Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

On 26/04/2024 12:56, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: Innocent question: what difference does the comment make vs just ending the file with an empty line? Nothing for the computer, but visibility for me. Say you print the file on paper. All you

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

swap,offset=2048,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=512 # $ Innocent question: what difference does the comment make vs just ending the file with an empty line? -- John

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

to date with the original project. . yt-dlp is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites that don't provide direct links to the videos served. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?

for some years now - to add some customized configs to existing installed packages - and it still seems to be working perfectly. It's just a wrapper on top of dpkg diverts so there's not all that much to go wrong. -- John

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

ou do not trust Gmail as a web application, use any mail application that supports IMAP" and it makes sense. -- John

Re: What use can i give to linux?

. Linux has a large and growing share of the automotive market. Your router almost certainly runs Linux. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: making Debian secure by default

ted by one overworked guy who is taking patches from random strangers. NOTE: this is just a suggestion. I don't claim to be any sort of security expert nor am I trying to tell anyone what to do. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: making Debian secure by default

Joe writes: > I think this was amply demonstrated by Heartbleed, where the offending > code was examined by *one* other pair of eyes, before approval was > granted for inclusion in OpenSSL. The "many eyes" phase comes after release. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

nes I use most often through use. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

word which you used to log on to the VAX via the VT100 in your cubicle. People would stick a slip of paper with their password on it under the keyboard where the janitor could get at it. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: > Writing down a password is a bad idea. Why? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

Use one of the password generating programs such as pwgen to produce a 12 character random password. Write it down. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: > A phrase you will easily remember but that would be hardcore to guess > through social engineering is perfect. Better is a random string that you write down. When people try to generate phrases that meet those requirements they usually fail. -- John Has

emacs 27.1 from Buster work on Bookworm?

Can emacs 27.1 from Debian 11 Buster be installed on Debian 12 Bookworm? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

logcheck(1) in bookworm 12.5 /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles

Email from logcheck(1) contains: E: File could not be read: /var/log/syslog E: File could not be read: /var/log/auth.log which do not exist in bookworm 12.5. The offending file: /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles contains both filenames. Thanks, John

Re: Committing git working tree with other git repos

better than trying to get your own way! ;^) I can only suggest you to dig into Git submodules. -- John Doe

Difference between bookworm installation files?

What is the difference between: debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso And: debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Spam from the list?

il.com; dkim=pass; spf=none (zohomail.com: 82.195.75.100 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of lists.debian.org) smtp.mailfrom=bounce-debian-user=john=bunsenlabs@lists.debian.org; dmarc=pass(p=none dis=none) header.from=strugglers.net ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha2

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

Look at the chronyd settime command and the chrony.conf makestep directive. These are intended for your situation. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

On 05/03/2024 11:36, Max Nikulin wrote: On 05/03/2024 09:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:49:34AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: I think ^ has been deprecated recently. I failed to find a reference on the web just now though. So, ^ isn't "deprecated".  It's just no

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

On 05/03/2024 11:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:49:34AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: On 05/03/2024 05:27, David Wright wrote: Which shell also matters. The OP appears to be using ^ to negate, but ! has the advantage that it will be understood in bash and dash. I think

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

should be switching to ! -- John

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

ents the range if it’s not first or last in a list or the ending point of a range. To make the ‘-’ a list item, it is best to put it last. -- John

Re: debian-devel wishlist "bugs"

https://wiki.debian.org/RFP -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: medically smart watches

cols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: medically smart watches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: grub-pc error when upgrading from buster to bullseye

d just started looking into the grub-pc package before I saw this. I'll be able to test this out sometime tomorrow. I can't verify this on my machine, because mine uses UEFI. Will advise. Thank you Greg! -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

rn, dash, zsh … > Hi Franco. egrep ALL .bashrc LC_ALL=C set | egrep ALL LC_ALL=C dash set | egrep ALL So, apparently not, (I don't have it set in /etc/profile, which is read when dash is invoked; initializing in ~/.profile would work, too. Probably the same in csh, korn,

Re: grub-pc error when upgrading from buster to bullseye

aware that the label and uuid (drive and partition) are replicated on the cloned drive, but I can't find the model number (in text format) stored anywhere on the drive. I will keep looking. -- Regards, John Boxall

grub-pc error when upgrading from buster to bullseye

se4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cpuid_fault epb pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

Greg writes: > To "change the keyboard layout" could mean either to select a > different layout, or to modify an existing layout. In fact, I think > *most* people would assume the former. I think the possibility of *altering* the keyboard layout would not even occur to mos

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

My .vimrc contains syntax on set mouse-=a And pasting works. VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Nov 20 2023 16:05:25) Included patches: 1-2116 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: chrony date months off

Max Nikulin wrote: > I think, the problem is no RTC on some *pi board, certainly chrony out of > box setup is not ready to such environment and its solution is not > maxstep. That's what makestep (initstepslew now being deprecated) is for. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: chrony date months off

Gene writes: > How do I setup /etc/chrony/chrony.conf so it slams the system clock to > the current time on the first cycle as its rebooting? initstepslew man chrony.conf -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: in an object oriented world

random objects to be created that > are not verified and vetted then there are no viruses. Then there is no need for your verification process. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: in an object oriented world

. Why should she believe it? > any process which does not respond should be thus cast into the outer > darkness of the bits and never to return (aka a virus or unauthorized > program). Malware can lie. A virus can infect an authorized program and use its credentials. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

s a 403 because google > doesn't know WTH to do with localhost... I just tried that. No hijacking: works fine. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

Greg Wooledge writes: > Chrome does not "hijack port 80". You can go to http://localhost:80/ > to talk to a local web server *just fine* in Chrome. And in Chromium. And in Firefox or Lynx when Chromium is running. Nothing's being hijacked. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

Klaus writes: > Did you notice, that I was talking about the reduced, crippled OpenSource > browser: chromium In what way is it crippled? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: counting commas

Roy J. Tellason writes: > Where does that leave those of us that wrote c for CP/M? I wrote: > Or for MTS? Gene writes: > That, i've not heard of John, please expand. Michigan Terminal System. A multi-user OS running on the Amdahl 470V/6 at the University of Michigan. -- John

Re: counting commas

Roy J. Tellason writes: > Where does that leave those of us that wrote c for CP/M? Or for MTS? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: counting commas

both > languages, I think Perl is a much better choice than C for string > processing. Use SPITBOL. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: counting commas

one line was found which matched *,* -- John

Re: normally start new xterms

Thanks Thomas. Have a good one ... John Thomas Schmitt writes: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > *FvwmButtons xterm_ts5 linuxterm.xpm Exec xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg > > > wheat -fg black -sl 1

Re: normally start new xterms

> > xterm*VT100.foreground: black > > I have it in ~/.fvwm2rc as: > > *FvwmButtons xterm_ts5 linuxterm.xpm Exec xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg wheat > -fg black -sl 1 +sb Action 'Exec

Re: No Release file for Security Update

flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;security-debian.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: security-debian.org.3600IN A 57.128.81.193 ;; Query time: 284 m

Re: No Release file for Security Update

Host gives me the same result. However, apt says: 0% [Connecting to security-debian.org (57.128.81.193)] and times out. Using "nameserver 8.8.8.8" changes nothing. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: No Release file for Security Update

Thomas George wrote: > I typed the above line exactly. apt-get update searches for > security.debian.org:80 [57.128.81.193] and times out, no connection Gene writes: > And that is not the address I get from here It's the one I get from here, and it times out. My DNS is working. -- Jo

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

and I think that this is the sort of stuff it is supposed to be for. Worth investigating. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

You may be able to prevent Firefox from getting increased priority by using polkit. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

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

org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

rg/doc/html/rfc8375 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Donate money

t like PayPal either but you won't find any way to do international transactions without dealing with obnoxious regulations. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Donate money

entity not currently > approved of by American foreign policy preference. The "know your customer" regulations are by no means a US-only phenomena. It's supposed to prevent "money laundering". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: systemd-timesyncd

fected or malicious Web site. Quit using Google search. Use DuckDuckGo. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE

On 1/7/24 13:00, jeremy ardley wrote: On 7/1/24 19:37, Felix Miata wrote: Please stop this unreadable pointless thread. -- John Doe

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

Try manpages.org . -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

t;. man chrony.conf -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

ata file is very often /etc/ethers, but this is not official. If no filename is specified /etc/ethers is used as default. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: URLs in Mutt

Greg Wooledge: > It's been my experience that the hyperlinks I'm meant to click are so > long that they wrap around the terminal width multiple times. This > makes copy/pasting them tedious at best, and even then it still > sometimes fails for me. My wife has the same problem. -- Jo

Re: netatalk not on bookworm

kups (the README file has the project mailing list)? HTH. [1] https://gist.github.com/SuperShinyEyes/de17c8092df2ed525930e339235d624e [2] https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/2.0/htmldocs/afpd.conf.5.html -- John Doe

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

Jeff writes: > I don't know why Z was used instead of UTC or GMT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Time_zones -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

sudo+use_pty+urxvt+pipe [WAS: apt-get aborts in subshell with redirections on Debian 12]

On 26/09/2023 11:52, John Crawley wrote: On 25/09/2023 20:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 11:14:24AM +0200, Michael wrote: so i looked into /etc/sudoers and all /etc/sudoers.d/* and found two suspicous flags: /etc/sudoers: Defaults   use_pty /etc/sudoers.d/0pwfeedback

Re: wireless broadband providers exist

fect your decision to use Yahoo or Hotmail for your > email service. Better to use a fee for service email provider such as Fastmail. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: wireless broadband providers exist

can deny a wireless provider the use of any city-owned land, but they cannot regulate radio transmission or reception. That is the exclusive jurisdiction of the FCC. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: lists

pocket writes: > I never implied that, only that the ISP services are spectrum only in the > area I live. No Starlik? In any case what ISP you use is unrelated to what email provider you use. I use pobox.com, but there are others. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Mason service on personal computer

traffic is blocked by using a front-end to nftables (built-in FW capability). -- John Doe

Zoom on Bookworm?

Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ Can I increase the size of the /var partition on the ssd without having to reinstall the system? LVM is one way to avoid this! ;^) -- John Doe

Re: Is it safe to install Bookworm on a new machine now?

On 15/12/2023 13:39, John Crawley wrote: If you don't want to wait for 6.1.67-1 to arrive in Bookworm stable, it is available in bookworm-proposed-updates [1][2], so one workaround would be to temporarily add that repository [3] to apt sources before upgrading. Debian point release 12.4 has

Re: Is it safe to install Bookworm on a new machine now?

W. [1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1485406/accepted-linux-signed-amd64-61671-source-into-proposed-updates/ [2] https://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates [3] deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stable-proposed-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware -- John

Re: Debian 12.4.0

Cindy Sue Causey writes: > I abhor having to type into the console. Apparently I "slur" my > keystrokes while the system has a pretty fast keystroke repeat going. man kbdrate -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: The bug

/main amd64 Packages *** 6.1.38-4 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Have to wait a few more hours I suppose. -- John

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

Andy writes: > This fails with leap seconds, potentially, and also TAI astronomical > time seems to be its own animal. TAI isn't good enough for the astronomers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Time -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Xorg fails, no gui: systemd issue?

, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 06:13:59PM +, John - wrote: > Since I last (3 December) upgraded the software (sid)  on my old Thinkpad, my > gui fails to come up. The last line of /var/log/Xorg.0.log reads: > (EE) systemd-login: failed to take device /dev/

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

Greg writes: > Is he simply talking about sneakernet? A human administrator, whom I > imagine to be the "god" in this scenario, walks around and room and > types things on each computer as needed? Carrying removable media around. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

low network by mailing removable media around. In the early days Australia was on Usenet by way of airmailed taps. Then there's https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549. Though consider: the earliest computer viruses were transmitted by floppy disk... -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Image handling in mutt

Greg writes: > cc(1) and make(1) would like to have a talk with you. Those are applications and can do whatever they want. The OS does not care about extensions. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Hardware TOTP on Linux

ling to sell me a replacement circuit board for most of the price of the phone. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Xorg fails, no gui: systemd issue?

Since I last (3 December) upgraded the software (sid)  on my old Thinkpad, my gui fails to come up. The last line of /var/log/Xorg.0.log reads: (EE) systemd-login: failed to take device /dev/dri/card0: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying I've  been trying for weeks

Re: Hardware TOTP on Linux

t make phone calls. > Their website [1] states: "Beta Edition PinePhones are aimed solely at > early adopters. More specifically, only intend for these units to find > their way into the hands of users with extensive Linux experience." I have extensive Linux experience. -- John Ha

Re: Could not find interfaces configuration file /etc/network/interfaces in Debian Linux 11 (bullseye)

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming writes: > You managed to install OpenWRT on an Ubiquiti router? Yes. It was quite straightforward. Instructions on the OpenWRT site. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Hardware TOTP on Linux

Piotr writes: > Pinephone tick this box. It works quite well, for early development > Linux phone. No support when it doesn't, though. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: debian forgot usr pw

Gene writes: > AND (horrors) have written it down. That's the right thing to do. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: debian forgot usr pw

Greg writes: > And you should either *use* it once in a while, so you don't forget > what it is, or else make it the same as your regular account's > password. Write the damn thing down. The world won't end. -- John "Write all your passwords down. It isn't 1980 anymo

Re: Could not find interfaces configuration file /etc/network/interfaces in Debian Linux 11 (bullseye)

Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > UDM Pro runs Debian 11 (bullseye) I have a Ubiquiti router. Before I installed OpenWRT I explored the OS. It uses packages from Bullseye but it is certainly not Debian. You couldn't find that file because it isn't there. -- John Hasler

Re: ntpsec as server questions

l time. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Found a liar

Why did you install zsh and then immediately remove it? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: ntpsec as server questions

lay. It says nothing about the hardware clock. Try hwclock -l to find out what timezone the hardwareclock is set to. If the box is running systemd try timedatectl -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

chronyc tracking will tell you what time Chrony thinks it is. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

server it would just work. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

internal synchronization but that isn't related to the system clocks. The default NTP configuration in most Linux distributions will take care of the system clocks if they have access to the Internet. If not run an NTP server on one machine. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Non-delivery reports from postmas...@ewetel.de

Andy Smith writes: > Is anyone else receiving non-delivery report emails from > postmas...@ewetel.de for every email they post to debian-user? I am. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

Gene writes: > Like I said, boring. Not boring at all. I assume that you also have a desktop or laptop on that network? If I was running it I would *definitely* be using DHCP. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

tomas writes: > Oh, oh... my first "Internet" (not in the sense of IP, obviously!) > connection was via UUCP. Likewise. -- John Hasler ihnp4!stolaf!bungia!foundln!john j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

ngs the hard way, but whatever. In any case that Klipper box is not running Debian: your are on the wrong forum. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

to do the latter. BTW my network experience goes back to bang paths. I'm currently using both hosts files and DHCP. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

a dhcp server somewhere on your network (on the router is conventional) and it will give that machine an ip number. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: used vs. unused packages installed

without actually changing anything. It needn't be run as root. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: time question, as in ntp?

dhcpcd is a DHCP client with a remarkably poorly chosen name. DHCPCD(8)System Manager’s Manual DHCPCD(8) NAME dhcpcd — a DHCP client dhcpd is a DHCP server. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

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