Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2024-03-15 22:58, Marco Moock wrote: Am 15.03.2024 um 18:16:50 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton: Fascinating reading here: . What the hell? I already get a ton of legitimate

Re: Meeting with the Development Team

2024-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sigh. Please don't respond to spam, it just magnifies the noise. I'm already updating our anti-spam rules regularly to try and keep things as clean as possible. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue

Re: debian-cd baking process

2024-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 06:12:47PM +0100, Kevin Price wrote: >Dear Steve: > >Am 18.01.24 um 00:37 schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> Kevin Price wrote: >>> I'm not quite sure where to address this to, > >> Argh, that's my code in the debian-cd package. "reportbug d

Re: please, help to get the image write done, due to an error. Thank you!

2024-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
lled with version 12.4.1. Where did you get this image from? What exact errors is the image writer program reporting? Without that information it's very difficult to help you. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ing it - full size and a good level of mechanical tactile feedback WITHOUT ALL THE NOISE ALL THE TIME. Very much recommended. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
tc. I also wrote fake-hwclock (packaged in Debian) for this kind of reason. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Andy. Andy Smith wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:53:43AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-) > >Oh, I didn't mean to imply that those going by taste were in a >minority! Taste, or possibly, "just never tho

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
right to get >a different religion. 😀 I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-) Putting partitions on the RAID drives helps *me* identify them. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: debian-cd baking process

2024-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Maybe there's a bug already that I didn't find. Argh, that's my code in the debian-cd package. "reportbug debian-cd" should do the right thing... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
someone 89 years old, which I am. It's nothing to do with your age. You keep on bringing this up. People are volunteering their time to help you. When you don't pay attention and go wandering off-topic it makes it much harder for people to help. I hope you can understand that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
systems like the Bay Trail platform in the X205TA. I still have an old mixed-moded Apple Imac that works that way as a test machine. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: [HS] LINUX ENTREPRISE

2024-01-04 Thread steve
Le 04-01-2024, à 11:20:37 +, Yves Rutschle a écrit : On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 01:49:21PM +0100, ilario.quinson@e.email wrote: svp c'est quoi CISO? Chief Information System Officer, la version shakespearienne de RSSI. May I correct? It's Chief Information __Security__ Officer s.

Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Steve Keller
a '.' to separate a name and an interface number or VLAN ID, like host.0 and host.1 for the LAN and WLAN interface? Steve

Re: md0 + UUIDs for member disks

2023-12-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
/md0? The reason behing using UUIDs is that individual disks don't have persistent names attached: /dev/sda might be /dev/sdb next time, etc. MD RAID devices *do* include persistent metadata so that the system can recognise them reliably. You should be fine as you are

12.4.0 point release published

2023-12-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, The new 12.4.0 point release is now out. It contains the needed fixes for the ext4 data corruption bug (https://bugs.debian.org/1057843). It's now safe to upgrade as normal, panic over. Many thanks to all the people who spent all of their weekend making this happen... -- Steve

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

2023-11-18 Thread steve
Thanks Greg for the precise explanation. I would suggest to put it in the Debian Wiki for futur reference. Le 18-11-2023, à 09:18:56 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 12:24:30AM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 17 Nov 2023 at 14:07:54 (+), Tixy wrote: > At time of

Re: Problem with apt update (is not signed)

2023-10-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
ge included software which depended on system calls only provided by a newer kernel. Docker is *awful* here - it doesn't actually isolate you from this kind of mismatch; instead it hides the details of problems to make them almost impossible to debug. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Steve Keller
ins, why lsb-base can be removed without ntpsec. Is there a way to search for "Provides" in packages? I.e. show me all packages (installed or all) that provide some feature "foobar"? Steve

Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Steve Keller
installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 12.3 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Won't continuing here leave ntpsec with an unresolved package dependency? Steve

usrmerge in bookworm

2023-10-06 Thread Steve Keller
bash gives the strange looking /usr/bin/sh where all Uni*ers are strongly used to /bin/sh. But also things like the following don't work anymore: $ dpkg -S $(type -p sh) dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/sh And I don't see a comfortable way around this. Steve

Update on problem mounting NFS share

2023-10-03 Thread Steve Matzura
I gave up on the NFS business and went back to good old buggy but reliable SAMBA (LOL), which is what I was using when I was on Debian 8, and which worked fine. Except for one thing, everything's great. In /etc/fstab, I have: //192.168.1.156/BigVol1 /mnt/bigvol1 civs

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
ably lose access to the Windows installation - it will be depending on the RAID setup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
but I only tried 10 live, so far). The newer images might be causing firmware key revocation updates to be applied. This is part of the Secure Boot story - if you want to stay secure, systems will need to be updated to stop older software with known holes from being run. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Stefan wrote: >> With outdated keys secure boot does not protect you. > >Just to clarify: in 99.99% of the cases, SecureBoot does not protect you >(and is not designed to protect you either). Sigh. Lose the misinformation crap, please. It's getting tedious. -- Steve McIntyre

Re: Plus de session graphique [résolu]

2023-09-28 Thread steve
Le 29-09-2023, à 00:52:14 +0200, Jean Bernon a écrit : La commande "apt install gnome" aboutissait à un problème de 2 paquets dont gir1.2-mutter-11.deb. J'ai cherché ce paquet sur le site Debian, j'ai abouti à cette page packages.debian.org/en/stable/gir1.2-mutter-11/amd64/download qui donne

Re: Plus de session graphique

2023-09-28 Thread steve
Le 28-09-2023, à 17:22:20 +0200, Jean Bernon a écrit : Erreur http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 gnome-shell-common all 43.4-1 404 Not Found [IP : 2a04:4e42:6a::644 80] Erreur http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 gir1.2-mutter-11 amd64 43.4-2 404 Not Found [IP :

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-20 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-09-20 10:17, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: When I used to use HP MFD's I used to have to connect to it with USB to get scanning. I do not know if network scanning is now supported or not. Scanning directly to a computer, using drivers installed on that computer, is a nightmare - even

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-20 Thread steve
Le 20-09-2023, à 08:46:06 +, Andy Smith a écrit : Hello, On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:13:43AM +0200, steve wrote: Le 19-09-2023, à 16:52:24 +0200, Nicolas George a écrit : > what you intend is completely forbidden by Google's terms and > service. And they have detection: please o

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-20 Thread steve
Dear all, Thank you for your answers, unfortunately they don't help me much (provided code is too complicated for me). Le 19-09-2023, à 16:52:24 +0200, Nicolas George a écrit : steve (12023-09-19): I have a list of 200 keywords and would like for every one to launch a search on a specific

[a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-19 Thread steve
Hello, I'm sorry if this question is a bit OT but since the answer will be implemented from a Debian machine, it's not completely OT :) I have a list of 200 keywords and would like for every one to launch a search on a specific website and put the result(s) in a file, something like: search

Can't mount NFS NAS after major upgrade

2023-09-17 Thread Steve Matzura
=,ro 0 0 Then I had the following line, replicated for several directories on bigvol1, to bind them to directories on the home filesystem, all in a script called /root/remount that I executed manually after each reboot: mount /mnt/bigvol1/dir-1 /home/steve/dir-1 -o bind,ro I had directories

Re: Downgrade Unstable vers stable

2023-09-17 Thread steve
Le 16-09-2023, à 23:03:38 +0200, Haricophile a écrit : On peut rétrograder, il y a les infos sur le wiki Debian, mais c'est une opération non recommandée avec de bonnes raisons. Si tu n'a rien de complexe a configurer, à mon avis personnel qui n'engage que moi : réinstalle proprement. Je

Re: conversion pdf

2023-09-16 Thread steve
Le 16-09-2023, à 18:42:15 +0300, Alex PADOLY a écrit : Bonsoir à tous, Connaissez-vous un paquet Debian pdf en ligne de commande pouvant s'intégrer dans un script permettant de convertir un document texte ( txt, word, openOffice) ou un dessin en un fichier pdf. pdftotext cupsfilter

Re: Re : Re: Re : Re : Re : Re : FFMPEG ?

2023-09-01 Thread steve
Le 01-09-2023, à 00:00:19 -0700, ptilou a écrit : Il n'y a pas d'avantage a utiliser le format RAW, sauf a achete des mass storages ! Donc l'image avec par exemple la detection de tumeurs vous depasse, mais vous me suivaient, ou vous etes rellement du proget Debian ? ffmeg, ne supporte

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
mally respond within a few hours. Not enough spammers on fire. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

2023-08-27 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-08-26 03:18, Mark Fletcher wrote: continue using it -- but since I can get it onto my machine with zero effort via Intellij I am a Jetbrains subscriber who uses many of their IDEs, including IntelliJ, and if that's the way you want to go, I'm certainly not going to tell you not to.

Re: Bookworm VPS image and cron

2023-08-25 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-08-25 08:38, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 03:02:55PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: So, there you go... it was a problem with DO's Bookworm image. I'm assuming the omission wasn't intentional and if that is, in fact, the case, it will get fixed quickly. It sounds

Re: Bookworm VPS image and cron

2023-08-24 Thread Steve Sobol
Debian bullseye all shipped with cron properly installed. Come to think of it... I just checked a local bookworm VM I'm running at home, and it has cron installed, too. I'll open a ticket. Response from the provider: [ Hi Steve, Thanks for reaching out to DigitalOcean. I understand you r

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-08-05 13:16, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves editing root's crontab. But cron isn't installed. Seems unlikely. There are system cron jobs that are not yet converted

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-08-05 13:23, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 5 Aug 2023 22:13 +0200, from johndoe65...@mail.com (john doe): But cron isn't installed. I just install a new Bookworm VM and 'cron' is present! :) Ditto. That must be some customization your VPS provider has made, if the installation didn't

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

2023-08-05 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-08-05 12:12, Anders Andersson wrote: Impossible, fake news. It's Java. When I still coded C and assembly in the nineties everyone told me that Java would solve the issue of portability forever. Write once, run anywhere! Just run it, no worries! Ahhh... I don't know what

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

2023-08-05 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-08-05 09:50, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: However, it seems like there are rather serious blocking issues that have halted progress. When I need Gradle (whether on Mac, Linux or Windows), I just download the latest version, put it somewhere and use it. I do the same thing with Java

Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Steve Sobol
Crazy question: My VPS provider just started offering bookworm images. So when I set up a new server yesterday, I installed bookworm. Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves editing root's crontab. But cron isn't installed. What am I expected to use instead? (I

Re: Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

2023-08-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;I follow them on Fediverse. I'm not going to sit there reloading 72 >web sites every day. > >(Doesn't have to be RSS; any feed tech like Atom is fine also) Similar here. I'm using FreshRSS daily to pick up on RSS/atom feeds from all over the place... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: les adresses d'expéditeur dans thunderbird

2023-07-30 Thread steve
Le 30-07-2023, à 13:45:44 +0200, hamster a écrit : Je rève d'un système ou on pourrait renseigner (par exemple dans le carnet d'adresses) pour chaque destinataire avec quelle adresse d'expédition on veut lui écrire, et qu'il se charge automatiquement de mettre la bonne adresse d'expéditeur.

Re: Utilisateurs de Free/Zimbra, merci de faire un effort :-)

2023-07-30 Thread steve
Le 30-07-2023, à 13:24:07 +0200, Jean-François Bachelet a écrit : pas trouvé comment le forcer à respecter l'adresse de retour des mails, il le fait quand il en a envie ici... (oui j'ai douze adresses différentes...) Je n'utilise pas Thunderbird pour les listes de diffusion, donc je vais

Re: [OT] connect to Amazon AWS service

2023-07-28 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-07-28 08:46, Haines Brown wrote: Sorry for a quetion not directly related to Debian, but where else to turn? I've used an on line validation servce to which I submit code. It terminated with the note that it has now become a web service on the Amazon EC2 Web Service. I registered for

Re: Networkmanager en mode console

2023-07-26 Thread steve
Le 26-07-2023, à 18:35:46 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 26 juillet 2023 ajh-valmer a écrit : La connexion réseau en mode recovery est très importante, c'est dans ce mode que l'on fait "apt upgrade" et surtout pour "apt dist-upgrade" ou "apt full-upgrade. Pas évident. Si le boot peut

Re: Networkmanager en mode console

2023-07-26 Thread steve
Le 26-07-2023, à 15:57:07 +0200, ajh-valmer a écrit : Le 26 juillet 2023 ajh-valmer a écrit : > lorsque je boote Debian-12 en mode console (recovery), > sans Xorg, le réseau ne fonctionne plus, On Wednesday 26 July 2023 15:32:01 Michel Verdier wrote: Je ne suis pas sûr mais n'est-ce pas le

Re: Code de conduite [Was: Re: Comment router le trafic réseau finement]

2023-07-26 Thread steve
Le 26-07-2023, à 13:47:14 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : (bon le bonheur pour moi s'appelle gnus :) désolé pour mutt) (je me lance… nan ;-))

Re: Code de conduite [Was: Re: Comment router le trafic réseau finement]

2023-07-26 Thread steve
Le 26-07-2023, à 13:26:09 +0200, RogerT a écrit : Le 26 juil. 2023 à 12:54, NoSpam a écrit :  Le 26/07/2023 à 12:42, RogerT a écrit : J’ai ressorti Thunderbird pour voir si ça aidait à la mise en forme (des messages…). Je n’ai pas encore trouvé la manière de le configurer correctement

Re: Code de conduite [Was: Re: Comment router le trafic réseau finement]

2023-07-26 Thread steve
Le 26-07-2023, à 12:42:56 +0200, RogerT a écrit : PS : Actuellement, ne fait-on pas du middle posting (ou interleaved posting) ? (si le bottom posting consiste à répondre entièrement en dessous du message précédent). On répond sous le texte auquel on veut répondre, peu importe qu'il en reste

Re: Code de conduite [Was: Re: Comment router le trafic réseau finement]

2023-07-26 Thread steve
Le 26-07-2023, à 11:56:20 +0200, RogerT a écrit : Merci de ton retour. En effet, je crois qu’on aborde des points utiles pour beaucoup en matière de réseau. Oui, c'est très intéressant, et Michel amène beaucoup et de manière très claire, merci à lui.l Top posting : ok. tu voudrais du

Code de conduite [Was: Re: Comment router le trafic réseau finement]

2023-07-26 Thread steve
Bonjour, Cette conversation est très intéressante, malheureusement le top-posting et le formatage de ces échanges rendent son suivi difficile. Serait-il possible de faire quelques efforts pour respecter un minimum les règles énoncées ici https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ et ici

Re: Connexion ethernet qui saute sans raison

2023-07-22 Thread steve
Le 22-07-2023, à 17:16:57 +0200, ajh-valmer a écrit : On Saturday 22 July 2023 13:08:04 steve wrote: >> J'utilise NetworkManager, donc rien dans /etc/network/interfaces : En diézant complètement "/etc/network/interfaces", au reboot le réseau est bien connecté sur eth0. C

Re: Connexion ethernet qui saute sans raison

2023-07-22 Thread steve
Le 22-07-2023, à 12:55:08 +0200, ajh-valmer a écrit : On Saturday 22 July 2023 12:31:37 steve wrote: En tous cas, c'est sympa d'avoir pris le temps de répondre : Non, c'est normal, et sympa de remercier. Oui ça se perd hein  ;-) Le 22-07-2023, à 11:45:12 +0200, ajh-valmer a écrit

Re: Connexion ethernet qui saute sans raison

2023-07-22 Thread steve
Le 22-07-2023, à 11:45:12 +0200, ajh-valmer a écrit : On Friday 21 July 2023 20:42:26 steve wrote: J'ai deux cartes ethernet sur la machine, mais j'en utilise qu'une seule. J'ai donc essayé d'inverser le câble rj45, le client dhcp cherche une ip, en trouve une, puis 4 secondes plus tard, se

Connexion ethernet qui saute sans raison

2023-07-21 Thread steve
Salut la liste, Comme dit dans le sujet, ça arrive sans crier gare, sans avoir fait de mise à jour, sans raison (apparente). Ce matin, connecté comme d'habitude et vers 11h, plus de connexion. J'ai deux cartes ethernet sur la machine, mais j'en utilise qu'une seule. J'ai donc essayé d'inverser

Re: Gimp 2.10 en français impossible

2023-07-20 Thread steve
Salut, Sauf erreur, les fichiers de configurations de Gimp sous bookworm se trouvent dans ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/. Dans ce répertoire, il y a un fichier gimprc où tu devrais pouvoir ajouter une ligne (language fr) et ça devrait marcher. Par contre, c'est une bidouille parce que gimp est censé

Re: WiFi Mac mini.

2023-07-11 Thread steve
Le 11-07-2023, à 12:32:09 +0200, ilario.quinson@e.email a écrit : Ce que je t'ai indiqué est juste ce qu'il faut, j'ai éliminé tout le reste. Tu peux donc copier-coller ce que j'ai mis dans le fichiers /etc/apt/sources.list. Ah bon je n'avais pas compris grand chose. C'est normal au début,

Re: WiFi Mac mini.

2023-07-11 Thread steve
Le 11-07-2023, à 08:48:16 +0200, Ilario Quinson a écrit : je ne retrouve pas correspondance entre tes indications et mon fichier. Je dois effacer ce que je vien de rajouter et coller simplement ta correction? Ce que je t'ai indiqué est juste ce qu'il faut, j'ai éliminé tout le reste. Tu

Re: WiFi Mac mini.

2023-07-10 Thread steve
Salut, Le 10-07-2023, à 18:43:34 +0200, Ilario Quinson a écrit : Mon fichier source.list est: Corrigé ci-dessous. Les lignes commençant par deb-src ne sont utiles QUE si tu vas compiler des programmes. Commentes-les avec un # si tu ne vas pas faire ça. /etc/apt/sources.list : deb

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-27 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-27 10:54, David Wright wrote: On Fri 23 Jun 2023 at 15:51:31 (-0700), Steve Sobol wrote: On 2023-06-23 15:26, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Steve Sobol wrote: > > > > In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically. > > > > Seconded. > > I'm no

Re: php7.4 on bookworm

2023-06-26 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-26 00:52, Markus Schönhaber wrote: I don't know if that somehow qualifies as "best practice" but Ondřej Surý packages different PHP versions for Debian and Ubuntu one can install side-by-side: https://sury.org/ I can vouch for the quality of the Sury packages. I've used them for

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-24 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 21:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: [...] I'd much rather err on the side of extreme caution. If something goes bump, I'm screwed. To be fair, autoremove can improve safety: when it removes old kernel versions filling

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 16:54, Emanuel Berg wrote: Ah, don't worry, it is safe, I've done it a lot. I don't doubt that it is quite safe, most of the time. But I run my servers on Ubuntu and Debian. (Mostly Ubuntu right now; slowly migrating to Debian.) I get paid for hosting, as well as work I do

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 15:26, Emanuel Berg wrote: Steve Sobol wrote: In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically. Seconded. I'm not following, when these functions are invoked, be it scheduled by some other software or by the user from the shell, they are intended to do their work

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 14:14, Dan Ritter wrote: It seems unlikely to me that you want to do an autoremove before you have done an upgrade. I'd not say unwise. Useless, pointless, perhaps; but it doesn't hurt anything. autoremove removes packages that were installed as dependencies of other

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
j...@jretrading.com wrote: >On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:30:04 +0100 >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> ssmcmlxx+debianu...@gmail.com wrote: >> >I tried to write the debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso to cd using >> >cdrskin and xorriso but they both refused my command. >

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
to fix this, and I hope that the 12.1 images will work better. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-12 Thread steve
Le 12-06-2023, à 21:25:40 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : On 2023-06-11, steve wrote: After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. Just to be sure before you reinstall can you provide exim -bP | grep

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-11 Thread steve
Hi Michel, Le 10-06-2023, à 11:19:25 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : On 2023-06-10, steve wrote: Hi Michel and al, After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. Just to be sure before you reinstall

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-10 Thread steve
Hi Michel and al, After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. Have a nice day, steve Le 05-06-2023, à 10:50:00 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : if one succeed without

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-05 Thread Steve
Le 05-06-2023, à 10:50:00 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : if one succeed without message and with code 0, add in /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base and /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-paniclog postrotate systemctl exim4-base endscript if you add reload but still get

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-05 Thread Steve
Le 05-06-2023, à 10:21:52 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : Merci pour ton aide Michel. De rien :) Let's continue in english for the list Sure. log_file_path = /var/log/exim4/%slog log_selector = +smtp_protocol_error +smtp_syntax_error

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-05 Thread Steve
Le 05-06-2023, à 09:09:05 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : Yes, nothing is done after rotation. But I don't remember the default exim logging mechanism. Can you provide grep -r log_file_path /etc/exim* This gives nothing. Then can you provide exim -bP (snip

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-05 Thread Steve
Le 04-06-2023, à 19:11:57 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 4 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : Does this help? Yes, nothing is done after rotation. But I don't remember the default exim logging mechanism. Can you provide grep -r log_file_path /etc/exim* This gives nothing.

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-04 Thread Steve
Le 04-06-2023, à 14:30:08 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 4 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : 2023-06-04T06:30:54.117016+02:00 box exim[24894]: 2023-06-04 06:30:54 1q5fOD-0006TT-2C failed to write to main log: length=91 result=-1 errno=9 (Bad file descriptor) 2023-06-04T06:30:54.150516+02:00 box

exim - bad file descriptor

2023-06-03 Thread Steve
Hi, Running Debian bookworm fully updated. Since a couple of weeks, i see strange lines in the logs: 2023-06-04T06:30:54.117016+02:00 box exim[24894]: 2023-06-04 06:30:54 1q5fOD-0006TT-2C failed to write to main log: length=91 result=-1 errno=9 (Bad file descriptor)

Re: HS: pourquoi les disques SSD sont peu utilisé dans les serveurs

2023-05-11 Thread steve
Bonjour, Infomaniak, un des plus gros hébergeurs de Suisse (et le mien, mais c'est hors sujet ici), utilise de plus en plus des SSD sur leurs serveur: https://news.infomaniak.com/ssd-europeen-swissbit/ De plus, ces SSD (de marque Swissbit https://www.swissbit.com/en/) sont fabriqués en

Re: Re : date de sortie prévisionnelle de Debian 12 Bookworm: le 10 juin 2023

2023-05-01 Thread steve
Le 01-05-2023, à 11:26:33 -0400, Ro Bou a écrit : Bonjour! J'ai aussi fait l'essai de bookworm. Résultat pas concluant dans mon cas. Je suis en multi boot avec le windows 10  pré-installé, une debian-facile et un disque usb externe  de 4 tb pour des sauvegardes. Au redémarrage de

Re: HFLB Holding SA

2023-05-01 Thread steve
Bonjour Marie, C'est visé de mon côté, à Olivier de jouer. ~ steve ~ Le lundi 01 mai 2023 à 08:04, Marie Vazquez a écrit : Chère Madame, chers Messieurs, Nous avons saisi ce jour le paiement détaillé ci-après par le débit du compte de la société citée en objet, soit

Re: Boot an EFI system with QEMU

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Valentin Caracalla wrote: >Hello Steve, > >thanks a lot for the tip! However, I'm a complete novice when it comes to >running custom firmware in QEMU. I just tried the following: > >1.: Download the latest EDK2 release from Github: >

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
or example), saving a small amount of disk space here could cause a massive PITA later. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Pa

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
boot interface, however (as in my original >recipe). That's just qemu-system-x86_64 defaulting to using SeaBIOS for firmware. I boot VMs in UEFI mode all the time, using the EDK2 binary builds in the ovmf package. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-04-02 14:57, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: I'll admit that when I first saw perl, I thought it was horrific and I swore to continue using awk and C and ... anything but perl. But then one day $job required me to learn perl so I did and have been a convert ever since. Perl

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-04-02 02:24, Emanuel Berg wrote: If you are looking for a career, Python is much bigger but there is a lot of shell scripts and for that matter a little bit of Perl don't harm, absolutely mot. I'm seeing scripts written in Python far more often than Perl these days, but it is

Re: [Bookworm] installer stops due to missing wifi firmware

2023-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
y one of the current daily/weekly images it will most likely work too... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"

Re: Pilote carte vidéo Nvidia 340 210 obsolète.

2023-02-28 Thread steve
Le 28-02-2023, à 13:21:19 +0100, ajh-valmer a écrit : On 28/02/2023 07:32, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: Et j'ai oublié le plus important: quel est le fichier /var/log/Xorg.0.log après lancement de /usr/bin/startx ou de /usr/bin/Xorg Pilote "nouveau" : Tout semble pourtant bien installé, j'ai

Re: awk not just using the Field separator as such. it is using the blank space as well ...

2023-02-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
difficult to find edges if you look. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"

Re: ecran vide après la connexion

2023-01-30 Thread steve
Hello, Que donne 'lspci -kv' sous root ? As-tu essayé un live-cd pour voir si le problème est identique ? s.

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
operating systems. And that did not last very long. Sigh. Secure Boot also does a reasonable job of blocking persistent pre-boot malware, which is absolutely worth doing. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and

Re: Passwords

2023-01-17 Thread steve
Le 17-01-2023, à 15:05:37 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : chroot can be tricky for newcommers… That's why passwd is nice to us and has the -R option :) Thanks Tomas, didn't know that option. Will go to bed a bit less stupid tonight :-)

Re: Passwords

2023-01-17 Thread steve
Le 17-01-2023, à 08:07:02 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 01:53:33PM +0100, steve wrote: Le 17-01-2023, à 07:19:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:36:03AM +0100, steve wrote: > > Easier would be to delete the second field in /e

Re: Passwords

2023-01-17 Thread steve
Le 17-01-2023, à 07:19:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:36:03AM +0100, steve wrote: Easier would be to delete the second field in /etc/shadow for root, so there won't be anymore root password (it's empty). You can then create one with the 'passwd' command. If you

Re: Passwords

2023-01-17 Thread steve
Le 17-01-2023, à 07:58:40 +, Tim Woodall a écrit : One other thing you can do if you don't have a quick and easy way to boot is to manually replace the hash in /etc/shadow with one that you do know the password for. (This might be the case, for example, where the USB stick is for booting

Re: quite the end of an era: Re: Bug#931659: transition: rm python2

2023-01-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
wondering what the path >forward is for us. Correct, we're still on buster for now. I'm *hoping* to move forwards to moin 2 on python 3 at some point soon, and Paul Boddie has been doing some great work on the ackaging front there. But there's a bit more work needed yet all round. -- Steve McIntyr

Re: Package versions in multi-arch

2023-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
llvm-toolchain-15 source package - that will bump the version in both cases so that they match. binNMUs are horrible. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

aptitude update / upgrade broke my Rapbian bullseye

2022-12-06 Thread Steve Keller
r. Now I wonder if there is a chance to get all these things fixed or if a fresh re-install would be easier, faster, and more sucessful. I think, first I should remove connmand, since I don't know what I'd need it for. Steve

Re: Dial-in serial getty

2022-12-06 Thread Steve Keller
argument of --local-line and agetty does not exec /bin/login in this case but only logs the error message, waits for 10s, and then exits. Since agetty does not wait for the modems carrier detect or for the "RING" message from the modem I don't see how it can be used on dial-in lines. Steve

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