d I suspect one of mine got bent somehow.
Next step: finding them.
I thank all of the respondents for the help and suggestions. I'm kinda
back on line, but loss of email is a life-threatening catastrophe :-)
--
Glenn English
I was working on
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf. It did seem to attract Dovecot's
attention a bit :-)
--
Glenn English
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:39 PM mick crane wrote:
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
That looks great -- first thing in the morning :-)
--
Glenn English
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:29 PM Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> The documentation for the disable_plaintext_auth parameter seems like it
> is exactly what you need to tweak. I cannot tell why you didn't run
> into this earlier.
I did. But what I did to try to get it to work, didn't.
l
take longer, but it still failed.
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
Bears looking into. Thanks.
--
Glenn English
I installed mutt on the mail server, and it found mail that's been
coming in and was stored properly by Postfix.
It's gotta be something with Dovecot.
--
Glenn English
ring about it. And since I can't see the debian-user list, please
respond directly to me at ghe2...@gmail.com
TIA++.
--
Glenn English
to the other hosts. I compared the
working config with the bent one and didn't see much of interest. I
really have no idea what I did to break things.
But it's going. Thanks all.
--
Glenn English
, but one Buster install works, and another and a
Stretch don't.
Hmmm. When I search the web to find out what KexAlgorithms means, I
find I've been there before (the 76 year old memory is less than
optimal). Looking more promising. Thanks, Marc.
--
Glenn English
around between the hosts with no trouble. That says there's
nothing wrong with SSH. But something is, somewhere.
Anybody run into anything like this before?
--
Glenn English
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:37 PM songbird wrote:
> sorry, i'm not able to dig into this more at the
> moment but i can answer from the setup that i have
> perspective.
Thank you, songbird. Your files say a lot.
--
Glenn English
Never mind about my documentation question. I found a very thorough
site on the web, written by the author of getmail.
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html
--
Glenn English
and display what's left? I don't see much about this in the man page,
and most of the stuff on the web isn't dated.
4) What do read_all, delete, and message_log_syslog mean?
--
Glenn English
ird was back
on line.
I still think Mutt, etc., would do a better job, but I'm not in such a
rush anymore.
Sorry about the boggles...
--
Glenn English
Thanks much, all.
Dovecot's config was bent. Working version recovered from backup. Not
at all sure what was wrong.
Dovecot, IMHO, is a mixed blessing...
But I'm going to look into getmail and isync. I didn't know they
existed. Mutt rules, I think.
--
Glenn English
be upset with the Stretch package?
--
Glenn English
] Dovecot (Debian) ready.
I'm going to try reinstalling on the 'Pi.
...
Seems to be OK now. Sorry for the noise...
--
Glenn English
SMTP commands and data works.
Telnet to 110 gets the same reaction that 143 does.
Thunderbird just says it can't contact my IMAP server.
Help?
--
Glenn English
both ways, but it asked if I want to
reboot. It worked when I said 'Yes'.
--
Glenn English
things, but I couldn't
find anything about where to put the data.
Anyone know the incantation to make the s word start ssh? A link to
clear dox on the innards of s.*d would probably be enough. So would a
quick howto.
--
Glenn English
but this time it seemed to be
bent. The updates are massive on Testing, but it works.
YMMV...
--
Glenn English
happens when we programmers don't test our work properly.
Thanks. Somewhere, a programmer must be punished...
--
Glenn English
turned things off
yesterday and there's no crud on any emulated terminal this morning...
--
Glenn English
l see if I can't get Python's tkinter to make a GUI
'script' that'll do what I want. It'll be more trouble than xpdf, but
it'll do exactly what I ask of it.
Thanks.
--
Glenn English
screen with no or thin borders, allows for manipulating size and
position)
--
Glenn English
suggestion/explanation?
--
Glenn English
ce I saw the recommendation in the
early days of EXT3. I haven't seem anyone suggest that in quite a
while, so I guess it's become a 'personal quirk' now.
But Felix talks about several boot partitions. I don't know, but
wouldn't >1 /boots confuse grub?
--
Glenn English
ving all references to the ones I don't want from
/boot and running update-grub?
--
Glenn English
the boot chain is BIOS-USB-M.2.
--
Glenn English
mcast, so I have to do
a little cleaning up afterward to replace the garbage Comcast puts on
my computers).
The machines run reliably with both connections up: Comcast for
blistering speed from the mirrors in the apt/sources lists, and my T1
for the real 'Net.
I'm on Buster too, BTW.
--
Glenn English
On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
> On Thursday, 16 Aug 2018 at 14:28, Glenn English wrote:
> > It's all over Amazon (search: planet gemini pda computer), but, as
> > best I can tell, there's no computer.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean
mmerfall HDSP 9632
Hardware device with all software conversions
if that's any help.
--
Glenn English
that it's active. I guess I don't know what
'active' means. Do you know how to find out?
--
Glenn English
DMI at 0xfb8bc000 irq 52
2 [DSP]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
RME Hammerfall HDSP 9632 at 0xfb7f, irq 16
That's pretty much what I've seen with all the other card-listers --
two Intels and one RME. Next?
--
Glenn English
t say anything about a US distributor. Is there one?
It's all over Amazon (search: planet gemini pda computer), but, as
best I can tell, there's no computer. They've been pretty receptive to
email, in my experience. Or you could just wait a bit longer and watch
their website...
--
Glenn English
have any ideas?
--
Glenn English
they are
to be mounted, and something, somewhere is wrong with the SATAs. But I
can't imagine what.
--
Glenn English
XFCE4.
> I know that I am right and I have the kernel printk and stack dump and
> xfce4-terminal ltrace -S to prove it. :-)
Like I said, I may be wrong :-)
--
Glenn English
. I'm running Buster and
XFCE4 and Slim on a couple computers, and there's no problem with
Slim.
IIRC (and I may not RC) I noticed that hang in the few minutes between
the XFCE4 install and the lightdm replacement.
--
Glenn English
that with Synaptic, but I'd be surprised if it whined.
I know 'sudo aptitude' works, but CLI tools are what sudo's for.
Oh, and I've got sudo configured so it doesn't ask me for a password...
--
Glenn English
luding plugging into a mic jack instead of
> the headphone jack, and many similar variations.
Nope. #1 -- the inputs (I think they are line level) are XLR
connectors, and #2 -- the RME works fine with other audio software
(Audacity and Parole; I haven't tried anything else yet except VLC).
--
Glenn English
go to menu items that don't exist. But my card is in VLC's list
of cards (audio->audio device)).
Does anyone in this list know what may be going on?
--
Glenn English
But if
you've written a script parsing ifconfig, you'll have to make some
changes because it's output is not the same as it used to be. Close,
but slightly different words and data. Just enough to provide
gibberish to my scripts.
And there's the issue with the new interface labels...
--
Glenn English
> That's two recommendations for putting the secret in a separate file;
Or how about creating that file, copying it to a CD or USB stick,
hanging it on the wall, clearing out the directory, then mounting it
when you want to use it.
--
Glenn English
to the Google DNS server (8.8.8.8) is a
bit under 10ms.
--
Glenn English
bove my rate limit). Have
you tried to ping that unresponsive one to see if it's alive? Or a TCP
Telnet connection to its port 53? Is it possible that you've exceeded
their rate limit?
--
Glenn English
> I don't know what continuous integration is, but it sounds manipulative.
I didn't either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
--
Glenn English
going into the login file (haven't
tried that). Or maybe write a bunch of little scripts in the shell's
script language for different shells.
Works good, so far...
--
Glenn English
ant the RME. Until then, it'll use my mobo
sound chip. Looks like bent software, but there's a workaround.
I'm thinking this might have been the problem I was having with PA --
alsa wouldn't let me select what alsa wanted to use as the default, so
PA never got to it.
But whatever. It's making noise
in this thread are happily
using it. But here, but it took several hours to get sound back in my
headphones.
--
Glenn English
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Glenn English <ghe2...@gmail.com> wrote:
I pulled the Hammerfall card, and it disappeared from the pavucontrol
window. The Audacity and the PA meters still bounce, but there's still
no audio.
--
Glenn English
they don't do what they say they're going to do, or maybe
they just don't have options I can understand (very possible).
I do hear mild clicks when I plug in the headphones, so somebody at
least has power (and what sounds like a small DC offset).
Still no audio in the cans.
--
Glenn English
ltimeKit1'
unit='rtkit-daemon.service' requested by ':1.24' (uid=1000 pid=1306
comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no ")
That's not everything, but it's everything I think is relevant.
There were a few updates and reboots today. And can't find it again,
but I could swear I saw a PA update...
--
Glenn English
ok them down to the
white because I don't like to see red things on a mixer...
> install paman and see what it says about sources
> and sinks.
Will do.
--
Glenn English
; p/s when you use alsamixer you want to see "OO" and not "MM" at the bottom
> of the volume bars. Use the 'm' key to switch the state and then the arrows
> keys to switch between outputs/inputs. "OO" means they are active and "MM"
> is muted.
Been there, and that does stay in place when I set it.
--
Glenn English
is the spawn of Satan, and I've used alsa
and its predecessor successfully for years with the mobo audio and
alsa with my RME Hammerfall card.
I haven't scoured to logs for errors yet...
Ideas? Suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
--
Glenn English
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:33 AM, Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote:
> ".local" is out too -- reserved for mDNS (bonjour / avahi ).
How about .lan, .dmz, and .wan? (Not allowed to or from the 'Net, of course.)
--
Glenn English
inders board) of Debian, and
there are a number of USB WiFi dongles that work with it, without any
added software.
IIRC, the one(s) from Plugable worked nicely.
--
Glenn English
ody's happy now.
--
Glenn English
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 10:41 PM, RODARY Jacques <roda...@free.fr> wrote:
> Where are the interfaces declared?
Up near the top, in the menu for wired interfaces. If you click on it,
a menu comes down allowing you to define more wire.
That's what happens on Buster, anyway.
--
Glenn English
an calendars, among other things. I used
it in a lease generation program; the program is still in use, and
it's never made a mistake. AFAIK.
Not as easy to use as Bash, though...
--
Glenn English
not being
initialized in Linux kernel 4.14 rc3 -- 'uname -r' says
4.14.0-3-amd64, and that sounds pretty close. But dmesg says it's
initialized.
--
Glenn English
May I suggest cdparanoia? I'm calling it with Python, and it's a
lovely piece of software. Makes wavs of everything I've thrown at it,
with good info on the screen and all the tracks are on my HDD, with
no silliness.
--
Glenn English
Has anyone in this thread mentioned DNS yet?
--
Glenn English
mail. (Re-connect Tor.)
And the other day, the xfce4 terminal started ignoring the letter 's'.
I know for sure it wasn't the keyboard, but a reboot made it stop. I
can't think of a reasonable explanation of how this could happen.
--
Glenn English
On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Max Power <deb...@cpnetserver.net> wrote:
> with the new release of Debian 'Stretch', the route command has been replaced
Wipe your disk and install Buster. You get route++ back.
Or create some shell scripts...
--
Glenn English
to licence issues.
Is there something wrong with ext4 in a RAID1?
--
Glenn English
in anyway.
> Have a nice day :)
Much better, and thank all of you for your help and advice...
--
Glenn English
them after it sees 10 hits from the same IP in
5000 microseconds. But by then Nmap (or eq) has hit 10 ports.
Am I overly paranoid here? What if a non-script-kiddie is also doing
this, but slowly enough that the firewall doesn't detect it?
--
Glenn English
6/4 might be the problem. Is spamhaus v6 only? I don't
see any mention of that on their web site...
--
Glenn English
:188:192:16:188:181#53
Aliases:
I asked about this yesterday on the SDLU list and got quite a few
suggestions, a couple of which said they were having intermittent
problems with spamhaus DNS too. But my fails are solid as a rock, and
none of the others solved my problem.
Any ideas?
--
Glenn
thus obviously cannot be fixed.
Even if there's an error in the release note? Less than optimal way to
run a train.
--
Glenn English
oot -> /bin/systemctl
> $ ls -l /bin/systemctl
Same in Buster...
--
Glenn English
hings went back to normal.
--
Glenn English
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Catalin Soare <lolinux.so...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody know what's happening here? What I should check?
iptables??
--
Glenn English
ts.
Just make sure the BIOS knows how to boot from the PCIe. Mine didn't,
and it took a little *nix trickery to get the 'disk' going.
--
Glenn English
f there wasn't some way to use that cipher for just
the one place. Thanks for the man page preview.
Don told me about Host a while back (yesterday?), but I really didn't
understand what he was talking about at the time.
--
Glenn English
ad no idea ssh could be so complex. Thanks, Theo
and friends...
--
Glenn English
b) restrict the Cipher list to *only* this insecure
> cipher.
>
> Please read "man ssh_config". The Ciphers statement recongnizes + and -
> as prefixes to add or remove values without replacing the whole setting.
17 pages long. But will wade through it...
--
Glenn English
Take it back. Doesn't work anywhere but the router. FYI...
--
Glenn English
good a config as suggested. But I didn't have to
figure out the ~/.ssh/config problem, and I'm back on the air -- until
next openSSH upgrade, I suspect :-)
Thanks much for the help and explanation.
--
Glenn English
in the next room on the other
side of an Ethernet switch, so there's not much chance of crackers.
But a civilized admin much prefers ssh over telnet.)
--
Glenn English
, the scripts make things all better again. (Assuming
immutable's been disabled somehow and R.C needs to be replaced.)
--
Glenn English
in
that order...
And Gene,
Removing all write permissions and setting immutable has stopped
Comcast from trashing my resolv.conf. This week.
Have you looked to see whether the changes are being done by an alien
(Comcast) or from inside the host?
--
Glenn English
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 07:22:48PM +0000, Glenn English wrote:
>> All I need to know is how to get all the Debian install software to
>> forget that there was ever a package called expect on this sys
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 03:45:07PM +0000, Glenn English wrote:
>> What do I do next?
>
> Basic steps. Give details.
>
> What version of Debian is it? On what architecture?
Jessie. amd64.
.
What do I do next?
--
Glenn English
/logjam.html) is also very helpful.
--
Glenn English
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> You probably did ssh-keygen -t dsa.
Probably. :-) Today, I read lots of dox and asked for an rsa -- all better now.
--
Glenn English
dsa and rsa keys.
Thanks. Now all I have to do is figure out what I did so many years
ago to generate the dsas :-)
--
Glenn English
ising (root works, others don't).
Thanks.
--
Glenn English
will indeed. I'll check to be sure my keyrings are all up to date,
but I can't understand how a Debian keyring could have anything to do
with SSH.
Unless a maintainer got a bright idea...
Thanks.
--
Glenn English
before. I've got ssh-client and ssh-server installed.
--
Glenn English
it's looking reasonably civilized.
--
Glenn English
incorrectly (it isn't, according to the man page; and it worked
yesterday) Ifup doesn't like it either. I can bring up the interface
and assign it an address with ifconfig.
And I can fix (and see) the routing table with route.
--
Glenn English
names from a meaningful 4 or 5 chars to
11, chosen by /dev/urandom.
Somebody's selling the Debian management a pile of bull excrement.
--
Glenn English
from well inside the aria "La ci darem la mano" -- in
Italian.
--
Glenn English
tion. It's
huge and complex (at least it was a couple decades ago). But after
it's all done, a cron job will run your backup(s) every night, while
you sleep, with no problems. If you ask it to, it'll even verify the
backup for you (an unverified backup isn't a backup, as they say).
Take a look. It's w
6.17.134.205
netmask 255.255.255.248
broadcast 216.17.134.207
network 216.17.134.200
gateway 216.17.134.201
# Comcast
iface eth1 inet dhcp
(There may be some redundant info in there, but it works.)
Then reboot (or restart networking). Then look at 'ifconfig' or 'ip
addr' to verify that
benefit of computers, that info could easily be parsed
by other commands.
--
Glenn English
1 - 100 of 566 matches
Mail list logo
