Re: sid

2023-11-27 Thread Michael Thompson
h that first ~ Remove it, and that might break things I remain gratefully yours, Mike On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 1:52 AM Michael Thompson wrote: > Dear Debian, > > Minor update, it works!!! > > I know I did one thing differently, which possibly influenced things, I > do

Re: sid

2023-11-27 Thread Michael Thompson
ns on your excellent work. I remain yours gratefully, Mike On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 7:24 PM Michael Thompson wrote: > Dear Debian, > > I just tried it again, and got the same result. > If you download the standard vanilla Debian netinstall ISO, create a VBox, > and install,

sid

2023-11-27 Thread Michael Thompson
Dear Debian, I just tried it again, and got the same result. If you download the standard vanilla Debian netinstall ISO, create a VBox, and install, it works fine. I just confirmed this by downloading a fresh one. I know it's a new one because it includes the non-free-firmware part in the sources.

vanilla to sid

2023-11-25 Thread Michael Thompson
Dear Debian, I have sent a few emails already, but I suspect I've been talking to the wrong person... I'm sure there's a way (on gmail) to forward an email I've sent, to an additional recipient, but for the life of me, I can't see it. This is clumsy, but so am I. Dear Debian,

black screen in sid

2022-12-01 Thread Michael Thompson
Dear Debian ~ Please forgive my neglecting to use the correct format for a bug report, but ~ let me explain. I am a 60 year old home Linux tinkerer, a Linux geek. I run Mint + Mate as my host and virtualbox, with a dozen guests. One guest is Debian sid. I just ran sudo apt update; sudo apt full-up

Re: Bastion server

2018-12-02 Thread Michael Thompson
> On 1 Dec 2018, at 23:45, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Ilyass Kaouam wrote: >> Please can you give me an equivalent off Wallix but open source? > > > Can you define what services Wallix I assume he’s referring to https://www.wallix.com/en/

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Thompson
Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files are safe on their own partition... > On 30 Nov 2018, at 17:14, Default User wrote: > > > I often see people recommend a separate home partition. > > But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory wit

Re: Disable a service

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Thompson
On 9 April 2011 16:04, Dan wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know which is the standard way to disable services. I > thought that the standard way is just to delete the link of the > service from rc*.d > > For example to disable bluetooth I would just delete the link > /etc/rc3.d/S20bluetooth that po

Android / Rythymbox

2011-04-02 Thread Michael Thompson
I hope someone here can help; I cant see my Android handset in any media player, so cant sync to it. It is visible as a mounted drive in gnome, and I can access it without issue. However Rythmbox, banshee et all will not show it. And I dont have a clue where to start to see why. Anyone come across

Re: Please i need your help from Miss Alima

2011-03-30 Thread Michael Thompson
Please call me to discuss this further: 0300 123 1212 2011/3/29 Miss Alima Mohameed > 新しいメールアドレスをお知らせします > 新しいメールアドレス: *alim_mo...@yahoo.co.jp* > > Dearest one, I am Miss Alima Mohameed 21 years old. Please i have the sum > of $7 million that i need your help. I inhreated this money from my late

Re: APT gone nuts

2011-03-27 Thread Michael Thompson
On 27 March 2011 15:35, Brian wrote: > On Sun 27 Mar 2011 at 12:37:51 +0100, Michael Thompson wrote: > >> Most of them, even with my limited linux knowledge are fairly >> important. Why has apt started to ask to remove these packages, and >> how can I get apt to forget

APT gone nuts

2011-03-27 Thread Michael Thompson
I just re-installed debian from scratch, and ran a few installs via apt-get. All of a sudden, apt splurts this out Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... ssmtp is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no l

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

2011-03-18 Thread Michael Thompson
2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > Hi all! > > A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as > one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard > to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two > approaches better? Mirrored raid would be t

Re: SSH Issue

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Thompson
This is now solved. MaxAuthRetries was set to 1, so when the server rejected the ID, it exceeded the value. Increasing this amount so the server could procede to password interactive login worked and let me send the new keyfile to server. Thanks for all your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: SSH Issue

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Thompson
On 13 March 2011 02:28, Adrian Levi wrote: > On the server to get key based auth working you must: > 1)Have the correct permissions on .ssh/* Permissions on all ~/.ssh are fine and correct at 0644 > 2) have your public key in authorized_keys Both authorized_keys on the server and client have be

SSH Issue

2011-03-12 Thread Michael Thompson
I've got a slight issue with logging into my server using public keys. It was working fine, until I had to rebuild my desktop machine. I had the key copied to the server, and passwordless logins where fine. However now I have rebuilt my desktop, I cant get to the login. So heres whats happend.

SSH Issue

2011-03-12 Thread Michael Thompson
I've got a slight issue with logging into my server using public keys. It was working fine, until I had to rebuild my desktop machine. I had the key copied to the server, and passwordless logins where fine. However now I have rebuilt my desktop, I cant get to the login. So heres whats happend.

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thompson
> > > http://www.ipcop.org/ > http://www.smoothwall.org/ > > The two are very similar and have the same roots. SmoothWall offers a > commercial version with official paid support. IPCop does not. > Commercial paid support for IPCop comes strictly from 3rd parties. In > your case I'm guessing you