Re: [DNG] resolv.conf

2022-05-09 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 12:31 +0200, al3xu5 via Dng wrote: > Mon, 9 May 2022 04:49:35 -0400 - Steve Litt < > sl...@troubleshooters.com>: > > > Antony Stone said on Sun, 8 May 2022 16:28:38 +0200 > > > > > On Sunday 08 May 2022 at 16:24:03, william m. moss wrote: > > > > > > > Years ago I became f

Re: [DNG] resolv.conf

2022-05-08 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Sun, 2022-05-08 at 10:24 -0400, william m. moss wrote: > > Years ago I became fed up with too many applications and > installations > corrupting my resolv.conf. I type in a resolv.conf using an editor. > > domain billshome > search billshome > nameserver 10.0.0.252 There is one big problem w

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-30 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 22:18 +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Friday 30 July 2021 at 22:04:28, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 07:13:43PM +0100, Rowland Penny via Dng > > wrote: > > > > > This is sort of what I was getting at, English is a lang

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-30 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:55 -0500, o1bigtenor wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 1:13 PM Rowland Penny via Dng < > dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:31:26 -0400>

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-30 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hendrik Boom said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:31:26 -0400 > > > > And it's kind of amazing how these different versions have > > grammatical > > differences, not kust spelling and vocabulary. > > > > Unfortunately, it's currently not accessible,

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-30 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 11:59 +0200, John Hughes wrote: > On 30/07/2021 09:39, Rowland Penny via Dng wrote: > > No, Chaucer == Old English > > There is no one in England that speaks Old English in normal life > > > > You are quite right though, the only real Engli

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-30 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 11:56 +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote: > Rowland Penny via Dng [30.07.2021 09:39]: > > > No, Chaucer == Old English > > There is no one in England that speaks Old English in normal life > > > > You are quite right though, the only real English is

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-30 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 18:07 -0400, . via Dng wrote: > On 7/29/21 6:00 AM, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: > > American != English > > > > Rowland > > Also, > > British != English > > Canadian != English > > Indian != English > > Australian != English > > Ugandan != Engl

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-28 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 17:48 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE via Dng said on Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:42:51 -0400 > > > On Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2021 15:47:24 -04 Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom said on Wed, 28 Jul 2021 07:04:10 -0400 > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:06:46PM

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-26 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 16:33 +, g4sra via Dng wrote: > On Monday, July 26th, 2021 at 4:48 PM, Steve Litt < > sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > Andreas Messer said on Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:38:23 +0200 > > > > > My feeling is, that you can not simply teach someone how to write > > > safe softwa

Re: [DNG] ..maybe webmin?, was: Cockpit removal might make sense

2021-06-10 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 10/06/2021 10:36, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: If you’re looking at something like zentyal, you could look at HPE’s clearos as well. there is a free version. It does all the things that zentyal does. it’s only drawback is that it’s based on centos and it’s laced with systemd. One thi

Re: [DNG] Cockpit removal might make sense

2021-05-25 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 25/05/2021 17:09, Tomasz Torcz wrote: Dnia Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:53:29PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng napisał(a): After installing it on an fresh Beowulf installation, it does not run and to my knowledge will never be able to w/o systemd sockets. IIRC, the policy is not to remove anything

Re: [DNG] Cockpit removal might make sense

2021-05-25 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 25/05/2021 05:42, Simon Walter wrote: Hi all, I wanted to see if Cockpit would by some unknown magic run on Devuan. The reason I wanted to do this is because the packages are available in the default repos. After installing it on an fresh Beowulf installation, it does not run and to my k

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-24 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 24/12/2020 15:37, aitor wrote: does the output in the command line matches your desired order? Continuing with our English academy: does it match 'does the command line output match your desired order ?' Also, do not get me started on the use of the word 'since' by non native English spe

Re: [DNG] Historical note on double negation.

2020-12-24 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 24/12/2020 14:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 10:30:58AM +0100, aitor wrote: On 24/12/20 10:23, aitor wrote: neither the mouse nor the keyboard didn't respond Mmm..., this is a double denial. Neither the mouse nor the keyboard could respond? Agreed. Happy to see neither..n

Re: [DNG] samba/NAS box problem

2020-12-01 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 01/12/2020 16:25, Fred wrote: Hello, I have a DNS321 NAS box on my local network and samba/cifs to access it.  When I upgraded from Debian Jessie to i386 Beowulf the DNS321 was no longer accessible by samba. fred@ragnok:~$ mount /mnt/dns321 Password for fred@//192.168.42.32/Volume_1: moun

Re: [DNG] Error installing samba in beowulf

2020-08-31 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 31/08/2020 22:29, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: It is the same the low internet for the pc and from there I update since so I can use it on pc that do not have internet access what I only use: deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main contrib non-free but it is giving me problems updati

Re: [DNG] Error installing samba in beowulf

2020-08-31 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 31/08/2020 22:16, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: Best Regards -- Ismael Devuan User: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan - Original Message - From: "Dimitris via Dng" To: Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [DNG] Error installing samba in beowulf w

Re: [DNG] Error installing samba in beowulf

2020-08-31 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 31/08/2020 21:53, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: I moved the repository to http://deb.devuan.org/merged// and it follows the same problem that does not allow me to install samba from an installation made with devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64-desktop.iso root@clt-iyc-03:/mnt/datos/sistemas/linux/de

Re: [DNG] Error installing samba in beowulf

2020-08-31 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 31/08/2020 21:00, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: I replenish between the lines It has always worked for me (famous last words), is your sources.list file correct ? Have you run 'apt update' and 'apt upgrade' recently ? Yes, I did it today OK How are you planning to run Samba ? (this ha

Re: [DNG] Error installing samba in beowulf

2020-08-31 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 31/08/2020 20:03, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: When I try to install samba it gives me the following error root@ser-linux-01:~# apt-get install krb5-user samba sssd ntp openssh-server Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando Arbol de dependencias Leyendo la informacion de estado... Hecho

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 07/08/2020 17:19, Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: It is extremely slow, but I am unsure just how slow, but 3-4 times slower sounds about right. Wow! If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is no point

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 07/08/2020 16:46, Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: Do you use the USB drive on Windows, if not, just reformat it to ext4, ntfs-3g is a FUSE system, it isn't a fast as you would like. Thanks Roland. I left the drive NTFS beca

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 07/08/2020 15:47, Haines Brown wrote: Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb. I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous abou

Re: [DNG] What can even possibly go wrong?

2020-03-12 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 12/03/2020 10:25, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi! Just a little rant and feel free to ignore it. systemd-homed… I hope none of it is ever implemented to elogind. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-homed.service.html https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/ (just count the lines

Re: [DNG] List index out of range merging the repo of gnuinos with amprolla

2020-02-02 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 02/02/2020 18:24, Aitor wrote: Hi, I'm getting the following error merging packages .gnuinos.org with amprolla: $ python3 amprolla_merge.py [ ] Loading packages: ['/home/aitor/amprolla/spool/gnuinos/dists/beowulf/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz', '/home/aitor/amprolla/spool/devuan/

Re: [DNG] VMware segmentation fault

2020-01-19 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 19/01/2020 21:22, Haines Brown wrote: It been ten years since I've installed a virtual machine under Linux, and things have changed. I downloaded and ran VMware-Player-3.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle to install VMware Player with success. Howver, I have trouble starting it. I have no desktop. Doe

Re: [DNG] Fonts trouble on beowulf

2020-01-10 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 10/01/2020 07:13, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Rowland penny via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): Le projet Clearlooks-Phénix a pour but de créer une version GTK3 de Clearlooks, thème par défaut de Gnome 2. Un style est également inclus pour GTK2, Unity et les gestionnaires de fenêtres Metacity

Re: [DNG] Fonts trouble on beowulf

2020-01-08 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 08/01/2020 17:56, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 1/8/20 11:38 AM, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: On 08/01/2020 16:25, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-01-08 10:14, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: On 08/01/2020 16:02, goli...@devuan.org wrote: phenix is the correct spelling and has been since

Re: [DNG] Fonts trouble on beowulf

2020-01-08 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 08/01/2020 16:25, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-01-08 10:14, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: On 08/01/2020 16:02, goli...@devuan.org wrote: phenix is the correct spelling and has been since jessie.  ;)  The French do it differently. :D No, the Americans cannot spell correctly, it is

Re: [DNG] Fonts trouble on beowulf

2020-01-08 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 08/01/2020 16:02, goli...@devuan.org wrote: phenix is the correct spelling and has been since jessie.  ;)  The French do it differently. :D No, the Americans cannot spell correctly, it is Pheonix in English ;-) Rowland ___ Dng mailing list Dng@li

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-11 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:01:15 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:27:08PM +0200, Edward Bartolo via Dng > wrote: > > > [ ... ] That prank was completely misplaced: as someone replied, > >one does not joke with security. The latter can mean lost business. > >Only if

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-02 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:28:52 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:29:46 +0300, Dimitris wrote in message > : > > > - TZ difference is bad. we should all go GMT or something unique, > > and know when april fools starts/ends. > > ..disagreed, good pranks can use the extra bonus tim

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-01 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 20:18:01 + Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > It's now clear that this was a planned action and there was no danger. > But when it happened, this wasn't obvious in any way. I assume the > other staff members knew about it,

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-08 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:44:49 -0600 "Jamey Fletcher" wrote: > > Anno domini 2019 Fri, 8 Mar 10:45:04 -0600 > > > Nate Bargmann scripsit: > > >> * On 2019 08 Mar 08:00 -0600, KatolaZ wrote: > > >>> and, IIRC, also /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is re-generated at boot > >>> time. But we need to double

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-08 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:47:40 +0100 Jaromil wrote: > > re all, > > any thoughts about this new systemd-made thing that freedesktop > immediately "standardized" (whatever is their procedure for that, > likely smoking cigars among old-boys or so) > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/m

Re: [DNG] Creating directory in /var/run on bootup

2019-02-05 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 21:31:46 +0100 Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 05/02/19 at 11:34, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Tom: > > ... > >> What is the recommended alternative way to create a sub-directory > >> of /var/run on bootup for non-daemon software? > > Don't know about "recommended", but you can >

Re: [DNG] excessive bounces

2019-01-09 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 21:26:45 + Rowland Penny via Dng wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:53:48 -0800 > Rick Moen wrote: > > > Quoting Rowland Penny via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > > > > > Rick, please stop name dropping and please stop, just stop. > > >

Re: [DNG] excessive bounces

2019-01-04 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:53:48 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Rowland Penny via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > > > Rick, please stop name dropping and please stop, just stop. > > Seriously? I merely asked you, while thanking you for your work on > Samba, to please say hullo t

Re: [DNG] excessive bounces

2019-01-04 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 11:56:29 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Correcting mistype: > > > Please, let's work through the scenario. You as rpe...@samba.org > > subscribe to dng@lists.dyne.org. Hypothetically for purposes of > > discussion, for some reason the samba.org SMTP host occasionally > > does eit

Re: [DNG] excessive bounces

2019-01-04 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 04:21:28 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Rowland Penny via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > > > > It has happened again, my membership to this list has been disabled > > due to excessive bounces. I am fairly sure this isn't true, or I > > would ha

[DNG] excessive bounces

2019-01-04 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
It has happened again, my membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. I am fairly sure this isn't true, or I would have told by one of the Samba team list moderators. Rowland ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mai

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-02 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 00:18:19 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 19:04:32 -0800 > Rick Moen wrote: > > > Quoting goli...@dyne.org (goli...@dyne.org): > > > > [much concentrated wisdom] > > > > > The best documemntation will be useless if no one reads it. > > [...] > > > Even though

Re: [DNG] Samba 4.9 Package

2018-12-08 Thread Rowland Penny via Dng
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 12:24:14 -0600 Bob Wooldridge wrote: > I'm setting up a domain controller using Devuan ascii.  Is there a > package available for Samba 4.9 that will work?  There appears to be > a Samba 4.9 package in Debian Sid.  Would this work? > > Go here: http://apt.van-belle.nl/ Ro