On Fri 02/Sep/2022 22:09:27 +0200 marc wrote:
But look here: This is the sending host for the DNG mailing list:
Received: from mail.dyne.org (ns3218761.ip-162-19-139.eu [162.19.139.95])
I think OVH allows classless delegation or at least setting PTRs for fixed
IPs. I'd guess it's laziness
On Thu 01/Sep/2022 23:22:13 +0200 marc wrote:
It's imperative that you have rdns, spf, dkim and dmarc set up and that it all matches.
My MTA will reject you if your ptr doesn't match your a record and your helo/ehlo hostname. spf, dkim and dmarc are all scored via spamassassin. Google rejects
On Thu 01/Sep/2022 18:33:48 +0200 Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 11:30:43AM +1000, onefang wrote:
The problem with PTRs is that I run several domains from the one IP
address, and PTR can only point to one of those. It costs money to get
more IPs, my pension is barely coping with t
On Sat 28/May/2022 10:23:33 +0200 Brad Campbell via Dng wrote:
Before that, I tried renaming K01network-manager to K06network-manager, to
place it after the NFS unmount, but it ran earlier anyway.
That's the wrong way to do it. Start/ stop order is defined by the so called
LSB headers[*].
On Mon 09/May/2022 21:21:30 +0200 list-devuan wrote:
tito via Dng wrote on 2022-05-09 04:54:
Hi,
two usual culprits are network-manager and/or dhclient.
For network manager add in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf [main]
section;
dns=none
for dhclient create a file "/etc/dhcp/dhclie
On Sat 12/Mar/2022 18:27:45 +0100 Florian Zieboll wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:06:44 +0100
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
Hi all,
I don't use flatpak, so yesterday I removed xdg-desktop-portal from a
machine where it was causing df to err trying to access a fuse mount.
I wandere
Hi all,
I don't use flatpak, so yesterday I removed xdg-desktop-portal from a machine
where it was causing df to err trying to access a fuse mount. I wandered how
came xdg-desktop-portal was installed.
Today I got the answer. I run apt-get dist-upgrade on another machine, and got:
Reading p
On Thu 13/Jan/2022 19:38:56 +0100 Simon wrote:
Similarly with file names. Once upon a time the human had to adapt to what the
computer supported - such as fitting your entire file name into 8 characters.
Now the computer (mostly) supports what is natural for a human - and that
includes using
On Wed 12/Jan/2022 01:27:45 +0100 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:52:10 -0500
william moss wrote:
Bash is taking the string in the double quotes as a single command;
this is well documented. If either the command or parameters have
spaces, you will have to use eval. Check
On Tue 21/Dec/2021 14:01:16 +0100 Antony Stone wrote:
On Tuesday 21 December 2021 at 13:53:48, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
Yesterday I upgraded and then rebooted.
how come cron daily didn't run?
No idea - when is it supposed to run?
I have an entry in crontab saying:
47 4 * * 7
Hi all,
Yesterday I upgraded and then rebooted.
how come cron daily didn't run? I have an entry in crontab saying:
47 4 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report
/etc/cron.weekly )
The cron.log just says nothing around 4:47:
Dec 21 04:09:01 78 north CRON[6746]: (r
Now this is even funnier. I installed libsource-highlight-dev and wrote a
short program whose only relevant expression is:
srchilite::SourceHighlight *X = new srchilite::SourceHighlight();
Then:
1015-north:tmp$ g++ foo.C
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccn6kzOe.o: in function `main':
foo.C:(.text+0x46): und
Hi all,
don't know since when this happened, maybe since I upgraded to Chimaera.
When I run gdb I get:
src$ gdb -n -q --args ./anyexec
Reading symbols from ./anyexec...
(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x7c7a: file anyexec.c, line 10.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/ale/tmp/src/anyexec
[Threa
On Wed 27/Oct/2021 18:54:16 +0200 karl wrote:
For libc5, run "man libc" and look under the heading "Linux libc".
Damn my fatty fingers, it was libc6-i686. (Not that it is much newer, it was
in stretch.)
Thanks for pointing it out anyway.
The hp-health package itself is dated 2019 in the r
Hi all,
I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, and
doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the last
dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it.
I have both libc6:i386 and lib32gcc-s1 (on an AMD 64bit machine).
libc6-i686:i386 is tagged
On Mon 25/Oct/2021 13:12:57 +0200 Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
Alessandro Vesely via Dng writes:
Did we have it on Beowulf?
Yes. I just checked on my Beowulf laptop and e.g. tar and sed both
declare a Pre-Depends: on libselinux1. Since these two are both
Essential packages, libselinux1
Hi all,
when I switched to Chimaera, one of the difficulties was an /etc/selinux
directory left over since several years ago. After boot with the new system, X
didn't want to start. It said something about selinux, so I found the leftover
and startx worked again.
Now I checked what selinux
On Wed 25/Aug/2021 00:41:59 +0200 Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
There's also an iptables-centric method:
https://serverfault.com/questions/550276/how-to-block-internet-access-to-certain-programs-on-linux
Blocking by user-id seems to me to be the only serious option. You
should have good r
On Thu 12/Aug/2021 13:12:29 +0200 Aitor wrote:
On 31/7/21 11:20, aitor wrote:
Sometimes I use the following buffer struct for dynamic allocation:
https://gitea.devuan.dev/aitor_czr/libnetaid/src/branch/master/backend_src/sbuf.c
I guess we all ended up developing something similar. My take
On Wed 07/Jul/2021 23:10:15 +0200 Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 19:41:43 +0200
Alessandro Vesely wrote:
Here's the sequence of what I did: I wrote to the list each time, so
I know the exactly when.
4 January 2020: migrate from debian/stretch to beowulf
https://lists.dyne.
Hi,
On Sun 04/Jul/2021 21:09:01 +0200 Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 13:01:52 +0200
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
On Sat 26/Jun/2021 01:10:08 +0200 Patrick Bartek Via Dng wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:34:32 +0200
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
After I did a system upgrade
Hi,
On Sat 26/Jun/2021 01:10:08 +0200 Patrick Bartek Via Dng wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:34:32 +0200
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
After I did a system upgrade, I couldn't mount an USB key any
more, until I manually installed udevil. What happened,
dependency changes? >
Thi
On Sun 27/Jun/2021 11:07:33 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 09:44:00 +0900, Olaf wrote in message
<87czs887cf.fsf@quark>:
Upon first glance manual pages make it look as if full-upgrade and
dist-upgrade are the same but I am not sure the details of package
dependency conflict res
On Sat 26/Jun/2021 11:45:46 +0200 o1bigtenor wrote:
so you're suggesting the use of
# apt update
# apt full-grade
or is that
# apt full-upgrade?
apt-get dist-upgrade?
Best
Ale
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On Tue 15/Jun/2021 20:41:09 +0200 Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
I have found that each desktop uses its own method of automounting.
PCManFM may have the mounting code built-in. Or it may use udiskie.
Check PCManFM's dependencies and see if udiskie is listed. Did you
install udiskie yourself? If
On Mon 21/Jun/2021 00:52:42 +0200 karl wrote:
Rick Moen:
...
https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate
...
Thanks for the link.
And for the heads-up.
I've been using ntpdate-debian every 30 minutes for years. After tuning the HW
clock, the adjustment is usually less than 20
On Sat 15/May/2021 15:50:12 +0200 spiralofhope wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2021 14:27:15 +0200
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" wrote:
On 09.05.21 08:33, tito via Dng wrote:
So the first question that arises is: how could open source and free
software projects ensure protection from damage up to
On Wed 28/Apr/2021 14:15:43 +0200 Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
What I did
find somewhat weird is that it asked whether I wanted to keep all of the
xserver-xorg-video-* individually when I had already said `Y` to the
`task-desktop` package. With `apt-mark` I just marked
`task-xfce-desktop` as m
On Tue 20/Apr/2021 16:03:59 +0200 Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote:
find /usr/bin -atime +360 | xargs -l1 apt-file find | sort
I would suggest dpkg -S instead of apt-file find, which matches prefix, not
exact file. I would also filter on the package name and ensure unicity. Also,
never log in as
On Sun 18/Apr/2021 11:37:58 +0200 Alessandro Vesely wrote:
I'll try tomorrow.
Everything incredibly smooth!
I don't know why I rebooted between upgrade and dist-upgrade. The graphics
didn't come up, so I run dist-upgrade on the tty terminal. That's the only
annoyance I had.
Heck, the pr
On Sat 17/Apr/2021 15:37:31 +0200 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:
On April 17, 2021 2:33:53 PM GMT+02:00, Alessandro Vesely via Dng
wrote:
Is there a guide, a wiki, release notes, any help?
my Beowulf to Chimaera (LXqt with openbox) went quite smooth. I had posted my
notes to this list
Hi all,
I usually prefer to stick on released system, but I'd start working on OpenSCAD
and the version available is rather oldish. As it has lots of graphical
dependencies, I think it may be easier to switch to Chimaera than to pin all
that stuff. I run Openbox, btw.
Is there a guide, a w
On Fri 26/Mar/2021 22:58:39 +0100 Riccardo Mottola wrote:
I want politics out of free software.
[...]
Remember how many voices there were back then against "evil Microsoft" and IE6?
But how many raise their voices today against Chrome?
And IBM before M$...
Two weights, two measures.
If
Hi All,
Debian is engaging in a disgusting attack against RMS:
https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002
Does Devuan have resolutions to sign open letters?
I'd propose to sign this one instead:
https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
See also:
An orthodox analysis entitled Justice for Dr. Richard
On 18/11/2020 13:38, tito via Dng wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:10:19 +0100
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
I enabled core dumps in /etc/security/limits.d/coredump.conf (* -
core unlimited); core_pattern and suid_dumpable are set
appropriately. However, most processes have a soft limit of
Hi all,
I enabled core dumps in /etc/security/limits.d/coredump.conf (* - core
unlimited); core_pattern and suid_dumpable are set appropriately. However,
most processes have a soft limit of 0; that is, core dump disabled:
# for p in $(ps -e -o pid| tail -n +1); do prlimit --noheadings --core
Hi all,
I create a terminal window for a different user using a script like so:
#! /bin/bash
#
# Extract auth of current user and run x-terminal-emulator in new user
printf -v altgksu 'export DISPLAY=:0; touch ~/.Xauthority; echo "%s"| xauth
nmerge -; dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 x-terminal-emula
On Tue 29/Sep/2020 11:10:12 +0200 Simon Hobson wrote:
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
I have no choice over the neighbours !
Don't buy overly cheap connections...
Doesn't matter how much you pay - unless you get an entire net-block to
yourself then you have no contro
On Sun 27/Sep/2020 20:11:39 +0200 Simon Hobson wrote:
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
[...]
And it is key to get an IP address without poorly reputed neighbors —check
talosintelligence.com.
I have no choice over the neighbours !
Don't buy overly cheap connections...
I also use
On Sat 26/Sep/2020 23:19:33 +0200 Simon Hobson wrote:
Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote:
I also end up rejecting a lot of spam because it lacks a reverse hostname (it's
easily the largest category).
So it's not just a few such as ntlworld and gmx that check this.
IIRC the specific complaint wasn
Hi
at boot, I get messages like:
dbus-daemon[1918]: [system] Service file "X" should have been named "Xn"
and will not work with system bus activation
Where some values for X and Xn are as follows:
X
Xn
/usr/shar
Hi all,
running `aptitude search ~o` shows hundreds of obsolete packages. There were
none before the upgrade. Well, one may say it's not so many, compared to the
thousands of `dpkg --get-selections`. However, what to do about them?
Certainly, some of them are to be purged, but which ones?
Hi,
TL;DR: apt fails where apt-get works. Why?
I just updated ASCII using apt:
root@pcale:~# apt update
Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii InRelease [25.6 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates InRelease [25.6 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security InRelease [
On 07/06/2020 00:33, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:04:33PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
>> While upgrading a system to Beowulf, I noticed this in the changelogs.
>> Is this one of those "it was fizzling out anyway so no big deal" things, or
>> another policy change by Debian ?
On Fri 10/Jan/2020 01:35:55 +0100 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 09.01.20 17:44, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
>>
>> Synaptic is convenient as it allows to search for keywords, e.g. "pdf", and
>> choose a package that does the task at hand. Google does the
On Thu 09/Jan/2020 18:20:55 +0100 Dimitris via Dng wrote:
> On 1/9/20 7:04 PM, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
>>
>> Hm... in fact I have consolekit installed. And if I try to remove it, apt
>> wants to install elogind instead. Perhaps consolekit is less bad...?
>>
On Thu 09/Jan/2020 17:50:15 +0100 Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan?
>>
>> After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try
Hi,
is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan?
After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try to install it, it says it
needs policykit-1. Since the latter seems to be akin to systemd, I reply 'n'.
Synaptic is convenient as it allows to search for keywords, e.g. "pdf", and
cho
On Sat 04/Jan/2020 03:00:43 +0100 golinux wrote:
>
> Have fun!!
Ok, I did it! I slavishly followed migrate-to-ascii[*], except
* I skipped install and config of xfce4, since I had openbox,
* I skipped install sysvinit-core and reboot, as sysvinit was already running,
* I also added contrib and
Hi all,
After the latest GR, it seems to be time to migrate. Is ASCII the right planet
to go? I found migrate-to-ascii[*] but no equivalent guide for beowulf.
Furthermore, neither that guide[*] nor the os/ page[†] mention openbox. I have
a minimal openbox installation, but it works for me. Sh
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