selinux causing problems

2023-10-30 Thread Alex King
Does anyone know how to disable selinux? I had selinux installed on this system a long time ago. Recently I believe apparmor was active (and therefore selinux not active). Today I upgraded to Debian 12. apparmor was preventing named (bind9) from running; whatever I did, it was denying

Re: How should learning to program in c++ be approached, if learning objectives are sought to be customised?

2022-05-31 Thread Alex King
. I love programming, it is not a chore. So I'd still do it even if a machine could do it. But more likely AI will produce tools, and the best programming will still be done by humans with AI tools to help them. Cheers, Alex King

Re: Firefox 104 on Sid unusable because it blanks open tabs after a few minutes

2022-09-07 Thread Alex King
A couple of FF Extensions you might benefit from: Auto Tab Discard: although it does the opposite of what you want, (I.e. the purpose is to discard or "unload" tabs,) it gives a UI into the settings for when tabs are discarded. (Although I'm on FF 91.13.0esr, and I don't know if it works on

Re: exif --remove not idempotent, and a Debian man page bug

2022-09-23 Thread Alex King
e this should not be mandatory, but those who feel most strongly about it could contribute patches... -- Thanks, Alex King

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Alex King
See man crontab. There are 2 ways of maintaining your crontab: crontab [ -u user ] file ... The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some named file I.e. you can keep a file in your home directory (or anywhere,) update it and install it when changed using

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Alex King
A wishlist bug report against the debian installer pseudo package would seem to be an appropriate way to go. I would also like to see nbd support in the installer.  I'm guessing it will be too late for bookworm, I tried that using the nightly installer and had a similar problem - nbd kernel

Crossgrade instructions seem broken

2023-08-05 Thread Alex King
I'm trying to crossgrade a bullseye system (from i386 to amd64). The machine is headless (with no graphical display and it's also difficult to access a console), so I'm doing it over ssh. In preparation I've switched from systemd to sysvinit (due to the warning on the crossgrade page), and

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-06 Thread Alex King
Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some (a lot?) of people. I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer.  It is connected to my (Debian bullseye) workstation by USB.  I have CUPS installed. My printer prints sometime.  Other times, it spins up (makes a noise like it is

Re: Using a Python script as a login shell

2024-02-16 Thread Alex King
Hey this looks like a fun thing to play with, I like what you've done.  I logged in and accessed it.  Now that it's been some time since you announced it and it's still running, I guess it has had some testing already. I don't see anything wrong with what you have done after a quick look, it