Re: [Discuss] Migrating hundreds of mbox files to an IMAP server?

2025-06-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 07:32:30 -0700 > Kent Borg wrote: > > > I've tried copying a big offline Thunderbird mailbox to a live > > Dovecot server, and it worked for the first 11,880 messages, but now > > won't do any more. I know Dovecot can handle more because this came > > from

Re: [Discuss] Migrating hundreds of mbox files to an IMAP server?

2025-06-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel Barrett wrote: > What's the best way to import 600 mbox files to an IMAP server? > > Background: The files were created locally by Thunderbird, arranged in > a file hierarchy. I'd like the same hierarchy to be created on the > IMAP server. For example, the mbox file named Recipes.mbox woul

Re: [Discuss] Community out-reach... convert the masses?

2025-02-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Randall Rose wrote: > I don't see a consensus in this discussion about whether we like this > idea of keeping some off our mailing lists -- maybe that will end up > being BLU's position, maybe not. Everyone should be able to join. Asking each other for help is pretty much the foundation of the

Re: [Discuss] Community out-reach... convert the masses?

2025-02-18 Thread Dan Ritter
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > > I've been down this road before and it is difficult. Linux is not a drop > in replacement for Windows. Just as Windows is not a drop in replacement > for Mac. These are different systems with many similarities but quite a > few differences. For someone to adopt Lin

Re: [Discuss] ssh Update?

2025-02-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > What's with all my machines needing updates this morning to openssh-client, > openssh-server and openssh-sftp-server? Even the Linode/Akamai one, and they > are usually a day slow in doing updates to their Debian-based distribution. > It must be another bad one. Medium-ish. Bu

Re: [Discuss] Group in Rhode Island interested in Linux etc

2025-01-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Randall Rose wrote: > Thanks. Our group is having its first event Sunday at 1:30, and this event > is actually turning out to be Linux-focused. It will be quite a basic event, > giving out bootable USBs with Ubuntu 24.04, and the event will be in-person > though we will also have an online co

Re: [Discuss] Backup E-mail Server?

2024-11-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > In a few days, if this server is still running nicely, I plan to order a > completely new set of hardware and set configure it. The question is how? > > I see three general options: > > 2. As before, but with the extra safety of each server having a secondary > set of users, a

Re: [Discuss] Printer Recommendation?

2024-11-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > Looks like I need a new Postscript laser printer. My go-to for many years > has been HP, but they have turned into a very bad kind of corporate turd. > Recommendations? > > I see Microcenter in Cambridge has various inexpensive Brother models… A Brother with all of the follow

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard and Traveling and Network Overlaps oh my!

2024-10-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:42:53 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > There's always something, and in this case, you can do something > > really weird. > > Yup. That is really weird. I'll have to look up network namespaces when > I ge

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard and Traveling and Network Overlaps oh my!

2024-10-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > I'm traveling a bit this weekend and I ran into some network wonk with > my Wireguard VPN: My home network is 192.168.1.0/24. The place I'm > staying uses 192.168.0.0/20 for their WiFi network. Because my home > network overlaps their network, traffic to my home network doesn't

Re: [Discuss] Deduplication

2024-09-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > So today I ran "duperemove" on a couple volumes, and it scared up some > non-trivial space. I decided to run it on a third volume. > > Nope! It works by telling the kernel to make files that match to share the > same extents, but that only works for some file systems. > > - XF

Re: [Discuss] Moving Your Everyday System to New Hardware

2024-09-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:43 PM Daniel Barrett > wrote: > > > I do something similar but slightly more automated. I use git to > > capture every change I make to system files. Basically, I initialize a > > git repository in (say) ~/SystemChanges and create a duplicate, spa

Re: [Discuss] Moving Your Everyday System to New Hardware

2024-08-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Dale R. Worley wrote: > > I'm told ZFS is popular and supports copy-on-write, but it adds another > layer of volume management, so I chose XFS as the path with lowest > learning curve. The point of ZFS is to prevent layer problems by making one entity responsible for most of them; so, if you wer

Re: [Discuss] Moving Your Everyday System to New Hardware

2024-08-27 Thread Dan Ritter
jbk wrote: > With nvme drives I had to devise a new strategy and I got to test it out > this past week with all around success. What I did was create two root > partitions (ext4) and associated separate esp partitions so that I could > install a bridging OS on one that then could be used to mount

Re: [Discuss] Ordered a New Laptop

2024-08-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > Moving on to a different question for opinionated folk: Recently I saw some > posting about what Linux distributions people use on their Framework > machines, and I was startled to see that Debian was way down the list. Any > recommendations for what distribution a long time Deb

Re: [Discuss] Wanting to understand Dolphin file manager automounting

2024-01-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:22:41 -0500 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > If all clients should see foo/quz and foo/rat, client B should see > > foo/bar and client C should see foo/baz, I think you will have to > > rearrange this so that you export foo/quz and foo/ra

Re: [Discuss] Wanting to understand Dolphin file manager automounting

2024-01-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > I have a server, ZFS on Linux, using ZFS' NFS server to export some > nested datasets: > > tank/foo > tank/foo/bar > tank/foo/baz > > zfs set sharenfs="rw,client.home.net" tank/foo > zfs share tank/foo > > This exports three NFS volumes because that's how ZFS works. This is

Re: [Discuss] Locating specific terminal windows by pty number?

2024-01-08 Thread Dan Ritter
John Abreau wrote: > I usuallyto have many terminal windows open at a time, with most windows > having multiple tabs. > > Every once in a while I go to edit a file in nvi, only to discover it's > already locked by another instance of nvi. > > I can find the other instance with "ps x | grep [n]vi

Re: [Discuss] Problem converting site from HTTP to HTTPS

2024-01-02 Thread Dan Ritter
scottmarydavid...@gmail.com wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I have an Ubuntu server running an Apache web server, hosting our corporate > web site. We use CraftCMS for content management and MySQL as the backend > DB. > > The site was built and has been running straight http for a number of years >

Re: [Discuss] ATA Access Errors For Spinning Disk

2023-12-17 Thread Dan Ritter
jbk wrote: > I periodically get access errors for a specific spinning disk that I have > done these things to diagnose: > Changed Sata Cable > Switched Sata bus on MB > Run E2fsck on the 3 formatted ext4 partitions w/ no errors found > Run smartctl -a: all results within norms > Run smartctl -t sh

Re: [Discuss] fetchmail

2023-12-14 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > i have two laptops running fc38. on the hp laptop fetchmail > runs just fine, but not on the asus laptop. .fetchmailrc is > the same on both, the fetchmail.log shown is from the asus > laptop. > > # .fetchmailrc > set logfile fetchmail.log > poll mail.moylan.us protoc

Re: [Discuss] Debian Question

2023-11-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > Actually a "Raspbian" question, but I think it amounts to much the same: I > have an OS installation, that came with all the usual stuff, and I have > added more stuff, as one does. One of the things I have done is compile my > own kernel. At some point there will be a kernel up

Re: [Discuss] Program path maintenance and security (was Re: Debian 12 vs. WSL 1)

2023-06-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Bill Bogstad wrote: > I haven't noticed anyone calling out the issue of where interpreters > are installed. > > Do I put > > #!/bin/perl > or > #!/usr/bin/perl > or maybe > /opt/bin/perl If it's on your systems, you know where to find the right perl (or python3 or ruby or...) If you're packag

Re: [Discuss] Debian 12 vs. WSL 1

2023-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:05:54AM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote: > > Debian 12 was released last week(end). With it comes the mandatory > > change to merged /usr. > > I'm curious if this change is thought to have any genuine practical > benefit, or if it's just the usual, "I'm a

Re: [Discuss] Wifi Hardware Recommendations?

2023-06-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > I need to upgrade a couple wifi boxes (the ones I have don't run supported > versions of Openwrt). > > The Openwrt web site lists over a thousand individual models that run the > current firmware, from many different manufacturers. I need to narrow things > down. > > Any of yo

Re: [Discuss] Failing WD Disks

2023-05-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Bill Ricker wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:36 PM Kent Borg wrote: > > And possibly too big to fail as well. > At 5TB size or larger, we may be better off with an array of 6+ × 1TB disks > with redundancy, even tho that starts to cost real $$. > If the MTBF is less than a large multiple of t

Re: [Discuss] new laptop, new problems

2023-05-18 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > at the moment i have three laptops on my local net running > fc38. the newest, deneb2 (hp laptop), is giving me problems; > > this is its /etc/hosts: > 127.0.0.1localhost localhost.localdomain > 127.0.0.1deneb2deneb2.localdomain > 192.168.12.1

Re: [Discuss] puzzle

2023-04-28 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > i have three laptops running on my local t-mobile network, > all running fc37. > > /etc/hosts is identical for all three, except for 127.0.0.1 > which is host specific: > > 127.0.0.1localhost localhost.localdomain > 127.0.0.1aldeberan aldeberan.localdom

Re: [Discuss] [arxiv] How Secure is Code Generated by ChatGPT

2023-04-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > ChatGPT is a fancy auto-complete, that has ingested a *lot* of material. It > is excellent at being plausible, as a good BS artist will be. > > And it can't think. > > It can't reliably do arithmetic. Ask for a citation and it will frequently > make up a broken URL. Because th

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Re: [NatickFOSSDiscuss] Open Source IPad Recommendations and a Laptop

2023-01-13 Thread Dan Ritter
MC wrote: > I want to know if there is an ipad out there that will allow me to install > my open source O/S just like I install O/S's on a desktop...I go do it. and > yes is there an ipad that supports open source os and apps? the info i've > gotten thru this thread wasn't too definitive. for me a

Re: [Discuss] Open Source IPad Recommendations and a Laptop

2023-01-13 Thread Dan Ritter
MC wrote: > Reviving this old topic and adding to it a new twist: a laptop.so now > I'm searching for 2 peripherals that will supplement my functioning base > > Maybe I should start with the basics: the highest performing o/s I've worked > with is (don't laugh) is W98SE because it had drivers

Re: [Discuss] Practical Notebook (XPS-13) Question

2022-12-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > Hello, > > My XPS-13 has a couple of rubbery strips across the bottom. So when I set it > down it doesn't easily slide away, nor scratch the place I set it. > > Well, time passes and one of them has been coming off, and I finally removed > it completely so it doesn't get stret

Re: [Discuss] Suggestions for a new server machine

2022-12-09 Thread Dan Ritter
j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote: > Oops; I forgot to edit the subject of my question ;-) > Maybe this one will work better. > > | Hi, folks. My home linux server has been acting up, and > | after 14 years, it may not be long for this world. So I > | thought I'd ask y'all what you might

Re: [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?

2022-12-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel M Gessel wrote: > > I can refrain from asking tinkerer-y questions if BLU is an sysadmin's group > or they are otherwise not appropriate for this list. My opinion: ask the questions. Specify when you have a specific question that needs a hard answer, when you're contemplating a class of

Re: [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?

2022-12-01 Thread Dan Ritter
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > This is a space where "price" or "quality" make a difference. > > A "good" SSD has a lot of extra sectors to map in when it detects a write > error. All done internally to the drive. Better drives do a lot of things > to reduce wear. Some do dedup. Some don't store b

Re: [Discuss] connection issue

2022-11-19 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > the problems keep mounting and puzzling (moan). computers > alphacent, aldeberan (both fc36) and rigel (fc27) all show > as connected on the local t-mobile wireless app, and locally > with ifconfig. route shows 192.168.12.0 gateway on all > three. they can all ping blu.or

Re: [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?

2022-11-18 Thread Dan Ritter
e...@null.net wrote: > The SSD I am using, Western Digital WD Blue SA510 SATA, came with a 5-year > warranty and the MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) shows 'up to 1.75 million > hours'. The 1TB version has an expected endurance of 400TB. https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/

Re: [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?

2022-11-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel M Gessel wrote: > Hi all, > > The discussion about filesystems got me thinking about whether or not it's > worth trying to reduce SSD wear on my first system (laptop) to have one. It > occurred to me that file cloning seems like it could save a few writes... > > I've heard that some SSDs

Re: [Discuss] Open Source IPad Recommendations

2022-11-05 Thread Dan Ritter
MC wrote: > What's the chance that there's an Ipad out there that supports an Open > Source O/S? > > I need a new Ipad and don't want to be locked into an Apple or Dell that > can't be upgraded. I also like cheap, so I can go legacy, as long as I can > get on the internet, which I can still do wi

Re: [Discuss] Music Server/Player

2022-10-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > Years ago I used a little Python-based media server called Edna to > stream MP3 files to web browsers (essentially anything that could do > http). Edna handled the http service, presented music directories, and > let the browser do all the playback. > > Edna hasn't been update

Re: [Discuss] seeking places for good discussion about GNU/Linux programming topics

2022-10-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel M Gessel wrote: > An (almost) unrelated topic is alternatives to GitHub for git hosting. > GitHub has nice features and a large community of developers, but I'd like a > backup plan. Anywhere you have an sshable shell and some storage, you probably have git available. A little more than th

Re: [Discuss] Setting up ssh tunnels using PuTTY

2022-09-15 Thread Dan Ritter
E. William Horne wrote: > On 9/15/2022 10:03 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: > > ... over a SSH tunnel or WireGuard VPN. > > TWIMC, > > My ISP has a new owner, and they are blocking VoIP ports, so my Callcentric > phone line isn't working. I'm trying to set up an ssh tunnel using PuTTY, to > get past the

Re: [Discuss] memory stick issue

2022-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > dan moylan once wrote: > > running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460 > moylan BCKUP1n[1089] touch foo > touch: cannot touch 'foo': Read-only file system > moylan BCKUP1n[1090] ls -l > total 20K > drwxr-xr-x. 3 moylan moylan 4.0K 220910:1532 backintime/ > drwx--. 2 root root

Re: [Discuss] : re: memory stick issue

2022-09-05 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > dan bitter wrote: > > dan moylan wrote: > >> > >> running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460 > >> > >> moylan cmd[1051] sudo mke2fs -text4 -LBCKUP1n /dev/sdb > >> [sudo] password for moylan: > . > . > . > > > First, make sure you don't have an entry

Re: [Discuss] memory stick issue

2022-09-05 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460 > > moylan cmd[1051] sudo mke2fs -text4 -LBCKUP1n /dev/sdb > [sudo] password for moylan: > > mke2fs 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021) > /dev/sdb contains a ext4 file system labelled 'BCKUP1n' > created on Mon Sep 5 10:20:13 2022 > Proceed any

Re: [Discuss] Update on Raspberry Pi4 ZFS Problems

2022-09-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > -kb, the Kent who is a little worried about ZFS's thirst for RAM. It's not thirst, it's efficient usage. You weren't using it for something else, were you? If you were planning on using it later, well -- you can tell zfs at boot time to never user more than X MB/GB in the ARC.

Re: [Discuss] Locked Android for Wifi Use?

2022-08-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > If I want an Android device just for wifi use, can I buy a ~$50 prepaid and > locked phone, and just never use it on a cell network? Or will first boot > require me to sign up for something? First boot will either ask you to sign in or create a new account. Create the new acco

Re: [Discuss] Mirrored ZFS Raid

2022-08-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > So, as I earlier said I was planning on doing, I am now playing with ZFS on > a Raspberry Pi 4. A little confusion about getting correct kernel headers > installed, and I suspect I have it working. But do I? > > Is setting up the two-disk array *really* as simple as: > >   zpo

Re: [Discuss] CoW for Ext4?

2022-07-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Dale R. Worley wrote: > I've discovered how useful it is to take a copy-on-write clone of a disk > tree when I want to repair application data consisting of lots of large > files. (Virtual Box VMs and Apple Music libraries are the cases I've > used.) Apple's APFS handles this easily. I hesitate

Re: [Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

2022-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > > ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > >> I agree with 100% The cloud is just someone else's computer. I was > >> referring to local machines and the use of VMs. > > > > Oh, well, sometimes that's a nice encapsulation mechanism and > > sometimes it's too much bother for what

Re: [Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

2022-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > I agree with 100% The cloud is just someone else's computer. I was > referring to local machines and the use of VMs. Oh, well, sometimes that's a nice encapsulation mechanism and sometimes it's too much bother for what you're doing. It's really easy for me to host s

Re: [Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

2022-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > I know this is a little bit off topic, but why would you set up a machine > to be a server? Nobody does that any more. 1. I want to own my own data. Sometimes the government decides to raid a data center and impound the machines that hold the evidence. In a clo

Re: [Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

2022-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > On 7/28/22 09:40, Dan Ritter wrote: > > I see no reason why it wouldn't work for other things, but I > > would have to ask why you would want to do that. > > Very likely silliness. > > Or, maybe not. Small, quiet. The Raspberry Pi 4 is decentl

Re: [Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

2022-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > Anyone here played with ZFS on a Raspberry Pi? > > It seems it should "just work" (providing one has enough RAM), but when I do > a web search I see people talking about difficulties. I assume that due to the Pi's funky boot process, it's not a great candidate for your root f

Re: [Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

2022-07-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:13:31 -0400 > ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > > > A stripe over two mirrors is not as reliable as RAID6. If you have 4 > > drives arranged in two mirrors, each mirror can only survive the loss > > of one drive. So, your system, if it loses 2 drives, has a

Re: [Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

2022-07-27 Thread Dan Ritter
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > Gotta ask again. Why mirror and not "RAID?" The tradeoffs are: read IOPS. read xfer write IOPS write xfer capacity loss recovery after 1 disk lost recovery after 2 disks lost If you have four disks, your choic

Re: [Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

2022-07-27 Thread Dan Ritter
House non-media server: pool: home state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:24:11 with 0 errors on Thu Jul 21 02:24:12 2022 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM home ONLINE 0 0 0

Re: [Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

2022-07-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > If you are getting ~100MB/s sustained then that is about as fast as you > can go on spinning disks regardless of the bus. You will be surprised, as I recently was, that the new enterprise spinning disks from Seagate and WD boast claimed 280MB/s transfers, which can actually be

Re: [Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

2022-07-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: >   zpool create extern_backup_pool /dev/sda >   zpool export extern_backup_pool zpool export prepares a pool to be used on a different machine - for an external portable disk, you might do this in order to unmount it. You definitely don't need to do that right after you create

Re: [Discuss] ideas for June 2022 presentation by Brendan Kidwell

2022-05-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Brendan Kidwell wrote: > 3: Private Google Docs at Home with SeaFile and LibreOffice Online (and data > encrypted at rest) > * Configure a headless Ubuntu server with encrypted storage: Boots enough > without encrypted volume; email notice to sysadmin; SSH in to interactively > mount encrypte

Re: [Discuss] html issue

2022-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > when i enter this string into the url bar, i arrive at the > desired amazon web page. >file:///home/moylan/msg/htm/amz.htm Why would that take you to Amazon? That's a file saved on your machine. -dsr- ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Annoying network problem

2022-03-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Laura Conrad wrote: > > I have an intermittent but quite frequent problem with my network. > Symptoms include: > > Backups via deja-dup to google drive which are supposed to take > place nightly, a couple of times a week don't finish. > > When I come back to my comput

Re: [Discuss] bluetooth

2022-01-27 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > dan ritter wrote: > > dan moylan wrote: > > > > > > i've been using an Esinkin BT bluetooth adapter to connect > > > audio from my laptop to an adjacent audio system, and it > > > doesn't work very well. the conn

Re: [Discuss] bluetooth

2022-01-27 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > i've been using an Esinkin BT bluetooth adapter to connect > audio from my laptop to an adjacent audio system, and it > doesn't work very well. the connection keeps dropping out, > and requires me to push a button on the adapter to > reconnect. > > could someone suggest a

Re: [Discuss] chrome

2022-01-24 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > firefox wants an html file to import. chrome bookmarks are > in: > > /home/moylan/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks > > not an html file. what can i do? > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome -dsr- ___

Re: [Discuss] OT - Comcast abandoning data caps for Northeast region

2021-12-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Edward wrote: > Great news. The actual news appears to be "we have no plans to begin beating you in the upcoming year". They'll offer you a 1000 Mb/s download speed, but they might charge you extra for using more than 4 Mb/s of it on average. -dsr- __

Re: [Discuss] dd misfire

2021-11-16 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > i'm running fc33 on a lenevo thinkpad, and as the following > will illustrate was trying to load fc35 onto a memory stick, > using the same commands i have used in the past. it > obviously did not work. have i missed something? > > moylan Downloads[1140] ls -l Fedora-Work

Re: [Discuss] Aptitude Test or Family Feud?

2021-10-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Eric Chadbourne wrote: > I just had a brief exchange with a head hunter looking to fill a > position at a university.  They asked me to take a test, which I > almost always say no to.  I'm not a fscking trick pony.  I don't > jump through hoops.  Nevertheless I could use some cash and took a > lo

Re: [Discuss] Virt-Manager

2021-10-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Edward wrote: > Installed virt-manager on Debian 11 tonight in an attempt to install a Linux > image (Lubuntu). The live DVD of the image ran fine, it found the wired > network connection, but did not receive an IP address, network-manager > indicated the IPv4 and IPv6 were to receive the IP's via

Re: [Discuss] Off Topic and Proud of It: Untraceable Garage Door Openers: No Alexa, No Siri, no nothing

2021-09-26 Thread Dan Ritter
MC wrote: > Okay...this is off-topic, but i'm sick and tired of living under > surveillance in this country and i'm not gonna tolerate the new NSA stunt: I > can't buy a garage door opener without it having the option for a Siri or > Alexa authorization. I just want a stupid motorized door..AN

Re: [Discuss] Phone company: not redpocket.com

2021-09-01 Thread Dan Ritter
MC wrote: > been using redpocket.com for 2 years, but within the last 2 weeks found > service breaking down. Any suggestions? Many thanks. MCB Assuming you want SIP VOIP services interconnecting with POTS; let us know if otherwise. Here's what I can tell you: voip.ms: prepay money, and spend it

Re: [Discuss] IRC problems at freenode?

2021-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
John Abreau wrote: > BLU has had a channel on freenode for decades. Given the mass migration, it > seems prudent to move our channel to libera. Just need to be sure that > everyone using the channel knows about the move. Doesn't matter. Freenode deleted all nicks and channels a couple of days ago

Re: [Discuss] IRC problems at freenode?

2021-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Derek Atkins wrote: > > On Thu, June 17, 2021 3:17 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > The other major IRC network for free and open source communities > > (among others) is oftc.net, which is sponsored by Software in > > the Public Interest. oftc is where the official D

Re: [Discuss] IRC problems at freenode?

2021-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Ian Kelling wrote: > > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Christopher Perrault wrote: > >> I don't know the specifics of the issue(s), but I know something's up > >> because Fedora and Centos switched their channels to Libera also. > >> > &g

Re: [Discuss] IRC problems at freenode?

2021-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Christopher Perrault wrote: > I don't know the specifics of the issue(s), but I know something's up > because Fedora and Centos switched their channels to Libera also. > https://ariadne.space/2021/05/20/the-whole-freenode-kerfluffle/ and eventually https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/ -dsr- ___

Re: [Discuss] IRC problems at freenode?

2021-06-14 Thread Dan Ritter
John Abreau wrote: > I noticed some discussion of problems at freenode. Apparently there has > been a takeover of network operations, the former freenode staff are gone, > and the new management is hostile to FLOSS. The former staff are now > running Linux.Chat and the #linux channel on Libera. >

Re: [Discuss] Please help with a sed script

2021-05-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Bill Horne wrote: > Thanks for reading this: I appreciate your time. > > I'm the Moderator of The Telecom Digest, which is the oldest e-zine on the > Internet. > > The readers send in pointers to articles of interest, and each day, other > readers whom subscribe with the "digest" option receive

Re: [Discuss] nmap output question

2021-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > What does this nmap output mean: > > > 6001/tcp open  X11  (access denied) > 6001 is a TCP port that is commonly used for X11. Something is answering at that port, but your IP address is not on its xhost allow list, so it won't talk to you. -dsr-

Re: [Discuss] Running things from initramfs

2021-03-06 Thread Dan Ritter
grg wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote: > > I have an Oracle Linux (a Red Hat derivative) computer and I'd like to > > run "xfs_repair /dev/mapper/ol-root". The problem of course > > is that partition is the root partition and xfs_repair can't operate > > on a

Re: [Discuss] Question About Spam

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Ritter
E. William Horne wrote: > Just print it out and mail it to them, or scam the paper and emaili the > image. HTH. Make sure you do it on a wooden desk, and get a nice few inches of border around it. And maybe a coffee stain and a doodle? -dsr- ___ Discus

Re: [Discuss] abcde

2021-02-23 Thread Dan Ritter
dan moylan wrote: > > running fc33 on asus aspire, installed abcde, executed the > following: > > abcde -omp3 -k 1 > > and am getting the following errors: > > read error: sector=3069 length=1 retry=6 > Sense key: 0 ASC: 0 ASCQ: 0 > Transport error: (null) >

Re: [Discuss] html lock

2021-01-26 Thread Dan Ritter
MC wrote: > any hope to lock html code? to prevent wholesale download and content theft? > let's bypass the "don't post it" strategy. Don't want a username/passcode > option either. these websites must surface on standard google searches and > be readily accessible. None whatsoever, no. In order

Re: [Discuss] Old vs new desktop gigabit switches

2021-01-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Jerry Natowitz wrote: > I have a 10 year old Netgear GS608 switch V3.  I am wondering if a more > recent switch, a Netgear GS305 ( I don't need 8 ports anymore) or TP-Link > TL-SG105 would work better for a couple of workstations and a printer?  I'm > just curious if the hardware/firmware performa

Re: [Discuss] Scripting IMAP for large numbers of messages?

2021-01-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 1/7/2021 9:32 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > > > > Has anyone done any scripting to manipulate email on a remote IMAP > > server? I'd like to select about 50,000 emails from an Inbox of > > ~80,000 (say, all emails from 2020) and move them to a different > > folder on the

Re: [Discuss] dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
ing? > > >Kent Borg wrote: > >> I see them in my log file. My guess, at least in my case: Someone on the > >> open internet (judging by the IP) was trying to break in but quit talking > >> when authentication was expected. > > On December 17, 2020, Da

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 12/18/2020 10:29 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > That's one of many possible ways to use it. > > > > Other uses: > > > > - point-to-point VPN tunnel > > - hub-and-spoke VPN with routing > > - site-to-site VPN with routing &g

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > I hadn't heard of Wireguard before. It looks cool. > > Being one of those weirdos who runs his own e-mail servers, I've been > getting frustrated that there doesn't seem to be an affordable way to get a > reliable static IP address at home. I have been thinking the way to do it

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Gillen wrote: > > > On 12/17/2020 12:47 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > > P.S. I get *lots* of break in attempts (that's how I know my connection > > is live), but my system has very few users, all with good passwords, so > > I don't worry. > > I've struggled with this; with so few users it seem

Re: [Discuss] dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?

2020-12-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > On 12/17/20 9:38 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > > I've started using dovecot for the first time (on localhost, to serve > > IMAP folders locally) and keep seeing this message repeated in the > > log: > > > >imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>,

Re: [Discuss] Help with Apache & SSL - can't fix 403 errors

2020-12-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel Barrett wrote: > On December 9, 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Thanks Dan. Mistake on my part, but adding ServerName didn't change > >> the 403 error behavior. > >> > >> I should add that my localhost has ~10 other websites running on it > &g

Re: [Discuss] Help with Apache & SSL - can't fix 403 errors

2020-12-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel Barrett wrote: > On December 9, 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > >> > >> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost > > > >ServerName www.server.com > > Thanks Dan. Mistake on my part, but adding ServerName didn't change > the 403 err

Re: [Discuss] Help with Apache & SSL - can't fix 403 errors

2020-12-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel Barrett wrote: > > I've been trying to set up an HTTPS website on localhost (Ubuntu > 18.04), but no matter what I do, I get a 403 "Access Denied" error > when I hit the site. I've tried all the solutions I can find > documented on the web: > > - The site is served perfectly over http (i.

Re: [Discuss] What's the best secure groupware package?

2020-11-24 Thread Dan Ritter
E. William Horne wrote: > I'm looking for an open-source encrypted groupware program that is both > secure and easy-to-use. > > It would be nice to have something that has versions for Mac, Windows, and > Linux, but security is the most important criteria. What functionality do you want? What k

Re: [Discuss] firewalld rant

2020-11-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Dale R. Worley wrote: > > From: Dan Ritter > > > > Dale R. Worley wrote: > >> As in the above example, when you set masquerading on interface X, > >> *which* packets coming from *which* interfaces are masqueraded *how* > >> going out *which* int

Re: [Discuss] linux video editors?

2020-11-14 Thread Dan Ritter
R. Luoma wrote: > > Would someone have recommendations > for software to edit video files > on linux? kdenlive shotcut flowblade and blender has a video editor component Different people will swear by and at each of these. -dsr- ___ Discuss mailing l

Re: [Discuss] what are pros/cons of different (Linux) filesystems for use with SMR (shingled) hard drives?

2020-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Bill Bogstad wrote: > An external USB drive that I use solely for full and incremental > backups is developing bad blocks. For pricing reasons, I'm going with > a new drive which uses SMR for recording. I backup with rsync and a > hard link tree for incrementals which means that file data is >

Re: [Discuss] #Because2020

2020-11-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Kurt L Keville wrote: > Feel free to join us at https://beowulfbash.com/? > There's a whole track devoted to RAM disks? -dsr- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] firewalld rant

2020-11-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Dale R. Worley wrote: > > From: Matthew Gillen > > Subject: [Discuss] firewalld rant > ... > > Side note in ambiguous documentation: check out the "masquerade" option > > https://firewalld.org/documentation/man-pages/firewalld.zone.html : > > ..."If it's present masquerading is enabled." > > no

Re: [Discuss] firewalld rant

2020-11-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Gillen wrote: > Maybe I'm getting cranky in my old age, but after giving up on my > manually maintained iptables scripts that were 20 years old and trying > to build everything in firewalld (and running mostly successfully for a > couple years), I'm considering going back. I'm writing thi

Re: [Discuss] Rsync "one file system"

2020-10-24 Thread Dan Ritter
jbk wrote: > On 10/24/20 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > jbk wrote: > > > I was cloning a fedora31 system to another partition using rsync using the > > > -x option to restrict decent to one file system, at least that was what I > > > thought, but the conten

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