Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 21:27:17 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 7:35:54 PM EST David Wright wrote: > > I can't speak to Gene's wanting a static network configured by his > > method, but I'm happy to defend my choice. > > > It works fine with no complaints. OK. I've

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:27:17PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Here is the bottom of /etc/dhcpcd.conf: WHY do you HAVE a dhcpcd.conf file if you don't use DHCP on your network? Or... well, you're not using Debian. You're using Raspbian, and Raspbian installs dhcpcd by default as I understand

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread paulf
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:39:22 +0100 Franco Martelli wrote: > Hi, > > I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read > my user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? > How to accomplish this? > > Thanks in advance > > [1]

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 7:35:54 PM EST David Wright wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable > > > when > > > avahi-daemon and linnss-mdns are

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable when > > avahi-daemon and linnss-mdns are available. > > > > brian@desktop:~$ getent hosts envy4500.local > >

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 01:37:29 (-0500), a wrote: > Thank David and Polyna-Maude! > > it's surprising that "The x64 binary are also somewhat larger than the > i386 binaries" > > i compare some packages of bullseye for both arch, they happen to be > contrary > > though difference is small and IMO

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote: On 25/01/22 at 19:46, Tim Woodall wrote: I use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3. Tim. mailutils-pop3d is a nightmare I don't know how to setup it. Do

Re: Security

2022-01-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
I am subscribed to that list and get them too. I just see that three more messages popped in since this morning from the security list. The complaints seem to be only about browsers. The inference seems to be that the latest release always fixes security bugs. While this is true to an extent,

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:01:40 +0100 Franco Martelli wrote: > mailutils-pop3d is a nightmare I don't know how to setup it. > Do you know if dovecot have access to system email stored in > /var/mail/... ? Indeed, it does. That is exactly what I use it for. I don't recall doing any special setup

Re: Radicale zegt 404 tegen DAVdroid

2022-01-25 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Wat ik denk nodig te hebben, is iets wat op reageert op > : Request content: > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > > > Andere ideeen zijn ook welkom. > Nieuw DAVdroid adresboek aangemaakt. Van de '404' ben ik nu

Re: Security

2022-01-25 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2022-01-25 15:47, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:05:51PM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> Kind of strange that some people complains we lag behind when I get >> information everyday that fixes are available for packages in the stable >> / old

Re: Security

2022-01-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:05:51PM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Kind of strange that some people complains we lag behind when I get > information everyday that fixes are available for packages in the stable > / old stable release. I think you are getting worked up over

Security

2022-01-25 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi Guys / Girls, I'm also on the security advisory mailing list. Kind of strange that some people complains we lag behind when I get information everyday that fixes are available for packages in the stable / old stable release. And I go against the suggestion by mirroring security-updates

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread rhkramer
Oops, sorry about that, clicked send before writing anything -- and now, reading the question more carefully, I have no comment -- sorry for the noise ;-) > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote: > > I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my > > user mailbox

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 01:46:15 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my > > user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? How > > to accomplish this? > >

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread Franco Martelli
On 25/01/22 at 19:46, Tim Woodall wrote: I use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3. Tim. mailutils-pop3d is a nightmare I don't know how to setup it. Do you know if dovecot have access to system email

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote: Hi, I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? How to accomplish this? Thanks in advance [1] https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5=151251 I

Re: I've been caught out

2022-01-25 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 7:43:10 AM EST Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch > >

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 16:20:49 +, Brian wrote: > on the same or another machine. _mpd._tcp is a service name and is Correction. _mpd._tcp is a service type. -- Brian.

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 13:06:49 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 11:18:21, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > Could you point to any (reasonably up-to-date) documentation or is it > > > sufficient to just install avahi-daemon

mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread Franco Martelli
Hi, I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? How to accomplish this? Thanks in advance [1] https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5=151251 -- Franco Martelli

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 13:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:06:42PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: >> Just realised I gave contradicting info earlier - I said both that I >> upgraded from Buster (which is literally true) and that >> >> "But for root on ZFS per >> >>

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:29:17PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:18:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > it's surprising that "The x64 binary are also somewhat larger than the > > > i386 > > > binaries" > > > > There is no fundamental reason why a 64bit

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:18:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > it's surprising that "The x64 binary are also somewhat larger than the i386 > > binaries" > > There is no fundamental reason why a 64bit architecture (like amd64) would > require more code than a 32bit architecture (like x86),

The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.

2022-01-25 Thread Martin McCormick
This Pi is running Debian Stretch. I believe that's what version 9 is called. I have it capturing audio from a radio receiver and it's been doing that for several years now and it was doing that yesterday morning. Later in the day, I downloaded more audio and, after a long pause, I got the

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread local10
Jan 25, 2022, 13:06 by donots...@fastmail.fm: > both return nothing, with or without sudo. > Can anyone replicate this or suggest what may have happened? I'm fairly sure I've used who since upgrading from Buster. Also upgraded from Buster but can't reproduce the issue. Both

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:06:42PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > Just realised I gave contradicting info earlier - I said both that I upgraded > from Buster (which is literally true) and that > > "But for root on ZFS per > >

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 01:31, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 24 Jan 2022, at 12:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:51:05AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> I've just noticed that: >>> >>> $ who >>> >>> and >>> >>> $ users >>> >>> both return nothing, with or without sudo. >>

Re: I've been caught out

2022-01-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:33:45PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-01-25 09:12:52 +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > Greg Wooledge writes: [...] > > You can even do the somewhat easier > > > > cat ../patches/*.patch | patch -p1 > > > > which will do the same. > > Even easier

Re: I've been caught out

2022-01-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch > > > > That's not how you do it. patch(1) can only accept one patch at

Re: I've been caught out

2022-01-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-01-25 09:12:52 +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch > > > > That's not how you do it. patch(1) can only accept one patch at a time, > >

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 10:47, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 04:03:17, Gareth Evans wrote: >> >> Googling "Detected unsafe path transition during canonicalization" led me to >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=260924 >> >> where a user sees this error because / is

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 ian 22, 11:18:21, Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you point to any (reasonably up-to-date) documentation or is it > > sufficient to just install avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns? > > 'apt install avahi-daemon' is sufficient.

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:30:20PM -0500, a wrote: > i've installed debian 11 for both arch on same PC, amd64 seems faster > > is there some tool to demonstrate performance of PC? Regardless of performance you should be more concerned that 32-bit x86 parts of the Linux kernel have more

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable when > > avahi-daemon and linnss-mdns are available. > > > > brian@desktop:~$ getent hosts envy4500.local > >

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 ian 22, 04:03:17, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Googling "Detected unsafe path transition during canonicalization" led me to > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=260924 > > where a user sees this error because / is owned by the user rather than root. > > Lo and behold > > $

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 03:39:47, deloptes wrote: > > Hi all, > is there a way to have a USB UEFI stick that works similar to the Debian > installer - for example to boot into UEFI and recover the boot loader. > One machine here seems a bit older and refuses to boot into UEFI from the > USB - rendering

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 ian 22, 22:43:49, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 04:08:34PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally > > kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything? > > You don't need to; having IPv6 active doesn't

Re: Why is systemd starting Firefox?

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 00:50:01, local10 wrote: > Jan 23, 2022, 23:24 by avbe...@gmail.com: > > > Does this command show anything useful when 'firefox-esr' is running? > >     $ systemctl --user status > > > > There's a few entries like the following: > >

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 00:27:23, deloptes wrote: > > Don't know but I have following there (in /etc/sysctl.conf) > > net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 > > and it does not disable ipv6 > > # lsmod | grep ipv > ipv6

Re: smartd

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 ian 22, 19:09:48, Linux-Fan wrote: > pe...@easthope.ca writes: > > > > I knew nothing of RAID. Therefore read here. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID > > > > Reliability is more valuable to me than speed. RAID 0 won't help. > > For reliability I need a mirrored 2nd drive in the

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-25 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2022-01-25 03:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 24 ian 22, 07:47:01, max wrote: >> January 22, 2022 2:23:48 PM CET max wrote: >> >>> https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 >> >> I've updated the post taking into account the

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 07:47:01, max wrote: > January 22, 2022 2:23:48 PM CET max wrote: > > > https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 > > I've updated the post taking into account the feedback so far (There > weren't any corrections,

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable when > avahi-daemon and linnss-mdns are available. > > brian@desktop:~$ getent hosts envy4500.local > 192.168.7.235 envy4500.local > > Continually and nanually maintain /etc/hosts?

Re: I've been caught out

2022-01-25 Thread Urs Thuermann
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch > > That's not how you do it. patch(1) can only accept one patch at a time, > and it expects to see it on standard input. > > for p in