Re: No sound after migrate to Bookworm

2024-11-15 Thread Martin
i386 version: apt install pipewire-bin pipewire-bin:i386- apt autoremove Now pipewire start correctly on login. Le 13/11/2024 à 15:00, Martin a écrit : Hi I have no sound anymore since I upgrade from Debian Bullseye to Bookworm. I use Gnome desktop environement. pipewire, pipewire-pulse and

No sound after migrate to Bookworm

2024-11-13 Thread Martin
Hi I have no sound anymore since I upgrade from Debian Bullseye to Bookworm. I use Gnome desktop environement. pipewire, pipewire-pulse and wireplumber are installed and enabled for users by systemd like on a fresh bookworm install. If I exec pipewire, pipewire-pulse and wireplumber directl

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

2024-08-25 Thread martin f krafft
s (the original publisher) and/or NoStarch. Take care, -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems on the other hand, you have different fingers.

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-11-08 Thread Martin
,12h This seems to work as you can see above WiFi is getting address 192.168.231.243 Is there anything else I should change for dnsmasq setting? Bye Martin

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-11-05 Thread Martin
On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 06:48:47AM +, Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2023-11-04 at 20:08 +0100, Martin wrote: > [...] > > BTW putting above script into /etc/nftables.conf (at the bottom of file) > > did not ever worked - I had always to run that file manualy as root. > > Command

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-11-05 Thread Martin
which I also installed just for debugging this. The problem is I can not connect from phone to internet (let say google.com) Martin

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-11-04 Thread Martin
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:00:08PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/10/2023 17:06, Martin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 09:54:22AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > #!/usr/sbin/nft -f > > > table inet sharedconnection {} > > > flu

Re: RANTING apt update does not work

2023-11-03 Thread Martin
I use old system up to reply this email. So I will probably ask more questions later (especialy about setting up local wifi router - I have some problems with that - but I will leave it for little later). Thank you all for help provided so far. Martin

apt update does not work

2023-11-02 Thread Martin
nd is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. Where do I get those needed keys and where do I put them? Martin

Re: How to install Sid with non-free firmware for wifi?

2023-11-01 Thread Martin
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:11:45AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 01 Nov 2023 at 14:42:17 (+0100), Martin wrote: > > >From above outut i figure out my adapter is: > > Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9271 > > 802.11n > > I

Re: How to install Sid with non-free firmware for wifi?

2023-11-01 Thread Martin
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 02:09:57PM +0100, Marco M. wrote: > Am 01.11.2023 um 13:59:51 Uhr schrieb Martin: > > Do you have USB NICs? > Does your computer has an Ethernet NIC (wired)? > > Then use them for installing the packages. I have one computer with wifi connection to int

How to install Sid with non-free firmware for wifi?

2023-11-01 Thread Martin
- it does not blink at all). Then it offers me to enter values manualy but it uses those values with ethernet adapter. And I am stuck here: how do I recognize my wifi adapter? Martin

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-26 Thread Martin
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 09:54:22AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/10/2023 02:20, Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 07:33:52PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > should have something like > > > > > > table ip sharedconnection { > > >

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-25 Thread Martin
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 02:15:36PM +0200, Marco M. wrote: > Am 25.10.2023 um 13:33:48 Uhr schrieb Martin: > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 08:47:03AM +0200, Marco M. wrote: > > > > > > Why don't you use DHCP like your phone does? > > > > Because I

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-25 Thread Martin
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 07:33:52PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/10/2023 18:24, Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 03:17:09PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > So packet forwarding should be enabled on the computer. > > sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forw

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-25 Thread Martin
ce again as first email) Martin

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-25 Thread Martin
; - Source of weak WiFi > - WiFi booster > - WiFi adapter in computer > - ethernet port in computer > - ethernet port of Mi router > - WiFi provided by Mi router > - WiFi adapter inside the phone > > So packet forwarding should be enabled on the computer. However I suspect an &

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-24 Thread Martin
a5ab1c inet dhcp wpa-ssid Thomson wpa-psk mybigsecret Martin

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-24 Thread Martin
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 06:52:09AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 06:15:00AM +0200, Martin wrote: > > I tried lot of setup and none worked. > > And also missed https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/10/msg00684.html > and https://lists.debian.org/d

How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-24 Thread Martin
ll be able to give me some hint how to solve this issue and be able to connect to internet from router - and connected phone. Martin

How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-24 Thread Martin
able to give me some hint how to solve this issue and be able to connect to internet from router - and connected phone. Martin

How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-24 Thread Martin
able to give me some hint how to solve this issue and be able to connect to internet from router - and connected phone. Martin

How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-24 Thread Martin
able to give me some hint how to solve this issue and be able to connect to internet from router - and connected phone. Martin

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

2023-08-17 Thread Martin Petersen
happy birthday Debian ! and thanks to all you contributors and nice people in this community. i chose debian as a noob after my first experiments w. suse around '98/'99 and never looked back. best os on the planet and simply my digital home. a cheerful toast to this wonderful creation. the

Xorg.0.log inflating possibly due to 'client bug: Invalid path /dev/input/eventxx'

2023-08-08 Thread Martin Gagnon
o not hesitate to request additional information if that can help. Kindly let me know if this should be posted on some other list. Thank you, Martin system-09.Xorg.0.log Description: Binary data

Re: Xfce destop environment

2023-01-30 Thread Martin Petersen
efault session and copy your files over :) Good luck :) Cheers, Martin On 2023-01-30 19:57, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:43 AM David wrote: On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 00:07 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: What happened with my desktop environment? My desktop envi

Re: freezing / unstable Debian Testing on MSI Stealth GS77 laptop

2023-01-29 Thread Martin Petersen
ar applications. Good luck and please post log contents or snippes of logs, if You find some. Cheers, Martin On 2023-01-25 09:56, JD wrote: Hello, I'm trying to find some help in order to debug or resolve the issues I'm facing. Hopefully, someone will be able to help me here. The m

Re: An AMD graphics bug is coming to unstable/testing repo

2023-01-15 Thread Martin Petersen
x but everybody is unsure when it will find it's way into mainline. Thank You again, David & have a nice day, Y'all, Martin On 2023-01-15 12:04, David wrote: Hi list readers A FYI: I am far from expert in these things but I noticed that a kernel with a known bug affecting AMD graphic

Re: Unable to create output file

2022-12-19 Thread Martin Smith
heers -- t I have this configuration in my DOSBOX. Sorry, I don't understand. Do you have that directory? Can you create a file there "by hand"? Cheers he seems to have the directory, does he have enough space to create the file -- Martin

Re: multiple messages

2022-12-12 Thread Martin Smith
On 12/12/2022 03:24, David Wright wrote: On Sun 11 Dec 2022 at 17:52:56 (+), Martin Smith wrote: I am getting multiple messages, all with the same time and date, has my thunderbird gone belly up or is anyone else seeing it this one I have about 50: Re: e-mail with line in body beginning

multiple messages

2022-12-11 Thread Martin Smith
I am getting multiple messages, all with the same time and date, has my thunderbird gone belly up or is anyone else seeing it this one I have about 50: Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From" and this one: 10/12/2022, 14:49 Re: Monitor traffic on a port -- Martin

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Martin Smith
bably about 15 years ago I was using BSD for servers in offices and I remember one of the senior developers in BSD land went to work for Apple, I can remember my delight when I discovered I could summon vi in a terminal on a mac -- Martin

Re: ssh -X authentication with sudo

2022-10-05 Thread martin f krafft
I really didn't mean to kick this off ;) Original poster: instead of the GUI programm, I recommend you try cfdisk. It's not "graphical", but it has a nice UI, and it can do everything you need. `sudo cfdisk /dev/device` and you're going to be much happier. --

Re: ssh -X authentication with sudo

2022-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by "debian-u...@howorth.org.uk" on 2022-10-04 at 13:52 Uhr +0100: PS as you surmised, I don't really want root ssh access. But you are running GUIs as root?? -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud

Re: HTTP Proxy

2022-04-28 Thread Larry Martin
Yes. I used 192.168.1.45. I have about given up on the approach and will probably go to the multiple CD version of the install. Thanks to all. > On Apr 28, 2022, at 12:30 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Larry Martin wrote: > >> I am using my home

Re: HTTP Proxy

2022-04-27 Thread Larry Martin
Dan, Thank you. That makes perfect sense. > On Apr 27, 2022, at 2:02 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Larry Martin wrote: >> Dan, >> >> Thank you for the prompt reply. I am still having problems. I enter my IP >> address as 192.168.1.45 and all appears to go ok

HTTP Proxy

2022-04-27 Thread Larry Martin
I am installing Debian 11 from a single CD. My plan was to complete the install via the internet. I am using my home router IP address 192.168.1.0 device number 45. However I have no idea about what to specify as an HTTP proxy. I have tried a couple of options but when Debian tries to conne

Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
. I would also have thought that the disk image file should have deflated like a punctured air mattress but it didn't. I think I am almost there but obviously not yet. Thanks in advance for ideas. Martin

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-29 Thread Martin McCormick
e to activate debian from Windows. Is this even necessary once one is using unix tools on the disk? Thanks to all the good advice from everyone. I am seeing the end of this project and have learned some new useful tricks that are good to know. Martin

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Martin McCormick
ernel or sector information becomes corrupted if it happens to land in a vital piece of code. Again, many thanks. Martin McCormick

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Martin McCormick
able had been rewritten and fdisk then exited. Now, doing sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdg yields 1wb5agz martin tmp $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdg Disk /dev/sdg: 28.8 GiB, 30908350464 bytes, 60367872 sectors Disk model: USB HS-SD Card Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physi

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Martin McCormick
ause what you suggest would be the normal way out. Martin Martin

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Martin McCormick
e is corrupted. In my case, I just want to delete both partitions and start over. The OS is debian Buster and has all the tools you can expect to find and runs on a 64-bit ARM. Otherwise, it's pure debian Linux. Martin

SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Martin McCormick
happens when I try to use that 28-gb SSD card: Script dump follows Script started on 2022-01-26 20:03:52-06:00 [TERM="Linux" TTY="/dev/pts/3" COLUMNS="80" LINES="25"] 1wb5agz martin tmp $ sudo su - [sudo] password for martin: root@wb5agz:~# fdisk -l /dev

The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.

2022-01-25 Thread Martin McCormick
ically fixed themselves. When I turned it off last night, I gave it the halt -p command. The power supply has no switch so I unplugged it from power so it started fresh about 8 hours later. Martin WB5AGZ

Re: /usr/share/calendar.usholiday

2022-01-17 Thread Martin McCormick
I also noticed that today in the United States should be marked but hasn't been yet. It is the third Monday in January which, since 1986 has been the official recognition of the birthday of a US civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. The entry in that file probably should read

Re: /usr/share/calendar.usholiday

2022-01-17 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:58:11PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > There's a stale version of this file on my system that reflects > > when Debian was installed but it brings a question to mind. > > The one in the Subject: header? Are y

/usr/share/calendar.usholiday

2022-01-16 Thread Martin McCormick
s for 2017 but this is why I am asking. I also saw versions of that file for other countries such as the UK. Thanks for all good responses. Martin McCormick

Curious Question about an Extra MAC Address

2021-10-26 Thread Martin McCormick
d by us. This is a neighborhood in a college town so one must be careful but not too paranoid. Thanks for any good ideas. Martin

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-22 Thread Martin McCormick
case, the corruption would be okay and done for good reasons but the dhcp server in our router already advertises two domain name servers so ours would have to be learned about by discovery. Thanks again. Martin McCormick

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread Martin McCormick
uilding it was in. My job was basically to encode all that in to rules for automation to keep us safe from making mistakes and it worked. Martin

eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread Martin McCormick
s for any good ideas. Martin McCormick

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
I am sure I have run kernels with other bugs that I didn't know about but this is the first time one has bitten me, so to speak. Thanks. Martin WB5AGZ Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
hat give you a wide coverage receiver from 26 to almost 1000 MHZ use basically math to decode sideband, AM, FM and data using DSP techniques. Martin

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
like a few new acronyms for your day. I guess that's TMI. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
ely located and one is operating it headlessly. I smiled a bit when reading the syslog admonition to connect to a high-speed hub. That would be quite a trick. Thanks for any constructive suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Re: Pipewire for multiple users

2021-08-19 Thread martin f krafft
#x27;t work, confirm that "u" can use Pulse when logged in with a regular desktop session, i.e. at the graphical login screen. Hope this helps, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `

Re: Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-19 Thread Martin McCormick
tell /arecord/ to use an ADC that doesn't exist. > > Cheers, > David. I am in no great hurry so I will probably try both the plugin solution and the sox coding and save them both for later as the idea is to end up with something that is both efficient and useful. Thanks, everybody. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
arameters without the Windows driver and I guess I could leave it in stereo mode and tell sox to mix the left and right channels which is fine with me but kind of clunky. I am asking the list's wisdom in case there is a better way to produce the mono channel. Thanks. Martin WB5AGZ

Grub Success at Last

2021-06-08 Thread Martin McCormick
a few more IQ points and things would flow a little faster around here. Thanks for all the help, everybody. Martin

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-07 Thread Martin McCormick
der to hopefully insure that it is more likely to be present. I will uncompress the initrd files and see how hard it will be to find the UUID and change it to what it should be on the problem target system. Again, thanks to all. Martin WB5AGZ

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
I want to do the clone in the middle of the night when things are quieter and I don't run fetchmail in the wee hours so the backup sees a more stable file system. If, by chance, I end up actually making the broken system work, I'll let you know what it was and the one drive can serve the whole system again. Martin

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > IMO you gave up too soon. IIRC you never showed us output from parted -l > or fdisk > -l. Very likely on the problem PC the / filesystem was/is not on the first > partition, where often lies a swap partition. Very likely root=/dev/sda2 > would > have been/be correct. Sorry

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
would basically do the grub install in a a total jail so it would come out set as if one had just been running the installer and this was the only drive on the system. Thank you all for your help and sorry that it took so long to determine that nothing simple was going to work. Martin

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Martin McCormick
so I figured I had better fix it correctly since I didn't know it was a ticking bomb. Felix Miata writes: > Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-05 12:46 (UTC-0500): > > > I have a plan but I need some more information. Is there any > > personalization done by the boot

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Reco writes: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I have a plan but I need some more information. Is there any > > personalization done by the boot setup process? > > Yes. One of the GRUB's tasks is to supply kernel which is

A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Martin McCormick
ns of both are the same down to the serial console. Martin

Re: Boot Repair. Still Going Round and Round.

2021-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
rive on another system and hoping for no contamination seems to be a lot easier said than done. Martin

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-03 Thread Martin McCormick
gs turn out to be life savers and you have to try the rabbit holes to know for sure. Martin

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Martin McCormick
tainly would be nice to know all there is about both of those fall-back methods. Thanks to anybody who knows where real sentences are that explain the serial console or the possible Morse code output. Martin WB5AGZ

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Martin McCormick
Weaver writes: > On 03-06-2021 03:59, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Is there any free utility that can run in Linux which helps one > > rebuild a corrupted boot configuration? > > https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Thank you very much as you did answer my question perfect

Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Martin McCormick
not a 6 as the blkid for /swap is what should be there. I am not totally sure where tthe UUID that starts with 6f6f comes from but that's also the UUID one sees when grub crashes and burns on liftoff when trying to boot from that drive. Martin

Grub on Dead Disk solved

2021-06-01 Thread Martin McCormick
I missed the INSTALL_DEVICE and now the script works. The next step is to see if the drive boots but I just forgot that one important detail. Sorry to waste anyone's time. Martin

Grub on Dead Disk

2021-06-01 Thread Martin McCormick
y=/mnt/boot/ I get the following no matter where I point boot-directory: ./do_grub [sudo] password for martin: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: error: install device isn't specified. I don't remember doing anything else. I think this time I may also need t

Re: Debian-friendly laptop

2021-05-19 Thread Martin Smith
o see that for themselves. ifixit.com is highly recommended for teardowns of lots of machines especially Lenovo, I have used it myself several times -- Martin

Is there any way to snoop on a USB port?

2021-04-29 Thread Martin McCormick
plug with the usb hardware in it and a cable that plugs in to the radio that would most likely not be practical to tap. Thanks for any good thoughts. Martin WB5AGZ

fail2ban Squawk

2021-03-26 Thread Martin McCormick
exactly? Enquiring minds want to know. Thanks for any and all constructive ideas. Martin McCormick

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-16 Thread Martin Smith
ched tape, and in a side room at the stores we have what was called a line printer that printed out invoice/advice note pairs it really was like a machine gun printing a line at a time -- Martin

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

2021-02-27 Thread martin f krafft
Logical Volume Management. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "cs class at 8:30am. ugly. if you can wake up early eno

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

2021-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
Semih, Maybe I can provide a quick and easy solution, depending on what happens when you type ``` $ sudo lvs ``` into a terminal. Could you let us know what that spits out? Thanks, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http

remove me from this list

2021-01-22 Thread J B Martin
I do not use this product. Please remove my name. Thank you. Bryant Martin On 1/22/2021 7:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 22 ian 21, 08:08:57, steve wrote: Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote: I have rebooted with udev_log

pwc.ko bullseye doesn't work

2021-01-22 Thread Martin Bitter
with SUSE Leap 15, and with Debian with kernel- version 5.9.0-4-amd64. Any help to use reportbug appreciated. Kind regards. martin -- getippt im 9-Fingersystem von mir selbst.

remove

2020-12-23 Thread J B Martin
-- Joseph Bryant Martin USA 804 223-0325 Info Voice 804 334-4309

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Our phone is very quiet these days except for legitimate calls. Martin McCormick

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 03 dec 20, 07:39:14, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > So, I need to read more general information about the > > differences between systemd and what we've been using up to > > recently. > > The Wikipedia page and/or https

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-03 Thread Martin McCormick
worst sort of ignorance syndrome which can really bite in that sometimes, we have an idea what we don't know and other times, we don't even know that we don't know and that's really frightening. So, I need to read more general information about the differences between systemd and what we've been using up to recently. Martin McCormick

Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-02 Thread Martin McCormick
o things with time and dates and the current epoch-based number of seconds since utc Midnight January 1, 1970 is based on the C modules such that one's current wall-clock time is time(localtime). Just a thought Martin

Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?

2020-12-02 Thread Martin McCormick
and so my question is basically, has anything fundamentally changed in the way cron is used? This is not a complaint at all. I was first introduced to unix-like systems in 1989 and immediately knew that this was the sort of OS I wanted to stick with in amateur radio and technical tinkering in general. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up Solved!

2020-12-01 Thread Martin McCormick
that grub plays when the kernel is about to fire off. In short, the faulty grub that made it onto the system was all that was really wrong. Thanks to a lot of you, I appreciate grub more as this has been quite a little mini course in what it does. Martin

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up, Not There Yet.

2020-11-30 Thread Martin McCormick
I am going to respond to one of my earlier posts as it doesn't help things at all to spread misinformation which I am guilty of, here. "Martin McCormick" writes: > I appear to be using grub, not grub2. No. It's grub2. Old Grub is now grub-legacy and is

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-30 Thread Martin McCormick
system to do something it wasn't originally designed to do then ram and storage are getting cheaper by the day and some things just aren't worth worrying about. Martin McCormick

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Andy Smith writes: > Hi Martin, > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:48:51PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > find . -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \; \ > > |grep -F / \ > > | awk ' { total += $5 } END { print total }' > > > > That usual

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-29 Thread Martin McCormick
y up. I suspect the problem is the issue with the modules which another poster described. What am I failing to do to make the changes occur on the designated drive? Having it write this kind of stuff to drives other than the desired target is scary. Thanks for a good explanation and I may not be so lucky next time. Martin

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up, Not There Yet.

2020-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
al in grub but I couldn't remember. This is the first time I ever had any real trouble with grub and I can put this drive back on the working linux box and modify that file, assuming the change would take place on the next run of grub. Martin

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
Andy Smith writes: > Hi Martin, > > Are you sure about this? There is no Debian or Ubuntu host I have > access to that has a /usr/share/zoneinfo/ that contains more than > 4MiB of data. For yours to have 256 times this much is quite an > aberration. What did you type to d

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up, Not There Yet.

2020-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
t although I first thought I had as I looked at some links which had uuid's but they were good when I looked at the actual partition. It's easy to go down a rabbit hole if one doesn't watch out. I think there may be something about grub that got left out or changed during the upgrade. Martin Martin

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
United States but am an amateur radio operator and learned at a very young age to appreciate those time zones if one wants to know when to listen for interesting things. Martin

Fixing a Grub Foul-up, Not There Yet.

2020-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
e back from a reboot. I appreciate the good suggestions I have gotten from several of you so far. Martin McCormick

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread Martin McCormick
UUID's. On my disk, Partition 1 is / and blkid spits out a number that starts with 9F. Partition 2 was created to get an extended partition of 5 which is swap space so 1 and 5 have UUID's. The UUID referenced in grub.cfg starts with 3. The rest of this message consists of grub.cfg. M

Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread Martin McCormick
atever happened, it's going to be quite a time waster. Thanks for any constructive suggestions. Martin McCormick

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