Re: grub2 boot menu

On 24/6/21 11:51 pm, mick crane wrote: hello, I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just in case I wanted to put it back but not

pulseaudio-dlna expected behaviour

Hello, I have a very general question about what is supposed to happen with audio routing, I'm not sure what I am doing is right and I'd like to rule out the person behind the keyboard before I start on debugging the setup. I am running debian stable with pulseaudio-dlna installed. The widget

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

On 16/1/21 3:02 pm, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem.  There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

On 23/12/20 7:58 am, mick crane wrote: On 2020-12-22 21:04, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1:26:36 PM CET, elvis wrote: The LVM howto is your friend there are also plenty of man pages! greetings... You mean like RTFM or something ? The man pages generally assume you know

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

On 21/12/20 4:27 pm, mick crane wrote: On 2020-12-20 20:38, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:05:45 + mick crane wrote: It's a more or less new bullseye installation. The installer kindly set up a Volume Group and added Logical Volumes of a couple of the partitions on the dis

Re: swamp rat bots Q

Just goes to show if you whinge hard enough and pretend to be useless it will irritate someone enough to do your work. You don't even bother to check your robots.txt and complained about some evil bot all year. Priceless. On 5/12/20 8:37 am, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 17:06 -0500,

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

On 1/9/20 6:29 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the To be able to access a file given its path, you need to have read access to each directory [1] along that path. Ther

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS partition in Debian Buster? Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a laptop. And a follow up, why do you use it? -dsr- --

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

On 25/7/20 4:49 am, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i got my new computer with a 4 GB WD Gold (WDC WD4003FRYZ-01F0DB0) and observe a strange behavior with a provisory Debian 10 LXDE installation. If the drive has power then i makes a plonking noise every 3 to 5 seconds. The plonk is louder when Deb

Re: problem with GeForce GTX 1050

On 13/7/20 12:45 am, David Bridgham wrote: Andrei POPESCU > wrote: Check your Xorg.0.log, it should tell you what driver it is loading and might hint at why it's not using nouveau. Found something very odd when trying to do this.  When I boot the older

Re: iwlwifi

On 7/7/20 4:15 am, Henning Follmann wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:54PM +, emerald1475 wrote: I am running debian testing on a modern dell inspiron. My kernel (5.6.0-1-amd64) cant seem to load the iwlwifi driver. dmesg: [ 2.571320] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmwar

Re: how to stop reboot from delete'n directory

On 1/7/20 11:17 pm, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 02:33:07PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: i create a directory /run/foo to hold sockets for my application when i reboot the directory gets deleted is set'n the immutable flag

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

On 1/7/20 4:51 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Now who's being pedantic? Precisely. And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it d

Re: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct

On 25/6/20 1:31 pm, davidson wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Dear users, In the past days we saw multiple emails discussing about non Debian-related things and infringing the Code of Conduct[0] of the Project in the same time. Oh, crap. I think I know what this is abo

Re: Default vim colorscheme?

On 22/6/20 6:53 pm, Lucio wrote: Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto: Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/share/vim  or in /etc that default colour scheme is defined or linked to a real colour scheme. Find it. I couldn't find the link, but I found /usr/share/vim/vim81/colors dire

Re: Default vim colorscheme?

On 22/6/20 5:36 pm, Lucio wrote: I posted this question @superuser [1] two days ago, but it seems few know Debian enough there, so here it is for you. In every Linux system I install or I happen to log into I want to use the same vim colorscheme, e.g. the default one Debian uses, because I

Re: technical terms overhaul

On 20/6/20 6:28 am, Marco Möller wrote: On 19.06.20 21:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: "allowlist" and "rejectlist" instead

Re: technical terms overhaul

On 20/6/20 5:14 am, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: Since the terms have nothing to do with race, then no. Are you proposing t

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

On 17/6/20 5:49 am, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: On 6/14/20 5:45 PM, floris wrote: In other words; downgrade Buster to Stretch if you want to use the nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx packages This isn't really an option :) buster-backports? Maybe you can install the 304 driver, but yo

Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

On 13/6/20 10:58 am, Matthew Campbell wrote: I hope I don't create a fight with this. I booted the Debian netinst disc and installed Linux on /dev/sdb1 as the root partition. My computer is old. The system BIOS does not see this hard drive, nor does Grub, but the Linux kernel does. I'm runni

Re: sieve dovecot

On 4/6/20 3:31 am, Gokan Atmaca wrote: Hello I made the Sieve settings. The settings look correct. But it does not forward the e-mail it should deliver. I think there is an error in communication with Postfix. What could be the problem ? ---% sieve.conf plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;acti

Re: Server goes to sleep

On 16/5/20 10:15 pm, Henning Follmann wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:39:44AM -0700, Chris Rhodin wrote: Hi, I've installed Debian Buster on a desktop system I use as a server. I also occasionally use this as a regular desktop system so it has a monitor, keyboard, and GUI. During installa

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

Old ways die hard, disk space is cheap! these days On 10/5/20 1:53 pm, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-05-09 at 23:36, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Rick, On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? There is no easy way. If you boot in

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

On 11/5/20 8:53 am, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 12:30 PM, David Christensen wrote: As for using GRML, I have never heard of it. The Debian Installer can get the job done. GRML [1] says: "Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

On 29/4/20 8:29 pm, Anders Andersson wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:57 PM Steve Keller wrote: Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in video files, e.g. .mov, .avi, .mp4, etc.? For image files I use jhead -ta but I haven't found anything for video. $ ls -gGh fa

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

On 19/4/20 8:35 pm, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr, 2020 at 19:11:55 +1000, elvis wrote: On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] Note: "bouncing" is also called "redirect" in some mail clients and is *not* forwarding (should probably mention this i

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Dear List Subscribers, If you want to help (or at least not make it more difficult) please: * do NOT reply to spam, ever! (this makes it hard or even impossible to remove it from the archives, since it is now a part of a legitimate thread) * do NOT

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

On 6/4/20 9:06 am, Albretch Mueller wrote: Last time I had a 'filter failed' it was because a program in the filter chain was not installed or was crashing. The filter is just your output piped to a program to convert it to another format etc. Like pdf something your printer can print like

Re: [OT] Backup Suggestion

On 4/4/20 12:20 am, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I'm searching a new backup system to replace my old solution. I'm focusing on bacula and actually I'm widely testing it. It seems powerfull and well tested. It supports volumes on disk or tape. Multi platform, VirtualFull backup, compres

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

On 3/4/20 11:04 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: The only thing that I truly miss after upgrading to buster is that the package known as ckermit has fallen beside the road. I had a hard-drive fail on one system so installed buster from installation media and the ckermit package appa

Re: kmail not reading imap folders

On 31/3/20 8:16 am, Christopher Judd wrote: Hi, all, I have an email account (through pangia.biz ). When I try to set it up as an IMAP account using kmail, all of the folders show, but the emails only show in a couple of them.  In particular, the emails in the inbox do not

Re: Looking for an inventory software which is free software and not IT-centric

On 19/2/20 8:24 pm, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 19, 2020, elvis wrote: On 19/2/20 12:31 pm, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 19, 2020, Linux-Fan wrote: Hello fellow list members, I am looking for a software of which I am sure it exists, but I fail to find online, thus asking if anybody might know

Re: Looking for an inventory software which is free software and not IT-centric

On 19/2/20 12:31 pm, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 19, 2020, Linux-Fan wrote: Hello fellow list members, I am looking for a software of which I am sure it exists, but I fail to find online, thus asking if anybody might know such a thing? Of course, it is best if it is included on Debian, even bet

Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the u-sd that a raspi boots from. To that end I'll create a partition on an ssd, of 5000 megs, then copy the existing /tmp's contents to it it, then mount the ssd partition of

Re: buster: low audio level

On 13/2/20 3:34 am, D. R. Evans wrote: I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio level is very low. With all the mixer controls and the physical volume control on the speakers turned up, I can hear audio, but even then it is unpleasantly quiet, certainly nothing one would

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

On 12/2/20 8:25 am, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: Are you sure this is not coming from a software you are using? For every problem I had / have with Intel GPU I can find other users on any distribution's bug tracker with exactly the very same errors in the kernel log, so I'm pretty sure I'm not the

Re: local network capability scanner?

just an ssh -Y connection, which may at times be supplemented as I also use an sshfs "mount", which works well as long as its user 1000 on both ends of the cable. Root access is disallowed going either way as part of my security model here. I've long since given up on ever keeping an nfs share

Re: Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

On 8/2/20 4:02 am, Ralph Katz wrote: On 2/7/20 2:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: [snip] I have found that if I close the lid on the laptop, with or without an external monitor or KVM connected, I am unable to get the display working again without a reboot. I had a similar problem with a Thi

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 29/1/20 5:48 pm, Klaus Singvogel wrote: ghe wrote: Anybody have an explanation? Or somewhere I can start looking? Or know how whatever labels Ethernet ports does it (or why they weren't called 0 and 1 in the first place)? The keywords you want to search for: udev, "consistent network devic

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

Hello Aiden On 26/1/20 11:34 am, Aidan Gauland wrote: I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade hardware, and run Debian stable on it.  For hardware, I am probably going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA drive capacity, and put WD Re

Re: Root is in RO after boot

Hi George, Run fsck on your root filesystem. On 8/1/20 5:15 am, George Shuklin wrote: On 1/7/20 4:33 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 07 Jan 2020 at 14:58:08 (+0200), George Shuklin wrote: After recent minor package upgrade (I'm on sid) I found that the root filesystem is in 'RO' mode. I chan

Re: Giveaway-Laptop: sending system mails

On 31/12/19 11:11 pm, Markus Grunwald wrote: Dear List Participants, An elder friend of mine uses his 10 year old Sony Vayo with Windows 7 mainly for browsing the net, homebanking, E-Mails. Due to several reasons, I want to give him a Laptop with Debian Linux that I will support. Several thin

Re: Home made backup system

If you don't to reinvent the wheel, and have more than one computer to backup... try Bacula  www.bacula.org does everything you want On 19/12/19 3:02 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Aside / Admission: I don't backup all that I should and as often as I should, so I'm looking for ways to improve

Re: getting crystalsvg icon set in response to okular warnings

I already had kinit installed.  I tried installing kinit-dev in a grasping-at-straws move, and it also had no effect. One other thing i tried was to see if launching okular from the kde terminal app konsole would help.  It doesn't. So probably at this point i need to use a different pdf r

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

On 3/11/19 5:24 am, Konstantin Nebel wrote: Hi, this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and already after a couple days I do not know how I lived without it. So why Raspberrypi. In the past

Re: Easiest Way to forward an email Message from Linux to a Mac

On 3/11/19 1:50 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: See reply bottom posted... On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Bob Weber wrote: On 11/2/19 8:10 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Here is the setup. We are on a private vlan as in 192.168.x.x. All local host names are resolved via hosts files. Messages to go t

Re: Easiest Way to forward an email Message from Linux to a Mac

On 2/11/19 10:10 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: Here is the setup. We are on a private vlan as in 192.168.x.x. All local host names are resolved via hosts files. Messages to go to the big wide world must go through Suddenlink's SMTP smarthost and I definitely don't want to break that. O

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

On 23/10/19 12:50 am, David Wright wrote: On Tue 22 Oct 2019 at 19:24:00 (+1000), elvis wrote: Lots cut On 22/10/19 6:16 pm, Ken Heard wrote: 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

. My comments: is that what is supposed to happen? I have not done /dev/sdb yet. "elvis" in an earlier post asked me if I had "tried e2fsck to check the filesystem first?" According to 'man e2fsk' I have to run that command on an unmounted device. If the devices in q

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

In the past week or so some in my computer procedures have become sluggish, and some others have not worked at all. Have you tried e2fsck to check the filesystem first? For example the following script works: #! /bin/bash CURPWD=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kfinancescurr

Re: Gnu sieve vs Dovecot sieve-filter - sieve-filter extremely slow at lda (writing emails to local mbox files)

On 12/9/19 8:06 am, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:55:23AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Why is Gnu sieve so extremely fast to batch process an mbox file, but while Dovecot's sieve-filter is an order of magnitude slower? Sequence: - mpop or getmail to pipeline download email

Re: Something run by cron broke on update, possible missing ruby bits

On 1/9/19 7:52 pm, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting elvis (2019-09-01 10:17:24) I am getting thing error from cron, it started happening on the update to Stretch and Buster did not fix it. It looks like something missing from Ruby, but I am not able to find it searching and I have no idea

Something run by cron broke on update, possible missing ruby bits

Hi All, I am getting thing error from cron, it started happening on the update to Stretch and Buster did not fix it. It looks like something missing from Ruby, but I am not able to find it searching and I have no idea about ruby anyway. Perhaps someone can help. /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp:

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

On 22/8/19 3:25 am, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 07:43:26AM +1000, elvis wrote: No need to. I have a single question - do you use SpamAssassin or Rspamd? I installed postgrey, my spam went from maybe 10 a day (that were caught by spammassain) to maybe 1 or 2 a month

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

No need to. I have a single question - do you use SpamAssassin or Rspamd? I installed postgrey, my spam went from maybe 10 a day (that were caught by spammassain) to maybe 1 or 2 a month. -- Money not found. (A)pply for Bankruptcy, (R)efinance, (F)lee?

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 12/8/19 11:23 pm, Keith Steensma wrote: The same thing happens if I fill in 'root' as the login even though a 'root' login is not permitted in the default 'sshd_config' configuration.  Even when I change the configuration to allow for 'root' login, 'root' can never login. Try a local

Re: After upgraded to Buster the Energy Settings is problematic: get blank screen on laptop and the power off button is the only way

I just upgraded to Debian Buster from Stretch. I am running it on an Acer Aspire V3-571 laptop. I am using XFCE Desktop Environment ( in Stretch I used it also ). In the Energy ... Settings I did set up in Stretch that that after 3 minutes of inactivity the screen comes blank and it works so

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Hi, What does it mean by "challenging hacks"? Elvis Internet Marketing <http://elvis.hk/> Watch On 2/20/07, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:48:36 -0600, Mike wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > &g

Demande de renseignement

Bonjour,   je suis Monsieur KONAN ELVIS  Directeur  de CONTACT TRANS Distribution basée en Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire.Je viens par ce message prendre contact avec vous dans le but d'effectuer une commande au sein de votre établissement, suite aux différents achats faits à Dubaï et

Re: ISO File Content:

Markus Atteneder schrieb: Is ist possible to find out which ISO Image contains for example the package openoffice.org bevore downloading the File? ummm... no. Elvis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

g03038.html if you don't, just download Michelle Konzack's tddebidate-0.3.0.tar.gz from the link above. Hope it helps. Elvis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

Unix compatibility -- Elvis Cehajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian jr.

where can i download debian jr. Simon _ Chat: Ha en fest på Habbo Hotel http://habbohotel.msn.se/habbo/sv/channelizer Checka in här! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [