Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:40:53AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 04 December 2020 01:03:34 Andy Smith wrote: > > Again we have been down this avenue before, but I will try one last > > time. […] > > So, can you show us a few lines of logs from your > > /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/4/2020 7:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 04 December 2020 01:03:34 Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:03:57AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: what file do I edit to add todays /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log to its list of logs to watch. That's the log file with

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 December 2020 01:34:52 john doe wrote: > On 12/4/2020 7:03 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:03:57AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> what file do I edit to add todays > >> /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log to its list of logs to > >> watch. That

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 December 2020 01:03:34 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:03:57AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > what file do I edit to add todays > > /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log to its list of logs to > > watch. That's the log file with the real data in it today.

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/4/2020 7:03 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:03:57AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: what file do I edit to add todays /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log to its list of logs to watch. That's the log file with the real data in it today. And does it need enabled in a

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:03:57AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > what file do I edit to add todays > /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log to its list of logs to > watch. That's the log file with the real data in it today. And > does it need enabled in another, different file. Again we h

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/3/2020 11:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after loading the

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 December 2020 21:13:35 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:35:27AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and > > proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my > > upload bandwidth. They've

Re: doing this does not make touchpad work

2020-12-03 Thread kaye n
Hi Friends! Forgive my ignorance, I am not an expert. How exactly do I attach the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log immediately after restarting lightdm and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf ? Also, content of which are do you want to see? Thank you for your patience On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:54

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread David Christensen
On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Why? Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory You should backup

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hi David, On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:32:35PM +1100, David wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 13:10, Andy Smith wrote: > > So much text written without clear statement of problem! > > I understand why you wrote that, but you might be unaware that > Martin has previously mentioned on this list that he

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 13:10, Andy Smith wrote: [...] > I am surprised that just looking up documentation > on systemd timers doesn't answer that question for you. [...] > So much text written without clear statement of problem! I understand why you wrote that, but you might be unaware that Ma

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread John Hasler
Jerry Mellon wrote: > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > version for intel on the system. > Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after > loading the 64bit version...

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:35:27AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and > proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my upload > bandwidth. They've moved it to 5 different addresses since midnight. This must be th

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:39:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am guilty as charged but haven't yet found the relevant information > as to how systemd helps solve this issue. You can put a time zone in a systemd timer. I can't see how it can be stated any simpler than that. If you

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 09:39, Jerry Mellon wrote: > Hi, > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > version for intel on the system. > Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load a

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:05, Brian wrote: > On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 07:20:19 +1100, David wrote: > > I think this is an area that possibly needs some investigation or > > improvement. I would like to know how this ISO search is being done > > and what is the reason for the failure (and why can't I

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread basti
Hello, install 64bit over 32 is a bit tricky. If you have a separate /home partion you do not need to backup your data but it is always recommented. When you have a backup of your data I would recomment to use LVM and create lv's not to large, they can grow online. LVM is a more flexeble way to

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 07:20:19 +1100, David wrote: [...] > I think this is an area that possibly needs some investigation or > improvement. I would like to know how this ISO search is being done > and what is the reason for the failure (and why can't I just specify > the ISO I want to use, no com

i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread Jerry Mellon
Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after loading the 64bit version or can I in someway just load

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Keith Christian
Gene, Fail2ban can be difficult to comprehend at first, so here are some ideas: As either the fail2ban user (may need root), run this command to see that fail2ban is active and what "jails" are active, a jail corresponds to one type of message in the log file fail2ban is watching, which are set u

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 00:58, wrote: > If you are asking about the multiport adapter that I have, there is a small > enclosed module (of some sort) in a small, not easily / obviously openable, > enclosure, with "sockets" for VGA, (2x) USB (the old style large connector), > RJ-45, USB-C. There is

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 21:49, wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:35:38PM +1100, David wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 21:15, wrote: > > Does the active cable have a USB-C connector on the VGA end? > > Yes, it should. > Tickling your favourite search engine (let's hope it ain't Google ;-) > yie

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 03.12.2020 19:58, skrev Gene Heskett: On Thursday 03 December 2020 09:14:29 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:02:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Yes John. But explain to me what fail2ban is sopposed to do? It's supposed to "monitor" (tail -F equivalent) your log files, and

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread David
Hi Peter, Replies below ... On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 03:39, wrote: > From: David Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 09:27:45 +1100 > > These are different to the ones inside the iso ... > Thanks. My assumption of no difference was/is lethal. Any chance of > mentioning the distinction in the instructions?

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Dec 2020 at 08:22:52 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 09:27:45 +1100 > > Per the "paragraph 3" I mentioned previously and quoted at the top > > of this message, the required vmlinuz and initrd.gz for (current, stable, > > i386) > > can be downloaded

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 December 2020 09:14:29 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:02:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Yes John. But explain to me what fail2ban is sopposed to do? > > It's supposed to "monitor" (tail -F equivalent) your log files, and > look for anomalies. If it finds one

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread peter
From: David Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 09:27:45 +1100 > Per the "paragraph 3" I mentioned previously and quoted at the top > of this message, the required vmlinuz and initrd.gz for (current, stable, > i386) > can be downloaded from: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-i386/curre

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/3/2020 3:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 03 December 2020 08:07:33 john doe wrote: On 12/3/2020 1:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my upload bandwidth. They've m

Re: Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > > > What issue(s) are you having exactly? > > The thing is that if we load the hommepage via the Google tools testing > performance, we get a high time of load (7s instead of 2 recommended). We > try optimizing the page, but it seems another problem is the response

Re: Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 03/12/2020 à 13:28, john doe a écrit : On 12/3/2020 12:36 PM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hey guys, I need some help setting up a Varnish server and tweaking it to get along with Wordpress. (On a Debian VPS with Apache.) Why don't you take a VPS that do that for you? Mainly because t

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-03 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Martin McCormick writes: > I record a news broadcast from one of the BBC services > every week day at 17:45 British time. When Europe and North > America stop or start shifting daylight in Autumn or Spring, > there's a really good chance of missing some of the broadcasts if > one doesn't th

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:02:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Yes John. But explain to me what fail2ban is sopposed to do? It's supposed to "monitor" (tail -F equivalent) your log files, and look for anomalies. If it finds one, it's supposed to take action, which is typically adding an entry to

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 December 2020 08:07:33 john doe wrote: > On 12/3/2020 1:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and > > proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my > > upload bandwidth. They've moved it to 5 different addresses

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 03, 2020 05:35:38 AM David wrote: > Does the active cable have a USB-C connector on the VGA end? > The comment I responded to speaks of analog VGA signals > on a USB-C connector. If you are asking about the multiport adapter that I have, there is a small enclosed module (of

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread rhkramer
Thanks! On Thursday, December 03, 2020 05:15:12 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > USB-C is a mess. Quoth [1]: > >"A device with a Type-C connector does not necessarily >implement USB, USB Power Delivery, or any Alternate Mode: >the Type-C connector is common to several technologies while >

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 03, 2020 04:35:37 AM David wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 02:27, wrote: > > I did find out that a USB-C cable / connector has 24 conductors -- so it > > is conceivable (with my lack of knowledge) that some laptop > > manufacturers actually put out an (analog) VGA signal on th

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-03 Thread Martin McCormick
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 01:58:45PM +, James B wrote: > > This might be wrong, but as far as I understand doesn't systemd > > now have the ability to manage cron jobs (as well as mount points, > > home folders and other things)?. Is there anything in this newer > > functionality that might mak

Re: swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/3/2020 1:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my upload bandwidth. They've moved it to 5 different addresses since midnight. I want to nail the door shut on the first attempt

swamp rat bots Q

2020-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my upload bandwidth. They've moved it to 5 different addresses since midnight. I want to nail the door shut on the first attempted access by these AH's. Does anyone have

Re: Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/3/2020 12:36 PM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hey guys, I need some help setting up a Varnish server and tweaking it to get along with Wordpress. (On a Debian VPS with Apache.) Why don't you take a VPS that do that for you? I have very little experience with reverse proxies and cachin

Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hey guys, I’m working on a website for my company (it’s a small Free Software company in France, mainly catering to visually-impaired computer users), and I need some help setting up a Varnish server and tweaking it to get along with Wordpress. (On a Debian VPS with Apache.) I have very litt

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:35:38PM +1100, David wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 21:15, wrote: [...] > > USB-C is a mess. Quoth [1]: [...] > Does the active cable have a USB-C connector on the VGA end? Yes, it should. > The comment I responded to speaks of analog VGA signals > on a USB-C conne

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 21:15, wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:35:37PM +1100, David wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 02:27, wrote: > > > I did find out that a USB-C cable / connector has 24 conductors -- so it > > > is > > > conceivable (with my lack of knowledge) that some laptop manufacture

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:35:37PM +1100, David wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 02:27, wrote: > > > I did find out that a USB-C cable / connector has 24 conductors -- so it is > > conceivable (with my lack of knowledge) that some laptop manufacturers > > actually put out an (analog) VGA signal on

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 02:27, wrote: > I did find out that a USB-C cable / connector has 24 conductors -- so it is > conceivable (with my lack of knowledge) that some laptop manufacturers > actually put out an (analog) VGA signal on the USB-C cable. Is this just wishful thinking or do you have ev

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 dec 20, 12:10:33, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.en.html#boot-initrd > > > > Quoting paragraphs 2 and 3 from your link above ... > > > > Alternatively, if you intend to keep an existing partition on the hard > > drive unchanged during