Re: Subject: Inquiry About Debian 14 Release

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 08:53:46PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM Tran Duc Minh wrote: > > > > Yes its real question > > Let me Google that for you: . Please > stop wasting people's time. Please, don't be rude(btw: you also waste

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 02:48:28AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories. No. It crawls each directory you pass it in its arglist: find . /usr/local /var/lib would look in the current dir (.), /usr/local and /var/lib > Makes it

Re: I meant Xterm

On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 02:57:07AM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote: > >> In a previous message, John Conover implied: > > J> Does Debian come with Xterm? > >If it doesn't, building from source is easy. It sure does: likewise named package (i.e. "xterm"), in any of the current suites [1]. I couldn't

Re: Debian XTERM

On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 08:58:02PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Is Debian XTERN still available? I nearly mis-read that as "xterm". What is "XTERN"? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Encrypt replies by default

On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 07:46:09AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 7:19 AM wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 07:11:17AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Add it to the list at The PGP Problem, < > > > https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-pr

Re: Encrypt replies by default

On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 07:11:17AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > Add it to the list at The PGP Problem, < > https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/>: > > Cryptography engineers have been tearing their hair out over PGP’s > deficiencies for (literally) decades. Wh

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:25:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are backup suites > > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups >

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 12:52:24AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to be > able to copy and replace the 3 disks. > Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other > disks so they boot? Nit: those are not .iso

Re: possible ssh problem

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 02:53:24PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Greetings, > > I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of > view. > > My desktop computer is not always easily accessible. I often access it from > my laptop through dyndns.org. > > I can ping my desktop f

Re: SPAM

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 09:35:02PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > Who can block or unsubscribe the spammer in the mailing list of DEBIAN? Start here: sttps://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads - the very short version: don't whine, help out :) - the slightly longer version: the fact you ca

Re: linux user groups?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 06:24:56PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi all, > Was going to mark this as off topic. then I realized it may be where many > of you engage with Debian. > Having a discussion on the board of the lug in my area. > someone feels lugs are largely failing. > Do you find this

Re: Entering blind passwords at the CLI

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 10:07:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/08/2025 02:11, tomas wrote: > > - Vi has lately changed its defaults for copy-paste (in an > > X terminal, at least). I always have to "set mouse=" to get > > my old behaviour back (an

Re: Entering blind passwords at the CLI

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 01:52:25PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > In my shaky old age I am having problems entering ** passwords in a > shell terminal when I can’t see what I’m typing. I think I used to be able > to copy/paste with vi, but no luck in my attempt today. This has a lot of different

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 11:05:19PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] > If `apt-get purge firefox-esr` purges the desktop or other packages that > casual observers would expect to be unrelated, then that would be a serious > bug. I think that's wrong: if the desktop environment depended on fi

Re: iBUS Wayland errors on start-up

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 07:26:46AM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 8/18/25 02:36, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > How do I get rid of this error message? > > > > > > "Please unset QT_IM_MODULE and GTK_IM_MODULE environment variables and > > 'ibus-daemon --panel disable' should be executed as a child

Re: ssh to [username].dyndns.org

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Hello, wonderful helpers, > > I have used my dyndns account for years to access my desktop remotely. > > As of a few months ago ssh hangs trying to access my desktop. > > ping [username].dyndns.org works. > > ssh [username].dyndns.or

Re: Debian bug report questions...

intainer doesn't react (life happens, overload, whatever), you might prepare a NMU (non-maintainer upload) patch [1], post it to the bug and seek sponsors for it (i.e. other Debian maintainers willing to push the NMU. You find potential sponsors e.g. in the debian-mentors or debian-devel mailing lists (but even here you might). Cheers [1] https://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload -- tomas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian bug report questions...

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 08:41:33PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > There are a couple of Debian bug reports, one over a year old with no > progress. I am wondering: what can I do to help get these bugs fixed? > > Report numbers: #1068722 and #00. Bug interaction happens in Debian via mail: eve

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 08:47:17PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > Don't delete /tmp -- it is there for a reason. You can generally delete any [...] The discussion wasn't about "deleting /tmp" (it is not even clear what that means -- it could be several things depending on context), but about remov

Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 09:20:48AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: [...] > Yes, but the original requester wants something that works in > the Linux virtual console, not xterms/urxvt/gnome-term/etc. Oh. I somehow missed that, sorry for the noise & thanks for setting me straight. Cheers -- t signatu

Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (HE12025-08-13): > > That's correct. gpm doesn't set the pointer color. > > > > Whatever application is running on the console gets to do that, > > by emitting escape sequences. > > > > An article discussing what to set:

Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 05:29:24PM -0500, Mike McClain wrote: > I've searched 'man gpm', 'man setterm' but found nothing relating to > pointer color on a text teminal. That depends on your window system *and* on your terminal. For X and xterm, respectively, there is an X resource, pointerColor, y

Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

jq ".disk.partitions[] | select(.number = 1) | .start" => "1048576B" (For orientation, the full parted output was... { "disk": { "path": "/home/tomas/virt/builder/bookworm.img", "size": "10737418240B&qu

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 04:14:16PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Hi guys. > > I just got back, and saw there was some question > about how /etc/fstab looks after the upgrade. > > Here is what happened: [...] Thanks for the thorough analysis. Very much appreciated. > I have had to do Timeshift

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 03:01:04PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 01:08:08PM -, Greg wrote: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html > > […] > > > The new filesystem defaults can also be overridden in /etc/fstab, so > > systems that alr

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 09:53:52PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Hi! > > I just upgraded from Debian 12 to Debian 13. > Debian 13 apparently uses a tmpfs file, instead of the  > 2 Gb /tmp partition which I was using on Debian 12,  > and which is no longer mounts automatically. If /tmp is not moun

Re: stop "You have mail in /var/mail/mike"

On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 02:48:01PM -0500, Mike McClain wrote: > Is there any way to stop this most annoying message from appearing on > the commandlineas I'm entering some command? > Thanks, > Mike You'll have to provide somewhat more context to get a meaningful help, but I'll draw heavily on my c

Re: Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 07:41:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/7/25 7:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm too acclimated to decompressing with single mouse-click ;/ > > Where would I find a good introduction to tar archives? > > > > [SNIP] > > My questions: > >   1. Can individual files

Re: [SOLVED] Re: writing iso file to usb stick with dd - garbled files - usb eject error?

On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 06:42:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: [...] > Meanwhile "dd" has always worked for me. I'll have to remember Tomas' > recommendation for "oflag=sync" for the next time I write an image, > though that might be a while. I usually j

Re: writing iso file to usb stick with dd - garbled files - usb eject error?

On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 11:58:59AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: [...] > As Tomas pointed, with dd specifically you can use oflag=sync to have it > sync explicitly between each block, to get a better progress estimate. > Be sure to use a large block size or you will ruin performances.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: writing iso file to usb stick with dd - garbled files - usb eject error?

On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 10:49:44PM -0500, Titus Newswanger wrote: > On 8/2/25 20:53, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > The command you're probably thinking of is sync. I always recommend to add "oflag=sync" to dd itself: this way it syncs as it goes and you don't have to wait for a (potentially long) time

Re: serial console

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 08:46:49PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 01:38:15 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > > serial console/ parallel is likely me not understanding terminology. > > These Raspberry Pis, Arduinos with the connection with all the pins, what > > protocol is that expe

Re: Boring upgrade report

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 08:46:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 06:33:39AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 07:47:14PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > [Debian on Raspi] > > > > > PS: I wish this or something similar were "integrated" int

Re: Storage tuning

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 01:47:53PM +0200, Greg wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a "server" running 24/7 with a lot of RAM. I would like to speed up > disk system by giving much higher priority to reads and delaying writes. > > YES, I KNOW THE RISK! > > As I understand, there are two things to tune:

Re: Boring upgrade report

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 07:47:14PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [Debian on Raspi] > PS: I wish this or something similar were "integrated" into the > Debian project. Gunnar Wolf has been at it for a while [1] (actually, his work was my starting point a while ago when I needed it). It seems that

Veering severely off-topic and unsubstantiated claims [was: How to ask a question?]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:29:25AM -0400, Lee Winter wrote: > Nope! > DASH is known to be pure garbage. With nutritional things, we are severely OT here. This is, whithin measure, OK. But think, at least, of changing the Subject. While "... is known to be...", well, I could say "the Earth is know

Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

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Re: How to ask a question?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 02:30:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/27/25 7:53 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Hi Richard, [...] > > The confused reactions should be a giveaway to you that something might > > need adjustments on your part: > > Agreed. That prompted my post. The one specific

On this mailing list [was: How to ask a question?]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 11:11:11PM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: [...] > The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my > (limited) experience [...] > For specific questions it may be better to try the stack exchange > network, which is designed for that purpose [...] Interest

Re: How to ask a question?

Hi Richard, On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > More explicitly: > How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility > {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum? Asking good questions is not easy. You've got to wrap your brains around

Re: dkim clarification

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 08:24:50AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, July 23, 2025 12:48:16 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > No objections from me, but feeling a bit queasy for my half-knowledge :) > > In general, for WikiLearn, I'll have a disclaimer to the effect (like many

Re: dkim clarification

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 02:48:56PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > (Intentionally top posting): Thanks to all who replied! > > I expect (sooner or later) I will make a WikiLearn page summarizing what I've > learned, including possibly quoting some of the answers. Thanks for spreading knowle

Re: dkim clarification

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 09:10:08AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it reasonably accurate (at a simple level) to say that dkim involves > applying a digital signature to an email by the domain (as opposed to a > digital signature applied by the user / sender of an email)? > > And that the

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jul 18, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > > OK, it makes some more sense now. The range of digits in the octal > > system is from 0 to 7, so it would complain with "08" and "09" (but > > not with "10" which would then be "8" in oct

Please, double-check the URLs you post [was: SDD partitioning and allocations]

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 04:31:08PM -, Greg wrote: [...] > > https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/5928?utm_source=chatgpt.com ^^^ The above URL works *without* that pesky query string. Why do you have to promote that sleazy or

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 05:10:13PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen w

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM wrote: > > > > On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote: > > > > > On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote: > > [...] > > > Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the SSD's into s

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:20:05PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 04:09:25PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > but doesn't it all come down to the whims of the debian gods > > after all it is their's > > not really--anyone can start a forum, they just have to figure

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 04:09:25PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2025, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 03:53:08PM -, Greg wrote: > >> My understanding was that everyone here would be welcome to a more > >> commodious place for the newer generations f

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 02:48:20PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-10, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 19:34:58 +, Andy Smith wrote: > >>> once alternatives are provided and > >>> decently supported, people actively

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: [...] > I don't anything about Discourse's email bridging, if any -- There is. > my possibly naive take is that email users are distinctly second > class, they are, that's my experience. The most acute challenge with mail is that it

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:34:58PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 02:59:33PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing > > lists) is wise. > > > > Debian can support new ways to participate, like Social Medi

Re: sudo-rs (Was Re: Bugs?)

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 03:48:52PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, [...] > As an aside, sudo-rs is packaged as of Debian 13 (trixie, currently > testing) and I've been using it for a week now without complaints. sudo > fans might like to give it a go. Now, now. Is it Rust -- or Go? [SCNR] -- t

Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 01:41:51PM +0200, hw wrote: > On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 12:55 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > I'd have a look at /var/log/auth.log, or however this is spelt in > > systemd-ese these days. > > The log says nothing new: > > > [...] pure-ftpd: pam_unix(pure-ftpd:auth)

Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:45:22PM +0200, hw wrote: > > Right. Anonymous logins are allowed and I have created a system account > 'ftp', and it still doesn't work. It keeps asking for a password when > trying to log in as 'anonymous' or 'ftp'. > > I have the same on Fedora, and there it does not

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 09:44:11PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: [...] > The main point is to find out which system was hit. > According to the description it looks like the Linux server itself > wasn't hit, but a different system that can access files on the server > via network... Yes. The gue

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 04:02:26AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to > > that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days > > ago. > > An

Re: Folders from user suddenly in trash

On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 07:33:19PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > On 06.07.2025 19:10 Uhr Charles Curley wrote: > > > That smacks of imminent hard drive failure. > > Run badblocks to test the entire disk. Sorry, folks. This is the totally wrong direction. If anything, there might be file system in

Re: Folders from user suddenly in trash

On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 11:06:42AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:41:47 +0200 > Hans wrote: > > > As I have no access to the computer at the moment, what can I do? > > What might cause this behaviour? > > > > This computer was well running for many years. > > That smacks

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

our package might be missing some interesting functionality, but will work, in general. One example: tomas@caliban:~$ apt show xpdf Package: xpdf Version: 3.04+git20220601-1+b2 [...] Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libpaper1, libpoppler126 (>= 22.12.0), libs

Re: readers running debian

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:08:27PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: [...] > I've re-read original poster's message and now I think we all > mis-interpreted their request. > I think they asked for a suggestion about hardware, like a tablet computer, > or a handheld book reader capable of viewi

Re: readers running debian

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 05:29:56AM +, Alif Radhitya wrote: > If thou art interested in minimalism, then go with 'Zathura'. Hmmm. tomas@caliban:~$ apt show zathura xpdf Package: zathura [...] Installed-Size: 723 kB Provides: zathura-abi-5 Depends: zathura-pdf-p

Re: readers running debian

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 08:25:27AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 03.07.2025 04:47, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > i'm looking for a reader for pdf's and other media > > are there any running debian or other linux based distributions > > > "okular", "evince", "viewnior" to name a fe

Re: Using MUAs to bounce mail (was: Please, don't reply to spam ...)

On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 10:47:43AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 11:55:56AM +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > I absolutely love bouncing mails in mutt instead of forwarding. I need > > some mail on the address I use on my mobile: Just bounce it. I only do > > this to m

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 11:52:33AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Am Sa, Jun 28, 2025 at 10:11:09 +0900 schrieb John Crawley: > > > It is not the accepted meaning of the term. > > > https://github.com/mjg59/jargon/blob/master/bounce > > Mutt seems to have its own set of definitions which mutt users

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 05:04:14PM +0900, John Crawley wrote: [...] > I may be wrong here but my understanding of "bounce" is that the software > responsible for delivering a message (what I referred to as the "server") > decides not to deliver it, and sends it back to the original address. So

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 10:58:54AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: [...] > I think "bouncing" is something that should really be done on a server, not > by a user email agent, even a "good" one. Why do you think so? At least I gave a reason why bouncing from the MUA makes sense, and another for why

Spam on this list, top-posting and things.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Frank Weißer wrote: > Wherever you think it's neccessary; > but, first of all: You were informed by tomas, not to quote the original > posting! Why do you repeat doing so? I think because people don't even realise what their MUAs do. I

[subject censored]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 02:00:45PM +0200, 🦓 wrote: > I was not until now by you — Einstein forbade us to assume synchronicity! Now if you could change the Subject line, that would make the spam slightly less visible. And if you could stop top-posting... Sigh. One is allowed to dream, am I not?

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 03:18:05PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-06-24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >> This like sounds like good and important advice, but how do you "bounce the > >> original message"? > > > > By using the "bounce" feature of your MUA. Only good ones have it. > > > >> Does that me

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 05:44:11PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 16:33:38 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM wrote: > > > > if you want to do everyone a favour, you bounce the original message

Re: Question

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:41:09AM -0300, Denise wrote: > Hi, > > Your communication is unclear, what email should I contact then if the > support one is not equipped to handle my requests(which ideally should)? No, I think it was pretty clear: my mail was sent CC to the debian user's mailing lis

Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 09:45:43AM +0200, 🦓 wrote: > Schick einfach das Geld rüber und verpiss Dich aus geldbefreiten > Kommunistinnenkommunen! Bravo. That must have felt... great for you. Please, don't do that. You amplify the spam and incommodate the ~3k subscribers of this list. Then you top-p

Re: Question

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 08:52:42PM -0300, Denise wrote: > Hi, hi, your question is better placed in the debian users mailing list (I added it to the CC). Debian-project is more for project coordination stuff. Please be so kind to remove debian-project from the CC when replying here. > I'm new t

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list

hat if the package owns sources.list, > > > then you should not edit it. You should allow the package maintainer > > > to edit or replace sources.list. Place your changes in > > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. > > > > tomas@caliban:~$ dpkg -S /etc/apt/sources.list > &g

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:42:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2025-06-20 at 11:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > >> You will absolutely lose your sshd_config when the package is > >> upgraded and you choose the maintainers v

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:15:47 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > SSH config files are located in /etc, too. But admins are expected to > > > make changes to /etc/ssh/s

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

urces.list.d/. tomas@caliban:~$ dpkg -S /etc/apt/sources.list dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apt/sources.list It seems no package "owns" sources.list. Besides, it's in /etc, so by convention it would be a conffile [1], i.e. Debian expects the sysadmin to chan

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 02:21:04PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply. > > > > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded. > > Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in > that sense (ignoring Adobe Acro

Re: Run script after package install, update?

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 06:08:08PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > Aaah. I guess they mean Perl-y lists, like ["foo", "bar", "baz"]. Gah, no. That'd make an array ref. I wanted to write ("foo", "bar", "baz"). Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Run script after package install, update?

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:33:09AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:07:41 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > So ultimately, my problem is addressed; however, the larger question > > is still open: is there in fact a straightforward way for a user, not > > the package maintainer,

Re: qcow2 maintanance

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 10:59:38AM +0200, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > > How does that "unclean start" looks like? > > hmm let me explain, the Router (cli-based) don't start-up correctly, staring > but, the interfaces will stay still down (not possible to bring up), the used > Protocol not propagate

Re: Run script after package install, update?

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 09:31:45AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM Nicholas Geovanis > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 9:15 PM Boyan Penkov wrote: > >> > >> Hello folks, > >> > >> I'm wiring to ask how to get apt to run a script after a particular > >

Re: qcow2 maintanance

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 07:45:55AM +0200, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > Hello > > Please, do you also have experience with Qcow2 files?` > > > > now that I have about 15-20 qcow2 files, they are becoming more and more > susceptible to an unclean start. How does that "unclean start" looks like? >

Re: Question about letsencrypt certs

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 05:01:33PM +0800, Y Peng wrote: > Hello, > > We have a Debian server that can connect to the internet in the test > environment. We installed a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate while > connected to the internet. However, after deploying this server to the > production env

Re: spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?

On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 08:07:37AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 08:03:58AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 01:18:37AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Is the spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable? > > > > I think so. I think the general e

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 05:11:26PM +, Luca Saiu wrote: [...] > On 2025-05-20 at 14:40 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > My hunch is that the "-23" in your package name hints at a version > > number which might be obsolete. But I don't know. > > Now, that is incorrect. They chose to pack

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:38:38AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-05-21): > > Actually, this makes a lot of sense (well, nearly): keep backup constantly > > synced, unmount/mount only on media rotation, carry freshly unmounted > > medium to safe place. > > It only becomes

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:05:37AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Jonathan Dowland (HE12025-05-21): > > I'd like /backup permanently > > mounted > > Does it mean you like your backup drive to be permanently plugged to the > computer? That protects you from h

Re: What file does Linux use to...

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:04:16PM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can > publish? If this is your reaction, I'll spare you my drivel, too. You won't hear from me further, promised. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:35:14AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM tomas wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:45:11AM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > What do y

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:50:50AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] > I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while the > backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive). The > backup script did the mount/rsync/unmount as part of the execution. > Really, th

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:45:11AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM wrote: [...] > > What do you do if you get two USBs containing file systems with > > the same UUID? > > Is that possible? I suppose it is.. so I'd go looking for how to > change the UUID for one of the usb dr

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:30:37AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM BST, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > why not > > > if ! mountpoint /mnt/usb-drive-b ; then ... > > > ? > > > > I'd not heard of either `mountpoint` or `fin

Re: Installing android devenv in Debian 12

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 04:24:46PM +0300, Roland Mueller wrote: > At least for Ubuntu 22.04 android-sdk-platform-23 is in the list of > available packages. > > $ apt list android-sdk\* > ... > android-sdk-platform-23/jammy,jammy 6.0.1+r72-6 all > ... For Debian, it seems to exist in buster, bulls

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:01:34PM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Csányi Pál ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 11:13): > > > > Hi, > > > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Androi

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 01:02:35PM +0300, Brieuc Desoutter wrote: > Hum how about installing Jetbrains Android studio (via the jetbrains > toolbox > https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/) It has a funny license, though. Source is free, binaries aren't. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: P

Android development tools on Debian [was: empty subject]

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:08:28AM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools > and > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps > >

Re: Recall: Grub struct the OS reboot

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 05:49:34AM +, Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > renh...@lenovo.com would like to recall the message, "Grub struct the OS > reboot". Hi, I read your first message, and couldn't make much sense of it. Quite possibly, others are in the same situation as me and don't answer fo

Re: What file does Linux use to...

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? Whose network address? And: what do you mean by "store"? Could you please explain what you are trying to do? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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