Re: Looking for inspiration/advice/best practices on system upgrade

2023-04-24 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 24 avril 2023 DdB a écrit : > 1. Upgrade from current configuration using upgrade path tools (apt) and > plan only one step (going to bullseye) at a time, eventually having to > upgrade a second time later. Usually this is the safest way. But why don't you upgrade sooner to bullseye ? Do you h

Re: Evolution email (problem?)

2023-04-27 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 27 avril 2023 Default User a écrit : > Anyway, it would be interesting to hear from Evolution users, to see if > others experience the situation I have described. I would find it hard > to believe that no one else on debian-user@lists.debian.org uses > Gnome/Evolution on Debian Stable! I do

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-04-29 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 28 avril 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > We use a different dns server(s) and zonefile for the external dns > environment from what we use internally. Company dns is Windows server 2016 > incase that is relevant. It's better to use dig (package bind9-dnsutils) to first eliminate problems on o

Re: No fool like an old fool (debian installation probs)

2023-05-01 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 1 mai 2023 DdB a écrit : > But omitting GNOME from the list lead to a system failing to boot with > tons of messages stating the absense of all kind of gnome parts. To install without gnome I select the task ssh server then after I manually select what I want, and a WM if needed.

Re: No fool like an old fool (debian installation probs)

2023-05-01 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 1 mai 2023 DdB a écrit : > Any suggestions/questions/hints from the power-users in here? > ... would be wildly appreciated ... When installing you have to stop on your first problem. The others could be created from it. It's longer but easier to cope with. So give us full details on your first

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : > I expect that, by context, running > apt purge > without the restriction specifying particular package, will apply > apt purge > to all installed packages, according to what purge does, in relation to > packages. But as "apt purge " remove this package and rem

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-05-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 mai 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > linbobo:/etc/bind# cat named.conf.local > --- > [] > zone "tio.nl" IN { > type forward; > forward only; > forwarders {172.16.128.40; 172.16.208.10;}; > }; > > zone "staf.tio.nl" IN { > type forward;

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : > and, so, where a particular package is specified as an argument to the > command, all obsolete configuration files associated with the package, will be > removed, and, where no package is specified as an argument to the command, all > obsolete configuration fi

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-03 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 3 mai 2023 Curt a écrit : > You really don't have to tread dangerous waters (or rather wade into > them, unless your Jesus) because you can simulate without root privileges. > > curty@einstein:~$ apt -s purge > NOTE: This is only a simulation! Nice parameter, thanks !

Re: processing /etc/sysctl.d

2023-05-03 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 4 mai 2023 Greg Wooledge a écrit : > A guess: perhaps this parameter cannot be set during the initial boot, > because the enp1s0 interface isn't in a working state yet. Yes setting parameter on interface is better done in /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/network/interfaces.d/* which is used whe

Re: processing /etc/sysctl.d

2023-05-04 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 4 mai 2023 Michel Verdier a écrit : > with a stanse like > > auto enp1s0... > sysctl net/ipv6/conf/default/accept_ra = 1 I mean sysctl net.ipv6.conf.enp1s0.accept_ra = 1

Re: processing /etc/sysctl.d

2023-05-04 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 4 mai 2023 Greg Wooledge a écrit : > I can't help you with IPv6. ipv6 is setup by adding in /e/n/i iface enp1s0 inet6 auto

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 mai 2023 zithro a écrit : > If on USB/external drive, preferably format the drive so it can be read on > multiple OS. So prefer FAT32/exFAT, and avoid ext4, ZFS, NTFS, APFS, etc. As I don't need to restore debian on windows I choose to format my external drive with xfs on encrypted partition

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-05-05 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 mai 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > linbobo:/etc/bind# cat named.conf.local You have only zone blocks in this file, right ? And you don't use views ? > Why does it first go to the public dns and then run into the dnssec problem? > There is a direct definition for the tio.nl zone in my confi

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-07 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 7 mai 2023 Brian a écrit : >> > You might give Fedora a try. Its release cadence is every 6 months. At >> > each release, Fedora typically supplies the most current version of a >> > package. >> > >> > You may find Fedora aligns better with your requirements. >> >> How about Arch linux? >> >>

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-05-08 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 8 mai 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > I also do not understand this difference when querying the internal dns > server directly. > Why does the +trace +cd not show an answer but when I leave them out I get a > correct answer. Is that because +trace forces it to start at the root which is > irre

Re: sudoers question

2023-05-12 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 12 mai 2023 Tom Reed a écrit : > that's normal. for example, I have to check every kind of logs (mail, > webserver, systems etc). They require sudo then. Logs are with adm gid, so just add your user to the group adm to be able to consult logs.

Re: sudoers question

2023-05-12 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 12 mai 2023 Stefan Monnier a écrit : >> Or configure sudo to disable tty_tickets, so that the timeout (10 >> minutes by default IIRC) applies to all terminals. > > `sudo bash` anyone? also quicker done with su -

Re: sudoers question

2023-05-13 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 12 mai 2023 tomas a écrit : >> > `sudo bash` anyone? >> >> also quicker done with >> su - > > But not the same. Which differences do you see ?

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-13 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 13 mai 2023 jeremy ardley a écrit : > The exact reasons are in the mists of time, but it seems likely the powers > didn't want users to routinely use programs better run by adminstrators. As I learned it a long time ago, /bin /sbin are historically for system commands, /usr/bin /usr/sbin for u

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-05-23 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 19 mai 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > Been a few busy week, that is why I only respond now, sory. Same for me :/ > beheerdertio@linbobo:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain bobo.xs4all.nl > search bobo.xs4all.nl > search tio.nl > search staf.tio.nl > search student.tio.nl > nameserver 127.0.0.1 >

Re: After upgrade to bookworm: Keyboard layout

2023-05-24 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 24 mai 2023 Hans a écrit : >> > I tried debian-reconfigure keyboard-configuration without success, >> > also deinstalled and reinstalled both without success. >> >> Try: >> dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration >> dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > > Tried before, but no success. Can you give

Re: [SOLVED] Re: After upgrade to bookworm: Keyboard layout

2023-05-27 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 27 mai 2023 Hans a écrit : > The entry "acer_laptop" worked always well, but I also tried "pc-105" during > the time of the > issue, which also did NOT work. it's "pc105", but that don't change anything

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-06-01 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 1 juin 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > linbobo:~# ss -nap | grep named > tcp LISTEN 0 10 [2a02:a45f:96c2:1:1e69:7aff:fe0c:65e3]:53 [::]:* > users:(("named",pid=554,fd=78)) > tcp LISTEN 0 10 [fe80::1e69:7aff:fe0c:65e3]%eno1:53 [::]:* > users:(("named",pid=554,fd=71)) > tcp LISTEN 0 10 [fe80::33bc

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-06-01 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 1 juin 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > I can do that, but ... that is only for inbound traffic TO my dns server on > this network. > That part is working without any problem. Changing that will not change > anything for the clients on this network. You are right. I simply used to fix explicit

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-06-01 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 1 juin 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : >> If you get an answer it's a dnssec problem with the error message in your >> logs. If there is no answer it's another problem. > Well, it seems I get an answer with the +cd option, and none without. Yes. If I do : # dig tio.nl A +dnssec +multiline ; <<

Re: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 juin 2023 Andrew Wood a écrit : > The the issue is our server sends mail for our own domains and we are getting > mail rejected from some recipient servers with 550 PTR rejected: Please use a > non-generic PTR (in reply to RCPT TO command. Give the full message for better understanding but I

Re: X11 should not run as root or?

2023-06-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 juin 2023 therealcyclist a écrit : > I tried the new Debian bookworm installer rc4 and i manually installed i3-wm. > I started i3 from tty with startx command as user. > to my surprise i found out that the xorg process is running as root. > that can't be intentional, can it? Maybe because so

Re: problem with local DNS

2023-06-03 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 3 juin 2023 Maureen L. Thomas a écrit : > I am using a Lonova all in one computer with the latest debian on it.  > Bullseye is working fine except for the warning I get as follows:  your > current proxy settings do not allow local DNS req > (network.proxy.socks_remote)dns). I suppose this mes

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-04 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 4 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : > 2023-06-04T06:30:54.117016+02:00 box exim[24894]: 2023-06-04 06:30:54 > 1q5fOD-0006TT-2C failed to write to main log: length=91 result=-1 errno=9 > (Bad file descriptor) > 2023-06-04T06:30:54.150516+02:00 box exim[24894]: write failed on panic log: > length=116

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-04 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 4 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : > Does this help? Yes, nothing is done after rotation. But I don't remember the default exim logging mechanism. Can you provide grep -r log_file_path /etc/exim*

Re: Fwd: problem with local DNS

2023-06-04 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 juin 2023 Maureen L. Thomas a écrit : > Forwarded Message > Subject: problem with local DNS > > I am using a Lonova all in one computer with the latest debian on it.  > Bullseye is working fine except for the warning I get as follows:  your > current proxy settings do

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-05 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : >>Yes, nothing is done after rotation. But I don't remember the default >>exim logging mechanism. Can you provide >> >>grep -r log_file_path /etc/exim* > > This gives nothing. Then can you provide exim -bP (snip ip adresses if you want)

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-05 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : > Merci pour ton aide Michel. De rien :) Let's continue in english for the list > log_file_path = /var/log/exim4/%slog > log_selector = +smtp_protocol_error +smtp_syntax_error > +tls_certificate_verified +tls_peerdn exim writes directly to the logfiles. If you ge

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-05 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : >>if one succeed without message and with code 0, add in >>/etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base and /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-paniclog >> >>postrotate >>systemctl exim4-base >>endscript >> >>if you add reload but still get the error try restart, I don't know if >>th

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-08, James Addison wrote: > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs? > > I'd be particularly keen to hear about laptop/desktop/server systems, > because I think that a large motivating factor to use initramfs -- > across many distributions -- was to

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-08, James Addison wrote: > Basically what I'm wondering about is whether there's some kind of > future utopia where operating system filesystem images -- and the > process of managing and booting from them -- could be made > significantly simpler. You can already do that. Compile a ker

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-10 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-10, steve wrote: > Hi Michel and al, > > After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. > > I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. Just to be sure before you reinstall can you provide exim -bP | grep syslog

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-12 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-11, steve wrote: >>> After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. >>> >>> I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. >> >>Just to be sure before you reinstall can you provide >>exim -bP | grep syslog > > syslog_duplication Docs indicate it

Re: Do I need X session?

2023-06-12 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-12, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Typically, when Debian installs a GUI environment (GNOME, XFCE4, etc.), > it also installs lightdm or some other X session manager. This takes up > memory, and isn't something I really need (as far as I know). Instead, > I'm perfectly happy to have D

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-15, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > I require a WYSIWYG editor. Zim is one. But I also need another > supporting editor to further polish up files. emacs ?

Re: [Debian 12 Issue] Black Screen after starting X11. Cant log in into Graphical Environments. Either DEs or WMs. AMD Radeon GPU problems

2023-06-17 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-17, Paul Gerdes wrote: > Hi i have a problem with Debian 12 after Installation. > Every time i try to log in to the Desktop Environment or WM my Screen goes > black. The PC completely freezes and i cant switch to another TTY. Did you check X logs ? With something like grep EE /var/log

Re: [Debian 12 Issue] Black Screen after starting X11. Cant log in into Graphical Environments. Either DEs or WMs. AMD Radeon GPU problems

2023-06-18 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 18 juin 2023 Paul Gerdes a écrit : > i get these messages: > "grep: /var/log/Xorg.*: No such file or directory" > "grep: /var/log/Xorg: No such file or directory" > > looks like there is no log file for X11 Did you also try to start X with startx from a tty ? Can you provide find /etc/ | grep

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-18 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-07-19, Stefan Schumacher wrote: > I noticed that pulseaudio is not part of Debian Bookworm anymore. How > and where do I have to make these settings now? Audio standard is now pipewire. Ensure you have pipewire-pulse installed to serve pulseaudio to applications needing it.

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-07-19, Stefan Schumacher wrote: > ii pipewire-pulse 0.3.65-3 > amd64PipeWire PulseAudio daemon So pulseaudio is provided by pipewire-pulse. Configuration is in ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

Re: General Questions

2023-07-25 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-07-25, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> And about third question, I mean: dwm and awesome wm. They will be >> supported in future too? > > If people use them, and if the upstream developers of these projects > remain active and responsive, they will likely remain in Debian. And about dwm I would a

Re: no sound on Debian 12

2023-07-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-07-25, Bruce Byfield wrote: > Last week, I installed Debian 12. Since then I've had no sound. I've > consulted > various pages on the Debian wiki, and found no solution, either with > pulseaudio or pipewire. Built-in speakers, and external features (including > bluetooth ones, which a

Re: not a debian problem

2023-07-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-07-26, Tim Woodall wrote: > Anyone seen anything like this and what was the issue? I don't have such a difference between 2 machines. But I had one which freeze and I played with reboot kernel parameter succeeding with: reboot=pcie reboot accept different values. I set it in /etc/defaul

Re: something seriously wrong with my bookworm install

2023-07-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-07-26, gene heskett wrote: >>> So where are syslog and dmesg? >> I take it you didn't bother to read §5.1.7 of the bookworm Release Notes. > > Not yet David. [...] §5.1.7 indicates syslog (rsyslog) is not installed and is replaced by journald (from systemd). You still can install rsyslog

Re: something seriously wrong with my bookworm install

2023-07-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-07-26, gene heskett wrote: >> §5.1.7 indicates syslog (rsyslog) is not installed and is replaced by >> journald (from systemd). You still can install rsyslog and >> configure rsyslog/journald to get what you want where you want >> > All the files in /var/log/journal/big hash subdir/* are

Re: CVE-2022-27385 - Vendor Dependency Check In

2023-08-02 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-01, Julius Ross (juliross) wrote: > We're looking for a contact or direction on gaining updates on open > vulnerabilities relating to known CVEs. Can you point us to the correct forum > or support email address? We want to be able to track these vulnerabilities > and when fixes become a

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-04, Carl Fink wrote: > Today, on my Bullseye system, X crashed and restarted. Naturally, I thought > I'd check my logs to see if I could find out why. > > Well, no ... because syslog does not exist. If you don't have syslog your logs will be on journald. But X logs could be in /var/log

Re: X-post: Public library wifi oddity, Linux vs Android

2023-08-11 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-11, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> "community" libraries offer free wifi, courtesy (?) of *cough* O2. Tech >> support is non-existent. If it works it works, if it doesn't, tough. >> The last few weeks I noticed wifi performance degrading. Today, I couldn't >> even connect the wifi networ

Re: LaTeX Unicode entry issues

2023-08-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-24, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm necessarily working with a pdfLaTeX document. You mean LaTeX document compiled with pdflatex ? > My TexLive runs in emacs and automatically changes " to ``. This makes > it annoying to enter Unicode, for I have to paste it from the > terminal. Is there

Re: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process

2023-08-25 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-25, thah...@t-online.de wrote: > Looking at the initramfs manpages i found that I can get into the busybox > during > the boot process with break=... on the linux command line. > break=top > works, but > break=modules > is not reached. It hangs before that. Did you try with "debug" on

Re: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process

2023-08-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-26, Tixy wrote: >> I thought of that, too, but debug writes to a tmpfs (it has to, at this >> point). If the machine locks up, the log is lost... > > Logs will appear on the screen so long as you don't have the 'quiet' > parameter on the Linux commandline. I think it always writes to t

Re: AW: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process

2023-08-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-26, thah...@t-online.de wrote: > Tried with clocksourche=hpet > Now the Switched to clocksouce tsc is missing and the last line is > clocksource: tsc: mask . > like before the 2nd last line (as to be expected) On my kernel I always have those 3 lines during boot : clocksource: tsc

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-28, gene heskett wrote: > Any help in finding this will be hugely appreciated. As you are awake and know the time of ringing do you check the logs around that time ?

Re: AW: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process

2023-08-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-28, thah...@t-online.de wrote: > It hangs in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/udev > > The 2nd last udev call hangs my box > udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=add Perhaps add before udevadm trigger --verbose --dry-run --type=devices --action=add

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-29 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > It's changed *only* under the specific circumstance where the file has > been modified since it was last read. If the file hasn't been written to > (or metadata changed), atime isn't updated. Michael is right : atime is modified if it's "ealier" so you alway

Re: AW: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process

2023-08-30 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-30, thah...@t-online.de wrote: > The last USB device in this list is a bluetooth card. I have blacklisted > btusb, > but this didn't help, still hangs. > At 182 seconds I pressed CRTL_ALT_DEL and the times without sleep statements > come down to like 11 seconds when it hangs. You sh

Re: HDMI not working

2023-08-30 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-30, CL wrote: > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 > [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:46a8] (rev 0c) > DeviceName: Onboard - Video > Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [Iris Xe > Graphics] [103c:899b] > Kerne

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-31 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-30, Karl Vogel wrote: > logmsg "running b2sum" > fdbdir=$(date '+/var/fdb/%Y/%m%d') > sort -z $work | xargs -0r b2sum -l 128 > "$fdbdir/zroot.sum" > rm $work > exit 0 > > Useful for finding changed files -- security, backups, etc. tripwire from local host and stea

Re: Sleep: out of control

2023-08-31 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-31, Tom Browder wrote: > Is there a way to definitely deactivate all OS-related power changes so the > power button has only two functions (on/off)? To disable all sleep/suspend/hibernation I put in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf [Sleep] AllowSuspend=no AllowHibernation=no AllowSuspendThenHi

Re: Emacsclient bug in sid

2023-08-31 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-31, Charles Curley wrote: > Having set up to use emacsclient, you (or more likely, programs > you use such as a mail reader) can then call emacsclient so you can then > edit files from that program in emacs. If you do it that way, you don't > get (or need) an instance of emacs in daemon

Re: Emacsclient bug in sid

2023-09-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-08-31, Charles Curley wrote: > You need an emacs process running in order to use emacsclient. It need > not be a daemon. -a="" will launch a daemon process if there isn't a > process already running, daemon or otherwise. emacs is enough if you put start-server in init file. Else it don't

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-01, D. R. Evans wrote: > The machine has two ethernet ports, which used to be eth0 and eth1 in the old > days, but are now magically called "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" and "Wired > connection enp12s0(eth1)". If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.i

Re: Emacsclient bug in sid

2023-09-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-04, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Friday, 1 September 2023 04:37:37 CEST Wang Yizhen wrote: >> Whenever I finished editing, I would delete the frame while keeping the >> emacs running as daemon in the background. And next time when I wish to >> edit anything, I would use the emacsclient

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You used "su" to become root, I believe. Unfortunately, beginning > with Debian 9, "su" with no arguments and no configuration doesn't > behave the way it used to behave. Specifically, it no longer sets the > PATH variable properly. And so you get the above

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-05, Charles Curley wrote: > E.g. gaining root privileges with "su" vs. "su -i". You mean vs "su -" or "su -l" or "su --login" :)

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-06 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-06, Romain wrote: > I couldn't find any mentions of my IPv4 address in the server logs. MTR > (-4) doesn't report any issues reaching the server. Did you run mtr from the both sides ?

Re: su

2023-09-06 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > How *incredibly* Red Hat. Really, it just sickens me that this is the > answer accepted by so many people. It's not Red Hat, it's man page and own practice, even before Red Hat exists :) > To perform that installation, you run "su", which gives you a root s

Re: GRUB lost graphical terminal mode

2024-02-17 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-02-16, Borden wrote: > For a couple weeks now, I can't use graphical terminal in my GRUB > configuration. Setting `GRUB_TERMINAL=console` works fine. With that line > commented out, (thus using default settings), I get a blank screen on boot, 5 > second timeout, then normal boot. > > Curio

Re: Thank you Debian

2024-02-22 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-02-21, Andre Rodier wrote: > A few years ago, I created a set of Ansible scripts to code what I was already > doing manually, so I could rebuild my server from scratch. What makes you chose ansible instead of a debian package applying your scripts and configurations? > - What is the best

Re: Thank you Debian

2024-02-22 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-02-22, an...@rodier.me wrote: >> What makes you chose ansible instead of a debian package applying your >> scripts and configurations? > > I didn't want to create a new distribution, I wanted scripts to > configure a bare distribution, that anyone could maintain using the > standard Debian

Re: very poor nfs performance

2024-03-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-07, Stefan K wrote: > I hope someone can help me with my problem. > Our NFS performance ist very bad, like ~20MB/s, mountoption looks like that: > rw,relatime,sync,vers=4.2,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,local_lock=none What are the mo

Re: /boot/grub/grub.cfg hex number reference

2024-03-13 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-13, Gareth Evans wrote: > That suggests perhaps something to do with an FS UUID, but it doesn't seem to > appear in the output of any of > > # blkid Here I have them shown as UUID by blkid # grep root /boot/grub/grub.cfg ... search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,gp

Re: DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

2024-03-14 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-13, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > what solutions (free or not) do you debian servers pros use (for pro or > private servers) ? You could try suricata. Same as snort but with another community for upgrading rules. Using nftables instead of iptables also could reduce high trafic impa

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-28, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: >> Apparently the root of the security issue is that wall is a setguid program? > > a) wall must be able to write to your tty, which is not possible >if wall is not installed setguid OR if people have sane permissions >on their terminals (e.g. set to mes

Re: [oss-security] backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

2024-03-30 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-03-30, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > so is this a threat to us normal debian users > if so how do we fix it Debian stable is not affected, Debian testing, unstable and experimental must be updated. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote: >> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ >> ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. > > Why not? Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time > *should* is the correct word. The board being over 10 years old,

kde troubles (was: tbird troubles)

2024-04-16 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote: > 32 gigs of memory. But the constraint is a 30-45 second delay in opening a new > write path to nv storage. This totally disables digikam's ability to import digikam is a kde application, so you need the kde stuff at least for it. I use it too, have less memor

Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-22 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-21, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Obviously my Steam programs and configuration files are in my > home directory, since the updated system comes up icons and all > without re-installing Steam, and can find everything it needs to > run the games. But perhaps there are a few files somewhere els

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-23, Richard wrote: > luks-775ea946-6797-4c4d-a042-72924309f3d2 > UUID=775ea946-6797-4c4d-a042-72924309f3d2 /crypto_keyfile.bin > luks,keyscript=/bin/cat > luks-78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7 > UUID=78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7 /crypto_keyfile.bin > luks,keyscript=/

Re: Spurious messages at the console

2024-05-10 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-05-10, Paul M Foster wrote: > [76056.389126] pcieport :00:1c.0: PCIe Buss Error: severity=Corrected, > type=Physical Layer, (Reciever ID) Use lspci (from package pciutils) to find which device it is

Re: small font

2024-07-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-04, Max Nikulin wrote: >> Tell that to your mail program. If it chooses to show you the mail that way, >> don't blame me. > > - insisting on an "industry standard" mail style > >> > y:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tell that to your mail progra= > >

Re: small font

2024-07-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-04, jeremy ardley wrote: > The problem is mostly because users have email software that automatically > uses mixed format. That's not their fault as they are probably unaware of the > problem. And lots of MUA only show HTML version, hiding the text copy and the problem. > Unless there

Re: small font

2024-07-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-04, Richard wrote: > Right, because 4x = 10x. Jesus, stop being so ridiculous. Also, there's > some magic trick called compression. Human readable text is especially easy > to compress, basically negating all those effects. So just stick to > reality, everything else is just embarrassin

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-06, George at Clug wrote: >> What I really need is a good book >> or document that explains the design >> and implementation of networking with systemd and Network Manager on >> modern Debian GNU/Linux systems.  Recommendations? > > Sadly I have not found any documentation (or books) f

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? For usenet you can search the active file of your server. I was using news.eternal-september.org Subscribe to some groups and see if someone respond. But usenet is almost dead nowadays :/

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > When posting, I assumed a mailing list would be the more likely solution. I > just don't know how to find suitable list. Did you try the general KDE mailinglist? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde

Re: Automatic creation of last-known-good boot configuration

2024-07-10 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-10, Jens Schmidt wrote: > So I thought that there might be some automatism like this: > > If the currently used kernel and initramfs have been in use > already N times and if the boot time has been lower then M > minutes each time (and if some other conditions are fulfilled), >

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-15 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-14, Erwan David wrote: > I have a "full" disk encryption as made by the installer, thus mounted in the > initramfs, so it may be a little different If "full disk" include /boot you should be ask for password by grub. Else it is initramfs and you should be ask by cryptsetup (package cry

Re: the usage of env

2024-07-19 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-19, p...@gmx.it wrote: > $ perl -le 'for( keys %ENV ){print "$_ --> $ENV{$_}"}' |grep perl > _ --> /usr/bin/perl > > the key for perl is "_" in environment variable? under this key, why > 'env perl' just works? Perl $_ is the current (unnamed) value of your loop "for". You could write

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-20, hlyg wrote: > i wonder if linux is more reliable than Windows no doubt :) > according to some statistics linux has only 4% desktop market, 73% for MS, 15% > for MacOS Linux is not on the market. I buy M$ but download debian. How can you say how many people is using debian? Once u

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-20, Michael Grant wrote: > OpenOffice is quite featureful, it is not 100% bug for bug compatible with > real MS Office products. I failed to read an old version word file on a newer word. And succeed with libreoffice. So yes it's not 100% bug compatible :) > choices. There is no clea

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-20, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 20 Jul 2024 16:57 +0800, from hlyg2...@outlook.com (hlyg): >> statistics about market share might come from web servers and game servers, >> they know how many users use linux and Windows. > > No. They at most can know what platform user agents report.

Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-24, Ian Molton wrote: > I'm stumped - I cannot see why the initramfs environment fails to mount the > rootfs and execute init. You could run with kernel parameter "debug=vc" if you have a console. Else with "debug" you get logs in /run/initramfs. Also initramfs uses busybox (if you ins

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-26, Ian Molton wrote: > The attitude these days seems to be that 'if its not in bugzilla, no one > cares' > > Seems like the Debian project is forgetting that it is a social endeavour, not > a (increasingly small) handful of Devs vanity project... I largely disagree with that. I was he

Re: systemd may silently break your system!

2024-07-27 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-26, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf symlink has been removed > (currently in unstable) *without any announcement*, so that > the /etc/sysctl.conf file (which is still documented, BTW) > is no longer read. > > So, be careful if you have important settings there

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