Re: realpath quoting

an just quote the "realpath" output: do_something_for "$(realpath ...)" -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

ot;set-ntp". sudo timedatectl set-ntp false See the current state with just "timedatectl" command. What happens behind the surface is enabling/disabling service systemd-timesyncd.service. You can check its status: systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

When operating system is running RTC does not matter anymore. To get operating system's clock have accurate time it needs to be synchronized with network time servers via network time protocol (NTP). Systemd has that feature. Turn in on with sudo timedatectl set-ntp true -- /// Teemu

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-06 05:33:00 Time zone: Europe/Helsinki (EET, +0200) System clock synchronized: yes NTP service: active RTC in local TZ: no See "timedatectl -h" or manual page for more info. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://ww

Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

PHONE="C.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8" LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 In my opinion it's often too much to set LC_ALL=C because it changes charset to ASCII (LC_CTYPE). To change programs' output messages to English LC_MESSAGES=C is often enough. Sometimes LC_TIME and LC_NUMERIC are required too. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian 12.5 upgrade error

* 2024-02-11 14:13:51+0200, Alexis Grigoriou wrote: > I have encountered an error upgrading to 12.5 from 12.4 regarding the > nvidia-driver and linux-image 6.1.0.18. The error is: Very likely this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1063656 Not your fault. -- ///

Re: printing problem, markdown files

* 2024-02-01 11:57:50-0500, gene heskett wrote: > I have an about 125 page .md file I need hardcopy of. Maybe install "okular" and "okular-extra-backends" which includes markdown backend. Open your .md file in Okular which then renders it nicely. Print. -- /// Tee

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

from input file or standard input stream at one time. The tool could also have --obs= option for setting how many bytes it writes to the standard output at one time before filling the output buffer again. That's what "dd's" ibs= and obs= do.) -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://w

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

he time as epoch time e.g. "date +%s" and > then you can subtract one from the other¹. Also, Bash has variable EPOCHSECONDS which expands to the current Unix epoch time. $ echo $EPOCHSECONDS; sleep 5; echo $EPOCHSECONDS 1702812641 1702812646 -- /// Teemu Likonen

Re: logging no longer standard?

y nice part of it. I use systemd units in such way that would have been difficult before. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: why is os-prober disabled by default

this has now been disabled by default in the latest upstream release. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#grub-os-prober -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc De

Re: 2012 MacBook Pro Debian Bookworm Install

lay > before it eventually starts Grub. > Do you know how to get into the EFI to change the POST settings? No, sorry. I have not seen any EFI settings in my Macbook Air, ever. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signatu

Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key

s key id, key fingerprint or user id argument(s). I suggest that you check your key's fingerprint with "gpg -K" command and then use the fingerprint the select the key for export. gpg --output key.gpg --export-secret-key F514B7B57C2960FA7D6FF4E15BA322F72BEF564B -- /// Teemu Likonen

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

sonable" is vague but here are more options: Nitro PC or Nitro Pad (used Lenovo): https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitropc-132 https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitropad-t430-119 https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitropad-x230-67 "Disabled Intel Management Eng

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

wn Tuxedo computer myself so I can't tell much.) -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

an tell CUPS "Please set up a queue for a printer > whose IP address is 10.76.172.100 even though you can't discover it with > your fancy tools"? I would try to add manually one of these connection addresses: http://10.76.172.100:631 ipp://10.76.172.100:631 -- /// Teemu Lik

SDDM display manager, two monitors out of order

the script would execute "xrandr" with my preferred options and finally run the default setup file /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup. But that's not too nice for a desktop system. After all a major Linux desktop system should handle multiple monitors without such low-level hackery, right?

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

any sendmails installed. A lower level option for constructing valid emails is "mime-construct". From letters are in the beginning of this line because I want to test my own message and email client: the file that is saved locally in my computer and the file which comes through the mailin

Re: GPG problems

and write something like this: debug-level expert #or: guru log-file /tmp/dirmngr-log.txt Then kill dirmngr $ gpgconf --kill dirmngr and try key servers again. See the log file mentioned above. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/t

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

* 2022-11-01 16:27:25+0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your > machine? And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it means ASCII a

Re: How does mailutils "mail" command or cron contact local MTA?

d attachment markup yourself is not going > to be fun. Mailx, or even better, Mutt: mutt [-nx] [-e command] [-F rcfile] [-b bcc-addr] [-c cc-addr] [-s subject] [-a file ... --] to-addr ... < message -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tl

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

ood to bring attention to long-ignored bugs in Debian. It can help get them fixed sooner. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Hibernate filled my /root

content so that it has this: [Unit] ConditionACPower= After editing you can verify the unit file with: $ systemctl cat logrotate.service -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: /var/log/journal/ size question

. Logs will not fill your hard disk. No need to worry. You can read about the log maintenance logic from journald.conf(5) manual page: man journald.conf -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Descriptio

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

ot;avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp" Should be, if the print server has setting "Share printers connected to this system". Obviously Cups and Avahi must be running on machines in the same network. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9

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

someone has tried to automatically collect a lot of email addresses and ended up getting also those message id's. Then an attacker tries to intrude with those addresses. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: how to join 2 video files with ffmpeg or mencoder

n use a FFmpeg command line like this: ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i list.txt [...] In the place of "[...]" you will have all the codec, filter and output options. Some examples: -c copy ready.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 24 -c:a aac -q:a 2 ready.mkv -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-

Re: exim4-base dependency on mysql?

description says: In addition to the features already supported by exim4-daemon-light, exim4-daemon-heavy includes LDAP, sqlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL data lookups, [...] If you want lighter version of Exim install exim4-daemon-light package instead. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlik

Re: gpg-agent, smartcard remembers PIN forever

temctl --user stop gpg-agent.service The agent process will be started automatically next time it is needed and smart card must be authenticated again with PIN. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

perhaps use some of the following subcommands: timedatectl set-timezone [...] timedatectl set-local-rct [...] timedatectl set-time [...] timedatectl set-ntp [...] -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

i linux-image-amd64 - Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

brand. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Filesystem and free space

ptions for an existing file system. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to debug Yubikey communication

y read some of the "man scdaemon" manual too. I don't know about your actual problem and probably can't help with PGP smart cards. In addition to this mailing list gnupg-users list is a good option too. https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- /// Teemu Liko

Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

u |head -n2 Architecture:x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: USB Install Fails: does not detect the installer USB drive

ce files /dev/sda and its partitions. The solution that worked for me: I removed the installer USB stick and inserted it again. Then the installer finds the device and proceeds with the install. Technically there is now device file /dev/sdb and its partitions. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.ik

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

hat, I want all the permissions to remain the same, but the > ownership should be changed according to a provided map. Looks exactly like what "rsync --usermap=FROM:TO" can do. There is also "--groupmap" option for mapping groups. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. h

Re: bookworm

* 2021-08-16 12:14:41+0100, mick crane wrote: > Are there release notes for bookworm somewhere ? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=debian+release+notes+bookworm -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Descript

Re: Issues with Bullseye

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib [...] -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

he oldest not running kernel and initrd file and update the kernel with package manager. Then I would delete the old kernel and related packages with the package manager. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: bash syntax

* 2021-07-30 07:41:23-0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 08:48:28AM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> You have already got answers but here is another. Bash has a special >> arithmetic evaluation mode which happens in: >> >> let ... # r

Re: bash syntax

the value of the expression -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Using fontforge to convert TrueType or OpenType fonts to PostScript Type 1

Fontforge but the script itself is simple and the code explains itself. Give it font file names as arguments. #!/usr/bin/fontforge i = 1 while ( i < $argc ) Open($argv[i]) Generate($argv[i]:r + ".pfa") i++ endloop -- /// Teemu Likonen - .

Re: Makefile help

ir/%.src,dest_dir/%.dst,$(src)) all: $(dst) .PHONY: all dest_dir/%.dst: source_dir/%.src @mkdir -p $$(dirname $@) CMD $< $@ -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Mail Reader

read (Usenet) newsgroups. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Useful use of dd

* 2021-07-02 12:52:53+0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Teemu Likonen wrote: >> For this new subject I will add another use: quickly create empty file >> of specific size, for example 5 * 1024 bytes: >>$ dd of=empty obs=1024 seek=5 count=0 > > Not to forget creation of

Re: Useful use of dd [was: Useless use of "dd"]

ill add another use: quickly create empty file of specific size, for example 5 * 1024 bytes: $ dd of=empty obs=1024 seek=5 count=0 -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Useless use of "dd"

y the same as either of these: gzip image.gz gzip --to-stdout /dev/sdX >image.gz Usually we don't need "dd" for anything but there are some options which are useful sometimes. For example, "dd" can report progress to standard err

Re: [OT] openPGP: keeping primary key offline?

a barrier (together with passphrase) for others to steal and use the key -- or for the owner to lose it. But if you don't consider this a relevant threat then there is no need to keep your primary key far and offline. Key management guides don't know what is relevant to you. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .

Re: Find packages from a specific maintainer

it. > > Is it possible to search in the maintainer field with apt? Yes. "aptitude" can do that: aptitude search '?maintainer(Debian XMPP)' -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bullseye: Redshift and Wayland

https://github.com/jonls/redshift -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

latest backup "--link-dest" creates hard links. Old backups can be deleted by removing old (or any) directory tree. The trees don't depend on each other. What else do we need? OK, some people may need compression but usually hard disk space is cheap. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https

Re: Sudo ... use or delete?

esktop (>= 4:5.10) i A plasma-desktop Depends kde-cli-tools (>= 4:5.14) i A kde-cli-tools Depends libkf5su5 (>= 4.96.0) i A libkf5su5 Depends sudo -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055

Re: Archivemail

* 2021-01-24 16:40:45-0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Take a look at the mboxgrep package. Maybe you should explain how it helps the original poster and his problem. See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/01/msg00876.html -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tliko

Re: Archivemail

with maildir email storage which has one file per message. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Replying

ignore Reply-To and reply only to sender's From address. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Replying

interpretation and behaviour. This could help you understand why you sometimes get private replies. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Replying

oftware don't agree with all the different semantics of replying. Widely supported features are "reply to sender" (Reply-To, From) and "reply to all". Debian mailing list policy (send only to list address) is not easy for many mail user agents. "Reply to all" wou

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

* 2020-11-01 11:09:50+01, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote: >> From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111 >> megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it started >> grow again. > > Amateur

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

* 2020-10-26 20:04:55+03, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)? >> (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?) > > For Debian, it may work. For RHEL, for ins

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

n 2005-02-27. There are ideas about /etc/X11/Xsession script too. Debian developers certainly can fix this if they want. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

The .xsession-errors problem

is this well-known indefinitely growing file and seemingly no automatic rotation. From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111 megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it started grow again. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP

Re: Replacement Email Client

* 2020-10-25 06:51:36-04, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 6:40 AM wrote: >> alpine > +1 It would be useful to add some information how the suggested client (Alpine) serves the purpose that was asked by the original poster. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki

Re: Replacement Email Client

and "Notmuch Emacs" automatically render HTML mail nicely as plain text. User can can also open HTML and other MIME parts in external viewer like web browser. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

"What's wrong with...?"

t such counter question are strange. Questions which have completely wrong premises. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Linux-Fan's bad signatures

would be able > decrypt and read them? > @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ syswtems: https://www.7-zip.org/ Encrypt on Linux: -$ 7z a -ptestwort -mhe=on secret.7z secret.txt +$ 7z a -ptestwort -mhe=3Don secret.7z secret.txt Decrypt on Windows: Double-Click or use commandline: % 7z x -o. secret.7z -- /// Te

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

ature. About this thread's subject: If the original requirement for "reasonable security" means also data integrity (the content is untouched) or authentication (the sender is verified) then this all starts to point to digital signatures, thus OpenPGP (like GnuPG). -- /// Teemu Likonen -

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

* 2020-08-21 22:00:45+03, Teemu Likonen wrote: > If your security is just about confidentiality (other's can't have the > content) and you don't have really serious hackers targeting you then > probably encrypted Zip archives are good enough. Obviously a good enough > passwo

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

ons which work with operations against evil state enemies. But most people don't have such serious enemies. Any password will stop almost all third parties. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Apt-get vs Aptitude vs Apt

normal security upgrades and package installations user can choose any tool. The difference is that apt-get and other apt-* tools are more low level and stable to use in scripts. Obviously it can be used interactively too. Apt and Aptitude are meant for interactive use. -- /// Teemu Li

Re: [OT] Lisp is back

is reader macro ' and expression 't is expanded to (quote t). -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: On line meet up Thursday 17:30

2020-07-23 07:30:00+00:00 -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Tex characters

s not forget \, command which is a fixed 1/6 em space.) -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: using tar

ive Bash completion helps in interactive shell: tar --cr -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need commands

ROHIT SONI [2020-06-13T10:12:06+05:30] wrote: > I need full commands for 2020.2 gnu/linux rolling kali tty1 List all commands in a terminal program and Bash shell: ls -l {/usr,}/{s,}bin/; help -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // Open

Re: cron error - date command

Keith Bainbridge [2020-02-01T21:42:25+11] wrote: > echo `date +%Y%b%d` >> /home/keith/.bash_history > I have this line as a cron-job, and constantly get error messages: > > /bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected

Re: Persistent Desktop Environment

Henning Follmann [2019-12-27T16:17:04-05] wrote: > Somehow my parents are still messing up their computer. > So is there a way to lock down firefox user interface? I want only > bookmarks visible and editable (add). But no accidental drags or > clicks to change the user interface. Is that

Re: what happen to blkid in buster?

Long Wind [2019-10-18T09:12:11Z] wrote: > how can i run blkid in buster? Run it as the root user. -- /// OpenPGP key: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 // https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=tliko...@iki.fi / https://keybase.io/tlikonen https://github.com/tlikonen signature.asc

Another "useless us of cat" discussion

The Wanderer [2019-08-31T08:39:56-04] wrote: > (Yes, that's technically a "senseless use of cat". I do it anyway, > because always using pipes at every stage makes it easy to add or > remove filtering stages without having to adjust the syntax in another > part of the pipeline, and because it's

Re: Error with logrotate.

phi...@treads.nz [2019-08-13T09:30:34+12] wrote: > I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following error.  > I'm guessing it's something to do with permissions? > > Something to do with the create 640 root adm? > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: unable to open

Re: Magnifying glass character, .

pe...@easthope.ca [2019-07-27T21:48:12-07] wrote: > Does anyone happen to know: is a Unicode assigned character > or a Debian private use character? Unicode knows, and you can search using this page: https://www.unicode.org/charts/index.html Character U+1F50E RIGHT-POINTING MAGNIFYING

Re: column - how to get it updated?

David Wright [2019-07-25T23:21:06-05] wrote: > I was under the impression that /etc/alternatives is the mechanism by > which "rename" can be used for two different commands, prename and > file-rename, which would otherwise collide with the name > /usr/bin/rename. If several packages provide

Re: clone ACL permissions

Adam Weremczuk [2019-07-23T11:42:00+01] wrote: > Is it possible to "clone" ACL permissions? > > I.e. recursively read ACL (getfacl?) on all files and folders and > write (setacl?) to the same list of files and folders elsewhere? Maybe rsync's -A/--acls option is useful here. rsync --verbose

Re: (bad) firewall status

Charles Zeitler [2019-07-21T15:25:54-05] wrote: > i have: > debian@debian:~$ sudo systemctl status firewalld.service > ● firewalld.service >Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) >Active: inactive (dead) > how do i restore it? The unit is "masked" which means that it can't be started. You can

Re: Performance of mu in buster

juh [2019-07-20T19:44:47+02] wrote: > I am very disappointed of mu in buster. In stretch I index nearly > 300.000 emails with mu. Each time I index new mails in mu4e I had to > wait 15 minutes until the indexing was complete. So I hoped that > indexing with mu 1.2 would be much faster, but

Re: stopping firewall

Charles Zeitler [2019-07-20T11:29:03-05] wrote: > how do i confirm > sudo systemctl stop firewalld.service > works? You can get the status of systemd unit. systemctl status firewalld.service -- /// OpenPGP key: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 //

Re: Which signing subkey does GPG use?

Nate Bargmann [2019-07-09T09:18:51-05] wrote: > pub dsa1024 2000-05-02 [SCA] [expires: 2024-07-06] > 82D64F6B0E67CD41F689BBA6FB2C5130D55A8819 > uid [ultimate] Nate Bargmann > uid [ultimate] Nate Bargmann > uid [ultimate] Nate Bargmann > sub elg4096

Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

Nate Bargmann [2019-07-09T09:00:36-05] wrote: > * On 2019 09 Jul 02:32 -0500, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> Options for "import-options" are for "--import" command and >> "export-options" are for "--export" command. Both of them can used >>

Re: Upgrading to Buster but keeping Postgresql-9.6

Phil Endecott [2019-07-08T22:24:17+01] wrote: > Indeed, not upgrading to Buster is a possibility. Also upgrading > PostgreSQL to version 11 is a possibility. I think I understand the > issues with each of those options, but I don't have a good > understanding of the issues with trying to keep

Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

Nate Bargmann [2019-07-08T21:14:42-05] wrote: > I may just be pedant here, but I found the current manual page for gpg > in Buster shows that 'import-clean' is a value for the > 'import-options' key. I had it paired with the 'keyserver-options' and > it seemed to work there too. Options for

Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

Andrei POPESCU [2019-07-08T10:28:59+03] wrote: > What would be the alternative to SKS keyservers? Not "the" alternative but keyserver-wise there is which I mentioned and which uses different software. There are also other key delivery methods like WKD or just publish

Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

Nate Bargmann [2019-07-07T13:28:27-05] wrote: > apparently this [WKD] is something that is going to have to be > implemented for every email domain. Yes. It is not used very much yet but some organizations like debian.org and kernel.org have it. > While it is probably good in its own right, the

Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

Andrei POPESCU [2019-07-07T20:31:23+03] wrote: > My gpg.conf has: > > keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net SKS keyservers can be risky because they allow anybody to submit any number of key signatures to other people's keys. Recently some keys have been poisoned with a great number

Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

Nate Bargmann [2019-07-07T12:03:35-05] wrote: > Within the past day I have received two mails via the debian-announce > list (I recently subscribed), and have seen some on this list where I > am seeing the output from gpgme in neomutt that the signing key > expired some time ago. Not expired

Re: X server does not start after upgrading to Debian 10

Teemu Likonen [2019-07-07T14:29:03+03] wrote: > The problem: X server doesn't start anymore with Debian 10's default > kernel version 4.19. The X server starts and works nicely with kernel > 4.9 which I have still installed from Debian 9. > > What happens: Even a simple X sessi

X server does not start after upgrading to Debian 10

Upgrade to Debian 10 didn't end up well although all packages upgraded smoothly. The problem: X server doesn't start anymore with Debian 10's default kernel version 4.19. The X server starts and works nicely with kernel 4.9 which I have still installed from Debian 9. What happens: Even a simple

Re: Attributing

Stefan Monnier [2019-07-06T12:29:18-04:00] wrote: >> Attribute quotes accurately. > > Oh, right, another reason why I prefer not to put attributions is to > make sure they're not inaccurate. > >> You've been told this before, BTW, at least once (it's in the >> archives) as you appear to be

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

The Wanderer [2019-06-23 11:46:34-04:00] wrote: > On 2019-06-23 at 11:23, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> If you add line "auto-key-retrieve" to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf then >> GnuPG will automatically try to retrieve keys from keyservers when >> you verify a s

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

pt runs gpg --batch --no-auto-check-trustdb --edit-key FPR clean save for every key (FPR is key's fingerprint). -- /// Teemu Likonen <https://github.com/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

ubtitles=filename=subtitles.ass \ -c:v libx264 -crf 22 -c:a copy output.mp4 -- /// Teemu Likonen <https://github.com/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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