Finding Devuan, and subscribing last night, I'm keen to replace my
Debian 9.0 "Systemdix"¹, even at the cost of reverting to older
packages. But I don't much like Gnome either, and have become quite used
to LXDE - especially the boot speed of the leaner environment.
So the question is as put in t
On 15.08.17 09:13, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> As far as I can tell the default is XFCE. However, Linux is not MS
> Windows meaning you can start off from a base system with just a
> terminal. Then, you can install whatever graphical interface you want.
> Keep in mind some desktop might be unavailable
On 15.08.17 08:54, KatolaZ wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> you are welcome to ask technical questions on this ML. There is no
> stated prefrerence for the forum anywhere. ...
Many thanks, KatolaZ, for the clarification. It seems that Devuan is a
welcoming community, not averse to new members, after all.
On 15.08.17 20:03, Tom Cassidy wrote:
> Have you thought about LXQt? Upstream LXDE stopped development a while
> back and merged with Razor-qt into the new project running on Qt
> instead of GTK.
Oh, dear world, please slow down. I can't keep up.
> Unfortunately it's only in repositories for asci
On 15.08.17 21:49, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:42:50AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> >
> > ..I agree "hate" is a little too loaded and a little too warranted. ;o)
>
> Exactly my point. But it's better to present the emotionally unloaded
> facts and let the listeners of reade
Multiple replies here, to minimise list traffic:
On 15.08.17 13:18, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:45:05 +1000
> Sporting a similar user interace, but with increased stability,
> parsamonious use of resources, and absolutely no allegience to systemd
> is LXDE. For the past 4 years the
On 16.08.17 11:24, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) is hardware and firmware
> technology for remote out-of-band management of personal computers
Didn't know about that stuff. OK, if firmware undermines iptables, then
it'll need either a surreptitious
On 16.08.17 04:52, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Erik Christiansen (dva...@internode.on.net):
>
> > I might just settle for the default XFCE for a while, after all: Life is
> > the art of the possible. LXQt on ascii will be worth a try when it's
> > out, though.
>
&
On 17.08.17 01:27, Eric wrote:
> I was able to install enlightenment desktop from
>
> https://www.enlightenment.org
>
> I followed along with the directions on their download page and also from
> the site:
>
> https://www.tecmint.com/install-enlightenment-on-devuan-linux/
>
>
> It works with t
On 21.08.17 01:38, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> This would lead network interface names default to the old "eth0" or
> "wlan0" scheme, rather than the new(?) "enp0s3"-like scheme. It implies
> having "net.ifnames=1" in the kernel cmdline to get the "enp0s3"-like
> scheme and not touching anything to get
On 20.08.17 16:09, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 01:38:00AM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> > This would lead network interface names default to the old "eth0" or
> > "wlan0" scheme, rather than the new(?) "enp0s3"-like scheme. It implies
> > having "net.ifnames=1" in the kernel cmd
On 20.08.17 22:24, Steve Litt wrote:
> #FOR SINGLE WIFI AND ETH DEVICES
> $eth0=enop1
> $wlan0=wl52po45tldnr
If we can script the decryption of the obfuscating nonsense, then
developers ought to not be so much less competent that they can't do it
at the outset. (I did my 30 years on bare iron (emb
On 20.08.17 22:36, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> If you want to be compaatible with what systemd does, you will end up
> being as complicated as systemd.
The entire premise for the existence of Devuan is to NOT BE LIKE SYSTEMD.
If that can't be adhered to, then it's time to move on to FreeBSD.
I hear t
On 21.08.17 01:38, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We discussed a few weeks back in a dev meeting whether or not to revert
> to jessie like naming scheme for ethernet interfaces by default.
>
> The eudev package (currently found in the experimental repos and at
> https://git.devuan.org/devuan-pac
On 02.09.17 14:49, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 02/09/2017 à 08:25, Erik Christiansen a écrit :
> > Looking at "man ifrename", we see:
> >
> > -u Enable udev output mode. This enables proper integration of ifrename
> > in the udev framework, udevd(8)
The notion of an extra embedded CPU or two on big Intel chips is not
difficult to credit, but where is the postulated entire minix OS loaded
from?
If our hosts cannot be trusted not to phone home to folk wearing dark
glasses, then would it not suffice to employ a simple embedded host with
a small
On 07.09.17 13:32, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:17:20PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > If our hosts cannot be trusted not to phone home to folk wearing dark
> > glasses, then would it not suffice to employ a simple embedded host with
> > a small die
On 07.09.17 14:05, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> ROMB is the ROM Bypass and that too is builtin the PCH chip:
>
> Loading starts with the ROM program, which is contained in the
> built-in PCH read-only memory. Unfortunately, no way to read or
> rewrite this memory is known to the g
On 07.09.17 15:42, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:32:42 +0200
> Adam Borowski wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 11:51:46PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> I have tried asking nicely
That was wise. It might have worked.
> WILL YOU SHUTUP!!!
On 07.09.17 17:34, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 07.09.2017 16:12, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > If the firewall is on a FPGA, then we know what every gate is doing, as
> > we have the VHDL source for it.
>
> An purely FPGA-based firewall (w/o an
On 19.09.17 15:56, J. Fahrner wrote:
> I'm wondering why people cry when they don't get Gnome and why they try to
> enforce Devuan developers to offer Gnome. Devuans goal is to offer a Linux
> system without systemd.
Errr, Devuan's reason for _existing_ is to eschew systemd. Absolutely
nothing can
On 20.09.17 09:55, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 17:41 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 19.09.17 15:56, J. Fahrner wrote:
> > > I'm wondering why people cry when they don't get Gnome and why they try to
>
> > > And that's not
On 23.09.17 10:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..I still miss and prefer the S.u.S.E.-5.2 way, root had a
> nice red background color in xterms, fairly hard to miss.
If the '#' and "root@hostname" escape the attention of a person
entrusted with root privileges, then why not make the root prompt bright
On 23.09.17 08:51, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> I have very little doubt Intel put backdoors in Udoo. Why else would Udoo go
> back on the promise of Open Hardware, and go dirt cheap in comparison to
> competitors?
My Udoo X86 makes a very nice video streamer and snappy browser host.
Let the Rooshians
On 14.10.17 09:19, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Although this belongs to devuan-dev I am posting this here for general
> discussion.
>
> I think, the principle should hold indefinitely as anyone working on
> Devuan's projects, is doing it for free in their free time. Since
> there is no payment involve
On 10.11.17 05:50, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2017 10 Nov 02:40 -0600, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> > Nate Bargmann writes:
> > >I've also used Procmail for an
> > >equal length of time and it is now claimed to be "unmaintained".
> >
> > Who claims that?
>
> Some months back I was looking for some
On 10.12.17 22:16, ael wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 07:09:27PM -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> > Is there in Devuan a text editor that will do find/replace on a regexp ?
>
> Almost every non trivial editor will do that: my favorite is vim.
>
Vim (gvim is the GUI version) offers a number
On 20.12.17 10:08, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Bundling various functionalities associated with an OS with an init,
> is a subtle way of 'encouraging' users to stick with that 'init'.
That seems overly kind to an obvious effort to create an M$-like monolith
which is too expensive time-wise to adapt to
On 09.01.18 10:52, Steve Litt wrote:
> I'm thinking of making the Devuan VimOutliner package use double comma.
> I'd take the Debian package and replace all appropriate double
> backslashes with double commas.
Steve,
If a foreign distro has forked your original, then in our distro it
seems entire
On 14.01.18 13:04, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Sunday 14 January 2018 at 12:29:09, aitor_czr wrote:
> > But... what's ldd? Synaptic sends me to buildd. By the way, including
> > the backports in jessie, i can't install mini-buildd :
...
> I only know ldd as:
>
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ldd_
On 12.01.18 12:22, Don Wright wrote:
> Antony Stone wrote:
>
> >So what do you classify it as?
> >
> >Proprietary? Closed source? Commercial?
> >
> >What label works best for you?
>
> Malware?
>
> (Admit you left the door open for that one and we'll move on.)
>
> Perhaps it's not really bad b
On 19.01.18 17:34, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:03:59PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> > But wether that session is local or not is, in my opinion, and as I
> > already said, futile; and it seems to be mostly used as a justification to
> > develop a tangle of daemons and middleware
On 02.02.18 17:32, Joel Roth wrote:
> Probably you all have something much better, but for the
> sake of discussion, and will post my humble offering.
Not better, but a data point for anyone else backing up to a flash drive,
which is convenient for the off-site backup. Rsync compares checksums
b
On 16.03.18 08:40, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 06:41:50PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> > In PostScript, I don't readily find any built-in operators that could
> > give a result that differs on every run, so you probably have to
>
> [cut]
>
> Yes, that's the problem. And that, A
On 15.03.18 22:08, KatolaZ wrote:
> FYI
>
> As many of us, I keep receiving DSAs. And as usual, we should be
> covered on these ones. If you think it might be useful, I might
> forward DSAs here. Or maybe somebody here would like to take care of
> putting together a summary of DSAs once a forthnig
On 16.03.18 21:23, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:05:30PM +1100, terryc wrote:
> > Gak, they are the reliable ones.
> > Everything later only lasts for a few years and you have to buy another
> > round of hardware.
>
> Often hardware is discarded due to failed electrolytic capacitor
On 16.03.18 01:18, Didier Kryn wrote:
> It is always tricky to properly scale the drawing on the page: although
> svg has no explicit dimension, the applications all seem to assume it has
> some, and it's never the one which makes the image match the page size of
> the printer. Maybe the easies
With devuan_jessie_1.0.0_i386_CD.iso on a flash stick, inserted in a
nifty little Udoo-X86, installation reaches the "Checking for CDROM"
stage, then stops because it wants one. I had the same issue with
debian¹, but can't remember how I tickled it to complete the install
from USB back then. (With
On 19.03.18 09:50, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 19/03/2018 à 08:20, Erik Christiansen a écrit :
> > With devuan_jessie_1.0.0_i386_CD.iso on a flash stick, inserted in a
> > nifty little Udoo-X86, installation reaches the "Checking for CDROM"
> > stage, then stops becau
On 19.03.18 09:27, Roland Gebhard Sidler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed the ISO on a USB-Stick and even a Micro-SD-card using
> "etcher-electron" and it worked like a charm.
>
> The only thing is, that you have to disable the CD-ROM-line in sources.list
> to avoid any future errors and to enable ap
On 19.03.18 09:59, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 08:47:25PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > Sounds like I should download ascii for a devuan which can find the
> > CDROM on the USB. Just not tonight, as it's a bit late to start that
> > now.
> >
&g
On 19.03.18 10:20, KatolaZ wrote:
> Maybe you have a strange USB controller? You mentioned you had the
> same problem with a Debian image, right?
Yes. If I could only remember how that was successfully dodged. I'll dig
in some list traffic to see if I can find it.
That's even more needed now, bec
On 19.03.18 11:46, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> Hallo Erik,
>
> as a workaround, I'd try to use the netinstall image, if there's a
> connection available for that machine.
Ah yes, don't insist on digging through the landslide ... go around.
It's late-ish here. Tomorrow I'll look up how to do that.
On 19.03.18 11:46, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> as a workaround, I'd try to use the netinstall image, if there's a
> connection available for that machine.
Thanks Florian, that worked with devuan_jessie_1.0.0_i386_NETINST.iso
Most interesting is that it also went through the "Mounting CD-ROM"
stage,
On 19.03.18 14:15, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:12:00 +1100
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > Would half a dozen net installs necessitate six times
> > the downloads?
>
>
> Depending on your plans, I'd say that six netinstalls /can/ be more
On 20.03.18 15:26, Florian Zieboll wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:58:08 +1100
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt.
> > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
>
> That looks like you used some 3rd-party t
On 20.03.18 19:58, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 19.03.18 11:46, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> > as a workaround, I'd try to use the netinstall image, if there's a
> > connection available for that machine.
>
> Thanks Florian, that worked with devuan_jessie_1.
hinking in terms of the packages I've installed.
On 20.03.18 15:08, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:04:12 +1100
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > I've used dpkg -i on a single deb on several occasions, but that would
> > be tedious and error prone fo
On 22.03.18 20:08, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Shouldn't that be of=/dev/sdb, without the 1? But last time I copied an
> installer ISO to a stick, I simply used the cp command.
Thank you for that catch, Olaf. Ascii installs fine on my Udoo X86 now.
The only oddness experienced is that placing grub
On 22.03.18 14:58, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Awk has two kinds of variables: scalars which are strings or ints or
> floats, and arrays. Arrays are more like LUA tables or Python dicts or
> Perl hashes in that you can use any scalar as a subscript.
> Multidimensional arrays are doable but req
On 26.03.18 09:10, muba...@openmailbox.org wrote:
> Erik!, you get this error when you are installing devuan from 2.0
> DVD?. Or after the installation complete successfully, and you want to
> install some package from the DVD after mounting it?
Hi Mubarak,
My installation was from USB flash. As
Not many issues with devuan_ascii_2.0.0-beta_i386_NETINST, but for the
moment I have to hit '@' for '"' and '"' for '@'. That's on a Logitech
cordless keyboard.
OK, for myself, I can remap them in ~/.Xmodmap, but is a more general
fix called for?
Erik
On 10.04.18 12:51, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:12:13PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > Not many issues with devuan_ascii_2.0.0-beta_i386_NETINST, but for the
> > moment I have to hit '@' for '"' and '"' for '@
On 10.04.18 14:01, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:55:56PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> >
> > As indicated by the "~/.Xmodmap", I do use X. Curiously,
>
> Then, as I suggested in my email, you should use setxkbmap (provided
> that you are no
On 10.04.18 23:55, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On 10 Apr 2018, at 22:55, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> >
> > If there's some way to guess what map a Logitech wireless keyboard needs,
> > it'd be really useful. Here in Australia, keyboards tend t
On 05.05.18 05:32, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> But whilst I still can, I'll at least run my own servers and rely on the
> "cloud" as little as possible. Librem 5 phone coming next year for me.
If there isn't an ARM board sufficiently free of remote control
parasitic low level engines, then perhaps
On 19.06.18 02:38, James Cloos wrote:
> > "HB" == Haines Brown writes:
>
> HB> Has an alternative been developed without the problems associated
> HB> with usbmount?
>
> pmount may be what you want.
>
> I've not used it on devuan (or debian), but it works well on my gentoo
> workstation.
I
On 19.06.18 12:28, li...@michaelranft.com wrote:
> easiest way would be a
> tail -fn 50 /var/log/messages
> before or right after plugging it in to determine the device's name from /var/
> log/messages. Ctrl-c finishes output from tail
Many thanks. With that, a quick:
$ pmount /dev/sdb1 somesti
On 20.06.18 12:04, Simon Hobson wrote:
> FWIW, even technical users can lack what some may think is “really
> basic knowledge” - I fell that the most important thing I’ve learned
> over the years is just how much I don’t know !
Despite using *nix exclusively for three decades now, linux for around
On 20.06.18 14:07, KatolaZ wrote:
> I will continue telling people what I think they should know, but the
> only way out of ignorance is knowledge, awareness, and individual
> action. You can't force people to get interested, to learn, to become
> responsible, to understand, to agree with you, to e
On 10.07.18 09:32, Lars Noodén wrote:
> > Why, oh why replace well-known, portable commands with Linux-only
> > commands that are no better?
>
> Looking at the comparison table in that link, not only are the new
> utilities and order of magnitude more complex they also fail to deliver
> many of th
On 10.07.18 10:37, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:46:46 +1000
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > Ego drives young men to reinvent the wheel, then declaim "mine is
> > grand, and I deprecate (piss on) the old."
...
> To make your statement true, yo
On 10.07.18 12:59, J. Fahrner wrote:
> Nice to read (experience of a german computer scientist)
>
> English:
> https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danisch.de%2Fblog%2F2018%2F07%2F10%2Fsystemd-war-eine-massive-fehlentscheidung%2F&edit-te
On 22.08.18 12:10, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and
> > immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and
> > has no GUI installed.
> >
> > I notice when I
On 12.10.18 00:00, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> I'd go for the sledgehammer:
>
> apt-get -y purge pulseaudio
Sounds good to me. What would one substitute, to provide sound instead?
"No sound" has today hit me too, after bringing my Devuan ascii/ceres
box up after some weeks in storage. At Multime
On 16.10.18 17:51, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 12.10.18 00:00, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> > I'd go for the sledgehammer:
> >
> > apt-get -y purge pulseaudio
>
> Sounds good to me. What would one substitute, to provide sound instead?
>
> "No sou
On 16.10.18 22:53, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>
> For real fun, turn on Avahi along with all the pulse audio stuff.
>
> Watch your network get flooded with multi-cast audio.
>
> Scramble to shut it down as fast as you can.
Errrm, devuan ascii is running both of those OOTB.
On another current thread,
On 18.10.18 11:37, Steve Litt wrote:
> OK. Next question. What is the cost difference between a computer
> terminal and a low power computer with the muscle to run apps whose
> data is on the central server?
The price of hardware was entirely different back then, making re-use
much more compelling
On 21.10.18 08:18, J. Fahrner wrote:
> Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt:
> > In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit from
> > starting a daemon.
>
> man update-rc.d
>
> You can remove or disable a service.
And e.g. "view /etc/rc2.d/README" recites chapter and verse,
On 21.11.18 17:11, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On 21/11/18 at 13:17, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've been following the discussion with interest.
>
>
> No, you definitely have not followed it. In fact you are disregarding
> all the points that were expressed against the merge.
>
>
On 24.11.18 22:41, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 02:40:31PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> > >
> > > In my last install, I still had /tmp and /var on separate partitions,
> > > but I'm questionning the validity of
On 27.11.18 22:28, Rick Moen wrote several juciy tips, including:
> (Depending on your system, you probably want to ensure that /var/lib
> and /var/spool are served from elsewhere, either separate filesystems
> of their own or symlinks to trees elsewhere /like to dirs under /home
> or some such.)
On 03.12.18 00:47, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:53:39PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> > On 02/12/18 at 17:23, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > You'd want to set noatime on every machine
> > > you control.
> >
> >
> > Some mail servers and clients do use it to determine if a ma
On 09.01.19 13:48, Simon Walter wrote:
> This still did not work. So after learning about connman, I decided to
> try that. I removed NetworkManager and reinstalled connman and the
> "systray" app cmst "just worked". I cringe at that phrase. Sorry if it
> disturbs you too. LOL
>
> So I think I may
On 10.02.19 06:39, stanz via Dng wrote:
> Could not mount USB drives as regular user until apt install 'gvfs' package.
Sounds like that gvfs package does a lot more.
All I've ever had to do was:
# apt-get install pmount
Here that's mostly used to unmount a drive mounted automagically on
plug-in.
On 11.03.19 10:32, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
> Unitil I will migrate to Beowulf, I guess adopt this proposed solution:
>
> 1) symlink /etc/machine-id to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
>
> 2) run boot: echo date +%s%N | md5sum | cut -c 1-32 >
> /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
>
> So please help me: what i
On 23.05.19 17:12, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2019 10:44:00 -0400
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for software to handle appointment calendars, contact
> > lists, and todo lists.
>
> VimOutliner is how you handle todo lists. It even has branch-wide
> completion statistics. Debia
On 23.05.19 18:42, Rick Moen wrote:
> And yes, I've heard many times that mbox is terrible and that I should
> use Maildir instead because it's much better for NFS file locking and
> for IMAP access. But: no NFS here, no IMAP here. Thus, no NFS
> problems and no IMAP problems.
>
> The Neadertha
On 10.08.19 21:51, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> So I want to find out what's in /dev/sda4 on my hard drive. The
> computer has *never* had Windows on it. So I try to mount it, and am
> told:
>
> april:/farhome/hendrik# mount /dev/sda4 /test
> NTFS signature is missing.
> Failed to mount '/dev/sda4':
On 11.08.19 08:18, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 02:13:48PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > $ blkid /dev/sdb1
> > /dev/sdb1: LABEL="fred" UUID="7713e1b5-1bdf-41d1-9aa9" TYPE="ext2"
> >
> > As you have not specified a
On 08.10.19 08:54, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 02:38:27PM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Anno domini 2019 Tue, 8 Oct 08:32:22 -0400
> > Hendrik Boom scripsit:
> > > I ask because I'm having trouble choosing a font size in xterm.
> >
> > xfontsel
>
> OK. Just tried it. T
On 19.11.19 05:12, hal wrote:
> My mail server is doing the exact same thing when running fetchmail for
> several accounts. Every few minutes cron rolls through 4 or 5 accounts,
> runs fetchmail, and terminates leaving all those `elogind` messages in
> syslog.
But there's no earthly need for cron,
On 09.01.20 17:44, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan?
>
> After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try to install it, it says it
> needs policykit-1. Since the latter seems to be akin to systemd, I reply 'n'.
>
> Synaptic is
On 10.01.20 11:10, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
> On Fri 10/Jan/2020 01:35:55 +0100 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 09.01.20 17:44, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
> >>
> >> Synaptic is convenient as it allows to search for keywords, e.g. "pdf", and
>
On 10.01.20 20:18, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
> # There's still no zpager, even after asking for it two decades ago :-O
> #
> # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=49942
In the "less" manpage, under the "INPUT PREPROCESSOR" heading,
"two scripts will allow you to keep files in c
My prior 3 posts to this list, on the "Alternatives to synaptic?"
thread, ended in my spam folder, because the listserver's headers
included:
X-IronPort-SPAM: SPAM
But further down, SpamAssassin disagrees, giving no false positive.
I guess that IronPort is not useful here. I'll try using only the
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