On 2021-01-01 19:07, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> It is that intermediate window manager that was responsible for border
> sized and so forth. It couldn't draw the borders -- it wasn't attached
> to a screen. It just told the server what to draw.
Yes, of course. That is what I meant. Nonetheless, th
On 2021-01-01 15:05, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> This kind of remapping, and others, such as managing window borders,
> is done by the window manager in X. The window manager is a separate
> process, doesn't need to be present, and can even run on a separate
> machine from the client and/or server.
I
On 2020-12-31 12:21, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could have
> > been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd do is
> > uncouple keyboard, mouse and video fro
On 2020-12-25 18:45, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote:
> I read the suggested shell script to provide an overlay filesystem in
> Raspbian and found nothing that can damage my setup. I will use that
> script. All file writes will directed to RAM.
Can you share a link to those instructions please? Many
On 2020-12-25 10:21, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hearing this thread's perplexity, I long for the days of mknod.
But that wouldn't have helped with the network interfaces, because (in
an un-Unixy way) their names have never been file names on the systems
we're discussing now.
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On 2020-12-24 16:19, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Another such an example is
> >John and me went swimming.
> > Here 'and' serves as a preposition.
>
> I'm not sure where the location is, where 'and' fails to be a
> conjunction when used between two nouns in that fashion, but I'm
> curious what colour
On 2020-12-24 10:40, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> And they seem no longer to be considered to be devices. They are not
> present in /dev.
They never have been there (under Linux), to my best knowledge (and my
history is also long).
Maybe you are thinking of some other system?
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On 2020-12-18 21:28, tito via Dng wrote:
> I love physical connections therefore I prefer NICs over Wifi, so 12
> of them are not so much (a few clients, a server, pos, couple of
> printers, Nas, cash register, 2 modems...)
No quarrel with the rest of your post, but I would do this with just one
On 2020-12-02 01:09, Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote:
> Certbot has removed support of certbot-auto for Debian-based systems
Sorry, I feel contrarian today (and many other days too). So there:
http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml
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On 2020-11-22 17:13, Antony Stone wrote:
> I _had_ thought there was this thing called "the clipboard" to which
> copied text was, well, copied, and that it could then be pasted
> afterwards into whatever you wanted, but indeed, it no longer exists
> if you close the window it was selected from.
On 2020-11-17 06:07, Haines Brown wrote:
> About the time I upgraded to Bwowulf I experienced periodic problems
> having the mouse pasting scanneted text with middle mouse button.
Do people in this thread know about PointerKeys, and that it is an
honest X11 feature, not something added by Gnome o
On 2020-11-15 09:02, kdibble wrote:
> msmtp works well for these type of things.
>
> Beware though as the package includes an apparmor profile which can
> cause problems if you don't use the defaults.
_And_ unless you turn off apparmor. Sorry if this is obvious.
But I concur with the recemmenda
On 2020-11-03 02:36, Steve Litt wrote:
> When it comes to separation of authoritative and resolver parts of DNS,
> the documentation from the old djbdns makes it very clear, and is an
> excellent starting point.
I have just acted on this as well, and now authoritative answers for my
domain are se
I would like to regularly back up my uBlock settings, and do it in an
automated way. That is, I want to avoid clicking through the "Export to
file" dialog every time, because I always forget to do it, and because
it is dumb.
So where is the data in fact stored? Let's start with the subscription
fi
Relevant post and discussion on Ian Jackson's blog:
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/6947.html
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On 2020-10-01 13:23, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
> So if you have no pulseaudio and audio is ok with firefox-esr 78, IMHO
> it should mean that the ff release you have has been built with ALSA
> support (nice if they have restored it!!!) or that you run ff throught
> apulse...
No apulse either. AFA
On 2020-09-30 20:02, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
> Firefox, from a certain version onwards (sorry but I don't remember
> which one), removed support for ALSA from the default build
> configuration (maybe it will be restored in the future, I don't know
> if it has already been but I don't think so),
On 2020-09-27 19:11, Simon Hobson wrote:
> You mean, like in the web hosting days before hostname headers where
> you needed a different IP address for each hosted domain name ? That's
> very 20th century and not a luxury most of us have.
FWIW, Linode (where my sole server is hosted) gives me a /
On 2020-09-26 18:29, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> did you do a "sync" afterwards and waited till it returned? If not,
> then the image was not written completely. You can monitor the writing
> process with "watch iostat" (if you have sysstat installed)
Or run dd with oflag=direct. I also try to sm
On 2020-09-24 12:07, Rick Moen wrote:
> I've had no problems _without_ DMARC/DKIM (but with a strongly
> asserted SPF record). Have been operating home *ix SMTP smarthosts on
> static IP with matching rDNS, and maintaining a clean, high-reputation
> system since the 1980s.
>
> I've tried to alwa
On 2020-09-23 12:15, terryc wrote:
> The norm seems to be to just accept everything and process it, but
> until recently, all my internet services cam with a data charge. So for
> our domain, the easiest & cheapest method is just to block known
> spammers and not pay data charges.
Much depends on
On 2020-09-22 17:25, Antony Stone wrote:
> If you're writing portable scripts you don't want to rely on symlinks
> pointing to the same targets on everything.
>
> If your scripts aren't (intended to be) portable, then it really
> doesn't matter - do what you like in the privacy of your own machin
On 2020-09-22 11:21, Steve Litt wrote:
> I would never use Bash in a shellscript.
I think that's a bit too strong. Some scripting situations are a perfect
fit for the shell with the exception of one or two little features
missing in the POSIX shell but present in bash. My top examples would be
th
On 2020-09-22 11:10, Steve Litt wrote:
> Second, a more security-respecting solution is there might be a group,
> which your users can belong, that allows them to run X. Perhaps
> group video ??? I just looked at /usr/bin/Xorg on my Void box and it's
> not suid anything. I performed some ls comma
On 2020-09-17 20:34, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
> apt install netplug wpasupplicant ifupdown
I happen to dislike ifupdown almost as much as NetworkManager. It is a
poorly documented opaque mess. The fact that it's a debian invention
(AFAIK) and not an import from RH-land is about the only s
On 2020-09-16 02:11, Steve Litt wrote:
> Speaking of Netowrk manager, am I the only one who hates it messing
> with /etc/resolv.conf? You know what I'd like? I'd like
> /etc/resolv.conf to be a symlink to one of many files, such as
> resolv.dhcp, which *could* be modified by the network manager, a
On 2020-09-05 13:41, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> This seems to say we now have two independent levels of bad block
> checking.
>
> When the low-level one fails, the other takes over. I't expect the
> file system to be unlikely to see bad blocks until the drive is hosed.
That is true if the drive is S
On 2020-08-25 08:47, Joril via Dng wrote:
> > Have found that devuan 3.0 or Beowulf is the present stable
> > product. Is there a 'testing' equivalent Devuan product?
>
> I believe you are looking for Devuan Chimaera?
> See https://devuan.org/os/releases
Can you mix releases with the /etc/apt/pr
On 2020-08-23 03:19, spiralofhope wrote:
> > Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> > for something which might be a file or a directory?
>
> Perhaps something like inode?
struct stat ;-)
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On 2020-08-02 22:35, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Does iptables still work on beowulf?
As long as you use update-alternatives to choose
/usr/sbin/iptables-legacy. Please see the other subthreads - I am new to
this topic myself, in fact I have not realized until today that I was
running nftables for mont
On 2020-08-02 17:00, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I upgraded one of my larger and more complex servers from ASCII to
> > Beowulf. Switching to NFT was very easy after the upgrade. Just
> > create
>
> What is NFT?
nftables, the slowly arriving successor to iptables.
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On 2020-07-26 10:26, Steve Litt wrote:
> For procedural reasons I haven't been using the double-dash, but I'm
> going to start trying to use it again.
I configure my mutt/neomutt to render sigs in white on light background
:-)
I _can_ still read it if I really strain my eyes.
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On 2020-07-21 11:15, Simon Walter wrote:
> I love the poetry a commenter left. He knows how I feel.
Yeah, that sums it up perfectly. I'm thinking of making an email sig
again :P
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On 2020-07-07 12:20, Steve Litt wrote:
> You need certain executables, pre-mount, before a separate /usr can be
> mounted. These went in /sbin, which is on the root and always
> available. If you could mount the root partition, you could proceed.
>
> But now, if you mount /usr somewhere off the r
On 2020-07-07 11:26, Steve Litt wrote:
> Void Linux also symlinks all the various *bin directories together,
> even though it's a runit distro. My objection is this merge forces you
> to have an initramfs.
This doesn't sound right, can you explain why you need an initramfs with
merged /usr if you
This is a Debian question, but I don't expect any difference between
Debian and Devuan in these matters, and I feel I have a better chance
getting a useful answer here.
Roughly once in a blue moon, "something somewhere" creates a symlink of
the form
~/.config/pulse/08708c6cd6764173b7a41bdbc699577
On 2020-06-12 17:01, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote:
> I'm running Devuan Beowulf on an Odroid C2 mini computer. Since it's
> internal flash disk is limited, I run it with an external usb drive
> attached. When this disk is active in /etc/fstab the boot process
> hangs forever.
Distribution kernel or
On 2020-06-11 11:46, Simon Hobson wrote:
> > > What's left in Debian are bits that are actually used by some
> > > programs.
> >
> > Such as the LSB headers in init scripts?
> >
> > Some SysV init maintainers have very strict opinions on those
> > headers, considered a language for the insserv "
> $ wget -v4U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/60.0" https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/canary.txt--2020-06-01 09:15:48--
> https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/canary.txt
> Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8118... connected.
> ERROR: The certificate of ‘www.idrix.fr’ is not trusted.
>
On 2020-05-28 16:15, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I can't say I understand the version numbers -- both 4.9.0-6 and
> 4.9.88?
*-4.9.0-6 is the deb package _name_, 4.9.88 is the version (based on
kernel.org source version).
Confusing, yes, but nothing new, except possibly uname being able to
report the v
On 2020-05-23 14:36, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> I have been using Debian for the last 20+ years. I don't like systemd
> and that has kept me on Stretch, where I can still use SysV as init. I
> have tried several times to upgrade to Buster without SysV, but have
> had no luck. So here I am at De
On 2020-05-26 17:51, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Did it exist prior to the creation of Systemd?
I think it depends on how you count. There was a predecessor project
called dmd which was created to be PID 1 on Hurd. If you count dmd then
it precedes systemd, otherwise not.
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On 2020-05-21 14:09, Steve Litt wrote:
> * Busybox init
> * Epoch
> * OpenRC
> * Runit
> * s6 (plus s6-rc)
> * Suckess init plus [daemontools | runit | s6]
> * systemd
> * sysvinit
* GNU Shepherd ?
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
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On 2020-05-20 18:45, Steve Litt wrote:
> It really is just that simple. There's no need to add anything to
> accommodate badly behaved init system authors.
I wanted to add:
5. reaping orphan processes when they die
but I had the good sense to read the wikipedia article "Orphan process"
first, a
On 2020-05-18 16:42, Didier Kryn wrote:
> In particular by porting Window$ on top of Systemd-Gnu-Linux, just
> like MacOS lives on top of FreeBSD and makes big profit.
How would that work from the legal POV? Linux is still GPL, pretty much
for this very reason.
I do believe that systemd was mean
On 2020-05-16 16:51, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> What do you mean by "tobacco patch"?
It's an analogy with a medical device used to help smokers with quitting.
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On 2020-05-16 13:10, Rick Moen via Dng wrote:
> I meant multiple subtrees of device node files classified in lots
> of different and overlapping ways, by-uuid, and on and on.
I'll take that one :-P
Last year I nearly lost all my image and audio data, some 100G. I guess
that's small potatoes toda
On 2020-05-12 23:58, Rick Moen via Dng wrote:
> Passing along as Postfix is now default MTA for Devuan/Debian.
> Untested by this reporter. (Personally, I still like Exim4.)
Hi Rick :)
Is there a reference to a Debian mailing list (or a similar digital
history document) where the decision to sw
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