Le 3/19/25 à 15:50, Richard Owlett a écrit :
A quick DuckDuckGo search of https://www.emacswiki.org didn't find it.
I changed the search parameters a bit: javascript org-mode folding
First google hit: https://orgmode.org/manual/JavaScript-support.html
First link in that page: https://orgmode.or
Le 3/19/25 à 14:52, Richard Owlett a écrit :
[...]
I has a *problem*. The PDF can collapse sub-points. The HTML *cannot*.
I think I saw a javascript code on emacswiki that does that for html exports
from org-mode documents,
but sorry, I didn't take any notes about it...
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Le 3/13/25 à 17:36, Michael Stone a écrit> I guess I don't understand how you
expect smartctl to query a dead disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to
respond.
I wish there a was some kind of "death" that would render the drive useless for
storage
but still usable enough to retrieve diagn
Le 3/13/25 à 17:36, Michael Stone a écrit :
I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead disk. It's
dead, that means it's not going to respond.
I secretly wished there was some kind of blackbox in some specialized chip or
memory
that specialized software can use for fore
Le 3/13/25 à 14:33, Erwan David a écrit :
You can get the layout with lsblk, IIRC
I'm not an expert on the subject,
but from the few man pages and online help I've gathered,
I have come to understand that the system (and lsblk) only see logical disks.
Physical disks are hidden behind the RAID
Le 3/12/25 à 17:51, Greg a écrit> According to my (very old) scripts you should
use something like
/dev/cciss/c1d0 instead of /dev//sg?
It could be the old driver/kernel module interface.
The one I have is /dev/sgx.
I have no /dev/cciss* present.
Besides, for HP Smart Array,
the example found
Le 3/12/25 à 23:11, Michael Stone a écrit :
Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anything from them
So this means I can't rely on smartctl to list physical disks,
which implies that,
for servers I didn't install,
I need to know their RAID setup in advance,
or at least the total n
Dear list,
I have 5 disks on my server,
2x1 terabyte disks + 3x450 Gb disks,
but smartctl and cciss_vol_status only show 3 disks.
My controller is sg0 as shown in the output of lssci
root@messagerie-recup[10.10.10.22] ~ # lsscsi -gs
[1:0:0:0]cd/dvd hp DVD A DS8A5LH 1HE3 /dev/
Le 3/11/25 à 09:17, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit :
Can you tell us more information about hardware setup?
Could RAID setup play a role?
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Le 3/5/25 à 15:22, Runamile Czyborra a écrit :
my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 pip
&& sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use to ergonomically present
installed candidates to apt purge a few gigabytes?
Clearing apt's cache migh
Le 3/4/25 à 16:46, Yassine Chaouche a écrit :
I'd even extrapolate to other websites like the stackoverflow network,
where most people are here to get answers,
not to give answers.
From my point of view and personal experience IRC is a little different.
Maybe because it's i
Le 3/4/25 à 16:06, Nicolas George a écrit :
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 th
Le 3/4/25 à 14:49, Eric S Fraga a écrit :
What are you trying to achieve? I just do not understand what it means
to be subscribed but not want to see any messages. Seems like a
contradiction?
Not necessarily, no.
I see this as a "forum" mode
where you only receive e-mail for discussions in wh
Le 3/4/25 à 12:20, Leandro Noferini a écrit :
Ciao a tutt*,
is possible to set this mailling list in "nomail" mode to remain
subscribed but to not receive anymore messages?
Just create a mail filter that drops mail coming from
debian-user@lists.debian.org,
but remember to remove it if you dec
Le 3/3/25 à 16:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 15:44:11 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
dpkg won't install missing dependencies.
gdebi will.
So will apt-get and apt. It's just undocumented.
apt install ./filename.deb
apt-get install ./filename.deb
The pathname
Le 3/3/25 à 15:25, Joe a écrit :
You can also compile software source code[...]> This is not a trivial task.
I find configure, make, sudo make install often very simple.
So I'd say it depends on the software.
Sometimes you're missing header files,
in which case configure kindly shows you exac
Le 3/3/25 à 15:25, Joe a écrit :
You can install any random .deb package from any source using dpkg [...]
dpkg won't install missing dependencies.
gdebi will.
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Le 3/3/25 à 13:14, Richard Owlett a écrit :
On 3/3/25 5:49 AM, Steven Speek wrote:
I would like this feature in apt-get.
Exactly *WHAT* feature??
You supply *NO* context.
Also this list is primarily user-to-user support.
Happy now?
Look how angry you made Steven Speek now.
Le 2/26/25 à 16:59, Richard Owlett a écrit :
How do I clearly ask the state rep if there is a traditional mailing list
similar to debian-user.
TIA
I always thought "mailing list" was exactly that,
and cannot be confused with anything else.
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Le 2/24/25 à 12:35, Richard Hector a écrit :
On 17/02/25 20:59, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
Anyone living in PA having a release party for Trixie?
Panama?
I just realized that there's PA in PARTY.
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:27:31 +0100
Yassine Chaouche wrote:
[...]>>> I don't see how the manufacturer could profit from this?
[...]
The upside for end users is that it can improve performance (and/or leave more
room
for other things), the upside for the company is that they may
Le 2/20/25 à 16:13, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
I can only imagine the manufacturer wants the installation to be minimal
[...]
in order to close as many security holes as possible,
Oh, that's a very charitable way to look at it. 🙂
That was my honest opinion but now I feel gullible :)
I don't se
Le 2/20/25 à 05:40, tim wade a écrit :
Hello
I have logged in a router system which is linux.
The provider said it's based on debian OS.
[...]
Hi Tim!
Out of curiosity,
did you check any of the /etc/ files for the distro name?
I use this alias:
$ sys.distro
Debian GNU/Linux 12 \n \l
Le 2/17/25 à 22:52, Dan Ritter a écrit :
Greg Wooledge wrote:
Do you have any kind of automation that reads log files? Like, that
thing whose name I cannot remember right now, that reads ssh's auth.log
file looking for repeated failed logins, and updates your firewall rules.
fail2ban
Logc
Le 2/17/25 à 15:16, Dan Ritter a écrit :
Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Hello all,
I have a couple of bash/awk scripts that read from text log files
to display summary information about what's going with my services,
mainly postifx, dovecot, apache and nginx.
I just read that trixie is rem
Hello all,
I have a couple of bash/awk scripts that read from text log files
to display summary information about what's going with my services,
mainly postifx, dovecot, apache and nginx.
I just read that trixie is removing rsyslog,
and that reading journals should be done using journalctl by def
Le 2/11/25 à 23:39, e...@gmx.us a écrit :
On 2/10/25 05:04, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Le 2/10/25 à 04:18, William Torrez Corea a écrit :
Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory:
Hello William.
I recommend installing the Great Suspender / Tab Suspender extension.
It will save you a
Dear list,
In the past,
if I wanted to clone a baremetal server to another server,
I just copied its root directory (/) and chrooted to it.
Then, I could run services via old sysv init scripts.
(/etc/init.d/service start/stop/status)
It is no longer the case now with debian 12,
(surely even befo
Le 2/10/25 à 04:18, William Torrez Corea a écrit :
Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory:
Hello William.
I recommend installing the Great Suspender / Tab Suspender extension.
It will save you a few gigs of RAM by putting unused tabs on sleep.
Best,
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Le 12/11/24 à 21:08, Van Snyder a écrit :
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really slow.
The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for wndows to
close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running. Memory is half
full, and swap is
Le 12/1/24 à 12:58, Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit :
On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 09:42:34AM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Hello Muhammad!
and for more real-time interaction I like to hang out on the #linux channel on
liberachat IRC servers,
or, if it's debian specific, on the #debian channel
Hello Muhammad!
I second the arch wiki option.
Great resource with much details that apply to most distros.
This list is also very generic,
with a broad range of topics covered,
from booting to installing to operating to troubleshooting different software
and hardware.
Another community I somet
Le 11/27/24 à 15:18, Eric S Fraga a écrit :
[...] the man command is available to
present the manual pages
There are also the fine info pages for most gnu software,
notably the coreutils,
and the /usr/share/doc directory for most other software.
Best,
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Le 11/18/24 à 11:50, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
Help yourseof :)
https://sources.debian.org/src/coreutils/
(Of course, apt-get source coreutils would do the same).
Cheers
Thank you tomas,
After a second reading of
https://sources.debian.org/src/coreutils/9.5-1/src/test.c/,
it seems tha
Dear debian and linux enthusiasts,
Have you ever stopped and wondered:
Are `/usr/bin/[` and `/usr/bin/test` truly unique across all unices?
# diff /usr/bin/\[ /usr/bin/test
Binary files /usr/bin/[ and /usr/bin/test differ
# ls /usr/bin/\[
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67K Sep 20 2022 '/usr/bin/['
#
The ongoing discussion about "Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7" can't be found using the online search
tool at
https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=Updating+from+Debian+9.13+to+12.7&DEFAULTOP=and&B=Gdebian-user&SORT=&HITSPERPAGE=10&xP=updating%09debian%099.13%0912.7&xFILTERS=Gdebian-user%7
Dear list,
I am encountering an unusual issue where Thunderbird is incorrectly accessing my
"Messagerie" folder.
While there are no visible errors within Thunderbird,
Dovecot logs reveal several permission-denied messages linked to the folder
structure.
Sep 29 16:45:20 imap(a.chaou...@domain.t
Missed (deleted) the start of the discussion.
Not sure if it helps but:
I juste made public my toolbox.txt file: https://ychaouche.github.io/toolbox.txt
it is meant to be open in emacs,
so that you can use its outliner mode and read only what you're interested in.
The relevant part is in "** com
Le 7/30/24 à 10:35, Keith Bainbridge a écrit :
Good evening All
'Morning!
If there is anybody from mail.com on the list PLEASE let us know how to
overcome your quirks.
The world of email quirks is a labyrinth.
A good list that has e-mail administrators from around the planet is SDLU
(Sp
Le 7/28/24 à 12:19, songbird a écrit :
[...]
to keep my own setup consistent and to not keep certain
things in history i actually do the opposite of what you
want because i want certain commands already preloaded in
my history for all windows when i start up and then i adjust
my environment b
Le 7/28/24 à 05:24, Mike Castle a écrit :
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM mick.crane wrote:
Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between
virtual terminals?
Yes.
[...]
From my .bashrc file, I have the following history related settings:
# No limit on running shell
Le 4/24/24 à 13:11, Dan Ritter a écrit> Also, I think you have meanings
reversed.
apt-cache depends psmisc
produces the list of packages that psmisc needs to function.
apt-cache rdepends psmisc
produces the list of packages that need psmisc to be installed
first.
-dsr-
Dan,
Thank you for
Debian Users,
In my ongoing mission for precise package management,
I embarked on a quest to swiftly locate all installed packages dependent on
/mysql-server/.
Swift reconnaissance led me to /aptitude/, our stalwart ally in the Debian
arsenal.
Executing a tactical maneuver akin to this:
|# apti
Le 5/2/23 à 14:40, songbird a écrit :
[...]
note this from the package description:
"evtest is now in maintenance mode and doesn't support all the features of the
latest kernels; evemu-record from the evemu-tools package should be used instead."
Thanks for the heads-up!
Best,
--
yas
Le 4/25/23 à 06:00, Susmita/Rajib a écrit :
Try looking at "evtest".
[ ... ]
Raed the manual of evtest. There are very little
example code lines. evtest isn't installed in the Official Debian
GNU/Linux Live 11.6.0 lxde 2022-12-17T11:46.
I second evtest which is very straightforward.
Up
Le 4/8/23 à 04:35, t...@myposts.ovh a écrit :
Hello
in bash shell, what's "$_" variable? where defines it?
Thanks.
It's the last argument of the last command.
I use it often when installing a package.
Something like:
$ apt-cache show "package-name"
[... read the description ...]
$ sudo apt-g
Le 4/5/23 à 17:19, Yvan Masson a écrit :
Hi list,
As the subject says, I am looking for a KDE or desktop agnostic software to
batch resize pictures.
You can try the imgp + nnn combo.
You get speed as a bonus,
but it misses some of your requirements
(like french translation and possibly the GU
Le 3/23/23 à 17:53, Erwan David a écrit :
I create a shell script ~/bin/start-session.sh in this script I have the command
ssh-add < -
in System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > autostart I add this script as a
login script
Thanks Erwan,
that's what I ended up doing.
the
ssh-add < -
line l
Le 3/23/23 à 12:24, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
ssh-add
Ah!
this is what I was missing!
the whole problem was how to ssh-add in a graphical way,
now that I have found a way,
I can maybe put it in a script inside the XDG Autostart directory.
This might leave more room for the ssh-agent to start
Le 3/23/23 à 12:56, basti a écrit :
The ssh config inside ~/.ssh/ has an option 'AddKeysToAgent'.
Why you don't use this?
For example:
Host *
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /run/user/%i/%r@%h-%p
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
ControlPersist 3600
User root
AddKeysToAgent yes
Hello all,
I'd like something to run ssh-add right after I login to my desktop
(KDE).
ssh-add needs to prompt me for my passphrase,
and doesn't need any privileges.
What are my options?
Best,
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Le 3/19/23 à 18:51, DdB a écrit :
Wow!
Great hint there!
I just tested it in a couple of areas and found it to be quite useful,
by far more up-to-date and i did enjoy the experience.
Thank you for sharing it.
Am 19.03.2023 um 12:01 schrieb Yassine Chaouche:
In contrast,
a tool like
Le 3/19/23 à 11:32, Jeremy Ardley a écrit :
On 19/3/23 18:28, cor...@free.fr wrote:
"v=spf1 ip4:188.66.63.1/24 -all"
According to an AI version 4 that cannot be named:
I'm new to the list,
thus,
I don't know how many people have told you this before
(or not)
but that AI is a speech generat
Le 3/19/23 à 09:53, Yassine Chaouche a écrit :
The A.B.C.D/24 notation can be used to either :
- specify an IP address along with its netmask
See for example this snippet from the output of the ip command:
10:02:21 /usr/share/man -1- $ ip -4 address show eth4 | grep inet
inet
Le 3/18/23 à 12:28, cor...@free.fr a écrit :
Hello
I know 192.168.1.0/24 is a valid C range for network address.
but what does 192.168.1.1/24 mean?
I ask this just for a setting in the SPF:
spf.pinoad.se. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:188.66.63.1/24 -all"
Thanks.
The A.B.C.D/24
Le 3/12/23 à 14:50, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 12:13:54PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
function net.ip.reputation(){
revip=$(net.ip.reverse "$1")
results=$(dig +short $revip.zen.spamhaus.org)
[[ -z $results ]] && (echo "clean"
Le 3/12/23 à 14:18, Brian a écrit :
On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 10:45:02 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
it is strange that the choice was to generate
PostScript and not PDF.
Isn't postscript what printers read?
Many (most?) printers do not under
Le 3/10/23 à 12:44, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:01:57PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
p...@ymail.ne.jp (12023-03-10):
Can I setup a mail server (postfix, dovecot, dkim, rspamd etc) on this box to
receive/send email normally?
Probably not: ISP declare IP blocks attrib
Le 3/10/23 à 22:04, Jeremy Ardley a écrit :
On 10/3/23 23:52, Henning Follmann wrote:
Well "could" is the best way to describe the chances of this working.
I think the best way too find out:
Check if the ISP will allow you to set the reverse DNS record matching
your chose A record.
If they
Le 3/10/23 à 12:44, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:01:57PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
p...@ymail.ne.jp (12023-03-10):
Can I setup a mail server (postfix, dovecot, dkim, rspamd etc) on this box to
receive/send email normally?
Probably not: ISP declare IP blocks attrib
Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
it is strange that the choice was to generate
PostScript and not PDF.
Isn't postscript what printers read?
Best,
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Le 3/9/23 à 12:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
look for text2pdf/text2ps.
It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf.
Best,
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Le 3/4/23 à 09:22, Ken Young a écrit :
Hello,
Hi Ken!
3) the content of bash script
$ cat get.sh
#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bash_profile
k get node
4) alias can't work
$ ./get.sh
./get.sh: line 5: k: command not found
Two options :
1. either use #!/bin/bash -i as your shebang.
The
Hello Ottavio,
Recently,
I've been thinking :
why does the space bar span 6 keys?
should I try another layout?
I heard dvorak was optimal.
What do you think about it?
Best,
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Le 1/25/23 à 3:22 PM, Nicolas George a écrit :
For the current problem:
sudo -u www-data namei /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/autoload.php
… will cause the command to be executed in an environment closer to the
one that causes the problem, and therefore is more likely to reveal it.
Use any command
Le 1/25/23 à 2:07 PM, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 07:34:54AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
jeremy ardley wrote:
I have vague memories there are more file flags in newer Linux file systems?
There are extended attributes, of which the only one you are
likely to encounter is i,
Le 1/25/23 à 8:44 AM, jeremy ardley a écrit :
Anyway tree permissions:
root@gram01:/# ls -ld var
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 7 23:30 var
root@gram01:/# ls -ld var/www
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 23 16:33 var/www
root@gram01:/# ls -ld var/www/grammartiste.com/
drwxr-xr-
Le 1/24/23 à 3:20 PM, Mario Marietto a écrit :
Yassine,if you think that you will not love FreeBSD only because you have seen
your friend put his handsin his hair,you areinterpreting the situation too
severely. FreeBSD is a good OS,easier than Linux andwhich doesn't have all the
unnecessarysup
For the time being,
here are the proposed solutions :
1. opensuse's snapper
2. Guix
3. nixos
4. Amanda
5. Ubuntu with ZoL (ZFS on Linux)
6. ZFS boot menu
Mario, Anssi, Christoph, David, DdB, Gene, Jeffrey:
Thank you all for your providing feedback!
Best,
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Le 1/19/23 à 7:50 PM, Mario Marietto a écrit :
[...] Do you know if the boot environments of FreeBSD include a graphical boot
menu ? Because this is the added value that I'm looking for. I would like to
skip and save some time by avoiding some command line tasks.
I have no idea on that topic,
a
Le 1/19/23 à 3:41 PM, Mario Marietto a écrit :
The question asked by Yassine is interesting for me. I've been a FreeBSD user
for some years. After having used Linux for 20 years, I took the decision to
stop using it a little bit because of some technical reasons,mainly tied to the
package mana
Hello all,
I was wondering if there was anyone working on an equivalent of OpenSolaris BE?
Basically,
It automatically creates ZFS snapshots of the whole system each time you do a
system upgrade.
Next time you boot,
you'll have the choice of running the new system
or the old one.
Pretty handy to
Hello all,
I'd like to filter out noise from the dns queries log : ad servers, cdn and
trackers domains.
Anyone knows where I can find good lists that are ready to be used by grep and
such tools?
My plan is to do something like "grep -f /data/domains.txt -v "
I wonder if it's the right approa
Le 11/30/22 à 4:02 PM, Yassine Chaouche a écrit :
But even then, translation files might contain more than one entry for same
package,
maybe one for each (version x architecture) product.
For eg.:
$ grep-dctrl winbind -s Description-en
/var/lib/apt/lists
2 at 17:25:45 (+0100), Yassine Chaouche wrote:
I tried to achieve the same w/o using apt-cache, but couldn't.
My failed attempts were :
1/
16:37:50 ~ -1- $ grep-dctrl -PX syslog-summary
/var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages
Thos
Hello there,
I am exploring the possibilities of grep-dctrl.
My current experiment is to try and show the description of a
package that is not necessarily installed.
I have defined a package.describe
function in my .bashrc that does t
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