Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Pircher
Same here: after the update on Tuesday (Monday I didn't update), my wireless network stopped working. Today I figured out what was going on: the update installed the packets knm- runtime, network-manager-kde, network-manager and possible other packets. After I duly uninstalled those offending

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Pircher
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: It sounds to me like this was not a regular upgrade, or your running/mixing with a release such as testing or unstable. You can use aptitude why network-manager-kde to find out why a package was automatically installed. You are right, I am running debian/testing. The

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Pircher
Andrei Popescu wrote: I agree with you, but in this particular case it is not a 'Depends' it is a 'Recommends', and testing/unstable users should know how to override those. Andrei, I do not mind installing some extra packages if they are recommended, and I will leave the setting as it is;

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Pircher
Andrei Popescu wrote: I'm not very familiar with network-manager (a.k.a network-mangler) because I prefer wicd, but I recall there was a setting for it to not touch the network if it was configured in /etc/network/interfaces. That setting is probably not on by default :( I will hopefully find

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Pircher
Andrei Popescu wrote: I'm not very familiar with network-manager (a.k.a network-mangler) because I prefer wicd, but I recall there was a setting for it to not touch the network if it was configured in /etc/network/interfaces. That setting is probably not on by default :( I will hopefully find

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-21 Thread Thomas Pircher
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: a) without asking me, b) without telling me and c) without being told to do so. From what I understand, all 3 of these are primary goals of the network- manager package. I'm sure network-manager will live up to its goals, eventually. For the time being I have

Re: apt mirror returns 503 Service unavailable [was: getting too old for this]

2018-04-17 Thread Thomas Pircher
mick crane wrote: > W: Failed to fetch http://debian.heanet.ie/debian/dists/buster/InRelease > Could not connect to debian.heanet.ie:80 (193.1.193.65). That host is up but the Web server is refusing connections. I guess they are doing some maintenance, and will be back up soon. Do you have

Re: Network Problems

2018-03-22 Thread Thomas Pircher
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, David wrote: > Does Debian keep a table of MAC addresses? If so where can I locate it? The kernel does. You can get the ARP table e.g. with ip neigh list This table is relatively short-lived and if you haven't talked to that device recently it might not show up in the

Re: kernel parallel builds?

2019-01-14 Thread Thomas Pircher
Andrea Borgia wrote: > I'm using this command from within the unpacked kernel source: > fakeroot debian/rules binary If you are not bound to using Debian's packaged kernel source, then you could simply use the bindeb-pkg target of the vanilla kernel. For example: cp

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
Tom Browder wrote: > I know I can define them with individual A records (with the same IP) > with my domain host provider, but will that cause problems conflicting > with a single physical hostname of, say, "pluto.example2.net"? Depends on the service. For SMTP, some servers check that results of

Re: Wheezy: adding myself to the sudo group using usermod

2019-04-04 Thread Thomas Pircher
Brian wrote: > Which bit is an assumption? Experienced? I hope you are not questioning > his competence. No, definitely not, I have been reading this list for some time and have absolutely no reason to doubt his experience or competence. I wish I had stated that better. What I meant was that he

Re: Wheezy: adding myself to the sudo group using usermod

2019-04-04 Thread Thomas Pircher
Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 12:54:52 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > (On Wheezy) I've been trying to add myself to the sudo group with the > > usermod > > command. > > vigr is your friend. I don't think this will fix OP's problem. rhkramer, you don't need to reboot your

Re: Wheezy: adding myself to the sudo group using usermod

2019-04-04 Thread Thomas Pircher
Brian wrote: > > Really? vigr cannot be used to add a user to a group? Nobody has stated that. Since the OP had the correct command in his email, I assumed that the operation worked, but hasn't been activated in the current session. Do I know that for sure? No, he hasn't said exactly what

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Thomas Pircher
Mark Fletcher wrote: > mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. Hi Mark, FYI, mutt does allow you to change the Subject line, in the Compose Menu, just before sending the mail. > Short version: Is it reasonable to expect a piece of software to exist > that establishes a direct

Re: gnome web

2019-02-27 Thread Thomas Pircher
Shahryar Afifi wrote: > when running youtube, every time I switch between full screen and small > screen, the volume goes to maximum! Could this be another manifestation of PulseAudio's Flat Volumes? https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio#Sound_level_is_low_or_suddenly_becomes_too_loud Thomas

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Tixy wrote: > I'm guessing the archive is falling back to threading by > matching the subject line, as with Curt's MUA? The Debian list admins will have a more authoritative answer then mine, but I searched a bit about "possible follow-ups" in and this [1] old posting by the author of MHonArc

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Curt wrote: > Maybe that lead-in violates some RFC, although you'd think what's in the > header's in the header and what ain't ain't and ne'er the twain shall > meet. > > At any rate, bw threads fine here, so it must be you (or me). It's you -- or rather bw's MUA, I'm afraid. :-) His mails don't

Re: OpenSSH not closing idle sessions.

2019-04-09 Thread Thomas Pircher
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Most people want the exact opposite of that. I don't really know the OP's rationale, but terminating an idle ssh session is a step in the requirements/guidelines (STIG [1]) for hardening systems for the US Department of Defense. > Basically, what you're asking for is

Re: OpenSSH not closing idle sessions.

2019-04-09 Thread Thomas Pircher
Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I suggest reading what ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval > actually do in sshd_config(5). Take particular note of the word > "unresponsive". It is not the same as "idle". Yes, you are right, this setting won't disconnect idle sessions. So I guess it's mostly

Re: What keystroke do you use to select tty[1234] in d-i in KVM virt-install console?

2019-10-01 Thread Thomas Pircher
David wrote: > My goal is to automate in a VM my testing of various aspects of > debian-installer, such as paritioning, and the setup and teardown > is faster if the test VM has no GUI so I am using console VM. The "packer" tool does a decent job at automating this. It exports the console as a

Re: What keystroke do you use to select tty[1234] in d-i in KVM virt-install console?

2019-10-01 Thread Thomas Pircher
Thomas Pircher wrote: > The keystrokes are in tmux are "CTRL-B", followed by ":send-keys M-2", > followed by the Enter key, for sending the -<2> (Meta-2) key > combination. Sorry, I realised later that you wanted to send -… That would be: :send-keys M-F2 >

Re: What keystroke do you use to select tty[1234] in d-i in KVM virt-install console?

2019-10-02 Thread Thomas Pircher
David wrote: > At the relevant point, I do : > and tmux responds by presenting a colon prompt. > > Then I type literally the following text: > send-keys M-F4 > > and when I press key, the debian-installer behaves > exactly the same as if I just pressed the enter key without > any special tmux

Re: please stop breaking threads (was: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster

2019-07-10 Thread Thomas Pircher
bw wrote: > > You mean a windows-clone email client? Looks like you have managed to fix the issue, your replies have a In-Reply-To header and at least in mutt your replies are now properly threaded. Thanks for fixing this!

Re: How to delete second default route

2019-10-04 Thread Thomas Pircher
Johann Spies wrote: > $ sudo ip route list > default dev enp0s25 scope link > default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlo1 proto dhcp metric 600 > 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlo1 scope link metric 1000 Have you tried specifying the device and/or the GW address, to narrow down which route you want to delete, i.e.:

Re: USB WIFI Adapters?

2019-11-20 Thread Thomas Pircher
Henning Follmann wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi section "Availability of compatible WiFi > chipsets" Also useful for the current kernel version: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers I have recently looked into 802.11ac USB wireless devices under Linux and the situation is

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Thomas Pircher
Paul Sutton wrote: > "Something that gives as close to a proper RS232 serial port operation > as possible." As someone mentioned already, cutecom is a nice graphical interface. If you work on the console then I'd suggest picocom. It has fewer features than minicom (e.g. kermit, rzsz

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Thomas Pircher
Mike Oliver wrote: > Managing Debian with Ansible is pretty similar to managing > just about every other Linux distribution, This is my experience as well. > with a few minor tweaks > (e.g. using the 'apt' module for managing packages instead of yum/dnf). For simple tasks one can use the

Re: booting details

2020-09-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
anthony gennard wrote: > Is it possible to download an exact replica of the booting process which I > see hurrying too fast to read it (at least it is for my tired eyes). If you are using systemd and journald (I believe that is the default in jessie), then you could also try sudo journalctl

Re: Please be respectful

2020-10-14 Thread Thomas Pircher
Weaver wrote: > To me I see an outstanding example of laziness from somebody who > obviously needs no consideration in the accessibility department. Hi Harry, I really hope you are in a minority with this opinion, and hopefully, re-reading the original post you might come to a different

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-14 Thread Thomas Pircher
Henning Follmann wrote: > Either keys generated thru ssh-genkey or if you use > gnupg to manage your keys. > gnupg has the advantage that you could use > a gnupg card to store your keys. Thanks for the clarification, it was purely out of interest. As someone who has discovered ssh CAs only

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-24 Thread Thomas Pircher
Albretch Mueller wrote: > rsync uses crc for its data integrity checks. Why is it you can't use > it like any other OS utility? The code for CRC is so small and simple that virtually all applications choose to implement it directly, rather than use a library or an external application for it.

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-24 Thread Thomas Pircher
Albretch Mueller wrote: > How do I get the deb files in order to install locally (via dpkg > --install) the necessary utilities to run CRC32 and/or CRC64 Hmm, the 'necessary utilities' might be jacksum, if it can calculate the CRCs you are after, and what Debian release you are on. How to get

Re: qemu-kvm won't install on Bullseye. Installs qemu-system-x86 instead.

2020-09-17 Thread Thomas Pircher
Kenneth Parker wrote: > When I try to install qemu-kvm, I get: "Note, selecting > 'qemu-system-x86' instead of qemu-kvm" The 'qemu-kvm' package does no longer exist. It is a virtual package and is being replaced by qemu-system-x86. > And then, when I try to Define the Guest, using the file I

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread Thomas Pircher
Henning Follmann wrote: > Maintain a good keychain and you wont need 2FA. I'm curious, What do you mean by keychain in context of ssh? The application of that name or something else? Thomas

Re: copy/paste in vim (in terminal)

2020-08-11 Thread Thomas Pircher
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Sounds like "set mouse=a" is active. Sounds like it. Either disable mouse mode as Thomas describes it, or keep it enabled and use the shift key when copying and pasting. This is useful e.g. when vim is started in a terminal with mouse mode, like tmux or screen. Thomas

Re: using tar

2020-06-15 Thread Thomas Pircher
mick crane wrote: > I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ? Tar accepts 3 styles of options. The style with a single dash is called the 'UNIX' or 'short-option' style in the man page. > "tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive" > doesn't work. The `-f` option requires

Systemd user environment variables not picked up for me

2020-06-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Hi, I'm experimenting with systemd environment variables. I have a file ~/.config/environment.d/50-default.conf where I set a few variables: > MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 > GDK_BACKEND=wayland > TESTVAR=test123 However, these variables are not set in my environment when I log in. I have tried logging

Re: Systemd user environment variables not picked up for me

2020-06-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Thomas Pircher wrote: > I'm experimenting with systemd environment variables. I forgot to mention that this is on Debian testing/bullseye.

Re: Systemd user environment variables not picked up for me

2020-06-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Greg Wooledge wrote: > As far as I've been able to determine, this environment.d stuff does > *not* work with logins. D'oh! That didn't occur to me. Re-reading the man pages with that in mind makes more sense now. As you say, it seems to be implicitly assumed in several places but not stated

Re: Systemd user environment variables not picked up for me

2020-06-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Greg Wooledge wrote: > The holy grail, for me, would have been a way to specify environment > variables that are applied to all user logins, whether by console login, > or ssh, or Display Manager, independent of the user's login shell. This is more or less what I try to achieve here. My use case

Re: Failed to migrate controller cgroups

2021-01-06 Thread Thomas Pircher
Thomas Pircher wrote: Try setting systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=true in your kernel boot arguments, as suggested here[1]. This is no longer necessary with systemd 247.2-2, which now defaults to the "unified" cgroup hierarchy. Thomas

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Nicolas George wrote: > MP3 is an elementary stream, with just a little noise at the beginning > or the end for metadata: concatenation of the streams works. How about mp3cut from the poc-streamer package? | mp3cut can split and concatenate MP3 files according to time slices | given on the

Re: Failed to migrate controller cgroups

2021-01-06 Thread Thomas Pircher
Michael Grant wrote: I never saw a place to set these params in Linode and sure enough there doesn't appear to be. There is none, if you are using a Linode kernel. You can, however, configure your Linode to use a custom kernel[1] if you wish so. Is there some way to set this without it

Re: Failed to migrate controller cgroups

2021-01-06 Thread Thomas Pircher
Michael Grant wrote: I'm seeing warnings like this in my logs: Jan 3 04:48:49 bottom systemd[3436917]: -.slice: Failed to migrate controller cgroups from +/user.slice/user-108.slice/user@108.service, ignoring: Permission denied I take it you are using Debian testing and systemd 247.1? Try

Re: awstats, how to see in a browser?

2021-02-16 Thread Thomas Pircher
Gene Heskett wrote: I finally got around to changing awstats.conf to look at the httpd logs since the apache2 logs haven't been used in a while, but 2 changes in browsers has lost the localhost link to see what it is spitting out. Does anyone recall the address to send a browser to? awstats

Re: awstats, how to see in a browser?

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas Pircher
Gene Heskett wrote: apt/synaptic installed so I assume you mean /var/www etc Hi Gene, actually I meant the path part in the URL, so if you reach your web server on localhost on the HTTP protocol, then the URL would be http://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl ene@coyote:/var/www/cgi-bin$ ls -R

Re: awstats, how to see in a browser?

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas Pircher
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2021 03:03:05 Thomas Pircher wrote: http://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl Connection refused, awstats.pl isn't there. Ok, from the output of ss it looks like you are running Apache on port 443, so you can try https://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

Re: network problem (fwd)

2021-10-06 Thread Thomas Pircher
Brian wrote: Just in passing: The line with netmask 255.255.255.0 can be deleted. It is a deprecated option, as is broadcast. See #912220. Crikey, it is indeed deprecated. Just removing the line will probably not be a good idea. I guess it can be deleted only when the address line contains the

Re: where to find wifi card info in linux-doc

2021-11-26 Thread Thomas Pircher
lou wrote: i want info about wifi cards supported by kernel The kernel wiki has a good list of supported chips: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers Thomas

Re: iwd + systemd-networkd + resolvconf wrinkles

2022-03-14 Thread Thomas Pircher
David Wright wrote: I was casting round for a simple way to run iwd + resolvconf + systemd-networkd as replacement. I run a similar setup, with iwd, systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved. This has been working without problems on my host for for quite a while now. Make a copy of your

Re: iwd + systemd-networkd + resolvconf wrinkles

2022-03-17 Thread Thomas Pircher
David Wright wrote: As I said, I tried that. Ack. I must have glossed over that. Sorry. The rest of my mail stands, though. You can configure various settings for the DNS resolver in your systemd-networkd setting and in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf. Like what? Full description here:

Re: How to create a kernel package

2022-10-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
Hans wrote: I want to create a kernel package, which I can install with dpkg. There was a command doing it instead of "make && make install", and I could not find it any more. Last time I did it is a long time ago. Does someone know? I also don't remember the old command, but this has been

Re: Causing segmentations fault; Was: Re: No Public Key

2022-11-14 Thread Thomas Pircher
Henning Follmann wrote: Mutt crashes trying to open this post (while opening gnupg). That's weird. When I save the message as attachment, and run gnupg over it, I get this error message | gpg: CRC error; 3B73F1 - DC33B7 | gpg: quoted printable character in armor - probably a buggy MTA has

Re: How to upgrade the GLIBCXX and GLIBC to the specific version

2024-02-28 Thread Thomas Pircher
Gremlin wrote: The new OS called Raspberry Pi OS is a new animal. The foundation used raspian and the the Raspberry Pi OS is the foundations, developed by the foundation. Yet it is still based on Debian, according to their changelog

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
Lee wrote: I haven't tried either package - I just use the file from IEEE Sure, that's directly from the source. One has to find a compromise between always using the latest version and using a limited common resources (like ieee's bandwidth in this case) in a responsible way. Thomas

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
On 2024-03-07 09:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: $ grep -i ^9009df /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes 9009DF Intel Corporate Alternatively, the ieee-data package also contains the OUI database: $ grep -i ^9009df /usr/share/ieee-data/oui.txt 9009DF (base 16)Intel

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
On 2024-03-07 10:11, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Any idea if one or the other is preferable or newer? I think there is not much difference between the two files, the ieee-data packages the data directly from the IEEE, with nmap you have one intermediary project that needs to download and release