Re: selinux on bookworm

2024-05-17 Thread Tom Dial
efault, but I have not found SELinux especially hard to administer on a stable Debian system, apart from the fact that it comes with a learning curve. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Tom Dial
t, it always is a wise to consider the terms of use and other legal documentation and exercise discretion. If you decide to use it, I use (as root) apt install zoom_amd64.deb It installs under /opt except for a symbolic link /usr/bin/zoom -> /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher Regards, Tom Dial

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Dial
Hat or HP-UX or Solaris) and I don't have any idea. If it were debian(-derived) you could say "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" - might be worth a try. Or maybe consult the vendor. Regards, Tom Dial The current state is that the 3d printer has only a 169.254.x.y link-local address

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

2023-12-03 Thread Tom Dial
the collapse. As a reference point Isolated Web Co is an occasional annoyance here on machines with well over 64G memory. I kill it without mercy when it appears to be causing swap. Regards, Tom Dial The issue is not so much Isolated Web Co being terminated, but my entire Mate session being

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-08 Thread Tom Dial
On 11/8/23 03:20, gene heskett wrote: On 11/8/23 00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 07:19:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and an ext4 system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk is needed? Is

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-08 Thread Tom Dial
On 11/7/23 17:19, gene heskett wrote: On 11/7/23 18:42, Tom Dial wrote: On 11/6/23 08:47, Franco Martelli wrote: On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; As usual, the man page may as well be written in swahili. The NDE syndrome, meaning No D-d Examples. I have

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-07 Thread Tom Dial
nd SolaRIS) and Linux environments. Both have learning curves that I would judge comparable, both are flexible and fairly easy to manage, and both are or can be highly resilient. On the whole, though, I prefer ZFS. Regards, Tom Dial How about to use debian-installer: burn the dvd image of Bookworm

Re: Can't mount NFS NAS after major upgrade

2023-09-17 Thread Tom Dial
. If the Synology NAS supports NFS, that might be a better approach in the long run, though. Regards, Tom Dial Research into this problem made me try similar techniques after having installed nfs-utils. I got bogged down by a required procedure entailing exportation of NFS volume information in order

Re: How to recover from a broken kernel upgrade

2023-09-14 Thread Tom Dial
to update the driver source dkms is working with. (I don't know about, or vouch for, that github, or know anything about the AC1200 or its Realtek driver.) Regards Tom Dial /var/lib/dkms/rtl88x2bu/5.13.1/build/os_dep/linux/wifi_regd.c: In function ‘rtw_regd_init’: /var/lib/dkms/rtl88x2bu/5.13.1/bu

Re: Gene's avahi bogeyman is not real (Was Re: how to find outregdomain/country of wifi network)

2023-05-15 Thread Tom Dial
tay well Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Tom Dial
, Tom Dial On 5/1/23 9:15 PM, Tom Dial wrote: This Debian-user thread seems to have gone silent, but it is not clear whether your problem is solved. If it is, just ignore this and move on. If not: The Wanderer, in an earlier post (04/28/2023 at 19;02), suggested reinstalling the base-files

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread Tom Dial
isting one that you might have changed. It should be safe to keep the one already installed. If you have questions about any of this, feel free to ask, either privately or on the list. Regards, Tom Dial On 4/28/23 20:36, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Here is what I got. root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */

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

2023-04-10 Thread Tom Dial
On 4/8/23 08:19, Emanuel Berg wrote: Tom Dial wrote: Look at the use of parentheses in Lisp [...] I have thought about that - is Lisp possible without them? But how do you then know priority? I'm sure someone tried to get rid of them, but how? Its quite a few years since I had anything

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

2023-04-03 Thread Tom Dial
and therefore subject to correction. Like my Logic instructor many years ago, I am not sure why anyone would want to do that, though. Overall, this has been a pretty interesting thread, at least to me. Regards. Tom Dial ( ...)

Re: how do I stop FF from jumping workspaces when I click on a linkin t-bird

2023-01-08 Thread Tom Dial
in tabs instead of new windows box under Tabs. It is in the Firefox settings, in the General section under "Tabs." Regards, Tom Dial not found in settings of the version I have in an uptodate bullseye. 102.6.0 (64-bit) (tbird) And that option is already set in firefox. Che

Re: t-bird vs filters to sort msgs

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Dial
I don't find any references to account setups for either one. Is my macular degeneration of my 88 yo eyes hiding that from me? Since know and prefer fetchmail and procmail, it might be worthwhile to describe on this list about any problems you encountered installing or reinstalling them. Reg

Re: Logout at apt upgrade

2022-12-01 Thread Tom Dial
tly better, but inconvenient, alternative is to use a serial console, which requires extra equipment and upfront configuration. It usually is not necessary. Regards, Tom Dial Thanks, best, Loïc

Re: tbird AND javamail both broken

2022-11-19 Thread Tom Dial
nt; if so that might have something to do with the problem at hand. I take no position, though, on the question of whether the message is well-formed. That is beyond my knowledge level. Regards, Tom Dial msg.eml Description: application/extension-eml

Re: Upgrade issue with Debian 9 -> 10

2022-07-05 Thread Tom Dial
life as Debian 1.3 (Bo) and has been upgraded, now, through 11.3, the current release, with an Oracle 8.0.5 DBMS that was installed around . The upgrades ultimately finished satisfactorily, although were occasional bumps in the road. Regards, Tom Dial In thi situation, I might be tempted

Re: [FIXED] Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it.

2022-01-03 Thread Tom Dial
e available. That is the case with my systems that were installed from media, some dating to 2006 (or likely earlier; I only checked three). Regards, Tom Dial > >> John Doe > > Cheers John, Gene Heskett. >

Re: Filesystem and free space

2021-12-13 Thread Tom Dial
For Debian, see https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.quotas.html. Man pages for mkfs.ext4, tune2fs, and edquota (and probably others) have additional relevant information. Regards, Tom Dial > > -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: > 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462

Re: Don't try this at home kids

2021-11-29 Thread Tom Dial
found it generally fairly easy to find good documentation (e. g., Red Hat). And I expect those who originated it, some still employed at USNSA, also think well of it, along with the current maintainers and likely enough quite a few other users. Regards, Tom Dial > > > ... > -- > JHHL >

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 11/13/21 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 13 November 2021 15:44:35 Andy Smith wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 01:14:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I wouldn't argue near as loud if it hadn't already been proven to >>> me that what you call filesystem UUID's are volatile. >>

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Tom Dial
ependent times by using a >> mountpoint outside of /home/richard (e.g. /media/richards_downloads) >> and having `Downloads` as a symbolic link pointing to the mountpoint >> of choice (`ln -s /media/richards_downloads Downloads`). >> >>> 2. How could I have found the answer? >> >> By trying it out :) > > *BAD* answer. > Obviously I was asking how could I have found the appropriate > documentation. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/index.en.html See 6.3.4. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: First time WINE user looking for tutorial

2021-10-10 Thread Tom Dial
necessary for a vanilla or nearly vanilla Windows setup. For those instances where they are, it always is nice to have a bootable CD, DVD, or USB key with Linux and a set of common tools on it. I generally use a recent Debian DVD #1 for this and install any missing tools as necessary once it

Re: Bug in senddoc

2021-10-02 Thread Tom Dial
le for > apparmor shipped in. Therefor my problem. > The bug, if any, should be for LibreOffice. The behavior is a feature of Apparmor and other Mandatory Access Control modules like SELinux and possibly others, for which the default is to deny any access for which there is no rule allowing it. Regards, Tom Dial > > Thank you > > > Al

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-24 Thread Tom Dial
S Constitution's first amendment and the rather extensive derived jurisprudence protects a lot of opinionated and arguably rude statements that some might consider defamatory and that in some countries may be legally actionable as such. It is much better, and almost always much more productive, to avoid personal attacks and maintain polite demeanor in discussions. Regards, Tom Dial > Thoughts?

Re: removing modules

2021-07-03 Thread Tom Dial
e most of my systems are laptops with everything except /boot on encrypted media. Regards, Tom Dial >

HP zBook keyboard issue

2021-06-13 Thread Tom Dial
fingerprint reader remaining. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-29 Thread Tom Dial
he usual way to create raid under LVM is to specify it by type when creating the logical volume. In this case, for (partly made up) example: vgcreate vg2t /dev/sda /dev/sdb lvcreate --type raid0 -name lv-stg --size 16700GiB vg2t This would result in one logical volume, /dev/vg2t/, split between the tw

Re: Zoom.

2021-04-21 Thread Tom Dial
t 8.0+. 2. Install with apt, specifying the full path to the .deb file sudo apt /tmp/zoom_16775.0418_amd64.deb This should cause installation of any necessary dependencies. Cindy Causey's report suggests using dpkg is likely bring problems on occasion. Regards

HP zBook G5 issues

2021-04-18 Thread Tom Dial
-laptop and debian-users since it is not whether this is exclusively a laptop type problem and apologize if that is inappropriate. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

2021-04-18 Thread Tom Dial
and /var/log/auth.log for events that correlate with the connection attempt. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

2021-04-18 Thread Tom Dial
and /var/log/auth.log for events that correlate with the connection attempt. >>> That would be /var/log/messages and /var/log/auth.log on the 3dprint machine. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: How to view a troff formatted file?

2021-02-22 Thread Tom Dial
sr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin, or under /opt or some other installation directory, read the man pages for man and manpath carefully while studying the file /etc/manpath.config. In them you will find the information you need to put the manpage wherever you like. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Zoom.

2020-10-18 Thread Tom Dial
ng by default on Debian 10 has no apparent problem with it. Regards, Tom Dial > > Because zoom is not trusted software, I did this in a separate primary > partition where I made a clean minimal install of Debian with LXDE, > used only for zoom. > > That install has no LUKS tools inst

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-29 Thread Tom Dial
rong) ideas > like "you need NAT to be secure". +2 I use NAT for convenience, and a firewall (and other measures) for security. And thank you for stating the distinction clearly; I sort of knew it, but clarity always is a good thing. Tom Dial

Re: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-09-25 Thread Tom Dial
for what that's worth. As an owner of a few Seagate disks and an almost exclusive user of Linux for more than 25 years, I find this frank and honest exchange interesting and informative, both technically and in what it says about Seagate's customer support quality and policy. Regards, Tom Dial > > -- > John Doe

Re: passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-02 Thread Tom Dial
ommon recommendation of unique and unrelated authentication secrets per account is incorporated. I have, overall, more than a hundred distinct accounts on systems and with vendors, nearly all of them unique; I find a password manager (KeepassX) a much easier way to generate and manage the authenti

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 8/13/20 13:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote: >> Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at >> >> https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B >> u

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread Tom Dial
ng a file system package from main, except for the notice the GPL incompatibility notice that will pop up during installation. I would recommend installing from buster-backports to get the current openzfs release which includes improvements (notably native encryption) as well as fixes. Tom Dial > > > David

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-08-01 Thread Tom Dial
On 8/1/20 11:09, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: >> >>> On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >>>> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >>>> the ini

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-08-01 Thread Tom Dial
On 8/1/20 05:23, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. >> Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-08-01 Thread Tom Dial
dated or were updated with slightly incompatible data. One fix appears to be to reinstall grub using a rescue CD or another system. That worked for me. Tom Dial > > > I couldn't find documentation that addressed either issue, though > I think > > the answer to 2)

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-30 Thread Tom Dial
an hour or so longer than a conventional install. Good instructions are found at https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Buster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html ZFS is my current default for new installations and I am gradually upgrading existing installations to it. For a ZFS based NAS, you almost certainly would be rewarded by increasing memory to the 16 GiB max cited in the original post. Regards, Tom Dial > >> Not "built on two-releases-ago Debian". Current, stable Debian. > <<< Snip >>> > B >

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Tom Dial
ative almost certainly is rubbish; it is, at worst, only slightly more, and the benefits are substantially more. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Putting a Debian Repository in a Mint 20 System for Chromium

2020-07-08 Thread Tom Dial
t; that they provide an Expert Text > Mode Install for Mint, like Debian does. Yes, I needed help with the > Ubiquity System Mint uses for its Install). > > [Humor] > There have been discussions about not creating a FrankenDebian System. How > about FrankenMint or FrankenUbuntu one? > [/Humor] > > Thanks in advance, > > Kenneth Parker > Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

2020-07-07 Thread Tom Dial
On 7/4/20 15:38, Tom Dial wrote: > Greetings. > > While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my > wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in > Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not > support Enigmai

Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

2020-07-05 Thread Tom Dial
On 7/4/20 16:43, Weaver wrote: > On 05-07-2020 07:38, Tom Dial wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my >> wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in >> Thunderbird 78,

Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

2020-07-04 Thread Tom Dial
rs since I used them (fetchmail + mutt, IIRC). I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature, if known, would be any capability to ingest old messages from Thunderbird. Thanks, Tom Dial

Re: Disabling recommends - was [Re: bash-completion pros/cons]

2020-06-20 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/20/20 13:17, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 20 iun 20, 18:37:31, Brian wrote: >> On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 17:53:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Vi, 19 iun 20, 15:12:27, Tom Dial wrote: >>>> >>>> I notice that tasksel (= /usr/bin/tas

Re: Disabling recommends - was [Re: bash-completion pros/cons]

2020-06-19 Thread Tom Dial
:Retries=3 install I suspect that has something to do with the apparent fact that tasksel ignores "recommends=false" from other sources. I also suspect that editing that line would change the behavior in the desired direction. >From long-standing practice and inclination I have no wish to test this, but someone else might. I assume this would need to be done by skipping tasksel during installation of the d-i minimal system, then altering and running the installed tasksel after the post-install reboot. Regards, Tom Dial >

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread Tom Dial
uld then be used to identify which packages would be installed. In the alternative, you could capture the output and run it in test mode, which would show fairly precisely the effect. Regards, Tom Dial > TIA

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-08 Thread Tom Dial
ives. Even where that is not so such a product may, as Zoom is, be so much more widely used that it is much more useful as a general matter. Regards Tom Dial [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210 > > RLH

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread Tom Dial
#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main > contrib non-free >  Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: And this one > #deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security > main contrib non-free (You could remove or omit the non-free and/or contrib if you don't really need packages from those repositories). Regards Tom Dial

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-05 Thread Tom Dial
ions' laws are different). Cloud session storage might also be an issue, although the Debian client session recording appears to be local when activated. Regards, Tom Dial [1] Using apt install, and the absolute path, instead of dpkg, may have helped resolve dependencies; I have seen reports to th

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/4/20 02:45, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: > Marco Möller wrote: >>> In the fairly large number of posts in this thread I don't recall seeing >>> file system snapshots suggested. My current preference is ZFS, which I >>> know from experience to be up to what I understand to be the goal here. >>

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-01 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/1/20 00:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >On Du, 31 mai 20, 20:52:06, Tom Dial wrote: >> >> Moreover, ZFS is not DFSG and GPL compliant, and quite a few >> users would avoid it because of that. > >ZFS is licensed under the CDDL[1], which is both free (as in fr

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Tom Dial
to be the goal here. However, root on ZFS is a distinctly non-standard and hands on install that is fairly straightforward and decently documented, but not for everyone. Moreover, ZFS is not DFSG and GPL compliant, and quite a few users would avoid it because of that. Alternatives include LVM and btrfs, and possibly others. I have used LVM snapshots a little, but not for this use case. It appears to have the capability to accomplish the objective, as described in https://linuxconfig.org/create-and-restore-manual-logical-volume-snapshots for instance. I have not used btrfs and therefore have no opinion about its fitness for the case at hand. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-29 Thread Tom Dial
ifies the Default profile were changed to specify the older profile. And I suspect your missing passwords and maybe some other things, would then be available. I think I actually have done that, but it would be a long time back and I do not remember why. Regards, Tom Dial > > Cheers, Gene Heskett >

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Dial
s. Unplanned reboots seem an even worse idea inasmuch as they occasionally will either fail or affect system function. (Updating without rebooting also may do that, of course). >>> Frankly the update shouldn't be allowed if your backup is actually >>> running. So it might be safer to schedule the update and reboot if >>> needed before the backup starts. That means one cron driven script >>> does it all in the sequence desired. With respect, I would run the backup first and schedule upgrades and possible reboots to follow, and perhaps depend on success of, the backup. Regards, Tom Dial > > Cheers, Gene Heskett >

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-10 Thread Tom Dial
ing, you could make an LVM physical volume on /dev/sda2 and add it to one of the other volume groups, although both seem to have plenty of space. Regards Tom Dial > > Yeah, that's probably what I'll do. Fortunately, it's an amd64 machine, so > I'll be able to use GRML to do the work. > Enjoy! > Rick >

Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot

2020-04-22 Thread Tom Dial
rom what now is present on the device. I lean toward that rather than a file system bug. A five month old machine should be under warranty, although I do not know whether installing Linux would affect that. It would be worth looking into and should offload firmware upgrade for or replacement of the block device. Regards, Tom Dial > > Thanks in advance! > Ralph >

Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot

2020-04-21 Thread Tom Dial
ck to the list. Thanks much for the suggestions! The fact that the inode numbers mentioned in the initial post all are near each other hints, to me, that the storage device is the most likely source of difficulty. I would try smartctl -t long as root, or sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -t long as an ordinary user authorized to use privileged commands. (after installing the smartmontools if it is not present) You can do that without disrupting normal processing. It may take a long time to complete (and will tell you when you start it). After it completes you can run smartctl -a (or sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -a) and see a report that will confirm (or not) a problem, Regards Tom Dial > > Regards, > Ralph >

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-13 Thread Tom Dial
account is no longer allowed to participate on The Register forums"), apparently for asking why he rejected a post I thought unobjectionable and entirely compliant with the comments guidelines. 3. I also know nothing about Discourse. Although the remarks so far in the thread don't particularly make me want to use it, I don't find the idea entirely abhorrent. Tom Dial > > Celejar >

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

2020-04-04 Thread Tom Dial
desktop has two hard drives. This extra one > had no part in the install process, I only used it later on as an > extension to save files, I mount it manually every time I want to use > it. I didn't see any point to partition it. I successfully mounted it in > my recovery boot, and everything seemed to be OK at first sight. > > Regards, > > Bernard Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-03 Thread Tom Dial
o compensate partly for isolation dictated by prudence in the face of a rather nasty epidemic. So far, it installed cleanly and seems likely to be functional and generally fit for purpose. > Regards Tom Dial

Re: LVM Boot fail

2020-02-16 Thread Tom Dial
On 2/16/20 05:36, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:57:36PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: >> Neither the host nor the guest VM is rebooted often, and it is not a >> particularly serious problem now that it's known, but it would be better >> gone. I

LVM Boot fail

2020-02-15 Thread Tom Dial
o relevant documentation or other information, or suggestions for fixing it. and wouldn't object to information about fixing it, if anyone has encountered it previously. Thanks Tom Dial

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 2/13/20 14:50, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 01:57:49PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: >> XFS is excellent, and so also is JFS. > > Yes on XFS, no on JFS. (XFS is very actively developed; JFS is moribund, > has no really compelling benefits over other filesyt

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Tom Dial
linus-torvalds-zfs-statements-arent-right-heres-the-straight-dope/ [2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/13/zfs_linux/ Regards, Tom Dial > > I do not recommend btrfs and anyone who does should have a look at > the linux-btrfs mailing list to see how many cases of data loss and > loss of availability people have reported this month. > > Cheers, > Andy >

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Tom Dial
resses dual boot, although it would appear possible to do so with appropriate intervention in the partitioning step. The machine I am using now is dual boot, with Windows 10 on one disk, Debian 10 root-on-zfs on a second, and either selectable from the grub menu. [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian-Bust

Re: Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-28 Thread Tom Dial
On 1/28/20 03:15, Aidan Gauland wrote: On 27/01/20 12:40 pm, Tom Dial wrote: I can't tell whether or not this response is facetious. If it is, and you are not determined for other reasons to use Linux, I recommend FreeNAS No, I was serious, but I do have limits.  I've looked at FreeNAS

Re: Re: Planning a Debian NAS

2020-01-26 Thread Tom Dial
ny of them. Full disclosure: I have no connection with IXsystems other than as a satisfied user, and have used Linux (nearly all Debian) almost exclusively for over 25 years. Regards, Tom Dial td...@acm.org

Re: How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

2018-01-03 Thread Tom Dial
On 01/02/2018 11:14 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 02/01/2018 à 00:56, Tom Dial a écrit : >> >>> Which is the boot disk ? >> >> /dev/sda > > Then you didn't need to make room for GRUB on /dev/sdb. > >> So maybe the right plan i

Re: How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

2018-01-01 Thread Tom Dial
On 01/01/2018 02:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/01/2018 à 06:51, Tom Dial a écrit : >> Upgrading a workstation from Jessie to Stretch I found that the original >> disk partitioning left insufficient space for grub (re)install. The >> system has two identical ~233 G

How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Dial
ile system backups from before the interrupted update and, before I can see any possible responses, also will have a backup of the current state of all file systems. The system appears to be running normally and I do not plan to shut it down before finalizing a recovery plan. Thanks in advance, Tom Dial

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-27 Thread Tom Dial
e system. Reports of actual use, pointers, and gotchas, if any, would be useful to me and probably others. Thanks, Tom Dial >

Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Dial
oping or managing a web application I would not go out of my way to develop for, or test on, anything but reasonably current Microsoft and Apple operating systems, along with similarly current versions of standards-compliant browsers. To do so makes no economic sense. I've used Linux-based systems pretty much exclusively for about 20 years, but do not expect to be catered for when nearly everyone else uses either Windows or Mac (or Android or iOS, for which Navy Federal has banking applications that, at least on Android, work decently). Tom Dial

Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Tom Dial
t the case for navyfederal.org. > A careful look at exactly what the firewall mentioned in the initial post might reveal something, especially as the presenting symptom appears to be a hang, maybe waiting for something blocked. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-19 Thread Tom Dial
e root LV, already formatted as ext4, and offered the option of not reformatting it. The installation went forward normally, and at stage 1 completion I chose a relatively local mirror. I did not see the deb.debian.org redirector listed, which might be a nice thing. Tom Dial

Re: Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-13 Thread Tom Dial
d idea to upgrade the BIOS anyhow, as later revisions have security fixes with some frequency. > > Never did it on HP, so not sure how well it would go. But I know that > method like that/similar to that was successful on Dell laptops before. > As for how to find BIOS version, you can use dmidecode command, with > root privs to find out. > > Hope that this helps. > Tom Dial

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-03 Thread Tom Dial
you are setting it up with Gnome, the included gedit isn't half bad and pretty easy to use. A quick check for C, Python, Go, R, and Perl shows useful and appropriate highlighting of comments, strings, functions, and the like. Tom Dial > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > > -Tom

Re: Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Tom Dial
es. Same thing with cups. > > If apt insists on installing unwanted packages into your system - I can > only suggest you to consider learning the way apt works. > > > Besides, there's no point in complaining about it here. > To actually change something they suggest users to invoke an excellent > reportbug utility and transfer their wishes directly to bugs.debian.org. > > Reco > Tom Dial

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Tom Dial
On 07/03/2017 05:41 AM, Whit Hansell wrote: > Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is > currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in > finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when > I'm not printing much. Have

Re: Re: Peculiar problem with root login

2017-06-18 Thread Tom Dial
nnection closed by 127.0.0.1 [preauth] > My preferences, for what it is worth, are PermitRootLogin without-password ChallengeResponseAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no AllowUsers netuser1 \ netuser2 \ ... \ root@localhost \ root@backuphost On some systems, "localhost" doesn't work; root@::1 root@127.0.0.1 is a workaround. I have not got around to figuring out the differences, and as the circumvention is trivial it is not a high priority. This requires arranging to install each user's public key in his or her .ssh/authorized_keys file, which can be a pain on a large or active network, but not that much of a problem with up to a few dozen users and systems. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

2017-04-05 Thread Tom Dial
upgrades, and of course require that /etc/apt/sources.list include the version appropriate reference to security.debian.org - deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free for example. Tom Dial td...@acm.org

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2016 #417

2016-05-02 Thread Tom Dial
overwriting with varying patterns and then zeroing) offers protection that disk encryption does not. Neither action protects against determined state equivalent actors or malware implanted in the drive controller. Tom Dial On 05/02/2016 11:17 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: