Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 08:45:39AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > For a home user the best use-case is to install a VPN - such as openvpn - > and connect to that from a mobile device such as a smart phone. These days there are much better solutions like Yggdrasil, tailscale, zerotier, …

Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-28 Thread Andy Smith
e same IP. > > On 11/27/23 5:06 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 04:59:22PM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > I have been offered a dedicated IP through NORD.  Is it worth it > > > or is it not needed? > > More info ne

Re: dedicated IP

2023-11-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 04:59:22PM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I have been offered a dedicated IP through NORD.  Is it worth it > or is it not needed? More info needed: What's NORD? What problem are you trying to solve with "a dedicated IP"? What do you understand "a dedicated IP"

Re: Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

2023-11-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, Again ignoring your more non-constructive complaints… TL;DR: Try USB networking like by plugging in your phone or a USB ethernet/wifi dongle. On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 07:39:20PM +, Richard Smith wrote: > The only place I found that had the driver required me to install > more content

Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

2023-11-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 12:21:28PM +, Richard Smith wrote: > I find the issue with Debian weird, as I was able to use this same computer > (Lenovo IdeaPad I7, with a Realtek b52 controller) with Ubuntu, Kali, and > Tails, without an issue! > > I hear that Debian is awesome when it

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

2023-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rajib, On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 08:58:42PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > In my first email itself I had mentioned that I use "Gmail webmail > email-server". > > Yet in one of the replies I received, I get a comment like, "... > It sounds like whatever you are using to read email (your MUA) is

On changing the subject lines, and gmail

2023-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 04:39:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If the advice you get solves a problem - post that back to the list > in the thread and change the message subject slightly to make it > clear that this is an answer. After being shocked to learn in this year 2023 that

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

2023-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 11:48:31AM +, David wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 11:29, Andy Smith wrote: > > It is only the most inept of MUAs that fail to use these headers > > and rely only on the Subject: header being the same. > > Agreed. But that's what the Gm

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

2023-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 09:36:33AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > May please the concerned portions of > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00443.html be perused, > as a part of my conversation with Mr. Cater, also quoted below: > > "... There is one problem with this

Re: [SOLVED] Re: UUID permanent at removable device?

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 07:43:13PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 12. November 2023, 19:27:20 CET schrieb Andy Smith: > Yes, this is looking promising. Looks like thisis what I exactly need. I am still intrigued by the idea of an iso file having a UUID when it's written directly to

Re: Amazing how far things have come. a 32x100G switch running Debian.

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 05:48:27PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Well done Mellanox, and Debian. I hope to see more of it! …although I did forget that Nvidia acquired Mellanox in 2019 and since then has scrapped the Mellanox brand name, so the good times are probably over. 

Re: UUID permanent at removable device?

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 07:03:41PM +0100, Hans wrote: > I want to dd it automatically like > > dd if=/path/to/my/image.iso of=UUID=34567890-afde-.-1234 If your use case is writing an ISO file directly to a USB device (no partitioning) then I'd think you could use the ID of the USB

Re: UUID permanent at removable device?

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, TL;DR: Use filesystem labels. This is the sort of thing they're for. On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 06:55:33PM +0100, Hans wrote: > However, after generating the stick the UUID of the first partition > (/dev/sdc1) > is changing, so next time, the script will not work again, of course. Do you

Amazing how far things have come. a 32x100G switch running Debian.

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, I came across this article today and it made me really happy to see. A 32x100G switch with open source, upstreamed drivers, running Debian. All aspects of the port settings, VLANs, etc all configured using standard Linux tools. Well done Mellanox, and Debian. I hope to see more of it!

Re: PATH question

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 09:35:33AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > I don't like to clutter up my download file. Since I normally use dpkg -i > debfile.deb this would add a directory in the download file. When you install a .deb package it only installs to the fully-qualified paths inside

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 11:46:46AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I do tend to rely on the knowledge and expertise here: Greg - how > would you rate the chances of physical copies of your Bash guides, > for example? It is an interesting question to ask for this resource specifically,

Re: Hardware for a back up server? [WAS Re: How to use dmsetuup?]

2023-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 04:01:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > SSD RAID10 is very impressive when everything else matches. Backups over a > Gigabit LAN onto SATA III SSD RAID10 does not make sense because Gigabit > Ethernet is rated for 1 Gbps read/ write and a SATA III SSD RAID10

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 09:51:41PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Dear illustrious leaders and the senior members, Debian-user ML, Did you want any assistance from people who aren't illustrious leaders and senior members? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 05:19:01PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: > On 11/7/23 17:19, gene heskett wrote: > > What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and > > an ext4 system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk > > is needed? Is writing a null gpt sufficient? > You

Re: Removal of Libdb5.3

2023-11-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 03:57:15PM +, Busireddy, Nikhitha Reddy wrote: > Hey Team, Here we are all volunteer users of Debian; we are a "team" only in the sense of our informal interest in Debian. > We are building a project on Debian:bullseye, and due to security > issues, we are trying

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:27:19PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Thanks for help with dmsetup. dmsetup is very much the wrong approach for you - it's too low-level. LVM alone is probably not the best idea either. For your use case as I understand it, mdraid in RAID1 or RAID10 is

Re: Which Network Controller Card handling Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc., connectivities, is GNU/Linux Approved/certified, and would be (1) compatible with my HP laptop's motherboard, and (2) could replace t

2023-10-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 07:04:35PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Dear Mr. Cater, Thank you for your post, re-forming the subject-line > and your query. Why are you reforming Andrew's subject line? It seemed like a very sensible subject line. > I request you not to rename the subject of

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

2023-10-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Max, On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 11:48:35PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > There was a thread several months ago with discussion of link local > 169.254.x.y addresses. $ notmuch count 'from:ghesk...@shentel.net (body:"169.254" or body:"avahi")' 110 i.e. in the last 4 years I have 110 emails from

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

2023-10-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 10:33:47PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 10/22/23 20:48, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Any issues you've encountered have been the result of misconfiguration. > > You have repeatedly shown errors in your config files, and once those > > have been corrected, everything

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

2023-10-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 06:36:28PM -0400, Lee wrote: > My understanding is that ISC no longer supports their dhcp client > software so the isc-dhcp-client package will go away someday? > correct? & I suspect whatever works today will break when the new > software comes out, so I'd rather get

Re: can you parse and "tail" at once? (and if you can't why not?)

2023-10-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 01:32:08AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 10/22/23, Andy Smith wrote: > > So you might consider telling us what you will do next with the > > suffix of each line. > > Now you have gone into mind reading mode. I've gone into "avoid

Re: can you parse and "tail" at once? (and if you can't why not?)

2023-10-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 08:50:55PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Greg, please, I would like for you to understand that it is not my > intention to upset you about what you find visually upsetting. We > have talked about that before. Most of the points Greg makes to you are matters of

Re: can you parse and "tail" at once? (and if you can't why not?)

2023-10-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 04:33:12PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > After generating a file with lines of text, I have to: > 1) parse some of those lines based on a pattern I know (no regex > necessary, just a FS path) > 2) once parsed from those lines I need the last n characters only

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

2023-10-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 08:22:24AM -0400, Pocket wrote: > On 10/22/23 04:02, Max Nikulin wrote: > > P.S. I do not see any reason to insist on NetworkManager in the case of > > a box which role is a DNS server for a local network. ifupdown should be > > sufficient. There is no need to

Re: linux-image-amd64: kernel fails to find all nvme SSDs

2023-10-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jeff, On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 05:18:52PM -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I purchased a new server: Supermicro AS-8125GS-TNHR. It has 17 NVME > drives installed: > > 1x Micron 7450 >12x Micron 9300 > 4x Micron 9400 > > Upon boot, /dev/nvme* only shows 10 drives: the Micron

Re: linux-image-amd64: failed to bring up processor 192

2023-10-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 05:15:04PM -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > When first installed, it ran kernel 6.1.0.12. That kernel found > all 384 "CPUs". All were reported in /proc/cpuinfo. I subsequently > did an apt upgrade which upgraded to 6.1.0.13. Upon boot, dmesg > -lerr reports: > >

Re: Too much log for sudo.

2023-10-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:15:26PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 05:20:58PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > I see that in the logs the VALUE of the env variable is loggued. > > How to change this ? > > I don't think there is a way to stop th

Re: Too much log for sudo.

2023-10-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 05:20:58PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > I use a script to run borg backup. For it to be able to backup files that > only root may read, i use sudo --preserv-env=BORG_REPO,BORG_PASSPHRASE. > > However I see that in the logs the VALUE of the env variable is loggued. How

Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness

2023-10-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:08:06AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > It's not clear to me what's meant in this thread by snapshot. Neither is it yet clear if the OP knows or if my description of a snapshot is the same as what the OP is experiencing, so I can only tell you what I meant. > If

Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness

2023-10-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:21:23AM -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > Yes, something like that. I should have mentioned it wasn't just files > disappearing but also files that had been moved were back in their previous > location. This "snapshot" appears to have been taken at the time of my >

Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness

2023-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 04:25:58PM -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > suddenly, all files created on /dev/sda1 for the last 27 days have > disappeared, even files I edited this morning before restarting. Like the > clock was turned back a month. The disk, a new 18 TB, passed the test This

Re: usrmerge in bookworm

2023-10-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Sven, On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 09:09:27AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-10-06 22:32 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > It got done years ago in Ubuntu, and their dpkg doesn't have this > > issue, as they've carried patches for that for all those years. > > Ubuntu may have

Re: usrmerge in bookworm

2023-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:42:56PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages. > > $ apt-get changelog usrmerge | tail -n2 > -- Marco d'Itri Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:42:44 +0100 > Fetched 11.0 kB in 0s (58.9

Re: systemctl status mariadb - Access denied for user root at localhost using password NO

2023-10-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 04:45:25PM +0300, Petros Pap wrote: > root@server:~# mysql -u root > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using > password: NO) I believe that the Debian packaging of MariaDB is by default set up to allow socket authentication for

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-10-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 07:21:06AM -, Robert Riding wrote: > It seems that there are various programs included in debian to create disk > labels for partitions, so that you may have a line in fstab that looks like > "LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 2" for instance. > These labels

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:15:18AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/30/23 07:46, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:26:19AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:26:19AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > Swap file is the last thing I want, much slower than a swap partition. > > > >

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:28:09AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 20:05, Andy Smith wrote: > > As evidenced by this thread lots of people confuse partition > > names/labels for filesystem labels, even though they are distinct > > things, which was why I as

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 06:01:09PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the > > use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure > > FWIW, I use "partition" labels (more specifically LVM names) because > they

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 15:21, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 03:15:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > I have SSD's for swap on an rpi4b, so to lessen the abuse of the u-sd > > > card I >

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Michel, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 10:14:59PM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2023-09-29, Andy Smith wrote: > > If not, what are you actually trying to achieve with partition > > names? I can't think what use they have ever been to me in several > > decades. > > I u

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 03:54:40PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 15:17, Andy Smith wrote: > > If not, what are you actually trying to achieve with partition > > names? I can't think what use they have ever been to me in several > > decades. > > Non

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 03:15:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > I have SSD's for swap on an rpi4b, so to lessen the abuse of the u-sd card I > need to turn off the swap file, and swapon -a the SSD stuff. Have you looked in /etc/fstab where as you know filesystem mounts are described? If

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 02:50:23PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > I recall something I haven't used in a decade or more, but we used to have a > journal something or other that could rename a partition, and I need > something like it. Probably, but adding a label to a *filesystem* is easy,

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-09-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 09:05:51AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 17:45 Andy Smith wrote: > ... > > I'd make it all run with one raku from one place, or else I'd > > specify the full path to the special raku that is needed. […] > You do not u

Re: Unable to install phpMyAdmin in Debian 12

2023-09-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 01:56:44PM +0300, Petros Pap wrote: > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using > password: NO) ^ scripts trying to connect to MariaDB as root with no password. > Note: I have already setup password for root in mysql > mysql -uroot -p >

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 08:25:48PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > You can remove them from your mail queue with: > > # eim4 -Mrm typo of "exim4" -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rick, Your system has rejected a spam email, not because it worked out it was spam, but because it was syntactically invalid. That's good, but unfortunately your system decided to helpfully tell the (spam) sender what had happened, by trying to send this bounce message back: On Mon, Sep 25,

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 08:50:52AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I failed to say my program is a bit more > complicated: > > 0. It's executed by 'root'. > 1. It uses 'raku'. > 2. During its operation, the location of the 'raku' version to be used > after it completes changes from

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rick, On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 08:58:04PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > 2023-09-24 20:48:37 1qkRDH-001Zqh-1Z == > 6626-879-8427-40-rickm=timshel...@mail.purecuresol.co R=smarthost > T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-54): retry time not reached for any host for > 'mail.purecuresol.co' There

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

2023-09-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 07:04:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > So, what to do instead? I would first look for a data source that's > not intended to be displayed by a Javascript-enabled web browser. > Something that gives you the results in plain text would be great. > I doubt such a

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:13:43AM +0200, steve wrote: > Le 19-09-2023, à 16:52:24 +0200, Nicolas George a écrit : > > what you intend is completely forbidden by Google's terms and > > service. And they have detection: please only do this on a > > computer and network access when you will

Re: Debian Trixie and Anker PowerExpand 6 in 1 k.o.

2023-09-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 03:40:17PM +0200, Gabriele M. wrote: > I'm using Mobian Trixie and after the two last kernel update my external usb > c adapter https://www.amazon.it/dp/B08CKXNJZS?psc=1 stopped to work :\ > > Maybe somebody removed the support to this device :\ how could I fix it?

Re: sata driver compataility Q

2023-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 05:35:40PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > This setup worked instantly under buster and bullseye, but takes from 30 > secs to 5 minutes to open a write requestor window asking where to put the > download I clicked on under bookworrm. I think you should work out why

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

2023-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 01:52:27PM +0200, Marco wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:43:09 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Each of these things could be rewritten to be compatible with > > FreeBSD; I suspect it would take about twenty minutes to an hour, > > most of it testing, for someone who

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 12:20:18PM +0200, Romain wrote: > With -n (sometimes it stops at hop 7, sometimes 9): > └─# mtr -nr 54.38.38.159 -4 > Start: 2023-09-07T08:17:12+ > HOST: rpi4Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev > 1.|-- 192.168.0.1

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-06 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Romain wrote: > > > > So when this is happening mtr works but http, ssh and ping don't? > > Yes I think there is definitely a firewall involved somewhere as that is quite complicated selective blocking: it's allowing back the ICMP Time Exceeded packets

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 08:39:55AM +0200, Romain wrote: > When my IP is blocked, curl returns a "Connection refused," and ping > returns "Destination Port Unreachable." > > I couldn't find any mentions of my IPv4 address in the server logs. MTR > (-4) doesn't report any issues reaching the

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 04:16:46PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, > at least not by default. All of my Debian servers (and desktops) have an /etc/network/interfaces file and ifupdown installed. It depends upon

Re: Bookworm VPS image and cron

2023-08-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 03:02:55PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > So, there you go... it was a problem with DO's Bookworm image. I'm assuming > the omission wasn't intentional and if that is, in fact, the case, it will > get fixed quickly. It sounds to me like not a bug, since a minimal

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

2023-08-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 06:14:16PM +0800, hlyg wrote: > it seems that x.1 are really stable while x are beta release That is not by design, but by largely unavoidable consequence, and so a Debian stable release is not considered a "beta" ion any respect. There will never be as diverse a

Re: Bootloader error grub minimal bash "load the kernel first" after installing my live image via calamares installer

2023-08-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 06:56:08PM +0530, Sakkra Billa wrote: >when i reboot my VM into the installed environment, it boots into >grub minimal On typing boot it says "load the kernel first". What kind of VM is this? Which provider, if you are unsure. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/

Re: Swap size in debain 12

2023-08-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > If it's useful, you *can* Hibernate to a swap file. > https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_Partition It > looks a little flaky, though, because you need to tell the kernel how many > bytes into a device

Re: List administrators - request for intervention - was - Re: Mailing list unsubscription requests and identificatio

2023-08-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 12:12:49AM +, davidson wrote: > The foregoing demonstration is meant to show how, using alpine's > threaded mode, I minimise my irritation with threads that I find > irrelevant to my interests Unfortunately no matter how advanced your MUA is, it doesn't help

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

2023-08-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Brian, On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 07:57:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Aug 2023 at 20:50:26 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Sorry you are so offended by a hosts file user Andy, but when the guys > > Did someone mention a hosts file? If I understand correctly, Gene identifies himself as "a

Re: 11 to 12 - fresh install or upgrade

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 05:45:25PM -0400, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > It's time to move from bullseye to bookworm. Based on the previous years > experience I've always preferred a fresh install vs. an upgrade, since the > freshly installed system always run smoother and was not littered with

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 04:39:47PM -0400, Stuart Barkley wrote: > Installing Debian without additional physical devices is possible. It > requires running/modifying DHCP, TFTP and possibly other services on > another system (I guess that does actually mean additional hardware). The OP

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 10:54:27AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/5/23 17:47, Andy Smith wrote: > > Do bear in mind that SSDs are not designed for long term unpowered > > data storage, unlike conventional HDDs, so that could be a > > consideration if you're intend

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

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Greg, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 08:48:25AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 07:37:35PM +0800, Jon Smart wrote: > > These 4 steps do work great! > > Thanks a lot. > > These same steps are also on the wiki page that's been discussed many > times in this thread. You might

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

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 07:37:35PM +0800, Jon Smart wrote: > > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > The file /etc.resolv.conf is just a soft link. > > > > You need to: > > > > 1: Delete /etc/resolv.conf - rm /etc/resolv.conf > > 2: Create a new /etc/resolv.conf file: touch /etc/resolv.conf > >

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 03:03:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > What doc should I follow to bring these 2 drives into one volume managed > partition for amanda's use as a vtape device? I'd assume the volume > management works by now, but it was a data losing disaster 15+ years ago > when I

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 02:01:40PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > On 2023-08-05 13:16, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > > > Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves > > > e

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:16:57PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > > But cron isn't installed. > > Seems unlikely. There are system cron jobs that are not yet > converted to systemd timers. A boo

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:31:13PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:23:19PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > Ditto. That must be some customization your VPS provider has made, if > > the installation didn't somehow fail. > > I don't know why a host

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:23:19PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 5 Aug 2023 22:13 +0200, from johndoe65...@mail.com (john doe): > >> But cron isn't installed. > > > > I just install a new Bookworm VM and 'cron' is present! :) > > Ditto. That must be some customization your VPS

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves editing root's > crontab. > > But cron isn't installed. Seems unlikely. There are system cron jobs that are not yet converted to systemd timers. A bookworm install

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:03:27PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 15:09:41 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > For those of us who do care, installing rsyslog takes seconds. > > Disabling the systemd journal (if you want to)_ takes another few > > seconds

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 09:23:25AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > In any case, this is not a popular change. I don't think that's clear. I think that amongst a population of people who care deeply about logging it's generally unfavourable, and I myself don't particularly enjoy using

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:56:36AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > It is highly probable that I'm being grumpy because Debian changed > something that I was used to for decades, without my realizing it. …because you didn't read the release notes that are absolutely required reading to

Re: Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

2023-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Russell, On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 06:23:15PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 05:29:33PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:07:47AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > For that matter, is RSS still in use? > > >

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Bill, Your question is more suited to debian-user so I've redirected there. Please send replies there (I've set reply-to for that purpose also). On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 08:40:51PM -0400, Bill Miller wrote: > why cant i just install Debian from a digital cloud? i dont > understand why i need

Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

2023-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:07:47AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > For that matter, is RSS still in use? $ r2e list | wc -l 72 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: chrome web browser worthless

2023-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Gene, On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 02:05:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > this is a blatent attack by chrome You've absolutely no evidence to suggest that, and other people have already pointed out they are unable to replicate your issues. Like almost every thread you start or derail here this is

Creality don't sound great (Was: Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?)

2023-07-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 08:11:38AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > But Creality apparently disapproves of the hack and so has > disabled it in the latest firmware. So what I have learned from this thread is that there is a company called Creality which: - Supplies known-broken AppImages

Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 04:14:30PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 4:10 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 28 Jul 2023 at 16:04:10 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > any way to revert to an earlier version of OpenSSL? I'm on an up-to-date > > > bookworm system. > > > >

Re: Debian 11 installer crashed and reboot (in Xen DomU)

2023-07-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Elmar, On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 03:03:20AM +0200, Dr. Nagy Elemér Károly wrote: > Two years later, all Debian 11.0-12.1 installers still crash in Xen as DomU, > it is a known bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983357 > > In PV mode, /boot/grub/grub.cfg is the relevant

Re: General Questions

2023-07-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 09:18:10PM +0600, Source Code wrote: > I'm sorry, Nicolas George, if I offended you. I didn't want it. I'm new > here and don't know how to post my questions without disturbing anyone.i If there is a language barrier here. maybe posting questions on debian-russian

Re: apt upgrade in buster is confused

2023-07-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 01:35:49PM -0700, Scott Edwards wrote: > https://paste.debian.net/1286823/ > > I just want to upgrade to stable, but I'm stuck here buster is Debian 10. stable is Debian 12. If you are trying to upgrade buster to stable, you are making a mistake as you are not

Re: How could a standalone python binary executable be made from a python script, to be run on other computers that don't have python installed?

2023-07-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 05:27:28PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > My first post of this thread is illustrative. You did indeed state that you only wanted guidance from "Illustrious leaders and senior List Maintainers of Debian Users ML" so I don't know why anyone is bothering to give you

Re: dpkg: error processing package mysql-client

2023-07-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 08:17:34PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 05:55:12PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > Setting up mysql-common (8.0.34-1debian11) ... > > This package did not come from Debian. […] > If your third-party MySQL packages are not working,

Re: How could a standalone python binary executable be made from a python script, to be run on other computers that don't have python installed?

2023-07-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 04:36:44PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > My dear Illustrious leaders and senior List Maintainers of Debian Users ML, Is there some reason that you only want answers from "leaders" and "senior List Maintainers" as opposed to the vast majority of list subscribers, like

Re: I reinstalled debian bullsee and still have the same messages andthis one too

2023-07-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 09:10:31AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/16/23 04:38, didier gaumet wrote: > > This error message could probably disappear if you install > > xdg-desktop-portal.service package. […] > What repo is this in, its a not found in an sudo apt install command. $

Re: [OT] IBM, Oracle, SUSE: RHEL

2023-07-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 07:39:03PM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > sorry for the noise, Then sorry too, but why did you make it? The chances that there will be any original comment in what is sure now to be an enormous thread is near-zero and I don't see what relevance it has to Debian users,

Re: why is os-prober disabled by default

2023-07-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 08:32:41PM +0200, digitalmailing wrote: > I find this very annoying and inconvenient to change > [GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER] back again after some updates. Others have explained the "why". To stop your changes being overwritten you can re-enable it in a .cfg file in

Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Stephen, On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 03:17:57PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have just installed Bookworm without any problems. > > However, synaptic has developed a problem: > > Google has not found a solution that works. > > I would appreciate suggstions. My main suggestion is that

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