32 bit thin client

2022-07-16 Thread David
I am running Debian 11 on a 32 bit thin client. This thin client is running headless. I am trying to add either ssmtp or msmtp, but these appear not to be in the repositories. I've tried adding ssmtp, downloaded from the Debian web site, and installing it with dpkg. This fails due to missing depe

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 12:30 AM Marco wrote: > Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400 > schrieb Timothy M Butterworth : > > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask > > because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to > > i686 Pentium 4 and newer. >

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Marco
Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400 schrieb Timothy M Butterworth : > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask > because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to > i686 Pentium 4 and newer. It would be interesting what the benefit of that is. You may

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 19:13:25 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: > On 7/16/22 5:51 PM, David wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 10:24, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > > > Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even > > > though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted al

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Marco
Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:40:08 -0500 schrieb David Wright : > Well, I have a "Intel® Pentium® M processor 1.50GHz". Unfortunately, > "M" does not exactly appear on either a "586←→686" scale, or a > "Pentium←→Pentium4" scale. Pentium M (also some (not all) Celeron M) are based on the Pentium 3 becau

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Sorry I used apt install to install the standard debian package and used apt purge to uninstall. Further, I used rm -r to clean up the directories that were left. If it helps: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Ke

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread David
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 10:24, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even > though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all > directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any > of my programs. Anyone had this pr

Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any of my programs. Anyone had this problem and if so, do you know how to get rid of

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Felix Miata
Timothy M Butterworth composed on 2022-07-16 11:26 (UTC-0400): > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask > because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to i686 > Pentium 4 and newer. # inxi -CMS --vs inxi 3.3.19-00 (2022-06-16) System: Host: m7

Re: Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found

2022-07-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 20:56:51 +0100, Piscium wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 at 19:49, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 18:27:29 +0100, Piscium wrote: > > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable > > > [2] deb.debian.org > > > > Is the mini.iso at > > > > > > http://ftp.nl.debia

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. Thanks I think I'm running it on an eeepc. I don't know what processor that co

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 15:17:03 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 2:26 PM Marco wrote: > > > Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400 > > schrieb Timothy M Butterworth : > > > > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? > > > > Yes, Pentium 3 600 MH

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 18:33:11 (+0100), Darac Marjal wrote: > On 16/07/2022 16:26, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I > > ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 > > (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. > > Debian

Re: Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found

2022-07-16 Thread Piscium
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 at 21:02, Piscium wrote: > I chose "Execute Shell", got a window with instructions that mentions > /target, was dropped into BusyBox, and strangely enough there is no > /target in the RAM disk. The other usual folders at the root are there > (/bin, /dev, and so on). On BusyBo

Re: Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found

2022-07-16 Thread Piscium
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 at 19:26, Charles Curley wrote: > Look in the installation logs for suspicious messages. During > installation, they are at /target/var/log/installer/. After you reboot > into the newly installed system, they are at /var/log/installer/. I chose "Execute Shell", got a window w

Re: Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found

2022-07-16 Thread Piscium
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 at 19:49, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 18:27:29 +0100, Piscium wrote: > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable > > [2] deb.debian.org > > Is the mini.iso at > > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ > >

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 2:26 PM Marco wrote: > Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400 > schrieb Timothy M Butterworth : > > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? > > Yes, Pentium 3 600 MHz (I think it is a coppermine). Works fine. > Out of curiosity what tasks do you use

Re: Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found

2022-07-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 18:27:29 +0100, Piscium wrote: > Hiya, > > I tried to install Sid (on a VirtualBox VM) following the instructions > in [1], section "Use the Unstable "mini.iso" image.". I downloaded the > specified ISO, did the sha256 check, proceeded with all the various > options without

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Marco
Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:30:29 -0400 schrieb Stefan Monnier : > Indeed, it has a Pentium mobile III-M at 1.2GHz. > > I'm not completely sure where that processor sits, to be honest, but > I thought it was based on a CPU core that came before Pentium 4. > E.g. the Pentium 4 supports SSE2, AFAIK, whe

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Marco
Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400 schrieb Timothy M Butterworth : > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? Yes, Pentium 3 600 MHz (I think it is a coppermine). Works fine.

Re: Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found

2022-07-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 18:27:29 +0100 Piscium wrote: > … network configuration also succeeded, then > at the step "Download installer components" I got the error "No kernel > modules found". The mirror is the default and recommended [2]. > > Any ideas? Could it be that the specified ISO got somehow

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-16 Thread john doe
On 7/11/2022 2:29 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:32:49 +0200 john doe wrote: I'm comtemplating buying a Pinebook pro but I'm not sure if this is better then buying a Windows laptop and putting linux on it. I'm looking for something cheap (max would be around 300 bucks), do y

Re: multiple network interfaces...and a ghost

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:28 AM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 7/11/22 21:35, Tixy wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-07-11 at 19:51 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > [...] > >> I decided to try a fresh netinstall alongside and Boom: > >> > >> === > >> multiple network interfaces > >> > >> eno1: Intel Corporation

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/07/2022 16:26, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. Debian hasn't supported 80386 processors for many years. According to https://

Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found

2022-07-16 Thread Piscium
Hiya, I tried to install Sid (on a VirtualBox VM) following the instructions in [1], section "Use the Unstable "mini.iso" image.". I downloaded the specified ISO, did the sha256 check, proceeded with all the various options without any error, network configuration also succeeded, then at the step

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:17 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? > > I'm using Debian (currently stable, tho I often end up moving to > testing) on my Thinkpad X30, yes. > The Thinkpad X30 has a 1.2Ghz Pentium M processor which is i686 n

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
Timothy M Butterworth (12022-07-16): > rc.local does not exist in Debian 11. "/etc/rc.local: No such file or > directory" should it be a file or a directory? rc.local is for compatibility with legacy admin practices. Somebody showed in this thread how it is implemented for systemd. In my opinion,

Re: pavucontrol configuration trouble

2022-07-16 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-16, Thomas George wrote: >  I set the GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller profile to off but > it continually reverts to High Definition HDMI Output which overrides > analog output to my external speakers. > > Today I found it impossible to turn this off. The off option is there

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > rc.local does not exist in Debian 11. "/etc/rc.local: No such file or > directory" should it be a file or a directory? If you wish to use it, it must be a file, with execute permission, and with a valid shebang (#!/bin/sh).

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:07 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 03:49:09AM +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: > > $ sudo crontab -l > > [...] > > @reboot for f in $(/usr/sbin/zfs list -t snap -o name|grep reboot); do > /usr/sbin/zfs destroy $f;done > > @reboot /usr/sbin/zfs snap -r rpool@

Re: pavucontrol configuration trouble

2022-07-16 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2022, 17:30:57 CEST schrieb Thomas George: Just an idea for a BAD workaround: Do set your configuration to you needs, if it works, just edit the rights of the confiuration file to read only, so that the application is no more able to change it. BAD trick, this is very clear t

pavucontrol configuration trouble

2022-07-16 Thread Thomas George
 I set the GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller profile to off but it continually reverts to High Definition HDMI Output which overrides analog output to my external speakers. Today I found it impossible to turn this off. The off option is there put when I try to scroll down to it the opti

Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. Thanks -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 16 Jul 2022, at 14:39, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Tixy writes: > >> rc.local is still run on the latest Debian stable. You need to make >> sure it's a proper executable, i.e. starts with a shebang like >> '#!/bin/sh' and the file has execute permissions. > > Yes and that's because the sys

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Tixy writes: > rc.local is still run on the latest Debian stable. You need to make > sure it's a proper executable, i.e. starts with a shebang like > '#!/bin/sh' and the file has execute permissions. Yes and that's because the systemd package contains the rc-local.service which just runs /etc/rc

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-16 Thread Roger Price
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, Lee wrote: I don't have play, so I tried aplay .. and it works, even if I'm logged out, even if someone else is logged in. ## run the script every minute $ crontab -l | tail -3 # m h dom mon dow command * * * * */home/lee/bin/neener.sh ## which plays a .wav

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 08:13:56AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2022-07-16 at 05:30 +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: > > I was of the impression (which I think it is fair to say has been created) > > that systemd had done away with /etc/rc.local > > rc.local is still run on the latest Debian stable. Yo

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 05:35:39AM +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sat 16 Jul 2022, at 05:30, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > Why isn't root's $PATH available to root crontab? ie. including the > > link /sbin -> /usr/sbin? > > By which I mean: why can't root crontab do everything sudo can do? Becaus

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-16 Thread Lee
On 7/16/22, Roger Price wrote: > People occasionally have a cron job emit some sound each hour. On my Debian > 9 > machine I hear Biff [1] barking. In /etc/crontab I have an entry to call a > script bark.sh which does the barking. Typically > > 0,1 0,12 * * * rprice full-path-to/bark.sh 12 2>>&1

Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-16 Thread Roger Price
People occasionally have a cron job emit some sound each hour. On my Debian 9 machine I hear Biff [1] barking. In /etc/crontab I have an entry to call a script bark.sh which does the barking. Typically 0,1 0,12 * * * rprice full-path-to/bark.sh 12 2>>&1 where bark.sh is a Bash script which c

Re: root crontab @reboot for loop fails

2022-07-16 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2022-07-16 at 05:30 +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: > I was of the impression (which I think it is fair to say has been created) > that systemd had done away with /etc/rc.local rc.local is still run on the latest Debian stable. You need to make sure it's a proper executable, i.e. starts with a