Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Michael Kjörling
bly not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if there are, a post to an unrelated mailing list is not the way to file bug reports with any project, let alone a major one like Firefox. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Hardware Error Messages

2025-01-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
xplanation absent any further details is likely a correctable CRC/ECC/FEC error somewhere. You can check component and cable seating, including power cabling. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
rash or simply a GUI session freeze would likely be very relevant information then. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: wireguard setup issue

2024-12-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
nd what your raw tools usage does); or (b) give you a simpler setup which still reproduces the problem, making it easier for others to reproduce the issue you're having. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: wireguard setup issue

2024-12-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
ints, you need to set up separate key pairs or make sure that any other endpoints using that key pair is disconnected before connecting from elsewhere, or traffic won't flow properly. Depending on how you set up the tunnel, that's definitely something I would check. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: gdm Bug: 61-gdm.rules sets Wayland to false, but X is not installed, then freezes

2024-12-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
oint to the already filed upstream bug report. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
are passphrase begins with "dean unissued mystified comfort", then other than perhaps that this can help narrow down which word list was used, they have no advantage in guessing the remainder. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
ne which is pertinent here) is random out of a character set, and Diceware with words selected at random. The former gives a high degree of security for a given length, and the latter gives good memorability. The work factor of a password or passphrase generated using either method can be objectively

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
and read some of the tech media coverage of it. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
t grasp of security surrounding physical possessions. They might not readily grasp the implications of handing their unlocked phone over to a stranger, but they probably do grasp the implications of handing their home keys over to the same stranger. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
d of screen recording software, so this seems like security theater. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-17 Thread Michael Kjörling
. Password managers are a good thing. They give you huge advantages in a world where there's far too many passwords for anyone to remember." -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
ead; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) if ( p->prev != NULL ) free( p->prev ); ==> free( last ); certainly look to me like they're outside of loops. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
) and keep a manual count. See how many times each is reached. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
not mention; or you introduced an error in /etc/crontab as you edited it. Note that the generally recommended way is to add a file in /etc/cron.d instead of editing /etc/crontab. Doing so reduces the risk of conflicts later. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
t; d-i tasksel/desktop multiselect lxde Unless that's been changed recently, that doesn't look quite right. My corresponding (without any GUI) is: tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, ssh-server d-i pkgsel/upgrade select full-upgrade By all means feel free to use mine as a starting point if you want. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
_ VirtualBox, KVM + AQEMU may be a more reasonable choice these days. > The sources are all licensed products on CD-ROMs and VirtualBox seems to > expect ISO inputs which is, of course a non-starter. "ISO inputs which is, of course a non-starter" Why? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: How can I install yum

2024-12-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
rg/buster/yum https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/yum Also, yum is meant for handling RPM packages, which Debian does not use to begin with. Why do you want to install yum? This smells strongly of a XY problem; there is almost certainly a better way to do what you _actually_ want to do on Debian. -- Mic

Re: differences between sysvinit and systemd

2024-11-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
journalctl for the duration of log retention but requires particular care with *syslogd especially if log rotation also compresses old logs (as is typical), whereas passing journalctl --no-pager --all might not be typical but replicates the style of output from the awk example when run from an interactive terminal. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: differences between sysvinit and systemd; was: where is mail.log

2024-11-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 30 Nov 2024 20:33 +0800, from bit...@secubox.org (Bitfox): > May I ask what's the main difference between systemd and sysv for init > system? I think it's fair to say that systemd does a great deal more, as well as that it brings things into the init system which have traditionally been done by

Re: Seeking Resources for Advanced Linux Server Administration

2024-11-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
es of software you're running. For example, zfs-discuss often has good discussions, but those would naturally be of little benefit if you're not using ZFS. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se (Yes, I know to where I am sending this.)

Re: Issues installing Erling using apt (Ubuntu 20.04)

2024-11-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
#x27;s always better to ask people who are likely familiar with what you are running. I do hope you find an answer to your question, but debian-user is not the correct place to ask questions about installation of third-party packages on Ubuntu. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
ore than _booting_ a system without a GUI. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
ainer is locked (either by luksClose, or by rebooting), that possibility is lost and the data becomes inaccessible without a valid container passphrase. So: _exactly_ which "password" are you referring to? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 22 Nov 2024 22:49 +0800, from h...@bitfox.ddns.net (Bitfox): > Do you think if it's suitable to run a apache2 + php7 server for my personal > project (not wordpress)? I would say no; for the simple reason that it appears that no PHP 7 release is currently supported upstream.

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
less than 256 MB RAM, so 512 MB should be plenty. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: sudo question

2024-11-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
ual pattern if you need to do this in a non-root-only script is to do something like `echo | sudo tee` to tie the sudo to the thing that needs write access to the output file. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
d even USB 1.1 and 2.0 are only specified for up to 5 m. Apparently USB gateways are a thing to extend this. In contrast, HDMI apparently is usable at up to about 13 m. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
t used XFree86 in a very long time. Certainly Bookworm is Xorg if not Wayland. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Newbie to Debian 12.7

2024-11-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
install; and `apt-cache show ` to see more details about a specific package. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Minimalist HTML 4 viewer available?

2024-11-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
quot;, but uMatrix has > a column dedicated to frames and I see it used fairly frequently for > captchas and online credit card payment elements. That probably includes iframes (inline frames). I was talking about the HTML pre-5 and related tags. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Minimalist HTML 4 viewer available?

2024-11-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
tml.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-strong-element [7]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html#edef-FRAMESET [8]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features [9]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/obsolete.html#frames -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Minimalist HTML 4 viewer available?

2024-11-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
tent in HTML 5[2].) [1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.2 [2]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/indices.html#elements-3 -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Installation on second hand Dell Latitude 5420

2024-10-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
ils are stored in firmware settings memory this might cause you to lose that, but I assume that's not a significant issue for you. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: How to run 'pkg upgrade' as requested by apt?

2024-10-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
ckage from elsewhere, the only way I can see that you'd get a 3.12.7-1 package version of Python is by running Sid. And even then I would expect the package name to be "python3.12", not just "python". (The "python3" package in Sid is, somewhat curiously, a

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

2024-10-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
nd password at GUI start-up **is** > logging in. It is _logging in_, but it's not a _login shell_. In this case the specific difference matters. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

2024-10-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
r way to accomplish that. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: lower CPU speed

2024-10-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
uring or after a reboot if that's what you want. I think the linux-cpupower Debian package provides a nicer CLI front-end. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
an `apt install redis`. It installed cleanly. The only possibly significant difference I can see is that I'm running on amd64 whereas your attempt was on arm64; but I honestly fail to see why such a difference would manifest itself in the kind of error you got. [1]: https://michael.kjorling.

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

2024-10-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 11 Oct 2024 09:38 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green): > I can try and if it all goes pear > shaped I'll just have to go out to the system in the garage with a > screen and keyboard (and mouse). No need for a mouse, even if you use the graphical installer. -- Mi

Re: Mozilla's apt repository

2024-10-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
able to limit the ability of such an act causing damage. The same argument would apply to a repository from any other actor as well. Mozilla's just happened to be the one that came up in this particular thread. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Mozilla's apt repository; was: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

2024-10-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
ike an even better argument for not pinning _everything_ coming from that repository at priority 1000. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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

2024-10-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
sts. What they ship, which I would expect to be firefox, thunderbird (possibly plus ESR versions separately packaged) and the corresponding localization packages, should be sufficient. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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

2024-10-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
g-ad-measurement-in-firefox-128/ -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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

2024-10-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
ic requirement that can only be met by Testing. You can add the backports component if you want newer versions of packages; or you can upgrade to Testing; but both of those have their own caveats. It's a lot easier to upgrade from Stable to Testing than to downgrade from Testing to

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
someone else can. For next time: Please don't word-wrap verbatim data, especially data laid out as tables (for example the output of dpkg -l). It makes it very difficult to read. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

2024-10-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
17 that's unlikely to be the direct cause. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
point is subject it to more physical stress than unavoidable. Unless you absolutely must, do not physically unplug or remove that disk before the RAID array has resilvered onto the new disk. It's currently providing value being a second source of truth about what's stored; you don't want to remove it and then find during the resilver that the other current disk has a problem. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Bookworm: Mouse cursor issues after upgrading to FireFox v128?

2024-10-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
hich seem unlikely to be relevant to this. A data point: KeepassXC has been doing the same for me (with the same mouse cursor theme, no less) for a very long time; I chalked that one down to it being a Qt application in a GTK environment. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kj

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
etimes things want the root password for elevating privileges; sometimes they want the password of the user taking the action...) -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Bookworm: Mouse cursor issues after upgrading to FireFox v128?

2024-10-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
it's related to your issue, but the current kernel on Bookworm is 6.1.0-26 after a security update the other day. DSA 5782-1 https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00195.html via https://www.debian.org/security/#DSAS -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.k

Re: Firefox complaint

2024-10-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
t of apt list --installed? I do not see any identical lines. (Reflowed above to undo the effects of original post word wrapping.) There's firefox-esr-l10n-en-{ca,gb} and the main firefox-esr package. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Which subdirectory for a usedr-specific executable?

2024-10-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
dard/recommended location". Unlike the other answers I've seen in the thread so far (which are personal anecdata), my answer provides one such, with references. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Which subdirectory for a usedr-specific executable?

2024-10-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
ystemd/man/latest/file-hierarchy.html#Home%20Directory https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/file-hierarchy.html#~/.local/bin/ I would say that meets your requirements as stated. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-09-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
d to tweak your usage slightly. I do that myself, except I switch approximately weekly rather than daily. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: rsnapshot; was: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-09-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
ged default passes -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded (not necessarily in that order). -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-09-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
eck $? after /bin/echo in the handler (probably non-zero), and do a `type echo` from within a script executed in the same way (probably "shell builtin"). If so, there's your difference. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: subnet subset blocked

2024-09-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
5.x (a subset of Ethernet LAN). To me this smells like a subnet mask length issue. Triple-check that `ip a sh` shows the IP address and subnet mask that you expect. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Unused blocks and fstrim

2024-09-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
one of those times when ZFS' awareness of actual storage usage and allocation comes in handy at what's typically considered other layers in the stack. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Lost internet access on Trixie this morning.

2024-09-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
he most recent apt log might very well be instructive. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older)

2024-09-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
o/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/images-1.44/ -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
t; version(s) of Debian might have had vim 8.2. Bullseye / 11 had vim 8.2. (Specifically, the current package version is 2:8.2.2434-3+deb11u1 <https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/vim>.) Buster had 8.1, Bookworm is at 9.0 as you say, and Trixie and Sid are both currently on the 9.1

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
d usage of a SSD just isn't an issue in practice any longer. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
ll "-u" for update, "-k all" for all installed kernel versions. See the man page for details. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Installing bookworm on an old HP laptop

2024-09-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
o get you up and running. Alternatively, as already mentioned, the netinst image to reduce the initial download size at the cost of needing to download the packages you actually _do_ install during the installation process. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “R

Re: Debian distros

2024-08-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
it seems reasonable to expect Trixie (Debian 13) to be released in about a year. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Which tool for upgrade in commandline?

2024-08-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
tes, particularly with regards to its benefits when used from scripts. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Which tool for upgrade in commandline?

2024-08-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
t even prints a message to that effect when started. See also the introductory paragraph of the apt(8) man page. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: printer paused: filter not avaiable

2024-08-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
the output of that might also prove instructive. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: glob path question

2024-08-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
will list the matching directory entries (if any) without descending into directories to list their contents. Filename globbing is done by the shell, not by the invoked application (such as `ls`). -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
good i386 architecture support, and i386 support is not guaranteed throughout its long-term support phase because of maintenance and upstream issues. See the recent discussions regarding i386 and 32-bit on this very list for more details. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael

Re: domain status in registry and registrar

2024-08-19 Thread Michael Kjörling
t; > These things are all available separately: And of course, just because you have a domain name doesn't mean you must host a web site on or under it. The Internet is more than only the Web. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-15 Thread Michael Kjörling
the functionality of any particular other app and it's up to that other app how that is handled. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
h I would expect to see in 2027) will be using a kernel with no ReiserFS 3 support at all unless perhaps someone maintains it out of tree; and if my understanding is correct, ReiserFS 4 requires out-of-tree kernel software to be used on any version of Linux. -- Michael Kjörling

Re: Kali w4sp wireshark

2024-08-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
hat the results are when you do. "An error" and "more errors" is not helpful. Show the exact output you get. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Disk I/O errors

2024-08-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
ive. If offline uncorrectable or pending sectors is climbing as you try a read test, that's a strong signal that the drive is somehow physically damaged. Each drive has a limited pool of spare sectors and once that pool is used up for remapping, it cannot handle any further sectors going bad.

Re: Authenticator apps

2024-08-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
ny things, but it's decidedly not an isolated environment for running untrusted code. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: dot internal and mDNS

2024-08-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
> │ > > └───┘ > > With any group of people for whom the second line is useful > information, I think a significant proportion would choose a name > like "local" after re

Re: Authenticator apps

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 5 Aug 2024 05:31 +0800, from wes...@mxcloud.eu.org (Wesley): > OT question, can debian desktop run a simulator for phone app? If OP thinks a password manager is "more complicated than needed", then what isn't running a hardware emulator + whole operating system + Who knows

Re: Authenticator apps

2024-08-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
ose criteria. KeepassXC is one example which has a corresponding add-on to Firefox. (I don't know about Chrome.) -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: dot internal and mDNS

2024-08-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
future, that list will very likely be extended with (c) use .internal. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: dot internal and mDNS

2024-08-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
ng at least (pre-DNS hostnames are a slightly different matter). -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: dot internal and mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
ed TLD. (And no, effectively saying "we don't recommend it, but if you must, here are some that people use" does not constitute a recommendation.) -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: dot internal and mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
al uniqueness in DNS for the fully qualified names. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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

2024-07-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
g on debian-user is not how one files a bug report, however. And posting on debian-user with a bombastic Subject line which implies that this is a widespread issue when it really only seems to exist in Unstable is, quite frankly, in my opinion at best dishonest. -- Michael Kjörling

Re: server latency

2024-07-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
he tin. For example, a typical host would probably give reasonable results for: $ nmap -sS -p 22,3389 192.0.2.1 That will check the default SSH and Microsoft RDP ports on 192.0.2.1. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody c

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

2024-07-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
IMO, as it reduces brittleness. It seems to me that if the administrator overrides a default, then the onus is on the administrator to maintain the intended effect of that override (including syntactic changes after a package upgrade), or remove the override if it's no longer relevant or u

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
rt. The 127.0.0.1:631 tuple is where the _remote end_ SSH server will forward those packets to, so _that_ 127.0.0.1 refers to the _remote host's_ loopback interface. See ssh(1) under -L for details. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: mount permissions

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
eben > that'll be accessing, run sshfs as eben. This is also common behavior with FUSE file systems in general. Slight extra prodding is required for a FUSE mounted file system to be accessible to any user (including root) other than the one who mounted it. -- Michael Kjörling

Re: bookworm konquerer, fish not working, sftp problems

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
does happen? What do you expect should happen? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: cant login if --- (Filesystem / Use 100%)

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ing the one you quoted. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: cant login if --- (Filesystem / Use 100%)

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
to log in) is likely to work better than logging in to a graphical session, but of course requires that you feel comfortable deleting files through the shell. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Debian should have a rolling release version; was: Debian Sid. General questions.

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ose has advantages and disadvantages. Its primary upside IMO is stability. How often does an upgrade within a Debian Stable major version break anything? (_Very_ rarely.) The nice part is that if that isn't for you, you can choose something which better suits your needs. -- Michael Kjörling

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
s not that uncommon for kernel updates to not increase the ABI version tag, so in practice your system has probably seen many more than 22 kernels over that period of time. (Without having checked, I wouldn't be surprised if the real number of kernel updates is on the order of 2-3 tim

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

2024-07-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
't do that _without_ solid knowledge of Linux in general and Debian in particular, and a willingness to help solve problems. I've been using Linux as a daily driver OS for close to a quarter century and consider myself fairly adept at it; and I wouldn't run Sid, mostly because I ac

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
y that's a good middle ground. I would encourage you to upgrade to Debian 12, though. 11 is about to exit mainline support. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Detecting change in running kernel version between reboots

2024-07-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
mind and see if anyone has > any better ideas? This is pretty much exactly what DKMS is for. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
hing at all. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
bset of those who do, reasonable alternatives _do_ indeed exist. But quite a few do need specific tools that _aren't_ cross-platform, and failing to recognize that reflects poorly on _everyone_. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
ing to Linux". With regards to this week's Crowdstrike mess, most people who _can_ switch from Windows to Linux aren't in a position of even having that software on their systems, so for them personally switching won't have any impact either way. With Microsoft's Recall, the

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