Re: MoinMoin wikis and Debian 11+

On 20/06/24 23:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: As we're nearing the end of life for Debian 10, I'm still wondering what MoinMoin wiki users are supposed to do. (This includes as near as I can see from SystemInfo.) MoinMoin 1.x requires Python2, and Debian 11 and newer don't

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On 14/01/24 03:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: I have dealt with terminals with passthrough printers before, but it was three decades ago, and I've certainly never heard of a printer communicating *back* to the host over this channel I've also set up passthrough printers on terminals - which were hang

Re: find question

On 30/12/23 01:27, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 10:56:52PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: find $dir -mtime +7 -delete "$dir" should be quoted. Got it, thanks. Will that fail to delete higher directories, because the deletion of files updated the mtime? Or does

find question

Hi all, When using: find $dir -mtime +7 -delete Will that fail to delete higher directories, because the deletion of files updated the mtime? Or does it get all the mtimes first, and use those? And how precise are those times? If I'm running a cron job that deletes 7-day-old directories th

Re: lists

On 21/12/23 11:55, Pocket wrote: On 12/20/23 17:37, gene heskett wrote: On 12/20/23 12:05, Pocket wrote: On 12/20/23 11:51, gene heskett wrote: On 12/20/23 08:30, Pocket wrote: If I get one bounce email I am banned, I will never get to even 10% as 2% and I am gone. That may be a side effect

Re: sid

On 28/11/23 04:52, Michael Thompson wrote: [lots of stuff] Quick question - are you subscribed to the list? I notice you've replied a couple of times to your own emails, but not to any of the people who've offered suggestions. It's probably a good idea to subscribe, or at least check the arch

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 31/10/23 16:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 30/10/2023 14:03, Richard Hector wrote: On 24/10/23 06:01, Max Nikulin wrote: getent -s dns hosts zircon Ah, thanks. But I don't feel too bad about not finding that ... 'service' is not defined in that file, 'dns' doesn&#x

Re: systemd service oddness with openvpn

On 12/11/23 04:47, Kamil Jońca wrote: Richard Hector writes: Hi all, I have a machine that runs as an openvpn server. It works fine; the VPN stays up. Are you sure? Have you client conneted and so on? Yes. I can ssh to the machines at the other end. However, after running for a while

Re: systemd service oddness with openvpn

On 7/11/23 12:41, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I have a machine that runs as an openvpn server. It works fine; the VPN stays up. However, after running for a while, I get these repeatedly in syslog: I don't know if anyone's watching, but ... It appears that this happens when

Re: Request to Establish a Debian Mirror Server for Bangladeshi Users

On 8/11/23 17:10, Md Shehab wrote: Dear Debian Community, I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to propose the establishment of a Debian mirror server in Bangladesh I am confident that a Debian mirror server in Bangladesh would be a valuable resource for the local tech community I

Re: systemd service oddness with openvpn

On 7/11/23 12:41, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I have a machine that runs as an openvpn server. It works fine; the VPN stays up. However, after running for a while, I get these repeatedly in syslog: I should also have mentioned - this is debian bookworm (12.2) Richard

systemd service oddness with openvpn

Hi all, I have a machine that runs as an openvpn server. It works fine; the VPN stays up. However, after running for a while, I get these repeatedly in syslog: Nov 07 12:17:24 ovpn2 openvpn[213741]: Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: opvn2.conf Nov 07 12:17:24

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 24/10/23 06:01, Max Nikulin wrote: On 22/10/2023 18:39, Richard Hector wrote: But not strictly a DNS lookup tool: richard@zircon:~$ getent hosts zircon 127.0.1.1   zircon.lan.walnut.gen.nz zircon That's from my /etc/hosts file, and overrides DNS. I didn't see an option in t

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 22/10/23 04:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 05:35:21PM +0200, Reiner Buehl wrote: is there a DNS lookup command that is installed by default on any Debian getent hosts NAME getent ahostsv4 NAME That said, you get much finer control from dedicated tools. That is a useful

Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

On 16/09/23 12:19, Curt Howland wrote: Good evening. Did a fresh install of Bookworm, installing desktop with XFCE. I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those directories. I can't find where these are set to be cr

Re: how to change default nameserver?

On 11/04/23 15:17, gene heskett wrote: On 4/10/23 18:04, zithro wrote: So, I got curious about his claim : "that change to resolv.conf adding the search line [search hosts, nameserver] has been required since red hat 5.0 in 1998". (The bracket addition is mine) I'm not using RHEl-based syst

Re: how to change default nameserver?

On 11/04/23 15:17, gene heskett wrote: In a man page from a good 20 years ago. I still have a copy of that original redhat 5.0 on a shelf above me, but not a floppy drive to read those disks with. Downloading an iso ... :-) Richard

Re: questions about cron.daily

On 7/04/23 10:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep a private copy of their cronta

Re: question about rc.local

On 10/03/23 15:16, Corey Hickman wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 9:44 AM > wrote: I'm much happier with a "real" email client. what real email client do you use? :) I am using Mac as the regular desktop, Mac's Mail App is hard to use. Though my server is de

Re: solution to / full

On 2/03/23 06:00, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 02:35:17PM +0100, lina wrote: My / is almost full. # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev126G 0 126G 0% /dev tmpfs26G 2.3M 26G 1% /run /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 21G 966M 96

Re: Setting up bindfs mount in LXC container

On 18/01/23 16:38, Max Nikulin wrote: On 18/01/2023 03:52, Richard Hector wrote: On 17/01/23 23:52, Max Nikulin wrote: lxc.idmap = u 0 10 1000 lxc.idmap = u 1000 1000 1 lxc.mount.entry = /home/richard/sitename/doc_root srv/sitename/doc_root none bind,optional,create=dir My goal is not

Re: Setting up bindfs mount in LXC container

On 17/01/23 23:52, Max Nikulin wrote: On 17/01/2023 04:06, Richard Hector wrote: I'm using bindfs in my web LXC containers to allow particular users to write to their site docroot as the correct user. I am not familiar with bindfs, so I may miss something important for your use

Setting up bindfs mount in LXC container

Hi all, I'm using bindfs in my web LXC containers to allow particular users to write to their site docroot as the correct user. Getting this to work has been really hacky, and while it does seem to work, I get log messages saying it didn't ... In /var/lib/lxc//config: ==

Re: bindfs for web docroot - is this sane?

On 12/10/22 00:26, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I host a few websites, mostly Wordpress. I prefer to have the site files (mostly) owned by an owner user, and php-fpm runs as a different user, so that it can't write its own code. For uploads, those directories are

Re: bindfs for web docroot - is this sane?

On 11/10/22 22:40, hede wrote: On 11.10.2022 10:03 Richard Hector wrote: [...] Then for site developers (who might be contractors to my client) to be able to update teh site, they need read/write access to the docroot, but I don't want them all logging in using the same account/creden

bindfs for web docroot - is this sane?

Hi all, I host a few websites, mostly Wordpress. I prefer to have the site files (mostly) owned by an owner user, and php-fpm runs as a different user, so that it can't write its own code. For uploads, those directories are group-writeable. Then for site developers (who might be contractors

Re: nginx.conf woes

On 3/10/22 02:07, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, I have 2 sites to run from one server.  Both are based on ASP.Net Core. Both have SSL certs from letsencrypt.  One works perfectly.  The other sort of works. Firstly, I notice that cleardragon.com and kirks.net resolve to different addresses, t

Re: Thoughts on logcheck?

On 30/07/22 10:20, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:30:19PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: My thought is to configure rsyslog to create extra logfiles, equivalent to syslog and auth.log (the two files that logcheck monitors by default), which only log messages at priority

Thoughts on logcheck?

Hi all, I've used logcheck for ages, to email me about potential problems from my log files. I end up spending a lot of time scanning the emails, and then occasionally a bunch of time updating the filter rules to stop most of those messages coming through. My thought is to configure rsyslo

Re: Synaptic missing in "Bookworm"

On 1/07/22 12:08, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: anyone with thoughts, or info about Synaptic missing in "Bookworm"? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synaptic Richard

Re: regarding firewall discussion

On 2/06/22 05:26, Joe wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2022 03:17:52 +0100 mick crane wrote: regarding firewall discussion I'm uncertain how firewalls are supposed to work. I think the idea is that nothing is accepted unless it is in response to a request. What's to stop some spurious instructions being

Re: grep: show matching line from pattern file

On 3/06/22 07:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 03:12:23PM -0400, duh wrote: > > Jim Popovitch wrote on 28/05/2022 21:40: > > > I have a file of regex patterns and I use grep like so: > > > > > > ~$ grep -f patterns.txt /var/log/syslog > > > > > > What I'd like to get is a

Re: Permanent email address?

On 16/05/22 05:11, Dan Ritter wrote: I note that nobody owns rhkramer.org: $ host rhkramer.org Host rhkramer.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) NXDOMAIN means no such domain. Not quite. It doesn't mean no-one owns it; it just means (IIRC) there's no A or record for that domain. www.rhkramer.org

Re: wtf just happened to my local staging web server

On 5/05/22 19:57, Stephan Seitz wrote: Am Do, Mai 05, 2022 at 09:30:42 +0200 schrieb Klaus Singvogel: I think there are more. Yes, I only know wtf as ... Yes, but such language is not permitted on this list. Richard

Re: stretch with bullseye kernel?

On 4/05/22 18:57, Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2022-05-04 at 00:44 +0300, IL Ka wrote: Linux kernel is backward compatible. Linus calls it "we do not break userspace". That means _old_ applications should work on new kernel There's also the issue of what config options the kernel is built with. I'm su

stretch with bullseye kernel?

Hi all, For various reasons, I have some stretch LXC containers, on a buster host that I now need to upgrade. That will mean they end up running on buster's 5.10 kernel. Is that likely to be a problem? If so, I guess I can leave the host on buster's kernel for the time being, but that's obv

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

On 9/04/22 00:17, gene heskett wrote: IMO its up to the pdf interpretor to make the pdf its handed fit the printer. Period, IMO it is not open for discussion. "Make it fit" might include scaling. You don't necessarily want that happening automatically - what if you're printing something like a

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? Celejar Apologies for replying to the wrong message - I've deleted the

Re: OT EU-based Cloud Service

On 18/03/22 21:14, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: https://hetzner.cloud German company, a single VPS cost is about 5€ per month. Oh Nuremberg! Racing Circuit, fantastic!! Um - you might be thinking of Nürburg? Home of the Nürburgring? :-) Nuremburg has other associations in my mind, but I'm sure it'

Re: cups/avahi-daemon - worrying logs

On 17/03/22 19:37, mick crane wrote: On 2022-03-17 05:09, Richard Hector wrote: On 8/03/22 13:25, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I've recently set up a small box to run cups, to provide network access to a USB-only printer. It's a 32-bit machine running bullseye. I'm seei

Re: cups/avahi-daemon - worrying logs

On 8/03/22 13:25, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I've recently set up a small box to run cups, to provide network access to a USB-only printer. It's a 32-bit machine running bullseye. I'm seeing log messages like these: Mar  7 15:47:47 whio avahi-daemon[310]: Record [Brother

Re: voltage monitoring Q

On 13/03/22 21:15, gene heskett wrote: they are the last seacrate drives I'll own... Ever. Lots of brands seem to go through bad patches. Even just bad batches. For stuff I care about, I use RAID1 (mdraid), on NAS drives, from mixed manufacturers. So I'll have a pair consisting of a Seagate I

Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

On 9/03/22 04:06, David Wright wrote: On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 07:00:08 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 01:54:11PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: [...] > Just to solve the infinite recursion problem: > > richard@zircon:~$ apt-file search bin/apt-file > apt-fi

Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

On 6/03/22 22:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 09:34:36AM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-03-06 09:30 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote: >> apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment > When I attempted to run startx I received the message >> startx:

cups/avahi-daemon - worrying logs

Hi all, I've recently set up a small box to run cups, to provide network access to a USB-only printer. It's a 32-bit machine running bullseye. I'm seeing log messages like these: Mar 7 15:47:47 whio avahi-daemon[310]: Record [Brother\032HL-2140\032\064\032whio._ipps._tcp.local#011IN#011SRV

Re: systemd user@###.service failure causing 90 sec delays during boot, login

On 1/03/22 12:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:28:49PM +, KCB Leigh wrote: This operating system has worked excellently for months, but for the last 2 days has suddenly been taking a very long time to boot.  The cause of the delay can be seen from the syslog: Obvious q

Re: Wrong libvirt version in bullseye installation

On 8/02/22 11:34, Gary L. Roach wrote: I have been trying to get a cleen copy of qemu/kvm installed but when I try to install qemu-system I get:     libvirt-clients : Depends: libvirt0 (= 7.0.0-3) but 8.0.0-1~bpo11+1 is to be installed.  The same for libvirt-daemon and some others. Version

Re: Security

On 2/02/22 00:26, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2022-01-31 01:36:06 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 29/01/22 04:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Servers shouldn't have pkexec installed in the first place, anyway. libvirt-daemon-system depends on policykit-1. Should that not be on my (kvm

Re: Security

On 29/01/22 04:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Servers shouldn't have pkexec installed in the first place, anyway. libvirt-daemon-system depends on policykit-1. Should that not be on my (kvm) server either? Cheers, Richard

Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

On 19/01/22 04:08, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: So - the Cooperative Society - is at https://www.coop.co.uk Oddly, when I searched for "Co-operative Group Limited" (which I got from whois), I found a different site: https://co-operative.coop It seems to be the same people, but a totally indepen

Re: Single broken package blocks whole package management

On 6/01/22 02:32, Urs Thuermann wrote: After an dist-upgrade from Raspian 8 (jessie) to 9.13 (stretch) hundreds of packages still need to be upgraded and aptitude reports numerous conflicts. Firstly, the standard response is that Raspbian is not Debian :-) There are differences which might be

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

On 6/01/22 02:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade it. Before I restarted the machine, I had a Thunderbird email account for local emails, which grabbed email f

Re: reportbug fail

On 21/11/21 3:04 am, Lee wrote: I wanted to create a bug report for meld but couldn't find any info on how to other than "use reportbug" :( I see your problem is solved, but for future reference, this page has info on reporting bugs via email: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Cheers, R

Re: question from total newbie. a little help please

On 18/10/21 2:55 am, john doe wrote: With W10 you have also the possibility of using 'WLS' an order alternative would be to install Debian as a VM. I think perhaps you mean WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install I've never used it myself. Rich

Re: [Sid] Firefox problem

On 17/10/21 9:55 pm, Grzesiek wrote: Hi there, On some of machines I use, after opening of Firefox I get empty browser window (with menus, decorations etc) but nothing else is displayed. Its impossible to open menu, type address, etc. The only thing you can do is to close the window. After ch

Re: replacement of sqsh for debian 11

On 28/10/21 3:05 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: Nobody could figure out that you were trying to connect to an existing proprietary database. Well, I did. Because that's what sqsh is for - it's a client, not a DBMS. But I guess it could have been clearer. Cheers, Richard

Re: buggy N-M (was: Debian 11: Unable to detect wireless interface on an old laptop) computer

This isn't really a good place to chip in, but the best I can find from the messages I haven't deleted ... On 29/09/21 2:00 am, Henning Follmann wrote: My comment to the OP was basically on the nebulous source (most VPN Providers) and the generalized categorization (N-M is buggy), which I disag

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

On 28/09/21 11:33 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Hector wrote: On 27/09/21 11:39 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > One option is to run a mute and stop-playing command immediately > on screensaver interaction. > > For XFCE4, that's as easy as adding a panel object which ru

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

On 27/09/21 11:39 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Hector wrote: I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoyi

silence audio on locked screen?

Hi all, I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to anyone nearby. It's then annoying for me when I discover s

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

On 14/09/21 6:50 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:17:05PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 13/09/21 7:04 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:45:02AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >>On 12/09/21 6:52 pm, john doe wrote: > >[...] > >&g

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

On 13/09/21 7:04 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:45:02AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 12/09/21 6:52 pm, john doe wrote: [...] >If you are doing this in a script, I would use a temporary directory. >That way, in case of failure the destination directory

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

On 12/09/21 7:46 pm, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2021-09-12 12:43:29+1200, Richard Hector wrote: The context of my question is that I'm creating (or updating) a test copy of a website. The files are owned by one of two owners, depending on whether they were written by the server (actually ph

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

On 12/09/21 6:53 pm, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: # actually not necessary? rsync will create it mkdir -p mysite_test/doc_root You can make a simple test to know that but I would say that rsync doesn't create your destination "root" directory (the one you specify on the command line) unless `--mkpa

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

On 12/09/21 6:52 pm, john doe wrote: On 9/12/2021 3:45 AM, Richard Hector wrote: Thanks, that looks reasonable. It does mean, though, that the files exist for a while with the wrong ownership. That probably doesn't matter, but somehow 'feels wrong' to me. If you are doing t

Re: copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

On 12/09/21 12:52 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:43:29PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: The context of my question is that I'm creating (or updating) a test copy of a website. The files are owned by one of two owners, depending on whether they were written by the s

copy directory tree, mapping to new owners

Hi all, The context of my question is that I'm creating (or updating) a test copy of a website. The files are owned by one of two owners, depending on whether they were written by the server (actually php-fpm). To do that, I want all the permissions to remain the same, but the ownership shou

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

On 7/09/21 5:25 am, John Hasler wrote: Curt writes: I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird to compose your email as plain text Curt didn't write that; I did. Please be careful with your attributions. I'm intrigued to know how this mistake happened, however. Were you per

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

On 6/09/21 1:20 pm, Dedeco Balaco wrote: 3. Tried to do 'apt update' as root, but it does not work. GPG signature error. 21:18:54 [ 0] root@compo: /etc/apt # apt-mark hold firefox-esr firefox-esr-l10n-pt-br thunderbird thunderbird-l10n-pt-br firefox-esr set on hold. firefox-esr-l10n-pt-br set o

Re: which vs. type, and recursion?

On 4/09/21 9:26 pm, Brian wrote: On Sat 04 Sep 2021 at 21:21:38 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: Greg Wooledge pointed out in another thread that 'type' is often better than 'which' for finding out what kind of command you're about to run, and where it comes from. A quic

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

On 1/09/21 3:32 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: In bash, which is *not* a shell builtin -- it's a separate program, /usr/bin/which. Well _that_ took a while to parse correctly :-) I know bash is not a shell builtin, that would be weird ... Cheers, Richard

which vs. type, and recursion?

Greg Wooledge pointed out in another thread that 'type' is often better than 'which' for finding out what kind of command you're about to run, and where it comes from. A quick test, however, threw up another issue: richard@zircon:~$ type ls ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto' Great, so it's an

Re: How to update Debian 11 source.list to testing?

On 4/09/21 2:17 am, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: You might consider using bookwork rather than testing, however. Or bookworm, even. Richard

Re: explanation of first column "v" is hiding

On 28/07/21 7:55 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: https://bugs.debian.org/991578 Nice. I looked at the patch, but I'm not familiar with what processing gets done on that code. Does your reference to the reference manual, in the last of the diff, get expanded to tell me where to find the reference

Re: location of screenshots during debian install

On 27/07/21 7:14 pm, Jupiter777 wrote: hello, I am in the middle of installing buster 10.10.x on my computer. I see that I can take screenshots as the dialog boxes tell me:   Screenshot Saved as /var/log/ But /var/log is not on the bootable  usb I am using ... Where are the screenshots? 

Re: explanation of first column "v" is hiding

On 27/07/21 5:22 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: P.S. If we're complaining about the lack of documentation for the cryptic output of the Debian tool set, can we say some words about aptitude? Seriously. This command searches for packages that require or conflict with the given p

Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue Mode?

On 21/07/21 11:39 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: No, a bind mount doesn't take a device name as an argument. It takes two directory names. From the man page: mount --bind|--rbind|--move olddir newdir It's used when you've already got the device mounted somewhere (the first directory), and y

Re: MDs & Dentists

On 22/07/21 3:38 am, Reco wrote: One sure way to beat ransomware is to take immutable backups That's fine if keeping access to your data is all you care about. With the more modern ransomware that threatens to publish your (and/or your customers') data, not so much. Richard

Apparmor messages on LXC container, after host upgrade to buster

Hi all, This is a copy of a message I posted to lxc-users last week; maybe more people will see it here :-) I'm getting messages like this after an upgrade of the host from stretch to buster: Jun 18 12:09:08 postgres kernel: [131022.470073] audit: type=1400 audit(1623974948.239:107): appar

Re: Web log analysis

On 27/05/21 9:55 pm, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I need to get a handle on what my web servers are doing. Apologies for my lack of response. Thanks for all of the useful and interesting replies. I'll look into this further later; in the meantime I think I solved my immediate needs

Re: debian installation issue

On 22/06/21 12:54 am, Steve McIntyre wrote: [ Apologies, missed this last week... ] to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 09:20:52AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 iun 21, 15:07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) reli

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

On 19/06/21 2:28 pm, Susmita/Rajib wrote: Aren't the ML members aware that Debian already has a Man Wiki pages repository? Debian Man Wiki Pages are available at: https://manpages.debian.org/ I'm pretty sure that's not a wiki. It looks like a set of automatically generated static pages. Richa

Re: Server setup

On 15/06/21 9:26 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 04:39:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I would like to have my system running on different partition for home, usr, var, tmp, etc... This is a safe route to prevent some problem (such as filling up a partition th

Web log analysis

Hi all, I need to get a handle on what my web servers are doing. I remembered the name awstats, and installed it, but when I finally got it going (I had a typo in my nginx custom format), the output was somewhat opaque. Things I'd like: Ability to safely provide access to my customers Abili

Re: kernel: perf: interrupt took too long

On 24/05/21 9:50 pm, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-05-23 at 23:55, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I see messages like this frequently for a day or two after rebooting a particularly slow old machine (Atom-based HP thin client, running as an OpenVPN endpoint): May 23 05:36:37 ovpn kernel

kernel: perf: interrupt took too long

Hi all, I see messages like this frequently for a day or two after rebooting a particularly slow old machine (Atom-based HP thin client, running as an OpenVPN endpoint): May 23 05:36:37 ovpn kernel: [14268.392418] perf: interrupt took too long (4020 > 3996), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sa

Re: can linux run on hp t610 thin client?

On 22/05/21 1:39 pm, Long Wind wrote: i'm about to buy hp t610, thanks! https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03235347 A quick search of the web suggests yes: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t610/linux.shtml Richard

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

On 17/05/21 6:30 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: This is one point. The other, which adds more convenience is that dd has an explicit argument for (input and) output file name, whereas cat relies on redirection. This becomes relevant when you try to sudo cat thing > that_other_thing and realise

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

On 6/05/21 7:59 am, Weaver wrote: https://jami.net/ I get puzzled by sites like that that don't seem to say _what_it_is_ ... Luckily I can get that info from the debian package info :-) Richard

Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections

On 16/04/21 1:32 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Last step: create a cron job to run once a week that does this: certbot renew && \ cat /etc/letsencrypt/live/eyeblinkuniverse.com/privkey.pem \ /etc/letsencrypt/live/eyeblinkuniverse.com/cert.pem > \ /etc/letsencrypt/live/eyeblinkuniverse/merged.pem && \ se

Re: device names - so much escaping

On 5/04/21 11:48 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:29:59PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: /dev/vg-backup0/d-rh-rm1-home /dev/mapper/vg--backup0-d--rh--rm1--home Apr 5 07:06:25 backup systemd[1]: dev-mapper-vg\x2d\x2dbackup0\x2dd\x2d\x2drh\x2d\x2drm1\x2d\x2dsrv.device: Job

device names - so much escaping

Hi all, I use LVM quite a lot. > richard@backup:~$ sudo lvs|wc -l > 140 The trouble is, things like device mapper seem to involve lots of name translations. So the volume I call d-rh-rm1-home (for dirvish backups of /home on rh-rm1 (my (rh) first (1) redmine (rm) server)) on vg-backu

Re: Conflicting alternatives

On 19/02/21 2:34 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 18 feb 21, 08:15:39, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Hector wrote: > On 18/02/21 5:22 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:06:37AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > > > You could stop one and start the other, > >

Re: Conflicting alternatives

On 18/02/21 5:22 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:06:37AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: You could stop one and start the other, there's no resources or port conflict. I want to just keep both, not run them at the same time. Again, as stated at the start of this fiasco of a threa

Re: website permissions and ownership

On 2/02/21 10:42 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 2/2/21 5:32 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 2/2/21 4:55 pm, Richard Hector wrote: What you are doing sounds pretty O.K. Though I personally also use SELinux for web facing services. Thanks. I haven't looked in to SELinux. I looked at App

Re: website permissions and ownership

On 2/02/21 10:37 pm, john doe wrote: On 2/2/2021 9:55 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 2/02/21 9:11 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 2/2/21 3:09 pm, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I'm reviewing how I set up websites (mostly Wordpress at the moment), and would like other opinions on what I'

Re: website permissions and ownership

On 2/02/21 9:11 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 2/2/21 3:09 pm, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I'm reviewing how I set up websites (mostly Wordpress at the moment), and would like other opinions on what I'm planning is sane. My plan is to have a user eg "mysite" that

website permissions and ownership

Hi all, I'm reviewing how I set up websites (mostly Wordpress at the moment), and would like other opinions on what I'm planning is sane. My plan is to have a user eg "mysite" that owns all/most of the standard files and directories. The webserver (actually php-fpm) would run as "mysite-run

Re: megacli help

On 7/01/21 5:28 am, basti wrote: Hello, I want to set all my drives to RAID0 to use mdadm. Is there any advantage in that? I entirely agree with using mdadm rather than hardware raid, given the choice, since it allows for switching the disks into a system with a different card/adapter. But s

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

On 3/01/21 12:24 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 02 ian 21, 01:40:14, David Christensen wrote: On Linux (including Debian), MD (multiple disk) and LVM (logical volume manager) are the obvious choices for software RAID. Each have their respective learning curves, but they're not too high. An

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