Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:03:14 -0400 Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I've been bedeviled by this question for a while, but have been unable > to figure out a clean, non-hackish solution. It may be an XY problem ... > > I have a system (laptop, running Debian) that is sometimes connected > directly to

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-10-24 at 18:37, Ken Heard wrote: > Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it > it returns the following: > > ken@Turing:~$ tarkbrowsers > tar (child): /media/ssda/backups/kbrowsers.tgz: Cannot open: No such > file or directory How are you invoking the script? What does

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

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spelling error in the title. 'Its' as a possessive adjective does not have an apostrophe. "It's" with the apostrophe is only used as a contraction of 'it is' or 'it has'. Regards, Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-24 8:40 p.m., deloptes wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > >> Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it >> >> #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory >> /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread deloptes
Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2019-10-24 7:12 p.m., Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >>> tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - >>> --wildcards -T

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-24 7:12 p.m., Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >> tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - >> --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst > > Try removing the

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread deloptes
Ken Heard wrote: > Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it > > #!/bin/bash > # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. > STARTDIR=$PWD > cd /home/ken > tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz  --exclude-caches \ > --wildcards -T

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-24 Thread deloptes
Boyan Penkov wrote: > Ulrich Drepper's piece on on-chip memory architectures is a fantastic > read, and I recently had the chance to revisit it -- > https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf > > I am writing to ask more knowledgeable folks if the last 13 years have > seen

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread Anuradha Weeraman
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ > - --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst Try removing the single '-' at the beginning of the second line... -- Regards Anuradha

Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - --wildcards -T

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > "Sie" or "xie" or similar German-derived words just sound ridiculous > > and made-up, at least to those of us who don't speak German. Dan Ritter wrote: > We have enough German-speakers on this list to chime in as to > how ridiculous "sie" is -- but I will note that

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/10/2019 07:51, David wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: Guys, [...] Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to choose words that cannot accidentally be understood as

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >>> Even though in some situations "guys" is claimed to be a > > >>> gender-neutral word, I doubt that everyone thinks of themselves > > >>> as a "guy". And it will be polite to those people to not make them > > >>> choose between doing that or feeling excluded. > [...] >

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
> >>> Even though in some situations "guys" is claimed to be a > >>> gender-neutral word, I doubt that everyone thinks of themselves > >>> as a "guy". And it will be polite to those people to not make them > >>> choose between doing that or feeling excluded. [...] > This should be on the wiki and

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread john doe
On 10/24/2019 8:59 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Doug McGarrett wrote: >> >> >> On 10/24/2019 02:51 AM, David wrote: >>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User >>> wrote: >>> Guys, [...] Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm sure

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > On 10/24/2019 02:51 AM, David wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Guys, [...] > > > > > > Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. > > > > Hi, > > I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/24/2019 02:51 AM, David wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: Guys, [...] Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to choose words that cannot accidentally be understood

Re: The state of IPSec in Debian

2019-10-24 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 02:01:25PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > StrongSwan used to be the best supported, but LibreSwan is now. > Things change. Thanks! This is the kind of information I was hoping for. > If you need solid VPN support and control all the endpoints, > Wireguard may be an even

Re: The state of IPSec in Debian

2019-10-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Ralph Aichinger wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 05:32:51PM +0200, deb...@jherrero.org wrote: > > El jue, 24-10-2019 a las 16:27 +0200, Ralph Aichinger escribió: > > > Or am I completely wrong and should I use some other implementation? > > > > from > > > >

Re: Hiding apps

2019-10-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:54 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > On 10/24/19 8:38 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I am running Debian Sid with Mate. I would like to run tzclock at > > startup, but it appears in the taskbar as a regular program. > I am not familiar with tzclock ... I don't believe it is

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

2019-10-24 Thread ghe
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: Hiding apps

2019-10-24 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/24/19 8:38 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid with Mate. I would like to run tzclock at startup, but it appears in the taskbar as a regular program. I am not familiar with tzclock ... I don't believe it is the same as the clock in the Mate panel. Is there a way to

Re: buster, ekiga.

2019-10-24 Thread peter
From: Robin Krahl , Fri, 19 Jul 2019 20:12:58 +0200 > Ekiga has been removed as the last upstream release was in 2013, see: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ekiga > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1004860/removed-401-9-from-unstable/ >

Re: Buster's VDR plugin epgsearch is broken.

2019-10-24 Thread Jari Fredrisson
On 21.10.2019 22.01, Brian wrote: > On Mon 21 Oct 2019 at 19:03:54 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> The fixed release is in Debian testing. Will we ever get it backported to >> Buster? The plugin crashes VDR when it finds a conflict in the timers. VDR >> in Buster is unusable with this plugin

Re: The state of IPSec in Debian

2019-10-24 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 05:32:51PM +0200, deb...@jherrero.org wrote: > El jue, 24-10-2019 a las 16:27 +0200, Ralph Aichinger escribió: > > Or am I completely wrong and should I use some other implementation? > > from > >

debian buster predeeding with error: no root filesystem defined

2019-10-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
Hi, Trying to create custom lvm preseeding partitions, but it just fails with no root filesystem defined. any clues? Using this guide: https://secopsmonkey.com/custom-partioning-using-preseed.html Eero

Re: The state of IPSec in Debian

2019-10-24 Thread debian
El jue, 24-10-2019 a las 16:27 +0200, Ralph Aichinger escribió: > Or am I completely wrong and should I use some other implementation? from https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#noteworthy-obsolete-packages --8<- ipsec-tools and

Hiding apps

2019-10-24 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Debian Sid with Mate. I would like to run tzclock at startup, but it appears in the taskbar as a regular program. Is there a way to hide it from the taskbar ? -- Frank McCormick

Firefox Seems to Have a Mind of It's Own

2019-10-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
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? -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. www.molecular-modeling.net 614.312.7528

The state of IPSec in Debian

2019-10-24 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hi! I am not a completely unexperienced user of Debian, but sometimes certain subsystems and choices still puzzle me. Right now this is IPSec. There used to be several implementations, but am I right that the only sensible one right now is Strongswan? https://wiki.debian.org/IPsec goes on

What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-24 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, Ulrich Drepper's piece on on-chip memory architectures is a fantastic read, and I recently had the chance to revisit it -- https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf I am writing to ask more knowledgeable folks if the last 13 years have seen sufficient changes that render

Re: tri des messages - thunderbird

2019-10-24 Thread fab
plusieurs groupes pour un message. Sais-tu me dire le pourquoi? non. L'avais-tu déjà remarqué? jamais. Très bonne journée, ah bah merci ;) f.

Re: tri des messages - thunderbird

2019-10-24 Thread Frederic Robert
On 10/24/19 2:03 PM, fab wrote: 'lut, sur thunderbird, clique sur le petit icone "afficher les fils de discussion" cf PJ. Et tu verras ton fil entier. cela arrive souvent si je ne me trompe pas quand je supprime le message d'origine -- Frédéric ROBERT

Re: tri des messages - thunderbird

2019-10-24 Thread Frederic Robert
On 10/24/19 2:03 PM, fab wrote: 'lut, sur thunderbird, clique sur le petit icone "afficher les fils de discussion" cf PJ. Et tu verras ton fil entier. cela semble être bon, merci. J'avais déjà configuré dans View > Sort by > Date > Ascending > threaded et le petit signe pour afficher le

Re: tri des messages - thunderbird

2019-10-24 Thread fab
'lut, sur thunderbird, clique sur le petit icone "afficher les fils de discussion" cf PJ. Et tu verras ton fil entier. a+ f. Le 24/10/2019 à 15:59, Frederic Robert a écrit : Bonjour, Comment allez-vous? J'utilise thunderbird pour lire mes e-mails. Ils sont triés par Date > Ascending >

tri des messages - thunderbird

2019-10-24 Thread Frederic Robert
Bonjour, Comment allez-vous? J'utilise thunderbird pour lire mes e-mails. Ils sont triés par Date > Ascending > Threaded. Je remarque que par exemple le sujet que j'avais crée "faire une sauvegarde de son home" se retrouve découpé en deux parties. Je ne sais pas si je m'explique correctement.

Re: Questions de débutant sur un annuaire LDAP

2019-10-24 Thread Olivier
En effet, ça a l'air assez complet. Merci de l'info Le mer. 23 oct. 2019 à 19:27, ajh-valmer a écrit : > On Wednesday 23 October 2019 18:06:26 Olivier wrote: > > 1. Pourriez-vous me conseiller un annuaire LDAP avec les propriétés > > suivantes: > > - empaqueté dans Stretch et Buster > > -

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread G2PC
>> Voilà, tu vas devenir le champion de la sauvegarde :-) > > Merci :) cp source destination # Conserver les attributs autant que possible. # -a # --archive # Effectuer des sauvegardes des fichiers sur le point d'être écrasés. (?) # -b # --backup # Si le fichier est un lien symbolique,

Re: GRUB not applying Intel Microcode?

2019-10-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 10:16:00PM -0400, Christopher David Howie wrote: > On 10/23/2019 9:16 PM, Kyle K wrote: > > In my grub.cfg I don't see anything that resembles "initrd  > > /intel-ucode.img /initrd.img-4.19.0-6-amd64". > > On Debian, microcode updates are embedded in the main initrd, not

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Joao Emanuel
Or all. Have a nice day, afternoon, night. *Sorry for poor english grammar. Em qui, 24 de out de 2019 às 04:23, Thomas Schmitt escreveu: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] I use the formula "folks". > > How about "peoplers" ? > > "Popplers Are Peoplers Too !" - Futurama > > > Have a

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread Michel
Le 24/10/2019 à 13:10, ajh.val...@free.fr a écrit : [ . . . ] > > L'option --delete, avec circonspection, > elle effacera sur la cible tout ce qui a été effacé sur la source. > Bien réfléchir avant, c'est à dire partir d'une source > bien établie avant la sauvegarde (fichiers devenus inutiles). >

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread Frederic Robert
On 10/24/19 11:05 AM, ajh.val...@free.fr wrote: Voilà, tu vas devenir le champion de la sauvegarde :-) Merci :) -- Frederic Robert

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread Eric Degenetais
Le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 13:05, a écrit : > On Thursday 24 October 2019 10:30:25 Frederic Robert wrote: > > j'ai formaté la clé ext3 et j'ai réussi à copier l'ensemble de mon home > > sur la clé usb. J'ai ajouté certains fichiers sur le disque et rsync à > > nouveau et cela fonctionne bien. Est-ce

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread ajh . valmer
On Thursday 24 October 2019 10:30:25 Frederic Robert wrote: > j'ai formaté la clé ext3 et j'ai réussi à copier l'ensemble de mon home > sur la clé usb. J'ai ajouté certains fichiers sur le disque et rsync à > nouveau et cela fonctionne bien. Est-ce conseillé d'ajouter --delete à > la ligne de

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread Frederic Robert
On 10/24/19 8:41 AM, fab wrote: 'lut, nouveau et cela fonctionne bien. Est-ce conseillé d'ajouter --delete à la ligne de commande? Tout dépend de ce que tu veux. l'option delete supprimera de ta clé un fichier que tu as supprimer dans ton home. En gros, si tu supprimes un fichier par

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-24 08:47, Joe wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:51:30 +1100 David wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: > >> > > Guys, [...] > > Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread Eric Degenetais
Le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 10:30, Frederic Robert a écrit : > On 10/23/19 8:43 AM, ajh-valmer wrote: > > > cp est à éviter. > > > > rsync -avz /home// /media/cleusb/ > > ou > > rsync -avz /home/ /media/cleusb/ > > > > devrait faire mieux l'affaire. > > Bonjour ajh-valmer et à la liste, > > j'ai

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread Frederic Robert
On 10/23/19 6:22 PM, ajh.val...@free.fr wrote: La sauvegarde est une science, à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mains :-) tu l'as dis. Ce n'est pas facile et je semble perdu dans le sujet. Je cherche une solution car parfois j'aurais besoin de lire certains fichiers de la clé ou d'un disque

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread fab
'lut, nouveau et cela fonctionne bien. Est-ce conseillé d'ajouter --delete à la ligne de commande? Tout dépend de ce que tu veux. l'option delete supprimera de ta clé un fichier que tu as supprimer dans ton home. En gros, si tu supprimes un fichier par erreur, la suppression sera aussi

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:23:30AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] I use the formula "folks". > > How about "peoplers" ? Thanks for this one :) I think that some diversity on approaches can only help here. We're trying to solve a complex problem. As we

Re: faire une sauvegarde de son home

2019-10-24 Thread Frederic Robert
On 10/23/19 8:43 AM, ajh-valmer wrote: cp est à éviter. rsync -avz /home// /media/cleusb/ ou rsync -avz /home/ /media/cleusb/ devrait faire mieux l'affaire. Bonjour ajh-valmer et à la liste, j'ai formaté la clé ext3 et j'ai réussi à copier l'ensemble de mon home sur la clé usb. J'ai

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] I use the formula "folks". How about "peoplers" ? "Popplers Are Peoplers Too !" - Futurama Have a nice day :) Thomas

Debian 10: enable counting in faillog

2019-10-24 Thread e...@coderhacks.com
Hello! I try to enable faillog at Debian 10. Till now it is installed but does not count failed logins. As far I found out I need to adjust some pam-files in /etc to enable it. I read about pam_tally, pam_tally2, auth_common, system-auth, ... So I think they are more or less do all the same

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:47:22AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:51:30 +1100 > David wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User > > wrote: > > > > > >> > > Guys, [...] > > > > > > Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. > > > > Hi, > >

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:51:30 +1100 David wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User > wrote: > > > >> > > Guys, [...] > > > > Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. > > Hi, > I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try > to choose

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread David
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: > >> > > Guys, [...] > > Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to choose words that cannot accidentally be understood as excluding valued members of this