Confusing email from MySQL corrupt table check

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Smith
Every time I restart MySQL (mysql-server-4.1) on any of several of my sarge machines I get the following email: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1102: Incorrect database name 'DATADIR.link' when selecting the database Improperly closed tables are also reported if clients are accessing the table

Re: Running daemons without root access?

2005-06-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Is it possible for a user to ensure that a certain app is (always) > started after system start (and stopped before shutdown) without using > root access? > If so, how? Use sudo to give certain users root access to the daemon's b

Re: Confusing email from MySQL corrupt table check

2005-06-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:03:33PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am Montag, den 06.06.2005, 16:00 + schrieb Andy Smith: > > /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1102: Incorrect database name > > 'DATADIR.link' when selecting the database > > Me too. >

Re: Network IP probem

2005-06-08 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:53:13PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: >What is it that you want to know?? >If someone else (other then your computer) is using your pc's mac >address?? >Not posible. mac addresses are uniq. MAC addresses are trivially changed by the administrator, and manufa

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:30:08PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > John Carline wrote: > > > Personally, I don't care where an individual posts. But, it would make > > my reading/following of threads much easier if I didn't have to > > scroll down to the bottom of post after post in a long string just

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and > sending out bogus messages. This is referred to as a "joe job" (google for more info). In

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:25:22PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I didn't follow this entire discussion from the beginning, so maybe it's been > said already, but if all these spoofed address messages result in you > receiving a bunch of "undeliverable" returns, why not filter on the word > "und

Preventing apt from storing too much locally

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, I have a number of machines all pointed at an apt-proxy. Since any package downloaded from any of them will be available there on my local network, I would like to avoid keeping copies on every machine. I can see a number of files in /var/cache/apt on each machine; is there a way to preve

Re: Preventing apt from storing too much locally

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:35:07AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Dir::Cache::archives > > This contains references to pkgcache and srcpkgcache. You can turn > these off if you wish, in favour of using apt-proxy, or apt-cacher or > whatever. > > But I'd be more inclined to run: > > apt-get {auto,}

Re: system monitoring software

2005-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:12:15AM -0600, Cam wrote: > I'm looking for some software that can do some basic system-monitoring > tasks (check if services are up and running, hard-drive space, etc). > I've been looking at some things like nagios, OpenNMS, and Cacti... > they all look pretty good (i

Re: How useful is apt-spy?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:45:02PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > Wanting to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and having a slow modem > (not one of those ultra-modern 56K things), I thought apt-spy > might be a useful thing to use to find the fastest mirror. I > have no complaints about the result be

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > The debian README in /usr/share/doc/iptables > describes a better > method involving actions to take when interface are > up'd and > down'd. Indeed, I use: interface eth0 inet static # ... post-up /etc/iptables.sh (I don't us

Re: apache virtualhost ?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:31:10PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > I have an entry as: > LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so > > But I keep getting this: > User cannot occur within section > > If anyone has any tips or advice it would be most appreciated. suExec doesn't work like that.

Re: Custom minimalist build

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:48:17AM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: > I'm building a series of Xen (xensource.com) virtualized servers to > compartmentalize applications such as Apache, PostgreSQL, etc. and I would > like to provide each a custom build with only the necessary libraries. > > So fa

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > apt-get is deprecated. Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware this was the case for day to day usage. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SATA and RAID5 software

2005-06-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:10:13AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:44:32PM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > build RAID5 software onto 4 SATA HD (mother board ASUS P5GD1) but I > > raid 5 often isn't the best choice. checkout this link: > > http://www.baarf.com/ I would cert

Re: How to configure less to read *.gz files?

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:47:39AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > On my home computer `less foo.gz` automatically pages through the gunzipped > text (assuming foo is a text file of course). I'd like to get this > behaviour on another machine but I can't remember how I configured it to do > this (instea

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:46:09PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > ome of the folders I want to backup regularly is > > /var/lib/mysql > > but [...] > Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) cannot be backed up while live. > > and > > Likewise, if there is a high file creation or modification turnov

Re: Enabling apache2 and ssl - is there an easy way?

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:10:19PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > I've just been spending a lot of time trying to enable apache2 and ssl in > sarge. I finally found a method in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267477, but am still having > problems - like using a different DocumentR

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:15:53AM -0400, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Such will be the case when backing up RDBMS dumps and log files. > > > > I like LVM snapshots for this purpose. > > > > For MySQL in parti

Re: Enabling apache2 and ssl - is there an easy way?

2005-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:18:06PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > > "Andy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please explain exactly what you are having problems with. > > The first problem is that apache2 - ssl does not wor

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I can do it with c or fortran but that does not appear to be elegant. > > I looked at split, csplit. But they dont seem to do this. Googling did > not help much. Any other ideas? Time to learn a scripting language? :) This i

Re: Setting MAILTO to various address in the same crontab?

2005-06-22 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:58:42AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > If I want the output of various cron jobs sent to more than one e-mail > address, is there anything wrong with doing the following? > > # beginning of crontab > */10 * * * * /path/to/job0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 02 03 * * */path/to/j

Re: A direct way to find hard links?

2005-06-22 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:57:26AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > is there any direct way to find the other /path/to/files that point to the > same inodes? > > Googling turned this up > http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/1999-November/021967.html > > $ ls -li > $ find /try/this/path -inum 1234 >

Re: debian hosting service

2005-06-28 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:59:22AM -0400, Mariusz wrote: > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 09.17, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > > can anyone recommend a good hosting company that provides debian sarge > > (either dedicated or virtual private server)? > See > www.gplhost.com Then you too can enjoy redondant Mai

Re: what's wrong with my "/etc/apt/sources.list"? Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default

2021-08-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Evelyn, On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 06:00:08PM +0200, Evelyn Pereira Souza wrote: > E: The repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security > bullseye/updates Release' does not have a Release file. A few people have by now pointed out the specific cause of your problem, but the root cause is

Re: docker image of bullseye is outdated

2021-08-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:15:45PM +0300, илья пащук wrote: > docker image of debian bullseye should be updated to reflect it's release. There is a message on debian-boot (and -devel) here about it: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2021/08/msg00096.html I'm not sure that the Debian

Typical timescales for publishing binary packages in -backports?

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, I notice that yesterday there's been an acceptance email for source package linux-signed-amd64 version 5.10.46+4~bpo10+1 in buster-backports: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2021/08/msg00139.html Previously there had also been one for version 5.10.46+3~bpo10+1. Yet as of today th

Re: debian10/11 ssh from ipv6 address not in /etc/hosts.allow = sshd segfault segfault

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:17:05AM +1000, raf wrote: > I just noticed many many sshd segfaults listed in > /var/log/kern.log. There are two versions. They look > like this: > > sshd[1086]: segfault at 7fff615eaec8 ip > 7ff2a586f42f sp 7fff615eaed0 error 6 in > libwrap.so.0.7.

Re: Debian 11 installer crashed and reboot

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chuck, On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 08:04:43AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > After some testing of the Debian 11 installer on Xen > (using the debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso), I find that > this image only supports installation into a Xen PV guest, > the guest always crashes and reboots for eith

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jochen, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:36:30PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop > failed: Connection timed out > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process > /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online returned

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:27:17AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to > have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move > their threads. It is technically feasible of course. That's not the bit I'd have doubts about. O

Re: Typical timescales for publishing binary packages in -backports?

2021-08-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:26:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 16:16:01 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > So I was wondering what is the typical timescale for binary packages > > from the kernel source upload to appear in buster-backports? > > I do not thi

Re: Specifying dedicated partions during install - pros/cons?

2021-08-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 08:27:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > Do you mean this? > > > > > > ┌┤ [!!] Partition disks ├┐ > > > ││ > > > │ Mount point for this p

Re: Permission Questions

2021-08-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 05:07:16PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > unicorn:~$ strace bash -c 'echo stuff >> /tmp/123' > [...] > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/123", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES > (Permission denied) > > As far as I can see, this is a kernel bug. Unless I'm overlook

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined into a > RAID1? d-i doesn't as such. In Linux MD, member devices contain metadata to allow assembly by udev. You can examine the data on an MD member device like this: $

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-24 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 07:45:03AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I was accused in public of wrongdoing on the Debian bug tracking > system That is an interesting point of view, but I think you were simply accused of being factually wrong and creating a poor quality bug report. It was your choic

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 04:06:10PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 01:59:58PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Back then you could more or less safely assume that a file system > > image wasn't out to kill you. These days, though... > > Oh. Citation needed. Curious minds wan

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 03:34:28PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > My question though is, can emails be deleted from the debian > archive of the mailing list (and comments from the debian bug > list?)? I've seen spam emails deleted from the list archives and from bug logs; there is even

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:06:34AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:31:47 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994899 - specifically. > > the first reply (comment 10). […] > I've read over message #5, and without b

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Roy, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 05:07:46PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to upgrades. > Mostly it's been a matter of running synaptic package manager from > time to time, and that's about it. Except that lately it doesn't > seem to be finding

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:22:17PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: [Upgrading from Debian 8.11] > don't waste any more time trying to upgrade from a version that > ancient. I've done 8 to 10 (by way of 9) on ten different machines in the year preceding the 11 release

Re: OT: Interpreting math markup

2021-09-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:11:49PM -0400, Rh Kramer wrote: > I see things like (that's a simple one): > > [math]R_0[/math] > > I'm trying to find out what that markup is named, Is it AsciiMath? http://asciimath.org/#syntax I've no idea if it is, but I found it in a list of math mar

Re: You have been removed from the list (repeatedly)

2021-10-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Greg, On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > My best guess is that someone is spamming debian-user, the messages are > being sent to everyone, my local MTA's spam filters are blocking them, > and the mailing list is getting mad at me for blocking the spam that it's > s

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Josef, On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 01:18:55PM +0200, Josef Strýček wrote: > I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd > and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var  Of course. > /tmp /opt. Could you recommend layout for ssd and hdd,

Re: Then it happened to me...

2021-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 06:18:27PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > As you can see, the address at the top of the body was not mine. Mine > appears further down inside the body. Still inside angle brackets. I > suspect that's relevant to whatever bug bendel is suffering from. > > And yeah,

Re: Package information for debian installer

2021-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Edhoari, On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 06:03:36AM +0700, Edhoari Setiyoso wrote: > Could anyone inform me what is the package name of this installer in order > to correctly submit request? The package name is "debian-installer"; its team web site is at: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-insta

Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

2021-10-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 04:27:10AM -0400, lou wrote: > i have stretch, it use 3G memory, 1G memory can't be used […] > i think pae kernel can use 4G memory It can be a restriction of your motherboard. Has it ever seen more than 3G in any operating system? If your CPU capable of running

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 06:27:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Can I, during the manual disk partitioning phase, specify that > /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition *AND* the rest of > /home/richard/ be on its own partition? Yes, because when you specify what filesystem or ot

Re: Change eth0 to eno1

2021-10-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:06:18PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Along about Debian 10, the standard first ethernet card interface for a > desktop machine, referred to as "eth0", was changed to "eno1". Just out of > idle curiosity, does anyone know why this was done? (It broke some stuff o

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sde > /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > should work. You may want to create identical partitions on each of the devices first, and use those instead of the raw

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 03:41:15PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:12:58 -0500 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Despite nuking mdadm.conf, and zeroing the drive with dd, its still > > locked and untouchable by gparted. And I cannot rmmod the raid stuff, > > its busy. Blank

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > There's also the fact that disk manufacturers are notoriously > unable to commit to the same size disks across models. I was interested to discover a couple of years ago that there has for some time been a standard for storage c

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:42:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > > After you have set them up, mdadm.conf has things like this: > > > > ARRAY /dev/md/0 metadata=1.2 name=debian:0 > > UUID=aeac6271:676b1852:04f077d6:fcd285d6 ARRAY /dev/m

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 08:39:15AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > And I just found I didn't have an mdadm.conf, and I had figure a > new -C would have created it. But the last time I ran it, no > mdadm.conf was created. > > So I made a 2 liner from the --scan output. What else should it have? It ca

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 09:28:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > the next question is why does > --scan even report it if its no good? blkid returns different UUID's. > Would those work? Why are you under the impression that every single thing called a UUID must work as a *filesystem* UUID? Lots

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 01:14:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I wouldn't argue near as loud if it hadn't already been proven to me that > what you call filesystem UUID's are volatile. What I and everyone else call filesystem UUIDs do not change unless you force them to change, because they only

Re: processor compatibility

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 09:39:16PM +0100, deutsch_da...@tuta.io wrote: > Hello! Is the Intel Core i7-9750H processor supported by your operating > system? I don't have one but this suggests yes: https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?id=cpu:intel-6-158-10-core-i7-9750h That CPU is a c

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 07:26:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is not me thats confused Yes, it still is. > but both lsblk and blkid spitting out 4 sets of identical UUID's as all > drives are identical. Like I have told you many many times in this thread, the *context* of the UUID matters. Bo

Re: Fw: new buster install, dvd said 11.,1 but installed 10.1

2021-11-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 09:03:21PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > I have installed bullseye now, but still can't install anything fom > trinity despite installing the keyrnig and the updatig it wth synaptic. > What the hell is going on? We don't know because despite being repeatedly aske

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:14:09AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Bottom line, there is a high probability that your SSD will work fine for > many years and if/when it will die for whatever reason, just replace it and > recover data (or a whole system) from backups. OP: I agree wit

Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

2021-12-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Tim, On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:11:04PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > Is there a simple way to tell if the kernel/hypervisor that was used to > boot is the one currently installed in /boot. I do not do this - I build my own hypervisor packages when there is an upstream XSA that affects me and th

CUPS mailing list (was: Re: bullseye fusses)

2021-12-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 06:11:28PM -0800, Gene Heskett wrote: > #3: I see apple has completed the embrace,engulf,destroy of cups, its mailing > list > has been removed from the apple servers. The bounce as undeliverable msg > resolves > to an apple server, but there is not a cup list ther

Re: CUPS mailing list (was: Re: bullseye fusses)

2021-12-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 02:56:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is that the list that you are talking about? For those playing along at home, Gene directly sent me a rambling HTML reply which did confirm that c...@cups.org is the list he is talking about, but only went on to say that he

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 04:31:55PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2021-12-14, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 11:14:37 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Andy, plz remove your PM when posting to debian-user, firefox makes > >> it very difficult to put the list address as the To: with

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jorge, On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:39:59AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > I intend to use Btrfs. This means if I later decide to use some of the > unpartitioned space, I can easily and efficiently add it to the main > Btrfs file system without directly using LVM (since Btrfs actually >

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 06:58:34AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > I only made the apple comment after receiving bounce msgs > 3 times from attempting to post to @cups.org. I've already asked once that you show us the exact text of those bounces, so that we might determine where the proble

Re: linux-image-amd64 (5.10.84-1)

2021-12-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Philippe, This is probably more of a debian-user question - let's continue there. On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:43:28AM +0100, phil995511 - wrote: > Hello, > > The linux-image-amd64 (5.10.84-1) are announced from something days on this > page : > > https://packages.debian.org/fr/linux-image-amd

Re: qmail package in bullseye

2021-12-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 09:58:11PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > Hi, there is no qmail package in bullseye. what's wrong? It was removed from Debian in May 2020 and hasn't been in a release since buster: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961289 If you still have interest, can m

Re: How to see the list of CRITICALLY vulnerable packages in Debian?

2021-12-25 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 12:07:26AM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > No dev so much as bothered to click on the 'NVD' link? > > Merry Christmas! Dear max, I am the ghost of Christmas Open Source and I encourage you to ask for a full refund from Debian and all other volunteer projects that you are unsatisf

Re: LVM passphrase

2021-12-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 10:00:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 08:55:29AM +1100, David wrote: > > I don't know about Grub asking for passwords, because I don't > > encrypt boot partitions. But if the question is about the initrd > > password prompt, then ... >

Re: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

2021-12-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:15:18PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > Marco Möller writes: > > this command is then sent to all SSH connected remote systems at > > once as if the command would have been typed in at each single > > of the SSH connected remote systems CLI individually. Do you > > k

Re: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

2021-12-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Marco, On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:49:38PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > As my aim is to interactively run the same commands on several machines, in > order to observe if they everywhere behave the same or what different > results they would produce, does each SSH session report back to Ansible t

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 05:52:36PM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: > In a script, I'd like to search for a pattern in a file, and replace that > line entirely with a new line, once (not globally). I've tried > > sed -i s/search/new_line/ > > but this only replaces the string itself. I want t

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:28:54AM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > https://www.preining.info/blog/2022/01/future-of-my-packages-in-debian/ > > I wish that someone could publish some background information, neutral and > respectful and without harming anybody. If Norbert himself did not elabo

Re: Re: XEN domU: Guest Rx stalled, unreachable

2022-01-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 04:35:51PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:11:30PM +0100, Felix Odenkirchen wrote: > > A udev update changed the interface name for virtual network devices > > from "eth0" to "enX0" (using persistent block device naming scheme), > > https://

Re: How to best whitelist CDN deb.debian.org?

2022-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 08:23:15AM +0100, Andreas Ames wrote: > I am sitting behind a firewall, in my case esp. ZScaler. I am wondering, > what the best way is to whitelist "deb.debian.org" for package management. I think you may be going about things the wrong way. I don't know wha

Re: How to best whitelist CDN deb.debian.org?

2022-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 02:20:08PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > If you have a secure network that must not be able to connect out to > arbitrary web sites, I think you probably should be running a local > proxy or Debian mirror outside of that network, then allowing your > secure network

Re: smartd

2022-01-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:18:27AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > smartd reports to syslog. > > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 155 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Sending warning via > /usr/share/smartmontools/s

Re: smartd

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:16:53PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Andy Smith > Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:07:23 + > > You are better off finding the damaged sectors and causing the drive > > to remap them by writing new content in there. Then you don&

"Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:17:25AM +, mick crane wrote: > I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that software > got removed from the repository because of variable names. If you're referring to the WebOOB package, that was not why it was removed and incorrect stat

Re: "Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mick, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:52:12AM +, mick crane wrote: > On 2022-01-23 11:38, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:17:25AM +, mick crane wrote: > > > I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that > > > software > >

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi delptes, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 01:30:03PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > I do not know you and I do not insult you > I am fed up of guys like you. > you are one of those smart, morally superior *** *, who know they are > better. > I even do not expect you will understand what I am saying >

Re: smartd

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 07:09:48PM +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > To really profit from the enhanced reliability, you need to play > through the recovery scenario, too. I recommend doing this in a VM > unless you have some dedicated machine with at least two HDDs to > play with. If wanting to p

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 04:08:34PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally > kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything? You don't need to; having IPv6 active doesn't cause any problem even if you don't have a default route that su

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 06:22:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, January 23, 2022 5:43:49 PM EST Andy Smith wrote: > > However, if for your own eccentric reasons you insist: > > > > # echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1' > > > /etc/sy

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:30:20PM -0500, a wrote: > i've installed debian 11 for both arch on same PC, amd64 seems faster > > is there some tool to demonstrate performance of PC? Regardless of performance you should be more concerned that 32-bit x86 parts of the Linux kernel have more bu

Re: Security

2022-01-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:05:51PM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Kind of strange that some people complains we lag behind when I get > information everyday that fixes are available for packages in the stable > / old stable release. I think you are getting worked up over t

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:25:20PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > What file, and where, do I edit to put that log someplace else? What's unclear or not working about the --syslog= option in "man spamd"? https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/spamassassin/spamd.8p.en.html You can change

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:10:42PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -s ~/log/mail.log" spamd is a system service and it normally (initially) runs as root, so using a ~ there probably isn't what you want. Storing logs from such a daemon

Re: Package release number.

2021-03-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Peter, On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 08:16:22AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > peter@joule:/home/peter$ dpkg -l | grep qemu-system-x86 > ii qemu-system-x86 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 > i386 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) > > How is the "version nu

Re: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY and Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary

2021-03-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:36:37PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Personally, I don't think it is wise to throw away any HDD as soon as it > gets a few pending bad blocks for whatever reason. It really depends upon your risk stance. At home, on my home fileserver, it has RAID, it

Re: Hardware failure?: Now what?

2021-03-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 02:29:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > MCE events: > 1 2021-03-20 13:58:30 -0600 error: Internal parity error, mcg mcgstatus=0, > mci Corrected_error Error_enabled, mcgcap=0x0c09, > status=0x904f0005, tsc=0xf442c87fda, walltime=0x605653e5, > cpu=0x

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

2021-03-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gary, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:20:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I suggest that, since it appears the developers can't get this work > reliably, that the option to use the whole disk be removed and mdadm insist > on using partitions. At the very least, mdadm --create should issue a > warning

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

2021-03-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:20:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I've found many other people complaining about similar issues when using > whole disks to create mdadm RAID arrays. Some of these complaints go back > many years, so this isn't new. Any time I've seen this problem pursued (as opp

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

2021-03-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:31:21PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm not convinced that the problem is the BIOS writing a partition > table. In your link the last post talks about zapping the > partition table to stop the behaviour. This suggests the BIOS/UEFI > was restoring the backup partiti

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

2021-04-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 12:41:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > My best guess, and admittedly a WAG, certainly not a SWAG, is that ssh > and its ilk have been around for yonks. It has not been updated to allow > what the lastest rfc now does. Based on that, perhaps a low priority bug >

Re: AppleWEBkit

2021-05-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:22:27PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is AppleWebKit a bot? "AppleWebKit" is found in the user agent of web browsers on macOS and iOS, including Google Chrome. https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/explore/layout_engine_name/webkit/ Since anyone can

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 06:26:18PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > I goofed up and accidentally moved my /usr directory while trying to make > room on a full drive. I was able to recover, but I'm finding that services > are not working because the sticky bits for many files /usr/bin/* were lo

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:40:38PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:46:38PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > I can't think of an easy way if you don't have backups. If you have > > another system you could get a list of all its permissions like

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