Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

2025-05-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:38:38AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-05-21): > > Actually, this makes a lot of sense (well, nearly): keep backup constantly > > synced, unmount/mount only on media rotation, carry freshly unmounted > > medium to safe place. > > It only becomes

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

2025-05-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:05:37AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Jonathan Dowland (HE12025-05-21): > > I'd like /backup permanently > > mounted > > Does it mean you like your backup drive to be permanently plugged to the > computer? That protects you from h

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:04:16PM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can > publish? If this is your reaction, I'll spare you my drivel, too. You won't hear from me further, promised. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:35:14AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM tomas wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:45:11AM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > What do y

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:50:50AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] > I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while the > backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive). The > backup script did the mount/rsync/unmount as part of the execution. > Really, th

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:45:11AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM wrote: [...] > > What do you do if you get two USBs containing file systems with > > the same UUID? > > Is that possible? I suppose it is.. so I'd go looking for how to > change the UUID for one of the usb dr

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:30:37AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM BST, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > why not > > > if ! mountpoint /mnt/usb-drive-b ; then ... > > > ? > > > > I'd not heard of either `mountpoint` or `fin

Re: Installing android devenv in Debian 12

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 04:24:46PM +0300, Roland Mueller wrote: > At least for Ubuntu 22.04 android-sdk-platform-23 is in the list of > available packages. > > $ apt list android-sdk\* > ... > android-sdk-platform-23/jammy,jammy 6.0.1+r72-6 all > ... For Debian, it seems to exist in buster, bulls

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:01:34PM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Csányi Pál ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 11:13): > > > > Hi, > > > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Androi

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 01:02:35PM +0300, Brieuc Desoutter wrote: > Hum how about installing Jetbrains Android studio (via the jetbrains > toolbox > https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/) It has a funny license, though. Source is free, binaries aren't. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: P

Android development tools on Debian [was: empty subject]

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:08:28AM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools > and > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps > >

Re: Recall: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 05:49:34AM +, Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > renh...@lenovo.com would like to recall the message, "Grub struct the OS > reboot". Hi, I read your first message, and couldn't make much sense of it. Quite possibly, others are in the same situation as me and don't answer fo

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? Whose network address? And: what do you mean by "store"? Could you please explain what you are trying to do? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 09:02:03PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > thanks You are welcome :-) > i understand the no host hash in an industrial setting > but in a home network it seems unnecessary Well -- there are mixed cases. In my

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
ing ssh-keygen(1). Use of this option may break facili‐ ties such as tab-completion that rely on being able to read unhashed host names from ~/.ssh/known_hosts. ...and the default in Debian is: tomas@caliban:~$ grep -i hash /etc/ssh/ssh_config HashKnownHosts yes ...so th

Re: inadyn client

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 07:04:43PM +0200, sa...@laurenz.ws wrote: > Moin, Moin das ist eine englischsprachige Liste. Die wenigsten Menschen hier können Deutsch, möglicherweise willst Du diese hier: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ (Mit inadyn kenne ich mich leider gar nicht aus, s

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 04:09:10PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: [...] > as an aside > in known_hosts there are many key fingerprints with no host identification > is there a way to identify what host the fingerprint is for The file format is described in man 8 sshd. Those with "no host

Re: Re (2): Shell function.

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 11:41:00AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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 DISP

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-14 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 10:04:11AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/05/2025 11:29, tomas wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > I have noticed that deprecated wireless-tools have some kind of > > > integration > &

Re: Dell wifi switch

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 03:15:16AM +, xuser wrote: > Its a latitude e6500, and yes it has an hard switch on the side > The wireless card is an Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN > It is supported Hm. I once had a Thinkpad X with a hard switch where that one mechanically failed. That ended up with a m

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 13/05/2025 22:55, tomas wrote: > > > >sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scanning > > To avoid a tool that is claimed to be a deprecated one: > > sudo iw dev wlp2s0 scan > > > (With ifupdown I can h

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:50:34AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/13/25 10:57 AM, David Wright wrote: [...] > > $ /sbin/rfkill > > > > should show what's blocked, and sudo rfkill unblock all > > should unblock it. > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > Thank you! > > Just installing rfkill solve

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 08:45:41AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/12/25 10:25 PM, Paul Scott wrote: [...] > I see where it says that the wlp2s0 is DOWN > > I'm not having great luck finding a command to bring it up after looking at > > man ip sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up ...but of course thi

Re: Dell wifi switch

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Greg wrote: > On 5/13/25 04:44, xuser wrote: > > I just want it to work > > You need to provide us more details, there are no "universal suggestions". > Is the wifi adapter recognized by the kernel, what version of Debian do you > use, do you know how to t

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:55:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [...] > > The embedded cost in older machines has amortised over a longer > > period. > > What are you even talking about? Longer life: you divvy up the manufacturing (and shipping, and...) over a longer time. > > I don't follow yo

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:44:09AM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: [...] > This thread is a waist of time! You seem to like waisting your time. Wait until it is the wrist's turn... Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:26:21AM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: [...] > Or maybe just maybe Mental Health Counseling? Grumpy today? Jeez. Go do some sports. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:02:26AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 10:55:07PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Clearly, there's a limit beyond which it doesn't make any sense any > > more, but it usually makes sense to keep operating old electronic > > devices as long as they

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 06:38:57PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > I'm interested in this topic, so I've done a little research > online. Many folks look at energy consumption in terms of CO2 > emissions, as a useful proxy for direct energy use. Thanks for the links! I'm interested in this

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:53:26AM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: > This whole thread is INSANE!!! What is this with some people wanting to prescribe others what to do? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:41:07PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: > > >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity > > >> than something small and more recent might use. > > > > > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect > would be the mouse hardware. > > If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for the > wireless mouse. Or the b

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-06 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 09:41:05AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon May 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM BST, Bret Busby wrote: > > What is Potato? Is that about 3.0, or 3.1? > > It was my first Debian version: release in August 2000. > > > > Would it still be supported with security patches? > > No,

Re: Request for Snapdragon X Plus Support and Development for ASUS Q5507QA-S15 Laptop

2025-05-06 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 09:53:54AM +0330, Reza Bojnordi wrote: > Dear Debian > > I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to inquire about the > possibility of enhanced support and development for the Snapdragon X Plus > processor, specifically for my laptop model, the ASUS Q5507QA-S1

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:06:05AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/04/2025 20:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, > > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > > At some point, it'd been in

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 10:32:26AM -0400, Lee wrote: [...] > > - is trying to resolve via mDNS > > How do we know that? Has the OP sent you a private message showing > the mdns requests going out to the network? > If no then I would say we don't know if their machine is trying to do > mdns or

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de > wrote: > > > > > > > That was my guess. By now I think it is irrelevant, since we > > advanced to the mDNS issue. At some point, it'd been interesting > > whether y

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 12:40:54PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > While it is a good idea to have tshark, we already know that > > the OP's machine > > > > - is trying to resolve via mDNS > > - that part is failing.

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:36:17PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: [...] > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Not particularly. > > > > Try this: > > > > sudo apt install tshark > > sudo tshark -f 'port 53

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:56:26PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > Hi, > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. Thanks for those. Another one which might be of interest (I suggest you don't obfuscate the IP addresses; otherwise it's on yo

Re: Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 01:32:45PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. But when > I use it, > nothing is retured: > > $ which tlmgr > /usr/bin/tlmgr > > $ locate tlmgr > [nothing returnsd] > >

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 09:30:43AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I > > get when I ping other machine: > > > > ping: [hostname].local: Name or

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-23 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a > > dedicated structure to explicitly mark tables? It would be the best > > source for data extraction. > > > ISO 14

Re: Self compiling entire Bookworm DVD-1

2025-04-23 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 01:26:44PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:58:52 + > Nils wrote: > > > Hey! > > > > I'd like to compile all of DVD-1 myself but using `-Oz` to optimize > > for binary size rather than speed. How do I do that? Where do I > > start? I could only find infos on

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

2025-04-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 04:19:43PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Tom Browder (HE12025-04-21): > > $ time raku -e ‘my $s = “a” x 25; my $r = “a?” x 25 ~ “a” x 25; if > > ($s ~= $r) { say “yes” } ‘ > > I almost asked if Raku uses pairs of Unicode quotes instead of the > symmetrical ASCII one; t

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

2025-04-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 07:34:13AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 08:04:44 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] quite possibly Perl's engine has been refined (it definitely has > > been extended) since then. [...] > It still has the issue. > > hobbit:~$ time perl -e '$

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

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 12:08:53AM +, David wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 17:42, wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 05:58:31PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > Err, did you notice the bit in that reference that says: "It documents > > > regular expressions in the form availa

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 05:58:31PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > wrote: [...] > > Note that regular expressions come in slightly different flavours. > > Going by Kate's documentation [1] on this topic they seem to be > > PCRE or a variant thereof. > > > > Cheers > > > > [1] > > ht

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 08:45:58AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 4/20/25 7:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using > > > "regular > > > expressions". > > > > >

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using "regular > expressions". > > I had stated using Kate for the project. > > I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It would be > helpful if I coul

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 11:13:19PM +0200, Paul Duncan wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 12:10, Richmond wrote: > > > Roger Price writes: > > > > > > > > Some people will try it on though, like saying your posts have to wrap > > at 72 characters or their email client can't cope. > > > > Is that be

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 05:35:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] > Hi Gene, > > This is probably off topic for the subject of the thread above but - > > You always claim that stuff is grossly broken: in this instance, CUPS > is probably *not* broken. The problem is that the free drivers

Re: Do you have a list of people who work on home computers?

2025-04-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 11:06:48AM +, Matt Timpson wrote: > Hello, > > I know of the index at https://www.debian.org/consultants/, but the first > person I reached out to says they only work for businesses, not individuals. Depending on your whereabouts there might be a local free software,

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 01:35:19PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 18/4/25 13:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and > > > ask > > > a good Large Language Model to give you a table. > > After this, I'd double-check each indivi

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 11:09:52AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: [...] > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and ask > a good Large Language Model to give you a table. After this, I'd double-check each individual number. You'll never know if they are being made up,

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

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > > ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays their > audio part : > > « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 » (H264 > - MPEG-

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:55:31PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Roger Price (HE12025-04-17): > > > I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when > > > I > > > write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. > > >

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 03:19:49PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-04-17): > > Now it depends on how vengeful you are: you might end up with RTF > > (out of categoty 3), or you might explain to your president that, > > when the mails are all blue, people with a monochrome m

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:37:36PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I > write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. I would like to do this > without using HTML. I use alpine to send and receive email : I tried adding

Re: Broadcom BCM43228

2025-04-16 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 09:40:42AM +0200, i...@hjcsro.eu wrote: > When using an 'older laptop' I would suggest to use Zorin OS. > Less problems with all kind of drivers and 'To Prefer' also for older > laptop. So a derivative of Ubuntu, i.e. a derivative of a derivative of Debian :-) Cheers --

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-14 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Michael Paoli wrote: > What systemd dependencies? :-) Thanks for reminding us that Debian is (more or less) viable without systemd (I try to keep my daily driver that way, too). But the original poster has another, valid concern. I think the best illustr

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 09:29:41AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM tomas wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 01:32:06PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > On 12/4/25 13:24, tomas wrote: > > > > So, share your wisdom with u

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 09:39:53AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Hello, > > Jumping into your interesting ssh vs VPN discussion: [...] Thanks for all those interesting details. To sum up, I'd concur with Andy in one point: *if* you are running a VPN anyway, it's better to hide you SSH behind th

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-11 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 01:32:06PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 12/4/25 13:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > So, share your wisdom with us: what makes ssh less secure than > > "a VPN"? > > > It's quite simple. If you have a VPN exposed to the internet and an ssh > service then you have two a

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-11 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 07:59:40PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 08:12:14PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > systemd dependancies that are activated on a Debian system imply a lot > > of library injections into sshd, much more than the stock OpenBSD ssh. [...] > > Wha

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

2025-04-10 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 11:32:31AM +0200, Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > i want to map the sata hardware connections to fixed device names. This be > done even the hdd on the cable is changed. > > So - when i connect a hdd to sata port 4 i want to get (for example) /dev/sdd > created even /dev/

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

2025-04-10 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:34:08AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > Disabling root logins by default is especially important when a > network attacker can use the login, like via SSH. To achieve this... > The network attacker > is usually yo

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

2025-04-09 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2025, 11:35:27 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 11:32:31AM +0200, Petric Frank wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > i want to map the sata hardware connections to fixed device name

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

2025-04-08 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 02:37:25PM +, Matt Timpson wrote: > Hello, > > Dan told me to send this to the mailing list instead of individual people. > This command worked: > > sudo apt install ./scanner_x86_64_1.7.2312301E.deb > > However, I still need to find the executable and run it. I thin

Re: Instalación

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:14:15PM +0100, Julio Gil Garcia wrote: > Buenas tardes, me llamo Julio: ¡Hola, Julio! Primero: esta lista es en inglés: la mayoría de la gente aquí no podrá ayudarte. Si prefieres ccomunicar en castellano, hay una lista sobre Debian en este lenguaje: debian-user-span

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > the traditional behvior of "su" (before it was broken in buster). > > > > I don't understand the

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:41:55AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-26): > > I was once sitting at a $(DAYJOB) where they blocked everything but > > 443 (and 80). I tunneled ssh over socat (with TLS, so that the handshake > > didn't look suspect, in case their firewall sn

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 02:04:45PM +0800, An Liu wrote: > AFAIK, > > Exporting a nfs mounted location is possible via nfs-ganesha I have no experience with this one. Thanks for reminding me :-) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Web server access

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
her I use HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1. > > Does it make a difference if you send CRLF instead of LF, as Tomas > mentioned? For that, you would need to hit ctrl-enter and see ^M in the > terminal, each time before you hit enter. To be fair, I said that most web servers are lenient. The RF

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-04 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 02:55:11PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> If he hasn't noticed yet, I doubt it. > > > > I agree. > > If I understand what people want to accomplish by using command-line > > options, I would likely have gone to System->Log Out ... and the

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

2025-04-04 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 05:17:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/3/25 09:29, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-04-03, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > That's what you want: as the address is in the 127.0.0.0 network, > > > > pinging it will ping itself, and it gets a reply. It doesn't > > > > require you

Re: Web server access

2025-04-02 Thread tomas
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 (Strictly speaking you should close off with twice , but most web servers are tolerant if you just send two ) Not sending a HTTP version in your request /is/ a bad r

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

2025-04-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:25:36PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/1/25 08:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 01:36:21PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > > > On 2025-04-01 13:21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:42:46PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > > > > >

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

2025-04-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:42:46PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: [...] > the spaces look wrong to me If you mean those: > 192.168.71.122 bpi51e5p.coyote.den bpi51 e5p #3dprinter ^^^ > ... > 192.168.71.121 mkspi.coyote.denmkspi xmax3 # 3dpri

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

2025-04-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 01:36:21PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-04-01 13:21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:42:46PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > the spaces look wrong to me > > > > If you mean those: > > > > > 192.168.71.122 bpi51e5p.coyote.den

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

2025-03-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:19:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > The dns problem is separate I guess, but does bring up my other pet peeve. > That is that no one at debian considers the effect on dns to those of us who > have been using hosts files for local dns since back in the late 90's 

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-30 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 05:59:09AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > I'm evidently have not conveyed the import of what I have termed "spurious". > It is *NOT* the same as saying something is spam. No, Richard. The issue is that you point to a problem here and don't give people willing to hel

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:55:33AM -0400, 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). > > "sudo -i" is meant to approximate the behavior of "su -". Before buster, > nobody w

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 01:38:55PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-25, wrote: [...] > > Grumpy today? > > Mildly irascible, let's say. Happens to me sometimes, too. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: VPN over TLS (was: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?)

2025-03-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 10:16:19AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I was once sitting at a $(DAYJOB) where they blocked everything but > > 443 (and 80). I tunneled ssh over socat (with TLS, so that the handshake > > didn't look suspect, in case their firewall sniffed that). > > Reminds me: I have

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 04:19:37PM +0300, J wrote: > > > > > work with* root?* I will try to test. > > > > I fully expect it to, yes. > > > > Oh, yes, it works. I just had to use *sudo su* and not not I think you never need "sudo su". "sudo -i" and "sudo -s" will do your bidding, depending on you

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 02:15:03PM +0300, J wrote: > > In my opinion, "sudo -i" might be added to the wiki articles. I would > > prefer to see a warning concerning compound shell commands in *sudo* docs. > > > > J, my impressions is that you read some docs strongly suggesting to > > prefix every co

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-03-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 11:28:40AM +0100, Erwan David wrote: [...] > > My bet was that 443 is always open because otherwise mid- and hi- > > level mgmt would be on top of the poor admins because they couldn't > > go to their share trading casinos: I won :) > > Admins would also have problems to

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 01:58:27PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: [...] > It is not that SSH is less secure, it is that crackers attempt to brute > force SSH servers [...] You still use passwords? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 05:21:53AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 25/3/25 23:22, Jan Claeys wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 12:39 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > I should mention that having an internet facing ssh service is > > > usually a very bad idea. The 'better' approach is to have on

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:25:01AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/03/2025 19:47, J wrote: > > Notice that the page suggests "# for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc " > > so it is assumed that users should run > > > > $ sudo -i > > > > sudo *SH -c '...' -* as mentioned above. But it is not

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:23:58AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 26/3/25 06:48, Jan Claeys wrote: > > FWIW: at that rate it takes millions of years to guess an even halfway > > semi-secure 8-character password, let alone the really secure longer > > one you_should_ be using. > > It's not the

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 05:10:40PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-25, Max Nikulin wrote: > >> I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. > > [...] > >> If that doesn't work at all on any given webpage, it will likely have > >> something to do with how the webmaster coded the page.

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 04:22:10PM +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 12:39 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > I should mention that having an internet facing ssh service is > > usually a very bad idea. The 'better' approach is to have only a VPN > > exposed and use heavy security on tha

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 07:07:16AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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 applicati

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:49:37 +0100 > wrote: > > Hello to...@tuxteam.de, > > >since there is no "standard" way to express a "multiple" or > >"discontinuous" selection in the underlying windows system (it's > > Use of for discontinuo

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:11:14AM +, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-03-25 03:00, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 02:25 +, mick.crane wrote: > > > xfce4 > > > In things that display text you can drag the mouse over to select > > > blocks > > > of text. > > > Is there some way

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 09:16:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/24/25 8:30 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:24:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > "List-Id" is not an option in setting up filters in SeaMonkey. > > > > [...] > > > > This wou

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:24:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > "List-Id" is not an option in setting up filters in SeaMonkey. [...] This would make that MUA practically useless (most of them are, mind you). But I think they are better than this. Try that: http://kb.mozillazine.org/M

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-23 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:53:51PM -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. H

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