Re: Preparing for Debian 13

Default User writes: > 1) sudo df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 8.7G 13G 41% / > /dev/nvme0n1p5 1.8G 140K 1.7G 1% /tmp Why not enable tmp.mount (tmpfs)? In most use cases, /tmp is not really utilized much – pointless to waste 2 GB of valua

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

fxkl4...@protonmail.com writes: > and i also see it looks in ~/.ssh/known_hosts > i also have several i don't recognize You are probably wondering about the default IPv6 entries in /etc/hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters Of course, it

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

James Freer writes: > I would be grateful if someone could explain why admin root user is > not set to default. I have always had user login and password and then > root for for other tasks like Aptitude updates. [I am a fan of > Aptitude although most folk seem to prefer Apt]. > > Also not sure

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

Hans writes: > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will be then > again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, a software router is > sklower than a hardware device). I haven't tried this, but take a look at: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc https://help.u

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

Mike Castle writes: > The whole utmp stuff is flaky, a best effort system that might give > some resemblance to reality. I believe /run/utmp is gone in trixie, after systemd was upgraded to 256.5-2. The command `w` still works fine. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080330

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

Mal writes: > On Debian 6.1.129-1, I have a static network interface conf (no Netplan) > with both IPv4 & IPv6 addressing and Name-servers set. [...] > On another older machine (running kernel 4.9.35-v7+) with exactly the > same configuration layout, I get BOTH the IPv4 & IPv6 addresses returne

Re: increment backup of home dir

"Russell L. Harris" writes: > = With git, I can do a hundred backups in a morning or afternoon > session without worry about consumption of disk space. I am not > concerned with an orderly and uncluttered commit record; my concern is > the ability to recover. Git is an awesome tool that can be

Re: increment backup of home dir

Stefan Monnier writes: > I haven't actually tried Borg, but I'm surprised by "slower than rsync, > eat more cpu" because I'd expect it to perform similarly to Bup, and > (for my use case at least) Bup performs incremental backups > significantly faster and using less CPU (especially on the server

Re: increment backup of home dir

"Gareth Evans" writes: > It's not truly "incremental", though combines compression, > deduplication and optional encryption, which may improve on that. Not "incremental" in the traditional tape-backup sense, which requires periodic full backups. A closer term might be "incremental forever" (like

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

Modaresi Soft Hard writes: > I added our Repo to sources.list.d/ > > Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, correct?

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

Greg Wooledge writes: > Why are you assuming that the space you want can be freed by removing > packages? > > For the vast majority of people, if disk space is running low, it's > because *data* files are piling up, and may be in need of some trimming. Pro tip: running "sudo apt clean" often fre

Re: evolution recovery

Cindy Sue Causey writes: > As I tried to say, I'm not sure if that's what you mean about accessing > Based on personal purging experience, those two Evolution config and > data storage locations stayed in place when I removed Evolution for > some forgotten reason. Their data was still safely in p

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

"Jonathan Dowland" writes: > Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds (and > whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I hope not. > But irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are not bound by > Mozilla's EULA. When upgrading the Firefox bi

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

gene heskett writes: > An ls -lR of /var/lin/flatpack | wc -l shows: > > gene@coyote:~$ ls -R /var/lib/flatpak|wc -l > 44889 > Nearly 45000 files for one app That's primarily due to the runtime (org.gnome.Platform), which indeed adds considerable overhead for a single application, though it

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

John Hasler writes: > There isn't any executable: that isn't how flatpak works. There's no > need for you to deal directly with anything under /var/lib/flatpak. To > run prusa-slicer type "flatpak run com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer". I suggest > making a script named prusa-slicer that executes that com

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

On Sat, 2025-02-08 at 12:05 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >   > I have a few systems running Debian/Stable (Bookworm). However the kernel > version isn't always the same for some reason. After this morning's update, I > noticed that 2 of the 3 systems upgraded the kernel but to different > versions. T

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 17:57 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > I followed the instructions for synaptic at https://wiki.debian.org and added > the repository > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free > > I clicked on ¨Reload" to reload the package listings and searc

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > > The same (now that I am using backports): > $ yt-dlp --version > 2025.01.15 Due to the nature of this program (Google plays the cat and mouse game), new versions are released fairly frequently. In fact, 2025.01.26 just landed in book

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 19:24 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > I have two answers (which might not be good answers, if so someone may be > able to correct me) > > 1) For some time now yt-dlp has been unable to download videos which I wanted > to download. If you're on Debian Stable, please be aware

Re: no space left on device

On Wed, 2025-01-15 at 11:51 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Using compression to minimize writes is part of a write leveling > > strategy to extend drive life. > > . > > So you say, and all you have to qu

Re: upgrade debian + postfix/dovecot

On Thu, 2024-12-26 at 13:52 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Thomas Anderson writes: > > Almost all the applications I use are non-debian (postfix, dovecot, > > apache, mysql, etc..) > > Why? All of those are in Debian. If you were using the Debian packages > upgrading would be easy. To nitpick, I do

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 20:12 +, Andy Smith wrote: > deb.debian.org is hosted by the Fastly CDN as are literally millions of > other sites, because that is the point of a CDN. Furthermore, it is not a single IP address, but there is some geolocation going on, so deb.debian.org resolves to differ

Re: Automatic suspend-to-ram solution for Workstations

On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 17:44 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > Assuming this backup is started by an automated system under control of > the sysadmins, and not by the users themselves, it's probably easiest > to use some sort of "lock" that is set by the backup process itself (or > that you wrap around it)

Re: Firefox alternatives?

On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote: > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? > > > You conspicuously omit your hardware specifications; what CPU, how many > RAMs and how big is your swap partition? Also, what kind of we

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 08:51 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm explicitly looking for packages residing in the Debian repository. I > routinely do a web search if I'm unconcerned about where a program comes > from. By repository, do you mean something else than what you have enabled in your APT

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 12:30 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Is there an easy way to send the message (or just the URL) to the > > Window$ machine? > > Use a pastebin? Setup mail in Windows? Connect to the Windows machine > via remote desktop and remotely use the browser there? There are so many > wa

Re: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 16:45 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > My main complaint is snap, which I have removed but I suspect it's > going to become steadily more difficult to run Ubuntu without snap. Welcome to Debian, no forced snap nonsense here. > My only need for 'latest' versions tends to be for a

Re: Reading an old HDD

On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 08:40 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't > usually audible, although I've had a few very noisy 5¼ drives. And of > course SSDs are utterly silent. I wonder how ancient drives you are using? Have there even bee

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On Mon, 2024-09-30 at 12:39 -0400, Default User wrote: > But of course, any errors on drive A propagate daily to drive B. Having both drives connected and spinning simultaneusly creates a window of opportunity for some nasty ransomware (or a software bug, mistake, power surge, whatever) to destro

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:53 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > There is a little program on https://github.com/AMDESE/amd_ucode_info to look > into the microcode file. For the package amd64-microcode on Debian testing > version 3.20240820.1 it yields: > > $ amd_ucode_info.py /usr/lib/firmware/amd

Re: hibernate area

On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 08:43 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 10 Sep 2024 20:34 -0400, from e...@gmx.us: > > I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive > > with all those short writes. > > I would call that cargo cult by now. You presumably bought it to use > it, so use it. Absolut

Re: Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 08:00:12AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > (1) This requires enabling two repositories that I have been avoiding > enabling, contrib and non-free. That means I have to watch the > repository more carefully when using > > apt-cache search > > or synaptic to look for new tools