rive. If it did,
it would not cal it unknown-block(0,0).
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nient if you want to run several
> commands as root instead of just one.
Not true: with a root shell, you need to be extra careful at all time.
With sudo in front of the privileged commands, you only need to be
extra careful when you type sudo.
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robably because of
radio interferences.
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ifying it that sudo makes things more complex than su.
Please, when replying to this, double check you do not commit the second
fallacy to assume that one thing is simpler than another when the
difference is you already know the first and not the second.
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That includes the root data structures of
most anything that could already been there, so the rest, the data that
will not have been overwritten, will be mostly unusable without a lot of
effort.
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of LF, as Tomas
mentioned? For that, you would need to hit ctrl-enter and see ^M in the
terminal, each time before you hit enter.
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reason why I decided to use some option to set
> $HOME.
I strongly suggest you learn to use sudo as sudo is intended to be used
rather than using it as an imitation for su. You would not have had this
problem if you did.
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n.
> My recommendation is to create a one-line configuration file:
My recommendation is to learn to use sudo itself rather than trying to
emulate su. Having the privileged commands logged is a good idea. Using
privileges only with commands that need it is a good idea. Having the
same shell history
ot; without really
> understanding how it works.
Must not comment. Must not comment.
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jeremy ardley (HE12025-03-26):
> One reason to choose VPN over ssh is that many ISPs block incoming ports
> including ssh, telnet, RDP, smtp, and smb ports.
And they do not block ports used for VPNs. How convenient.
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binary files with it.
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: if your users might not be able to install port knocking software,
not allowed to run VPN clients, or if an annoying firewall is in the
middle, you have no choice but to let a public access.
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hrough the VPN to internal systems.
> Why do you think SSH is less secure than any other VPN ?
Why do you think Jan says ssh is less secure than a VPN when Jan is
saying that ssh is less secure than VPN+ssh?
I suggest to add port knocking to protect the VPN.
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cess returned error exit status 1
Then read backwards until you find the error message from the
subprocess. I did, it was quite obvious, you only need to read a dozen
lines at the end.
(And I assume somebody will just give you the answer instead of letting
you learn to find it by yourself. Sigh.)
many scenarios where it is useful, you just have to exercise
your imagination.
Maybe client does not and should not have network access to nas.
Maybe alexandria does not have the hardware to plug the disks.
Maybe alexandria implements caching that nas is not capable of doing.
And so on and so on.
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to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-20):
> Sorry if that came across as rude.
Do not be: not reading before replying at least to see if what one is
about to reply has already been addressed and therefore wasting
everybody's time is way ruder than your message might seem.
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equivalent to no full backup after the very first one. And the very
first one can be considered an incremental backup over a full one of no
data at all.
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Hans (HE12025-03-14):
> Depends on, what you prefer: in console, or with GUIn as conjob or whatever
A tool that cannot be automated is not a backup tool.
Corollary: a GUI-only tool is not a backup tool.
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ile you damaged, which is part of the job description of a
backup tool.
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and gdisk telling us the block device has the
wrong size: the issue is absolutely not the filesystem on it.
Also, this is not Windows, please do not use “format” as a verb for a
disk.
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16 2147483647 sdb
>> Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 4294967294 sectors, 2.0 TiB
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.
The point of the test is: if it succeeds, you can reasonably hope that
the device will continue working for some time.
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Yassine Chaouche (HE12025-03-04):
> I see this as a "forum" mode
It is not called “forum mode”, it is called “egoistic mode”, because the
poster expects other people will read their messages and provide help
but is not willing to do the same for others in return.
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to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-04):
> > That is a terrible idea.
> Not if done right.
“Not if done right” has been said of all terrible ideas in the history
of terrible ideas.
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That is a terrible idea.
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u should not give them the privileges to do it
in the first place) and you cannot come do it during the lessons.
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to unexpectedly throw away perfectly
good computers just because they do not have the latest fake-security
chip mandatory for the new release of Windows
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it that the last line gives sudo privileges to
the sudo user, not group?
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the good answers.
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lled a solution.
Those who call it a solution should let the LLMs speak.
The only way to achieve a reliable result is to understand what is going
on. I am flabbergasted that so many people on this list do not start
with that. This is probably the last contribution from me in this
thread.
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Max Nikulin (HE12025-02-12):
> I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented.
At worst, the source code is the documentation.
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a way, but it would be less efficient than installing
Windows or Macos instead of Linux.
If you want a Linux way to solve the issue: first, read the
documentation of xfce-terminal to see how it decides which web browser
to run; then read the documentation of that mechanism to see how to
configure it.
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if you want the keys to be handled without a
desktop environment, you will need to explain the circumstances in more
details.
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/input/event0
and press a few keys. If it prints something, you know the keys work. If
it prints nothing, you break it with ctrl-C and you start again with
event1, then event2, etc., until either you have found the keys work or
you have exhausted the event devices.
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o:
>> - gdm3 uses some kind of windows-like registry for its configuration and
>> the documented way to disable the users list
>>
>> <https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/login-userlist-disable.html.en>
>> has no effect;
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Nicolas George (12025-01-30):
> So, in short, and in reverse order:
>
> With gdm3, users are logged into the kind of session they used last.
>
> With lightdm with users list, same.
>
> With lighdm and the default config of hidden users list, users are
> logged into the k
Debian LightDM setup: if you want the default
> session to be the last, perhaps you can try assigning "last" value to it (I
> don't know, I have tried it)
No effect.
That would have been rather surprising, in fact: why should the behavior
be different if users list is shown or not.
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and lets users choose their session types without forcing
one on them.
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tons like that run on client-side.
The look-and-feel seems a bit basic too, but it can probably be changed.
Thanks for the suggestion, worth considering.
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rkdown”, I
could use DokuWiki.
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kaged project, it is not unlikely. It is more a matter
of whether they will have drawbacks I had not anticipated, like
requiring a permanent daemon for each instance. (My goal is to run
multiple lightly-loaded instances on the same VM.)
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ki, I had not really thought
about it in depth and I did not really want a wiki. I cannot really
blame you, so many people posting here come asking for X when it is
really Z they need.
But in the future, I suggest you keep this kind of assumption for cases
where you have strong clues that it is the case or for when some time
has passed and no satisfactory answer was given.
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d not and now they want to edit each other's page.
Plus, I suspect just like the markdowku plugin, the one that does not
require explicitly saying , the buttons still produce custom
syntax.
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itor in another window.
I might be wrong, but it does not look remotely like a wiki. Would you
explain?
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but the custom
syntax is still there interacting with Markdown and the editor buttons
are still made for the custom syntax.
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but simple and reliable, I can give it a
try too.
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ll not need updating.
Only need to schedule for unexpected software breakage once every two to
five years.
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Andy Smith (12025-01-18):
> Why do you continue to post to this list
Why do you continue replying?
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is how far I am willing to discuss this.
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security control for at least 15 years. This should be no
> surprise to anyone nowadays.
I am not denying that. You made a different statement, that I leave
quoted, and you have nothing to support that statement.
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ten use compression to
> > > minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle.
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Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15):
> Probably better since disk controllers often use compression to
> minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle.
I find that statement highly dubious. Do you have a source?
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does not have to be as soon as the
mantissa is greater than one. Notice that the heights of mountains are
in meters, not in kilometers, even for the Himalaya. It is better to go
to M and only then switch to 9.77 G: more significant digits, not
less readable.
(Also, the people who designed the symbols for the prefixes really
dropped the ball with k instead of K, but that predates memory units by
a long time.)
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uences.
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as the benefit of not being overwritten on the
next upgrade.
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dle GUID partition tables, based on the
latest UEFI specifications
version 2.3.1, from June 27th, 2012. The following operations are supported:
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wrong answers will get more help than
people who just ask politely. It is probably driven by a need to prove
them wrong and have them publicly admit it. Spoiler: they will not, and
the only remedy is to not ignore them.
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mages will not become default before the user
> replaces their drive?
Are you sure that UEFI will not be replaced by something even more
bizarrely inexplicable before that happens?
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77M 166K 77M 1% /boot/efi
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poc...@homemail.com (12024-12-29):
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/fetchmail --pidfile /run/fetchmail/fetchmailrc.pid -f
> /etc/fetchmailrc
Debian uses --nodetach, which is a much better use of modern service
monitoring.
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l...@rogerprice.org@mail.gandi.net:1 of 1 (9321 octets) flushed
>
> It's dead
It is “dead” but not dead, since it still has a process. Your problem is
there, you do not need to look elsewhere: systemctl stop did not do its
job properly. You need to find out why.
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which font and which file contains it, query the package it
belongs to. At worse, you can use strace to see what files the program
opens; possibly easier, in /proc/$PID/map_files/ you can see which font
files are currently in use.
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he [[ command,
this performs pattern matching as described above (Compound Com‐
mands).
But it is a bashism. Better use a more lightweight and standard shell,
/bin/sh, or switch directly to a more powerful one, like zsh.
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Roger Price (12024-12-24):
> File /proc/mdstat indicates a dying RAID device with an output section such
> as
Maybe try to find a more script-friendly source for that information in
/sys/class/block/md127/md/?
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intentionally
> careless)
Saying it in a simpler way: there is no such thing.
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o free()it.
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yer of the program using them.
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Felix Miata (12024-12-05):
> Where else is possible?
Depends on the firmware, of course. If you try to put a GPT on the drive
of a Lenovo Miix 3-1030, it will not boot.
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Felix Miata (12024-12-05):
> The ESP filesystem must be on a GPT partition.
Not always.
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unless you start making sense I will just stop
answering to you.
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poc...@homemail.com (12024-12-03):
> What namespace would that be
I just said it: the namespace for completion.
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poc...@homemail.com (12024-12-03):
> Why hasn't debian done so?
Because polluting the completion namespace with commands useful once in
a blue moon for administrators is a stupid idea.
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ent packaging system for each language.
We do not want a different logging system for each daemon.
We do not want square wheels reinvented everywhere.
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t guess the difference but you
realize none work as documented and suit your needs, and you end up
abusing another feature in a way that will break on next release.
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fixed all the flaws as made them
irrelevant by the virtue of replacing the board of snakes and ladders
with a board of hungry hungry hippos with its own different set of
flaws, but at least that more or less worked out of the box.
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Roger Price (12024-11-26):
> I'm guessing that this feature is something systemd has given us.
Your hate is making you guess wrong.
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time than me to spend on find the right
invocation of lsblk or other to print both.
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reboot.
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Nicolas George (12024-11-26):
> Yes, they are: somebody did something wrong on your suystem. Odds it was
> you. It sure was not me :-Þ
>
> When did you add the most recent of these drives? How did you add it?
My bad, I read the output on my system incorrectly. Forget these two
parag
from a RAID array
without human supervision?
> Aren't UUIDs supposed to be unique? Roger
Yes, they are: somebody did something wrong on your suystem. Odds it was
you. It sure was not me :-Þ
When did you add the most recent of these drives? How did you add it?
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ere is the execline infrastructure:
sudo /usr/lib/execline/bin/redirfd -w 1 /output/file cat
See https://skarnet.org/software/execline/redirfd.html for details.
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compiling
projects more complex than Hello World.
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m things from defaults in unrelated configuration files is
not a good practice.
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her the .pc files are only shipped for convenience.
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egards,
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ll is not in the foreground at this point.
Since foreground / background is about process group, it could not: each
pipeline is started in a group, so that it can be moved from the
foreground to the background and back. The parent shell cannot enter and
leave these groups at will.
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Andy Smith (12024-09-06):
> cd "$(dirname "$0")"
… || exit
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ael (12024-09-03):
> options snd_hda_intel id=[HDMI,PCH] index=1,0
Might be you need to write with dashes, as the module files is named
with dashes.
Might be brackets are not the correct syntax for an array option.
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Dan Ritter (12024-09-01):
> It is unlikely that X will be actually abandoned until all of
> these problems with Wayland are solved.
oneko and xeyes do not work properly with Wayland, that is definitely a
deal breaker.
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ved* word. Maybe your journal since January is not
archived.
You should look at the size and timestamps of the files in
/var/log/journal/.
Maybe also try to run “journalctl --rotate” before or after “journalctl
--vacuum-time=2d”, to have a point to discard the next time.
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ith sarcasm that inattentive readers might
take for hostility?
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lina (12024-08-22):
> however, the internal keyboard does not work
Sorry to ear it. Did it been laid off? Is it eligible for unemployment
benefits?
More seriously, start by explaining your problem with more accuracy than
“does not work”.
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same loader (the same
> vendor) on the same ESP twice with different configurations.
--bootloader-id=ID
the ID of bootloader. This option is only available on EFI and
Macs.
I it as simple as this.
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es
> from the same vendor in the UEFI (firmware) boot menu and found it tricky
> and inconvenient.
“Tricky and inconvenient” ≠ “impossible”
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disabled DRM.
> I have no idea
> how much trouble may cause multiple ESP on the same drive.
Once the bootloader is installed, the partition is referred by UUID, it
does not matter if it is the ESP or not.
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tructure”, but the “just use the file system” people do not even
realize the kind of services they do render.
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John Conover (12024-08-08):
> Can a standard USB have sub directives?
>
> I was doing some stress testing, and some sub directives had very long
> write latency's. (All less than 4GB.)
What is that thing you call “directive” or “sub directive”?
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Vincent Lefevre (12024-08-01):
> so the silent breakage was known and done on purpose.
Cutting yourself on Hanlon's Razor.
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Tim Woodall (12024-07-30):
> Yes, I use unison to keep some imap servers in sync.
Be precise: you use unison to keep the directories that serve as mail
storage for some IMAP servers in sync. Your unison does not know that
there is IMAP involved.
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m scratch or from parts.
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