Re: Thunderbird filters

On 16/01/2024 04:19, David Christensen wrote: $ ll -1 .thunderbird/dpchrist/*/*/msgFilterRules.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist   25 2024-01-15 12:50:34 .thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-1.net/msgFilterRules.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 1011 2024-01-15 13:07:32

Re: Thunderbird filters

On 15/01/2024 08:25, David Christensen wrote: /home/dpchrist/.thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-3.net/msgFilterRules.dat /home/dpchrist/.thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-2.net/msgFilterRules.dat /home/dpchrist/.thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-1.net/msgFilterRules.dat

Re: Thunderbird filters

On 13/01/2024 09:17, gene heskett wrote: Go to Thunderbird -> Edit -> Account Settings -> ghesk...@shentel.net -> Server Settings.  What is the value of the field "Server Type"? IMAP MAIL Server There is a little chance that messages are still on the server. Set "mark as deleted" for

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

On 14/01/2024 04:43, Jeffrey Walton wrote: And use of HTTP in other fetches is dangerous, and HTTPS should be used. See . https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3462 states that this particular

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 13/01/2024 22:37, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 13/01/2024 16:20, Max Nikulin ha scritto: And this is one with a --lastchannel launch: lrwx-- 1 valerio valerio 64 12 gen 20.52 34 -> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 lsof for the same process may be more informative, but currently it d

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 13/01/2024 04:39, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 12/01/2024 17:24, Max Nikulin ha scritto: On 12/01/2024 21:36, Valerio Vanni wrote: dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.kaffeine /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Stop It seems implementation of MPRIS in kaffeine differs from what other

Re: xfce screen detachment

On 13/01/2024 14:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Some days I'm glad I stuck to the most primitive window manager I could get. XFree86 (X11 server) had a similar feature a quarter of century ago and it worked in any window managers. If an application had overloaded GUI that did not fit to

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 12/01/2024 21:36, Valerio Vanni wrote: Tried, it works on DVB play. dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.kaffeine /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Stop The question is if this action can be a replacement for killing kaffeine before unloading the dvb kernel module. What is

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On 11/01/2024 10:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:10:43AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/01/2024 03:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 07:19:41PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: What is the output of "grep -F $(hostname) /etc/

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 11/01/2024 22:45, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 11/01/2024 16:25, Max Nikulin ha scritto: On 11/01/2024 21:10, Valerio Vanni wrote: valerio@newton:~$ busctl --user introspect org.mpris.kaffeine / I assume that "org/mpris/MediaPlayer2" after "/" was lost during copy I don

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

On 11/01/2024 22:55, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 11/01/2024 15:42, Max Nikulin ha scritto: Likely you have changed file associations for HTML files from KDE System Settings. Try to move away ~/.config/mimeapps.list or comment out text/html entry there and Abiword should pop back. I confirm

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 11/01/2024 21:10, Valerio Vanni wrote: There is a .Quit, but for this I already have "kill" command and I have to start it again. Applications might handle D-Bus messages more gracefully than SIGINT or SIGTERM signals. However in the case of kaffeine it is unlikely that some data may be

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

On 11/01/2024 20:18, Valerio Vanni wrote: Now it's working, but I don't understand why. Now I find this:

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 10/01/2024 01:59, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 06/01/2024 17:38, Max Nikulin ha scritto: I would expect something like "Stop" either from /Player or from org.mpris.kaffeine. I too expected something similar: stop and play (play for resume) Have you tried "tree&q

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 10/01/2024 04:43, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 07/01/2024 06:44, Max Nikulin ha scritto: setpriv --reuid 1000 --regid 1000 --init-groups --reset-env -- \     env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" \     systemd-run --user --slice=app.slice -- \     xterm setpriv --reuid="$

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 11/01/2024 02:32, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 08/01/2024 04:29, Max Nikulin ha scritto: On 07/01/2024 12:44, Max Nikulin wrote: setpriv --reuid 1000 --regid 1000 --init-groups --reset-env -- \     env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" \     systemd-run --user --slice=app.slice -- \

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On 11/01/2024 03:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 07:19:41PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: What is the output of the "hostname" command? It's: `thinkpad'. What is the output of "grep -F $(hostname) /etc/hosts"? 127.0.1.1

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

On 11/01/2024 02:44, Valerio Vanni wrote: After, guide was not showing anymore. Calling it (click on "help" on Vmware application) began opening Abiword. In kde control panel -> app -> default, Firefox is set as default browser. Likely when sorted by name Abiword is before Firefox and even

Re: systemd-timesyncd

On 08/01/2024 03:36, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 02:51:26PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/etc$ man timesyncd No manual entry for timesyncd What package contains the manpages for a bookworm amd64 install I expect to do anything I might want to do? apt install

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 07/01/2024 12:44, Max Nikulin wrote: setpriv --reuid 1000 --regid 1000 --init-groups --reset-env -- \    env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" \    systemd-run --user --slice=app.slice -- \    xterm Instead of tricks with setting proper context for a process executed syst

Re: systemd-timesyncd

On 08/01/2024 02:51, gene heskett wrote: When I found the /etc/systemd/timesyncd I immediately asked the system for man timesyncd, got this: gene@coyote:/etc$ man timesyncd No manual entry for timesyncd Isn't it /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf, not /etc/systemd/timesyncd? It might be a reason

systemd-timesyncd

On 07/01/2024 02:17, gene heskett wrote: If debian is going to supply systemd's timesyncd as a client, I expected a bookworm install to just work. It did not and without docs I have to pester the list, which has gotten me a bad rep because the lack of docs for this stuff has me in a screw

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 06/01/2024 22:19, Max Nikulin wrote: On 06/01/2024 19:44, Valerio Vanni wrote: systemd-run --unit=kaffeine-resumed --uid="$kafuid" --gid="$kafgid" \    env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/"$kafuid" $kafdis XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE \    /usr/bin/kaffeine

Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

On 06/01/2024 18:40, gene heskett wrote: Put all system clocks on UTC, and then /etc/timezone is the actual string specifying the local offset. No doubt some user confusion, but overall a lot simpler. I still do not see any connection with splitting a part of files and links into another

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 06/01/2024 00:07, Valerio Vanni wrote: Now I'm looking: services are ├─/MainApplication ├─/Player ├─/Television ├─/TrackList └─/org   └─/org/kde     └─/org/kde/kaffeine I tried to introspect the more likely, MainApplication and Television .RemoveProgram  method   

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 06/01/2024 19:44, Valerio Vanni wrote: systemd-run --unit=kaffeine-resumed --uid="$kafuid" --gid="$kafgid" \   env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/"$kafuid" $kafdis XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE \   /usr/bin/kaffeine --lastchannel > /dev/null 2>&1 I have not figured out how to do it, but

Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

On 06/01/2024 13:02, Max Nikulin wrote: The change affects those who rely on POSIX-like EST5EDT timezones or on obsolete ones like Europe/Kyiv (recently renamed from Europe/Kiev). Europe/Kiev (moved to tzdata-legacy) was renamed to Europe/Kyiv. Sorry for confusion. US/Eastern & Co has

tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

On 06/01/2024 12:18, gene heskett wrote: On 1/5/24 23:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 09:01:29PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium upstream backward file) were moved to tzdata-legacy. This includes the What's wrong with NTP, too

Secure erase [was: Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?]

On 06/01/2024 08:25, David Christensen wrote: I like to do a secure erase before re-deploying an SSD.  The UEFI ROM firmware in my newer Dell computers provides an option to make secure erase easy.  Other choices include an SSD manufacturer toolkit or install/ live/ rescue media with the right

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 04/01/2024 22:21, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 04/01/2024 15:48, Max Nikulin ha scritto: Is it really necessary to kill kaffeine or it is enough to pause or to stop playing? It might be possible using a D-Bus query. [...] If it's started normally, it's enough to stop playing But how would you

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

On 04/01/2024 03:25, Charles Curley wrote: I decided instead to boot to a USB stick and run badblocks. The read-only test took 12 minutes and reported no errors. I now have a writing test (-w) running. It has reported no failures on its first pass. Is badblock writing test useful for SSD

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 04/01/2024 21:03, Valerio Vanni wrote:     kaffeine_killed=$(/usr/bin/killall kaffeine 2>&1)     echo $kaffeine_killed > /temp/kafstate.txt     /usr/bin/sleep 2     /usr/sbin/rmmod cx23885 Is it really necessary to kill kaffeine or it is enough to pause

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On 30/12/2023 09:14, Mike McClain wrote: Since some of these use a spinoff of xterm [ -n $DISPLAY ] is a little more generic than [ $TERM == xterm ], RaspberryPI has chosen lxterminal as their default which would would fail that test but still runs bash. I would expect that the reason of

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

On 28/12/2023 09:28, David Wright wrote: On Thu 28 Dec 2023 at 09:11:34 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: Concerning appearance, right click on the toolbar context menu contains the "Customize toolbar" option. This dialog has "Title bar" checkbox at the bottom that may signifi

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 29/12/2023 08:26, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 29/12/2023 00:12, Charles Curley ha scritto: That may work, but by putting the script in /usr/lib/systemd, you run the risk of it being clobbered on the next update to systemd. Better to put it in /etc/systemd/system-sleep/. Files in /etc/systemd

Re: problem with Jami

On 28/12/2023 20:06, s...@gmx.com wrote: if I try to install a package.. it tells me there are no candidates to install You have not specified what Debian release you have installed. At least bookworm (current stable) should have newer packages in dependencies. Please, post output of

Re: mktime

On 23/12/2023 23:37, Max Nikulin wrote: However being aware of tm_gmtoff GNU extension, I was not expected the following: (info "(libc) Broken-down Time") https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Broken_002ddown-Time.html#index-mktime The ‘mktime’ function ignores the

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On 26/12/2023 23:57, Mike McClain wrote: Only when xterm_bindings has no executable lines in it does it not kill '"' in an X terminal window. The line that pulled it in was ; [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && [ -f /mc/bin/xterm_bindings ] && bind -f /mc/bin/xterm_bindings; I do not see anything that may

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

On 28/12/2023 03:38, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Virus unlikely - flatpak / snap or any other packaging for Mozilla could do anything ... I suspect it's just an artefact of downloading the Mozilla site version rather than the Debian ESR version. Mozilla has created their own APT repository.

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 28/12/2023 03:54, Valerio Vanni wrote: -close kaffeine -rmmod cx23885 -modprobe cx23885 -open kaffeine This happens suspending with pm-suspend. Using systemctl, kernel module is broken after every suspend, even if kaffeine is not running. I have never tried to tune suspend systemd

When strace breaks process or is blocked (was: Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...)

On 27/12/2023 07:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: Yeah, even on Debian systems where ping isn't setuid root, it still seems to need special capabilities that strace interferes with, or isn't allowed to attach to, or something. $ /usr/sbin/getcap /usr/bin/ping /usr/bin/ping cap_net_raw=ep It is still

Re: APT preferring `stable` over `stable-security`

On 26/12/2023 23:23, Dan Ritter wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#Be_careful_with_APT::Default-Release (quoted entirely) But omitting a couple of links to comments from developers that APT::Default-Release is deprecated. A tool to debug issues with upgrades is apt

Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?

On 20/12/2023 13:05, 이 강우 wrote: how to clone apt repository to newest only? If you are asking about partial mirror then some of the following links might be useful: - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup#Debian_Repository_Mirroring_Tools -

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On 25/12/2023 12:31, Mike McClain wrote: In lxterminal control v displays "'" though lxterminal doesn't. Do xterm and lxterminal behave in a similar way? Is there something related to xterm *VT100*translations in the output of xrdb -query - I am unsure if there are terminal settings

Re: mktime

On 24/12/2023 01:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:56 AM Max Nikulin wrote: (info "(libc) Broken-down Time") https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Broken_002ddown-Time.html#index-mktime The ‘mktime’ function ignores the specifie

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote: when I type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to type characters with accents? I have never used this feature, so my guess may be wrong. What happens if

mktime (was: Re: systemd and timezone)

On 23/12/2023 02:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I've found lack of per-thread timezones and libc's inability to convert time between timezones a bigger problem than other issues, like explicitly setting a timezone for a process. From my point of view the TZ environment variable makes timezone

Re: systemd and timezone

On 21/12/2023 21:53, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 09:08:09AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: And it is quite possible on a few of those machines to have multiple desktop users, each from a different TZ. I've sometimes the impression that desktop environments are losing the

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On 20/12/2023 22:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: The key point here is that you don't STORE these human-readable time strings anywhere. You simply *produce* them on demand, using the epoch time values that you *do* store. Greg, I agree to almost everything you write, however I believe that text

Re: systemd and timezone

On 21/12/2023 12:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:30:42AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: busctl introspect org.freedesktop.timedate1 /org/freedesktop/timedate1 Desktop environments use this interface. Ugh. I do not see any problem if it is considered as a D-Bus

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On 21/12/2023 19:38, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 06:08:26AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: Why is it I am noticing a 14 seconds difference on my computer (booted with a Debian Live DVD)? Have you executed any commands setting time since boot? Does the difference remain

Re: systemd and timezone

On 21/12/2023 21:08, Dan Ritter wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: busctl introspect org.freedesktop.timedate1 /org/freedesktop/timedate1 Is this set per-user? It would be "busctl --user" if it were per-user. This an interface for a system-wide setting. Because I certainly have mult

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On 21/12/2023 11:37, David Wright wrote: On Wed 20 Dec 2023 at 07:43:51 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: $ cat /etc/localtime TZif2UTCTZif2UTC UTC0 Take care. That's a binary file. /etc/timezone is the text one. That is why readlink /etc/localtime or ls -l /etc/localtime as a

systemd and timezone (was: Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...)

I am not going to discuss code posted by Albretch, despite it has serious issues from my point of view. This is a response to Greg. On 20/12/2023 22:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: The selection of the computer's default time zone by its owner is not in ANY way related to the computer's geographic

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On 18/12/2023 06:00, Albretch Mueller wrote: On 12/17/23, Andy Smith wrote: how on earth would that not always produce an accurate duration? All this paranoia, but in computer time you trust?  Falsehoods programmers believe about time

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

On 16/12/2023 22:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`, really. APT running by a regular user is unable to write to

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

On 16/12/2023 22:46, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file. I have APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "false"; in a file inside "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/". However I use apt-cacher-ng. In you case this settings may be excessively aggressive.

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 05/12/2023 01:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: unicorn:~$ LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 printf '%(%c)T\n' Mon 04 Dec 2023 01:34:42 PM EST Sadly, you're restricted to the choices offered by your installed locales. If you can't find an installed locale which has an acceptable LC_TIME format, then you can try to

Re: Slow boot, looks like due to filesystem mounts

On 16/12/2023 05:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote: The resize operation included deleting swap at /dev/sda2, increasing disk size of /dev/sda, extending /dev/sda1, and recreating swap at the end of /dev/sda as /dev/sda2. [...] $ sudo blkid /dev/sda2: UUID="b05d2596-5301-47d1-b208-95fca81be94e"

Re: Local time in databases (Re: ntpsec as server questions)

On 08/12/2023 11:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 10:18:44PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: All of these considerations are what brought Oracle to create a proprietary "datetime" datatype and use it to store all "real" dates/times. If you need a different format for display

Re: File systems mounted under `/media/root/` ?

On 10/12/2023 23:38, Stefan Monnier wrote: Max Nikulin [2023-12-10 21:49:46] wrote: udisksctl dump udevadm info --query=all --name=sda for various hints related to udisks. Perhaps a better variant of udevadm options exists. Thanks. Now I have some thread on which to pull  I have

Re: why would "tr --complement --squeeze-repeats ..." append the substitution char once more? ...

On 11/12/2023 21:00, Albretch Mueller wrote: // __ $_FL_TYPE: |abc á é í ó ú ü ñ Á É Í Ó Ú Ü Ñ 123 birdiehere ¿ ¡ § ASCII ä ö ü ß Ä Ö Ü Text| // __ $_FL_TYPE:|abc_123_birdie_here_ASCII_Text| https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode/ should be more friendly to languages other than English.

Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway.

On 11/12/2023 06:12, Charles Curley wrote: Sorry. I had already stopped the apt-daily-upgrade.timer, which triggers the unattended upgrade service. (The couldn't give them similar names to act as a mnemonic?) This refers to disabling the unattended upgrade service. I have not tested it, but

Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway.

On 10/12/2023 22:49, Charles Curley wrote: root@issola:/var# systemctl status unattended-upgrades.service systemctl status apt-daily-upgrade.timer

Re: File systems mounted under `/media/root/` ?

On 10/12/2023 02:49, Stefan Monnier wrote: "magically" mounted as `/media/root/`. [...] Any idea who/what does that, and how/where I can control it? This path is used by udisks, however I am unsure what may cause automounting for root. I would check udisksctl dump udevadm info

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 08/12/2023 23:12, Bonno Bloksma wrote: So, in pseudo code bool isleapyear (int year) { return false; I've heard such a calendar was in use in ancient Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sothic_cycle Its disadvantage was that crop reaping and tax paying dates were slowly becoming

Re: debian forgot usr pw

On 08/12/2023 08:49, gene heskett wrote: I've now set a root pw, about 34 chars, so they'll be a couple eons guessing it AND (horrors) have written it down. Consider pass phrases. Deep Dive: EFF's New Wordlists for

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 07/12/2023 06:11, Pocket wrote: Because DST was not in force/usage except the metro NYC. Every where else didn't use/have it. That makes EST5DST correct except for NYC and America/New_York completely incorrect except of course NYC. Which is why I prefer to use EST5DST It may be a

Re: Local time in databases (Re: ntpsec as server questions)

On 07/12/2023 23:08, tomas wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 10:29:29PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 07/12/2023 21:22, John Hasler wrote: Databases should never store local time. There are exceptions when storing UTC instead of local time leads to undesired consequences. Heh. There was one

Local time in databases (Re: ntpsec as server questions)

On 07/12/2023 21:22, John Hasler wrote: Databases should never store local time. I am anticipating a new branch of hot discussion. There are exceptions when storing UTC instead of local time leads to undesired consequences. Planned (future) events may be bound namely to local time. So if

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 06/12/2023 12:22, David Wright wrote: On Tue 05 Dec 2023 at 23:37:31 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: I am surprised that POSIX EST5EDT timezone has irregularities at least as it is implemented in GNU libc. I believed that it specifies just standard and summer time. During WWII they had War

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 06/12/2023 20:08, Pocket wrote: On 12/6/23 07:22, Max Nikulin wrote: On 06/12/2023 00:03, Pocket wrote: On 12/5/23 11:37, Max Nikulin wrote: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata That does not work. Cannot set EST5EDT.  you have to do that manually. Do you have reasons to prefer EST5EDT to IANA

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 06/12/2023 01:42, jeremy ardley wrote: I have discovered a magic bullet for solving running out of memory sudo sync; sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' Sadly it looks like I'll need to do this daily, simply for using Debian Bookworm with a variety of web browsers Magic does

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 06/12/2023 12:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:42:32AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: sudo sync; sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' Sadly it looks like I'll need to do this daily, See /etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf.d if you want to make such things

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 06/12/2023 12:14, tomas wrote: Debian Bullseye here. Xpdf links against libpoppler102, which has GPLv2 or V3, same as xpdf. Perhaps fact checking of the following is required. Gnome forked xpdf to have a library (poppler) for a PDF viewer (evince). For security reasons Debian maintainers

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 06/12/2023 00:03, Pocket wrote: On 12/5/23 11:37, Max Nikulin wrote: On 05/12/2023 05:14, Pocket wrote: For gene [...] dpkg-reconfigure tzdata That does not work. Cannot set EST5EDT.  you have to do that manually. Do you

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 05/12/2023 18:30, Tom Browder wrote: When I manually print via Evince It seems to sometimes change important settings like page scaling and orientation. I had an impression that GUI print dialog may remember some settings from its previous invocation. Unsure if it is relevant to evince.

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 05/12/2023 05:14, Pocket wrote: For gene.. [...] zone=EST5EDT zoneinfo=/usr/share/zoneinfo localtime=/etc/localtime timezone=/etc/timezone profile=/etc/profile.d if [ -e "$zoneinfo"/"$zone" ];then     ln -sf

[SOLVED] Re: dovecot auth failure due to panic in libpam_fscrypt

On 04/12/2023 23:41, Max Nikulin wrote: Installing of libpam-fscrypt caused authentication failures: dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: fatal error: failed to reserve page summary memory dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime stack: dovecot[72165

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 04/12/2023 23:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: WTH? Where is that false 12 hour offset coming from? There is no 12 hour offset. One is being reported in 24-hour time, and the other in 12-hour time (it says "PM"), because of different locale definitions. dpkg-reconfigure locales Or its

dovecot auth failure due to panic in libpam_fscrypt

Does anybody have ideas concerning incompatibility of dovecot IMAP server authentication and libpam_fscrypt? It seems Go runtime loaded into authentication worker is unable to allocate memory. To keep local mail archive I use a dovecot instance. This machine does not receive or send mail

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 04/12/2023 11:38, John Hasler wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: From my point of view, it should be possible to put a file with mapping of mac addresses to desired IPs and names to his dd-wrt router. I expect that dnsmasq is running or can be installed there. Dnsmasq as a DHCP server on the router

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 02/12/2023 23:39, John Hasler wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: As to a GPS receiver, it should be doable and 169.254.x.y addresses will not be an issue any more. Be careful with cables when connecting it however: https://www.wired.com/2012/02/neutrinos-faulty-cable/ CNC machines don't need

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 04/12/2023 09:39, jeremy ardley wrote: I think I've found a potential culprit using about:processes https://openai.com 110% CPU I would try it in chromium. Some sites relies on optimizations implemented in its JavaScript engine. My observation is that Firefox may be CPU hungry due to

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 03/12/2023 13:33, jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/12/23 13:59, Phil Wyett wrote: What type of content is generally being viewed/used in firefox? A lot of video and otherwise news and search and GPT4 --- I am curious if this creature may

Re: Alpine/Gmail/Imap expert needed.

The following link is unlikely helpful to the topic starter, so I decided to postpone this message. It may be informative for other alpine (or mutt) users however. There is a way to authenticate to gmail or a similar service without an application password. It is supported by Alpine. It

Re: memtest86+ on UEFI

On 03/12/2023 02:15, Stefan Monnier wrote: Interesting. I have memtest86+ 6.10-4, for amd64, on the machine. Then AFAIK it is not a known problem (IOW, it should work). The package contains /boot/memtest86+x64.efi, so it is intended to work with UEFI. I am less sure that it can work when

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 02/12/2023 05:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: In either case, the static-ness or dynamic-ness of the address is much less important than the fact that the address*works*. You are able to communicate with the printer, using your network. This means the printer should be able to communicate*back*,

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 02/12/2023 02:24, gene heskett wrote: On 12/1/23 10:27, Max Nikulin wrote: so I have to repeat it. You *do* *not* have NetworkManager installed hence it can not overwrite files. What particular *evidences* do you have that namely NetworkManager overwrites /etc/network/interfaces? I am

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 30/11/2023 23:12, Andy Smith wrote: Unless you have a dedicated time source (e.g. GPS receiver, atomic decay source, …) A nitpick. I am puzzled by the word "decay" in this context. Electron transition between energy states in atomic clocks is not decay. Nuclear decay is hardly related to

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 01/12/2023 17:42, gene heskett wrote: On 11/30/23 23:18, Max Nikulin wrote: On 01/12/2023 10:24, gene heskett wrote: Then, please, explain clearly what is "networkmangler", what is "/e/n/i", and what particular evidences you have that namely "networkma

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 01/12/2023 10:24, gene heskett wrote: If you would bother to read what I posted, you would have seen that networkmangler claimed credit for that overwritten /e/n/i file. Then, please, explain clearly what is "networkmangler", what is "/e/n/i", and what particular evidences you have that

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 01/12/2023 01:44, gene heskett wrote: /e/n/i waa replaced, and nothing in an ip a or ip r was changed. [...] On 11/30/23 07:31, Max Nikulin wrote: May it be that klipper-related "optimizers" add some script? klipper runs fine on several other bananapi-m5 here, w/o any special

Re: Set UEFI boot target with Windows

On 30/11/2023 19:27, Arno Lehmann wrote: Am 30.11.2023 um 12:52 schrieb Joe: I have a netbook which, left to its own devices, will always boot to Windows, and cannot be made to boot to anything else from the UEFI part of whatever we're supposed to call the BIOS these days. ... have you ever

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 30/11/2023 17:15, gene heskett wrote: On 11/29/23 23:52, Max Nikulin wrote: On 30/11/2023 11:07, gene heskett wrote: root@mkspi:/etc# nmcli -bash: nmcli: command not found --- However it did not work, and the file was replaced by one containing only lo

Re: time question, as in ntp?

er package is not installed, so likely it is ifupdown. On 11/29/23 21:31, Max Nikulin wrote: P.S. Enabling DHCP may allow to use default network configuration on all devices. hu, I'm logged in wit ssh: root@mkspi:/etc# cat default/networking Charles suggests to enable DHCP server on your router and

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 30/11/2023 05:53, Dan Purgert wrote: Avahi BS? APIPA ("A"utomatic "P"rivate "IP" "A"ddressing) is not avahi/mDNS (aka Bonjour / Zeroconf). Your DHCP client giving you an APIPA address is indicative of broken DHCP, and the fix is either: avahi-daemon (multicast name resolution and service

Re: time question, as in ntp?

On 30/11/2023 06:51, gene heskett wrote: Which is what I want to do but I've been told that /etc/network/interfaces is not the "today way" to do it. What was the context when you have been told that? If you are using NetworkManager then just change connection properties to "manual" in the

Re: fscrypt a usb drive?

On 28/11/2023 19:03, Pocket wrote: On 11/28/23 06:27, Max Nikulin wrote: *Login* protector used by pam_fscrypt is a different case. Well I will see about that when the time comes. I have a few ideas that may "fix" that, untested at the present time of course. Just a couple of

Re: fscrypt a usb drive?

On 28/11/2023 18:12, Pocket wrote: Not really looking to encrypt the whole file system.  As another project I want to try making the root filesystem mostly read only. You may mount a partition encrypted using LUKS2 by providing a passphrase during initrd stage. It should be more

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