Re: Mass storage sizes

On Tue, Jan 07 2025 at 11:05:11 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:44:00AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: >>On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name >>> > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only ha

Re: Debian 12 live cd username and password problem

On Tue, Mar 05 2024 at 02:28:08 PM, genti pp wrote: > Hello! > I want to install debian 12 but I need to try it first. > Having Debian 12 live iso it asks me for username and password. Please tell > me the correct username and password so I can try it. > Thank you in advance! username: user passw

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

On Tue, Feb 27 2024 at 10:15:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi > adapter that Linux has problems with that works once I run: > > /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac > echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id > > However when I add those

Re: Hard links - How do they work

On Mon, Feb 19 2024 at 10:52:16 AM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > As promised: > I said sometime in this thread that timeshift (and Back in Time) use > hard links to create progressive copies of the system. The more I > think about how hard links reportedly work, I reckon it can't be > simply hard li

Re: MiniDLNA log file permission problem

On Sat, Feb 17 2024 at 01:34:05 PM, Lothar Braun wrote: > Hi, > > I'm debugging a permission problem with the log files created by > minidlna in /var/log/minidlna. I'm trying to use a different username > to run minidlna and do not use the default user account minidlna. The > problem is that log f

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

On Wed, Jan 17 2024 at 11:19:39 AM, Default User wrote: > Hello! > > Opinions, please. > > I use rsync to copy my primary backup drive to a secondary backup drive > , so that the secondary backup drive is theoretically always an exact > copy of the primary backup drive. > > Here is the rsync co

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

On Wed, Jan 03 2024 at 08:35:41 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler wrote: > >> The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does >> not exist on my Sid system. >> >> The man page: >> >> NAME >>ethers - Ethernet address to IP numb

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

On Wed, Jan 03 2024 at 06:36:24 PM, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hi guys > > My Debian distro has a kernel version of 6.1.69-1 and the installed > wpasupplicant's version for Debian Bookworm is 2:2.10-12. > > I don't use Network Manager; instead I rely solely on the ifup and ifdown > scripts to brin

Re: pam auth with ssh public key

On Wed, Oct 04 2023 at 10:08:14 AM, jeremy ardley wrote: > I have set up a server with sshd allowing public key access. I also > set up google authenticator in pam by putting this line at the head of > /etc/pam.d/sshd > > auth required pam_google_authenticator.so > > If I connect to the server wi

Re: cronitor.io for monitoring cron jobs

On Mon, Sep 11 2023 at 05:59:37 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Anyone using that system? It looks interesting to me. > I prefer healthchecks.io, mainly because cron job monitoring was all I was looking for, and the software is open source. There is a comparison with cronitor at https://healthchecks.io

Re: Debian 12: errors when using Python3 venv?

On Wed, Jun 14 2023 at 03:55:44 PM, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > Hi, > > I just cleanly installed Debian 11 and am trying to create a virtual > environment for Python. > > I get the following error, does anyone know how to resolve this? Am I > missing some packages that need to be installed? > >

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

On Fri, Jun 09 2023 at 01:38:25 PM, S M wrote: > Good day. > > I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that > dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from > dash to bash. This is apparently intentional as per the following: > > https://launchpad.net/debian/+sou

Re: sudoers question

On Sat, May 13 2023 at 01:51:03 AM, Lee wrote: > On 5/12/23, DdB wrote: >> Am 13.05.2023 um 00:03 schrieb Lee: >>> On 5/12/23, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Or configure sudo to disable tty_tickets, so that the timeout (10 > minutes by default IIRC) applies to all terminals. `sudo ba

Re: questions about cron.daily

On Sat, Apr 08 2023 at 08:39:14 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2023 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: >> Le 8 avril 2023 Andrew M. A. Cater a écrit : >> >> > Likewise for creating systemd unit files - NEVER "just start editing over >> > the top" always have an example to work

Re: /libfreenect/build/wrappers/python/freenect3.c:747:10: fatal error: numpy/arrayobject.h: File or directory not found

On Sat, Apr 01 2023 at 10:42:11 PM, Mario Marietto wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to compile libfreenect because I want to use my kinect xbox 360 > on Debian 11. I'm following the tutorial that I've found here : > libfreenect is already packaged in debian. Is there a reason you're building from

Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's upstreamed?

On Tue, Mar 28 2023 at 03:07:10 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Kushal, > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 08:13:33PM -0700, Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> If you installed a -dkms package to get the kernel module (there are >> several such packages in the debian repositories), > > Yep,

Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's upstreamed?

On Sun, Mar 26 2023 at 05:07:29 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 04:51:25AM +, Andy Smith wrote: >> I have to build the kernel driver as an external DKMS >> module from: >> >> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89 >> >> Specifically that is the rtw_8852be module. >> >> That w

Re: question about net address

On Sat, Mar 18 2023 at 07:28:23 PM, cor...@free.fr wrote: > Hello > > I know 192.168.1.0/24 is a valid C range for network address. > > but what does 192.168.1.1/24 mean? > > I ask this just for a setting in the SPF: > > spf.pinoad.se.300 IN TXT "v=spf1 > ip4:188.66.63

Re: Problem installing LocalWP

On Thu, Mar 16 2023 at 04:28:15 PM, "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > I am running uptodate Bullseye and have been running the-Debian version of > LocalWP > > I was uninstalling an update to v-6.7.0 when the installer threw an error(s) > wile installing my domain: > Screenshot > > I have no idea how

Re: Request for Debian Subsystem for Windows like

On Thu, Oct 27 2022 at 02:11:46 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Suman Garai wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I know that this topic is nothing new, that there are software packages & >> games that run on Windows, but there isn't support for Linux. Even >> softwares like Wine & PlayOnLinux sometimes falters on sup

Re: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

On Tue, Oct 25 2022 at 09:56:50 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Subject: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL > Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus > > Good day from Singapore, > > I am posting here because UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus is powered by Debian >

Re: Okular very slow

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 attempting to verify which, if any, of the files in "File

Re: question about sound

On Thu, Aug 18 2022 at 09:39:23 AM, wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:47:40PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: >> On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA256 >> > >> > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? >> >> In the 70s friends wen

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

On Wed, Aug 10 2022 at 01:41:46 PM, Aravinth kumar Anbalagan wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Below is the output. > > root@policijas-db:~# gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 473041FA > gpg: requesting key 473041FA from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com > gpg: keyserver timed out > gpg: keyser

Re: German Translation error of apt package description for xwit

On Tue, Jul 12 2022 at 09:50:04 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12 2022 at 03:50:25 PM, Marco wrote: >> Hello, >> where should I report (or if possible) directly change the translation >> of the packages description used by apt? >> Which package is affected? &

Re: German Translation error of apt package description for xwit

On Tue, Jul 12 2022 at 03:50:25 PM, Marco wrote: > Hello, > where should I report (or if possible) directly change the translation > of the packages description used by apt? > Which package is affected? Package descriptions are part of the package itself. So you'd report it as a bug on xwit. If

Re: follow-up: update, reboot required?

On Sat, Apr 23 2022 at 01:11:49 PM, Lee wrote: > On 3/19/22, Lee wrote: >> On 3/19/22, piorunz wrote: >>> On 19/03/2022 02:32, Lee wrote: How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? >>> >>> install "needrestart" package. >>> >>> Description: needrestart checks wh

Re: /var/log/journal/ size question

On Thu, Apr 21 2022 at 10:08:04 AM, Henrik S wrote: > The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly. > why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it? > That's the storage for the logs maintained by journald. You can manage these logs by editing /etc/systemd/journald.conf

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tue, Apr 05 2022 at 09:23:11 AM, wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 03:01:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:46:32 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [fail2ban] > >> Well, it seems to me that if something as automatic as fail2ban were to >> be used, its better use would

Re: packages built with golang

On Tue, Mar 15 2022 at 08:28:41 AM, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that > package information returned by > > apt-cache show some-package > > for packages that I have not installed > would not be downloaded onto my system > until I actually requested

Re: strange boot messages

cc-ing as requested On Sun, Feb 27 2022 at 09:01:31 AM, Michael Grant wrote: > I'm running Debian 11.2 stable on a Linode (a popular VPS). After a recent > update, I think from > around 25th of January, I'm starting to see some strange messages in > my logs: > > systemd[1]: First Boot Complete

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

On Tue, Feb 15 2022 at 06:56:28 PM, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hello The Wanderer > >> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 at 8:48 PM >> From: "The Wanderer" >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential >> packages: What is the best course of action

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

On Tue, Jan 11 2022 at 01:37:22 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:42:11PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:24:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > But if I let it start itself automatically on demand, then it works >> > straight out of the gate wit

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

On Thu, Dec 09 2021 at 10:12:18 AM, piorunz wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that Debian Stable uses Firefox ESR 78.15.0, which is final > update of 78 series. All further updates go to Firefox ESR 91, as > Mozilla page says: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.15.0/releasenotes > > "Version 7

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

On Wed, Sep 29 2021 at 10:35:35 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> > From: Greg Wooledge >> > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 >> > > What does it look like?

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

[slightly re-arranged segments below] On Sat, Sep 25 2021 at 09:03:37 PM, Default User wrote: > > In Vorta, under the "Sources" tab, there is an area (window) for input > into which you can type or paste text, such as: > > **/.cache > > to denote exclusions, that is, things you do not want to ba

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

On Sat, Sep 25 2021 at 06:24:12 PM, Default User wrote: > Hello! > > I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: > /home/debian-user > > I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. > > But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type > excl

Re: Debian unstable - tracking the latest Firefox release?

On Sun, Sep 19 2021 at 03:51:17 PM, Will wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm on Debian unstable. Firefox is currently stuck on 88.x. Was there a > reason unstable wasn't tracking against later releases? The latest release > for Firefox is - AFAICT - version 92. Not in a rush to get to version 92, > bu

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

On Tue, Aug 17 2021 at 08:01:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 16:57:44 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 04:54:54PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? >> >> It's still at >>

Re: HP plat fair with drivers?

On Sat, Aug 14 2021 at 07:02:31 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 11/8/21 00:14, Nicolas George wrote: >> Based on past experience, I am favoring HP, because AFAIK they mostly >> play fair about Libre drivers > > Good afternoon > > I'd like to agree that HP plays fair with drivers. > > A friend bou

Re: Upgrade problems?

On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. > > > Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / → > /run during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition > / → /run during

Re: Useful use of dd [was: Useless use of "dd"]

On Fri, Jul 02 2021 at 01:26:23 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2021-07-02 09:49:23+0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> FWIW, I've found something which could be deemed to be an "useful use >> of dd" which somehow bears a hidden symmetry. As a replacement for >> `cat' whenever you need to put a name o

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Tue, May 04 2021 at 11:11:02 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: > >> The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event. >> IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified file >> open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you have >> an "incron" job somewhere? >

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

On Thu, Apr 29 2021 at 06:57:02 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > Michael Grant writes: > >> I saw in the last 6 months a daemon that let you get oauth tokens on >> linux and then it refereshed the token indefinitely until told to >> stop. Essentially making the token available on linux so you could >> use

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

On Wed, Apr 28 2021 at 08:20:37 PM, Gregor Zattler wrote: > Dear debian users, the company which employs me uses MS 365 > (former Office 365) in a federated setup where users are > taken from MS to the companys login server for > authentication. > > Which means that I have to authenticate via a we

Re: [?]List of Best Debian-approved laptops in India

On Sun, Apr 18 2021 at 08:01:46 PM, "Susmita/Rajib" wrote: > My illustrious List Leaders and solution providers, > > My references are here: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=149280 > {to avoid repetition) > > Need your advice and suggestion on the issue. The laptops that I have > a

Re: akonadiserver is using high cpu load

On Tue, Apr 13 2021 at 01:22:59 PM, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > after an update 3 days ago I discovered an issue with akonadiserver. > > Problem: The Akonadiserver is using full cpu load (95 %). > > Solution tries: > > 1. stopped the single process "akonadiserver". After kmail fetched new mails,

Re: Can't connect to torproject.org

On Sun, Apr 11 2021 at 10:25:24 AM, Celejar wrote: > I feel silly for not being able to figure this out. > > I can't connect to torproject.org via either Firefox or Chromium. The > browsers object that HSTS is in place and they don't recognize the > site's certificate (SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER). T

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On Thu, Mar 25 2021 at 08:02:32 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? > I use WSL (not the newer WSL2) on a work computer. > I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to > also use it my

Re: "Service restarts being deferred"

On Sat, Dec 19 2020 at 06:34:35 PM, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > On 2020-12-19 17:14, Dan Ritter wrote: >> Jesper Dybdal wrote: >>> I run Buster with unattended updates configured to allow reboots. >>> >>> Sometimes after an update, the log contains: >>> Service restarts being deferred: ??sys

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up, Not There Yet.

On Sat, Nov 21 2020 at 05:04:30 PM, "Martin McCormick" wrote: > Felix Miata writes: >> Save yourself many keystrokes by using the symlinks in the root directory >> instead >> of the long-winded full version-named /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-686-pae > > This is wonderful to know and in the root o

Re: package of cfdisk

On Sun, Nov 01 2020 at 11:53:18 PM, gregoire roumache wrote: > Hello, > > I've found multiple bugs while using the command : cfdisk. I've written a > report to sub...@bugs.debian.org, however it was rejected because I didn't > specify a package (line at the very first line of the mail body). > Un

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

On Mon, Sep 28 2020 at 09:46:09 AM, "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > On 09/27/2020 01:35 PM, Brian wrote: >> Npthing to do with your issue, but what is your Brother model? >> > > > Happy to let you know: > > DCP-L2550DW > You may not need any of the drivers from Brother for this device. The prin

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

On Fri, Sep 25 2020 at 07:48:28 AM, "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > I am running up-to-date Buster, unfortunately there seems to be a bit > of a problem. > > Normally I run the update process several times a week with the > command sudo apr update && sudo apt upgrade. This morning this > resulted in

Re: Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

Dennis Wicks writes: > Greetings! > > Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 > and vice versa? > Assuming you are using qemu-kvm to run your VM, the search keyword would be SPICE. You need to have the appropriate devices attached to the VM (a spice channel at the m

Re: info command status

Jude DaShiell writes: > Has the command line info utility used to read info files from the command > line been depricated and removed from debian? > No. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/texinfo -- regards, kushal

Re: ssh key used for login

Rainer Dorsch writes: > Hi, > > can anybody tell if there is a way to find out the ssh key (out of the ones > listed in authorized keys) was used for login to the current session? > See the environment="NAME=value" part in the authorized_keys(5) manpage. You can have each entry in authorized_ke

Re: AppArmor or Telepathy error

Henning Follmann writes: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 12:48:19PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 07 Aug 2020 at 07:32:12 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 08:16:14PM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: >> > > Aug 06 19:55:20 typer audit[4039]: AVC apparmor="DENIED" >> > > operati

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

Leslie Rhorer writes: > On 8/5/2020 1:51 PM, deloptes wrote: > >> Imagine you have classical backup: daily incrementals, full weekly and full >> monthly. > > This is not required with DAR. One full backup is all that is > required. Anything else is a waste of time and space. One can empl

Re: Python 3 Segmentation Fault

"J.Arun Mani" writes: > Hello. > I'm using Debian Testing (upgraded from Debian 10). Today I started > Python 3, but it was not able to interpret any commands from stdin and > resulted in Segmentation Fault. Luckily modules (python3 -m ) > and files (python3 ) works fine though. > > Observed: > $

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

Keith Bainbridge writes: > > On 31/07/2020 5:27 am, Torben Schou Jensen wrote: >> Filesharing by NFS. > > Wondering why you are using ntfs on the Pi, rather than a linux file > system, which from my experience would cause less stress on th Pi? > NFS != ntfs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

Stefan Monnier writes: >> You could set up networkmanager so that it ignores the ethernet port. >> That should save you some time. >> >> See; >> https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/NetworkManager.conf.html >> >> In particular the 'keyfile section' and 'ifupdown section', which detai

Re: Real bounces from debian-user

"Will Mengarini" writes: > TL;DR: How can I use *one* query (web or otherwise) > to retrieve *all* my recently-bounced debian-user mail, > or a list of URLs by which they can be retrieved? > I don't know if this would be too radical a change, but you can also use a news reader to access the mail

Re: Duplex tumble options missing since CUPS upgrade

I'm not using the Brother drivers for printing. > Kind regards, > Gareth > > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, at 16:05, Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> "Gareth Evans" writes: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > The duplex tumble option seems to have disappe

Re: Duplex tumble options missing since CUPS upgrade

"Gareth Evans" writes: > Hello, > > The duplex tumble option seems to have disappeared for me when > printing, I think since a recent CUPS upgrade on Debian 10.4 > > No matter whether I use driverless or Brother drivers with MFC-L2740DW > the only options are "short edge"/"long edge" or > "portra

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

Default User writes: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 21:19 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >> Default User writes: >> >> > Hi, all. >> > >> > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, >> and >> > installed kde on it. &g

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

Default User writes: > Hi, all. > > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, and > installed kde on it. > > I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with it. > Perhaps I am overlooking something obvious, but I can not seem to run > Dolphin or Ko

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > Aside: for my own self respect, I want to make some sort of disclaimer here > (with maybe several points): I'm sure that sometimes I post things that do > any of (1) make other people cringe (for one reason or another), (2) make me > look uninformed (or worse), and

Re: fail2ban for apache2

Brian writes: > On Sun 10 Nov 2019 at 11:01:07 +0100, Michael wrote: > >> On Saturday, November 9, 2019 7:01:00 PM CET, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > I was able, with the help of another responder to carve up some iptables >> > rules to stop the DDOS that semrush, yandex, bingbot, and 2 or 3 other

Re: pass simple readline frontend

André Rodier writes: > Hello, > > I want to use the pass password urtility on Linux, in my Emacs eterm. > > The TERM environment variable seems to be ignored, the ncurses utility > starts and this is totally unusable. > Is there any option, beside recompiling the software to have it > working pro

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

Ken Heard writes: > Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it > > #!/bin/bash > # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. > STARTDIR=$PWD > cd /home/ken > tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ > --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowse

Re: Treate .sh and .bash the same way Apache2

john doe writes: > > > Next step is to figure out how to do the same for file that don't have > an extension that I can use but they always start with the same pattern: > > xxx.abc > xxx.def > xxx.ghi > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_mime_magic.html Note the caution about potential

Re: systemd messages relating to non-existent devices

Richard Hector writes: > On 7/08/19 3:16 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> Richard Hector writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm getting messages like this in my logs: >>> >>> Aug 6 13:16:18 akl-host3 systemd[1]: dev-xvda9.device: Job &g

Re: systemd messages relating to non-existent devices

Richard Hector writes: > Hi all, > > I'm getting messages like this in my logs: > > Aug 6 13:16:18 akl-host3 systemd[1]: dev-xvda9.device: Job > dev-xvda9.device/start timed out. > Aug 6 13:16:18 akl-host3 systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device > dev-xvda9.device. > Aug 6 13:16:18 akl-host3

Re: Can status column be made to contain only ii?

Felix Miata writes: > # grep RETT /etc/os-release > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" > # dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | wc -l > 867 > # dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii' | wc -l > 136 > # dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l > 125 > # dpkg -l | egrep -v '^ii'|'^rc' | sort > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/H

Re: major email problems

Glenn English writes: > Buster, Stretch, Wheezy > > I know this is probably the wrong place to ask, but DU is full of > knowledgeable folks... > > This morning I quit receiving IMAP email (Dovecot, Thunderbird). I > installed and tried several other clients (iMail, Geary, Sylpheed) and > none wor

Re: Readme sanity check

bw writes: > In-Reply-To: <7d98acfd-19b9-ed61-362c-81e714484...@disroot.org> > > ... >>Would it be possible to someone have a read through... > > I like a good read, never heard of rocksndiamonds though. Could not find > the text. I used ff-esr, chromium with no javascript and links2. All I >

Re: apache2 missing a file, won't run.

Gene Heskett writes: > On Sunday 05 May 2019 01:06:13 pm Ulf Volmer wrote: > >> On 05.05.19 18:56, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Stretch install, from a custom iso the LCNC folks are testing, but >> > the apache2 install was all pulled in with synaptic. No errors. >> > >> > As root; >> > >> > Service

Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

Richard Owlett writes: > I wish to try some beta software which assumes python3.7 is > installed. I have Debian 9.8 installed on a machine dedicated to this > exercise. I did a web search and got a half dozen on topic hits. There > were enough differences that I wasn't sure if I was missing somet

Re: is xdvi broken?

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: > > > A month ago I was using latexmk with the same options on this machine. > I seem to recall an occasional jump back to the xdvi window, but not > the constant jumping back I was seeing today. So I think that the new > Cherry keyboard must be the culprit. You may

Re: is xdvi broken?

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: > On 2019.04.16 14:20, Dan Ritter wrote: >> I would be looking at the keyboard. Is it possible that you have >> some stickiness in your bottom row modifiers? Unintentional >> presses and slow releases can cause symptoms like you have >> described. > > I thank you, kind

Re: OpenSSH not closing idle sessions.

timothylegg writes: > I'm the only user that will be angry at being disconnected. There is > no easy way to explain the reasoning; I've rewritten this paragraph > three times because it was too long. I have two residences and one > has a port forwarding issue. I want to make an SSH tunnel to t

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

Tom Browder writes: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > ... >> Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > Um, you're right, I should be able to use that now that ACME v2 lets > us use wild cards. > Could you elaborate why the ability to create wildcard SSL certificates ma

Re: Low-Cost Tablet PC suitable for Debian

Celejar writes: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:21:21 -0500 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > it's android without the "I'd like to call home' parts, if you choose the >> > bare install. >> >> AFAIK the bare install will still call home: every time you connect to >> a wifi network it performs an HTTP req

Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them

davidson writes: > On Tue, 15 May 2018, davidson wrote: > >> I have a problem: The more frequently I browse a web site, the more I >> notice all the things I hate about its web pages. >> >> And I seem to have a partial solution to this problem: I can make XSLT >> stylesheets[1] that will transfor

Re: Backup problem using "cp"

Richard Owlett writes: > On 05/07/2018 07:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Richard Owlett wrote: >>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat / | fgrep Device >>> Device: 80eh/2062d Inode: 2 Links: 22 >>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat /media | fgrep Device >>> Device: 80eh/2062d I

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

Richard Owlett writes: > On 04/27/2018 12:06 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: >>[SNIP] >> >> Do not specify „--print-debs” if you want „debootstrap” to install the >> packages. > > *BINGO* > Proofreading one's own work is intrinsically error prone ;/ > > But it doesn't solve all my problems. Capture

Re: Update: Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > Thanks to all who replied! > > I thought I'd summarize where I am: > > I like three of the suggestions (from what I've seen / investigated > (slightly) > so far, but with some comments: > >* pass: appeals to me a lot--the one problem for me (for which I believe

Re: bad upgrade libgstgl-1.0.so.0

Pétùr writes: > Hi, > > I had a bad upgrade on my debian sid. > > It seems both libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64 and > libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 are trying to write the file > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstgl-1.0.so.0. > > Any idea to fix it? > > Pétùr > > # apt upgrade > Reading package li

Re: bash usage.

pe...@easthope.ca writes: > PROBLEM > Given a storage device, /dev/GRN, and mount point, /home/peter/testdir/, > determine in a shell script whether /dev/GRN is mounted or something is > mounted on /home/peter/testdir/. > > ATTEMPTED SOLUTION > Create testdir and execute this script. > > #!/bin/

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

Mario Castelán Castro writes: > On 2017-08-19 23:07 -0400 Celejar wrote: >>There's Borg, which apparently has good deduplication. I've just >>started using it, but it's a very sophisticated and quite popular piece >>of software, judging by chatter in various internet threads. > > This seems like

Re: Installing the installer

Richard Owlett writes: > Yes, I know the subject line looks strange. It's intentional. > I wish to do something not quite normal ;/ > > I wish to "install" to an arbitrary ext2/ext4 partition in such a > manner that: > 1. Grub2 will recognize it as a legit OS. > 2. if the partition is on a US

Re: Relocated Header Directories

Dutch Ingraham writes: > Hi everyone - > > It seems Debian has moved some header directories, like /usr/include/bits (and > sys, and asm, etc.) from /usr/include/ to, e.g., > /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/ > (arch-specific). > > My first question is: Why? > This is so that headers that are

Re: name for wireless interface

pe...@easthope.ca writes: > A TL-WN722N adapter connected to a stretch system gives these results. > > peter@imager:~$ lsusb | grep Ath > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n > > root@imager:/home/peter# iwlist scan > wlxa0f3c10a28f7 Interface doesn't suppo

Re: Upgrading to Stretch from Jessie

HP Garcia writes: > Is the procedure to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch. Is to replace > Jessie with Stretch in sources.list and then run update > upgrade. Correct? > Please read through the draft release notes at https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/index.en.html. If you'r

Re: NTP.conf pool vs server

ray writes: > I would like to know the correct syntax for entering a server entry for > stretch. > > All the documentation I find says to list the ntp servers in the file as: > server 0.XX.pool.ntp.org > server 1.XX.pool.ntp.org > > An example source from 2017 is https://wiki.debian.org/DateTi

Re: How to reply a list message using Gmail with Evolution?

River Chiang writes: > Hello List, > > I use Firefox to read lists, when I clicked the link > debian-user@lists.debian.org and tried to reply the message, > Evolution's setup window showed. I tried to setup Evolution to use > Gmail. > Unfortunately I didn't make it. > > What mail user agent you u

Re: [Newbie] Can ls command format output my way?

Richard Owlett writes: > ls -R /media/data produces the content but not the NEEDED format. > > I want a list like: > /media/data/dir1/filea > /media/data/dir1/fileb > /media/data/dir1/subdir1/filex > /media/data/dir1/subdir1/filey > /media/data/dir1/subdir1/filez > /media/data/dir2/filea > /media

Re: Python Alternatives?

Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:39:27AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >> That would violate Debian Python policy. You are free to do it on your >> own system, but it will likely break many Python packages on Debian, and >> you get to keep all the pieces :-) > > From what I recall

Re: Followed https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress got mysql error, syntax Error 1064

Nate Homier writes: > I followed the Debian wiki for Wordpress. I got to the part about > > cat ~/wp.sql | mysql --defaults-extra-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf > > And boom, error! > > Error is; 1064 (42000) at line 1: > > you have an error in your SQL syntax > > 1 CREATE DATABASE wordpress' at lin

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