Even shorter:
apt autopurge
Apropos to my recent message regarding system configuration, I keep a
personal metapackage around that lists the packages I really want.
About once a quarter I do the following (as root):
# apt-mark showmanual | grep -v mrc-mars | xargs apt-mark auto
# apt autopurge
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:40 PM Mike Castle wrote:
> Thanks for all of the commentary so far.
>
> Once I get something working, I will *try* to remember to follow up
> here with what I've managed to cobble together.
I have done quite a bit of research and experimentation and fin
Hah!
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00042.html
Thanks for all the suggestions so far.
Like Alex, one of my physical machines is a laptop that is not always
on the home network. Though I'm usually connected to *something*.
I'm still debating whether to bother with a VPN or trying something
like a tailnet.
Heck, before I adopted Debian and
For a while now, I've been using `equivs-build` for maintaining a
hierarchy of metapackages to control what is installed on my various
machines. Generally, I can do `apt install mrc-$(hostname -s)` and
I'm golden.
Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up various config
files that I
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 1:49 AM Alain D D Williams wrote:
> We seem to be told that this must be done by those who will not be doing the
> work.
Was that explicitly stated anywhere? Or is the lack of any type of
explicit "I'm willing to help drive this" statements leading to that
conclusion?
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:07 AM Alain D D Williams wrote:
> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. Should we scour our
> systems looking for similar issues in other languages ? Then in, say, 20 years
> time when different words will then be considered offensive, by some, do this
>
an a larger number of small
RPCs). The sync option defeats all of those mechanisms.
mike
Os at the system call level.
You could try removing the "sync" option, just as an experiment, to see
how much it is contributing to the slowdown.
mike
nd
> "pi5 : Mar 4 15:40:14 : root : unable to resolve host pi5: Name or service
> not known"
> I have no idea why it's complaining or what's bent.
mike@DevuanPI4b:~> cat /etc/hostname
MikesDevuanPI
mike@DevuanPI4b:~> cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 MikesDevuanPI
> 2)
o Linux man pages too.
In spite of the outcome I appreciate your willingness to try to help
and wish you good fortune this year.
Be well,
Mike
--
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
then the button with the Xed
out circle. Much to my chagrin my computer shutdown while I had files
open for editing. OOPs.
I think I now know what those buttons do but am wondering if there
is a way to disable them short of dismantling the keyboard.
mike@DevuanPI4b:~> uname -a
Linux MikesDevua
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 9:12 AM Jeremy Nicoll
wrote:
> And, of course, write notes to yourself for EVERY change like this, so
> you can remember how you did it.
I actually have a quarterly reminder for myself to review my various
systems and take notes on changes. Installed packages, make sure
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:57 AM wrote:
> Yes, the main reason for the separation of /usr has more or less
> disappeared with the arrival of initramfs, but still... why.
To some extent, it will make it easier for packaging.
Look at any package built using autoconf, for instance, you run:
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM Andy Smith wrote:
> น There was another use-case which is "sharing a read-only /usr
> between systems by NFS, etc." but at the time this was widely
> regarded a lost cause as so many other things violated the
> premise.
I did that for years.
Then again,
mike@RPI4b3:~> uname -a
Linux MikesPI 6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.63-1+rpt1
(2023-11-24) aarch64 GNU/Linux
Yes I'm on Raspberry Debian now but my Devuan system still isn't
working well enough to post here and I ran into this first on my
daedalus system.
visud0 complains that
ktop (radeon 3000 video), Acer 23"
monitor.
regards,
mike
gt; Oh, it's the same *name*. Huh. So, Mike, whatever you figured out in
> 2020, you entirely forgot, and now you're starting over in a new forum?
Yes, Greg, my name is still Mike. Have you always been Greg?
If you think I figured it out in 2020 you clearly didn't read that
post. I suggest you g
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> What's not really stated anywhere is *why* these library functions
> exist. I don't see many practical application for a library function
> that reads a text file full of MAC addresses and hostnames, looks up
> one of them, and spits out the
Has anyone knowledge of how to do this under systemd?
Thanks,
Mike
--
... what I was born does not matter,
only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.
Mr. Wooledge,
Long before I realized I could put /home/mike on a separate
partition I started putting my stuff on a separate partition and just
called it /mc. A couple of tomes I had different OS versions on the
same hard drive so it made sense to keep the portions of my stuff that
weren't OS
is case demonstrates.
I do appreciate your input, bothe here and on the bash list.
Thanks for the help and I wish you a happy new year.
Mike
--
Happiness is not so much in having but in sharing.
to be a false alarm for
regular Debian users.
Happy Holidays,
Mike
--
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
- Muriel Rukeyser
e also made LibreOffice, Draw, Calc and
Writer unusable. I hope you don't have this problem but at least if
you do get stung you may remember the fix.
Happy Holidays,
Mike
--
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
hanks for your help fellows and Happy Holidays,
May the new year be good for you,
Mike
--
Never ascribe to stupidity what can be explained as ignorance.
root@RPI4b3:~> tty; echo $SHELL; echo "' " | hd
/dev/tty1
/bin/bash
27 20 0a |' .|
0003
mike@RPI4b3:~> tty; echo $SHELL; echo "' " | hd
/dev/tty6
/bin/bash
27 20 0a
editing functions and don't change how a single quote is handled.
They have been around so long they probably predate my awareness of inputrc.
98% of what is /mc/bin I wrote plus a few things I ran across and kept for
the ideas/lessons they taught.
mike@RPI4b3:~> cat /etc/default/keyboard
# K
ngle quote but back on the CL again no "'".
Suggestions on where to look for a solution?
Thanks and Merry Christmas,
Mike
--
Silence & smile are two powerful tools.
Smile is the way to solve many problems
& Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
in the system Firefox update could have
changed to affect other programs I'd appreciate the help.
Frankly I'm aghast at the arrogance of the FF group to force an update
on their users and quite peeved that they would do so and screw up my
system as well.
Merry Christmas everyone,
Mike
--
Silence & s
I use Evince probably once a week or so from the command line. I do
not see that error, though I think I have in the past. I suspect that
if you are seeing those issues with the current bookworm release, it
is likely a problem local to you.
You could be missing a package that evince expects to
.
There are 259 packages whose name starts with 'python', admittedly I
could purge one a week and see if anything breaks, that would only take
5 years but I'm not quite that patient.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike McClain
--
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
- Richard Bach
into gmail but get all messages sent to my gmail
accounts by others.
A second item that's slightly off topic, I've had no luck setting
up claws-mail to send out through frontier.net and if anyone knows how
to do that I'd appreciate the claws-mail setup for it.
Thanks,
Mike
--
Telling pious
If anyone on the list is using masqmail I'd be interested in hearing
how well it works and how easy it is to set up for a single user
system that's not online 24/7.
Thank,
Mike
--
Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.
- Maya Angelou
I'm running bookworm on a Raspberry Pi 4b.
mike@rpi4b3:~> uname -a
Linux MikesPI 6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.54-1+rpt2
(2023-10-05) aarch64 GNU/Linux
This install didn't include exim4, postfix or anything supplying sendmail
and fetchmail won't work without an MTA.
I
I'm running bookworm on a RaspberryPi 4b.
mike@rpi4b3:~> uname -a
Linux MikesPI 6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.54-1+rpt2
(2023-10-05) aarch64 GNU/Linux
There are a couple of things I don't understand and am hoping one of you
out there can clue me in or at least sugg
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM Van Snyder wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote:
> On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote:
> Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory
>
> leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with
>
> "kill
rsync supports hardlinks.
--hard-links, -H preserve hard links
Though, in general, the purpose of something like darcs is to
*provide* the syncing.
mrc
On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 6:11 AM wrote:
> Gah, no. As a user I hate those with all my guts. Page "state" is
> distributed in some intransparent way across client and server and
> there is no way to refer to "something" via an URL.
Many modern SPAs track state via URL, so they can be referenced.
Something I played with recently was
https://packages.debian.org/stable/vcs/git-filter-repo
But you definitely want to run tests on real data before you decide
that deleting old data saves your anything, particularly with respect
to time.
If git is so efficient at storing this kind of data, then
Oops. The 'grep -v -F' should be 'grep -v -f'. Well, 'grep -v -F -f'
would probably be appropriate as well.
mrc
On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 7:58 PM Mike Castle wrote:
>
> Some tools I've been using lately are apt-mark and "dpkg-query --show".
>
> The following UNTESTED com
Some tools I've been using lately are apt-mark and "dpkg-query --show".
The following UNTESTED commands (ran as a normal user):
(apt-mark showauto ; apt-mark showmanual) > apt-thinks-you-installed.txt
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep -v -F
apt-thinks-you-installed.txt >
I just tried this in a VM and it seemed to work.
>From a command line:
xfce4-panel -q
find ~/.config | grep panel
Remove the xfce4-panel.xml (I also removed the empty directory just
named panel.)
The lack of panels seems to have survived a reboot.
I don't know if it is sufficient for every
I think it is kind of like buying a new ANYTHING.
Some folks will buy a new model as soon as it comes out.
Some will wait a few months to see if anyone else is having problems with it.
Whether it is a vehicle, electronic device, refrigerator, MS-Windows,
new online service, etc.
As more folks
7: 2013-05-04 https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504
7.1: 2013-06-15 https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130615
42 days
8: 2015-04-25 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426
8.1: 2015-06-06 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150606
42 days
9: 2017-06-17
) the inability to move the displays to the correction position via
System/Preferences/Hardware/Displays
--
══
Ellis Michael "Mike" Lieberman
Purok 13, Morales Subd.
Brgy Mabuhay, General Santos City, 9500 Philippines
I was just researching this myself a couple of days ago, and spent
several hours going down a rabbit hole.
It seems that many folks are going the way of using an open source
solution, Home Assistant (aka, HA), (https://www.home-assistant.io/).
Even to the point where I found that folks that used
Nvm, confused 2G with 4G.
Sorry for the noise.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Mike Castle wrote:
>
> It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet:
>
> $ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE
> UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.
> USE_
It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet:
$ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE
UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.
USE_DEFLATE64 (PKZIP 4.x Deflate64(tm) supported)
LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT (large files over 2 GiB supported)
ZIP64_SUPPORT
On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 10:50 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Merged-usr is officially mandated for bookworm, and upgrades to bookworm
> will do the merge, if it hasn't already happened.
End of an era. My first Linux system (predating the existence of
Debian), mounted /usr over NFS over PLIP.
I
Depends on your desktop/window manager, most likely.
For me, with XFCE, it is ctrl-alt- by default. And they appear
to be configurable in the Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard section.
mrc
Hi, I am new here. Can anybody help me with this; I have a 2021 Macbook
Pro 16" and am trying to install Debian via USB to USB C. The boot loader
is recognizing the keyboard and trackpad on the 2007 keyboard I want to use
but the OS will not recognize it once opened. I only have one USB - USB C
manage the
display, you could try disabling that.
mike
ME OR
UNITY", but maybe it applies to other DEs? It does seem odd that
cinnamon-screensaver would get started in Xfce. Maybe this is some
side-effect related to using systemd to start screensavers?
Anyway, if you don't have any other screensavers installed in your VM,
try enabling logging and see if it tells you anything interesting.
mike
hen my guess is wrong and the
problem is something else. If it is not, start xfwm4 by hand, and
everything should be good.
mike
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 09:33:42PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mike wrote:
> > I don't think that it's a bad grub binary, as I have reinstalled several
> > times, with the same result.
>
> But if it's indeed shim which is complaining then it complains abo
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 12:45:12PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mike wrote:
> > booting to the EFI Shell, I
> > can access the EFI parition, cd to EFI/debian and manaully call
> > shimx64.efi, giving the following output:
> >
> > Reloc 0 block
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 09:11:56AM -0500, songbird wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> >
>
> "near identical" is perhaps not identical enough. :(
>
> to be practical IMO the SSD works, go with that.
> the cost of time and effort to figure out the problem
> is
a near identitcal motherboard in another server, where I have
successfully used the SATA > CF trick, so I'm a bit perplexed as to what
may be going on here.
Please could anyone suggest any words of wisdom?
Thanks,
Mike.
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ake home. I didn't need something that big, but it was
cheap enough, and I liked not having to think much about how much
storage I had available. My current desktop has a 1TB drive and is
about half full, with most of the occupied storage consisting of
VirtualBox virtual disks and snapshots.
mike
least 1 GB. I
tried adjusting the sizes with the installer's partition manager, but I
got stuck. Unfortunately, I don't have adequate notes about how I got
stuck. I'm suspecting it had something to do with the fact that I had
asked for a LUKS-encrypted disk.
best wishes,
mike
pace in /boot for 3 images.
best wishes,
mike
think Sent = Envelope headers, admittedly not sure about that.
If there is anyone on the list who has exim4 talking to Frontier.com please
help.
Thanks,
Mike
ppy to see how I get along with ext4.
Thanks again to everyone who offered their input into this. It's been
very helpful for me.
Regards,
Mike.
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one asked about the file systems in use. Some are ext3 and some are
ext4.
TL;DR: When my server boots up and decdies to spent four hours fscking
the disks, I'd just like to see some indiction that it's still alive and
doing something :-)
Regards,
Mike.
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Internet search engine but while I've found many similar questions and
even sometimes the same one as I'm asking but so far an answer has
proved illusive.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a solution or indeed where one may
look for one?
Regards,
Mike.
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t a list of packages. I
usually redirect the list to a file, review and maybe edit it, and do
something like "apt install $(cat tmp/pkgs)".
I don't have the half that deletes unwanted packages, but that's not
functionality I feel a need for.
regards,
mike
com::587'
and /etc/email-addresses:
root: mikemcclain...@frontier.com
mike: mikemcclain...@frontier.com
If anyone has exim4 working with frontier.com or simply has suggestions related
to what I'm missing I'd love to hear it as I've been chasing this for a couple
of weeks now.
Thanks,
Mike
~deb11u1) do not match the installed libraries (version
2.36.0-3~deb11u1).
Is there a process for getting the dbgsym packages updated?
thanks,
mike
but find
nothing in the docs confirming this nor how to make it so.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
to the
debian-ukrainian mailing list.)
Greets,
Mike (aka sunweaver)
[1] https://freiesoftware.gmbh
--
Fre(i)e Software GmbH
Mike Gabriel
Phone: +49 4354 9965707
Fax: +49 4354 9965709
E-mail: mike.gabr...@freiesoftware.gmbh
Web: https://freiesoftware.gmbh
abling developer mode, so I thought I'd mention it.
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
mike
Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Why is it always a pain to mount my Android phone on my Laptop?
Do you have mtp-tools installed? I found that mounting my phone got a
lot more reliable after I installed that package.
best regards,
mike
The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2022-01-30 at 23:01, Mike Kupfer wrote:
>
> > FWIW, here are my notes from converting a couple small private scripts:
> >
> > * Note that 2to3 does not change the shebang line. And the actual
> > command in
Note that 2to3 does not change the shebang line. And the actual
command in Debian10 [and 11] is 2to3-2.7.
* Run pylint before running 2to3, and address non-cosmetic issues. Then
run pylint3 after the conversion.
mike
governor.
mike
bly explains what you're seeing.
regards,
mike
something I
haven't considered?
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Regards,
Mike.
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Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> how do I fix the problem?
>
> Settings Manager - Desktop - Wallpaper for my desktop appears to be
> completely grayed out and is unresponsive.
Is xfdesktop running? If not, start it. It sometimes goes AWOL for
reasons I've never tracked down.
regards,
mike
"Hi,
We need an advertising space with do-follow links on your blog
security-tracker.debian.org.
• We provide 500+ words
• no copy article
• the duration will be a minimum of 1 year
Can you please write to us if possible to place an article with a link
leading to betting related site and
see no need for is many.
What tools need I use to see what sites on the Inet are contacted?
Thanks,
Mike
--
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
laining that it doesn't work.
>
Be sure they have a replacement before returning it.
I sent back 2 of their flash drives, different model, that were
running too hot to touch. They replaced 1 then said no more available
and that was a couple of months ago.
Be well,
Mike
--
Your talent is God's gift to
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:48:12PM +0100, Kamil Jo?ca wrote:
> Mike McClain writes:
>
> [...]
> > Locale is another area where there is a lot of data that the
> > average user, I suspect, has no use for and localepurge in Debian, at
> > least, is hamstrun
d
disableing it for any other use. Running localepurge on the CL is a
noop but doesn't tell you so, look at the code.
Sorry I didn't mean to rant.
Thanks again for the input.
Be well,
Mike
--
"At birth, men are by nature of good heart."
- _Young_Fu_Elizabeth F. Lewis
after one's own
time zone is set.
Thanks,
Mike
I would not be surprised if the version number indicated the module in not
Pure Perl, but rather includes some C source code. Which would then need
to be compiled specifically for the version of Perl installed.
mrc
same functionality under systemd.
If anyone else has managed to do this I'd sure appreciate a primer.
Actually if there is another way to achieve the same results I'll gladly put
kbrequest aside.
Thanks,
Mike
expected while an array will.
Please correct me if I'm mis-reading things.
Thanks,
Mike
--
"God answers prayer on His own way, not ours."
- Ghandi
There is an /mc/docs/, an /mc/bin/ and a couple of others, sometimes.
> mk_rsync_exclude.sh creates '.rsync_exclude' in the current working
> directory?
Yes.
> > echo /usr/bin/rsync $Params --exclude-from=/home/mike/.rsync_exclude .
> > $Flash/mike
> > /usr/bin/rsync $Params --
You could run into issues where the value of 'pwd' does not equal the value
of 'readlink -f .'.
For myself, I use autofs with autohome. It's been a while since I've
looked at the details, but I believe it simply does with bind mount
described elsewhere in this thread. My main machines happen to
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 10:30:04AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:09:42PM -0500, Mike McClain wrote:
> > I've been using rsync to backup to a flash drive but it's not
> > performing exactly as I expected.
>
> I think Will nailed it. Your problem is
I've been using rsync to backup to a flash drive but it's not
performing exactly as I expected.
The man page says:
--deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs
A section of the backup script is so:
Params=(-a --inplace --delete);
Flash=/sda/rpi4b
cd /home/mike
[ ! -d $Flash
known tweak, flag, or something for
> localepurge, perhaps your needs could become a reportbug wish list
> item sent to Developers.
>
Try this Cindy,
find / -iname '*zh*'
I get 136 hits after running localepurge and each points to a
directory with lots of other languages.
Be Well,
Mi
cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote:
> I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have
> some ideas.
So were there any errors or warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
I'd also check for error messages in $HOME/.xsession-errors.
regards,
mike
dea, a mix of upper and lower case,
numerals and punctuation selected from things no longer current can make
good passwords easy to remember.
GRC.com has a password checker
HTH,
Mike
--
It seems to me a little shallow that the Creator of the universes
would care whether He was called Yahweh, Al
others care to spy on us
but it's really uncomfortable to think my own computer is doing it.
This is worse than Big Brother.
Thanks,
Mike
--
Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
- Rose Kennedy
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 07:59:19PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote:
> does anyone know of a reliable site that can stress test my firewall
--
'Personal view' is a Buddhist term signifying an individual view based
on the erroneous idea that the ego, or personal self, is reality and
can
problem (MATE, marco, xterm). xterm comes up with
a title of "xterm", and I can set it to something else via an escape
sequence.
I assume you're using the system xterm, not something in /usr/local or
$HOME.
Could the problem be locale-related? I have
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8
regards,
mike
help
>
> --
> /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/
> // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450
Way to go, Mr. Likonen.
Thumbs up.
Mike
--
Always remember:
It is a mathematical certainty that half the people
in this country are below average in intelligence!
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