Re: MY crontab ain't me!

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:50:37AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 21 December 2020 09:18:45 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > I feel dirty now. > > So do I, even that bow legged name generates ill feelings. Me and my > printer both need a shower. But its better than nothing, and may >

Re: MY crontab ain't me!

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:04:48AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 8:19 AM wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 03:09:32PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > [environment variables and things] > > > > Wel, the DCOP docs are here [1] (Ah, Doxygen docs. Is there a > > te

Re: MY crontab ain't me!

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:26:28PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 21 December 2020 10:53:23 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:50:37AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 21 December 2020 09:18:45 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > I feel dirty n

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:19:36AM +, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-12-23 03:37, Andy Smith wrote: > <..> > >e.g. if you install a drive and it shows up in your OS as /dev/foo > >of size 1TB, then: > > > ># pvcreate /dev/foo > ># vgcreate myvg /dev/foo > > > >Now you have a volume group called "m

Re: Debian 10 64bit

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:29:21PM -0600, David Wright wrote: [...] > Yes. And that's probably why google searches so often land on Arch > wiki pages—I assume that google is still ranking on the basis of > links to pages. Google? What /is/ that google thing people keep talking about? ;-P Xmas,

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 02:13:29PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-12-25 at 14:05, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the > > yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this list, I > > make so bold as to pose it thus, bluntly

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 08:46:02PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your > >terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it. > > Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday to > answer

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 05:08:27PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > I have the impression that things have by now developed to the point > where a physical serial-port cable (of the classic type of serial port > and cable, whose connectors can be visually confused with a VGA port in > some case

Re: restarting pppd automatically

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:56:21PM +, Graham Seaman wrote: > I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line Wow. Memories fading :-) OK, my recollection on inittab is a bit dusty, and I have little experience with systemd (trying to keep it that way). But I'll try a shot at it.

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 10:58:38PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: [...] > So people are supposed to discard or replace their older external devices just > because something else came along that may or may not actually be as well > suited > to task? "Ending is better than mending" -- Aldous Huxley

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:50:18PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > I am using Bullseye as updated to yesterday. It is my custom to log in > to XFCE as my regular user, then "su -" in order to run as root, > including GUI programs. In the process, in the past $DISPLAY has been > set. > > I now find

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:15:40PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > > Most probably you have to copy the user's [1] ~/.Xauthority file to > > root's home. > > More typically, since root can usually read the user's files,[2] all > that's needed is to export the XAUTHORITY variable with the fu

Re: [SOLUTION] Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:30:34 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > > > $ /bin/su - > > Password: > > ahost ~# xeyes -display :0.0 > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to S

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 06:17:32PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: [...] > Update: I just installed Stretch in QEMU-KVM in my "Knockabout" Mint 20 > system and was able to install Gnash on it. I did a bit of research into > Gnu Gnash, seeing that it may not be currently maintained. I wonder if >

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 04:00:21AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: [...] > I will contact gnu.org and see about taking it over. It will be a > Challenge, but I've got more time on my hands now. This is awesome. I never used anything flash myself, but it's always great to see someone caring. Let m

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 12:45:55PM +0100, deloptes wrote: [...] > Why would you need this. update your sites to HTML5 [...] If I read correctly, the OP hasn't a "site" (s)he coule "update". Rather some .swf files of value to him/her. Who are we to judge whether it's feasible to rewrite them? An

Re: Instalar Debían sin Cd-Dvd

On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 04:20:07PM +0100, Manuel Anguren Sanjulian wrote: > Hola > Llevo años viendo siempre el mismo problema de las instalaciones Linux que > si no se tiene un cd- dvd donde venga la distribución [...] 1. Ésta es una lista en inglés. Si quieres que la gente te entienda... (hay

Re: Cannot compile qemu

iles: [...] > config-temp/qemu-conf.c:1:10: fatal error: sys/endian.h: No such file or > directory > 1 | #include > | ^~ > compilation terminated. > > any hints? No idea whether this leads somewhere, but FWIW, sys/endian.h is in libbsd-dev:

Re: [SOLUTION] Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 08:36:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 07:48:03AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > I parsed the preceding conversation as indicating that > > > > $ ln -sf /home/auser/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority > > > > produced a setup that worked, but > > > > $

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:44:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Some of us do need the webcam for video calls / conferences ;) > > (family, friends or work) > > > > Andrei, forgive me the the joke, but I doubt you are a model or movie star, > I would insist looking at :D

Hi performance computing [was: potus blah blah]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:19:28PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 6:05 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer protocol. > > > > Any group of NNTP servers configured to c

Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 05:58:28PM -0500, Stephen Muscarella wrote: > I decided I think it's best to purchase the new Librem 14 for Debian > since it's built for Linux once I get another job that is. > (unemployed) It's costly...$3,500-$4,000. What I do in such situations is buy a refurbished lapt

Re: Can't connect to workstation using ssh from a remote machine

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 03:48:34PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Gary Dale wrote: > > I'm running Bullseye on an AMD64 system on my workstation and Buster on an > > AMD64 system on my server. > > > > I'm trying to establish an ssh connection from my server to my workstation > > to facilitate a night

Re: FW: bits from the release team: bullseye freeze started and its architectures

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:18:17AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Hello, > > This might be of interest for subscribers of debian-user. > > Please note the freeze policy link should (obviously) have bullseye in > the URL instead of buster. [...] Hey, thanks! What you did is a really nice idea

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Steven Mainor wrote: > My main concern for the laptop in question is security. So from a > security standpoint, what is the difference between using a wifi > card with built in closed source firmware, and closed source > firmware that is loaded by the kerne

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 08:40:53PM -0500, Celejar wrote: [...] > I think you're conflating two senses of wireless 'firmware' - the kind > that runs on the wireless chipset itself (i.e., the stuff that Debian > ships in its free and non-free 'firmware' packages), and the kind that > runs on the sy

Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 10:30:13AM +0100, deloptes wrote: [...] > sorry but this is site is crap > > > Consent Denied > > You have not agreed to WonderHowTo, Gaget Hacks, & Next Reality's use of > cookies, Terms of Use Agreement, and/or Privacy Policy [...] Pfft. A friend of mine once sugges

Re: Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:13:32PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > A friend of mine once suggested to return /dev/random to a site's > > cookie request. I'm tempted to try that :-) > > > > sounds funny indeed ...and fuzzy (this would be a cookie parser fuzzer :) > I actu

Re: Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 02:32:12PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > One of the bigger hosting providers here in Germany [...] > Oh, you noticed this too I sure did :) > It started may be 1-2 months ago. This is why I > discussed this with my peers in the EU commission

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 09:19:10AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 17 ian 21, 20:12:38, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 16 Jan 2021 at 20:57:19 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > > This > > > may have advantages and disadvantages, but you don't get to control > > > those :) > > > > In terms

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device > > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 You can even put one connection (aka "port") on se

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:45:41PM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 19-01-2021, à 14:49:36 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > >On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > >>> Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Fa

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 19-01-2021, à 15:53:00 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > >>find /usr -follow -printf "" > >>find: Boucle détectée dans le système de fichiers ; « ‘/usr/bin/X11’ » est > >>dans la même boucle que ‘/usr/bin’. > >> > >>ls -l /usr/bin/X1

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: > Question. What does the following mean? > > # find /dev -follow -printf "" > find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory This is funny. At first I thought I could reproduce it by tricking `find' into following a broken symlink, but with a

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:49:08AM +0100, steve wrote: > Thanks Mike and Thomas for the answers. > > Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > >On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: > >>Question. What does the following mean? > >> > >># find /dev -follow -pr

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:15:26AM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 20-01-2021, à 10:58:54 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > # find /dev -follow -printf "" [...] > >This process in this case is the one running `find' itself. At the [...] > Ah ok, I misunderstood that. Very interesting indeed.

Bluewin bouncing my mails [was: Too many levels of symbolic links]

And oh, btw. Steve your provider, bluewin.ch is bouncing my mails. It seems it is using some "Cloudmark CSI Reputation Service" as anti-spam measure. When I go to the form in their bounce message [1], they present me with a form requesting my personal data. To me, this looks like a scam by Cloud

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:30:50AM +0100, Erwan David wrote: [...] > it is not missing : it disapears. And /dev/fd/4 is a link to a file > opend by find itself, it is sufficient that find closes it and the > name does not exist anymore. Thanks for putting this in a less roundabout way than I did

Re: Bluewin bouncing my mails

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:11:05PM +0100, steve wrote: > Thomas, > > I think we can keep this private since it is not Debian specific. Sorry for CC'ing the list again, but for me, this is the only way to reach you. Direct messages... bounce (I tried again). > Thanks for letting me know of this p

Re: Can I remove i386 packages?

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 09:19:33AM +0100, steve wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following i386 packages installed on my system. Can I removed > them without any side-effects? > > apt list --installed | grep i386 Possibly an "apt-get autoremove" will take care of them. In any case, you can do e.g. a

Re: debian-user lsit information and guidelines (posted monthly)

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 08:59:57PM +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 23 Jan 2021 at 19:24:37 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [thanks, Andrew, BTW] > Here we are, trundling along in our own bumbling way [...] C'mon, Brian. You can be more constructive. I /know/ it. Cheers - t signature.asc Descrip

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines: spam

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:55:53AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 25 ian 21, 01:03:07, John Kaufmann wrote: > > [...]and can never get my > > ISP to care about this. > > We can at least pester them about it. If enough of us do, eventually > they will have no choice bu

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines: spam

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:11:51AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 01:03:07AM -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: > > > In the last seven days we've seen bounces for the following list: > > > * debian-user > > > 1 bounce out of mails in one day (%, kick-score is 80%) > > > > First

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines: spam

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:29:54AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:17:34PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Are those modifications added by the Debian mailing list? That'd be > > strange, because I don't see them... > > No. They're done on the receiving end. I'm just

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines: spam

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:39:14AM -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: > On 2021-01-25 08:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >... > >Sometimes I get the impression that some economic actors hate mail > >because it can't be fenced-off as easily as the "social" silos and > >are doing their best to kill it. > > >

Re: problem with wget -O

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 05:38:04PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > > > posted at least once today: > > > gene@coyote:~/src/build$ cd .. && wget -O opencv.zip > > > https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/master.zip Cannot specify > > > both -k or --convert-file-only and -O if multiple URLs ar

Re: [OT] Wifi AP for Gigabit LAN/WAN

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 06:00:44PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: [...] > AIUI the embedded Linux inside Ubiquiti products is "EdgeOS". > > > STFW I am not finding much. This should be it: > > https://github.com/EdgeOS/ As far as my search engineering [0] reaches for now, EdgeOS is a deriva

Re: debian-user list information and guidelines : don't use CC mail list

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:37:59AM +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hi hello [...] > I would like ask opinion on a little proposal to add new rule > regrading using CC with mail list address. > > The reason is, why the sender need to use "TO" to original sender / > reply-er and CC the mail list, sinc

Re: problem with wget -O

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:30:39PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg Wooledge (12021-01-25): > > Gene, you've been here a while, so you should know better than this. > > Where's the incentive at knowing better when one gets more help by > making no efforts? I think this is a bit unfair. I humbl

Re: problem with wget -O

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 01:35:09PM +0100, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 26 janv. 2021 à 10:44 de to...@tuxteam.de: > > > And thank Greg (I hope I'm not mis-assigning) for mentioning > > /etc/wgetrc and .wgetrc! > > > Let's not forget Darac Marjal who was the first (by a few minutes) actually ;)

Re: about apt and aptitude update

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:37:39PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I use both apt and cmdline aptitude. Mostly cmdline aptitude > > I'm curios if when I call `apt update' or `aptitude update', if they > are refreshing the same database files... wondering if I could do just > one update on either tool

Re: URL to source file

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:21:29AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Hello, how can I get a hyperlink to a particular file in > a pack? You mean... a Debian package? > e.g., definitions.units of the units pack, i.e. > units-2.21/definitions.units ? TIA If I understood you correctly, there are several

Re: URL to source file

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:49:49AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > tomas wrote: > > > https://sources.debian.org/src/units/2.18-1/definitions.units > > It is still in some interface but good enough for a reference. > > Good enough for government work! :-) > So it is:

Re: Sudo ... use or delete?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 08:12:20AM -0700, Antonio Russo wrote: [...] > But, more specifically to your question about sudo, let me argue that, at the > level of paranoia required to be worried about sudo, you should also be > worried about a LOT of other packages [...] I do appreciate and use sud

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > kaye n wrote: > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > > try to copy several dbf fil

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 12:01:40PM -0800, Michael Turner wrote: > How do I unsubscribe? Look at the headers of a mail you get from the mailing list. Among them, there's one roughly looking like this: List-Unsubscribe: It's te

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:57:19PM -0800, Rey Paderna wrote: > I think the most obvious method is to go to > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/, put your email and then > unsubscribe.  Unfortunately this method does not work. "Does not work" does not compute. Please, folks. Pretty please. If yo

Re: FVWM title bar information......

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:23:43AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > From my keyboard: > > Hello Everyone, > > Using FVWM on Debian Bullseye. > > Sometimes [too often] I click on something and reduce a terminal window > to just the title bar alone. I think this is called "shading" th

Re: FVWM title bar information......

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:18:44AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 23:34:42 +0100 > wrote: [...] > > I think this is called "shading" [...] > Thank you Tomas, with that information I found it [...] Glad it helped. Actually, I was unsure myself, because,

Re: FVWM title bar information......

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:00:03AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > It has to be enabled in your configuration. The default config for > the current version of fvwm has it, but if you're using a config > that you created for an older version (like I am), you may not even know > it's a possibi

Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 02:29:08AM -0800, John Conover wrote: > > A wireless router made with hostapd/dnsmasq/dhcpcd is fairly easy, and > works well with iptables, with one shortcoming. > > After antagonizing the Google for hours, I can not find any way to add > reserved IPs based on the the MAC

Re: Jus thinking - Low level X GUI with shaders

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:07:28PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > You have reinvented NeWS with Display PostScript > > . Don't get me wrong, it was a great > > idea, ahead of its time, and not especially well (or efficiently) > > implemented at the time, so it

Re: trying to start Xiphos

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:03:12PM +0200, ellanios82 wrote: >  my system is MX-Linux patito feo amd64 > > >  : after recent system-Crash , am struggling to recover! > > > - when i try to start Xiphos , am getting error-message : > >  "xiphos: error while loading shared libraries: libsword-1.8.

Re: trying to start Xiphos

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:34:43PM +0200, ellanios82 wrote: > Dear Tom , > >  - just to let you know > >  : i got so frustrated with "error while loading shared libraries" It seems something got seriously broken. Either a bunch of library providing packages "disappeared" (then re-installation mi

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:32:11PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-02-08 23:22, Anssi Saari wrote: > >David Christensen writes: > > > >>Questions: > >> > >>1. How do I make a copy of a boot entry? (So that I can edit the > >>copy and keep the original.) > > > >In Grub, you don't really

Re: sshfs has fubared mount

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 12:01:03AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have sshfs setup so I can move files around between this box and 4 > others, 3 of which are now running buster. Works only for the user, me. > > Same install medium, a usb key, has installed buster to a 5th mac

Re: sshfs has fubared mount

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:37:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > > Sorry. I can't relate this mail's subject, your longer description > > and the error messages you show. [...] > Those 4 messages aren't reallly germain to this [...] > [...] So those are smoke in this instance. I see. > T

Re: how to set link/level in wifi configuration?

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:18:49AM +, pioruns2020 wrote: > On 11/02/2021 10:04, Long Wind wrote: > >here is Ubuntu's kernel, according "uname -a" > >Linux zhou-Lenovo 4.15.0-45-generic #48~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 29 > >18:03:19 UTC 2019 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux > > > >it's built from stretch

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:50:13PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most > contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline > styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. If all you want is

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:48:25PM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:29:54AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 16 feb 21, 16:37:20, Kevin Shell wrote: > > > Hello Debian Users. > > > > > > Why Debian does't have a switchable MTA mechanism > > > to allow install multiple

Re: Conflicting alternatives (was: Debian switchable MTA mechanism)

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:17:13AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Therefore, you'll find apretty advanced alternatives system > > for client-y stuff in Debian (editor, MUA, what not) but > > not for server-y stuff. > > Hmm... so that's your take on it? > Maybe you're right. I was thinking of th

Re: Conflicting alternatives

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 02:40:33PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Exactly. This is user-y stuff: imagine two X servers running on behalf > > of two users [...] > Not sure in which way this is different from running two different SMTP > servers on two different interfaces. Technically not much,

Re: Conflicting alternatives

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:52:21PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > > I have the hunch that just making the packages co-installable is > > the more pleasant avenue... > > It's more pragmatic, but it won't solve the longer-term recurring issues. I think I was too cryptic, sorry: I meant co-i

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:52:33AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100 > > If all you want is a serif font and care to be portable, your best > > choice will be to specify a generic "serif", like so: > > > > font-family: serif > > Will try th

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:59:03PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2021-02-18 11:13:25-0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > rsync is a quick & dirty backup tactic but it's got limitations. > > > > 1) files may stay around forever in the backup even if you've deleted > > them from your main computer becau

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:21:01PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > In my opinion the point still stands, rsync (by itself) has significant > limitations as a backup program, which is probably also the reason why > several backup programs using rsync exist. Care to name some of those limit

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:26:16AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a non-monospaced > > font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully know... > > OK, the meaning in CSS is more t

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:06:33PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:24:43 +0100 > wrote: > > > Care to name some of those limitations? > > > > (of course, rsync /is not/ a backup program in itself, but lets you > > build one with 10-30 lines around it). > > Why build one (w

Re: Wifi problem on Ile-de-France / unowhy laptops

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:31:28AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: [...] > I have searched on the web for this "D3hot to D0" error but found only > stuff related to NVidia hardware. > > Does anybody have an idea about what to try? Not very much directly, but at least a proposed enhancement to your

The Elephant and the Philospher [was: Question regarding hardware choices]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 06:22:31PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: [...] > So, metaphorically speaking, rather than blindly groping some > portion of an unknown beast and attempting to describe it [...] CONGRATS! You just managed to get hold of that philospher who was gripping firmly the elephan

Re: debian installation is no longer working

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 12:26:36PM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I installed debian 10 on a 64 GB usb [...] USB sticks sometimes die slow deaths. It'd be interesting to check the file systems on your USB stick, perhaps from another Linux installation, perhaps from a live or rescue

Re: debian installation is no longer working

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 12:23:21PM +, Semih Ozlem wrote: > In addition to my earlier message, the usb drive has three partitions FAT > partition including EFI, swap partition, btrfs partition where home folder > is located. > > sudo btrfs rescue super-recover /dev/sdc3 > gives the response >

Re: debian installation is no longer working

> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 20:27, Semih Ozlem > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I installed debian 10 on a 64 GB usb. It had been > > working fine. Last I installed apache server, virtualbox, > > docker. After all this it worked fine for a while, though > > at times slowly. Currently it is not wo

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:37:34AM -0300, fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com wrote: [...] > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > and see if it continues disappearing. And watch your log files. Perhaps you catch the perpetrator whining loudly that i

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:07:10PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com (12021-02-23): > > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > > > and see if it continues disappearing. > > And if somebody has an ache somewhere, they

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg Wooledge (12021-02-23): > > This *is* part of the diagnostics. Preventing the deletion and then > > watching the logs to see who complains may help you pinpoint the > > culprit. Or it may not. But it's worth a try. > > Watch

Re: Got a machine name problem

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:21:48PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2021 19:22:19 James B wrote: > > > With systemd-based Debian, the probably now best way to set a hostname > > is with: > > > > hostnamectl set-hostname NAME > > > > What Tom suggested is completely valid, but ho

Re: Got a machine name problem

amectl with its option set-hostname newname. > And I'm going to power it up right now, brb. Uh... sorry, you're right. You've got to change /etc/hostname for that. By whatever means explained in this thread. Tomas, please read posts more carefully :-) Apologies - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian install Question

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 01:36:58AM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > > > Please do not do that. > > > > > > You will find a iso here which includes most of the non-free firmware here: > > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/10.8.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/ > > > >

Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 06:41:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Darac's answer to answer to a previous question led me to try > >https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2Bintitle%3Afaq%20site%3Adebian.org > which gave me the content I needed, but not in a convenient format. > > I would like to pipe

Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 03:50:32PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > > > > > I would like to pipe search results to a text processor. > > > Do you want rendered results or plain HTML ? > In latter case you need ``wget`` To expand on that, perhaps wget -O - | html2text tries to make sense of the html (w

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 08:58:42AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:21:49 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > ... > > > Additionally, a major difference between Debian (as well as most other > > Linux systems) and Windows is that library packages are installed to be > > available f

Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 feb 21, 11:53:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > No worries. Things happen -- and in this case you happened to step > > onto a sticky issue which has no "nice" solution. The two extremes > > > > (a) Debian should be a f

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 06:41:40PM +, Brian wrote: [...] > A 64-bit netinstall is prominent on the Debian main page. The > problem with that image is that it is unlikely to suit many users > with wireless-only connectivity. No obvious escape route is > advertised. Yes, I know - if a site sear

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:49:58PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Feb 2021 at 16:28:56 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 06:41:40PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > A 64-bit netinstall is prominent on the Debian main page. T

About keeping a Debian installation happy [was: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian] systems and install programs to the secondary disk

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:34:10AM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Also even though I have been using linux for a while, that still does not > mean that I would know everything about linux or that there would be no > details that I miss... Nobody does. The Linux kernel alone receives roughly 6000-8000

Invariants [was: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 09:16:34PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: [...] > But of course death is invariant to physics. In fact it makes the physics > clearer without altering it in any way. And then, "science advances one funeral at a time", attributed, IIRC to Max Planck, a... physicist. It se

Re: Installation problems

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 01:16:41PM -0800, Weaver wrote: > On 03-03-2021 06:31, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 14:09:18 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> I've one fine machine running i386 flavor of Debian 9.13 . > >> I've wish to install 64 bit flavor on a second machine. > >> debian-1

Re: Installing GRUB to make a hybrid UEFI/MBR bootable USB stick

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:52:49PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > I have written a howto on installing GRUB on an USB stick to make it > bootable both on UEFI and legacy MBR systems. Thanks, that sounds very useful :) Cheers - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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