Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

On 6/7/24 09:16, David Christensen wrote: I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding disabling DHCP when using a static IP: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.network-config.en.html#sect.interface-ethernet As I said in my earlier post, it

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

On 6/7/24 12:51, David Christensen wrote: What I really need is a good book or document that explains the design and implementation of networking with systemd and Network Manager on modern Debian GNU/Linux systems.  Recommendations? If you want to persist with the NetworkManager approach,

Re: NetworkManager with dnsmasq caching NXDOMAIN response of router

On 8/7/24 07:03, David Ayers wrote: Hello everyone! My Debian 12/bookworm laptop uses DHCP with NetworkManager which produce an /etc/resolv.conf containing: # Generated by NetworkManager ``` search home nameserver 192.168.1.254 ``` I've setup NetworkManager to use its local dnsmasq instance

Re: NetworkManager with dnsmasq caching NXDOMAIN response of router

On 8/7/24 11:42, jeremy ardley wrote: On 8/7/24 07:03, David Ayers wrote: Hello everyone! My Debian 12/bookworm laptop uses DHCP with NetworkManager which produce an /etc/resolv.conf containing: # Generated by NetworkManager ``` search home nameserver 192.168.1.254 ``` I've

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

On 10/7/24 18:01, Nicolas George wrote: Emanuel Berg (12024-07-10): Okay, this is gonna be a challenge to most guys who have been processing text for a long time. So, I would like a command, function or script, 'original', that takes a string STR and a text file TXT and outputs a score, from

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

On 10/7/24 23:41, Emanuel Berg wrote: jeremy ardley wrote: The modern way would be to use a LLM in API mode and set a context to achieve your aims. Here is the command. Turns out, I used the llamafile method with llava or mistral as LLMs. In the command, we see '-c 2048'. This

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

On 14/7/24 11:41, Emanuel Berg wrote: I've made several improvements, including adding the `string-distance-percentage' that was mentioned. But let's forget about that branch [1] or visit that URL for the latest source on that. Here, in this thread, the context thing with respect to AI, anyon

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

On 14/7/24 12:56, Emanuel Berg wrote: You can, but how much? So this is the context? You mean include it in the prompt? Then it is more easy to find in the llamafile(1) man page, it is probably this -c N, --ctx-size N Set the size of the prompt context. A larger

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

On 14/7/24 13:52, Emanuel Berg wrote: jeremy ardley wrote: Then create a prompt/context with the search text and instructions to generate a similarity index and report any that meet some threshold. You will have to get the results in some format such as json and post process You may want

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku language. I now have lots of memory and disk space which was always a significant issue when I used it

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

On 17/7/24 05:47, DdB wrote: Since you do not object to the use of current Windows, i would be surprised, if it would be impossible to run it in vbox. One thing though: Back in the days, i was using commodity hardware, limiting the things, i could do. My current box has plenty of RAM, processi

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

On 20/7/24 16:56, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 20 Jul 2024 10:28 +0200, fromgeo...@nsup.org (Nicolas George): Thank David! market share is important though it isn't "reliable recommendation for quality": more users attract more programmers, who develop more apps, The programmers who are attra

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

On 20/7/24 18:35, George at Clug wrote: On Saturday, 20-07-2024 at 13:54 hlyg wrote: > crowdstrike makes news headlines, many Windows become blue screens The CrowdStrike issue was not a Windows issue, it was a CrowdStrike issue. The problem did not affect our Windows computers as we have no

Re: CrowdStrike and drivers (was Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?)

On 21/7/24 06:38, The Wanderer wrote: The first would be poor institutional practice; the others would be potentially-questionable software design, although it's hard to know without seeing the internal architecture of the software in question and understanding*why* it's designed that way. I

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

On 21/7/24 07:28, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Again lacking data center experience? Every server in your data center that is outward-facing will be contacted by intruders on its open ports. That includes your Debian servers. If your apache server or application server running on Debian is vulne

Re: info

On 22/7/24 14:07, Francesco Di Lorenzo wrote: good morning, i installed debain 12 from your site, and using the usb , I did the installation, but I don't know why I don't get the desktop enviments , it is only text. what I can do? thanks This installs the mate desktop environment. You can

Re: Alternative to Authy

On 23/7/24 09:11, Jeremy Andrews wrote: I switched to Ente Auth, it's working pretty well for me so far. On Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 19:40 Mick Ab > wrote: Now that Authy is no more, I am looking for a suitable replacement. I have a Debian Bullseye de

Re: Alternative to Authy

On 23/7/24 10:16, jeremy ardley wrote: I use Google Authenticator as an option in pam to secure ssh connections. It can be plugged into other services such as httpd and normal cli login. I expect Google authenticator also works on Windows. NB. Google Authenticator does not use any Google

Re: Alternative to Authy

On 27/7/24 09:43, Max Nikulin wrote: On 23/07/2024 09:16, jeremy ardley wrote: I use Google Authenticator as an option in pam to secure ssh connections. [...] NB. Google Authenticator does not use any Google cloud services. It is purely a local application on your machine. Do you mean

Re: SeLinux

On 28/7/24 06:30, cor...@free.fr wrote: Hello I have checked this doc, https://wiki.debian.org/SELinux/Setup Is selinux necessary in a production environment? Will it affect running services such as web, database, mail, etc., causing potential problems? Thanks. I have set it up multip

Re: SeLinux

On 28/7/24 06:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 22:40:10 +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 06:30:50AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: Is selinux necessary in a production environment? "Will my door still function as a door if it has no lock on it?" More li

Re: Email sever and DNS

On 3/8/24 13:01, George at Clug wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations on detailed books on Bind9 for authoritative servers which would also include DNSSEC? I'm not sure about books but there are many tutorials. The first issue though is that bind directory layout varies between dist

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local network asking "who is called Fritz here?", and Fritz answers with its IP. So sys-non- admins don't have to set up a name ser

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On 3/8/24 16:40, George at Clug wrote: I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? I read the ICANN documents you referenced but did not see the proposal was to replace those domains? It is more off

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On 3/8/24 18:35, George at Clug wrote: Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy. George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

On 4/08/2024 12:26 pm, George at Clug wrote: If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, which incoming and now outgoing ports should I have blocked to ensure that no nefarious people are able to communicate with my laptop The rules for public networks are very si

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

On 4/8/24 16:11, George at Clug wrote: I do like the idea of blocking all outbound connections, and only opening ports that are required for whatever services I want to use. For servers I often do, but for workstations, sadly I am often lazy and default to allowing all outgoing traffic. Let

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

On 6/8/24 08:05, George at Clug wrote: Is it possible to be aware of all the ports required by systems/services like "AWS / Cloudflare / etc", such that it is possible to ensure any firewalls that are put in place do not inhibit the features of these systems? In AWS you have a Virtual Priv

Where are printer fonts set in CUPS ?

I have a Debian 12 system and I am printing to a thermal label printer LABEL. I am printing a simple text file using: lp -d LABEL output.txt The ppd file for the printer specifies default font is Courier. I expected that would be the font used by the CUPS filters but instead it is using IBMP

Re: Where are printer fonts set in CUPS ?

On 10/8/24 14:00, jeremy ardley wrote: How does CUPS select the font to use for text files and where can I edit that if I need to change to a different default font or style Responding to myself. How to Change the Default Monospace Font: If you want to change the default monospace font

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

On 26/8/24 08:17, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: I really like The Debian System by Martin Krafft https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593270690/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's almost 20 years old now but it's still pretty rel

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

On 26/8/24 15:16, Michel Verdier wrote: (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash? Does Windows 10 Home have that tool? Pro? Windows 11? (I don't know yet what Windows I'll end up with.) I don't remember but I could do that. If you don't find a way you could install cygwin and

Re: printer replacement

On 31/8/24 08:04, George at Clug wrote: On Saturday, 31-08-2024 at 08:33e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/30/24 09:50, Loris Bennett wrote: Gerard ROBIN writes: However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles have always dried up and I have to go through the whole maintenance rigm

Re: printer replacement

On 31/8/24 15:26, Brad Rogers wrote: What about the time (and, therefore, cost) of getting to/from the print shop? Time alone (for me) would add £22.88 (at minimum wage) to the cost of any print job. Factor in fuel costs, parking fees, vehicle wear and tear and depreciation, and suddenly tha

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

On 9/9/24 06:23, George at Clug wrote: If I required glasses for reading the car's speedometer, then I would definitely be using a bifocal pair of glasses. So far I can easily read the instrument panel, and since most of the time we spend focusing on the traffic about us, a quick glance now an

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

On 10/9/24 08:13, Larry Martell wrote: What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and would love to know about them. They are glasses that are set to focus at long distance, so no good for desk. They correct for astigmatism, so at night instead of point lights such as

Re: Configuration of files on Debian GNU/Linux

On 13/10/24 08:36, William Torrez Corea wrote: I configure a file for example /etc/network/interfaces.d Configure the file, save and exit but the changes are not made. I need to make a second configuration. For me it is a waste of time. What happened? -- With kindest regards, William.

Re: Can nmap show 'my' MAC address

On 20/10/24 01:51, Chris Green wrote: I am using nmap to scan my LAN with:- sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24 It works as expected except that it doesn't show the MAC address for the system that it's being run on:- chris$ sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24 ... ... ... Nma

Re: Can nmap show 'my' MAC address

On 20/10/24 15:38, Chris Green wrote: Yes, but the output from 'ip link show' wraps a whole lot of other junk around the MAC address which I'd need to remove for the application I want it for. An easy filter ip a | grep -oE '([[:xdigit:]]{2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{2}'

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

On 28/10/24 02:07, gene heskett wrote: Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. Quite often in a web browser you can select the text and right click and print selection. If yo

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

On 28/9/24 06:42, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Here is a manual network setup I have created by use of the "ip" command: $ ip address show dev enX0 2: enX0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:16:5e:00:02:39 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 85.119.82.225/32 scope

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

On 3/10/24 08:14, Gary Dale wrote: I haven't tried using the Windows XP VMs in years, so I have no idea when the problem originated. I do know at one point they worked. Any ideas on what's going wrong and how to fix it? I fired up an XP VM on a recent windows machine using VirtualBox. T

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

On 3/12/24 08:11, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Once upon a time I had Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs running under VirtualBox on Debian 10 or earlier. Now I need one for some primitive, but essential program I cannot remember how I created the VMs (Gene's disease, 88 come Sunday) and

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

On 3/12/24 10:11, jeremy ardley wrote: The sources are all licensed products on CD-ROMs and VirtualBox seems to expect ISO inputs which is, of course a non-starter With the ISO images. you can create a .iso from a CDROM by sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso bs=4M You can also map a

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

On 3/12/24 16:49, George at Clug wrote: I would also recommend the free version of VMware Workstation. While not FOSS, it is an excellent product, while it is made available for personal use No it's not! VMware Workstation is a buggy as hell on Windows and nearly unusable on Debian. I

Re: seeking new laser printer

On 8/12/24 05:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers fo

Re: shall i install snapd

On 11/12/24 10:32, Bitfox wrote: I found that there are some apps like certbot and the latest ruby are installed by snapd only by default. Last time I looked cerbot on Debian 12 was installed with apt e.g. sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache As regards snap, my personal opinion

Re: Debian on OpenWrt One router?

On 11/12/24 14:13, Alex King wrote: Where do I go for people interested in Debian on the OpenWrt One/ BananaPi Router? (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one) There may be a Debian only distro. Usually the manufacturer supplies a link. There is certainly an Armbian distro which is 99% the sam

Re: Firefox alternatives?

On 12/12/24 16:18, Bret Busby wrote: The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 6-bit characters, not bytes, Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that? That would be 6 bit BCD - a precursor to EBCDIC which was an IBM 8 bit encoding most com

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

On 17/12/24 03:29, George at Clug wrote: On Tuesday, 17-12-2024 at 06:08 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Monday 16 December 2024 08:09:08 am Poon Weng Chee wrote: Dear Debian, We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is used to access the Debian repositories, is

Re: Firefox alternatives?

On 13/12/24 05:56, Van Snyder wrote: Because finding and fixing memory leaks is *really difficult*.  And not much fun.  And doesn't let you put fancy new blurbs on your "what's new" page. Some languages have dynamic-memory facilities that inherently do not leak, unless you are intentionall

Re: auto-apt-proxy on trixie?

On 21/12/24 11:12, Charles Curley wrote: I have two trixie machines, one virtual, the other non-virtual (literal?). physical ?

Re: SOLVED (I think): Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

On 22/11/24 23:20, D. R. Evans wrote: To my simple mind that suggests that some auto-configuration magic that is supposed to happen when the new printer was plugged into the network was not handled correctly by debian stable. I have a Fuji-Xerox printer (they are Brother printers under th

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

On 13/1/25 05:49, Nate Bargmann wrote: As the knowledge base on this list is wide and deep, I am asking to cut through the commercial clutter. Ideally, what I would like to find is a WiFi (802.11a/b/g) capable device that would plug into the end of an extension cord (common US NEMA 5-15 recept

Re: SMTP servers

On 2/1/25 18:15, Jonathan Dowland wrote: The review (worth reading) opens with "The most common piece of advice given to users who ask about running their own mail server is don't." I have been running my own inbound and outbound mail servers for over 30 years using ISP connections. The on

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote: The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i" to get an interactive root shell and avoid prepending every command with "sudo." A

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote: The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i" to get an interactive root shell and avoid prepending every command with "sudo." L

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

On 22/2/25 06:49, Tom Dial wrote: On 2/20/25 22:17, jeremy ardley wrote: On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote: The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i"

Re: no-code web builder application for Linux

On 1/3/25 13:58, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:16:18AM -0500, Arbol One wrote: Hello to all. I find myself looking for a way to increase productivity with the aid of an all purpose no-code web builder application for Linux. What I am looking for is something that is more

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