Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, June 26, 2020 12:34 PM, echo test wrote: > Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a web app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy some hardware for this. I tried looking for it on the web in order

Re: cron problem

o have it set before:-) I looked around and found 'mailto's (LC) in my amanda config (it points at root@localhost -- the amanda cron job script's another thing that's missing). But nowhere else. Is MAILTO an environmental var? There's no MAILTO in 'env' when root or backup (the amanda user)

Re: cron problem

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, May 17, 2020 12:03 PM, David Wright wrote: > I always examine my cron with > > crontab -l > > rather than just catting some random file. > > Cheers, > David. Here it is, but I see no difference, except the disabled tripwire. root@sbox:~#

Re: cron problem

On 5/17/20 10:42 AM, ghe wrote: Buster, Supermicro desktop Cron jobs (some of them) don't show up in root's email. I admin 2 domains -- one on Squeeze, one on Buster. My Squeeze cron results show up fine; Buster's don't. I've reinstalled the Buster jobs. I've copyNpasted them from

RE: nft bewilderment

Close the ticket. wiki.archlinux.org on nftables looks like it answers enough of my questions to keep me going for a few days... Thanks for the replies and suggestions. -- Glenn English

Re: nft bewilderment

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, May 5, 2020 12:42 PM, wrote: > On Tuesday, May 05, 2020 01:50:00 PM ghe wrote: > > > This wiki explains a lot, but seems to assume I know a lot to begin > > with. Which I don't. > > I know iptables quite well, but nft

Re: nft bewilderment

> It's not clear from your message if you've seen this. > https://wiki.nftables.org Yes, I have. Lots of help, but lots of info missing. This wiki explains a lot, but seems to assume I know a lot to begin with. Which I don't. I know iptables quite well, but nft has added a lot of terms and

nft bewilderment

Buster, Supermicro desktop, nft noob Can anyone recommend a book or website with a thorough explanation of nft (the iptables replacement)? I'm working on rewriting my aged packet filter shell script (big and from the ipchains days) with nft and python. I've spent several hours on the web, and

pip

> The package you want is python3-pip (already installed?), and the executable is /usr/bin/pip3. Thanks Liam. Works like a champ... -- Glenn English

python pip trouble

Buster, Supermicro workstation I wanted to install pip (python3 is installed and working well and my apt mirrors are up to date): root@sbox:~# apt install pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package pip I went to

Re: Any way to open Thunar as root beside this?

On 4/7/20 12:58 PM, ghe wrote: > How about 'sudo thunar'? To get past the Alt... and password stuff, put this in /etc/sudoers, running 'visudo' as root: ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL It all works, with no whining, on my Buster box (and several earlier releases). -- Glenn English

RE: Any way to open Thunar as root beside this?

How about 'sudo thunar'? -- Glenn English

Re: normalize audio in mp4s

> Please note that the subject of this conversation is mp4 (not mp3). It's claimed that sox will handle mp4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2666425/how-to-i-configure-sox-to-work-on-mp4 (You do have to install LAME.) > If you only process uncompressed audio then sox is fine. It will do

Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F)

Ok, I noticed that simple-scan uses sane / xsane, so I didn't have high hopes (as h-node found nothing compatible), but I installed it anyway on my Buster system -- no luck: ~"No scanner found". You might have some luck on the web. My scanner came with Windows and Mac software, but there aere

Re: now gmail rant

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 5, 2020 8:24 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > I am slowly working towards a better email server, but it takes time. Check out protonmail.com. I moved there from gmail recently. Free (lower tier -- $4 a month next step up). Open sourcing

linq

> You misunderstood. David is saying that /bin may be a symlink, > instead of a directory. Indeed I did, and indeed they are: root@sbox:~# ls -lh / | egrep bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root7 Jan 16 10:39 bin -> usr/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 Jan 16 10:39 sbin -> usr/sbin -- Glenn

linq

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:10 AM, David Wright wrote: > > Looks to me like it means 'link to ' > > Indeed. This means that an old script which tries to run > /usr/bin/X11/foo will succeed in running /usr/bin/foo, > which is where foo will have been

link question

What does, in /usr/bin/X11, 'X11 -> .' mean? Looks to me like it means 'link to ' When I do 'ls /usr/bin/X11 | grep X11' I get X11. When I do 'ls /usr/bin/X11/X11/X11 | grep X11' I get X11. When I do 'du -sh /usr/bin/X11/' I get 81M. When I do 'du -sh /usr/bin/X11/X11/X11/' I get 81M. When I

XFCE doesn't start

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager. > Oh. I've never heard of that one. It's cruel and unusual to make a > display manager that doesn't have the letters "dm" in its name. A good point, well

XFCE doesn't start

I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and startx starts XFCE just fine. I was trying to get my router to copy its config to the TFTP dir, and I did something from how-tos on the 'Net (all kinds of

*nix

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, February 16, 2020 1:52 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 15 feb 20, 20:17:07, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:03:02 -0700 > > ghe g...@slsware.net wrote: > > > > > Until recently, the *nix c

*nix

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, February 14, 2020 10:56 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2020 22:56:11 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 02/14/2020 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: FYI, fogies, in the Jul-Aug, 1978 Bellsystem Technical Journal, announcing Unix, in the

change email addy

I need to change my email address for this list. There seems to be a lot about subscribing and unsubscribing on Debian's site, but I couldn't find anything about a new address. Could someone who knows how to do this please let me know? And don't send to the list. Send to ghe2...@protonmail.com.

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 1/31/20 2:42 PM, Reco wrote: > As a programmer, you should be familiar with it :) Very. And misconfigs too... -- Glenn English

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 1/31/20 11:31 AM, Bob Weber wrote: > I just ran a test on a VM that I installed last week so it is pretty > much up to date.  I ran the command "ip a" which gave me the current > undesirable name "enp1s0" and MAC address. Check. > First I created  /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.link using the

Re: Ethernet trouble

> On Jan 30, 2020, at 04:48 PM, Bob Weber wrote: > "Example 3. Debugging NamePolicy= assignments" near the bottom of the page at > "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html; Yeah. That's one I looked at. The one with the table of the Ethernet speeds and duplexity.

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 1/30/20 1:42 PM, Bob Weber wrote: > That's why I recommended you look into systemd link files. I looked that up on the 'Net, and it seems pretty reasonable. I looked around a bit and was told to edit /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link (MAC addresses are back to hardware again, but

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 1/29/20 7:06 PM, David Wright wrote: > These boards, do their PCI addresses have the save bus number but > different slot/device numbers? dmesg or kern.log will give you > those: they look like NN:DD.F optionally preceded by :, where > is the domain (typically ), NN is the bus, DD

Re: Ethernet trouble

(Blush, blush) I took those boards out, and the names went back to what I'd expected them to be. I have no idea why. It doesn't make sense to me -- absolutely nothing changed that had anything to do with Ethernet interfaces. The OS and the BIOS didn't change either. I put them back in, and

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 1/29/20 8:14 AM, Curt wrote: > You haven't been using a screwdriver lately by any chance? Yes. I put a couple PCI cards back in. But the E'net ports had the same names when they were in there earlier and when they were out. The change happened when the were put back. But that had nothing to

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 1/29/20 8:04 AM, Curt wrote: > 'p' indicates the PCI bus and 's' indicates the slot, was my > understanding of the naming scheme. Yeah. That's what I was told too. > Would a BIOS/Firmware upgrade > modify the PCI bus and slot number of your Ethernet ports? I doubt it. SuperMicro's BIOS

Re: Ethernet trouble

On 1/29/20 7:15 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > If you can confirm that it was caused by (or at least, occurred after) > a firmware upgrade, then at least you'll know that you need to be ready > for another possible change the next time you upgrade firmware. Nope. No change(s) in the firmware. > The

Ethernet trouble

Buster, SuperMicro box The labels for my Ethernet ports have changed. There are 2 ports on this box. They used to be called enp6s0 and enp7s0. Now they're called enp7s0 and enp8s0 (6, 7, and 8). I've rebooted 3 times, and they don't change. My /etc/network/interfaces had config info for 6 and 7

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

On 1/27/20 10:13 PM, J. D. Leach wrote: > I suspect Microsoft is back to trying to squelch the use of software > other than what it approves of. "Sells" you mean... I bought a Dell laptop a couple years ago, and it had a 'BIOS' like you describe. But there was an option in the several pages of

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

On 1/27/20 12:43 PM, deloptes wrote: > perhaps yes as it is more or less normal linux, but where do you attach the > disks - do you think of using a SATA extention? > > I do not know what is the throughput of such extentions, but should be > considered. The USB3 ports on the 4 might be fast

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

On 1/27/20 11:00 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily? Define 'easily' :-) Its OS is a reasonably close clone of Debian, and I've had very little trouble doing *nix tricks with it. But there's no disk and no SATA interfaces. A couple USB disks would do it, but I

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

> On Jan 25, 2020, at 06:34 PM, Aidan Gauland wrote: > > I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade > hardware, and run Debian stable on it. For hardware, I am probably going to > get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA drive > capacity,

Re: Sudo

On 1/25/20 11:14 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > Are you sure it's root's password that sudo wants? Try giving it your > user account's password. su wants root PW. sudo want's user's. -- Glenn English

Re: Clarification Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

On 1/23/20 3:10 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 09:42:11PM +, Joe wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:20:44 -0600 >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> >>>2. I repeatedly mentioned/implied *DISPLAY*. >>> I never even hinted at editing. >>> >> >> I think you'll find that

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

On 1/12/20 5:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm attempting to understand a shell script. > to add highlighting which Pluma does not provide by default. A bit OT reply: vim does do highlighting that makes some sense (to me), in sh and Python, anyway. -- Glenn English

Re: after installing viber, nowhere to be found?

> On Jan 9, 2020, at 10:57 PM, kaye n wrote: > > Here it is. > > kaye@laptop:~$ sudo whereis viber > [sudo] password for kaye: > viber: It's not on the machine. That explains q lot. A new install might be in order. Try aptitude or maybe synaptic -- something that talks a little more than

Re: after installing viber, nowhere to be found?

> On Jan 9, 2020, at 10:28 PM, kaye n wrote: > > Hello friends, > > My system is: > Host: laptop > Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 > bits: 64 > Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 > Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) > > Following the instructions on this web page: >

Re: apple mini

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 07:46 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > >> If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD with >> magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical destruction >> of the media. > > Yes--if single-pass all-zeros erase isn't sufficient, the

Re: apple mini

On 1/8/20 1:21 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > If you use /dev/zero you'll be limited by the speed of the disk. If you > use /dev/random you'll run probably under 1 megabyte per second (that > is, probably on the order of 100 times slower; unless your night is more > than a month long it won't be

Re: apple mini

On 1/8/20 11:59 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > No, that's still an unnecesarily slow alternative Hence the suggestion to run it overnight, while asleep. And, I suspect, dd is plenty good enough to make the disk in a Mac Mini unreadable by a Mac OS. > which will not improve > your security but will

Re: apple mini

On 1/8/20 10:44 AM, Felix Miata wrote > If you're seriously concerned the next owner might try that, create a new file > full of junk from /dev/random or from /dev/null that fills the existing > freespace, > then remove it. This is not at all a major job. Just get dd copying from /dev/random to

Re: buster xfce fails to start

On 1/6/20 10:48 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:42:46AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: >> That's funny:  I installed Buster on a Laptop just last week via >> netinst, and >> selected xfce (Expert Install menu), and got lightdm.  What's >> different with >> the Original

Re: buster xfce fails to start

> On Jan 6, 2020, at 01:37 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified > xfce. The system boots but no login screen or GUI appears. Alt-F4 > allows me to log in and reboot or shutdown. XFCE doesn't have a GUI login; you have to

Re: apple mini

> On Jan 5, 2020, at 02:54 PM, mick crane wrote: > > yes I know this is Debian user list > yes I know that apple is unix. > I got an apple mini to give to somebody > to clean it up is that > "userdel" > "makeusr" or something like that ? > mick > -- > Key ID4BFEBB31 Plain old dd'l fill

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

Sven and Andrei, I told you lies. The script's not a daemon. I added Sven's suggested lines to the .service file, re-enabled it, rebooted, and it came up exactly as I wanted it to. Apparently what it does is build an iptables firewall, and quit. Then when I ask for things, it comes up, crudely

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

On 12/31/19 6:09 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Care to share your Shell-Script? I'd have no problem with that -- it's been very useful to me over the years, and I'd be glad for someone to use it. However. It was written 20 years ago when I was just figuring out Linux and the shell, and it's been

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

On 12/31/19 1:05 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> I guess I misunderstood the term 'daemon.' I thought it was just a >> piece of software that, when run, stays run until it's through -- when >> it's started at boot and has no exit, hangs around in the background >> doing stuff. Unless somebody

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

> On Dec 30, 2019, at 05:47 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Please show the output of > >systemctl cat YOUR_SERVICE_UNIT > > This will show all additions and overrides to the unit. root@test:~# systemctl cat ipfilter # /usr/lib/systemd/system/ipfilter.service [Unit] Description=packetFilter

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

On 12/30/19 3:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Please show us the full output of > > systemctl status YOUR_SERVICE_UNIT root@test:~# systemctl status ipfilter ● ipfilter.service - packetFilter Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipfilter.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Re: various raspbian x posts

On 12/30/19 3:56 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > And this is the output to exactly what command? Now that's a good question. I really don't remember. There've been so many in the last few days, and that came up very early. -- Glenn English

Re: various raspbian x posts

On 12/30/19 2:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I was asking for examples of non-meaningful systemd error messages. Oh > well... I've got one, Andrei: "Systemd service ssh cannot be created unless command is given" That's systemd saying it needs a command. Search the web for "systemd command"

Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)

On 12/30/19 1:08 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Did you forget to "enable" it? Nope. It works by hand, and after boot, systemctl status claims it's running. But is isn't. > See also . Already saw it :-) I'm missing something that is going to be patently

Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)

Goodness. My asking for a little help with systemd seems to have started the closest thing to a flame war I remember seeing on a Debian mailing list. I apologize for that, but I learned a lot. SSH works now, but I can't get my own *.service file to work at boot (does manually, though), but I now

Re: systemdq [Solved]

On 12/29/19 10:21 AM, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 09:40:29AM -0700, ghe wrote: >> Somebody just forgot to enable SSH while preparing the Raspian Buster >> release, it looks like. > > Nope. It was deliberate - [1] (note the "ssh" part). Amazing. I'm a

Re: systemdq [Solved]

On 12/29/19 7:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > The correct solution to your problem would have been: > > systemctl enable ssh Exactly. The ssh.service files are identical on Debian Buster (this box) and on Raspian Buster (the RPi4 over there). As is the list of ssh* files -- was before I

Re: systemdq

On 12/28/19 2:57 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > Oddly enough, the sshd package does not provide sshd.service as a file > at all, but may create it as part of the installation process. It does > provide ssh.service. I haven't looked at the Debian unit files, but SSH and SSHD both seem to be in the

Re: systemdq [Solved]

Trivial in retrospect. There were several ssh* files in /lib/systemd/service. None named sshd*. I copied the one named ssh.service to sshd.service, enabled it, rebooted, and there is was. An interesting question is why things are different in Raspian Stretch on a 3+. For the time being, I'll

Re: systemdq

>>Have you tried commands of this sort? # systemctl enable sshd.service # systemctl start sshd.service # systemctl status sshd.service >From asking it to start at boot: Failed to save action : Systemd service ssh cannot be created unless a command is given Trying the suggested commands:

Re: systemdq

On 12/27/19 5:02 PM, Nektarios Katakis wrote: > Have you tried removing openssh-server package and reinstalling it? Another hopefully good suggestion. Thanks, and I'll try it. > If you re using any version of Debian Raspian Buster. -- Glenn English

Re: systemdq

On 12/27/19 4:50 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > Have you tried commands of this sort? Not yet, but I will in a few minutes. My problem was that the error message was more of the "Oops" type rather than suggesting what I might do about it. > # systemctl enable sshd.service > # systemctl start

systemdq

SSH isn't starting at boot on my server. When I try to set it to do that, systemd says it can't do that 'without a command.' What kind of command makes it happy? Where does it need to be? (I've futzed with the ssh file in /etc/default, even entered a command: (qwerty="42" -- it wasn't

Re: Home made backup system

How about writing a little script for rsync saying how you want it to backup, what to backup, and what not to backup and set cron jobs for when you want it to run. In the cron jobs, tell it to write to different directories, so to keep several days or backups. Not as smart as amanda (it'll

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

On 12/14/19 2:35 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > Why do people get so het up about Ethernet names in Linux? They're > renamable quite easily. So you can have "eth0" or "ens92" or "wlp0s41" > or "internet" or "Local Area Connection 1" if you like. Well, perhaps > not the last one. I'm not sure about

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 17:12 Britton Kerin wrote: > >> I see from below vote that we're working on dumping other init systems >> now as expected. Luckily I've given up on debian since systemd in the >> first place and am in long process of finding a replacement. Might want to take a look at

Re: Is this ALL good advise

(Please excuse topPost. ) I'm use protonmail. I run a tiny domain. And I use 2 email clients/servers: protonmail and Thunderbird. I'm quite happy with protonmail (PM). On 12/4/19 3:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2019 16:17:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 04 dec 19,

Re: alternatives to gmail?

On 11/19/19 9:16 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > yet another reason to find another email provider, not to be confused > with a webmail program requiring an email server I do not have for a > computer i do not own running a Linux distribution I cannot access. Sorry, I misspoke. Protonmail isn't

Re: alternatives to gmail?

On 11/19/19 5:53 AM, fsdu39d wrote: > Problem with GMail is that it's constantly reading content of your emails and > works closely with government agencies to hand over and store your private > email to them. I'm not sure what your goal is, but as fsdu39d posted from, protonmail might be a

Re: fail2ban for apache2

On 11/12/19 5:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Oh goody and I get to name & pick the file and its location. Now, wheres > a good place to put the restore in the reboot path? How about /etc? Or /etc/init.d? That's where mine is... -- Glenn English

Re: fail2ban for apache2

Gene wrote > So I had been adding iptables rules but had to reboot this > morning to get a baseline cups start, only to find my iptables rules > were all gone and the bots are DDOSing me again. Grrr 0) Can you block them with an ACL in your router/firewall? And wr mem so the ACL will be

Re: fail2ban for apache2

On 11/10/19 8:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats an approximate idea of my understanding how it works, but to > gradually transit from manual reading of the logs and applying iptable > rules to block the miscreants, the first step would seem to indicate > training fail2ban to read the same log

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

> On Nov 2, 2019, at 05:42 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Konstantin Nebel writes: > >> this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux >> destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and > > [...] > >> Now i attached a 4 tb drive to my pi and I

Re: Firefox Seems to Have a Mind of It's Own

On 10/24/19 9:14 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Firefox Quantum 70.0(64-bit) on Buster Wants > > The browser always to use Bing for searches even though I've removed it > from the list of search engines and selected Google as the default.. > > Has anyone else noticed this behavior? No. Mine is

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

On 10/18/19 11:44 AM, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 18/10/2019 19.26, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > ... > >> I'm not sure if any Pascal compilers are still available, but >> Turbo was the most popular back when. Until the last version >> came out, and it was too complicated for its own good. > > Forgive

Re: hostname?

stname for the machine is > absent or invalid, is using the transient hostname as a fallback. > > There must be something escaping me here. That's what the bent host said yesterday. This morning, after the fix (an sd command to undo some malware activity): ghe@sbox:~$ hostname -f sbox.slsware.

Re: hostname? [fixed, I think]

hostnamectl set-hostname sbox, log out, log back in The temp hostname disappeared, the CLI prompt is back to what it should be and where I hope it will stay. Still no idea of how/why this happened. I certainly didn't tell anything to change my hostname. List to the rescue. Thanks guys... --

Re: hostname?

On 10/4/19 2:04 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Righto. systemd strikes again. Here's the relevant man page > bits: > > hostnamectl may be used to query and change the system hostname > and related settings. > > This tool distinguishes three different hostnames: the > high-level "pretty" hostname which

Re: hostname?

On 10/4/19 1:36 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Please show us: > > /etc/hostname root@pix:~# cat /etc/hostname sbox > /etc/hosts root@pix:~# cat /etc/hosts # /etc/hosts: This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # # Host Database # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface #

hostname?

the firewall's hostname), but that's way down in /home/ghe/scripts/... and it's never been run anywhere but ssh'd into a laptop in the next room running minicom attached to the PIX through the 232 console port. The laptop's hostname is as it should be, and I've used this method to install config

Re: graphics card recommendation

On 9/23/19 3:51 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I've heard a lot of people cursing about Radeon graphics card support in > Linux over the years, but my information may be out of date... It's not out of date. Curse! Curse!! -- Glenn English

Re: ./configure failure, can't find glib on debian-arm buster 10.1

On 9/21/19 12:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > And do we have a package manager that will run on an ssh -Y login I'm not sure what you mean, but the ssh man page says: -Y Enables trusted X11 forwarding. Trusted X11 forwardings are not subjected to the X11 SECURITY extension controls.

Re: confused, seems to be my normal state

On 9/17/19 4:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I'd luv to give it a try, since I've never tried it, but unpacking the > NOOBS to an sd card seems to be a secret, so what linux command will > unpack the .zip and put it on the card? Attached is the instruction file I wrote for myself because the

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

On 9/19/19 10:47 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Not all agree with you. Politics and angry speech have no place on this > list. Please allow me to differ. In this case, I claim they do. Stallman is controversial, but he's one of the founders of the unix clones. I just hope he'll stay on at GNU. What

Re: confused, seems to be my normal state

On 9/17/19 11:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > And that results in exactly the same effect, partitiuon 1 is an iso9660 > image, and I don't believe the rpi-3b supports that for a boot medium. > dos/fat32 only I believe. Obviously I got those images from the wrong > place in the debian file system.

Re: Installation suitability for Dell laptop

On 9/16/19 11:15 AM, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > I am a new user of Debian and Linux in general. I am planning to install > Debian on a Dell laptop, Inspiron 5570 in particular. I've never had much of a problem running Debian on Dell laptops. Right now, Buster is (reasonably) happy on my Dell

Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

On 9/9/19 10:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is there a foolproof way to convert that to "gene", or am I stuck > logging into it as "pi"? I tried that a long time ago, and had to reinstall, IIRC. What I do now is create a new user 'ghe' and just pretend pi doesn't ex

Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

On 9/9/19 8:26 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2019 08:58:10 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 03:04:40AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> sudo dd if=debian-10.0.0-armhf-netinst.iso bs=4096 of=/dev/sdf1 >>> >>> /dev/sdf1 is an unmounted 64GB PNY u-sd card. Original

Re: logwatch at midnight?

On 9/9/19 5:47 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > Kudzuesque systemd appears to be taking over everything Remember the good old days when a *nix program did one thing and did it well? -- Glenn English

nft 'modules'

In ipchains, there were a lot of modules that I used a few of, like recent and the one that put comments on the end of a rule. I can't find anything, one way or the other, discussing these add-ons with nft. Is there such a thing in nft? Is nft so new that they just haven't been written yet? Is

Re: duckduckgo

On 8/18/19 5:16 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it. Yeah. And Firefox has a checkbox in the prefs to block pop-ups. I rarely see a pop-up any more. I have a hard time believing DDG is what's doing your pop-ups. It'd destroy their reputation.

Re: RPI boot problem (some OT) [solved]

On 8/10/19 11:19 AM, ghe wrote: Fixed. I did a few things differently, and it came up: I verified the NOOBS file with sha256 (match). I unzipped directly to the SD chip. I moved the HDMI connector to the one toward the back. Even though I saw nothing in any dox about it making any difference

RPI boot problem (some OT)

I know this isn't the best place to talk about Raspberry Pis, but there are people here who are familiar with them, and probably people who can point me to the correct place. And they do run Debian... My 2G RPi4 arrived yesterday, and it doesn't boot, not all the way anyway. The red power led

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

On 8/8/19 4:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I also hear stories about people, using Raspberry Pi Systems as Servers. At least a 3+, on a T1, with a good UPS, well backed up, and with clones of hardware and software near at hand. And running Debian. Under those conditions, they do just fine. --

Re: Server hardware advice.

Depends on what you're trying to do. I run a small domain on a T1 without pictures or audio, so I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 as a server. Quite a bit faster than the old PDP-11s the 'Net started out with, and significantly less expensive. And smaller. My domain used to be a lot larger, but still a

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

On 7/31/19 2:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Without resolvconf, the DHCP client would have completely overwritten > resolv.conf instead of just adding one line. With resolvconf, at least > you can have some control over resolv.conf. OK. vi gives me all the control I need over resolv.conf. I

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

On 7/31/19 1:20 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I still feel like you're missing the big picture here. resolvconf isn't > the thing that's modifying your /etc/resolv.conf file. It's the thing (that was) modifying my resolv.conf. I have 2 Enet connections: a reliable T1 and a reasonably fast WiFi.

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