Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: What Thomas was trying to do is to get a cheap, fast random number generator. Shred seems to have such. You're better off with /dev/urandom, it's much easier to understand what it's trying to do, vs the rather baroque logic in

Re: cli64 CPU segfaults

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 07:20:14PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: I have 2 bare metal Debian 12.4 servers with fairly new Intel CPUs and plenty of memory. On both, dmesg continuously reports: (...) [Mon Jan 29 12:13:00 2024] cli64[1666090]: segfault at 0 ip 0040dd3b sp 7ffc2bfba630

Re: Monospace fonts, Re: Changing The PSI Definition

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 01:50:38PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 07:25:13 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:32:38PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > > The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt. > > > > Tried

Re: standardize uid:gid?

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:31:05AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: This is one of those "the boat has already left the dock" situations. If this were going to happen, it would have to have happened in the early 1990s. There is no feasible way to make it happen now. It's also a pointless endeavor,

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:44:35PM +, phoebus phoebus wrote:   A filter in between that in response to escape-code-1 starts sending data to the serial port instead of the terminal application and switches back to the terminal application on receiving of escape-code-2.   Development of a

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 03:25:51PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: manufacturers in different memory banks, but since it's always possible to power down, replace or just remove memory, and power up again, Hmm... "always"? What about long running computations like that simulation (or LLM

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE

On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 06:37:08AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Doing so is called a defensive response, something to be expected in response to (needless) offensive behavior. Browsers have default fonts selectable by users for good reason. Websites shouldn't be assuming user settings are wrong.

Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 11:49:02AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: To some extent, it will make it easier for packaging. No, not at all--new packages have not had to worry about putting things anywhere but /usr for a long time. Only old packages (for which the work you described had been done

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 09:36:19AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Also see x32, . It takes advantage of amd64 benefits, and tries to reduce the memory pressures. x32 hasn't really gone anywhere and is unlikely to at this point; amd64 is the only reasonable

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 09:19:48PM +0200, Christoph K. wrote: Could you please recommend a "suitable" sans-serif font that A lot of your criteria are rather subjective. For packaged fonts you might look at "hack" (https://source-foundry.github.io/Hack/font-specimen.html) or "go"

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 05:18:38PM +0200, zithro wrote: On 02 Jun 2023 14:31, Michael Stone wrote: I don't recommend xen for new projects. It has more pieces and tends to be more fragile than qemu+kvm, for no real benefits these days. (IMO) Define "more pieces" and "more f

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: Excuse me,but there is something within your argumentation that I don't like and I want to express what it is. Let's take Linux as an example of what I want to say. Linux is well known to be an OS that can be installed on the old

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 03:24:13PM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: I mean. I cant use qemu on that I5 cpu because is slow without kvm. Kvm does not work on that cpu because it is needs some extensions from the cpu that there arent. Bhyve is the only alternative because it is a mix between qemu and

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 03:01:04PM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: Using qemu is out of discussion,because it is very slow. But as I said,bhyve works better than qemu alone. kvm literally uses qemu as its user space, so it's very much not out of the discussion. If you can't use the kvm kernel

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 08:41:44AM +, Victor Sudakov wrote: Interestingly, libvirt claims to support bhyve, I just never felt a need for such sophisticated tools to run just several VMs. Yes, it sounds like you should just ignore libvirt entirely and just install qemu-system-x86 (and not

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 11:21:45AM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: wait wait. for sure the option should be enabled on the bios,but bhyve works in a different way than kvm,so it works even if my cpu does not have all the virt. parameters respected. Infact kvm does not work on that cpu. But how many

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 11:09:36AM +0200, Paul Leiber wrote: +1 for Xen, AFAIK the standard apt installation doesn't include any management GUI. This is the howto which helped me getting started: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Beginners_Guide I don't recommend xen for new

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:53:26PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: "virt-manager", on the other hand, appears to be fundamentally a GUI tool. But virsh from libvirt-clients isn't.

Re: update-initramfs

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 01:57:04PM -0500, David Wright wrote: os-prober no longer scours all the other partitions for OSes any more.¹ Which is wonderful--that was one of the most annoying misfeatures to have ever been enabled.

Re: Playing Card Symbols

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:13:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: You know, if all of those symbols were in some font set and had text labels attached to them that could speak when a screen reader was used a whole bunch of playing card applications would suddenly become accessible for screen reader

Re: Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:48:13PM +0100, Richmond wrote: I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site: http://ip6.me/ The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the: http://ip6only.me/ shows the ipv6 address. However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP

Re: No /

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 05:05:49PM +0100, Michael Lee wrote: Is there a way to fix this, or is a re-installation the only remedy? For all the things people like about btrfs, IME it's not as good at recovery from adverse events as are ext4 or xfs. In your circumstance your best bet is

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 02:22:56AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: What physical boundaries do SSDs have to report? All I know about that are exposed are sector size and sector count. I have yet to find one where logical/physical were not 512B/512B. Don't worry about it; modern partition tools

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:23:52PM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Here's why you would partition a drive. Reinstalling (which I end up having to do every time Debian comes out with a new version) means overwriting the storage. I already acknowleged that people can do what they want

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:49:51AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 03:07:08PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 02:33:12PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, jeremy ardley wrote: > > you can ping them as in > > > > pin

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 05:58:47PM -0500, PMA wrote: I'm preparing to install Debian 11.5.0 on a new computer. Its drives are SSDs, not the HDDs I've been accustomed to and have always fastidiously *partitioned*. With my file groupings already well differentiated c/o directory-tree layout, is

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 04:24:36PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: you basically just made this up No Michael, just recalling our interaction history, the general tone being to give me hell for using hosts files instead of running a dns. I have not told you that you need to use bind instead of

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:12:32AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Sorry, Gene's line was actually "search hosts, nameserver". So, "ping coyote" should have triggered name resolution for "coyote.hosts" and/or "coyote.nameserver". It's just barely conceivable that *something* might have created a

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 09:30:57AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: True. But I'd also suggest that if you do not want to support /etc/hosts files name resolution methods /etc/hosts works and has worked fine on debian for decades to. Your attitude that everybody with a two machine home network

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 03:46:21PM +0300, Reco wrote: libnss-myhostname does that. Why it chooses ipv6 link-local over ipv4 static IP is another question. perhaps because ipv6 is preferred and there is no public ip6. it doesn't really matter because normal users won't notice or care whether

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 07:57:09AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: And this disclosed that I had not properly added coyote.coyote.den to the /etc/hosts file on that machine. That mistake, fixed, now makes the local net pingable. The rest of it, whats powered up, was/is all pingable. It just wasn't

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 07:30:44AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: That said, I'm curious about this part oF Gene's result: > gene@bpi54:~$ grep -i bpi54 /etc/hosts > 192.168.71.12 bpi54.coyote.denbpi54 > gene@bpi54:~$ getent hosts bpi54 > fe80::4765:bca4:565d:3c6 bpi54

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 02:33:12PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, jeremy ardley wrote: you can ping them as in ping fe80::87d:c6ff:fea4:a6fc ooh, I didn't know that worked. Same as ping fe80::87d:c6ff:fea4:a6fc%eth0 on my machines at least. No idea how it picks the

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 03:02:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Yes Greg, you keep telling me that. But I'm in the process of bringing up a 3dprinter farm, each printer with a bpi5 to manage octoprint. Joing the other 4 on this net running buster and linuxcnc. Just last week I added another

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 07:42:59PM +, Brian wrote: I was attracted by this idea and it gave me pause for thought. Leaving aside printers that include a network interface, the IPP-over-USB standard applies to a non-network-capable printer. The specs require IPP (put in firmware, I suppose)

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 11:33:44AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: $ file test2/sm/SM.EXE test2/sm/SM.EXE: MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS Which makes me think it's DOS but it could be a false positive. Nope, that's it. If it was windows it would say something like "PE32+ executable (GUI)

Re: tbird broken

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 06:14:23PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Since when does a total lack of html content, disable MIME handling?? That seems like a whopper of a bug to me since MIME was around and working quite well in the later '80's. MIME was standardized in 1992 and wasn't particularly

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO withDebian?)

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 08:40:47PM +0100, hw wrote: Not really, it was just an SSD. Two of them were used as cache and they failed was not surprising. It's really unfortunate that SSDs fail particulary fast when used for purposes they can be particularly useful for. If you buy hard drives

Re: definiing deduplication

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: But as I mentioned, higher-layers (the filesystem layer, and the applications running on top of that) *should* try and make sure that a hard failure (kernel crash, power failure, ... these and up taking a snapshot of your block

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO withDebian?)

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 02:05:33PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: 300TB/year. That's a little bizarre: it's 9.51 MB/s. Modern high end spinners also claim 200MB/s or more when feeding them continuous writes. Apparently WD thinks that can't be sustained more than 5% of the time. Which makes sense for

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 09:03:45AM +0100, hw wrote: On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 23:12 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: The advantage to RAID 6 is that it can tolerate a double disk failure. With RAID 1 you need 3x your effective capacity to achieve that and even though storage has gotten cheaper

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO withDebian?)

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 07:15:07AM +0100, hw wrote: There was no misdiagnosis. Have you ever had a failed SSD? They usually just disappear. Actually, they don't; that's a somewhat unusual failure mode. I have had a couple of ssd failures, out of hundreds. (And I think mostly from a

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 08:32:36PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: * RAID 5 and 6 restoration incurs additional stress on the other disks in the RAID which makes it more likely that one of them will fail. I believe that's mostly apocryphal; I haven't seen science backing that up, and it hasn't

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO withDebian?)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 06:55:27PM +0100, hw wrote: On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 11:57 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 05:34:32PM +0100, hw wrote: > And mind you, SSDs are *designed to fail* the sooner the more data you write > to > them.  They have their uses, m

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO withDebian?)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 05:34:32PM +0100, hw wrote: And mind you, SSDs are *designed to fail* the sooner the more data you write to them. They have their uses, maybe even for storage if you're so desperate, but not for backup storage. It's unlikely you'll "wear out" your SSDs faster than you

Re: support for ancient peripherals

On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 06:31:04AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: 3. An HP LaserJet 5MP printer from 1995 with a parallel-port connector. StarTech sells a $42 PCIe card with a parallel port and two serial ports. If you're getting a desktop, this might be your preferred path. Two other options: The

Re: Unification of discussion-forum types (was Re: signing up to fourms)

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 08:57:54AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: If that doesn't happen in practice, I'd be all for the idea, but as far as I can recall I have yet to encounter a case where it doesn't. We already get too many examples of people failing to quote correctly even here on this mailing

Re: How to configure (aka deal with) /tmp in the best way?

On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 02:07:17PM +0100, Tixy wrote: I seem to remember many releases ago playing with this, and there was a config file to set /tmp to tmpfs. A quick google leads me to to look at 'man tmpfs' which says: /tmp Previously configured using RAMTMP in /etc/default/rcS. Note that

Re: usrmerge

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 06:12:45PM +0100, billium wrote: may be I am idiot for keeping it so long since a re-install. I think stretch was the install, and it is now on bookworm. FYI, skipping releases is not supported; in future, go through each release in order when upgrading. Whether that

Re: question re tar

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:29:07PM +0100, jr wrote: On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 13:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:31:58PM +0100, jr wrote: > ... > "What's in the file" > > file names, one per line. (and, before you ask, '\n' terminated lines) This is not

Re: systemd: udev coldplug all devices question

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 01:30:11AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: bug report to try to fix it, except for the suggestion that a Debian kernel developer made to increase the uevent buffer size in the kernel over a year ago and another suggestion from another Debian maintainer or developer who

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 11:16:00PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'll be brutally honest: being accused of "possibly malicious" unwilligness is *not* a great way to convince overstretched volunteers to spend their time on issues. Especially when it's an ongoing pattern of discourse.

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 02:14:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: So do you, obviously. Someone said something that raised that question in my mind, but you deleted that part from this message, which proves you are the one who has an ax to grind by not answering the question that has been

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:42:12PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: Software projects today, IIUC, are communities. The "volunteers" should do what the community wants, not necessarily what you or I want. Do you think the free/oss software community wants volunteers who ignore bugs or refuse to

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:27:43AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/13/2022 12:36 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 03:32:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > [...] "I can't get personalized/dedicated support with enforceable > SLAs for free" If

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:47:49PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: Well, I suppose so, but I am pleased that a grub maintainer is now on the case. Still, there is another Debian bug that affects me that continues to be ignored, so I admit I have an attitude about that. I accept that what is of

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:10:33AM -0500, David Wright wrote: Well, my focus would be on two things: (a) the change in compatibility level in debhelper in the middle of stable's lifetime That would not have ordinarily happened, and probably shouldn't have happened in this case. Other

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 02:32:16PM +, Andy Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:15:41AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: There are automated processes that stop package migration at certain severity levels, but they can't guess that something that was filed at a low level really should have

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 02:20:59PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: Agreed. While I tend to try to file bugs at the lowest severity that can be justified, I know that others go the other way. This is one I'd probably have filed as Grave or even Critical. (I see it's now been bumped to Grave) If it's

Re: Which MTA for from-based smarthost selection, local delivery and queuing?

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:31:37PM +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: I was advised to use msmtp but, although it has the feature I am looking for, it misses two features of exim4 that I find useful: local e-mail delivery to users' maildirs and the ability to queue emails composed while the

Re: OT: Is postfix "easier" than exim4? (was: Re: Which MTA for from-based smarthost selection, local delivery and queuing?)

On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 07:10:17AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: To people who have familiarity with both postfix and exim4, is postfix really easier (in a variety of senses) than exim4? LIke to install, setup, and use? IMO, yes. It's also easier to find solutions to problems online,

Re: failing HDD, ddrescue says remaning time is 7104d

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 03:25:36PM +0200, ppr wrote: I did not try to mount the HDD. I plugged an external HDD (ext4) and launched ddrescue. After two days it has recovered 33GB of 1TB but the speed are now so slow it will take 7104 days to complete. is the img file still growing? in general

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: It just seems documentation ought to be better / simpler / easier to use than that. There's an inverse correlation between completeness and simplicity. If you don't want to read a 700 page book, the other alternative is to

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 01:31:20PM +, Aravinth kumar Anbalagan wrote: Hi @Michael Stone There are no proxy configured on the server. Please check the below error and let us know how can we proceed further? root@policijas-db:~# cd /etc/apt/ apt.conf.d/ preferences.d/ sources.list.d

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 07:42:20AM +, Karthik Jeyabalan wrote: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb-src

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:01:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I know this is probably a silly worry, but I run behind an IPv4 NAT, which makes me feel fairly safe. This is a common, but wrong, idea; NAT doesn't keep you safe, a packet filter keeps you safe. You can have either one

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:26:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Another thing that should not be forgotten is that the family of processors vs the ability to make use of firmware patches to fix bugs took a hit since family ID's of $0F and below could not be fixed with microcode. And many of them

Re: SSD Optimization and tweaks - Looking for tips/recomendations

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 02:25:36PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: 4. Any other recommendations to improve the performance and lifespan of this disk? don't worry about it; accept the defaults and you'll be fine

Re: where does `hostname -f` derive the domainname from?

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 04:59:26PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: That was the problem. The bullseye-only system had an /etc/hosts entry without a FQDN. I removed that and it uses the one in DNS. It's generally better to add the FQDN to /etc/hosts instead, to cut down on DNS queries for the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Does DEBIAN BullsEye has FIPS package available

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:58:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: There may be user space components too. I don't know if Debian still ships with openssl or another SSL library now but openssl specifically can be compiled in some FIPS compatibility mode. That's not currently true; as far as I

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old. *10 I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does. new

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does. new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux was first written... So having

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 07:16:11AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: A loong password is not "equivalent" to 2FA, that's right. Good password management (of which length is but a part) is as secure as 2FA. No, it really isn't.

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:13:55PM +0200, DdB wrote: Proper entry in NVRAM (Can be read and changed with efibootmgr) I've never seen a BIOS where this is hard--you just browse to the appropriate file in the EFI partition (EFI/debian/grubx64.efi). Using a program from within linux is helpful

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 08:31:12AM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: For all but the boot mechanism, copying files from source to destination via rsync should work. For ext4, files are files. Except when they have ACLs or extended attributes, hard links are messy to rsync, etc. Most of

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 04:47:44PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Unfortunately, this is precisely what I was trying to avoid. For example, to accommodate the graphics on my CPU, I had to use a later kernel from backports. That's one of many wrinkles. Under other circumstances, I probably

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote: Alternatively there's dhcpcd5, Be careful with this one unless you have a simple network configuration--by default it will attempt to get addresses on all interfaces that don't have them, not only ones you set to dhcp in

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 08:16:22PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: ls -l .bashrc You've got a command name, and you're passing two string arguments to it. If you feel a need to quote every string argument, then you should be writing it like this: ls "-l" ".bashrc" There's nothing special about

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:10:33AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Somewhat self-referential. I'm not the one getting worked up here ;-) And I'm not the one accusing people of lying.

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:56:47PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Because some of us work in corporate data centers. And everything you claim that helps us here really does the opposite. Because it was introduced in large part to support mobile computing. Which does not and will never be

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:19:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's like you haven't even read this thread. of course I have Predictable interface names *do* sometimes change. And when that happens, it's a huge deal, because all of the configuration files are set up for the old name.

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:38:10PM +0100, Brian wrote: Perhaps? Perhaps what? Perhaps it is a lie? freedesktop conceals the truth and peddles false information purposefully? Some people get excessively worked up over things like interface names and like to throw around strong words for

Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 06:54:26PM +, Brian wrote: It does. Installation of chrony or ntp removeds the traditional systemd-timesyncd package. I'm somewhat amused by the characterization of systemd-timesyncd as "traditional" over ntpd, a program which has existed since the late 80s.

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 12:32:24AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: that's not running a 64bit userspace on a 32bit kernel, Why not? You have a 64bit system on top, a 32bit kernel at the bottom and whether execution of those 64bit binaries is performed directly by the CPU or via binfmt + qemu is

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:02:17PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Greg Wooledge [2022-01-31 16:45:52] wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:37:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably possible to run a 64bit userspace on a 32bit kernel. No. Or at least, not that

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks Andrei for confirming what I supposed):

Re: why copying big file fails?

On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:00PM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 03:11:36PM -0500, a wrote: i run "ls -l", about 2G has been copied This. Method you're using for copying files does not matter. Whatever your phone is using instead of a proper filesystem does. 2G file

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:42:35PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to everybody who has responded here. I think the prudent thing to do is use a new SSD card and I have one that is supposed to be a full 32 gb. The card I was able to finally clear the partitions on is several years old

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:30:25AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I suspect this is the crux of the problem. the adapter I connected is a card reader. You put the SSD in a little plastic jacket that holds the SSD in such a way that the card reader can access the edge connector but the

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 10:34:48AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: On 1/4/22 10:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote: And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the right answer. :) Au contraire! Among other things, the host table is the best possible place to block access

Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it.

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:52:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, January 04, 2022 05:20:34 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: gene heskett wrote on 03/01/2022 at 02:24:53+0100: > The first time I tried to remove brltty, the removal cascaded all the > way up thru all of gnome and

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:09:06AM +0100, local10 wrote: Jan 3, 2022, 23:08 by d...@randomstring.org: Alright. Put this into your /etc/hosts temporarily: [...] OK, I understand now what the problem was. Quite a while ago I added a line into the /etc/hosts to fix a temp DNS issue and

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:51:59PM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: But doesn't Btrfs compression work with small blocks? https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#Are_there_speed_penalties_when_doing_random_access_to_a_compressed_file.3F Relatively small, which makes it fairly

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 10:33:59AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're caus

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing additional writes because compressed data is generally hard to modify in place without

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 07:51:18PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh, looking harder, apparently means: For Avoidance Of Doubt (chiefly British) It certainly clarified things. :-D

Re: write only storage.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: A ransomware attack that exploits a zero day ssh vulnerability for example wouldn't be a complete disaster - this is only home usage - but it seems fairly trivial to create a 'worm' usb device using a pi. I haven't tested yet but with

Re: write only storage.

Well, chattr -i turns that off On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:29:07PM +, Toni Mas Soler wrote: I use to backup my iPhone's photo library using a stfp connection (all in the same directory in my PC). Thus, I can chattr +i the only directory needed and nobody can remove. I cannot understand

Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:07:06PM -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and stripe_width. How does one format the raid partitions with these options during OS

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