Re: hardware check

2025-04-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-04-10, David Christensen wrote: > Answering the above questions should facilitate obtaining trouble-shooting > advice via this mailing list. I am not asking help to solve his problem - and obviously I would be on the wrong mailing list :). I am searching tools suitable for a very basic us

hardware check

2025-04-10 Thread Michel Verdier
A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$ and his computer has problems. I have no access to his system. Do you know a way to check his hardware, programs such as clamav, smartmontools or memtest, either running on w$ or from a live system? But it has to be fully automated or with a simple ui. For ex

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-04-05, Hans wrote: > Maybe for someione interesting: As I also have Windows on my drive, there is > an entry for Windows. I deleted this, because then I only have the entry > "debian". And this is tarting grub, which got an entry for Windows. > Dunno, if this is a good way, but it is w

Re: software to document and develop projects

2025-02-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-02-07, Van Snyder wrote: > I wrote a simple processor that looks for comments that begin !{ in my > Fortran codes and writes a LaTeX file, which I then process into PDF. > Lets me see gorgeously LaTeX typeset math beside my code. Emacs org mode can handle mixed code / documentation

Re: Encrypted /boot partition gets decrypted twice during boot

2025-02-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-02-03, Automætic wrote: > Both devices are properly configured in /etc/crypttab with the UUIDs > for /dev/nvme0n1p2 and /dev/nvme0n1p3 respectively (as outputted by > blkid). You set this manually ? > I checked the initramfs contents using 'unmkinitramfs' in > /tmp/initramfs/ to review m

Re: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-01-24, Thomas Anderson wrote: > 'ip a' shows the following > 'cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/*' shows Could you give us the result with CR. It's unreadable without, especially for commented lines. Perhaps give also ip r

Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-19 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-01-19, e...@gmx.us wrote: > I've never used LUKS before, so we're even. With a non-encrypted > filesystem, you would > unmount the partition > mkfs -t whatever /dev/whatever > mount it again It's the same with luks and the device used is a mapping in /dev/mapper

Re: Monitoring a single process

2025-01-17 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-01-16, Stefan Monnier wrote: > E.g. recently this occurred with `bup`, where I wanted to see if it was > mostly talking to the remote `bup`, or mostly reading local files or > writing local files (so as to guess in which phase > it is, and whether it's making progress), or none of the abov

Re: Removing an unwanted RAID 1 array

2025-01-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-01-11, Roger Price wrote: > root@titan ~ umount /dev/md4 > root@titan ~ mdadm --misc /dev/md4 --stop > root@titan ~ mdadm --manage /dev/md4 --remove /dev/sdb7 > mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdb7: Device or resource busy If I remember well you have to first set the device as fault

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-14 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-12-14, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I don't even have a /var/data directory in the first place. Because I run steam on a separate user in this dir

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-14 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-12-13, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Yes .cache/doc is a mountpoint for steam > > Wow, that sounds philosophically quite wrong. > > Stefan Nevertheless physically quite right :) Let's do a small experiment to confirm it: # mount | grep steam portal on /var/data/steam/.cache/doc type f

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-12-10, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Am Di., 10.Dez..2024 um 15:49:02 schrieb Mike McClain: >> I've a couple od directories in ~/.cache I can't read or get rid of. >> find: '/home/mike/.cache/gvfs': Permission denied >> find: '/home/mike/.cache/doc': Permission denied >> ls, rmdir and unlink a

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-12-04, Richard Owlett wrote: > I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. > A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . > > Two questions: > 1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? > 2. Is there a script that would download it

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-11-27, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Bookworm and have been using the Epyrus email client for some time now without > any problems. > > Suddenly I am getting a popup that is quite insistent. The popup seems to say that you server has a wrong certificate. Do you look at the certificate epyrus

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-21 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-11-20, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: >> I might be reading this wrong, but the "ExecStart" command is a shell script >> which basically says "if the $START_DAEMON variable does not equal 'true', >> then echo 'aborted' and stop". Given you get sh printing the word 'aborted', >> I think you'

Re: Bookworm Upgrade failed for iwlwifi

2024-11-18 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-11-18, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > I finally fixed it by installing the iwlwifi-firmware package from > bookworm-backports: > apt install -t bookworm-backports iwlwifi-firmware You mean apt install -t bookworm-backports firmware-iwlwifi

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-25, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:54:58PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: >> I noticed that I have hundreds of files whose names start with >> "popularity-contest" in /var/log. They don't even seem to be logs. >> They seem to be data that popularity-contest sends away. >

Re: apache2 error after upgrade Buster->Bookworm

2024-10-25 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-24, aces and eights wrote: > ~$ systemctl status apache2.service [...] Your config is ok. >> > $ apache2 -V I miss this point: you should use apachectl -V or apache2ctl -V if you want to look at your running apache with all default values set

Re: apache2 error after upgrade Buster->Bookworm

2024-10-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-23, aces and eights wrote: > $ apache2 -V > [Wed Oct 23 08:57:39.760030 2024] [core:warn] [pid 4112:tid 4112] AH00111: > Config variable ${APACHE_RUN_DIR} is not defined > apache2: Syntax error on line 80 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: > DefaultRuntimeDir must be a valid directory, absol

Re: keepassxc and firefox

2024-10-21 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-21, Hans wrote: > there are no more settings than "add store", and the hint, adding ones store > will overwrite the default store path. Is it that what you mean? yes > And can you tell me, what is the defaault path? Maybe it is a good idea, to > move my database to it. no need > I

Re: keepassxc and firefox

2024-10-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-20, Hans wrote: > But when I click on the icon of keepassxc in firefox, I get the message: > > Error: The default password store is not accessible. I have firefox-esr 128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1 keepassxc2.7.4+dfsg.1-2 I installed keepassx

Re: keepassxc and firefox

2024-10-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-20, Hans wrote: > Must the database of keepassxc reside in a special folder (or path)? No need

Re: How to load new firmware?

2024-10-14 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-14, Lee wrote: > $ ls -l rt*| grep 8822 Check if your firmware is in /lib/firmware/rtw88/ and not in /lib/firmware/ This is what I have # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtw88/ total 740 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20290 5 sept. 23:30 rtw8703b_fw.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23074 5 sept. 23:30 rtw

Re: popcon use?

2024-10-12 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-11, Andy Smith wrote: > I don't know how you would check that they are not storing your IP > address but only the anonymised id number. Still, I would be prepared to > trust that Debian discards the IP address data very early on. If you use mail for sending report you can send it via a

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

2024-10-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-11, Chris Green wrote: > Yes, I said earlier that I think I need to investigate how to use > backports. GnuCash in particular is a candidate. Sorry I miss the point. To install from backports you have to add it in sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main

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

2024-10-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-10, Chris Green wrote: > My only need for 'latest' versions tends to be for a very few things > where keeping different systems in step is important. Some are in > PPAs (e.g. syncthing) so I get the same version on all my systems that > way. The other one I can think of at the moment

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-08, Andy Smith wrote: > When you have hundreds of millions of files in rsnapshot it really > starts to hurt because every backup run involves: > > - Deleting the oldest tree of files; rsnapshot can rename it apart and delete it after backup is done. Thus involving only the backup syste

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-07, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it was > a mixture of inodes expense and an enlarged amount of CPU time with the > file churn (mails moved from new to cur, and later to a separate archive > Maildir, that sort of thing). It

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-07 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > At the time I was using rsnapshot, I was subscribed to some very high > traffic mailing lists (such as LKML), and storing the mail in Maildir > format (=1 file per email). rsnapshot's design of lots of hardlinks for > files that are present in more than on

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

2024-09-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-09-25, Franco Martelli wrote: > The file that contains the microcode for my CPU is dated April 2022: > > $ LANG=C ls -l /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7876 Apr 15 2022 > /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin Same for me. And : # dpk

Re: Finding/creating Debian documentation for an unserved audience

2024-09-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-09-23, Richard Owlett wrote: > *A* current question is how to install a "dual-boot" or "multi-boot" > system. Debian users make a strong distinction between the two. I have never heard of such a distinction. Could you provide your sources ?

Re: version control and project management

2024-09-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-09-19, Wim Bertels wrote: > it is another version control system, with bug, wiki, .. integrated?: > https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki > https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/whyusefossil.wiki > > it is not clear to me why i should fossil instead of git? fossi

Re: version control and project management

2024-09-17 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-09-16, Wim Bertels wrote: > If you have other suggestions, let me know. Just looking for a stable, > trustworthy solution with at least git, issues/tickets, wiki and user > management. I heavily used MantisBT but it's only the bug tracking part https://mantisbt.org/index.php Do you try h

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

2024-08-27 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-25, Eric Richards wrote: > Hello > As the Subject says Any good Debian books highly recommended or Linux for > that matter. > > I found one the other day Debian 12, it only had a one star review and the > buyer wishes he could get his money back Very good book based on bullseye, freel

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-25, Will Mengarini wrote: > (1) Will an HTTPS download in Windows > suffice to get me an uncorrupted netinst? > (Anything I need to know about "binary mode"?) yes > (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash? > Does Windows 10 Home have that tool? Pro? Windows 11? > (I d

Re: iptables to nftables?

2024-08-06 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-06, Dan Ritter wrote: > 200 is a lot for a human to manage. You may be able to simplify your > iptables rules by taking advantage of ipset for large numbers of > IPs (hash:ip) or ports (bitmap:port) that need similar > treatment. That's available in nftables as well. And udp/tcp ipv4/

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-06, George at Clug wrote: > To disable port forwarding would this be a better method? "ceinture et bretelles" (I let you translate) > # echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > # cat /etc/sysctl.conf > # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4 > #net.ipv4.ip_forwa

Re: nftables ssh Could not resolve service Servname not supported

2024-08-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-06, George at Clug wrote: > # nano /etc/nftables.conf /etc/nftables.conf is used to load rules at boot by systemd nftables.service. It's safer to edit another file, test it with nft -f, then if it's correct to copy it to /etc/nftables.conf. If something goes wrong a reboot could restor

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-05, George at Clug wrote: > Down below is the output of the translation commands for my Iptables > commands. Interesting but again, I will need to learn what this means, > it does not look self explanatory. But hopefully, like everything > computer related, it is usually not that compl

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-04, George at Clug wrote: > I think I finally have success (had to fix way too many typos). > > Please review, and please comment if it can be improved. Don't fix typo and instead rewrite your rules with nftables https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Moving_from_iptables_to

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-04, George at Clug wrote: > I do like the idea of blocking all outbound connections, and only > opening ports that are required for whatever services I want to use. I do the same. > For servers I often do, but for workstations, sadly I am often lazy and > default to allowing all outgo

Re: [SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-30 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-29, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > "Sending the bug report via e-mail" > (about 30 lines down the page) > "An Example Bug Report" > (another 30 lines down the page) Still the first and recommended way is to use the package reportbug which do a

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

2024-07-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-28, Michael Grant wrote: +1 to all you say. > Maybe one of you younger folks can teach me how one deals with keeping > up with a forum like that. Once upon a time there was usenet. After a while there was a mail-to-news gateway. It ease a lot coping with this change of medium. If the

Re: [SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-28, Ian Molton wrote: > Perhaps someone can help me with the bug tracker? Install the package reportbug. It's as easy as writing a mail.

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-28, Ian Molton wrote: > https://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png > > An alarming decline, with a multitude of reasons. > > But lack of community will be the one that ends that graph. Be in no doubt. Members remains around 3000 so I don't see a decline for this. Messages decline b

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-27 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-26, Ian Molton wrote: > Michael, that was not a personal attack. I am in no doubt that you personally > try to help. And *was helped*. So I am not alone :) > The statistics for this list, however, are public record. And they are indeed > of concern. Can you give the statistics which

Re: systemd may silently break your system!

2024-07-27 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-26, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf symlink has been removed > (currently in unstable) *without any announcement*, so that > the /etc/sysctl.conf file (which is still documented, BTW) > is no longer read. > > So, be careful if you have important settings there

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-26, Ian Molton wrote: > The attitude these days seems to be that 'if its not in bugzilla, no one > cares' > > Seems like the Debian project is forgetting that it is a social endeavour, not > a (increasingly small) handful of Devs vanity project... I largely disagree with that. I was he

Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-24, Ian Molton wrote: > I'm stumped - I cannot see why the initramfs environment fails to mount the > rootfs and execute init. You could run with kernel parameter "debug=vc" if you have a console. Else with "debug" you get logs in /run/initramfs. Also initramfs uses busybox (if you ins

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

2024-07-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-20, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 20 Jul 2024 16:57 +0800, from hlyg2...@outlook.com (hlyg): >> statistics about market share might come from web servers and game servers, >> they know how many users use linux and Windows. > > No. They at most can know what platform user agents report.

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

2024-07-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-20, Michael Grant wrote: > OpenOffice is quite featureful, it is not 100% bug for bug compatible with > real MS Office products. I failed to read an old version word file on a newer word. And succeed with libreoffice. So yes it's not 100% bug compatible :) > choices. There is no clea

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

2024-07-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-20, hlyg wrote: > i wonder if linux is more reliable than Windows no doubt :) > according to some statistics linux has only 4% desktop market, 73% for MS, 15% > for MacOS Linux is not on the market. I buy M$ but download debian. How can you say how many people is using debian? Once u

Re: the usage of env

2024-07-19 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-19, p...@gmx.it wrote: > $ perl -le 'for( keys %ENV ){print "$_ --> $ENV{$_}"}' |grep perl > _ --> /usr/bin/perl > > the key for perl is "_" in environment variable? under this key, why > 'env perl' just works? Perl $_ is the current (unnamed) value of your loop "for". You could write

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-15 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-14, Erwan David wrote: > I have a "full" disk encryption as made by the installer, thus mounted in the > initramfs, so it may be a little different If "full disk" include /boot you should be ask for password by grub. Else it is initramfs and you should be ask by cryptsetup (package cry

Re: Automatic creation of last-known-good boot configuration

2024-07-10 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-10, Jens Schmidt wrote: > So I thought that there might be some automatism like this: > > If the currently used kernel and initramfs have been in use > already N times and if the boot time has been lower then M > minutes each time (and if some other conditions are fulfilled), >

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > When posting, I assumed a mailing list would be the more likely solution. I > just don't know how to find suitable list. Did you try the general KDE mailinglist? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? For usenet you can search the active file of your server. I was using news.eternal-september.org Subscribe to some groups and see if someone respond. But usenet is almost dead nowadays :/

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-06, George at Clug wrote: >> What I really need is a good book >> or document that explains the design >> and implementation of networking with systemd and Network Manager on >> modern Debian GNU/Linux systems.  Recommendations? > > Sadly I have not found any documentation (or books) f

Re: small font

2024-07-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-04, Richard wrote: > Right, because 4x = 10x. Jesus, stop being so ridiculous. Also, there's > some magic trick called compression. Human readable text is especially easy > to compress, basically negating all those effects. So just stick to > reality, everything else is just embarrassin

Re: small font

2024-07-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-04, jeremy ardley wrote: > The problem is mostly because users have email software that automatically > uses mixed format. That's not their fault as they are probably unaware of the > problem. And lots of MUA only show HTML version, hiding the text copy and the problem. > Unless there

Re: small font

2024-07-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-04, Max Nikulin wrote: >> Tell that to your mail program. If it chooses to show you the mail that way, >> don't blame me. > > - insisting on an "industry standard" mail style > >> > y:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tell that to your mail progra= > >

Re: Spurious messages at the console

2024-05-10 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-05-10, Paul M Foster wrote: > [76056.389126] pcieport :00:1c.0: PCIe Buss Error: severity=Corrected, > type=Physical Layer, (Reciever ID) Use lspci (from package pciutils) to find which device it is

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-23, Richard wrote: > luks-775ea946-6797-4c4d-a042-72924309f3d2 > UUID=775ea946-6797-4c4d-a042-72924309f3d2 /crypto_keyfile.bin > luks,keyscript=/bin/cat > luks-78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7 > UUID=78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7 /crypto_keyfile.bin > luks,keyscript=/

Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-22 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-21, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Obviously my Steam programs and configuration files are in my > home directory, since the updated system comes up icons and all > without re-installing Steam, and can find everything it needs to > run the games. But perhaps there are a few files somewhere els

kde troubles (was: tbird troubles)

2024-04-16 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote: > 32 gigs of memory. But the constraint is a 30-45 second delay in opening a new > write path to nv storage. This totally disables digikam's ability to import digikam is a kde application, so you need the kde stuff at least for it. I use it too, have less memor

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote: >> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ >> ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. > > Why not? Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time > *should* is the correct word. The board being over 10 years old,

Re: [oss-security] backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

2024-03-30 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-30, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > so is this a threat to us normal debian users > if so how do we fix it Debian stable is not affected, Debian testing, unstable and experimental must be updated. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-28, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: >> Apparently the root of the security issue is that wall is a setguid program? > > a) wall must be able to write to your tty, which is not possible >if wall is not installed setguid OR if people have sane permissions >on their terminals (e.g. set to mes

Re: DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

2024-03-14 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-13, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > what solutions (free or not) do you debian servers pros use (for pro or > private servers) ? You could try suricata. Same as snort but with another community for upgrading rules. Using nftables instead of iptables also could reduce high trafic impa

Re: /boot/grub/grub.cfg hex number reference

2024-03-13 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-13, Gareth Evans wrote: > That suggests perhaps something to do with an FS UUID, but it doesn't seem to > appear in the output of any of > > # blkid Here I have them shown as UUID by blkid # grep root /boot/grub/grub.cfg ... search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,gp

Re: very poor nfs performance

2024-03-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-07, Stefan K wrote: > I hope someone can help me with my problem. > Our NFS performance ist very bad, like ~20MB/s, mountoption looks like that: > rw,relatime,sync,vers=4.2,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,local_lock=none What are the mo

Re: Thank you Debian

2024-02-22 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-02-22, an...@rodier.me wrote: >> What makes you chose ansible instead of a debian package applying your >> scripts and configurations? > > I didn't want to create a new distribution, I wanted scripts to > configure a bare distribution, that anyone could maintain using the > standard Debian

Re: Thank you Debian

2024-02-22 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-02-21, Andre Rodier wrote: > A few years ago, I created a set of Ansible scripts to code what I was already > doing manually, so I could rebuild my server from scratch. What makes you chose ansible instead of a debian package applying your scripts and configurations? > - What is the best

Re: GRUB lost graphical terminal mode

2024-02-17 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-02-16, Borden wrote: > For a couple weeks now, I can't use graphical terminal in my GRUB > configuration. Setting `GRUB_TERMINAL=console` works fine. With that line > commented out, (thus using default settings), I get a blank screen on boot, 5 > second timeout, then normal boot. > > Curio

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

2024-01-18 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-18, Andy Smith wrote: > Could check the man page then like I said. > > Some options require rsync to know the full file list, so these > options disable the incremental recursion mode. These include: > --delete-before, --delete-after, --prune-empty-dirs, and > --delay-up

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

2024-01-18 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-18, Andy Smith wrote: > If you use --delete-after (and some other options) then rsync has to > check every file before it can do any work, whereas normally it will > find a few files to work on and start work, meanwhile incrementally > scanning for more. Not sure of that. rsync always

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

2024-01-18 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-17, Default User wrote: > BTW(2), I do use rsnapshot with cron jobs to back up the internal SSD > to the primary backup drive daily (and weekly, monthly, yearly). But I > am not sure if I could also use it to do copies of the primary backup > drive to the secondary backup drive (maybe

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

2024-01-17 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-17, Default User wrote: > By "glitch", I mean anything that could interfere with the rsync copy > process. Possible causes: Whatever the cause you just have to get return code and restart rsync until it complete succesfully. Then you are sure to have an exact copy. To cope with error

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

2024-01-16 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-15, Tom Furie wrote: > There doesn't seem to be an overwhelming need for it once you step away > from the DE's. I don't use DE but bluez clementine gnumeric sound-juicer and a lots more which need dbus

Re: nftables firewall question: matching udp in ipv6

2024-01-12 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-12, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > I "only" have to find out what mechanism adds the lower, en2 default > route within a few minutes, once I delete it. I ran "radvdump", but > that only dumped the correct announcement my provider sends for the > net over the PPPoE connection. Hm. > > Thanks e

Re: nftables firewall question: matching udp in ipv6

2024-01-12 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-12, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > If I insert the following rule at the bottom, everything starts to > work: > > meta l4proto udp accept Add log to see what would be dropped: meta l4proto udp log level info prefix "udp" accept Provide "nft list ruleset" to better see what nft understa

Re: Kernel compiling 6.5 and beyound

2024-01-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-10, Herb Garcia wrote: > Does this method also create the modules? >> make menuconfig this one permits you to change kernel parameters if needed >> make bindeb-pkg this one compiles kernel and produces linux-headers-*.deb linux-image-*.deb linux-image contains kernel and internal

Re: Kernel compiling 6.5 and beyound

2024-01-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-09, HP Garcia wrote: > What dependencies did you install? All are installed with those commands, thanks Debian :) apt build-dep linux apt install build-essential libncurses-dev (last one for running menuconfig with ncurses)

Re: Kernel compiling 6.5 and beyound

2024-01-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-08, Herb Garcia wrote: > I was able to compile Linux kernel 6.1.X. > > When I tried compiling kernel 6.5.x and ran into issues.  > > I download the required dependencies as required per > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.7/process/changes.html#changes To compile 6.5 I do apt build-

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-08, Haines Brown wrote: > I find that often (such as wiki.debian.org/CDDVD) I'm told to mount > the cdrive. But I can play cds without mounting. Wny is mounting > sometimes recommended? It talks about mounting "data" CD. Audio CD cannot be mounted and are accessed by device (like /de

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-12-21, Alain D D Williams wrote: > Yes: I do run a web server at home, but there is only a little/personal stuff, > it does not receive much real traffic, I do not want it to. Most of my web > presence is hosted elsewhere. If you open a port (80 or something else), not on your server but

Re: Telnet

2023-12-03 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-12-02, Andy Smith wrote: > Can someone examine the list's configuration? This email from 1994 > seems to have only just been delivered. How do you find 1994? It seems to be a mail from yesterday: Received: from mail-lf1-x12d.google.com (mail-lf1-x12d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::

Re: used vs. unused packages installed

2023-12-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-30, David Wright wrote: > deborphan -Ps or orphaner Perhaps deborphan -Ps --ignore-suggests Or even deborphan -Ps --ignore-suggests --ignore-recommends

Re: used vs. unused packages installed

2023-12-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-30, Greg Wooledge wrote: > My first thought is that popularity-contest should be able to tell you > this, because it's able to tell *Debian* which packages are "old" I should live on the "old" but mandatory edge :) 20 tk 20 tcl 14 g++

Re: Password managers

2023-11-16 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-16, Oliver Schode wrote: > (hence almost all in-repo managers) and bash/git magic all but out of > the question for anyone also using mobile. I use bash and git on android with termux. Working easily with apt :)

Re: Password managers

2023-11-15 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-15, Max Nikulin wrote: >>> For Chromium it is better to have a password manager >>> (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs >>> a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. >>> Encryption is not applied otherwise. >> What about Firef

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-13 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-13, The Wanderer wrote: >> And those are getting rare, I can't find a nice MUA for Android with >> proper threading. > > If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is > the primary reason why I don't do E-mail on Android *at all*. >From f-droid you can get te

Re: On changing the subject lines, and gmail

2023-11-13 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-13, Andy Smith wrote: > (Neither would I be able to tell how many of those gmail.com users > read using the gmail web interface or their own MUA through IMAP > etc.) I stopped using gmail with my own MUA because of duplicates that can't be easily deleted when you fetch mails. gmail con

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-13 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-13, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > "... There is one problem with this approach, as stated earlier. For the > Mailing list, any change of subject from my Gmail webmail email-server > makes such an email detached from the main thread and treats it as a > different subject. I am not sure to unde

Re: Part II BIN=? AW: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)?

2023-11-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-11, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Your provider, hotmail hates me. Why? Because you must reply to the list and to the list only. Else you generate a duplicate (= same message-id).

Re: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?

2023-11-02 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-11-02, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > I've tried to mount filesystems (all NTFS) with different locale parameters, > still ended up with either garbled filenames or charset conversion and 'path > too long' complains from rsync. I use rsync on ntfs without locale parameter. This is my fst

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-10-05, Gary Dale wrote: > Other mail from that server is being sent properly. It's just the SMART > messages that are going to the wrong place. smartd.conf can have a -M exec option to call another script instead of simple mail. Do you have one? smartd can get some options from /etc/defau

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-10-01, Hans wrote: >> If you don't remember partitioning you can install cygwin and use fdisk >> on it. cygwin also provides blkid to get label and uuid. > > I tried to get the UUID in Windows but I am not sure, if GUID (Microsoft > naming?) is the same as UUID in Linux. Not directly fr

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-30, Hans wrote: > At boot, I can edit the kernel params, there is root=UUID=MY_UUID, here I > also > tried "root=/dev/nmve0p1n6", but also got no success. As I said, I can get > access to the /etc/fstab, but without the correct UUID it makes no sense. Did you change both kernel para

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-29 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-29, Andy Smith wrote: > Isn't that just a filesystem label not a partition label? Yes you're right I use fs label. > If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the > use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure > there must be one, it's just

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