Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread 황병희
Thanos Katsiolis writes: > Hello, > > I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions > ... Well, i like GNU Emacs than Debian. And i also new to Debian. Before i used Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Debian 11 Bullseye is not bad with GNU Emacs ^^^ Sincerely, Gnus fan Byung-Hee

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread David Christensen
On 11/14/21 4:56 AM, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: Hello, I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions from experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and reliable OS (the policy of the OS is not to

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

2021-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 19:35:57 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > unicorn:~$ sudo lsblk -o +UUID > > David Wright wrote: > > You shouldn't require root for either blkid or lsblk, > > though the former needs a path, and does include a > > warning that the information may be

Re: why autoremove doesn't work

2021-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 19:03:33 (+), Long Wind wrote: > On Sunday, November 14, 2021, 11:54:34 AM EST, David Wright wrote: > > Which is exactly what I said: there's a package that you had already > > installed (aptitude), whose Recommends includes a chain that extends > > to libperl5.32. > > >

Re: set the number of inodes during FS creation via pressed

2021-11-14 Thread David
On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 00:32, phoebus phoebus wrote: > Thanks for the update. > >>From there I found this file for bullseye: > >> https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/bullseye/amd64-main-full.txt > >>which contains this stanza which appears to match your description: > I tryed to adapt li

Re: Use one of many second factors authentication on PAM

2021-11-14 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:57:53 + André Rodier wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been able to configure pam on Linux, to add two factors > authentication for session, sudo, etc... > > First, I tried Google authenticator and a code from my phone, and it is > working like a charm. > > Then, I co

Re: why autoremove doesn't work

2021-11-14 Thread Long Wind
On Sunday, November 14, 2021, 11:54:34 AM EST, David Wright wrote: Which is exactly what I said: there's a package that you had already installed (aptitude), whose Recommends includes a chain that extends to libperl5.32. Would I be correct in assuming that you originally installed aptitude /w

Re: Re: obsolete content in 'Debian NEW and BYHAND Packages'?

2021-11-14 Thread Patrice Duroux
Then I have just submitted a reportbug to the pseudopackage ftp.debian.org in case. Thanks! Patrice

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

2021-11-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > unicorn:~$ sudo lsblk -o +UUID David Wright wrote: > You shouldn't require root for either blkid or lsblk, > though the former needs a path, and does include a > warning that the information may be read from cache. This depends highly on the age of the system. On Deb

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
For me Debian strikes a nice balance between convenience and staying out of my way and preserving my changes when I want to customize things. As mentioned, apt, though I like using aptitude through its TUI mostly, handles dependencies not just for installing but for removing packages as well. Whe

Re: preseeding Bullseye

2021-11-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 18:48:54 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 11/14/2021 6:34 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 10:54:38 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 08:14:49 (+), André Rodier wrote: > > > > On 14/11/2021 07:39, john doe wrote: > > > > > On 11/13/2021 5:39

Re: obsolete content in 'Debian NEW and BYHAND Packages'?

2021-11-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-11-14 at 12:21, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Hi, > > I am curious about the reason to see cockpit listed here: > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > whereas cockpit currently is 257 in Sid: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cockpit I'm not terribly familiar with this interface, but just o

Re: preseeding Bullseye

2021-11-14 Thread john doe
On 11/14/2021 6:34 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 10:54:38 -0600, David Wright wrote: On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 08:14:49 (+), André Rodier wrote: On 14/11/2021 07:39, john doe wrote: On 11/13/2021 5:39 PM, André Rodier wrote: No, it does not work, it's still stuck on the same screen.

obsolete content in 'Debian NEW and BYHAND Packages'?

2021-11-14 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, I am curious about the reason to see cockpit listed here: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html whereas cockpit currently is 257 in Sid: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cockpit Is this a bug? Are there other cases like this? Not sure where to report if there is something to do about this. Th

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Karen Lewellen
Actually, this question lets me raise a deeper one. Why Linux...at all? I am often in discussions where the question comes up, mostly because on the one hand its everywhere, but on the other it seems its broader user base is limited. Intellectuals, developers, programmers, certainly, but gener

Re: preseeding Bullseye

2021-11-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 10:54:38 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 08:14:49 (+), André Rodier wrote: > > On 14/11/2021 07:39, john doe wrote: > > > On 11/13/2021 5:39 PM, André Rodier wrote: > > > > I am building a preseed file for Debian Bullseye. > > > > > > > > I am able to

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

2021-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 18:37:34 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > Gene, the answer is, anythng the TYPE of which is a valid file system. > > Try, e.g.: > > > > blkid | grep -E -i \(ext\|ntfs\|fat\) > > lsblk is a lot easier and

Re: set the number of inodes during FS creation via pressed

2021-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 13:32:45 (+), phoebus phoebus wrote: >     1024 1024 2048 ext4 \ >   lv_name{ var+logc } \ >   method{ lvm } format{ } \ >     use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ >   mountpoint{ /var/logc } \ >     options/nodev{ nodev } \ >     options/nosuid{

Re: preseeding Bullseye

2021-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 08:14:49 (+), André Rodier wrote: > On 14/11/2021 07:39, john doe wrote: > > On 11/13/2021 5:39 PM, André Rodier wrote: > > > I am building a preseed file for Debian Bullseye. > > > > > > I am able to configure many advanced features, like LUKS / LVM, etc. > > > > > > Ho

Re: why autoremove doesn't work

2021-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 00:05:24 (+), Long Wind wrote: > Thanks, i can't understand why autoremove doesn't work, > from user's point of view, it's easy to implement > let's examine 1st package >  aptitude why libperl5.32 > i   aptitude   Recommends libdpkg-perl > i A libdpkg-perl

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Joe
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:56:39 +0200 Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions > from experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and > reliable OS Tha

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On 14/11/2021 12:56, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions > from experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and > reliable OS (the policy of the OS

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread phoebus phoebus
Hello, The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and reliable OS (the policy of the OS is not to include as many and as much  quickly as possible new features), and that it has a large and dependable community.  Debian stable release(currently 11

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Karthik
On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 6:27 PM Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions from > experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and > reliable OS (the policy

Re: PAM two factors authentication

2021-11-14 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 07:19:21 + (UTC) André Rodier wrote: > > 14 Nov 2021 00:55:25 Celejar : > > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 19:13:27 +0100 > > Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > >> André Rodier writes: > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I can use various second factors authentications on Debian: > >>>

Re: set the number of inodes during FS creation via pressed

2021-11-14 Thread phoebus phoebus
Thanks for the update. >>From there I found this file for bullseye:>>  >>https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/bullseye/amd64-main-full.txt>>which >> contains this stanza which appears to match your description: >>### Description: Typical usage of this partition: >>#  Please specify how th

why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Thanos Katsiolis
Hello, I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions from experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS. The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and reliable OS (the policy of the OS is not to include as many and as much quickly as possibl

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