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

2018-02-11 Thread Richard Hector
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 b

Re: hostname

2018-02-20 Thread Richard Hector
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: Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-28 Thread Richard Hector
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? >> >> Thanks. > > I've alw

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

2018-02-28 Thread Richard Hector
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 an

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

2018-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
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 initr

Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

2018-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
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 f

Re: Does bash have a tool ?

2018-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
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: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-09 Thread Richard Hector
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 and

OT: dovecot with letsencrypt, K9 mail fails?

2018-03-12 Thread Richard Hector
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 abou

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

2018-03-12 Thread Richard Hector
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 f

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

2018-03-13 Thread Richard Hector
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 provider

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-13 Thread Richard Hector
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 f

Re: password hash in shadow file

2018-03-13 Thread Richard Hector
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 kno

Cores, Hyperthreads, and KVM

2018-03-13 Thread Richard Hector
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 o

GPG key expiry questions?

2018-03-13 Thread Richard Hector
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: 10/05

Re: GPG key expiry questions?

2018-03-13 Thread Richard Hector
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&fingerprint=on&search=0xb4a2f08fec70168d >> >> ... I can see that there is a self-sig

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread Richard Hector
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 tha

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread Richard Hector
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.

2018-03-14 Thread Richard Hector
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 use

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

2018-03-15 Thread Richard Hector
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: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-20 Thread Richard Hector
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 acces

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

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Hector
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

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Hector
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 p

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-22 Thread Richard Hector
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

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-22 Thread Richard Hector
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

2018-03-22 Thread Richard Hector
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

2018-03-22 Thread Richard Hector
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 De

Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

2018-03-25 Thread Richard Hector
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 (n

IPv6 radvd questions

2018-03-26 Thread Richard Hector
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 block

Re: IPv6 radvd questions

2018-03-26 Thread Richard Hector
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 configur

Re: Update: Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

2018-03-27 Thread Richard Hector
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 d

Re: utf

2018-04-02 Thread Richard Hector
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,

LXC/systemd log messages

2018-04-02 Thread Richard Hector
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 un

Re: Chaniging focus: security ouitside a password manager

2018-04-02 Thread Richard Hector
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 that.

Re: utf

2018-04-03 Thread Richard Hector
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

2018-04-04 Thread Richard Hector
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 signature.as

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

2018-04-09 Thread Richard Hector
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 possibly

Re: encryption

2018-04-22 Thread Richard Hector
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

[OT - long running shows] Re: List words separated by comma and without duplicates

2018-04-29 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/04/18 10:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > The Simpsons, who just passed Gunsmoke as the longest running program ever. I can't figure out what criteria are required to make that work. Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT - long running shows] Re: List words separated by comma and without duplicates

2018-04-29 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/04/18 12:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2018 20:27:56 Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 30/04/18 10:29, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> The Simpsons, who just passed Gunsmoke as the longest running >>> program ever. >> >> I can't figure o

Re: Access a sub partition from KVM host

2018-04-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 01/05/18 04:31, André Rodier wrote: > Hello Debian experts, > > I have a kvm/libvirt installed on Debian, with a Windows 10 virtual > machine. > The Windows virtual machine has access the a whole disk partition, > /dev/sda2, that I have added using the virtual machine manager. > Because Windows

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 May 2018 at 11:06:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> What are the distinguishing features of unmount, Safely Remove Drive, and >> Eject? > > There are none. The device is either unmounted or it isn't. It cannnot > be half-unmounted. Hmm. Is there not

Re: Backup problem using "cp"

2018-05-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 08/05/18 00:55, David Griffith wrote: > On May 7, 2018 4:31:16 AM PDT, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/06/2018 10:11 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Richard Owlett wrote: Thought I was doing that by specifying -x. >>> >>> Either cp -x has a bug or the target directory is not in a

Thunderbird asking for authentication

2018-05-08 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, In the last few weeks, each time I start Thunderbird, it asks me to authenticate for a website. The website is familiar to me, and I have a username/password for it. But I don't want to enter the details, because I don't know why it's asking - is there a way to find out? I generally canc

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/05/18 00:28, Richard Owlett wrote: >> /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/ >> └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13

Re: System freeze using web browsers

2018-05-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/05/18 03:17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Those times it happened, I remember kicking myself (HARD!) for not > *simply* making sure there were no dust bunnies gathering inside the > case in the days just prior to the hardware loss. :) Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to design/build a dust bu

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/05/18 07:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/13/2018 09:09 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 08:18:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning >>> sudo &/or /

ssh config "Include" and bash completion

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I recently started using the Include directive in my .ssh/config file - so all the definitions are now in .ssh/config.d/. Now bash completion of hostnames no longer works. Is this expected behaviour? Anyone know how to fix it, without reverting to a single file? I couldn't work out how t

Re: ssh config "Include" and bash completion

2018-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/05/18 20:49, john doe wrote: > On 5/14/2018 8:09 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I recently started using the Include directive in my .ssh/config file - >> so all the definitions are now in .ssh/config.d/. >> >> Now bash completion of host

Re: ssh config "Include" and bash completion

2018-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/05/18 18:09, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently started using the Include directive in my .ssh/config file - > so all the definitions are now in .ssh/config.d/. > > Now bash completion of hostnames no longer works. Is this expected > behaviour? Anyo

Re: ssh config "Include" and bash completion

2018-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/05/18 21:51, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hello Hector, > > It work for me: > > $ grep "Include\|testing" /etc/ssh/ssh_config ; cat /etc/ssh/ssh.d/test > Include /etc/ssh/ssh.d/test > Host testing > Hostname 1.1.1.1 > > $ ssh test => testing > $ dpkg -l bash-completion > Deseado=desconocido(U)/

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2018-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/05/18 23:42, dft wrote: > It seems that the following three combinations have exactly the same > effect, but I am not sure.  Please confirm whether the following three > combinations have exactly the same effect.  > > | [*]  Debian desktop environment > | [ ]    GNOME > > | [ ]  Debian des

Re: filter network traffic of KVM guests.

2018-05-17 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/05/18 08:11, Reco wrote: >> I read it's deprecated to use iptables on a linux bridge. [1] > Yup, you should not. Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. Does that just apply to running iptables on the host? Or should I also not run it in the vm (eg on a rented VPS, where I assume the net devic

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Richard Hector
On 21/05/18 02:19, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > LVM greatly simplifies the partitioning part of the chore. But you still need > to do the content management part[*] before shrinking / after enlarging an LV, > don't you? > > [*] backup, umount/swapoff, resize2fs/mkswap, mount/swapon, (unlikely but

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/05/18 06:29, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > I understand that your use case does not require swap redundancy. > I hope that you also understand that other people may have stronger > requirements and your statement about swap mirroring was wrong for them, > thus wrong in general (what is not always

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-25 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/05/18 18:59, Joe wrote: > To begin with, try: > > ip addr show > > and look for the block of information with a label beginning 'eth' or > 'en'. That will contain the Ethernet adaptor IP address. From your > question, I assume your computer contains only one. > > The address returned by I

Re: File managers show files and directories in reverse order.........

2018-05-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/05/18 11:12, Charlie S wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 14:22:08 + (UTC) Curt sent: > >> On 2018-05-29, Charlie S wrote: >>> >>> I wonder how one discovers what file managers there are installed on >>> this system. I suppose have to name each one and see which are >>> installed that way.

Re: apcupsd - system shut down on self test

2018-06-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 08/06/18 18:34, deloptes wrote: > Hi, > I found today morning the server shutdown. When looking into the logs I > found that apcupsd performed self test. It said > > Jun 8 07:56:21 server apcupsd[2404]: UPS Self Test switch to battery. > Jun 8 07:56:23 server apcupsd[2404]: Battery power exh

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 15/06/18 04:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > So thats progress, now if I could just get apt to refresh its repo > listings. That too is a question asked somewhere above. And since I'm > running dd-wrt in my router, I am convinced its related the the name > change, and dd-wrt doesn't have a clue wha

Re: How to diagnose and report a bug

2018-06-16 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/06/18 01:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > >> In pcmanfm's address bar, [...] >> [...] >> Any recomendations on how to diagnose and report this bug? > > Since there is a package with name "pcmanfm", there is also a tracker page > for it > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pcmanfm > > Regist

mdraid on SSD - use scterc?

2018-06-16 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've got a new server with 2 mdraid RAID 1 arrays - one on spinning disks, the other on SSDs. The spinners are set by default to use ERC; the SSDs are not, but appear to support it. Should I enable it on the SSDs? Or are they not prone to failure in such a way that it would be useful? Th

Re: mdraid on SSD - use scterc?

2018-06-17 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/06/18 00:35, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, Richard Hector wrote: >> Should I enable it on the SSDs? Or are they not prone to failure in such >> a way that it would be useful? > > Which SSDs? Usually one lets the SSDs try as hard as they

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-05-31 Thread Richard Hector
On 01/06/16 07:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Now to do what I really wanted to do all along, and ssh in to run level one > as > root: > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ ssh root@192.168.0.5 > ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.5 port 22: No route to host > lisi@Tux-II:~$ ssh lisi@192.168.0.5 Run level one? AKA single us

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-06-01 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/06/16 12:20, John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: >> The pipe symbol doesn't work on the keyboard at present attached > > Then put the output of ps in a file and search that. > Or for a general solution to a faulty key, since this is on the con

updates on skylake power management issues?

2016-06-01 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi folks, I've read Matthew Garrett's article on the issues with Linux power management on mobile Skylake processors, and a few of the other sites that refer to it ... and went and bought one anyway, thinking "They'll fix it soon enough ... and mayb

Re: Trying to Make a SBAWE64 ISA Card Work in Wheezy

2016-06-01 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/05/16 08:13, deloptes wrote: > This depends on various things. If I was the sort of person who had a .sig with a quote in it, that might well be it :-) Richard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXTp1LAAoJELSi8I/s

unsigned linux-image?

2016-09-25 Thread Richard Hector
Hey all, Does anyone know what the deal is with the recently-released linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64-unsigned package? It installs without complaint, so aptitude doesn't mind its unsigned-ness - does the 'unsigned' refer to something else? Richard

Re: unsigned linux-image?

2016-09-25 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/09/16 14:59, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 26/09/16 14:43, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hey all, >> Does anyone know what the deal is with the recently-released >> linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64-unsigned package? It installs without >> complaint, so aptitude doe

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 04/10/16 01:45, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello Teemu, > >>> rsync, whilst an awesome piece of software, is not, on its own, a >>> backup system. >> >> Yes. With some scripting I think "rsync" with "--link-dest" is quite >> ideal for incremental backups. Unchanged files are created as hard >> lin

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 05/10/16 16:03, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Richard. > > On 04/10/16 23:06, Richard Hector wrote: > >> My current challenge is to back up windows boxes - if I can get >> rsync to work (maybe DeltaCopy? Not sure if that will work how I >> want), I guess I'l

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 08/10/16 07:00, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media > consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. > Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm > getting redirected to a yahoo! search for "create web",

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/10/16 00:20, Tony Baldwin wrote: > What country is .me? here in th US, of course, it could be the State of > Maine. Montenegro, apparently. According to a quick web search ;-) Richard

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/10/16 00:28, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > On 10/09/2016 07:23 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 10/10/16 00:20, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>> What country is .me? here in th US, of course, it could be the >>> State of Maine. >> >> Montenegro

face header

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Hector
Anyone know how I can (in Icedove) either stop displaying the 'face' header, or display it nicely as a picture? There are a couple of users on here that have them, and they result in a huge header section of the icedove display, leaving about 5 lines for the content of the message. I have the 'Di

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 07/10/16 23:19, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I don't know whether dirvish does something to improve matters, but with > hard link trees, if you have lots of little files (such as Maildir archives > of busy mailing lists like LKML), the amount of space consumed by the file > system metadata to repre

Re: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 on GNOME

2016-10-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/10/16 06:45, Samuel Bächler wrote: > NAICT from Googling, Jessie's 3.16 kernel is too old to fully > support Skylake (August 2105 release) CPU features required by > Gnome, so you need a kernel newer than 4.1 (June 2015), and/or > Stretch (currently on 4.7). > > > I just ins

Re: new pc and swap

2016-11-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 01/11/16 19:04, Johann Spies wrote: > LVM has bitten me more than once in the past and I will not use it > again. In both situations it spanned more than one disk and one of the > disks failed - leaving you with unrecoverable data. I don't think I've ever used it like that, and probably wouldn

Re: new pc and swap

2016-11-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 01/11/16 22:57, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Spanning devices seems to me to be more or less the same as RAID0 >> (striping), and just as risky > > The default is to concatenate PVs like RAID "linear" (JBOD), although > LVM can do striping too. True, but either way, removing one disk may damage a

Re: Debian repository: no updates for PygreSQL package

2016-11-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/11/16 13:01, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 09:32:46AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> >> >> On 11/09/2016 06:59 AM, Loren Dvid wrote: >>> Hello, >>> In debian 6.0 and 7.0 the latest stable version of PygreSQL package is 4.0 >>> http://www.pygresql.org/contents/changelog.html >>

Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit

2016-11-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/11/16 07:38, Ric Moore wrote: > Is there some reason removing the libjack-jackd2-0 package removes > everything audio/video and the kitchen sink?? My theory goes something like this. You have a desktop environment package installed - something like gnome, or in your case perhaps xubuntu-desk

Re: Execution of maintainer scripts and dependencies of package

2016-11-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/11/16 19:46, Ravi Roy wrote: > Hi, > > I've a question regarding the package maintainer scripts (preinst, > postinst, prerm and postrm) and dependencies of the package > > I've a meta package where i've certain dependencies mentioned and i'm > checking a config file in 'preinst' from a depe

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 21/11/16 08:52, Brian wrote: > Considering HP say they do not offer Linux support directly, you are > doing well. Comments like this (those from HP and other vendors, not this one from Brian) bug me. I don't want HP to support Linux; I want printers to use open, published (by them or anyone el

Re: How to get ssh to run in daemon script

2016-11-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/11/16 23:55, Russell Gadd wrote: > So I'm scrambling around in the dark. Currently my vague ideas as to > what might be wrong are: > > script doesn't know what nasbox is (it is defined in /etc/hosts) You could test that by using the IP address > ssh is being run without being associated as

Re: debian on lenovo carbon thinkpad 4th generation confirmation report

2016-11-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/11/16 04:53, iqwue Wabv wrote: > 1) jessie wifi doesn't work because lack of drivers for Intel® Dual Band > Wireless-AC 8260 > > which is only available in >4.1 linux kernel. So I have to upgrade my > installation from jessie to testing > FWIW, newer kernels are available in jessie-backpor

Re: forcefsck inconsistency

2016-11-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/11/16 22:03, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > According the tune2fs output, the check on / was actually done. > I naïvely looked at syslog to find the checked devices, and I > could not imagine > that the fsck checks are reported in syslog for all partitions, but > not for /... Becau

bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s

2016-11-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/11/16 14:27, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Celejar wrote: >> > applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running >> > kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 from backports. > Don't. That kernel is very broken. Switch to the latest 4.8 kernel > available fro

Re: debian on lenovo carbon thinkpad 4th generation confirmation report

2016-11-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/11/16 11:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2016 20:36:29 iqwue Wabv wrote: >> Richard, >> >> I didn't know that kernels > 4.1 are available as jessie-backports. Thanks. >> Regards, Karol > > Only 4.7. The others appear not to be available any more. Yes - there only ever appear

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-12-06 Thread Richard Hector
On 07/12/16 14:42, Jape Person wrote: > I'll never forget hearing someone trying to prop an early version of > Netscape up by saying that it was a good browser *because* it failed on > badly written pages. It shouldn't crash, of course, but I think the web would be a much nicer place if browsers j

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/12/16 22:01, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:54:56 +0900 > EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > > >> I see. >> I thought the meaning of "bugger" as "wreck". > > > Pretty much any rude word, together with 'all', means 'nothing' in an > emphatic but not polite way, as in 'sod all' and 'f*** all'

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

2016-12-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 09/12/16 00:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2016 11:06:55 Martin T wrote: >> > One more question regarding Debian backports- is it a good practice to >> > prefer latest versions from backports(jessie-backports) by default >> > while using stable(jessie) distribution? > Definitel

Info on missing packages (libdancer2-xxx-perl modules)?

2017-01-09 Thread Richard Hector
Hi, I'm not really sure how to phrase my question - or search for the answers I know I've seen here ... I quite often find myself wanting to know about package that I think were, or should be, in debian, but for some reason they're not. Since they're not there, the packages page can't find them.

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/02/17 21:18, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Here is how I copied the disk contents over the SDD. > I booted a live Ubuntu from CD media, checked with fdisk that every > partition is starting 4K aligned and used the following command to copy > the disk contents: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=p

Mixing firewall tools

2017-02-24 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I have a machine with a hand-rolled firewall script, which just runs iptables commands - all well and good. The trickiest bits are for my LXC containers; I need to forward ports etc - but that's ok. The complications start when I add fail2ban - now I have an extra bit in my init script t

Re: Mixing firewall tools

2017-02-25 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/02/17 03:19, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 07:54:32PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> I have a machine with a hand-rolled firewall script, which just runs >> iptables commands - all well and good. >> >> The trickiest bits are for my LXC containe

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-24 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/08/15 10:03, T. J. Duchene wrote: > Blu-ray discs carry updates and blacklists that your Blu-ray drive > is required to accept on a hardware level. Whenever you insert a > disc into the drive (OS makes no difference), the firmware is > checked

Re: Meld in Jessie: how to not install all the insane dependencies

2015-11-30 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 29/11/15 03:55, MI wrote: > I'm setting up a new server, and wanted to install "meld", a nice > "graphical tool to diff and merge files". ... "for the GNOME Desktop". I get a similar list, when I do a dry run on my firewall. Avoiding recommend

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/15 16:54, Jack Chuge wrote: >>> They say to run the following: su - echo "deb >>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main" | >>> tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list >>> >> It seems it's not allowed sudo i

Re: Changing the install path of a web package

2015-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/02/15 06:06, Tim Burns wrote: > I moved to debian from another distro for stability reasons. > > I prefer to keep my web accessible files in /srv/www rather than > /var/www, as I back up /srv and not /var. If I have to I have > to. > > I'm i

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat sceptical > about. But since I could not come up with any technically sound > arguments against it (partially caused by my ignorance of systemd),

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/15 15:32, Dan Purgert wrote: > Point of contention -- if the BUCH is only using cat5 in his > install, the fact he's getting gbit for any time at all is a > miracle. Min requirement for gig over copper is 5e (with cat6 > being preferred). My

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