Swap line won't be there.
Or show zero for the total size, that's what it does for me. (I'm not
the OP, just commenting).
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on 0.0.0.0
port 111. Hmm, that's rpcbind, installed by using NFS shares? Good job
I have a firewall between me and the internet ;-) (But seriously, one
thing I hadn't considerer for the very rare time I use public wifi).
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ks' based on solid state storage technology,
NAND flash can have a large erase block size.
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On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 17:41 +0100, Tixy wrote:
[...]
> You don't have to rely on the GUIs default terminal. If you set
> "Terminal=false" in the .desktop file you can launch your script how
> you want, e.g. I've used something...
>
> Exec=lxterminal --geometry=80x30 -e &q
stinguish audio
files from extension. (The 'file' command would probably be best for
testing file type properly, never used this though.)
#
~$ cat Desktop/test.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Exec=/ho
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 13:40 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> And run the script from a 'desktop entry' [1] and your desktop GUI may
> let you run it with file arguments just by dropping files onto it. You
> can put these 'desktop' files on you desktop or in there own directory
> you can open w
top' files on you desktop or in there own directory
you can open when you have tasks to do.
The above works for me with LXDE. Though you don't get to edit
parameters to you scripts, just pass files to them.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/desktop_entries
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my firewall.
My server is using sysvinit not systemd.
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On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 21:55 +0200, Hans wrote:
> Answer myself: There is ~/.config/kmailrc, which got the known mailaddresses
> with names. However, when I delete them in this file and restart kmail, the
> mail addresses I sent to in the past. are not forgotten. So there is no
> change
> in
On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 11:39 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 01:54 -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> > is there any?
> >
> > the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
> > i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,
>
> And th
me the Arch wiki page which includes a
section on configuring avatars, a man page which mentions how to enable
avatars, and Reddit questions people asking about problems with
avatars.
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unning program probably doesn't know anything's
happened other that time has jumped forward a lot.
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be fine, but what benefit is gained by
removing support for optical media which some other people may need?
[1] Actually, I use the net install 'CD' images, CD/DVD/Blueray(?) just
gets used to distinguish capacity of optical media needed to contain
them I believe.
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On Sun, 2020-07-19 at 13:43 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Tixy wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-07-18 at 18:48 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > At this point in 2020, I think it would be reasonable to only
> > > produce
> > > netinst images and jigdo (and live, but that's
ew people in the
world who don't have access to fast, cheap internet who would
appreciate a DVD image that they can simply download somewhere where
they can get good internet. e.g. library, work, education
establishment. Or could get someone else to do that and mail it.
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o will crash on Pentium III or Geode.
It also says 'The first update of webkit2gtk in buster is expected to
restore support for these systems'
So it's obvious that Buster in general works on Pentium III, and the OP
can expect it to install and work if they want to try. No custom
kernels needed.
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On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 13:43 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[Lots of good shell scripting advice snipped]
Thanks Greg for posting these code reviews of people's scripts, it's
not just the script authors which might learn something, but also some
of us list subscribers. :-)
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ple not to
reply to spam. Then more noise from email discussions like this which
I'm now adding to :-(
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On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 15:38 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 30 mai 20, 10:27:14, Tixy wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 08:06 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Sb, 30 mai 20, 10:51:37, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > > > John Hasler wrote:
> > > >
e extra disk accesses required (causing worse
performance and SSD wear).
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On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 14:46 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Tixy (12020-05-19):
> > Try reading the email Cindy was replying to.
>
> I already did: technical points, speculating around what the OP
> actually
> wanted.
Ah, sorry. In my email client Cindy's reply showed up unde
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 14:14 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Cindy Sue Causey (12020-05-19):
>
>
> Funny thing: three weeks later, still speculating what the original
> question was about, without any input from the person who asked it.
Try reading the email Cindy was replying to.
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ks appear under /dev/disk/by-label/
where each entry is the label name. If that label contains a '/' then
it can't appear there, or if it does, it will have a mangled name to
remove the '/'.
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On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 16:21 +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
wrote:
> What is debootstrap?
Why don't you put 'debootstrap' into your favourite web search engine?
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-dnsnet
[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
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mpiler results not being able to be cached or something
like that? I've just assumed slow performance it due to CPU throughput.
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MAP and I can't see
them adding it, it's no extra benefit to them and IMAP takes more CPU
and storage resources (with pop being default delete on download).
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ting
written to regularly for things like log files at least.
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lways though such a design
architecture is totally bonkers, why isn't GUI and machine control
completely separate things. But that's not Gene's fault, it's the
software designers.
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rive. I use it to force my NAS drives to spin down so the noise
doesn't annoy me. But a timeout of zero will disable spindown.
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gt; which affects every file open. gzip opens a lot of files.
Huh? You mean a glibc goes to talk to systemd on every fopen? Surely,
file access permissions are handled by the kernel, otherwise you could
just bypass checks by directly using the 'open' syscall.
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en't covered by the
built-in rules. There may be ways of adding custom rules, but I've just
taken to manually adding IP addresses to a blacklist with iptables. (To
avoid their irritation in the logs rather than fear that the bots will
be able to do anything nasty.)
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d two weeks ago...
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/o/opensmtpd/opensmtpd_6.0.3p1-5+deb10u3_changelog
If you really want a newer version, buster-backports contains 6.6.2p1
but note that backports don't get official security support.
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On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 12:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 February 2020 11:09:46 Tixy wrote:
>
> > > EG? 25G? Those don't make sense to me in the context of
> > > cellphones.
> >
> > Perhaps 'EDGE' a.k.a. 2.5G?
>
> That would be subject to
very few regions of the world where 2G is still used
> for data; a few more where it sticks around for voice.
>
> EG? 25G? Those don't make sense to me in the context of
> cellphones.
Perhaps 'EDGE' a.k.a. 2.5G?
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rying
to debug your connection you could try looking there.
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an't see anything
about '64-bit'. What I'm assuming the OP is interested is 64-bit block
numbers because they said they want to "convert ext4 fs on this server
to 64bit so that I can grow it past 16TB limit". Note from me, 4kB
sized blocks * 2^32 = 16TB, so block numbers whould need to be more
than 32-bit for bigger drives.
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r versions of e2fsprogs
will not support file systems with this ext4 feature enabled"
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s use any server side facilities like PHP or server side
includes? If not, and your pages have purely static content, you can
just view your pages as plain files on your local machine, no need for
a web server.
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s. I'll work something out to accomodate it.
And you can zero all the counters with "/sbin/iptables -Z" (or zero
individual rule couters if you want).
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You'd
hope writers of those email clients would have read RFC2822 (or RFC822
if they're from last century) and implemented support for Message-ID,
References, and In-Reply-To fields.
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n
Mail' and it seems that MUA doesn't set In-Reply-To or References like
it should do.
> I'm totally ignorant about Oberon, so I looked at
> wikipedia [1] which says that Oberon it is an operating
> sytem with an unusual user interface.
> So I feel a need to ask, is Oberon involved here?
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On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 07:09 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> Conclusion, to me, it looks like the mainline kernel doesn't yet have
> RPi4 support, and when it does, would anyone want to go to the effort
> to backport that to 4.19?
Actually, I don't think the support for >1GB memory patc
[1] but those
files aren't in Linux 5.3, and there's a patch still in development [2]
to enable the kernel to support more than 1GB RAM on hardware like the
RPi4 has.
Conclusion, to me, it looks like the mainline kernel doesn't yet have
RPi4 support, and when it does, would anyone want to go to the effort
to backport that to 4.19? I wouldn't be holding my breath for RPi4B
support in a Buster netinst image.
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[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11048253/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11135137/
appreciated.
Is the problem being talked about here different to amanda usr-merge
bug 939411 [1] which I saw that mentioned in another thread [2] ?
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939411
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/09/msg00219.html
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On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 12:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >
> https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a
> > >rrested
ript. You got that
disabled or blocked with a plugin?
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roject [...] to
standardize services provided by Linux desktop environments such as
GNOME and KDE.
It's seems quite reasonable to me for people to jump to the conclusion
that it's not likely relevant for servers.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus
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. I believe setting autologin-user-timeout to a non-zero
value will delay that number of seconds giving the user chance to
cancel auto-login and select another user. I don't know if that matches
the behaviour Tom is looking for or if he always requires a password to
be entered.
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On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 21:23 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Tixy writes:
> > I've used 'schroot' in the past for this sort of thing, let's you
> > configure what to mount and I believe either defaults or has
> > examples
> > for the common things you're likely to
sys /home/wheezy/sys
>
I've used 'schroot' in the past for this sort of thing, let's you
configure what to mount and I believe either defaults or has examples
for the common things you're likely to need like /dev and /proc. I
don't remember the details as it's been quite some years since I used
it.
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y upgrade to a new release at a time of your
choosing, taking into consideration what the release notes say and
leasons leaned from upgrading one of your systems first.
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ed. Thanks for fixing this!
Not sure he has. The In-Reply-To points to his own previous emails, not
the email (judging by the quoting) that he is actually replying to.
Where the headers are set correct, it is when other people have added
his address in the TO: header, so I'm guessing he is replying to those
direct emails.
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On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 19:21 +0300, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 05:14:13PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
[...]
> > Still broken because there is no 'In-Reply-To' or 'References'
> > email
> > header. You've just removed it from the body text. (I'm not the
&g
. how's this look to ya?
Still broken because there is no 'In-Reply-To' or 'References' email
header. You've just removed it from the body text. (I'm not the person
who complained this time but I did in the past.)
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? If it's a Debian related thing and not just
Raspian then I'm sure lots of us who have remote servers to administer
would want forewarning on how to ensure SSH comes up at boot.
I note that the release notes for Buster say it comes with AppArmour by
default, it you issue related to that?
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ard, e.g. getting kernel updates installing correctly.
So, prebuilt images with networking choices that don't suit you is
probably the lesser of the two evils ;-)
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ons
of packages from the repositories at the time it is run.
> Do i have to do sth (except
> apt-get update / upgrade) when the official Buster is released?
No
> And before that. Is there a notion of upgrading to RC3 ?
No.
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it, and
realising that sort of thing was also running on my Linux machines. The
whole idea of automagically setting up networks just sounds like a
problem and security hole waiting to happen. So I decided to nuke it
from orbit, it was the only safe thing to do.
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ew disk partition, use dm-crypt to
encrypt that and put the file system on that that people want encrypted
(for /home?).
Personally, for several releases I've used dm-crypt with LUKS for a
partiton containing everything apart from /boot. (Done using Debian
installer when creating a system).
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On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 19:52 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 19:46 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> [...]
> > Note, both the above links are for the amd64 CPU architecture,
> > there
> > are differend notes for other architectures, so if you use another,
> &
On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 19:46 +0100, Tixy wrote:
[...]
> Note, both the above links are for the amd64 CPU architecture, there
> are differend notes for other architectures, so if you use another,
> look at the top level page:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stretc
are for the amd64 CPU architecture, there
are differend notes for other architectures, so if you use another,
look at the top level page:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/
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-announce/2019/06/msg3.html
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effort to get Google
Hangouts video chat working in the Chromium browser. Just tried that
and with ALSA, I can't seem to get it to use headphones even when they
are selected explicitly by name.
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nd installed Pulse Audio
(to listen to online video).
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estart=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
NotShowIn=LXDE;
That last line I guess overrides default startup behaviour.
Using "find / -name at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop" I see the default desktop
file in /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop, which has the same
contents without that last NotShowIn=LXDE; line.
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On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:58 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote:
> Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy:
> > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote:
> > [...]
> > > # uname -a
> > > Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1
for some other reason?
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On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 11:49 -0400, Default User wrote:
[...]
> And, BTW, when will Unstable ever get into the 5.x.x kernel series?
Not until after Buster is released I assume.
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cked that before posting. I also checked the web archives [1]
where all of bw's messages appear under a ""
heading. I'm guessing the archive is falling back to threading by
matching the subject line, as with Curt's MUA?
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/04/thrd3.html
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correctly, presumably because that line should be in
the email headers not the body. Guess this is a bug with your mail user
agent (Alpine) and not something specific you are doing?
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t of subject lines makes it look a lot
like spam.
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h for 'log-file' rather than using a tilde (~)? Perhaps whatever
parses dirmngr.conf doesn't treat a tilde as special like shells do.
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environment into root's.
But it's not Joe Random User, it's Joe Sysadmin - unless you're in the
habit of giving root's password to everyone.
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On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 15:56 +, Tixy wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 14:47 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
[...]
> > And may I ask you what do you use to follow this very maillist?
>
> Erm, he probably uses a email client to follow this email list like I
> guess a lot (most?)
> and pan a year ago.
> >
> > B
>
> And may I ask you what do you use to follow this very maillist?
Erm, he probably uses a email client to follow this email list like I
guess a lot (most?) people do, usenet newsgroups are a different thing
to email. Though I understand from other posts here over the years that
there are services that present mailing lists like these and newsgroups
.
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d that the disabled options could allow
unauthorised users access to sensitive information and programs.
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On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 04:32 +, Long Wind wrote:
> 52.9.0 is new one, i have stretch and early debian,
> i don't have buster, and can't install later firefox
stretch-updates has 60.4.0esr, but if I remember right you don't like
security updates?
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rly sure the machine will boot without any of these present.
Machine will boot with a single init program (could be a shell like
busybox) that is stored in an initrd. So this minimalist install
partition would just have /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.img (or just
vmlinuz if the initrd was built into the kernel binary).
Of course, this may not meet the functional requirements, but the OP
hasn't specified any of those, just that they system be 'minimalist'.
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at end "See Also nanorc", and "man
nanorc" says:
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 nano settings is either of those two
files.
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ant.
>
> > 2. If the answer is 'yes': which would be the best/proper way to do
> > it?
>
> apt purge unattended upgrades
I assume there's a missing hyphen there and it should be:
apt purge unattended-upgrades
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On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 18:19 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 04:57:49PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> > On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 10:23 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > Throughout Jessie and Stretch, I have been running Debian without
> > > systemd as the ini
systemd
project now).
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794721
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On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 10:20 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 08 Oct 2018 at 06:59:15 (+0100), Tixy wrote:
> > On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 20:08 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > [...]
> > > If you're impatient and want to copy files to the stick during
> > > installati
overwrite an existing file (overrides a previous -i option)
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d with deb-multimedia then this sort of thing is
going to be a reoccurring problem.
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ter
the Stable release gets them. (That isn't intended to be a criticism of
the people working on LTS, just an observation so people considering
relying on LTS know they may need to be a bit more proactive when
security issues emerge.)
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/FAQ#What_architectures_are_supported.3F
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wired together. I.e.
it's equivalent to getting 2 USB to serial cables and connecting them
with a null modem cable.
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On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 13:58 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/12/2018 12:50 PM, Tixy wrote:
> > On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 13:28 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >> Another hierarchy in Linux not to sync is /system for the same reason
> >> you don't sync /proc.
> &g
ystems and that's quite an extensive
and variable list.
Some commands have options to stop them looking at other filsytsems (cp
has -x and find has -xdev) I don't know about rsync (I don't have it
installed).
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I do not know if word "broken" is proper in my previous post, since this
> is rather "feature" than "bug".
I'd say it's a bug as it doesn't understand that the syntax of an
'address' in headers can be a 'group' as well as a 'mailbox'. (Using
'quotes' for the terms in RFC-822).
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Undisclosed-Recipient:;@imap.poczta.onet.pl>
which does look suspect. The header should be
Undisclosed-Recipient:;
or
<local-p...@imap.poczta.onet.pl>
Looks like something is using the group name 'Undisclosed-Recipient:;'
as LOCAL-PART of an address specification.
But I'm no expert and could be talking rubbish...
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On Sat, 2018-01-13 at 08:06 +, Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 22:40 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2018-01-12 21:21:06 +, Nick wrote:
> > > It might have aged out of the buffer that dmesg reports on.
> >
> > No, there's the beginning of the dmesg
5-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org)
(gcc version 6.3.0 20170
516 (Debian 6.3.0-18) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04)
...
[0.00] DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.8.1-pre-memset3 06/07/2017
[0.00] Hypervisor detected: Xen
[0.00] Xen version 4.8.
...
[0.00] Booting paravirtualized kernel on Xen HVM
...
[0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
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in
Wheezy compared to 3.16 as used in Jessie. Or perhaps the latter port
hit problems, who knows.
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m.com/support/security-update
[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/
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must be superuser. Which has
always been my experience in 10 years of using Debian.
>From a desktop environment it's usually been possible to shut a machine
down from a menu option, though at least on one release I ended up
having to hack some policy config to allow that to work.
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e similar devices running
Debian and in constant use.
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On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 17:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 18 September 2017 11:39:26 Tixy wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 11:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > My instant problem, a disappearing usb camera, could also be solved
> &
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