Re: awstats problem

2019-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 26 iul 19, 11:47:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So as a log, thats worthless, and its logging SHOULD be going to > ~/log/mail.log, so something has broken that, where to I find that. > procmail is launching that for every incoming email, using this recipe: > SPAMBOX = "/home/gene/Mail/spam/n

Re: Shimming HTTP to HTTPS.

2019-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 28 iul 19, 19:40:04, David Wright wrote: > > The link itself is a URL as usual. For the message I'm replying to > now, the Message-ID is and the > corresponding link³ on the web page (under the magnifier) is > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/E1hrlrN-0002IM-Cf@joule.invalid [...] >

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 01:46:45, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come across > it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be destroyed and the linux > gods angered. > > What is the approved method for changing the list of DNS servers called u

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 09:06:36, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:46:45AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I come > > across it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be destroyed > > and the linux gods angered. >

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 04:43:31, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > >> You have several encryption algorithms, but: > >> a) They are not equally good. > > Of course not - they never are ;) The trick is to pick a good one, and for > > wifi, that's WPA2 using AES. > > Indeed, if one uses AES instead of PSK then

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 08:59:11, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 08:50:34 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:21:32AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:16:03AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Mi, 3

Re: Which resolv.conf file?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 02:37:40, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > It depends a lot on what combination of packages you have installed and > > are using. > > > > Starting with the obvious ones, please show the output of: >

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 iul 19, 13:44:51, ghe wrote: > On 7/31/19 1:20 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I still feel like you're missing the big picture here. resolvconf isn't > > the thing that's modifying your /etc/resolv.conf file. > > It's the thing (that was) modifying my resolv.conf. [...] > At first

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 01 aug 19, 09:32:32, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:30:05PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Well, that is what I do (guest network, network for devices that don't > > support 802.11ac), and it does add some complexity, but I wouldn't > > call it "fiendishly difficult" - I don't have

Re: xsane: incoherent behaviours

2019-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 01 aug 19, 08:37:47, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 08:24:22 +0200 (CEST) > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > thank you for tour warning, but it's not too difficult to make a > > backup. > > It's not /quite/ that simple. I know that the update process is > 'clever' enough to detect

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 01 aug 19, 06:28:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > Debian-arm netinstall on a pi3b; > > No root pw set, I am housebroken to using sudo now. > > netinstall didn't install x anything although I thought I was selecting > xfce4, so my first action on the reboot was to > "sudo apt install xfce4". reb

Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr

2019-08-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 02 aug 19, 21:36:17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Hi! All -- > > Installed Buster (netinstall CD, LXDE desktop ONLY, system-utils) in > Virtualbox 6.0 on Stretch (sysvinit as init) host to test and evaluate. > Firefox-esr, of course, installed by default, but after installing > Google Chrome did

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 03 aug 19, 09:57:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 August 2019 07:08:08 mick crane wrote: > > > > I would probably add another user and see if they have same problem on > > the local machine. > > I'd thought of that but not tried it yet. I'll need a user amanda who is > a member of

Re: Useful links - was {Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?}

2019-08-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 03 aug 19, 10:26:34, Richard Owlett wrote: > > For current situation WEP (though antique/limited) is adequate. WEP is known to be crackable, since years ago. I'm guessing with current hardware it should be quite easy. > > Why not just buy an inexpensive wireless router? > > That questi

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 04 aug 19, 08:32:00, Long Wind wrote: > i have stretch at sda2, which has 9.8Gfree space is far more than 1 Gbut some > program i'm unware of take all space > how to find out and solve? Thanks! To find out what files are taking up the space Command line: du -hx --maxdepth=1 | sort

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 04 aug 19, 11:46:31, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > This space is most likely taken up by file system metadata, such > as inode tables, or journaling space. 0.5 G looks a lot like 5% > of a 10 G partition, which is the default setting for Ext4 > metadata as provided in Debian Installer. The 5

Re: Don't disable recoomends by default

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 aug 19, 22:50:17, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > > What is wrong is to suppress all recommendations by default. > > I have done this for years now, i.e. I have > > APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > > in /etc/apt/apt.conf and I haven't had any problems, une

Re: PROGRESS!! - was {Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?}

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 aug 19, 14:55:11, David Wright wrote: > > I think it's made clear in the tomás quotation, about 18 lines above > Richard's citation of the same. Regardless, the OP is connecting two > machines (requiring firmware) running DEs on stretch, and has an > 8-port switch lying around too, so no

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 aug 19, 12:06:57, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I've read that apt released in 2014 or so. Its man page in Stretch is > dated 2015. So, it could have been available first in Jessie, but have > no idea if the local .deb install with dependency checking was included > then, but probably was.

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: > > How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users > share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, > whilst I go and make dinner I want to allow someone else to sit here, > without having to shut applications do

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 aug 19, 15:33:57, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > It seems that something in the mount process does not like "wa1" for a mount > point. Anybody have similar recent problems? Please show your fstab and the output of 'lsblk -f'. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Re: WiFi interface unexpected response

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 06 aug 19, 01:34:43, zetam.imap wrote: > hello > I have quite (to me) unexplained behavior in a wifi interface I defined > in /etc/network/interfaces config file. > I turned off NetworkManager > >  root@:~ # systemctl stop NetworkManager.service >  root@:~ # systemctl disable NetworkManager

Re: PROGRESS!! - was {Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?}

2019-08-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 06 aug 19, 08:34:20, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 06 Aug 2019 at 08:44:41 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 05 aug 19, 14:55:11, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > I think it's made clear in the tomás quotation, about 18 lines above > > > R

Re: WiFi interface unexpected response

2019-08-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 06 aug 19, 18:13:02, zetam.imap wrote: > > > Why do you need this if you configure wpa in /etc/network/interfaces? > > Normally the wireless interface is activated when a user accesses their > account on the graphical interface. > This host has to perform unattended tasks on that network e

Bug#934203: Please make it easier to trust external repositories without trusting their key for everything else

2019-08-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Package: apt Severity: wishlist On Ma, 06 aug 19, 16:22:34, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > I found a simple guide at > > > https://www.linuxbabe.com/debian/install-latest-virtualbox-6-0-10-debian-10-buster > > > In summary: > Create new sources file: > sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-vi

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 07 aug 19, 10:21:25, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights. > Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino and ESPRESSObin, both > (unlike above options) known to be mainlined and work with Debian > Buster. The Rock64Pro (possibly wi

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 08 aug 19, 19:05:03, John Hasler wrote: > deloptes writes: > > > Entirely eliminate [patents] - no, but restrict if no commercial use > > to 5y. > > I'd just flat out restrict them to five years. Twenty is too long. That would work against inventors as instead of buying useful patents c

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 08 aug 19, 09:20:29, The Wanderer wrote: > > As far as I'm aware, there are significantly more projects out there to > produce free motherboard firmware (BIOS / UEFI images) than there are to > produce free firmware for any of those other things. One has to start somewhere and the BIOS see

Re: buster netinst timezone

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 09 aug 19, 21:38:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: > The netinst cd image for Buster 10.0.0 does not offer a UTC option for > English -> United States. > > This is a critical bug; every installer without exception should offer UTC. > > Is there a work-around, so that files written during the >

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 07:50:02, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > I'd just flat out restrict them to five years. Twenty is too long. > > Andrei writes: > > That would work against inventors as instead of buying useful patents > > companies would just wait 5 years and then use it without any charge. >

Re: (Solved) Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:12:22, Curt Howland wrote: > > Upon reboot, the ciphered drive login had no asterisks, and it was > 80x24 screen resolution. The boot sequence this time did not look like > RedHat with the green success indicators, in fact there were hardly > any boot messages on tty1 at all.

Re: Buster Mate: how to set default user nae

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:52:48, Tom Browder wrote: > > I have tried searching for the solution but so far have found nothing. The solution (if any) will probably depend a lot on the display manager used. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description:

Re: GeForce GT 710 on debian

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 16:57:06, Jonas Hedman wrote: > Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with my > with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and > I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a > little blurry and I got small black vertical lines

Re: GeForce GT 710 on debian

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 11:39:56, Mark Allums wrote: > > On 8/10/2019 11:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 10 aug 19, 16:57:06, Jonas Hedman wrote: > > > Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with my > > > with my ThinkCentre M9

Re: buster netinst timezone

2019-08-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 12 aug 19, 08:38:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I don't have any kind of statistics for how many programs use one vs. > the other. It's not trivial to find out. /etc/localtime gets many more hits on https://codesearch.debian.net, if you consider this to be a relevant metric. FWIW, accord

Re: Kernel upgrade ?

2019-08-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 12 aug 19, 08:49:34, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The other tip about kernel install selection is to install something > like kernel-i386 or kernel-x86 without all of the long version numbers > as suffixes in their names. This is a good idea in general. For the amd64 architecture the package nam

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 12 aug 19, 08:23:17, Keith Steensma wrote: > I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and found > that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm doing > something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no modification. > > With Secure Shell server i

Re: buster: DNS server?

2019-08-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 14 aug 19, 14:13:06, D. R. Evans wrote: > > I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to diagnose and fix the problem. You probably want to install dnsmasq on the server. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: No Audio after suspend on Lenovo Ideapad 130s Debian Buster

2019-08-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 18 aug 19, 14:06:57, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > Hello today, I've got an Ideapad and after I suspend I cannot get the > audio to work when the system resumes. > > lspci -v returns the following for the audio section: [...] > Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel > Kernel modules: snd_hda_

Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade

2019-08-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 19 aug 19, 09:54:08, john doe wrote: > Hi Rico, thanks for your answer. > On 8/19/2019 9:37 AM, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 09:25:56AM +0200, john doe wrote: > >> > >> Here is the requested output from a test server: > >> > >> $ apt purge dbus -s > > <...> > >> dbus* libpam-sys

Re: SLAPD_SENTINEL_FILE problem and openldap / slapds jessie changelog missing

2019-08-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 19 aug 19, 15:15:03, Neo wrote: > Hi Debian lovers > > I struggle to find the current changelog for slapd/openldap. Try 'apt changelog slapd'. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bash isn't reading ~/.profile file when login from GNOME

2019-08-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 20 aug 19, 10:36:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 02:27:40PM +, Vipul wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > From few days, I'm trying find answer of a question "which program does > > read ~/.profile if I login from graphical user interface (for ex: GNOME)?". > > https://wiki.

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 aug 19, 20:07:36, Brian wrote: > On Wed 21 Aug 2019 at 13:19:32 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > Please ease up! I do not advocate this in general and I made > > the limited use very clear. If a local plumber with 5 employees > > uses this just for his business no freedom of speech

Heads-up for unstable users: Accepted systemd 242-4 (source) into unstable

2019-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
systemd 242-1 contains also this change: * Drop Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-give.patch. This patch needs ongoing maintenance work to be adapted to new releases and fails to apply with v242. Instead of investing more time into it we are going to drop the patc

Re: Assignment of Debian source package to binary packages

2019-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 22 aug 19, 09:03:59, Knut Hengstenberg wrote: > Hi all, > > for a project, I would like to have the relationship "Debian source > package <-> Debian binary packages". So all the existing source > packages can be found for each distribution here (for jessie): > > https://packages.debian.o

Re: Debian 10 (Buster) and Swappiness

2019-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 22 aug 19, 09:21:31, Gustavo - Emar wrote: > Hi, > After upgrading from Debian Stretch to Buster (10), we realize that it is > not managing memory as before. > First, even with Swappiness = 0 and having 32 Ram, (16 Gb using) it starts > using Swap If you don't want it using swap you should

Re: Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 aug 19, 16:01:17, Franklin, Jason wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm working on a project that requires me to debug a running screen locker. > > Currently, my workflow involves switching between the screen locker and > virtual > console #1 (/dev/tty1) using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7. This

Re: ttf-mscore fonts and contrib repos

2019-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 22 aug 19, 11:48:55, Christopher Marlow wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to add the contrib repos to buster: > > === > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free 1. > # > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/L

Re: Bash isn't reading ~/.profile file when login from GNOME

2019-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 20 aug 19, 16:39:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > And now people will think that running login shells in every terminal > session is the RIGHT way. Please do feel free to educate me on when/why it's wrong to run login shells instead of a plain interactive shell (or just point me to the relev

Re: Bash isn't reading ~/.profile file when login from GNOME

2019-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 22 aug 19, 17:15:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:01:09AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 20 aug 19, 16:39:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > And now people will think that running login shells in every terminal > > > sessi

Re: dmesg confusions

2019-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 23 aug 19, 13:08:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > running an iso from linuxcnc.org based on stretch. s/b all upto date. [...] > Whose bug might this be, or is my cmos battery about to ~30~ on me? Can you reproduce this with a Debian kernel (e.g. from stretch or stretch-backport

Re: Accidently deleted a default panel on MATE desktop

2019-08-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 23 aug 19, 11:50:04, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 08:26:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > No need for cc, I'm subscribed to list > > Then tell your MUA to set the follow-up correctly. > I don't make the decision, mutt does, based on your headers. mutt does what you

Re: mplayer won't play m4a

2019-08-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 24 aug 19, 13:26:00, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > What missing, what should I install...? If my two-minutes-ago full-upgrade > ok, > I should be running Stable: Debian 10. Instead of guessing you could show the output of 'apt policy' ;) The output of this command might also help to find th

Re: why won't ff look at this url?

2019-08-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 24 aug 19, 10:21:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings folks; > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Two things you could try: 1. firefox --safe-

Heads-up for bullseye users: systemd 242-4 migrated to testing

2019-08-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 22 aug 19, 09:55:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > systemd 242-1 contains also this change: > >* Drop Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-give.patch. > This patch needs ongoing maintenance work to be adapted to new > releases and fails to apply with v

Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 aug 19, 14:27:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What, in wheezy Do you mean Debian 7? > /lib/udev/rules.d rule do I nuke so eth0 remains eth0 regardless of >which box I put that drive in? Try booting with 'net.ifnames=0' on the kernel command line, though I'm not sure this works in wheezy

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-03-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 mar 20, 22:05:40, Patrick Scribus wrote: > Hello, > > two of my computers have a similar role as desktop. The installed > packages are nearly the same, the configuration is nearly the same and > the stored data in /home also. Especially the texts, the pictures and > the like require too

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 mar 20, 09:55:25, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: > > On 3/25/20 7:31 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > > Concur on Syncthing. Since it is near-instantaneous, so are oopses. For > > that I use rsnapshot. > > > > Some other thoughts on backups. > > http://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Nov/02/ba

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 mar 20, 20:34:24, deloptes wrote: > > But the purpose of systemd is not to give you an interface. This is provided > by each desktop. Systemd will give you the low level service management - > AFAIK it works via dbus. > > systemd <-> dbus <-> network-manager > | > netw

Re: Night light, sunset and sunrise times in Gnome

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 mar 20, 18:24:04, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am running Gnome in Debian Buster, which comes with the Night Light > feature. I have set up night light in the Sunset/Sunrise setting. I > have also correcly set my timezone (location?). My issue is, sunset is > coming and Night

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 mar 20, 10:23:59, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:30:03 -0500 > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > I expect that there would be much, much less resistance to systemd if > > that were all that it does. However, it has evolved to take over a > > number of other functions aside fr

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 mar 20, 12:34:48, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > 3. HTTPS does NOT make the Web secure. Not even close. I'm not sure > that even the banks still try to peddle that fiction any more. Are you implying banks should not bother and use plain HTTP instead? > Any > criminal can have a free certif

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 mar 20, 20:31:17, deloptes wrote: > Reco wrote: > > > Actually, deloptes is right and you're not. > > > > Kernel's documentation - [1] - describes a way to force a kernel itself > > to configure a network interface for IPv4, be it static or DHCP, along > > with the primitive routing tab

Re: ethernet cfg via kernel cmdline (was: Buster without systemd?)

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 mar 20, 12:21:49, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrei POPESCU composed on 2020-03-25 17:45 (UTC+0200): > > > $ cat /proc/cmdline > > ip=192.168.1.64::192.168.1.1::a64p:eth0:off root=LABEL=a64p rootwait rw > > rootflags=noatime > > > The interface is not even

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 mar 20, 21:39:43, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Consider a Raspberry PI: External PSU for the Raspberry PI, two external PSU > for two external HDDs. It gets easier with the SATA hat, but even then you > need to somehow power the whole system. A single PSU at the USB input for > the RPI is likely

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 mar 20, 03:03:55, Russell L. Harris wrote: > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, > and sometimes is rather diff

Re: question

2020-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 mar 20, 13:20:49, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > The pro is that your wife will be able to make sure the email has been > sent correctly (not dropped by your wife's email provider for > example). Unless the provider is Gmail... Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianU

Re: ethernet cfg via kernel cmdline (was: Buster without systemd?)

2020-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 mar 20, 18:52:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 25 mar 20, 12:21:49, Felix Miata wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU composed on 2020-03-25 17:45 (UTC+0200): > > > > > $ cat /proc/cmdline > > > ip=192.168.1.64::192.168.1.1::a64p:eth0:off root=LABEL=a64p roo

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 mar 20, 18:41:10, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > > expected. What do I do with the following PDF: > > > >=?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==?= > > Read muttrc

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 mar 20, 14:40:21, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:51:46AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Nice one, added. Wondering why it's not the default though... > > A small correction. It's "set rfc2047_parameters=true". set rfc2047_p

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)

2020-03-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 mar 20, 12:42:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:12:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: > > > I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romanian as a Latin > > > or a non-Latin language, > > > > I think we c

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 mar 20, 23:15:12, David Wright wrote: > > However, the actual problem that Russell introduced was how a > character set—any character set—should be encoded in the email header > parameter's value. And the RFC answer is "not in Base64", which is for > unstructured fields, as illustrated b

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 mar 20, 10:51:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 26 mar 20, 18:41:10, Reco wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > > > expected.

Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 mar 20, 11:37:48, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Debian 10. > What is the best practice regarding Ruby gems installation please (user vs > root)? (the answer applies more or less to any language, not just Ruby) Since you're asking on a Debian list the answer is "install from

Re: Question regarding an ACPI BIOS Error (bug)

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 mar 20, 14:40:54, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > Perhaps you should read > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.html#s3.1 > > but do please note that this document is out of date - it refers to > "Stretch" as the stable distribution, instead of "Buster", which has > bee

Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 mar 20, 15:57:57, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > Thanks for your feedback. > 28 mars 2020 à 14:40 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > > > Since you're asking on a Debian list the answer is "install from > > packages only". By definition[1] the software versions in stable remain > >

Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 mar 20, 18:28:53, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Andrei, > > 28 mars 2020 à 16:46 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > > > On Sb, 28 mar 20, 15:57:57, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > >> Actually, I'm totally OK with the approach. > >> > >> But I'm not really talking about the ruby2.5 package and its >

Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 mar 20, 23:59:17, Martin wrote: > > I have a debian bullseye/testing machine on a 2017 HP i7 machine that > I used daily for many months but was not running since end of November > 2019. I upgraded everything with apt update + dist-upgrade + > autoremove + clean this week. [...] > Thi

Re: Casting handlheld devices on non-smart TV

2020-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 mar 20, 12:28:07, john doe wrote: > Debians, > > I would like to cast the sound and image of my smartphone and alike > devices to my old TV. > > My wireless cellphones and tablets are connected in wifi to my network > but my TV is not connected to my network (too old), so I'm looking fo

Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye

2020-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 mar 20, 12:37:39, Martin wrote: > > Here is apt policy: > > Package files: > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > release a=now > 500 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable/main amd64 Packages > release o=. stable,a=stable,n=stable,l=. stable,c=main,b=amd64 > origin repo.skype.com >

Re: Casting handlheld devices on non-smart TV

2020-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 mar 20, 13:48:52, john doe wrote: > On 3/29/2020 1:09 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > This will involve finding a supported SBC, installing Debian, installing > > supporting apps on the smartphone(s) and hope it all works nicely > > together. > >

Re: network-manager takes 1-4 restarts in order to recognize and connect to already-configured wifi network, USB dongle NIC

2020-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 mar 20, 13:46:05, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Alan Tu wrote: > > > ... "Debian testing" system ... network-manager 1.22.8-1. ... > > # systemctl restart network-manager > > After one to four times of this, eventually network-manager > > establishes the netwo

Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye

2020-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 mar 20, 16:40:03, Martin wrote: > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 13:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > Pinned packages: > > > libpython3.8-minimal -> 3.8.2-1 with priority -3 > > > libcrypt1 -> 1:4.4.15-1 with priority -3 > > &

Re: Casting handlheld devices on non-smart TV

2020-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 mar 20, 15:02:13, john doe wrote: > > Why can it not be a wireless HDMI between my cell and my TV, basically > the equivalent of my laptop being connected via HDMI to my TV! :) That sounds like Miracast. According to the article I linked it didn't catch on because of compatibility issu

Re: How can I see only the latest change log of packages before update ?

2020-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 mar 20, 14:47:57, The Wanderer wrote: > > On my system, when I run > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > and say "yes" to the list of packages, the following things happen: > > * apt-get downloads all the packages, but does not install them yet. > * apt-listchanges kicks in, automatically extr

Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye

2020-03-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 mar 20, 12:47:45, Martin wrote: > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 20:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > For my apt preferences I had: > > > > > > Package: * > > > Pin: release a=testing > > > Pin-Priority: 650 > > > > &g

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

2020-03-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 mar 20, 22:21:29, Joe wrote: > > Yes, that's basically it. I had upgraded to a version of Virtualbox > which installed OK but the client extensions to that version of > Virtualbox required a kernel version higher than the Debian Stable one. > The client extensions allow more communicatio

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

2020-03-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 mar 20, 13:36:19, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 31 mars 2020 à 13:21 de p...@hbsys.plus.com: > > > On 31/03/2020 00:13, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > >> What is the output of 'apt-cache policy virtualbox' on your system? > >> > > > > Good question! Whilst it *is* in the repositories

Re: [OT] testing on unstable sources list

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 15:49:25, dalios wrote: > On 3/30/20 2:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >> [...] and still retain testing in sources.list (having testing in > > sources.list when running unstable is a good idea anyway). > > Can you be so kind and explain to me ho

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 08:58:16, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:57:17 + > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > > server. And Jitsi is open source. What more could you ask? > > I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I suppose I'm just spoiled by > Debian - I almost always install stuff from

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 22:31:38, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > It seems that in Debian, my USB flash drive is automatically mounted at: > > /media/user/myflashdrive > > Is it possible to permanently change it to /media/myflashdrive ? > > The reason is because I have many LibreOffice Calc files

Re: change the mount point of my flash drive

2020-04-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 apr 20, 18:49:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Maybe you can convince LibreOffice to use relative paths instead of > > absolute paths? > > This is what I proposed, too. Much less hassle. OTOH you have to > plan a bit when moving documents elsewhere (but you would have > to with abso

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 apr 20, 08:52:33, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing > something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each > window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232 ports. See section WINDOW TYPES in the manpage. Seems like it also sup

Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

2020-04-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 01:13:35, Bernard wrote: > > Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages which I > will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in red > characters : > > EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock > > this repeated three times ! This *c

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

2020-04-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 apr 20, 15:54:31, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including > python. Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools > module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old. Meanwhile, the > version documented on pypi.org is at ve

Re: Publish open source software

2020-04-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 03:09:54, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > I see a lot of Free Software development migrating to > > Gitlab: > > > > https://about.gitlab.com/ > > > > It is also a product that can be self hosted as some projects are > > doing. > > > free for 30 days - This is something I don't like >

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 15:01:48, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: > > In my use case, I have both a safe and a secure remote server machine (VM) > and a raspberry Pi at my home to run continuously & incessantly 24/7. > I have three computers. One at work a laptop and a desktop computer. > What I want is for

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 15:01:48, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: > > Syncthing seems more restrictive than Nextcloud because it does not > have the "cloud" (WEB UI) function offered by Nextcloud. > However, I would really like to try Syncthing to see what it really > offers and to be able to compare it wit

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:44:38, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, songbird wrote: > > > yes, but don't get too complacent as eventually > > getmail goes away if nobody ports it to python3. > > >thank you for the advice, but I imagine it will not disappear from my disk, >even if it

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

2020-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 11:00:06, Bernard wrote: > Thanks a lot for this reply > > The output of the proposed tests are shown on the following screen picture : > > http://bdebreil.free.fr/IMG_0906.jpg > > As for partition sda2 : I don't remember having created this partition when > installing Stretch

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