Encrypted lvm error messages at boot

2020-02-21 Thread john doe
Hi all, I just installed Debian buster with encrypted LVM, when starting Debian I see the following: " Volume group "debian-buster-vg" not found Cannot process volume group debian-buster-vg Volume group "debian-buster-vg" not found Cannot process volume group debian-buster-vg" It works bu

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 February 2020 22:58:10 Mark Allums wrote: > On 2/21/20 9:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:53:50AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Indeed.  And FWIW, you should/might be able to avoid the `sudo` by > >> asking udisks2 to do the unmount > > > > Yep. It req

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/21/20 9:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:53:50AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Indeed.  And FWIW, you should/might be able to avoid the `sudo` by asking udisks2 to do the unmount Yep. It requires you to specify the device, rather than the filesystem mount point:

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 5:09 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and mailing list service. ... After considering all the suggestions, I have prepared a plan, using a bit of pseudo code, to describe what I believe I need to do. Interest

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:04 AM Henning Follmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:47:36AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:37 Henning Follmann ... > For years I operated a couple of sendmail installations. That and the > O'Reilly Sendmail book tought me a lot. > Today

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2020-02-21 Thread Thomas George
Wait for a new update? It happened before. In the meantime I am forwarding the emails to thunderbird on a raspberrypi desktop. On that thunderbird the links can be opened. On 2/19/20 6:06 PM, Boas Kirui wrote: what do I do now,should I re-enable the virtual syscall?

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... > Does anybody here experience similar stubbornness of automounting ? > If so: How to unmount a DVD without ejecting it ? not having done much with DVDs recently i can't say much about them. i can say that i really hate having something automounted even when i tell th

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 12:36:38 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 11:22:58 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian wrote: > ... > > Thanks, I will read the page in detail later. Meanwhile, I did a qu

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:36 PM Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Brian wrote: > > Thanks, I will read the page in detail later. Meanwhile, I did a quick > > search on the page for "mailname" and didn't get anything. Anyway, what > > I really wanted to know was what function

blank screen after NFS boot

2020-02-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a computer I have been network booting into a buster system without incident. A few days ago I powered it off, and later in the day turned it on. It went through the early phases of the boot OK, but never showed the graphical login screen. I tried a couple of times, but it never started. A

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 11:22:58 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian wrote: ... > Thanks, I will read the page in detail later. Meanwhile, I did a quick > search on the page for "mailname" and didn't get anything. Anywa

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 11:22:58 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 05:09:47 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > ... > | > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > > > > servers I will designate for the DN

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 05:09:47 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > ... | > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > > servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mail-enabled > > domains. The mailnames should be

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:47:36AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:37 Henning Follmann > wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:38:45PM +0100, john doe wrote: > > ... > > > Don't do THAT! > > > > RFC2181 section 10.3 says you can't point your MX record to a CNAME > > >

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 05:09:47 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and > mailing list service. > > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mai

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:53:50AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Indeed. And FWIW, you should/might be able to avoid the `sudo` by asking udisks2 to do the unmount Yep. It requires you to specify the device, rather than the filesystem mount point: $ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdb1 But does

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:37 Henning Follmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:38:45PM +0100, john doe wrote: ... > Don't do THAT! > > RFC2181 section 10.3 says you can't point your MX record to a CNAME > Maybe that's why Namecheap has the MXE record that points to an IP. Besides the rele

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:38:45PM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 2/21/2020 12:09 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and > > mailing list service. > > > > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > > servers I

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > $ mount | fgrep /dev/sr0 >> > /dev/sr0 on /media/ddval/ISOIMAGE type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime, >> > nojoliet,check=s,map=n, blocksize=2048,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=500, >> > fmode=400,uhelper=udisks2) >> > $ sudo umount /dev/sr0 >> > umount: /dev/sr0: not mounted > Try instead: sudo um

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Joe
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:46:59 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:29 Joe wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:00:14 -0600 > > Tom Browder wrote: > > ... > > > > As I understand it, a mail server has to use smtp to physically > > > transfer mail between physical hosts and th

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:29 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:00:14 -0600 > Tom Browder wrote: ... > > As I understand it, a mail server has to use smtp to physically > > transfer mail between physical hosts and that requires one name that > > will resolve to an IP. Even if the server is h

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Tom Browder (2020-02-21 13:17:52) > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:00 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Hi tom, > > > ... > > > > Does anyone have strong reasons to use one over another, or any other > > > > choice? > > > ... > > > Depends on the purpose of the name(s). > > ... > > Thanks, Jo

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:17 Michael Howard wrote: ... > I don't know your use case but using 'regular' names like smtp.example.com, > imap.example.com, pop3.example.com etc, help with the auto config > processes used on devices, thus making it easier for users to setup > accounts on their devic

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Joe
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:00:14 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 05:39 john doe wrote: > ... > > > I might be missing something here but the domain name is what you > > buy/what you get. > > > Note I own (techically it's more of a rental or lease) multiple > domains hosted ac

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:00 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi tom, > ... > > Does anyone have strong reasons to use one over another, or any other > > choice? > ... > Depends on the purpose of the name(s). ... Thanks, Jonas, that makes good sense. Based on that I should use "mail" and maybe "mai

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Michael Howard
On 21/02/2020 11:09, Tom Browder wrote: I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and mailing list service. I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mail-enabled domains. The

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi tom, Quoting Tom Browder (2020-02-21 12:09:47) > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail > and mailing list service. > > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my > mail-

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 05:39 john doe wrote: ... > I might be missing something here but the domain name is what you > buy/what you get. Note I own (techically it's more of a rental or lease) multiple domains hosted across multiple servers which I also fully control (no sharing, full root cont

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread john doe
On 2/21/2020 12:09 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and > mailing list service. > > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mail-enabled > domai

Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and mailing list service. I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mail-enabled domains. The mailnames should be "fully qualified domain n

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > $ mount | fgrep /dev/sr0 > > /dev/sr0 on /media/ddval/ISOIMAGE type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime, > > nojoliet,check=s,map=n, blocksize=2048,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=500, > > fmode=400,uhelper=udisks2) > > $ sudo umount /dev/sr0 > > umount: /dev/sr0: not mounted Try i

Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, during a discussion on linuxquestion.org i got a (Mint) user's report that an automounted DVD cannot be unmounted manually: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/compiling-xfburn-source-code-additional-packages-required-4175667265/page7.html#post6092450 > $ mount | fgrep /d