Re: Error with logrotate.

On 13.08.19 00:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where we > keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that fetchmail, > procmail, spamassassin, clamav and its ilk, running as the user can > access /var/log to keep its logs.

Re: Error with logrotate.

On 2019-08-13 00:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [rant skipped] > So just where in tunket _are_ we supposed to be able to keep our logs > then? A place that Just Works would sure be appreciated. Putting them under /home is fine, see this comment in /lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service: , |

Re: Error with logrotate.

On 2019-08-13 06:59 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > phi...@treads.nz [2019-08-13T09:30:34+12] wrote: > >> I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following error.  >> I'm guessing it's something to do with permissions? >> >> Something to do with the create 640 root adm? >> >>

Re: Error with logrotate.

On Monday 12 August 2019 23:59:39 Teemu Likonen wrote: > phi...@treads.nz [2019-08-13T09:30:34+12] wrote: > > I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following > > error.  I'm guessing it's something to do with permissions? > > > > Something to do with the create 640 root adm? > > >

Re: Error with logrotate.

phi...@treads.nz [2019-08-13T09:30:34+12] wrote: > I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following error.  > I'm guessing it's something to do with permissions? > > Something to do with the create 640 root adm? > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: unable to open

Re: is it possible run 32-bit app on 64-bit amd system??

>> btw which option should i add to mplayer command line >> so that it play only audio part (not video part) of a file? $ mplayer -novideo file

Re: is it possible run 32-bit app on 64-bit amd system??

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:13:33 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: > i want to run adobe pdf reader on jessie for amd64 > the last adobe reader 4 unix is for 32bit, i'm afraid it can't run on 64bit > system You want to research multiarch -- multiple architectures. But your CPU MUST support 32-bit

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 05:04, Lee wrote: > On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:56:46PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> What's the difference between ${d} and "${d}"? Or is that a bashism >> also? (all my scripts use /bin/sh so I'm pretty clueless wrt bash) > > > > For more

Re: Laptop pour Debian

Bon, les gars, vous savez que, après avoir acheté la bécane de vos rêves montée avec W7 ou W10, vous pouvez, si vous ne l'avez même pas allumée, la renvoyer au constructeur en demandant la désinstallation de windaube et recevoir en retour une machine avec un DD vierge et un cheque d'au bas

Re: revise the /etc/security/limits.conf doesn't take effect for normal user.

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:40:03 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You > could start by telling us which DM it is (lightdm, gdm3, sddm, etc.). gdm3 And I don't know to let the limits take effect within this environment. Regards

Re: revise the /etc/security/limits.conf doesn't take effect for normal user.

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:40:03 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You > could start by telling us which DM it is (lightdm, gdm3, sddm, etc.). gdm3 And I don't know to let the limits take effect within this environment. Regards -- .: Hongyi Zhao [ hongyi.zhao AT gmail.com ] Free as in Freedom :.

Re: revise the /etc/security/limits.conf doesn't take effect for normal user.

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:40:03 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You > could start by telling us which DM it is (lightdm, gdm3, sddm, etc.). gdm3 And I don't know to let the limits take effect within this environment. Regards -- .: Hongyi Zhao [ hongyi.zhao AT gmail.com ] Free as in Freedom :.

Error with logrotate.

Afternoon, I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following error.  I'm guessing it's something to do with permissions? Something to do with the create 640 root adm? /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: unable to open /home/philip/logs/access.log.1 for compression error: unable

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 12/8/19 11:23 pm, Keith Steensma wrote: The same thing happens if I fill in 'root' as the login even though a 'root' login is not permitted in the default 'sshd_config' configuration.  Even when I change the configuration to allow for 'root' login, 'root' can never login. Try a

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 2019-08-12 15:45, Keith Steensma wrote: Just shows SSH started and stopped.?? I may have to modify the start up routine to include something. I think I might have had an issue going from windows putty to Linux with the windows line endings in the public key. I think I've changed the

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On Lu, 12 aug 19, 08:23:17, Keith Steensma wrote: > I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found > that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm doing > something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no modification. > > With Secure Shell server

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:56:46PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> What's the difference between ${d} and "${d}"? Or is that a bashism >> also? (all my scripts use /bin/sh so I'm pretty clueless wrt bash) > > This applies to both sh and bash. > > An unquoted substitution,

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

On Lu, 12 aug 19, 08:49:34, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The other tip about kernel install selection is to install something > like kernel-i386 or kernel-x86 without all of the long version numbers > as suffixes in their names. This is a good idea in general. For the amd64 architecture the package

Re: buster netinst timezone

On Lu, 12 aug 19, 08:38:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I don't have any kind of statistics for how many programs use one vs. > the other. It's not trivial to find out. /etc/localtime gets many more hits on https://codesearch.debian.net, if you consider this to be a relevant metric. FWIW,

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

Martin McCormick wrote: > The tesseract utility flawlessly converted the sample jpg > in to ASCII text so I tried that > other Linux box's VGA port. This certainly looks like not much > of anything but I was happy to get it: > > Debian GNU/Linux 10 audios tty > > audio3 login:

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:56:46PM -0400, Lee wrote: > What's the difference between ${d} and "${d}"? Or is that a bashism > also? (all my scripts use /bin/sh so I'm pretty clueless wrt bash) This applies to both sh and bash. An unquoted substitution, like $d or ${d}, undergoes several steps.

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:37:16PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> >> On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > P.S. it would also have been possible to work around the carriage

Re: Rrrr

R de sabo El lun., 12 ago. 2019 19:35, qorg11 escribió: > r de gilipollas

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:37:16PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lee wrote: > >> On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> > P.S. it would also have been possible to work around the carriage > >> > return > >> > issues with IFS,

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > P.S. it would also have been possible to work around the carriage >> > return >> > issues with IFS, but your dos2unix approach is perfectly valid as well. >> >> Just

Re: Rrrr

r de gilipollas

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > P.S. it would also have been possible to work around the carriage return > > issues with IFS, but your dos2unix approach is perfectly valid as well. > > Just out of curiosity - how? while IFS=$' \t\r\n'

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 02:10:06PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> Thanks to all that shared their expertise. >> >> #!/bin/bash >> while IFS= read -r d >> do >> cd "${d}_apo-3k9b" >> echo "${d}_apo-3k9b" >> echo "${d}_apo-3k9b.dpf" >>

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

Dan Ritter writes: > fswebcam is a package that captures images from V4L2 devices. > It's command-line driven and has a few useful features like > resizing, averaging multiple frames, and skipping early frames > for devices that take a while to focus. It writes JPEG or PNG. > > Remember to make

Re: Rrrr

R de reculiao El lun., 12 ago. 2019 10:58, José Mateo escribió: > El 12/8/19 a las 7:09, Debian Forever escribió: > > R de rabo > > > > El lun., 12 ago. 2019 2:21, Francisco Gomez > > escribió: > > > > > > > > Enviado desde mi iPhone > > > > R de ridículo >

Re: Rrrr

El 12/8/19 a las 7:09, Debian Forever escribió: > R de rabo > > El lun., 12 ago. 2019 2:21, Francisco Gomez > escribió: > > > > Enviado desde mi iPhone > R de ridículo Enviado desde su iPhone ;-) -- (·)> /|\José Tomás Mateo Ruiz \_/_50550 Aragón

New install of buster, worked fine with regular monitor, garbled display but with good mouse pointer when connected to AV setup

I recently installed buster on a machine so that I could install kodi on it for the purpose of playing Internet content on my lounge AV setup. It all worked fine with a regular monitor. On trying to get it connected to the AV setup today, I get a rather strange problem. All text mode display is

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 8/12/2019 4:42 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: > > > On 8/12/2019 9:18 AM, john doe wrote: >> On 8/12/2019 3:23 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: >>> I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and >>> found that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm >>> doing

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 8/12/2019 9:34 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/12/2019 9:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:23:17AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem to have the same

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 8/12/2019 4:34 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Keith Steensma wrote: >> >> >> On 8/12/2019 9:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:23:17AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

Is there anything useful in /var/log/sshd.log? Bruce On 8/12/19 9:23 AM, Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm doing something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 8/12/2019 9:18 AM, john doe wrote: On 8/12/2019 3:23 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm doing something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no

Re: where is my disk space

On Mon 12 Aug 2019 at 07:59:03 (+), Long Wind wrote: > > for reason i don't know, i see your reply just an hour ago, sorry for delay! > > i'm not sure if power key is key on keyboard or button on PC case If the one on the PC case got stuck, I would expect the machine to power down. So

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 2019-08-12 15:22, Keith Steensma wrote: Using "PermitRootLogin Yes" "PubkeyAuthentication yes" and a SSH key created under putty and placed in the proper location in the 'root' directory, still gives a "Server refused our Key" I can't remember. perhaps you have to restart sshd after

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: > > > On 8/12/2019 9:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:23:17AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: > > > I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and > > > found > > > that both

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

Keith Steensma wrote: > > > On 8/12/2019 9:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:23:17AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: > > > I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and > > > found > > > that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 8/12/2019 9:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:23:17AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm doing something wrong.  But these are

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On 08/12/2019 09:39 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 02:10:06PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thanks to all that shared their expertise. #!/bin/bash while IFS= read -r d do cd "${d}_apo-3k9b" echo "${d}_apo-3k9b" echo "${d}_apo-3k9b.dpf"

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:23:17AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: > I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found > that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm doing > something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no modification. > > With Secure

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 8/12/2019 3:23 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: > I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and > found that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm > doing something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no modification. > > With Secure Shell server

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

On 2019-08-12 14:33, Judah Richardson wrote: Try logging in as a user that has sudo power. On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 08:31 Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem to have the same problem. It's like I'm doing

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 02:10:06PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Thanks to all that shared their expertise. > > #!/bin/bash > while IFS= read -r d > do > cd "${d}_apo-3k9b" > echo "${d}_apo-3k9b" > echo "${d}_apo-3k9b.dpf" > /home/comp/Apps/Autodock/autodock4 -p

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

Try logging in as a user that has sudo power. On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 08:31 Keith Steensma wrote: > I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and > found that both version seem to have the same problem. It's like I'm > doing something wrong. But these are fresh installs

Re: revise the /etc/security/limits.conf doesn't take effect for normal user.

> Il giorno dom 11 ago 2019 alle ore 05:30 Hongyi Zhao > ha scritto: > > > Hi, > > > > I added the following lines into /etc/security/limits.conf: > > > > * - nofile 65535 > > root - nofile 65535 > > > > > > But it still not take effect for the normal user. How are you logging in? How are you

Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm doing something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no modification. With Secure Shell server installed and running on port 22 (or any other port of

Re: buster netinst timezone

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:38:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:16:04PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > If you're desparate to get the timezone altered earlier in your > > installation process, you could always do it manually: try switching > > to VC2 and editing the

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

The other tip about kernel install selection is to install something like kernel-i386 or kernel-x86 without all of the long version numbers as suffixes in their names. You get those kernels by default unless you run install with expert operational in which case you then get presented with all of

Re: buster netinst timezone

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:16:04PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > If you're desparate to get the timezone altered earlier in your > installation process, you could always do it manually: try switching > to VC2 and editing the file /target/etc/timezone to the string UTC > (the alternatives are simply

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

yes On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jude DaShiell wrote: You have updated /etc/apt-get/sources.list and replaced testing with buster in all locations too and this failure continues? On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, john wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:12:39 From: john To: Holger Skidzun Cc:

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

You have updated /etc/apt-get/sources.list and replaced testing with buster in all locations too and this failure continues? On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, john wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:12:39 From: john To: Holger Skidzun Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade ?

Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

Since installing buster on a new laptop I have noticed that selected text doesn't show as highlighted. I have had no such problems with stretch, but they were upgrades in-place from previous installations--buster was installed new. I am using the same .emacs.d for customizations Thanks. Best

Re: slow wireless connection

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 01:11:43PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > The internet download speed as measured by (speedtest.net) is ~15 Mbps > when I try to connect from my desktop. From a different machine (my > laptop), I get around ~30-40 Mbps. Could you please tell me how to fix > this? > >

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

No I did not; I checked that again kjust niw but sill no upgrade. On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Holger Skidzun wrote: Did you by chance forgot apt-get update? Cheers, Holger Mit freundlichem Gruß! Le 12 août 2019 à 12:35, John a écrit : I received a notification from the Debian security list

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

Did you by chance forgot apt-get update? Cheers, Holger Mit freundlichem Gruß! > Le 12 août 2019 à 12:35, John a écrit : > > I received a notification from the Debian security list saying that > there were a number of fixes to the kernel and saying I should update > my buster system; "For the

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:35:34AM +0100, John wrote: > I received a notification from the Debian security list saying that > there were a number of fixes to the kernel and saying I should update > my buster system; "For the stable distribution (buster), these > problems have been fixed in version

Kernel upgrade ?

I received a notification from the Debian security list saying that there were a number of fixes to the kernel and saying I should update my buster system; "For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 4.19.37-5+deb10u2." However apt does not seem to know about

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 04:44:32PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] > So, "Linux MD RAID 10" can be RAID 1, RAID 10, or something totally > different. > > > Co-opting and redefining standard terms is bad engineering. To be honest, and as I remember, the term RAID-10 was doomed from the

Re: Editing LXDE menus

On 11/08/2019 21:48, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:19:07 +0100 > Paul Sutton wrote: > >> To reply to my previous post.  I did a little more digging and have >> produced a 2nd blog post with the results : >> >> http://zleap.net/lxde-menu-2/ >> >> Still got a few questions presented at