Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 05/02/18 02:39, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > And what should human or machine think of my mail client's idea about > when you sent your mail ? > > Tomorrow Richard Hector Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag Ha! That I'm in NZ, of course. And I'm up too late. I never see that

Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 05/02/18 01:13, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Hector wrote: >> #389251 (coreutils: date's -d switch doesn't honour locale) - it's quite >> an old one. But I found another instance in which the same claim applies: > > Its age makes it hard to conclude

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

On 01/02/18 11:51, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 31 January 2018 at 22:46, Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz > <mailto:rich...@walnut.gen.nz>> wrote: > > On 01/02/18 11:20, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > As it turns out I have installed deb

policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

Hi all, This might not be the most useful list, but I'm not subscribed to -devel and don't want to jump in there without good reason. When a maintainer tags a bug report with 'wontfix', is there not an expectation that they will say why? I was just reading a bug report that seemed valid (if

Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 05/02/18 00:43, Nicolas George wrote: > Richard Hector (2018-02-05): >> #389251 (coreutils: date's -d switch doesn't honour locale) - it's quite >> an old one. But I found another instance in which the same claim applies: >> >> richard@zircon:~$ date -d '4/2/2018'

Re: [Was: Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 06/02/18 15:45, Michael Stone wrote: >> ... and how do you deal with locales that have changed definition over >> time? What was the country code for (eg) Prussia in 1752? It just gets >> painful ... > > Yes, this is more a novelty than anything. Even apart from changing > national borders,

Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 06/02/18 02:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-02-05 01:53:02 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 05/02/18 01:44, Nicolas George wrote: >>>> PS - please don't cc me; I'm on the list. >>> Done this once, but I cannot promise I will think of it later. Document &g

Re: [Was: Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 06/02/18 15:24, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:32:06PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> And for the far past, cal is superior; compare: >> >> $ cal -3 9 1752 >>    August 1752  September 1752 October 1752 >> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo

Re: I do not want to install Linux

On 09/02/18 01:49, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 8 February 2018 at 12:30, Curt > > wrote: > > On 2018-02-08, deloptes > wrote: > > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >> I guess I could

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 08/02/18 15:36, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> Please don't use "class B" to mean /16. Firstly, it's decades out of >> date, and secondly, that range was never in the class B section. > I'm decades out of date too, so it's apt. The intended audience can > probably discern the message that a

Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 07/02/18 02:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-02-06 14:36:31 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 06/02/18 02:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> You should set up a "Mail-Followup-To:" for that. This is entirely >>> your problem. >> >> I could do t

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 07/02/18 08:07, Brian wrote: > netmask and network are not needed. ifupdown will compute them. Note > there are no examples in interfaces(5) which use these parameters. The examples use CIDR notation instead, eg "address 192.168.1.1/24". The netmask line is an alternative to that. You need to

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 07/02/18 04:54, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Sorry, I ment dbus-x11 "apt-rdepends blueman" (you might want to install apt-rdepends) doesn't list dbus-x11 anywhere. If blueman really needs it, then either it or one of its other dependencies is failing to declare it, which would be a bug. Richard

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 07/02/18 14:29, Brian wrote: > On Tue 06 Feb 2018 at 20:23:13 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:16:28AM +, Brian wrote: >>> On Tue 06 Feb 2018 at 19:53:16 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:00:12PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 06

Re: Limerick twiddling (was Re: I do not want to install Linux)

On 10/02/18 07:04, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-02-09 at 12:49, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Friday, February 09, 2018 08:58:24 AM Curt wrote: >> >>> There once was a hacker from Bali >>> Who did her forensics on Kali >>> One fine day to be rude >>> She modeled in the nude >>> Got fingered

Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 06/02/18 18:38, Erik Christiansen wrote: > Perl is the quintessential write-only language, which with a bit of luck > will die out before it catches on Now you're getting to fighting talk ... :-) Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 07/02/18 23:58, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 07.02.18 09:33, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Good morning, >> >> Am 2018-02-07 hackte Gene Heskett in die Tasten: >>> On Tuesday 06 February 2018 14:07:55 Brian wrote: 1. auto enp0s25 iface

Re: hostname

On 20/02/18 05:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You appear to be concerned that your hostname contains secret information, > and that having your hostname "leaked" to the rest of the world will be > an issue for you? > > If that's the case, try not putting secret information into your > hostname. E.g.

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

On 21/12/17 22:16, Curt wrote: > On 2017-12-20, Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote: >> >> On 21/12/17 02:02, Curt wrote: >>> Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies >>> as "security by obscurity" >>

Re: port scans (OT?)

On 23/12/17 10:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Also cool: If file sharers show up, then keep one on hold until a second > one calls. Then forward their requests to the respective other one. > Two revenges taken for the price of one. So you're acting as a proxy? Does that mean that all files

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

On 21/12/17 02:02, Curt wrote: > Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies > as "security by obscurity" I think most people accept that obscurity is quite reasonable for passwords ... Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: USB Host-Host cables

On 19/06/18 23:47, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, June 18, 2018 11:27:55 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: >> So I think your cable is much less "Serial" than you think. > > Just because I'm tired of seeing this thread (even though I make an often > feeble attempt to ignore it), I will mention

Re: a dh keys question?

On 01/08/18 03:57, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:38:34AM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> While the question seems simple, at least to me, the reason behind it is >> complicated. so I am hoping to focus on the question first. >> During the dh key exchange process,

Re: which program/command can show wireless connection quality?

On 10/08/18 17:54, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:44:42AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 09/08/18 19:00, Reco wrote: >>> Also, consider wrapping a sheet of tin foil around USB WiFi dongle, >>> transforming stock omni-directional ante

Re: mailing list is the future (corrected spelling mistakes)

On 11/08/18 23:28, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am DATE hackte AUTHOR in die Tasten: Brad Rogers >> On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 12:05:21 +0300 >> "Michelle Konzack" wrote: >> >> Hello Michelle, >> >>> Oh yeah, -- let's hoover! >> >> Errr, hoover? >> >> What, like the make of vacuum cleaner? :-) > > Check

Re: non-blocking stdin from bash

On 14/08/18 02:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > So, yeah. It's warranted. Perhaps. > Idiot. That bit isn't, though. Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: non-blocking stdin from bash

On 13/08/18 05:57, Jim Popovitch wrote: > Interesting. I'm using it via a cron script like so: > > * * * * * grep "unusual" /opt/logs/* | /opt/notify.sh `hostname`; I don't know what's in notify.sh, but it looks to me like you're going to get notified every minute for all the unusual log

Re: which program/command can show wireless connection quality?

On 09/08/18 19:00, Reco wrote: > Also, consider wrapping a sheet of tin foil around USB WiFi dongle, > transforming stock omni-directional antenna to uni-directional. Uni-directional or no-directional? I'd have thought you want to be fairly specific and precise with your 'wrapping' to get a

cd installer on kvm can't find cd

Hi - I'm trying to install stretch on a VPS, for which I'm able to provide an ISO to boot from. But when the (netinst) installer runs, it can't find the CD - probably because it doesn't know about KVM's virtual CD drive? Is there an easy solution to this? Alternatively, is there a way to boot a

Re: Debian testing - release number

On 05/07/18 03:53, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 04 Jul 2018 at 13:18:14 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: >> On 02/07/18 05:31, David Wright wrote: >>> On Sun 01 Jul 2018 at 22:44:17 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: >>>> On 28/06/18 16:40, David Wright wrote: >>>&

PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers

Hi all, I'm getting messages like this in auth.log: PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers Web searches generally hint at a link with LXC, and this is on an LXC host, but doesn't seem to directly relate to the containers - it shows up when anyone logs in, starts a cron session, or

Re: PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers

On 12/07/18 02:18, Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-10, Richard Hector wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm getting messages like this in auth.log: >> >> PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers >> > > Found this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.o

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

On 24/01/18 12:11, Michael Stone wrote: > Unless you took specific steps to disable kpti on a kernel that supports > it, it will be on. Only if the CPU needs it, I think. It's enabled on my i5, but not on my AMD or my atom. Richard (I'm on the list; please don't cc me) signature.asc

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

On 23/01/18 13:28, Greg Marks wrote: > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > The PDF file in question can be downloaded from the site: > >

Re: Update warning.

On 24/01/18 11:35, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-01-24 11:31 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 24/01/18 11:08, Frank M wrote: >>> Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and >>> >>> now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

On 24/01/18 11:27, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > > ​Hi there,  I am running kernel 4.14.14 under gentoo testing on an > AMD kaveri box. > > The version of GCC I am using is 7.2.  Whether that means the > reptoline patch is working for me I am not quite sure but it could

Re: Update warning.

On 24/01/18 11:08, Frank M wrote: > Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and > > now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd related ) won't run and > > things like apt . aptitude, dpkg, etc are useless. > > > I don't know at this point how I am going to repair

Re: Were is gapcmon?

On 21/02/18 08:03, Marc Auslander wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >> I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. >> I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >> what reason? What can I use in its stead?

Re: Debian 9 Image Magick/display xwd(1) format

On 23/02/18 12:40, Brian wrote: > On Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 13:35:20 -0800, John Conover wrote: > >> >> xwd > myfile >> display myfile >> >> gives: >> >> "display-im6.q16: no decode delegate for this image format `' @ >> error/constitute.c/ReadImage/504." >> >> Anything else read the file

Re: quick scripting 'is /P/Q mounted'

On 13/03/18 16:40, Mike McClain wrote: > A while back, Pierre Gaston posted this little tidbit to quickly > determine if my network is up: > [ "$( > Now I wonder if there is a similar file in /sys that would tell if > anything is mounted on a particular directory. I've browsed /sys but > not

OT: dovecot with letsencrypt, K9 mail fails?

Hi all, I use dovecot with a letsencrypt certificate, which has been working fine. In the last few days, my phone (K9 mail on Android) has started having problems connecting. I think it's since I received the most recent android updates (5 March patchlevel). At first, it would just complain

Re: OT: dovecot with letsencrypt, K9 mail fails?

On 13/03/18 21:12, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > >> Today, though - which may be unrelated - it prompted me to check the >> certificate, which weirdly seemed to belong to my VPS provider; it >> wasn't the one configured in dovecot. >> >> Has anyone else seen either of these issues? My VPS

Re: Debian on flash a store.

On 14/03/18 15:35, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: >> Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash >> drives that _are_ built for full-time use, as a system disk? >> >> I've got some old thin clients that cou

GPG key expiry questions?

Hi all, Daniel Bareiro recently pointed out that he sees my GPG key as being expired: On 14/03/18 15:14, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > This is the information I see in Thunderbird with Enigmail: > > Fingerprint: 9E11 77C0 8F96 98B8 82EF 70E4 B4A2 F08F EC70 168D > Created: 05/09/2010 > Expiration:

Re: GPG key expiry questions?

On 14/03/18 15:50, likcoras wrote: > On 03/14/2018 11:39 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> And if I search for my key here: >> >> https://pgp.surfnet.nl/pks/lookup?op=vindex=on=0xb4a2f08fec70168d >> >> ... I can see that there is a self-sig with the expiry date

Re: OT: dovecot with letsencrypt, K9 mail fails?

On 16/03/18 16:15, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Dovecot (IMAP) is working fine here with K-9. > > Since you're seeing different results in different clients, the most > obvious reason would be a different behavior from the two different ways > to connect to IMAP (or POP3) with TLS: > >  * connect

Re: Multichannel audio listening

On 09/03/18 15:20, Doug wrote: > > On 03/08/2018 03:43 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Thu, 08 Mar 2018, Doug wrote: >>> Somewhat off topic, but I'd like to know, if anyone reading here does, >>> what to do with a phono player that has four-channel output: Four RCA >>> jacks in the familiar red

Re: Debian on flash a store.

On 15/03/18 18:01, David Christensen wrote: > That said, why do you have storage in a thin client?  I thought the idea > is to boot the clients over the network, run from RAM, and have the > server do most of the work (?). They were intended as thin clients - I'm not using them as such. I just

Re: Debian on flash a store.

On 15/03/18 13:11, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/14/18 00:28, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 14/03/18 15:35, David Christensen wrote: >>> On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: >>>> Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash >>>

Re: Debian on flash a store.

On 14/03/18 09:58, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > USB drives and SD cards are very different from SSDs. You cannot use > them in the same way. AFAIK, USB drives and SD cards do not support > TRIM/discard. Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash drives that _are_ built for

Re: password hash in shadow file

On 14/03/18 09:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 07:36:19PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> But on that note: I wonder of one could create a PAM module which will >> do just that on successful login. Once you *know* you have the right >> password (and the PAM system has that

Cores, Hyperthreads, and KVM

Hi all, When I configure a KVM guest to have 2 vcpus, will that be 2 full cores? Or will it give the guest both threads on the same real core? Or might it use half of each of 2 different cores? I guess the same applies to physical CPUs, too - there's presumably an advantage in giving a VM a set

Re: utf

On 03/04/18 20:55, Darac Marjal wrote: > If these things matter to you, it's better to convert from UTF-8 to > Unicode, first. I tend to think of Unicode as an arbitrarily large code > page. Each character maps to a number, but that number could be 1, 1000 > or 500_000 (Unicode seems to be growing

Re: utf

On 05/04/18 05:53, Nicolas George wrote: >> What if the question is "Find all the English words that have an E >> in the 5th position and a U in the 7th"? > > Yes, what? Who would ever ask such a question? What is the point of such > a question? Solving a crossword puzzle? Richard

Re: How to limit udisks2 rules to a specific device?

On 09/04/18 04:50, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > When it comes to mounting devices, I have two simple rules: > 1) only root can do it. > 2) in some cases only defined users can mount some specific devices. > > So I want to forbid all users (except root) to access all devices that people > can

Re: encryption

On 23/04/18 03:29, Brian wrote: > I reduced the contents of myscript to its one essential line: > > mpw -M "secret" "railcard" > > Then > > brian@desktop:~$ echo hello && eval /home/brian/myscript && echo world! & > sleep 2 && ps -f > [1] 2049 > hello > hYM@ei0tSL1rOZRmYD4: > UID

Re: Update: Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

On 28/03/18 00:19, Brian wrote: > I eventually settled on masterpasswordapp > because the re-creation aspect appealed to me, it was actively > maintained, the author's well-thought arguments were convincing > and (insofar as I could judge) it is secure. > > But it did take some time to come to a

IPv6 radvd questions

Hi all, I'm getting a little confused by the radvd docs, and possibly by IPv6 concepts in general ... The router I'm configuring isn't the default gateway of the LAN; it's an openvpn endpoint (server), and I just want to advertise the routes available via tunnels to the LAN. radvd's prefix

Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

On 26/03/18 04:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I started reading up on password managers in order to consider using one. I use the keepass family - KeePassX on Debian, KeePassDroid on Android. I believe Windows and Mac versions are available as well. >* encrypted storage on my own machines

Re: utf

On 02/04/18 19:43, Curt wrote: > The thought provoked in my neurological matter was why there are other > locales at all if UTF8 (the locale of this here .homie machine, BTW) is > "vastly superior for all purposes". There's more to the locale than the character set - things like default language,

Re: Chaniging focus: security ouitside a password manager

On 03/04/18 01:07, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > the plaintext passwords would > disappear from RAM (except to the extent that (iiuc) there are (NSA) ways to > recover the contents of RAM if power is restored to the machine fairly > quickly). I'm not sure you actually need to be the NSA for

LXC/systemd log messages

Hi all, I'm seeing lots of these on my containers: systemd[1]: .(service|slice|scope|mount): Failed to reset devices.list: Operation not permitted Searching the web reveals similar problems with unprivileged containers, but mine are (as far as I know) privileged; I haven't really investigated

Re: IPv6 radvd questions

On 27/03/18 01:45, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 08:25:56PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm getting a little confused by the radvd docs, and possibly by IPv6 >> concepts in general ... >> >> The router I'm configuring isn

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

On 22/03/18 09:53, deloptes wrote: > The rule "check, double check and then proceed" - always payed off for me. > Luckily most of simple typos are caught by the spell checked, so reading > before sending is mostly meant to catch the semantic mistakes. Where 'checked' was presumably the debilitate

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

On 23/03/18 01:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:04:07AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Richard Hector wrote: >>> I often see this alluded to, but struggle to find evidence - why >>> shouldn't there be a postmaster@com, for example? Or perh

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On 21/03/18 12:07, Brian wrote: [re inability to connect to remote SMTP servers] > You are in an unfortunate position of being deprived of the freedom to > decide how to deal with your own communications. [snip] > I am a user of the network, whether I am at home or not. I have no > better

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

On 22/03/18 09:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > One heuristic that is commonly used is to reject all messages where > the HELO doesn't even syntactically qualify as a valid FQDN -- in other > words, has no dot in it. I often see this alluded to, but struggle to find evidence - why shouldn't there be a

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

On 23/03/18 11:31, Dan Purgert wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: >> On 23/03/18 01:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> [...] >>> RFC 1594 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1594>: A Fully Qualified >>> Domain Name (FQDN) is a domain name that includes all higher leve

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

On 23/03/18 13:55, Dan Purgert wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: >> >> On 23/03/18 11:31, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> Richard Hector wrote: >>>> On 23/03/18 01:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>>>> [...] >>>>> RFC 1594 <https://tools.ietf.org/

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

On 23/03/18 14:44, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Christ, Richard :-) > why are we still discussing this.  (And what does it have to do > with the original question about "Federated, decentralised communication > on the internet?"  ... which was originally a question about how > "hostname" is used by

Re: Does bash have a tool ?

On 05/03/18 07:59, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/04/2018 11:02 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Sunday, March 04, 2018 11:28:55 AM Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I don't have any background in Perl and the last formal course in >>> programming was in the 60's. >> >> Mine was very early 70's ('71) >>

Re: Some tasks very slow after upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

On 02/03/18 04:23, John wrote: > Slightly different issue but I am part way through an upgrade from > Whezzy to Stretch. After the upgrade to Jessie my (headless) computer > failed to boot. After a struggle getting keyboard and screen it > stalled after loading the kernel, probably a broken

Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

On 02/03/18 03:09, Marc Auslander wrote: >> I think you can usually set the power-on behaviour in the BIOS (or EFI, >> presumably) - independently of the OS or any shutdown process. >> >> Richard > So here's the issue - maybe I'm missing something. > > If I configure apcupsd to shutdown on power

thunderbird - drag'n'drop now hides target?

Hi all, A nice trivial one ... after a recent update of Thunderbird, when I drag and drop a bunch of selected mails to a different folder, they now obscure the target folder - so unless I'm careful to drag by the very top edge, I can't see the target get highlighted. Anyone else suffering this,

Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive?

On 15/11/18 7:26 AM, Reco wrote: >> but leaves you open to cryptolocker ransomware & various 'oh shit!' >> moments when I do something stupid. Offline & offsite is worth a >> certain amount of inconvenience to me. > Nope. Because: > > a) You do not do backups as a regular user. > b) You do not

Re: Password policy.

On 15/11/18 4:51 AM, Brian wrote: >> How about: >> >> 3. They had physical access to the drive in question (or any backup) and >> that data wasn't encrypted (LUKS for example). >> [boot machine with live boot USB, mount root file system and steal the >> file, remove live boot USB, allow machine to

Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive?

On 15/11/18 6:12 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:12:35PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 15/11/18 7:26 AM, Reco wrote: >>>> but leaves you open to cryptolocker ransomware & various 'oh shit!' >>>> moments when I do so

[solved] Re: thunderbird - drag'n'drop now hides target?

On 9/10/18 10:26 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 08/10/2018 16:43, Richard Hector wrote: >> A nice trivial one ... after a recent update of Thunderbird, when I drag >> and drop a bunch of selected mails to a different folder, they now >> obscure the target folder - so unles

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

On 28/09/18 8:00 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Wooledge wrote: >> In the case of the BurnCd page, I actually *do* think that it would be >> of general interest to readers to have a paragraph explaining the limits >> of wodim, and when not to use it. > > Let me try ... hrr-umm ... >

Re: question about ls

On 28/09/18 1:14 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 07:55:56AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> But also note the difference when using the letter "l" vs the numeral "1": >> >> westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -la | wc >> 7 56 321 >> westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -1a | wc >> 6

Re: Permission issues - operator error?

On 24/09/18 1:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # force UID/GID to 'richard', label > device, accept standard defaults > root@debian8-6:/home/richard# mkfs.ext4 root_owner=1000:1000 -L > 2018Sept23tst1 /dev/sdb1 > mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) > mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

On 23/09/18 6:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > the exception in my sig being the only forward in the dd-wrt rules Remote access to your ammo box? Yikes :-) Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: question about ls

On 29/09/18 12:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:06:59AM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: >> On 28-09-2018, at 17h 52'07", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: question about >> ls" >>> Eww. Tab completion also gets screwed up by

Re: kernel "unsigned" in sid

On 14/01/19 11:20 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-01-11 09:52:04 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 09:55:45AM +0100, dot...@gmail.com wrote: >>> I recently came across an inconsistency in sid that it seems difficult (to >>> me) >>> to overcome. >>> >>> A kernel package

Re: We've got a problem. Debian "Jessie" box won't launch X or Tomcat, and USB drive won't mount

On 15/01/19 12:24 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > USB for backups: the hard drive is dead. Get a new one. Test it. I had one that appeared to die (WD 1TB IIRC) - I cut it open, and the sata drive inside works fine, it was just the usb interface that had died. Richard signature.asc Description:

Re: Apt bug & redirects

On 23/01/19 5:05 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I just read about the current apt security update on The Register: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/debian_package_manager_flaws/ > > It suggests running apt update with redirects disallowed ... but

Apt bug & redirects

Hi all, I just read about the current apt security update on The Register: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/debian_package_manager_flaws/ It suggests running apt update with redirects disallowed ... but security.debian.org appears to do a redirect. There's a tip at

Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

On 1/12/18 5:49 AM, Brian wrote: ... >> fvwm2 >> ==cut here > My .xsession has "exec fvwm" as the last line but I do not think that > makes your choice incorrect. The difference is presumably that the former calls fvwm2 and then returns to the shell

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

On 1/12/18 6:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >>I often see people recommend a separate home partition.  >>But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within >>the root directory? >>Wouldn't one

Re: stretch update overwrites nano file

On 28/11/18 12:07 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Tixy quoted from nanorc(5): > >> During startup, nano will first read the system-wide settings, from >> /etc/nanorc (the exact path might be different), and then the user- >> specific settings, from ~/.nanorc. >> So, the correct file to customise

Re: APT: suggested packages are required?

On 29/11/18 2:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:45:49PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:34:54AM +, David Griffith wrote: >>> I just noticed an odd behavior of APT when I tried installing >>> inform6-compiler and inform6-library.  I used to

Re: Upgrade Problem

On 4/01/19 9:49 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > Stephen, I think you're going to have to analyse where the space is > being used. If you use a graphical desktop then there might be a > graphical application that can help with this. On GNOME it's called > Disk Usage Analyzer. On the command line you could

Re: Slow boot

On 11/01/19 3:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Hector composed on 2019-01-11 14:03 (UTC+1300): > >> This machine is taking ages to boot. > >> It's a fresh install. > >> According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: > >> [2.71731

Slow boot

Hi all, This machine is taking ages to boot. It's a fresh install. According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23) initialised: dm-d e...@redhat.com [2.978281]

Re: Failure to boot - LVM problems?

On 4/01/19 2:48 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > This is one of those annoying cases where I claim "It was working, and I > didn't do anything, and now it doesn't" - suspicious, I know ... > > In this case, I can see from my emails that this machine bo

Re: Slow boot

On 12/01/19 1:28 AM, David wrote: > Hi, I have no expertise in this, except to suggest that if I was > seeing your symptoms then I would investigate if the discussion > here might be relevant: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/12/msg00184.html Interesting, thanks - I'm going to try

Re: Slow boot

On 12/01/19 4:47 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 12/01/19 1:28 AM, David wrote: >> Hi, I have no expertise in this, except to suggest that if I was >> seeing your symptoms then I would investigate if the discussion >> here might be relevant: >> https://lists.debian.org/de

Re: Slow boot

On 12/01/19 3:41 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:03:44PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: >> >> [    2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 >> [    2.717398] device-mapper: ioct

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

On 9/01/19 6:04 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script lsblk -ln -o name,label |sort |

Failure to boot - LVM problems?

Hi all, This is one of those annoying cases where I claim "It was working, and I didn't do anything, and now it doesn't" - suspicious, I know ... In this case, I can see from my emails that this machine booted (via wake-on-lan from a cronjob) this morning, and then shut itself down (via a local

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