On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, jeremy ardley wrote:
> On 24/4/25 14:58, Roger Price wrote:
> > A cheapo Seagate in one of my RAID 1's now has well over 9
> > hours. Only the WDs have failed.
> Were the WDs Red? There is a major difference in life with them
No, I use Green (Desk
system. A cheapo Seagate in one of my RAID 1's now has well over
9
hours. Only the WDs have failed.
Roger
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 06:42:57PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> > ... he wanted me to be the first to write in blue, and then others
> > would follow.
>
> Ah, at last the reason. *He* has a personal problem and expects the rest
y
> can check the headers to find the MUA that the idiot is using,
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Roger
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> On 4/17/25 5:37 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I
> > write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
>
> Have you ever considered the possibilit
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 17.04.2025 19:06, Roger Price wrote:
> > Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem
> > solved. Roger
> >
> I'd use software called GIMP. &shrug;
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> ... when he tries to tell you how to do it
Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem
solved. Roger
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Nicolas George wrote:
> Roger Price (HE12025-04-17):
> > I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I
> > write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
>
> That is idiotic and harmful.
I agree with you co
, for example the command
echo -e "This is a test of \e[3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored in
an e-mail message body.
Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
Roger
https://useplaintext.email/
tedb as root. The command locate is now defined as
/usr/bin/locate -> /etc/alternatives/locate* -> /usr/bin/plocate*
I didn´t need to modify /etc/updatedb.conf, PRUNEPATHS already allows /mnt .
It looks as if package locate could be retired. Roger
this deliberate?
The man (5) page for updatedb.conf is also missing.
Roger
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
> Pi-hole is your friend https://pi-hole.net/
Interesting, but for the moment I don't fancy pi-hole as my DNS server. Roger
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Chris Green wrote:
> > > ... some humongous hosts file to block ads
> >
> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
>
131425 ad servers. Fantastic! Thanks, Roger
mited. What's the best way of generating the
full humungous file of advertizement servers?
Roger
ommand should report much more
> packages than intentionally installed from backports and their dependencies):
>
> apt list '?narrow(~i,~Astable-backports)'
With option -a this command reports
yt-dlp/stable-backports,now 2025.01.26-1~bpo12+1 all [installed]
yt-dlp/stable 2023
lp youtubedl-gui
installed yt-dlp 2025.01.26-1~bpo12+1.Thanks, Roger
his critical ?
I tried the command
apt -t bookworm-backports install yt-dlp youtubedl-gui
and got the error message
Reading package lists... Done
E: The value 'bookworm-backports' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such
a
release is not available in the sources
Roger
abled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration
details.
So when I go to "Synaptic -> Settings -> Preferences -> Distributions -> Prefer
versions from", I see no backports.
Should I add allow-insecure=yes or allow-downgrade-to-insecure=yes to
sources.list, or is there some better way?
Roger
03.04-1 .
How do you get to the bookworm-backports ?
Roger
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Roger Price writes:
> > [[ $(type -t w3m) == "w3m" ]] && unalias w3m
>
> Shouldn't that be
>
> [[ $(type -t w3m) == "alias" ]] && unalias w3m
You are right! From the Bash man
me w3m before defining the
function.
> POSIX sh only defines "foo()".
> "function foo()" is therefore purely a bash extension.
I stick to the basic definition of Bash functions. Roger
or an under‐score.
The man page also says that a function name is an fname (not a name), and says
"a function name can be any unquoted shell word that does not contain $".
Nothing in the man page appears to reject w3m so I do not understand why my
function name w3m is refused.
Roger
NTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108
With the direct specification of the uid I also hear Biff barking during and
after VLC runs, both on Debian 12 and Debian 11. So I will mark this as solved.
Thanks to everyone who replied.
Roger
PS: Send me an off-list e-mail if you would like to see a photo of Biff the dog.
st time I have seen these. Did you see them in
the debian-user mailing list ? Roger
OS release to the next. After all these years, you are
the
first to have remarked publicly. No government organisation has tried to
contact me openly.
I hope you were not too frightened, but vigilance is a fine quality.
Roger
> > M H * * * aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav
> >
> > where M is the minute 0-59 and H is the hour 0-23. I shall do exactly the
> > same. Roger
>
> OK. My crontab has this:
>
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"
>
> # m h dom mon
tact me openly.
I hope you were not too frightened, but vigilance is a fine quality.
Roger
ounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav
where M is the minute 0-59 and H is the hour 0-23. I shall do exactly the
same. Roger
ded
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" to my personal crontab, but this did not
solve the problem. I added
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"
to bark.sh, but this also failed to solve the problem. Roger
ble to open slave
aplay: main:831: audio open error: Device or resource busy
Roger
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote:
> > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5
> > bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108
> > bark.sh calls Biff ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108
> > Playing Sparc Audi
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote:
> Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ?
I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual operation
still works correctly:
rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5
bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_
gt; Audio -> Show-Settings=All
has nothing to clear this.
Restarting sound.target has no effect. I have the same problem with mplayer.
Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ? Roger
the command
root@titan ~ mdadm --misc --stop /dev/md124
mdadm: stopped /dev/md124
md124 has now disappeared from cat /proc/mdstat. I also updated /etc/fstab,
ran
systemctl daemon-reload, updated /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and ran update-initramfs
-u .
Thanks, Roger
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 13:10:51 +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Michel Verdier wrote:
> >
> > > If I remember well you have to first set the device as faulty with --fail
> > > before --remove cou
> But if this is the last device you can erase the partition to remove RAID
> informations.
I intend to erase the partition, but I hoped for something cleaner from an
mdadm
RAID management point of view.
Roger
of examples of building RAID 1
arrays,
but not removing them. The program mdadm does not have a --disassemble mode.
Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
Roger
t a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable fetchmail
Roger
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Michael wrote:
On Saturday, December 28, 2024 6:56:09 PM CET, Roger Price wrote:
And the fetchma+ process disappeared - I hope it no longer rises from the
dead.
then make sure you run
systemctl disable fetchmail.service
otherwise it will start again at next boot.
In
he oldstable package (the one I believe
Roger is using) at
<https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/amd64/fetchmail/filelist> and
this one does NOT have a systemd unit file. As I've pointed out a
couple times now, that version of the package only has an init.d file.
So, there is no service
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 11:36:44 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:21:08 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
but fetchmail goes on fetching mail. What is the correct way of
stopping fetchmail?
Perhaps there is a fetchmail.timer unit
/usr/bin/fetchmail -f
/etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid --syslog
root@titan ~ kill 1264
And the fetchma+ process disappeared - I hope it no longer rises from the
dead.
Roger
pping
fetchmail?
Roger
On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 15:45:31 +0100, Roger Price wrote:
md3 : active raid1 sdg6[0]
871885632 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_]
bitmap: 4/7 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk
Note the [U-].
There isn't any [U-] in that output. There i
;
echo $BAD
Far from elegant, but I still can't get it to work.
The trace contains lines such as
+ 1164021 1164021 [4]read L
+ 1164021 1164021 [5][[ 20970368 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_] == *\[\U\-\]* ]]
The test always fails, but I can't see why. Any hint would be very welcome.
Roger
-free contrib
I used xedit as root to comment out the deb cdrom line, so sources.list now
looks like your example. Package installation now works correctly with
synaptic.
Roger
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 06:07:45PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
I tried using synaptic to load packages in my new Debian 12.8. After I
specified many packages, I clicked on "Apply" and received the message:
"Please insert disk labe
synaptic supposed to be usable on a fresh
installation?
Roger
for the small bootable partition. When the installation was complete I
removed the USB stick, rebooted and was greeted by the Debian 12.8 login window.
Success!
My thanks to everyone who made the useful suggestions which helped me solve the
multiple problems.
Roger
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Roger Price wrote:
I got the message error: file '/install.amd/vmlinux' not found
So perhaps:
grub> set root=(hd0)
grub> linux/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet
grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
grub> boot
nted on /boot/efi
Which option in the installer's partitioner did you use, one of the FAT
options, or the EFI one? The latter will create a partition with the
appropriate file system, and install suitable EFI files for you.
I missed the EFI one, which is the one I obviously need.
Roger
very welcome. I see complex
incantations as cited below, but I don't have the depth of understanding of UEFI
GRUB needed to adapt them to the Debian 12 USB installation stick.
Roger
https://community.frame.work/t/booting-from-usb-only-grub-command-line-no-menu/10605
https://www.linux
On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, Roger Price wrote:
Is there some way within the Graphical Install to get back to manual
partitioning without having to start again from scratch? I backed up to
re-specifying the root password, but that was not sufficient.
Sorry for the noise. To answer my own question
-specifying the root password, but that was not sufficient.
Roger
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
.. let it email the output to you (or whoever "nut" is).
nut is the user created by the NUT (Network UPS Tools) package which manages my
UPS units. Anyone who installs nut to manage UPS's will have this user.
Roger
me as part of the command:
rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1
will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of
the time this will be a "no such file or so-and-so", sometimes
it might lead to surprising results ;-)
T
nd personal jobs in one place, but it's non-traditional.
It was clearly a misunderstanding on my part to have additional lines in
/etc/crontab. I have removed them and returned /etc/crontab to what it was when
Debian 11 was installed. All my personal lines are now specified by "crontab -e"
and can be seen in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/rprice
Roger
On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Roger Price wrote:
With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11
When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run?
emacs /etc/crontab
What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the
t;Failed to reload cron.service:
Job type reload is not applicable for unit cron.service".
What is the correct way to get cron to read the new crontab ?
Thanks, Roger
an excellent concurrent, real time,
distributed functional programming language.
Roger
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
"except via mdadm" : exactly the point I would like to make. mdadm needs to
be able to address the individual underlying devices. Only /dev/sdxn style
addressing can do
want to disturb
its
two underlying partitions separately except via mdadm.
"except via mdadm" : exactly the point I would like to make. mdadm needs to be
able to address the individual underlying devices. Only /dev/sdxn style
addressing can do this, not duplicate UUIDs, or duplicate LABELs.
Roger
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Nicolas George wrote:
Roger Price (12024-11-26):
You have to specify sda5 or sdb5.
There is nothing wrong with having to specify sda5 or sdb5.
Indeed, and it's the only way for Raid specification. For example /proc/mdstat
contains no mention of device UUIDs.
er"
PARTUUID="b24f-06"
# blkid /dev/md0
/dev/md0: UUID="8a31b513-cd62-4639-b5e5-3a8f8879164f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096"
TYPE="ext4"
The UUIDs are the same for sdg6 and sdh6 but there is a UUID_SUB to distinguish
them. blkid sees a new value for md0's UUID, not the same as lsblk.
Roger
t md0 should be reported twice with the same UUID, but
surely the underlying hardware should be getting a unique UUID?
The use of LABELs is attractive, but I notice you have the same label for sda5
and sdb5. This means you cannot intervene on "msi85:0tmp". You have to specify
sda5 or sdb5.
Roger
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Nicolas George wrote:
Roger Price (12024-11-26):
UUID sdg6 = UUID sdh6 !
Aren't UUIDs supposed to be unique?
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? Ho
Sorry, the formatting was messed up and the message unreadable.
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, George at Clug wrote:
"$ lsblk -f" output is very nice ! Thanks.
I tried this and noticed UUID duplication in the output. I attach a small text
file which shows what I saw. UUID sdg6 = UUID sdh6 !
NAME
9eddce5e91
│ └─md3 ext4 1.0 39c24711-ab43-497c-bf3e-12b4032575ac 758.4G 7% /mnt/home
UUID sdg6 = UUID sdh6 ! If I wanted to retire /dev/sdg6 from the Raid array, I
would not be able to use the UUID, only the unique SDxn.
Aren't UUIDs supposed to be unique? Roger
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote:
... if a web site wants to be *that* obnoxious I'll often decide that
they're not worth the trouble of bothering with. :-)
+1
My +1 as well, Roger
Roger
proper server, with all of the required sockets, both options being, I
believe, quite expensive to buy new.
Would a powered USB hub be of any use? A lot cheaper. Roger
Multi Seat.
What Verizon should I download
I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you read
https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ?
Roger
ght of the ISO/IEC behind the W3C and help
them hold the core of the HyperText Markup Language steady whilst under
commercial pressure. See https://rogerprice.org/15445/15445.html for the User's
Guide, which includes the full text of the Standard, and the DTD.
Roger
have administrative
interfaces where a fixed assignment of MAC against IP can be specified.
Roger
size: 336x597mm (13.23x23.5") diag: 685mm (26.97") modes: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.183.01 renderer: Quadro P2000/PCIe/SSE2
direct-render: Yes
It looks to me as if the nvidia driver is loaded. Roger
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Bruno Schneider wrote:
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote:
I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own
password, and now works correctly.
It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you.
T
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Xiyue Deng wrote:
Roger Price writes:
Is there some way of getting to this package?
Looks like nvidia-settings comes from "contrib". Have you enabled the
contrib repository in your apt settings? Something like below:
| deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ boo
the package
nvidia-settings. The page https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/nvidia-settings
talks about the package but doesn't mention a repository that I can access with
synaptic.
Is there some way of getting to this package?
Roger
ee that "sudo" is not one of them.
I found that if I then tried "id rprice" I could see "sudo".
Now try "su - rprice" to open a new session as yourself, in the same
terminal. In this new session, if you run "id" with no arguments,
you should see the sudo group listed.
Confirmed!
Thanks, Roger
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST)
Roger Price wrote:
... As with Debian 11, a synaptic
popup asks for the super user password, but after entering root
password I get "Authentification failure". This worked on Debian 11.
One test to try is
etails" but all I see is "Action: com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic".
Is there some way on Debian 12 of authorising regular users to use synaptic
(provided they know the root password)?
Any hint or suggestion would be very welcome. Roger
an list? Their commercial messages have no relation to Debian, Linux or
free software.
Thanks for your understanding.
Roger
IP address meta information
2. Javascript Fingerprinting
3. Request analysis »
So it's either your IP or something in your Request. For me it's very
probably my Starlink IP. Roger
On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 15:24:11 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:
https://www.bobevans.com/
Bob Evans use Incapsula to prevent scraping. Probably a waste of money.
Scrapers will scrape and real customers are driven away.
As
crape and real customers are driven away.
Roger
ou use to write this?
Roger
Error Line 3, Column 6: document type does not allow element "BODY" here
Error Line 4, Column 15: value of attribute "DIR" cannot be "AUTO"; must be one
of "LTR", "RTL"
Error Line 5, Column 15: value of attribu
when I need to print a page I use the self service scanner/printers available in
post offices here in France. €0.30 per page black and white, €0.50 for colour.
Roger
Arquivos.
The xiaomi site has instructions. It looks as if instruction 10 is the key.
Good luck, Roger
_
The Xiaomi 12 Pro doesn't transfer data to the PC by using a USB cable
If you're having trouble transfe
do it.
Roger
My apologies for flooding the list with what should have been a private
mailing. Roger
Hi, this what I received from you. Cheers, Roger
Return-path:
Envelope-to: rprice@localhost
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st 10.
The Debian mailing list Code of Conduct at https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
is clear:
« Please don't send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead »
Roger
ments.
htmldoc is very badly outdated; if you want proper control, you
want to use pandoc (yes, Debian packages it) and a CSS file.
I see at https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#variables-for-latex that pandoc has the
linestretch and fontsize controls for the LaTeX used to produce PDF.
Roger
says “The --fontsize option specifies the base font size for the entire document
in points (1 point = 1/72nd inch)”, but doesn't say what the default value is if
the option is omitted.
What is the default font size?
Roger
On Wed, 29 May 2024, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/29/24 03:36, Roger Price wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2024, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/28/24 00:28, Roger Price wrote:
I wired my place Cat5. A lot of work, and I regretted it. I live in the
hills behind Nice, an area with a lot of lightning
On Tue, 28 May 2024, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/28/24 00:28, Roger Price wrote:
I wired my place Cat5. A lot of work, and I regretted it. I live in the
hills behind Nice, an area with a lot of lightning. The overhead line to
my place took a hit and thanks to the Cat5 conductivity I lost
attached to a TP-link TL-WN722N USB adapter will capture a
domestic WiFi router at well over 200 meters.
Roger
r/Slave to Primary/Secondary. There have been no reports in the
mailing list of this causing any problems.
Roger
ood stove. No problems. Roger
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 19:03:33 (+0100), Roger Price wrote:
I currently have two Eaton Ellipse ECO 1600's. ... The four screws are deeply
recessed and difficult to see. They have different heads: some are Torx 10,
others are a star.
20/20 hind
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