Re: apt: WTH is a "second pre-image resistance"?

On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 13:49:05 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > trying Trixie "apt update" shows a warning about my local repo > (managed by reprepro on Bookworm) I don't know how to handle: > > Warning: http://debian.example.com/debian/dists/trixie-backports/InRelease: > Policy wil

Re: parallel gnu and parallel from moreutils

On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 19:43:39 +0200, Federico Kircheis wrote: > moreutils should also provide /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils, even if gnu > parallel is not installed(!) > > gnu parallel should also provide /usr/bin/parallel.gnu I agree with you. However, in order to make anything happen, you nee

Re: Disable upgrades on grub

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 18:38:31 +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 17:54:00 +, xuser wrote: > >> How to configure apt to not install upgrades for grub? > > > > echo "PKGN

Re: Disable upgrades on grub

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 17:54:00 +, xuser wrote: > How to configure apt to not install upgrades for grub? echo "PKGNAME hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections Do that for each package you want to put on hold.

Re: How to set umask for apache2

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 15:34:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > ... and I have set UMask in the systemd apache2.service:- > > chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf > [service] > UMask=0002 Shouldn't that square-bracket header be capitalized? [Service] instead o

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 19:06:22 -0700, accipiter wrote: > At first it didn't seem to do any good, mis-replicating the eth0 connection > when I killed that particular eth0 using its UUID. But then I tried killing > *both* eth0 connections, then trying to re-edit / create the eth0 connection > - an

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 20:46:37 -0700, accipiter wrote: > On 5/26/25 6:20 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 26 May 2025 12:20:22 -0700 > > accipiter wrote: > > > > > it showed not 1 but 2 entries for eth0 - though with different UUIDs. > > > > If you are using Network Manager, you should no

Re: Restoring fvwm key bindings

On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 15:02:56 +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > And I have to correct myself: it's not starting firefox that causes > the loss of the key bindings, but a specific web site. > It's my internet banking site, and it only happens after I login, > so I can't give you a a test page. > >

Re: Restoring fvwm key bindings

On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 13:33:58 +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > Key LeftA SM Scroll -100 +0 > Key Right A SM Scroll +100 +0 > Key Up A SM Scroll +0 -100 > Key DownA SM Scroll +0 +100 I don't know about these *specific* key combina

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:47:04 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Greg Wooledge [2025-05-20 16:49:28] wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 16:38:16 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> In contrast my proposition means that when a new release happens we just > >> get a new set

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 16:38:16 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > In contrast my proposition means that when a new release happens we just > get a new set of pages, which start empty (this part can be done fully > automatically) and can be filled progressively, which should be much > more amenable to

Re: is there a bug in cp command ?

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 19:21:50 +0200, uw...@online.de wrote: > I solved the Problem for me by copy the File /usr/bin/cp from Debian 11 to > /usr/bin/cp2 on Debian 12 > > Now i can run "cp2 -ax / /mnt" and it works like expected. > > "cp -ax / /mnt" with original debian 12 cp brings error on thi

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:04:58 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback. > > Here's my view: replace each current page with a list of "per Debian > version" pages. So, when someone edits a page, they don't edit the > "DebianBootstrap" page, but th

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 14:21:32 -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:41:21 -0400, Lee wrote: > >> Yes, keeping the wikis up to date for the current release would be > >> nice. But there isn't staff dedicat

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:41:21 -0400, Lee wrote: > Yes, keeping the wikis up to date for the current release would be > nice. But there isn't staff dedicated to keeping everything current, > so how about having a "last updated" or "last reviewed" date on each > page so people would have an idea

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

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > > Since I know almost no shell scripting, the rsync usb drive A > > > to usb drive B copy is done with a simpl

Re: What file does Linux use to...

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 10:35:37 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > If you mean "what file contains the IP address and hostname of my own > server?": It depends whether you use NetworkManager to configure networking > or the older style. > > In the older style the config file goes in /etc/sysconfig

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 23:09:18 -0500, David Wright wrote: > It may be installed, but I've always had to use: > > [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion # Use bash-completion > if available > > in order for it to work: > > $ grep -A8 'bash completion' /etc/bash.bashrc > #

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 16:37:07 +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > and it is quite rare to SSH into localhost. It's not something I do on a daily basis, but I've done it several times, because it's an excellent way to test various things, such as changes to your dot files, sshd configuration, PAM con

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 16:39:15 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host > > numeric and names > > where do they come from > > Assuming you are using bash (or another shell that does TAB > completion) I think it's probably ju

Re: Re (2): Shell function.

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 08:05:50 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Currently have this. > ev () { /usr/bin/evince "$@" & } > > DISPLAY is set in .bashrc now. Not needed in trivial functions. Why are you setting the DISPLAY variable? That sounds like a really bad idea. Or, at best, it's only vi

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package [SOLVED]

On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 09:38:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:32:20AM +0200, Bernard wrote: > > Hi to Everyone, > > > > This being done, I first thought that I could possibly succeed in just > > upgrading my Buster system to its last update, which I did, successfull

Re: Internet connection in rescue mode

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 15:31:18 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02): > > What lesson is that? > > Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it > does. Or more generally: "Third-party package repositories are often not as high-quality as Deb

Re: gnome-shell: can't change PATH at gnome-shell level

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 12:19:52 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > I suggest to inspect PATH for each parent process PID in the tree reported > by > > ps xwf > > e.g. with proper PID number (single line) > > while IFS='' read -r -d ''; do if [[ "$REPLY" = PATH* ]]; then echo > "$REPLY"; break;

Re: sending short emails

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 15:21:26 -0400, Eben King wrote: > I guess I don't currently have an MTA. > > eben@cerberus:~$ type sendmail > bash: type: sendmail: not found > 1 The sendmail program (or symlink) lives in /usr/sbin which is probably not in your PATH as user eben. (There's also a histori

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 13:06:44 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > IIRC, it was the same in Unix Version 7, which Kernighan — or was it > Johnson or Richie? — said was an improvement on all of its successors. > And in BSD and SunOS and Solaris.

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 13:30:18 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Is the break in communication between Grub and the kernel, or > the kernel and systemd? I'm not best qualified to answer that, > because my graphical.target.wants includes solely udisks2.service, > and I suspect that I don't even depend

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:12:10 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 08:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Your run levels are incorrect.  "3" included the graphical Display > > Manager and "2" did not. > > Level 0 is shutdown > Level 1 is

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 14:21:46 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 13:58:31 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > > What is the correct way of booting Debian 12 without a graphical > > > interface? > > >

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 13:58:31 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I would like to start a small server in what used to be known as run level 3, > i.e. with no graphical interface. I tried setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="3" in > /etc/default/grub and running update-grub, but this had no effect. > > What

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

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 00:44:59 +, Andy Smith wrote: > $ cc -Wall -lxenstat -o foo foo.c > foo.c:(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `xenstat_init' > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status The library option (-lxenstat) has to appear *after* any objects that use it. cc -Wall -o foo foo.

Re: Different Debian for different users

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 21:51:47 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it > and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in > another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system? > > I don't really want different VMs

Re: Network mounts in /etc/fstab causing service ordering cycle

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 17:58:20 +, tuxi...@posteo.de wrote: > I have added a few lines to /ets/fstab like this: > > //u271407.your-storagebox.de/backup /mnt/hetzner cifs > iocharset=utf8,rw,user=u271407,pass=**,uid=1000,gid=1000,cache=loose 0 3 You're missing the _netdev flag in your op

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:33:54 -0400, Lee wrote: > > Also, you should quote "$tempf". > > > > [ -s "$tempf" ] && notify-send ... > > is there any way that > $(mktemp -q --tmpdir=/tmp -t updX) > would return a 0 status and a filename with embedded spaces .. or with > anything that would req

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

Just a few notes: On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 10:39:58 -0400, Lee wrote: > #!/bin/bash > # see if there are any Debian updates and pop-up a notice if there are > > # needs an /etc/sudoers.d/adm-apt-privs that has > # Cmnd_AliasADM_COMMANDS = /usr/bin/apt update > # %adm ALL = (root)

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 08:57:16 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > xev told me that the "Windows" key on my keyboard (which opens the KDE menu) > is "Super_L". "Menu" probably is another key that is meant to open the > context menu (same as right clicking generally). On my system (which has an

Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 08:04:44 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If you like to disappear in rabbit holes, this [3] one is nice. If > not, still the pic at the beginning still shows impressively an > exponential runaway for Perl's re engine compared to Tcl's which > uses a Thompson algorithm. Note

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 10:32:37 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > P.S. DotFiles does not mention that PATH may be set through /etc/login.defs. I don't think this is true; it changed in Debian 10 when the shadow-utils suite was dropped in favor of util-linux. hobbit:~$ man login.defs [...] BUGS

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 18:34:07 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Aside, with my "concerned about content licensing hat on"; and I note the > paragraph on your wiki's front page. You are the principal but not sole > author of the page on your site, I see; do you have a view on what license > you co

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 08:12:02 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > In https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles the sixth paragraph states, "You > should therefore always have command source ~/.bashrc at the end of > your .bash_profile in order to force it to be read by a login shell." Just FYI, that pag

Re: Reverting back to the previous Chromium version

On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 10:31:26 +0200, local10 wrote: > Apr 12, 2025, 05:44 by cbr...@t-online.de: > > > You could grab the .deb files from snapshot.debian.org > > Thanks, I found Cromium files I needed there and copied them to > "/var/cache/apt/archives/". I know I can install them with dpkg b

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:41:04 +0200, Hans wrote: > Without any checks, my first thing would be, to check in both computers if > any > of the executables related to cups might have different rights settings. > > Especially the executable, which creates the file in /tmp. A file which is > crea

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:16:17 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > I have edited the source code of cups a little to get a some more > more detailed information about the problem (the actual code > only gives a meaningless message “The print file cannot be opened: > Permission denied") and then foun

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 13:44:14 +0100, James Freer wrote: > b] 'Sudo' - i thought came in with ubuntu (and some other > derivatives). Many distros use 'su -' for admin rights and i thought > Debian was one of those. Sudo i thought was introduced as a level of > safety for newbie users so they coul

Re: Fw: Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 19:15:31 +, Matt Timpson wrote: > I'd also like to know what "numpy" is and what is does. apt-cache show python3-numpy or do a Google/Duckduckgo/Bing search for it.

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:34:08 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Disabling root logins by default is especially important when a > network attacker can use the login, like via SSH. The network attacker > is usually your #1 threat, There may be systems where this is true; for example, a public web s

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 10:50:54 +0100, James Freer wrote: > I've just done my install of Debian 12 Live XFCE version. I really don't understand why so many people do this. Why would you install using a "Live" medium instead of the real installer? Anyway, the Live version doesn't set a root pass

Re: Package kde-config-mobile-networking - what does it do?

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 19:54:19 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Try running `sudo apt info kde-config-mobile-networking` and see what the > info says. You don't even need sudo for that.

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re:Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:46:35 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Which is to fix the reason for a 30 second all system freeze of the > > system when trying to access a file I own, or want to create, in my > > /home/me directory. > > This happens only in that directory and only when yo

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 22:15:57 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Yeah, I'm going to lookup what Stevens has to say about the hosts file > in TCP/IP Illustrated. I need to figure out where the confusion lies. Here's what the Debian manual has to say about it:

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:59:19 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I think the idea is, software can always use 127.0.1.1 to find the > host's fully qualified domain name, No. Absolutely not. You have it exactly backwards. The purpose of putting the "127.0.1.1 my_hostname" line in /etc/hosts by de

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 22:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > 127.0.1.1 coyote.coyote.den coyote > [...] > I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send > something to coyote.coyote.den, why do you want the LAN address > when 127.0.1.1 is just as good. If the line is correct, it do

Re: Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 16:07:36 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > But installing libdigest-sha-perl does not provide Digest::SHA256: They are different modules. https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA256 https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA Digest::SHA256 appears to be much, much older and probabl

Re: Web server access

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 12:03:32 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 11:25 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 01:17 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > I am able to reach The Van Snyder's Web Site using the above IP > > > address and URL on port 80 but not 443. I

Re: Web server access

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 13:01:10 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 11:04:17AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > > wrote: > > > GET index.html > > > > should be: > > > > GET index.html HTTP/1.0 > > Well, practically it makes no difference. If I sen

Re: Web server access

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 17:52:55 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > The server is on the LAN side of the router (192.168.1.65). It's not in > the DMZ. My server isn't running Apache ACLs or iptables or TCP > wrapper. The router is running a firewall.  I've forwarded WAN-side > ports 23, 80 and 443 to my se

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 15:03:34 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:19:48 -0400 > Michael Stone wrote: > > > If you touch /run/utmp it will magically start working again. > > Thank you. > > To be pedantic, any logins subsequent to touching it will show up. It > is necessary to

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 19:38:16 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:19:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > What makes the debian people treat hosts file users, like 3rd class users?   > > I'm a (heavy!) hosts file user. I'm being treated by Debian 1st class. > Perhaps it's

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 05:36:46 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > *TILT*!!! > I don't believe them to be spam. Show us an example of what you are talking about. Go to the list archives and find one of these messages, then paste its URL here.

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 15:46:15 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > $ su > # make install > > Whoopsie! The Makefile just pwned you. That's a COMPLETELY separate discussion. Obviously I was referring to software from reputable sources. > $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/i install > $ sud

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:48:35 -0500, David Wright wrote: > It could be argued that it would be simple enough to communicate > the user's cwd to root, as a workaround, so that it didn't have to > be retyped. You know what does that for you? sudo -s. Or su if you've configured it with a one-lin

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers#

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 13:58:49 +, Andy Smith wrote: > I think all DHCP clients in Debian have a "Recomends" relationship on > resolvconf to do this modification for them. hobbit:~$ apt-cache show isc-dhcp-client | grep -e Recommends -e resolv Recommends: isc-dhcp-common Suggests: resolvconf,

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 13:06:54 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 09:38:02PM +1030, Mal wrote: > > Without the conf package, I still don't get why it populated only one > > ipv4 nameserver target and ignored the ipv6 target. > > Are you sure this is not just what the ins

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 14:34:13 +1030, Mal wrote: > root@debian:/home/user# more /etc/network/interfaces > source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > # The loopback network interface >  auto lo >  iface lo inet loopback > >  allow-hotplug enp1s0 >  iface enp1s0 inet static >  address 12.34.56.78 >  net

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > the traditional behvior of "su" (before it was broken in buster). > >

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:23:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 02:15:03PM +0300, J wrote: > > And i thought *sudo -i*, you speaking about, is something like > > *--interactive*, which is not, how i see now... > > The long form is "--login", not interactive. But the "-i"

Re: selecting text with mouse

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 18:41:29 +, mick.crane wrote: > I don't know why I don't seem to be able to replicate what people say they > can do with my basic bookworm install, xfce4 and Vivaldi browser. Because Vivaldi is Chromium-based, not Gecko-based. Multiple selection ONLY works in Firefox a

Re: selecting text with mouse

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > Use of for discontinuous selection seems pretty much ubiquitous. > is usually associated with continuous selection. Only in Microsoft Windows, or in GUI applications that try to emulate Windows behavior. And even then, the selection y

Re: selecting text with mouse

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > phrase. I was able to then choose a few more random snippets while > holding the CTRL key do

Re: Linux image package install failure

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:05:32 -0500, Barry Newberger wrote: > Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 (6.1.129-1) ... > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms: > dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.1.0-32-amd64. > dkms: autoinstall for kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64. > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initram

Re: recursively share NFS

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 14:53:51 -0400, Eben King wrote: > I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas > via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount > point appears empty, even though you can ssh to it and see everything > there that should be. How

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 14:33:11 -, Greg wrote: > My robot says: > > One result: > > yt-dlp "ytsearch:QUERY" > > But for the life of me, after searching for twenty minutes, I can't > determine whether this is correct or not. hobbit:~$ wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 15:22:29 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > It appears that the update Valve pushed out this morning was a Ubuntu > update that was mistakenly installed on Debian Stable. > > [2025-03-11 14:48:26] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version > 1741636428, installed v

Re: LC_TIME set incorrectly

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 17:40:35 +, Nils wrote: > riccy@riccy:~$ cat /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 > > (after a reboot) > riccy@riccy:~$ echo $LC_TIME > en_DE.UTF-8 > > Searching /etc for the config string reveals nothing: >

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +, Miriami wrote: > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember that > on the Steam website, the website says that the requirement of the Steam app > is 'a xxx version *Ubuntu' system'. They might have hardcoded this in the > binary

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 22:47:16 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > Update: Steam runs successfully on Debian Trixie and on Arch Linux. Still > failing on Debian Bookworm. Now I'm scared. I've got a running instance of Steam which has already downloaded an update. [2025-03-11 07:26:21] uninstalle

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 11:34:41 -0400, deb...@kcburns.com wrote: > On 3/9/25 1:05 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote: > > Many of my friends keep recommending Brave, but I cannot get past the > > fact that their business model is to strip ads from sites and insert > > their own ads instead (if the

Re: Native systemd services.

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 20:04:16 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > # ls -1 /lib/systemd/system/stunnel* > /lib/systemd/system/stunnel@.service > /lib/systemd/system/stunnel.target > > What is stunnel@.service, rather than stunnel.service? systemd.service(5): SERVICE TEMPLATES It is possib

Re: Apache2 permissions?

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 17:14:44 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > I want to be able to change the web without logging in as root. I > occasionally need to send files to recipients that are big enough > suffocate their mail readers. Putting a soft link to it in /opt/www > without hooking it to my index is

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 07:04:30 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > That long line of code, might not be completely stupid. It might have some > hidden AI thing (that they figure no member of the public would find, due to > the length of the line), that starts playing "Rubber Ducky, you're the one", > in a

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 13:39:18 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > D MacDougall wrote: > >> https://duckduckgo.com > > > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 23:26:55 +0100, 🦓 wrote: > 2025-03-07[Fri]23:14 🦓 read that > 2025-03-07[Fri]07:21 Greg Wooledge wrote > > That's conceptually similar to the little program that I wrote, which > > you can get from <https://wooledge.org/~greg/ds>. It's

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:20:30 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > For Debian packages specifically, you can use dpigs from the debian-goodies > package. I wrote an alternative for situations where I don't want to install > debian-goodies and its transitive dependencies: > > awk -v RS='' '/St

Re: Problem with /var

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 23:36:34 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > David Christensen [2025-03-06 18:58:12] wrote: > > I prefer: > [...] > > # du -d 2 -m /var | sort -rn | head > > Agreed. I personally use just `du | sort -n` (I can't see the benefit > of the `-d2` and I rely on the terminal's scroll

Re: Problem with /var

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 02:41:33 +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > > root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var > > > > root@debian:/var# du -sh* > > > > du: invalid option -- '*' > > Missing space between 'h' and '*' so the '*' was treated as a

Re: Problem with /var

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 20:24:36 -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that > my /var is almost full.  What can I safely delete to make more room for it.  > It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.  I >

Re: web browser recommendation

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 21:50:27 +0100, KISER JD wrote: > The Chromium-based browsers will soon lose many adblock capabilities due to > Manifest V3. > When I updated google-chrome-stable the other day, it informed me that it was disabling uBlock Origin. Thus began my own search for some answers

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:59:47 -0500, Eben King wrote: > Yeah. Many of the packages in deborphan's output are things I actually > want to keep, and I think that that if you remove something, all of its > requirements are still installed. Unless there's a smart package > manager that goes throug

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 15:21:32 +0100, 🦓 wrote: > what would i want to sudo aptitude purge here to free 1 gig? Why are you assuming that the space you want can be freed by removing packages? For the vast majority of people, if disk space is running low, it's because *data* files are piling up, a

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

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 15:44:11 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 3/3/25 à 15:25, Joe a écrit : > > You can install any random .deb package from any source using dpkg [...] > > dpkg won't install missing dependencies. > gdebi will. So will apt-get and apt. It's just undocumented. apt install

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

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 06:14:40 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/3/25 5:49 AM, Steven Speek wrote: > > I would like this feature in apt-get. > > > > Exactly *WHAT* feature?? > You supply *NO* context. This is why I advise people NOT to put the details of their request only in

Re: WAS Firefox adds a controversial ToS

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 22:55:06 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 15:43:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > Chromium has hijacked port 80 for google's exclusive use, bypassing > > > > > totally > > > > > my /etc/hosts file for my local network. [Turn off DNS over HT

Re: WAS Firefox adds a controversial ToS

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 16:49:05 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/1/25 16:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 15:43:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > Chromium has hijacked port 80 for google's exclusive use, bypassing > > > totally > > >

Re: WAS Firefox adds a controversial ToS

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 15:43:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Chromium has hijacked port 80 for google's exclusive use, bypassing totally > my /etc/hosts file for my local network. You keep saying this, but nobody else is having this issue. The closest approximation to your experience that anyone

Re: Hardware question

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 04:06:37 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM Joe wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:27:40 -0800 > > Van Snyder wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 22:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Your kernel is older than your CPU by about a ye

Re: Hardware question

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 12:46:35 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 14:34 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:27:40 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > > "apt update" says everything is up to date, but the kernel is > > > 6.1.0-

Re: Hardware question

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:27:40 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > "apt update" says everything is up to date, but the kernel is 6.1.0-18. > I believe there are several newer ones, maybe up to 6.1.0-31? That's correct. You're probably missing the metapackage that brings in new kernels automatically. Fo

Re: OpenDmarc dosnt start

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 14:35:22 +0100, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > Feb 26 14:26:10 nmail opendmarc[4891]: /usr/sbin/opendmarc: symbol lookup > error: /usr/sbin/opendmarc: undefined symbol: opendmarc_spf2_test Huh, that's wild. No obvious matches on a google search, either. > root@nmail:/etc# dpkg

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 21:52:43 +0100, Chris Jölly wrote: > chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za > Graphics: >   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel >     arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1 >     empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:

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

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