Re: running arecord via ssh

On 2018-05-16 18:10, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I try to record some old vinyls with arecord, the output being sent to my desktop via a radio transmitter/receiver couple. On the desktop xterm window, its works perfectly, but if I run arecord via a ssh connection: 1/ from an other computer:

self identifying computer

I changed the domain name for couple of home computers from "local" to "home" one of them is win 10 PC. I have ipfire box doing hopefully firewall and DNS and so while I changed domain I let all get address from its DHCP and gave them fixed leases. I have 2 debian PCs I try to find IP address

Re: self identifying computer

On 2018-06-05 07:57, john doe wrote: On 6/5/2018 12:56 AM, mick crane wrote: I changed the domain name for couple of home computers from "local" to "home" one of them is win 10 PC. I have ipfire box doing hopefully firewall and DNS and so while I changed domain I let all

Re: Webmail?

On 2018-06-30 08:42, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 08:25:41 +0100 mick crane wrote: On 2018-06-29 21:04, Joe wrote: > Anyone know of a webmail that works on stretch? > > I've just spent half an afternoon trying first roundcube then > prayer. been using dovecot, roundcube, getm

Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended. The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other print jobs not at all. Again,

Re: Failure of cups printing.

On 2018-06-21 00:53, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi, Since upgrading from Debian 8 to 9, CUPS printing has failed with this log message. "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2" not available: No such file or directory Whereas, peter@computer:~$ ls -ld

Re: Webmail?

On 2018-06-29 21:04, Joe wrote: Anyone know of a webmail that works on stretch? I've just spent half an afternoon trying first roundcube then prayer. been using dovecot, roundcube, getmail for some time just for home network. getting sieve to work was a chore for me but I'm not very good at

Re: Webmail?

On 2018-06-30 08:42, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 08:25:41 +0100 mick crane wrote: On 2018-06-29 21:04, Joe wrote: > Anyone know of a webmail that works on stretch? > > I've just spent half an afternoon trying first roundcube then > prayer. been using dovecot, roundcube, getm

Re: gathering trace rute output to a file?

On 2018-07-01 06:00, Karen Lewellen wrote: Well it seems it works like this. traceroute domain-to-be-traced.com > trace-results.txt or something like that. process worked for me just now. Thanks as usual, Karen I'm asking 'cause I don't really know. What's the difference between a pipe "|"

Re: gathering trace rute output to a file?

On 2018-07-01 19:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 07:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-01 06:00, Karen Lewellen wrote: >Well it seems it works like this. >traceroute domain-to-be-traced.com > trace-results.txt >or something like that. >process wor

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: ,snipped> Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it makes more sense to leave domain name unset, or to provide a value (picked carefully, perhaps ending ".test" or ".invalid"). In some ways I like the idea of providing a

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On 2018-02-21 00:33, Dan Purgert wrote: mick crane wrote: On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: ,snipped> Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it makes more sense to leave domain name unset, or to provide a value (picked carefully, perhaps ending &qu

sshd fails to start on boot

hello, on boot sshd seems to be starting before the network is ready so fails. How/where do I tell it to start after network is up ? debian testing (buster) cheers mick -- Key ID 4BFEBB31

Re: Unwanted emails

On 2018-07-27 14:09, Maria Rosatto wrote: I have been unsubscribing for months now with you assholes from Spokane and you claim my address is not in your system yet now you come out of Austin. Tx. Why don’t you assholes get a real job and stop trying to scam others Sent from my iPhone I love

Re: manuals

On 2018-08-10 20:31, Brian wrote: On Fri 10 Aug 2018 at 20:16:33 +0100, mick crane wrote: Is it OK if I wget the webpages from https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ ? to look at locally or are there handy archives I could download ? We expect you have explored the links on that page

manuals

Is it OK if I wget the webpages from https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ ? to look at locally or are there handy archives I could download ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

question about the kernel

Am I right in thinking that the kernel is a single codebase agreed between all the kernel developers at any particular date and that Linux distributions can take bits out from that for their release but shouldn't add bespoke stuff that isn't agreed by everybody else ? just wondering how that

question about sound

hello, sorry is this is not on-topic I'm not very good at sound. Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then there will become some sound event that is very loud. It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is it. I'm not exactly sure what

Re: question about sound

On 2018-08-06 21:39, T BkRl wrote: It sounds like a limiter is what you need? Ah, OK seems like VLC might do it in the menu items tools - FROM: mick crane SENT: Monday, August 6, 2018 3:24 PM TO: Debian Users SUBJECT: question about sound hello, sorry

Re: need help with sftp

On 2018-08-08 02:54, Fred wrote: On 08/07/2018 12:30 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:15:34PM -0700, Fred wrote: I need to ftp some files from a new Sid installation to either of two other computers on the network. Neither is configured for a "secure" version of ftp and

Re: Debian 9 network management

On 2018-08-14 09:08, Remigio wrote: Hi there, recently I installed Debian 9 Stretch and I noticed that the network configuration management method was substantially changed. Infact the file /etc/network/interfaces is almost empty despite I've inserted the network parameters during the

Re: Please help with error message

On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: $ echo $PATH /home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su Password: You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you? The su binary was

Re: Please help with error message

On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: $ echo $PATH /home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su Password: You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you? The su binary was

Re: question about sound

On 2018-08-07 07:30, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I'm not very good at sound. Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then there will become some sound event that is very loud. It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is it. I'm

Re: Please help with error message

On 2018-08-07 12:47, mick crane wrote: On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: $ echo $PATH /home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su Password: You are using testing

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

On 2018-08-07 10:58, Martin Drescher wrote: Hi members, I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed at some points in this list. I have a strong opinion about su, which is, avoid it whenever it is possible and use 'sudo' instead. This is the case in close to a 100% in

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

I think as a general philosophy it used to be this is your computer, as user we make sure it works and you can do some things. You can also be root but if you break it you get to keep the bits. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Kernel 4.9.0-7-686 Installed RAM vs. uabale RAM

On 2018-08-12 19:17, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 12/08/2018 à 19:53, deloptes a écrit : Dale Forsyth wrote: Hello, I have a system with Kernel 4.9.0-7-686, installed RAM are 3x 1GB but free -m only show 2GB. Please pay attention when reading, replying and quoting. "Dale Forsyth" did not

Re: Repository Problem

On 2018-08-19 02:37, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 8/18/18, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/18/2018 01:54 PM, Brian wrote: What does 'ip a' give you? And 'ping -cwww.debian.org? Thanksfot the reply. root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ip a 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

On 2018-08-24 19:06, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:45:00PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Friday, 24 Aug 2018 at 20:15, Reco wrote: > -INT_MAX. I win. -1 (wraps around so = INT_MAX) and I win! Damn. Should've seen this. Will use long int next time. Reco mailing list are great

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

On 2018-08-29 09:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Francesco Porro wrote: Ciao, As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: which is the best free email service around to receive mailing lists? As many others have pointed out

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

On 2018-08-28 17:12, Francesco Porro wrote: Ciao, As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: which is the best free email service around to receive mailing lists? <> I'm not knowledge enough to have my own email server advertising its presence or host my own

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

On 2018-08-29 10:00, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Aug 2018 at 09:49, mick crane wrote: But surely email will stop working after Brexit ? Maybe, maybe not, but you can get that UK residents will lose any data protection they may currently have. I'm a bit fed up with that stupid

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

On 2018-08-27 10:48, Zenaan Harkness wrote: So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it to sleep with: sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda sorry cannot help but I have similar disk and this seems like a good idea.

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

On 2018-08-29 12:09, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:05:21 +0100 mick crane wrote: Hello mick, I'm a bit fed up with that stupid cookie notification I have to close on every website anyway. If you use Firefox, install "I don't care about cookies", which disables thos

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so it is probably something else. in /lib/systemd/system/apache2.target do you have the "after" bit   1 [Unit]   2 Description=The Apache HTTP Server   3 After=network.target

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-21 09:56, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so it is probably something else. in /lib/systemd/system/apache2.target do you have the "after" bit   1 [Unit]   2 Description=The Apache H

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-23 12:13, john doe wrote: For testing you should read the advice from: https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/howto/Apache_HowToConfigure.html#zz-1. Basically, use the listen directive with only a port above 1024: listen 8000 from that link can assume then that there is

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-21 14:46, Dave wrote: On 07/21/2018 08:42 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 13:00, john doe wrote: On 7/21/2018 11:21 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:56, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-22 16:13, Dave wrote: i can't imagine why Deb, is not automatically configuring apache2 to auto start, a well know server for 10+ years and yet it seems in my case it was not configured properly. Please if anyone out there may have the answer, let us know. as it seems that the

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-22 17:52, john doe wrote: Also what is the output of: $ systemctl status NetworkManager-wait-online what would be handy is a way to get a verbose output to the apache2 log on boot. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-22 23:14, Dave wrote: On 7/22/18 1:04 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 7/22/18, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 16:13, Dave wrote: i can't imagine why Deb, is not automatically configuring apache2 to auto start, a well know server for 10+ years and yet it seems in my case

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-22 23:30, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 23:14, Dave wrote: On 7/22/18 1:04 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 7/22/18, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 16:13, Dave wrote: i can't imagine why Deb, is not automatically configuring apache2 to auto start, a well know server for 10

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-21 13:00, john doe wrote: On 7/21/2018 11:21 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:56, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-21 09:39, john doe wrote: my interfaces file is identical and apache starts OK so it is probably something else. in /lib/systemd/system/apache2.target do you have

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-21 05:40, メット wrote: On 2018年7月21日 12:53:32 JST, Dave wrote: On 07/19/2018 06:57 PM, Dave wrote: On 7/19/18 4:27 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-07-19, Dave wrote: after boot apache is not running, if i run systemctl status apache2, i get the address bind error shown above at the

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-19 01:57, Dave wrote: On 07/18/2018 04:41 PM, Dave wrote: On 07/18/2018 10:12 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:36:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: Sounds like the service may be disabled for some reason. What is the output of: systemctl status apache2 If you

Re: apache not running at boot

On 2018-07-25 14:05, Dave wrote: On 07/22/2018 01:55 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-22 17:52, john doe wrote: Also what is the output of: $ systemctl status NetworkManager-wait-online what would be handy is a way to get a verbose output to the apache2 log on boot. mick ah - i found

Re: Strange Network Problem

On 2018-08-31 20:50, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my Linux platform. I have noticed low internet traffic when I have not been doing anything outside of my LAN. This has made me a tad suspicious. Now: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ifconfig enp2s0: flags=4163 mtu 1500

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

On 2018-08-29 17:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:01:44AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: [...] > Massive proprietary email providers are just such points of failure. True. Explain that to your neighbor and try to convince him that it's a good reason for him to quit using

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

On 2018-08-29 10:54, Gene Heskett wrote: Thats all about 10x easier than launching a ^@& browser, logging into the mail server and reading the crap presented, in the order of arrivasl there. But because 99% of my ISP's users use IMAP, my ISP has disabled fetchmails ability to delete a

Re: Bash-Problem with cursor position after calling a function with READLINE_LINE

On 2018-09-07 11:07, Stefan Krusche wrote: Hallo Norbert, Am Donnerstag, 6. September 2018 schrieb Norbert Gruener: Hi all, In my Bash shell (».bashrc«) I have »bind« a command to the »F1« key bind -x '"\eOP":"_bash_man"'# F1 man The script »_bash_man« looks like (it is

Re: Encrypted e-mails?

On 2018-09-08 14:15, Martin Smith wrote: On 07/09/2018 20:54, Dan Purgert wrote: wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 09:53:08AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 03:47:33PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Darn. I was already planning to only send encrypted messages to this list

changing the desktop environment

hello, It is a long time since I fiddled with the display. is buster. there are the names display manager which is lightdm desktop environment which is mate and window manager which I think is part of mate If I want to change desktop environment do I need a window manager ? I'm not seeing

Re: changing the desktop environment

On 2018-09-06 12:14, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Thursday, 6 Sep 2018 at 11:53, mick crane wrote: How do I change desktop environment ? If you are using lightdm, there should be a pull down menu in the login screen where you can choose a different window manager. Ah, Ok. I see it now. cheers

Re: Odd problem with MATE Search Tool

On 2018-08-31 13:29, Richard Owlett wrote: I just installed SciTE text editor from the repository. The default font size was too small so I went looking for the appropriate properties file. I entered "scite" in the "Name contains:" box and chose "Filesystem" in the "Look in folder:" box. Got

Re: Strange Network Problem

On 2018-09-02 13:16, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The Firewall Passthrough is set to Allocation Mode set to 'Passthrough with the Passthrough Mode set to 'DHCPS-dynamic '. It's my intention to change the Allocation Mode to 'Off', as soon as I talk to AT Tech Support to make sure that doesn't mess

Re: Outgoing email with exim, was Re: Strange LAN IP Address.

On 2018-07-04 04:40, Mike McClain wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:42:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Tue 03 Jul 2018 at 08:52:22 (-0700), Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 03:17:27PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > Should anyone reading this know hjow to get exim4 to

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration

Re: PGP Email Client

On 2018-07-08 18:18, HP Garcia wrote: Can anyone recommend an email client that can handle PGP? I'm currently using Claws-Mail 3.14.1 Thanks in advance roundcube with enigma plugin dunno if it is working mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31 0x4BFEBB31.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when trying to install mediawiki from source,

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

On 2018-07-08 13:47, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a separate /home directory. Short answer -- no. I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable. The installer defaults {I assume for cause}

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

On 2018-07-08 17:41, John Darrah wrote: On 7/8/2018 7:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Until this thread I didn't have concept of "stream editor", much less the existence of "sed". I had heard of "AWK", but had an image of it being a regex parser. Awk is easy to learn because it is a minimal

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

On 2018-07-08 12:18, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:39:07AM +0200, john doe wrote: The issue here is that we don't know what the OP wants A situation sadly familiar when dealing with this particular poster's threads. Also in the general case, if you ever find yourself

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

On 2018-07-10 13:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:16:09PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I'd like to learn some awk having found it handy once. apt says mawk is installed in /usr/bin I have lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Apr 2 22:29 awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk -rwxr-x

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

On 2018-07-12 16:17, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing

Re: set default print options on printer

On 2018-03-08 02:35, Gary Dale wrote: I have a Samsung C410 printer attached to a Stretch server via USB and also available via wifi. There doesn't seem to be a default print setting for paper size but the cups listing for the printer shows:    Defaults:job-sheets=none, none

transfer disk

hello, Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: transfer disk

On 2018-04-10 04:48, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 10/04/18 14:01, mick crane wrote: hello, Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? mick Mostly. I once had a disk

getting too old for this

hello, apt update seems to have stopped working # # apt update Err:1 http://debian.heanet.ie/debian buster InRelease Could not connect to debian.heanet.ie:80 (193.1.193.65). - connect (111: Connection refused) Cannot initiate the connection to debian.heanet.ie:80

Re: Email tutorial?

On 2018-04-24 20:56, J.W. Foster wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 4.7.1 : Relay access denied. if using external SMTP server you sometimes have to register who is allowed to send mail with them. I had problem not been able to

changing local domain name

following recent about hostname it seems I've been under misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to ".home" . It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigging where. apache roundcube postfix now my ISP SMTP server is moaning. think I got them all except

Re: changing local domain name

On 2018-03-29 19:34, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-29, mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: following recent about hostname it seems I've been under misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to ".home" . It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts.

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On 2018-02-23 12:54, Dan Purgert wrote: David Wright wrote: On Mon 19 Feb 2018 at 18:39:02 (+), Brian wrote: [...] alum is the canonical_hostname. It is used by exim to HELO with. Many mail servers will not accept mail directly from you because it is not a FQDN. This is why I wrote

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

On 2018-03-24 03:31, Chris Anderson wrote: Hello I have been using different flavours of Linux since slackware 96 over 20 years ago. Since then I have installed and used at least a dozen different flavours. By far the most challenging was the X windows system for slackware but I managed to get

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

On 2018-10-07 20:04, songbird wrote: i used to run on dialup and hated how long it took for some things to download. the package debdelta did help some at that time, but i have no idea if the service is even still there let alone functional. I installed Gentoo once over dialup It took two

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

On 2018-10-08 12:06, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-07 20:04, songbird wrote: i used to run on dialup and hated how long it took for some things to download. the package debdelta did help some at that time, but i have no idea if the service is even still there let alone

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

On 2018-10-16 18:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:43:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: #1 is ssh -Y has been killed from jessie on. No excuse for doing it and bug filing is ignored. I don't know what you mean by this. I just performed the following experiment on my stretch

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

On 2018-10-16 22:53, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 16 October 2018 13:11:45 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:43:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > #1 is ssh -Y has been killed from jessie on. No excuse for doing it > and bug filing is ignored. I don't know what you mean by

Re: basilisk-browser

On 2018-10-19 07:58, Dominik George wrote: > [1] https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86 Seriously? They forbid linking against libraries if their code is not shipped with their sources? That also seems like a security nightmare in the making. Mozilla themselves weren't even *that*

Re: An appropriate directory search tool?

On 2018-10-21 02:16, John Crawley wrote: On 20/10/2018 19.28, Richard Owlett wrote: ...I would have expected to use an explicit pipe command between 'find' and 'grep'. In fact, depending on the exact conditions of your search, you might not need to use find at all. 'grep -r' will do a

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

On 2018-10-18 05:11, steve wrote: Still reading on this new thing for me. Thanks Steve I never came across this apparmor. did you try stopping it with systemctl then see if apache works as expected ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

On 2018-10-18 07:07, mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-18 05:11, steve wrote: Still reading on this new thing for me. Thanks Steve I never came across this apparmor. did you try stopping it with systemctl then see if apache works as expected ? Ah, OK I see you tried that. Would

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

On 2018-10-18 07:15, steve wrote: Le 18-10-2018, à 07:07:34 +0100, mick crane a écrit : On 2018-10-18 05:11, steve wrote: Still reading on this new thing for me. Thanks Steve I never came across this apparmor. did you try stopping it with systemctl then see if apache works as expected

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

On 2018-10-17 05:33, David Wright wrote: On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 04:35:36 (+0100), mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-16 22:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2018 13:11:45 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:43:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >

Re: strange DHCP behaviour

On 2018-10-24 09:40, tony wrote: I've flushed the lease several times (The dhclient -r command mentioned above does that), and physically deleted the lease files. No good! Isn't that on the laptop and you need to get rid of the entry on the server ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: strange DHCP behaviour

On 2018-10-24 11:39, tony wrote: On 24/10/2018 12:11, mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-24 09:40, tony wrote: I've flushed the lease several times (The dhclient -r command mentioned above does that), and physically deleted the lease files.  No good! Isn't that on the laptop and you need to get

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-24 17:47, Miles Fidelman wrote: We've had somebody make such an offer, and we'll probably take them up on it -- I sort of wanted to try to set up a small mail list on one of my computers, as long as I didn't have to run a web server or a *nix style MTA Now that is kind of hard

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-23 14:53, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Aside to Jeff: Just sending you a copy of this for your information.) Background: I am working with a Linux SIG that used to be part of a more general computer group. We plan to change the name to mention "LUG" (GLVLUG -- Greater Lehigh Valley

Re: strange DHCP behaviour

On 2018-10-23 14:56, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I havea laptop running fully up to date Stretch with NetworkManager, set to use DH|Cp via wireless. The DHCP server is another Stretch system, with the stanzas host tony-lt { hardware ethernet 0c:60:76:6c:e6:6f; fixed-address

Re: which program can test cpu speed

On 2018-10-26 06:57, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:05:36AM +, Long Wind wrote: any package that test cpu/system speed and report benchmark? i have 2 old pc: intel pentium D 2.8 G and amd athlon 64 3800i bought them from 2nd hand dealers for about same priceso i think they're

Re: www-data

On 2018-10-28 21:38, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 29/10/2018 10:26, Carl Fink wrote: On 10/28/2018 05:16 PM, mick crane wrote: what's the deal with www-data ? I never made that user I dunno if it has a password or what ? these are things that some setup / install makes ? It's created

www-data

what's the deal with www-data ? I never made that user I dunno if it has a password or what ? these are things that some setup / install makes ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: startup prob

On 2018-10-31 18:21, Glenn English wrote: find anything about where to put the data. Anyone know the incantation to make the s word start ssh? A link to clear dox on the innards of s.*d would probably be enough. So would a quick howto. "systemctl enable sshd" isn't it ? mick -- Key ID

Re: startup prob

On 2018-10-31 20:33, Brian wrote: On Wed 31 Oct 2018 at 18:21:54 +, Glenn English wrote: stretch, RPi Just installed stretch on an RPi. SSH doesn't start on boot. No problem with postfix, apache, proftp, bind, etc, as far as I know. I would probably install again and choose *only* the

Re: www-data

On 2018-10-28 23:57, Gene Heskett wrote: I don't think thats how it works. UID/GID as www-data is just part of the sandbox apache2 and its ilk play in. In fact after I've equipt apach2 with some new toy, the last thing I do as root is a chown -R www-data:www-data any directory apache2 can

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-30 19:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:03:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: As a long term, 20 years or so, use of an isp who used qmail, by djb, I was rather put off by its instant acceptance of what was patently spam, and finally switching because the place was

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-30 19:03, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2018 13:31:05 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:27:19PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Probably better: > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ > https://packages.debian.org/sid/getmail >

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-30 20:54, Curt wrote: On 2018-10-30, mick crane wrote: I'm using getmail with dovecot deliver since fetchmail stopped working with gmail changing the ssl certificate ( server ) all the bloody time. getmail doesn't have this problem for me although there is still a problem

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

On 2018-10-26 19:17, Brian wrote: > {plain text fine -- HTML *NOT* needed} is MUCH more functional. Agreed, a good man page is the best. I've no clue why there seems to be an aversion to a man page that has to be scrolled to read it all. All of us have up/down arrows on our keyboards,

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