On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:55:31PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> Long ago he was a senior manager in a major IT manufacturer known for its
> color.
> I've known him for many years. I don't fancy the job of telling him how
> stupid
> he is. IT also involves human problems.
In that case just te
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:37:36PM +0200, 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.
I would reply to say that writing in blue makes you depressed and that your
doctor has advised against
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 06:42:57PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> I wondered, but his manner and the way he spoke about his visual difficulty
> suggested that he wanted me to be the first to write in blue, and then others
> would follow. Roger
Ah, at last the reason. *He* has a personal problem a
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:29:41PM +, Chris Green wrote:
> I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to
> bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using
> ssh but not to others (to which I can connect from everywhere else).
>
> It also can't ping
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 11:49:25AM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> I started copying (with rsync) a large chunk of data to that drive (26+
> million files, tens of thousands of folders, about 2TB in total).
> That much has been copied so far:
>
> find /mnt/nvme0n1p1 -type f | wc -l
> 19868844
Th
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:30:19PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> Many list servers serve up their archives with subject line and other
> information but not the body. By modifying the subject appropriately one
> makes it possible for a reader to quickly scan the subject, making
> reading the enti
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:29:05AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> I suspect a failing disk,
My main home PC is 10 years old and still going strong (I over specced it when
I bought it). A few years ago I had what looked like disk problems (time outs,
failed writes, ...). I replaced the power supply a
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed?
That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away
with a logout.
I also now seem to be able to see all the emojis that my daughter sends me.
Thanks
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg:
메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean).
These do however display properly on my laptop which runs Mint 21.3.
I suspect that I could see them if I used the te
On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 02:52:29AM +0800, Bitfox wrote:
> Hello
>
> After I installed mysql 8.0 via apt install mysql-server, I tried to restart
> mysql server.
>
> I issued the following commands,
>
> systemctl restart mysql-server
> systemctl restart mysqld
>
> They got failed, no package was
I am running Debian 12.7
I logged in via ssh at 16.14 and then went: sudo -s
If I run "w" I now appear to be logged in twice (1.52 is the current time):
addw pts/02001:4d48:ad51:2 16:14 40.00s 0.02s 0.01s sudo -s
addw pts/12001:4d48:ad51:2 01:523.00s 0.00s 0.01s sudo -s
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 09:38:25AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> I'm pretty sure:
>
> a) Andy lives on an island generally considered part of Europe
> b) you are sufficiently dedicated to being off topic that I'm
> putting you in the killfile now.
Please do not feed the trolls.
The fun is over so
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 10:13:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 14:53:10 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > Is there a way in bash to guarantee that a trap gets called for cleanup
> > in a script?
>
> #!/bin/bash
> trap cleanup EXIT
> cleanup() {
> ...
> }
>
> This works i
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want
> to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more
> familiar with school systems and other institutions).
I suggest an HP stream. I got
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 07:38:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Even if that's true, running them all in the same command as Roberto
> shows would not give you any benefit.
In early Unix sync *did* return immediately after scheduling a buffer flush.
> You'd need to physically *type* the command
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 02:18:44AM CEST, Greg Wooledge
> said:
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 20:04:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > > sync && sync && sync && swapoff
> > >
> > > I couldn't tell why I have sync 3 times, but I kno
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 08:39:11AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Do you have a performance problem? If not, don't change.
More to the point - what does the application do, where does its time go ?
Eg if you have complex database selects then the web server overhead prolly
only takes a small part of
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 07:29:10AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote:
> this could work indeed. but it requires me to input a long path. so I am
> asking for a easier way.
Try this:
$ sudo find /tmp -user apache2
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 05:18:46PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> And it does not matter, because on a personal computer the root account
> is not what matters, what matters is the user account where you can
> install a key logger and get banking credentials or encrypt all the data
> and ask for a
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:17:54AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> The CrowdStrike outage emulated the very thing it is alleged to protect
> against - a zero day exploit.
It was also a demonstration of a huge vulnerability. If $EvilActor were to get
an agent employed at CrowdStrike/whoever then the
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:46:24AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> A plug for SELinux. It's been around for a long time. It was invented by the
> NSA for use by Government agencies but they kindly open sourced it and it's
> available on many Distros including Debian.
>
> SELinux is a real pain to g
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 06:06:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> When I try to visit www.chewy.com a blank page. This is a major pet
> supply web site. Other web sites display as usual without problems.
> I phoned CHEWY and they say their system is on-line.
>
> I have tried two different com
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:28:35PM -0400, PMA wrote:
> I received the following today from (Jerry Henley at) Ella White
> .
>
> I suspect fraud here, so have not opened the invoice he/she attached.
>
> Can you possibly tell me whether the message is legitimate?
I did not spend much time on it.
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 03:11:16PM +0200, Richard wrote:
>"Top posting" (writing the answer above the text that's being replied
>to) is literally industry standard behavior.
Many do top post, but many do not.
Places where it is often frowned on are technical mail lists such as this one.
T
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:42:25AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Mike Castle wrote:
>
> >> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers.
> >> Should we scour our systems looking for similar issues in
> >> other languages? Then in, say, 20 years time when different
> >> words will then be co
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 07:44:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking
> > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal
> > in what our software
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 09:03:45AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > It was a BLM thing, not sure if it matters the etymology of such
> > words.
>
> The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin
> of the *meaning* of the word(s).
+1
However that is not the way that the wor
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote:
> On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the
> > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e.
> > how far this has bee
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 07:42:24PM +, Richmond wrote:
> You could try Pidgin. It's in the Debian repo. It has various protocols
> of which irc is just one. It's a bit confusing because you have to go to
> the 'buddy' menu to join an irc channel.
Yes: Pidgin UI is dreadful. Lots that is non in
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home
> >
> > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me.
> >
> > Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it right
> > first time!
>
> lvred
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:32:30PM +0100, sko...@uns.ac.rs wrote:
> I am getting the following message at any boot:
>
> "The volume "Filesystem root" has only 221.1 MB disk space remaining."
>
> df -h says:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 11:39:40AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
>
> On 12/21/23 10:50, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> > It is NOT a firewall issue.
>
>
> If I am correct you don't want any thing from the outside to hit your web
> server?
The words "web server" is am
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:31:06AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
> All you should be seeing is scans which you can not prevent.
I am looking at incoming packets with tcpdump. This sees packets *before* they
are filtered by iptables.
> What are you using for a firewall?
Something hand rolled. Reasonably
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
> Use a firewall and set it up correctly.
That I have done.
The issue is broadband usage - ie before it hits the firewall.
> Assuming a residential environment.
>
> Firewall the router and server(s) as well as all the client machines.
>
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 01:39:53PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Okay well 30KiB/s is only about 78GiB/month which isn't really a
> lot. I think we're both in UK and it's been hard to find a domestic
> Internet connection that you'd run a web server on that can't cope
> with 78G/mo. So ignoring it se
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:50:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> If your home Internet service has an "allowance", you probably shouldn't
> run a web server on it.
Yes: I do run a web server at home, but there is only a little/personal stuff,
it does not receive much real traffic, I do not want i
My home PC is receiving, for hours at a time, 12-30 kB/s input traffic. This is
unsolicited. I do not know what it is trying to achieve but suspect no good. It
is also eating my broadband allowance.
This does not show up in the Apache log files - the TCP connection does not
succeed.
Sometimes my
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:23:06AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:36:02 +0100
> Alain D D Williams wrote:
>
> Hello Alain,
>
> >They will look at it and do something - or so they claim,
>
> Most likely that 'something' will be to compil
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:31:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> If you feel like you'd like to learn a bit, study the mail
> headers. Ponder about which ones the sender could have faked
> and which ones not. Things like that.
If you live in the UK you can forward it to here: rep...@phishing.g
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash shell.
>
> Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
I have not tested this but if bash was interactive you will find a
.bash_history file in
I have recently upgraded to Bookworm.
I have set:
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/addw
MAILCHECK=60
I find that when doing filename expansion, by pressing TAB, that the 'You have
mail' message appears when it should not. In the example below I pressed TAB
after the letter 'T' (which gave me
On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 06:49:07PM -0400, hobie of RMN wrote:
> Hi, All -
>
> I need the best way currently available to operate my brother's computer
> in the next room through my computer. I think we're both running Debian
> 11, the stable version for me, the testing version for him. I've trie
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 05:42:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu.
Caps Lock is also affected the same way.
> Sequence as follows:
>
> I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up.
>
> I then switch to the workspace
I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu.
Sequence as follows:
I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up.
I then switch to the workspace that contains a running virtual machine. The
virtualised OS does not seem to be important, this happens with Debian a
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:00:52AM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> Okay. Let's open this can of worms. The ONLY reason https is used on
> most sites is because Google *mandated* it years ago. ("Mandate" means
> we'll downgrade your search ranking if you don't use https.) There is
> otherwi
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 03:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > While we are talking about this, is there any reason why all the http:
> > should
> > not be https: ?
>
&
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:52:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 15 Apr 2023 at 08:11:17 -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> > > ---
> > >
> > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free
> > > deb-src
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Michael Lee wrote:
> Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings,
> logins, etc.?
This is what backups are for. I assume that you have something.
> Michael Lee
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 04:28:00PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2022-12-04 12:05:56+, Alain D. D. Williams wrote:
>
> > Part of the problem is the hopeless message "Server indicated a
> > failure" which says little. Any idea how I could get something more
&g
On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 02:59:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> keys.openpgp.org should be operational. It responds to ping.
>
> Also have a look at
> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-June/065261.html .
No, that is not the issue. It works on Debian 11 but not Debian 10, both
I am running Debian 10 (buster). I generated a new key that I wanted to upload,
but it fails:
$ gpg --send-keys 0xBA366B977C06BAF7
gpg: sending key 0xBA366B977C06BAF7 to hkps://keys.openpgp.org
gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a failure
gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a f
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 10:43:19PM +, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>
> >
> > Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back
> > doors.
>
> Shrug.. as opposed to installing closed source programmes where you know you
> are spied upon ? Which may of course have back doors
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Jeremy Hendricks wrote:
> I have no idea what you mean. It’s open source and you can analyze the code
> line by line.
Very true ... but how much code have you analyzed line by line ?
Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back
I just got myself a new laptop - the old one broke.
It is an HP stream, I wiped MS Windows and installed Linux Mint 21.
The machine came with some nice hardware diagnostics, written by/for HP. These
could be run without booting MS Windows. I would like to have the ability to
run these as they know
On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 10:02:05PM +0200, sp...@caiway.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My first mail provider (in Oslo) promised free mailadress for life.
>
> Then it was sold to a kapitalist and they started to ask money.
>
> I do not like that.
>
> I know it is possible to run a free host.
>
> By volun
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:28:57AM +0300, IL Ka wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > > iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCEPT
> >
>
> Are you sure your packets are forwarded via netfilter?
> Try to disable forwarding (with sysctl) or change rulte to -j DROP and
> check traffic with sniffer (no packet should be forward
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:50:30PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Alain D D Williams wrote:
>
> > iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCEPT
> >
>
> and the OUTPUT?
OUTOUT is also ACCEPT, however this is not, I think, important as the packets
come from 10.239.239.23 (via br0) and g
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:32:51PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> I remember it was not only the POSTROUTING. May be I am wrong, but I think
> FORWARD and OUTPUT is important.
> I also wonder why you are mixing up the -s and --to-source. You should be
> using the local address for -s and --to-source the
Hi,
I have problems getting POSTROUTING to work on a Debian 10 box.
Setup:
INTERNET ... Broadband modem 192.168.108.1
Network internal to the Debian box for virtual machines 10.239.239.0/24
Debian has address 192.168.108.2 (interface enp3s0) and 10.239.239.254
(interface br0)
Processes on D
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:59:13AM -0800, Will Mengarini wrote:
> Your groff command references $o but your script sets no value
> for it, so $o is either empty or inherited from your environment.
Oh, that comes from the ps_print script that I hacked this out of.
$o was options, empty string for t
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 06:04:15AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have downloaded a program with a man-page in troff format.
> How do I view it?
> I installed troffcvt but its man-page is non-informative.
> TIA
Feel free to use my script to do that, below.
ps_print is another script that send t
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Am Montag, 8. Februar 2021, 12:29:25 CET schrieb Joe:
> Hi,
>
> well IMHO it depends, what you are going to do with it.
>
> As you might know, those netbooks are not the fastest ones, but maybe boot
> time is not so important, as you can us
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:52:06PM -0500, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> Hello,
> New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I
> have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory
> and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive.
>
> My question is what is the best(use
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:41:50PM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio archive.
>
> Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine is simple: boot a rescue cd, partition
> the disk, restore all files, fix fstab if necessary, run update-grub and
>
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 09:23:02AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> Im afraid I have to agree with this advice. In the presence of software
> like ZFS (from Sun) and LVM (from IBM's AIX), with easy availability of
> NAS, SAN and cloud storage, the arguments in favor of hardware RAID local
> to a
I'm upgrading my desktop from CentOS-6 to Debian -- CentOS-8 has Gnome 3 that I
can't abide, Debian has Mate.
Most of it works nicely; one problem is starting a network bridge takes down
the ethernet connection.
Can anyone please offer any clues:
/etc/network/interfaces.d/br0 contains:
iface br0
I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
software from a hard drive
leaving a completely clean hard drive.
please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email
Dick
315+399-6113
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hi
i am new to linux and want to lear more about it. so i tryed to download it
with no success because there are so many files their
So I was wondering if you could tell me how to download it.
Thank you
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