Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

David Wright wrote: > might help determine why you installed iwatch. Oh, so I did? Well then, I'll just remove it! -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

David Wright wrote: > $ aptitude why iwatch i openssh-client Suggests monkeysphere i A monkeysphere Suggests monkeysphere-validation-agent i A msva-perl Provides monkeysphere-validation-agent i A msva-perl Recommends liblinux-in

Re: The strange case of sudo segfaulting on exit

Followup post: After further prodding and asking around, the answer turns out to be "for some strange reason, on some of my systems, sudo/su are mapping a bunch of additional libraries, including the application library you were originally playing with (libzfs), so the crashing on exit when you've

Re: The strange case of sudo segfaulting on exit

On Mi, 05 mai 21, 00:37:50, Rich wrote: > > $ sudo -i > # cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11 /tmp/ > # cp /tmp/libz.so.1.2.11 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11 > # exit > logout > Segmentation fault > $ Perhaps a naive question from my side, but why do you expect this to just work? > T

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

Kushal Kumaran wrote: > The manpage at > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html > shows log output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch > configuration and see what it is doing. Thanks, but I've never heard of iwatch, so I haven't mucked around with its config file. But

The strange case of sudo segfaulting on exit

Hi all, reportbug pointed me here because I wasn't sure where to file this bug. I'll start by summarizing the observed behavior, and then go into more detail below. If anyone can suggest further debugging steps to take (or where to direct a bug report), I'd be grateful. :) $ sudo -i # cp /lib/x86

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed 05 May 2021 at 04:39:21 (+0200), Emanuel Berg wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > might help determine why you installed iwatch. > > Oh, so I did? > > Well then, I'll just remove it! Myself, I find inotify-tools more useful: I use inotifywait in a loop, waiting for a browser to close file

Re: Ghost cronjob

On Tue 04 May 2021 at 22:20:14 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 mai 21, 19:50:27, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > David Wright writes: > > > On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote: > > >> > > >> Surely packaging a system timer file like that should not be done? It >

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

>> The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event. >> IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified >> file open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you >> have an "incron" job somewhere? > > I have cron do two very short scripts every @midnight, these > run fine indivi

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed 05 May 2021 at 03:11:53 (+0200), Emanuel Berg wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > The manpage at > > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html > > shows log output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch > > configuration and see what it is doing. > > Thanks, but I've

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:11:53AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > The manpage at > > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html > > shows log output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch > > configuration and see what it is doing. > > Thanks, but I've n

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Tue, May 04 2021 at 11:11:02 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: > >> The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event. >> IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified file >> open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you have >> an "incron" job somewhere? >

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

On Tue, 4 May 2021, deloptes wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: you can view it on youtube (if that's compliant with your principles) at this is exactly the problem - the original video is not there, but the one where someone comments on the video is the

Re: Piano live recording (was: Live recording)

On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 18:17, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've just bought a Behringer UMC404HD audio interface and want to record live > piano by placing two microphones one at the trebles and one at the bass. Is > it > better to use mono or omni directional microphones? In particular, which do >

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:14:45PM +0100, Joe wrote: > ...and buster. It's exim4.service as stated by: > systemctl --type=service | grep exim According to packages.debian.org[1] there is no such file in any package. Of course, that's not proof of the nonexistence of such a file, because it might

Re: how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

On 5/3/21 7:57 PM, Floris Renaud wrote: Christian Groessler schreef op 2021-05-03 19:19: Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using gdm3. regards, chr

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:27:57 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 2021 13:15:51 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:03:43AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > > That was the question, Greg: > > > > > > "Searching for exim in > > > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.targe

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 01:46:29PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Try: > > man update-rc.d > man 8 update-rc.d > Please stop top-posting, and please reply to the list. > Greg Wooledge writes: > > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 01:27:56PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > > As per the man page f

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 01:27:56PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > As per the man page for System V init, to disable launching of exim: > > update-rc.d -f exim remove What man page is this allegedly from, exactly?

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

For the archives, this issue was created by looking for penetration vulnerabilities during the boot of a Debian Buster machine using tcpdump(1) on a machine between Buster, and the it's Internet facing router. There was exim traffic when exim boots, but exim was SUPPOSED to be disabled during bo

Re: Ghost cronjob

On Ma, 04 mai 21, 19:50:27, Mart van de Wege wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote: > >> > >> Surely packaging a system timer file like that should not be done? It > >> should be at the discretion of the admin to create one if they wan

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On 5/4/2021 7:28 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 04/05/2021 à 19:26, Joe a écrit : On Tue, 4 May 2021 10:03:43 -0700 cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.targ

Re: Ghost cronjob

David Wright writes: > On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Sven Hartge writes: >> > Mart van de Wege wrote: >> > >> >> Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers >> >> running this job, apparently there's a zombie process somewhere? >> > >> >

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Thanks, Greg. "update-rc.d -f exim remove" is the command for > /etc/init.d. But its broken. You forgot to reply to the list. Nobody with any sense uses update-rc.d for system admin work. It's there for Debian packages to use, a

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

Le 04/05/2021 à 19:26, Joe a écrit : > On Tue, 4 May 2021 10:03:43 -0700 > cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > >> Greg Wooledge writes: >>> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and /l

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, 4 May 2021 13:15:51 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:03:43AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > That was the question, Greg: > > > > "Searching for exim in > > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and > > /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing." > >

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, 4 May 2021 10:03:43 -0700 cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > > Searching for exim in > > > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and > > > /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing. > >

Re: HTML syntax.

On Monday, May 03, 2021 11:44:41 AM pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Is there an editor which checks that HTML opening and closing tags are > paired and nested properly. An opening tag without matching close, a > closing tag without matching open and crossed tags should be flagged > by line number or co

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:03:43AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > That was the question, Greg: > > "Searching for exim in > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and > /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing." > > so, it wasn't there. Which service?, (or how to find out?) So... I

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

On Monday, May 03, 2021 10:03:39 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Monday, 3 May 2021 at 11:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Get a computer monitor instead. In ten years most (if not all) > > traditional TV stations will likely have switched to streaming via the > > internet anyway ;) > > When I went to o

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

Greg Wooledge writes: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* > > and /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing. > > > > How do I stop exim from launching across boots? > > Presumably there is a systemd ser

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* > and /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing. > > How do I stop exim from launching across boots? Presumably there is a systemd service, which is enabled. You will wa

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

On Tue, 4 May 2021, deloptes wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: you can view it on youtube (if that's compliant with your principles) at this is exactly the problem - the original video is not there, but the one where someone comments on the video is the

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

>>> Well, most likely because nobody found it useful enough >>> and also because it is go and js based which are not >>> really friendly for packaging with their tendency to >>> introduce the dependency hell. >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779893 > > Oh, OK, so it is Go. >

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

> I'm also interested to know how good a service you actually get within > buildings, where most of us are most of the time. I see that wireless > repeaters are recommended according to a home's floor area. Are they > repeating 30GHz round the house, or conventional 2/5GHz? If the > latter, there's

exim update not responding to update-rc.d

I use either exim or another MTA. When I want to use the other MTA, "update-rc.d -f exim remove" does not remove exim from "ps eax" after today's exim update. Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing. How do I stop exim from la

Re: Ghost cronjob

On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote: > Sven Hartge writes: > > Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > >> Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers > >> running this job, apparently there's a zombie process somewhere? > > > > PID 1 hints at a systemd.timer,

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

On Mon 03 May 2021 at 15:47:07 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It doesn't seem sensible to put a cell-connection into each TV > > when they're all immobile. OTOH cars and pets go places. > > > > And is 20GB of data per day a "reasonable usage" on a mobile data plan? > > Whereas 1TB per month on

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

Celejar wrote: >>> Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? >>> >>> Very interesting stuff! >>> >>> https://ipfs.io/ >>> >> >> Well, most likely because nobody found it useful enough and >> also because it is go and js based which are not really >> friendly for packaging with thei

Re: Multichannel audio playback

On Sat 01 May 2021 at 08:28:44 (+), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > In terms of this computer, all those input and output sockets are the > > equivalent of my little 3.5mm jacks (but with phantom power), and the gain > > knobs are alsamixer sliders. > > > > [...] > > > > An

Re: Ghost cronjob

Sven Hartge writes: > Mart van de Wege wrote: > >> Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers >> running this job, apparently there's a zombie process somewhere? > > PID 1 hints at a systemd.timer, even if you have dismissed this > previously. Also the start time of just a

Re: HTML syntax.

Weaver wrote: > Maybe they just moved it? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyumbvFdDNo > Cheers! No the original one was 1.5h - full documentary

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Felmon Davis wrote: > you can view it on youtube (if that's compliant with your principles) > at this is exactly the problem - the original video is not there, but the one where someone comments on the video is there

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

On Tue, 4 May 2021, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, deloptes wrote: I just tried to find a video on ARTE You believe french-german state TV ? I watched some time ago. Video was called "Umweltsünder E-Auto?" For the non-germans: = "Environmental Sinner E-Car ?". (It was a bit exaggerated as i

Re: Ghost cronjob

Mart van de Wege wrote: > Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers > running this job, apparently there's a zombie process somewhere? PID 1 hints at a systemd.timer, even if you have dismissed this previously. Also the start time of just after midnight hints at this. An

Evolution

Hi,New to Debian, have been using for 6 months and Evolution has now stopped connecting to network for email.On startup of Evolution I get a box telling me that evolution cannot connect to my email address. It asks me for my password for the my email account. I enter the password and it pause f

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

Darac Marjal wrote: > The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event. > IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified file > open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you have > an "incron" job somewhere? I have cron do two very short scripts every @midnight, these run

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

Darac Marjal wrote: >> I get system mail all the time - I've got 2757 at the >> moment - that tells me that >> >> [ 4/Apr/2021 22:11:33] >> IN_CLOSE_WRITE /etc/.pwd.lock >> * /etc/.pwd.lock is closed >> >> Any clues what that problem might be? > > The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an i

Re: Piano live recording

"Jeremy Nicoll" writes: > On Tue, 4 May 2021, at 09:16, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> Is it better to use mono or omni directional microphones? > > Omni-directional mics are also mono, usually. Thanks, Jeremy... I meant `monodirectional or omnidirectional...?' Rodolfo

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

On Tue, 4 May 2021 08:44:57 +0200 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 5/4/21 8:19 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? > > > > Very interesting stuff! > > > > https://ipfs.io/ > > > > Well, most likely because nobody found it useful enough and also becau

Re: Piano live recording (was: Live recording)

On Tue, 4 May 2021, at 09:16, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > I've just bought a Behringer UMC404HD audio interface and want to record live > piano by placing two microphones one at the trebles and one at the bass. The result of recording like this will (presumably) mimic what a player would hear, but

Re: Piano live recording (was: Live recording)

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've just bought a Behringer UMC404HD audio interface and want to record live > piano by placing two microphones one at the trebles and one at the bass. Is > it > better to use mono or omni directional microphones? In particular, which do > you suggest between Bheringer

IPFS tools not in the repos?

Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? Very interesting stuff! https://ipfs.io/ -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

I get system mail all the time - I've got 2757 at the moment - that tells me that [ 4/Apr/2021 22:11:33] IN_CLOSE_WRITE /etc/.pwd.lock * /etc/.pwd.lock is closed Any clues what that problem might be? TIA -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

[Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Hi, deloptes wrote: > I just tried to find a video on ARTE You believe french-german state TV ? > I watched some time ago. Video was called "Umweltsünder E-Auto?" For the non-germans: = "Environmental Sinner E-Car ?". (It was a bit exaggerated as in several other documentaries of ARTE, but al

Re: Piano live recording

Weaver writes: > On 04-05-2021 18:16, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I've just bought a Behringer UMC404HD audio interface and want to record >> live piano by placing two microphones one at the trebles and one at the >> bass. Is it better to use mono or omni directional microphones? In >> particular,

Re: Piano live recording

On 04-05-2021 18:39, didier gaumet wrote: > Shure publishes a doc for best using microphones for particular > instruments (grand and upright pianos: pages 24-25): > > https://www.shure.com/damfiles/default/global/documents/publications/en/performance-production/microphone_techniques_for_live_sound

Re: HTML syntax.

On 04-05-2021 18:34, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:54:58PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >>> to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> >>> > xmllint has an --html option for that. That said... >>> >>> you sure that it will give a warning if tag is not closed? Cause I do not

Re: Piano live recording (was: Live recording)

Shure publishes a doc for best using microphones for particular instruments (grand and upright pianos: pages 24-25): https://www.shure.com/damfiles/default/global/documents/publications/en/performance-production/microphone_techniques_for_live_sound_reinforcement_english.pdf-3df433145fca686a73

Re: HTML syntax.

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:54:58PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> >> > xmllint has an --html option for that. That said... >> >> you sure that it will give a warning if tag is not closed? Cause I do not >> think so. In fact the --html option seems

Re: Piano live recording

On 04-05-2021 18:16, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > I've just bought a Behringer UMC404HD audio interface and want to record live > piano by placing two microphones one at the trebles and one at the bass. Is > it > better to use mono or omni directional microphones? In particular, which do

Piano live recording (was: Live recording)

Hi all. I've just bought a Behringer UMC404HD audio interface and want to record live piano by placing two microphones one at the trebles and one at the bass. Is it better to use mono or omni directional microphones? In particular, which do you suggest between Bheringer B5 either Behringer C2 tw

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On 04/05/2021 07:12, Emanuel Berg wrote: > I get system mail all the time - I've got 2757 at the moment - > that tells me that > > [ 4/Apr/2021 22:11:33] > IN_CLOSE_WRITE /etc/.pwd.lock > * /etc/.pwd.lock is closed > > Any clues what that problem might be? The "IN_" prefix tells you that thi

Re: HTML syntax.

On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:54:58PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > xmllint has an --html option for that. That said... > > you sure that it will give a warning if tag is not closed? Cause I do not > think so. In fact the --html option seems to correct those missing tags. >