Re: PROGRESS!! - was {Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?}

2019-08-04 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-29 17:56, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/29/2019 10:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/29/2019 10:10 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] Since your machines are very close together, take a look at USB to USB networking. Did ;} One of the first things I thought of as I date back days

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-12 15:45, Keith Steensma wrote: Just shows SSH started and stopped.?? I may have to modify the start up routine to include something. I think I might have had an issue going from windows putty to Linux with the windows line endings in the public key. I think I've changed the

Re: OT "x times cheaper", was: Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-11 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-10 23:44, Richard Hector wrote: On 11/08/19 3:06 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 21:19:31 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: On 10/08/19 9:10 PM, deloptes wrote: Richard Hector wrote: Sorry, this usage grates with me. $amount cheaper that $price means subtract $amount

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-21 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-21 20:07, Brian wrote: The epitomy of this is the discrimination against dynamic addresses. Want to be a mail second class citizen on the Net? Easy; don't have a static address. Want to be homeless and send or receive a letter - Royal Mail will not stop you. Email is a solution

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-20 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-19 19:35, Richard Owlett wrote: IOW *CHEAPSKATES LOSE* You've been to the Isle of Wight haven't you. -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: OT: AI

2019-08-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-26 17:43, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/26/2019 10:42 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2019-08-26 15:35, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:46:40 AM Dan Clery wrote: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... I'm interested. (We may have to move the discussion

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-30 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-30 21:45, Charlie Gibbs wrote: My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the ability to access the Internet. What has happened to my routing and how can I restore it? Is it possible that networking has somehow got Gateway confused with a machine called

Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-29 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-29 13:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 08:19:29PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Thats a miss-statement. I do want persistent interface names EVEN if I move this boot drive to a whole new box. This machine does in fact have 2 nic's. And I have indeed used both at the

Re: OT: AI

2019-08-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-25 13:36, John Hasler wrote: You are all AI's. I'm the only human here. I spent 2 days question and answer with what turned out to be a yahoo bot. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: OT: AI

2019-08-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-26 15:35, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:46:40 AM Dan Clery wrote: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... I'm interested. (We may have to move the discussion off list, but I'd prefer not to.) He means starships on fire off the belt of Orion --

buster to testing

2019-09-07 Thread mick crane
excuse my forgetfulness have 2 PCs cheerfully running 10.1 If I want to change one to testing is it *just* a question of changing the sources list ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-09-16 Thread mick crane
On 2019-09-16 00:55, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: * From: Dan Ritter * Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:26:18 -0400 Open a new image. Right. Set the background to transparent. Haven't quite got that. From reading a few weeks ago, I added an alpha channel (Layer > Transparency > Add

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-07 11:13, Nektarios Katakis wrote: On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 02:08:30 -0400 Steven Mainor wrote: You are correct. That was an oversight. Of all the items on that page I could probably afford the screwdriver and the heatsinks. I would like to keep the budget under $500 not including the

Re: Don't disable recoomends by default

2019-08-06 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-12 22:17, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 12 iul 19, 20:21:08, Reco wrote: I say - if the user wants to "break" a system by not installing the Recommends - let them. Whenever it's curiosity, a way of learning something new or just a wish to do an OS liposuction. Sure. Still, I would

Re: sending mail via a script

2019-07-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-17 16:36, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:39:57PM +0100, mick crane wrote: well when I became aware of all this stuff, I thought this is great, everybody can connect and do what they like, if of course following protocols. But you can't do that can you ? you

Re: Buster installer on USB searches for CDROM instead of using USB drive

2019-07-19 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-19 20:29, TomK wrote: In the Debian installer, on the "debian-10.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso" written to USB flash drive works perfectly, up to the mount CDROM step. There is no way to tell the installer to use the USB drive.?? Since I began using USB flash media for the installation disk, I

Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions

2019-10-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-02 05:18, Dan Hitt wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:58 PM David Christensen wrote: On 10/1/19 8:32 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm half-way looking for some shell wrappers for common trig functions like > sin, cos, exp, log, and others. > > I'm aware of bc, but it seems cumbersome. > > I

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-30 Thread mick crane
On 2019-09-30 16:46, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 07:28:45PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: From: pe...@easthope.ca Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:15:07 -0700 > Opening a terminal emulator in default configuration on localhost, ... Localhost; not hosts. It's easy to get

OT:hardware query

2019-06-28 Thread mick crane
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 this stuff these days and generally buy used.. The idea is each year or so get something else and move the last one down to

etiquette of sharing executable files

2019-07-06 Thread mick crane
As per recent post ( don't want to trash somebody's home directory ) I was wondering what is the etiquette of sharing executable files. I've never really thought about giving executable files to anybody but just recently while I'm getting my bits of code to work I was thinking "I have to be a

Re: Need sponsership for academic life

2019-07-06 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-06 21:23, Prakash Trivedi wrote: RESPECTED SIR/Mam, My name is prakash p gondaliya and I am from india. The UK tax payer sent India ( that has a space program and nuclear weapons) 250million UKP last year. India said " No really thank you but we don't need it" "No take it anyway"

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-01 18:18, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 01 November 2019 13:37:02 mick crane wrote: On 2019-11-01 17:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 November 2019 13:12:42 mick crane wrote: >> On 2019-11-01 17:01, mick crane wrote: >> > On 2019-11-01 16:47, mick crane wrote

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-01 Thread mick crane
That was my assumption, and might help keep track of what apache2 can see. Except I just ran it, and it didn't show to the full path depth. Perhaps it has a depth control? that's the "f" bit of the options Oh hang on, there's something about a limit to the depth but I can't remember what

Re: geany cannot use printers shared by cups

2019-11-02 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-02 17:33, deloptes wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: A month ago printer sharing worked, now the only option showing in the print requester for geany is cups-file or cups-pdf. yet I can run firefox and send it to localhost:631/printers on any of the client machines and see all 5 of the

Re: fail2ban for apache2

2019-11-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-09 18:01, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2019 08:59:14 Michael wrote: > Rather then to use fail2ban for this, I would create un ipset that > fail2ban can populate then use that ipset in iptables. i agree, but: > One advantage of this is that you can add/delete ip from

Re: KISS gpg

2019-11-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-30 18:58, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. Is there somewhere in Debian a KISS version of GnuPG or something compatible? The current default version of GnuPG, since 2015, necessarily uses a client-server agent to access the private keys. While it is convenient and secure for everyday use,

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-15 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-14 23:52, Dan Purgert wrote: What is more interesting is why a user thinks that the LPD protocol gives them something that IPP doesn't. Who said that LPR/LPD gave people "something" that IPP doesn't? I'm not really sure about what happens. Is it that a CUPS server translates what

Re: installed nginx, now what? Need srartup tut, nginx site won't let me download any docs.

2019-11-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-04 21:14, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I guess the subject says it all. does this not work ? https://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-04 23:22, Russell L. Harris wrote: Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) seems not to be a good solution for such messages. What is a decent, simple GUI client which I can point at

Re: geany cannot use printers shared by cups

2019-11-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-03 20:53, Gene Heskett wrote: So what do I do next? not entirely certain. If it helps on Buster (works as print-server)I get. :~$ apt search cups cups/stable,now 2.2.10-6+deb10u1 amd64 [installed,automatic] Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web interface

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread mick crane
On 2019-12-14 03:04, Jape Person wrote: I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually suggested as a domain name at one time by the installer. (And I could be remembering a different distro, though I've been using Debian for a long time -- at least 10 years, I think.) I

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-15 Thread mick crane
On 2019-12-16 05:43, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 10:08:56 (+), mick crane wrote: On 2019-12-14 03:04, Jape Person wrote: > I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually > suggested as a domain name at one time by the installer. (And I could

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-19 08:11, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Have a nice day :) cheers mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-24 08:47, Joe wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:51:30 +1100 David wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: > >> > > Guys, [...] > > Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-18 22:22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: But with a text editor i write a description in form of C structures and function stubs, which i fill by remarks to roughly describe what to have or to do where and when. Already during this design stage i use as much compilable C code as possible to

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-17 09:54, Curt wrote: On 2019-10-16, Art Sackett wrote: For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're having, the workaround is to create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: Acquire { http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-26 12:19, Joe wrote: On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:57:19 +0100 mick crane wrote: hello, what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet connection ? I have pfsense as router connecting to ISP's broadband box. I think pfsense does that DHCP but also I might have names

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-26 12:13, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:57:19AM +0100, mick crane wrote: hello, what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet connection ? Wireshark. Be prepared to learn a bit about networking, though. I usually use tcpdump -w to capture

question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread mick crane
hello, what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet connection ? I have pfsense as router connecting to ISP's broadband box. I think pfsense does that DHCP but also I might have names to ipadresses in host files but just for local network addresses. I have debian apache on

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-01 16:18, Gene Heskett wrote: lsof |grep www-data shows me several hundred lines of "no perms" errors without nameing the source of the errors other than apache2. How do I find the file causing those errors? Thats question #1 here. excuse my ignorance. You've got files have no

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-01 17:01, mick crane wrote: On 2019-11-01 16:47, mick crane wrote: On 2019-11-01 16:18, Gene Heskett wrote: lsof |grep www-data shows me several hundred lines of "no perms" errors without nameing the source of the errors other than apache2. How do I find the file cau

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-01 16:47, mick crane wrote: On 2019-11-01 16:18, Gene Heskett wrote: lsof |grep www-data shows me several hundred lines of "no perms" errors without nameing the source of the errors other than apache2. How do I find the file causing those errors? Thats question #1 here

Re: Got a puzzle here

2019-11-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-01 17:20, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 01 November 2019 13:12:42 mick crane wrote: On 2019-11-01 17:01, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-11-01 16:47, mick crane wrote: >> On 2019-11-01 16:18, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> lsof |grep www-data shows me several hundred

Re: checking ssh server is running

2019-10-07 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-07 14:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 08:42:51PM +0100, mick crane wrote: after checking through /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server basic use is systemctl start sshd.service systemctl stop sshd.service systemctl restart sshd.service systemctl enable sshd.service

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-03 20:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH TESTING. YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH UNSTABLE. YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE. If you use one of these, you use that one only. No mixing. No Frankendebians. https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian yes sorry, I

testing security updates

2019-10-03 Thread mick crane
hello, Debian web page about testing is saying that testing gets infrequent security updates and that you can get more frequent security updates from unstable. Is that what people do ? have buster for main and bullseye for security updates in sources.list ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

testing security updates

2019-10-03 Thread mick crane
I didn't type previous correctly did I. that would be bullseye for main and unstable for security updates in sources.lists. Is that what people do ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: checking ssh server is running

2019-10-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-05 17:01, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I am trying to figure out how to check if ssh is running using systemD which is of course what Debian and Raspbian use. However my search term system d check ssh server is running If it's the client on the same PC you'd know. if sshd "systemctl

Re: checking ssh server is running

2019-10-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-05 20:03, Paul Sutton wrote: On 05/10/2019 17:15, mick crane wrote: On 2019-10-05 17:01, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I am trying to figure out how to check if ssh is running using systemD which is of course what Debian and Raspbian use. However my search term system d check ssh server

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-12 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-07 17:26, lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix. I am attempting my first install of Debian and I must be missing

Re: inconsistent Clipit cut paste with firefox, konsole, claws

2019-12-20 Thread mick crane
On 2019-12-20 14:26, Wolfgang Rosner wrote: tried parcellite instead of clipit as clipboard manager. looks good so far. still trouble with vi, but I think that's teh old never ending story. I had troubles with backspace in Buster vi. adding in ~/.vimrc set nocompatible set

Re: Build Kernel 5.5 RC1 for Raspberry4

2019-12-20 Thread mick crane
On 2019-12-20 19:28, deloptes wrote: Nigel Sollars wrote: You might want to run make menuconfig after copying the config .. perhaps do the same with the 4.19 kernel also and do a compare of 'what is' and 'what is not' there in the 5.5 perhaps things have been moved around a bit in the kconfig

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

2020-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-29 18:17, Mikhail Morfikov wrote vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-4-amd64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2020-02-24 00:37:53 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-5.5.4-amd64 .old is pointing to a newer kernel ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Debian on server

2020-01-21 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-21 14:41, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi to all members of this list, I'm not new to linux and I'm searching a good stable distro for server. Many said CentOS and other Debian but really I have not enough experiences to choose one. So, I know this is a debian list and could be obtain

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-05 18:13, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 05 March 2020 12:15:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45) > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email > earlier, so here it is again. No, that is not how this mailinglist works. If you are in

gmail occasionally bouncing list email

2020-03-01 Thread mick crane
hi, gmail sometimes bounces email from list. Occasionally is spam that got through list server but last one was genuine that was bounced because of DMARC or something. I can't see a way to whitelist list domain before it gets to the filters at gmail. Any suggestions ( apart from not using

Re: Sudo

2020-01-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-29 12:17, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:15:17PM +, mick crane wrote: [...] >That's because "-" tells su to do that. Drop the "-" and it'll leave >you in the current dir (among other details, consult the man page for >details).

Re: Sudo

2020-01-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-29 12:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:31:35AM +, mick crane wrote: [...] The only effective difference for me between "su -" and sudo seems to be that if you are in a directory you don't have permissions and want to change something sudo

Re: Sudo

2020-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-28 18:44, Joe wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:29:44 -0700 "Harold Hartley" wrote: When I did the graphical install I couldn’t even get into su either. That’s why I installed it without graphics the next time. Whatever the issue was, it wasn't that. I always use a graphical install

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-01 19:35, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 07:31:31PM +, mick crane wrote: I probably shouldn't post this. I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. Is there a reason things

guys

2020-02-01 Thread mick crane
I probably shouldn't post this. I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. Is there a reason things seem to get more complicated ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Problem with fish in plasma

2020-01-31 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-31 13:24, Kenneth Parker wrote: Package kio (KDE Input Output Framework), allowing remote access to files. The package description included mention of "ssh (fish)", hence your url. was please to see mc does ssh connections mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: guys

2020-02-07 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-02 15:01, Michael Stone wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 07:31:31PM +, mick crane wrote: I probably shouldn't post this. I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. Is there a reason

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-07 16:24, Gene Heskett wrote: I don't use fish that I know of. Thats not to say mc isn't using it. In which case someone has been playing with mc that has no clue what they are doing. mick@slinky:~$ mc [connect shell link option] fish: Waiting for initial line... Enter

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-24 17:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:23:03AM -0500, Wayne Sallee wrote: [...] Thanks for the ideas. You're very welcome. One small request -- could you teach your mailer to not send HTML? I was hard-pressed to make heads or tails of your

Re: using git

2020-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-28 13:47, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 01:29:10PM +, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to install Git locally, I've cloned something before but I don't know much about it. Before I dive into the man pages could I ask if I need the git-daemon-run for the server

Re: using git

2020-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-28 14:13, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2020 28 Jan 07:30 -0600, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to install Git locally, I've cloned something before but I don't know much about it. Before I dive into the man pages could I ask if I need the git-daemon-run for the server bit? Have

using git

2020-01-28 Thread mick crane
hello, I want to install Git locally, I've cloned something before but I don't know much about it. Before I dive into the man pages could I ask if I need the git-daemon-run for the server bit? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Sudo

2020-01-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-29 07:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 ian 20, 08:24:29, David Wright wrote: My view is that more damage is done to home systems by the sysadmins than by external malice, so anything that protects the system from such damage is a useful resource. I think that selective sudo¹

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-17 16:29, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:07:59 -0500 Doug McGarrett wrote: (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages of recovery.) Maybe some day I'll figure out how

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-17 20:18, Doug McGarrett wrote: In the 50s I heard that you could tap out the number on the cradle in the public phone boxes and connect without inserting coins. mick Now you tell me! --doug thinking back it was 60's. after that I heard a whistle you got in cornflake packets

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-19 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-18 13:45, Nektarios Katakis wrote: Upgrading from 9 to 10 should be straight forward. wasn't there something a bit dramatic about having to migrate the postgresql database ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-18 20:09, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 07:21:43PM +0100, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I scp the files to a temp directory in my home directory on the server then ssh into the server, su to root, change the permissions and ownerships of the files then move

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-09 06:16, Russell L. Harris wrote: For development of a web pages, I installed Apache2 on another machine in the LAN so that I can FTP web pages from the development machine to the web server and view the pages from the development machine. But the installation of Apache2 on Buster

just a general question really

2020-01-03 Thread mick crane
are things getting more complicated because there is something wrong ? -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

2019-12-31 Thread mick crane
On 2019-12-31 09:21, ghe wrote: But what I'm really looking for is a comprehensive book on systemd like the 40 pounder 'Learning Python' or other O'Reilly, etc, books that've saved my life in the past few years. (I'm more comfortable with dead trees than I am with screens.) When Microsoft was

apple mini

2020-01-05 Thread mick crane
yes I know this is Debian user list yes I know that apple is unix. I got an apple mini to give to somebody to clean it up is that "userdel" "makeusr" or something like that ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2020-04-09 13:49, Anil F Duggirala wrote: hello, I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even though my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to Off), when I enter the Gnome Maps application, it determines and shows my location on the map. thank you,

Desktop environments

2020-04-10 Thread mick crane
Well I was thinking is a valid question. What's the deal with these desktop environments ? I thought is like a desktop with pictures so you know where everything is and then you click and start a program that does something and the desktop gets out of the way ? Is that not the purpose ? mick

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2020-04-04 21:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 04 apr 20, 19:30:05, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > You have to keep also a Python 2 interpreter for it. same question: why would it disapear ? Because it's not supported upstream anymore.

Re: Buster without systemd? [with backtrack]

2020-03-27 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-27 03:12, David Wright wrote: I'm still quite happy to run with their choices. I'm also very happy to use this free software that works. for example I used to use fetchmail and procmail now I use getmail and dovecot-deliver. I have no idea how dovecot does the mail transport but

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-31 21:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:27:28PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:17:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > […] Recently I was looking at zoom.us - seems to be in > hype now - can be installed in debian and can be used as video

Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-29 09:06, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: as requested, here is the output of fetchmail -v you can see at the end "reading message ...", but I can't find it with gmail you have to select "allow non-conforming clients" or something. I had problems with fetchmail and gmail ( forget what

Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-29 13:24, Reco wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 01:46:12PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Mike fetchmail, getmail gives a Time Out OP did you select "allow non-standard email client" or whatever it is at gmail ? use SimpleIMAPSSLReciever ? [retriever] type=SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever

Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]

2020-08-31 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-31 21:57, Gary Dale wrote: Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the I think the document root is just where apache2 looks first. *Don't know if you are supposed to do it like that* but think the actual html files can be anywhere so long as they have the

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-09 14:27, Richard Owlett wrote: My proposed alternative is to leave unchecked all options on the "Software Selection" menu[1] and create appropriate pseudo-packages to be installed with "apt-get --no-install-recommends" I suppose if you were *that* concerned you could install a

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-07 21:43, Christoph K. wrote: Dear all, I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5), etc. I'm tired of typing the

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > I've also been bitten by this. I think it is a UI issue, the options > are ambiguous. Would it be possible to simply change the dialog

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > > > > > I'v

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-13 16:39, Dennis Wicks wrote: David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-11 19:01, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:45:45PM +0100, mick crane wrote: Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Flash write endurance has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade to the point

Re: backups Was: SSD and HDD

2020-10-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-13 00:46, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff ? I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs another old buster lenovo doing email another Buster PC I do bits

SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread mick crane
Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the installer do its thing. Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to suitably formatted partitions on HDD ?

Re: ot: hack me

2020-08-17 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-17 18:59, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: does anyone know of a reliable site that can stress test my firewall just go on a Linux User Group on IRC and ask to be hacked. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

2020-08-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-21 18:46, local10 wrote: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas? Thanks If these are documents what's wrong with open office protected

Re: "What's wrong with...?"

2020-08-23 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-22 19:25, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2020-08-22 11:19:17+01, mick crane wrote: On 2020-08-21 18:46, local10 wrote: What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them

Re: Mail transfer agent

2020-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-25 08:56, Joe wrote: If you haven't done anything yourself, it will be exim4-light. thanks -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Mail transfer agent

2020-09-24 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-24 18:19, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 13:35:17 +, mike.junk...@att.net wrote: On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 09:14:42 PM CDT, Dan Ritter wrote: mutt is an MUA, not an MTA.  What tasks do you want your mail server to perform? Please be specific. We will have

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

2020-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-25 23:42, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 25 September 2020 18:10:42 Stefan Monnier wrote: > He may have changed it, but at the time I first started using it on > a "pc" it had to be registered before it would access the 2nd port. I don't understand what you're referring to: - What

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-19 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-19 23:42, Beco wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 18:55, mick crane wrote: Just wild guess. Student can connect via the mobile network but not through the ISP router? Might that be the port for ssh on the router ? mick Hello Mick, Thanks for the interest. Yes, student can connect

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