Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

Hi, On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:14:52PM -0700, ray wrote: > I would really like to hear how others track their changes or suggestions how > I may tack changes. I configure almost everything with configuration management like puppet or ansible. Then the configuration is treated like code, can be d

Re: One-line password generator

Hello, On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Curt wrote: > > So this is wrong: > > https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ > > Dunno. I took my info from the man page. The article at 2uo.de is correct. The relevant Linux man pages were recently updated to clarify that

Re: One-line password generator

Hello, On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:04:51PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > And again, the argumentation of Theodore is that there is always enough > entropy at hand. I understand that in this situation there is no difference > between /dev/random and /dev/urandom. > The difference appears only when

Re: One-line password generator

Hello, On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:40:48PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Originally Curt wrote: > > > > https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Really great myth-debunking article > > Up to now i found no credible expert opinion which would clearly > contradict it.

Re: reconstitute /boot on stretch

Hi Harry, On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:06:40PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I managed to delete /boot and all contents, on a `stretch' system. > > Of course it will not boot now. So maybe work from a live cd or > install media... Did you reboot? If not then you should be able to fix this relative

Re: Serial Ports and Perl

Hi Martin, On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 07:37:07PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If anybody has gotten the perl Device::SerialPort to > work, I am interested to know what I am doing or not doing. I have been using it successfully for a long time, but all I do is read whole lines from the seri

Re: LVM: how to avoid scanning all devices

Hi Steve, On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > When calling LVM commands it seems they all scan all disks for > physical volumes.  This is annoying because it spins up all disks that > are currently idle and causes long delays to wait for these disks to > come up. Can y

Re: Reporting a bug that affects more than one package

Hello, On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 06:30:52PM -0600, Terry Roy wrote: > […] reported the bug. I've just run across it again on a fresh > install of another package. I've reported that bug but clearly > this seems to be an issue involving the use of "su -" in postinst. > > My problem is that I have no

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Hi Rick, On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 11:37:32AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > Is btrfs mature enough to use in enterprise applications? Not in my opinion. I've dabbled with it at home and based on those experiences I will not be using it professionally any time soon. > If you are using it, I’d like to

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Hello, On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 07:35:27PM +, Glenn English wrote: > Is there something wrong with ext4 in a RAID1? Not if you don't need any of the features of ZFS that ext4 lacks, no. But if you do, then ext4 is not an option. The killer feature of ZFS is its checksumming of all data and me

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Hello, On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 11:15:00AM +1300, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > The reason Redhat dropped btrfs support is because it currently has no > native cryptographic function. Red Hat's former filesystem maintainer Josef Bacik said it was simply because Red Hat now lacks engineers familiar

Re: Re: 3dm2 and iceweasel/firefox 10 - Connection reset

Hi, On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 03:53:52PM +0400, Андрей Александрович wrote: > На firefox 8.0 тоже распространяется :( I've no idea about most of what you're saying, but based on the only words I can understand I am guessing you're having problems with the 3ware 3dm2 web interface ever since you upg

Re: cross-connecting console ports?

Hi Miles, On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 04:59:38PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Short of buying a remote KVM, it occurs to me that it might be possible > to cross-connect the serial ports on the two computers - using a terminal > program on one, to access the other, and vice versa. This works fine

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:39:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 26 March 2006 02:16, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:46:14AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Giving everybody access to ifconfig and its ilk sure sounds like a > >> big security hole to me. > > > >That

Re: mod_perl

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:23:41AM +0100, Tim Toennsen wrote: > But where can i find mod_perl? it is not in the modules list of > the apache2 manual and i couldnt find it in the package list ot > the debian webside. Can u send me the correct packet name so i can > install it with apt-get or mantion

Re: Multiple MySQL Instances (running as slaves for multiple masters)

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:09:04PM +1200, Simon wrote: > Would someone be able to give me an example of running two or more > instances of mysql nicly on debian? I've never done it so I can't give examples but it should be as easy as making two different my.cnf files and a new sysv init script an

Re: raid performance, your opinion?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:24:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 4 disks for a software raid configuration. > I'm pondering about using either a 4 disk raid5 array, or > a 4 disk raid10 array. > > I'm interested in speed mostly, but data integrity is important too. > I'm running a web,

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:15:33AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:43:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Don't worry, eventually they'll grow up and start working with Debian > > Ubuntu developers are quietly improving their distribution, making all > their changes available on t

Re: mrtg to monitor cpu usage.

Please don't send mails in HTML. On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:50:11PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: >I'm tying to monitor cpu usage on my debian box (PII -350) with mrtg. >I'm using ssCpuRawIdle and i get the graph fine!! >Problem is i get a full graph since the cpu is mostly in idle time a

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:21:48PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > and when I hit R (macro index R "!/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync") my poor > laptop (133Mhz 49M -- don't laugh I got it as a 'brick' for $12.00 NZD) > almost died, killed postgres, a vim session I didn't realise I had open > and 2 bash sh

Re: rbldnsd setup

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:13:17PM -0700, Richard Cunningham wrote: > Okay, I did the apt-get install rbldnsd. The documentation on setting it > up is sparse. > > I want to run it stand-alone, without a dns server. Is there a > step-by-step tutorial on how to do this? I run rbldnsd, although no

read only root and udev

Hi there, I have a 2.6.12 debian sarge system running from compactflash which I am trying to convert to read-only root. Following the information at these sites: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root-README.txt http://roland.entierement.nu/index.php/archives/2005/04/04/read-only-debi

Re: read only root and udev

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:17:15PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > So I apt-get install udev and reboot. > > Things did not go smoothly; it seems my /dev/shm is mounted by > /etc/rcS.d/S02mountvirtfs but then sometime later it is umounted > again by something (I can't work out wh

Re: isp service

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:04:30AM -0400, TedNick wrote: > >How and where can I find a Linux friendly ISP. In what country/locality? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: encrypting the users' folders

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 06:17:12PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > Anyway, the point is that you really *shouldn't* trust the > root user if you don't have to. And if you can encrypt your > filesystem, you should. You do have to trust the entity that provides your service, and its agents, at leas

Re: isp service

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:41:31AM +0200, roach wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2005 10:17, Joseph Haig wrote: > > And that would be? ?;-) > > http://www.uklinux.net/ Also http://www.ukfsn.org/ is non-profit And http://www.bytemark.co.uk/connectivity/adsl.html profit-making (we assume) but linux-frie

Re: Raid on Sarge

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:22AM -0700, h2t-nl wrote: > The main interested part of my question is whether somebody on the list > already using or tested with somekind of sata controller! Almost none of the SATA controllers that advertise RAID are real hardware RAID; the RAID features of them ar

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a > > In this experiment I configured as follows: > 1st Hard Drive > /boot 400mb > swap 2GB > partition for Raid volume 37 GB > > 2nd - 4th HD > partition for Raid vo

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > >> I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a > >> > >

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:34:15PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > > >> If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? > > > > You restore from backups or do a new install. > > > > There has

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

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 wa

Re: sata driver compataility Q

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 tha

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

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

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 b

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

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 thi

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

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 isn't

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

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 '/usr/local

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

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, 20

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

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: Unable to install phpMyAdmin in Debian 12

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 > work

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

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. […] > Yo

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

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, s

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

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 th

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

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. > >

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

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. > >

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

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?

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 ha

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

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

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

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: naming a partition after the fact?

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 als

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

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 root@loca

Re: usrmerge in bookworm

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 k

Re: usrmerge in bookworm

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. > > Ubunt

Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness

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 happene

Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness

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 > upgr

Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness

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 yo

Re: Too much log for sudo.

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: Too much log for sudo.

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

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

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 745

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

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 detect

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

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

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 co

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

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 "

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

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

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 h

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

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 Gen

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

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 th

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

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 probably

Re: Removal of Libdb5.3

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?

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 c

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

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

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 is

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

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, be

Re: PATH question

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 the

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

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! htt

Re: UUID permanent at removable device?

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 l

Re: UUID permanent at removable device?

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 st

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

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

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 direct

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

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 approach,

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

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 t

On changing the subject lines, and gmail

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 gm

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

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 >

Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

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 comes

Re: Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

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 from

Re: dedicated IP

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: dedicated IP

ys have the 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? > > Mo

Re: dedicated IP

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, … If

Re: dedicated IP

Hello, On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 06:42:53PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Nov 27, 2023, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > NORPVPN is software that installs a VPN.  Not really trying to solve a > > problem just securing my machine against intruders.  My understanding of a > > dedicated IP means I will alw

Re: Security vulnerability at curl package: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset

Hi, On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 08:56:28AM +, Marold Marcus (DC-AE/ESW1) wrote: > I would like to request an upgrade of the curl package (Linux > Ubuntu Core 22 / Jammy) to Nghttp2 v1.57.0 because of > CVE-2023-44487: > HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. Your m

Re: dedicated IP

Hello, On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 04:03:04PM -, Curt wrote: > NordVPN advertises very heavily in France on television and claims to > provide safety against bad actors (personified as villainous figures > observing your every move) when using it. It's their only selling point. And obviously th

Re: time question, as in ntp?

Hi Gene, On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:52:46PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/29/23 13:20, John Hasler wrote: > > But first fix that address. > > How, John? QIDI is afraid of enabling full net access because it might > overwrite some of their special stuff. Right now its running armbian buster,

Re: time question, as in ntp?

Hello, On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:24:35PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 11/30/23 21:37, Max Nikulin wrote: > > So to install "klipper is just a program" you run some scripts that > > overwrite /etc/network/interfaces and you blame NetworkManager and some > > other stuff instead. > If you would b

Re: didn't can use "fdisk"!

Hi, On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 07:06:58PM +, fuf wrote: > root@debian:/sbin# fdisk -l > bash: fdisk: command not found > > whereas: > root@debian:/sbin# ls -al > . > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root169520 Mar 23 2023 fdisk > > why? My first guess is that you may have done "su" which resul

Re: time question, as in ntp?

Hello, On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 11:21:05PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 30/11/2023 23:12, Andy Smith wrote: > > Unless you have a dedicated time source (e.g. GPS receiver, atomic > > decay source, …) > > A nitpick. I am puzzled by the word "decay" in this context

Non-delivery reports from postmas...@ewetel.de

Hi, Is anyone else receiving non-delivery report emails from postmas...@ewetel.de for every email they post to debian-user? They look like this: From: postmas...@ewetel.de To: a...@strugglers.net Subject: E-Mail Abweisungsbenachrichtigung / email bounce notification It goes on to sta

Re: Non-delivery reports from postmas...@ewetel.de

Hi Christoph, On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 09:47:00AM +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > Am Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 11:02:47PM + schrieb Andy Smith: > > Is anyone else receiving non-delivery report emails from > > postmas...@ewetel.de for every email they post to debian-user? They >

Re: Non-delivery reports from postmas...@ewetel.de

Hi John, On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 10:19:51AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andy Smith writes: > > Is anyone else receiving non-delivery report emails from > > postmas...@ewetel.de for every email they post to debian-user? > > I am. Before posting the above I had reported

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