[DNG] upgrade issues

2022-02-13 Thread Curtis Maurand
Hello, I've been running Devuan since ASCII.  I love the distribution so far and I really like that systemd is not involved.  Install docker and parts of systemd infrastructure will show up, though, like cgroups. I upgraded this machine to Beowulf and I have spent a couple of weeks trying

Re: [DNG] upgrade issues

2022-02-13 Thread Curtis Maurand
Sorry about not proofreading before hitting send. On 2/13/22 15:04, Curtis Maurand wrote: Hello, I've been running Devuan since ASCII.  I love the distribution so far and I really like that systemd is not involved.  Install docker and parts of systemd infrastructure will show up, though

Re: [DNG] upgrade issues

2022-02-13 Thread Curtis Maurand
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2022, at 5:16 PM, terryc wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:04:12 -0500 > Curtis Maurand wrote: > >> >> daemons that were stopped and disabled got re-enabled and started, >> cups, cups-browsed, avahi-daemon, saned. >>

Re: [DNG] Another reason for why I use Devuan

2022-02-22 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 2/21/22 14:02, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng wrote: Anno domini 2022 Mon, 21 Feb 18:08:20 + Arnt Karlsen scripsit: On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 02:44:12 -0300, Gastón wrote in message <20220218054412.ga5...@devuan.devuan.com.ar>: On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:52:43PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:

Re: [DNG] grub 2.04 and kernel 2.6

2022-02-14 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 2/13/22 16:05, Peter Duffy wrote: I've got an old box running CentOS 6.2 and Windows 7. Without going into details, this box is vital and I use it every day. Finally I decided that I had to bite the bullet and upgrade the linux system, and I decided to go for chimaera. Built a new box from

Re: [DNG] *** SPAM *** Re: Lennart now working for Microsoft

2022-07-15 Thread Curtis Maurand
We were using it as a Server OS and on the clients - and later on, wanted to start using the thin client-versions, too. But then, we understood, that there wouldn't be much further development and eComstation, as nice as it is, has not really made any progress compared to OS/2 :-( ;.( The

Re: [DNG] Lennart now working for Microsoft

2022-07-15 Thread Curtis Maurand
immediately.  The latter is going to take some tweaking. On 7/15/22 12:07, Curtis Maurand wrote: We were using it as a Server OS and on the clients - and later on, wanted to start using the thin client-versions, too. But then, we understood, that there wouldn't be much further development

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Antony Stone > wrote: > > On Saturday 30 July 2022 at 16:47:59, Steve Litt wrote: > >> Inconvenient to newbies? LOL, compare it to *too or Slackware :-) > > Have I missed something - are there spinoffs from Gentoo which also end in >

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
I agree with Anthony’s assessment. I’ve been ising the mate desktop on devuan since ascii. my only complaint is lack of user management tools in the control panel. It’s a pretty minor beef since I’m ver comfortable on the command line. —Curtis Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2022, at 7:14

[DNG] Stupid boot question

2022-09-01 Thread Curtis Maurand
Hello, This question has probably been answered many times before. I'm looking for the boot logs on my system.  During the boot process I see all sorts of messages go by, but I'm seeing a list of "whitelisted" ip addresses and many other go by but I can't find them anywhere.  grep -ri

Re: [DNG] Configuring ethernet port for IPv6

2022-09-05 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 1/30/22 14:01, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:14 AM Simon wrote: Joel Roth via Dng wrote: My problem is connecting via dhcp over ethernet. On IRC I was advised to try ping ff02::1%eth1 which fails to get a response, indicating IPv6 is not enabled in my client.

Re: [DNG] meta: list

2022-08-31 Thread Curtis Maurand
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 31, 2022, at 10:39 AM, marc wrote: > > Hi > > Just a quick note that in the last week or so google seems > have ratcheted up its rejection of mail from independent MTAs > a notch or two. > > IF you check your logs, you might see 550 rejects with a message >

Re: [DNG] terminology

2020-08-24 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 24, 2020, at 9:16 AM, Luciano Mannucci > wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:52:55 -0400 > fsmithred via Dng wrote: > >> I was told that everything in linux is a file, even your hardware. > No,no, this is plan9... > it’s been fun reading this thread. in

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I just mounted up an NTFS mount on my Ascii desktop.  It loaded up fairly quickly.  Any other operation such as opening a folder with a lot of entries took a very long time.  This is on a Seagate Baracuda 1TB plugged into a generic drive dock and connected by USB 3.0. I would say that the

[DNG] net-install troubles

2020-07-01 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Hello, I'm new to the mailing list, but not new to devuan. I've been running devuan ascii in production for a couple of years. I really like the product. My system is so much more stable without systemd and all the bull associated with Ubuntu. I've been trying to use the net-install from a USB

Re: [DNG] net-install troubles [SOLVED]

2020-07-02 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
wow. can't type. the installer ddn't work when the iso was loaded via grub and not the root filesystem on the device. July 1 2020 10:02 PM, "Curtis Maurand via Dng" wrote: Turns out tha the trouble was because i was trying to run the install from a muli-boot usb stick. found anoth

Re: [DNG] net-install troubles [SOLVED]

2020-07-01 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
on-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-linux-nonfree_20190114-2_all.deb > >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 6:31 AM Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:20:19PM +, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I'm new to the mailing list, but not

Re: [DNG] "Free" email accounts: was Devuan 3.0 Orca Problem

2020-07-24 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Best Regards Curtis Maurand mailto:cur...@maurand.com

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-24 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
because system bios is running a version of embedded linux and it dynamically populates things at boot up. the only immutable bit is the interface’s mac. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 24, 2020, at 8:24 AM, tito via Dng wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:40:58 +0100 > Didier Kryn wrote: >

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-10-30 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
my vote is for pdns-recursor. i’ve been using it for all sorts of different types of networks since version 1.n days. it can handle thousands of queries per second. it’s the first thing i install on any new system. coupled with dns-dist, it can handle recursive dns-over-https queries as well.

Re: [DNG] ..maybe webmin?, was: Cockpit removal might make sense

2021-06-07 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I’ve been running ispconfig on my beowulf servers for quite some time, now. security model is more like plesk. nobody should be running cpanel. cpanel is dangerous. I had several websites hacked. the attack vector was cpanel. all websites rin under the coanel user. it doesn’t work that

Re: [DNG] ..maybe webmin?, was: Cockpit removal might make sense

2021-06-10 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
If you’re looking at something like zentyal, you could look at HPE’s clearos as well. there is a free version. It does all the things that zentyal does. it’s only drawback is that it’s based on centos and it’s laced with systemd. —Curtis Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 10, 2021, at 3:31

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I was having the same trouble recently and it turned out to be attempting to run a beowulf guest on an ascii host. I am running kvm. Kernel version issues in the the version 4 kernel not seeming to like to run under a version 3 kernel I think. I spun up an experimental host running beowulf

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Distribution upgrade issue

2021-02-22 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I will definitely run the mysql upgrade first. I’m assuming i should do the mysql upgrade after I update the package lists with the beowulf lists. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 22, 2021, at 5:00 PM, Hector Gonzalez Jaime via Dng > wrote: > >  >> On 2/22/21 3:30 PM, Antony Stone wrote: >>>

[DNG] Distribution upgrade issue

2021-02-21 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Hello all, Thank you for the great work that you do.  I found an issue with a distribution upgrade from ascii to beowulf.  This server has a lot going on, but it is a web and mail server with a webmail system on it.  It runs Postfix, Amavisd-new, Spamassassin and a lot of other things.  the

Re: [DNG] Distribution upgrade issue

2021-02-21 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
On 2/21/21 6:17 PM, Antony Stone wrote: On Sunday 21 February 2021 at 23:33:39, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: I found an issue with a distribution upgrade from ascii to beowulf. Please give at least an outline of how you performed that upgrade? This machine is running as kvm guest

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Distribution upgrade issue

2021-02-22 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Vidarebefordrat meddelande Ämne: Re: [DNG] Distribution upgrade issue Datum: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 04:19:29 -0500 Från: Curtis Maurand Till: Pontus Goffe did i mention that i startrd with ascii. apt-get update apt-get upgrade restart take snapshot edit /etc/sources.list apt

Re: [DNG] a how to question (project(s) related)

2021-08-16 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 16, 2021, at 4:55 PM, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > >  > Funny guy - - - - > >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM tito via Dng wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:43:46 -0500 >> o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: >> >> > Greetings >> > >> > I'm finding myself occasionally

Re: [DNG] Need openssl for this week's fetchmail vulnerabiltiy fix

2021-08-07 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
On 8/7/21 7:05 AM, Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote: # apt-get source openssl Reading package lists... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list Have you run apt-get update after having modified sources.list? # cat /etc/apt/sources.list ## package repositories deb

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a hypervisor?

2021-08-01 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I’ve been running a production system first on ascii, but upgraded to beowulf. the only trouble I’ve had has been hardware and that was just a failed power supply. i run the whole thing on kvm/libvirt. runs great. uptimes in the 100’s of days. Your mileage may vary. —Curtis Sent from my

Re: [DNG] etckeeper: was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-18 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
On 10/18/21 4:36 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Olaf Meeuwissen said on Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:52:05 +0900 I keep track of /etc with etckeeper which puts that directory under git version control. That means I can always track back changes to package updates or me mucking around there and see exactly

Re: [DNG] new firefox-esr buggy?

2021-12-17 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2021, at 4:48 AM, hal wrote: > >  > > On 12/16/21 09:00, Haines Brown wrote: > >> The behavior is hard to describe. When I scoll text up or down by >> using the arrow keys, the lines of text begin to break up and >> become unreadable until they settle about

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-04 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
> On Jan 4, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: > > The simplest way to kick off problms with /usr merge is to *not* make > /usr a mountpoint. There is no utility in splitting the OS in several > partitions. This wouldn't help you recover the OS if one partition is broken > since

Re: [DNG] busybox init

2022-01-04 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
> On Jan 3, 2022, at 6:08 PM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Didier Kryn: >>> Le 03/01/2022 à 21:27, tito via Dng a écrit : >>> On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 18:45:28 +0100 (CET) >>> k...@aspodata.se wrote: > ... The sysinit thing is a how you start the system, it's just one script

Re: [DNG] Wanting to set up an email system

2021-12-02 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I run ispconfig. uses postfix/dovecot/bind or powerdns. i host several websites and email domains on beowulf. follow the perfect server debian instructions. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 2, 2021, at 6:06 PM, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > >  > > >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 3:26 AM Adrian

Re: [DNG] Website "motto"?

2022-01-18 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 18, 2022, at 9:49 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > On 2022-01-18 16:33, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: >> Maybe something like "init freedom - - - your first step . . . " > > Like this? https://transfer.sh/cTgmNi/if-rev2.png > > Will need to be discussed at our

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-24 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
How about PHPList?  It works like constant contact or mailchimp. mailchimp has a "free" level of service.  So far mailchimp has been enough for the small concert choir I do work for. --Curtis On 1/23/22 2:14 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 07:29:27PM +0100, Florian Zieboll

[DNG] PHP question

2022-06-23 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
Hello, I've been running Devuan on my break even public facing webhosting system for several years.  I've been using ISPConfig and the debian perfect server instructions with adjustments for Devuan.  I'm up to Devuan Beowulf at the moment and trying to go to chimaera so that I can get PHP

Re: [DNG] PHP question

2022-06-27 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
networks.com/apt/devuan chimaera main|| Miki Missatge de Curtis Maurand via Dng del dia dj., 23 de juny 2022 a les 17:49: Hello, I've been running Devuan on my break even public facing webhosting system for several years.  I've been using ISPConfig and the debian perfect ser

Re: [DNG] PHP question

2022-06-24 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
with ISPConfig3 also. Rod On 6/23/22 10:49, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: Hello, I've been running Devuan on my break even public facing webhosting system for several years.  I've been using ISPConfig and the debian perfect server instructions with adjustments for Devuan.  I'm up to Devuan