Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 05:25:05 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-07-04 04:42 (UTC-0400): > > every release newer than wheezy has made it progressively > > more difficult to make a staticly defined network work. > > Given the myriad of successes in your 8+

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 06:15:56 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-07-04 09:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Sorry, I don't see it that way, I see a concentrated effort to make > > me use dhcpd, instead of static, every machine in the system knows > > the address of AL

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mi, 03 iul 19, 21:03:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 July 2019 16:12:31 Reco wrote: > > > > And Gene moved. Question unanswered yet. > > > > > Hi. > > > > &g

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 12:18:13 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:40:30AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Mi, 03 iul 19, 21:03:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
> > > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with extreme prejudice, > > > > i.e. 'apt > > > > purge avahi-daemon'. Really simplifies things. Not installing > > > > this software in the first place works even better. > > > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with extreme prejudice, > > > > > i.e. 'apt > > > > > purge avahi-daemon'. Really simplifies things. Not inst

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
o far stable. I only know of one app that will crash it, amanda, the backup program. When the server touches it to get an estimate, it locks up tight till a powerdown reboot. Stretch version. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jur

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:48:56 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 11:40:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 1. content of /etc/network/interfaces and all files under > > > /etc/network/interfaces.d/ > > > > pi@picnc:~ $ cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/

Re: armv7 vs buster sudo complains about hostname or something

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 23:38:50 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 03:30:55, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 02:47:50 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > I seem to recall sudo cares about /etc/hosts. > > > > But I have that address TAB hos

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 23:54:21 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 04:42:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > 3. Information on anything (and I do mean anything) else you might > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
e, i.e. 'apt > > > > > > purge avahi-daemon'. Really simplifies things. Not > > > > > > installing this software in the first place works even > > > > > > better. > > > > > > > > > > Gene Heskett can follow th

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 05:13:36 Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > pi@picnc:/ $ sudo apt update > > Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease > > [15.0 kB] Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster > > InRelease [25.

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
> > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with extreme > > > > > > > prejudice, i.e. 'apt > > > > > > > purge avahi-daemon'. Really simplifies things. Not > > > > > > > installing this software in the first place works

Re: From Buster RC2 to Buster stable

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
ackages. Expect lots of activity in the run up to the official release as last minute bugs are fixed. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for th

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 07:29:52 Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 06:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2019 02:56:39 Reco wrote: > > [...] > > > > Easy. You don't understand what the software does (Gene's here), > > > or you don

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a > > u-sd, so you

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot med

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 08:17:16 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The idea > > > > that > > > > > > > > > Not installing this software in the first place works eve

Re: armv7 vs buster sudo complains about hostname or something

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 08:27:50 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:15:02AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > 192.168.71.1router.coyote.den router > > 192.168.71.3coyote.coyote.den coyote > > 192.168.

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 08:41:47 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:35:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > yup, and if the repos were open... They are not as I've previously > > posted. I can report that apt --purge does not, I still see > > an /etc/nss

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 08:59:41 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:33:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Here is your Clarification: I used apt to purge avahi-daemon which > > took nsswitch with it, > > Let's test this assertion. > > > wooled

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 09:17:47 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:02:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 08:41:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Gene, /etc/nsswitch.conf is NOT part of any Debian package. > > > > Actually, nsswit

Re: armv7 vs buster sudo complains about hostname or something

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 11:52:38 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:15:02 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > 192.168.71.1router.coyote.den router > > 192.168.71.3coyote.coyote.den coyote > > As well as not doing

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:06:30 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:48:56 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 11:40:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > 1. content o

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 13:00:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 17:45:54) > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > > > > > > > Its not quite that sim

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:38 Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 04:33:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:42:11 Brian wrote: > > > If nobody objects I would like to reword that statement. Many, > > > many users will have avahi-daemon on

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 July 2019 15:35:10 Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:35:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:38 Brian wrote: > > > I was rather hoping someone would clarify why not having > > > avahi-daemon in the first place was a

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 July 2019 12:02:51 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:19:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:06:30 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday 04

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 July 2019 20:30:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 06 July 2019 12:02:51 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:19:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 00:11:43 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 06 Jul 2019 at 18:14:04 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 06 July 2019 15:35:10 Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:35:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:3

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 02:58:46 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 18:14:04, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If you read the full thread, you will find where I found and fixed > > that problem, by killing dhcpd5 with htop, and restarting > > networking, and

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 03:05:41 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 20:30:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Its part of the buster-rc2 installed image, > > Is this an image you downloaded from somewhere (where?) or of your own > creation (what method? Debian Installer

fix for no ssh

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Maybe I shouldn't publish this, but I found a fix for the no ssh on reboot till you start it from it's own keyboard. It bypasses someones paranoia. If interested, pm me. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: fix for no ssh

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 10:45:33 Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 10:29 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Maybe I shouldn't publish this, but I found a fix for the no ssh on > > reboot till you start it from it's own keyboard. It by

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 12:28:21 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 07 iul 19, 07:17:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 07 July 2019 02:58:46 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > BTW, it's still not clear to me whether this is about a clean > > > buster insta

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 July 2019 08:36:38 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:46:19AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 20:10:42 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > But that begs another question Greg. If it hasn't anything to do > > >

Re: fix for no ssh

2019-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
r byte identical. But I must say even I was surprised by the near total bailout when I mentioned that it was raspian. Obviously in retrospect, there is bad blood? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in t

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
at connects the rest of my machines, respond only to 192.168.71.00/24 stuff, so 169 stuff is /dev/nulled as it should be. So I had no external network access from that machine. I do have a dhcpd server in the router, facing the radio when its turned on and supposedly responding only to the MA

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
but will show a click here to see the html. I rather like it that way, but spammy crap gets fed to sa-learn spam w/o a reply. Works for me. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
offers a standardized protocol based on public key > cryptography. I can initiate a transaction (or fetch records) with a > simple shell script. > > No browser involved. > > Cheers > -- t Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Gene Heskett
the job done, they can take your money, then say "Oh, we don't support that". We all are well aware that the chances of an linux install, done from an image or installer, has a vanishingly small chance of being a bit for bit copy 2 weeks later unless its been powered down for those

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Gene Heskett
on our second channel. Needless to say, when that contract ran out, it was not renewed. Do they even have a web page today? Yes, but no radar images for the unwashed. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please us

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
> --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desir

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
f too, ditto for anything in the /etc/network/interfaces.d directory. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
. And its still there, logging no errors, right now in 2019. You greatly underestimate the durability of that stuff. > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 18 July 2019 11:54:24 Richard Hobson wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Chuckle. I have about 50 feet of cat-5, the rounded blue stuff, > > strung in a chinese handcuff on each end of a suspended run from a > > corner of my back porch roof to the apex of a 12x16 sh

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
anything wrong with it > in a new installation. > > Does it matter where I've put the .deb file? At the moment it's in the > Downloads directory of my userbname and I'm runnng dpkg from there as > root. > > R echo $PATH. And expect it to be different between

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
irectly from the repo's with the distros favorite package manager as soon as you get a working network connection going. > Thanks to Greg and Curt for the info about su - and Gene for the > correct syntax for checking a PATH. Thank you for the flowers, Richard. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &q

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 18 July 2019 19:06:55 Richard Hobson wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > All video cards should respond to the vesa driver. Trolling > > thru /var/log/Xorg.0.log with 'less' will answer that question. But > > vesa has I believe a max resolution of 800x6

Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS

2019-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
's a null byte in the body. That might be being taken as "EOF" by kmail. There are several header lines proclaiming: From: pe...@easthope.ca X-Source-IP: 142.103.107.137 I've also never seen this header line before: X-Mailer: Oberon Mail (ejz) on LinuxA2 Gen. 32-bit, rev.

Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS

2019-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
e in this maillist. My first > MUA was pine (not *al*pine) at late '90s. This one clearly predates > it. > > Reco Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howder

Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS

2019-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
address > (which is presumably disabling all further rendering in this version > of kmail (1.13.7, on kde 4.8.4), and a 0x09 in the byte after the > email address. > > So, I guess I have a way to send secret messages (to, at least, myself > ;-) Me too. That make 3 bugs in V1.9.1 that need

Re: Debian 10 logrotate

2019-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
ystem=full directive in logrotate.service which > causes /usr to be mounted read-only for logrotate. See the SANDBOXING > section in systemd.exec(5). > > You can make /usr/local writable with > "systemctl edit logrotate.service", enter the following line: > >

awstats problem

2019-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
ly not available. Whats the debian stretch legal way to fix this? Thank you! Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must firs

Re: awstats problem

2019-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 07:21:46 Peter Wiersig wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:48:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> root@coyote:~$ su www-data > >> This account is currently not available. > > > > If you want a shel

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
ld fart, born in 1934, I lived thru that era, even helped build some of our ICBM's installed out in the middle of western S.D. Sometimes so close to a 50 kiloton sitting on top of a Titan One I could lean on it while I talked to the guards. This is way offtopic, but I was not the first to menti

Re: awstats problem

2019-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 12:55:22 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 26 Jul 2019 at 11:47:02 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > And spamd is dumping 20 lines of debug crap to the syslog, causing > > it to be rotated out from under a tail on it so I can see whats > > going on, in less

Re: awstats problem

2019-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 14:42:14 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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 th

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
sanity from the bureaucracy. TPTB won't allow it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

pastel prinouts on as brother ink jet.

2019-07-29 Thread Gene Heskett
These are brother drivers and includes sane support. Can this error be fixed with a "do it anyway" file of some sort? There is a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1160 May 13 2013 brscan-skey in the /opt/brother/scanner/ directory. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be us

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-29 Thread Gene Heskett
ect to get a quote north of 20k$ to get it delivered. When its only about $80 a horse to make your own with a vfd, there's zero excuse to ask for a quote. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread Gene Heskett
es a separate phase. Houses are equipt with service boxes that use both of these hot lines so on average the neutral current is balanced and quite low when everything is turned on. And I've never seen a 240 volt washing machine on the sales floor here. Any electric car that needed 3 phas

odd passwd problem.

2019-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
swd no good. Come to the house and ssh -Y picnc. passwd good, I have 2 sessions running right now from konsoles on this machine. Back to the garage, passwd fails. Suggested course of action? I do have access to it via ssh. And sudo -i works. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 August 2019 08:01:40 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/1/19, 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

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 August 2019 09:45:42 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 01 Aug 2019 at 06:28:17 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > Debian-arm netinstall on a pi3b; > > … about which I know nothing. (A physicist once showed me an original > pi in the pub, I think.) > > > No root

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 August 2019 10:20:57 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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 althou

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
another can, the mechanical hookup is the same but its on a different phase from the neighbor half a mile down the road. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Auth

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 August 2019 16:58:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 01 August 2019 10:20:57 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > 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 us

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 03:55:32 Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Or maybe its ssh thats using the new way, and xfce4 has not caught > > up. I > > https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg745969.ht >ml > > You're

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 03:55:32 Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Or maybe its ssh thats using the new way, and xfce4 has not caught > > up. I > > https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg745969.ht >ml > > You're

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 05:58:49 Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> as well as the contents of > >> > >> /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log > > What about the log? Since the logs have been rotated, I find many stanza's of this in the li

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 06:49:41 Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [+3038.26s] DEBUG: Session pid=490: Authentication complete with > > return value 7: Authentication failure > > Check permissions on '~.Xauthority' file maybe (think it sho

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 07:08:08 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-08-01 11:28, 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

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 09:45:49 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 01 Aug 2019 at 16:51:35 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 01 August 2019 08:01:40 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > My experience for many years has been that the first console is > > > especial

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:03:18 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 02 Aug 2019 at 22:41:00 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 01 August 2019 16:58:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 August 2019 10:20:57 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Jo, 01 aug 19

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:12:59 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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.

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:35:17 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-08-03 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > >> I would probably add another user and see if they have same problem > >> on the local machine. > >> > >> mick > >

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 11:06:27 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 03 Aug 2019 at 10:32:02 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:03:18 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 02 Aug 2019 at 22:41:00 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursda

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 11:46:30 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-08-03 16:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:35:17 mick crane wrote: > >> On 2019-08-03 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > >> >> I w

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 11:56:38 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 03 Aug 2019 at 11:38:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 August 2019 11:06:27 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 03 Aug 2019 at 10:32:02 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 August 2019 14:45:46 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 03 Aug 2019 at 12:32:39 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 August 2019 11:56:38 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 03 Aug 2019 at 11:38:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday

Re: 3 phase power converters

2019-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
e cooling air when its not running at normal speed. But for a 20 minute job its fine. Lathe itself has an 8 speed drive, rarely changed out of 5th, the vfd does it all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please u

Re: 3 phase power converters

2019-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 August 2019 10:45:08 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Three phase, at most any frequency can be had a lot cheaper at up to > > 10 horse or so by using a suitably sized VFD. > > Yes. Don't buy a static or rotary converter for a single machine. > Th

Re: odd passwd problem.

2019-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 August 2019 11:44:23 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 04 Aug 2019 at 19:02:01 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > > On 4/08/19 2:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >>> gene@picnc:~$ sudo adduser > > >>> [sudo] password for gene: > > >>> addu

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread Gene Heskett
switch-to-greeter >Switch to the greeter suitable for logging into a new > session. > > Says "logging into a new *session*." (emphasis mine). > > Let's ask Gene to try it and report back. I did, created a user test, logged in, but when I came back to th

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 August 2019 13:46:00 John Conover wrote: > Raspbian sets its system clock on power up. > > Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock > periodically? > > Thanks, > > John It can run ntp just fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &qu

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Gene Heskett
aw > https://qz.com/119419/how-new-zealand-banned-software-patents-without- >violating-international-law/ > > Kind regards, Sounds like a great idea. Too bad Disney owns both offices today. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballo

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
lathe quite well but with sluggish video. Even that should be fixed in the next month by switching to debian-arm buster, or a new raspian buster. The biggest lag is me, I need to go get my ticker rebuilt. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ba

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 09 August 2019 07:59:07 Bob Crochelt wrote: > Gene, > I’m scheduled for some heart rewiring myself. Good luck to the both of > us! Bob Crochelt My heart guy is out of the country till around Sept 1. So I'm takeing an extra half a 7.5gr warfarin pill a day to ward off

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
moving it to /home/username/log and reprogramming logrotate to maintain it there years ago. Now you want to prevent logrotate from just doing its job? Does your paranoia not have any limits to how difficult you are making the users job? So just where in tunket _are_ we supposed to be able

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 August 2019 01:30:09 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 13.08.19 00:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where > > we keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that > > fetchmail, procmail, spamassassi

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where > > we keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that > > fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, clamav and its ilk, ru

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 August 2019 05:41:52 Dan Purgert wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote: > > [...] > > > >> I am not aware of any program I've been using > >> for the past 15y that would have a problem

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 August 2019 13:06:23 Dan Purgert wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 August 2019 05:41:52 Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote: > >> > [...] > >> >

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 August 2019 15:03:53 Lee wrote: > On 8/13/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict > >> > where we keep logf

Re: Error with logrotate.

2019-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 August 2019 15:03:53 Lee wrote: > On 8/13/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict > >> > where we keep logf

dmesg confusions

2019-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
tery about to ~30~ on me? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: dmesg confusions

2019-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 August 2019 13:49:51 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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

why won't ff look at this url?

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
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. Thanks for any help. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of li

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a > >rrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > > > All I get for click

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