Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 01:00:24PM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > So once I've done this dpkg -i to install a package, I can do that > without removing the old one first? Yes, dpkg will upgrade or downgrade the existing package. > And, once I've hammered a package into place with dpkg, in the

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 09:12:18AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > You will most likely need to remove the testing versions of these packages > > (apache2, git and so on) and then install the bookworm versions afterward. > > Those dependent packages (most if not all) are not from testing. >

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 07:09:16AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 06:59:50AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 06:10:11AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > > [...] libdb5.3t64 [..

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 06:10:11AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > [...] libdb5.3t64 [...] You've *clearly* still got testing packages installed.

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 05:09:02PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > (WHY aren't new houses wired with Cat5/6/7?) Because to the average person, "Internet access" equals "wifi". They use the terms interchangeably. Also, some recent model laptops no longer have an ethernet port. If you want to

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 10:28:37AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 10:19:48AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 09:56:54AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > > I needed to install a version of sendmail from testing a while

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 09:56:54AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > I needed to install a version of sendmail from testing a while back to > test it. Your subject header says "bookworm stable". You don't install binary packages from testing on a stable system. You use backports instead.

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:49:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM Paul M Foster > > &

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM Paul M Foster > wrote: > > 192.168.254.30 yosemite.mars.lan yosemite > 127.0.1.1 is traditionally used for the fully qualified domain name > (fqdn). So I would expect to see

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 05:22:13PM +0100, Joe wrote: > Long ago, lo used to be just 127.0.0.1, which is what most people would > try to ping to check localhost, and what appeared in /etc/hosts. There > is some subtle reason, which I used to know but have now long forgotten, > why Debian started

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 05:22:14PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 24.05.2024 um 17:17:45 Uhr schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 04:49:18PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > If you operate mail servers, you must have a FQDN. .lan can't be > > > used for the

Re: Synaptic Update Error

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 08:14:16AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > E: Release file for > http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease is > expired (invalid since 1d 15h 6min 44s). Updates for this repository will > not be applied. Slightly worrisome. > deb

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 08:05:43AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > Folks: > > In my /etc/hosts file, there's a line: > > 127.0.1.1 yosemite.mars.lan yosemite > > I think Debian put it there. Correct. This is the address that will be used if you don't have a static LAN address. > Later in the

Re: OpenSMTPD can't parse smarthost

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 07:53:31AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > Nslookup fails. However, yosemite.mars.lan is in the hosts file and you > can successfully ping it. It has a fixed (local) IP, which was set in the > router. I don't understand why nslookup fails when buckaroo knows who > yosemite

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 05:15:40PM +0200, Richard wrote: > Then where does the combination rwx come in here? With read the app knows > the file is there, with write it writes to the file. Question is, where the > necessity would be to know the owner of the file or even the kind. The > logger is

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 04:55:09PM +0200, Richard wrote: > Dovecot expects execution permissions on the directory it writes the logs > to. Because "Standard POSIX permissions for a non-root process to enter a > directory." How on earth is that even a thing? That's how Unix permissions have always

Re: Markup in mail messages

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 08:26:55PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 17/05/2024 18:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: > > > > https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It > > > > converts > > &g

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 08:20:17AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > No the point is, you are not setting a file path, you are configure dovecot > to directly write to these files. > And dovecot is not just one process, there are multiple running as > different users all trying t write into one

Re: Markup in mail messages

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:43:49PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: > >https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It converts > >(relatively) sane HTML into Markdown. > > > >I put html2text.py into $HOME/lib and use this to call it: >

Re: OT: Top Posting

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 09:46:08AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Best as I was able to discern from the Net [0], 72 characters is the > magic number for line length because 4 extra characters are added to > both ends when e.g. git processes submissions. Makes good common sense > to me. > > PS

Re: OT: Top Posting

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. I can't be sure where they're coming from exactly, but every once in a while I see messages on debian-user, bug-bash or help-bash which have extra asterisk characters

Re: OT: Top Posting

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:01:31PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > how many times has this top post crap been dug up > don't y'all have any thing better to do It's never going to stop. We have a clash of two cultures here. The first culture are Unix users who grew up with Internet email

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 02:51:17PM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: > I've installed the Cloudflare gateway on Debian as a vm because I can't do > it directly in FreeBSD. But I want to be covered even when I use FreeBSD. > The script that I wrote forward the Cloudflare "VPN" from Debian to >

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 07:36:17PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > Postfix is chrooted (usuallly) to /var/spool/postfix If this is true, then how would a local delivery agent work? It needs write access to all users' inboxes, which are either in /var/mail or in users' home directories. I could

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 01:10:05PM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: > Your answer does not help me to understand how to use a "structured > programming / if , while, for, functions" for the specific task that I want > to achieve. What task is that?

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:09:18AM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: > Nobody can show a different way,a modern way, for creating my script ? Why > did I feel so comfortable by recreating the 1960s GOTO statement in Bash ? I have absolutely no clue what you're trying to do or why you're trying to do

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 10:16:13PM +0200, Richard wrote: > May 13 20:55:37 mail postfix/local[2824184]: 95BCF1000A9: to=, > > relay=local, delay=3.2, delays=1.9/0.29/0/1.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred > > (temporary failure. Command output: lda(user): Error: > >

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 06:06:37PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Am Montag, 13. Mai 2024, 13:24:17 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 07:36:07AM +0200, Richard wrote: > > > .profile > > Sorry, dumb question: Depending of the shell, the user is using (let's say

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Richmond wrote: > >> sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" > Yes, but why did it allow me to delete the file? I was not root > then. Try it. Because you have write permission on the *directory* that the file is in. Removing (unlinking) a file is an operation

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 01:48:25PM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: > I wouldn't to login as root automatically,but I've realized that this > command : > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > work only if I'm root. It does not work using sudo. So,in the end I've > chosen to be root instead of

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 07:36:07AM +0200, Richard wrote: > .profile > will always be read as soon as the user logs in, no matter how. Through a > terminal, a GUI, doesn't matter. That's not correct. There are many different GUI login setups where the .profile is never read. That said, since

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 02:53:10PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I use s-nail as my mailx command (selected using the Debian "alternatives" > mechanism). > > Since I upgraded from Bullseye to Bookworm, s-nail now shows a bunch of > error messages in connection with viewing messages.  Here is a

Re: Viewing an an OpenStreetMap tile offline.

On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 11:52:32AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, is anyone using Gosm or something similar to view OpenStreetMap > tiles offline? > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gosm > > The instructions under "Downloading and running" yield > bash: ./gosm: No such file or

Re: realpath quoting

On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 08:22:27AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > $ cat read.raku > #!/usr/bin/env raku > my $a = "name with spaces"; > my $b = "name\nwith newline"; > say "file 1: |$a|"; > say "file 2: |$b|"; > > And executing it: > > $ ./read.raku > file 1: |name with spaces| > file 2: |name >

Re: realpath quoting

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:18:03PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I am unable to find $'string' in the dash(1) man page (?). As I typically > write "#!/bin/sh" shell scripts, writing such to deal with file names > containing non-printing characters is going to baffle me. Currently, $' quoting

Re: realpath quoting

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 12:31:13PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > My use case is very simple. Give an argument to a program that expects a > single filename/path. Then you need to use "$1" with quotes when you reference it. Simple! > If you give it an unquoted and unescaped filename it will

Re: realpath quoting

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 07:11:46PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Perhaps Perl and the module String::ShellQuote ? > > 2024-05-02 18:50:28 dpchrist@laalaa ~ > $ touch "name with spaces" > > 2024-05-02 18:50:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~ > $ touch "name with\nnewline" You didn't create a name with a

Re: realpath quoting

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 07:42:20AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 3/5/24 07:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > The spaces without quotes cause problems with subsequent processing. > > Then the subsequent processing has bugs in it. Fix them. > > > > >

Re: realpath quoting

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 06:59:37AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > I have a need  to get the full path of a file that has spaces in its name to > use as a program argument > > e.g. > > jeremy@client:~$ ls -l name\ with\ spaces > -rw-r--r-- 1 jeremy jeremy 0 May  3 06:51 'name with spaces' >

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 09:34:13AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 01/05/2024 21:58, Sirius wrote: > > > > I was right about .Xresources that it is one of the files used for loading > > settings into the X server, but urxvt looks at .Xdefaults instead. > > It is a bit strange. Applications should

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 02:31:49PM +0200, Sirius wrote: > zutty is kind of only necessary when you want something *really* > lightweight and you do not need to worry about UTF-8. Just writing this > means a trip down memory lane and back to configuring CTWM on old Sun 5 > workstations back in the

Re: Debian 12.5 i386 sudo returns "Illegal instruction"

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 09:54:17AM -0400, Vic tor wrote: > On a fresh installation of Debian 12.5, i386 I receive "Illegal instruction" > when executing sudo. Is there any way to debug and workaround this; should I > take this to another list as a bug? > > This is on a Soekris net5501 powered by

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:27:22PM -0700, Fred wrote: > If you type yt-dlp --help you get a large list of options. > yt-dlp --update will get you the very latest version. (Must be root). -U, --updateCheck if updates are available. As yt-dlp

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:26:09PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Okay - my apology - at > https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/ChangeLog > is > > " > dstftw > release 2021.12.17 > > version 2021.12.17 So don't use that. The Debian package youtube-dl is NOT actually youtube-dl any

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:31:44PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The latest version of youtube-dl , makes it too old to try to use now; if > you can get it working with youtube, good luck to you. > > An unmaintained package, that is three years since last updated, for > accessing web sites on the

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 11:15:17PM -0300, Markos wrote: > The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html > > is blocked? Nope. Works for me.

Debian@IBMx3550

Hi there, I got refurb IBM x3550 M3 7944 server and I'm a bit lost. Is there any Linux/Debian software (some gui would be nice) to monitor fan speed, temperatures, voltages, disks.. ? Thanks in advance for any help Greg

Re: tbird troubles

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -, Curt wrote: > Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the > remaining one, and then restarting your bird? In his original message, he claimed that closing one window makes the other one also close. I asked *how* he was closing them,

Re: tbird troubles

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: > > On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when la

Re: tbird troubles

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the > gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate > workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but >

Re: config files - newline possible?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 08:42:20PM +0200, Hans wrote: > in my case it is the config freom from bootcdwrite, which is bootcdwrite.conf. says: This file will be sourced as shell file. So, you may use any valid "shell"

Re: problem with live usb booting

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 01:30:46PM +, sarath wrote: > dear debian > > I have created live usb with debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-standard.iso using tool > Ventoy-1.0.95. When tried to booting it is ended with command line options. > please help me to the next step It's not clear to me what you

[Sid] Nouveau: only one monitor after 6.6.15 to 6.7.9 upgrade

70.08 HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Any suggestions? Greg

Re: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)

On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:34:43PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 6:24 PM Chung Jonathan wrote: > > > > Dear Franco Martelli, dear Thomas Schmitt, > > > > Sorry for the potential duplication. This mail should now also go to the > > list. > > > > I believe I found the

Re: Bookworm: Where are the ImageMagick binaries other than `convert`?

On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 10:06:40PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 4/1/24 21:37, Christian Gelinek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have ImageMagick installed, but only the `convert` binary is in my path. > > > > Other binaries like `magick` are not. Where can I find them, > > In Synaptic, if you get

Re: Debian 11 PHP 7.4 – Mysql 8 - Can’t get Mysqli_connect to work

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 11:49:06AM +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > The text quoted below has already been sent to the list, 2-3 days ago, > someone had replied to it (but the message has been lost, I no longer see it > on the list. I had replied again, which reply disappeared too.) >

Re: making Debian secure by default

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 03:23:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > so apparently somebody else has done a threat analysis and decided > apparmor is the appropriate mitigation strategy? *An* appropriate mitigation strategy. Not "the". There are many, many layers.

Re: making Debian secure by default

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:23:36PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > Did anyone try 'mesg n' here? I tried: > > > $ mesg n > $ mesg; echo $? > is n > 1 > > Broadcast message from root@hostname (pts/1) (Thu Mar 28 16:48:13

Re: making Debian secure by default

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:30:32PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I'm just not sure that you'll find any "hardening" guide that will > specifically say "disable writing to your terminal as there might be > a bug in a binary that is setgid tty" before yesterday's reveal that > there is such a bug in

Re: variables in bash

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:37:25AM +0100, Hans wrote: > What is the difference (if any) between the following two variables in a > shellfile in bash: > > 1. mypath=/home/user1/Tools/ > 2. mypath="/home/user1/Tools/" They are the same. The quotes are optional here, because your assignment

Re: Debian 11 PHP 7.4 – Mysql 8 - Can’t get Mysqli_connect to work

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:36:01AM +0100, Bernard wrote: > But I've found more problems, concerning $_REQUEST, $_GET... > > The old way that I used 11 yrs ago no longer works : > > $nom = S_GET [‘nom’] ; > > no longer operates with php 7.4. This code is simply ignored. S_REQUEST, > $_POST do

Re: debian12: something destroys /etc/network/interfaces at boot

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 06:33:42PM +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > I changed a gateway on a remote site using /etc/network/interfaces by > changing gateway. However, at reboot some old gateway IP reappears. So then the question is *which* of the many different subsystems is in use to set the

Re: seeding /dev/random from a security key

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 06:09:02PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 3/25/24 17:27, Andy Smith wrote: > > The thread covers how to make rngd feed /dev/random from a OneRNG in > > Debian 12, but it is no longer possible to tell if that does > > anything useful. > > If not from devices like this, from

Re: $USER vs. $LOGNAME and the EnvironmentVariables wiki page

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Hi, > > 1. Using CodeSearch, it is not clear to me when to use one or the other. Your original Subject: header mentions $USER and $LOGNAME so I assume you're asking about these. $LOGNAME is the standard variable which is set by

Re: trying to parse lines from an awkwardly formatted HAR file ...

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 02:05:06PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Actually, in order to deX-Y it in case anyone can offer any help, it > is more like "I want an index of all the books which have ever been > written/published" in order to read all of them ;-) First of all, you will not achieve

Re: trying to parse lines from an awkwardly formatted HAR file ...

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 11:55:04AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > 1) That HAR file is not properly formatted. Instead of > > "attribute":value pairs in the standard way, they have used front > &g

Re: trying to parse lines from an awkwardly formatted HAR file ...

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > a) using a chromium-derived browser, which can be used to dump the > HAR file log of the network back and forth, go, e. g.: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaxagoras > b) click on the link that says: "Works by or about

Re: Root password strength

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:49:06PM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Check whether you are running ssh: > > > > /sbin/service ssh status > > It's not called ssh; it is sshd > Also nowadays it's more usual to say > > $ systemctl status sshd On Debian, the

Re: Root password strength

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 05:42:55PM +0300, Jan Krapivin wrote: > The root user's password should be long (12 characters or more) and > impossible to guess. Indeed, any computer (and a fortiori any server) > connected to the Internet is regularly targeted by automated connection > attempts with the

Re: After installing no access to the installed system.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 03:24:14PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Package: Debian installer > Version: As on Debian live-CD/DVD for Debian 12.5 > Severity: critical Note that you sent this email to the debian-user list, not to the bug tracking system. > 6. For User and Passwort enter >

Re: Bookworm Networking Issues

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:46:26PM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 17.03.2024 um 16:54:27 Uhr schrieb David: > > > Can anybody suggest how to get the networking running? > > You have to tell us what doesn't work in your network. > > Also show the output of > ip a > cat /etc/resolv.conf I have a

Re: shellcheck, bashism's and one liners.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 10:57:43AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > What errors do you get if you use sh instead of bash? He's not getting any errors. His script actually works for his current inputs. He was just getting warnings from shellcheck, which is an external script validation tool. One

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:35:33PM +0100, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > Well... it seems my brain can't distinguish Bookworm from Bullseye. It's not just you. The use of three "b" names in a row (buster, bullseye, bookworm) was in my opinion a poor decision. I've taken to calling the releases by

Re: shellcheck, bashism's and one liners.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 09:25:10AM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > I have this one-liner (which works but shellcheck doesn't like the > quoting) > > idxsrc="$( newest_file $( APT_CONFIG=${APT_CONFIG} apt-get indextargets > --format '$(FILENAME)' 'Identifier: Packages' ))" > > SC2016: Expressions

Re: logcheck(1) in bookworm 12.5 /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 11:25:52AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Email from logcheck(1) contains: > > E: File could not be read: /var/log/syslog > E: File could not be read: /var/log/auth.log > > which do not exist in bookworm 12.5. You'll want to install rsyslog, or something

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 02:33:05PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote: > > systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service > > This got me some interesting results: > > ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization >Loaded:

Re: Hyphen-minus passwd

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 06:59:47PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > ~ $ perl -e 'print crypt("-password", "\$6\$username\$"), "\n"' > $6$username$FCvGwi21H/uVp89BtnZHWQsL.vZKajZ3lRbfB7Jnjr2C.5qBgx7TB3Ul3PbcyCIArts/C2lfQgYOLp418oH7C0 hobbit:~$ openssl passwd -6 -salt username -- -password

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:31:16AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > So I purged ntpsec and re-installed chrony which I had done once before with > no luck but this time timedatectl was stopped and it worked! > > Now, how do I assure timedatectl stays stopped on a reboot? Which version of Debian is

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

~$ ps -ef | grep ntpd ntpsec 854 1 0 Feb17 ?00:01:17 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /run/ntpd.pid -c /etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf -g -N -u ntpsec:ntpsec greg 3947371138 0 21:34 pts/000:00:00 grep ntpd Your claims that "no place in the ntpsec docs ... show the ability to slam th

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 05:56:29PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/6/24 12:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:31:46PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > sudo timedatectl set-ntp true > > > > But *don't* do that if you're using

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:31:46PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > Mine shows: > > Local time: Wed 2024-03-06 12:09:44 EST > Universal time: Wed 2024-03-06 17:09:44 UTC > RTC time: Wed 2024-03-06 17:20:53 >Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500) > Network time on:

Re: 404 Not Found Error Problem

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:21:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Not Found > > The requested URL was not found on this server. > Apache/2.4.57 (Debian) Server at abnormal.att.net Port 80 > > I've installed WebMO a number of times and have not encountered this > particular problem before.

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 07:37:09AM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > It seems that you have solved the problem but here is another hint. > "timedatectl" is a good high-level tool for querying and adjusting time > settings. Without command-line arguments it prints a lot of useful info: > > $

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 08:28:49PM +0800, hlyg wrote: > Thank Greg Wooledge! > > zhou@debian:~$ date > Wed 06 Mar 2024 04:07:02 AM CST > zhou@debian:~$ date -u > Tue 05 Mar 2024 08:07:07 PM UTC > > above is from deb11 for i386, it's correct OK, and your time zone

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 02:47:06AM +0800, hlyg wrote: > my newly-installed deb11 for amd64 shows wrong time,  it lags behind correct > time by 8 hours though difference between universal and local is ok. Run the commands "date" and "date -u" and show us the output. Then tell us what you think

Re: how to wiki

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:23:59AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 04:15:20PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > how do i access the debian wiki > > https://wiki.debian.org/ > > all i get is > > > > > > > > > > Forbidden > > > > You are not allowed to access

Re: how to wiki

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 04:15:20PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > how do i access the debian wiki > https://wiki.debian.org/ > all i get is > > > > > Forbidden > > You are not allowed to access this! >From : Q: Can I rename my account? A:

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:24:11AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > ^ worked as a negator in dash character classes up to Bullseye though, so > something has changed recently. That's what my web searching failed to find... It looks like dash doesn't have up-to-date documentation on its changes.

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:49:34AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 05/03/2024 05:27, David Wright wrote: > > Which shell also matters. The OP appears to be using ^ to negate, > > but ! has the advantage that it will be understood in bash and dash. > > I think ^ has been deprecated recently. I

Re: a couple rpi problems

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:41:07PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > 1) The 5, pi5.slsware.lan, keeps sending me email saying, > > "*** SECURITY information for pi5 ***" So, "pi5" appears to be your hostname. > "pi5 : Mar 4 15:40:14 : root : unable to resolve host pi5: Name or service > not known" >

Re: Wifi - unable to connect. [solved]

On 2/26/24 18:52, Kamil Jońca wrote: [...] What if: network = { ssid="ssid" key_mgmt=WPA-EAP eap=PEAP identity="uid" phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2" mesh_fwding=1 password="pas" } Bingo! Dzięki wielkie, ułatwiłeś mi życie. Regards Greg

resolv.conf (was Re: electrons/the Internet [racism redacted])

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 12:36:54PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > I believe Debian rewrites /etc/resolv.conf on every boot. This is not correct. It's *partly* correct if you ignore a lot of complicating factors. Short version: read . Long version

Re: missing development package?

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:56:54AM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > thyme after thyme wrote: > > * debian.list > > # Debian Stable. > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free > > non-free-firmware > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Re: “Secure Connection Failed” Error in Firefox

On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 12:26:20PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > When accessing the website https://gontijoonibus.gontijo.com.br/ on Firefox > Android (on my smartphone), the site is accessed normally. However, when > attempting to access this site on the desktop, Debian Firefox-ESR version >

Re: DNSSEC status of deb.debian.org

On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 02:06:00PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 09:39:42AM +, Andre Rodier wrote: > > I was checking the Debian domain, and noticed that it is DNSSEC compliant. > > > > However, when I check "deb.debian.org", the DNS validation fails. > > Things in the

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

"crontab" is /etc/crontab. Per-user crontabs which live in /var/spool/cron/crontabs are named for their owner. hobbit:~$ sudo ls /var/spool/cron/crontabs greg If you really want to find where the files live, and you didn't happen to already know (approximately) where they are, and i

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:52:33PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:13:49 -0500 > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > The debian wiki suggests that the handling of cron/anacron is > > > evolving. > > > > That sounds like a euphemism for "being killed off" by Systemd and > > its

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:15:59AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi adapter > that Linux has problems with that works once I run: > > /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac > echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id > > However when I

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 08:48:27AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > You've got three different locales mentioned here: > > > > iu_CA.UTF-8 > > en_GB > > en_CA.UTF-8 > > > > Either generate the two that you're missing, or stop using them. > > I'm trying to stop using them. That's the point. How do I

Re: How to upgrade the GLIBCXX and GLIBC to the specific version

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 08:08:47AM -0500, Gremlin wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 06:51:13AM +, Diego Luo （罗国雄） wrote: > > > > I am using the Raspberry Pi 4B with the Raspbian OS “Linux > > > > raspberrypi 5.15.61-v8+ #1579 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 26 11:16:44 > > > > BST 2022 aarch64

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