Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 21:41, Long Wind wrote: seagate's new tool is for Windows, i've not used Windows for long timei've read their guide for old tool, its function look like smart tooli'm afraid  it won't be helpful to my diagnosis effort Seagate SeaTools Bootable is a USB flash drive live Linux di

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 21 sep 20, 17:22:26, Gary Dale wrote: > > I presented the line that failed, copied and pasted from the Konsole > session. What more do you want, other than to complain? In such cases it is best to attach[1] the smallest complete[2] script demonstrating the behaviour. Based on the informa

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 16:18, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-21 09:34, Gary Dale wrote: As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 10:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 08:18:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: '…' and "…" are known as neutral, vertical, straight, typewriter, dumb, or ASCII quotation marks. ‘…’ and “…” are known as t

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-21 Thread Long Wind
On Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 12:17:32 PM GMT+8, Long Wind wrote: On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 4:33:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen Go through the test, wipe, and re-test process with Seatools Bootable: https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Sorry about last mail,

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 18:04, Gary Dale wrote: The two servers are for different customers. I would not want to create a tunnel between them. Instead I have my normal ssh tunnels to each server from my workstation. However the script is only readable by root while my tunnels are for my non-root account

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-21 Thread Long Wind
On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 4:33:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen Go through the test, wipe, and re-test process with Seatools Bootable: https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ David

Re: baloo_file_extr -- how to disable or remove it?

2020-09-21 Thread Intense Red
> Can someone shed some light on how to disable or remove the > baloo_file_extr? To answer my own question, as root run the following: # balooctl disable # balooctl stop Then it'll be likely you'll need to run: # killall -9 baloo_file baloo_file_extractor For me I had to run these rep

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 16:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:19:22PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-21 00:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42' is involved in quote removal. Joy! Joy! Happy! Happy! Another whole

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 12:43:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:34:20PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh > > sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat > >

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-21 Thread Joseph Loo
have you tried "ssh -Y" option On 9/21/20 4:38 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :). For some reason ssh sessions seem to time out pretty quickly. I've tried setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax and also ServerAliveInter

ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-21 Thread Britton Kerin
I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :). For some reason ssh sessions seem to time out pretty quickly. I've tried setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax and also ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Bug report: prog run via keyboard shortcut gets a different SSH agent?

2020-09-21 Thread Michael Slade
I don't know what package to assign this to so I guess I can't use the usual bug reporting mechanism. I have a debian bullseye mate desktop with a custom keyboard shortcut set up to run xterm.  I noticed that an ssh agent is automatically set up for it, but a different agent is set up for prog

ifup gets different IPv6 address than Network Manager

2020-09-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
This one is riddling me. I have three Buster hosts that use Network Manager. Two are running Gnome and one is a Freedombox. I have several other hosts that I just enabled IPv6 DHCP via the /etc/network/interfaces configuration file. All hosts generate a SLAAC address and all receive a DHCP addre

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 13:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:59:32PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Did you try it with Konsole? I got $ hd a   b   61 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  62 0a |a   b.| 000a In other words, konsole *did* alter the contents. Most shells (all that I am

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/20/20 11:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 01:40, Reco wrote: Hi. Hello.  :-) On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:32:47AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote:   On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen First, bac

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 12:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:34:20PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 08:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: '…' and "…" are known as neutral, vertical, straight, typewriter, dumb, or ASCII quotation marks. ‘…’ and “…” are known as typographic, curly, curved, book, or smart quotation marks. Y

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-21 07:51, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 09:18:33PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-report" There is nothing wrong with that alleged line. There is an incredible lack of openness and forthrightness in this thread. Wha

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:19:22PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-21 00:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42' > > is involved in quote removal. > > Joy! Joy! Happy! Happy! Another whole dimension for potential problems!

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 00:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 05:27:49PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Where does this behaviour (keeping the quotes) get set? What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42' is involved in quote removal. Joy! Joy! Happy! Happy! Anoth

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 09:34, Gary Dale wrote: As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-21 Thread Brian
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 08:45:02 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 sep 20, 20:41:05, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:12:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > Best to keep it as simple as possible. > > > > Keep to what we have? Glad you agree. > > Well, having GNOME installed

baloo_file_extr -- how to disable or remove it?

2020-09-21 Thread Intense Red
On my KDE/stable box I have the baloo_file_extr process running hog wild. It takes up fully 1/2 of the memory and significant amounts of CPU. I gather it's some sub-function of Dolphin but there's no way I want this "service" running on my computer. Can someone shed some light on how to d

Re: [SOLVED] Re: libvirt guest bridge configuration

2020-09-21 Thread Lucas Castro
On 9/20/20 7:01 AM, Lucio Crusca wrote: Il 19/09/20 16:42, Fabien Roucaute ha scritto: Need the output of 'systemctl status networking.service' Using the console I could find the culprit: the datacenter uses ethernet switches that filter MAC addresses, so I had to set the virbr10 mac add

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:59:32PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > Did you try it with Konsole? I got > > $ hd > a   b >   61 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  62 0a |a   b.| > 000a In other words, konsole *did* alter the contents. > Most shells (all that I am aware of) treat tabs and blanks a

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:34:20PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh > sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat >

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 07:30:20 (-0400), Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 1:45 AM Andrei POPESCU > > wrote: > > On Sb, 19 sep 20, 20:41:05, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:12:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > Best to keep it as simple as possible. > > > > > > K

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 12:16:53 (+1000), David wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are many ways to work around it. My preferred way is to clear > > the screen with Ctrl-L (ESC Ctrl-L for me, because I use bash in vi > > mode). That will redraw the shell promp

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 08:18:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > '…' and "…" are known as neutral, vertical, straight, typewriter, > > dumb, or ASCII quotation marks. > > > > ‘…’ and “…” are known as typographic, curly, curved, bo

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:09:07 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote: > > The fuse documentation is so fragmentary, scattered and sparse that > > I haven't really got a good feel for what is is or how it works. > > I'm always thinking that I've missed some opti

Re: Linphone contacts.

2020-09-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
> pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely > > stored in ~/.linphone-friends.db. > > > > Documentation that I've found doesn't explain. > > > > Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text? > > > > SQlite? Start by using file(1) to see what

Re: Linphone contacts.

2020-09-21 Thread Cousin Stanley
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely > stored in ~/.linphone-friends.db. > > Documentation that I've found doesn't explain. > > Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text? > > SQlite? I don't have linphone installed but sqlite is li

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > '…' and "…" are known as neutral, vertical, straight, typewriter, > dumb, or ASCII quotation marks. > > ‘…’ and “…” are known as typographic, curly, curved, book, or smart > quotation marks. Yes. This is one of the possible caus

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 9/21/20, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-20 20:38, David wrote: > >> From the perspective of not knowing how these bash scripts were deployed, >> it's worth confirming that what we are assuming is the "same bash script" >> are >> indeed exactly identical. >> >> $ cmp script1 script2 >> >>

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 09:18:33PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-report" There is nothing wrong with that alleged line. There is an incredible lack of openness and forthrightness in this thread. What are you hiding? Why are you hiding

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-21 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 1:45 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 sep 20, 20:41:05, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:12:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > Best to keep it as simple as possible. > > > > Keep to what we have? Glad you agree. > > Well, having GNOME installed after un-c

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-21 Thread deloptes
Peter wrote: > All 70 will be physical. I think about making 1 single server then using > hdclone or acronis to make copy of it to the rest. Then write a small > bash script for the onsite tech to change IP. Better ideas ? :-) ansible you invest time to configure (perhaps to learn as well) you

download Facebook group?

2020-09-21 Thread Emanuel Berg
Is there software to download a Facebook group and all its (public) material, preferable already sorted into neat dirs and files etc? Like a youtube-dl, only for Facebook? In particular, I'd like to read the following material, but as plain text (or whatever) files, and with my own software...

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-20 22:55, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 18:18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-09-20 20:36, David Christensen wrote: The environments are identical. Have you tried '#!/bin/sh' ? That's my shebang line. Have you tried single quotes? Wouldn't want to. Single quotes alter

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread tomas
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 05:27:49PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 > servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly > to a variable substitution problem. > > The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-21 Thread tomas
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:59:41PM -0300, Beco wrote: > Thank you all so much for thid new batch of input Mick, LARAC, David, Tomas > and Reco > Bellow I'll try to answer in a brief way all at once: > > > > > On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 00:34, mick crane wrote: > > Is this Putty or something with k