots, sddm works but anything which tries to access networking (even the ip command) is then blocked It could be the same

Problem between kernel 6.5.0-5 (testing) and Realtek NICs ?

2023-12-06 Thread Erwan David
://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kernel-6-5-12-or-later-on-fedora-39-broken-network-on-lenovo-t570/97586/18 I'll try installing the realtek-formware package, but the fedora discussion does not give much hope... -- Erwan David

Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop

2023-11-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/11/2023 à 13:10, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 12:48:24PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: What happens when a timer should have been triggered at a time the computer was sleeping ? systemd.timer(5): OnCalendar= [...] When a system is

Systemd timer and sleeping laptop

2023-11-20 Thread Erwan David
Hello, What happens when a timer should have been triggered at a time the computer was sleeping ? I see that wit Persitent=true it is triggered at restart when it should have been triggered when the computer was off, but in case of sleep (or deeep sleep) the timer unit is not restarted, so

Re: Password managers

2023-11-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 13/11/2023 à 15:11, Klaus Singvogel a écrit : Erwan David wrote: Note that you may have less dependencies with kpcli (a cli client for keepass password files) I always was peering at kpcli. Do you have any experience switching between the CLI (kpcli) and the GUI (keepassxc) version

Re: Password managers

2023-11-12 Thread Erwan David
Le 12/11/2023 à 16:53, Michael Kjörling a écrit : On 12 Nov 2023 22:07 +0700, from maniku...@gmail.com (Max Nikulin): Having system booted from Debian Live image (assume some disaster), how many packaged have to be installed to get access to passwords stored by KeePassXC? I don't know about Deb

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread Erwan David
Le 27/10/2023 à 18:45, John Hasler a écrit : Erwan writes: Here are the first lines of 'man domainname" : That doesn't help very much with no hint as to what NIS is and that it isn't relevant to DNS. it is said later in the man Don't use the command domainname to get the DNS domain name bec

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread Erwan David
Le 27/10/2023 à 18:30, gene heskett a écrit : On 10/27/23 11:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 11:25:00AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Not a systemd luver nor expert. Someone suggested that if I was using dotted names, then I should edit (as sudo) /etc/hostname which I have now do

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

2023-10-24 Thread Erwan David
t when there are TLDs that are perfectly safe already available, like .home.arpa, and before that, .{corp,home,mail}. Cheers, David. Or if you already have a domain, you can use a subdomain. eg. I have rail.eu.org, and at home it is depot.rail.eu.org -- Erwan David

Re: Does debian installer use volume names for LVM?

2023-10-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/10/2023 à 10:32, Max Nikulin a écrit : I am curious if debian installer uses volume names in /etc/fstab when LVM is involved (either guided or manual partitioning). In guided partitionning, it uses the /dev/mapper name : here is what the installer put in the fstab of my laptop (/boot a

Too much log for sudo.

2023-10-12 Thread Erwan David
I use a script to run borg backup. For it to be able to backup files that only root may read, i use sudo --preserv-env=BORG_REPO,BORG_PASSPHRASE. However I see that in the logs the VALUE of the env variable is loggued. How to change this ?

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-22 Thread Erwan David
Le 21/09/2023 à 23:15, Tom Browder a écrit : On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 08:30 Erwan David wrote: ... I have a HP LaserJet Pro MFP m125nw, installing it through hplip, It is seen on network by xsane and I can scan. Just have to install a binary blob each time hplip is upgraded

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-20 Thread Erwan David
and I can scan. Just have to install a binary blob each time hplip is upgraded, but it is rather straightforward -- Erwan David

Re: Printer HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw 5085B1

2023-09-20 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:42:12PM CEST, Reco said: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:01:25PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > Le 20/09/2023 à 15:55, Jörg-Volker Peetz a écrit : > > > With this printer CUPS driverless printing works, see > > > https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDrive

Re: Printer HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw 5085B1

2023-09-20 Thread Erwan David
maybe there is no need for hplip, maybe there is. One cannot say -- Erwan David

kernel 6.4.0-3 (testing) cannot be installed with virtualbox-dkms

2023-08-24 Thread Erwan David
I had an upgrade failure today, when upgrading kernel to 6.4.0-3 : virtualbox-dkms needs a function which disappeared from kernel headers. I opened the bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050406 -- Erwan David

Re: Swap size in debain 12

2023-08-12 Thread Erwan David
Le 12/08/2023 à 16:24, David Wright a écrit : On Sat 12 Aug 2023 at 15:45:52 (+0200), Erwan David wrote: Installing a new debian 12 I see that the installer setups a 1G swap on a 24G RAM laptop. Is the hibernation out of swap now ? (I chose to have a biigger swap, but I find it strange) The

Swap size in debain 12

2023-08-12 Thread Erwan David
Installing a new debian 12 I see that the installer setups a 1G swap on a 24G RAM laptop. Is the hibernation out of swap now ? (I chose to have a biigger swap, but I find it strange) -- Erwan David

Re: Lack of text console?

2023-08-04 Thread Erwan David
Ctrl-Alt-F2? Regards, Or rather Ctrl-Alt-F3, on my trixie (with SDDM) I have tty1 : logs & boot messages tty2 : Graphical session tty3, 4 etc : text sessions. Note that it needs some time after boot before getting the login prompt on text consoles -- Erwan David

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 27/06/2023 à 05:06, Greg Wooledge a écrit : A lot of people who run stable releases use automatic upgrades. This is a thing that will attempt to run "apt update" and "apt upgrade" automatically for you in the background. If you use the "stable" label in your source.list file, and if you als

Re: Compiling Virtualbox on "bookworm" [plain text email]

2023-06-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/06/2023 à 01:19, Ian Tan a écrit : Hello, Apologies for sending "rich text" of the same email previously. That was an accident. Here should be the plain text now. Due to upstream issues, Virtualbox is not available on bookworm. I have an urgent business use case, that required virtualbox

Re: What does "freeze" mean in Debian?

2023-05-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/05/2023 à 10:06, Hans a écrit : Hi folks, just a little thing, I am somehow confused about. I read that debian/testing is now in state "freeze" as the next release is shortly to come. As I running "bookworm" now, I am wondering, that debian/testing (aka bookworm), still gets a lot of cha

Re: https://: vs. https://:.

2023-04-10 Thread Erwan David
Le 10/04/2023 à 21:37, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 12:13:15PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Name: hornby.islandhosting.com Address: 158.69.159.172 As expected, login at https://hornby.islandhosting.com:2096 and at https://mail.easthope.ca:2096 appear equivalent. But f

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-29 Thread Erwan David
Le 29/03/2023 à 16:24, Nicolas George a écrit : to...@tuxteam.de (12023-03-29): Perhaps roughly 3k to 4k years of storing, transmitting and retrieving information in written form have a part in it. It may be a social convention, but by now it runs so deep that I'm convinced you'll find epigenet

Re: ssh-add after graphical login

2023-03-23 Thread Erwan David
Le 23/03/2023 à 09:42, Yassine Chaouche a écrit : Hello all, I'd like something to run ssh-add right after I login to my desktop (KDE). ssh-add needs to prompt me for my passphrase, and doesn't need any privileges. What are my options? Best, I  do this way : I create a shell script ~/bin/s

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Erwan David
Le 09/03/2023 à 12:03, Corey Hickman a écrit : I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF plugin for VIM that would be great. Thanks Not a Vim plugin, but I usually compose documents in markdown in aneditor (be it vim or emacs) then generate a pdf from the markdown wi

Re: hplip : looking for a workaround

2023-02-24 Thread Erwan David
Le 24/02/2023 à 18:41, Brian a écrit : On Fri 24 Feb 2023 at 18:25:24 +0100, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/02/2023 à 17:45, Brian a écrit : On Wed 22 Feb 2023 at 17:49:13 +0100, Erwan David wrote: Hi, hplip seems to need a dependency, many commands end with   File "/usr/share/hplip

Re: hplip : looking for a workaround

2023-02-24 Thread Erwan David
Le 24/02/2023 à 17:45, Brian a écrit : On Wed 22 Feb 2023 at 17:49:13 +0100, Erwan David wrote: Hi, hplip seems to need a dependency, many commands end with   File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 119, in __readAuthType     distro_name = get_distro_std_na

Re: hplip : looking for a workaround

2023-02-24 Thread Erwan David
Le 22/02/2023 à 18:46, Celejar a écrit : On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:49:13 +0100 Erwan David wrote: Hi, hplip seems to need a dependency, many commands end with   File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 119, in __readAuthType     distro_name = get_distro_std_na

hplip : looking for a workaround

2023-02-22 Thread Erwan David
Hi, hplip seems to need a dependency, many commands end with   File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 119, in __readAuthType     distro_name = get_distro_std_name(os_name)   ^^^ NameError: name 'get_distro_std_name' is not defined. Did you mean: 'get_dist

Gnome/Kde color correction

2022-12-23 Thread Erwan David
Hello, I have colord-kde installed, in the system settoings I get "You need Gnome Color Management installed in order to calibrate devices" Which package should I install ? I already have ii  colord 1.4.6-2.1    amd64    system service to manage device colour pr

Re: Missing module in initramfs : haw to know which one, and how to add it.

2022-10-14 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/10/2022 à 09:12, Erwan David a écrit : I got my modules list, I put the list in /etc/iniramfs-tools/modules, update-initramfs -v -u : they are not added to the initrd man initramfs-tools says Modules listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and /usr/share/initramfs-tools/modules.d

Re: Missing module in initramfs : haw to know which one, and how to add it.

2022-10-14 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/10/2022 à 07:30, Erwan David a écrit : Le 14/10/2022 à 07:18, Erwan David a écrit : Hi, Some times ago I went from modules=most to modules=dep in initramfs, because /boot was too small. the machine is a laptop usually standalone but from time to time connected to a dock with external

Re: Missing module in initramfs : haw to know which one, and how to add it.

2022-10-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/10/2022 à 07:18, Erwan David a écrit : Hi, Some times ago I went from modules=most to modules=dep in initramfs, because /boot was too small. the machine is a laptop usually standalone but from time to time connected to a dock with external USB keyboard Today at boot : external

Missing module in initramfs : haw to know which one, and how to add it.

2022-10-13 Thread Erwan David
Hi, Some times ago I went from modules=most to modules=dep in initramfs, because /boot was too small. the machine is a laptop usually standalone but from time to time connected to a dock with external USB keyboard Today at boot : external keyboard worked for grub, did not work for entering

Add route exception in NetworkManager vpn

2022-10-11 Thread Erwan David
Hi, I use a vpn with network manager which routes everything through it. I'd like to add some exceptions for local or not so local ressources that cannot be reached through the VPN. The ideal situation would be to be able to give as gateway for those routes "the default gateway before the VPN w

Re: Okular very slow

2022-10-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/10/2022 à 16:40, Kushal Kumaran a écrit : On Thu, Oct 06 2022 at 09:58:02 AM, Erwan David wrote: My okular is very slow at starting. I see that when it starts it mounts an automounted webdav share, and seems to scan it. How can I tell it not to scan anything at start ? Is it

Okular very slow

2022-10-06 Thread Erwan David
My okular is very slow at starting. I see that when it starts it mounts an automounted webdav share, and seems to scan it. How can I tell it not to scan anything at start ?

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/10/2022 à 18:25, Felix Miata a écrit : Erwan David composed on 2022-10-01 16:21 (UTC+0200): My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/10/2022 à 17:16, Stefan Monnier a écrit : My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels, thus at upgrade there are temporarily 3 kernels).

update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Erwan David
My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels, thus at upgrade there are temporarily 3 kernels). I see that all the files of the initramfs are put

Re: *Now* what is starting ssh-agent?

2022-07-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 26/07/2022 à 20:40, Chris Mitchell a écrit : Hi all, I have my own systemd "user" .service unit that I like to use to start ssh-agent the way I want it started, which works fine… except for the neverending game of whack-a-mole tracking down and disabling various legacy workarounds that go ahe

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-12 Thread Erwan David
Le 12/07/2022 à 22:00, Marco a écrit : Am Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:17:40 +0200 schrieb : That looks like a sensible strategy to me. It isn't at all, completely blocking incoming ICMP is a very stupid idea. ICMP is used for control messages, e.g. for Path MTU discovery. The only IMCP message that

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-12 Thread Erwan David
Le 12/07/2022 à 17:27, Henning Follmann a écrit : On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 11:31:11AM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2022-07-12 10:33, Gareth Evans wrote: On Tue 12 Jul 2022, at 10:19, Maximiliano Estudies In most cases it's a best practice to configure all chains with _policy drop_ and then add r

Re: sleep(1) vs. sync(1) twice before umount(8)

2022-07-10 Thread Erwan David
Le 10/07/2022 à 19:46, fxkl4...@protonmail.com a écrit : On Sun, 10 Jul 2022, David Christensen wrote: On 7/10/22 09:57, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2022, David Christensen wrote: On 7/10/22 05:55, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: Several decades ago I was taught to type sync

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-07 Thread Erwan David
Le 07/07/2022 à 10:11, Roger Price a écrit : I looked at the workstation example, but it doesn't even allow access via ssh. On my Debian 11 box I found /usr/share/doc/nftables/examples/workstation.nft which does show how to allow incoming ssh, http and https traffic. Newbie 1: Is it normal

Re: Firewall blocking my new Debian 11 server ports 80 and 443

2022-05-29 Thread Erwan David
Le 29/05/2022 à 13:22, Tom Browder a écrit : On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 05:41 Tom Browder wrote: Does anyone have a good reason for me to NOT install and enable UFW? -Tom  good reason would be that thtere is obviously already something on your server magaing the firewalling. Having 2 different

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/05/2022 à 20:24, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on this list. Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ? VIC-20 users don't get old. Since most of the posters here are of over average age

Re: wtf just happened to my local staging web server

2022-05-04 Thread Erwan David
Le 04/05/2022 à 19:01, Gary Dale a écrit : My Apache2 file/print/web server is running Bullseye. I had to restart it yesterday evening to replace a disk drive. Otherwise the last reboot was a couple of weeks ago - I recall some updates to Jitsi - but I don't think there were any updates since t

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/04/2022 à 14:35, wilson a écrit : after doing this, do I need to restart the OS? thanks Reco wrote: The most non-intrusive way of doing it (side effects considered) is: /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=0 No. But it w

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-04-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/04/2022 à 06:17, Pankaj Jangid a écrit : Dan Ritter writes: In any case, you seem to have answered your own question: Oracle is the supplier of virtualbox. If you don't trust them, there are many fine alternatives to virtualbox, most of which are built on the work of kvm, qemu or Xen.

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