Re: Debian 11 couldn't determine device type, assuming default (plain)

2022-01-29 Thread David Christensen
On 1/29/22 22:15, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have: 2022-01-29 22:09:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 11.2 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux It has encrypted swap (and root), created by the Debian

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2/2/22 06:11, Christian Britz wrote: Inspired by my previous attempts to implent NFS on my Synology NAS, I am thinking about buying a mini server where I install Debian to serve as file share (SMB and NFS) and DLNA server. It should fully support Debian Stable, have a low price but be capable

solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2/9/22 08:02, notoneofmyseeds wrote: > I'd suggest an SSD if you have one. Or, perhaps a recommended USB stick. > Perhaps someone here has suggestions for such stick that maintains r/w > over a while and is fast. I am looking for a small (~16 GB), low power, high-endurance, solid-state storag

Re: Compatibility of Debian 9 compiled files in Debian 11 version

2022-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2/10/22 09:54, Nagaraju Mulpuri wrote: Dear Debian Users, Greetings of the day! I have been using Debian 9 version for the last 4 years. Recently, my computer crashed. I have to install Debian OS again. I am planning to install Debian 11 version. I have many of my own programs compiled on th

Re: solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2/10/22 01:37, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 06:50:49PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: I am looking for a small (~16 GB), low power, high-endurance, solid-state storage device with a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A plug, powered by a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A receptacle

Re: solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2/10/22 02:12, gene heskett wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 06:50:49PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: I am looking for a small (~16 GB), low power, high-endurance, solid-state storage device with a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A plug, powered by a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A receptacle

Re: solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2/10/22 04:28, Anssi Saari wrote: David Christensen writes: I am looking for a small (~16 GB), low power, high-endurance, solid-state storage device with a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A plug, powered by a USB 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0+ type-A receptacle, which is designed to be used as a system drive

Re: solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2/11/22 05:30, Dan Ritter wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: David Christensen [2022-02-10 18:22:46] wrote: On 2/10/22 01:37, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: What's high-endurance in your terms? I am unable to find manufacturer specifications to quantify what "high endurance" means, but

Re: Plop in Debian install HDD into entirely new system

2022-02-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2/11/22 12:34, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello friends, I was curious what would happen if I threw my server HDD, into an entirely new system: different motherboard, different CPU (Intel instead of AMD), Ram, video card, everything. I would like to upgrade my system, and ideal case, this w

Re: Plop in Debian install HDD into entirely new system

2022-02-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2/11/22 16:28, David Christensen wrote: On 2/11/22 12:34, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello friends, I was curious what would happen if I threw my server HDD, into an entirely new system: different motherboard, different CPU (Intel instead of AMD), Ram, video card, everything. I would like

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/22 01:04, Hans wrote: Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st primary ->

Re: solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/22 09:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: The relevant stat is the total data written specification. It's usually in "terabytes written". For a 1 TB SSD, 300TBW is bad. 600 is pretty bad. 1200 is okay for a desktop. 1800 is reasonable for some server applications. I think the "bad" vs "good" jud

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2022-02-18 Thread David Christensen
On 2/18/22 09:15, Gene Heskett wrote: Two problems: terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, would not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net installer in rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to a different drive and reinst

Re: reinstalls now about 15, no fix for unwanted brltty. or speech synth announcing every keypress

2022-02-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2/19/22 11:27, Gene Heskett wrote: this damned FF won't let me replace your name in the reply with the list address, so this is yet another reply to about 20 installs of bullseye now. new thread but I can't help it if using FF for web mail is as broken as outlook ever was. The problem i

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2022-02-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2/18/22 22:15, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2022-02-18 21:38 (UTC-0800): 4. Do the simplest install of the OS of choice onto the SSD, using BIOS, MBR, and partitioning the OS drive such that the system image fits onto "16 GB" devices with room to spare -- 1 GB

Re: reinstalls now about 15, no fix for unwanted brltty. or speech synth announcing every keypress

2022-02-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2/19/22 18:07, gene heskett wrote: I use a computer to the limits of its abilities There's 32gigs of dram in this box, and was at the time it choked and died, What were the symptoms of the failure? What was the cause? 300 some gigs of swap in two partitions. I gave a few more gigs t

Re: Mouse problem.

2022-02-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2/22/22 10:15, Tim Woodall wrote: I have a problem with my mouse which operates through a KVM switch. Initially it works fine but once I switch away from the computer and then switch back, the scroll wheel is "amplified". Testing with xev I see 16 messages where I previously expected to see

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread David Christensen
On 3/4/22 02:47, Ottavio Caruso wrote: One of my memory slot has died, I would retire that computer. so I am running a Thinkpad What model/ part number is the Thinkpad? What make/ model/ part number is the processor? What make/ model/ part number are the hard disk(s) and/or solid state

Re: Monitor (screen) move without human action

2022-03-04 Thread David Christensen
On 3/4/22 11:14, Marcelo Laia wrote: Hi, Monitor (screen) of my Notebook Inspiron 15 I15-5547-A20 move and click randomly without an human action. Here is a video https://youtu.be/y2RIZnx_4HY What could be? So, that computer has Intel and AMD graphics? My daily driver is a Dell Latitude E

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-06 Thread David Christensen
On 3/5/22 02:10, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 05/03/2022 00:56, David Christensen wrote: On 3/4/22 02:47, Ottavio Caruso wrote: One of my memory slot has died, I would retire that computer. Thanks. Where do I send my bank details for the funding of a new laptop? so I am running a Thinkpad

PCIe 3.0 8 port SATA 6 Gbps HBA for SOHO network

2022-03-17 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have a SOHO network with various x86_64 servers/ workstations/ desktops (FreeBSD, Debian, Windows) and an assortment of phones/ pads/ pods/ televisions/ game consoles, etc.. I would like to add more SATA 6 Gbps HDD's and/or SSD's to the x86_64 machines and am looking for a sui

Re: PCIe 3.0 8 port SATA 6 Gbps HBA for SOHO network

2022-03-17 Thread David Christensen
On 3/17/22 18:47, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 18.03.2022 04:59, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have a SOHO network with various x86_64 servers/ workstations/ desktops (FreeBSD, Debian, Windows) and an assortment of phones/ pads/ pods/ televisions/ game consoles, etc..  I would

Re: PCIe 3.0 8 port SATA 6 Gbps HBA for SOHO network

2022-03-17 Thread David Christensen
On 3/17/22 19:07, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have a SOHO network with various x86_64 servers/ workstations/ desktops (FreeBSD, Debian, Windows) and an assortment of phones/ pads/ pods/ televisions/ game consoles, etc.. I would like to add more SATA 6 Gbps HDD&#

Re: PCIe 3.0 8 port SATA 6 Gbps HBA for SOHO network

2022-03-17 Thread David Christensen
On 3/17/22 19:38, David Christensen wrote: On 3/17/22 18:47, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 18.03.2022 04:59, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have a SOHO network with various x86_64 servers/ workstations/ desktops (FreeBSD, Debian, Windows) and an assortment of phones/ pads/ pods

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread David Christensen
On 3/18/22 19:47, Lee wrote: On 3/18/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new microcode, or a new version of the d

Re: PCIe 3.0 8 port SATA 6 Gbps HBA for SOHO network

2022-03-18 Thread David Christensen
On 3/17/22 22:39, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 18.03.2022 08:18, David Christensen wrote: STFW I am unable to determine if the LSI 9207-8i HBA (SAS 2308 I/O controller) is supported by Linux and Debian (?).  Suggestions? This adapter has VEN_ID 1000 & DEV_ID 0087.¹ Output from &qu

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread David Christensen
On 3/22/22 07:55, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hi all, I run a tiny and lightweight Debian 9.9 LXC container on Proxmox 6.2-6. It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically needs 50-100 MB to operate. Last year I started seeing about half of swap being used with very little use

Re: Dangerous installation of bullseye: What shall i do next?

2022-03-26 Thread David Christensen
On 3/26/22 15:16, Datakanja de Bruyn wrote: Just a bit of context: I am old + handicapped + pretty much isolated, thus certainly not an expert. But i am happily using debian stable (oldstable by now) since several years. But since more and more software got outdated, i was interested to move to b

Re: Dangerous installation of bullseye: What shall i do next?

2022-03-26 Thread David Christensen
On 3/26/22 17:20, DdB wrote: > Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB > ... DUAL CPU's (32 cores in total without HT), 128 GB ECC-RAM, > 1 NVME SSD + 8 Hotplug HDD's, used for plenty of virtualized machines. On 3/26/22 19:50, DdB wrote: Hey, excellent! much to my liking, you are coming up wit

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-26 Thread David Christensen
On 3/26/22 23:31, Albretch Mueller wrote: $ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ and how can I avoid that from happening? lbrtchx I have a desktop machine (Intel DQ67SW motherboard) with a 2.5" SATA trayless drive rack that I boot w

Re: password

2022-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/22 16:56, Noah Sombrero wrote: I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during installation, regardless of what the installer says. I installed via: debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso The root password I set during installation works. Please document and po

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/22 14:05, ghe2001 wrote: Another password generator suggestion: I'm 79 and memory isn't what it used to be, so I find those "secure" passwords generated by computers to be less than optimal. I use a system that I claim can't be hacked by a dictionary search and almost certainly not by

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/22 20:05, Greg Marks wrote: i have a trouble of creating a password.. It says "The password does not contain the required characters." I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. You might try a command like this: That's sick. I like it. }:-> 2022-04-03 21:25:48 dp

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/22 21:07, ghe2001 wrote: On Sunday, April 3, 2022 7:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: Mozart is famous enough that I expect transcripts of all of his works exist. Yes, but they don't know it's Mozart. And he wrote lots of pieces with words. Suppose the attacke

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

2022-04-09 Thread David Christensen
On 4/9/22 14:08, Felix Miata wrote: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html doesn't seem to show the possibility exists. Is it not possible? What doc explains? The problem: I want to install on a K6/2. The newest installation kernel that doesn't require cmov that K6/2 doesn't

Re: backing up backups

2022-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 4/10/22 19:58, Default User wrote: Hello! My setup: - single home x86-64 computer running Debian 11 Stable, up to date. - one 4-Tb external usb hard drive to use as a backup device, labeled MSD1. - another identical usb hard drive, labeled MSD2, to use as a copy of the backups on MSD1. - the

Re: backing up backups

2022-04-11 Thread David Christensen
On 4/10/22 22:15, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 09:44:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 4/10/22 19:58, Default User wrote: Hello! My setup: - single home x86-64 computer running Debian 11 Stable, up to date. - one 4-Tb external usb hard drive to use as a backup device

Re: backing up backups

2022-04-13 Thread David Christensen
On 4/13/22 09:20, Default User wrote: Hey guys, sorry for just getting back with you now. Unfortunately, I am just now recovering from a self-inflicted computer disaster. While fighting with rsync, I did either: sudo rsync -aAXHSxvv --delete --info=progress2,stats2,name2 /media/default/MSD1/ /

Re: Debian "Bookworm" Installation

2022-04-13 Thread David Christensen
On 4/13/22 16:07, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Hello All, I've just attempted to Install "Bookworm" to a USB stick and it went mostly to plan, apart from the fact that it won't boot. However that's not the issue at hand: I can't find a way to persuade  the installer's partitioner to use GPT ins

Re: backing up backups

2022-04-14 Thread David Christensen
On 4/13/22 20:03, Default User wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:42 PM David Christensen wrote: As you find system administration commands that work, put them into scripts: #!/bin/sh sudo rsync -aAXHxvv --delete --info=progress2,stats2,name2 /media/default/MSD1/ /media/default/MSD2/ Use a

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

2022-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 4/15/22 04:36, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 07:03:14AM -0400, Sam wrote: That's pretty much it. I want to mirror all my updates to a single server on my LAN and have everything on my LAN apt update from it. This seems more efficient than having everyone download their own c

Re: extract values from a string

2022-04-16 Thread David Christensen
On 4/16/22 09:47, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On 4/15/22 19:37, wilson wrote: Hello in shell script, how can I use regex to extract values from a string? maybe value types transformation should be required. for instance the string: "black berry 12". I want go get the name: black berry [Strin

Re: backing up backups

2022-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/22 13:06, Default User wrote: Finally, fun fact: Many years ago, at a local Linux user group meeting, Sun Microsystems put on a demonstration of their ZFS filesystem. To prove how robust it was, they pulled the power cord out of the wall socket on a running desktop computer. Then they pl

Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have an SSD with Debian: 2022-04-19 23:24:11 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.303-1 (2022-03-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI eve

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 12:43 AM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have an SSD with Debian: 2022-04-19 23:24:11 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.303-1 (2022-03-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux I have been experiencing

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 2:23 AM, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.19-amd64, XFCE

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 3:43 AM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 4/20/22, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 4:51 AM, songbird wrote: Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 11:23, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2022-04-20 10:31 (UTC-0700): 1. Dell Inspiron E1505, Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor, Intel GM 945 chipset (Intel® 82945GM Graphics and Memory Controller). I believe Debian uses the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver. 3

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 14:40, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2022-04-20 14:14 (UTC-0700): Can you suggestion and commands to run that might provide clues? Other than switching between use of DDX display drivers (intel, nouveau) and DIX driver (modesetting, which supports: AMD, Intel

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-21 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 15:31, David Christensen wrote: The rear USB 2.0 ports are down right now.  Are there any commands I should run before rebooting (to test if the problem is hardware software)? I ran the desktop with the keyboard and mouse connected directly to the rear USB 3.0 ports. I did not

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

2022-04-21 Thread David Christensen
On 4/21/22 05:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:03:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I am not upgrading in place. I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a different partition. I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home rem

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-21 Thread David Christensen
On 4/21/22 13:50, David Wright wrote: On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 01:02:56 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: What package do I file a bug report against? It's not clear from reading your posts (unless it requires some correlation, on my part, of your observations) whether you have had stor

Re: CMOS clock (was: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3)

2022-04-21 Thread David Christensen
On 4/21/22 14:21, Stefan Monnier wrote: (When switching between Unix and Windows, I need t adjust the CMOS clock on the next boot.) Side note: You could presumably skip this by configuring your Windows installs to use UTC for the CMOS clock. See e.g.: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sys

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-22 Thread David Christensen
On 4/21/2022 5:28 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 4/21/22 13:50, David Wright wrote: On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 01:02:56 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: What package do I file a bug report against? It's not clear from reading your posts (unless it requires some correlation, on my par

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/24/22 12:08, Charles Curley wrote: I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. This morning my motherboard went wonky and crashed. USB devices on the motherboard are acting up. I cannot reboot to Debian. I can, however, boot to finnix 120. Using that, I have fscked all partitions, including

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/24/22 15:37, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:07:14 -0700 David Christensen wrote: On 4/24/22 12:08, Charles Curley wrote: I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. What is the make and model of your motherboard? ASUS H97M-E I'd call that a multimedia de

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/24/22 17:10, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:08:03 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. RAID has not yet failed the errant drive. Just now, via ssh into finnix: root@0:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear] [

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/22 08:25, Tom Browder wrote: I am looking for a commercial grade server (for home use) to replace my remote ones. I am looking at Dell's site and an almost-empty chassis with a low-end Intel, 1 TB SATA, and 8 Gb ECC RAM is in the $800 ball park. It looks very upgradeable. Anyone have an

ATX power supply for single-socket server/ workstation

2022-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/22 11:24, Dan Ritter wrote: > There's a lot to be said for using $60 power supplies instead of > $200 power supplies. I am starting to worry that $60 PSU's are good for one thing -- destroying themselves and everything else in the computer! Any recommendations for an ATX power supply

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/22 07:18, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:52:15 -0700 David Christensen wrote: So, RAID 5 HDD's are sda, sdc, and sdd, and optical is sdb? Optical is sr0. Interesting. (Must be the SATA controller expansion card?) sda is an SSD with all the system, /home

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/22 15:30, Tom Browder wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 11:07 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:25:46AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: I am looking for a commercial grade server (for home use) to replace my remote ones. And to all others, thanks for your advice. I'm now

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/22 18:57, Felix Miata wrote: Tom Browder composed on 2022-04-25 18:30 (UTC-0400): I'm now 78 and don't do serious building any more--I stand a good chance of frying a CPU! And I wouldn't trust any of my friends, either ;-D IMO, almost everyone who can admin a server can build one. It'

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-26 Thread David Christensen
On 4/26/22 15:04, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:56:50 -0700 David Christensen wrote: On 4/25/22 07:18, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:52:15 -0700 David Christensen wrote: Rather than a Live Linux distribution for troubleshooting, I install Debian onto a

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-27 Thread David Christensen
On 4/27/22 03:50, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:49 Christian Britz wrote: ... I really appreciate all the advice, but I am not going to build from scratch again (but I will encourage my grandchildren if they ever get interested). In that vein, the link on the modern build-your-

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-27 Thread David Christensen
On 4/27/22 05:24, Will Mengarini wrote: * Tom Browder [22-04/27=We 05:50 -0500]: I really appreciate all the advice, but I am not going to build from scratch again [...]. Just in case anybody's discouraged that the OP won't build from scratch, I just want to say /I/ found this thread valuable

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-03 Thread David Christensen
On 5/3/22 12:42, Tom Browder wrote: I'm about to sign up for a fixed IPv4 address to my home. I know a bit about setting up simple internal networks, but want to make sure I'm doing it all correctly and securely. Does anyone have a good book they recommend for such use? On 5/3/22 13:35, Tom Br

Re: Looking for documentation package

2022-05-03 Thread David Christensen
On 5/3/22 16:17, Gary L. Roach wrote: I have been looking for a documentation system that would allow me to write cursive paragraphs with math formulas interspersed and then have the formulas solved. Some examples that almost do what I want is Sage, Octave and Cantor (with the proper backend).

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 5/4/22 09:07, john doe wrote: > Here are some comments in addition to this thread: > - Do not use the router capability provided by your ISP. > This is mainly to avoid letting your ISP remotely control the thing and > disable the firewall for example. > > If you can, use your own router. > > If

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 5/5/22 12:31, john doe wrote: At the time I set up this, I googled this subject and came to the conclusion that SSH through VPN was a better fit (flexibility, two layers of security, VPN advantages when connecting on public wifi) for me. I prefer to have SSH available both via old-school p

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/22 12:13, ghe2001 wrote: Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster Mounting disks isn't working with UUIDs. At boot or manually mounting: UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4default 1 1 says: mount: /backupDisk: wrong fs type, bad

Re: fstab problem

2022-05-08 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/22 14:25, ghe2001 wrote: --- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:11 PM, David Christensen wrote: What happens if you put the following into /etc/fstab? UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 default 0 0 "wrong fs type..." L

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

2022-05-08 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/22 15:00, ghe2001 wrote: On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:51 PM, David Christensen wrote: My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0 0 Well, damned if it didn't work. And I had all of my

USB Debian 11 installer and target drive device node [was fstab problem]

2022-05-09 Thread David Christensen
On 5/9/22 10:21, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 08 May 2022 at 23:39:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: >> As noted by another reader in another thread, the Debian 11 installer >> appears to always assign /dev/sda to d-i USB installation media; in >> spite of decades of

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

2022-05-09 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/22 18:54, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: Situation: I have a 500G boot drive (root, swap, home) I'd like to copy to a new 250G drive which must then also be bootable (yes, there's enough room). This are EFI drives. I can use "dd", but I don't know the proper parameters, and as I un

Re: USB Debian 11 installer and target drive device node [was fstab problem]

2022-05-09 Thread David Christensen
On 5/9/22 12:58, David Wright wrote: On Mon 09 May 2022 at 11:30:39 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 5/9/22 10:21, David Wright wrote: On Sun 08 May 2022 at 23:39:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: As noted by another reader in another thread, the Debian 11 installer appears to always

Re: Installation fails to recognize SSD

2022-05-10 Thread David Christensen
On 5/10/22 17:54, Bruno Schneider wrote: I'm trying to install Debian to a Acer Aspire notebook with SSD. Before doing so, I tried to backup the previous Linux Install using SystemRescue. I booted with a SystemRescue flash drive, but only the USB flash drive was recognized and shown on fdisk list

Re: Installation fails to recognize SSD

2022-05-11 Thread David Christensen
On 5/11/22 09:20, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:18 PM David Christensen wrote: I have Dell Latitude 5400 laptop that I have been experimenting with: 1. Changing CMOS "Settings" -> "System Configuration" -> "SATA Operation" from "RA

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-11 Thread David Christensen
On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logged in as a non root user, and I can select edit connections and change the IPv4 settings to DHCP address only and then put in a DNS, then save. If I look at /etc/resolv.conf though nothing has changed.

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-12 Thread David Christensen
On 5/12/22 07:17, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logged in as a non root user, and I can select edit connections and change the IPv4 settings to DHCP address only and then put in a DNS

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-05-12 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 00:43, David Christensen wrote: I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI events over the past year or more: I found my spare mouse last week and swapped out the mouse I have been using for the past few years. The problems went away. The bad

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-13 Thread David Christensen
On 5/13/22 09:02, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: On 5/12/22 07:17, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logged in as a non root user, and I can select edit connections and change the

Acer CMOS Setup and Ctrl+S [was Installation fails to recognize SSD]

2022-05-13 Thread David Christensen
On 5/13/22 13:06, KCB Leigh wrote: > I really want to thank you all for this advice: it solved a problem with which I've been struggling for MONTHS!! > > My Computer: ACER ASPIRE 514-54 > BIOS/UEFI SETUP:INSYDE vers. 1.17 > Internal Storage: > - HDD0: 256GB Western Digital WDC PC SN530

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-13 Thread David Christensen
On 5/13/22 12:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:53:23AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 5/13/22 09:02, Richmond wrote: stat /etc/resolv.conf shows that the file has been updated but its content doesn't change. My /etc/resolv.conf did not change after running Ne

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

2022-05-13 Thread David Christensen
On 5/13/22 19:02, ghe2001 wrote: Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster, smartctl v 6.6 I bought a new 12TB Western Digital Gold SATA disk the other day. After testing it, smartctl says, among other things: 22 Unknown_Attribute 0x0023 001 001 025Pre-fail Always FAILING_NO

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote: writes: On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: Richmond writes: David Christensen writes: [...] I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to prompt for the root password. Perhaps it is not installed. I don't

Re: Acer CMOS Setup and Ctrl+S [was Installation fails to recognize SSD]

2022-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/22 09:52, Felmon Davis wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2022, David Christensen wrote: Does Acer document the CMOS Setup Ctrl+S key combination? the only 'documentation' I've seen is in the webs. I noticed if you search "Acer AHCI" you get a ton of hits on something c

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-15 Thread David Christensen
On 5/15/22 06:53, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote: writes: On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: Is there a debian package for this? : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce-polkit "A simple PolicyKit authentication

Re: firefox misbehaviour

2022-05-20 Thread David Christensen
On 5/20/22 20:09, Russell L. Harris wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with firefox over the past week? At first I noticed that NEW WINDOW sometimes was absent from the menu (FILE > NEW WINDOW).  Then, some bookmarks went missing.  Now the TAB AUTO REFRESH icon (and function) has vanished and

Re: firefox misbehaviour

2022-05-21 Thread David Christensen
On 5/20/22 22:57, Hans wrote: Am Samstag, 21. Mai 2022, 05:09:38 CEST schrieb Russell L. Harris: Hi Russell, I do not have those issues you describe, but on my system firefox sometimes completely freezes the system when calling some special websites. Then nothing can be done, only the mouse is

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-23 Thread David Christensen
On 5/19/22 04:03, Antonino Saetta wrote: I'm an Italian student from Dublin City University. Currently, I'm carrying out an assignment on IoT, What is your assignment; specifically? David

Re: grep: show matching line from pattern file

2022-06-02 Thread David Christensen
On 6/2/22 15:13, Will Mengarini wrote: * Greg Wooledge [22-05/28=Sa 17:11 -0400]: [...] #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; [...] open PATS, " You need "or die", not "|| die", because of precedence: what you coded checks whether " +1 That is a good explanation of a Perl fine point/ go

Bash and the PS1 environment variable [was: grep: show matching line from pattern file]

2022-06-02 Thread David Christensen
On 6/2/22 17:12, Will Mengarini wrote: > * David Christensen [22-06/02=Thu 15:50 -0700]: >> On 6/2/22 15:13, Will Mengarini wrote: >>> In this transcript, the number before the prompt-ending '$' is $?: >>> >>&

Re: Bash and the PS1 environment variable [was: grep: show matching line from pattern file]

2022-06-02 Thread David Christensen
On 6/2/22 18:35, Will Mengarini wrote: * David Christensen [22-06/02=Th 18:01 -0700]: On 6/2/22 17:12, Will Mengarini wrote: * David Christensen [22-06/02=Th 15:50 -0700]: On 6/2/22 15:13, Will Mengarini wrote: In this transcript, the number before the prompt-ending '

Re: Bash and the PS1 environment variable [was: grep: show matching line from pattern file]

2022-06-02 Thread David Christensen
On 6/2/22 19:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 06:01:11PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: This is my PS1. '\u' does not work on all of Debian, FreeBSD, Cygwin, and macOS, so the expansion of ${USER} is inserted between two string literals when .profile runs and sets

Re: Bash and the PS1 environment variable [was: grep: show matching line from pattern file]

2022-06-02 Thread David Christensen
On 6/2/22 22:50, Will Mengarini wrote: * David Christensen [22-06/02=Th 19:18 -0700]: [...] Now I can almost match your prompt -- there is a dash before 'bash': 2022-06-02 19:05:10 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ PS1="\\h/${TTY#/dev/} \\s$SHLVL \\w \\A \$?\\\$" laalaa/pts/8 -bash1

Re: ssh-agent: I want to start using on all my remote hosts

2022-06-03 Thread David Christensen
On 6/3/22 07:43, Tom Browder wrote: I have been using ssh for logging in to my remote hosts for many years, but I have NOT been using ssh-agent. I have checked all those hosts looking for the env var SSH_AGENT_SOCK which one website says should be defined if the ssh-agent process is running, but

Re: How about ssh certificates (was: Re: ssh-agent: I want to start using on all my remote hosts)

2022-06-03 Thread David Christensen
On 6/3/22 08:46, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, June 03, 2022 10:43:53 AM Tom Browder wrote: I have been using ssh for logging in to my remote hosts for many years, but I have NOT been using ssh-agent. I'm intentionally not addressing your specific questions. For me, your post is rather

Re: error message for sda

2022-06-06 Thread David Christensen
On 6/6/22 17:02, Bob Crochelt wrote: Hi: Running updated Debian on a pretty old iMac. Seeing messages that complain about sda, only drive in the system: > I think this means its time to replace the hard drive, any other thoughts? Interpreting smartctl output is tough. Try to find manufa

Re: error message for sda

2022-06-06 Thread David Christensen
On 6/6/22 20:27, David wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 10:03, Bob Crochelt wrote: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 045 045 000Old_age Always - 48690 Assuming the raw value is hours, that's about 5.5 years of power on time. 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 045

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