Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 07:50:27PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: >> git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this may > [...] > > Half-wrong. Git doesn't preserve ownerships, but it does preserve > permissions (the POSIX things). Still quarter(?)-wro

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:53:41 +, Darac Marjal wrote: >> You can run X clients on the server and remotely display that on a >> workstation (i.e. something _with_ a head), but AFAIK the wayland protocol >> doesn't support any sort of network transport (you can run a GUI

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

2024-11-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
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 understanding them very well. When you go > to the home of any particular one it seems to think you know what

Re: Bug in 'more' command

2024-10-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 3:40 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: >> For additional (and _possibly_ interesting) context, this >> isn't a Debian-specific change. It's part of the upstream >> util-linux-2.38 release¹. It was submitted to the >>

Re: Bug in 'more' command

2024-10-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jim Anderson wrote: > I'm not sure why the Debian developers chose to change the > behavior of the 'more' command, but the Debian release 12 > has the annoying habit, upon reaching end of the file, of > displaying extra empty lines to fill a terminal window, > then inserting the text: > >   (END)

Re: Wazuh Security Alert

2024-07-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Simon Bates wrote: > I recently started using Wazuh to manage the security of my servers and > Linux desktops. > > I have a Debian server that is raising the following alert: > > package.name: python3-certifi > > package.version: 2022.9.24-1 > > vulnerability.id: CVE-2023-37920 > > https://nvd

Re: purely local DNS

2024-07-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
Adam Weremczuk wrote: > I'm using Postfix and this all that was needed: > > /etc/hosts > 1.2.3.4 example.com > > /etc/postfix/main.cf > disable_dns_lookups = yes > smtp_host_lookup = native It's probably worth noting that `disable_dns_lookups` has been deprecated for a long time. The post

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:58PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: >> deb http://ftp.security-debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main >> non-free non-free-firmware > > Stop guessing, and *read* what you were told to use. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/

Re: Password managers

2023-11-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd > like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with > the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a very > limited amount of information for each "acco