Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:52:13 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Do you have any kind of automation that reads log files? Like, that > > thing whose name I cannot remember right now, that reads ssh's > > auth.log file looking for repeated failed logins, and updates your > >

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Do you have any kind of automation that reads log files? Like, that > thing whose name I cannot remember right now, that reads ssh's auth.log > file looking for repeated failed logins, and updates your firewall rules. fail2ban

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 21:41:33 +0100, jman wrote: > If I wanted to remove rsyslog (because I want just one logging system), how > do I know if it's used anywhere? Your plain text log files will stop being written to. They'll just sit there, frozen in time, forever. Anything that reads them loo

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Andy Smith writes: Several syslog daemons are packaged in Debian and some of them, particularly rsyslog and syslog-ng, do things that journald does not do. So no, not really, no "encouragement". The simple fact is that most users don't have complex logging needs and journald which is already

Re: MariaDB not installing looks like previous error (unresolved bug?)

Thank you John and Dan for your responses! I am not entirely sure what the issue is here-- but I did manage to install mariadb. This is what I did it: I cleared everything related to 'mysql' and 'mariadb' off with a combination of: dpkg --remove [mysql package names / mariadb package names]

Virtualbox guest console "lagging" issues with kernel 6.1.0-31-amd6 and fbcon: vmwgfxdrmfb

Hi, we are running VM as guest on Windows (on Win 10, 11 Enterprise, as required by employer) and recently are facing laggy console output: often the console screen update takes quite some time, instead of a fraction of a second it takes one second, during which only a half (right side) get update

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 04:43:49PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > It is not removed indeed, > only not installed by default. …and also that already happened in Debian 12… > The signal I got is an encouragement to abandon rsyslog which is > redundant to journalctl. Several syslog daemons a

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt

On 2/17/25 9:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:40:31 -0600, David Wright wrote: I do that with lynx -localhost. One consequence is regular communications (sometimes by email!) from some banks etc, complaining that you don't open their emails. Some are so stupid as to offer

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Sunday, February 16, 2025 10:41 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: > Steven, it seems you have managed to print your PDF file, so perhaps you > should stop debugging evince (unless you need it for some feature with > worse support in okular or browsers ... That is my preference at this point. I'm very sa

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:27:19 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm. > > I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log > > i

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:40:31 -0600, David Wright wrote: > I do that with lynx -localhost. One consequence is regular > communications (sometimes by email!) from some banks etc, > complaining that you don't open their emails. Some are so > stupid as to offer no way of denying that fact electro

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt

On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 09:02:11 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat Dec 28, 2024 at 4:41 AM GMT, hobie of RMN wrote: > > What's the best way to handle this? Switch to Thunderbird or > > claws-mail? > > I switched away from (neo)mutt as my primary mailer a little while > ago, but before I did

Re: tbird=crashomatic

On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 00:56:38 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/16/25 20:04, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 15:31:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > [ … ] > > > > > The boot menu still > > > starts the debian version which quickly becomes non-responsive, > > > quickly being abou

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On 2025-02-17, David Wright wrote: >> >> And on Saturday, February 15, 2025 6:31 PM, Charles Curley asked: >> >> > Are you running evince and X as the same user? >> >> Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm. >> I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (v

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Le 2/17/25 à 15:16, Dan Ritter a écrit : Yassine Chaouche wrote: Hello all, I have a couple of bash/awk scripts that read from text log files to display summary information about what's going with my services, mainly postifx, dovecot, apache and nginx. I just read that trixie is removing rsyslo

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied: > > > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a > > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on > > a different userid t

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 02:36:35PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > I just read that trixie is removing rsyslog, I suggest you re-evaluate your news sources, as that is not factually correct. rsyslog was made non-required in Debian 12 (bookworm). It remains packaged in Debian and will still

Re: Re: internal microphone stops working

The microphone continues working after I suspend / resume. So far, I haven't been able to find any pattern in when it stops working, although it's generally within a day of rebooting. Fortunately, I have a bluetooth headset that does work, so I'll use that instead since rebooting regularly is an

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt?

On 2025-02-17, wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:07:47PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > >> But this is really all just noise. Use whatever MUA you like. > > That's my take, too. My take is this is a recurrent question concerning Mutt.

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a couple of bash/awk scripts that read from text log files > to display summary information about what's going with my services, > mainly postifx, dovecot, apache and nginx. > I just read that trixie is removing rsyslog, "removing"? Or not installi

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 14:36:35 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > I just read that trixie is removing rsyslog, [citation needed] says: * trixie (testing) (admin): reliable system and kernel logging daemon 8.2412.0-1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf

The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Hello all, I have a couple of bash/awk scripts that read from text log files to display summary information about what's going with my services, mainly postifx, dovecot, apache and nginx. I just read that trixie is removing rsyslog, and that reading journals should be done using journalctl by def

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

Hi, Dan Purgert wrote: > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > about the lack of media. Not 100% sure if it's a generic problem, or > just my crappy USB CD drive :) It's a Linux kernel prob

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 17, 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > > about the lack of media. Not 100% sure if it's a generic problem, or > > jus

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

In my experience, `cdrskin -eject` works more reliable than `eject`. Regards, Jörg.

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 17, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-02-17 01:09, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: > > > /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: trying to eject using > > > CD-ROM > > > eject

Re: MariaDB not installing looks like previous error (unresolved bug?)

Michael Bonert wrote: > invoke-rc.d: initscript mariadb, action "stop" failed. > Failed to stop mysql.service: Unit mysql.service not loaded. > invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "stop" failed. > Attempt to stop MariaDB/MySQL server returned exitcode 5 > There is a MariaDB/MySQL server running,

Re: MariaDB not installing looks like previous error (unresolved bug?)

On 2/16/25 20:24, Michael Bonert wrote: I get the following when trying to install mariadb: # apt install mariadb-server-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done mariadb-server-core is already the newest version (1:10.11.6-0+deb12u1).

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt?

On Sat Dec 28, 2024 at 4:41 AM GMT, hobie of RMN wrote: What's the best way to handle this? Switch to Thunderbird or claws-mail? I switched away from (neo)mutt as my primary mailer a little while ago, but before I did, I was using netsurf-gtk as a viewer for HTML mails in mutt. It was not co

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

Is there a fetchmail.timer unit as well as a .service unit? Or, could you have a crontab entry that is invoking it? -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net

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