No Grub to launch my new Debian 10 with LUKS&LVM (UEFI)

2019-12-26 Thread l0f4r0
Hi everyone, I installed some days ago Debian 10 with LVM inside LUKS and specific formatting (4 logical volumes for /, /home, /var and swap) on my Lenovo ThinkPad X390 in dual-boot configuration with Windows 10 (which came preinstalled on this brand new laptop). Everything went well except I

Re: is there any app. to transform either .vtt or .ass subtitles to .srt ?

2019-12-26 Thread Nicolas George
shirish शिरीष (12019-12-26): > I haven't found any app, either subtitlecomposer or subtitleeditor or > any other tool to transform to .srt. ffmpeg can do that: ffmpeg -i any_kind_of_text_sub out.srt Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

is there any app. to transform either .vtt or .ass subtitles to .srt ?

2019-12-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
Dear all, Please CC me if anybody has a solution. I haven't found any app, either subtitlecomposer or subtitleeditor or any other tool to transform to .srt. I have seen youtube (as an e.g.) which uses web.vtt for subtitling work for most of the videos. And this becomes infurtiating especially wh

Re: Home made backup system

2019-12-26 Thread rhkramer
Thanks for the reply and the useful explanations (and the expression of limitation of your personal knowledge). I will add one question / comment down below: On Thursday, December 26, 2019 10:23:54 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > For most people, it comes down to "when you can't write to the device >

Re: Home made backup system

2019-12-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Remember, tar was designed for magnetic tapes, > > > which are read sequentially. It provides no way for a reader to learn > > > that file xyz is at byte offset 31337 and that it should skip ahead to > > > that point if it only wants that one file. rhkra...@gmail.c

Re: Home made backup system

2019-12-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 09:51:59 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Again, I assume (I know what assume does) that "USB mass-storage > device that acts like a hard drive" is (or might be) a pen drive type > of device. I've had a lot of bad luck (well, more bad luck than I'd > like) with that kind of d

Re: Home made backup system

2019-12-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 09:51:59AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Just to confirm, I assume that is true ("no way to skip ahead to byte 31337") > even if the underlying media is a (somewhat random access) disk instead of > (serial access) tape? Correct. There's no central index inside the t

Re: systemd, cgroups, lxc, rsyslog

2019-12-26 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/12/19 2:30 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:58:18AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> $ sudo systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service >> Failed to kill unit rsyslog.service: Input/output error > >-s, --signal= >When used with kill, choose which signal to s

Re: Home made backup system

2019-12-26 Thread rhkramer
Thanks for addressing this -- I have a few questions I want to ask for my own edification / clarification: On Thursday, December 26, 2019 08:18:12 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > The drawback of using tar is that it creates an *archive* of files -- that > is, a single file (or byte stream) that contain

Re: systemd, cgroups, lxc, rsyslog

2019-12-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:58:18AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > $ sudo systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service > Failed to kill unit rsyslog.service: Input/output error -s, --signal= When used with kill, choose which signal to send to selected processes. Must be one of

Re: Home made backup system

2019-12-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 08:18:12AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 11:07:22AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > > I was amazed that nobody yet considered tar. Sorry... that sentence was actually written by Franco Martelli. I replied to the wrong email.

Re: Home made backup system

2019-12-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 11:07:22AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > I was amazed that nobody yet considered tar. The best use case for tar is creating a full backup to removable media (magnetic tapes are literally what it was designed for -- the "t" stands for tape). The drawback of using tar

systemd, cgroups, lxc, rsyslog

2019-12-26 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've got a problem in some of my LXC containers, running buster. Logrotate can't HUP rsyslog with "systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service": $ sudo systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service Failed to kill unit rsyslog.service: Input/output error I can HUP it fine manually, with: $ sudo kill