Re: Only using masquerading on internet facing server

2019-03-14 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-14 08:26, john doe wrote: On 3/13/2019 1:39 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Ip range on server a: 172.17.232.0/24 IP range on server b: 192.168.3.0/24 That's very vague. But I'll assume that your "server b" has an address 172.17.232.NN on one network interface and 192.168.3.1 on another.

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-18 00:58, Ben Finney wrote: Howdy all, How can I recover files deleted on a ext4 volume, in a logical (LVM) volume? I've never done that but seen people have copied the disk then looked through it for anything looks like the deleted files. Think the important thing whatever you use

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-10 17:13, Joe wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:35:18 +0300 Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 04:32:42PM -, Curt wrote: > > I thought he was saying the surest approach is not touching Windows > with a ten foot pole, You're aiming too low. Not touching any non-free

Re: Help with video editing with ffmpeg

2019-03-13 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-13 09:16, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: For the record, here's the thread on ffmpeg-user mailing list: http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2019-March/043677.html Gerardo cheers, that's neat that you can import values directly from a .png. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

change up real directory from soft link

2019-03-20 Thread mick crane
hello, If I doing something buried a couple of directories down from home I make a soft link to that directory in ~/ just for convenience. If I cd softlink then want to go up a directory from the real directory I'm put back to ~/ Is it possible to get the behavior going up a directory from

Re: change up real directory from soft link

2019-03-20 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-20 15:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 03:08:51PM +, mick crane wrote: If I cd softlink then want to go up a directory from the real directory I'm put back to ~/ Is it possible to get the behavior going up a directory from softlink actually goes up a directory

Re: Debian 9 Printer stopped working

2019-03-19 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-19 12:27, isaac wrote: I went to print 3 pages it printed 2 only and stopped. The printer was Canon MD2160. I then tryed to print from HP laserjet Professional P1102W but still no printing. The the printers have been working fine for a long time and now just stopped. can you help me

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-10 14:58, deb wrote: Starting assumption: I do want to run A/V.  * I get that it may actually INCREASE attack surface.  * But I have Windows & Mac stuff going back and forth to Debian 9.8 and just want to check.  * (Clamscan already caught 4 things) I'm of the opinion that

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

2019-02-13 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-13 13:32, deb wrote: note: this is why I think top-posting is best. People don't have to scroll through tons of crap to get to "Thanks" :-) A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2019-02-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-10 12:17, Reco wrote: No. See SCO vs IBM case. Linux is not Unix, and never has been. wasn't it IBM gave Minix away and Torvalds used that as a base ? -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: how to select part of old mp3 and create new one

2019-02-07 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-07 07:08, Long Wind wrote: i want to copy part of old mp3 file and create a new oneat first, i install lame, but it doesn't seem to have such abilityi try mencoder, it doesn't eitherthen i try qmp3cut, it says "no valid header found"though i can play the mp3 file and it's OK what

Re: Can not shutdown

2019-02-11 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-11 05:46, Jude DaShiell wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow needs to have your user's name in it for that user to be able to shut the system down without using su or sudo. /etc/shutdown.deny can have user names in it too, and those will not be allowed to shut the system down. I tried that on

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-28 09:21, Curt wrote: these years), and, well, all hell has broken loose. I'm uncertain how this all articulates into a coherent whole. Apparently the worry (or threat?) is a disgruntled hacker (doubtless one of the old male dinosaurs), ejected for violating the new

putty go slow

2019-04-08 Thread mick crane
hello, It may not be mail list specific but maybe somebody knows ? If I connect windows 10 to debian Buster with putty and edit a file. Usually the little cursor beetles across the screen over the characters but then sometimes it is noticeably sluggish. This is probably something to do with the

Graphics::Magick

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
I don't know if you are supposed to get this perl stuff with apt or from cpan. got Image::Imlib2 to do useful things and I have Image::Magick but I'm struggling translating the syntax from ImageMagick to Image::Magick the GraphicsMagick web pages seemed a little clearer Graphics::Magick

Re: Graphics::Magick

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-10 08:46, mick crane wrote: I don't know if you are supposed to get this perl stuff with apt or from cpan. got Image::Imlib2 to do useful things and I have Image::Magick but I'm struggling translating the syntax from ImageMagick to Image::Magick the GraphicsMagick web pages seemed

Re: Graphics::Magick

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-10 10:41, Curt wrote: On 2019-04-10, mick crane wrote: How do I install PerlMagick as a subordinate package of GraphicsMagick ? apt search perlmagick perlmagick/testing,testing 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2 all Perl interface to ImageMagick -- dummy package I believe what you need now

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-08 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-08 23:03, l...@levlaz.org wrote: Hey Mick, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:38:48PM +0100, mick crane wrote: hello, It may not be mail list specific but maybe somebody knows ? If I connect windows 10 to debian Buster with putty and edit a file. Usually the little cursor beetles across

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-11 16:42, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:34:30AM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 21:33 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I've created a very simple script that is capable of parsing the > output of "ip addr" and comparing the returned ip address for the >

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-11 17:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:02:46PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I think that is what dynamic ip address services do, change the ipaddress but the service has to be on the ISP's router ? Do I understand correctly then when your isp/home address changes your

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-11 17:16, mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-11 17:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:02:46PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I think that is what dynamic ip address services do, change the ipaddress but the service has to be on the ISP's router ? Do I understand correctly

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-12 10:57, Dan Purgert wrote: mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-11 17:16, mick crane wrote: On 2019-04-11 17:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:02:46PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I think that is what dynamic ip address services do, change the ipaddress but the service has

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-12 13:31, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 12 April 2019 07:54:57 Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: > I have wondered what they do to stop people broadcasting their own > top level domain. Nothing. They don't have to. If you want a top level domain and you control yo

but it's not going to be installed

2019-04-15 Thread mick crane
I typed "apt install mypaint" mypaint depends on mypaint-data but it's not going to be installed seen that mypaint-data was there so "apt install mypaint-data" ...installs OK "apt install mypaint" no complaints what's that all about then ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: but it's not going to be installed

2019-04-15 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-15 21:00, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 4/15/19, mick crane wrote: I typed "apt install mypaint" mypaint depends on mypaint-data but it's not going to be installed seen that mypaint-data was there so "apt install mypaint-data" ...installs OK "apt install mypa

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread mick crane
Not sure what this is about. Isn't a desktop manager, display environment whatever its called a way to present icons that you can click on and it starts a program you want to use and then gets out of the way ? Is this about having common libraries that control what appears on the screen ? Am

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-12 16:11, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:54:57 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: > I have wondered what they do to stop people broadcasting their own top level > domain. Nothing. They don't have to. If you want a top level domain and you control yo

Re: using git locally

2019-05-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-17 14:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: If you really *did* create a git repository on a remote server, and you want to clone it onto your local PC, you use a "git clone" command. Something like: git clone my.server:/whatever.git well that seems to work "git clone

Re: using git locally

2019-05-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-17 15:05, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2019 14:36:36 +0100 thanks -- Key ID4BFEBB31

using git locally

2019-05-17 Thread mick crane
hello, Because I am always making mistakes I thought, if it's not too hard, to see about using git locally. I made a git repository for project following destructions https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-git-effectively but I'm having bother accessing it remotely. I can

Re: using git locally

2019-05-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-17 15:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 17/05/2019 11:31, mick crane wrote: well that seems to work "git clone myserver:/path_to_git_repository" whereas "git remote add origin myserver:/path_to_git_repository" fatal: not a git repository (or any of the paren

Re: [DNG] Linux system can be brought down by sending SIGILL to Systemd

2019-05-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-25 08:25, Reco wrote: again no problem here. Stretch's systemd: # kill -ILL 1 Message from syslogd@xxx at May 25 10:19:09 ... systemd[1]: Caught , dumped core as pid 822. ... systemd[1]: Freezing execution. The userspace and the kernel will work after this, but anything that's

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

2019-05-27 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-27 22:22, Gene Heskett wrote: Then what was I looking at 3 hours ago, looked like a login form to me, wanted my username, my real name and my email address. That popped up and denied me access when I clicked on add bug in the upper right corner of the screen? It flat refused to let

Re: network installer will not boot

2019-05-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-26 14:29, Blair, Charles E III wrote: Thank you. I seem to have another problem. I used F2 to shut off "secure boot". Now, there are noises that suggest the CD is being read, but nothing displays on the monitor--- no warnings, no diagnostics, just a blinking cursor in the

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-26 05:32, David Christensen wrote: On 5/25/19 8:12 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2019-05-26 00:49, Markos wrote: Hi, I made a program (reading_room.tcl), with Sqlite running on Debian 9, to control the books of a reading room. I implemented an authentication system for common users

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-26 00:49, Markos wrote: Hi, I made a program (reading_room.tcl), with Sqlite running on Debian 9, to control the books of a reading room. I implemented an authentication system for common users and administrator users in the reading_room program. Now I want that any user logged in

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-02 12:47, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/01/2019 07:08 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2019-05-31 13:20, Richard Owlett wrote: With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M I edited sources.list to read deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main

Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

2019-05-28 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-11 18:13, deb wrote: Someone asked what the status of WRITING to NTFS drives was. I move files windows -> Debian with WinScp. You can move files Debian -> Debian with mc and a ssh connection in the other window. Interested to see that there is a ssh server available on windows so

Re: Gmail problems (was Re: Ping as normal user)

2019-05-31 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-31 14:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I have to learn more about google mail, maybe either disabling their spam filter, or deciding to switch to an email provider (ideally free or cheap) who doesn't filter email for me. (I guess when others mark something as spam, at least

Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

2019-05-29 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-29 07:28, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I move files windows -> Debian with WinScp. You can move files Debian -> Debian with mc and a ssh connection in the other window. Interested to see that there is a ssh server available on windows so it should be possible

Re: reboot stuff doesn't start

2019-05-29 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-29 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2019 08:20:02 am Brian wrote: On Tue 28 May 2019 at 21:47:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2019 03:37:55 pm Brian wrote: > > Why do think cron was calling hpfax? Did you set up the job? > > (Using fax isn't exactly

Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

2019-05-29 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-29 11:18, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: Thing is you don't know what windows is going to do next. Was an update a few days ago that I assume was why PC just started crashing ( which hasn't happened for years ) and couldn't decide if it wanted to boot or not. Then an hour later

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-31 13:20, Richard Owlett wrote: With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M I edited sources.list to read deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes When running Synaptic's Edit->Reload Package Information I receive an

Re: web page problem

2019-06-15 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-13 20:33, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; And it's my web page. Or do I have to copy them across to a local dir I can share and chown them to match the apache2 sandboxes names? Don't know if supposed to but can put a soft link in /var/www/html pointing to directory anywhere

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-09 22:32, Markos wrote: reading_room.db rw-r--rw- (owner markos) why give world write access to the database ? -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-25 04:38, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote: I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow running certain

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-23 15:31, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > missing. This seems

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-24 11:32, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100 mick crane wrote: (...) > which seems to work well here). > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, obviously > it's far superior to similar programs that come with debian. And it >

IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-17 Thread mick crane
hello, I know nothing about IPv6. Can somebody point to a good explanation ? Without knowing anything about it I'm wondering if I should request an IPv6 range from my ISP to use locally. A network card have IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that are different, not the same address in different notation ?

Re: A Ghost in the Computer

2019-05-11 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-11 14:51, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Perhaps this is not the appropriate forum for this problem but the Debian List has been an invaluable resource over the years. I happen to be a Chemist and although I've been using computers in my work since the 1960's, I am not a computer person,

Re: major email problems

2019-05-18 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-18 23:58, Glenn English wrote: I couldn't find anything in the Dovecot config files that addressed that, except a commented out line: "#disable_plaintext_auth = yes." But Dovecot seems to be tossing PLAINTEXT anyway. I didn't try deleting the line. Dunno why it suddenly stopped

Re: Gene you poor soul

2019-05-22 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-22 04:40, Gene Heskett wrote: Its working now, and I have other irons in the fire, like how do I print to a printer shared by cups, from a win 10 Home edition. I've only ever done it with networked printers. You may get lucky with cupsd on linux box that can print if you let

Re: Gene you poor soul

2019-05-22 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-22 07:52, mick crane wrote: http://ipaddress_of_pc_running_cupsd:631/exact_name_cups_identifies_printer_with. sorry, seem to remember that's. http://ipaddress_of_pc_running_cupsd:631/printers/exact_name_cups_identifies_printer_with probably need the driver on windows as well. mick

Re: Gene you poor soul

2019-05-22 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-22 10:34, Gene Heskett wrote: Wally has some really cheap $40 ones, but I suspect that I'd have to buy one per job because the heads would dry up and clog between uses. Back when I was a fan of epsons, the cost of the inks was $250/year just to print the nightly amanda reports to

Re: No Books in print on Systemd?

2019-05-22 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-19 13:51, Boyan Penkov wrote: -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com On May 18, 2019, at 17:19, Kenneth Parker wrote: I know there are controversies on Systemd (including in Debian -- for example, Devuan), but I want to learn enough about it to (Horrors!) become an expert. And

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-24 17:14, ghe wrote: On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming languages are mostly used? C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-)

Re: major email problems

2019-05-19 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-19 00:58, Glenn English wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:39 PM mick crane wrote: https://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation That looks great -- first thing in the morning :-) which file are you editing ? I think how it works is that apt puts its files in /usr/share/dovecot

batch process jpegs

2019-05-01 Thread mick crane
I've got a bunch of jpgs from the camera where the bits I want are a bit underexposed. What I'd like is a GUI that will batch process them. It's been a few years since I processed any camera images and I seem to have forgotten what my workflow was. I think I might be able to do it with

Re: batch process jpegs

2019-05-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-02 06:21, mick crane wrote: On 2019-05-01 19:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting mick crane (2019-05-01 19:59:06) I've got a bunch of jpgs from the camera where the bits I want are a bit underexposed. What I'd like is a GUI that will batch process them. It's been a few years since

Re: batch process jpegs

2019-05-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-01 21:17, Siard wrote: mick crane wrote: I've got a bunch of jpgs from the camera where the bits I want are a bit underexposed. What I'd like is a GUI that will batch process them. [] Any suggestions for available GUI that will batch process jpgs ? First, you could install

Re: batch process jpegs

2019-05-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-01 19:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting mick crane (2019-05-01 19:59:06) I've got a bunch of jpgs from the camera where the bits I want are a bit underexposed. What I'd like is a GUI that will batch process them. It's been a few years since I processed any camera images and I seem

Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver

2019-04-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-26 21:25, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 4/26/19, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:19:09PM +0100, mick crane wrote: can somebody explain generally what this scheme of things with the dots has to do with ? seen this in perl as the kind of hierarchy of modules but how

Re: apache2 missing a file, won't run.

2019-05-07 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-07 19:40, Dan Purgert wrote: Mainly the "pushbutton scan" and other fancy scanning options from the "usb driver" -- I mean, I can walk over to the thing, and hit the "scan to SFTP" button and get a PDF, but that's about the extent of my "scan back to a PC" ability. There are also a

Re: Help, windows dummy has bought one. I need it for a job or 100

2019-05-08 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-07 23:47, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; First it doesn't have a clue what to do with a wired network. Cheers, Gene (I need some winders help ) Heskett usually bottom left corner click windows icon click the settings that looks like a cog select Ethernet / Change adapter

Re: Help, windows dummy has bought one. I need it for a job or 100

2019-05-08 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-08 08:55, Gene Heskett wrote: That is a laborius process, taking at least 10x what any of my linux machines need to reboot. From powerup to login was at least 15 minutes. And I have been to that utility, but it has no place to disable ipv6 as a whole, has lots of names in the menu

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts

2019-04-20 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-19 15:36, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hello again, The configuration mentioned in the subject line is set to "Show your home page". Here the home page is file:///home/peter/html, a local page. Nevertheless startup sometimes displays "Sorry. We're having trouble getting your pages

Re: how to display html files on google drive

2019-04-20 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-20 15:30, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I can't find a working application to display the html file I've uploaded to Google Drive. the "Html viewer" is bugged, as it displays forever a rotating wheel... Otherwise, is there an other way that html to display images with comments,

Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver

2019-04-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-26 12:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:19:09PM +0100, mick crane wrote: sorry to be a nuisance You are not (not to me, at least :-) can somebody explain generally what this scheme of things with the dots has to do with ? seen this in perl as the kind

Net::DNS::Nameserver

2019-04-26 Thread mick crane
sorry to be a nuisance can somebody explain generally what this scheme of things with the dots has to do with ? seen this in perl as the kind of hierarchy of modules but how is this to do with the OS ? ~$ apropos nameserver Net::DNS::Nameserver (3pm) - DNS server class mick -- Key ID

Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver

2019-04-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-26 12:29, Alberto Luaces wrote: mick crane writes: sorry to be a nuisance can somebody explain generally what this scheme of things with the dots has to do with ? seen this in perl as the kind of hierarchy of modules but how is this to do with the OS ? ~$ apropos nameserver Net

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-05 Thread mick crane
I've had success using http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ with various isos. Last time tho', installing Buster, the setup, after booting from the USB, was looking for a CD/DVD and so I had to use the USB to boot from and the CD/DVD in the player for the installation. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-04 15:40, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2019 06:15:56 mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-04 09:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > Sorry, I don't see it that way, I see a concentrated effort to make > me use dhcpd, instead of static, every machine in the system knows > th

not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in it get deleted before putting some new ones in. I'm thinking that if I ever give it to somebody

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 16:32, mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-05 16:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:24:42PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 16:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:24:42PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in it get deleted before putting some new

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in it get deleted before putting some new

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 18:56, mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 20:08, David Wright wrote: On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 18:39:51 (+0100), mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: > mick crane wrote: > > hello, > > I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. > > code makes some images and save

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-04 09:42, Gene Heskett wrote: Sorry, I don't see it that way, I see a concentrated effort to make me use dhcpd, instead of static, every machine in the system knows the address of ALL the other machines on my local 192.168.xx.nn/24 network. Using dhcp means I'd have to setup a 2nd

Re: OT:hardware query

2019-07-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-01 11:05, Dan Ritter wrote: Would seem that a processor without integrated graphics might be better ? It's irrelevant: hardly any Steam games will play acceptably using integrated graphics. what I meant was not much point having integrated graphics as chip without integrated

Re: Attempting a VERY minimal install (using --no-install-recommends ;)

2019-04-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-24 18:36, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm attempting a very minimal install because: 1. small size in and of itself is a good goal 2. fending for oneself is a valuable educational experience compared to having everything handed to you on a "golden platter" {Debian's default installer}

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-10 14:01, Peter Wiersig wrote: Michael Stone writes: On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:00:01PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: /sbin/ifconfig enp0s25: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 inet6 fe80::219:d1ff:fe41:c769 prefixlen

Re: OpenSSH not closing idle sessions.

2019-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-08 18:25, timothylegg wrote: Ideas? I've not really used screen but isn't it that you want to start where you left off ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-09 07:46, Peter Wiersig wrote: mick crane writes: the PCs are physically adjacent connected with the RJ45 ( isn't it ) cables through what is supposed to be a switch I got in B several years ago. Almost, RJ-45 is the specification for the plug and jacks, what you're having here

Re: iwd and DNS (was: Re: Attempting a VERY minimal install (using --no-install-recommends ;))

2019-04-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-25 10:30, Erik Josefsson wrote: Den 2019-04-25 kl. 07:21, skrev David Wright: The only thing guaranteed by installing the "Depends" is that all the function calls will point at some runnable code rather than just pointing into thin air. Thin air and deep waters is where I'm at.

Re: but it's not going to be installed

2019-04-16 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-15 21:00, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 4/15/19, mick crane wrote: I typed "apt install mypaint" mypaint depends on mypaint-data but it's not going to be installed seen that mypaint-data was there so "apt install mypaint-data" ...installs OK "apt install mypa

Re: but it's not going to be installed

2019-04-16 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-16 08:39, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 08:45:09PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I typed "apt install mypaint" mypaint depends on mypaint-data but it's not going to be installed seen that mypaint-data was there so "apt install mypaint-data" ...inst

Re: Convert PDF to TIFF at a certain bits-per-sample amount

2019-04-23 Thread mick crane
On 2019-04-23 21:02, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. How can I convert PDF to TIFF at a certain bit-per-sample quantity? Say, 8...? Any particular option to $ convert file.pdf file.tif ? Or any other way...? Thanks for any help, Rodolfo there's got to be a pdf2tiff there's everything

Re: sending mail via a script

2019-07-16 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-16 08:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 iul 19, 06:21:28, Dan Ritter wrote: Reco wrote: Why do you think they have that requirement? It's entirely because IPs without PTR records are more likely to be spammers than those who do. Specfically, because it's an indication that the

Re: OT:hardware query

2019-07-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-29 17:17, Dan Ritter wrote: Martin Smith wrote: On 28/06/2019 17:11, mick crane wrote: > The first concern if getting a new PC is that it can play the steam > games and they are getting really pushy what they need to work. > I never have proper available funds for t

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-12 15:22, Keith Steensma wrote: Using "PermitRootLogin Yes" "PubkeyAuthentication yes" and a SSH key created under putty and placed in the proper location in the 'root' directory, still gives a "Server refused our Key" I can't remember. perhaps you have to restart sshd after

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-12 14:33, Judah Richardson wrote: Try logging in as a user that has sudo power. On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 08:31 Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found that both version seem to have the same problem. It's like I'm doing

Re: hp-plugin fails

2019-08-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-01 20:35, Curt wrote: On 2019-08-01, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I suspect it it is a timing problem, and works for a not too big number of hops. How many hops for you, with traceroute? for me, traceroute stops at the ninth step ( 198.32.176.33), before reaching the target. I

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-01 11:28, Gene Heskett wrote: Debian-arm netinstall on a pi3b; No root pw set, I am housebroken to using sudo now. netinstall didn't install x anything although I thought I was selecting xfce4, so my first action on the reboot was to "sudo apt install xfce4". reboot, works, have x

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-08-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-03 19:10, Joe wrote: Three phases allows lower currents in the cables than a single-phase motor of the same power, and can run on three wires only, without the need for a neutral wire. There's no need for any 'syncing'. In a three-phase power system, the voltage between two phases is

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-03 16:31, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:35:17 mick crane wrote: On 2019-08-03 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote: Cheers, Gene Heskett >> I would probably add another user and see if they have same problem >> on the local machine. >> >&

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-03 17:22, Gene Heskett wrote: to run. When it logs you out can you log in at another screen (whatever it's called) Ctrl Alt F key ? If so then is something about the display manager ? ctrl+alt+F8, yes, so I opened a term and did an xset -dpms. Whats the name of that lightdm config

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-03 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote: Cheers, Gene Heskett I would probably add another user and see if they have same problem on the local machine. mick I'd thought of that but not tried it yet. I'll need a user amanda who is a member of group backup for the backup program amanda. So

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-08-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-30 13:30, Matthew Crews wrote: On 7/29/19 12:57 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 20:43:04 (+0100), Joe wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:26:14 -0500 John Hasler wrote: They don't have to be on the same branch circuit: just on the same "phase"[1]. There is probably a

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