Re: odd result for sudo dpkg -V

2021-11-05 Thread David Pottage
back a list of 31 files.  Of those the git history shows that I had modified about half of them, but the rest where original from when I setup the box, or installed when I upgraded to Bullseye last week. -- David Pottage

Re: How to push back against repeated login attempts?

2021-03-03 Thread David Pottage
I should be able to get better coverage by using more block lists. You say that you chose not to use FireHOL itself, but instead chose to roll your own. Could I ask why? are there problems or downsides to FireHOL? Thanks. -- David Pottage

Re: How to push back against repeated login attempts?

2021-03-02 Thread David Pottage
cking the entire netblock. 3. As others have said if you don't need to run ssh on port 22, then don't. I used to run it on a high port and hardly ever saw any unauthorised traffic. You could also consider requiring remote users to go via a VPN in order to connect. -- David Pottage

Re: Is there any "easy to use" arm64 laptop

2020-10-13 Thread David Pottage
list, and perhaps you will have something to contribute on another issue. -- David Pottage

Re: Pine64 RockPro64 Support

2020-06-17 Thread David Pottage
wallpaper. Comparing the two, the similarity is like comparing the Red Hat and Centos distros. [1] https://www.armbian.com/rockpro64/#kernels-archive-all -- David Pottage

Re: Raspberry Pi images SSH access

2020-04-29 Thread David Pottage
ssh public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys -- David Pottage Links: -- [1] http://raspi.debian.net/

Re: X11 modul for pinebook?

2020-04-21 Thread David Pottage
On 2020-04-21 16:41, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi David, On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 David Pottage wrote: Perhaps it is verboten to mention it her, but have you tried running Armbian on your pinebook? No idea whether this is verboten - I'm personally open for anything that works. I'm looking

Re: X11 modul for pinebook?

2020-04-21 Thread David Pottage
On 20/04/2020 20:11, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, I have a pinebook of the first generation installed with Stretch. I naively assumed that it would the right time to upgrade to Buster. Unfortunately X does not start any more: Perhaps it is verboten to mention it her, but have you tried running

Re: RockPro64 - Boot fails if fstab has volumes on PCIe SSD

2020-03-23 Thread David Pottage
I am going to repost the question on the Armbian Peer to peer technical support forum. -- David Pottage On 22/03/2020 17:40, Alan Corey wrote: Yes, staring at a blank screen while important stuff is happening sucks. A serial console might show more, I haven't tried it. OK, you did. If there

RockPro64 - Boot fails if fstab has volumes on PCIe SSD

2020-03-21 Thread David Pottage
he serial console or the HDMI monitor when the boot fails? Thanks, -- David Pottage

Re: Rockchip RK3399 based board for server use?

2020-01-14 Thread David Pottage
On 2020-01-12 09:14, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 11 ian 20, 19:42:24, David Pottage wrote: The RockPro64, is a bit larger and more expensive. It has a full size PCIe x4 socket, so I can fit an NVMe drive using a simple adapter. I can’t find any pre-built cases, so I would have to make

Re: Rockchip RK3399 based board for server use?

2020-01-14 Thread David Pottage
network ports, and possibly the very small size & low power requirements for some use cases. Also it looks like there is no mainline kernel support. Still, it is good to have alternative options. Thanks for the link. -- David Pottage

Rockchip RK3399 based board for server use?

2020-01-11 Thread David Pottage
Debian on unknown hardware, I consider myself to be a competent Linux sys admin, I can clone a git repo, and compile something given very specific instructions, but I don’t feel competent to make code changes or debug kernel issues. Thanks for reading. – David Pottage

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-23 Thread David Pottage
than a cynical view of flash drive manufacturers cost cutting, but as a work around I now make a point of plugging in a new drive and leaving it to sit powered but not otherwise in use for a few hours before I start copying large amounts of data. -- David Pottage On 23/06/18 13:39, Gene Heskett

Re: Alternative java/JVM working on armel/powerpc?

2014-07-10 Thread David Pottage
. None of the tests crashed, reported warnings, or returned incorrect results. -- David Pottage

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take 1min to gather)

2014-06-18 Thread David Pottage
to the Qnap firmware. Would it be useful to run these tests under the qnap firmware if I can get a shell, or would that not be helpfull? I don't want to switch to Debian just for this test. -- David Pottage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Fwd: [Arm-netbook] Another new ARM plateform

2013-12-27 Thread David Pottage
On 26/12/13 17:36, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 01:14:49PM +, David Pottage wrote: I currently have an Allwinner A10 based Cubieboard. In most respects it is a very nice single board computer, but I find it frustrating that I am stuck at Linux kernel version 3.4, and don't

Re: [Arm-netbook] Another new ARM plateform

2013-12-27 Thread David Pottage
On 26/12/13 20:02, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 26 Dec 2013, at 13:14, David Pottage da...@chrestomanci.org wrote: How good is the mainline linux kernel support for the Freescale iMX6 SOC? I currently have an Allwinner A10 based Cubieboard. In most respects it is a very nice single board computer

Re: Fwd: [Arm-netbook] Another new ARM plateform

2013-12-26 Thread David Pottage
On 25/12/13 17:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: just something for people's attention, this is a pretty damn good find by erix: quad-core 1ghz iMX6, it has 2gb of RAM, SATA, GbE and a full MiniPCIe slot (not just USB-only but *full* PCIe because the iMX6 has 1x PCIe). and plenty more.

Re: Case for ARM-based system and single 3.5 hard disk?

2013-03-13 Thread David Pottage
You should be able to find a NAS and then reflash it with Debian. I use a qnap ts-110. It works well and is reliable, but performance is low as it is only 600 MHz and 256 gb of RAM. -- David Pottage (da...@electric-spoon.com) Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity

How mature is KVM on ARM (Debian or Ubuntu)

2013-03-12 Thread David Pottage
performance, the question is will KVM on ARM be reliable, or is it so cutting edge, that we will be fighting constant crashes and spending all our time exchanging bug reports and patches with the KVM developers? -- David Pottage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-12 Thread David Pottage
On 10/03/13 11:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM, David Pottage da...@chrestomanci.org wrote: On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote: I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build cluster both to give more power for the jessie

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread David Pottage
directly, as they might have some better development hardware they could lend you. I have a friend who works for them on gcc support. I could approach him if you think it might be helpful. -- David Pottage

Re: Installing Debian on Qnap TS-219 PII

2012-11-10 Thread David Pottage
On 07/11/12 22:03, Hoshpak wrote: I'm currently trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Qnap TS-219 PII which is based on the Marvell Sheeva platform. I followed the instructions which can be found at http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/ so far, backed up the original firmware,

Re: howto boot from harddrive

2012-06-03 Thread David Pottage
that the kernel can read, so now it probably not a good time to try out btrfs, xfs or whatever, unless your kernel has that compiled in. Best of luck. -- David Pottage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: QNap Hard drive upgrade (Boot Sequence)

2012-06-01 Thread David Pottage
and USB thumb drives, albeit not with SSDs. Good luck! /Björn If that does not work you could try a serial console and On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:31 PM, David Pottage da...@electric-spoon.com mailto:da...@electric-spoon.com wrote: It is not working for me

Re: QNap Hard drive upgrade (Boot Sequence)

2012-05-30 Thread David Pottage
info. Good luck. (Sent from my phone.) On May 27, 2012 5:06 PM, David Pottage da...@chrestomanci.org mailto:da...@chrestomanci.org wrote: Hello I have a Qnap TS-110, which I am using as a home server for the past year. It runs Debian Squeeze. I have decided to replace

QNap Hard drive upgrade (Boot Sequence)

2012-05-27 Thread David Pottage
-boot able to mount and understand the ext2 filesystem and find the boot image by pathname? Are there any similar issues with the root or any other partition on the system? Thank you. -- David Pottage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

SSD in a Qnap TS-110 ?

2012-05-21 Thread David Pottage
for fitting 2.5 drives into a 3.5 bay). Thank you. -- David Pottage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fbaaa72.4040...@chrestomanci.org