Re: grub-set-default

2021-05-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richmond, On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 04:34:34PM +0100, Richmond wrote: > grub-set-default 5 > > I cannot see any changes in /etc/grub.d/ or /etc/default/grub grub-set-default makes changes to /boot/grub/grubenv, which is read by the grub binary at boot time. You can examine its contents with: $

Re: ipv6 stable privacy (rfc 7217) as default ipv6 address for outgoing traffic

2021-05-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Serge, On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:51:12AM +0200, Serge Pouliquen wrote: > I'm getting 2 addresses : one from slaac with stable privacy and one from > dhcpv6. > It looks like the one from dhcpv6 is used as the default for outgoing > traffic. > > How can I indicate that I want to use the one rel

Re: Slightly off-topic: anybody know of a way to keep one's Debian User List posts from failing DMARC?

2021-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 09:58:13AM -0700, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I'm told that the Debian List Server doesn't rewrite "From" > headers for DMARC-enabled senders, and neither does it do anything > else to handle DMARC-enabled senders. Correct, so the SPF test will always fail as the l

Re: ifconfig stats ??? Wrong behavior OR BUG ?

2021-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Kanto, On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 02:01:02PM +, Kanto Andria wrote: > dada@Jradebian:~$ sudo ifconfig enp0s31f6 stats     You just resolved "stats" in DNS and set the IP address of interface enp0s31f6 to that IP. >     inet 54.36..162.17  netmask 255.0.0.0  broadcast 54.255.255.255 I'm

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

2021-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 07:02:50PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > But then... One machine has a radius server that needs UDP port 1812 > open. And another is a print server with CUPS and SMB which apparently > need at least TCP ports 631 and 137 open. It sounds like you need configuration man

Re: Server setup

2021-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Polyna-Maude, On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:31:08PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Now what I did was to install the machine using the "helper" given by > the provider (OVH/OneProvider). This way I can dissect the working > system and see how the configuration is done. So what do

Re: Server setup

2021-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 04:39:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I can understand the idea of cutting out part of the messages when I > answer. But this is now forcing me to repeat many times... You're being asked direct questions because your rambling style has no real i

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:34:30PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > I use a 32bit OS Is the hardware capable of 64-bit? If so then it should be possible to install an amd64 kernel and e2fsprogs without completely converting your system to amd64. https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading (Stop afte

Re: RAID-1 and disk I/O

2021-07-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Urs, Your plan to change the SATA cable seems wise - your various error rates are higher than I have normally seen. Also worth bearing in mind that Linux MD RAID 1 will satisfy all read IO for a given operation from one device in the mirror. If you have processes that do occasional big reads t

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > My personal opinion is that Debian is going into a mostly "we got the > best idea in the world but forgot that not everyone implement things the > same way". I recommend understanding the issue before puttin

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, OP: You are pretty safe deleting (rm) vmlinuz* and initrd* things from /boot that are related to any kernels you aren't actually booted into at the time. That can give you back enough space to let apt finish what it wants to do. Just remember to do: # update-initramfs -u -k all afterwards

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 07:14:32AM +0800, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > Linux debian 4.9.0-13-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.228-1 (2020-07-05) i686 > GNU/Linux So you are running 32-bit kernel. Will the hardware do 64-bit? What does $ cat /proc/cpuinfo say? You may be able to install a

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 11:35:15AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > any ideas on how to make the situation better? To be honest I don't think that mailing lists are a very good venue for user support and I would these days prefer to direct people to a Stack Overflow-like site. The chief ad

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 11:00:55PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:26:25PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > To be honest I don't think that mailing lists are a very good venue > > for user support and I would these days prefer to direct p

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 05:01:50PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 09-08-2021 07:33, Andy Smith wrote: > > A lack of politeness isn't really debian-user's biggest problem. I > > think debian-user's biggest problem is the lack of restraint > > prolific poster

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 07:26:50AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 09:33:02PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > My only suggestion was a Stack Overflow-style question-answer site. > > Those aren't discussion forums. > > Two things: (a) SO is

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:19:19PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I am asking the Debian Project to can this list in favour of an > alternate solution or else to make it strictly for Debian-related > posts only. I want to walk this one back a bit as there's no need to destroy the

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 10-08-2021 07:54, Andy Smith wrote: > > I really don't want to get into calling out specific sub-threads > > that have been ridiculously off-topic recently, They are not hard to > > find; there's

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:22:46PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 10-08-2021 09:01, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:19:19PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > >> I am asking the Debian Project to can this list in favour of an > >> alternate solution or e

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 06:05:58PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > > So that's where I think the problems are and why I think it would be > > good to try separating the user support from the debate club. > > I'm afraid this conversation is a waste of time. I'm sorry you feel that way. It has felt

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 02:51:02AM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > I think that switching support over to a different medium i.e. from e- > mail to Q&A-style will see a different sort of user participating. > Hence, the "community" one would find on the Q&A site is not there yet. This > explains

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 09:12:08PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-08-09 9:37 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: > > I'm sorry you feel that way. It has felt quite frustrating having to > > repeat myself when I thought I was being clear about what I meant

Re: Btrfs best practices: defrag?

2022-01-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 08:38:41PM +, piorunz wrote: > My current fstab mounting: > > noatime,space_cache=v2,compress-force=zstd:3 0 2 > > Will autodefrag break COW files? Like I copy paste a file and I save > space, but defrag with destroy this space saving? Yes, I believe so. That

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:40:49AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > #partition. >sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G […] > fdisk prompts for the first sector with a default of 2048 but I > type in 137215. The last sector

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > > #partition. > > sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G > > [...] > > then I delete P2 and then add a

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:57:45PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Andy, I appreciate the data doesn't go anywhere, but... > > >> then I delete P2 and then add a > >> new partition which defaults to 2. &

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 05:44:25PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > On 2022-02-08 16:46 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 03:46:09PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > >> Is this to be done via systemd? > > > > Yes, that's where you should be doing this. > > That is w

Re: systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities...

2022-02-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:25:35PM -0500, Lee wrote: > Apparently the syslog message > systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities... > is caused by systemd / apt-daily.timer - correct? No, that one is from apt-daily-upgrade.timer: $ grep -r "upgrade and clean" /lib/syst

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 07:31:58AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hello Dearie > > I am happy to hear from you again and hope that everything's fine with you > and your family. > > > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 6:23 AM > > From: "David" > > To: "debian-user" > > Subject: Re: Uninstalli

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 07:36:55AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > From: "David Wright" > > Leave it. Worry about bigger issues than the odd library. > > > For all you know, the odd library which is this Thai file in > question may contain poorly designed code, ill-intentioned > designed

Re: You know what? Not only Debian but Fedora 35 has libthai too....and more

2022-02-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:06:27PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > systemd was developed by Red Hat's folks, wasn't it? According to > one camp, one of its nefarious intentions is to help the NSA to > easily build backdoors to snoop on their targets of interest. You are listening to the ve

Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency

2022-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 07:19:34AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: > Hi -- I have a machine, Linux ancient 2.6.36.2 #1 SMP Sun Dec 26 06:19:57 > PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux. […] > Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in > the running kernel: > > - inotify(2)   

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2022-02-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 07:41:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > In something of 150 or more installs of bullseye - we do a bunch with > each release of images with a point release - I don't think I've ever > seen brltty installed "by accident" so I'd love to know exactly what you > do

Re: Files on /dev/shm/ disappear

2022-03-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:54:53AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Someone who knows systemd, dbus, and all that stuff might be able to > suggest next steps. I'm not really that person but yes, logind removes things from /dev/shm for a user if it's not a system user, when that user's session

Re: Files on /dev/shm/ disappear

2022-03-02 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 02:28:07PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > logind removes things from /dev/shm for a user if it's not a > system user, when that user's session ends. In case it wasn't clearly enough explained why this is happening: it clears out /dev/shm when the user

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > 2. I've had since the last of about 20 installs of bullseye, a very early > boot message about ata6 at the 10 and 20 second marks of the reboot IF > it was not a full powerdown reboot. Did you not at any point think that le

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 02:11:23PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 11 March 2022 13:11:14 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > 2. I've had since the last of about 20 insta

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:06:39PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:50:07 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > I think it still might be worth changing the cable and/or moving the > > drive about to see if the error follows the drive or stays wi

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: > $ apt-cache show hugo > > The usual package information was returned > along with, in my opinion, an unsightly mess > entailing a long string of 88 entries > naming individual golang packages > following Buil

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Gene, I just don't know where to start with finding relevant bits to quote from your text. I find it unlikely that several of the drives you have bought should all be failed and dead. I'm concerned that you're prematurely jumping to conclusions and junking them. It's normal for the device nodes

Re: force IPv6 dynamic address?

2022-03-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 05:11:31AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > How can I make my system and/or thunderbird use the constantly changing > dynamic IPv6 address instead? If you add your static address with a preferred_lft of 0 then it will be marked as "deprecated" which means it will never

Re: its been done again. No network

2022-03-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:10:06PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-03-23 20:40 (UTC-0400): > ... > > So how do I get rid of it so I can have a net with MY default route and > > bring it up to date? > > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemdNetworkd works for my static I

Re: its been done again. No network

2022-03-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:46:53AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Gene is not running Debian and is again wasting everyone's time by > > asking about it here, despite being repeatedly asked not to. So for > > anyone finding this in the archives, Gene's problem is not with > > Debian, it is

Re: Under each of these scenarios, what is the neatest and simplest way to manipulate the /etc/network/interfaces file?

2022-03-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 08:48:35AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Maybe I should remove the trinity-3c-app-mailcom block, since it > no longer seems to be doing anything helpful...? Looking at my mailbox I've got hundreds of hits matching that, from many differently apparently-real people a

OT: Which browser does jwz use? (Was Re: Does this happen often with sid?)

2022-03-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 06:16:23PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > I would have been definitely interested which browser [jwz] > recommends / uses these days. Ten years ago it was Safari: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of-firefox/ It seems likely it will st

Re: mngtmpaddr IP

2022-03-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:53:14PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > I am un-able to find how to disable mngtmpaddr IPv6 IP in Debian 11 in a > KVM VPS. > > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/use_tempaddr file shows 0 but it's still > assigning mngtmpaddr IP to the VPS. You may need to set that for "a

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I have an issue with a few websites that seem to hang with ipv6 If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those assignments will remain stable then you may prefer instead to add prohibited routes for th

Re: OT EU-based Cloud Service

2022-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 03:22:04PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > i did get one server located in Frankfurt, Germany. At there i did > install Postfix under Debian 11 Bullseye. The name is > <>. Opening ports are 25, 587 and 2525. The > role is outbound only. Do be aware that the netblocks of many ch

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 10:39:03AM +0530, didar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:58:01PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those > > assignments will remain stable then you may prefer instead to add > > prohib

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by > *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. Including yours… [problems with Debian installer] > I plan to get around these problems by creating

Re: perl listgarden module

2022-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Russell, On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 02:39:21AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I am attempting to run the ListGarden RSS generator on Debian 11. > Perl 5 (version 32) needs the ListGarden module. There is no such published module that I can find, so it seems likely that this is part of ListGard

Re: declarative (config file) way idea of handling the OS by way of the old system

2022-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 08:05:28AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > For a single user's machine, it's unlikely to be rewarding > except intellectually. It is however a great way to document a system for those that don't get around to making free text notes. The language of the configuration mana

Re: Debian license issue

2022-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Lidiya, On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 04:14:49PM +0300, Lidiya Pecherskaya wrote: > Is it possible to get information on the type of license under which the > Debian software is available? Each package installs a file /usr/share/doc//copyright with its exact license. In general all packages that ar

Re: declarative (config file) way idea of handling the OS by way of the old system

2022-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 02:46:49AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Except for people aging and dying I didn't understand any of > this post ... I'm happy to explain any part of it that you were not able to understand, but you'll have to be more specific. I must have been very unclear indeed

Re: ssh-agent: I want to start using on all my remote hosts

2022-06-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 09:52:26AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > And edit file /etc/ssh/ssh_config to change > > # ForwardAgent no > > to > > ForwardAgent yes > > Then reboot. This is a config file for the ssh client, i.e. the "ssh" command. As such it's read every time you run s

Re: ssh-agent: I want to start using on all my remote hosts

2022-06-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 09:43:53AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > 1. Will starting the ssh-agent service interfere with my current ssh login > (using keys with NO passhrase). It only matters at the point of authentication, so existing SSH sessions will not be affected. > 2. Is there anything

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 11:30:26AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > For Gene, he could conceivably just rename the RAID setup that he has mounted > under /home to some new top level mountpoint. (Although he probably has some > scripts or similar stuff that looks for stuff in /home/ tha

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:15:28PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > So 26th reinstall attempt, following David's instructs to do an ssh from > another machine to install So can we see the copy and paste of this first screen that you have a problem with? > So, how to I do a text copy/paste fr

Re: Recommendations for data layout in case of multiple machines (Was: Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time)

2022-06-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 06:30:18PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Andy Smith writes: > > It's a way of working that's served me well for about 25 years. It's > > hard to imagine going back to having data spread all over the place. > > What do you use as you

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > AFAIK, there's no way of recording the screens if you use text mode > > > locally, rather than remotely. Hence the instructions I have been > > > posting. Howev

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 11:47:46AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > Gene, come on. You know how to select and paste out of an xterm. It > > does not matter what that xterm is doing, whether it is displaying a >

Re: Cron removal - unstable, question

2022-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:56:26PM +0100, Štěpán Košan wrote: > really sorry to bother with a stupid question, however I was wondering, I > got a warning that CRON is about to be removed in the upgrade, but it seems > it's still on. Is there a plan to remove it eventually? I have not seen

Re: Setting up Mailman3 under Debian (using packages)

2022-07-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 07:23:18PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote: > I'm trying to migrate the mailing lists on my server from legacy Mailan to > Mailman 3 to be able to finally update the system from Buster to Bullseye. > I've found guides how to migrate the configuration and lists but I haven

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade > fetchmail to talk to exim4. Sounds like you have a misconfiguration that should be fixed, rather than disabling IPv6 to work around it. > net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 04:52:27PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > When I try to start fetchmail I get the error message > > Jul 09 10:22:57 titan fetchmail[7286]: > reading message > mail...@rogerprice.org@mail.gandi.net:1 of 7 (8954 octets) >

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, Before we go any further let's just remember that this thread was started by someone wanting to disable IPv6 for no specific reason. They had decided they needed to do so to fix some problem they were having, when in fact they had ALREADY disabled IPv6, so there is no possibility whatsoev

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Charles, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 06:51:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > it is up to you to housebreak your applications to use IPv4 first. If you find yourself having to do this, something is probably broken. Broken things do exist, but it is really quite rare. What you've written here make

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > What package can I find aclocal in? $ apt-file search bin/aclocal automake: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.16 automake1.11: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.11 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 06:24:16PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Trying to guess I found the package autotools-dev, but that was not it. > > Should I keep it? I don't know. Perhaps remove it and install it again later if you find you have the need. > What does it contain? $ apt show autoto

Re: libpq-dev package

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 07:19:08PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Trying to compile my program it fails by not finding the > pg-config script and libpq-fe.h file. You were already shown apt-file. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Twice load - rndc.key ?

2022-07-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 09:39:27PM +0200, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > but why i have now so meny querry-errors, and REFUSED? > > 11-Jul-2022 21:37:08.587 query-errors: info: client @0x7f22c342c254 ip#61640 > (redirector.googlevideo.com): query failed (REFUSED) for > redirector.googlevideo.com

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 10:31:36PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, July 10, 2022 06:48:10 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Otherwise I'm afraid your claims about IPv6 so far have been quite > > bizarre, on the level of "IPv6 ate my homework" or &q

Re: exiftool

2022-07-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:03:05AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > I'm sending a load of images to somebody and I want them to be > Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license > Don't want to plaster over images so think to add to exif data. I've not done it personally but this seems to gi

Re: mailman3 hyperkitty_import reports sqlite3.OperationalError

2022-07-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 02:39:53PM -0500, kjohn...@eclypse.org wrote: > re: 4. mailman 'import21' appears to work: > > $ mailman import21 t...@example.com /var/lib/mailman/lists/tl2/config.pck > r...@example.com is already imported with role MemberRole.owner > > re: 4. 'hyperkitty_import'

Re: mailman3 hyperkitty_import reports sqlite3.OperationalError

2022-07-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:11:33PM -0500, kjohn...@eclypse.org wrote: > May I have your permission to submit a bug on README.Debian that > includes or derives from those three lines? (getting permission > to use other's work) Sure, they're not my original work; I just searched the web for

Re: Thoughts on logcheck?

2022-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:30:19PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > My thought is to configure rsyslog to create extra logfiles, equivalent to > syslog and auth.log (the two files that logcheck monitors by default), which > only log messages at priority 'warning' or above, and configure logch

Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?

2022-08-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 12:08:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > I'd like for my Debian server to have a static IPv6 address.. same > as I have for IPv4. But how to do that? > > I have a Netgate firewall that does a dhcp6 request for a /56 from > Verizon, then the firewall delegates a /64 to each i

Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?

2022-08-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 01:57:42PM -0400, Lee wrote: > The dhcpv6 server on the netgate allows for static mappings like > ::1:10 > where it fills in the network/64 portion from the delegation and uses > the ::a:b:c:d for the host address. I was hoping for something like > that w/ Debi

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 01, 2022 12:08:47 PM Lee wrote: > > Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not > announced any plans to discontinu

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:01:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I know that IPv6 is a much larger address space so, iiuc, it would be harder > for a "cracker" to find IPv6, but I'd probably want to continue to run behind > NAT, so the idea that I wouldn't even know if my ISP switche

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 04:38:31PM -, Curt wrote: > I'm uncertain what happens with local addresses [in IPv6], if > anything. At the moment if you are using RFC1918 IPv4 addresses on your network, it's either an isolated network, or else it has a router that does NAT to convert those t

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 06:23:26PM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 16:40:42 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > It's possible that some providers might do IPv6 NAT as well, but I > > think the majority would just apply some default and quite > >

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:35:44AM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:02:12 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > Why do you believe that having their customer premises equipment do > > this for v6 is any different from having it do default NAT for v4? > >

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 12:27:19PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 8:20 AM Brian wrote: > > W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org/debian wheezy Release: The > > following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not > > available: NO_PUBKEY 8

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 06:52:29AM -0400, Amn wrote: > Black listed?!! > How does that work? Anything between (and including) the OP's computer and archive.debian.org can [intercept and] deny the HTTP request. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 01:28:16PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-08-06, Andy Smith wrote: > > Anything between (and including) the OP's computer and > > archive.debian.org can [intercept and] deny the HTTP request. > > Is there no way of making this determination

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:15:15PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 15:04:13 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not >

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

2022-08-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 09:31:54AM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 09/08/2022 19:53, Dan Ritter wrote: > > You can't call yourself a Debian anything, but you can say that > > you are a consultant or contractor or business that sells Debian > > installation services. > > But the OP can ac

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

2022-08-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Andy Smith wrote: > > I had a negative experience with LPI about 15 years ago where I > > signed up for one of their tests at a conference (FOSDEM) just out > > of interest and then in

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:16:48PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > This really sounds like you're trying to test out a scenario in > > a situation where it can't possibly work. > > > > But this is exactly what he has to do - connect two wired network interfaces > to a manag

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

2020-08-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:00:38AM +, Long Wind wrote: > top-posting is default behavior of yahoo mail. i don't know why > it's inconvenient for some list users. I wouldn't normally bother to mention¹ but since you seem to be pushing back on this… Between your top posting and the HTML

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:23:33PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback. There > are subtle changes that I could not get right in the past, so I chose > upgrade path. Last year I did do a squeeze to stretch upgrade by upgrading to eac

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:43:35PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: >   My only wish is apt is updated to say something about  the fact > that this is unsupported and users are on their own, but still > provide the download/install without we having to manually > intervene. I think¹ that there are

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:13:30AM -0700, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > The Buster upgrade seemed to work OK. I re-booted and got to my > xfce login screen. But when I entered my user ID and password, > the screen blanked for a second or so, then came back to a blank > login screen. Use c

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 07:57:18PM +0100, Joe wrote: > One practical point: it isn't possible to upgrade from a 32-bit > installation to a 64-bit one, it's a reinstall job. I did actually have > a go once, but quickly got bogged down with 'do A before B, and do B > before A'. I've done it

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 09:37:47PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Basically there are already fewer upstream kernel developers that > care about and understand 32-bit x86, and bug and even security > fixes specific to 32-bit x86 lag behind those for amd64. KPTI fixes > to address Meltdown

Can one install packages from Parrot or Kali on Debian testing? (Was: Re: Hi :))

2020-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, Your question is one of user support but you've sent it to the debian-project list, which is about the Debian project itself and not for asking user questions. So, I have directed replies to the correct place which is debian-user. On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:14:35PM -0400, richard loom

Re: bullseye LTS?

2020-09-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Byung-Hee, On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:29:46AM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > Hi i just curious about Bullseye [0]. The Bullseye will be LTS? Debian does not designate certain releases as LTS releases, so bullseye will be no more "an LTS release" than buster is now, or stretch, jessie etc were before them

Deterministic delays in POSIX shell scripts (Was: Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages)

2020-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 08:49:07AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:38:55 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > So you're just doing "sleep 1" every time. > > Ah, thank you. Yup. Which is weird, because it worked when I first > wrote that many years ago. In cron scripts w

Re: Deterministic delays in POSIX shell scripts (Was: Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages)

2020-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:49:19AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:44:25AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > "hostid" tends to return a hexadecimal representation of the first > > IPv4 address (but isn't guaranteed to). > > unico

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