Re: hostname of the modem gateway

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:12:47AM +0100, Max Power wrote: > with the new release of Debian 'Stretch', the route command has been replaced > but what other command returns the hostname of the modem/router gateway...? > # route > gateway = home.telecomitalia.it > # ip route > gateway = 192.168.1.1

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:01:20PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/31/17 14:45, Sven Hartge wrote: > >David Christensen wrote: > >> $ man 4 md > > > >> SCRUBBING AND MISMATCHES > >> ... > >>If check was used, then no action

Re: Debian 9 stretch screen flicker on w3m and command line applications

>Instead the following fix works: >Create a file: >/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fix-screen-flickering.conf >with content: >--8<-cut here---start->8--- >Section "Device" > Identifier "Intel Graphics" > Driver "intel" > Option "A

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:11:59PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > > [...] > >> Note that "write" permissions on a file only really comes into play when >> you're messing with a file in an editor (e.g. vim, emacs, nano, >> whatever). It does n

Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] before starting browsing or any remote connection... With the 'route' command it was so easy '# route' and goal! With le last release 'Stretch' the net-tools packet is not installed by default. But if this command was so usefu

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:42:35PM +0100, Max Power wrote: > My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] > before starting browsing or any remote connection... > With the 'route' command it was so easy '# route' and goal! >

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On seg, 01 jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a tutorial. Man pages are unsatisfactory. Sort of like giving someone a dictionary and expecting them to become competent writers. The file/directory permission, and the chmod command to set them are very old. Any book on Unix or Linux should

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

On 2018-01-02, wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:42:35PM +0100, Max Power wrote: >> My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] >> before starting browsing or any remote connection... >> With the 'route' command it was so easy '# route' and goal! >> With le last r

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:42:35PM +0100, Max Power wrote: My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] before starting browsing or any remote connection... With the 'route' command it was so easy '# route' and goal! With le last release 'Stretch' the net-tools packet

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:05:58PM +, Curt wrote: [...] > There just was another thread around here initiated by Max Power, the > current OP, I do believe [...] Indeed, it was Max (cc'ing him/her just in case). I didn't remember, but checked now

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On 01/01/2018 12:32 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett I used "linux tutorial chmod chattr" [w/o quotes] in both DuckDuckGo and Google. A general search topic would be "linux file permissions" and "chattr". I did a DuckDuckGo search adding "tutorial" and got what I had been aimin

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On 01/02/2018 06:33 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On seg, 01 jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a tutorial. Man pages are unsatisfactory. Sort of like giving someone a dictionary and expecting them to become competent writers. The file/directory permission, and the chmod command to set t

Re: Debian 9 stretch screen flicker on w3m and command line applications

Ok, thanks for the info. On Jan 2, 2018 2:32 AM, "Tino Calancha" wrote: > > > >Instead the following fix works: > >Create a file: > >/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fix-screen-flickering.conf > > >with content: > >--8<-cut here---start-- > --->8--- >

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 01:29:46PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > There is nothing a user can do to *prevent* himself from destroying his own > files, Actually, there is. It's called making a backup.

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:12:47AM +0100, Max Power wrote: > Hi guys, > with the new release of Debian 'Stretch', the route command has been replaced > but what other command returns the hostname of the modem/router gateway...? > # route > gateway = home.telecomitalia.it > # ip route > gateway = 19

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Max Power wrote: > with the new release of Debian 'Stretch', the route command has been replaced Wipe your disk and install Buster. You get route++ back. Or create some shell scripts... -- Glenn English

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:59:41PM +, Glenn English wrote: > On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Max Power wrote: > > > with the new release of Debian 'Stretch', the route command has been > > replaced > > Wipe your disk and install Buster. You get route++ back. Worst advice ever.

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > You might add "How it will be interpreted by a Windows refugee :/ Keep in mind that the roots of our home are very old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Thompson_%28sitting%29_and_Dennis_Ritchie_at_PDP-11_%282876612463%29.jpg and that the rules made back then a

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Power wrote: > My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] > before starting browsing or any remote connection... Checking the hostname of an RFC1918 address will nearly never provide you with an ISP's name, even if yo

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:03:46PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Max Power wrote: > > My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] > > before starting browsing or any remote connection... > > Checking the hostname of an RFC1918 address will nearly never provide > you with

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:47:39PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Hi, Max. I don't know what your intentions are in repeating your qualms after two solutions were offered to you. Either get along with the new "ip" or just install the old net-tools. They are not going away (at least not as long as

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

On 01/02/18 02:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:01:20PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 12/31/17 14:45, Sven Hartge wrote: David Christensen wrote: $ man 4 md SCRUBBING AND MISMATCHES ... If check was used, then no action is taken to handle

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

could you add a support for wiko I have a wiko lenny 4 plus   signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:03:46PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Max Power wrote: >> > My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] >> > before starting browsing or any remote connection... >> >> Checking the hostname of an RFC1918 address will nea

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

David Christensen wrote: > You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command > lines: > > for old raid arrays without persistent superblocks: > md=,,, level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn yes and best is you compile raid in, so that boot can be also raided regards

Re: How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

Le 02/01/2018 à 00:56, Tom Dial a écrit : Which is the boot disk ? /dev/sda Then you didn't need to make room for GRUB on /dev/sdb. So maybe the right plan is This is one of the many possible plans. 0. make a grub-rescue CD just in case of need 1. restore the old (jessie) /boot/grub/*

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 16:31:15 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > You might add "How it will be interpreted by a Windows refugee :/ > > Keep in mind that the roots of our home are very old > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Thompson_%28sitting%29_and_Dennis_Ritchi

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +, Brian wrote: > What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? Intelligence, or an air gap, or both.

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 13:34:16 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? > > Intelligence, or an air gap, or both. The same things which prevent him from destroying the original files? Not

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Le 02/01/2018 à 19:05, deloptes a écrit : David Christensen wrote (quoting md.txt from the kernel documentation) : You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command lines: for old raid arrays without persistent superblocks: md=dev0,dev1,...,devn yes and best is you compi

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On 01/02/2018 12:41 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 13:34:16 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +, Brian wrote: What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? Intelligence, or an air gap, or both. The same things which prevent him from d

Re: GRUB and boot partition

Le 02/01/2018 à 02:29, microsoft gaofei a écrit : So AES is very lightweight ? I thought cryptography takes very much space , but I saw 1MB space is plenty for AES What are you talking about ? Where did you see this ? It does not make sense. Encryption does not require extra space (except for

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 13:33:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/02/2018 12:41 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 13:34:16 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? >

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

Hi, Brian wrote: > What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? Having multiple backups. Some with long intervals between them and some on write-once media. Of course the user must recover from mental incapacity often enough to produce and verify good backups and to restore spoil

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +, Brian wrote: >> What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? > > Intelligence, or an air gap, or both. More backups? -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP:

Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB

On 09/17/17 11:55, Curt wrote: On 2017-09-12, Flo wrote: The other option would be to patch the kernel and to compile it myself ... Your fault for still using i386 then. (Don't get me wrong: the regression should be fixed, nevertheless, sure.) It's my old laptop. Still working ... . Have

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 21:03:09 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Brian wrote: > > What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? > > Having multiple backups. Some with long intervals between them and some > on write-once media. > Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 20:15:25 -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +, Brian wrote: > >> What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? > > > > Intelligence, or an air gap, or both. > > More backups? Care to put a figure on thi

Re: Debian 9 stretch screen flicker on w3m and command line applications

I want to share my experiences - I have not searched for an issue. Same issue here - but not limited to terminal - occurs also in Graphical mode (KDE). When the screen flickers it flickers both in GUI and terminal. The flickering is fast moving left and right. Sometimes the top ~1/5 of the displa

need info on video extraction with mencoder

i use mencoder to record tv programsoften i need to remove ad from a video filei use -ss and -endpos switch to select part of a video filebut it doesn't work perfectlyi specify the options in seconds but sometime it may include more video than i needif i shorten time, it may omit some video that

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On 2018-01-02, Brian wrote: >> >> A question in lieu of a parable. >> Would a resident of a 25th floor flat appreciate a railing on his balcony?# > > Indubitably he would. It doesn't destroy his freedom to throw himself > over it, though. > All this talk reminds me of the collapse of the wave fu

need help on wheezy installation

i often use installation from hard diskit means downloading a iso image and booting installerbut iso images have been removed from many mirrors is it possible to network install,  with specifying ftp/http server?

RE: need help on wheezy installation

> is it possible to network install, with specifying ftp/http server? My experience, YES works well when it works… If there is a glitch during download and a package is corrupt, the whole install fails…. Regards, Richard

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:21:30AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 01:29:46PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: There is nothing a user can do to *prevent* himself from destroying his own files, Actually, there is. It's called making a backup. No, that potentially allows him t

Re: need help on wheezy installation

On 01/02/18 13:14, Long Wind wrote: i often use installation from hard diskit means downloading a iso image and booting installerbut iso images have been removed from many mirrors Have you looked in the archives? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ David

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

On 01/02/18 10:05, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command lines: for old raid arrays without persistent superblocks: md=dev0,dev1,...,devn I did not write that. This is the second incorrect attribution to myself I've

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian wrote: > On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 20:15:25 -, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +, Brian wrote: >> >> What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? >> > >> > Intelligence, or

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Samuel wrote: > could you add a support for wiko > I have a wiko lenny 4 plus Sure! Probably a small job. I'll submit a patch tomorrow to port debian to android.

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

Anders Andersson wrote: > Sure! Probably a small job. I'll submit a patch tomorrow to port > debian to android. hahaha, great comment! don't forget to add "irony off" at the end in the spirit of this: I would love to test your patch (irony off) regards

Re: need info on video extraction with mencoder

Long Wind wrote: > they say you can't cut into a frameis there some solution to this problem? > Thanks! try avidemux - it works with frames or other video editing software regards

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

On 02/01/18 23:02, David Christensen wrote: > On 01/02/18 10:05, deloptes wrote: >> David Christensen wrote: >> >>> You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command >>> lines: >>> >>> for old raid arrays without persistent superblocks: >>> md=,,,>> level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn > > I

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Best for what ? for booting of raid > Who still uses RAID arrays without persistent superblocks ? historic reasons - systems aged 10y+ > Who still uses RAID assembly by the kernel instead of mdadm ? same as above > All this has beed obsoleted by the superblock format

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

On Tuesday 02 January 2018 18:45:00 Darac Marjal wrote: > On 02/01/18 23:02, David Christensen wrote: > > On 01/02/18 10:05, deloptes wrote: > >> David Christensen wrote: > >>> You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command > >>> lines: > >>> > >>> for old raid arrays without p

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Hello, On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 11:15:00AM +1300, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > The reason Redhat dropped btrfs support is because it currently has no > native cryptographic function. Red Hat's former filesystem maintainer Josef Bacik said it was simply because Red Hat now lacks engineers familiar

Debian HW Cert support

Hi Sir, Sorry to bother you, I would like to know if Debian OS support the HW Cert like a RHEL or SLES ? Scott Liu SID, Cloud Computing Business Unit Quanta Computer Inc. TEL: +886-3-3272345 ext:15993 scott_...@quantatw.com [cid:image008.png@01D076DA.DB30

Re: need info on video extraction with mencoder

Long Wind wrote: > Thank deloptes!but where is avidemux?i can't find it in main of stretch I think it is in the debian multimedia repo http://www.deb-multimedia.org deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free # apt-cache search avidemux avidemux - Free video editor avidemux-qt - Fre

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

On 01/02/18 15:45, Darac Marjal wrote: On 02/01/18 23:02, David Christensen wrote: This is the second incorrect attribution to myself I've seen in the recent past... Really? It looks like you [wrote the mis-attributed text]. Yes, I know. So, what exactly are you complaining about? I'm n

Re: (solved) Re: need help on wheezy installation

On 01/02/18 15:47, Long Wind wrote: Thank Richard and David! On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 5:58 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/02/18 13:14, Long Wind wrote: i often use installation from hard diskit means downloading a iso image and booting installerbut iso images have been

Re: (solved) Re: need help on wheezy installation

On 01/02/18 15:47, Long Wind wrote: Thank Richard and David! On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 5:58 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/02/18 13:14, Long Wind wrote: i often use installation from hard diskit means downloading a iso image and booting installerbut iso images have been