mdadm and whole disk array members

2021-03-22 Thread Gary Dale
I've spent a few days experimenting with using whole disks in a RAID 5 array and have come to the conclusion that it simply doesn't work well enough to be used. The main problem I had was that mdadm seems to have problems assembling the array when it uses entire disks instead of partitions. Ea

Re: Jitsi keeps failing when I want to use it [RESOLVED}

2021-03-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-03-06 15:54, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-03-06 15:44, Gary Dale wrote: My phone lost its wifi so it only connects via the mobile data. In any event, the connection is through a public IP address. I've noticed one thing that puzzles me a little (after I tried removing and reinsta

Re: Jitsi keeps failing when I want to use it

2021-03-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-03-06 15:44, Gary Dale wrote: My phone lost its wifi so it only connects via the mobile data. In any event, the connection is through a public IP address. I've noticed one thing that puzzles me a little (after I tried removing and reinstalling Jitsi) and that is that the Debian/B

Re: Jitsi keeps failing when I want to use it

2021-03-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-03-06 15:36, Henning Follmann wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 01:38:07PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running a Jitis-meet server on a Debian/Buster AMD64 system. It usually works fine. However every time I want to actually host a meeting, it decides to act up. Yesterday evening I t

Re: Jitsi keeps failing when I want to use it

2021-03-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-03-06 15:36, Henning Follmann wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 01:38:07PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running a Jitis-meet server on a Debian/Buster AMD64 system. It usually works fine. However every time I want to actually host a meeting, it decides to act up. Yesterday evening I t

Re: Jitsi keeps failing when I want to use it

2021-03-06 Thread Gary Dale
ridge while the jitsi install guide for Debian/Ubuntu talks about jitsi-videobridge2. On 2021-03-06 15:16, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Dale wrote: I'm running a Jitis-meet server on a Debian/Buster AMD64 system. It usually works fine. However every time I want to actually host a meeting, it d

Jitsi keeps failing when I want to use it

2021-03-06 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running a Jitis-meet server on a Debian/Buster AMD64 system. It usually works fine. However every time I want to actually host a meeting, it decides to act up. Yesterday evening I tested Jitsi with a meeting between my desktop system and my Android phone. Everything worked properly. I coul

Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

2021-02-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-19 09:17, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-18 09:06, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've recently been getting int

Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

2021-02-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-18 09:06, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've recently been getting into a little php coding because there see

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-18 12:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: g...@extremeground.com wrote: On 2021-02-18 09:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: zcor...@yahoo.com wrote: Just received a new laptop, and both Debian Stable, and Debian testing would not detect the hard drive.  Any possibility this can be added to the to-do-l

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-18 12:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:59:03PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2021-02-18 11:13:25-0500, Gary Dale wrote: rsync is a quick & dirty backup tactic but it's got limitations. 1) files may stay around forever in the backup even if you'v

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-18 10:57, mick crane wrote: On 2021-02-15 12:39, mick crane wrote: On 2021-02-13 19:20, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-13 01:27, mick crane wrote: I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling to get to grips with it. If rsync from PC to NA

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-18 09:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: zcor...@yahoo.com wrote: Just received a new laptop, and both Debian Stable, and Debian testing would not detect the hard drive.  Any possibility this can be added to the to-do-list for developers?  I bought a Dell XPS 15 7590 (2019) edition. Check in

Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

2021-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've recently been getting into a little php coding because there seem to a lot of sample code out there fo

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-17 04:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 16 feb 21, 16:45:13, Gary Dale wrote: I hear you, but the issue is that if I revert to a previous version, then I have to hold it to stop the buggy version from clobbering it every day. And I have to monitor the Testing version for changes to

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-16 17:02, Philip Wyett wrote: On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 16:45 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-13 03:02, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 12 feb 21, 17:00:41, Gary Dale wrote: Which is why I think it would be useful to have way to rollback a package when you can't fix it quickly.

Re: networking.service fails

2021-02-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-17 08:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 17 feb 21, 00:01:01, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-16 19:44, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: Dear Debian community, I am puzzled with the following problem. When my Debian 10.8 starts, the unit "networking.service" is marked as failed with the

Re: networking.service fails

2021-02-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-16 19:44, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: Dear Debian community, I am puzzled with the following problem. When my Debian 10.8 starts, the unit "networking.service" is marked as failed with the following reason: root@debian:~ # systemctl status networking.service *— networking.service - Raise

php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server

2021-02-16 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've recently been getting into a little php coding because there seem to a lot of sample code out there for things I want to do. Usually they work right away

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-13 03:02, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 12 feb 21, 17:00:41, Gary Dale wrote: Which is why I think it would be useful to have way to rollback a package when you can't fix it quickly. That way you aren't asking all the users to do it themselves and track the bug status in

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-12 16:10, songbird wrote: Gary Dale wrote: ... I appreciate the people doing this, but this is a serious issue. I have to resort to firing up a VM or resorting to the command line on my local server to update my web sites because I can't do it from Testing. I see it also im

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-12 14:15, Paul Scott wrote: On 2/12/21 12:12 PM, Frank wrote: Op 12-02-2021 om 18:19 schreef Gary Dale: I appreciate the people doing this, but this is a serious issue. I have to resort to firing up a VM or resorting to the command line on my local server to update my web sites

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-12 14:12, Frank wrote: Op 12-02-2021 om 18:19 schreef Gary Dale: I appreciate the people doing this, but this is a serious issue. I have to resort to firing up a VM or resorting to the command line on my local server to update my web sites because I can't do it from Testing.

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-12 09:12, songbird wrote: Gary Dale wrote: ... Time passes and the bug is still in Debian/Testing. please look at the end of: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980119 it looks like things are happening, but how quickly those changes are applied and

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-28 11:03, David Wright wrote: On Thu 28 Jan 2021 at 10:17:50 (-0500), Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-01-20 10:44, songbird wrote: Gary Dale wrote: ... the problem is still there with the recent version of Filezilla that showed up in testing (3.52.0.5-1). i see there is a bug

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-01-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-28 11:03, David Wright wrote: On Thu 28 Jan 2021 at 10:17:50 (-0500), Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-01-20 10:44, songbird wrote: Gary Dale wrote: ... the problem is still there with the recent version of Filezilla that showed up in testing (3.52.0.5-1). i see there is a bug

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-01-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-20 10:44, songbird wrote: Gary Dale wrote: ... the problem is still there with the recent version of Filezilla that showed up in testing (3.52.0.5-1). i see there is a bug filed via GNUTLS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980119 not sure what

Re: Can't connect to workstation using ssh from a remote machine

2021-01-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-14 07:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 08:20:30PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Dale wrote: $ telnet workstation  22 Trying 192.168.1.20... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out Options: . workstation is not running sshd No. That would

Re: Can't connect to workstation using ssh from a remote machine

2021-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-13 20:20, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-01-13 15:48, Dan Ritter wrote: >From server: $ ping -c3 workstation $ telnet workstation 22 -dsr- I can get to the server from workstation using ssh. I just can't do it in the other direction. On server, I can ping wor

Re: Can't connect to workstation using ssh from a remote machine

2021-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-13 19:03, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:27:07 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: I can connect via ssh to my workstation locally, just not from other machines *i.e. ssh works when run on but not when run on a different computer). Firewall? Try "tail -f /var/log/syslo

Re: Can't connect to workstation using ssh from a remote machine

2021-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-13 15:48, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Bullseye on an AMD64 system on my workstation and Buster on an AMD64 system on my server. I'm trying to establish an ssh connection from my server to my workstation to facilitate a nightly pull backup of /home

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-13 15:59, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 17:33:12 -03 Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-01-13 14:54, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:42:17 -03 Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-01-12 22:53, Philip Wyett wrote: On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 21:27 -0500, Gary Dale

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-13 14:54, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:42:17 -03 Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-01-12 22:53, Philip Wyett wrote: On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 21:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 machine. I'm trying to update a site using File

Can't connect to workstation using ssh from a remote machine

2021-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Bullseye on an AMD64 system on my workstation and Buster on an AMD64 system on my server. I'm trying to establish an ssh connection from my server to my workstation to facilitate a nightly pull backup of /home run by the server. However the ssh request times out. I can connect vi

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-01-12 22:53, Philip Wyett wrote: On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 21:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 machine. I'm trying to update a site using FileZilla with the same settings I've been using but cannot get a connection. I've tried this o

FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-01-12 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 machine. I'm trying to update a site using FileZilla with the same settings I've been using but cannot get a connection. I've tried this on several sites with the same results. Here's the FileZilla dialogue of a session connect attempt: Status:    Reso

unable to connect via ftp to my sites

2021-01-11 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 machine. I'm trying to update a site using FileZilla with the same settings I've been using but cannot get a connection. I've tried this on several sites with the same results. Here's the FileZilla dialogue of a session connect attempt: Status:    Reso

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-09 12:31, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 11:29:28 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-09 10:25, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: avahi-browse -art > log1 -bash: avahi-browse: command not found -

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-09 10:25, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: avahi-browse -art > log1 -bash: avahi-browse: command not found - for both regular user and root on the server and post log here as an attachment. avahi-browse

Re: ssh tunnelling testing [solved]

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-07 16:02, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-07 14:23, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 8:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-07 14:03, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 7:54 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-07 13:24, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 6:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: (actually through

Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-08 22:37, Dan Hitt wrote: One of the local government agencies that i would like to interact with communicates using Microsoft Team.  The software actually has a debian package, which i have downloaded, but not installed yet. I have a computer running debian 10.3, but it does not ha

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: On Tue 08 Dec 2020 at 12:27:18 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the serve

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-08 16:19, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Gary Dale writes: I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not from my workst

Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not from my workstation. When I try to print anything from my workstation to that printer

Re: ssh tunnelling testing

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-07 13:55, der.hans wrote: Am 07. Dec, 2020 schwätzte Gary Dale so: moin moin, First off, try one or more -v to your ssh command to get more verbosity. The -v will show you the step in building the connection that failed. Also, try -G to see what configuration will be used without

Re: ssh tunnelling testing [solved]

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-07 14:23, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 8:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-07 14:03, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 7:54 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-07 13:24, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 6:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: (actually through the /etc/hosts file using the server&#

Re: ssh tunnelling testing [solved]

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-07 14:03, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 7:54 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-07 13:24, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 6:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: (actually through the /etc/hosts file using the server's name). I've set up port forwarding on both my routers (I have an inne

Re: ssh tunnelling testing

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-07 13:24, john doe wrote: On 12/7/2020 6:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Buster on various servers, including my home server. I'm trying to set up an ssh tunnel that I can use post-pandemic in case I need to access my home network remotely. I'm alread

ssh tunnelling testing

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Buster on various servers, including my home server. I'm trying to set up an ssh tunnel that I can use post-pandemic in case I need to access my home network remotely. I'm already doing this to various remote servers so I thought this should just work, since I can already acc

apt, update-iinitramfs - amdgpu firmware warning messages

2020-10-17 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Bullseye on an AMD64 system with an older AMD HD7850 video card. I keep getting these messages from update-initramfs during my daily apt update && apt full-upgrade: W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmwar

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 19:38, Britton Kerin wrote: I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :). For some reason ssh sessions seem to time out pretty quickly. I've tried setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax and also ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax, b

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-22 01:48, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 21 sep 20, 17:22:26, Gary Dale wrote: I presented the line that failed, copied and pasted from the Konsole session. What more do you want, other than to complain? In such cases it is best to attach[1] the smallest complete[2] script

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-22 00:25, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-21 18:04, Gary Dale wrote: The two servers are for different customers. I would not want to create a tunnel between them. Instead I have my normal ssh tunnels to each server from my workstation. However the script is only readable by

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-22 09:29, David Wright wrote: On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 20:50:29 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-09-21 10:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 08:18:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: '…' and "

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 16:18, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-21 09:34, Gary Dale wrote: As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 10:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 08:18:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: '…' and "…" are known as neutral, vertical, straight, typewriter, dumb, or ASCII quotation marks. ‘…’ and “…” are known as t

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 16:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:19:22PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-21 00:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42' is involved in quote removal. Joy! Joy! Happy! Happy! Another whole

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 13:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:59:32PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Did you try it with Konsole? I got $ hd a   b   61 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  62 0a |a   b.| 000a In other words, konsole *did* alter the contents. Most shells (all that I

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 12:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:34:20PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 08:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: '…' and "…" are known as neutral, vertical, straight, typewriter, dumb, or ASCII quotation marks. ‘…’ and “…” are known as typographic, curly, curved, book, or smart quotation marks. Y

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 07:51, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 09:18:33PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-report" There is nothing wrong with that alleged line. There is an incredible lack of openness and forthrightness in t

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-20 22:55, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 18:18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-09-20 20:36, David Christensen wrote: The environments are identical. Have you tried '#!/bin/sh' ? That's my shebang line. Have you tried single quotes? Wouldn't want to.

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-20 20:36, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 15:14, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-20 at 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-20 18:14, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-20 at 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution problem. The line causing the problem reads

weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution problem. The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-report" On one server  echo $report  prints  /root/clamscan-repor

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-08-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-08-31 15:59, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-08-31 15:14, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-08-30 13:24, john doe wrote: On 8/30/2020 7:08 PM, john doe wrote: On 8/30/2020 6:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Apache 2.4.38-3+deb10u3 on a Debian/Stable server on an AMD64 machine. When I cre

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-08-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-08-31 15:14, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-08-30 13:24, john doe wrote: On 8/30/2020 7:08 PM, john doe wrote: On 8/30/2020 6:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Apache 2.4.38-3+deb10u3 on a Debian/Stable server on an AMD64 machine. When I create a virtual host under /var/www, every

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2?

2020-08-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-08-30 13:24, john doe wrote: On 8/30/2020 7:08 PM, john doe wrote: On 8/30/2020 6:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Apache 2.4.38-3+deb10u3 on a Debian/Stable server on an AMD64 machine. When I create a virtual host under /var/www, everything works as expected. However, if I c

Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2?

2020-08-30 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Apache 2.4.38-3+deb10u3 on a Debian/Stable server on an AMD64 machine. When I create a virtual host under /var/www, everything works as expected. However, if I change the virtual host's document root to another folder on the same machine, I get |Forbidden You don't have permissio

Re: setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts [SOLVED]

2020-07-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-07-31 11:32, Henning Follmann wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:12:53AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: My server is running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system. I'm trying to set up its local Apache2 service to execute cgi-bin scripts but I'm having some problems getting it to work. I

setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts

2020-07-31 Thread Gary Dale
My server is running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system. I'm trying to set up its local Apache2 service to execute cgi-bin scripts but I'm having some problems getting it to work. I note that /etc/apache2/conf-enabled contains a link to /etc/apache2/conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf so I'm assu

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-07-07 09:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:45:56AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I did install it and it is a single package. It runs fine in parallel with the esr release. Hopefully the maintainers will continue the practice of having firefox and firefox_esr available and

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-07-07 02:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 iul 20, 23:33:46, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-07-06 20:00, Bob Weber wrote: Firefox 78 is in unstable.  I run testing but I occasionally pick up things in unstable if they don't mess up testing like firefox.  I have used it for a while m

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-07-06 20:00, Bob Weber wrote: On 7/6/20 5:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. Whil

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-07-06 18:20, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Dale wrote: This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. An updated (non-ESR) ver

Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version. While generally the pages I create look pretty much the same on whatever browser I use, I have

avidemux gone

2020-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
What happened? After I installed the latest updates on my Bullseye/AMD64 system, I noticed that it was mainly removing hundreds of megabytes of packages related to KDE/Plasma. One that jumped out at me was avidemux, which I note is not in the repositories (I think I originally installed it from

Re: Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-09-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-09-27 10:46 p.m., David Wright wrote: On Fri 27 Sep 2019 at 20:15:01 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management s

Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-09-27 Thread Gary Dale
Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. This has survived several updates to the window management software. I tried se

Re: gftp not getting remote file lists on Buster

2019-08-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-08-01 12:15 p.m., Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 12:05:49 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, Any ideas? If you're open to it: You could try filezilla and see what transpires. Raise a support ticket with that one provider, if you haven't already done so. Chan

gftp not getting remote file lists on Buster

2019-08-01 Thread Gary Dale
I used to use kbear for updating my web pages but then it was dropped so I've been using gftp for the last several years. It still seems to be working for the most part but I have a site with one hosting company (directnic) that is giving me problems. I just have the one site with this host.

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-07-30 6:51 p.m., Cousin Stanley wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Unfortunately none of those options are 1080i. I've tried all of the 1920x1080 and they all end up being progressive scan. Running raspbian here on a rpi3b+ currently using a 22in LG hdmi monitor. screen resoluti

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-07-30 4:44 p.m., Cousin Stanley wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Raspian uses a /boot/config.txt file to control video modes but this is failing in my case. It refuses to output 1080i unless I set that mode from the command line. However, when I do that, I lose the ability to adjust the

How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
I'm posting a Pi question to this list because I believe I need a Debian answer. The Raspian answers have been failing me - see https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/101144/how-can-i-get-my-new-raspberry-pi-4b-to-output-1080i-video?noredirect=1#comment167120_101144 for the details. R

upgrade from stretch to buster killed my KVM snapshots

2019-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
Apparently internal snapshots of a qcow2-based vm are problematic when the vm boots from UEFI. I found that out when my nightly snapshots stopped working after I upgraded a server from stretch to buster. Testing the effective line of the script with actual values, I got this result:   #virsh

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 12:43 p.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 17:46:50) On 2019-06-15 10:56 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 2:03 p.m., Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 12:09:51 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-15 9:49 a.m., Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 19:08:02 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: Very useful. As confirmation (or not) of an idea, let us have what

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 9:49 a.m., Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 19:08:02 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: Very useful. As confirmation (or not) of an idea, let us have what cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/ -m printer/foo \ -e --list-filters /etc/nsswitch.conf gives (as

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 10:56 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an otherwise non-KDE environment. Far better than (e.g. virtualized) Windows with Adobe

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 9:50 a.m., Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 23:32:50 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I thought I'd figured it out - that the network printer shouldn't be installed locally, because it's automagically discovered. I tested this by As we have seen, it is the way you inst

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [ quotes reordered by time - please consider not top-posting, Hans ] Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 05:35:58) On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: in general I do not have a

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:28:10 +0200 Hans wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: Did you try "Evince" or "Okular"? Best Hans Hello, in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer.

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-14 7:08 p.m., Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: On Thu 13 Jun 2019 at 21:31:49 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-13 5:06 a.m., Brian wrote: [...] Your setup would appear to be: 1. The C410 is connected to a CUPS server via USB (but the connection can

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: On Thu 13 Jun 2019 at 21:31:49 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-13 5:06 a.m., Brian wrote: [...] Your setup would appear to be: 1. The C410 is connected to a CUPS server via USB (but the connection can also be via wireless). 2. The server has

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

2019-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-14 3:45 a.m., Curt wrote: On 2019-06-14, john doe wrote: Not realy an answer, depending on what you need vnc for, one alternative would be to use Cygwin as an ssh server on the Windows boxes. He might try removing ~/.config/freerdp/known_hosts (after backing it up) or commenting ou

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

2019-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-14 1:49 a.m., john doe wrote: On 6/14/2019 5:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I recently had the unpleasant experience of "upgrading" a pair of Windows 7/Pro computers to Windows 10/Pro - the 9 month old version, not the latest install image. That's when I discovered the Wind

strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

2019-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
I recently had the unpleasant experience of "upgrading" a pair of Windows 7/Pro computers to Windows 10/Pro - the 9 month old version, not the latest install image. That's when I discovered the Windows 10 "feature" that it doesn't allow VNC connections when the monitor is turned off (or not att

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-13 5:06 a.m., Brian wrote: On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 16:59:35 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I can print fine from Stretch but not from Buster. When I try to print to this printer from Buster, I get a short listing of a text error. For example, I just tried to print a PDF and got SPL-C ERROR

error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
I can print fine from Stretch but not from Buster. When I try to print to this printer from Buster, I get a short listing of a text error. For example, I just tried to print a PDF and got SPL-C ERROR - Undefined Command     POSITION : 0x21958 (137560)     SYSTEM : src/xl_pa     LINE : 298  

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Gary Dale
I suggest trying gparted to read the partition table on your drive. There may be a problem and gparted is usually pretty good at finding partition table errors. On 2019-06-01 1:41 p.m., Ross Boylan wrote: df says my volume is 3G, but everything else says it's 4G. What's going on and how can

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