On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:10:13 -0500
Celejar wrote:
> On my Sylpheed, ordinary 'Reply' won't do reply-to-list, and I have to
> specifically ask for that (-L by default). I couldn't find a
> configuration option to change that, but I might have missed
> something.
In Claws-Mail, you can do it on a
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 +
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the
> testing installer at this time, or by first installing buster and
> then upgrading?
In general, you are
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 23:27:25 +0200
ellanios82 wrote:
> - any suggestions please , for a handy VPN for everyday use : no
> specific purpose, but only to add a little more privacy ??
With no requirements, it is difficult to say.
Will a VPN be overkill? Would you be better off with openSSH to
On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:50 -0600
"Martin McCormick" wrote:
> I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and ends 2
> years ago and wondered if it could read callerID tones sent after
> the first ring. It can so I started on a perl program that
> initializes the modem for callerID
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 12:20:02 -0500
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> I am also on Gmail. When I click (or tap) on Reply, it invariably
> wants me to send the Reply to the individual who sent the email, as
> opposed to the Debian Users List. So one additional task for me is
> to edit the "To" field, so
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 14:11:02 +
Guyenne Tsui wrote:
> Also, I have no idea how to reply to a thread on a mailing list so it
> would be practical if you teach me how. I use Gmail. I even installed
> Thunderbird as according to Debian Wiki on Mailing Lists but still no
> idea how to reply to
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:22:30 +
Joe wrote:
> NTFS has been NTFS since the 90s, while Linux has had ext2, ext3,
> ext4, Reiser among other filesystems. Is it not likely that 'NTFS'
> has really been a similar parade of different filesystems with each
> version of Windows retaining the code to
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:11:05 -0500 (EST)
Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > It is permitted! You get to keep any broken bits, of course!
>
> Hrrmm...I read your observation as a cautionary tale.
And rightly so.
Fortunately, there may be a better solution. Wireguard is available in
buster backports,
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:10:56 +
Kanito 73 wrote:
> About wifi... Do anybody use RTL8821CE with a latest Debian 10 kernel
> (package) without installing an external driver? My old laptop has
> RTL8723 that required to install rtlwifi_new driver (from GIT) but
> currently runs fine with the
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 +
mag...@autistici.org wrote:
> Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were
> no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with
> iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering USB does non work
> anymore. We are both using the graphic interface
> Xfce and the icon on
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 07:51:09 -0500
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> (And yes, I know find | wc -l isn't an accurate way to count files if
> their names are unrestricted. Here I'm assuming there aren't a huge
> number of filenames in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ with newlines.)
You are also assuming that there
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:08:42 +
Brad Rogers wrote:
> With a suitable MUA (example; Claws Mail) when you create a folder for
> mails from a mailing list, it's possible to set up default addresses
> for To, From and Reply-To to be used for that folder. With Claws,
> it's even possible to set
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:36:06 +
"Gareth Evans" wrote:
> ...but what did I do wrong re thread hijacking?
>
> I understand that to mean changing the content of an existing thread,
> as a quick google seems to confirm.
Correct.
>
> I did delete the content and change the subject of an
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 13:20:39 -0600
"Martin McCormick" wrote:
> I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's
> about 1 GB there.
Show us what you did. As in, copy and paste from a terminal. E.g.:
root@hawk:/usr/share/zoneinfo# du -hs
3.5M.
root@hawk:/usr/share/zoneinfo# uname -r
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:15:47 -0700
Charles Curley wrote:
> Or (afterthought here) did I give it the wrong UUID?
A week later, I came back to this. It appears I did use the wrong UUID
in /etc/crypttab.
root@hawk:~# ll /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 180 Nov 20 10:25 ./
dr
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:00:35 +0100
Toni Mas Soler wrote:
> I have more or less the same configuration. I am a no-systemd user
> (yet?) so I cannot show you the full example.
> You could verify:
> - Is there a mdraid1x module in your grub menu entry?
> - If I not wrong you made your RAID by
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:41:40 -0600
John Hasler wrote:
> Charles Curley writes:
> >And has the further virtue of not requiring a GUI, only ncurses.
>
> Gnus doesn't even require ncurses.
True. But it does require emacs. Which in the context of the OP's
requirement, stands f
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 08:12:41 +0100
john doe wrote:
> >
> > What do I do to automate that?
> >
>
>
>
> Is your '/etc/crypttab' file properly populated?
Well, I thought it was
At first I got the UUID for the RAID device, /dev/md0:
root@hawk:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:49:05 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> In my opinion, mutt is the best mail user agent of all. It's
> also one of the most efficient.
And has the further virtue of not requiring a GUI, only ncurses.
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I've added RAID and two new hard drives to my desktop. The RAID appears
to work, once it is up and running. Alas, on boot it is not being
properly set up. Everything else comes up correctly.
I have two new four terabyte drives set aside for RAID. They are
partitioned, with one partition on each,
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:08:24 +
ghe2001 wrote:
> The problem is that my Quantum LTO-5 drive (4 or 5 years old) is
> writing for a while, then failing. It reads, does 'mt' things, and
> amcheck just fine.
Have you cleaned the drive lately? (Or is that still necessary? It's
been a while since
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:01:19 +0100
Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> And when bootable, what GUI might be workable at best (Mate,
> Xfce, ...)? As I said, for nothing much more than occasional
> Thunderbird, or any other compatible mail client that can use the
> CLI-based ham email server (FBB), to
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:40:50 +0100
Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM)
> running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very
> slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try
> (if possible at all) to
I have some occasion to run some cron jobs as the user www-data. It
would be nice to get any output with my regular cron output.
What I found is that the email was sent to www-data. postfix was
dumping the email because it couldn't find procmail. Had it found
procmail, I suspect it would have
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 16:12:27 +
Mick Ab wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion re rsync, but using tar has been successful
> with a NTFS drive many times.
Another possibility is to get rid of NTFS, and replace it with an
encrypted ext4 partition. Then you can use something like rsnapshot to
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:09:33 +0100
Sébastien Kalt wrote:
> I'm having random crashes on my ASUS PN50 mini PC : sometimes it's
> while copying large files through network, sometimes when watching a
> youtube video, sometimes juste using LibreOffice, or going nothing ...
> Do you have any
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:22:34 -0400
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> If you install a package that is removed or absent from a subsequent
> release and you then upgrade, the package will remain installed. The
> only exception is if another package during the upgrade conflicts with
> the obsolete
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 16:25:12 -0400
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> It helps if you use the correct command to answer the question at
> hand:
>
> rmadison -u debian -a source gksu
> gksu | 2.0.2-9 | oldoldstable | source
> gksu | 2.0.2-9 | oldstable| source
>
> Tomas'
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:31:16 +
"Jeremy Nicoll" wrote:
> I think there's a difference between a mail which has an html copy of
> plain text, where images etc that might be required for the html page
> can be fetched from servers - in that case a browser will be able to
> display the page
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:07:00 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> Patrick Bartek writes:
> > But I need to view the entire email: images, graphics, etc. and be
> > able to interact with all the links, etc. and not just view them.
> > Want to get away from having to login to the mail account with a
> >
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:58:33 +0100
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> I think gksudo and cousins (among them the KDE flavour whose name I
> keep forgetting) are dead, they don't exist in Debian since buster.
Don't tell us what you think, report facts. And show your data. E.g.:
charles@hawk:~$ apt-cache
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:59:05 +0100
Jan Foniok wrote:
> > On 18 Oct 2020, at 04:06, Weaver wrote:
> Just for the record, I'm actually sick of you and Leslie Rhorer.
Hear, hear.
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:07:18 -0400
Gregory Seidman wrote:
> If I ping the Debian server from OpenWRT, the wireless device, or the
> wired device I get 25%-30% packet loss *unless* I am pinging an
> external IP from the Debian server at the same time, at which point
> the packet loss goes below
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:06:55 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> But I suspect that we now know why the DFT utility can't see it:
> because DOS can't see it, because DOS doesn't have any SATA
> support. The best that can be done is providing a virtualized
> interface, and that won't let you interrogate
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:35:52 +1300
Richard Hector wrote:
> On 21/10/20 2:19 pm, Long Wind wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 9:06:25 PM EDT, Richard Hector
> > wrote:
> >
> > .
> > After installing imagemagick (and zbar-tools), and reading some man
> > pages, this worked:
> >
> >
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:23:32 +0200
Siard wrote:
> Long Wind wrote:
> > in Chinese barcode is called 2-dimension code
>
> Same as QR code? dmtx-utils should be able to do it.
> It contains 2 programs: dmtxread and dmtxwrite.
> See also http://libdmtx.sourceforge.net
I don't think so. dmtx is
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:51:20 -0600
Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:24:06 -0600
> Charles Curley wrote:
>
> > I have unattended upgrades running on a testbed laptop. I would like
> > to add an origin to the list, but I don't think I am getting the
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:38:20 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > --
> > // "o=Debian Backports,a=${distro_codename}-backports,l=Debian
> > Backports"; "o=Vivaldi Technologies,a=stable,l=Official Vivaldi
> > package repository"; };
> >
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:24:06 -0600
Charles Curley wrote:
> I have unattended upgrades running on a testbed laptop. I would like
> to add an origin to the list, but I don't think I am getting the entry
> quite right. The origin is for vivaldi, which has its own repo outside
> the
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 13:29:26 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> This looks good to me.
>
> After looking through the bugs list for unattended-upgrades I would
> suggest you check whether upgrading vivaldi-stable requires
> installing new packages or package removals ('apt upgrade -s' should
>
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:18:52 +
Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) wrote:
> I would like to set a permanent MAC address spoofing for both the
> Ethernet and the Wife adapters.
...
> After rebooting, I run "ip addr" to check MAC addresses. The
> Ethernet's MAC address is changed, but not the WiFi adapter.
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:23:02 -0700
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Does anyone have Zoom working in Debian 10?
Yes.
Linux Client Version is 5.0.418682.0603
(You may have to go to the notification tray and shut it down from there.)
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:21:22 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Please show also the output of 'apt policy vivaldi' (or whatever the
> package name is).
--
root@orca:~# apt policy vivaldi-stable
vivaldi-stable:
Installed: 3.1.1929.45-1
Candidate:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:09:42 -0500
Mike McClain wrote:
> I've been using rsync to backup to a flash drive but it's not
> performing exactly as I expected.
You might look into rsnapshot.
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:51:54 +0300
ellanios82 wrote:
> what to try, please ?
Try installing the gpm package.
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I have unattended upgrades running on a testbed laptop. I would like to
add an origin to the list, but I don't think I am getting the entry
quite right. The origin is for vivaldi, which has its own repo outside
the Debian repos.
I set things up according to
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:15:43 +0200
Hervé wrote:
> what is the exec bit? I made the executable file in permission, and am
> trying to run it. As on the other distribution.
>
First, please reply to the list so others get the benefit of the
exchange.
Second, please quote what you are replying
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:37:50 +0200
Hervé wrote:
> it is not possible to run an appimage file on Debian, whether in
> stable or testing. The file is good because it launches on MX linux
> and on ubuntu. It is a pity that this is not possible. Can't we
> improve that?
Did you set the execute bit?
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:06:16 +0200
john doe wrote:
> No, I'm not even getting the grub bootloader.
If you aren't even getting to to GRUB, then your problem isn't an
encrypted /boot partition, it's something else. Possibly something you
did in the process of encrypting /boot. Possibly a
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 19:28:59 +0200
john doe wrote:
> Now I would like to encrypt the boot partition,, I can succesfully
> encrypt the boot partition.
> As soon as I restart the guest, I can no longer access the guest as it
> will not boot at all.
Are you not even getting to the grub boot loader?
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:34:33 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I've recently found that if I leave the machines with the KVM set to
> the Jessie machine, when I come back, the power light on the monitor
> is red, but does not come back to life when I move the mouse or press
> a key.
My
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:27:10 -0400
Thomas George wrote:
> Is there a known solution?
I don't know about a known solutions, but a workaround might be
ctl-alt-f1, followed by ctl-alt-f7. I think this will force X to
re-initialize some things.
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On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 04:27:08 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the screen
> locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until we have
> wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back in can
> be quite dangerous when
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 04:27:08 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Some of us like xfce4, please advise how to permanently disable
> lightdm and its light-locker. _Forever_. We do know how to turn off
> the monitor at the end of the day.
If you are running XFCE on the beastie in question:
The XFCE power
On Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:37:16 +0200
Linux-Fan wrote:
> Hello fellow list users,
>
> I am constantly needing more computation power, RAM and HDD storage
> such that I have finally decided to buy a server for my next
> "workstation".
If it's quiet you want, try https://silentpc.com/. They are not
On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:18:00 +0200
wrote:
> > If you just hit the front panel reset button, there's not really a
> > lot any software can do to help.
>
> Oh, yes. A better error message (in this case, it turned out juk
> decided to rebuild its cache, which takes time -- so a message
>
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:37:52 +
Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
> I don't know how to empirically test that swap works
Try free. E.g.:
root@jhegaala:~# free
totalusedfree shared buff/cache available
Mem: 78605095 780 597
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:38:55 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> In dash, RANDOM does nothing; it's just an empty variable. And as it
> turns out, dash treats that as a zero.
>
> unicorn:~$ dash
> $ echo $((1 + RANDOM % 1200))
> 1
> $ echo $((1 + % 1200))
> dash: 2: arithmetic expression: expecting
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:53:59 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> RANDOM is a bashism, not available in sh, so that won't work in a
> crontab unless you've altered which shell cron is using to parse the
> crontab.
Well, that's interesting. The file I pulled that from (in /etc/cron.d)
sets two variables
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:36:36 +0200
Pòl Hallen wrote:
> like ubuntu, what's the best way to show a notify alert (via
> terminal) about available packages?
I take it you mean, *new* available packages. I don't know how Ubuntu
does it, so I'll tell you what I do. And the answer depends on what you
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:58:34 -0400
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Note: For troubleshooting, I burned the netinst iso to, both a CD-R
> and a DVD-R. (Fortunately, I'm not Poverty Stricken, wasting a DVD
> for a CD).
>
> The CD Mounts okay, and appears to have the files. However,
> comparing from
Anyone here have any experience with Amazon Workspaces' Linux client?
https://clients.amazonworkspaces.com/ It looks like it's for Ubuntu
18.4. Will Debian Buster be close enough?
I hesitate to install a binary blob from Amazon without first checking
here.
Thank you.
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:26:27 +
ghe2001 wrote:
> I have 2 computers running Debian/xfce4, and the WR widget says "? No
> Data" on both of them.
>
> I've set it to several locations, and WR finds the locations just
> fine. It just can't get the weather data.
According to
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS
> filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a
> few reasons).
Why do you want a file system inside a file? The only reason I can
think of to do
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 13:48:03 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
> I added an alias to my .profile so that --no-install-recommends is
> always set:
>
> 2020-09-08 13:45:56 root@tinkywinky ~
> # grep 'no-install-recommends' .profile*
> .profile:alias apt-get='apt-get --no-install-recommends'
You may
On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 22:43:37 +0200
"Christoph K." wrote:
> I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the
> command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using
> ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5),
> etc.
>
> I'm tired
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 10:45:41 +
nenu crok wrote:
> after seeing size of libreoffice, is there any way an option to
> download only small portion.
Consider other office software instead: ABIword, gnumeric, etc.
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 20:07:52 +
Andrew Cater wrote:
> I've just had a quick look at the Fit-PC site - all of
> them look to be 64 bit capable.
The Fit-PC I is no longer on the Fit-PC web site. Wikipedia, however...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fit-PC#fit-PC_1.0 The processor is:
On Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:50:16 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> > There are
> > already problems with some software that just won't build well in a
> > 32 bit environment.
>
> this would be unfortunate because I am sure there is enough 32bit
> hardware out there still working quite well - like mine
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:37:07 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a simple way to have the mounted filesystem be owned by the
> user that mounts it?
Have the user execute an appropriate script, and get the uid and gid
from the environment:
uid=$(grep ${USER} /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f 3)
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 15:46:07 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
>
>
> This is a popular essay on the subject:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
You may also want to look at RFC 1855 "Netiquette Guidelines". ESR
recommends it.
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 22:02:21 + (UTC)
Long Wind wrote:
> i don't have choice. gmail is blocked in china. i've tried some free
> chinese mail provider, they block debian list. (i've sent
> subscription request thru their mail service, then nothing happened)
Not good.
Proton mail?
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 09:14:16 -0700
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> If someone can't be bothered to take the time to write a readable
> message, I can't be bothered to take the time to decipher it.
On the other tentacle, this sort of thing is usually the province of
newbies. I think it would help to
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:02:48 +
Andy Smith wrote:
> Between your top posting and the HTML mails, I find it very
> difficult to read your emails so I mostly haven't bothered.
Hear, hear. My sentiments exactly.
Yahoo mail is broken. I encourage Mr. Wind to get another mail reader.
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:03:21 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Signal is free and open source software.
>
> Please do feel free to inspect the source code for potential back
> doors or vulnerabilities.
Thank you for the correction. https://signal.org
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:31:00 -0500
Paul Johnson wrote:
> GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and
> it's not some mystery box like Signal.
++
It also has the advantage that the cryptext will stay encrypted on any
intermediate servers. WhatsApp and Signal claim their
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:56:45 -0400
Lars Blizard wrote:
> where is the download page?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=debian+download+page
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 17:44:51 +0800
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> Subject: I discovered a bug in the no-ip dynamic dns free hostname
> auto renewal/confirmation script written by loblab
You may be better off using the debian package ddclient. It supports
no-ip.com.
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
Emacs' diary mode.
Nextcloud calendar
XFCE's Orage.
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:33:25 -0600
Bob Price wrote:
> I installed 10.3 when it first came out and really enjoyed it. I saw
> 10.4 come out so I went to that and was highly disappointed. I did
> not like the idea that the icons were hidden and some hard to get to.
> So I waited until 10.5 came
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up
> to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable
> filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and
> I'm wondering if there is
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 21:05:57 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> How do you keep this set of dynamic DNS providers informed each time
> your home's IP address changes, bearing in mind nobody's at home?
I do that with ddclient. Run:
apt show ddclient
You may want to ensure that ddclient supports the
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:18:46 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:15:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > The home PC that I'd be trying to contact has a 192.168.n.n IP
> > address given to it by my primary router. But the router's external
> > address is obtained by its DHCP
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:27:30 +0100
Brian wrote:
> > Thanks for the list. I didn't expect that this humble thing would
> > set off such a monster thread :-)
>
> You've not been in these parts for very long, have you? -user has a
> habit of generating discussion on trivilities like these. :)
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:40:48 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> . Boot with the installation flash drive, where the kbd/mouse work,
> and use it as your rescue system to effect the repair as outlined
> in the reference above.
Note that edits to /lib/udev/rules.d/97-bluetooth-hid2hci.rules will be
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 12:05:50 +
David wrote:
> Oh, the problem is having to find a wired kybd/mouse to even look.
> As said wireless
> no longer works.
Please reply to the list so that others can see and possibly benefit
from the exchange.
Try booting to an old Linux. If you don't have one
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:56:21 +
David wrote:
> The issue I have with most Linux's is that the latest version will
> not let me use my Logitech MX5500 kybd/mouse. They are wireless off
> a USB port.
If the problem occurs in multiple distributions, I would suspect a
kernel, udev, or driver
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:40:29 -0700
Peter Ehlert wrote:
> This whole conversation is a bit over my head.
> I suggest you look into Syncthing.
>
> It's not in the Debian repos, but it is open source and it just works.
> https://syncthing.net/
Actually, it is in Buster. However, the version in
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:23:25 -0600
Charles Curley wrote:
> Somehow NM is convinced that it should try an Ethernet connection
> first. You need a way to disabuse it of that notion.
Also check the priorities of your WiFi and Ethernet connections. Mine
are: Ethernet, -999; all WiFi, 0.
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:04:44 -0400
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> When I wake up from suspend, my Debian machines take a "long" time to
> reconnect to the wifi. Looking at the `nm-applet` icon in my XFCE4
> panel, I see:
> - for about 10s the icon is "two computers" (which IIUC represents
> just
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:28:59 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Not really, the reason is that in Bullseye gcc now passes the
> --as-needed option to the linker to reduce unnecessary linking of
> libraries (and dependencies in the Debian package system).
Nice. Thanks for the clarification.
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:31:10 +0800
kaye n wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my
> Debian os. What do you guys use?
apt-cache search calculator | sort | less -X
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:51:53 +0200
"Gian Uberto Lauri" wrote:
> Either my trusty old HP48 or Emacs Calc. Both RPN machines.
Or perhaps any one of several HP calculator emulators available on
Debian.
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 22:04:54 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
> I am rather surprised that it does, for I have learned that you always
> need to put libraries to link with at the end of the gcc commandline,
> i.e.
>
> gcc -Wall -ggdb -o gpsclient gpsclient.c -lm -lgps
>
> should work.
Bingo.
I am trying to compile a gpsd client on a i686 bullseye machine. It
appears the compiler can find the include file for libgps, gps.h.
However, the linker cannot find the library.
gcc -Wall -ggdb -lm -lgps -o gpsclient gpsclient.c
gpsclient.c:64:2: warning: #warning Setting up for API version 9.0
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 02:52:22 + (UTC)
Long Wind wrote:
> i want a small app that show cpu temperaturewhich package shall i
> install?Thanks!
>
Your desktop may have a suitable addon. For XFCE, xfce4-sensors-plugin.
Otherwise, run
apt-cache search sensors
and see if any of that gives you
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 15:38:38 -0600
Tom Dial wrote:
> While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my
> wife's Windows laptop,...
Are you asking for advice for Windows or for Debian?
> I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature,
> if known, would
On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:17:33 +0200
Davide Lombardo wrote:
> Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs:
> CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz;
It might be useful to identify the manufacturer of the computer or
motherboard, and search the Internet for documentation.
You may want to
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 09:23:26 +0200
wrote:
> > > [...] (And the capital A is wrong, but we all know
> > > that, and it's bad form to harp on it.)
> >
> > But, for want of a better response, you could not resist commenting
> > on the typo. As you say - bad form. :)
>
> Still possibly
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:00 -0700
Arun Mathai wrote:
> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.
Ask away. There is already some good advice on this thread. You might
also read (or at least browse) Eric Steven Raymond's How To Ask
Questions The Smart Way,
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