Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 09:06:47PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote: > > > when I > > > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. > > > > May it happen that you have dead

Re: mktime (was: Re: systemd and timezone)

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 01:09:02PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:56 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > Here's what someone on the libc mailing list suggested: [...] > The person also suggested using Gnulib. My project was not using > Gnulib, so it was not an option. Tha

Re: Test

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 05:32:04PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > Perhaps you should use debian-lists-test, > . **THANK YOU** (I know, I'm breaking my promise of bowing out of this thread, but this is just the kind of constructive behaviour I k

Re: Test

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:08:11PM +, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 12:15 -0500, Pocket wrote: > > This is a test of the emergency broadcast system > > Please stop spamming the 1000 or so people subscribed to this list. Folks: the OP might be a bit of a challenge to some of us (I don't

Re: Help: network abuse

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 8:58 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 12/23/23 01:29, Tim Woodall wrote: > > The fact that the OP is not sending a SYN+ACK (according to the > > tcpdumps that I saw) means that this is already blackholed.[2] > > > > There are three options at this point: > > 1. Ignore it -

Re: Help: network abuse

On 12/23/23 16:15, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: Does Debian and/or Linux support SYN cookies? Yes. Put net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1 in an appropriate sysctl.d/ file. To check on current settings: sysctl -n net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies It looks like SYN cookies are enabled by defa

Re: mktime

On 24/12/2023 01:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:56 AM Max Nikulin wrote: (info "(libc) Broken-down Time") https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Broken_002ddown-Time.html#index-mktime The ‘mktime’ function ignores the specified contents of the ‘tm_

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote: > > when I > > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. > > May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to type > characters with accents? I ha

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote: when I type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to type characters with accents? I have never used this feature, so my guess may be wrong. What happens if yo

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 06:32:35PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > I seldom use the command line while on the desk top since I keep 10 > VTs open for day to day tasks so only recently noticed that when I > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. If > I open a file for ed

single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

I seldom use the command line while on the desk top since I keep 10 VTs open for day to day tasks so only recently noticed that when I type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. If I open a file for editing with jed, my favorite editor, I can type a single quote but back

Firefox Warning

On my RPI4b bookworm system as I was browsing, Firefox stopped me demanding to update and I couldn't continue to use FF until I accepted its demand and let it update. It did so then restarted FF at which point it became almost totally unusable the menu bars had come to black background with very da

Re: Help: network abuse

David Christensen wrote: > Does Debian and/or Linux support SYN cookies? Yes. Put net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1 in an appropriate sysctl.d/ file. To check on current settings: sysctl -n net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies

Re: grub-efi install on multiple ESPs.

Ram Ramesh (12023-12-23): >   I have debian bookworm installed on a raid1 made from /dev/nvme0n1p3  and  > /dev/nvme1n1p3.  Here are the partitions on the two nvme. > > /dev/nvme0n1p1 = /dev/nvme1n1p1  = 7mb ef02 > /dev/nvme0n1p2 = /dev/nvme1n1p2  = 7mb ef00 (Two distinct ESPs on two > different n

grub-efi install on multiple ESPs.

Hi,   I have debian bookworm installed on a raid1 made from /dev/nvme0n1p3  and  /dev/nvme1n1p3.  Here are the partitions on the two nvme. /dev/nvme0n1p1 = /dev/nvme1n1p1  = 7mb ef02 /dev/nvme0n1p2 = /dev/nvme1n1p2  = 7mb ef00 (Two distinct ESPs on two different nvmes) /dev/nvme0n1p3 = /dev/

Re: Help: network abuse

Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2023, at 4:53 PM, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Dec 2023, David Christensen wrote: >> Sending a RST to a falsified IP address would make the sending host into an >> attacker by proxy. Why do you suggest it? >> > Because the OP wants it to stop. And the

Re: package manager

On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:57:58 -0600 William Torrez Corea wrote: > > Hit:8 https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease > > > > Hit:9 https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/apt/bullseye > > pgadmin4 InRelease > > Hit:10 tor+http://deb.ooni.org unstable InRelease > > Err:4 http://re

Re: Help: network abuse

On Sat, 23 Dec 2023, David Christensen wrote: Sending a RST to a falsified IP address would make the sending host into an attacker by proxy. Why do you suggest it? Because the OP wants it to stop. And the OP is running a server on this port that is clearly not responding properly or we'd at l

Re: Synaptic Problem

Thank you for your detailed response. It is much appreciated. On 12/23/2023 02:01 PM, Pocket wrote: On 12/23/23 12:00, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 12/23/2023 10:20 AM, Pocket wrote: On 12/23/23 09:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl On 12/23/2023 08:44 A

Re: Synaptic Problem

On 12/23/23 12:00, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 12/23/2023 10:20 AM, Pocket wrote: On 12/23/23 09:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I insta

Re: Help: network abuse

On 12/23/23 01:29, Tim Woodall wrote: The fact that the OP is not sending a SYN+ACK (according to the tcpdumps that I saw) means that this is already blackholed.[2] There are three options at this point: 1. Ignore it - my "EVILSYN[1]" blacklist is right at the top of my iptables rules and drops

Re: Synaptic Problem

This worked: https://www.ihaveapc.com/2011/10/fix-annoying-the-package-needs-to-be-reinstalled-but-i-cant-find-an-archive-for-it-error-in-linux-mint-ubuntu/ Thanks to all who answered by cry for help. On 12/23/2023 12:30 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thank you for your guidance. The informati

Re: mktime (was: Re: systemd and timezone)

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:56 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/12/2023 02:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I've found lack of per-thread timezones and libc's inability to > > convert time between timezones a bigger problem than other issues, > > like explicitly setting a timezone for a process. > > F

Re: package manager

Hi William, On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:57:58AM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is > > not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: > > http://repo.mysql.com/apt/debian bullseye InRelease: The followi

Re: Synaptic Problem

Thank you for your guidance. The information in my last email is attached. On 12/23/2023 12:22 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 23 Dec 2023 11:58 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar): Thanks for the reply. Please see below. Please trim your replies. We don't need >100 lines o

Re: Synaptic Problem

On 23 Dec 2023 11:58 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar): > Thanks for the reply. > Please see below. Please trim your replies. We don't need >100 lines of text when a few lines of quoted material for context for the reply would do just fine. (Certainly quote _relevant_ material

Re: Synaptic Problem

On 12/23/2023 10:20 AM, Pocket wrote: On 12/23/23 09:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_

Re: Synaptic Problem

Thanks for the reply. Please see below. On 12/23/2023 11:19 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/23/23 05:34, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any problems. Where did you get that file?  The following URL (?): https://www.vmware.com/

mktime (was: Re: systemd and timezone)

On 23/12/2023 02:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I've found lack of per-thread timezones and libc's inability to convert time between timezones a bigger problem than other issues, like explicitly setting a timezone for a process. From my point of view the TZ environment variable makes timezone conve

Re: Mouse single click handling?

Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > I keep hoping that my next laptop will have a backlit > keyboard but very often the machines I choose (for > other higher-priority criteria) don't have them. > > I've also tried a few clip-on mini lights (plugged into a > spare USB socket) but many such lights come with poo

Re: Synaptic Problem

On 12/23/23 05:34, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any problems. Where did you get that file? The following URL (?): https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html I have suffered much nega

Re: Test

On Sat, 23 Dec 2023, Vít Smolík wrote: Should someone report the mail to the mailmasters as stated in here: https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html Or is it too small of an issue to even report? it's teensy. fjd -- Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

worn off key labels

Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, at 13:36, songbird wrote: > >> i've >> already worn some of letters off the keys. :( but, well, i got >> it on sale for about $30 so i really can't complain. > > For years I've used Dymo labels to replace keyboard legends. > (Not the 1960s/1970s thick 3

Re: Synaptic Problem

On 12/23/23 09:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any problems. Wen I tr

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0

On 23 Dec 2023 09:22 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar): >> If you don't want to run VirtualBox going forward, the easiest way >> might be to just `apt purge virtualbox-7.0`. > (base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt purge virtualbox-7.0 > [sudo] password for comp: > Reading package li

Re: Accessing host and Internet from QEMU/KVM guest; was: Synaptic Problem

On 23 Dec 2023 09:13 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar): > On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> If you've nothing that depends on either particularly, I'd recommend >> virt-manager and the kvm/qemu universe. > > Actually, I am using the QEM/KVM virt-manager progr

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0; was: Synaptic Problem

Thanks fr the reply. Please see below: On 12/23/2023 09:01 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 23 Dec 2023 08:34 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar): However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt: (base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update [sudo] password for comp: Hit:1 http:

Re: Synaptic Problem

Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any problems. Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got t

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0; was: Synaptic Problem

On 23 Dec 2023 08:34 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar): > However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt: > > (base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update > [sudo] password for comp: > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease > Hit:2 http://d

Re: Synaptic Problem

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any > problems. > > Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error: > > Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@". > railed to execute child

Synaptic Problem

I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any problems. Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error: Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@". railed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (No sudh file or directory) So, I uninstalled the progra

Re: Winbind, wrong user mappings...

I answer to myself hoping to give a clue to someone. I realised I messed up the id mapping removing the files in /var/lib/samba/. Having kept a copy, I tried to recover them, but probably this must be done with the service smbd and windbind correctly stopped, which probably I didn't. So no help t

Re: systemd and timezone

On 12/23/23 01:00, David Wright wrote: On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 18:52:09 (-0500), Pocket wrote: On 12/22/23 18:04, David Wright wrote: On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 16:16:07 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: 1. https://bugs.debian.org/803144 2. h

Re: Test

Vít Smolík (12023-12-23): Yeah, it is the Code of Conduct, sorry, didn't realize that. Could there be some SpamAssassin config that we could send to the list-masters, that would catch theese kinds of messages? Not without catching some legitimate questions and answers too. “Test” is a very commo

I have successfully installed Debian Linux 12.4.0 on my refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop on 21 Dec 2023 Thursday

Subject: I have successfully installed Debian Linux 12.4.0 on my refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop on 21 Dec 2023 Thursday Good day from Singapore, I have successfully installed Debian Linux 12.4.0 on my refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop on 21 Dec 2023 Thursday. It was done using Grap

Re: Test

Vít Smolík (12023-12-23): > Yeah, it is the Code of Conduct, sorry, didn't realize that. Could there be > some SpamAssassin config that we could send to the list-masters, that would > catch theese kinds of messages? Not without catching some legitimate questions and answers too. “Test” is a very c

Re: Test

Vít Smolík (12023-12-23): I think there should be added something in the rules stating that you can't use this mailing list for testing your email client, it's pretty annoying. It is the very first rule: “Non-constructive or off-topic messages, along with other abuses, are not welcome.” And

Re: Help: network abuse

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, David Christensen wrote: Perhaps you could set up a DMZ, move services into the DMZ, and provide a VPN connection to the DMZ for your Internet users. Then you could close all of the incoming WAN ports except VPN. It might be possible to put the VPN endpoint into a VP

Re: Test

Vít Smolík (12023-12-23): > I think there should be added something in the rules stating that you can't > use this mailing list for testing your email client, it's pretty annoying. It is the very first rule: “Non-constructive or off-topic messages, along with other abuses, are not welcome.” And

Re: Test

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 4:37 PM Pocket wrote: On 12/22/23 16:08, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 12:15 -0500, Pocket wrote: This is a test of the emergency broadcast system Please stop spamming the 1000 or so people subscribed to this list. I am not spamming this list I am trying to dete