Re: Firewall blocking my new Debian 11 server ports 80 and 443

2022-05-29 Thread Lee
data: Reply from 69.30.225.10: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=53 Reply from 69.30.225.10: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=53 Reply from 69.30.225.10: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=53 Reply from 69.30.225.10: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=53 I had wireshark running while trying to telnet there and I get a RST ~ 45ms after sending the SYN ssh gives me a login prompt Lee

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-23 Thread Lee
If this is a multi-user environment, you should be changing the root password whenever someone that knows the root password leaves. If you use sudo exclusively to get root permissions then the number of people leaving that could require a root password change is potentially smaller. Lee

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-21 Thread Lee
sed the many variants of su, just "sudo" alone > for one-off use and "sudo su" when I'm doing several things as root. Why not "sudo bash" when you want to do several things as root? Lee

Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent

2022-05-18 Thread Lee
isabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Trigger: n/a Triggers: ● apt-daily.service Regards, Lee

Re: dlna server for roku?

2022-05-16 Thread Lee
On 5/14/22, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 05:29:36PM +0000, Lee wrote: >>I'd like to watch my own video files on a Roku; apparently what I need >>is DLNA software on my server.. > ... >>I haven't read anything really good about >>MiniDLNA/Rea

dlna server for roku?

2022-05-14 Thread Lee
others that I'm not about to bother trying I haven't read anything really good about MiniDLNA/ReadyDLNA/ReadyMedia, so before I spend who knows how much time tring to get it working, is there some other DLNA server software that I should be looking at? Thanks Lee

follow-up: update, reboot required?

2022-04-23 Thread Lee
On 3/19/22, Lee wrote: > On 3/19/22, piorunz wrote: >> On 19/03/2022 02:32, Lee wrote: >>> How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? >> >> install "needrestart" package. >> >> Description: needrestart checks

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Lee
do either run in the background? Seems like that isn't necessary: https://github.com/liske/needrestart There are some hook scripts in the ex/ directory (to be used with apt and dpkg. The scripts will call needrestart after any package installation/upgrades. Regards, Lee

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Lee
On 3/19/22, piorunz wrote: > On 19/03/2022 02:32, Lee wrote: >> How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? > > install "needrestart" package. > > Description: needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after > li

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread Lee
On 3/18/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? > > Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new > microcode, or a new version of the dbu

update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread Lee
How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? If it makes a difference, 99.99% of the time I'm using Synaptic Package Manager to do the updates and I've never seen any kind of notice that a reboot is needed to start using the newly installed software. Thanks Lee

Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-19 Thread Lee
hread on debian-devel is worth a read. tl-dr: https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/blogs/securing-network-time/ If I wanted to replace whatever timekeeping software that comes with systemd and _didn't_ want ntp, I'd pick chrony. Regards, Lee

Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-16 Thread Lee
On 2/12/22, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Lee wrote: > >> Any idea what the chances are of getting an enhancement request for >> the dhcp client to add an >> ignore option; >> that says not use the option given by the dhcp server? >> > isc-dhc

Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-09 Thread Lee
On 2/9/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 05:44:25PM +0300, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:05:51AM -0500, Lee wrote: >> > On 2/8/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:43:02PM -0500, Lee w

Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-09 Thread Lee
On 2/9/22, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:05:51AM -0500, Lee wrote: >> On 2/8/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:43:02PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> >> How to tell systemd to leave the ntpd config alone? >> > &g

Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-09 Thread Lee
On 2/8/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:43:02PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> How to tell systemd to leave the ntpd config alone? > > What makes you think the two are connected in any way? $ grep "Network Time Service" syslog Feb 6 12:06:48 spot systemd[

systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-08 Thread Lee
D_OPTS -u $UGID" ' What's the more correct way to tell systemd to leave my ntpd config alone? Thanks Lee

systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities...

2022-02-08 Thread Lee
uot;? TIA Lee

Query

2022-02-07 Thread William Lee Valentine
: 60 gigabytes    Debian partition: currently 42 gigabytes    Debian 6.0: Squeeze If I install Debian 11.2, will it run on this machine? Will it preserve the files and directories that I have on Squeeze? I am not subscribed to this mailing list. I would appreciate advices. -- William Lee Valentine

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Lee
ve a DHCP and DNS server at home, so I'd rather have the zero-conf stuff turned off. Best Regards, Lee

Re: imagemagick policy setting

2022-01-17 Thread Lee
er we use alternatives, but in > terms of quality, there are none. I suspect google search result quality is a result of it learning your preferences. Years ago I agreed with you - google was _the_ search engine. Then I started using alternatives exclusively and ... 3 years later[??] I tried google again and the results sucked. Regards, Lee

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
On 1/7/22, riveravaldez wrote: > On 1/7/22, Lee wrote: >> background: >> There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - > > Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation. The situation is that I absolutely hate the default user i

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
On 1/7/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing >> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal >> 0.9.1 source tarball? > > The biggest obvious flaw in doi

downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
what are the downsides, if any, to replacing /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal 0.9.1 source tarball? If it makes a difference $ cat /etc/debian_version 11.2 Thanks Lee

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

2021-12-12 Thread Lee
crontab -l [sudo] password for lee: # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron. ... # min hr dom mon dow command 18 4* * 1,3,5,7 (apt update >> apt-update.log 2>/dev/null) && (apt list --upgradable 2>/dev/null | egrep -v '^Listing' >| /etc/motd) Regards, Lee

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-02 Thread Lee
e/CPU_frequency_scaling > but until you've figured it out, you might like to force the > use of the `schedutil` governor instead which should give you the same > kind of speed as the `performance` governor under load while reverting > to low-power state afterwards. I'll take a look at it - thanks Lee

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Lee
ing_governor powersave $ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance Setting cpu: 0 Setting cpu: 1 Setting cpu: 2 Setting cpu: 3 Setting cpu: 4 Setting cpu: 5 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor performance Lee

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Lee
Hi, On 12/1/21, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/1/21 8:58 AM, Lee wrote: >> The short story is that I have an Intel i3 windows 10 desktop with >> cygwin installed and an Intel i5 debian desktop. One of my scripts >> takes about 10 minutes to run on the wind

using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Lee
he intel cpu "turbo boost" fully engaged when I'm running my script and go back into power save mode when the machine is idle? Thanks Lee

Re: new buster install, dvd said 11.,1 but installed 10.1

2021-11-28 Thread Lee
ured control chars made the saved text close to unreadable for me. Resetting TERM makes the captured output much easier to read - eg: TERM=tty script /tmp/script.output Regards, Lee

Re: new buster install, dvd said 11.,1 but installed 10.1

2021-11-28 Thread Lee
t is the data. So how do make /bin/tar usable/secure? I have no idea :( Hopefully someone else will be able to help you with that.. Best Regards, Lee

Re: reportbug fail

2021-11-20 Thread Lee
On 11/20/21, Ulf Volmer wrote: > > On 20.11.21 15:04, Lee wrote: >> I wanted to create a bug report for meld but couldn't find any info on >> how to other than "use reportbug" :( >> >> I've got a brand new install of debian 11 & reportbug dies: >

reportbug fail

2021-11-20 Thread Lee
e: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter). Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Lee ' as your from address. Getting status for meld... Checking for newer versions at madison... Traceback (most recent c

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Lee
out on my machine), but below that panel there's a Color: selection, pick Solid Color, click on the color sample and select black. Put a checkmark next to "Apply to all workspaces", make sure there's no checkmark for "Change the background" and click on Close Regards, Lee

Re: network problem (fwd)

2021-10-06 Thread Lee
yields the same number of host bits (8) as a 255.255.255.0 mask does. Then along came CIDR and dis-contiguous network/subnet bits were prohibited. Lee [1] Specifically, _bitmasks_ are no longer supported. "network masks" are now just another way of specifying the first however many bit

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Lee
On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. Try the "--ascii" option - eg man --ascii man > /tmp/man.txt Regards, Lee

Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net)

2021-09-30 Thread Lee
re and follow https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse That at least seems to be a better bet for getting a working wireless connection that you can then improve upon later. Best Regards, Lee

Re: sources.list 's security line

2021-09-08 Thread Lee
I'm not sure that it matters but it is a significant difference > between the two. Are you using a dnssec validating resolver? It'd be nice of somebody that understands dnssec would double-check, but it looks like name lookups for security.debian.org has dnssec enabled and not enabled for deb.debian.org Lee

Re: Suggested way to ssh into obsolete devices (with old ssh crypto)?

2021-07-06 Thread Lee
these algorithms to my normal .ssh/config. Put all the special cases at the top of the config file and all of the "normal" config stuff at the end, under Host * Regards, Lee

Re: network not respecting my hosts file

2021-07-03 Thread Lee
On 7/3/21, Robbi Nespu wrote: > I am using StevenBlack host file > (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts) to > block ads / malware / ect via host file. > > But somehow the system does't respecting my hosts file anymore.. that weird > >> $ sudo cat /etc/hosts | grep

Re: Clipboard

2021-06-23 Thread William Lee Valentine
the new file as a text document. -- William Lee Valentine [Hi I have been trying to find the Clipboard facility in Open Office, ie the facility where you can copy up to 24 items (in MS Word), collect them onto the clipboard, and then paste them into a Text Document with 1 click, but I could not find

Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread William Lee Valentine
ux to be booted? I can not afford to lose access to Windows 10 again. Thank you for your assistance. -- William Lee Valentine -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-11 Thread Lee
out multiple times -- it belongs in an e-var: dir="$HOME/AppImages" if [ -d "$dir" ] ; then PATH="$dir:$PATH" else echo "OnNoes!! The directory \"$dir\" does not exist!" >&2 fi Regards, Lee

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-10 Thread Lee
On 4/10/21, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 07 Apr 2021 at 21:46:30 (+), Lee wrote: >> On 4/7/21, Marco Ippolito wrote: >> >> Where I want output, I protect it with: >> >> >> >> [ -n "$PS1" ] && printf … >> > >> &

Re: ping gateway ok, ping any other local network address fails

2021-04-09 Thread Lee
0 0 0 enp2s0 looks a bit strange (msbr.home for the default gateway??) And arp -n after pinging the printer to see if you got an answer to your arp or no Lee

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-07 Thread Lee
On 4/7/21, Marco Ippolito wrote: >> Where I want output, I protect it with: >> >> [ -n "$PS1" ] && printf … > > Maybe consider: > > [[ -t 1 ]] && printf ... Until your script that was started via crontab silently fails. I *like* always having error messages enabled. Lee

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-07 Thread Lee
On 4/7/21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 03:16:41PM +0000, Lee wrote: >> On 4/7/21, Gene Heskett wrote: <.. snip ..> >> > Any idea why its not working? >> >> A typo in your script? Add an else clause that shows the error and >> that

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-07 Thread Lee
that shows the error and that will probably show you what's wrong -- eg dir="$HOME/AppImages" if [ -d "$dir" ] ; then PATH="$dir:$PATH" else echo "OnNoes!! The directory \"$dir\" does not exist!" fi note that $HOME/AppImages is listed only once. That makes sure that your test, path and diagnostic output are all using the same directory name. Regards, Lee

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Lee
4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mymachines I don't trust multicast dns, so in addition to turning it off I've also got $ grep host /etc/nsswitch.conf # hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns hosts: files dns Maybe worth a shot? Regards, Lee > > -- > > &g

Re: Slow SSH over WLAN? How to check?

2020-09-05 Thread Lee
y open wireless channel. Then there's spectrum analyzers that show how much noise/interference there is on wireless.. but they cost money and other than moving your laptop or AP somewhere else there isn't a whole lot you can do about interference :( I suspect you'd be better off spending your money on a better wireless card or a better AP. Regards Lee

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-22 Thread Lee
On 8/22/20, Dan Ritter wrote: > Lee wrote: >> >> Or you can just configure the wired ethernet connection to have a >> lower (better) routing metric than the wireless connection. That way >> the machine always uses the wired connection if it's up and uses the >> w

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-22 Thread Lee
tool to set the wired connection 'Connect automatically with priority' to -999 With the ethernet cable connected to the laptop, 'ip route' shows wls1 with a metric of 600 and enp1s0 with a metric of 100. With the ethernet cable disconnected the only thing that 'ip route' shows is wls1. Yay! automatic failover + automatic selection of the faster interface when it's up :-) Lee

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything >> is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster >> switched to using https for do

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/14/20, Reco wrote: > Hi. Hi > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not >&

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:47:22 +0300 > Reco wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > ... > >> > I just did a quick search and couldn't find anything for smart TVs >> > u

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, tomas wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > [...] > >> Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https >> Benefits > > Yes, sure [1], but *not in each and every f

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: > Hi. Hi > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not >> > trust >> > your local resolver. >> >> Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: &g

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Lee
solver? At least Cloudflare resolvers have dnssec enabled. ^shrug^ there's lots of trade-offs to be made in this area. I'm certainly not a fan of DOH and I do my best to block it on my network.. I just think there are some privacy/security arguments for DOH that you're minimizing. Regards, Lee

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

2020-02-27 Thread Lee
On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:07:18AM -0500, Lee wrote: >> On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> > >> > [...] >> > >> >> You're advertising you

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

2020-02-27 Thread Lee
On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote: > > [...] > >> You're advertising your web server in your sig. The "other side" >> ALREADY KNOWS you have a web server there. > > If that "other side"

Re: Net Install: Installation halts for disk change

2020-02-27 Thread Lee
On 2/27/20, John Kaufmann wrote: > On 2020-02-26 22:49, Peter Ehlert wrote: >> On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote: >>> On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote: >>>> For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with: >>>> (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso >>>>

Re: Net Install: Installation halts for disk change

2020-02-26 Thread Lee
On 2/26/20, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote: >> On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote: >>> For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with: >>> (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso >>> (2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso >>> and (3) fir

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

2020-02-26 Thread Lee
On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2020 16:00:35 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Reco wrote: >> >Hi. >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> >> [...] &

Re: Net Install: Installation halts for disk change

2020-02-26 Thread Lee
dn't have any problems. Regards, Lee

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

2020-02-26 Thread Lee
On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2020 13:50:40 Lee wrote: > >> On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new >> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just index

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

2020-02-26 Thread Lee
> > root@coyote:iptables$ cat iptables-add > > #!/bin/bash > iptables -I INPUT -s add.ress.to.block/24 -j DROP Have you considered REJECT instead of DROP? REJECT should send a RST telling the other side to give up now. DROP just drops the packet leaving the other side to retry until the retry limit is hit. Lee

Re: fail2ban for apache2

2019-11-12 Thread Lee
ow: / $ You're missing a ':' - it should be User-agent: * Disallow: / and I don't think "User-0agent: *" is going to do what you want.. Regards, Lee

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Lee
oritize forwarding traffic & give a much lower priority to responding with 'time to live expired' msgs. In other words, traceroute packet loss at an intermediate hop is not an indicator of a problem if there is no packet loss further on. Regards, Lee

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Lee
chine so that it talks directly to the ISP's broadband box. Use the bookmark on the windows machine to go to the problematic site. If that always works then you figure out what's wrong with the pfsense box. If you're still having problems connecting to that one site it's time to call your ISP & have them figure it out :( Regards, Lee

Re: How to delete second default route

2019-10-04 Thread Lee
know how to change the metric :( Regards, Lee > $ sudo ip route list > default dev enp0s25 scope link > default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlo1 proto dhcp metric 600 > 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlo1 scope link metric 1000 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev enp0s25 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 &

Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions

2019-10-04 Thread Lee
On 10/3/19, David wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 02:39, Lee wrote: >> On 10/2/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> This is what shell functions are for. You can just drop the shell >>> functions into your ~/.bashrc and then use them in every interactive >>&

Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions

2019-10-02 Thread Lee
sl dgst -md5 ' alias mv='mv -i' alias name2oid='snmptranslate -IR -On ' alias oid2name='snmptranslate ' alias rm='rm -i' alias sha1='/usr/bin/openssl dgst -sha1 ' alias sha256='/usr/bin/openssl dgst -sha256 ' alias sha512='/usr/bin/openssl dgst -sha512 ' what am I missing? Thanks Lee

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-02 Thread Lee
ng on a >> server not owned by the >> university? What if the email was being viewed via webmail using Windows Internet Explorer? Regards, Lee

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-02 Thread Lee
d? >> > > Yeah, it's better to go directly to the publicly available incident report: > > https://imagedepot.anu.edu.au/scapa/Website/SCAPA190209_Public_report_web_2.pdf > Thanks for the link! > But the email program used by Client 0 is unspecified. As is the op

Re: xfce: changing scrollbar looks

2019-09-16 Thread Lee
On 9/16/19, Dan Ritter wrote: > Lee wrote: >> Is there a _debian_ doc somewhere that shows how to change the xfce >> scrollbar looks? >> >> What I want is the "traditional" scrollbar look - ie. the damn thing >> doesn't play hide & seek with me, it

xfce: changing scrollbar looks

2019-09-16 Thread Lee
-GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: true; -GtkRange::activate-slider: 0; -GtkRange-slider-width: 16; -GtkRange-stepper-size: 16; } and I'm getting there. Slowly. I'm hoping to get some pointers on how2doit so I can quit the whole "make a change, reboot, see how it looks" loop. Thanks, Lee

Re: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -" -- was [Re: rocks n diamonds]

2019-09-13 Thread Lee
the only user of the PC I've still got an admin account + normal user account on the windows PC. > There has been a recent change from using "su " to using "su - ". > I'm not yet sure if that is an actual syntax change or a change of > 'recommended usage'. My underst

Re: distribution model, in search of vision

2019-09-09 Thread Lee
On 9/9/19, H. E. Çitak wrote: > Well accepted 3 variations of Debian is the norm. live CD version is there. > When I made the transition to old laptops the wireless adapter was > consistently a problem, so I moved to derivatives because I could install > them as OS. They have their own strengths

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

2019-09-03 Thread Lee
On 9/3/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:17:01PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, >> sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && sync && mv tmpfile file >> seems to be the 'more correct' version of >> sed 's/foo/bar/g' file

Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]

2019-09-03 Thread Lee
the ways it could fail, I'd change it to /bin/sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && /bin/mv tmpfile file so this wouldn't happen $ sed -e 's/$/\//' file > tmpfile && mv tmpfile file mv: overwrite 'file'? but it would have never occurred to me that I needed a sync before the mv Thanks, Lee

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-09-01 Thread Lee
On 9/1/19, deloptes wrote: > Lee wrote: > >> If I had something like 10.10.11.0/24 connected to the wireless router >> I can see adding a static route so the laptop goes directly to the >> wlan default gateway instead of the ethernet default gateway (+ may

Re: Temporary color prompt in bash script

2019-09-01 Thread Lee
ho "FOO now = ${FOO}" export PS1='\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w #\[\033[91m\] ' $ export FOO=FOO $ ./setps1 FOO = FOO FOO now = BAR $ echo $FOO FOO See? FOO is back to it's pre ./setps1 value Now try $ source setps1 Lee

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-31 Thread Lee
U 1000 00 >> wls1 root@hpg60:~# v >> >> Wireless is convenient, ethernet is much faster, so I've got the >> ethernet interface configured with the better metric. <.. snip ..> >> Lee > > OK, agree but it goes to deep down in the technics, but tr

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-31 Thread Lee
't figure out how to do that, turn one interface off & see if everything works then. Lee

Re: buster: DNS server?

2019-08-14 Thread Lee
dress... ]; The domain-name-servers option specifies a list of Domain Name System (STD 13, RFC 1035) name servers available to the client. A quick test would be dig @8.8.8.8 www.google.com dig www.google.com if the 1st works & 2nd not, chances are good your dhcp clients aren't getting a valid name server address Lee

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-13 Thread Lee
ns being reset so, for bind, I made a /var/log/bind, set the permissions on the directory & changed bind to log to /var/log/bind/named.log ^shrug^ probably not The Right Way To Do It, but it works & I'm happy. If you make a /var/log/mail & configure fetchmail, procmail, etc. to log there it'll probably work Regards, Lee

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

2019-08-12 Thread Lee
On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:56:46PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> What's the difference between ${d} and "${d}"? Or is that a bashism >> also? (all my scripts use /bin/sh so I'm pretty clueless wrt bash) > > This applies to both sh and bas

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

2019-08-12 Thread Lee
On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:37:16PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> >> On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > P.S. it would also h

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

2019-08-12 Thread Lee
On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> On 8/12/19, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > P.S. it would also have been possible to work around the carriage >> > return >> > issues with IFS, but your dos2unix approach is

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

2019-08-12 Thread Lee
gt; > P.S. it would also have been possible to work around the carriage return > issues with IFS, but your dos2unix approach is perfectly valid as well. Just out of curiosity - how? Thanks, Lee

Re: slow wireless connection

2019-08-11 Thread Lee
running windows 10. using iperf to measure thruput to another debian/stretch machine with a 100Mb ethernet nic debian: best I've seen is 22Mb/s for wireless windows: 56Mb/s for wireless both get a tad over 94Mb/s if using ethernet (connected to the ethernet ports on the AP, so it seems like the netgear AP isn't a bottleneck) Thanks Lee

Re: Strange Bash Script Problem

2019-08-11 Thread Lee
cript file in a way > that would remove an invisible character in the suspect position. Or you could try doing dos2unix ligand.list dos2unix Run.ligand.list.sh and see if that gets rid of the embedded \r Lee

Re: Useful links - was {Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?}

2019-08-03 Thread Lee
.org/WiFi/AdHoc Except you said security was an issue & I suspect it's going to be a real pain making a secure ad-hoc wireless network. Why not just buy an inexpensive wireless router? eg https://www.lifewire.com/best-routers-under-50-4038819 The 6 Best Routers for Under $50 in 2019 Just make sure whatever you get supports both 2.4GHz & 5 GHz wireless channels. Lee

Re: sending mail via a script

2019-07-18 Thread Lee
if your "be anybody" traffic was allowed in, the chances are really good that you wouldn't see the return traffic. > Does viewing give you the means of a MITM attack? Clearly not. But if you could inject traffic then maybe you could win the race and inject your spoofed traffic before the real stuff gets there. Regards, Lee

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/8/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2019 14:48:59 Lee wrote: > >> On 7/8/19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > On Lu, 08 iul 19, 13:37:26, Lee wrote: >> >> On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> > The dangers are not at al

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/8/19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 08 iul 19, 13:37:26, Lee wrote: >> On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > The dangers are not at all obvious to me, possibly because I haven't >> > used it much (if at all). >> >> Read the first th

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/7/19, Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-06, Lee wrote: >> >> "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc >> for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that > > I see. So the totality of the mdns rfc (*somewhat* m

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 15:36:37, Lee wrote: >> >> "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc >> for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that >> view." If y

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Lee
ke operations on the local link in the absence of any conventional Unicast DNS server." Others might need that ability and so their risk/reward answer will be different than mine. In any case, you have a link to the rfc now and can make your own informed decision. Regards, Lee

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Lee
1. Introduction Multicast DNS and its companion technology DNS-Based Service Discovery [RFC6763] were created to provide IP networking with the ease-of-use and autoconfiguration for which AppleTalk was well-known [RFC6760]. Regards, Lee

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