Re: [DNG] meta: list

2022-09-06 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Simon, On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 21:22 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > declassed art via Dng wrote: > > > I do have an unconfigured PTR for a couple of reasons, one  > > of those is lack of static IP for now. > > I figured out quite quickly that checking reverse DNS is a waste of > time - too many

Re: [DNG] mutt attachment problem

2022-08-22 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Haines, On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 14:56 -0600, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote: > Antony Stone wrote: > > Haines Brown wrote: > > > The size of the zip file is 164 Mb > > > > 164MB!  OMG!  Repeat after me.  "SMTP is not a file transport > protocol."  The likelihood of being able to send a 164MB email >

Re: [DNG] no mails from dng :-( [maybe OT]

2022-07-28 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
end, which no doubt would have been correctly rejected by the DNG server. -- Marjorie > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2022, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: > > > Hi Sterfan, > > > > Spoke too soon. I'm getting it on my reply too: > > > > Authentication-Results: ma

Re: [DNG] no mails from dng :-( [maybe OT]

2022-07-28 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Sterfan, On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 10:12 +0100, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 09:35 +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: > > Good Day everybody, > > > > I haven't been receiving any messages from this list since  > > 18.7.2022

Re: [DNG] no mails from dng :-( [maybe OT]

2022-07-28 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Stefan, On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 09:35 +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Good Day everybody, > > I haven't been receiving any messages from this list since  > 18.7.2022 02:17 (simple-netaid for daedalus) and I have no idea > why. > > My mail domain is hosted/served by jpberlin.de, a company in

Re: [DNG] moving to a new system

2022-06-25 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi, On Fri, 2022-06-24 at 09:05 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Greetings > > Hoping that I'm not asking too many questions. > > (moving from debian testing to devuan testing (daedalus) > the old system is under 5.17.xx and the new one is on 5.18 > if that makes for differences) > > (I've

Re: [DNG] install on a raid 1 array

2022-06-23 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi, On Wed, 2022-06-22 at 16:26 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 3:03 PM Simon wrote: > > > > o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > > > > I have not ever installed like this so first the configuration. > > > > > > Ryzen 7 3800X > > > Asus TUF Gaming X570-Pro   mobo > > > 64

Re: [DNG] install on a raid 1 array

2022-06-01 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi, On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 17:16 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 4:57 PM tito via Dng > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 16:34:21 -0500 > > o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > > > > Greetings > > > > > > When the parts get here I'm going to be installing Devuan testing >

Re: [DNG] New build + extras

2022-05-31 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi, On Mon, 2022-05-30 at 17:03 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Greetings > > I am investing in a new system. > (Ryzen 7 5800X + Ryzen 570 gpu) > > The old system has a raid 10 array that I would like to put into the > new system. > > The new system is going to add 2 M2 drives that I want

Re: [DNG] Priter trouble again.

2022-01-03 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Hendrick, On Sat, 2022-01-01 at 15:07 -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I installed CUPS a part of the standard istall long ago. > I had no trouble configuring it back the to talk sweet to me printer. > Worked fine. Bu tnow it doesn't. > > The printer seems to hae changed its IP number. > Now I

Re: [DNG] nvidia-persistenced can't be installed

2021-12-31 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi, On Thu, 2021-12-30 at 15:26 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > When I try to do an upgrade, I'm told nvidia-persistenced is not > configured. When I reinstall it I get: > > ... > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > Setting up nvidia-persistenced (460.32.03-1) ... >

Re: [DNG] lpr print pdf file landscape orientation

2021-12-02 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Haines, On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 15:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I have bsd-lpr. I can print a text file with landscape orientation > with $ lpr -o landscape file.txt > > My problem is that I cannot print pdf files in landscape > orientation. $ lpr -o landscape file.pdf does nothing. > >

Re: [DNG] Advice sought re: ejabberd

2021-07-18 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 19:08 +0100, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: > On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 12:42 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 10:01 AM Antony Stone > > wrote: > > > On Sunday 18 July 2021 at 16:54:25, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > >

Re: [DNG] Advice sought re: ejabberd

2021-07-18 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 12:42 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 10:01 AM Antony Stone > wrote: > > On Sunday 18 July 2021 at 16:54:25, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > > > > # service ejabberd start > > > [] Starting ejabberd...:root@memyself:/home/opensrf-3.2.1# > > >

Re: [DNG] Advice sought re: ejabberd

2021-07-18 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi o1bigtenor, On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 06:17 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > [snip] > The Evergreen 'system' uses ejabberd as a communication tool and it > would seem to me (new at digging under the hood as it were) that > ejabberd is quite intertwined into this system. > > Ejabberd was

Re: [DNG] Refracta have a static IP

2021-07-14 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 18:41 +, g4sra via Dng wrote: > If 'NetworkManager' rears its head.purge with prejudice would be > my advice. > On the other hand it /is/ quite straightforward to set static IPs if you /do/ use Network Manager. All I have in /etc/network/interfaces.d/interfaces is:

Re: [DNG] ntp setup

2021-06-20 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Sat, 2021-06-19 at 09:31 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Noticed that my new Beowulf install time was not accurate. > > Went looking for a tips page and all I could find was information > relating to using systemd and or its tools to do such. I know there > is a way to do this without

Re: [DNG] Trouble booting Beowulf on an Intel NUC8i5BEK

2021-03-25 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Erik, On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 17:30 +1030, dva...@internode.on.net wrote: > > Have just taken delivery of an Intel NUC8i5BEK, installed RAM & SSD. > A USB stick with: > $ dd if=~/Downloads/devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_i386_desktop-live.iso > of=/dev/sdb bs=512k looks good mounted on another host, but

Re: [DNG] monit logwatch fail2ban

2021-01-22 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Erich, On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 14:24 +0100, Erich Minderlein via Dng wrote: > Hi > > I have migrated a small home server from debian buster to devuan > beowulf. > It was a new install, but I compared/copied /etc and copied the > server /var/www > It was rather flawless. > However before the

Re: [DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 08:12 -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > When I >killall firefox-esr > it often (but not always) immediately respawns, reopening all the > tabs. > > Sometimes I have to killall it three times for it to stay dead. > > Is there anything I can do to fix this? So it dies and

Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?

2020-11-29 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Steve, On Sun, 2020-11-29 at 07:26 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with > Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten it to work without Pulseaudio? > Yes, I have a NVIDIA GT710B (GK208) and it's working with the Nvidia driver

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

2020-11-15 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 16:03 -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with > configuring an MTA. > > I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I > would > like to receive an e-mail when the job is completed. I have added a

Re: [DNG] Crontab depends on Anachron which is not installed by default?

2020-10-10 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 16:35 +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote: > If anacron is installed, it will check for any outstanding jobs at > boot and run them. > [snip] > Laptops are subject to power management settings which may also stop > anacron from running. > If you use sleep or hibernate these can

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-24 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 17:32 +0100, Mark Rousell wrote: > On 24/09/2020 13:43, Jim Jackson wrote: > > > > > Mostly. Somemail servers do a reverse IP lookup and see if it > > matches your envelope From domain. > > > > Yes, this is an annoyance. There are two ways

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-23 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Arnt, On Sat, 2020-09-19 at 23:55 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..devuan to the rescue? Norwegian ISP "Get" is ditching their email > service and pointing their clients to a paid service, which again is > pointing them to Gmail's ad laden services, drawing due scorn. [1] > > > ..since we can

Re: [DNG] Zoom? Rather not...

2020-08-09 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 01:00 +0200, marc...@welz.org.za wrote: > The concern about using any gratis commercial videoconferencing > service is that quite a bit of biometric information can be > collected from you - in particular your voice and your face. > Your personal files are just a bonus. >

Re: [DNG] Zoom?

2020-08-09 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 15:39 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I've installed the .deb file on my bewowulf 3 deskotop. It seems > like it would work. I'll give it try next time ther is a zoom > meeting. > If you go into settings you should be able to see if zoom is connecting to your webcam (see

Re: [DNG] Zoom?

2020-08-09 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 15:39 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > I've installed the .deb file on my bewowulf 3 deskotop. It seems > like it would work. I'll give it try next time ther is a zoom > meeting. > > Incidenttally is there a public site that one can use to test zoom? > > I gave up trying to

Re: [DNG] my experience upgrading to NFT

2020-08-03 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 13:26 +0200, Tito via Dng wrote: > did you try update-alternatives to set iptables to iptables-legacy > behaviour. Arno-iptables-firewall and xtables-addons-dkms from > testing work for me that way. > The first machine I updated to Beowulf from Ascii was a clean install (but

Re: [DNG] my experience upgrading to NFT

2020-08-03 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 18:44 -0700, Thomas Groman via Dng wrote: > I upgraded one of my larger and more complex servers from ASCII to > Beowulf. Switching to NFT was very easy after the upgrade. Just > create the rules, (have flush have the beginning), remove the > iptables if-pre-up hook if you

Re: [DNG] kernel instability 4.9.0-12 with latest update

2020-03-22 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi, On 2 March I upgraded my ASCI kernel image from 4.9.0-6-amd64 from 4.9.0-12-amd64. I've not noticed any problems but I've not been running anything CPU intensive. My processor is a AMD Phenon II X4 910e. What I did note is that when I did the upgrade it also brought in modules