Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Reco
imilar algorithm to ensure there is a high probability of > uniquenessThis algorithm will result in a Global ID that is reasonably > unique and can be used to create a locally assigned Local IPv6 address > prefix". (RFC 4193) > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4193.html > > Not exactly elegant. Oh, I'll take ipv6calc approach over *that* each time I have to try it. Reco

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Reco
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 04:45:59PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/06/2019 à 16:11, Reco a écrit : > > > > > > Custom routes? When routing between 2 networks using the same range, > > > either with a VPN or some kind of direct connection? It's going

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:47:08PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 18/06/19 10:32 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:56:17PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 18/06/19 3:38 AM, Reco wrote: > >>> Hi. >

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:56:17PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 18/06/19 3:38 AM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:38:27AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> But that opens yet another container of worms. If I arbitrarily ass

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-17 Thread Reco
on my local net, advertise their presence to the > other machines on my local net. IPv4 way of doing it is called ARP. IPv6 way of doing it is called ICMPv6 types 135 and 136. Both are limited to a single network segment (in a L2 sense of the word) by design, so the outside world is not aware of this. Reco

Re: How to disable automatic core dumps in Debian 9?

2019-06-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 05:14:09PM +0300, Martin T wrote: > Reco, > > thanks for reply! > > > rgrep core /etc/security/limits* > > Would be more correct. Files at /etc/security/limits.d/ can override > > limits.conf. > > Indeed. Output of &

Re: How to disable automatic core dumps in Debian 9?

2019-06-12 Thread Reco
en while the "core dumped" > is printed: A simple 'ulimit -c' would suffice. Reco

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-09 Thread Reco
combined with 'w' allows user to overwrite (or append) the file. > And can't delete the files (.tcl or .db) That's true, and since most editors try to use "create temporary file and move it along the original" - you mistook it for "other users cannot edit the file". Reco

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

2019-05-31 Thread Reco
> To skip a security improvement in order to save 111 kB of installed size > seems daring. (Size for amd64 taken from end of > https://packages.debian.org/unstable/libcap2-bin > ) Replacing a working fallback mechanism with one-size-fits-all "everyone are using ext4 on amd64 and Linux" is hardly an improvement. Reco

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

2019-05-31 Thread Reco
capabilities. Off the top of my head it's NFS and JFFS2. Upgrading this particular dependency leads only to a dependency bloat, and Default Users™ (i.e. ones that are installing Recommends by default) aren't affected anyway. Reco

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

2019-05-30 Thread Reco
e context of the original deboostrap behaviour - it's simple. debootstrap installs barebones to produce a working apt, and uses it to install the rest of the packages. apt trusts the mirror (it would be counterproductive to download and analyze every package just to extract their Priority and Depends), hence mirror's priority wins here. Reco [1] https://wiki.debian.org/FtpMaster/Override

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

2019-05-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:26:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 05:19:49PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > "dpkg -s" gets package state from /var/lib/dpkg/status. > > "apt-cache" also uses /var/lib/apt/lists/*. > > > >

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

2019-05-30 Thread Reco
;optional" from the repository POV, but your local package database thinks it's "important". And in this case I trust the repository and have to assume that your local package database is somehow corrupt. Reco

Re: Openvpn cli vs. Openvpn Networkmanager

2019-05-29 Thread Reco
rface-order . Look for whatever Notwork Manager added to /run/resolvconf/interfaces for openvpn, add it at the top of interface-order. Reco

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

2019-05-29 Thread Reco
es not install libcap2-bin. Hence iputils-ping postinst script simply sets suid bit on /bin/ping as postinst cannot locate setcap. Reco

Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)

2019-05-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-05-28 11:18:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Tue, 28 May 2019 20:39:53 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 09:49:45AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 06:42:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2019 12:22:41 am Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 04:52:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 May 2019 01:32:31 pm Reco wrote: > > > > On Tue,

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-29 Thread Reco
bviously I need to move it to someplace thats run after > I've logged in. You need something like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User http://jurjenbokma.com/ApprenticesNotes/ffgg_systemd.xhtml https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Getmail Reco

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 04:52:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2019 01:32:31 pm Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:23:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > End users can remove that '-e' flag if they believe it's > >

Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 09:49:45AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2019 18:56:44 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 07:10:22AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 May 2019 21:00:36 -0400 (EDT) > >

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:37:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:32:31PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Quoting bash(1): > > > > -e Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single > > simple command), a list, or a

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
as an option to "set" command. > It is in the shebang line, so what does that do when its in that > position. Quoting bash(1): -e Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single simple command), a list, or a compound command (see SHELL GRAMMAR above), exits with a non-zero status. Reco

Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
ulated > install -- the salient portions I spoke of highlighted. > > B > > root@debian9:/home/patrick# apt -s install wicd Try this: # apt install wicd -s -o APT::Install-Recommends="0" wicd by itself does not require systemd, but it recommends gksu. gksu, which is kinda-sorta part of GNOME, on the other hand - does. Reco

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:53:04AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:11:29PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 05:45:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > root@coyote:GenesAmandaHelper-0.61$ cat /etc/rc.local > > >

Re: IPV6 hosts file (was: Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?))

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:32:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2019 01:49:29 am Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 05:06:24PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 27 May 2019 03:19:44 pm Reco wrote: >

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

2019-05-28 Thread Reco
ens. Your exim tries to send an e-mail to sub...@bugs.debian.org, discovers that it's disallowed to do so, and sends that 'Unable to deliver' e-mail back to the user who has run reportbug. Reportbug also sends the same e-mail to the user who run it, so at least you have your bugreport verbatim. Reco

Re: IPV6 hosts file (was: Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?))

2019-05-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 05:06:24PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2019 03:19:44 pm Reco wrote: > > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 02:09:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 27 May 2019 08:58:14 am rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-27 Thread Reco
/local/bin/heyu monitor &" > > > > this just cries 'put me into systemd unit'. > > Abusing shell's background in rc.local is good for all those > > enterprisey "i-dont-know-what-im-doing" devopses. Don't be like them. > > And the docs on how to do that are where? Google. [1] may or may not be of help. Any *service file at /lib/systemd/system can serve as a template. Reco [1] https://wiki.debian.org/systemd

Re: IPV6 hosts file (was: Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?))

2019-05-27 Thread Reco
hosts file on ipv6? > > > According to the default comments in that file, yes. But easy to read and > understand docs on how to actually do it are somewhat hidden on the > machine or on the net. hosts(5). You'll probably need a text editor too. Reco

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

2019-05-27 Thread Reco
tp-link TL-SG108E ? They invented balance-alb and balance-tlb just for that. But - neither of them will do you any good. > Or must it support LACP? LACP is also unable to convert two Gigabit NICs to a single Two-Gigabit one. You need TCP multipathing or its equivalent. Reco

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

2019-05-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 03:36:38PM +0200, basti wrote: > Hello sven, > hello reco, > > I want to speedup my network connection beween srv-a and srv-b. There is > only a 1:1 connection. Any bonding mode will utilize a single link in such case. The 'catch 22'

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

2019-05-27 Thread Reco
nfigured to send LACPDUs (i.e. you can switch it to Active LACP). I'd say it'll be easier to use balance-alb or balance-tlb in such setup. Reco

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-27 Thread Reco
> # Now, need some heyu stuff run > su gene -c "/usr/local/bin/heyu engine &" > su gene -c "/usr/local/bin/heyu monitor &" this just cries 'put me into systemd unit'. Abusing shell's background in rc.local is good for all those enterprisey "i-dont-know-what-im-doing" devopses. Don't be like them. In short, everything in your rc.local does not belong there. Reco

Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing

2019-05-26 Thread Reco
are more sophisticated tools for the task, but these three are usually enough for me. Reco

Re: I need to totally stop ANY indication of ipv6 connectivity, how.

2019-05-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:46:07AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 May 2019 06:32:59 am Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:25:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 May 2019 05:54:46

Re: I need to totally stop ANY indication of ipv6 connectivity, how.

2019-05-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:25:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 May 2019 05:54:46 am Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 05:38:22AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I have the following in /etc/

Re: I need to totally stop ANY indication of ipv6 connectivity, how.

2019-05-25 Thread Reco
:62:fc:bb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff <--ipv6 crap. No. That's MAC address of your NIC, hence "link/ether". IPv6 entries start with "inet6". Reco

Re: [DNG] Linux system can be brought down by sending SIGILL to Systemd

2019-05-25 Thread Reco
x at May 25 10:19:09 ... systemd[1]: Caught , dumped core as pid 822. ... systemd[1]: Freezing execution. The userspace and the kernel will work after this, but anything that's related to systemd (including poweroff and shutdown) just hangs. Seems harmless to me as one needs to be root to send signals to PID 1. > I had no fear to run the script as I use systemd, so I know how to > use the SysReq keys very well ;) There's also that /proc/sysrq-trigger in the case the console isn't accessible. Reco

Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

2019-05-24 Thread Reco
ion is the most likely reason for this. Should not happen at all, and does not happen for me, for instance. Can you please post the output of: uname -v /sbin/modinfo kvm_intel dpkg -l linux-image* Reco

Re: email problems again

2019-05-18 Thread Reco
to this: Note that if the remote IP matches the local IP (ie. you're connecting from the same computer), the connection is considered secure and plaintext authentication is allowed. As others suggested in the other thread, you should set: disable_plaintext_auth = no auth_mechanisms = plain Reco

[OT] ext4 corruption (was: Re: Just had to reset/reboot again, total loss of keyboard & mouse)

2019-05-18 Thread Reco
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 09:16:34AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Just don't use any kernel 5.1.x where x < 4: it can corrupt ext4 > filesystems. Can you share a bug number please? Reco

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-18 Thread Reco
; an example of what reasonable presentation would be needed to convince > > you on this matter? > > > > Well, for a start, a lot of it seemed to be simple anti-Microsoft propaganda. What's wrong with a anti-M$ propaganda? Reco

Re: LXC, networking and firewalling

2019-05-15 Thread Reco
bridge, and I guess leave the default one out? You can bridge a tagged network interface with a non-tagged one, it'll work. You can make a bridge on top of non-tagged interfaces, and VLANs on top of it. It all really depends on what you're trying to achieve with 802.1q. Reco

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
decimal numbers. > The partition sdf2 starts at sector 4096 and ends at 7814035455. Even > with all the layers, that doesn't seem to be the one reporting the > error. And on sdf2 reading that location should not be a hardware > error, just junk data. "Can't read superblock on ..." is a red herring here. See my other e-mail. Reco

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
ork here too. 4) But to escape the future confusion I suggest you to loose that '-r' flag in qemu-nbd. And to backup that 'vdi' image beforehand, just in case. Reco

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 01:28:47PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-14, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > >> I am trying to read some files off of a virtual disk without running > >> the entire virtual machine. > > > > Can you post the outpu

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
Hi. > I am trying to read some files off of a virtual disk without running > the entire virtual machine. Can you post the output of (in that order): strace -f mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot dmesg | trail e2fsck -fn /dev/stretch-vg/boot Reco

Re: How to make networking dependent on firewall configuration?

2019-05-13 Thread Reco
network interfaces from configuring (networking.service). Reco

Re: How to configure the hugepages group in Debian?

2019-05-07 Thread Reco
c/systemd/system/dev-hugepages.mount.d cat > systemd/system/dev-hugepages.mount.d/override.conf << EOF [Mount] Options=mode=1770,gid= EOF systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl restart dev-hugepages.mount Reco

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-06 Thread Reco
On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 02:10:01PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 5/6/19, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 01:35:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > >> On 5/6/19, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >> > On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 07:29:55PM -0400, Dan Ritter

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-06 Thread Reco
- in this case, about > an addon being "safe"? xpinstall.signatures.required = false They do allow it … for now. Reco

Re: Need Keyring Of Public Key

2019-05-04 Thread Reco
v --keyserver http://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8B48AD6246925553 They've removed wheezy key from Debian keyserver recently. Reco

Re: Mysterious ssh-agent session

2019-04-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 10:10:14PM +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > On 25/04/19 6:37 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 04:58:28PM +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > >> I need to know how to either > >> a) disable the instance

Re: Mysterious ssh-agent session

2019-04-24 Thread Reco
configure the instance started under "(sd-pam)", and use that > instead of my system user service. Modify /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent , SSHAGENTARGS in particular. Reco

Re: Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts."

2019-04-23 Thread Reco
ver). > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/ > > Do you or anyone else have an example header string? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent/Firefox You'll need Android UA. Reco

Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?

2019-04-21 Thread Reco
", KERNEL=="sd*", GROUP="floppy"' \ > /etc/udev/rules.d/z_local.rules useradd ... floppy Reco

Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?

2019-04-21 Thread Reco
'zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz > /dev/disk/by-id/my-sd-card' Ugh. Why run zcat as root if you can avoid it: zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz | sudo tee \ /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_1532-0\:0 > /dev/null Reco

Re: Sudden “operation not permitted”

2019-04-17 Thread Reco
ce my reboot, I do not see anything that > obviously points to the problem. Network Manager seems to start OK, as far > as I can tell. It means nothing. The thing is always "starting". Whenever it's doing anything useful or harmful is entirely different matter. Reco

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-17 Thread Reco
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 07:11:52AM +, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > >>>>> "R" == Reco writes: > > R> That's very simplistic point of view. What about Wayland on > R> non-x86, like ARM or MIPS (a hint - it does not work there, X > R> does)

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 01:14:36AM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: > Reco writes: > > Hi Reco, > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:32PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: > >> VSZ is the Virtual Memory Size. (...), > >>including memory that is swapped out, > &g

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
> good enough IMO. Such trolling topics are a rare source of pure entertainment here. I do not take them seriously, YMMV. > On this mailing list, though, I could see a progression from "why is > synaptic removed from Debian Buster?" to "Lets remove Gnome", hence why > I brought it up. Different topics, different OPs. Mostly the same participants, sure. Reco

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 06:54:00PM +0200, Matthew Crews wrote: > On 4/16/19 6:54 AM, Reco wrote: > >> I see Linus is drifting back to his older style, issuing the desktop > >> people a whipping they are in need of over the weekend, saying 90% of > >>

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
mory"? A hint - compile the sample, run it a hundred times. Reco

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
bells and whistles, it's four orders of magnitude of your fvwm install: # apt install -o APT::Install-Recommends=1 -o APT::Install-Suggests=1 gnome ... Need to get 5,260 MB of archives. After this operation, 18.4 GB of additional disk space will be used. Reco

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:35:29PM +, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > >>>>> "R" == Reco writes: > > > R> As we saw two weeks ago, the decision to run GNOME on Wayland > R> backfired at synaptic. To rephrase, why bother running X if t

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
to his older style, issuing the desktop > people a whipping they are in need of over the weekend, saying 90% of > why linux doesn't control the desktop is that there is not a > standardized, one size fits all because it can do all things desktop. A link please, LKML will suffice. If Linus is back after that CoC story in all his former glory - I need to see this. Reco

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
on of the kernel (and that's > > unsuitable for just about anything short of kernel development). > > By then I should probably go to debian-kernel? ;-) I'd file a bug against linux-image package. You're using only in-tree kernel modules shipped by Debian. The kernel is obviously misbehaving. And if they won't answer you in a week (it's a small volunteer team after all) - then you'll go at debian-kernel with a bug number at hands. Reco

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:38:38AM +, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > >>>>> "R" == Reco writes: I *have* to object to this ☺ In C this comparison equals false. Have you meant '"R" = Reco' (i.e. assignment)? > R> No. What I w

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:22:16AM +0200, Martin Schwarz wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 07:03:13PM +0300, Reco wrote: > [...] > > What I suspect is happening here is runaway memory allocation by a > > kernel module (at least one of them), and said

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Reco
. > So, I am asking that gnome be dropped as an installation option (not > just as the default desktop) until they encourage freedom. There's an appropriate place for such wishes, it's called https://bugs.debian.org. Reco

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-15 Thread Reco
;re talking real hardware aka big iron. What I suspect is happening here is runaway memory allocation by a kernel module (at least one of them), and said kernel module is likely to be VMWare-specific. It could be vmxnet3 (network). It could be that LSI kernel module or whatever they're using for SCSI these days (vmw_pvscsi?). And that means - 'perf top', or better yet - 'perf record'. Reco

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-15 Thread Reco
ops. Can you please provide unsorted outputs of /proc/meminfo? It's easier to compare them if they are unsorted. And "smem -tm | tail" would be helpful too. Reco

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

2019-04-15 Thread Reco
package or two if a need arises, I'm too lazy to play this "maintainer for myself" role too often. So I (the user) use the packages they (maintainers) give me. And I use "they" as a way of referring the group of people I'm not acquainted with, or whose identities are not relevant to the question discussed. Fits here, IMO. Reco

Re: Buster presentation info

2019-04-15 Thread Reco
he viewer ? A shipped browser(s) version, maybe? Firefox, Chromium, those things. Reco

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

2019-04-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:56:04AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:42:19AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:14:30AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Or just ditch Wayland (/me

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

2019-04-15 Thread Reco
't new. I expect that [1] will be updated sooner or later though. > Would it be worth updating this page so others know to use > gnome-packagekit instead, even if this information is elsewhere. I suggest you to update [2]. After all, they made this page for a reason, and it provides obs

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

2019-04-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:14:30AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:03:47AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 01:24:32AM -0400, Kieran Smyth wrote: > > > For reasons unknown to me, synaptic uninstalled itself about three wee

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

2019-04-14 Thread Reco
. > I like using a GUI frontend to apt, and if anyone can help me get it back > on my system i'd really appreciate it. You're not supposed to use synaptic in Wayland session anymore. Consider using gnome-packagekit instead. Reco

Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer

2019-04-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 10:14:04AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > I am looking for an "easy light weight just empty the local queue and send it > to the smart host" setup. apt install nullmailer Reco

Re: Fixed: May be silly question, but: Lost my qq(´) and qq(´) key

2019-04-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:27:43AM +0200, Martin wrote: > It's the ibus...something. > No idea what this does¹, but disabling/uninstalling this does the trick. Long story short, unless you're writing in Chinese, Japanese or Korean - you don't need ibus. Reco

Re: ntfs-3g - mounting as normal user?

2019-04-09 Thread Reco
tfs-3g", > which does this no more let work. This was years ago and I only remember weak. That only applies if: a) ntfs-3g is suid root-owned binary. b) ntfs-3g uses 'external' libfuse.so (i.e. dynamic link to a library). But they build ntfs-3g with '--with-fuse=internal' flag, so last one should not apply. Reco

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-08 Thread Reco
Mon 08 Apr 2019 05:07:44 PM UTC > > $ LC_TIME=C.UTF-8 TZ=UTC date > Mon Apr 8 17:08:59 UTC 2019 > > If you speak C, it looks like a good bet. Thank you, works as intended. One less problem for the future upgrade. Reco

date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-08 Thread Reco
. And yes, I can commit into my memory that I can achieve old behaviour with "date -R" or "busybox date". My question is - can anyone suggest me appropriate LC_TIME setting that can show buster's date in stretch's format? Reco

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-07 Thread Reco
In my SSDs I have: > /sys/fs/ext4/dm-0/lifetime_write_kbytes > > I'm not sure if this is specific for SSD? No, it's not. It's filesystem-specific though. Meaning - you have to use ext4 to see this attribute, but the device where the ext4 filesystem resides does not matter. Reco

Re: Flatpak and apparmor.

2019-04-07 Thread Reco
ant to mess. > > If selinux is supported I guess I should consider making the transition. I'd be surprised if flatpak did not have such support - the thing's written by Red Hat (goto guys for SELinux). Reco

Re: Flatpak and apparmor.

2019-04-07 Thread Reco
s to apply Apparmor policy to /usr/bin/bwrap (which executes all flatpak 'containers'), but it fails to generate any useful policy for me. Reco

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread Reco
ere, IMHO, is Wayland being the default desktop choice. ... on amd64/i386 only. Whenever Wayland is the problem or the solution, punishing all other supported architectures seems extreme. Reco

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 06:36:32PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 16:02:13 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 09:20:51AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > > On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 12:33 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > >

Re: Wheezy: adding myself to the sudo group using usermod

2019-04-04 Thread Reco
t; None of them have worked -- any suggestions? adduser sudo It's Debian-specific, but saves one the confusion. Don't forget to relogin after adduser. Reco

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:15:40AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 April 2019 09:02:13 Reco wrote: > > The *unofficial* one is the existence of "gnome-packagekit". The thing > > needs users, and this is one of the ways of getting them. > > I

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-04 Thread Reco
nome? I've been using both > without a single hiccup for years... The official reason is "'sudo synaptic' does not work with Wayland session, therefore GNOME users will be confused". Also, comment 50 from #818366. The *unofficial* one is the existence of "gnome-packagekit". The thing needs users, and this is one of the ways of getting them. Reco

Re: Installing Debian root on ZFS mirror NetBoot

2019-04-01 Thread Reco
; create additional partitions not managed by ZFS? Because you cannot boot from GPT drive unless you have: - ef02 type partition for EFI - ef00 type partition for BIOS And, unlike its Solaris counterpart, ZOL's /sbin/zpool does not label disk by itself. Reco

Re: privoxy - which is the correct configuration?

2019-03-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 10:44:39AM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2019, 10:19:59 CET schrieb Reco: > > Hi. > > > > Hi Reco, > > thanks for the fast response. Most of this I understood. > > > If you need to use Tor and you have

Re: privoxy - which is the correct configuration?

2019-03-24 Thread Reco
> Can someone in short words point me to the correct entry? http:8118 or socks: > 9050? Both are. It depends on what you're trying to achieve. Reco

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-22 Thread Reco
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:40:43PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Freitag, 22. März 2019, 17:15:29 CET schrieb Reco: > > No, this is done by udev. It can be disabled, it can be configured, and > > it can be left as is. > > > I know, that the old style can be kept by either usin

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-22 Thread Reco
e should keep this little problem in mind. Maybe this is > worth a discussion, if not, please excuse the noise. That's OK. It's Friday and it's been an eventful week, so a list can use a flamewar. Reco

Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Reco
. "pidstat -dl 1" to point at a process eating I/O. Both come with "sysstat" package. "perf top", but it *does* require skill, knowledge and determination. Reco

Re: Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

2019-03-19 Thread Reco
d, su(1) says that: The current environment is passed to the new shell That includes $PWD, which is current working directory for the shell. Use "su - chomwitt", it'll work the way you expect it. Reco

Re: Stretch -> Buster = Shot Fonts

2019-03-18 Thread Reco
ad of > using the default 'native' hinter (which all docs state not to do btw) > then mostly everything improves. What they don't tell you in the docs, is that fonts rendering is subjective. One man's fonts settings can (and likely will) produce an unreadable results to the other. Reco

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-17 Thread Reco
’ to discover and recover > deleted files. However when I try now, the tool apparently gets confused > that there's no partition table. Because there is not any. But you don't need "testdisk", you need "photorec". Reco

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