Re: EFI system partition

rating system is reinstalled next time. Some storsage devices such as NVMe drives are not bootable in legacy BIOS mode, but it looks like you have a working operating system already so maybe that's not why you are wanting to do this. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What file does Linux use to...

ves it more than a rapid glance. I am in agreement with David on this one. OP's subject line was particularly bad. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Repair or Replace

rompt until a key is pressed. This behaviour can be disabled by overriding the getty@.service with: [Service] TTYVTDisallocate=no That will cause the agetty process per tty to stay around. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Repair or Replace

y inspect it with a running Debian system > booted from the installation medium? It doesn't sound so broken that booting to the rescue shell wouldn't allow you to fix it. If not then yeah, rescue mode from some Debian install media. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

echo "Mount USB drive B before running this!" >&2 exit 1 fi near the top of your script, assuming that /mnt/usb-drive-b is where you expect that to be mounted. You can do fancier checks to make sure that the thing mounted there is really the correct thing, but that will do f

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

ck devices which you put ext4 filesystems on as before. Moving to an advanced filesystem would bring more benefits that some people say they can no longer live without, but there is maybe a steeper learning curve and changes that touch many things like how you do backups for example. Thanks, Andy

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

second the advice to read the release notes now, read them again once it's released and then read them again especially the part about upgrading from Debian 12. The release notes for upgrade do cover how to work out if you have enough dusk space for it, if the partition sizing issue is a con

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

the pant leg less travelled. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

ry early releases of Debian may be viable. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

e left wondering if they, too, made the same unknown error. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

ription of your exact set of steps including full command output, "ls -la" of the mount point directory before and after your mount, contents of your /etc/fstab, and no censored details. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: openssh-server uninstallable

On Wednesday, 30 April 2025 12:08 Dan Ritter wrote: > Andy Wood wrote: > > Is anybody else being hit by a problem with openssh-server after the > > 1:10.0p1-2 migration into testing the other day? > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > >

openssh-server uninstallable

:9.9p2-2) but none of the choices are installable: [no choices] Andy.

Re: Missing shared library symbols… that don't seem to be missing

Hi, On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 08:59:13PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The library option (-lxenstat) has to appear *after* any objects that > use it. > > cc -Wall -o foo foo.c -lxenstat Ah, okay. My addition of -c was just coincidence then, and it was the reordering that fixed it.

Re: Missing shared library symbols… that don't seem to be missing

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:44:59AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > What am I doing wrong here? It's been a couple of years and perhaps this > part of my brain has dissolved. Yes, it was just a missing "-c" from the arguments. This works: $ cc -Wall -c foo.c -o foo -lxenstat Th

Missing shared library symbols… that don't seem to be missing

usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxenstat.so | grep xenstat_init 3980 T xenstat_init@@VERS_4.20.0 I have checkjed with strace and the ld that cc spawns is opening that shared library, and that shared library does have that symbol, so… what's going on? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfol

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

ny further help debugging, just wanted to steer this away from /etc/hosts and an actual DNS server. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

you shown to us or described to us what actually happens when you try to ping one of your other machines. We can't begin to help without you doing that. Once you've done that there will likely be further questions, but that's where we start. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: In cross install, cannot mount fstabe

ookworm into a chroot it's probably not that hard to find and I would recommend following something like that (assuming you really want to do a chroot install) because it seems like you are struggling with some of the fundamentals here. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: In cross install, cannot mount fstab

/ from inside chroot. So far we have only have drip drip drip of little information and some of that not relevant. Also Debian Daedalus is not a Debian release code name so you are probably running something else like Devuan, and should really seek support at their support venues. Thanks, Andy -

Re: Starting Apache Webserver in bookworm

's own error.log. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

at the amount of code that can be reached by strange packets from the Internet side is going to be a lot smaller with WireGuard. It's going to be quite difficult to prove either way though, so let's just agree to disagree. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

could recompile the OpenSSH package on Debian with options > disabled. […] > What do you think about this approach? I think you're wasting your time and should not have sshd listen on the public Internet at all, instead VPN in to your network and only have sshd available on the ins

Re: Debian

you do may break it further, and as it has no support whatsoever you'll just get to keep the pieces. This is a form of tech debt and now it's time to pay the interest. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 05:42:43AM +0200, Petric Frank wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2025, 00:13:10 CEST schrieb Andy Smith: > > You have yet to explain why block device serial numbers > > (/dev/disk/by-id/) and filesystem UUIDs (/dev/disk/by-uuid/) are not > > su

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

be > created to get device entries driven by the cable ids. > > Due i am not firm with udev rules - any hint on these ? You have yet to explain why block device serial numbers (/dev/disk/by-id/) and filesystem UUIDs (/dev/disk/by-uuid/) are not sufficient for your use case. Thanks, A

Re: "solved" in message subject

away seemingly in another thread. This "SOLVED" thing comes from web forums, which work completely differently. So then the argument changes to not be in aid of current subscribers but for hypothetical future readers of the web archives of the list. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Beware of Pocket's off-list goading (Was Re: DHCP and static addresses)

hem. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: IPv6 and loopback addresses (was Re: DHCP and static addresses)

Hi, On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 05:21:45AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/3/25 13:39, Andy Smith wrote: > > Historically we do not get very far here when talking about IPv6 with > > Gene. > True Andy, but there's no ipv6 within 100 miles of me. The Linux kernel comes with

Re: "solved" in message subject

e a subject line unless the topic of the mail itself changes (and I remember). I just wish people arguing for one thing or the other would admit the trade-offs. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

IPv6 and loopback addresses (was Re: DHCP and static addresses)

far here when talking about IPv6 with Gene. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

Hello, On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:19:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 05:10, Andy Smith wrote: > > Here is the bug report you quoted but did not read: > > > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080330 > > > > I've read

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

systems w/o a dhcpd. This is not how processes on Linux do DNS lookups. Virtually nothing is "capable of reading the /etc/hosts file" because that's not how any of this works. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#systemd_hangs_on_startup_or_shutdown Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Email threading (was Re: Frequent freezing around login screens)

e then using email would be more pleasant for them, but there is an undercurrent of "you are failing at email" here when the reality is more like "you are not excelling at email, unlike this tiny priesthood whose numbers dwindle every year". Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

/etc/resolv.conf file is just a static file so there's limited things that would be editing it. The guesses of "you" or "the installer" would be the most likely for me as nothing else should be touching it. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers#

gt; writing to it from writing to it. You are coming perilously close to summoning the beast, and then we don't get to close the portal until 30+ installs of something that is only almost Debian have been performed in undocumented unreproducible ways. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers#

Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 09:11:23AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 13:06:54 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > Without "resolvconf" the /etc/resolv.conf file is just a static file so > > there's limited things that would be editing it. Th

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

dns-nameservers settings in order to update the file, so have a look what they do. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: array suggestions

l/36xhap5tafvm4boiy3acu5kxlhkvnp32wp3oknbfbkxbdkeq7r@galecvidi3bn/ https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/ Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [SOLVED] Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

g "=yes" in a variable that expected "=true", but that when done with dpkg-reconfigure it correctly puts in "=true" so it is unclear to me how "=yes" got in there. Anyway, as was the case in 2022 but even more so in 2025, it is probably time to rely on other

Re: increment backup of home dir

e aren't stored in git or in many other version control systems. It will be fine until you actually restore anything, at which point the files will get ownership/group of your user and mode 0644 or 0755 depending upon whether they were executable or not when committed. Thanks, Andy -- h

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

aven't explicitly agreed to though. There are a few things in the Debian archive that require agreement to terms upon use. Perhaps the best known would be certbot and other ACME clients. They go to quite some lengths to present the question at first run time. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: TEMORARY workaround - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

cannot easily guess which user-facing frontend made the change to your MIME type associations, but you have been given instructions on how to change it to what you want. > Suggestions please. I suggest to stop assuming you know better than everyone else when you ask for help. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Trixie i686

supports an amd64 kernel then I think you are much better off switching to that kernel in-place while using bookworm and then letting it dist-upgrade to trixie. Though a full reinstall to amd64 would be even better, of course. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Problem with /var

w. There doesn't really look like that much you could delete. You could configure journald to keep less logs but it's kind of a minimal saving. If you don't use snaps then you could uninstall all of that and get some space back, but probably you had a reason fro installing that. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Problem with /var

ul but if you don't have it then a combination of "du" and "sort" will be useful, e.g: $ sudo du -xh /var | sort -rh | head -25 (top 25 largest directories in /var with human-readable units.) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: web browser recommendation

ably be along now to say they manage perfectly well hiring an intern to sketch the contents of webpages onto the side of a potato then mail it to their dead drop once a month and any other requirements are pure hedonism. All answers are subjective. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Mailing list in nomail

Debian's lists. Just unsubscribe when you don't want emails. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Proposal for a Yearly Stable Release Cycle for Educational Institutions

untu but with a shorter release cycle. All it needs is a vast amount of effort. Good luck! Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "It is I, Simon Quinlank. The chief conductor on the bus that is called hobby." — Simon Quinlank

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

l change with the next release except by chance. It may be worth trying out a pre-release install of it to find out for sure, before pinning a lot of hope on that. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

bug tracker. However as purely my lowly user opinion, it is a terrible idea and will be instantly rejected. All that will happen in this thread though is a back and forth about whether it's a good idea or not. It will not actually happen. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250301)

rve subject line changes only for when the content of the email has drifted far enough away from the original subject line so as to be about a totally different thing. It cannot be used to draw attention to some nuance of the original topic. Thanks, Google. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- N

Re: Hardware question

than the 6.1.x provided by Debian stable packages, as these tend to be a long term stable kernel with only bug fix backported, not new features or device support. So you may have to see what is in backports or experimental. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Hardware question

to 6.1.0-31? You can try a kernel from bookworm-backports or even download the source of the latest Linux kernel and build a deb package for it. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Best terminology to distiguish groups such as "debian-user" from webmail whatevers

icipate in this group by email alone?" Their most likely answer: "no, what we have is what we have" I would certainly not try to come up with examples of other mailing lists, especially not ones like debian-user, because they most liekly won't know what you are referring to. They

Re: Why do I never see /var/run/reboot-required ?

user/2024/02/msg00515.html Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Spamassassin generating DNSBL blocks

gt; The alternative instruction provided in the logs, "set all affected > rules score to 0," is rather opaque; I'm not sure how that is to be done. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block says: score __RCVD_IN_DNSWL 0 in local.cf. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

tside Debian, home grown scripts etc. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

eye and not spreading rumours like, "we are encouraged to abandon rsyslog which is redundant" would be good. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

ill be there in Debian 13. If you need it, install it. I do, so I do. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

he people capable of making the change can see it's desired. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

st discussed in a bug report about the behaviour you do not like. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

used for structured queries of the dpkg database. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to determine if debian is intruded or compromised

you run on any given piece of hardware. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > The optimum programming team size is 1. Has Jurassic Park taught us nothing?— pfilandr

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

ay, but it's clearly completely static config. I think something else other than N-M might be responsible for changing your default gateway, if indeed this is what is happening. Are you able to post what your routing table actually looks like when things go wrong? $ ip route show Thanks,

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

or something. As a workaround, if you know that your router should be 192.168.1.1 then you can at each boot, as root, type: # ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 and that will temporarily set the default gateway. But this should be fixable in N-M settings. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

Hi, On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 05:16:51PM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 18/01/2025 23:01, Andy Smith wrote: > The *-updates suite is something different from security upgrades. > > To get bookworm security upgrades the necessary apt line is something like: > > deb https://deb

Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

64 machine¹. If all the files were the same content then I would stop worrying. Thanks, Andy ¹ Last year I wrote this: https://strugglers.net/~andy/mothballed-blog/2024/04/20/for-file-integrity-testing-youre-wasting-your-time-with-md5/ -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

Hi, On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 02:53:23PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12025-01-18): > > Why do you continue to post to this list > > Why do you continue replying? Sometimes in an attempt to understand Pocket's behaviour. I mean, I'm aware it's easy to

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

ithout needed to do anything special like > specifically installing a bookworm-backports package. Yes, -backports is a whole other thing and is not involved in the creation of stable security updates. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: A warning about rsync in stable: it became broken 3 days ago, is now fixed

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 10:57:53PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > From: "Andy Smith" > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 03:42:48AM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > > > From: "Andy Smith" > > > > You can verify this at: > > >

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

side assistance in not posting here? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: A warning about rsync in stable: it became broken 3 days ago, is now fixed

Hi, On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 03:42:48AM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > From: "Andy Smith" > > You can verify this at: > > > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/rsync > > https://www.cisecurity.org/advisory/multiple-

Re: A warning about rsync in stable: it became broken 3 days ago, is now fixed

as the fixes that went out in upstream rsync release 3.4.1 were backported to Debian stable in version 3.2.7-1+deb12u2 which was released 16 January. You can verify this at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/rsync Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Syntax error in type_traits

, but the file in question is not from the same package as the g++ binary, so this doesn't prove anything. You may like to download the .deb file for libstdc++-12-dev, unpack it somewhere and see what else is different about your copy of that file (and, perhaps, others). Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: no space left on device

hat is already packaged in Debian makes this job much more straightforward. But OP's problem is more likely to be some issue with the ntfs-3g driver or the NTFS filesystem on the NVMe. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: no space left on device

ere is a tool called "f3" for checking this. It is packaged in Debian so probably is in Ubuntu also. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

Hi David, On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 08:46:28PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > Most people do not use a good MUA. The email interfaces of the top three > > mailbox providers split threads when the subject line changes, a &

To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

s vs future archive readers. It's all a bit too much like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic for me, though. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Bridge without bridge-utils does not work

ways to manage your networking and for many people not even the best way. A workaround has already been suggested fopr ifupdown using pre-up / post-down hooks which is half way to using your own scripts. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computerarrivingsoon]

Hello, On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 10:52:14PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/2/25 17:16, Andy Smith wrote: > > Can you remind us why you do not ask the Armbian folks how to use their > > operating system instead of us poor uninformed Debian folks? > > Igor is busy, often ans

Re: new computer arriving soon

system he wants control over is not Debian. And that's only the start of the barriers he has put in place preventing ever getting any effective assistance. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: new computer arriving soon

743-is-a-61-44tb-today-with-a-122-88tb-drive-possible/ (Just take out a mortgage to buy a pair) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian News before 2022 have disappeared

ew months > maybe?) archives going back to 1997. Did you ever report this to the WWW team as advised? There is a thread about it on debian-project now, for a different reason. Someone has copied in the WWW team there at least. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/01/msg0.html

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computer arrivingsoon]

ating system instead of us poor uninformed Debian folks? After all, as you pointed out in [gene-knows-best], 99% of us just aren't on your level. [gene-knows-bnest]: https://bit.ly/gene-knows-best Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

"lists.debian.org - where can you help?" (Video)

=PVxewccpVfM Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: new computer arriving soon

you do not pose these questions to the people that make the operating system you use, rather than to us who only know the most mundane things about Debian, and even then with our level of knowledge so far beneath your own. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SMTP servers

I like Fastmail. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SMTP servers

mail send it through an email service provider that takes care of all that. Only a tiny tiny percentage of people send email out through mail servers that they run themselves. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: booting by UEFI?

owed me EFI boot vars (if they exist) > and it showed nothing. But now I can't remember what that program > was. Probably "efivar --list". It's in the "efivar" package and not installed by default. > How can I ensure that I'm actually booted using EFI? If

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

Hi, On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:29:58AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 13:50:56 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 02:16:42PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fetchmail >

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

rch here is unwelcome. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to update fonts

fonts/, e.g. $ tree ~/.local/share/fonts /home/andy/.local/share/fonts ├── CommitMono │   ├── CommitMonoNerdFont-BoldItalic.otf │   ├── CommitMonoNerdFont-Bold.otf │   ├── CommitMonoNerdFont-Italic.otf │   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontMono-BoldItalic.otf │   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontMono-Bold.otf

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 06:38:16PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 12/28/24 15:49, Andy Smith wrote: > > What would have been useful for you to tell us at this point or in any > > of your other replies: > > > > - How exactly you are trying to run synaptic on these

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 01:06:11PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 12/28/24 08:24, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:53:41PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > Synaptic is a GUI frontend to apt. It's not really much different to > > > aptitude, e

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:53:41PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 28/12/2024 10:06, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 08:26:26PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff blind > > > is a &

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

X? Then of course is the fact that Gene won't be running Debian on the Banana Pi… Another challenging thread. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

apt" from a terminal. apticron emails me which updates are available. Running headless servers but still wanting a GUI app on each and every one of them to manage updates? Doesn't sound like the Linux I know! Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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