Re: Ghost cronjob

David Wright writes: > On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Sven Hartge writes: >> > Mart van de Wege wrote: >> > >> >> Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers >> >> running this

Re: Ghost cronjob

Sven Hartge writes: > Mart van de Wege wrote: > >> Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers >> running this job, apparently there's a zombie process somewhere? > > PID 1 hints at a systemd.timer, even if you have dismissed this > previously.

Re: Ghost cronjob

Mart van de Wege writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >> Mart van de Wege [2021-05-03 20:11:25] wrote: >>> Stefan Monnier writes: >>>>> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl >>>> >>>> Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? >>>>

Re: Ghost cronjob

Stefan Monnier writes: > Mart van de Wege [2021-05-03 20:11:25] wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl >>> >>> Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? >>> [ E.g. `/var/spool/crontabs` ] >>> >> Yep,

Re: Ghost cronjob

Stefan Monnier writes: >> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl > > Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? > [ E.g. `/var/spool/crontabs` ] > Yep, nothing there, aside from the usual suspects (apt & dpkg files). >> And yet I find this in /var/log/btrbk.log: >> >> 2017-03-12T20:16:28+0100 startup

Re: Ghost cronjob

David Wright writes: > > Just guessing. You set the cron job to initiate a backup at 04:00. > Perhaps there's something configured in your /etc/btrbk/btrbk.conf > that says check for retention by day/week/month/year rather than > 04:00/day/week/month/year. The former check has to made at

Re: Ghost cronjob

writes: > Now I do :) > > Well, no clue. But it's a script, so you could just insert some > debugging stuff (like, for example, reporting its parent PID > when it's started again)? So you might catch the ghosts parent? > > Cheers > - t > Neat idea. btrbk is pure Perl, in which I happened to be

Re: Ghost cronjob

writes: > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:07:26AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> I have the following configured to back up my laptop to my file server: >> >> root@galahad:~# cat /etc/cron.d/backup >> MAILTO=m...@vdwege.eu >> #00 04 * * * root /usr/sbin/

Re: Ghost cronjob

Mart van de Wege writes: > And yet I find this in /var/log/btrbk.log: > > 2017-03-12T20:16:28+0100 startup v0.24.0 - - - - # btrbk command line client, > version 0.24.0 > Wrong logline copy/pasted, it should be this one: 2021-05-03T00:00:03+0200 startup v0.27.1 - - - # btr

Ghost cronjob

I have the following configured to back up my laptop to my file server: root@galahad:~# cat /etc/cron.d/backup MAILTO=m...@vdwege.eu #00 04 * * * root /usr/sbin/btrbk --verbose --format=long run Note: it is currently disabled. The only other places I have anything mentioning btrbk in /etc is

Re: ping gateway ok, ping any other local network address fails

rudu writes: > > To configure the printer, I first have to be able to ping it on the > local network, which every over computer can do. So all other peers on the LAN can get to the printer. > And they can print all right, so this desktop must have some network > misconfiguration of some sort, I

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 11:27:47 -0400 Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 17:06:22 +0200 > wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 04:27:25PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > > > > > > What else besides XFCE and &qu

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

Andrei POPESCU writes: >> (Oh, and ODD 9 is the 'news' user on this system, which is used by >> leafnode's nightly 'texpire' run) > > So you are running leafnode on it, not necessarily the most common > software to run on a desktop. > > What else besides XFCE and "common" desktop software (e.g.

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 01 aug 20, 21:38:50, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU writes: >> >> >> I tried googling, but unfortunately the terms I can come up with only >> >> give generic information. How can I find out why these proces

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

Andrei POPESCU writes: >> I tried googling, but unfortunately the terms I can come up with only >> give generic information. How can I find out why these processes keep >> hanging? > > Which processes would that be? Ah, those would be '/lib/systemd/systemd-user-runtime-dir stop ' Regards,

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 13:53 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 28 iul 20, 17:32:55, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since the past month or so, systemd leaves systemd-user-runtime-dir > > processes in an uninterruptible state, apparently after cleaning u

Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

Hi, Since the past month or so, systemd leaves systemd-user-runtime-dir processes in an uninterruptible state, apparently after cleaning up after a user sessions exits; I'm running XFCE4 with Lightdm, and thus I get at least a hanging process trying to stop user-runtime-dir@117.service, but they

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

writes: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Felix Miata writes: >> >> > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): >> > >> >> plymouth-quit-wait.service >> > ... >> >> I hav

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

Felix Miata writes: > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): > >> plymouth-quit-wait.service > ... >> I have no idea what a "plymouth" is. > > Several things it brings to the table: > 1-avoids /dastardly/ "flicker" on mode switching during startup > 2-bling/eye candy during

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

Stefan Monnier writes: >> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? > > It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's > unsafe, but just that it has downsides). > > I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically > something that clueless

Re: lightweight wifi UI

bw writes: > In-Reply-To: <20190527090258.213ecf5a@debian9> > >>From: Patrick Bartek >>My post WAS initially a report of anamolous behavior during >>an install. I had read of other systemd quirks. (If no one knows, how >>can it be fixed?) The last paragraph asking for network manager

Re: No Books in print on Systemd?

Nicholas Geovanis writes: > > That webpage is unfortunately the best doc I have found on > SystemD. Its not unfortunate because it's bad doc, it's good but some > is a little out of date. It's that there is nothing better from the > makers of SystemD. In the ideal world only "us" system

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

Hans writes: > Am Freitag, 22. März 2019, 17:15:29 CET schrieb Reco: >> Or, for instance, en0p2gibberish. They call them Unpredictable Device >> Named for a reason. >> > > Yes, thsis is another thing, which I am thinking of: The names could change > (in case, when there are more than one

Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but sickened by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

Stefan Monnier writes: >> OP has a point though. The real world happens to have a huge amount of >> heterogeneous networks, and asking for tools to keep those systems safe >> is legitimate. > > I did not perceive the OP's request to be about the case where you > administer lots of machines and

Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but sickened by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

Stefan Monnier writes: >> re: apt solving all? I understand it recently had a long-time vulnerability >> itself... >> Linux will get hit more as it gets more popular. > > My point is not that APT and/or Debian is bullet-proof (I live under no > delusion in this respect). Just that instead of

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

deb writes: > Starting assumption: I do want to run A/V. > >  * I get that it may actually INCREASE attack surface. > >  * But I have Windows & Mac stuff going back and forth to Debian 9.8 > and just want to check. When you say going back and forth, do you mean over the network? On Linux the

Re: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?

John Hasler writes: >> But it's not Joe Random User, it's Joe Sysadmin > > Worse. Who is most likely to have put weird stuff in his environment? And it's not as if sysadmins never log in as other users. Oh no. Really, not using a clean, known environment as root is plain good practice, and

Re: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?

Greg Wooledge writes: > > The problem with "su -" is that it strips out *all* of your environment, That's a feature, not a bug. You *don't* want to import Joe Random User's environment into root's. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain

Re: Very light "private" cloud

Stefan Monnier writes: >> I used it at my previous job, and it works fine. Bonus: it has Debian >> packages, and it is Free Software. > > I only see packages for the client side. Eh. You're right. The Seafile site has a download for the server though. Regards, Mart -- "We will need a

Re: Very light "private" cloud

"Michelle Konzack" writes: > Good day, > > I am searching vor a OwnCloud/NextCloud replacement, because I use > exclusively and can not use MySQL. Also the updates drive me nuts > and its resurce conumption. > > Is there something MUCH MORE simplier and lighter? > > Preferable without ANY

Re: Debian 9 rocks, really

Andre Rodier writes: > Hello all, > > I have been using Linux since more than 20 years, and Debian Linux > since Potato. Same here. I started out on Red Hat 6.2, and discovered Debian when it was on potato. I've been using some flavour of Debian personally since, and some

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> writes: > Mart van de Wege <mvdw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Eh. It's in the docs. /run is for runtime generated, ephemeral units >> and other files. > >> What stumped me at first is that /etc has priority over /run > >

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

"Martin S. Weber" writes: > On 2018-02-27 12:46:46, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 February 2018 06:46:50 Martin S. Weber wrote: >> >> > On 2018-02-27 05:03:15, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> > > (...) >> > > So, is there somewhere that /run is initially populated from, >> > >

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:46:53PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> writes: >> >> > Think about that for a minute. The mere action of an interface (any >> > in

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

David Wright writes: > Am I the only person surprised that there wasn't more advocacy for > systemd-resolved.service as well. > So far all that's stopping me experimenting with it is that I don't understand the interaction between openvpn, systemd-networkd and

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > Think about that for a minute. The mere action of an interface (any > interface on the system) obtaining a DHCP lease is sufficient to have > dhclient think it needs to obliterate my manual networking configuration > with settings from the DHCP

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

Darac Marjal writes: > > Who's saying it must be installed? Maybe I've missed something, but I > think the consensus in this discussion was that if you want your > resolv.conf to be unmanaged/static/administrator-controlled, then > don't have resolvconf installed. If

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:24:32PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> Actually, there's no need to duplicate the effort. As I understand it, >> resolvconf is basically an optional helper program. Software that >> automatically modifies

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

GiaThnYgeia writes: > Am I wrong? You have at least nothing but opinion supporting the assertion that you are right. So the jury is out on that one. > I don't hear newbies single machine users having much of an issue with > systemd, but people whose work for many

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

David Wright writes: > On Mon 10 Apr 2017 at 21:21:00 (+), GiaThnYgeia wrote: >> For a second month under freeze not much >> development can take place in unstable, as it is really tomorrow's >> testing. > > What do you mean? Sid (unstable) is always sid. It doesn't

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

solitone writes: > On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: >> I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. > > To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to what > component might be actually involved. > It's

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

writes: > > What systemd brings (mainly[1]) to the table is the decoupling of > different "parts" of init: just imagine you have one service (let's > say a web server) which depends on some other thing (say a file > system being present via ummm... NFS, but it could be a RAID

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

Rick Thomas writes: > On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> But I kind of understand why systemd, but I wish I could find a good >> cookbook description of how to add or modify a new process. > > +1 > > Indeed: > The main thing I

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:06:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:52:46PM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: >> > Do you prefer that people move on to other distros after a base system only >> > installation because the Debian

Re: How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd

Jiangsu Kumquat writes: > How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd? > man systemd -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.

Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday 06 February 2017 18:24:38 Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: >> >> On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +, Patri

Re: Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

Lisi Reisz writes: > On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: >> On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +, Patrick Schleizer wrote: >> > The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system. >> > After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package

Re: MTP device mount gnome 3

Tony Baldwin writes: > My experience has been that this whole "MTP" thing, instead of just > mounting phones like they used to, as a storage device, has been a > real horror show, I've given up on getting it to work consistently and > have installed dropbox on my phone and

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server?

Steffen Dettmer writes: > 2) "Failed at step exec spawning /bin/plymouth: no such file or directory" > Google suggest this is some graphical whatever, so I think it would be > a bug if found on a server > No, plymouth is not *just* graphical. It is needed for the cases

Re: NTP insecure defaults

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > > For client-only, openntpd is likely a better choice, yes. Better yet, > use "chrony", which is optimized for desktop/laptops (which get > disconnected/powered off/suspended often). > > ntp - time servers, high-precision time clients. >

Re: NTP insecure defaults

Michael Luecke <mich...@m-luecke.de> writes: > On 01/07/2017 09:33 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Turns out the Debian default is indeed to provide time service if you >> install NTP. Shouldn't that be limited to localhost only, so that an >> admin must delib

NTP insecure defaults

My hosting provider recently pointed my attention to the fact that my Jessie installation was running NTP and listening and responding to the outside world, which is considered a security risk due to the possibility of amplification attack DDoSes. Turns out the Debian default is indeed to provide

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

Robert Latest writes: > Not in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, despite suggestions in > every bit of documentation that I got my hands on. In fact, that file > doesn't even exist on my jessie system. Nevertheless, when I > configured the WiFi network using some GUI

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

Joe writes: > Sorry, I may not have been clear, I was saying that reinstalling to > jump the 32/64 bit barrier has been the only significant upheaval in > the progress of my server since sarge, and that reinstallation was like > for like and therefore quite simple. > > If I

Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life!

Borden Rhodes writes: > Since there's almost no documentation as to what can be safely rm'd in > /var without breaking your system, I decide the least risky choice is > to sudo rm -rf the offending 3-gig syslog file from single-user mode > and the systemd debug shell. But

Re: resolvconf troubles

Glenn English writes: > Does anyone know how to get rid of resolvconf? > > I'm putting a server together, and resovlconf keeps wiping my > /etc/resolv.conf file and replacing the nameserver IP with "# Created > by resolvconf" (approx). No nameserver, no anything. > > I removed

Re: imapsync and Debian

Florian Pelgrim writes: > > I wanted to start now a rant against Cyrus but holy shit... They have > got a new website and it all looks modern... Maybe I should take a look > on it again. > I don't care if it *looks* modern, as long as it has more information than

Re: /etc/fstab and systemd

Pol Hallen writes: > hi all :-) > > I migrated my pc to systemd (!), in /etc/fstab I've > > /dev/sdb1 /test ext4x-systemd.automount 0 0 > (I use UUID but to semplify I wrote /dev/sdb1) > > this line works but only on some pc > > what is the correct way

Re: open - resource temporarily unavailable

Andrey writes: > tuxteam.de> writes: > >> Other things to check: does that happen on any files? On a >> specific file system? If yes: how is that one mounted? >> > > It happens to any file on any ext4 partition which are locally mounted. > > Is there a way to find out at

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

Christian Seiler writes: > > No, in the contrary. When I first saw Gentoo's system in the mid 2000s, > which was based exclusively on dependencies (but still used scripts on > top of sysvinit), I thought: wow, this is SO much better than all the > other distros at that time.

Re: Shell - escapes

Mark Fletcher writes: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM wrote: > > If you are embedding longer scripts in your shell, consider using > "here documents", which are more flexible wrt. embedded quotes. > For one-liners, Thomas' solution works

gvfs mount issues ('not authorized to perform operation')

Hi, It appears something is broken in my xfce install, as Thunar can't mount removable volumes anymore. I've managed to narrow down the issue as happening somewhere between gvfs and udisks2. Mounting a USB Flash drive with 'udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1' works, but 'gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdb1' gives

mailman: no outgoing mail, no mail accepted for lists

Hi, I just installed mailman+postfix, and followed the instructions in /etc/mailman/postfix-to-mailman.py to what I think was the letter. And yet, when I create a list and add myself as a member, I get no mail. When I try to send mail to the test list, I get a 'User unknown in relay recipient

Re: Latest NVIDIA driver (346.96) issue

Pascal Obry writes: > Since yesterday update of NVIDIA 346.96-1 I get an error about uvm > module: > > The module is compiled (dkms): > > $ ls -la /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nv* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11730792 Jan 20 09:08 >

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

Anders Andersson writes: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> Others? You and I seem to have different ideas about what we want >> children to find when they reach up on the family/school bookshelf. > > Please leave your children's

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

John Hasler writes: > peter write: >> I'm confused what specifically is meriting censorship? > > Political incorrectness. So when do we see your bugreport asking to merge fortunes-off into fortunes? Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." ---

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

Sven Arvidsson writes: > On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 16:39 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> "Now", as in Stretch and/or Sid? I searched in Jessie and failed to >> discover >> any available firmware-amd-graphics. Is another repo besides main and >> updates >> required? I booted same machine

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

Bob Bernstein writes: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Chris Bannister wrote: > >>> "Please don't respond line by line. It is patronizing and >>> annoying." > >> What did he say when you asked what he meant by this? I mean, how on >> earth could it possibly be patronising? > > I

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

Bob Bernstein writes: > "Please don't respond line by line. It is patronizing and > annoying." > > I have acquired over the years a habit of carefully quoting and > replying to those quoted snippets. But it rubs some in my family the > wrong way. They don't see it as

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

Felix Miata writes: > Another possibility is that Jessie provides firmware your ATI gfxcard > requires in a separate firmware package that is not installed, or > maybe the ATI driver package didn't get installed at all. I manage a bunch of workstations with exactly this

Re: two pulseaudio processes

Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> writes: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:33:33PM +0100, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 01:22:25PM +0100, rgfoiugztfgvbhjk wrote: >>

Re: two pulseaudio processes

Chris Bannister writes: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 01:22:25PM +0100, rgfoiugztfgvbhjk wrote: >> Does anybody know who Debian-+ is, why he is starting pulseaudio and >> using my headsets, and if this is a bug that should be reported >> against pulseaudio or something

Re: two pulseaudio processes

rgfoiugztfgvbhjk writes: > Hi, > > I am using Pulseaudio in testing. > > Playing sound through the laptop built-in sound card is working fine. > But I also have a Bluetooth Headset (Phillips SHB9100), This is where the > Problems occur. > > root@schenker:/home/ich# ps aux |

Re: Starting systemd user services on boot on a Debian server [SOLVED]

Michael Biebl writes: > Am 17.10.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: >> In Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Saturday 17 October 2015 06:24:10 Fredrik Jonson wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 16.10.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Fredrik Jonson: >>

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

Alex Moonshine writes: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:49:08 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> What has the end-user, with a single machine, gained today from >> the adoption of systemd? > > Speaking for myself: > 1. It took me an hour of googling to

Re: a little jessie whinage

Seeker writes: > On 10/12/2015 12:31 AM, Glenn English wrote: >> >> On my laptop, there's a static nameserver address used by >> eth0. wlan0 uses that too, when it can. But, IIRC, it's smart enough >> to go looking around if the local network is gone. >> >> > If you set

Re: What software can I use to remind me of daily tasks?

Mario Castelán Castro writes: > Thanks too. I use Emacs, but I don't have it always open because I > only use it for editing notes and software. A stand-alone program is > therefore more suitable for me. I have tried KAlarm and it seems to do > the job fine. > You can

Re: a little jessie whinage

Glenn English writes: > > This is what we're supposed to use for servers on the Internet? No, for servers we don't install NetworkManager and resolvconf, and we do static configuration. Really, you should know better if you're going do whine. Mart -- "We will need a longer

Re: What software can I use to remind me of daily tasks?

Mario Castelán Castro writes: > Hello. > > I'm looking for a free (as in freedom) software that will remind me of > daily tasks. That is it: one in which I can program reminders to be > shown daily at a certain hour as a window to catch my attention or as > a sound. I

Re: a little jessie whinage

Glenn English writes: > 'hostname -f' isn't rocket science -- it's just a small lookup. I > suspect it goes to ifconfig for the IP then in hosts for the FQDN that > matches the IP, or, apparently, resolv.conf and hostname. You shouldn't suspect, it's in the Fine Manual. It

Re: a little jessie whinage

Glenn English <g...@slsware.net> writes: > On Oct 11, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Mart van de Wege <mvdw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No, for servers we don't install NetworkManager and resolvconf, and we >> do static configuration. > > I didn't install

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com writes: Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:16:55 +0200 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [..] You can't install gnome without the pulseaudio libraries, but it runs perfectly fine without the daemon. On Debian? $ aptitude why gnome-core pulseaudio p  

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com writes: Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:37:37 -0700 From: bri...@aracnet.com [..snip list of PA inadequacies..] so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of pulse audio is a good idea. It's a good thing you're asking for opinions, because

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

Andrew Wood and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk writes: On 08/08/15 21:25, Mart van de Wege wrote: That's just avahi trying to work with an interface it thinks still exists. what does the output of cat /proc/net/vlan/config show? It seems that the old settings are persisted somewhere and I

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

Andrew Wood and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk writes: On 07/08/15 21:03, Mart van de Wege wrote: Why do you think that? Avahi does multicast DNS, which, as far as I know, has nothing to do with VLANs. So what makes you think Avahi is the culprit? That said, if you want to disable it completely

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

Andrew Wood and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk writes: On 04/08/15 07:11, Bonno Bloksma wrote: If you have the option, as in this case, it might make sense to use the same number for the VLAN and for the address range. It does not NEED to be so, and most cases it will not be so. But if it is a

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com writes: Mart van de Wege wrote on 07/27/2015 12:49 AM: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: Upgrading to sid is asking for trouble. Sid isn't called unstable for nothing

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: Upgrading to sid is asking for trouble. Sid isn't called unstable for nothing. I know. I really do. I only have been running Debian since potato. On the other hand

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: I haven't had any significant problems with systemd but then I waited several months before upgrading my servers to jessie and before upgrading my workstation to stretch. Maybe it's because of MS-DO but I've learned to wait for the .1 release before

Re: the State of Linux Audio

Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org writes: Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Martin G. McCormick a écrit : The only reason I put pulseaudio on here was way back when I was running lenny and had no /dev/dsp. Someone suggested installing pulseaudio. I did. /dev/dsp came back and life

Re: pam_shield is blocking allowed networks

Louis Wust louisw...@fastmail.fm writes: On Tue, Jul 7, 2015, at 06:42, Mart van de Wege wrote: I have set up pam_shield to allow my IP; when I test it by generating 5 bad logins (threshold is 5 per 10m), I see pam_shield print 'allowing from my ip/255.255.255.255' in the logs; and yet after

pam_shield is blocking allowed networks

Anyone know the answer to this conundrum? I have set up pam_shield to allow my IP; when I test it by generating 5 bad logins (threshold is 5 per 10m), I see pam_shield print 'allowing from my ip/255.255.255.255' in the logs; and yet after 5 login attempts it blocks my ip. -- We will need a

Re: NFSv4 first read/write takes 1 minute to start

Jonas Meurer jo...@freesources.org writes: Hi Mart, Am 28.06.2015 um 21:40 schrieb Mart van de Wege: I run a fileserver and am trying to switch over from NFSv3 to NFSv4 with RPC-GSS. My exports work, and my clients nicely authenticate to the Kerberos server and the NFS server, I can mount

NFSv4 first read/write takes 1 minute to start

Hi, I run a fileserver and am trying to switch over from NFSv3 to NFSv4 with RPC-GSS. My exports work, and my clients nicely authenticate to the Kerberos server and the NFS server, I can mount the exported filesystems and cd into them. But as soon as I try to read or write anything on the

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone here have any inside information on what is happening (or not happening) with the Devuan project? It seems to be dead, or at least dying. I am (more than) starting to think the whole thing was just a sick, sleazy hoax/disinformation

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

Frank debianl...@videotron.ca writes: On 05/29/2015 06:52 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: It might be possible that someone got hold of your password and is using your ISPs relay to send out spam. I've seen that happen more than once in real life. They'd need more than my password

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

Frank debianl...@videotron.ca writes: On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a logon failure..despite the

Re: Add a 3rd drive to a existing raid1 (not as spare)

basti black.flederm...@arcor.de writes: If I do this it works: # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 Creates a two disk RAID1 array. Adding a third disk: # mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=3 --add /dev/loop2 And: # mdadm --detail /dev/md0

Re: GHOST, Am I ok?

Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de writes: Sven Hartge: Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:52:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Look at checkrestart in the debian-goodies package. Or alternatively, if you're on testing or newer (or can accept a

Re: Was: Ric Moore

Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did opine I don't have Gnome on the workstation either, but I do have various Gnome

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