I think that FIPS will do what you want done. Its a
non-distructive repartationing program that I have
used and works great and its free. Do a search on
www.google.com, that is how I found it.
Don
--- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your
>
--- Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> (1) Writing 'Mplayer' as user I get
> "Can't open '/home/adam/.mplayer/codecs.conf' No
> such file or directory"
> I've downloaded the Mplayer codecs file from the
> home page but it is
> currently
> in /home/adam ... that's not the same as set
Hi,
At the moment I've a Qnap 109 II nas server with Debian Sqeeuze
installed. Now I want to be able to mirror the drives, so I've basically
a backup of my backup. That's why I bought an Qnap 209 II on ebay. On
the 109 I've put pretty some efforts to get is all up and running.
1) What do I n
First of all you need to know what type of modem it
is, and which port does it use's. When you istalled
Debian did't you try and configure your modem? That
option is available. Not being a smart @## but have
you looked at the documentation page on the Debian
site?
Don
--- Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Karsten,
I know that you made wise suggestions on how to exit
Debian as a user without going to root, I just can't
find them in the archive. I use a Laptop at work with
Woody on it and when I shut it down I have to change
to su to do the shut down. Do you have one of those
handy MINI-Howto made
Appreciate the help.
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> on Tue, Mar 12, 2002, D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > Karsten,
> > I know that you made wise suggestions on how to
> exit Debian as a
> > user without going to root, I just can't find
> them
Alex,
I think that this is what your looking for.
http://www.computing.net/howto/advanced/linuxnt/
hth
Don
--- Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I've been using the NT bootloader for as long as
> I've been using Debian
> to handle switching between my M$ OS's and Linux.
> However, sinc
I just installed a server with stable.
So I have the 2.6.8 kernsl as packaged from debian.
This is a 1U server and I've already used the only PCI slot
available for a tape backup.
The system has an onboard ATI RAGE card.
I'd like to to use the atyfb for the console.
The one problem I'm hacing
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Hello, I've been trying to get my Promise FASTTRACK TX4000
PCI (ata/133/IDE) raid card working in Debian (2.6.11) for 3 days straight now.
Upon my googling, I was able to find this patch:
http://xrl.us/g2h3
I wgot it to 'patch',and typed 'patch -p1
It said it worked.
So I recompiled m
For what its worth, I use a Sony Trinitron CPD-220VS
monitor, my Horz is set to 30 - 70 and my vertical is
set to 50 - 120 in XF86Config. Have you tried to do a
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86? That should
generate a XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11.
--- "Ian D. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROT
There is a driver for your Aureal Audio card at
sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ . It is not the
Debian version but if you read the readme I think that
it works great, its the driver that I use. The name
of the debian version is
au88xx-kernel-source_1.1.2-1_i386.deb If you do a
search with goog
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have
> > a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and not
> > touched during the pro
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Fredrik wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >That's doing it the hard way. Just pass "init=/bin/sh rw" to the kernel
> >with your bootloader, and do:
> ># passwd root
> ># mount -o ro,remount / && reboot
>
> Well, to hack a PC with physical access is ea
)}' ; done ; echo "==="
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >./t5.sh
> 1 ===$1$iW95z/HB$GFcYFxMKK6x8EUPglVkux.===
> 2 === 36 49 36 105 87 57 53 122 47 72 66 36 71 70 99 89 70 120 77 75 75 54
> 120 56 69 85 80 103 108 86 107 117 120 46===
> 3 ===$1$iW95z/HB
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:03:07AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:01:09PM +0200, Vladimir Zolotykh wrote:
> } Why Mutt wouldn't send messages to debian-user@lists.debian.org, do you
> } know?
> } I can send it with Mozilla Thunderbird, but can't using Mutt.
> } What mig
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:30:57PM +0200, Vladimir Zolotykh wrote:
> Thank you for helping me get Mutt working.
>
> Could you please give me some clue how to set up Mutt working with two
> differenct accounts on the same IMAP server? Entering full server
> name, user name, and password each time I
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 07:45:26AM +, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am migrating from `hotplug' to `udev':
> at this stage I am trying to write local rules.
> I read the documentation provided within the package `udev',
> and succeeded to make basic stuff for my USB stick. I have ju
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> On 11/26/05, Fredrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well, to hack a PC with physical access is easy. That is why i'm
> > krypted my hd with blowfish-256
> >
> > It will take thousands of years to hack :-)
>
> And would render data r
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:27:39AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 27 10:16 -0600]:
> > On Sunday 27 November 2005 04:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >How to use two independent mouse at the same time?
> > >With two cursors of course...
> >
> > With usb
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:50:09PM -0500, Edward J. Shornock wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:58:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Then you can run 'mutt -y' to choose your mailbox. I don't know whether
> > it is possible to bring up this menu from an already-started mutt.
>
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:19:16PM -0500, Edward J. Shornock wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:54:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Mutt is telling me key not bound for that (using stock debian mutt).
> > Just out of curiosity, can you check the help page to see what it's
> > bound to?
>
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:32:09PM +0800, Marcus Deluigi (intern) wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I tried to install an unofficial debian package (AMPortal) by adding a
> new ressource to resources.list.
> But the installation failed with the error message:
[...]
The problem is that your unofficial package
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:22:31PM +0100, Lars wrote:
> Hey
>
> I'm running a small LAN and is a bit lost in the question regarding a
> simple filesharing on a small LAN...
> NFS: I don't get it. If anyone plugs into the lan and have a
> root-account they are on the share.
NFS requires each fi
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:19:04PM +0100, Guido Heumann wrote:
> I've seen this question coming up before, and I'm interested in this
> as well. It really seems to me that the solutions you mentioned are
> the only "mature" ways for linux-to-linux filesharing.
>
> I also know
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:22:13AM +, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> |> >This is not true. I'm happily running 2.6.14.3, on an FC2 box,
> |> >which pre-dates udev. And its no problem at all. Everything Just
> |> >Works (TM).
> |>
> |> One thing you _cannot_ do is run devfs though, it's udev or
> |> sta
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:19:46AM -, marc wrote:
> I have a share that is 3Tb. More practically, though, when a client
> works here, connects to the network and presents a share, he would be
> mightily peeved for all of its data to spread itself across the local
> universe. In fact, it would
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:19:45AM -, marc wrote:
>
> > Sorry to say it, but Linux filesharing is really not where it should
> > be
>
> I agree.
>
> > and I think there is no established system allowing automatic
> > discovery (other than Samba).
>
> Which is probably the best solution, in t
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:23:09PM -0500, T wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't startx in 24b color depth mode, I'm wondering why.
>
> I tried to startx in 24b color depth mode with
>
> startx -- -depth 16 :1
I know this is nonsensical, but you want startx -- :1 -depth 16. See
startx(1) for details.
-
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:54:57PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before
> the 3.1 release).
[...]
> I now have broadband and would like to upgrade to the Unstable dist.
> What's the best way of doing this?
I would recomm
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Krizsán László wrote:
>
[...]
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Michelle Konzack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [root user] How to disable root account?
>
>
> >grep -vE "^root:" /etc/pass
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:34:43PM -, marc wrote:
> said...
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:19:46AM -, marc wrote:
> >
> > > I have a share that is 3Tb. More practically, though, when a client
> > > works here, connects to the network and presents a share, he would be
> > > mightily peeved
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:06:48PM +, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Bruno Buys on 30/11/05 17:19, wrote:
>
> > Are you trying to get something that mplayer can´t? Realplayer is a
> > pain, I think. Never figured how to play those smil files, supposed
> > to be Real´s prop format. Real´s for win does play
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:42:15AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:14:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time.
> >
> > Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a scre
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:35:40PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf] file there's this line :
> <<<
> # Include generic snippets of statements
> Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/[^.#]*
> >>>
>
> What does the [^.#]* say ? I know that it's regular expression but
> I've
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see
> another session of firefox running.
Of course, he means 'ps aux|grep firefox'.
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:27:36 +0100
> Renee Klawitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5 to be perfectly
> > accurate).
> > N
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:53:24AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Alejandro Salas wrote:
>
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >When I installed it I went for the Stable version, but now I'm
> >thinking of switching over either to Testing or to Unstable. First I
> >wanted to ask how unstable the Unstabl
Hi debian users
Hi,
I have problems getting POSTROUTING to work on a Debian 10 box.
Setup:
INTERNET ... Broadband modem 192.168.108.1
Network internal to the Debian box for virtual machines 10.239.239.0/24
Debian has address 192.168.108.2 (interface enp3s0) and 10.239.239.254
(interface br0)
Processes on D
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:32:51PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> I remember it was not only the POSTROUTING. May be I am wrong, but I think
> FORWARD and OUTPUT is important.
> I also wonder why you are mixing up the -s and --to-source. You should be
> using the local address for -s and --to-source the
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:50:30PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Alain D D Williams wrote:
>
> > iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCEPT
> >
>
> and the OUTPUT?
OUTOUT is also ACCEPT, however this is not, I think, important as the packets
come from 10.239.239.23 (via br0) and g
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:28:57AM +0300, IL Ka wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > > iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCEPT
> >
>
> Are you sure your packets are forwarded via netfilter?
> Try to disable forwarding (with sysctl) or change rulte to -j DROP and
> check traffic with sniffer (no packet should be forward
On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 10:02:05PM +0200, sp...@caiway.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My first mail provider (in Oslo) promised free mailadress for life.
>
> Then it was sold to a kapitalist and they started to ask money.
>
> I do not like that.
>
> I know it is possible to run a free host.
>
> By volun
I'm upgrading my desktop from CentOS-6 to Debian -- CentOS-8 has Gnome 3 that I
can't abide, Debian has Mate.
Most of it works nicely; one problem is starting a network bridge takes down
the ethernet connection.
Can anyone please offer any clues:
/etc/network/interfaces.d/br0 contains:
iface br0
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 09:23:02AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> Im afraid I have to agree with this advice. In the presence of software
> like ZFS (from Sun) and LVM (from IBM's AIX), with easy availability of
> NAS, SAN and cloud storage, the arguments in favor of hardware RAID local
> to a
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:41:50PM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio archive.
>
> Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine is simple: boot a rescue cd, partition
> the disk, restore all files, fix fstab if necessary, run update-grub and
>
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:52:06PM -0500, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> Hello,
> New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I
> have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory
> and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive.
>
> My question is what is the best(use
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Am Montag, 8. Februar 2021, 12:29:25 CET schrieb Joe:
> Hi,
>
> well IMHO it depends, what you are going to do with it.
>
> As you might know, those netbooks are not the fastest ones, but maybe boot
> time is not so important, as you can us
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 06:04:15AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have downloaded a program with a man-page in troff format.
> How do I view it?
> I installed troffcvt but its man-page is non-informative.
> TIA
Feel free to use my script to do that, below.
ps_print is another script that send t
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:59:13AM -0800, Will Mengarini wrote:
> Your groff command references $o but your script sets no value
> for it, so $o is either empty or inherited from your environment.
Oh, that comes from the ps_print script that I hacked this out of.
$o was options, empty string for t
I just got myself a new laptop - the old one broke.
It is an HP stream, I wiped MS Windows and installed Linux Mint 21.
The machine came with some nice hardware diagnostics, written by/for HP. These
could be run without booting MS Windows. I would like to have the ability to
run these as they know
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Jeremy Hendricks wrote:
> I have no idea what you mean. It’s open source and you can analyze the code
> line by line.
Very true ... but how much code have you analyzed line by line ?
Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 10:43:19PM +, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>
> >
> > Even if you have it can be very hard to find carefully constructed back
> > doors.
>
> Shrug.. as opposed to installing closed source programmes where you know you
> are spied upon ? Which may of course have back doors
I am running Debian 10 (buster). I generated a new key that I wanted to upload,
but it fails:
$ gpg --send-keys 0xBA366B977C06BAF7
gpg: sending key 0xBA366B977C06BAF7 to hkps://keys.openpgp.org
gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a failure
gpg: keyserver send failed: Server indicated a f
On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 02:59:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> keys.openpgp.org should be operational. It responds to ping.
>
> Also have a look at
> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-June/065261.html .
No, that is not the issue. It works on Debian 11 but not Debian 10, both
On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 04:28:00PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2022-12-04 12:05:56+, Alain D. D. Williams wrote:
>
> > Part of the problem is the hopeless message "Server indicated a
> > failure" which says little. Any idea how I could get something more
&g
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Michael Lee wrote:
> Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings,
> logins, etc.?
This is what backups are for. I assume that you have something.
> Michael Lee
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My home PC is receiving, for hours at a time, 12-30 kB/s input traffic. This is
unsolicited. I do not know what it is trying to achieve but suspect no good. It
is also eating my broadband allowance.
This does not show up in the Apache log files - the TCP connection does not
succeed.
Sometimes my
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:50:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> If your home Internet service has an "allowance", you probably shouldn't
> run a web server on it.
Yes: I do run a web server at home, but there is only a little/personal stuff,
it does not receive much real traffic, I do not want i
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 01:39:53PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Okay well 30KiB/s is only about 78GiB/month which isn't really a
> lot. I think we're both in UK and it's been hard to find a domestic
> Internet connection that you'd run a web server on that can't cope
> with 78G/mo. So ignoring it se
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
> Use a firewall and set it up correctly.
That I have done.
The issue is broadband usage - ie before it hits the firewall.
> Assuming a residential environment.
>
> Firewall the router and server(s) as well as all the client machines.
>
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:31:06AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
> All you should be seeing is scans which you can not prevent.
I am looking at incoming packets with tcpdump. This sees packets *before* they
are filtered by iptables.
> What are you using for a firewall?
Something hand rolled. Reasonably
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 11:39:40AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
>
> On 12/21/23 10:50, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> > It is NOT a firewall issue.
>
>
> If I am correct you don't want any thing from the outside to hit your web
> server?
The words "web server" is am
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:32:30PM +0100, sko...@uns.ac.rs wrote:
> I am getting the following message at any boot:
>
> "The volume "Filesystem root" has only 221.1 MB disk space remaining."
>
> df -h says:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home
> >
> > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me.
> >
> > Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it right
> > first time!
>
> lvred
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:52:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 15 Apr 2023 at 08:11:17 -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> > > ---
> > >
> > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free
> > > deb-src
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 03:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > While we are talking about this, is there any reason why all the http:
> > should
> > not be https: ?
>
&
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:00:52AM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> Okay. Let's open this can of worms. The ONLY reason https is used on
> most sites is because Google *mandated* it years ago. ("Mandate" means
> we'll downgrade your search ranking if you don't use https.) There is
> otherwi
I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu.
Sequence as follows:
I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up.
I then switch to the workspace that contains a running virtual machine. The
virtualised OS does not seem to be important, this happens with Debian a
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 05:42:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> I have an issue with virtual machines under qemu.
Caps Lock is also affected the same way.
> Sequence as follows:
>
> I press Numeric Lock (or Num Lock) so that the keyboard indicator lights up.
>
> I then switch to the workspace
On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 06:49:07PM -0400, hobie of RMN wrote:
> Hi, All -
>
> I need the best way currently available to operate my brother's computer
> in the next room through my computer. I think we're both running Debian
> 11, the stable version for me, the testing version for him. I've trie
I have recently upgraded to Bookworm.
I have set:
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/addw
MAILCHECK=60
I find that when doing filename expansion, by pressing TAB, that the 'You have
mail' message appears when it should not. In the example below I pressed TAB
after the letter 'T' (which gave me
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash shell.
>
> Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
I have not tested this but if bash was interactive you will find a
.bash_history file in
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:31:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> If you feel like you'd like to learn a bit, study the mail
> headers. Ponder about which ones the sender could have faked
> and which ones not. Things like that.
If you live in the UK you can forward it to here: rep...@phishing.g
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:23:06AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:36:02 +0100
> Alain D D Williams wrote:
>
> Hello Alain,
>
> >They will look at it and do something - or so they claim,
>
> Most likely that 'something' will be to compil
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 07:42:24PM +, Richmond wrote:
> You could try Pidgin. It's in the Debian repo. It has various protocols
> of which irc is just one. It's a bit confusing because you have to go to
> the 'buddy' menu to join an irc channel.
Yes: Pidgin UI is dreadful. Lots that is non in
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote:
> On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the
> > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e.
> > how far this has bee
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 09:03:45AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > It was a BLM thing, not sure if it matters the etymology of such
> > words.
>
> The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin
> of the *meaning* of the word(s).
+1
However that is not the way that the wor
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 07:44:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking
> > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal
> > in what our software
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:42:25AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Mike Castle wrote:
>
> >> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers.
> >> Should we scour our systems looking for similar issues in
> >> other languages? Then in, say, 20 years time when different
> >> words will then be co
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 03:11:16PM +0200, Richard wrote:
>"Top posting" (writing the answer above the text that's being replied
>to) is literally industry standard behavior.
Many do top post, but many do not.
Places where it is often frowned on are technical mail lists such as this one.
T
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:28:35PM -0400, PMA wrote:
> I received the following today from (Jerry Henley at) Ella White
> .
>
> I suspect fraud here, so have not opened the invoice he/she attached.
>
> Can you possibly tell me whether the message is legitimate?
I did not spend much time on it.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 06:06:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> When I try to visit www.chewy.com a blank page. This is a major pet
> supply web site. Other web sites display as usual without problems.
> I phoned CHEWY and they say their system is on-line.
>
> I have tried two different com
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:46:24AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> A plug for SELinux. It's been around for a long time. It was invented by the
> NSA for use by Government agencies but they kindly open sourced it and it's
> available on many Distros including Debian.
>
> SELinux is a real pain to g
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:17:54AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> The CrowdStrike outage emulated the very thing it is alleged to protect
> against - a zero day exploit.
It was also a demonstration of a huge vulnerability. If $EvilActor were to get
an agent employed at CrowdStrike/whoever then the
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 05:18:46PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> And it does not matter, because on a personal computer the root account
> is not what matters, what matters is the user account where you can
> install a key logger and get banking credentials or encrypt all the data
> and ask for a
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 07:29:10AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote:
> this could work indeed. but it requires me to input a long path. so I am
> asking for a easier way.
Try this:
$ sudo find /tmp -user apache2
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Alain Williams
Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programme
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 08:39:11AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Do you have a performance problem? If not, don't change.
More to the point - what does the application do, where does its time go ?
Eg if you have complex database selects then the web server overhead prolly
only takes a small part of
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 02:18:44AM CEST, Greg Wooledge
> said:
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 20:04:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > > sync && sync && sync && swapoff
> > >
> > > I couldn't tell why I have sync 3 times, but I kno
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 07:38:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Even if that's true, running them all in the same command as Roberto
> shows would not give you any benefit.
In early Unix sync *did* return immediately after scheduling a buffer flush.
> You'd need to physically *type* the command
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want
> to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more
> familiar with school systems and other institutions).
I suggest an HP stream. I got
I am running Debian 12.7
I logged in via ssh at 16.14 and then went: sudo -s
If I run "w" I now appear to be logged in twice (1.52 is the current time):
addw pts/02001:4d48:ad51:2 16:14 40.00s 0.02s 0.01s sudo -s
addw pts/12001:4d48:ad51:2 01:523.00s 0.00s 0.01s sudo -s
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 10:13:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 14:53:10 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > Is there a way in bash to guarantee that a trap gets called for cleanup
> > in a script?
>
> #!/bin/bash
> trap cleanup EXIT
> cleanup() {
> ...
> }
>
> This works i
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 09:38:25AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> I'm pretty sure:
>
> a) Andy lives on an island generally considered part of Europe
> b) you are sufficiently dedicated to being off topic that I'm
> putting you in the killfile now.
Please do not feed the trolls.
The fun is over so
On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 02:52:29AM +0800, Bitfox wrote:
> Hello
>
> After I installed mysql 8.0 via apt install mysql-server, I tried to restart
> mysql server.
>
> I issued the following commands,
>
> systemctl restart mysql-server
> systemctl restart mysqld
>
> They got failed, no package was
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg:
메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean).
These do however display properly on my laptop which runs Mint 21.3.
I suspect that I could see them if I used the te
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed?
That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away
with a logout.
I also now seem to be able to see all the emojis that my daughter sends me.
Thanks
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:29:05AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> I suspect a failing disk,
My main home PC is 10 years old and still going strong (I over specced it when
I bought it). A few years ago I had what looked like disk problems (time outs,
failed writes, ...). I replaced the power supply a
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:29:41PM +, Chris Green wrote:
> I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to
> bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using
> ssh but not to others (to which I can connect from everywhere else).
>
> It also can't ping
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