in computer history
> was ever talking about storage in powers of 2, I really wish it would
> just go away. It has properties that nobody wants and has been the
> source of endless confusion, for really no benefits whatsoever.
I point people to http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html which is where I
was first enlightened.
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username: user
password: live
according to
https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/customizing-run-time-behaviours.en.html#530
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cron files there don't contain the lines I;m
> looking for.
>
Editing/creating crontab files using "crontab -e" creates it in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs.
>
>
> Can anyone explain how Trixie is handling crontabs now?
This behavior has existed forever. I'm on bookworm, though, so no idea
if anything is changing in trixie.
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On Mon, Feb 19 2024 at 10:52:16 AM, Keith Bainbridge
wrote:
> As promised:
> I said sometime in this thread that timeshift (and Back in Time) use
> hard links to create progressive copies of the system. The more I
> think about how hard links reportedly work, I reckon it can't be
> simply hard li
start minidlna.service, I'm not
> sure if minidlna really creates the log file with the wrong username
>
> My questions:
>
> - Is there a way to determine who creates the log file that belongs to the
> wrong user at boot? (I have no way to trigger this problem other than on boot)
> - Is there any configuration option in minidlna that I did not see that I
> have to change to successfully run minidlna as myuser?
>
minidlna installs a logrotate configuration that also refers to a
user/group name. See /etc/logrotate.d/minidlna.
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copy process time varies, but takes a long time -
> last night 131 minutes.
> :(
You can try using --delete for a couple of runs and see if it actually
affects performance in your situation.
>
> Disk space used is not currently an issue.
>
> But, is rsync --delete AS SAFE as rsync --delete-after?
You'll need to define what safety means for you.
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sual web searching finds dnsmasq can do this too,
so perhaps it is a common way of configuring static addresses for dhcp
servers.
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s for wpasupplicant). So
if you're having issues connecting to a WPA3 AP, you'll have better
results by describing what actual problem you're getting.
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that out of the box.
>
> Has pam been updated at or before Debian 11 ? If so, where can I
> manage its actions?
Perhaps set AuthenticationMethods to publickey,keyboard-interactive in
sshd_config? Do read the full description of that parameter in the
manpage for other things that might interest you.
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g that possibility, but at the
moment, I'm just using the instances at healthchecks.io.
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^^^
> AttributeError: partially initialized module 'threading' has no attribute
> 'Semaphore' (most likely due to a circular import)
Your /home/vboxuser/threading.py is hiding the threading module from the
python standard library.
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shell to bash, if that's what you
want, using chsh.
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`sudo bash` or its equivalent.
Logging is a nice additional benefit, and some organizations may be
required to keep audit logs for server configuration changes. sudo
providing this will be a bonus for them.
On single-user systems, the ability to do NOPASSWD for selected commands
is nice. I don't know of any other benefit.
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y *made* a systemd --user unit file? If so, for
> what purpose?
I have one. It starts emacs server for me when I login.
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there a reason you're
building from source? It seems like quite a complex package to build.
If you must, consider taking a look at the existing debian packaging for
hints.
> snipped numpy/cython errors
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On Tue, Mar 28 2023 at 03:07:10 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Kushal,
>
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 08:13:33PM -0700, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>> If you installed a -dkms package to get the kernel module (there are
>> several such packages in the debian repositories),
>
> Yep,
al such packages in the debian repositories), uninstalling it will
remove it.
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TXT "v=spf1
> ip4:188.66.63.1/24 -all"
>
It means the same thing. 192.168.1.1/24 is the same range as
192.168.1.0/24, but written by someone not paying too much attention.
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kushal
creenshot
>
> I have no idea how to fix this and would greatly appreciate help.
>
My crystal ball says you need the libcap2-bin package installed.
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bian
ships it in the contrib repository. As its copyright file states, it is
in contrib because it downloads and executes unchecked scripts.
This doesn't affect the point you're making, though.
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such people are present on debian-user, but why not make
use of the support you've presumably paid for?
>
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files in "File" ->
"Open Recent" are still available? Clear that list ("File" -> "Open
Recent" -> "Clear List") and see.
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kushal
ity isn't in the Bookworm repo... perhaps it's temporary?
>
It fails to build because of incompatibility with new ffmpeg:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004598
Certainly sounds like a temporary problem. According to
https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_3.2, support for ffmpeg
5.0 is coming in the next release.
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hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 as the keyserver argument.
>
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On Tue, Jul 12 2022 at 09:50:04 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12 2022 at 03:50:25 PM, Marco wrote:
>> Hello,
>> where should I report (or if possible) directly change the translation
>> of the packages description used by apt?
>> Which package is affected?
&
as a bug on xwit. If you are able to, you can also post the patch to
the bug report you create.
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ck in, or rebooting. Anything involving display
manager, login management, or dbus is safest dealt with by rebooting.
For my own situation (single user laptop), I simply reboot whenever
needrestart defers anything and don't bother with logging out.
>
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root) to follow the logs as they are
generated and see if there are repeated messages or errors that you
could resolve.
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On Tue, Apr 05 2022 at 09:23:11 AM, wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 03:01:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:46:32 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> [fail2ban]
>
>> Well, it seems to me that if something as automatic as fail2ban were to
>> be used, its better use would
anticipation that users will need it
> at sometime in the future ?
>
Yes, this is what happens. See the files in the /var/lib/apt/lists
directory.
> That would be suprising to me.
>
See the description of the update operation in the apt-get manpage.
>
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Condition check resulted in Set Up
Additional Binary Formats being skipped.
Feb 23 22:26:29 copper systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in File System
Check on Root Device being skipped.
I guess either a version or a configuration difference results in your
system logging the actual condition.
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ts).
Perhaps you could offer to run one or more of the automated tools that
can help with finding security issues (there are various open-source
and proprietary tools in this area)
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kushal
On Tue, Jan 11 2022 at 01:37:22 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:42:11PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
>> On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:24:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> > But if I let it start itself automatically on demand, then it works
>> > straight out of the gate wit
//security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/firefox-esr
>
> Is there any remedy for this?
>
As of a day ago, Firefox 91 is now in stable. My thanks to the
maintainers of the firefox debian packages and the build toolchains for
working on this.
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ar to https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/07/msg00907.html
> but even worse (there, it was only group ownership that was wrong).
> It does appear that there's a subset of people who immediately
> recognise this warning message as meaning "wrong ownership",
>
at least just removed it and
> simply not replaced it at all? IMHO, either option would seem far
> better than the status quo.
I had misunderstood the scenario. I'd read it as you using backintime
to backup encfs-encrypted content, not realizing that backintime uses
encfs to provide encrypted backups.
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uld not get access to the encfs ciphertext directly.
They could get access to borg ciphertext instead, which may or may not
be vulnerable to the same problems. AFAIK there hasn't been a security
audit of borgbackup itself. The page at
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals/security.html#borgcrypto
describes the design of borg security.
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rush to get to version 92,
> but I've noticed it's lagged behind recently. :)
>
According to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox, it is waiting for a
newer version of the rust compiler.
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the buster release notes are at
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/releasenotes
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the
current set of hackers were born.
Keith Packard, despite his accomplishments, probably has no influence
on the wifi cards in HP laptops.
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kushal
. Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during
> canonicalization of /run/systemd/netif.
>
>
Your / directory is not owned by root. (`ls -ld /` or `stat /` to
check)
> So far, doesn't seem to affect the operation of the computer.
>
>
> Thanks
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; `cat' whenever you need to put a name on the output file.
>
> For this new subject I will add another use: quickly create empty file
> of specific size, for example 5 * 1024 bytes:
>
> $ dd of=empty obs=1024 seek=5 count=0
There's
$ truncate --size 5k testfile
for this purpose.
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cronjobs at all,
> I think. (?)
>
> This is what 'ps -e' tells me:
>
> 9 ~/ppl/mats ps -e
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> ... snip
>1149 ?00:00:00 iwatch
> ... snip
The manpage at
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html shows log
output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch configuration and see
what it is doing.
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kushal
gt;
> Of course, you will need to get the Base32 secret from somewhere. It can
> often be accessed from the screens that tell you to scan a QR code with an
> authenticator app if you press something like "I cannot scan the code" or
> such.
>
oauth is not the same as oath
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place uses federated
authentication, and davmail works fine for me.
Have you tried and failed to authenticate using your email address and
password?
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was a Dell Vostro 3458 with
Ubuntu preinstalled. My current hardware is a Dell Precision 7520,
again with Ubuntu preinstalled. Both run debian with no difficulty. I
have no recent experience with running nvidia hardware. The Vostro has
Intel and the Precision has Intel/AMD.
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t before
blowing away all of your configuration. There is some logging you can
enable in akonadiconsole that might help identify problems.
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ucture.
> I'm connecting via Verizon FioS, with no proxy in use (on my end, at
> least).
>
Instructions at https://msutexas.edu/library/clearhsts.php to make the
browser forget about the HSTS specified for a domain.
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server on Windows if you like.
I hear OpenSSH server is available as a feature to enable in Windows.
> Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers.
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r/run/reboot-required file being created.
For service restarts, the needrestart configuration would be a better
place to start. The comments in /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf are
instructive:
# do not restart oneshot services, see also #862840
qr(^apt-daily\.service$) => 0,
qr(^apt-daily-upgrade\.service$) => 0,
qr(^unattended-upgrades\.service$) => 0,
# don't restart systemd-logind, see #798097
qr(^systemd-logind) => 0,
Do go through those bug reports and experiment at a safe time before
changing things here.
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kushal
.
>
There was a recent update to grub that was reported to cause the
grub_calloc symbol error. As I remember it, the problem is because of a
mismatch between the grub binaries and the grub modules. Reinstalling
grub using the grub-install command fixes it.
For details, bug report is
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966575
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ry first line of the mail body).
> Unfortunately, I couldn't determine what package cfdisk was part of. If you
> could give me its name, it would be very helpful!
>
# dpkg -S cfdisk
fdisk: /sbin/cfdisk
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er $30.00 (including shipping) Of course, I
> don't anything about the availability there in the UK.
>
> I can't t thank you enough for the solution to my problem.
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s to how to
> proceed. Pointers towards a solution to the problem will be much
> appreciated.
>
Try dpkg --configure -a to finish configuration for partially installed
packages.
If your device is supported by
https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan, you can just switch to that
and ditch the Brother software.
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channel at the minimum), and the corresponding driver software installed
in the VM.
https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html#agent
https://www.spice-space.org/download.html#windows-binaries
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Jude DaShiell writes:
> Has the command line info utility used to read info files from the command
> line been depricated and removed from debian?
>
No.
See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/texinfo
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ou can have each entry in authorized_keys set a different value for
some variable you pick.
You may also be able to use command="command" creatively. This is what
gitolite does: https://gitolite.com/gitolite/glssh
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kushal
The page says you need to report the bug to whichever package ships the
apparmor profile. In this case, that happens to be
telepathy-mission-control-5
(https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/telepathy-mission-control-5/filelist)
with the additional usertags as described on the wiki page.
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ave
identical (or close to identical) content across multiple files. Things
like virtual machine disk images deduplicate rather well. Also helpful
when you might have multiple users storing identical/similar files.
Sophisticated deduplication systems can even deduplicate across multiple
machines being backed up.
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kushal
"J.Arun Mani" writes:
> Hello.
> I'm using Debian Testing (upgraded from Debian 10). Today I started
> Python 3, but it was not able to interpret any commands from stdin and
> resulted in Segmentation Fault. Luckily modules (python3 -m )
> and files (python3 ) works fine though.
>
> Observed:
> $
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System
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c show output, this is the
connection.autoconnect-priority attribute. Perhaps you can see what
these values are set to for you and whether adjusting these improves
things.
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"Will Mengarini" writes:
> TL;DR: How can I use *one* query (web or otherwise)
> to retrieve *all* my recently-bounced debian-user mail,
> or a list of URLs by which they can be retrieved?
>
I don't know if this would be too radical a change, but you can also use
a news reader to access the mail
"Gareth Evans" writes:
> Hi Kushal,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> It seems in my case the Brother drivers didn't reinstall properly, but
> after reinstalling again I now have the tumble options, as before:
>
> [system-config-printer] > MFC-L2740DW >
ly printed actual
portrait-oriented pages. I had assumed it used these as aliases for
"Flip on Long Edge" (Portrait) and "Flip on Short Edge" (Landscape), and
things would be the right way around as long as your actual documents
were in the appropriate orientation.
Are your pages portrait? And are you using the "On (Portrait)" duplex
setting?
I'm on up-to-date buster as well.
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Default User writes:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 21:19 Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>
>> Default User writes:
>>
>> > Hi, all.
>> >
>> > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive,
>> and
>> > installed kde on it.
&g
eed to do file
management as root with a graphical tool. I, for one, use plasma as my
primary desktop environment, but almost all file management activity is
through emacs (with tramp for root stuff), or just a shell. Until I saw
your post, I had no idea dolphin would refuse to run as root.
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ases, so my misunderstanding
> hasn't had any real world effect on my systems, but I have been confused at
> times, and suspect that maybe one other person out there may have similarly
> been confused.)
You might find
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.release-lifecycle.html
informative.
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ting). iptables (even with a few hundred rules) is likely to be
more efficient than exim.
One thing you could try is to examine the iptables rule counters
daily/weekly. If the counters do not increase during some interval,
then the rule is no longer useful to you, so you could delete it. This
should be fairly straightforward to automate, but I don't know if
someone has already built this tooling.
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to have it
> working properly?
>
Have you looked at the emacs mode for pass?
https://stable.melpa.org/#/pass
Not sure what your usecase is, but I find the emacs mode suffices for
everything I need it to do.
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;echo here" line at the beginning of the script and seeing
if that shows up. If not, then you know for certain you are not running
what you think you are.
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Note the caution about potential performance issues.
> Thanks for the help DSR, you got me rolling! :)
>
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Richard Hector writes:
> On 7/08/19 3:16 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>> Richard Hector writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm getting messages like this in my logs:
>>>
>>> Aug 6 13:16:18 akl-host3 systemd[1]: dev-xvda9.device: Job
&g
ith former LVM volumes on other systems as well.
>
> I suspect a reboot might fix it, but where is systemd keeping this info
> around, and why, and how can I stop it?
>
Run systemctl daemon-reload to regenerate the systemd mount units from
changed fstab file.
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#x27;t
care about those files. Configuration files will also be removed when
the package is purged, so you need to similarly make sure you don't need
those.
I think the ic and ri states indicate that an operation is incomplete.
I've never seen these states myself. Try apt-get -f install to check if
there is some package management operation pending. The dpkg-query
manpage has a list of the possible values in these fields.
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cal IP (ie. you're connecting from the same computer), the
# connection is considered secure and plaintext authentication is allowed.
#disable_plaintext_auth = yes
> If you have any idea of what I may have missed, I'd sure appreciate
> hearing about it. And since I can't see the debian-user list, please
> respond directly to me at ghe2...@gmail.com
>
> TIA++.
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ls/raw/master/README.md
>From what I've heard, gitlab web UI does not work if javascript is
disabled.
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need to do to
> fix this and add about 4 other profiles, 3 for a huge tabloid capable
> brother and of course cups.pdf?
>
This has nothing to do with the apache2 error you mentioned earlier.
To do printer administration using the web interface, add yourself to
the lpadmin group. When the web interface asks for credentials, put
your own username and password.
https://wiki.debian.org/PrintQueuesCUPS#webinterface
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if I was missing something
> important. The last time I compiled something was on a PDP 11/45 in
> approximately 1975.
>
> Suggestions?
> TIA
https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv#installation
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enough display, you can tile your
windows so that emacs and xdvi are both visible at the same time. Not
sure whether xdvi will steal focus away from emacs in that case.
Won't help if your keyboard is actually sending unexpected input, of
course.
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will eliminate latex-mode configuration as a
potential culprit.
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timothylegg writes:
> I'm the only user that will be angry at being disconnected. There is
> no easy way to explain the reasoning; I've rewritten this paragraph
> three times because it was too long. I have two residences and one
> has a port forwarding issue. I want to make an SSH tunnel to t
ability to create wildcard SSL certificates
matters for the CNAME-vs-A decision? They look orthogonal to me.
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re
>
> Is there anything like this pre-made for Debian? I suppose it would be
> easy enough to script.
>
See https://blog.vorlons.info/archives/2017/03/07/370/ if you're using
NetworkManager.
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ages using xslt
with a greasemonkey script that you could use as inspiration.
[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17998446/how-to-transform-an-xml-file-with-xslt-using-a-greasemonkey-script
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or instruct
tools to stop at filesystem boundaries.
Make sure you do verify the files and directories you need are included.
If some of the required files are not part of the root filesystem, then
bind-mount them at the proper location under /mnt/source as well. For
example, if your /home is a different filesystem, and you need it to be
part of your copying:
# mkdir -p /mnt/source
# mount --bind -o ro / /mnt/source
# mount --bind -o ro /home /mnt/source/home
Then unmounting after you finish copying will be in the reverse order:
# umount /mnt/source/home
# umount /mnt/source
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bian-jan13:~# exit
>> exit
>>
>> Script done on Fri 27 Apr 2018 02:22:42 PM CDT
The error says the filesystem containing /media/root/rco1 is mounted
with noexec or nodev. Is that in fact the case? Look at the
/proc/mounts entry for that mountpoint.
The operation debootstrap is attempting appears to be the equivalent of
mknod /media/root/rco1/test-dev-null c 1 3
You can try it out to verify after you fix the mount options to not
include nodev.
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ail client did not receive them--I've done a search of
> all the local email files (on my computer) (including trash, which I have not
> emptied in the last several days), and I've searched the Google email spam,
> trash, and all folders. I'll be digging into this and possibly seek help in
> a
> new thread.
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Pétùr writes:
> Hi,
>
> I had a bad upgrade on my debian sid.
>
> It seems both libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64 and
> libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 are trying to write the file
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstgl-1.0.so.0.
>
> Any idea to fix it?
>
> Pétùr
>
> # apt upgrade
> Reading package li
.
fi
The "[" is actually a command (usually implemented by the shell itself)
that has its own expression syntax. See man test(1) for details.
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ation.html#git-installation.
This may require you to install several other packages, as may be
required to compile and modules written in C.
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k.
> Guidance please.
You want debootstrap. See
https://verahill.blogspot.com/2013/03/361-installing-debian-on-usb-stick-from.html,
for example.
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nux-gnu/6/include-fixed
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/include
The list will be different for you because you appear to be running
i386.
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/www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#new-interface-names
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t.cgi?pkg=release-notes;dist=unstable
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did not find in the
> Debian docs but found at http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.1/confopt.htm
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
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TP access and provide that as the password to evolution. You
can create the app-specific password at
https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords. Your regular gmail password
will not work.
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ind command. If you have access to an O'Reilly Safari account, you
could browse through it.
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kushal
suggestion is that python2-only
scripts should have an explicit python2 shebang, and only scripts that
support both should have the python shebang.
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I am running latest version of Debian 8 with all updates applied.
>
> Server only. I simply copied and pasted the commands. This is my first
>
> time trying to run Wordpress.
>
> Any ideas, I am not familiar with MySQL.
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