Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On 15/5/24 18:52, Richard wrote: mailbox_transport isn't defined anywhere. Am Mi., 15. Mai 2024 um 12:37 Uhr schrieb jeremy ardley : On 15/5/24 18:23, Richard wrote: > Interesting. That's not even configured in our main.cfg. We have these > concerning d

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On 15/5/24 18:23, Richard wrote: Interesting. That's not even configured in our main.cfg. We have these concerning dovecot: smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $USER The sasl line is not relevant The mailbox_command is unusual. It means whatever process

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On 14/5/24 20:17, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 02:11:53PM +0200, Richard wrote: [...] Setting the permissions in /var/log/dovecot to 666 actually didn't solve the problem [...] This seems to prove (or, at least, strongly suggest) that I was barking up the wrong tree.

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On 14/5/24 19:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 07:36:17PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: Postfix is chrooted (usuallly) to /var/spool/postfix If this is true, then how would a local delivery agent work? It needs write access to all users' inboxes, which are either in /var/mail

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On 14/5/24 19:17, Richard wrote: But why should it cause issues? I set the logging in dovecot's conf.d, so I'd expect dovecot to write these logs, not postfix as it has its own settings. Am Di., 14. Mai 2024 um 05:00 Uhr schrieb jeremy ardley : On 14/5/24 04:16, Richard wrote

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

On 14/5/24 04:16, Richard wrote: Maybe someone here knows how the ownership of these files for Dovecot needs to be in order to work, as various distributions of Dovecot packages seem to use different users: I'd like Dovecot not to log into syslog, but to dedicated files. Therefore I've

Re: realpath quoting

On 3/5/24 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: I would suggest that if you need to use a debugger to track down a bug in your program, you should use filenames that don't require quoting when you set up your tests. 1970's style static test cases are not relevant here. In the real world...  I

Re: realpath quoting

On 3/5/24 10:56, Max Nikulin wrote: On 03/05/2024 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: I still insist that this is a workaround that should *not*  be used to try to cancel out quoting bugs in one's shell scripts. There are still specific cases when quoting is necessary, e.g. ssh remote command

Re: realpath quoting

On 3/5/24 07:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: The spaces without quotes cause problems with subsequent processing. Then the subsequent processing has bugs in it. Fix them. Can realpath or other utility return a quoted pathname? That would be extremely counterproductive. Do not look for kludges to

realpath quoting

I have a need  to get the full path of a file that has spaces in its name to use as a program argument e.g. jeremy@client:~$ ls -l name\ with\ spaces -rw-r--r-- 1 jeremy jeremy 0 May  3 06:51 'name with spaces' jeremy@client:~$ realpath name\ with\ spaces /home/jeremy/name with spaces The

Re: making Debian secure by default

On 28/3/24 05:30, Lee wrote: oof. Are there instructions somewhere on how to make Debian secure by default? Further down the advisory is " Some distros, like Debian, do not seem to have a command like command-not-found by default. There does not seem to be a way to leak a users

Re: Root password strength

On 20/3/24 19:03, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 20 Mar 2024 15:46 +0800, fromjeremy.ard...@gmail.com (jeremy ardley): Regarding certificates, I issue VPN certificates to be installed on each remote device. I don't use public key. What exactly is this "certificate" that you speak of?

Re: Root password strength

On 20/3/24 13:32, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: How will a "VPN" with a "certificate" (whatever that means in this > context) be more secure than a SSH (assuming key pair authentication, > not password)? > > They are doing the same dance (key exchange, key pair validation, > session key

Re: Root password strength

On 19/3/24 23:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 05:42:55PM +0300, Jan Krapivin wrote: The root user's password should be long (12 characters or more) and impossible to guess. Indeed, any computer (and a fortiori any server) connected to the Internet is regularly targeted by

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 14/3/24 17:47, jeremy ardley wrote: For reference on a 203 DPI (8 dots per mm) printer, a GS1-128 barcode takes up 12 modules per character. The minimum size of a module is 1 pixel so 1 character is 12 pixels wide or 1.2mm on a 203 dpi printer. Assuming a 40 character barcode at 1 pixel

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 14/3/24 06:59, hw wrote: Manufacturers can provide CUPS drivers as well, but the barcode application is usually only windows. In my case I had to write my own CUPS driver as the manufacturer does not provide one. How did you do that? It is simply a C program that gets given some

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 12/3/24 21:21, hw wrote: Even if they did that, it would be totally useless because it won't be able to automatically print labels from databases. The manufacturer applications  usually allow you to print a list from a spreadsheet or text file. It is possible to use document

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 11/3/24 07:34, hw wrote: Do you think that thermal transfer printers with 203dpi would be better suited to print QR codes than the 300dpi multi-mode printers? I'm not fond of thermal transfer at all. Usually what is being printed that way fades rather quickly over time and is more

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 10/3/24 15:39, Max Nikulin wrote: From your earlier message I count approximately 1000px for 5in (125 mm) barcode. If it is 1:1 to ~200dpi then it is incompatible with 300dpi printers, so it may be a reason why your proposal to the post office was rejected. If it is 500 black or white

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 10/3/24 11:21, Max Nikulin wrote: Is the QR image a raster one? I am unsure concerning its printer dots per QR pixel ratio. Let's take e.g. 4 as a value inconvenient for direct scaling from 300dpi to 203dpi. I expect that upscaling it by 3 and downscaling the result by 4 with disabled

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 10/3/24 05:41, hw wrote: The QR-codes are sharp and easily scanable when printed in 600dpi. With the label printer you can't really tell if they're sharp or not. As  mentioned in my previous post, thermal label printers are 203dpi, *not the 300 that the OP quoted.* you can read the OP

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 10/3/24 00:20, Max Nikulin wrote: Looking at a QR code likely having ~75 pixels per inch I find it unreasonably small for delivery labels. I am in doubts if its redundancy is high enough to reliably recognize it if it would be scratched during delivery. Another limitation may be

Re: systemd-resolved resolving fails sometimes on Debian12

On 3/3/24 22:39, Victor Sudakov wrote: jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/3/24 12:43, Victor Sudakov wrote: Not that I would use bind9 as a caching resolver but still, how do you pass the dynamically obtained AWS DNS server address from systemd-networkd to bind9 ? The AWS DNS resolver IPs

Re: systemd-resolved resolving fails sometimes on Debian12

On 3/3/24 12:43, Victor Sudakov wrote: Not that I would use bind9 as a caching resolver but still, how do you pass the dynamically obtained AWS DNS server address from systemd-networkd to bind9 ? The AWS DNS resolver IPs are static and are widely published. It is permissible to not use AWS

Re: systemd-resolved resolving fails sometimes on Debian12

On 2/3/24 23:06, Victor Sudakov wrote: You know, the official Debian 12 AMI for AWS is built on systemd-resolved and systemd-networkd. I'd prefer not to have to modify the official AMI if I can help it, because this would probably mean also replacing the systemd-networkd with some other

Re: systemd-resolved resolving fails sometimes on Debian12

On 1/3/24 17:47, Victor Sudakov wrote: Has anybody encountered this problem using systemd-resolved as a resolver on Debian12? A DNS request via systemd-resolved fails, but fails only occasionally. A failure can happen once per a hundred successful requests or so. If I run: I recall a

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

On 24/2/24 19:25, Emanuel Berg wrote: But what about the black market? Or does in fact "block market" work just fine? The term "black market" is from World War II - i.e. 1939-45. It has nothing to do with slaves. It means transactions in the dark, not visible,  not official.

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"? (Was Re: Orphaned Inode Problem)

On 20/2/24 08:48, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 04:12:44PM -0300, Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote: The notorious red SATA cables - I threw them out long ago. The red pigment eats up the fine copper threads, changing the impedance of the cable and eventually making false

Re: what keyboard do you use?

Lee wrote: I bought a Dell desktop in 2019 and the keyboard just died :( I have decided to go to the mechanical keyboard style where you get positive feedback on key strokes. For me there are two 'colors' that are interesting Blue which has strong tactile feedback, requires slight force,

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE

On 7/1/24 19:37, 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. Using Debian 12 I

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

On 3/1/24 18:36, Thomas Anderson wrote: I will upgrade Debian to 12 within the next month or so...but before I do, want to clean up my current system. I am running Debian 12 with the nvidia driver. It's mostly OK but I recently had to reboot as the Xorg process had taken around 70% of my

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On 26/12/23 10:05, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I don't know why Z was used instead of UTC or GMT. Probably to save space, and save some ink if a schedule was printed. ZULU time is military, primarily NATO. The world is divided up into alphabetic time zones using the NATO phonetic alphabet with a

Re: update-ca-certificates

On 14/12/23 08:54, Pocket wrote: I have just finished writing some scripts to generate certs for my email server and nginx server. The scripts allow me to become my own CA. You don't have to be your own CA. It's very easy to use letsencrypt to generate valid certificates for hosts

Re: Image handling in mutt

On 12/12/23 01:49, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: There's no concept of filetype in file systems used for the MVS side of z/OS systems. (These days there's also Unix/Linux environments & of course they do have more familiar file naming structures.) If you look at the NTFS file system - supported by

Re: Could not find interfaces configuration file /etc/network/interfaces in Debian Linux 11 (bullseye)

On 7/12/23 23:52, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Subject: Could not find interfaces configuration file /etc/network/interfaces in Debian Linux 11 (bullseye) You should confirm that the device is actually using that file. There are at least three different network configuration

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 4/12/23 10:26, Max Nikulin wrote: On 03/12/2023 13:33, jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/12/23 13:59, Phil Wyett wrote: What type of content is generally being viewed/used in firefox? A lot of video and otherwise news and search and GPT4

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 6/12/23 01:09, Max Nikulin wrote: I believed that CUPS stack is based on PDF while earlier PostScript was used. I recently wrote a  user space CUPS driver for a thermal printer. At the point I get to process the print data it has already been rasterised into a bitmap. My impression is

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 5/12/23 04:52, Darac Marjal wrote: Most people know what timezone they're currently in, but the more likely know what their nearest city is. Cities rarely change, but timezones do. Take the example of Triana in Paul Eggert's original email. The city never moved, but the timezone it was

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 4/12/23 10:49, Max Nikulin wrote: On 04/12/2023 09:39, jeremy ardley wrote: I think I've found a potential culprit using about:processes https://openai.com 110% CPU I would try it in chromium. Some sites relies on optimizations implemented in its JavaScript engine. My observation

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 4/12/23 10:26, Max Nikulin wrote: > I am curious if this creature may provide a summary on user-space OOM > killers. I have never tried them, but I expect that they may be more > intelligent than the kernel-space one. I have seen mentions of the > following ones: earlyoom, nohang, oomd.

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 4/12/23 08:51, jeremy ardley wrote: |ntpq -p timedatectl status chronyc sources or if you are hardcore sudo tcpdump -i any port 123 | Sorry, something screwed up the list One or more of: ntpq -p timedatectl status chronyc sources or if you are hardcore sudo tcpdump -i any port

Re: ntpsec as server questions

On 4/12/23 08:42, gene heskett wrote: At the other end of the local wires and switches tree on my other machines, what is the list of debian.pool.ntp.org replaced with? To find out what ntp server(s) a system is using as compared to what may be in config files or set by dhcp client, try

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 4/12/23 06:08, Michael Kjörling wrote: The reason for the system slowing down seems to me to likely be that once the system comes under memory pressure (quite possibly due to an increase in anonymous pages), it must evict something, and only non-anonymous (that is, backed) pages can be

Re: DHCP Problem, but where

On 4/12/23 05:18, Geert Stappers wrote: That triggered me to ask "Has the DHCP server been restarted?" The default behaviour of most dhcp clients when they can't connect to a dhcp server is to maintain the settings from any previous lease. A second default behaviour is for clients to not

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 3/12/23 15:37, Phil Wyett wrote: Not to regurgitating info here, I will add a link below that will instruct how to adjust or disable oom-killer in a sensible manner if you wish to experiment (your choice and being cautious :-)) if it is in fact the oom-killer algorithm that is the main

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 3/12/23 14:46, Phil Wyett wrote: The first thing I would do before any other is to enable swap and see what benefits that brings. I have no production laptop or desktop (laptop with 32G being daily driver with NVME (root) and an SSD (home) drive inside) that does not have swap. I have 8G

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

On 3/12/23 13:59, Phil Wyett wrote: Your system RAM total is? 32G You have swap and it is enabled? No Swap. I prefer not on SSD What Desktop Environment (DE) are you using - GNOME, KDE etc.? Mate with multiple panels. How many apps would you normally be running on the system at

Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

I noticed my Firefox -esr browser becoming progressively more sluggish. Then suddenly I was back to the system login screen This is not the first time this has happened although previously when it started getting sluggish I killed all Firefox related process System logs show the start of the

Re: Firefox 115.5.0esr(64-bit) can't show mp4

On 2/12/23 06:10, Van Snyder wrote: When I try to view a mp4 video in Firefox 115.5.0esr(64-bit) on Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster), it puts up a sad-face window saying "No video with supported format and MIME type found." It doesn't offer to download the file, or play it with an external

Re: dedicated IP

On 28/11/23 17:19, Joe wrote: A third use, now becoming more important, is that some services such as banks will not accept connections from ISPs other than the one you normally use, or won't accept connections from some particular institutions. One use I make of the VPN is to give my

Re: dedicated IP

On 28/11/23 05:59, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I would like some advice.  I have been offered a dedicated IP through NORD.  Is it worth it or is it not needed?  Pros and cons would be very helpful.  Thank you. Moe For a home user the best use-case is to install a VPN - such as openvpn - and

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution error when I try to ping Debian 12 / DomU running on top of the Devuan 5 host os / Dom0

On 20/11/23 05:54, Mario Marietto wrote: root@bookworm:~# ifup enX0 root@bookworm:~# ip a 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo   valid_lft

Re: IMAP vs POP was Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

On 19/11/23 08:04, jeremy ardley wrote: On 19/11/23 01:59, Alex wrote: IMAP clients will therefore keep messages on the IMAP server and not delete them unless you specifically tell them to, for example via right-click -> delete. A client can also alter messages retained on a ser

Re: IMAP vs POP was Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

On 19/11/23 01:59, Alex wrote: IMAP clients will therefore keep messages on the IMAP server and not delete them unless you specifically tell them to, for example via right-click -> delete. A client can also alter messages retained on a server or event insert new messages. This is

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

On 16/11/23 15:40, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 09:04 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: My current favourites are RK3588 based CPU SBC devices which have an exceptionally fast set of CPUs, high speed networking, and options for Debian or Ubuntu or OpenWRT or Armbian. Are these the usual SBC

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

On 16/11/23 10:15, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:04:55 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: My current favourites are RK3588 based CPU SBC devices which have an exceptionally fast set of CPUs, high speed networking, and options for Debian or Ubuntu or OpenWRT or Armbian. They can

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

On 14/11/23 08:42, Dan Ritter wrote: I bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-HUNSN-Barebone-Storage/dp/B0B53MKZBX/ (4 x 2.5Gb NICs, N5105 CPU) -- I paid about $250 including 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD. Works very nicely. For about $70 less you can get them with 2x

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

On 14/11/23 06:57, Charles Curley wrote: My FIT-PCs that provide network services are getting old, and i386 Linux is slowly fading away. So I would like to replace them with a router/gateway computer. It should run Debian. It should either have two gigabit (or better) Ethernet interfaces or

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

On 14/11/23 02:30, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 13/11/2023 14:50, Anssi Saari wrote: The Wanderer writes: And those are getting rare, I can't find a nice MUA for Android with proper threading. If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is the primary reason

Re: Hardware Misses on MacBook Air M1 2020

On 10/11/23 04:44, Kent West wrote: I have an M1-chip 2020 MacBook Air on which I have dual-booted with Debian 12 initially, then "upgraded" to sid (in hopes of getting better hardware support). Out of curiosity, does Debian 12 support the M1 NPU (Neural Processing Unit) ?

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

On 9/11/23 02:02, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Double check - sometimes one socket may be intended primarily for "other" M2 devices. There shouldn't be any particular difference between the two - one is obviously easier to reach than the other. Occasionally, having two may mean that they run

Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images

On 6/11/23 15:22, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: For future readers of the list: I had to search for the meaning of an NPU and found this reference helpful - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ai-101-gpu-vs-tpu-vs-npu/ - no further opinions as to the company behind it. NPU - Neural Processing Unit -

Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images

On 6/11/23 06:26, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I think you've hit the curse of almost all ARM single board computers. Almost all are small production runs / out of East Asia somewhere as "prototypes"** with a board support package (BSP) that's probably just the manufacturer's kernel, u-boot and

Re: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)?

On 4/11/23 03:37, Schwibinger Michael wrote: I found: dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.bin conv=noerror oflag=direct It does not work. What do I do wrong? the conv and oflag parameters will be causing the problem. If you want to simply copy a disk image dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.bin bs=1M

Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images

On 4/11/23 00:22, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: The best answer is if the board has been supported for a while by Armbian then that is probably a better choice than a less well supported/documented manufacturer specific build of Debian. Oh, I should clarify.  By "official Debian binaries and

Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images

On 2/11/23 08:01, y...@vienna.at wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 18:17:24 -0400  Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: I have a Radxa Rock Pi 4B (an arm64 single-board computer) with a (removable) eMMC module.  I'd like to install Debian stable on it, and would strongly prefer to use official Debian binaries

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

On 26/10/23 07:24, David Wright wrote: Or if you already have a domain, you can use a subdomain. eg. I have rail.eu.org, and at home it is depot.rail.eu.org I'm not sure how that would work when my home network is on a different continent from my domain's hosting. This is no problem asides

Re: pam auth with ssh public key

On 4/10/23 11:12, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Perhaps set AuthenticationMethods to publickey,keyboard-interactive in sshd_config? Do read the full description of that parameter in the manpage for other things that might interest you. I finally managed to get my desired public key and google

pam auth with ssh public key

I have set up a server with sshd allowing public key access. I also set up google authenticator in pam by putting this line at the head of /etc/pam.d/sshd auth required pam_google_authenticator.so If I connect to the server without a public key I get the authenticator prompt and then

Re: Is there a debian tool for this goal?

On 24/9/23 06:46, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, Any tool in Debian, or another Linux application that will take audio and translate that audio  into English? Have a friend who wishes to translate Armenian news broadcasts into English, apparently not finding translations on the sites

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

On 5/9/23 12:23, Maureen L Thomas wrote:   I have tried every witch way to install it but am at a complete loss. Assuming you downloaded a deb file, the usual mechansim is sudo dpkg - i .deb sudo apt --fix-broken install

Re: Components of the computer

On 5/9/23 04:05, David Christensen wrote: I recommend looking for a new, recently manufactured, aftermarket battery that is the recommended replacement for your specific laptop. In my experience, just about any aftermarket laptop battery you buy off ebay or Amazon will have significantly

Re: I uninstalled OpenMediaVault (because totally overkill for me) and replaced it with borgbackup and rsync

On 1/9/23 12:44, Jason wrote: Or how does your backup look like? I had a QNAP NAS but it became so incredibly slow I replaced it with Debian using Samba and SSH. The backups are managed by the clients, but periodically I save part of the NAS to Amazon S3. I also have a remote

Re: door bell like sound effect

On 28/8/23 15:29, gene heskett wrote: what extension might that file be carrying to indicate its a .snd fle Try .wav .mp3 .aac .oga  .m4a  .ogg .m4b  .opus  .ra  .rm .mid  .midi  .ac3  .dts

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

On 6/8/23 09:28, Jon Smart wrote: Hello I have removed the default systemd-resolved local dns service following the link below, https://askubuntu.com/questions/907246/how-to-disable-systemd-resolved-in-ubuntu And I have unbound installed and enabled as local DNS server. But every time I

Re: 127.0.1.1 line, was Re: chrome web browser worthless

On 3/8/23 07:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed 02 Aug 2023 at 16:00:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 8/2/23 15:15, Brian wrote: Where is the line with 127.0.1.1? Debian always provides that. True, but I've never seen a description of what that does or what its for.

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

On 16/7/23 15:39, Roger Price wrote: So it's something else?  Roger Have you checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the target to see if it is actually listening on port 22? You can also use netstat to see listening ports and processes Second is to check the /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

On 15/7/23 17:01, Keith Bainbridge wrote: I was interested because my connection has timed out a couple of times and the only solution I found was rebooting. Hasn't dis-connected for a few days, so maybe this issue is resolved. I have nothing concrete to add but I see the connections are

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

On 15/7/23 16:23, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Is this done via gnome-settings? Or is there now a better option. An URL would be good I set it up on my Debian 12 system first by using gnome desktop. My mate desktop then inherited the map I later found that you can run the cloud mapping

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

On 15/7/23 09:05, zithro wrote: Generally, you put your OS and programs on an SSD, so your experience is snappy: they are fast and have a low latency. Then you put your data on HDDs (rotating rust), because you don't need speed but gigas/teras. As you seem to want to buy a new computer

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

On 14/7/23 15:27, Bruno Kleinert wrote: Do you have any hardware recommendations and can you share experience? The big problem is power at the collection point. Some people use a solar panel and batteries but other options are available Once you know your power budget you can use a

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 14/7/23 06:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: It's not obvious how to translate that to "30%". Jeremy? Do you remember what data made it possible to get this 30% estimate? Further to my previous reply, I ran this on my SBC lan server. I'm certain the power on hours is wrong as it's been 100%

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 14/7/23 06:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: It's not obvious how to translate that to "30%". Jeremy? Do you remember what data made it possible to get this 30% estimate? sudo apt-get install nvme-cli sudo nvme list Node  Generic   SN Model  

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 14/7/23 04:39, jeremy ardley wrote: On the topic of a swap partition, that is usually absent, as is the partitioning of the drive into various parts for O/S, user data etc. That's a 50 year old relic for use cases where you are running a timesharing server for multiple users

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 13/7/23 21:20, Stefan Monnier wrote: Images for SBCs are fairly different from typical desktop/laptop circumstances: there is no real "SSD" in most SBCs. Instead they typically have a small eMMC (if it all) that might hold the OS but not much more and then the image itself is often

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 13/7/23 19:00, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: jeremy ardley wrote: In the same vein, it's really a bad idea to run video surveillance on a SSD as overwriting the complete SSD every couple of weeks will trash it in no time. There are probably SSDs that boast to do

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 13/7/23 11:15, Charles Curley wrote: I'm not sure that this is correct. I have several SSDs around here, all several years old, all with swap partitions and all in daily use. None has failed me yet. Most modern SBC images for Debian and Armbian don't have a swap partition. It's not

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 13/7/23 10:15, Dan Ritter wrote: M.2 is an interface format, a micro card edge. M.2 has a set of key cutouts that specify what exact interfaces are allowed to connect. It can be used to connect PCIe, SATA, or USB devices. There are enough possibilities that it's best to reference the

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 13/7/23 10:49, Carl Fink wrote: Really? I have never owned a computer where I couldn't replace the SSD. Low end laptops and notebooks come with the SSD soldered to the board, usually eMMC

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

On 13/7/23 08:31, mick.crane wrote: I was wondering what these Nvme M2 things are and if can plug into motherboard or need an adaptor, are they like a RAM disk or something. mick Depending on your motherboard you can plug them in directly. With an older motherboard you need a PCiE adaptor

Re: file server

On 12/7/23 17:44, lina wrote: My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. On this scale it's almost certainly easier and cheaper to use a cloud provider who can provide a good CPU and a large attached storage. I use AWS as a

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

On 7/7/23 21:05, jeremy ardley wrote: On 7/7/23 20:47, Nate Bargmann wrote: What MS has done has never been relevant to the creation of GNU, X, or the Linux kernel. Agreed, those technologies were mostly independent of anything Microsoft has done. GNU is a clone of Unix so a derivative

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

On 7/7/23 20:47, Nate Bargmann wrote: What MS has done has never been relevant to the creation of GNU, X, or the Linux kernel. Agreed, those technologies were mostly independent of anything Microsoft has done. GNU is a clone of Unix so a derivative. MS is also a derivative but not much

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

On 7/7/23 19:28, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: That may be or not, but is irrelevant. Accurate attribution of quotes is important, IMHO, and not difficult to do. So doubling down on your mistake instead of a simple mea culpa means you move further down in my hierarchy of respect. :( I

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

On 7/7/23 16:59, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/7/23 16:30, Bret Busby wrote: Microsoft didn't invent anything. I did not post that statement as the original poster of that statement. Your comment about  BSOD strongly suggests you agree with the sentiment. I reiterate. Microsoft for good or

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

On 7/7/23 16:30, Bret Busby wrote: Microsoft didn't invent anything. This is highly off topic, but Microsoft 'invented' a lot of stuff much in the say way that many GNU developers 'invented' stuff. This is a process of continual adaptation of existing software and methodology. In the

Re: For syslog : apt-get install rsyslog

On 7/7/23 07:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: As with many of the unpopular changes that Debian embraces, this is a decision they made, and no matter how utterly daft and ridiculous it is, no amount of griping by users will change their minds about it. As I have taken the first step of changing one

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

On 4/7/23 19:22, Emanuel Berg wrote: mick.crane wrote: Or is "metric" one of these things spared by the Brexit Bonfire? It depends which gear your camp is since the metric system is partly implemented and partly co-exists British Standard Pipe still in use for plumbing and 1/4", 3/8" of

Re: Very small fonts on 4K monitor [solved]

On 1/7/23 10:27, Stefan Monnier wrote: I think you'll want to read things like https://wiki.debian.org/MonitorDPI That's a rather old reference and not particularly relevant to Debian 12 / Bookworm, and certainly not relevant to Mate desktop. It also doesn't fix the problem with

Very small fonts on 4K monitor [solved]

I recently upgraded my display to a 4K monitor. I am running it with a new instance of Debian 12 under the Mate desktop, though I think the problem happens with other desktops. I had the immediate problem that most text was almost too small to view. This occurred in many different

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