Bernard (HE12025-08-05):
> Thanks to everyone for your replies. I tested everything : cable, usb port
> etc... with no results. In the end, I had the idea to remove gphoto2 and
> re-install. No success at all. Next, I did again remove gphoto2 as well as
> libgphoto2-6... and I re-in
hing helps. :)
songbird
Thanks to everyone for your replies. I tested everything : cable, usb
port etc... with no results. In the end, I had the idea to remove
gphoto2 and re-install. No success at all. Next, I did again remove
gphoto2 as well as libgphoto2-6... and I re-installed both... Then,
gphoto
On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:20:46 +0200
Hans wrote:
> [S]houldn`t we not abandon 6.3 packages of plasma and add 6.4
> versions instead, even when it means, the official release of trixie
> will be later?
This would be an inconvenience for those of us who don't use plasma.
I don't know what problems
Thank you for the complementary explanation!
The computer uses an SSD so I'm not concerned about fragmentation indeed.
Fred Kite
Le 5 août 2025 16:35:07 GMT+02:00, Andy Smith a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 08:49:43AM +0200, fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
>> Would it be safe to perform
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 02:49:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> So: After reboot (logging in again) I needed to re-identify myself and used
> ssh-add as usual.
>
> It tells me: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa:
> ...
Life is too short ... I removed
On 2025-08-05, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-08-05, Greg wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you share with us your fillable form ?
>>>
>> I'm glad you asked because I downloaded the form again and now the accents
>> are
>> accepted as input.
>>
>> The only change was I added the French locale *entretemps*. Maybe I
>> s
On 2025-08-05, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
> On 05/08/2025 14:49, Greg wrote:
>> How do I get evince to input accented characters on a fillable form?
>>
>> locale -a
>> C
>> C.utf8
>> en_US.utf8
>> fr_FR.utf8
>> POSIX
>>
>> French keyboard. Currently, it's difficult to describe what evi
On 2025-08-05, Greg wrote:
>>
>> Can you share with us your fillable form ?
>>
> I'm glad you asked because I downloaded the form again and now the accents are
> accepted as input.
>
> The only change was I added the French locale *entretemps*. Maybe I
> should've logged out and then in again.
>
>
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 08:49:43AM +0200, fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
> Would it be safe to perform the deduplication with a single command on
> /home instead of each user's folder separately? Will it create
> problems if the same file is found in several home folders but has
> different ow
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 10:01:03AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Make sure it's actually the right passphrase (e.g. in nano). I've hit
> the keyboard / language input switch before (I have / had multiple input
> languages in the past); and a side effect is that the special characters
> move; and I'
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 08:22:12 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I'll use netinst, accepting all defaults.
> >
> > I thought you used mate?
>
> I do. But I essentially think of MATE as Gnome done right.
> My two questions still apply.
>
> To be explicit, "Does MATE have any of the vulnerabili
On 2025-08-05, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 8/5/25 7:51 AM, Greg wrote:
>> On 2025-08-05, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> I've been following this thread, probably without full comprehension.
>>> I currently have Debian 12. My practice is to do a default install to a
>>> fresh partition when a new releas
Thank you for your answer! I won't have to modify my script everytime a new
user is added. I can simply perform deduplication on / and /home then.
Fred Kite
Le 5 août 2025 14:06:32 GMT+02:00, Dan Ritter a écrit :
>fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
>> My family computer has a main Btrfs partition
ot - I will buy a new one later). This
> disk failure would not have affected the ssh problem.
>
> So: After reboot (logging in again) I needed to re-identify myself and used
> ssh-add as usual.
>
> It tells me: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa:
>
> I tr
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 09:56:30AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> My openssh-client is
> Version: 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u7
That is what I have.
> ssh-add works properly for me:
>
> $ ssh-add
> Enter passphrase for /home/dsr/.ssh/id_rsa:
> Identity added: /home/dsr/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/dsr/.ssh/id_rsa)
> E
On Aug 05, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
> [...]
> So: After reboot (logging in again) I needed to re-identify myself and
> used ssh-add as usual.
>
> It tells me: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa:
>
> I tried m
Hello Greg,
On 05/08/2025 14:49, Greg wrote:
How do I get evince to input accented characters on a fillable form?
locale -a
C
C.utf8
en_US.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX
French keyboard. Currently, it's difficult to describe what evince produces when
inputting, say, an é or an É, but it's not an é or a
On 8/5/25 7:51 AM, Greg wrote:
On 2025-08-05, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've been following this thread, probably without full comprehension.
I currently have Debian 12. My practice is to do a default install to a
fresh partition when a new release comes out.
I'll use netinst, accepting all defaul
On 2025-08-05, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've been following this thread, probably without full comprehension.
> I currently have Debian 12. My practice is to do a default install to a
> fresh partition when a new release comes out.
>
> I'll use netinst, accepting all defaults.
I thought you used
I've been following this thread, probably without full comprehension.
I currently have Debian 12. My practice is to do a default install to a
fresh partition when a new release comes out.
I'll use netinst, accepting all defaults.
Will I have any of the vulnerabilities mentioned in this thread?
fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
> My family computer has a main Btrfs partition (@ and @home sub-volumes) and
> several users use this computer. I currently use Jdupes to perform the
> deduplication of each user's home folder.
>
> Would it be safe to perform the deduplication with a single comma
Le 05/08/2025 à 14:13, didier gaumet a écrit :
[...]
which the needs an adequate Debian manpower
[...]
Did not read myself before posting, sorry (unconsciously hesitated
between "with" and "which" in my sentence).
please read:
"with the need for an adequate Debian manpower"
Le 05/08/2025 à 13:20, Hans a écrit :
Dear list,
due to some issue on my notebook with debian/trixe, I contacted the KDE
developers.
They told me, that there will be no more work on plasma6 version 6.3.X, as all
work is now at version 6.4.X.
[...]
I will be hapy to read your sight of this.
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 09:43:03 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> I agree with Vincent that without *explicit* user consent applications
> should not send to remote servers what they gathered by listening for
> changes of primary selection or clipboard. Even if upstream packages (source
> code, flatpak,
On 05/08/2025 08:52, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 10:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2025-08-04 14:40:25 +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
Yes, that's a feature: it will lookup your selections in local and
online dictionaries, and by default it searches English-Chinese
diction
On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 10:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2025-08-04 14:40:25 +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
> > Yes, that's a feature: it will lookup your selections in local and
> > online dictionaries, and by default it searches English-Chinese
> > dictionaries. You can disable it in the se
>> ... upgraded its firmware to allow the use of the "full" 3GB of RAM
>> that the hardware can control).
> 2 GB here. Should upgrade.
> Your drive has GPT; boot with UEFI; correct?
FWIW, I used MBR/legacy booting, because I was more familiar with it.
[ Also, because Apple's early EFI boot syste
On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 14:15:22 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
> On 2025-08-04, wrote:
> >
> > Note that 'serial console' in Linux usually designates the system's
> > boot up messages, that also can be picked-off some pins and watched
> > remote. The non-X user interface entered by [alt]+[F] is called
> >
On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 11:47:51 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, August 02, 2025 11:19:23 PM Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 21:56:34 -0400
> > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Thursday, July 31, 2025 08:42:27 AM Charles Curley wrote:
> > > > * Set up high availability
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Aside: note that I'll say because DHCP leases are persisistent, that
> complicates things a little -- I try to address in these notes:
>
>* load-balancing / sharing with failover (in normal operation two (or
> more,
> iiuc) servers share the load, if one (and
Stefan,
From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:43:20 -0400
> IIRC this is also known as "macmini3,1".
Yes. "About This Mac" shows "Model identifier Macmini3.1".
> ... upgraded its firmware to allow the use of the "full" 3GB of RAM
> that the hardware can control).
2 GB
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 01:36:24PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com
wrote:
> I would like to install the editor for tex, But problem is I would
> like install texlive through TUG [1] not through the package manager.
> I know there are dummy packages apart from them can someone help
On Saturday, August 02, 2025 11:19:23 PM Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 21:56:34 -0400
> rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 31, 2025 08:42:27 AM Charles Curley wrote:
> > > * Set up high availability between the two kea servers.
> >
> > What do you mean by that?
>
> https
On 2025-08-04, Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> On Aug 04, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
>>=20
>> > If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for
>> > connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correc
On Aug 04, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> > If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for
> > connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correct that
> > it is now pretty much defunct in f
On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for
> connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correct that
> it is now pretty much defunct in favor of the Universal Serial Bus.
> That being said,
Hi,
hoh...@posteo.de wrote:
> The Boot process and the partitioning scheme are two different things!
Indeed.
> GPT is a partition table. UEFI is booting. MBR is partitioning.
MBR is both. The "B" in MBR stands for "boot".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
With Legacy BIOS it p
On Aug 04, 2025, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-08-04, wrote:
> >
> > Note that 'serial console' in Linux usually designates the system's
> > boot up messages, that also can be picked-off some pins and watched
> > remote. The non-X user interface entered by [alt]+[F] is called
> > 'Linux console'.
>
> I
On 2025-08-04, wrote:
>
> Note that 'serial console' in Linux usually designates the system's
> boot up messages, that also can be picked-off some pins and watched
> remote. The non-X user interface entered by [alt]+[F] is called
> 'Linux console'.
I always thought "serial" was an interface (now
On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:16:19 -0400
Eben King wrote:
> I'll probably have the SSD boot MBR, then switch when I install
> Trixie. Upgrading distros is always a giant mess where lots of stuff
> changes at the same time, so changing the boot method at that time
> causes little additional pain.
The
On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:38:15 +0100
"mick.crane" wrote:
> > If anyone is applying the term “serial” to a parallel port or a
> > device that has parallel output, that would seem wrong to me.
>
> serial console/ parallel is likely me not understanding terminology.
> These Raspberry Pis, Arduinos
On 2025-08-04 08:43:54 +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Be careful with StarDict! By default, when the application is running,
> > it sends whatever the user selects (from other applications) to
> > Chinese servers!
>
> Thanks for your warning.
>
> Do yo
On 2025-08-04 14:40:25 +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
> Yes, that's a feature: it will lookup your selections in local and
> online dictionaries, and by default it searches English-Chinese
> dictionaries. You can disable it in the settings by enabling "Only scan
> while the modifier key is being pr
On 4/8/25 14:49, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
It shows you that warning because LibreOffice's support for opening and
saving Excel files is not perfect and does not support a few edge cases.
It should work fine though 99% of the time.
Asides from saving in Excel File format it has some problem wit
Hi Vincent,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Be careful with StarDict! By default, when the application is running,
> it sends whatever the user selects (from other applications) to
> Chinese servers!
Thanks for your warning.
Do you have more details?
▷ Which function in the code?
▷ Which Chinese server
On Sun, 2025-08-03 at 19:46 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> If Gnumeric is working for you then that is great. Concerning the
> issue with saving a .xlsx file in LibreOffice -- it always gives me
> that warning when I go to save a .xlsx file, but it always saves the
> file just fine. At least, when
Yes, that's a feature: it will lookup your selections in local and
online dictionaries, and by default it searches English-Chinese
dictionaries. You can disable it in the settings by enabling "Only scan
while the modifier key is being pressed" under "Scan Selection", or
disable the network dictiona
If Gnumeric is working for you then that is great. Concerning the issue
with saving a .xlsx file in LibreOffice -- it always gives me that
warning when I go to save a .xlsx file, but it always saves the file
just fine. At least, when I open it, again, it looks like it should.
It will, howeve
On 8/3/25 14:54, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
David Christensen wrote:
Beware that the Debian installer (d-i) can change the contents of the USB
flash drive when it runs (!).
I am not aware that the Debian installer writes into the byte range
of the ISO 9660 filesystem.
The ISO 9660 filesystem
I use gphoto2 all the time with Debian 12 Stable, transfering from a Canon
Powershot Sx40 HS.
Hi,
David Christensen wrote:
> Beware that the Debian installer (d-i) can change the contents of the USB
> flash drive when it runs (!).
I am not aware that the Debian installer writes into the byte range
of the ISO 9660 filesystem.
The ISO 9660 filesystem itself is quite safe from being overwri
On 8/2/25 21:50, Titus Newswanger wrote:
On 8/2/25 22:44, David Christensen wrote:
5. Verify the computed SHA256 checksum appears in the downloaded
SHA512SUMS file:
I've been meaning to learn how to sha512sum after it is written to disk.
Now I've got it. Here are my results:
on the older us
On 8/2/25 20:44, David Christensen wrote:
5. Verify the computed SHA256 checksum appears in the downloaded
SHA512SUMS file:
Sorry for the error -- that should be:
5. Verify the computed SHA512 checksum appears in the downloaded
SHA512SUMS file:
David
On 2025-08-03 16:08, Bernard wrote:
Gphoto2 no longer operates on Debian 11 ever since recent update, same
problem on other laptop on Debian 12.
<...>
If there is no way to get gphoto2 to operate , would there be another
means to operate my Canon EOS on Debian ?
I think I usually put the card
Bernard wrote:
> Gphoto2 no longer operates on Debian 11 ever since recent update, same
> problem on other laptop on Debian 12.
>
> gphoto2, for many years, was my tool for downloading image files (RAW,
> JPG…) from my Canon EOS 600D camera.
>
> When upgrading to Debian 11 about 2 yrs ago, I sta
On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 12:43:06 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> pfSense switched to KEA and it was kind of a disaster for folks who
> let the firewall handle DNS and DHCP. It seems KEA on pfSense does
> not update DNS records with DHCP registrations, so name resolution
> slowly breaks as records expire
nning. Errors will show up there. In my experience most errors are
> JSON syntax errors, often caused by not copying over your
> configuration correctly.
>
> I reload the server with its newly edited configuration with
>
> systemctl reload-or-restart kea-dhcp4-server.service
>
> Yo
On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 06:42:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
[...]
> Meanwhile "dd" has always worked for me. I'll have to remember Tomas'
> recommendation for "oflag=sync" for the next time I write an image,
> though that might be a while.
I usually just remember "there was a flag for that..
* On 2025 03 Aug 05:31 -0500, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
> On Sun Aug 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM BST, tomas wrote:
> > I always recommend to add "oflag=sync" to dd itself: this way it
> > syncs as it goes and you don't have to wait for a (potentially
> > long) time for sync to "come back".
> >
> > Togethe
On Sun Aug 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM BST, tomas wrote:
I always recommend to add "oflag=sync" to dd itself: this way it
syncs as it goes and you don't have to wait for a (potentially
long) time for sync to "come back".
Together with "status=progress" you get a visual feedback on how
things are going
On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 11:58:59AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
[...]
> As Tomas pointed, with dd specifically you can use oflag=sync to have it
> sync explicitly between each block, to get a better progress estimate.
> Be sure to use a large block size or you will ruin performances.
Oh, yes, fo
Titus Newswanger composed on 2025-08-02 23:50 (UTC-0500):
> I've been meaning to learn how to sha512sum after it is written to disk.
> Now I've got it. Here are my results:
> on the older usb disk that worked, sha512sum matched
> on the new faulty disk, after writing with dd, sha512sum did not
Titus Newswanger (HE12025-08-02):
> Strangely, it did not display status updates like it used to until after it
> completed.
The rest has been explained, but not that. Let me.
First dd wrote all the data extremely fast. We can assume the input file
was recently downloaded and still in memory cach
Hi,
a late comment to the failure messages about the USB stick in the
system log:
> [40799.447110] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [41167.136643] usb 2-1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 27 using
> xhci_hcd
The reset message is not caused by unplugging of the USB device.
I
On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 10:49:44PM -0500, Titus Newswanger wrote:
> On 8/2/25 20:53, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > The command you're probably thinking of is sync.
I always recommend to add "oflag=sync" to dd itself: this way it
syncs as it goes and you don't have to wait for a (potentially
long) time
On 8/2/25 22:44, David Christensen wrote:
5. Verify the computed SHA256 checksum appears in the downloaded
SHA512SUMS file:
I've been meaning to learn how to sha512sum after it is written to disk.
Now I've got it. Here are my results:
on the older usb disk that worked, sha512sum matched
on
On 8/2/25 20:53, Nate Bargmann wrote:
The command you're probably thinking of is sync.
Thanks, I added sync to my bash notes. I had looked at man sync earlier
today and thought that's not it...
However it turned out to be a hardware issue. This was my first time
using that new flash drive.
On 8/2/25 18:33, Titus Newswanger wrote:
I recall reading somewhere how to send cached writes to disk using a
shell command before unplugging a usb flash drive but now I'm failing to
find it. Below follows why I think I need that:
Today I installed trixie, everything worked great except for a
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 21:56:34 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, July 31, 2025 08:42:27 AM Charles Curley wrote:
> > * Set up high availability between the two kea servers.
>
> What do you mean by that?
https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/stable/arm/hooks.html#libdhcp-ha-so-high-availabili
On Thursday, July 31, 2025 08:42:27 AM Charles Curley wrote:
> * Set up high availability between the two kea servers.
What do you mean by that?
The command you're probably thinking of is sync.
- Nate
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> None are currently. If volume management becomes a big deal, I will
> implement it immediately after a backup. Currently I do not have enough
> resizing of partitions to make it worthwhile.
I have only (mostly single-user) desktops, laptops, and small
home-server machines, so I don't resize pa
Eben King composed on 2025-08-02 16:25 (UTC-0400):
> I have made these partitions:
> DeviceStart End Sectors Size Type
> /dev/sda1 2048 1953792 1951745 953M Linux filesystem
> /dev/sda2 1955840 6150144 41943052G Linux filesystem
> /dev/sda3 6152192 48095232 4194
nfiguration taking into account the location of the new root
and boot filesystems, and possibly re-run grub-install to make sure it
uses it.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
Eben King (HE12025-08-02):
> None are currently. If volume management becomes a big deal, I will
> implement it immediately after a backup. Currently I do not have enough
> resizing of partitions to make it worthwhile.
Resizing volumes is not the only benefit of LVM.
The fact that the volumes a
On 8/1/25 19:07, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 00:02:31 +0200
Nicolas George wrote:
And even better to do it with LVM volumes rather than partitions.
Again, agree. OP didn't indicate that any of his partitions were LVs,
so I didn't suggest it.
None are currently. If volume
On 8/1/25 18:02, Nicolas George wrote:
Charles Curley (HE12025-08-01):
Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.
Separating the things that move a lot and the things that are stable is
still a good idea.
For what the OP is up to, mounting the old file systems (on the HD)
until he
On 8/2/25 07:54, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 8/2/25 9:28 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
Richard Owlett (HE12025-08-02):
How do I force it to launch with a visible font size?
Have you tried reading the man page? I just checked, and it gives the
answer to that question, and that answer works.
*NOT IN
Greg Wooledge (HE12025-08-02):
> I'm assuming you're asking how to figure out the name of a font to use.
> The "xlsfonts" command can be used to give a list of font names. I'm not
> sure how helpful that is, but it's a starting point.
The tool xfontsel can be used to write a font pattern interact
On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 09:54:09 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > -font font, -fn font
> > Font for text being edited. Font for menus and dialogs can
> > be set with -xrm "*fontList:font".
>
> -xrm "*fontList:font".
I'm assuming you're asking how to figure o
Richard Owlett (HE12025-08-02):
> *NOT IN ANY USABLE MANNER*
> I quote:
> >
> > -font font, -fn font
> > Font for text being edited. Font for menus and dialogs can
> > be set with -xrm "*fontList:font".
What do you not understand?
--
Nicolas George
On 8/2/25 9:28 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
Richard Owlett (HE12025-08-02):
How do I force it to launch with a visible font size?
Have you tried reading the man page? I just checked, and it gives the
answer to that question, and that answer works.
*NOT IN ANY USABLE MANNER*
I quote:
-font fon
Richard Owlett (HE12025-08-02):
> How do I force it to launch with a visible font size?
Have you tried reading the man page? I just checked, and it gives the
answer to that question, and that answer works.
> Where would I find a manual with readable font size?
???
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
Charles Curley (HE12025-08-01):
> > Separating the things that move a lot and the things that are stable
> > is still a good idea.
^
> Right. With /root r-o, you never get your shell history saved. And
> things do change from time to time under /etc.
Elementary language clarification: “
On 8/1/25 8:50 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
On 01/08/2025 13:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
On 01/08/2025 11:17, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 7/31/25 4:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Hello All,
I'm being tempted by an ASUS laptop - ASUS
On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM Charles Curley <
charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:21:06 -0400
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > You typically want to mount / as read-only; while you want to mount
> > /var as read-write. Or some people want to mount the filesystem
> > rea
On 01/08/2025 18:14, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
On 01/08/2025 13:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
On 01/08/2025 11:17, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 7/31/25 4:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Hello All,
I'
On Friday, August 1st, 2025 at 12:20, Andrew M.A. Cater
wrote:
> What has happened to debian-user? Long, meandering threads again, marginal
> chaos and some questionable language, perhaps.
>
> PLEASE folks, can we have a little more politeness and consideration for
> readers and others from ou
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 00:02:31 +0200
Nicolas George wrote:
> Charles Curley (HE12025-08-01):
> > Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.
>
> Separating the things that move a lot and the things that are stable
> is still a good idea.
Right. With /root r-o, you never get your shell his
Charles Curley (HE12025-08-01):
> Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.
Separating the things that move a lot and the things that are stable is
still a good idea.
> For what the OP is up to, mounting the old file systems (on the HD)
> until he is satisfied he has everything working r
On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:21:06 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> You typically want to mount / as read-only; while you want to mount
> /var as read-write. Or some people want to mount the filesystem
> read-only.
Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.
For what the OP is up to, mounting the
Mike Castle wrote:
>
> Serial multiplexors used to be common in datacenters. Connect to the
> multiplexor over ssh or equivalent, and select which physical device
> on the rack to connect to. Most enterprise hardware would output the
> boot screens (including BIOS) to the serial port. These da
Tom Browder wrote:
> I have been using Google contacts since it became available. I have been
> sucked into using Apple's contacts since my first iPhone well over 10 years
> ago. Keeping them synched has always been a problem, but it's getting worse
> over the years.
>
> I keep reading about thir
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM Andy Smith wrote:
> Note that Raspberry Pi is capable of running a full operating system so
> most people would have it run one like Linux and manage it over SSH
> rather than use the USB for a serial console. They might have other uses
> for the USB, and SSH is any
On 8/1/25 07:22, Eben King wrote:
On 8/1/25 04:08, David Christensen wrote:
The key is disaster preparedness and disaster recovery.
I do back up my entire drive weekly. NAS too. However, I recently
looked around for another 2T drive to implement two-level backups and
didn't have one. Can't
On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2025 03:25:23 pm Nicolas George wrote:
> > On the other hand, /var on the same filesystem as the rest of / is not a
> > good idea.
> >
>
> Why?
>
You typically want to mount / as read-only; while you want to mount /
On Thursday 31 July 2025 03:58:41 pm Joe wrote:
> I doubt that most vendors can actually get hold of
> Windows-free machines.
Not so. My last system purchased included no OS, per my request, but if I
hadn't made that choice their default is linux mint...
I posted in here about it at the time
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 01/08/2025 13:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 01/08/2025 11:17, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> On 7/31/25 4:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100
> >>> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >>>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm
On Thursday 31 July 2025 03:25:23 pm Nicolas George wrote:
> On the other hand, /var on the same filesystem as the rest of / is not a
> good idea.
>
Why?
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On 8/1/25 01:52, Nicolas George wrote:
David Christensen (HE12025-08-01):
I once heard a speaker who worked as a Linux system administrator on Wall
Street state:
"You should be able to pick any computer at random, throw it out a 7th
story window, and have a replacement in operation within 2
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