Re: [DNG] Priter trouble again.

2022-01-02 Thread Ken Dibble
On 1/1/22 3:07 PM, 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 can tell it explicitly what IP numder to

Re: [DNG] Chimaera Oddities

2021-11-09 Thread Ken Dibble
On 10/28/21 12:36 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: A couple of oddities. The uas driver does not like the JMicron Sata/USB 3 bridge. Bus 004 Device 003: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge I updated to the 5.14 kernel from backports

Re: [DNG] Chimaera Oddities

2021-11-16 Thread Ken Dibble
On 11/9/21 7:21 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: On 10/28/21 12:36 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: A couple of oddities. The uas driver does not like the JMicron Sata/USB 3 bridge. Bus 004 Device 003: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge I updated

[DNG] Globbing rsync != tar ?

2021-11-16 Thread Ken Dibble
In my never ending quest to cause myself headaches, I have been experimenting with different backup methods. What I am seeing is as follows: rsync using a .gitignore file and tar using a the same.gitignore file have different opinions about globbing. Here are the commands for reference

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

2021-11-26 Thread Ken Dibble
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 doctors in past centuries. They'd invent an illness, and then claim to have a remedy for it:

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

2021-11-26 Thread Ken Dibble
On 11/26/21 3:59 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: 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

Re: [DNG] Chimaera Oddities

2021-10-30 Thread Ken Dibble
On 10/30/21 7:36 AM, ael via Dng wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 12:36:19PM -0400, Ken Dibble wrote: A couple of oddities. The uas driver does not like the JMicron Sata/USB 3 bridge. Bus 004 Device 003: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s

[DNG] Chimaera Oddities

2021-10-28 Thread Ken Dibble
A couple of oddities. The uas driver does not like the JMicron Sata/USB 3 bridge. Bus 004 Device 003: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge I blacklisted the the device as follows and all seems to work as expected. cat

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-07 Thread Ken Dibble
On 1/7/22 8:59 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:44:59AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 07/01/2022 à 10:18, Didier Kryn a écrit : Le 06/01/2022 à 22:00, Bob Proulx via Dng a écrit : Didier Kryn wrote: Hendrik Boom a ecrit : software that isn't properly packaged as a .deb, but

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

2022-01-16 Thread Ken Dibble
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 04:12:44AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: This was discussed on the devuan-offtopic IRC channel, so I watched the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCr_KFl41E But youtube has

[DNG] Kernel Vulnerabilities or who understands this mess

2022-03-07 Thread Ken Dibble
Sorry for the noise, but the conflicting information, or possibly my misinterpretation of information, leaves me with some questions.  BleepingComputer is reporting in an article dated 3-7-2022 that CVE-2022-0847 is being exploited and Max Kellerman says that all 5.8 and later kernels are

Re: [DNG] Kernel Vulnerabilities or who understands this mess

2022-03-08 Thread Ken Dibble
that CVE-2022-0847 is resolved. See DSA-5092-1 and https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-0847 As a rule of thumb, you should trust debian's various trackers to report the effective state of each package. Cheers,     Ludovic On Mon, 07 Mar 2022, Ken Dibble wrote

Re: [DNG] Kernel Vulnerabilities or who understands this mess

2022-03-10 Thread Ken Dibble
On 3/10/22 04:29, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: Hi, Ken Dibble writes: Well, a consequence of this investigation was that I was forced to double check some things. The thing I found is that the default /etc/apt/sources.list has chimaera-updates and chimaera-security commented out

Re: [DNG] online purchasing (dunno - - - maybe OT)

2022-03-09 Thread Ken Dibble
On 3/9/22 11:11, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: Greetings Wondering what others are noticing. I made a purchase from an online store - - - its a smaller entity that covers some interesting niches - - therefore the order. In doing the purchase - - - noticed, using uBlockOrigin and PrivacyBadger,

Re: [DNG] [OT] files disappearing reproducibly

2022-02-19 Thread Ken Dibble
On 2/19/22 10:25 AM, 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] Popcorn (was: Re: [OT] files disappearing reproducibly)

2022-02-19 Thread Ken Dibble
On 2/19/22 5:00 PM, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:59:59 +0100 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: root@nulldevice:~# ls -l /home/florian/tmp/test* -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 0 Feb 19 21:11 /home/florian/tmp/test_deletable -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot0 Feb 19 21:19

Re: [DNG] Popcorn (was: Re: [OT] files disappearing reproducibly)

2022-02-19 Thread Ken Dibble
On 2/19/22 5:13 PM, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:00:59 +0100 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: Popcorn florian@nulldevice:~$ cat .bashrc | grep tmp rm -rf ~/tmp/* Thanks for your attention - I hope you had fun ;-) cum salutis gallicis, Florian Glad I could help. 

Re: [DNG] [OT] files disappearing reproducibly

2022-02-19 Thread Ken Dibble
On 2/19/22 2:42 PM, 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

[DNG] Stability will be achieved when you spend all of your time reporting on the nothing you did.

2022-02-07 Thread Ken Dibble
Application: firefox 78.15.0esr URL: about:telemetry#home-tab Page contains statement: Telemetry is collecting release data and upload is disabled. URL :about:telemetry#histograms-tab Page contains seemingly endless amounts of collected data. If this data is supposedly not being

Re: [DNG] Stability will be achieved when you spend all of your time reporting on the nothing you did.

2022-02-07 Thread Ken Dibble
On 2/7/22 9:30 AM, Antony Stone wrote: On Monday 07 February 2022 at 15:23:41, Ken Dibble wrote: Application: firefox 78.15.0esr URL: about:telemetry#home-tab Page contains statement: Telemetry is collecting release data and upload is disabled. URL :about:telemetry#histograms-tab Page

[DNG] xdg-desktop-portal

2022-01-06 Thread Ken Dibble
At the risk of confirming that I am none too smart, I have the following question.\ Why is xdg-desktop-portal in a fresh install of Chimaera?\ It can be safely uninstalled, as it no devuan packages in the base install require it, and as far as I can tell it is only needed for snap and

Re: [DNG] xdg-desktop-portal

2022-01-06 Thread Ken Dibble
On 1/6/22 4:48 PM, Antony Stone wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2022 at 22:30:58, Ken Dibble wrote: Why is xdg-desktop-portal in a fresh install of Chimaera? I have a Chimaera machine here, freshly installed, without any graphical desktop environment - just a command-line network server

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

2022-01-19 Thread Ken Dibble
On 1/19/22 9:44 AM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: On 17/1/22 1:54 pm, Ken Dibble wrote: Or just install tsp and submit the download commands to the queue. What is "tsp" ? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dy

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-26 Thread Ken Dibble
On 1/25/22 12:53 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 05:43:44AM -0600, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 3:02 AM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: Hendrik Boom writes: On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 07:29:27PM +0100, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: On January 21, 2022

Re: [DNG] Apparmor blocks Torbrowser downloads

2022-04-10 Thread Ken Dibble
On 4/9/22 14:59, Haines Brown wrote: Torbrower no longer asks where to download even though that option is enabled in its settings. Torbrowser no longer can download a file to my home directory ("Could not read the contents of ...)". I get impression that apparmor is preventing a download to

Re: [DNG] NFS rookie mistake?

2022-06-02 Thread Ken Dibble
gt; /etc/default/rpcbind Read the (short) article if you want links and a little more info (it is my notes). Rod On 6/1/22 20:04, Ken Dibble wrote: Here is the story: I needed to do some server maintenance so I issued $init 1. After the maintenance was done I issued $init 5. Everything was fi

[DNG] NFS rookie mistake?

2022-06-01 Thread Ken Dibble
Here is the story: I needed to do some server maintenance so I issued $init 1. After the maintenance was done I issued $init 5. Everything was fine except no nfs-server-kernel running. No problem. Issue $sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart System response: Stopping NFS kernel

Re: [DNG] NFS rookie mistake?

2022-06-02 Thread Ken Dibble
No nothing in the logs. That's why I decided to try and restart nfs manually, then discovered the reason it wouldn't start was rpcbind not running. Ken On 6/2/22 17:45, Rod Rodolico via Dng wrote: Is there anything in the logs? Rod On 6/2/22 09:03, Ken Dibble wrote: Thanks for the attempt

Re: [DNG] PHP question

2022-06-23 Thread Ken Dibble
I don't know anything about php. The only thing I know about this is that I found it on Github. https://github.com/dimkr/nosystem Regards, Ken On 6/23/22 11:49, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: Hello, I've been running Devuan on my break even public facing webhosting system for several years. 

Re: [DNG] NFS rookie mistake?

2022-06-07 Thread Ken Dibble
On 6/1/22 21:04, Ken Dibble wrote: Here is the story: I needed to do some server maintenance so I issued $init 1. After the maintenance was done I issued $init 5. Everything was fine except no nfs-server-kernel running. No problem. Issue $sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart System

Re: [DNG] starting mysql in background ?

2022-06-15 Thread Ken Dibble
On 6/15/22 03:10, Radisson via Dng wrote: Hello list, i would like to start my mysqld 8.0 in background because it takes several minutes to start. Does someone have a solution ? re,  pr ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] OpenVPN 2.5.1-3+devuan1 packaging vs best practices

2022-07-25 Thread Ken Dibble
This is the first time I have seen this with any package. I have no idea whether it has happened with packages not installed on my systems. It is my understanding that best practice is noexec on /tmp and that this is a Debian recommendation. Here is the relevant line from /etc/fstab.

Re: [DNG] OpenVPN 2.5.1-3+devuan1 packaging vs best practices

2022-07-26 Thread Ken Dibble
On 7/25/22 09:29, Ken Dibble wrote: This is the first time I have seen this with any package. I have no idea whether it has happened with packages not installed on my systems. It is my understanding that best practice is noexec on /tmp and that this is a Debian recommendation. Here

Re: [DNG] OpenVPN 2.5.1-3+devuan1 packaging vs best practices

2022-07-26 Thread Ken Dibble
On 7/26/22 14:17, Hector Gonzalez Jaime via Dng wrote: On 7/26/22 10:00, Ken Dibble wrote: On 7/25/22 09:29, Ken Dibble wrote: This is the first time I have seen this with any package. I have no idea whether it has happened with packages not installed on my systems. It is my