Re: [DNG] meta: list

2022-09-02 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 01-09-2022 23:46, marc wrote: Hello I use gmail, and seem to be getting email from this list. I wonder if it is because I have it skip the inbox, and go straight into a different label. I think you are on to something: It could well be that there has been a shift to using how the

Re: [DNG] Installing build-essential on Chimaera PPC

2022-08-22 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 22-08-2022 20:37, Luciano Mannucci wrote: I installed a Chimaera guest on my KVM/quemu PPC (well, not exactly; I had to install a Debian bullseye and then migrate using rrq script). Now I'm trying to install some usefull software via apt-get and it says I have broken packages. This is what I

Re: [DNG] Another problem you won't have without Systemd (or separate oomd)

2022-08-22 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 22-08-2022 17:31, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 20/08/2022 à 10:20, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : oomd may make sense in certain cloud based workloads, maybe, just maybe. However… on a desktop? You are frigging kidding me, aren't you?     Well, it can happen to anybody to write an application which

Re: [DNG] PHP question

2022-06-23 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 23-06-2022 17:49, 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 Beowulf at the moment and

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-15 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-06-2022 22:43, Jim Jackson wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, Andreas Messer wrote: Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 27.5 GiB. You shouldn't do that. Although its possible to "partition" SD-Cards, this is not recommended. This is since SD-Cards have some kind of

Re: [DNG] Shutdown/halt versus WiFi and NFS

2022-05-29 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 28-05-2022 17:10, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: On 28/5/22 18:44, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 28-05-2022 10:23, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: On 24/9/20 03:55, Michael S. Keller via Dng wrote: My desktop is running Chimaera, and I saw this with Beowulf, but didn't spend much time on it then. My

Re: [DNG] Shutdown/halt versus WiFi and NFS

2022-05-28 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 28-05-2022 10:23, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: On 24/9/20 03:55, Michael S. Keller via Dng wrote: My desktop is running Chimaera, and I saw this with Beowulf, but didn't spend much time on it then. My network connection is via WiFi, and I have permanent NFS mounts in place. I run SysV

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-25 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 25-04-2022 16:20, Fred wrote: On 4/25/22 02:39, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Fred: ... The compile fails because SDL.h can't be found. Package sd12 was not found in the pkg-config search path.  It also mentions adding directory containing sd12.pc to the PKG-CONFIG_PATH environment variable. To

Re: [DNG] How to port Devuan to a different ARM board?

2022-04-08 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 08-04-2022 05:04, Jeremy Ardley via Dng wrote: Hi, I'm interested in running devuan on an orange Pi R1 (H3 ARM processor). It's not listed as an available image, so I'd be quite happy to build one if someone can give me the procedures required. Regards, -- Jeremy My route would be:

Re: [DNG] Wifi problem - dhclient times out with no reply

2022-03-18 Thread d...@d404.nl
Before I have had more success using the non-free Broadcom Sta package https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/broadcom-sta-dkms You most likely have to blacklist the b43 driver for that to work. Grtz. Nick On 17-03-2022 20:32, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: Thanks to Aitor (twice), Steve, Gregory,

Re: [DNG] Fake RAID

2022-03-09 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 09-03-2022 16:55, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 02:42:07PM +0100, aitor wrote: Did you read the following guide? https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid Interesting note. What is a "fake RAID"? Is it a RAID or not? -- hendrik A real RAID controller has hardware

Re: [DNG] [OT] files disappearing reproducibly

2022-02-19 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 19-02-2022 16:25, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: Hallo list, may I ask for help narrowing down a strange phenomenon? Any files in my personal '~/tmp/' directory just disappear after a couple of minutes. I was able to catch the event with 'auditd' - I seems to be executed in a bash within a

Re: [DNG] Installing on a Raspberry or a Banana?

2022-02-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 07-02-2022 22:17, Antony Stone wrote: On Monday 07 February 2022 at 22:14:32, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 07-02-2022 22:03, Antony Stone wrote: I want to install Devuan on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and also on a Banana Pi R1. Last time I needed an RPi image I used this link https://arm

Re: [DNG] Installing on a Raspberry or a Banana?

2022-02-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 07-02-2022 22:03, Antony Stone wrote: Hi. I'm wondering what has happened to the "embedded" subdirectory which was present under Jessie and Ascii, but no longer seems to exist for Beowulf or Chimaera (or later). I want to install Devuan on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and also on a Banana Pi R1.

Re: [DNG] Chimaera on Dell Wyse 3040 installs but won't boot

2022-01-27 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 27-01-2022 11:06, Mike Tubby wrote: Can anyone provide help with this one? I have a Dell Wyse 3040 tiny PC intended for use a thin client running "ThinOS" (Ubuntu 16.04 and custom desktop/thin client). Others have reported success sunning desktop Linux distros "out of the box":

Re: [DNG] Accepting changed priority for chimaera-backports- what action?

2022-01-23 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 23-01-2022 10:17, terryc wrote: So exactly what does this message mean and exactly what do I need to do. Previously I've just repeated the command and the nag message went away but this time it stays. user@system: sudo apt-get update Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera InRelease

Re: [DNG] Early Days at Bell Labs

2022-01-21 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 21-01-2022 21:26, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:46:39PM +1100, terryc wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:25:50 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 06:40:13PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2022 at 17:24:46, Peter Duffy wrote: On Sun,

Re: [DNG] Youtube is slow and advertisement laden: Was: Early Days at Bell Labs - Youtube, the systemd of video

2022-01-17 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 17-01-2022 09:41, Mike Tubby wrote: I have Adblock Plus installed and never see adverts on Youtube at home... only on the mobile. On 17/01/2022 02:54, Ken Dibble wrote: On 1/16/22 4:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: ael via Dng said on Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:56:51 + On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at

Re: [DNG] Early Days at Bell Labs - Youtube, the systemd of video

2022-01-16 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 16-01-2022 15:32, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: On 16 Jan 2022, at 23:38, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng wrote: Install umatrix + ublock-origin and that pestilence is gone. Be aware that you'll have to fiddle with umatrix to get videos playing. uMatrix is EOL and the GitHub repository

Re: [DNG] HDA AD1882 no card

2022-01-09 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 09-01-2022 19:32, k...@aspodata.se wrote: I have a lenovo desktop computer which I cannot make sound work on, what am I missing ? It's a HDA AD1882 "sound card", but alsamixer says "no card". alsa-info, kernel config and lenovo doc (see p.80) in: http://aspodata.se/tmp/sound/ /// I run

Re: [DNG] Ryzen?

2021-12-28 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 27-12-2021 18:54, Antony Stone wrote: Hi. Disclaimer: I generally don't like people saying things like "I read somewhere that..." without backing up what they're talking about, but... I'm sure I've read somewhere (and not especially recently) that Linux on AMD Ryzen CPUs can be unreliable

Re: [DNG] openjdk-17 ?

2021-12-24 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 24-12-2021 21:22, Antony Stone wrote: On Friday 24 December 2021 at 21:00:10, hal wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to play Minecraft v1.18.1 but it needs java v17. It looks like v11 is the only available version for Beowulf. I'd rather not download the Debian .deb from oracle. Anyone know of a

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2021-12-16 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 16-12-2021 01:58, aitor wrote: Hi Steve, On 16/12/21 1:09, Steve Litt wrote: I'm not so sure. We're hearing anecdotes of people running Firefox with only ALSA. Perhaps there's some secret magic incantation that we don't yet know about. FF needs to be compiled passing the flag:

Re: [DNG] Migrating from Docker to Podman

2021-12-09 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 10-12-2021 02:57, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: Has anyone noticed issues when trying to switch from Docker to Podman in Devuan chimaera? I'm getting an error when trying to run the latest `hadolint` image in Podman which doesn't occur under Docker. $ docker run -it

Re: [DNG] libfluidsynth-dev requires libsystemd0, fails to install

2021-12-06 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 06-12-2021 22:34, Nicola Orrù via Dng wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks for the tip. I remember using debootstrap a long time ago and it wasn't exactly fun, or trivial. I am looking at Howtos and It does sound like an awful lot of work just to build a LV2 audio plugin from source. Just to clarify

Re: [DNG] installing zoom in Chimaera

2021-12-05 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 05-12-2021 00:10, aitor wrote: On 12/4/21 11:14 PM, aitor wrote: On 12/4/21 11:08 PM, Haines Brown wrote: put copy of libdconf1_0/38.0-2.deb in that directory and ran # apt install -f ./libdconf1 ... Reading package lists... Done E: Unsupported file ./libdconf1 given on

Re: [DNG] exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2021-11-30 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 01-12-2021 00:00, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I am getting e-mails like the one below all the time, now.  I had this problem once before and I think that all I had to do was clear the paniclog with '> paniclog', but that does not seem to be working, now.  I cleared it this morning, and when

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

2021-11-28 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 27-11-2021 16:17, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: Greetings Started way back when when I got to the web full-time using webmail. Haven't ever setup an email system and AIUI it is a system - - - there are a lot of parts that have to work together to have everything working well. A mentor, now

Re: [DNG] networking thinking

2021-11-28 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 28-11-2021 15:36, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: On 29 Nov 2021, at 01:07, tito via Dng wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 07:20:14 -0600 o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: Greetings In anticipation of a fiber optical connection (moving from a wireless) I have been planning out and purchasing some

Re: [DNG] system administration of non-systemd distros and releases

2021-11-26 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 26-11-2021 21:53, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng wrote: Anno domini 2021 Fri, 26 Nov 15:33:11 -0500 Ken Dibble scripsit: On 11/26/21 1:57 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 26-11-2021 17:27, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2021-11-26 05:08, Peter Duffy wrote: It's a bit like the charlatans and fake

Re: [DNG] system administration of non-systemd distros and releases

2021-11-26 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 26-11-2021 17:27, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2021-11-26 05:08, Peter Duffy wrote: It's a bit like the charlatans and fake doctors in past centuries. They'd invent an illness, and then claim to have a remedy for it: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marthambles LOL! Isn't that exactly

Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 26-10-2021 02:28, Hendrik Boom via Dng wrote: I think I may have a clue to the mysterious stoppages of my server. I ssh'd into it today and got the following.  It is time to give up on this machine and replace it? -- hendrik hendrik@april:~$ su - Password: april:~# ps | grep lighttpd

Re: [DNG] Reinstalling unbootable laptop...

2021-08-15 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 15-08-2021 12:05, al3xu5 wrote: Hi all About one or two years ago I had installed Devuan on my brother's laptop. It is a Lenovo B50-10 (model 80QR), with a 64bit Intel N3540 CPU, 4GB DDR1600 RAM and a mechanical 500GB HDD (see:

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

2021-08-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 07-08-2021 11:54, dva...@internode.on.net wrote: Have just downloaded fetchmail-6.50.beta4 for its CVE-2021-36386 fix. But for it to build, I need to build openssl first. (Having the ordinary openssl deb installed doesn't cut it.) My problem is: # apt-get source openssl Reading package

Re: [DNG] New service manager being developed

2021-07-31 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 30-07-2021 14:54, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: On 21.07.21 13:34, d...@d404.nl wrote: Great initiative. I am currently using Alpine combined with s6-overlay in most of my docker containers and it works very well. Just curious: what are you using a s6 inside docker containers

Re: [DNG] New service manager being developed

2021-07-21 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 20-07-2021 22:33, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi! Look at https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html Sounds quite interesting, if you ask me. Best, Great initiative. I am currently using Alpine combined with s6-overlay in most of my docker containers and it works very well. A

Re: [DNG] Advice sought re: ejabberd

2021-07-18 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 18-07-2021 13:17, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: Greetings I have, at least temporarily, abandoned installing 'Evergreen' - - library software. Far too many books around here never mind a huge collection of papers most often pdfs. The Evergreen 'system' uses ejabberd as a communication tool and

Re: [DNG] Devuan for WSL

2021-07-15 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 15-07-2021 23:02, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote: Linux O'Beardly via Dng [15.07.2021 19:57]: Has anyone attempted and/or had success at creating a WSL distribution from a Devuan docker image? I started a new gig and am stuck with a Windows laptop, but they will allow us to run WSL. Any info

Re: [DNG] problem with apt after restore after crashed disk...

2021-07-01 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 01-07-2021 11:41, Jim Jackson wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2021, terryc wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:46:02 +0100 (BST) Jim Jackson wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2021, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 23:12:28 +0100 (BST), Jim wrote in message : On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, tempforever wrote:

Re: [DNG] USB mount problem

2021-06-26 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 26-06-2021 11:45, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 6:10 PM Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:34:32 +0200 Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: On Tue 15/Jun/2021 20:41:09 +0200 Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote: I have found that each desktop uses its own

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

2021-06-13 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 08-06-2021 00:46, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 12:05:39AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..snip "tech" justification of subversive systemd politics. So in summary, there is no way of running cockpit in a non-systemd/Linux environment that I'd be willing to support. Most of the

Re: [DNG] Cockpit removal might make sense

2021-05-25 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 25-05-2021 17:22, g4sra via Dng wrote: > <--snip--> > >>> I sympathise, but am not sure this would (currently) be the best use of >>> resources. >>> There is an ever growing list of packaged applications that do not function >>> without SystemD. >>> If every one were identified, then removal

Re: [DNG] connection manager as failing dns resolver?

2021-04-29 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 29-04-2021 22:11, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:53:53PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: >> Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): >> >>> Looks as if the connection manager is taking over dns. >>> >>> Who knew? And whom does it talk to? Does it contain its own recursive >>>

Re: [DNG] strange mutt pauses

2021-04-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-04-2021 16:19, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have an unreliable connection between my server and the rest of the > world. > Yes, I'm going to have to deal with that; it's not what I'm asking about. > > I have a reliable wired connection from my laptop to my server. > And I run mutt on my server,

[DNG] Fwd: adding raspi to sources.list

2021-03-31 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 31-03-2021 00:46, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 09:44:24PM +0200, d...@d404.nl wrote: >> For my regular Pi's i just have the following in my apt sources >> >> deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main >> deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merg

Re: [DNG] adding raspi to sources.list

2021-03-30 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 30-03-2021 00:20, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:42:00AM +0300, Dimitris via Dng wrote: >> this package is ascii (not beowulf), so you probably need : >> >> deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii raspi >> >> d. > I guess that would explain why it's not indexed in

Re: [DNG] FSF and human rights

2021-03-27 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 26-03-2021 20:46, Steve Litt wrote: > Alessandro Vesely via Dng said on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:07:08 +0100 > >> Hi All, >> >> Debian is engaging in a disgusting attack against RMS: >> https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 >> >> Does Devuan have resolutions to sign open letters? >> I'd propose

Re: [DNG] apparmor? (was Re: What does this remind you of?)

2021-03-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 07-03-2021 19:39, al3xu5 wrote: > Sun, 7 Mar 2021 19:11:18 +0100 - "d...@d404.nl" : > >> On 07-03-2021 18:20, tito via Dng wrote: > [...] I personally would scrap: > [..] >>> apparmor > [...] >>> Tito >> Mostly agree with you an

Re: [DNG] What does this remind you of?

2021-03-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
at the warnings are).  Is there any reason to keep > it installed?  Or can I just uninstall it? > > Marc > > On 3/7/21 10:11 AM, d...@d404.nl wrote: >> On 07-03-2021 18:20, tito via Dng wrote: >>> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 18:03:30 +0100 >>> Antony Stone wrote: &g

Re: [DNG] What does this remind you of?

2021-03-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 07-03-2021 18:20, tito via Dng wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 18:03:30 +0100 > Antony Stone wrote: > >> On Sunday 07 March 2021 at 17:59:22, Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> See this web page: >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern >>> >>> I'd say at least half of the listed anti-patterns are

Re: [DNG] ZFS NFS

2021-02-11 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 11-02-2021 16:31, Jackman via Dng wrote: > I searched the mailing list archives, and I didn't find anything > obviously relating to ZFS, so I apologize if this is redundant. > > I successfully created a ZFS filesystem, which I'm really > excited about. I followed the steps in the Debian

Re: [DNG] Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

2021-02-05 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 05-02-2021 12:12, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > Am 4. Februar 2021 20:13:49 MEZ schrieb g4sra : >> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ >> On Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:59 PM, Florian Zieboll via Dng >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply Florian >> >>> Am 4. Februar 2021 18:15:06 MEZ schrieb

Re: [DNG] motherboard BIOS update

2021-01-08 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 08-01-2021 22:08, Fred wrote: > On 1/8/21 1:08 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: >> On 08-01-2021 20:52, Fred wrote: >>> On 1/8/21 8:09 AM, Antony Stone wrote: >>>> On Friday 08 January 2021 at 15:43:37, Fred wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there a Devuan pro

Re: [DNG] motherboard BIOS update

2021-01-08 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 08-01-2021 20:52, Fred wrote: > On 1/8/21 8:09 AM, Antony Stone wrote: >> On Friday 08 January 2021 at 15:43:37, Fred wrote: >> >>> Is there a Devuan program that can update the motherboard BIOS?  I >>> don't >>> do Windows. >> >> I can't imagine there being anything Devuan-specific for this

Re: [DNG] Disabling touchpad

2020-12-28 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 28-12-2020 12:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:39:04AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: >> Le 27/12/2020 à 21:55, Steve Litt a écrit : >>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 10:20:04 -0500 >>> Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> My touchpad is absurdly sensitive, and I keep brushing against it by

Re: [DNG] beowulf-security (armhf)

2020-12-21 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 21-12-2020 13:50, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:49:47 +0100 > "d...@d404.nl" wrote: > >> On 21-12-2020 11:41, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: >>> Hallo, >>> >>> since yesterday, on /one/ of my two 'armhf' SBCs runni

Re: [DNG] beowulf-security (armhf)

2020-12-21 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 21-12-2020 11:41, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > Hallo, > > since yesterday, on /one/ of my two 'armhf' SBCs running Beowulf, > updating the available packages from the 'beowulf-security' repo at > 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged/' fails with a hash sum mismatch: > > E: Failed to fetch >

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

2020-12-18 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 18-12-2020 14:41, tito via Dng wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:36:01 +0100 > Didier Kryn wrote: > >> Le 18/12/2020 à 00:17, tito via Dng a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> a few days ago I was able to complete may new router >>> with 12 nics and 1 wifi. I moved the devuan drive from >>> my previous defunct

Re: [DNG] Ethernet names revisited

2020-12-13 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 13-12-2020 14:20, Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 13 December 2020 at 13:02:45, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > >> Am 13. Dezember 2020 12:01:39 MEZ schrieb Antony Stone > : >>> Well, here's the output from "dmesg | grep eth". It shows the r8169 >>> interfaces being given names eth0, eth1

Re: [DNG] Ethernet names revisited

2020-12-12 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 12-12-2020 14:15, Antony Stone wrote: > Hi. > > I've just installed a couple of Beowulf systems, each of which has three > ethernet interfaces; one on the motherboard, and two on a PCI card. > > I'm trying to work out how to give those interfaces the names I want; the > motherboard as eth0,

Re: [DNG] Linux's sucky cut and paste: was: problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-17 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 18-11-2020 01:07, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:16:11 -0500 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >> A wild guess. Linux has over the ages acquired (at least) two cut >> and paste mechanisms -- one from the underlying X system, and another >> from the desktop systems put on top. They don't

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

2020-11-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 15-11-2020 01:03, 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 MAILTO line to

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

2020-11-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-11-2020 22:36, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan.  Apparently all I need > to do is change the sources list and do a dist-upgrade. > > Is this likely to go smoothly?  If there are any problems I would > probably not have Internet to ask for help. > > How

Re: [DNG] HPLIP issues

2020-11-13 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 13-11-2020 07:21, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > Has anyone managed to get HPLIP isnstalled and fully running on Beowulf? > > hp-info works, with a gui interface. > > hp-levels works on the command-line from a terminal. > > hp-testpage brings up a gui and prints the testpage from there. > >

Re: [DNG] Self-hosted SMTP (was: TB and Enigmail)

2020-10-29 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 29-10-2020 04:34, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Bernard Rosset via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > >> It seems we're drifting away from the main subject. >> Count me in! > Roger that! Subject header tweaked. > >> ? >> If your emails are being refused by others, including major email >> hosters, I

Re: [DNG] Zoom via Firefox

2020-10-28 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 28-10-2020 12:10, Jim Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Devuan Beowulf, running lightdm, openbox and lxpanel. > I don't run pulseaudio, I just use ALSA for sound. > > Firefox sound works for showing videos etc. I have set mixer values so that > I can record > > arecord -vvv -f dat -d 4

Re: [DNG] OT: uBlock origin on Firefox: where's the data?

2020-10-12 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 12-10-2020 07:06, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I would like to regularly back up my uBlock settings, and do it in an > automated way. That is, I want to avoid clicking through the "Export to > file" dialog every time, because I always forget to do it, and because > it is dumb. > > So where is the

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

2020-09-24 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 24-09-2020 14:43, Jim Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020, Mark Rousell wrote: > >> On 24/09/2020 07:30, Dimitris via Dng wrote: >>> in my opinion a home connection server smtp+imap/pop will not be very >>> usable. most rbl's block dynamic addresses so you won't be able to >>> deliver much...

Re: [DNG] Shutdown/halt versus WiFi and NFS

2020-09-23 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 23-09-2020 21:55, Michael S. Keller via Dng wrote: > My desktop is running Chimaera, and I saw this with Beowulf, but > didn't spend much time on it then. > > My network connection is via WiFi, and I have permanent NFS mounts in > place. I run SysV init. > > During halt or shutdown via init

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-17 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 17-09-2020 09:02, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 16 Sep 22:15:42 + > aitor scripsit: >> Hi, >> >> On 16/9/20 20:30, Steve Litt wrote: >>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:53:14 +0200 >>> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote: >>> Anno domini 2020 Wed, 16 Sep 02:11:57 -0400 Steve

Re: [DNG] After 10m the sceen is dark

2020-08-30 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 30-08-2020 12:03, Frank Streitz wrote: > > Am 30.08.20 um 11:24 wrote Ludovic Bellière: >> First thing that comes to mind is that your screen saver isn't hindered >> and triggers because no user action has taken place. > My screen saver isn't the problem. I configured it to 2 Hours. > >> For

Re: [DNG] history

2020-08-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 07-08-2020 22:11, John Morris wrote: > On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 09:53 +0300, Dimitris via Dng wrote: >> On 8/7/20 12:36 AM, marc wrote: >>> People being easily identified and >>> tracked in real life is something that strengthens authoritarian >>> regimes >>> (whether fascist or communist) as

Re: [DNG] Free faces?

2020-08-06 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 06-08-2020 01:08, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 01:00:02AM +0200, marc...@welz.org.za wrote: >> Recall a while ago some company called clearview.ai made the >> news - given a picture of a person it finds all the other >> photos of that person online, and does a good job of it

Re: [DNG] Upgrade to Beowulf borks SSH. how to recover.

2020-07-20 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 20-07-2020 08:55, terryc wrote: > As per subject, an Devuan-ascii headless server has been(?) upgraded to > Devuan-beowuff. After reboot I am unable to ssh to the server. > > It seems the old password option has now been disable and only a > public-key option is available >

Re: [DNG] Configuration of boot drives

2020-06-29 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 29-06-2020 17:53, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 05:24:57PM +0200, d...@d404.nl wrote: >> On 29-06-2020 17:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:44:05PM +, dal wrote: >>>>> From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On

Re: [DNG] Configuration of boot drives

2020-06-29 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 29-06-2020 17:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:44:05PM +, dal wrote: >>> From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom >>> Sent: den 29 juni 2020 14:18 >>> What I want to know is: >>>What determines which disks' MBRs get written to during a

Re: [DNG] 'apt-get update' fails on Devuan Boewulf.

2020-06-15 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 15-06-2020 15:31, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > Lately, when I attempt to update Devuan Boewulf, apt-get fails > complaining that I should explicitly accept the repositories. Reading > 'man apt-secure' talks about changes in Debian's security which has > the aim to reinforce package

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-06-2020 19:46, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote: > Am 2020-06-14 19:39, schrieb d...@d404.nl: >> Most likely the usb_storage module is compiled in the kernel. > > How can I set its parameters in this case? > sysctl -a lists nothing about storage or usb. From what i am able

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-06-2020 19:36, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote: > Am 2020-06-14 19:30, schrieb richard lucassen: >> What tells "modinfo g_mass_storage"? > > $ sudo modinfo g_mass_storage > filename:   > /lib/modules/3.16.82+/kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/g_mass_storage.ko > license:    GPL > author:

Re: [DNG] Devuan 3 running hot

2020-06-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-06-2020 14:14, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > On 6/14/20 2:03 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: >> On 14-06-2020 12:53, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: >>> On 6/14/20 1:47 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: >>>> On 14-06-2020 12:38, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: >>>>> An up

Re: [DNG] Devuan 3 running hot

2020-06-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-06-2020 12:53, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > On 6/14/20 1:47 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: >> On 14-06-2020 12:38, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: >>> An upgrade to Beowulf went very smoothly but since upgrading I notice >>> that the fans are always running. Although the air

Re: [DNG] Devuan 3 running hot

2020-06-14 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 14-06-2020 12:38, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > An upgrade to Beowulf went very smoothly but since upgrading I notice > that the fans are always running. Although the air temperature is about > 25°C the cores seem to run much hotter than necessary, pushing 70°C or > hotter. The system is not

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 13-06-2020 10:53, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote: > Am 2020-06-13 10:31, schrieb richard lucassen: >> The nofail means that it wil mount automatically, but if the disk >> is absent it won't give errors. But it does not wait for the device! > > The disk has itś own power supply and is always

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-12 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 12-06-2020 17:01, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote: > Hi, > I'm running Devuan Beowulf on an Odroid C2 mini computer. Since it's > internal flash disk is limited, I run it with an external usb drive > attached. > When this disk is active in /etc/fstab the boot process hangs forever. > I can ping it, so

Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade - 32% slowdown !

2020-06-12 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 12-06-2020 12:49, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: > Hi all! > > I just upgraded from ascii to beowulf a pretty decent laptop, equipped > with a core i7 and 8GB of RAM. > > I upgraded everything in place: so same desktop environment, same > applications, same hard disk... just "apt-get

Re: [DNG] Error when trying to update beowulf from a local repository

2020-06-05 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 05-06-2020 17:00, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: > Until now I had updated my system without any problem, now it is > giving me this error. >   > root@clt-iyc-03:/mnt/datos/sistemas/linux > # apt-get update > Des:1

Re: [DNG] release status, was: Re: Devuan Beowulf 3.0.0 released.

2020-06-03 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 03-06-2020 21:51, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 6/3/20 3:43 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> Since this topic came up, I have a couple non critical machines >> running jessie, and they still get updates. Is this a fluke, or is >> jessie still being supported. If jessie is still being supported, then

Re: [DNG] Out of data ca-certificates causing problems with wget and curl now...

2020-06-01 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 01-06-2020 01:31, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > ca-certificates > > /usr/bin/aptitude show -t stretch-backports ca-certificates: > E: Unable to locate package ca-certificates: > > > > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=stretch-backports=ca-certificates > > > Is there any

Re: [DNG] supported ways to control user access to audio/video devices

2020-05-27 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 26-05-2020 03:22, terryc wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 2020 13:31:49 + > dal wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> A round of searching and reading did not give me any usable >> explanation of Subj on Devuan. >> >> More specifically, static assignment of users to the "audio"/"video" >> groups is not