Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-29 Thread David Christensen
On 5/28/24 17:10, John Hasler wrote: David writes: AIUI in the USA for residential 120/240V single-phase three-wire service drops, electrical utilities either run all three phases along the distribution line or they run two phases. Running one phase and a neutral instead of two phases would

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread David Christensen
reduce the power by the square root of 3. Running one phase and using the Earth as the return conductor is very dangerous and not modern practice. David

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread David Christensen
to persons and property can be extreme. How do you know that the damage your equipment suffered was due to the Cat 5e wiring and not due to the electrical power conductors? David

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread David Wright
sn't have wifi by buying dongles. That is, unless you have more than one computer in a room and they must be wire-interconnected. For good coverage upstairs, I'd get a cable from wherever to the attic and put another router up there. You could feed the signal through the soffits easily enough. Cheers, David.

Re: Touchpad not detected by kernel on ThinkPad X13 Gen5

2024-05-28 Thread David
On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 17:39, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > I recently bought a ThinkPad X13 Gen5 (benefiting from the discount > generously offered by Lenovo to Debian Developers). > > The laptop runs Debian Bookworm, and I got almost all the hardware to > work by using more recent kernel and

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread David Christensen
ine communication. I seem to recall reading that an RF choke should be installed on the incoming electrical service to prevent interference to/from the neighbors, but STFW I do not see any mention of that today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerline_Ethernet David

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
to use `-t` to downgrade some packages > > resulted in `apt` saying " is already the newest version". > > Sometimes '-t' works for me, and does what I expect, and sometimes > it doesn't. And, of course, what would interest the list is what it says when it doesn't work. > So I generelly use now the explicit version: > > apt install libc-bin=2.36-9+deb12u7 Cheers, David.

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
uilders in the days of wifi. Cheers, David.

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread David Christensen
meters, so I should be able to upgrade to 2.5GBASE-T. David

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
ease, use > > apt-get -t releasename packagename > > But that's not the whole story of what `-t` does since the above does > not explain why his attempt to use `-t` to downgrade some packages > resulted in `apt` saying " is already the newest version". Neither syntax will specify a newer version for plain "install" to install or upgrade. Cheers, David.

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
So what did it say after that? > Is there some way to get apt to reinstall a package such that it does > not think it has to uninstall things which depend on it because it's > being immediatly reinstalled? That is the idea behind reinstall, though downgrading is always a test of its ability to succeed. Cheers, David.

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
std As Greg wrote: backups come first. But in the above, you need reinstall, either as a command, or as an option --reinstall. Cheers, David.

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

2024-05-24 Thread David Wright
isp.com'. You must have a very unusual hosts file then, on both those counts. I would expect just the 127.0.1.1 line as written, and I'm going to guess that the 192.168.254.30 line was added as a misguided attempt to get LAN mail working. As noted by others, /etc/hosts is not the correct place for that. Cheers, David.

Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD

2024-05-24 Thread David Wright
inherited that. > > There is a colon in my aliases file. I just omitted it in the email. I don't know anything about opensmtpd, but use exim4 where, to send emails to other hosts on the LAN, AIUI you either need a DNS server that can resolve the LAN addresses or, instead, a hubbed hosts file. Cheers, David.

Re: Will te UUID or blkid of a device change?

2024-05-23 Thread David Wright
here to. I don't know what you mean by prohibitions, beyond what normal unix permissions allow and disallow. ¹ I'm ignoring any problems caused by old data remnants on the target device. Cheers, David.

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-15 Thread David
On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 15:57 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On 15/05/2024 03:17, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > > > > > Messages in

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread David Wright
d roll back the other changes that you made along the way. > The context is that I was not using any > desktop manager. My understanding of this statement is that "the context" is what is described in your OP. As you said you "switched boot target to text", I would assume you originally had a different target, likely a DM, and that you might revert back to it after solving the problem. Cheers, David.

Re: sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward [was: How to run automatically a script as soon root login]

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 13/05/2024 à 19:45, Stefan Monnier a écrit : $ su - Password: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # ^D logout $ I don't need no stinkin' sudo :-) And if you only have `sudo`, but not the root password, of course: % sudo zsh -l # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward #

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 13/05/2024 à 15:03, Richmond a écrit : Erwan David writes: Le 13/05/2024 à 14:36, Richmond a écrit : I was experimenting, and found this works: sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it without being root even

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
sudo exceutes a xterm as root then this xterm executes a shell (as root) and this root shell does the redirection. -- Erwan David

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Erwan David
e sudo. For this it is sufficient to  use /etc/sysctl.conf You find in the file shipped by debian # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4 #net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 So you just have to uncomment and it will be done at boot time. (You have the ipv6 equivalent in the same file, if needed) -- Erwan David

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-12 Thread David Wright
disadvantage that you can't go backwards. If you overshoot the lines of interest, you have to run the more command again. Cheers, David.

Re: [off topic] High Sierra, was: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread David Wright
You'd normally only capitalise solid state drive in a heading, or when defining SSD. Of course, the company has history; think Apple Corps, McIntosh Laboratory, etc. Cheers, David.

Re: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread David
On Sun, 2024-05-12 at 08:38 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2024 17:20:47 +1000 > David <[curmudg...@telaman.net.au](mailto:curmudg...@telaman.net.au)> wrote: > > > > Cindex, the world's premier indexing software, has just gone open > > source. Might

Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread David
Hullo, Cindex, the world's premier indexing software, has just gone open source. Might be a good project for someone who has the time. https://www.opencindex.com/ Cheers!

Re: Adding package to Debian Distro

2024-05-09 Thread David Wright
derstood its > meaning and purpose (which is perfectly possible). Well, no; you could have software that's gratis, open-source, and redistributable, but if it couldn't be used, say, for commercial purposes, that would have to go into Debian's non-free archive rather than the main distribution. It has nothing to do with reverse engineering per se. Cheers, David.

Re: [HS]

2024-05-07 Thread David Martin
je voulais dire niveau tarifs, selon vous, quel est le meilleur choix s'il vous plait ? Le mar. 7 mai 2024 à 14:17, David Martin a écrit : > Bonjour, > > Savez vous quelle est la meilleure solution aujourd'hui pour un serveur > dédié sous Debian Linux ? > > -- > david

[HS]

2024-05-07 Thread David Martin
Bonjour, Savez vous quelle est la meilleure solution aujourd'hui pour un serveur dédié sous Debian Linux ? -- david martin

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread David Wright
] Purg mysql-common [5.8+1.0.7] (I have emacs-gtk installed, rather than -nox.) Cheers, David.

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

2024-05-06 Thread David Wright
mu1 all [installed,automatic] >    j-nail/stable,now 14.9.24-2 amd64 [installed] ↑ > Has anyone else seen this? No. Cheers, David.

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-03 Thread David
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 06:27, Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/1/2024 10:44 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > Paul Scott (12024-05-01): >>>I have many installs over many years (only a few per year).. [...] >>> I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions, [...] > In the mean time, an install seemed to

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-05-03 Thread David Christensen
bout data corruption bugs. David

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread David Christensen
if you use rsync(1). What if you downloaded files to a directory with a well-formed name and added a feature to your script to process files that appear in that directory? David

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread David Christensen
On 5/3/24 04:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:18:03PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I am unable to find $'string' in the dash(1) man page (?). As I typically write "#!/bin/sh" shell scripts, writing such to deal with file names containing non-printing character

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread Erwan David
and sometimes patience, it works. -- Erwan David

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-02 Thread David Christensen
> newline' 2024-05-02 22:28:36 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ perl -MString::ShellQuote '-MFile::Spec::Functions qw(rel2abs)' -e 'print shell_quote(map { rel2abs $_ } @ARGV), "\n"' name* '/home/dpchrist/name with newline' '/home/dpchrist/name with spaces' David

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-02 Thread David Christensen
On 5/2/24 19:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 07:11:46PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Perhaps Perl and the module String::ShellQuote ? 2024-05-02 18:50:28 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ touch "name with spaces" 2024-05-02 18:50:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ touch "name with\

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-02 Thread David Christensen
2 18:50:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ touch "name with\nnewline" 2024-05-02 19:06:01 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ perl -MString::ShellQuote -e 'print shell_quote(@ARGV), "\n"' name* 'name with spaces' 'name with\nnewline' David

Caractères manquantes

2024-05-01 Thread David P.
n plus ! Merci pour votre aide, Librement vôtre, David P. ⁣Télécharger BlueMail pour Android ​

Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-04-30 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 03:51:01PM CEST, Gary Dale said: > I'm running Trixie on an AMD64 system. > > Yesterday after doing my usual morning full-upgrade, I rebooted because > there were a lot of Plasma-related updates. When I logged in, I found I > wasn't connected to my file server shares. I

Re: [HS] Lynx

2024-04-30 Thread Erwan David
complexe pour qui n'est pas un développeur web. -- Erwan David

Re: [HS] Lynx

2024-04-30 Thread Erwan David
. -- Erwan David

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > On 24/04/2024 22:37, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: > > > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > > > this: update-init

Debian, Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, and argon2 password hashing scheme?

2024-04-24 Thread David Mehler
Hello, I have a quick question. Can Debian, and/or it's Postfix/Dovecot/MySQL/MariaDB packages support the argon2 password hashing scheme? I had a previously-working e-mail setup on a *BSD system, utilizing the argon2ID scheme with Dovecot, Postfix, and MySQL. Since changing systems to

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
o, only there there was more discussion of rival versions (and the perils of using that site) on the list. Cheers, David.

Install Debian 12.5 on QNAP TS-210

2024-04-24 Thread David Hörnlund
Hi debian-user,I have an old QNAP TS-210 that would continue to be useful for me. If it is still possible to use it with the latest Debian Stable.There is a webpage at https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/That have instruktions on how to install Debian 10 on this device.Can I install

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
t=2048,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=512 # $ Cheers, David.

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
.html’ download.html 100%[=>] 3.74K --.-KB/sin 0s 2024-04-24 07:59:25 (18.4 MB/s) - ‘download.html’ saved [3834/3834] $ ls -Glg download.html -rw-r- 1 3834 Aug 1 2023 download.html $ From the middle of the US. Cheers, David.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-23 Thread David Wright
Debian, you'd > more naturally install that tool from `apt` which won't fetch it from > Github). Possibly they just searched for youtube-dl on google, and got something like what I saw in the topright corner: Cheers, David.

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-23 Thread David Wright
an usually install the version from unstable (now trixie), because yt-dlp's dependencies are all unversioned. The medium term disadvantage of this approach is that it won't be upgraded automatically when a new version appears: you have to keep an eye out. Cheers, David.

Re: Debian@IBMx3550

2024-04-23 Thread David Christensen
, add the "Sensor" plug-in/ applet to the Panel. Panel can display various temperatures, fan speeds, etc.. Note that you may to set the SUID bit on /usr/sbin/hddtemp for disk drive readings to be available: # chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp David

Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread David Christensen
://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd.php?hdd=WDC%20WD5000YS WDC WD5000YS 425 - https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd.php?hdd=WDC%20WD40EFRX WDC WD40EFRX1,943 David

Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread David Christensen
machine to another requires a highly controlled environment and lot of engineering. I have always migrated /etc settings from one OS instance to another OS instance by hand, one service/ configuration file at a time. Can you leave the 500 GB HDD operational and use the 4 TB HDD for data? David

Re: Strange New Installation Behavior

2024-04-22 Thread David Christensen
copy/ move/ edit/ merge files and directories from the restore subdirectory into your fresh home directory. Be very careful not to damage or delete anything needed by your fresh desktop or applications. David

Re: [HS] choix imprimante

2024-04-22 Thread David PINSON
Le 22/04/2024 à 13:45, hamster a écrit : Le 22/04/2024 à 12:19, David PINSON a écrit : pour les cartouches d'encre, je les achète en cartouches réutilisées et contrôlées. Tu les achetes où ? https://www.inkjet.fr/

Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-22 Thread David Christensen
; I let the installer and/or package manager create them, and let the desktop, apps, etc., manage them. David

Re: [HS] choix imprimante

2024-04-22 Thread David PINSON
mon retour d'expérience, Librement vôtre, David P. Le 22/04/2024 à 11:59, ajh-valmer a écrit : Bonjour, Comme vous le savez, ils existent 3 types d'imprimantes : 1) Jet d'encre cartouches (ça sèche si non-utilisation prolongée), 2) Laser (chère si couleurs), 3) Réservoir d'encre dite "

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-21 Thread David Wright
the deception crap, unless you really mean to impugn the developers' motives. Cheers, David.

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/14/24 05:29, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have a Dell Latitude E6520: 2024-04-14 04:28:39 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 11.9 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.209-2 (2024-01-31) x86_64 GNU/Linux 2024-04-14 04:34:40 dpchrist@laalaa

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-19 Thread David Christensen
alls would help. I think it is time for a bug report. David .xsession-errors-20240419-121605.gz Description: application/gzip

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/24 09:46, Gareth Evans wrote: On Thu 18/04/2024 at 11:05, David Christensen wrote: Move aside the ~/.config/xfce4 directory: ... Restart -- screen with wallpaper alone. ... Hi David, Starting from Mate DE only and some old (bookworm) XFCE config files, if I: $ sudo apt install

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/24 07:28, Max Nikulin wrote: On 18/04/2024 17:05, David Christensen wrote: $ mv .config/xfce4-20240418-180045/ .config/xfce4 Restart -- back to Xfce panel with no Network Manager. Try to create a new system user and log in. Is nm-applet present? Logging in using another previously

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/24 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/18/24 05:27, David Christensen wrote: On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote: What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it doesn't have permission to execute, or the process which starts it doesn't have permission. 2024-04-18 02:24:20 root

RE: Ré-installation Debian sur disque chiffré

2024-04-18 Thread David BERCOT
la procédure que tu évoques ? Merci d'avance. David. Message d'origine Objet : Ré-installation Debian sur disque chiffré Date : dimanche 24 mars 2024 à 08:31 UTC+1 De : David BERCOT Pour : debian-user-french@lists.debian.org Bonjour Michel, Message d'origine

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/17/24 12:07, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:41:24 -0700 David Christensen wrote: My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to find if and where any error message is reported. My instance of nm-applet does run, and I see this as part of the boot

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/17/24 19:41, Gareth Evans wrote: On Wed 17/04/2024 at 19:41, David Christensen wrote: On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote: On Wed 17/04/2024 at 09:18, David Christensen wrote: On 4/16/24 08:56, Gareth Evans wrote: On 16 Apr 2024, at 00:18, David Christensen wrote: On 4/15/24 09:21

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/17/24 13:56, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/17/24 15:37, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to find if and where any error message is reported. What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? And is its filesystem

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen wrote: ... I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years. Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!). ... What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-18 Thread Erwan David
Le 17/04/2024 à 15:26, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:12:39 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, Is there any reason why LibreOffice has been removed from Debian??? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libreoffice Has all the info you need, and more. Expect it to be removed

Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread David Christensen
Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:18:34 -0700 From: David Christensen To: Gareth Evans On 4/16/24 08:56, Gareth Evans wrote: On 16 Apr 2024, at 00:18, David Christensen wrote: On 4/15/24 09

Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread David Christensen
Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:38:49 -0700 From: David Christensen To: Gareth Evans On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote: On Wed 17/04/2024 at 09:18, David Christensen wrote: On 4/16/24

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon 15 Apr 2024 at 18:52:33 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: > >> On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: > >> > > >> > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a m

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 4/15/24 09:21, Gareth Evans wrote: On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen wrote: ... I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years. Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!). ... Hi David, I can't speak for XFCE, but certainly for Mate there was a time when

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
problem was not when reading mail, but with mail submission of attachments. Cheers, David.

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
use it lengthens the time interval that two clicks are interpreted as a double-click. It can't turn two quick clicks into a single click. I have a mouse that can turn one long press into two clicks: what's happening is that the wire loses continuity for a moment. I can see the xconsole logging a "New" USB device being connected, as it occurs. When it's bad, moving the mouse produces a stream of such logs. But I would recommend Gene start tbird from a command line, to distinguish a tbird configuration fault from a menu action fault. Cheers, David.

Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-14 Thread David Christensen
sing, how to get it back, and/or how to start it some other way? David

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-12 Thread David Christensen
On 4/12/24 08:14, piorunz wrote: On 10/04/2024 12:10, David Christensen wrote: Those sound like some compelling features. I believe the last time I tried Btrfs was Debian 9 (?).  I ran into problems because I did not do the required manual maintenance (rebalancing).  Does the Btrfs in Debian

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-12 Thread David Wright
lute ones, then the machine will fail to boot. I don't think there should be any relative systemd symlinks in /etc/systemd/ unless, for some peculiar reason, you've hand-crafted them yourself. Cheers, David.

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Apr 2024 at 19:28:48 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-04-10 23:47:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 11 Apr 2024 at 03:36:59 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2024-04-10 09:52:51 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > I'd hazard it's a

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-10 Thread David Wright
n dmeventd, in order to change its status? Cheers, David.

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 4/10/24 08:49, Paul Leiber wrote: Am 10.04.2024 um 13:10 schrieb David Christensen: Does the Btrfs in Debian 11 or Debian 12 still require manual maintenance?  If so, what and how often? Scrub and balance are actions which have been recommended. I am using btrfsmaintenance scripts [1][2

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-10 Thread David Wright
s to a > canonical path? No, that's the role of usrmerge. All usr-is-merged does is check whether usr /is/ merged already and, if it isn't, report the fact and fail to install. The only code in usr-is-merged is its preinst. There's an FAQ in /usr/share/doc/usrmerge/README.Debian. Cheers, David.

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 4/9/24 17:08, piorunz wrote: On 02/04/2024 13:53, David Christensen wrote: Does anyone have any comments or suggestions regarding how to use magnetic hard disk drives, commodity x86 computers, and Debian for long-term data storage with ensured integrity? I use Btrfs, on all my systems

Re: Why LVM

2024-04-09 Thread David Christensen
it, otherwise they tend to linger "for ever"). I guess that's one area where partitions are still significantly better than LVM. Stefan "who doesn't use much hot-plugging of mass storage" Thank you for the clarification. :-) David

Re: Why LVM

2024-04-08 Thread David Christensen
On 4/8/24 14:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: David Christensen [2024-04-08 11:28:04] wrote: Why LVM? Personally, I've been using LVM everywhere I can (i.e. everywhere except on my OpenWRT router, tho I've also used LVM there back when my router had an HDD. I also use LVM on my 2GB USB rescue image

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-08 Thread David Christensen
On 4/8/24 13:04, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: Hello, On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 11:28:04AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: So, an ext4 file system on an LVM logical volume? Why LVM? Are you implementing redundancy (RAID)? Is your data larger than a single disk (concatenation/ JBOD)? Something else

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-08 Thread David Christensen
On 4/8/24 02:38, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: For offline storage: On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:53:15AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Does anyone have any comments or suggestions regarding how to use magnetic hard disk drives, commodity x86 computers, and Debian for long-term data storage with ensured

Debian 12, Pyzor, Razor, DCC?

2024-04-08 Thread David Mehler
Hello, This is to any users running Debian 12 as a mail server. I am wondering if you have some, most, all, or none of these packages installed, Pyzor, Razor, DCC? If so how did you get them going and how did you get them to start? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

Re: network-priority?

2024-04-04 Thread David Wright
ifi-1 = 0 > wifi-2 = 1 > wifi-2 = 2 > > or 2,1,0? The latter. I assume you'll choose better names and avoid the typo. You might prefer higher numbers, leaving zero for the default; say 30, 20, 10. Cheers, David.

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-04 Thread David Christensen
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Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
aps I will put the ISO onto a USB flash drive, conduct more experiments, and post the results. I apologize for blaming d-i for what might be Dell, Intel, BIOS/UEFI, Microsoft, and/or other bugs. David

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 08:16, David Wright wrote: On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: > > Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: > > > A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian > > > installer.  Please buy a good quality U

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/24 14:57, David Christensen wrote: AIUI neither LVM nor ext4 have data and metadata checksum and correction features.  But, it should be possible to achieve such by including dm-integrity (for checksumming) and some form of RAID (for correction) in the storage stack.  I need to explore

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 03:36, David Christensen wrote: On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 where Lenovo BIOS and/or MS

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/24 08:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: the Debian installer modifies the contents of the USB flash drive when it runs. Do you mean inside the range of the ISO image or outside by creating a new partition ? songbird wrote: if it is an iso image copied

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-02 Thread David Christensen
ng dm-integrity (for checksumming) and some form of RAID (for correction) in the storage stack. I need to explore that possibility further. David

Re: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/24 07:55, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: I thought about suggesting that in my last post, but did not want to complicate things. A key advantage of using a CD-R disc is that you can verify the disc contents and/or checksum against the ISO and/or checksum now and in the future

Re: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again. A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot

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