Re: Debian 12: /etc/updatedb.conf and it's man page are missing

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025, Charles Curley wrote: > charles@hawk:~$ apt show plocate > Package: plocate ... > Replaces: mlocate (<< 1.1.7) ... > Description: much faster locate I removed my /etc/updatedb.conf, uninstalled package locate, installed package plocate, and ran updatedb as root. The command

Debian 12: /etc/updatedb.conf and it's man page are missing

Debian 12 doesn´t include the /etc/updatedb.conf file. I use locate to find things in /mnt. This needs a modified PRUNEPATHS declaration, so I copied an /etc/updatedb.conf which doesn´t prune /mnt from a Debian 11 installation. I am surprised to see no /etc/updatedb.conf in Debian 12. Is this

Re: web browser recommendation

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

Re: web browser recommendation

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

Re: web browser recommendation

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-07, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I believe David Wright uses some humongous hosts file to block ads on > his computer rather than a brower add-on (if I'm remembering and understanding > correctly). I do something similar but it's limited. What's the best w

Re: Don't set APT::Default-Release to backports (was: Re: Firefox and Video DRM)

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 01/02/2025 02:34, Eddie wrote: > > In Synaptic go to "Settings" - 'Preferences" - "Distributions" > > then select "Prefer Versions From" - backports > > Do not do it. It is not a supposed way to use backports. > > > It is

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > It is bookworm-backports, not debian-backports. See > . My error, I corrected my sources.list. Command apt update then ran correctly, and command root@maria ~ apt -t bookworm-backports install yt-dlp youtubedl-gu

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, George at Clug wrote: > # apt remove yt-dlp youtubedl-gui I successfully removed yt-dlp and youtubedl-gui with this command. My sources.list contains the line deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free Note the http and not https. Is this cr

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Eddie wrote: > On 1/31/25 12:40, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > > Packages from backports are pinned with low priority (100) and never > > installed by default. So in order to install a backported package, you > > need to do it like: > > > > apt install yt-dlp/bookworm-backports > >

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > The same (now that I am using backports): > > $ yt-dlp --version > > 2025.01.15 > > In fact, 2025.01.26 just landed in bookworm-backports today. I followed the instructions for synaptic at h

Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?

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

Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You need to unalias w3m first. That's the real answer here. I wrote [[ $(type -t w3m) == "w3m" ]] && unalias w3m w3m() { /usr/bin/w3m -no-cookie -o auto-image=TRUE $@ ; } which I understood is sufficient to unalias the name w3m before defining the

Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?

On a Debian 12 machine with bash 5.2.15-2+b7, I had this alias in my .bashrc alias w3m='/usr/bin/w3m -no-cookie -o auto-image=TRUE ' I understand that aliases are frowned on and should be written as functions, so I wrote [[ $(type -t w3m) == "w3m" ]] && unalias w3m w3m() { /usr/bin/w3m -no-c

[SOLVED] Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >> OK. My crontab has this: > >> > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > >> At the minute, no sound. I tried > >> id=$(id -u) > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > >> and > >> id=1000 > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > >> > >> and no dice. I tried

Re: Supplemental report

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Charles Curley wrote: > Are you also responsible for this? > > "X-Message-Flag: Cannot contact reaper.nsa.gov. Trying bucket.cia.gov.." > Or: > "X-Message-Flag: WARNING: Danger from LLM misuse - find shelter!" Not at all. This is the first time I have seen these. Did you s

Supplemental report

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a friend many years ago. I am a long time pine user, and it has been carried on unwittingly from one OS release to

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > That works for me too, but not in cron. Could you create a temporary > > personal > > cron job with crontab -e which sets > > > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > > > and runs > > > > M H * * * aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav > > >

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

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > here. On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pine

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 > >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > > > So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would > > suspect it's one of the XDG_ variables, > > I did it the other way, by

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > OK, PulseAudio takes over ALSA, and from then on, only sessions > with PA active can play sounds. That means that your shell can > do it, but your cron can't. > > Add this to your cron invocation or bark.sh. > > export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH="/run/user/$(id -u

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

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

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

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_

Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

Before running VLC I hear system sounds, e.g. a cron job has Biff barking each hour. If I then play a music mp4 with VLC, I hear the music, but when the music stops I no longer hear Biff. VLC inhibits system sounds, and leaves the inhibition in place. VLC -> Tools -> Preferences -> Audio ->

Re: Removing an unwanted RAID 1 array

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Michael Stone wrote: > > root@titan ~ mdadm --misc /dev/md4 --stop > > This is incorrect syntax, and a no-op (so the array did not stop). You want > `mdadm --misc --stop /dev/md4`. The --misc is implied so you can just use > `mdadm --stop /dev/md4` I ran the command root@t

Re: Removing an unwanted RAID 1 array

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

Re: Removing an unwanted RAID 1 array

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 could be accepted. No luck : root@titan ~ mdadm --fail /dev/md4 --remove /dev/sdb7 mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdb7: Device or resource busy > But if

Removing an unwanted RAID 1 array

I am unable to erase an unwanted RAID 1 array. Command cat /proc/mdstat reported md4 : active raid1 sdb7[0] 20970368 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_] bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk I understand that the array has to be inactive before it can be removed, so I stopped it, but

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Michael wrote: then make sure you run systemctl disable fetchmail.service otherwise it will start again at next boot. Here is what happened when i tried "disable" on this Debian 11 machine. root@titan ~ systemctl disable fetchmail fetchmail.service is not a native service

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

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

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Commands that might help to discover what actually happened journalctl -u fetchmail.service Dec 28 10:37:58 titan systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: init-Script for system wide fetchmail daemon... Dec 28 10:37:58 titan fetch

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

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

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

Thanks for your replies. I tried systemctl stop fetchmail.service I tried 4 times. then I tried /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop but although dead for 6 hours, fetchmail continued to fetch mails. So I tried root@titan ~ ps -ef | grep fetch fetchma+1264 1 0 Sep25 ?00:06:33 /u

Correct way to stop fetchmail

I would like to stop fetchmail on Debian 11. I tried command systemctl stop fetchmail and system status fetchmail reported ● fetchmail.service - LSB: init-Script for system wide fetchmail daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/fetchmail; generated) Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2024-

Re: Bash expression to detect dying RAID devices

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

Bash expression to detect dying RAID devices

File /proc/mdstat indicates a dying RAID device with an output section such as md3 : active raid1 sdg6[0] 871885632 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_] bitmap: 4/7 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk Note the [U-]. The "-" says /dev/sdh is dead. I would like to scan /proc/mdstat and set a flag

Re: Debian 12.8 synaptic refuses, calling for firmware in /media/cdrom

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Joe wrote: The file /etc/apt/source.list should look something like this, maybe with other commented lines (my installation was from a netinstall image, not a DVD): *** # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux t

Re: Debian 12.8 synaptic refuses, calling for firmware in /media/cdrom

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

Debian 12.8 synaptic refuses, calling for firmware in /media/cdrom

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 labeled: Debian GNU/Linux 12.8.0 _Bookworm_ Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20241109-11:05 in drive /media/cdrom" I do

Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync The "1" in "/dev/sdj1" is surplus. I rebuilt the USB stick using just /dev/sdj . On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

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

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Does the USB stick yield the proper checksum when inspected on a running GNU/Linux system ? Will check. grub> cat (hd0,msdos2)/efi/debian/grub.cfg set prefix-($root)/boot/grub I see "=" instead of "-" in this file when the partition is mounted:

Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

I have a Dell T5820 workstation. I had already installed Debian 12 in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory stick. I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the workstation. All went well - a very smooth install. A few weeks later the Transcen

Re: Debian 12 Graphical install - unwanted Guided partitioning

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

Debian 12 Graphical install - unwanted Guided partitioning

I have to replace a dead SSD and re-install Debian 12. I use Graphical Install with manual partitioning of the disks so that I can specify mount points for my existing RAID partitions on spinning disks. During the specification of my new partitions I made a mistake, and selected "Go Back" to c

User "nut" (Was Re: Restarting cron after crontab update)

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

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I added a username, but crontab -e didn't complain. I still fear your crontab won't do what you expect it to do. Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user name as part

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: What line did you add to /etc/crontab? Please paste it here. Note that /etc/crontab uses a different format than personal crontab files (there's an extra username field). I added lines to /etc/crontab such as # Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 h

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

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

Restarting cron after crontab update

With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 workstation. I have done this before successfully. After the change I ran systemctl restart cron && systemctl status cron But now the change doesn't take effect. I tried systemctl reload cron, but got the reply "Failed to reload cron

Re: A more fundemental error? - was [Re: Issues installing Erling using apt (Ubuntu 20.04)]

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, but several in description field. I'm guessing Erling is a typo for Erlang, an excellent concurrent, real time, d

Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

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

Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Felix Miata wrote: 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. Not at all. hr18md0tmp is an ext4 filesystem LABEL. I wouldn't want to disturb

Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

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.

Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Hans wrote: What about juste enter blkid as root? Will also give UUID and Label. # blkid /dev/sdg6 /dev/sdg6: UUID="f5e37a29-357a-e3f2-c731-e29eddce5e91" UUID_SUB="8ae02b9d-d818-1d8a-88f6-5cb77b15d0eb" LABEL="10.218.0.100:3" TYPE="linux_raid_member"

Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Felix Miata wrote: Members of a raid filesystem have to be seen as an integral part of one filesystem, a special case. It's another reason I stick to use of LABELs. # lsblk -f | egrep -A1 'raid|NAME' NAME FSTYPEFSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE%

Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

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

The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

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

The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

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. Here is part of what I saw: NAMEFSTYPEFSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT ... sd

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

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

Re: ARM 64

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, juan pedro sanchez simon wrote: HOLA QUISIERA SABER LOS DISPOSITIBOS ARM64 QUE SE PUEDE INSTALAR DEBIAN COMPUTADORES, PLACAS  PORTATILES EN MODO GRAFICO NO ENCUENTRO INFORMACION AL REPECTO, GRACIAS Try the Spanish mailing list : debian-user-span...@lists.debian.org Roger

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, Bret Busby wrote: ..., the workstation would need to have 5 video sockets and 10 USB sockets to serve the keyboards and meeces, or, if the monitors can be served from USB sockets, 15 USB sockets. .. I expect that a similar workstation to this, would be required, or, a pro

Multi seat. Was Debian versions

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, brian mckee wrote: I have a work station.   If I put debian on it. I want it to have 5 monsters. I'm guessing 5 "monitors". 5 key boards. 5 mice. So 5 people can long in. At same time. I'm guessing "login". It's sometimes called Multi Seat. What Verizon should I dow

Re: Minimalist HTML 4 viewer available?

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm working on a weird personal proof-of-concept project. A HTML 5 compatible browser will *NOT* be considered. I would really prefer a product aimed at HTML 2. In any case CSS and/or JavaScript will not be used. You do not say whether you will be writ

Re: How to disable the dhcp of my machine?

On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, William Torrez Corea wrote: I want to assign a static ip but the dhcp then takes the order and changes the configuration. Perhaps I misunderstand your question, but isn't this a function of the router?, not the dhcp client in your machine. Routers often have administrat

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: Hmm... maybe I'm wrong but this gives me the impression you were not using nvidia's proprietary drivers, which which case you don't/didn't need `nvidia-settings` because `xrandr` (and the various front-ends for it) should have worked fine. Here is what

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

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

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

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

Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the same thing in Debian 12, but with Debian 12 I cannot find

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL The %sudo line in /etc/sudoers has no effect. Is there some other incantation needed in /etc/sudoers ? You need to log out and back in, or at least start a new authent

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

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

Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

I installed Debian 12 and defined a user. Now I would like to install other packages as that user. 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. I click on "details" but all

Re: Information mise à jour de vos données professionnelles

On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, err...@free.fr wrote: On 10/4/24 2:05 PM, Espacebusiness - via Espacebusiness wrote: Bonjour, Depuis plus de 30 ans, Espacebusiness.com met en relation des entreprises Bonjour Est ce qu'un modérateur ou admi peut supprimer et BANNIR Espacebusiness de la liste Debian? leu

Re: Firefox complaint

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote: An Incapsula competitor, ScrapFly, explains why they think the blocking is primarily Javascript based: https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-avoid-web-scraping-blocking-javascript/ "..javascript is by far the most powerful tool because it allows arbitrary code executio

Re: Firefox complaint

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

Re: Firefox complaint

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote: https://www.bobevans.com/ The same refusal, current Opera and FF 115.15.0esr 64bit. My DNS server uses root hints, so not DNS. It's using a security company for filtering, I'd guess to US customers only. But IP addresses now have only a tenuous link to location...

Re: Testing

On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Peter Ehlert wrote: ⓘ 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 I use alpine 2.24 on Debian 11 which usually shows only the text of a message. This is the first time I have seen a style change to a message, so I looked at the source. Since the po

Re: printer replacement

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Loris Bennett wrote: However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles have always dried up ... I had an excellent Epson Stylus Color 640, later a HP deskjet 845c and a HP Officejet Pro K550. All they do now is gather dust. I print less and less, and wh

Re: Reconhecimento de Celular

On Wed, 31 Jul 2024, hugocalabro wrote: Boa tarde. Meu Notebook possui o Debian 10, Porém ele não reconhece meu Smartphone( Xaomi - REDMI 12c) quando conecto o cabo USB nele. Até mostra carregando a bateria do Smartphone, mas não aparece o aparelho, mesmo selecionando Transferência de Arqui

Re: web site displays blank page

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 02:27:39 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Russell L. Harris composed on 2024-07-18 06:06 (UTC): Would someone kindly verify that chewy.com is accessible? https://www.chewy.com/ looks normal from FL in Chromium: Works for me in Googl

Re: This is a testmail!

My apologies for flooding the list with what should have been a private mailing. Roger

Re: This is a testmail!

Hi, this what I received from you. Cheers, Roger Return-path: Envelope-to: rprice@localhost Delivery-date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:17:06 +0200 Received: from [::1] (helo=titan.rogerprice.org) by titan with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1sPKSX-000BB5-QT for rprice@localhost

Re: small font

On Thu, 4 Jul 2024, Michel Verdier wrote: Tell that to your mail progra= ---^^^ I would add that it's up to the *sender* mail program to send text only mail to this list (and others). As the html part is useless and multiply the mail size by almost 10.

Re: htmldoc default font size

On Sun, 23 Jun 2024, Dan Ritter wrote: Use this as a test file: testfile here is the base text run it through htmldoc without using a --fontsize option, open the resulting pdf and measure? I no longer have a working printer, but when I get access to one, I'll do some measurements. htmldo

htmldoc default font size

I'm using htmldoc 1.9.11-4+deb11u3 to convert html files to pdf. When playing with the fontsize option I discover that the default is not a whole number, more like 11.2 points. Is this the expected behaviour ? Background: The manual at https://www.msweet.org/htmldoc/htmldoc.html#3_2_23 says

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

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

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

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

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

On Mon, 27 May 2024, Paul M Foster wrote: ... and has an RJ45 jack in it in each room. So each room would have one of these, and the devices in it would be hooked to that device via cat 5e. I wired my place Cat5. A lot of work, and I regretted it. I live in the hills behind Nice, an area wit

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Marco Moock wrote: The only package I am aware of that changed some terms is sendmail. With the publication of RFC 9271 "UPS Management Protocol", the nut packages (Network UPS Tools) did a vocabulary cleanup at release 2.8.0 which included changing Master/Slave to Prima

Re: what keyboard do you use?

On Sat, 3 Feb 2024, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:25:09PM -0500, Lee wrote: >which keyboard do you like and why? ... Cherry makes/uses a good keyswitch. Buy Cherry. RLH I bought a Cherry MX 3000 USB. In use permanently in a very dusty environment next to a wood st

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

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

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Andy Smith wrote: Out of interest what brand of UPS do you recommend for home use that has easily-replaceable batteries every 3–5 years? For a load of about 300W. I currently have two Eaton Ellipse ECO 1600's. I change the batteries every 4-5 years, but this is not as ea

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

On Sun, 12 Nov 2023, Marco Moock wrote: I don't think book are a good way to teach stuff that changes. A wiki (maybe with paid access, like RedHat does) is much more better than a book that can't be updated and will be mostly useless with the next release because beginner don't know which parts

"locate" easier to use than "find"

On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Hans wrote: find .mozilla -name favicons.sqlite -ls  1512492   2144 -rw-r--r--   1 myusername myusernama  2195456 Aug 21 13:29 .mozilla/firefox/gs0gkgv2.default/favicons.sqlite  1515049    260 -rw-r--r--   1 myusername myusername   262144 Aug 18 22:36 .mozilla/firefox/th3d

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023, Luna Jernberg wrote: Happy Birthday 30 years of the Debian Linux Project I consider Debian to be a major intellectual achievement, Collective, but still a major achievement. My first Linux ran on an IBM PS/2 L40 SX laptop with a monochrome display. I had to recom

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

On Tue, 1 Aug 2023, Karl Vogel wrote:   I give a solid vote to Liebert.  I had a near-miss lightning strike   a few nights ago, and all it did was make my display go out for about   a second.  It came right back, session intact, didn't lose a thing. My place took a direct hit from a lightning s

Re: Recommendations for a UPS?

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023, Tom Browder wrote: I used to use UPS units from APC back when you could replace the battery. Any recommenndations from fellow Debian folks? I use Eaton Ellipse ECO 1600's. I have replaced the batteries. The 1600 is big, but I live in an area with a lot of lightning, lon

Re: How could a standalone python binary executable be made from a python script, to be run on other computers that don't have python installed?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, Susmita/Rajib wrote: I want to have other users run my python script on their computers, that don't have python installer, as a standalone binary/executable. This is the wrong list. It's a 12 year old question. A Google search would have given you https://stackoverflow

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 03:21:06PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Do you have TCP wrappers installed and running? Please post the output of: `less /etc/hosts.allow` `less /etc/hosts.deny` tcpwrappers would lead to a connection refused, not a

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

On Sun, 16 Jul 2023, Anssi Saari wrote: Roger Price writes: Does the style of comment give a clue to the tool used ? Earlier you posted a list of firewall rules like this: iptables -L -n --line-numbers reports Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) num targetprot opt source

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