Re: sendmail and starttls failing

2024-07-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 23:21, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > The thing I'm seeing is in the body of the email - I had no idea > this was illegal - and I'm surprised that tools like cron don't do > something to avoid sending "illegal" emails. Indeed, even mail will do > so happily. > > cron isn’t a mai

Re: systemd-timesyncd

2024-01-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
Is it supposed to be installed by the net-installer? There does not seem > to be any man pages other than the bog std stuff. When I found the > /etc/systemd/timesyncd I immediately asked the system for man timesyncd, > got this: > gene@coyote:/etc$ man timesyncd > No manual entry for timesyncd >

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 at 10:54, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 at 07:41, Anssi Saari > wrote: > > > > Mark Fletcher writes > > > > > The question is, what values are config_directory and prefix set to? > > > > Grub sets config_direct

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 at 01:21, David Wright wrote: > > What sort of mess? I would have thought Grub would ignore excess > kernels dropped into /boot. I have a laptop here that has two > bookworm netinst ISOs (release candidates) and a kernel and initrd > (hd-media) for booting the ISOs, and they've

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 at 07:41, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Mark Fletcher writes > > > The question is, what values are config_directory and prefix set to? > > Grub sets config_directory to point to the directory where it's reading > it's config from. In other word

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 22:15, Felix Miata wrote: > > I can't answer why Grub scripts to what the do, because I don't really use > them, > and don't need to understand much about them. Grub config files in > /boot/grub/ are > akin to scripts, but they are really simple, mainly just command script

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 at 21:38, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > So I rebuilt my LFS (was happy to do so, this is a learning exercise) > with its own /boot partition, which gets me closer to the solution I > want which is one Grub, Debian's grub, with Debian as the first and > d

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 at 06:01, David Wright wrote: > > > I can't see anywhere where the OP claims to have set up LFS for > booting itself, as opposed to being booted from a Debian Grub. > It only says "I have been able to get a grub.cfg including the > LFS system …", which seems to imply LFS has on

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 at 02:40, Felix Miata wrote: > > Mark Fletcher composed on 2023-12-20 00:28 (UTC): > > > I am curious to know from Debian > > GRUBbers (as it were) if the behaviour I am describing in this thread > > is expected... > > I suspect few if any r

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 22:15, Felix Miata wrote: > > Thus, you, as admin, construct working stanzas however you like, with or > without > UUIDS, with or without device names, with or without volume LABELS, however > you > like boot to go, and they don't get changed, except by the admin - you. Th

GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-18 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I need help with a problem configuring grub. My main OS on the system concerned is bookworm (was probably originally installed as bullseye, might even have been earlier, and then has been upgraded over the years, now at bookworm). That system is the system that has installed grub and grub's

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

2023-08-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 07:52, Steve Sobol wrote: > On 2023-08-26 03:18, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > continue using it -- but since I can get it onto my machine with zero > > effort via Intellij > > I am a Jetbrains subscriber who uses many of their IDEs, including >

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 17:51, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably > > a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know > &

Gradle version in bookworm

2023-08-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
Apologies if this is a dumb and/or frequently-answered question, but... does anyone know why the version of the "gradle" build tool in bookworm is version 4? The version in bookworm, 4.4.1-18, was migrated to testing in January of this year -- an upgrade from version 4.4.1-13 -- at which time the

Re: Overzealous polkit

2023-07-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 22:55 Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > A fresh install of Debian 12.1 on a Lenovo Yoga 13. I have firewalld > installed, and firewall-config 1.3.0-1 to manage it. Polkit insists on > authentication, which is fine. It then has extremely short timeou

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 at 20:53, William Torrez Corea wrote: > I want to delete the Gnome desktop environment. > > *What command is used for an elimination complete?* > > I use this command but don't get the effect desired. > > # apt-get install task-gnome-desktop > > Well, to be fair, if you want t

Re: netgear wna3100 not supported by linux?

2023-01-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 at 09:46, lsg wrote: > i've searched Internet, it doesn't seem supported by linux?? too bad > > Looks like you need to use ndiswrapper with the windows drivers to get it to work. Saw that on an Ubuntu forum but what’s good for the gander is often good for the goose… Mark

Re: Package versions in multi-arch

2023-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 15:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: > You've been bitten by a subtle but unfortunately common problem, > yes. In multi-arch systems the versions of packages have to be totally > in sync. But the +b1 syntax here means that the i386 package has had a > binNMU (binary NMU) build which

Package versions in multi-arch

2023-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list I have a package installation problem which leads to a question about how (and if) package versions interact in different architectures. My system is an amd64 bookworm system, with multi-arch support and some packages from i386 installed, to support a vendor-supplied printer driver and, m

Re: gnome-remote-desktop on bookworm

2022-12-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 15:41, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hi > > Does anyone know what state gnome-remote-desktop is in on bookworm? I can't > get it to work. I have a system recently upgraded to bookworm, running Gnome > if that wasn't obvious. > This turned

gnome-remote-desktop on bookworm

2022-12-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Does anyone know what state gnome-remote-desktop is in on bookworm? I can't get it to work. I have a system recently upgraded to bookworm, running Gnome if that wasn't obvious. In Gnome settings, under Sharing I have turned on Remote Desktop and Remote Control, but other clients on my network

Apt upgrade problem

2022-10-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Tonight I am seeing a behaviour pattern in my Debian Bullseye system that I have not seen before. After "sudo apt update", the system informs me there is 1 package that can be upgraded. "sudo apt upgrade" reports nothing to do, 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upg

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:23:39PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I powered the router down again, plugged its WAN port into one of the > > LAN ports of the ISP-supplied router, and brought it back up. > > I you sure you plugged your ISP-router into the WAN port of your > (Buffalo) router and n

OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
First apologies for the off-topic post, but I know this community is full of experts on this topic and my ask in the end is a simple one: Can anyone point me at a reasonably accessible guide to the details of how IP networks work, in particular the communications that occur between router devic

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:17:55AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Thank you for pointing out that archivemail will be gone soon. Since I > am using it as well, I took a quick look at it ("how hard can it be??") > and tried a quick conversion to Python3: > https://github.com/solexx/archivemail > >

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:33:13PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 23:22:19 +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? > > > > packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it > > is in

Archivemail

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it is in neither sid nor Bullseye which presumably means it has been dropped. Anyone know why? bugs.debian.org doesn't show any bugs against it and google is coming up short

Gnome Terminal in Bullseye

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Has anyone else noticed in Gnome Terminal in bullseye that, by default, it starts in an 80x24 configuration, but if you press F11 to make it full screen and then press F11 again to take it back to non-full-screen, the configuration it goes back to isn't quite 80x24? It's approx 79x23 or

Re: Migrating LVM volumes to a new machine

2020-12-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 06:53:59PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:46:46PM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I feel > > like I can't follow the instructions in the HOWTO because it wants me to > > unmount the file systems, export the LVs and

Migrating LVM volumes to a new machine

2020-12-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I would like to understand how to move a LVM VG from one machine to another, when the disk to be moved contains filesystems key to the source system. I have read section 13.6 of the LVM HOWTO which talks about moving VGs. However the context of my situation is I am cannibalising an old m

Re: Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:54:10PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > I have two users on the client: paulf 1000 and nancyf 1001. On the > > server, I have two users: pi 1000 and paulf 1001. I can mount the NFS > > share from the server to /mnt on my client. But any files belongin

Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

2020-12-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the > > tes

Two questions as I prepare for a new install

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello list I am currently amassing the hardware for a new PC build as a Christmas present to myself, and plan to install Bullseye on it when the hardware is all here. My current system runs Buster and I thought it would be interesting to see what's coming. I have two questions: 1. Does anyon

Re: VPN ideas

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 04:35:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:27:25PM +0200, ellanios82 wrote: > >  Hi List   :) > > > > > >  - any suggestions please , for a handy VPN for everyday use : no specific > > purpose, but only to add a little more privacy ?? > > > >

libXp -- was there a better way?

2020-10-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I am running Buster on c2009 amd64 hardware -- one of the earliest Intel Core i7s. This was a clean install of Buster done a little over a year ago. Previously I had run many older flavours of Debian on this hardware over the years. I occasionally use a specialist piece of software calle

Re: R performance

2020-05-13 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:06:52PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > You don't mention which distro you are running on the EC2 instance, nor > whether R or the C libraries differ in release levels. Moreover, that EC2 > instance type is AMD-based not Intel. So if not an apples-to-oranges > compar

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > > Hello > > > > I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using all the > available cores instead of just one. I don't know whether tha

R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I have recently had cause to compare performance of running the R language on my 10+-year-old PC running Buster (Intel Core i7-920 CPU) and in the cloud on AWS. I got a surprising result, and I am wondering if the R packages on Debian have been built with any flags that account for the d

iPhone as bluetooth audio source for buster

2020-03-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Recently I wanted to connect my iPhone 7 to a new Buster install in the same way I had many years before with an earlier iPhone and earlier Debian, so I could play music from it through my speakers. Bluetooth setup on the Debian machine is basically working; I can connect to a variety of

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > > You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one > > can install it from testing (it is not advisable in general, but the > > divergence between bus

Re: RStudio in Buster

2019-10-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 06:27:48AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:45:41PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:28:05AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:34:17PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > &g

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 01:41:37AM -0700, B wrote: > > > On 9/29/19 4:30 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Any thoughts on where I might look to find settings that can be tweaked > > to make it spin down when idle? > > > See sdparm and hdparm tools. hdparm is probab

Re: RStudio in Buster

2019-09-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:28:05AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:34:17PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > The most recent package they provide is aiming at Stretch -- they don't > > seem to have produced a Buster version yet. >

RStudio in Buster

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello The RStudio application, a popular IDE-like tool for programming in R, is not to my knowledge packaged in the mainstream Debian repositories. The makers of RStudio, however, provide a package which can be downloaded from their website for installation in Debian. The most recent package t

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:11:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > If I understood this right, you have two disks with data and they were > > previously configured as RAID1 volume. > > What make\model RAID-controller do yo

Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Since a fresh install of buster, an external USB3 hard disk cage from Terramaster that I own is not automatically spinning down the disks in it when they go unused for a time. I used a previous generation of the cage with Stretch previously, it spun down the disks when they were not in use (act

Upgrade Adventure Stretch-to-Buster

2019-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list This long email is just a report on my recent stretch to buster upgrade experience. I had a bit of an adventure, didn't handle some steps well, and thought the experience would be useful to put out there for others to learn from / avoid some mistakes I made. THERE IS NO QUESTION / PROB

Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 01:21:03PM -0400, David Parker wrote: > Ok, I think I may have solved the connectivity issue. Some additional > Googling revealed that GDM starts an instance of PulseAudio, and that > conflicts with the PulseAudio server used by the Bluetooth device. The > steps to stop GD

Re: graphics card recommendation

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 08:09:12PM +0200, email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi! > > I'm building a new machine and I'm looking at graphics cards right now. I > want a card that can handle 4k for regular productivity tasks (if it can > handle gaming at those resolutions doesn't matter), that is as s

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: > > Posible Options: > 1. if you use lilo, look for a copy of parttions table. > 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. I'm running GRUB not lilo -- used lilo back in the 90's but switched to grub whenever Debian started prescribi

Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible to recover. The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the disks came from an older cage by the same maker (TerraMaster, in cas

New Services in Systemd on Debian

2019-09-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi there If one wants to create a new systemd service on Buster, for example for some home-grown unit, where would be the right place to put the .service file? Candidates are obviously /lib/systemd/system or /etc/systemd/system but in both cases that would mean dropping files in places that re

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:58:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > The manifestation matches, but having read thru amanda's tools own logs, > on that machine, I am not so sure we've pointed the finger in the right > direction. From the emailed backup report, it looks as if its crashed > the instan

Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?

2019-07-18 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 0:26 Brad Sawatzky wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Harry Putnam wrote: > > [ . . . ] > > Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input > > box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key > > presses aimed at the base window and pri

Re: [OT] send all email from certain From: addresses into a spam

2019-07-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 06:44:42PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > procmail might have worked, but it's more of a pain to learn procmail > > than it is to write my own filter. I also get more flexibility this way. > > > >

RESOLVED: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:03:42AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 11:39:39AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Nonetheless, I do find "Disks" handy to identity the device associated > with a USB memory stick just plugged in, and to indicate at a gla

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > it auto-mounted. > > > So as root I did: > > > > cp /dev/sdf > > You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp.

Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The image is the Windows 10 installer (please don't flame me! It's part of an education project for my son!) which I downloaded from Microsoft, and which they claim should be able to be written to a USB device. Microsoft wo

RESOLVED: Sudden “operation not permitted”

2019-04-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:17:04AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 03:25:39PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I decided to try a reboot, which cleared the upowerd problem and returned > > load to 0 or close to it. But now, network activity is no

Sudden “operation not permitted”

2019-04-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
(Apologies if this mail comes through poorly formatted for the list; my main machine is unavailable due to this problem and I’m writing on an iPad...) Running Stretch on a circa-2009 self-built machine which has run happily without serious issues since it was built, apart from the odd annoyance wi

Re: DVD Creation software

2019-04-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:48:13PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > > I would like to take a set of video files (I have mp4  and am aware they > need transcoding) and put these on a dvd along with a menu etc, so they > can be played from VLC or as a normal dvd. > > I did this years ago, it app

Re: Error Message

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:03:08PM +0200, Michael Lee wrote: > Hello, I would like to know what I am supposed to do about this error > message. Would appreciate guidance. > M Lee > > > Nicht alle Paketquellenindizes konnten heruntergeladen werden > > Die Software-Paketquelle steht möglicherweis

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:51:44AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:42:12AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Why not use a dynamic DNS provider? > > > The problem is how I know that the IP > > address has changed and hence the DNS mapping needs

RESOLVED: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:14:33PM +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. > > Hi Mark, > > > Short version: Is it reasonable to expect a piece of software to exist > > that establishes a dire

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:34:30AM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 21:33 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I've created a very simple script that is capable of parsing the > > output of "ip addr" and comparing the returned ip address for the > &g

Re: Tracking the next Stable release

2019-04-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 05:42:46PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Greetings! > > > https://twitter.com/debian_tracker > Nice! What does the level of release-critical bugs need to fall to before a release can happen -- it's not zero is it? Mark

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:39:35PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 21:33:03 +0900 > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > > My image of an ideal solution is a piece of software that can present > > email to a remote MTA (ie an MTA not on the local machine) for &

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:14:33PM +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. > > Hi Mark, > > Yes, have a look at the dma or nullmailer packages. There used to be > more of these programs in Debian

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 07:54:30AM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > You might check out sSMTP[1] > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP > Thanks, looks like sSMTP will do the job. As was pointed out elsewhere in the thread, it seems to have been dropped from Buster, but that is no barrier for me

Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello all As I wrote this I began to consider this is slightly OT for this list; my apologies for not putting OT in the subject line but mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. Short version: Is it reasonable to expect a piece of software to exist that establishes a direct connect

Re: Acess Devian 9 laptop by another devica via wifi

2019-04-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:31:34AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 5:12 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > > > > > Is there any reliable way to either (1) always connect via the LAN or > > > > (2) > > > > make the laptop broadcast its own LAN so I can login to it wirelessly > > > > fr

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-04-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:24:30AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:29 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my > > original command worked. > > So now, suddenly from th

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 08:44:46PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my > > original command worked. > > > > So now, suddenly from that update that started this thre

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 06:04:05PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Hello > > > > Since upgrading to Stretch shortly after it became stable, I have had to > > execute the following after a reboot before being able to connect to > > bluetoo

Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Since upgrading to Stretch shortly after it became stable, I have had to execute the following after a reboot before being able to connect to bluetooth devices using the Gnome bluetooth applet: $ sudo pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover Without that command, needed once only afte

Re: Session Recording

2018-12-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 0:46 Ilyass Kaouam wrote: > Hi, > > Please if you know any opensource tools he can recording session ? > Freeipa can do this ? > > Thank's > > Depends what you mean by session. For textual record of a series of commands and their output, as might be useful over ssh, look

Fwd: You removed Weboob package over pollitical reasons?Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 7:56 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Not for nothing... Please don’t top post. but I'd never heard of weboob before. Looks like a > rather powerful set of functions. All the controversy has probably > provided some much needed visibility. > > Personally, I don't care about th

Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Darn it, forgot to monkey with the headers when replying from gmail... please see intended list reply below. -- Forwarded message - From: Mark Fletcher Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:19 Subject: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? To: On Fri

Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

2018-11-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 0:59 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Now, please answer the following questions: > > 1) What version of Debian are you running? > > 2) How do you log in to your computer? If it's by a display manager >(graphical login), which one is it? > > 3) How do you start the X window sy

Re: selinux and debian squeeze 9.5

2018-11-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
> squeeze! You could be very lucky and someone with the same outdated, > no longer supported distribution and experiencing the same problem > comes along. I wouldn't count on it though. > > > Any suggestions? > > The obvious. > Speaking of obvious — the OP says 9.5, so presumably they _meant_ to s

Re: Debian installation

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 09:34:40PM -0700, Harold Hartley wrote: > I had ordered myself a Debian dvd 9.5 and everything was installing > great until it came to scan the mirrors.It seems I was not able to scan a > mirror so that I would be able to apt > an app, but I tried many mirrors and nothing.C

Re: Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:46:44AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2018 06:27:01 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Amanda is not good for the situation you describe. > > No its not ideal in some cases,, which is why I wrote a wrapper script > for the make a backup portions of amanda. W

Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I use Amanda for daily backups on Stretch. I found it not too difficult to set up once I got my head around its virtual tape concept. Recently, prompted by not very much, I have started to question whether having these backups really put me in a position to restore the machine if I need

pactl and bluetooth

2018-08-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello the list I'm running stretch amd64, upgraded from at least jessie and I think wheezy -- memory's a bit hazy now. I use Gnome on this machine. Every time I reboot I find I can't connect my bluetooth headphones to the computer. In the Gnome bluetooth applet, when I click the slide button t

Re: yabasic problem

2018-08-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
Isn’t the problem that you misspelled “experimental” in your original file paths? Mark On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 21:13 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/20/2018 02:35 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > [snip] > >> Would you agree, though, that "BASIC" is the language that must > >>

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > the /dev/sdc slot. > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, /, and > swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any ot

Re: Install matplotlib in Debian 9

2018-06-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:21:23PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 08/06/2018 à 20:51, Markos a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm starting my studies with Python 3 on Debian 9. > > > > I have to install the matplotlib module, but I'm in doubt what is the > > difference to install with the command: > >

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

2018-06-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 02:13:17PM -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > I.e. 12309 bug is back. It's obscure and presumably fixed (at least four > > times fixed) bug that happens with relatively slow filesystem (be it > > SSD/HDD/NFS or whatever) and a large amount of free RAM. I first > > encountered t

Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd?

2018-05-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:36:01AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > However, before you go doing that, consider that systemd ALSO comes with a > program called "systemd-fstab-generator". Contrary to its name, this > generates unit files FROM an fstab (rather than generating an fstab). > Therefore, fol

Re: GPG error when trying to update Lenny

2018-05-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 03:20:09PM +, Marie-Madeleine Gullibert wrote: > Hello to all, > > I'm relatively new to Debian. I'm helping out a small organization that has a > library server installed on Debian to update their system. They run currently > on Debian lenny so I'm first trying to u

Re: openvpn client DNS security

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 11:48:51AM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > Hi, I had a problem setting up DNS on an openvpn client. I'll describe it > here before submitting a bug report - I would appreciate comment on the > security aspects. > > > Looking more closely at script /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-

Re: apt{-cache,-get,itude} show wrong version of package after update

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:31:11AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 07:47:05AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > [...] > > > I'm not sure if you really did what it sounds like you did here, but if > > you did... you can't mix and matc

Re: apt{-cache,-get,itude} show wrong version of package after update

2018-03-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 07:50:03PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > After apt-get update, attempting to install ntp tries to > download version 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+deb9u1 and fails. It tries > to download +deb9u1 because > > $ aptitude show ntp > Package: ntp > Version: 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+d

Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

2018-03-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 08:34:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 Mar 2018 at 22:43:26 +0200, Ángel wrote: > > > On 2018-03-25 at 19:47 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > 1 day after the breach your data had been compromised. Changing your > > > password 10 days later on in your 1 month cycle doesn't seem

Re: Debian 9 rocks, really

2018-03-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:06:17AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Andre Rodier writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > I have been using Linux since more than 20 years, and Debian Linux > > since Potato. > > Same here. I started out on Red Hat 6.2, and discovered Debian when it > was on potato. I've

Re: quick scripting 'is /P/Q mounted'

2018-03-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 03:56:00PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-03-13 at 15:39, Joe wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:49:56 +0100 wrote: > > That test can be spoofed, however, by the creation of a directory with > the same name (and/or other characteristics) under the mount point while

Re: quick scripting 'is /P/Q mounted'

2018-03-13 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 08:49:58PM +1100, David wrote: > On 13 March 2018 at 14:40, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > If my other computer is South40 and I want to mount South40's /docs > > on my /south40/docs/ directory I can do that. As one script calls > > another I want to know if I need to mount So

Re: can't install mplayer of stretch

2018-03-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 10:01:23PM +, Long Wind wrote: > there is a typo in my last post:  not -> now > the cause might be i use installation CD 9.3.0but now apt source is newest > (ftp.utexas.edu) > > On Sunday, March 4, 2018 4:55 PM, Long Wind wrote: > > > the cause might be i use

Re: Strange Loss of Synaptic Functionality

2018-02-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 08:10:18AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt-get clean > root@AbNormal:/home/comp#  > > Just before I read your reply I edited sources-list for a different > source, debian.uchicago.edu father than debian.org, and

Re: Causes, cures and prevention of orphaned inodes?

2018-02-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 03:49:36PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch on am eight thread AMD GPU platform. > Lately, it seems if I have been plagued by surfeit of orphaned nodes. > > I have goggled the causes. cures and prevention, but have gotten no > results that make

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