Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On 11/09/2021 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: > hello fellow Debian users, > > I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for > /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade > fails. Just want to check that you've not missed something obvious here. You don't *

Re: Where is a list of kernel messages ?

2021-10-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 18/10/2021 22:16, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > > Where is there a list of linux kernel messages ? > So far not found on : > > - google > - Debian linux or kernel documentation, specifically linux-doc etc. > - not seem in /usr/share/doc > > - www.kernel.org > >

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On 14/11/2021 12:56, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions > from experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and > reliable OS (the policy of the OS

Re: If the variable has its 'integer' attribute set,

2021-11-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On 21/11/2021 01:37, sim sim wrote: > Hi, all. > My question may be in the wrong place but I'm already exhausted. > Started reading https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.pdf. > > 3.4 Shell Parameters > . > > A parameter is set if it has been assigned a value.  The null string

Re: Don't try this at home kids

2021-11-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On 29/11/2021 22:41, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 30/11/21 6:25 am, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> How do I tell sudo not to ask me for my password? >> >> It's me. I'm on my computer. I already logged in with my password. No >> one else is logged on. >> >> I know all you purists out there are rending your

Re: how to open mht file

2021-12-05 Thread Darac Marjal
MHTML files are "MIME-encapsulation of aggregate HTML documents": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML In other words, you can treat this file very similar to a saved email. Some web browsers may be able to open it, too. Try the usual interfaces for opening a file with (for example in a file br

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 10/12/2021 04:53, David Wright wrote: On Thu 09 Dec 2021 at 17:12:01 (-), Curt wrote: On 2021-12-09, hdv@gmail wrote: Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM.

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 10/12/2021 12:21, Dan Ritter wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote: In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not otherwise be treated as swap space. It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap appears to be the logical choice for

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 18/12/2021 16:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: Today I rebooted my machine for the first time in quite a while, after the kernel update that was released along with Debian 11.2. When it reached the GRUB screen, I pressed Enter, and nothing happened as far as I could see. I was initially worried tha

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On 17/01/2022 22:43, piorunz wrote: Hello, I run Firefox via firejail. I let Firefox use only one network adapter, because that cuts off Firefox from my LAN. I run several profiles of Firefox on my machine. Only one of them has access to LAN for security reasons. This is my example shortcut in

Re: How to set Upstream and Downstream Bandwidth in load balance router if the speed varies?

2021-03-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 09/03/2021 23:20, Markos wrote: > Markos wrote: > >> I'm a Debian user and have already configured a router TL-R470T+ to connect > >> with 2 providers (by PPPoE and dynamic link). And I'm using the TL-WR841ND > >> V10 router only as an access point. > >> > >> Now I'm in doubt as to how I will

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 10/03/2021 03:08, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Hello. > > While I was making my research before installing Debian > I saw that the filesystem hierarchy is not so friendly > (I'm new to GNU/Linux operating systems). > How is the filesystem "unfriendly"? It's a filing system. It's purpose is to

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 10/03/2021 12:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:45:16AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 2021-03-10 at 07:27, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: >> >>> By the way, what does "usr" mean? I thought it was "user" untill I >>> took a look inside. Just asking. >> I've traditionally

Re: How to set Upstream and Downstream Bandwidth in load balance router if the speed varies?

2021-03-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On 12/03/2021 14:35, Markos wrote: > > Em 10-03-2021 05:48, Darac Marjal escreveu: >> >> >> On 09/03/2021 23:20, Markos wrote: >>> Markos wrote: >>> >> I'm a Debian user and have already configured a router TL-R470T+ to >>> >>

Re: Markdown previewer

2021-03-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On 17/03/2021 06:30, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Can you please advise a good GUI Markdown previewer? > > Many editors (vim, mousepad) can highlight Markdown syntax, but it's a > different matter. I'd like the previewer to display rendered Markdown > nicely with fonts, hyperlinks,

Re: Slow connections - DNS problems?

2021-03-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On 24/03/2021 05:32, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I read Usenet (including this mailing list via the newsgroup > linux.debian.user) on my laptop. so I can keep up from anywhere. > It works well, but at home it takes 20 or 30 seconds to connect > to my NNTP server, newsguy.com.  If I take my laptop to th

Re: how to record sound to mp3

2021-03-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On 25/03/2021 11:37, Long Wind wrote: > i use mplayer to play sound > i urgently want a program that can record sound being played to mp3 > which package shall i install? IF you're using pulseaudio as your sound server, there are some neat solutions on the AskUbuntu site|[1]. In particular, the i

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On 27/03/2021 16:06, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > The working code, here: > [?]invoke a screensaver and xset through script > Link: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=149128 > Not posting the code here, as it would be a case of repitition. > Best. > Rajib > OK. You're wanting something that

Re: backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now > happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. > > I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/backb. Both are > 4tb drives, with backa being 2.74tb and backb 2.81tb. It mig

Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

2021-03-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On 31/03/2021 10:46, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Follow Up from https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01459.html, > > Motivation: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01358.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01362.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/20

Re: Parallel processing unit cluster for single ffmpeg calls?

2021-04-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On 05/04/2021 12:14, Christoph K. wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if I can build a cluster to convert / transcode videos > with ffmpeg. > > There are some workstations standing around here ... and I though maybe > it's possible to combine their computing power? > > To be clear: The task is

Re: scrcpy: a really cool and very useful utility not in debian repos?

2021-04-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On 06/04/2021 10:33, Albretch Mueller wrote: > # date; apt install scrcpy > Tue Apr 6 05:27:12 EDT 2021 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package scrcpy > # > > https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy > https://packa

Re: Using a remote computer and VGA

2021-04-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On 08/04/2021 22:51, Richmond wrote: > Is it possible to use a local computer (L) to: ssh -Y to a remote > computer (R), run a web browser on R which will then display on > L, choose what to watch on Netflix, and then having started it, move the > displayed browser window back to the X window on R

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

2021-04-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On 15/04/2021 11:16, piorunz wrote: > On 15/04/2021 03:15, Celejar wrote: > >>> It certainly works fine for me. I use https only mode for many months >>> now. Can you bring an example of a page which returns good page on >>> http, >>> but 404 error on https? >> >> http://www.daat.ac.il/ >> https:/

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

2021-04-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 19/04/2021 12:24, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I have a smart TV which includes a browser. (An LG running WebOS, as > it happens.) It can, of course, display video streams from a given > URL. So I'm hoping someone has figured out a way to create a virtual > display on a Debian computer which s

Re: Postfix configuration on Bullseye

2021-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On 20/04/2021 00:08, Charles Curley wrote: > On installing on Bullseye, I usually install postfix, then configure it > with "dpkg-reconfigure postfix". > > I use postfix here only for logwatch and other system emails, so the > setup isn't concerned with the Internet at large. > > The default list

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/04/2021 20:53, Albretch Mueller wrote: [cut] > I would also love to see networking taken out of the Linux kernel, > but this is an entirely different, hellishly "political" issue. It's not quite the same thing, but you might be able to get what you want with the Debian HURD port

Re: problem compiling linux-source-4.19

2021-04-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On 25/04/2021 20:23, John Covici wrote: > Hi. In the make bzImage step of compiling linux-source-4.19 I get the > following error: > > CC arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.o > arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c: In function ‘hyperv_init’: > arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c:338:52: error: expected expression bef

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On 29/04/2021 13:11, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Dystopian is right. Our organization, using O365, has moved to > "multi-factor authentication" without consultation and I can no longer > use gnus, for instance. Absolutely horrible. Ask your administrator to enable "Per Application Passwords" - https:

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On 29/04/2021 14:03, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> What is "alpha-offset format"? > we, corpora research kinds of folks, need to process thousand of > files as other people process bytes. UTF8 was basically an > Americanizierung of alle alphabets. UTF is great to describe an > alphabet but not for t

Re: problem with debian

2021-04-30 Thread Darac Marjal
On 30/04/2021 05:53, Andrei Nae wrote: > > Hi, I have a debien OS installed on VMware. When i do the command nano > /etc/apt/sources.list, I don’t have the debian.map.fastlydns.net > written in the file but as soon as I try to do apt update it tells me > that debian.map.fastlydns.net can’t be reac

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

2021-05-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On 04/05/2021 07:12, Emanuel Berg wrote: > I get system mail all the time - I've got 2757 at the moment - > that tells me that > > [ 4/Apr/2021 22:11:33] > IN_CLOSE_WRITE /etc/.pwd.lock > * /etc/.pwd.lock is closed > > Any clues what that problem might be? The "IN_" prefix tells you that thi

Re: URGENT..! Very annoying when UPDATE = debian.map.fastlydns.net

2021-05-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On 06/05/2021 15:34, David Wright wrote: > [cut] > I thought the page rather full of gobbledegook, talking about SRV > records and CDN instances. As for trying a different mirror, the only > occurrence of "mirror" is "This service provides mirrors for the > following Debian archive repositories".

Re: generate a rss.xml from a bunch of HTML files

2021-05-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 10/05/2021 07:06, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 mai 21, 01:44:32, Emanuel Berg wrote: >> Charles Curley wrote: >> >>> Right. However, as I found out asking elsewhere, you can >>> include HTML in Markdown. >> Hehehe, let's see, first write HTML, then include it in >> Markdown, then have the

Re: Putting small web site online

2021-05-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On 12/05/2021 07:31, john doe wrote: > Debians, > > I need to have a small web site online but I don't have a commercial > link nor a server at home that can be publickly available. > > I'm planning to test/build the web site locally then have it published > where it is publickly available. > > I'

Re: Thunderbird: how can I set permanent custom headers?

2021-05-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On 14/05/2021 11:44, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > For the lack of a dedicated Thunderbird mailing list, I am forced to > ask here. > > I am using Debian Buster. I have set up a custom header (X-no-archive) > using this guide: > https://www.lifewire.com/arbitrary-custom-heading-email-thunderbird

Re: Signed Email PAM authentication

2021-05-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On 14/05/2021 15:29, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > Hello, > > I think of idea of having additional PAM module which passes login > after receiving and validating signed email (for some scenarios it > could even requires emails from many persons). Signing emails can be > done easliy in secure way and it

Re: Missing SSL/https root cert(s)?

2021-05-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On 20/05/2021 12:03, d...@sherohman.org wrote: > Although everything works properly for actual (human) users, a coworker > has informed me that some of his automated tests are failing with > invalid https certificate errors. I checked and, sure enough, it's not > just his tests: > > $ curl https:

Re: apt error not understood

2021-05-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/05/2021 16:48, ghe2001 wrote: > Buster everywhere, latest update. > > I update/upgrade using apt on 3 different computers (SuperMicro > desktop, Dell laptop, Raspberry Pi cute thing). Sample from a few > minutes ago, on the desktop: > > root@sbox:~# apt update > Hit:1 http://security.debian.

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

2021-06-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On 19/06/2021 21:07, Marco Möller wrote: > > Hello, > Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but > do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that > keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/  . But how > should I manage the keys saved th

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install > some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known > base to start from I extracted the contents of

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/08/2021 13:34, didier gaumet wrote: > Hello, > > Disclaimer: I have never tested what is following. > > Perhaps another way of keeping two kernels without increasing the size oft > the /boot partition would be to decrease the size of the initrd files: by > default they are built with all

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/08/2021 23:51, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 03:29:07PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> 2021-08-01 13:52:37 root@dipsy ~ >> # file /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 >> /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun >> Jul 25 19:43:38 2021, from

Re: Thunderbird add-on for SMS

2021-08-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On 06/08/2021 07:36, ellanios82 wrote: > Good Day, List ! > > >  - is there a way to send an SMS to a mobile phone,  from Thunderbird ? Talk to the service provider for the mobile phone. Some providers offer an email to SMS service, whereby you are given an email address that maps to your phone nu

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On 06/08/2021 00:30, David wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 06:03, Gary L. Roach wrote: > >> Second, why am I separating out the Path the way I am doing? I need to >> check each level for existence then, if the level doesn't exist, create >> the directory, cd to the directory, set chown and -x chmo

Re: [OT] Online CPU configuration tool

2022-02-22 Thread Darac Marjal
For Intel processors, https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefilter.html?productType=873 might be of use to you. For AMD, it seems to need to choose a processor type first https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications If you're after other manufacturers or other architectures,

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

2022-04-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On 08/04/2022 20:27, David Wright wrote: On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 07:18:28 (+0100), Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for *OFFLINE* use. The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable

Re: updatedb.mlocate

2022-04-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 10/04/2022 15:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 06:03:13AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Thats fine, as long as the systemd stuff is disabled by finding an entry in the presently logged in users ~/.config, but I do not consider that as a user item. thats (updatedb) sysadmin stuff

Re: Dino

2022-05-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On 07/05/2022 02:17, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: On 3/13/22 08:24, Stefan Kropp wrote: On Sa, 2022-03-12 23:00:33, Mongoose wrote: When may we see Dino messenger included in Debian stable? The dino XMPP IM Messenger is part of Debian [1] Version 0.2.0-3 in stable Version 0.3.0-2~bpo11+1 in st

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

2022-05-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On 14/05/2022 03:02, ghe2001 wrote: Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster, smartctl v 6.6 I bought a new 12TB Western Digital Gold SATA disk the other day. After testing it, smartctl says, among other things:  22 Unknown_Attribute   0x0023   001   001   025    Pre-fail Always   FAILING_

Re: Needless DNS queries

2022-06-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On 07/06/2022 17:53, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: search Search list for host-name lookup. By default, the search [...] This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path following the search keyword with spaces

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/06/2022 18:04, Person the human wrote: I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from the developers or possibly try to add it myself. Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so that a package could be installed without first downloadin

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/07/2022 16:26, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. Debian hasn't supported 80386 processors for many years. According to https://

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

2020-08-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On 31/08/2020 14:18, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 30/08/2020 19:02, Long Wind wrote: >> On Sunday, August 30, 2020, 10:20:53 AM EDT, Charles Curley >> wrote: >>> Yahoo mail is broken. I encourage Mr. Wind to get another mail reader. >> >> >> i don't have choice. gmail is blocked in china. i'v

Re: Snapshot Repository

2020-09-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On 06/09/2020 13:44, bpasteur wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a developer that uses Debian for our product, you guys do a great > job. We made an unfortunate mistake of not freezing our Debian repo > for our last release and the repo of course updated and now we are > scrambling to get a copy of the repo sna

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/09/2020 00:38, Britton Kerin wrote: > I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :). > > For some reason ssh sessions seem to time out pretty quickly. I've > tried setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax and also > ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCou

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On 11/10/2020 18:48, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" > Where do you see that? If you have an NVMe device, you can run "nvme smart-log /dev/nvme" (or "nvme smart-log /dev/nvmen" if you have multiple namespaces o

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On 04/12/2020 11:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Andrei wrote: >> -=-=-=-=-=- >> >> On Jo, 03 dec 20, 20:17:25, John Hasler wrote: >>> Jerry Mellon wrote: I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit

Re: Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 10/12/2020 09:10, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:54:10PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: >> Paul M Foster wrote: >>> I have two users on the client: paulf 1000 and nancyf 1001. On the >>> server, I have two users: pi 1000 and paulf 1001. I can mount the NFS >>> share from the serve

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: > debian-users: > > I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus > > > STFW and RTFM: > > https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus > > -> Using only the integrated GPU > > https://wiki.debi

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On 05/01/2021 08:27, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrei POPESCU composed on 2021-01-05 09:14 (UTC+0200): > >> David Christensen wrote: >>> Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: "xrandr" utility should help you with diagnostics and setup:     $ xrandr -q > $ xrandr | wc -l > 17 > $ xrandr -q | wc -l >

Re: apt-key deprecated

2021-01-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On 12/01/2021 06:47, Erwan David wrote: > Hello, > to install signal desktop client, I followed their instructions, which > is to add their repository and, obviously their Kry. > > However, I got a warning > Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d > instead (see apt-k

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On 17/01/2021 05:03, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Nothing immediate for the former, but for the latter, you may want to >> look at the 'vrms' package. > Yes, I use that as well. But that's an "opt-in", and it's rather crude > (and operates after the fact). I think Debian would benefit from having >

Re: problem with wget -O

2021-01-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On 25/01/2021 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 25 January 2021 15:55:31 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 03:47:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 1) You have a shell function or alias that overrides the wget command. Diagnose this by running "type wget". >>> Interesti

Re: "Run fsck manually"..?

2021-02-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On 03/02/2021 04:01, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 03 Feb 2021 at 01:41:54 (+), Andy Smith wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:13:16PM -0500, hobie of RMN wrote: >>> My brother's Debian system suddenly says on attempt to boot, "/dev/sda1: >>> UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:Runfsck manually", and, "i

Re: timedatectl DHCP NTP Server

2021-02-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On 05/02/2021 08:22, deloptes wrote: > basti wrote: > >> Hello, >> I use a up to date debian. As I can see now timedatectl seems *not* >> using the NTP Server provide by DHCP. I have configure a NTP server in >> LAN. >> >> timedatectl timesync-status >>Server: 167.86.86.192 (0.debian.poo

Re: Developers repositories and Python

2021-02-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On 08/02/2021 02:44, John Berden wrote: > Hello. > Can you recommend any trusted repositories for installing the latest > developer packages, including Python? It depends on how "latest" you need. If you need the genuine Python development packages, then the Python Development Guide is at https:

Re: Allow only selected USB

2021-02-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On 09/02/2021 18:38, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi all, > > I know it is very useful that linux auto-detects a USB device when > plugged in. However I am trying to build a server which employs deny > first rule. That is, I don't want linux kernel to detect any USB > device even if plugged in except those

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/02/2021 03:50, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most > contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline > styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. Not a definitive list, but running "fc-l

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/02/2021 14:19, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Just out of curiosity what is MTA short for? Mail Transfer Agent. Email has a whole bunch of similar acronyms to describe the various parts of the flow of email. You compose in an MUA (Mail User Agent), which hands it so an MSA (Mail Submission Agent - u

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 19/02/2021 15:44, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using > > (i) live usb flash disk Usually, this is implemented with a compressed, read-only file system which is read into RAM. "Live" Operating Systems developed from the era of CD

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 19/02/2021 20:37, David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-02-19 07:44, Semih Ozlem wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using >> >> (i) live usb flash disk >> (ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk >> (iii) full installation on a flash disk >

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/02/2021 18:21, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I have v. 1.6 via apt-get on an uptodate buster amd64 system. > > Every attempt to run a search yields "No results," even if I specify > 'Boston Red Sox'. > > Recommendations? Calm soothing thoughts? This sounds like https://github.com/jarun/ddgr/issues

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/02/2021 22:56, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came >> thru >> in a pinch. > > Why give up on the search engine merely because a rogue util has gone > goofy? > > I went looking for duck

Re: Finding Debian FAQ pages

2021-02-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On 25/02/2021 09:55, Richard Owlett wrote: > My underlying problem is I lack of skill with search tools. > > To find any occurrence of "FAQ" in debian.org I can do >> https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=faq%20site%3Adebian.org > > But I want only those pages with "FAQ" in the page title. How? This

Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian?

2021-02-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On 26/02/2021 21:27, Dan Ritter wrote: > D&P Dimov wrote: >> >> On Friday, February 26, 2021, 3:16:03 PM EST, Dan Ritter >> wrote: >> D&P Dimov wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Mozilla VPN is supposed to work on Ubuntu, but I wonder if it will work on >>> Debian as well, considering that Ubintu i

Re: Installation problem

2021-03-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On 28/02/2021 22:12, Alan Glasser wrote: > I am trying to install Buster on an old 386. > I burned the three full DVDs. > I boot the first DVD and it gets to the point of asking about > additional cds/dvds. > I push the eject button on my dvd drive and nothing happens.  I try to > do a forced ejec

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On 04/03/2021 23:38, John Boxall wrote: > I have been trying for some time to setup a system that will share an > attached scanner over the network. I had hoped to use Buster as it is > still the stable instance of Debian. I have followed everything in [1] > but I could never get it to work. I the

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On 05/03/2021 09:25, Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > >> to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: 1x 4TB, single drive, 3.7 TB, w=108MB/s , rw=50MB/s , r=204MB/s 2x 4TB, mirror (raid1),3.7 TB, w=106MB/s , rw=50MB/s , r=488MB/s >>> Thanks. Real data :)

Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster

2019-07-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On 08/07/2019 21:13, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:09:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 14:55:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: It came from the Biovia web site. >>> Like I know w

Re: Question regarding an ACPI BIOS Error (bug)

2020-03-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On 28/03/2020 09:35, rba...@protonmail.ch wrote: > Hi all, I've been redirected to this list while using reportbug. I > would gladly accept some help regarding the determination of the > Debian package responsible for those traces during boot: That would be the kernel itself. The number in square

Re: Saner way to install ohmyzsh

2020-04-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/04/2020 19:12, Ihor Antonov wrote: > Hi Debian Community, > > I was looking for a better way to install oh-my-zsh. > > The website advocates for >sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/ > install.sh)" > > I did not find existing Debian packages, so maybe

Re: /etc/default/keyboard not loaded at startup

2020-04-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On 25/04/2020 17:39, gwinship wrote: > I added following configuration to my /etc/default/keyboard > |XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="gb,de" XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="grp:win_space_toggle" BACKSPACE="guess" |however. This does not > load at boot. > My configuration > Debian 10.3 > i3, xdm > ThinkPa

Re: binfmt-support cannot start at boot time because /var is not mounted

2020-05-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On 11/05/2020 08:40, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:33:59AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > >> root@debian:~ # systemctl status binfmt-support >> * binfmt-support.service - Enable support for additional executable binary >> formats >>Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system

Re: Suspicious output during apt update

2020-05-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On 13/05/2020 07:05, Ihor Antonov wrote: > Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below) > Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue. > > Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get haircut" ? > > > $ sudo apt update

Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

2020-05-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On 30/05/2020 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > I the recent thread about returning a Debian installation to its > original state "popularity-contest" was mentioned. > > I wished to compare it to other tools mentioned in that thread. > Obvious stating point -- read the man page. > As I never installe

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On 07/06/2020 20:21, Nicolas George wrote: > Seeds Notoneofmy (12020-06-07): >> Having said all that, the instructions to get BBB going seems solid. >> Perhaps someone here with a bit of knowhow will do this and then put a >> guide here? That would be very, very nice: >> >> Here's my contribution:

Re: Need commands

2020-06-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On 13/06/2020 05:42, ROHIT SONI wrote: > Hello sir To whom are you addressing this message? Which particular "sir"? Would one of the https://www.debian.org/women/ not be suitable? > I need full commands for 2020.2 gnu/linux rolling kali tty1 The full list of commands depends on what's installed,

Re: bash-completion pros/cons

2020-06-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On 18/06/2020 20:15, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 17 Jun 2020 at 10:04:19 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:48 PM David Wright >> wrote: >>> Where bash-completion does get in the way for me is, for example, >>> where you download a file that's, say, a PDF but it arriv

Re: bash-completion pros/cons

2020-06-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On 18/06/2020 21:14, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 18 Jun 2020 at 20:38:15 (+0100), Darac Marjal wrote: >> On 18/06/2020 20:15, David Wright wrote: >>> On Wed 17 Jun 2020 at 10:04:19 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:48 PM David Wright

Re: Package management

2020-07-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On 02/07/2020 20:37, Baabu JOY wrote: > Hello debain organization >                         I'm babu. > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name  > > Apt-get install multimedia > Multimedia need have all multimedia related packages ex : gstremer > ,alsa,ffmpeg,vlc etc.. > > > > Please

Re: how to install cherrytree?

2020-07-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On 13/07/2020 21:42, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > Having trouble installing cherrytree app. > > /kaye@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update/ > [sudo] password for kaye: > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates > InRelease       > Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRele

Re: systemd and non-existent service instances

2020-07-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 19/07/2020 10:10, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running into a problem with systemd and my openvpn instances. > > To start a vpn, I run 'systemctl start openvpn-client@foo_host2' or > similar. That has to be an underscore, because as far as I can see, > using a hyphen/dash will break

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

2020-07-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/07/2020 20:04, Stefan Monnier wrote: > When I wake up from suspend, my Debian machines take a "long" time to > reconnect to the wifi. Looking at the `nm-applet` icon in my XFCE4 > panel, I see: > - for about 10s the icon is "two computers" (which IIUC represents > just NetworkManager). > -

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

2020-08-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On 21/08/2020 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? Signal (signal.org) Signal is an instant messaging application. It uses a

Re: Kernel Live Patching

2018-06-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:53:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 28 June 2018 09:23:43 Aleksey Kravchenko wrote: Hi. Is there a free alternative to ksplce / livepatch / kernelcare for debian systems? We're interested in the complete solution when we install the agent on the server and

Re: After some effort, can't change grub screen resolution

2018-06-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:49:53AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: I want to change grub screen resolution. Four facts: (1) "vbeinfo" and "videoinfo" return no result in grub.  The screen blanks and eventually I restart the computer. This /probably/ means that grub doesn't know how to contro

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find tutorial which was a close enough match to my system. I found (and attempted to follow) instructions

Re: Webmail?

2018-07-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 08:02:33PM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 02.07.2018 14:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 05:29:02PM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: there is no php5 in debian stretch. She probably upgraded from jessie, in which case the php5 that she had in jessie remained in

Re: next LTS version?

2018-07-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:53:49AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) wrote: In Article <201807031752.13571.ghesk...@shentel.net>, Gene Heskett writes: Greetings all; Since wheezy is pretty much EOL even for security stuffs, whats the next version that will be LTS? As a linuxcnc fan, I'd like

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