:
org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName
org/freedesktop/DBus
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply
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The MAC filter needs a local filter for the two 16 X dual hex, (23
total,) digits.
The MAC is router usually aligned internally by the router, and
contains unique hex digits.
Does any anyone recall how to query the digits to the display?
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What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do
with an .iso?
Can it be coverted to a USB. How?
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Is Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source available?
Help would appreciated,
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Can a standard USB have sub directives?
I was doing some stress testing, and some sub directives had very long
write latency's. (All less than 4GB.)
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urity bullseye-security main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
Any compatibility advice would greatly appreciated,
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Can emacs 27.1 from Debian 11 Buster be installed on Debian 12 Bookworm?
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What is the difference between:
debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso
And:
debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
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rn, dash, zsh â¦
>
Hi Franco.
egrep ALL .bashrc
LC_ALL=C
set | egrep ALL
LC_ALL=C
dash
set | egrep ALL
So, apparently not, (I don't have it set in /etc/profile, which is
read when dash is invoked; initializing in ~/.profile would work,
too. Probably the same in csh,
Thanks Thomas.
Have a good one ...
John
Thomas Schmitt writes:
> Hi,
>
> i wrote:
> > > *FvwmButtons xterm_ts5 linuxterm.xpm Exec xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg
> > > wheat -fg black -sl 1
ec xterm ...'
Maybe
John
>
> This causes a button in the button box which creates a new xterm when
> clicked.
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Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire?
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bash(1) script, making it expediently
configurable, with or without pass(1), as you say.
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; on the internet (and which is free as in beer)?
> >
>
> Take a look at 'secrets' which is a Gnome native app. It uses a
> database and key file compatible with Password Safe.
>
Pass works well, too. http://www.passwordstore.org/.
Uses gpg encryption.
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l months ago, when the file was
erratically truncated to zero bytes, every few days.
Does anyone know if there are any recent changes to gcc/libraries for
fork(2) and/or system(3)?
Be safe,
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How long will Debian Bullseye have debian security team support after
Bookworm is announced?
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blems?
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ailing list friendly. The DKIM signatures are from
the list, and does not match the sender domain name, preventing DKIM
authentication, even though the Message-ID:, References:, In-Reply-To:
SMTP header records are correct.
Exactly how the MTA handles this situation is kind of undocumented, and
l
etrics, what
> succeeds in the marketplace of ideas (and indeed, the literal
> marketplace) would not be determined by those metrics alone.
>
Yep. Remember BNF/EBNF/ABNF context free grammars?
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resolved⦠breaks everything using HTTP.
Might look at:
/etc/network/interfaces.d/setup
as explained in "man interfaces". (That file can/might be changed via
the network symbol in the window manager's configuration bar/menu
system, usually required with root/sudo privileges.)
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I'm installing an SSD replacement for an HD in a small 24/7 mail
server.
I would appreciate suggestions for the most reliable way to do
fstrim(8). Reliability is more important than speed, and the machine
will require a swap partition.
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How much longer will Debian security team support Bullseye?
The LTS Wiki page is kind of confusing as to when I have to upgrade to
Bookworm.
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but, sooner or later, they wear out too-only delaying the
inevitable in the above test.
Quality SSDs will continue the mapping of inoperable bits through the
life cycle of the device-but requires some sort of ECC to do the real
time analysis, (archival grade SDs used to do this, but that market
Nicolas George writes:
> John Conover (12022-12-26):
> > So, the more unused SD space is better, since wear leveling writes to
> > a "bit" that has been written to fewer times.
> >
> > To test, say with a 16 GB SD, fill the SD to all except the last 1 KB,
>
usually quoted as in excess of a century, to 3 sigma
total recovery of data.)
SSDs have related issues, too.
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John Conover writes:
> =?UTF-8?B?UGlwZXLjgb/jgYvjgZM=?= writes:
> >
> > sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -F
> > sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
> > sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s xx.xx.xx.xx -j ACCEPT # my server
> > public IP
> >
tbound connections with a browser. (Note how icmp is handled-it is
required.)
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D: header.)
Something like:
:0 Wh :msgid.lock
| formail -D $idcache_size msgid.cache
in ~/.procmailrc will eliminate a duplicate email.
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e to check the executable
names for google-chrome and thunderbird.
Also, if you are using XFCE:
Applications->Settings->Default Applications
has to agree with the above settings, too.
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The command:
sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB
generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale.
Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps?
(i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave generation, or
post generation?)
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ng installation, (famous last words.) BTW,
x86_64-linux-gnu has to be installed on my machines for the the
Brother printer drivers to compile.
/etc/cups/ppd/* and/or /usr/local/Brother/* and/or /opt/Brother/* may
provide some information.
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Cindy Sue Causey writes:
> On 7/5/22, Ash Joubert wrote:
> > On 06/07/2022 10:53, John Conover wrote:
> >> How to stop XFCE saving the state when logging out of Bullseye XFCE?
> >
> > Uncheck the box "Applications (XFCE X with mouse icon) / Setting /
> &
How to stop XFCE saving the state when logging out of Bullseye XFCE?
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ncy for the spinning media to keep up, so powering down MUST flush
the cache-good luck finding disk that will do that.)
To pursue further, you might want to look at the way Luster does it,
(Luster is the distributed file system under the parallelization used
in many super computers using Linux-mpich
might be able to do something with the Calc function in emacs,
too, (but it might have limited capability for mathematical type
setting.)
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Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nchez?= writes:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:46:33PM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> >
> > For the past few days, logcheck is sending:
> >
> > Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: Starting system activity accounting
> > tool...
>
"...activity accounting tool ..." messages seem new. Was
something updated recently?
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ry footprint, speed, configuration capability, reliability,
24/7/365 stability, intuitive operation, etc.
My ~/.emacs is set up like the 'e' editor from PL1, c. '60s with line
block moves and indent, 8^).
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I installed Bullseye on an antique Dell 760, and get the following
when doing apt-get updates:
Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin
for module i915
The machine seems to run fine, but do I need to add something?
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specific medium, data preservation
> comes from a good backup system. =8~)
>
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;s no longer have handler options.
Any idea where the mailto: claws-mail is stored in fvwm?
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Andrew M.A. Cater writes:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 08:54:43AM -0800, John Conover wrote:
> >
> > I just installed Bullseye, using default "use entire disk" as the HD
> > configuration from the Graphical Install option on a Live USB SD.
> >
> > The swap
size.
Is there a reason for such small default swap partition size on a 1 TB
HD in Bullseye that I don't know about?
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, I'm looking at claws-mail.
>
Yea, and claws-mail is not compatible with Gmail's oauth2, which is
now required by Google, (as of this month,) and Thunderbird is
compatible, but no longer supports local mbox delivery for a LAN.
Kind of a mess.
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Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only.
But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances?
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John Conover writes:
> Thomas Schmitt writes:
> >
> > > > Are you already the user with id 601 ?
> > > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ?
> >
On Debian 10 Buster, both fvwm and xfce.
Odd, root can not access the /run/user/601/ direct
Thomas Schmitt writes:
> Hi,
>
> i wrote:
> > > Are you already the user with id 601 ?
> > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ?
>
> John Conover wrote:
> > As the user, or as root.
>
> Then it could be owned by another user id.
Thomas Schmitt writes:
> Hi,
>
> John Conover wrote:
> > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc:
> >d? ? ?? ?? doc/
>
> Are you already the user with id 601 ?
> If not: Does it work better if you become that use
=?UTF-8?Q?Markus_Sch=c3=b6nhaber?= writes:
> 01.06.21, 17:28 +0200, John Conover:
>
> > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc:
> >
> > d? ? ?? ?? doc/
> >
> > and it can not be changed as root.
>
Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc:
d? ? ?? ?? doc/
and it can not be changed as root.
Logging out, then in, same thing.
Any help on fixing it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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>> cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greg Wooledge writes:
> >>>> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> >>>>> Searching for exim in
> >>>>> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.
Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> > Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/*
> > and /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing.
> >
> > How do I stop exim from launching across boots?
>
&
How do I stop exim from launching across boots?
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Tixy writes:
> On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 11:00 -0800, John Conover wrote:
> > Stefan Monnier writes:
> > > > A wireless router made with hostapd/dnsmasq/dhcpcd is fairly easy, and
> > > > works well with iptables, with one shortcoming.
> > > >
> >
s based on
> MACs by simply putting those in the `/etc/ethers` file.
>
Thank you, Stefan.
Works like a charm. The syntax of /etc/ethers is ':' delimited MAC
address, followed by a space delimiter, followed by the IPv4 IP
address, per IP reservation. That IP address must
.) Seems kind of a simple oversight
for a wireless AP.
Am I correct in my assumption?
Thanks,
John
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Celejar writes:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:25:45 -0800
> cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:
>
> > How do you remove a WiFi AP in Buster?
>
> You're going to have to be more specific about what software framework
> you're using to manage your WiFi ac
How do you remove a WiFi AP in Buster?
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nto that particular web mail account (like gmail), click on
> > >>> that particular email, etc. to do so.
> > >>>
Has anyone:
1) ReBoot your machine.
2) login and launch claws-mail with the Dillo plugin,
and exit claws-mail
3) lsof -Pni > temp
reply after editing.)
My wife's Thunderbird has nothing in the Content Type section of
"Files & Attachments", and does not call chrome for the same email,
(and I could not find any way of making changes there, and
antagonizing Google didn't yield a way to do it,
led from zoom_amd64.deb obtained from the Zoom site, with
standard "apt install zoom_amd64.deb".
John
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Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity?
Thanks,
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Advanced-N 6205
> [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)
>
> Both machines run Debian testing (updated).
>
> What could I do to check/test the health/performance of the connection
> in order to diagnose if there's effectively a problem?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
>
>
In /etc/udev/rules.d/*, and, /lib/modprobe.d/aliases.conf, is the
correct name for sound devices "snd-usb-audio" or "snd_usb_audio"?
Thanks,
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\
ATTRS{idProduct}=="081b", \
SYMLINK+="video-webcam"
erratically fails, with /dev/video-webcam ln -s to /dev/video0, and
the camera on /dev/video1, (after PNP.)
Is "SUBSYSTEMS=="usb"" the issue in the rule?
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er 2 are
> > > > on individually unique FTDI adaptors.
> > > >
.
.
.
Perhaps:
/dev/serial/by-id
/dev/serial/by-path
may be of some help since they are symbolic links into /dev/ttyUSB*
with additional identification.
John
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I have two Prolific PL2303 devices on a machine. The output of lsusb
is identical for both, including iSerial of 0, for both.
Is there any way of doing udev SYMLINK+ with these devices?
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the calibration slide, (its a small
sheet of plastic with 0.1mm, or so, calibration marks,) that goes
over your work for measuring. They are available separately, but
pricy for a piece of plastic the size of a postage stamp.
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appreciated,
Thanks,
John
[1] The Debian 9 machine was Amd64, Muli-Arch for legacy print driver
support. "dpkg --add-architecture i386" was run on the machine, and
the appropriate libraries were installed.
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frequently, and automatically updated with the apt-get(1)
utility. Maintaining programs scattered around the net is time
consuming, and usually doesn't get done.
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le on it
> without so much as a single error.
>
> There is enough of this that is enough different from
> today's world that I thought things were much worse than they
> turned out to be. I am amazed that the corrupted disk worked at
> all.
>
> Thanks for clearing up the confusion.
>
> Martin McCormick
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(1) is run periodically. Hardly possible with
commodity timing components.
Sven Joachim writes:
>
> Or systemd-timesyncd, which is shipped with systemd since version 213
> and enabled by default in Debian since version 219-1.
>
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Raspbian sets its system clock on power up.
Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock
periodically?
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support
> PulseAudio only.
>
> Why don't you want to use PulseAudio, any problems?
>
> Kind regards
> Georgi
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hat its correct?
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nd upload Arduino programs on site, without
> messing with a mouse.
>
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There are several articles on how to get xoscope(1) to work in Ubuntu.
I tried them on Debian 9 Stretch, and could not make them work.
Does anyone know how to get xoscope to work on Debian 9?
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ing for is
> > inet addr: for IPV4. Its about the second line from the top.
> >
>
> ifconfig would only work if you are directly assigned the public,
> external IP. If you are behind eg. a router that does NAT, you would
> only see the private IP internal to the local netw
cond line from the top.
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metadata, (i.e., Received:
records, etc.,) and, importantly, handle whitelists, etc.
John
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Is there a good way of getting hdmi from a cable TV box into a window
on the Linux screen? Anyone done it?
Thanks,
John
BTW, my NTSC->xawtv and an old Hauppauge card works fine, but the NTSC
is being discontinued by my provider. I need a replacement.
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tor writes:
> On 23/02/18 12:40, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 13:35:20 -0800, John Conover wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> xwd > myfile
> >> display myfile
> >>
> >> gives:
> >>
> >> "display-
as Schmitt writes:
> Hi,
>
> John Conover wrote:
> > xwd > myfile
> > display myfile
> > "display-im6.q16: no decode delegate for this image format
>
> This works for me in Debian 8. Even old xv can read the file, albeit with
> wrong background color.
>
xwd > myfile
display myfile
gives:
"display-im6.q16: no decode delegate for this image format `' @
error/constitute.c/ReadImage/504."
Anything else read the file and do file conversions?
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Has anyone got Xoscope(1) on Debian 9 amd64 to work?
It looks as if it does not connect to the audio system, (alsa or
pulseaudio,) and there is no option for a device in /dev. There is no
trace on the display.
Any help would be appreciated,
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orting a design back-and-forth between the two systems is
tricky, at best.
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s that a problem? Can the message be suppressed?
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Anytime mailx is envoked, it does a core dump:
mail: mu_wordsplit failed: missing closing quote
Segmentation fault
Any suggestions?
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Sorry, the command is "v4lctl volume mute off".
John
John Conover writes:
>
> In a system that was upgraded, (new install,) from Debian 7 to 8 with
> a WinTV model 109, (external 1/8" audio connector on the WinTV card to
> Line In of the PC.):
>
> x
to fix it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated ...
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s the core dump created by dot-dash-dot lines
being in a file, or being drawn by a user.
It is suggested that Debian 8/Jessie's repo be upgraded replacing the
vulnerable version.
John
John Conover writes:
>
> Hi Henrique. The problem was created by the Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 5b to
>
doesn't effect Debian 7/Wheezy, or before, just Jessie and perhaps
Stretch.)
Thanks,
John
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2017, John Conover wrote:
> > On Debian 8/Jessie, i386, do:
> >
> > xfig xxx.fig
> >
> > Then, (d
procedure, resulting in a
core dump.
The reason that Debian 8/Jessie could not read the legacy files is
that they had hole axis (dash-dot-dash-dot ...) lines.
Anyhow, it replicates on my systems.
John
Zenaan Harkness writes:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 02:13:39AM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> &g
ideas?
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John
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hn
BTW, for a WinTV card, 38101, lspci(1):
Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev
11)
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the size down. I'm getting from 20,000 to
> over a million hits a day on a computer that's only online 3-4 hours a
> day and often much less.
>
.
.
.
>
> I suspect I'm not the only one who is interested in this exploration
> and hope some of you can share tips
rable for a long period
of time,) saving the MD5/SHA* hash values of files in "source/" is
advisable for verification that a file is not corrupt sometime in the
future.
John
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