Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 1:39 PM wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:27:03PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, All.. > > > > This just hit my emails seconds ago. It's the most info that I've > > personally read about the XZ backdoor exploit. I've been following > > NextGov as a friendly, plain

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 12:24 PM Joe wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:53:04 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:47:44PM -, Curt wrote: > > > On 2024-03-28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > > A more proactive endeavor would be to document known best > >

Re: Filsystemkorruption i ext4?

2024-03-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 11:28 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I have now done the following: > * Checked the RAID array - no problems found. > * Run fsck. It found three cases of the block count being incorrect. I > don't know which the other two affected files are. > * Run one pass of memtest86+.

Re: After installing no access to the installed system.

2024-03-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 12:48 PM Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Package: Debian installer > Version: As on Debian live-CD/DVD for Debian 12.5 > Severity: critical > > 1. Download debian live-CD/DVD from: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 6:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 04:54:12PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I sometimes think that something similar to Postel's Law but applied to > human > > interactions would be useful. However that is wishful thinking > > > I'm not

Re: Journald's qualities (was: Selective rotation of journald logs)

2024-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 2:57 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Makes one wonder why they don't use naive append-only "plain text" logs > > (tho with appropriate delimiters (maybe some kind of CSV) to make > > searches more reliable than with old-style plain text logs)? > > > > What

Re: Meeting with the Development Team

2024-02-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 3:04 AM wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 08:40:32AM +, Ray Galt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to reach out to the decision-maker in the IT environment > within your company. > > [...] > > Sometimes, satire is written by marketing departments. Or by > some LLM

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > Assuming that you are searching in the current working directory: find bpim* -print | grep 'shelf.scad' As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames,

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 9:24 PM John Hasler wrote: > > Another SPITBOL user lives??!? :-) > > It's been decades since I used it. > > > It should all be open-source by now > > Is it? > > http://www.snobol4.com/ > > A search finds this: > Well thank you so much John. They are giving away for

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 6:52 PM John Hasler wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: > > The > > At the risk of being seen as old-fashioned, but as a user of both > > languages, I think Perl is a much better choice than C for string > > processing. > > Use SPITBOL. > Another SPITBOL user

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:07 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > . (Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does not > kill me makes me just stronger. I'm a vim user.) > OK I'll mention that to my psychiatrist :-) But the C programmers I knew were either really nice guys if they

Re: standardize uid:gid?

2024-01-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 9:15 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I haven't tried it but I would assume that if the user exists then the > > package uses that. So cresting a template /etc/passwd before > > installing packages would fix this. > > That works, indeed. Maybe Someone™ should develop a small

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 9:35 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 1/17/24 19:54, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Andy Smith wrote: > ... > >> Then there will just be people going by taste. > >> > >> Personally I still put them directly on drives. If I ever get taken > >> out by one of those crappy

Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

2024-01-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 8:32 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > As of today, current edition of lynx. > Announcement below. > Kare > > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > The current version of lynx is 2.9.0 > > > > It's available at > > https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ > >

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

2024-01-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 4:58 AM Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 11:32:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > What happens if you use diskimages that contain directly a filesystem > > without going through the trouble of using a partition table? > > Does `ext4` also get tripped by the

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-08 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 11:38 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > .; > > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > IBM's MVS & its successors, most recently z/OS, have something > > similar called a GDG (or Generation Data Group). > > The principle made it into ISO 9660 specifications. > > To

Re: systemd-timesyncd

2024-01-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 4:51 PM Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 20:36:12 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > Take care, stay warm, well, and unvaxed. > > > ^^^ > > > > Gene - no partisan opinions, please, as per Code of Conduct? > > Oh, come

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler wrote: > The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does > not exist on my Sid system. > > The man page: > > NAME >ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database > Isn't that file a somehow surviving BSD-ism? > -- >

Re: systemd and timezone

2023-12-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 10:06 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 21/12/2023 12:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > . > > > > Double ugh. > > > > UNIX got that right from the start. Now this crazy notion "the computer > > HAS to have a timezone of its own" is creeping in. > > Even admins may wish to see

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 12:47 PM Curt wrote: > On 2023-12-10, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > On 2023-12-10 12:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:09:15PM -, Curt wrote: > >>> On 2023-12-10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > "Now" is almost exactly Sun 10 Dec 16:55:43 UTC 2023 >

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

2023-12-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 1:50 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > Recently I noticed some unused ext4 filesystems (i.e. filesystems that > aren't in /etc/fstab, that I normally don't mount, typically because > they're snapshots or backups) "magically" mounted as > `/media/root/`. > > This is on a headless

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

2023-12-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023, 8:11 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > 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

Re: Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 3:30 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > . > This seems to indicate that the firmware has a stake in the problem ... > > > Both the Thinkpad E14 Gen 5s had the same specifications and type number, > > differing only in that the one with corruption of the installer has 24GB > of >

Re: Telnet

2023-12-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 2:23 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Charles Curley (12023-12-03): > > True. None the less, there is at least one perfectly good use for > > telnet: testing connections to servers. > > Wrong. The telnet client is not entirely transparent, as the telnet > protocol defines an

Re: Linux supprt

2023-11-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 12:35 PM wrote: > > But yes, in a way convenience can drown out freedom. See that other > thread in this mailing list about mail providers. All people flocking > to gmail although it's clear that Google would like to kill mail > as we know it. > But mail as "they" know it

Re: Linux supprt

2023-11-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 2:56 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In my experience I get much better support from the user community of > > an open source product then I get from paid support of a commercial > > product. Frequently I know more about the product than the person I am > > dealing with. > >

Re: limit on attachment in mail to list

2023-11-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 4:54 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:10:12 +0800 > hlyg wrote: > > Hello hlyg, > > (sweeping generalisation coming) > People that upload such images are lazy, arrogant, and suffer > from a massive sense of entitlement. > Or maybe they are used to the

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 9:20 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system > Pretty much everything is working except > > ``` > $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@yyy.xyz > 2023-08-20 14:39:30 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P no recipients found > in headers >

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

2023-08-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 9:38 AM Marco wrote: > Am 16.08.2023 um 15:07:35 Uhr schrieb Thomas Schmitt: > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile=get=Debian-announcement-1993-pic-by-Ian_Murdock.png > > Rather interesting that people printed out usenet posts back in these >

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

2023-08-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 10:27 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 10:05:31PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 9:13 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 09:28:55AM +0800, Jon Smart wrote: > > > >

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

2023-08-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 9:13 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 09:28:55AM +0800, Jon Smart wrote: > > How to stop the auto-changes to /etc/resolv.conf after rebooting? > > https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.conf > Contrary to what that page states, auto changes to resolv.conf are never

Re: OT: Protecting electrical equipment; was: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-08-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 1:09 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 8/1/23 11:03, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 2:40 AM Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net > > <mailto:2695bd53d...@ewoof.net>> wrote: > > > > On 31 Jul 2023

Re: OT: Protecting electrical equipment; was: Recommendations for a UPS?

2023-08-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 2:40 AM Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 31 Jul 2023 15:21 -0400, from songb...@anthive.com (songbird): > > i do not run things for long when the power goes out > > but the capacity for my needs is plenty and then i shut > > down in an orderly fashion.

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 10:32 AM Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > >>>>> If you have python programming skills, you might > >>>>> consider NLTK > >>>> > >>>> Unbelievable if there are no such tools an

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:32 AM Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > >>> If you have python programming skills, you might consider > >>> NLTK > >> > >> Unbelievable if there are no such tools anywhere already, > &

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023, 3:04 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > Cousin Stanley wrote: > > > If you have python programming skills, you might consider > > NLTK > > Unbelievable if there are no such tools anywhere already, but > I don't have one either so maybe there aren't then? > There's a big subject

Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 6:10 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 3/6/23 06:33, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 4:49 PM Bret Busby > <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote: > > > > On 2/6/23 23:55, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > >

Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 4:49 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/6/23 23:55, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > > > Luddites of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your upgrade > > treadmills > > If, by upgrade treadmills, you mean the flatbed treadmills, that have a > belt that is turned by the

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 9:58 PM Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > There is a hypervisor called bhyve for FreeBSD. It's completely > headless, no graphics, runs as a daemon and provides serial and VNC > consoles. > > Can you please advise a similar headless and minimal hypervisor for >

Re: Data Error Messages

2023-05-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I found an interesting thread from 3 years ago that might be related. Now don't laugh :-) Do you have a USB hub attached? Search the archives of this list for "EXT4-fs failed to convert unwritten extents to written extents -- potential data loss!" On Sat, May 27, 2023, 1:51 PM Mick Ab wrote:

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:23 AM Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 13/5/23 18:17, Nicolas George wrote: > > This is your interpretation, not an official stance. It might as well be > > that they considered polluting the completion namespace of users with a > > command they rarely need was less

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 12:40 PM zithro wrote: > > There's 25 years of history to computing before Linus released his his > linux > > Computer history started WAY before that. > > > Keeping networking working on linux has been an art, not a science. > .. > Follow advices. > I guess I'm

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 3:59 AM wrote: > I saw many commands in /bin and /usr/bin are written by perl. > is perl still the first choice for sysadmin on linux? > I first wrote perl on unix/linux in 1991. The first python I wrote was about 10 years later. By that time the Redhat/fedora/CentOS distro

Re: auto restarting in crontab

2023-03-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:56 PM wrote: > Greetings, > > My script for monitoring Node.js app as follows. I put it in crontab for > auto-check and restart if failure. > > #!/bin/bash > > # scan the port > nc -z 127.0.0.1 3000 > > if [ $? -eq 0 ];then >exit > else >killall node >sleep 1

Re: Libvirt dnsmasq oddity

2023-01-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 12:10 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > I seem to have hit an oddity in how dnsmasq operates for libvirt. > > I have two host machines each with several guests. One of those is also > the local samba server. Guests on the non-samba server can

Re: stopping mass surveillance

2022-12-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 7:43 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > Athenians in a crucial moment of their history invented "democracy" > as some specific social technologies in order to ensure openness and > conscious participation of all members of society; False. Not even half the male population

Re: just saying

2022-11-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 6:28 PM Mario Marietto wrote: > Everytime I say to someone That are skilled I always get the same reply. > Im not. So what ? there arent skilled people all around anymore ? there are > many. but likely they dont want to be called like this. Most of the times > there isnt a

Re: Trouble with ansible and apt. Is this a known problem?

2022-11-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 5:26 PM David Wright wrote: > On Wed 23 Nov 2022 at 20:18:43 (+0100), Nathanael Schweers wrote: > > > It doesn't look like this exact problem is known at > https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aansible+X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK+is%3Aissue=issues, > but there are a few

Re: Increased read IO wait times after Bullseye upgrade

2022-11-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 7:27 PM Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On 11 Nov 2022, at 16:59, Vukovics Mihály wrote: > >  > > Hi Gareth, > > dmesg is "clean", there disks are not shared in any way and there is no > virtualization layer installed. > > Hello, but the message was from Nicholas :) > > Looking

Re: Increased read IO wait times after Bullseye upgrade

2022-11-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 1:58 AM Vukovics Mihály wrote: > Hi Gareth, > > I have already tried to change the queue depth for the physichal disks > but that has almost no effect. > There is almost no load on the filesystem, here is 10s sample from atop. > 1-2 write requests but 30-50ms of average io.

Re: Fwd: [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update

2022-11-02 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 9:35 AM Anssi Saari wrote: > John Boxall writes: > > > On 2022-11-02 03:40, Anssi Saari wrote: > >> Looks like a linux-5.10 source package was indeed added to Buster in > >> August and as you noted, it's getting security updates too. There's some > >> info on the what and

Re: AWS Debian AMIs

2022-10-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 11:45 AM Eric Stone wrote: > Hello Debian, > > I have a problem on AWS, where I have about 20 servers that I cannot > access because I cannot re-subscribe to the AMI. > > The issue is the AMI - I can not re-subscribe to the marketplace image. > The message I receive says

Re: OT: mysql-workbench alternative

2022-09-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 2:47 PM Gareth Evans wrote: > Given what looks to be the ongoing absence of mysql-workbench in stable: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mysql-workbench > > Can anyone recommend a free (at least as in beer) alternative that creates > ERDs automatically from MariaDB? >

Re: Bug - remote DNS monitoring

2022-08-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 2:13 PM Casey Deccio wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having trouble tracking down a bug in my monitoring setup. It all > happened when I upgraded the monitored host (host B in my example below) to > bullseye. Note that Host A is also running bullseye, but the problem > didn't

Re: still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 6:17 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > refining my proposal i tested this function to list about 7600 blueish > colors: > > > done > > All random samples from this list yielded blueish background with > xterm -bg "$value" & > I hope there are not local spots of

Re: SSH timeout logoff don't work!

2022-06-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 6:04 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 10:05:43AM +0200, Conti Stefano wrote: > > Hello! In My Debian 11 SSH timeout logoff not work! I must put in > > .bashrc of my user: TMOUT=600 to loogut after 10 minutes. Work, of > > course, but close all bash

Re: Alan Turing given posthumous royal pardon

2022-06-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, 4:22 AM sp...@caiway.net wrote: > Sources > > "Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing given posthumous royal pardon" — > Channel 4 News, December 24, 2013 > Turing's pardon was simply Britain's Tories pandering for the gay vote. Everyone knew these things about Turing years

Re: System freeze until REISUB

2022-06-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jun 1, 2022, 3:40 PM riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I have just updated a Debian Stable system and had an apparent > full-freeze (GUI frozen, IceWM non-respondent and Ctrl+Alt+FN did > nothing, keyboard lights also were fixed). > Using REISUB system rebooted and everything seems normal right

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, May 20, 2022, 7:28 PM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 May 2022 at 15:42:33 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > > > Tom Browder writes: > > > > > > > I need a special path setting for root

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo > > su." (...) > > Just you try like as "sudo su -". Sometimes i use it that way. > When I need to use sudo or su to invoke executables, I fully qualify the

Re: Acer CMOS Setup and Ctrl+S [was Installation fails to recognize SSD]

2022-05-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, May 14, 2022, 5:19 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 5/14/22 09:52, Felmon Davis wrote: > > On Fri, 13 May 2022, David Christensen wrote: > > > >> Does Acer document the CMOS Setup Ctrl+S key combination? > > > > the only 'documentation' I've seen is in the webs. I noticed if you > >

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-12 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 6:06 PM Ash Joubert wrote: ...trimmed... > Two-factor authentication is when you need to confirm your login with an > SMS message or one-time pad or other second way of authenticating that > you are who you claim to be. 2FA is popular because users choose weak >

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:37 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 8:45 AM Vincent Lefevre > wrote: > >> On an ext4 filesystem, I got a file born 30 seconds after its >> actual creation. Is this a bug? >> > > Only experimentation can really

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 8:45 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On an ext4 filesystem, I got a file born 30 seconds after its > actual creation. Is this a bug? > Only experimentation can really back me up on this, but consider the following: Every time you use the "|" operator or the ";" separator on

Re: Wifi randomly stops after upgrade

2022-04-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:14 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:33 AM Marcelo Laia > wrote: > >> After upgrade, I got wifi randomly stops and I need to turn off and on >> it in order to get it back on. >> It's very annoying! >> Pleas

Re: Wifi randomly stops after upgrade

2022-04-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:33 AM Marcelo Laia wrote: > After upgrade, I got wifi randomly stops and I need to turn off and on > it in order to get it back on. > It's very annoying! > Please, have you any ideia how I start to inspect this problem? > Nobody smarter has replied so I'll try :-)

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 11:08 AM wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 04:44:36PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > > > I look from desktop perspective. OS (Linux) runs my desktop and manage > > > all programs [...] > > > Because not every machine that has

Re: What happened?

2022-04-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
n Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 6:17 PM Dennis Wicks wrote: > When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a > virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I > could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks > in the vm. And zfs file systems worked. > > The main problem

Re: extract values from a string

2022-04-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 11:12 AM wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 11:01:17AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 9:37 PM wilson wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > in shell script, how can I use regex to extract values from a stri

Re: extract values from a string

2022-04-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 9:37 PM wilson wrote: > Hello > > in shell script, how can I use regex to extract values from a string? > maybe value types transformation should be required. > > > for instance the string: "black berry 12". > I want go get the name: black berry [String] > the price: 12

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

2022-04-15 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 6:10 AM Sam wrote: > That's pretty much it. I want to mirror all my updates to a single server > on > my LAN and have everything on my LAN apt update from it. This seems more > efficient than having everyone download their own copies. > > Google told me to use apt-mirror.

Re: Apparmor problem.

2022-04-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 5:46 AM George wrote: > Hi! > Im trying to make a profile for firefox-esr. > > I used aa-genprof to create it and then aa-logprof to update it. > I also use apparmor-notify to get error messages. > > The problem is that I get constant apparmor messages like the >

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

2022-04-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:27 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Joe Pfeiffer > wrote: > > > > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > > ask... recently, I've been h

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

2022-04-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings > as usernames -- it looks like

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 3:00 PM Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 19:45:47 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 08:25:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 20:10:14 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 21:31:34 +0300 > > > > PanosGR

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 5:32 PM Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:19:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >It's like you haven't even read this thread. > > of course I have > > >Predictable interface names *do* sometimes change. And when that happens, > >it's a huge deal, because

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:15 PM Brian wrote: > On Wed 30 Mar 2022 at 14:39:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 07:18:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 30 Mar 2022 at 13:32:53 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Yes. You've now seen direct evidence of the lie. I guess

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-03-29 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:59 PM piorunz wrote: > On 29/03/2022 10:56, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > E.g. we now have PSI as an information source > > https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/ > > which can be used with the Facebook oomd or systemd-oomd to > > have userland control over which process to kill. >

Re: ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot-sysv.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

2022-03-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 7:31 AM Reiner Buehl wrote: > Hi all! > > I am trying to build an amd64 Debian package from sources but the > command dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc fails with a number of the following > error messages: > > ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot-sysv.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be >

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 12:27 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 04:51:51PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > [Tue Mar 22 00:24:10 2022] Tasks state (memory values in pages): > > [Tue Mar 22 00:24:10 2022] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss > > pgtables_bytes swapents

Re: "E: Package 'gs' has no installation candidate" ...

2022-03-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:26 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 02:22:43PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > basically I need to extract, merge, ... pages from pdf files and gs > > was the way to go? > > Do you know what is going on? > > The program's name is gs, but the

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:21 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:55:34 + > > Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > > > It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically > > > needs 50-100 MB to operate. > > > > The rule of thumb to which I am

Re: iwd + systemd-networkd + resolvconf wrinkles

2022-03-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 7:33 AM Brian wrote: > On Fri 18 Mar 2022 at 20:57:38 +, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 13 Mar 2022 at 20:04:06 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Install iwd, and resolvconf if necessary. You may then need to reboot > > > if the wifi interface has already

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:35 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? > > Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new > microcode, or a new version of the

Re: iwd + systemd-networkd + resolvconf wrinkles

2022-03-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 11:57 PM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 17 Mar 2022 at 12:12:28 (+), Thomas Pircher wrote > > > > Cool. If you just type resolvectl, it will show you which information it > > got on each interface. > > This is machine F, where /etc/resolv.conf is a file, containing >

Re: OT EU-based Cloud Service

2022-03-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:37 AM Curt wrote: > On 2022-03-18, Nicolas George wrote: > > > > In France, the three major host providers are: > > > > https://www.scaleway.com/ > > https://www.gandi.net/ > > https://www.ovhcloud.com/ > > > > I have a very cheap dedicated server at OVH, it serves

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
answer to my best knowledge > assuming that my knowledge is not outdated. I am not a developer and > only repeat what I found stated by others, again not having a reference > but am citing from memory: > > > On 14.03.22 16:23, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Nicholas Geovanis writes:

Re: Claws-mail Address Book Bug?

2022-03-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022, 11:26 AM mick crane wrote: > On 2022-03-13 16:02, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 11:51:03 -0400 > > Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > > Hello Cindy, > > > >> said Google was considering court action over the use of its name as a > > > > Against who? I mean, since

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 12:25 PM Marco Möller < ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> wrote: > On 11.03.22 14:14, Christian Britz wrote: > > > > > > On 2022-03-11 12:47 UTC+0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >> I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with > >> the release of

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 9, 2022, 11:49 AM wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > [...] > > > Here's something about the X ecosystem that I don't understand anymore. > > I've read the statement > > that "X isn't developed anymor

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 4:40 AM Christian Britz wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On 2022-03-08 23:01 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote: > > I tried Wayland some years ago now (might have been when they first > > trialled it in Ubuntu) but decided not to stick with it. > > > > Since more desktop environments are

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 4:58 AM Christian Britz wrote: > > On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram > > only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't > > be as fast as 2x2GB ram

Re: Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-02-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 3:43 PM John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system with a GeForce 1050 Ti on bullseye. > > On this system, if I log in as a regular user and run startx, everything > works fine; KDE Plasma comes up and it's all good. > > But sddm doesn't work. In fact, when it starts,

Re: systemd user@###.service failure causing 90 sec delays during boot, login

2022-02-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 4:45 PM KCB Leigh wrote: > I installed Debian 11 (Bullseye) with GNOME 3.38.5 (Wayland), LINUX kernel > Linux version 5.10.0-11-amd64 (gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, > GNU ld 2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) on a USB stick, and am > using it with an

Re: Ho to properly rebuild single module?

2022-02-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 3:14 PM Grzesiek wrote: > Hi there, > > I need to apply the following > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/1645106372-23004-1-git-send-email-mike.marcinis...@cornelisnetworks.com/T/#u > and rebuild ib_qib. To rebuild I wrote the following script > . > But the module

Re: website

2022-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:50 PM wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:27:50PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:16 PM Nicholas Geovanis < > nickgeova...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > [...] > > > I should have added: > > For inc

Re: website

2022-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:16 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:28 AM lina wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anybody know what is the cost range to build the website for a lab? >> including all, >> basically layout is >> research |

Re: website

2022-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:28 AM lina wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know what is the cost range to build the website for a lab? > including all, > basically layout is > research | people | publication > Consider using cloud services for a smaller more-static website. If "lab" means, say, US

Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB ethernet devices?

2022-02-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 5:18 AM Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 05:30:10PM -0600, Flacusbigotis wrote: > . > > > If the MAC address of the NIC is not persistent, that means udev will > > > provide you with different interface name each time you boot. > > > That means that you've hit

Re: Error when updating user Python packages

2022-02-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 2:21 AM Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-02-20 03:35 UTC+0100, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Probably you should be using the pip3 command instead. It may not be > > installed, > > so I think this will install it: > > sudo apt-get

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