Re: Request for Quote

2019-12-06 Thread maya
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Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-05, Brian wrote: > >> If you have nothing to hide, it most certainly does not mean you have >> nothing to fear. > > I wondered when the "If you have nothing to hide,..." argument would > surface. I have plenty to hide. For example, I would not like it widely > known that I occasionally

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 09:28:58AM -, Curt wrote: [...] > Unhappily, both you and Joe were so impatient to refute this argument > that you could not wait for it to be actually presented [...] A little pompous yourself, of late? Nevermind -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-12-06, wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 09:28:58AM -, Curt wrote: > > [...] > >> Unhappily, both you and Joe were so impatient to refute this argument >> that you could not wait for it to be actually presented [...] > > [...] pompous [...]? You seem to have sadly progressed backwar

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 10:21:45AM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-12-06, wrote: > > [...] pompous [...]? > > You seem to have sadly progressed backwards [...] Thanks for confirming. Cheers? -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: hdd partition alignment parted vs fdisk, partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary, parted bug?

2019-12-06 Thread Toni Mas
I could be an offset defined. Could you post following files? /sys/block/sdd/queue/optimal_io_size /sys/block/sdd/queue/minimum_io_size /sys/block/sdd/alignment_offset /sys/block/sdd/queue/physical_block_size /sys/block/sdd/queue/logical_block_size Toni Mas Missatge de Sergey Spiridonov de

Re: nftables is not accepting rules from ufw

2019-12-06 Thread Brian Vaughan
The files exist. They'd been unmodified, and working, for several months. 'ufw reset' regenerates them with the defaults. Neither of them includes the word 'DROP', and I don't think their contents are passed directly to nftables. I'm not familiar with their syntax, so I can't say if there's any

Re: Lua doesn't load the MySQL driver

2019-12-06 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/5/19 5:02 AM, Bjoern Schiessle wrote: I tried to move the file /usr/local/share/lua/5.2/DBI.lua away, then the error message changes to: Dec 05 11:57:35 sql error Error in SQL transaction: /usr/share/lua/5.2/DBI.lua:53: Cannot load driver MySQL. Available drivers are: PostgreSQL So

Re: nftables is not accepting rules from ufw

2019-12-06 Thread Kamil Jońca
Brian Vaughan writes: > > It looks to me like both in /sbin and in /usr/sbin, there are symlinks > from the names of the old iptables executables to the nftables > versions, via /etc/alternatives. So I'm not sure what was actually > changed, but now I'm thinking that the iptables update revealed

sed question

2019-12-06 Thread songbird
hi, please reply to the list only... here is my script fragment: = #!/bin/bash #this doesn't work... echo -e "\n\nThis doesn't work.\n\n" old_summary=`echo "Previous glitches and inconsistencies were due to a missing / at the end of the baseurl... ,.#*$+%*$&#+(*={_})"` echo "Summary -

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 12:06:10PM -0500, songbird wrote: > #this doesn't work... > old_summary=`echo "Previous glitches and inconsistencies were due to a > missing / at the end of the baseurl... ,.#*$+%*$&#+(*={_})"` > result=`echo "summary: \"\"" | sed -e "s/^summary: .*$/summary: > \"${old_s

buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-06 Thread D. R. Evans
I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the console tty. The last message on the screen is: A start job is running for Hold until boot process finished up followed by a timer that simply increases without end and says "no limit". How do I find out what is causing

Re: buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-06 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2019-12-06 11:11 (UTC-0700): > I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the > console tty. > The last message on the screen is: > A start job is running for Hold until boot process finished up > followed by a timer that simply increases with

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > Ideally, you'd just stop trying to use sed with user-supplied variables > injected into the code. Sed was never built to be safe for that kind of > work. sed was designed to operate on streams. a sequence of characters is a stream. i don't see any reason why putti

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 02:40:49PM -0500, songbird wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > ... > > Ideally, you'd just stop trying to use sed with user-supplied variables > > injected into the code. Sed was never built to be safe for that kind of > > work. > > sed was designed to operate on streams. a

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-12-06 at 14:40, songbird wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: ... >> Ideally, you'd just stop trying to use sed with user-supplied >> variables injected into the code. Sed was never built to be safe >> for that kind of work. > > sed was designed to operate on streams. a sequence of characters

Re: nftables is not accepting rules from ufw

2019-12-06 Thread songbird
Brian Vaughan wrote: someone already filed a bug for this (by a quick look at ufw bug reports). note that iptables version 1.8.3-2 (current testing version) and ufw 0.36-1 work ok (ufw is same version for both testing and unstable at the moment) songbird

Re: nftables is not accepting rules from ufw

2019-12-06 Thread Brian Vaughan
Yes, filed since I last checked: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946289 On 12/6/2019 12:09 PM, songbird wrote: Brian Vaughan wrote: someone already filed a bug for this (by a quick look at ufw bug reports). note that iptables version 1.8.3-2 (current testing version) a

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: >songbird wrote: ... >> sed was designed to operate on streams. a sequence of characters is >> a stream. i don't see any reason why putting the variable into the >> middle of that expression means anything different. > > Because sed doesn't see the variable; the variable is ha

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > If you insist on doing #1, so be it. It's your damned computer, and your > damned problem. I can only warn you and be ignored so many times > before I give up and let your fuck yourself, as you so vehemently and > stubbornly eager to do. i appreciate the actual expla

Re: buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-06 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 12/6/19 11:22 AM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2019-12-06 11:11 (UTC-0700): > >> I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the >> console tty. > >> The last message on the screen is: >> A start job is running for Hold until boot process finished up

Re: buster: not reaching login screen on console

2019-12-06 Thread john doe
On 12/6/2019 10:25 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: > Felix Miata wrote on 12/6/19 11:22 AM: >> D. R. Evans composed on 2019-12-06 11:11 (UTC-0700): >> >>> I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the >>> console tty. >> >>> The last message on the screen is: >>> A start job i

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 3/12/19 8:42 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Just wondering if this is ALL good advice? Should I use it for ALL my mail, or just sensitive stuff, like lobbying politicians. I'm still here. Have had a couple of questions that have gotten me thinking deeply, primarily about whose/what safe

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 06.12.19 14:40, songbird wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > ... > > Ideally, you'd just stop trying to use sed with user-supplied variables > > injected into the code. Sed was never built to be safe for that kind of > > work. > > sed was designed to operate on streams. a sequence of > charact

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-06 Thread Jan Bakuwel
On 7/12/19 12:55 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 3/12/19 8:42 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Just wondering if this is ALL good advice? Should I use it for ALL my mail, or just sensitive stuff, like lobbying politicians. I'm still here.   Have had a couple of questions that have gotten me thi

Re: sed question

2019-12-06 Thread songbird
Erik Christiansen wrote: ... > If the sed implementation of variable regexes proves problematic, then > there's awk with its Dynamic Regexps. (Section 2.8 of the pdf manual > floating about out there.) > > With its C-like syntax, it's less write-only than perl, perhaps because > it is of the same v