Re: shell script: test for graphical session

2019-10-29 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-10-29 22:38, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2019-10-29 14:32:39 +0900, John Crawley wrote: A (bash) script wants to put up a GUI (yad) if it can, or otherwise try to interact with the user on the terminal. >> --- loginctl show-session -p Type $XDG_SESSION_ID and looking for 'Type=x11' or

Alerta de Seguridad

2019-10-29 Thread Ing . Miguel B .
Buen día, soy el Ing. Miguel Basto, me pasaron este email porque podría interesarle participar en un evento internacional para aprender a ser un HACKER EXPERTO en seguridad Informática, guiado por el CIO de la empresa encargada de la seguridad de empresas como eBay, Amazon y Coca Cola. Le pido

Installing Debian 10 Buster With Custom LUKS Options

2019-10-29 Thread encrypt10n
Dear Debian Family, Hope you are good. I have a LUKS project on Debian but i don't know exactly how can i do this. Let me explain the details. I watched a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cchdw75WKXQ) and he was explaining how to install Kubuntu with custom LUKS options with detached

Conexión WiFi Debian 10 i386

2019-10-29 Thread Club Animal
Hola! Aabo de instalar exitosamente Debian 10 en un portatil bastante antiguo, un Lanix (Intel Celeron). Durante la instalación me ha dado el mensaje de que faltaba el firmware rt73.bin de modo que he instalado el paquete de firmware non-free al terminar la instalación, con lo que me detecta

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-10-29 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:04:17 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > I don't get it - IIUC, this sort of thing will work if a given system > > is always available via a remote connection. In such a case, we can set > > up the routes so that clients on the local network know to route > >

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/10/2019 à 20:37, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : the file system you use matters, some file systems only use uefi and will give you no legacy support. Utter nonsense.

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > That's OK, so will I when an OS version of Access exists. I'm not > holding my breath. The business enforces is, we can not do anything against. I don't mind using the crap if they pay the license and they pay me for using it. I used to have one linux pc before, but now I have to

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:10:04 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/29/19 12:07 PM, Joe wrote: > > > No, it doesn't do legacy. There is no 'legacy' on any BIOS screen. > > It's an Aspire ES1-132. But Stretch installed in EFI easily and > > even gave me a dual-boot with Win10, which didn't interest

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 12:07 PM, Joe wrote: No, it doesn't do legacy. There is no 'legacy' on any BIOS screen. It's an Aspire ES1-132. But Stretch installed in EFI easily and even gave me a dual-boot with Win10, which didn't interest me at the time, but does now. I'm doing a bit of Access work for the

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 12:22 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: HP UEFI firmwares were among the most broken ones, ignoring EFI boot entries created for GRUB. I swear those new hp's are broken by design just like our main stream(cough) linux. But if you find the right system, using the right kernel you can

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 9:23 AM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to go to bios at

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/10/2019 à 17:23, deloptes a écrit : Jimmy Johnson wrote: I personally do not see a reason why I should mess up with the bios to switch back and fort to legacy and not legacy Because some (many ?) UEFI firmwares are defective and having them boot a GNU/Linux system in EFI mode can be a

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:45:56 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/29/19 1:56 AM, Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700 > > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: > >>> > >>> On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: > Peter Ehlert wrote: >

Re: Help debug : DNS failed when recover from suspend

2019-10-29 Thread Prunk Dump
Le lun. 28 oct. 2019 à 16:49, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Mi, 18 sep 19, 14:40:29, Prunk Dump wrote: > > > > -> Maybe a bug in the systemd configuration files that awake service > > in wrong order ? ( I will do soon a not related bug report to Debian, > > puppet.service does not contain any

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch > screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model > right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to > go to bios at boot, to boot device where I find

Re: Buscador de paquetes: estén fuera de la distribución y o el upstream este muerto

2019-10-29 Thread Miguel de Dios Matias
El mar., 29 oct. 2019 a las 15:41, Paynalton () escribió: > > > Si un ave no rompe su huevo morirá antes de nacer. > Nosotros somos el ave y el mundo es nuestro huevo. > POR LA REVOLUCIÓN DEL MUNDO > > Ciudad de México > > > El mar., 29 oct. 2019 a las 5:18, Debian () > escribió: >> >> El

Re: can not update/upgrade Debian 10 when using apt-cacher-ng

2019-10-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 03:58:04PM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 10/29/2019 2:01 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:36:35PM +0100, john doe wrote: > >> On 10/29/2019 12:50 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > >>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:45:02 +0100 > >>> john doe wrote: > >>> >

Re: Upgrade Adventure Stretch-to-Buster

2019-10-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 sep 19, 22:28:59, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > In the end I think my problems were caused by previously having the > deb-multimedia repositories in use and trying to move away from them > at the same time as upgrading. Most likely, which is why the Release Notes specifically advise to

Re: can not update/upgrade Debian 10 when using apt-cacher-ng

2019-10-29 Thread john doe
On 10/29/2019 2:01 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:36:35PM +0100, john doe wrote: >> On 10/29/2019 12:50 PM, Charles Curley wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:45:02 +0100 >>> john doe wrote: >>> /etc/apt/sources.list:

Re: Stretch Backports Kernel

2019-10-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 sep 19, 07:23:05, Karolis Pabijanskas wrote: > Hey Everyone! > > `stretch-backports` kernel seems to have broken dependencies since a > few days ago. In particular this package: > https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/linux-image-amd64 seems > to have a broken dependency for

Re: Buscador de paquetes: estén fuera de la distribución y o el upstream este muerto

2019-10-29 Thread Paynalton
Si un ave no rompe su huevo morirá antes de nacer. Nosotros somos el ave y el mundo es nuestro huevo. POR LA REVOLUCIÓN DEL MUNDO Ciudad de México El mar., 29 oct. 2019 a las 5:18, Debian () escribió: > El 28/10/19 a las 19:49, Miguel de Dios Matias escribió: > > Buenas. > > > > Es más por

Wheezy: problem: system tray disappeared from panel

2019-10-29 Thread rhkramer
My everyday driver is Wheezy. Something happened (maybe I fat fingered something, but I don't think so) and the system tray (if that is the correct name -- the thing that holds things like the klipper and volume control icon) disappeared from my panel. Any thoughts on an easy way to restore

Re: Some Bash Alias Statements Work, Others Don't.

2019-10-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Thanks for the note. Please see my comments interspaced below: On 10/29/2019 08:50 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2019-10-29 at 07:14, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit). (A bit more literally than might have been expected. I've trimmed the Subject

swap filled, but still much free memory - Slab issue

2019-10-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
My Debian 10 (buster) server swaps (it became indeed very slow) while there is still much free memory: joooj:~> free totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem: 489260 2162527704 24 265304 257188 Swap:360376

Re: shell script: test for graphical session

2019-10-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-10-29 14:32:39 +0900, John Crawley wrote: > A (bash) script wants to put up a GUI (yad) if it can, or otherwise try to > interact with the user on the terminal. > > Previously I was using loginctl: > loginctl show-session -p Type $XDG_SESSION_ID > and looking for 'Type=x11' or

Re: Some Bash Alias Statements Work, Others Don't.

2019-10-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 08:50:05AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Can you give some examples of aliases which work and which don't? By > which I mean, paste in the alias-definition line for each one. Even better, paste an actual terminal session showing your prompts, the commands you are typing,

Re: can not update/upgrade Debian 10 when using apt-cacher-ng

2019-10-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:36:35PM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 10/29/2019 12:50 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:45:02 +0100 > > john doe wrote: > > > >> /etc/apt/sources.list: > >> > >> http://HOSTNAME-APT-CACHER-NG>:3142/debian-security buster/updates > >

Re: Some Bash Alias Statements Work, Others Don't.

2019-10-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-10-29 at 07:14, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit). (A bit more literally than might have been expected. I've trimmed the Subject line back down, as it contained a verbatim copy of the entire message body except for the newlines being

Re: shell script: test for graphical session

2019-10-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 02:32:39PM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > I've replaced the test with > [[ -n $DISPLAY || -n $WAYLAND_DISPLAY ]] && > but environment variables are a bit fragile and I was wondering if there > might be a better way. Nope. This is it. If your user sets the DISPLAY variable

Re: can not update/upgrade Debian 10 when using apt-cacher-ng

2019-10-29 Thread john doe
On 10/29/2019 12:50 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:45:02 +0100 > john doe wrote: > >> /etc/apt/sources.list: >> >> http://HOSTNAME-APT-CACHER-NG>:3142/debian-security buster/updates >^ > > That greater than character looks problematic; is it

Re: Some Bash Alias Statements Work, Others Don't.The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit).,,Without warning, or any other indications, some of the alias statements in my user .bashrc ar

2019-10-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Thanks for the reply. There doesn't seem to be any such demarcation. On 10/29/2019 07:24 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit). Without warning, or any other indications, some of

Re: can not update/upgrade Debian 10 when using apt-cacher-ng

2019-10-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:45:02 +0100 john doe wrote: > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > http://HOSTNAME-APT-CACHER-NG>:3142/debian-security buster/updates ^ That greater than character looks problematic; is it correct? Also, I find that setup puts a file, apt.conf, in

Re: How to download email messages from Yahoo Groups in Debian?

2019-10-29 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Thank you Jeremy and Curt. It worked! Finding the T and Y cookies was indeed simpler than I feared. Gerardo Il giorno dom 27 ott 2019 alle ore 01:35 Gerardo Ballabio ha scritto: > > Thank you, but I need some more help. > > I've downloaded the script, but the README says that I need to

Re: Some Bash Alias Statements Work, Others Don't.The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit).,,Without warning, or any other indications, some of the alias statements in my user .bashrc

2019-10-29 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit). > > Without warning, or any other indications, some of the alias statements > in my user .bashrc are no longer working!. > > The strange thing is that some still are

Re: Buscador de paquetes: estén fuera de la distribución y o el upstream este muerto

2019-10-29 Thread Debian
El 28/10/19 a las 19:49, Miguel de Dios Matias escribió: Buenas. Es más por curiosidad y ver como se gestiona las situaciones. TL;DR, ¿Existe algún servicio web de Debian que busque paquetes eliminados de la última versión? ¿Existe alguna forma de ver que paquetes ya no tienen upstream? He

Some Bash Alias Statements Work, Others Don't.The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit).,,Without warning, or any other indications, some of the alias statements in my user .bashrc are no

2019-10-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
The subject line tells it all!? Debian Stretch (64bit). Without warning, or any other indications, some of the alias statements in my user .bashrc are no longer working!. The strange thing is that some still are working. Also, if I enter the complete path to an executable whose alias is NOT

can not update/upgrade Debian 10 when using apt-cacher-ng

2019-10-29 Thread john doe
Hi, I'm playing with apt-cacher-ng, it works fine when installing debian but I get the following errors when trying to 'apt-get update' (apt-cacher-ng's log): |dists/buster/updates/InRelease [HTTP error, code: 503] |debrep/dists/buster-updates/InRelease The below URL makes the above error:

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-29 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 10/29/19 12:59 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >>> >>> You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one >>> can install it from testing (it is not advisable

Cold backup option at boot

2019-10-29 Thread Marek Mosiewicz
Hello, Thread about installing Debian on USB stick brought me idea about backuping/cloning Debian PC. Backuping living system is difficult task as backup can be application dependant (e.g. sql database). In fact you need to know how each application operates on disk and be sure that you will not

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/19 1:56 AM, Joe wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I

Re: shell script: test for graphical session

2019-10-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 02:32:39PM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > A (bash) script wants to put up a GUI (yad) if it can, or otherwise > try to interact with the user on the terminal. > > Previously I was using loginctl: > loginctl show-session -p Type $XDG_SESSION_ID > and looking for 'Type=x11' or

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > > On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: > >> Peter Ehlert wrote: > >>> I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub > >>> properly installed... not able to boot. > >>> I

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I too would like such a tool    hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent

Creo que puede interesarte: Propuesta de Colaboración

2019-10-29 Thread Jaime Sánchez
Hola de nuevo, ¿cómo estás? Hace unos días os envié una propuesta de colaboración. No sé si le habéis podido echar un ojo todavía. Pero me gustaría que trabajásemos juntos y llegásemos a algún tipo de acuerdo. Os vuelvo a adjuntar el contenido del email anterior un poquito más abajo.

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > Background:  One of my "volunteer activities" is to "Rehabilitate" really > old Hardware, to keep it off our Landfills, and to have it available to > people with Extremely Low finances.  I was part of an organization in > Seattle, doing this, but I am not finding others,

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > Here I am.  And yes, I have run installs on USB Drives, on one system, and > then tried to boot it on another.  Things that go wrong include different > naming conventions for Ethernet, sound woes, and even (at least once) only > getting into Text Mode, due to wildly