Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Of course if you are installing as a Debian desktop workstation your networking is configured by DHCP. Your ISP allocates an address and network hostname to your machine at startup. That can also be configured "by config file" but only rarely requires it. On Sun, May 18, 2025, 10:35 A

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:16 AM wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? > If you mean "what file contains the IP address and hostname of my own server?": It depends whether you use NetworkManager to configur

Re: Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

2025-04-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 6:38 AM wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 16:07:36 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > FWIW, it seems that the author of the older package has died. :( > You know I can't help it, every time I see something like that I think of Ian Murdock.

Re: no-code web builder application for Linux

2025-03-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:16:18AM -0500, Arbol One wrote: > > Hello to all. > > > > I find myself looking for a way to increase productivity with the aid of > an > > all purpose no-code web builder application for Linux. What I am looking > for > > is something that is more suited for a small to

Re: software to document and develop projects

2025-02-08 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 7:52 AM wrote: > "Gary L. Roach" wrote: > > I have been trying to find a software package that would allow me to > > do math calculations along with running documentation.I have tried > > using -Octave but it doesn't allow modification of content once you > > hit the enter

Re: add user to a group and logout/login to apply

2025-02-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Feb 2, 2025, 3:19 PM Joe wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 12:30:39 -0500 > Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 05:51:47PM +0200, Vasyl Vavrychuk wrote: > > > Debian reference > > > ( > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_permissions_for_groups_o

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 1:17 PM Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > relevant to thread, curtsy sue > > Happy Sunday. Just poking my head in to verify that this is *not* a > personal potshot at me.. > Also for the record without immediate proof of product is that I have > witnessed real US government

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 5:05 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > > here. > > > > (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) > > > > Ah, yes. > > "We live in inter

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 7:58 AM wrote: > > [0] This is part of the libc and (roughly) translates host names to >IP addresses for the programs running in your box. Eventually, >it goes out to ask some DNS servers. > Along the way it's (probably) consulting /etc/resolv.conf which is whe

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-08 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025, 1:27 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > > > TB is about 10% larger. One of the worst crimes in computer history > > was ever talking about storage in powers of 2, I really wish it would > > just go away. It has properties that nobody wants and has been the > > source of endless confusio

Re: Monitoring a single process

2025-01-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025, 8:09 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process? > > Something I'd run, passing it a PID and which would display a regularly > refreshed status of what the process is doing: MB/s read from the > filesystem, MB/s written to the f

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

2024-12-17 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 12:24 PM wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:37:33PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

Re: synaptic search (was: Re: A more fundemental error?)

2024-11-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:56 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 30/11/2024 01:00, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> As the OP's link explicitly referenced "debian" I used Synaptic's > >>> search function. There were no packages with "Erling" in package > >>> name,

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 8:10 AM Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/11/24 22:00, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 11 Nov 2024 21:24 +0800, from b...@busby.net (Bret Busby): > >> Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets > (including > >> four on the front), I expect that a similar worksta

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 6:43 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you read > > https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? > > Oh. I've learned something today. > In principle

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, 3:53 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Thursday 07 November 2024 08:19:55 am Chris Green wrote: > > I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of wrapping/isolating > > collections of code and programs in Debian (well in any Linux I > > suppose) and I'm really not und

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 6:28 PM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 21.10.2024 16:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > they actually speaking the BitTorrent protocol? Could this be caused by > simply connecting to the host (in some kind of port scan), or perhaps > connecting and probing for some oth

Re: password manager

2024-10-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
KeepPass here as well, and (not my choice) a proprietary locker at work. Can't help responding to someone with a Life glider in their sig :-) On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 9:30 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > On Oct 08, 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manag

Re: Is there any way to STD in Debian?

2024-09-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024, 9:23 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 26.09.2024 14:51, YOYO wrote: > > Hello everyone, > Recently, I need to cut off power supply with all my running tasks saved. > But it seems that the hibernate mode provided in Debian only allows me to > Suspend to Ram(STR, or S3 mo

Re: internal keyboard does not work

2024-08-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 12:54 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Nilesh Patra (12024-08-23): > > What drives such a hostile and uncalled-for reply? > > It was sarcastic, but in no way hostile. > Either way it was unnecessary and will do nothing but alienate people from this list. And so perhaps from Debia

Re: Increasing "time" command precision

2024-08-08 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 8:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 15:08:33 +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > > The Bash's shell keyword "time" it could be fine, but I don't know how to > > redirect its output to a file (-o switch of /usr/bin/time). > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/

Re: nginx or apache for php?

2024-08-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Aug 1, 2024, 10:25 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Walt E wrote: > > I have been using apache2 + php for years under debian. > > But I heard people says nginx + php has better performance. > > Do you have experience on both of setup and share a bit with me? > > > I have experience on both. > > Do

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

2024-07-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024, 10:03 AM Joe wrote: > > > Basically, I think that with many more users, we would see more Windows > users and they would be less secure in their habits. We've already seen > this to some extent with Ubuntu. I don't think it's any more difficult > to write a virus for Li

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

2024-07-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024, 12:40 AM wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 03:27:17PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > And even you Hans, leave out the major, all encompassing, reason for the > > lack of market share, which is that most business that have a > computerized > > system to run things

Re: Running 32-bit static exeutable on 64-bit Debian

2024-07-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 8:57 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 01:15:22 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > > Van Snyder wrote: > > > > And there's still the mystery why a statically-linked executable > > > > wants to > > > > load a shared object library. > > https://manpages.debian.org/bo

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

2024-07-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 2:09 PM Joe wrote: > > You missed one: Linux is virtually a virus-free environment, and a > large user base would mean many more people running as root, and it > would become worth the time of malware writers to target Linux. Linux > would become as virus-ridden as Windows.

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

2024-07-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 12:16 AM wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 02:45:37PM +1000, David wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 11:54 +0800, hlyg wrote: > > [...] > > > > why free OS hasn't gained more share even after 30 years of > > > development? > > > > Because people don't have it hammered into the

Re: Kali Linux problem and support question [WAS Re: w4sp-lab]

2024-07-17 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 3:10 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 18/7/24 01:43, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 05:52:47PM +0200, Aleix Piulachs wrote: > >> installing w4sp-lab in Kali-linux-2024.2-installer-everything-amd64.iso > >> gives me an error when I press w4sp_webapp.py in pytho

Re: Esteemed Gentlemen!

2024-07-06 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jul 6, 2024, 9:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 11:01:45 +, Richard Bostrom > > > I've removed unattended-upgrades. > . > > Tripwire is useless with automated system updates etc. > I don't follow your logic. First, I don't necessarily recommend automated syst

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 11:02 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Yes, I realise that. The times are being displayed by the gettys, > > controlled by the /etc/issue format string. Jobs are being run > > by cron, logs written by rsyslogd, and so on. And the term is … ? > > Maybe there simply isn't such a

Re: RTC, was Re: System time/timezone

2024-06-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 11:05 PM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 18 Jun 2024 at 04:12:07 (-0400), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 11:54:03PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > I notice that man timedatectl says: > > > >

Re: [solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key, Debian 8 sshd

2024-06-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Just to compare, when Red Hat released 9.0 maybe 2 years ago (9.2 is current until 30 June) they disabled by default many older key-lengths and algorithms in SSL that were known to be weak. This caused issues for existing installations. You could either re-enable the weaker methods (easy but a pain

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 1:39 PM wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:27:03PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, All.. > > > > This just hit my emails seconds ago. It's the most info that I've > > personally read about the XZ backdoor exploit. I've been following > > NextGov as a friendly, plain l

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 12:24 PM Joe wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:53:04 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:47:44PM -, Curt wrote: > > > On 2024-03-28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > > A more proactive endeavor would be to document known best > > >

Re: Filsystemkorruption i ext4?

2024-03-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 11:28 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I have now done the following: > * Checked the RAID array - no problems found. > * Run fsck. It found three cases of the block count being incorrect. I > don't know which the other two affected files are. > * Run one pass of memtest86+. Not

Re: After installing no access to the installed system.

2024-03-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 12:48 PM Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Package: Debian installer > Version: As on Debian live-CD/DVD for Debian 12.5 > Severity: critical > > 1. Download debian live-CD/DVD from: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 6:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 04:54:12PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I sometimes think that something similar to Postel's Law but applied to > human > > interactions would be useful. However that is wishful thinking > > > I'm not s

Re: Journald's qualities (was: Selective rotation of journald logs)

2024-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 2:57 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Makes one wonder why they don't use naive append-only "plain text" logs > > (tho with appropriate delimiters (maybe some kind of CSV) to make > > searches more reliable than with old-style plain text logs)? > > > > What a

Re: Meeting with the Development Team

2024-02-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 3:04 AM wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 08:40:32AM +, Ray Galt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to reach out to the decision-maker in the IT environment > within your company. > > [...] > > Sometimes, satire is written by marketing departments. Or by > some LLM ru

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > Assuming that you are searching in the current working directory: find bpim* -print | grep 'shelf.scad' As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames, non

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 9:24 PM John Hasler wrote: > > Another SPITBOL user lives??!? :-) > > It's been decades since I used it. > > > It should all be open-source by now > > Is it? > > http://www.snobol4.com/ > > A search finds this: > Well thank you so much John. They are giving away for fre

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 6:52 PM John Hasler wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: > > The > > At the risk of being seen as old-fashioned, but as a user of both > > languages, I think Perl is a much better choice than C for string > > processing. > > Use SPITBOL. > Another SPITBOL user lives

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:07 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > . (Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does not > kill me makes me just stronger. I'm a vim user.) > OK I'll mention that to my psychiatrist :-) But the C programmers I knew were either really nice guys if they w

Re: standardize uid:gid?

2024-01-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 9:15 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I haven't tried it but I would assume that if the user exists then the > > package uses that. So cresting a template /etc/passwd before > > installing packages would fix this. > > That works, indeed. Maybe Someone™ should develop a small "

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 9:35 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 1/17/24 19:54, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Andy Smith wrote: > ... > >> Then there will just be people going by taste. > >> > >> Personally I still put them directly on drives. If I ever get taken > >> out by one of those crappy motherboard

Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

2024-01-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 8:32 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > As of today, current edition of lynx. > Announcement below. > Kare > > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > The current version of lynx is 2.9.0 > > > > It's available at > > https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ > > http

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

2024-01-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 4:58 AM Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 11:32:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > What happens if you use diskimages that contain directly a filesystem > > without going through the trouble of using a partition table? > > Does `ext4` also get tripped by the d

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-08 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 11:38 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > .; > > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > IBM's MVS & its successors, most recently z/OS, have something > > similar called a GDG (or Generation Data Group). > > The principle made it into ISO 9660 specifications. > > To

Re: systemd-timesyncd

2024-01-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 4:51 PM Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 20:36:12 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > Take care, stay warm, well, and unvaxed. > > > ^^^ > > > > Gene - no partisan opinions, please, as per Code of Conduct? > > Oh, come on!

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
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 number database > Isn't that file a somehow surviving BSD-ism? > -- >

Re: systemd and timezone

2023-12-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 10:06 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 21/12/2023 12:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > . > > > > Double ugh. > > > > UNIX got that right from the start. Now this crazy notion "the computer > > HAS to have a timezone of its own" is creeping in. > > Even admins may wish to see local

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 12:47 PM Curt wrote: > On 2023-12-10, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > On 2023-12-10 12:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:09:15PM -, Curt wrote: > >>> On 2023-12-10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > "Now" is almost exactly Sun 10 Dec 16:55:43 UTC 2023 > >

Re: File systems mounted under `/media/root/` ?

2023-12-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 1:50 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > Recently I noticed some unused ext4 filesystems (i.e. filesystems that > aren't in /etc/fstab, that I normally don't mount, typically because > they're snapshots or backups) "magically" mounted as > `/media/root/`. > > This is on a headless ARM

Re: Local time in databases (Re: ntpsec as server questions)

2023-12-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023, 8:11 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 07/12/2023 23:08, tomas wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 10:29:29PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 07/12/2023 21:22, John Hasler wrote: > >>> Databases should never store local time. > >> > >> There are exceptions when storing UTC instead

Re: Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 3:30 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > . > This seems to indicate that the firmware has a stake in the problem ... > > > Both the Thinkpad E14 Gen 5s had the same specifications and type number, > > differing only in that the one with corruption of the installer has 24GB > of >

Re: Telnet

2023-12-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 2:23 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Charles Curley (12023-12-03): > > True. None the less, there is at least one perfectly good use for > > telnet: testing connections to servers. > > Wrong. The telnet client is not entirely transparent, as the telnet > protocol defines an escape

Re: Linux supprt

2023-11-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 12:35 PM wrote: > > But yes, in a way convenience can drown out freedom. See that other > thread in this mailing list about mail providers. All people flocking > to gmail although it's clear that Google would like to kill mail > as we know it. > But mail as "they" know it h

Re: Linux supprt

2023-11-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 2:56 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In my experience I get much better support from the user community of > > an open source product then I get from paid support of a commercial > > product. Frequently I know more about the product than the person I am > > dealing with. > > Sa

Re: limit on attachment in mail to list

2023-11-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 4:54 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:10:12 +0800 > hlyg wrote: > > Hello hlyg, > > (sweeping generalisation coming) > People that upload such images are lazy, arrogant, and suffer > from a massive sense of entitlement. > Or maybe they are used to the mo

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 9:20 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system > Pretty much everything is working except > > ``` > $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@yyy.xyz > 2023-08-20 14:39:30 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P no recipients found > in headers > C

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

2023-08-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 9:38 AM Marco wrote: > Am 16.08.2023 um 15:07:35 Uhr schrieb Thomas Schmitt: > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993-pic-by-Ian_Murdock.png > > Rather interesting that people printed out usenet posts back in th

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

2023-08-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 10:27 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 10:05:31PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 9:13 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 09:28:55AM +0800, Jon Smart wrote: > > > >

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

2023-08-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 9:13 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 09:28:55AM +0800, Jon Smart wrote: > > How to stop the auto-changes to /etc/resolv.conf after rebooting? > > https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.conf > Contrary to what that page states, auto changes to resolv.conf are never

Re: OT: Protecting electrical equipment; was: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-08-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 1:09 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 8/1/23 11:03, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 2:40 AM Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net > > <mailto:2695bd53d...@ewoof.net>> wrote: > > > > On 31 Jul 2023

Re: OT: Protecting electrical equipment; was: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-08-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 2:40 AM Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 31 Jul 2023 15:21 -0400, from songb...@anthive.com (songbird): > > i do not run things for long when the power goes out > > but the capacity for my needs is plenty and then i shut > > down in an orderly fashion.

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 10:32 AM Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > >>>>> If you have python programming skills, you might > >>>>> consider NLTK > >>>> > >>>> Unbelievable if there are no such tools anywher

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:32 AM Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > >>> If you have python programming skills, you might consider > >>> NLTK > >> > >> Unbelievable if there are no such tools anywhere already, > >&g

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023, 3:04 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > Cousin Stanley wrote: > > > If you have python programming skills, you might consider > > NLTK > > Unbelievable if there are no such tools anywhere already, but > I don't have one either so maybe there aren't then? > There's a big subject calle

Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 6:10 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 3/6/23 06:33, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 4:49 PM Bret Busby > <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote: > > > > On 2/6/23 23:55, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > >

Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 4:49 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/6/23 23:55, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > > > Luddites of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your upgrade > > treadmills > > If, by upgrade treadmills, you mean the flatbed treadmills, that have a > belt that is turned by the hu

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 9:58 PM Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > There is a hypervisor called bhyve for FreeBSD. It's completely > headless, no graphics, runs as a daemon and provides serial and VNC > consoles. > > Can you please advise a similar headless and minimal hypervisor for > Deb

Re: Data Error Messages

2023-05-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I found an interesting thread from 3 years ago that might be related. Now don't laugh :-) Do you have a USB hub attached? Search the archives of this list for "EXT4-fs failed to convert unwritten extents to written extents -- potential data loss!" On Sat, May 27, 2023, 1:51 PM Mick Ab wrote: >

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:23 AM Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 13/5/23 18:17, Nicolas George wrote: > > This is your interpretation, not an official stance. It might as well be > > that they considered polluting the completion namespace of users with a > > command they rarely need was less convenient.

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 12:40 PM zithro wrote: > > There's 25 years of history to computing before Linus released his his > linux > > Computer history started WAY before that. > > > Keeping networking working on linux has been an art, not a science. > .. > Follow advices. > I guess I'm

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 3:59 AM wrote: > I saw many commands in /bin and /usr/bin are written by perl. > is perl still the first choice for sysadmin on linux? > I first wrote perl on unix/linux in 1991. The first python I wrote was about 10 years later. By that time the Redhat/fedora/CentOS distro

Re: auto restarting in crontab

2023-03-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:56 PM wrote: > Greetings, > > My script for monitoring Node.js app as follows. I put it in crontab for > auto-check and restart if failure. > > #!/bin/bash > > # scan the port > nc -z 127.0.0.1 3000 > > if [ $? -eq 0 ];then >exit > else >killall node >sleep 1 >

Re: Libvirt dnsmasq oddity

2023-01-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 12:10 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > I seem to have hit an oddity in how dnsmasq operates for libvirt. > > I have two host machines each with several guests. One of those is also > the local samba server. Guests on the non-samba server can resol

Re: stopping mass surveillance

2022-12-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 7:43 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > Athenians in a crucial moment of their history invented "democracy" > as some specific social technologies in order to ensure openness and > conscious participation of all members of society; False. Not even half the male population i

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 6:28 PM Mario Marietto wrote: > Everytime I say to someone That are skilled I always get the same reply. > Im not. So what ? there arent skilled people all around anymore ? there are > many. but likely they dont want to be called like this. Most of the times > there isnt a l

Re: Trouble with ansible and apt. Is this a known problem?

2022-11-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 5:26 PM David Wright wrote: > On Wed 23 Nov 2022 at 20:18:43 (+0100), Nathanael Schweers wrote: > > > It doesn't look like this exact problem is known at > https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aansible+X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK+is%3Aissue&type=issues, > but there are a few sug

Re: Increased read IO wait times after Bullseye upgrade

2022-11-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 7:27 PM Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On 11 Nov 2022, at 16:59, Vukovics Mihály wrote: > >  > > Hi Gareth, > > dmesg is "clean", there disks are not shared in any way and there is no > virtualization layer installed. > > Hello, but the message was from Nicholas :) > > Looking

Re: Increased read IO wait times after Bullseye upgrade

2022-11-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 1:58 AM Vukovics Mihály wrote: > Hi Gareth, > > I have already tried to change the queue depth for the physichal disks > but that has almost no effect. > There is almost no load on the filesystem, here is 10s sample from atop. > 1-2 write requests but 30-50ms of average io.

Re: Fwd: [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update

2022-11-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 9:35 AM Anssi Saari wrote: > John Boxall writes: > > > On 2022-11-02 03:40, Anssi Saari wrote: > >> Looks like a linux-5.10 source package was indeed added to Buster in > >> August and as you noted, it's getting security updates too. There's some > >> info on the what and wh

Re: AWS Debian AMIs

2022-10-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 11:45 AM Eric Stone wrote: > Hello Debian, > > I have a problem on AWS, where I have about 20 servers that I cannot > access because I cannot re-subscribe to the AMI. > > The issue is the AMI - I can not re-subscribe to the marketplace image. > The message I receive says "t

Re: OT: mysql-workbench alternative

2022-09-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 2:47 PM Gareth Evans wrote: > Given what looks to be the ongoing absence of mysql-workbench in stable: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mysql-workbench > > Can anyone recommend a free (at least as in beer) alternative that creates > ERDs automatically from MariaDB? > It's

Re: Bug - remote DNS monitoring

2022-08-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 2:13 PM Casey Deccio wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having trouble tracking down a bug in my monitoring setup. It all > happened when I upgraded the monitored host (host B in my example below) to > bullseye. Note that Host A is also running bullseye, but the problem > didn't sh

Re: still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 6:17 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > refining my proposal i tested this function to list about 7600 blueish > colors: > > > done > > All random samples from this list yielded blueish background with > xterm -bg "$value" & > I hope there are not local spots of no

Re: SSH timeout logoff don't work!

2022-06-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 6:04 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 10:05:43AM +0200, Conti Stefano wrote: > > Hello! In My Debian 11 SSH timeout logoff not work! I must put in > > .bashrc of my user: TMOUT=600 to loogut after 10 minutes. Work, of > > course, but close all bash termina

Re: Alan Turing given posthumous royal pardon

2022-06-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, 4:22 AM sp...@caiway.net wrote: > Sources > > "Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing given posthumous royal pardon" — > Channel 4 News, December 24, 2013 > Turing's pardon was simply Britain's Tories pandering for the gay vote. Everyone knew these things about Turing years befo

Re: System freeze until REISUB

2022-06-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jun 1, 2022, 3:40 PM riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I have just updated a Debian Stable system and had an apparent > full-freeze (GUI frozen, IceWM non-respondent and Ctrl+Alt+FN did > nothing, keyboard lights also were fixed). > Using REISUB system rebooted and everything seems normal right n

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, May 20, 2022, 7:28 PM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 May 2022 at 15:42:33 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > > > Tom Browder writes: > > > > > > > I need a special path setting for root

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo > > su." (...) > > Just you try like as "sudo su -". Sometimes i use it that way. > When I need to use sudo or su to invoke executables, I fully qualify the pa

Re: Acer CMOS Setup and Ctrl+S [was Installation fails to recognize SSD]

2022-05-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, May 14, 2022, 5:19 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 5/14/22 09:52, Felmon Davis wrote: > > On Fri, 13 May 2022, David Christensen wrote: > > > >> Does Acer document the CMOS Setup Ctrl+S key combination? > > > > the only 'documentation' I've seen is in the webs. I noticed if you > > searc

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-12 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 6:06 PM Ash Joubert wrote: ...trimmed... > Two-factor authentication is when you need to confirm your login with an > SMS message or one-time pad or other second way of authenticating that > you are who you claim to be. 2FA is popular because users choose weak > passwords

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:37 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 8:45 AM Vincent Lefevre > wrote: > >> On an ext4 filesystem, I got a file born 30 seconds after its >> actual creation. Is this a bug? >> > > Only experimentation can really bac

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 8:45 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On an ext4 filesystem, I got a file born 30 seconds after its > actual creation. Is this a bug? > Only experimentation can really back me up on this, but consider the following: Every time you use the "|" operator or the ";" separator on

Re: Wifi randomly stops after upgrade

2022-04-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:14 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:33 AM Marcelo Laia > wrote: > >> After upgrade, I got wifi randomly stops and I need to turn off and on >> it in order to get it back on. >> It's very annoying! >> Ple

Re: Wifi randomly stops after upgrade

2022-04-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:33 AM Marcelo Laia wrote: > After upgrade, I got wifi randomly stops and I need to turn off and on > it in order to get it back on. > It's very annoying! > Please, have you any ideia how I start to inspect this problem? > Nobody smarter has replied so I'll try :-) Sear

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 11:08 AM wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 04:44:36PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > > > I look from desktop perspective. OS (Linux) runs my desktop and manage > > > all programs [...] > > > Because not every machine that has the

Re: What happened?

2022-04-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
n Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 6:17 PM Dennis Wicks wrote: > When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a > virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I > could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks > in the vm. And zfs file systems worked. > > The main problem w

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