Steve Litt writes:
> Olaf Meeuwissen said on Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:52:05 +0900
>
>>Hi Steve,
>>
>>Steve Litt writes:
>
>>> On more thing. When *I* write a program, I never put it in /usr/bin
>>> or /usr/local/bin or /opt. I have my own directory, cal
Hi spiralofhope,
spiralofhope writes:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:52:05 +0900
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>
>> Might I suggest $HOME/bin :-)
>
> For me I've only had a few offline custom scripts in:
>
> $HOME/live/path
>
> If I thought about it furthe
Hi wirelessduck,
wirelessd...@gmail.com writes:
>> On 21 Oct 2021, at 22:47, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>
>> Hi wirelessduck,
>>
>> wirelessduck--- via Dng writes:
>>
>>>>> On 20 Oct 2021, at 20:45, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
>>>&
o1bigtenor writes:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:47 AM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
> wrote:
>
>> [... illustrating etckeeper commit messages ...]
>
> Mr Olaf
> (and the rest of devuan land)
>
> I found apt-cacher-ng to be a useful tool in tracking updates and in
> m
Hi Steve,
Steve Litt writes:
> Simon said on Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:00:26 +0100
>
>>Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>>
>>>>> Might I suggest $HOME/bin :-)
>>>>
>>>> ~/bin isn't ideal for two reasons:
>>>>
>>>>
ortunate one needs to surf the web to discover this and there is
> no tool in the application menu to configure it.
ACK and the manual pages are also not all that useful. IIRC, there's
even a bug in there somewhere about translating the locations.
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eowulf laptop and e.g. tar and sed both
declare a Pre-Depends: on libselinux1. Since these two are both
Essential packages, libselinux1 is required on Beowulf.
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Hi Hendrik,
Hendrik Boom writes:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:52:05PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Steve Litt writes:
>>
>> > After that, take a backup of the new system including /etc and
>> > $HOME, then restore
n. Note that the latter even includes version info.
I would include the output of all three in a backup. It's not a lot of
info, just a couple of kb, but may save the day in case restoring does
not quite get you where you want to be.
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, if you don't use things like /srv and /opt, there's not much
of a cost to backing up the empty directories :-)
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Suppor
x27;t have
it, then. For my needs, dmenu and *sh-completion suffice.
> * All data you created, and I hope it's *not* in /home.
>
> Like Nik says, if your goal is to get it back up in 5 minutes, your
> best bet is to back up the entire system, as well as the mbr or
> whate
`zcat` piping. There is still no zpager :-/
# but with `lv` I don't really need one.
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Hi,
wirelessduck--- via Dng writes:
>> On 26 Nov 2021, at 20:40, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>>
>> # On my own machines `lv` makes a fine `pager` for me. On the fly
>> # decompression and handling of many different encodings. So for me,
>> # it's just
&g
Hi,
wirelessduck--- via Dng writes:
>> On 27 Nov 2021, at 14:24, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>
>> Looking at the lesspipe manual page[1] (don't have less installed ;-),
>> it seems that it doesn't support on-the-fly encoding switching but as
>> far as dealing
test -s /var/mail/$LOGNAME \
&& lockmail /var/mail/$LOGNAME \
&& /bin/sh -c "cat /var/mail/$LOGNAME | reformail -f0 -s maildrop &&
>/var/mail/$LOGNAME"
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fying of PDF files but
perhaps pdftopdf can be of help here.
It's in the cups-filters-core-drivers package.
> If you have a document or image that you are converting to a pdf then
> if you format the document or image landscape then the exported pdf
> will also be landscape.
Hope th
but seeing
there's a smooth scrolling option too, I'm not sure anymore.
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sImportant "true";
meaning that automatically installed packages that have only a Suggests:
or Recommends: dependency left, i.e. no Depends: or Pre-Depends:, will
be removed. Looks like you have something similar in which cause you
should probably run
apt-mark
e's any `|` in there, DON'T feed it to apt-mark.
After that you can, in theory,
apt purge xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
without losing your xfce4 dependencies.
URK! Dogfooding this, I am told that another 150+ are going to be
purged, most likely because of task-desktop and task-xfce-deskto
Hi Steve,
Steve Litt writes:
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:49:59 +0900
>
>> [stuff about trying to get rid of *pulse packages on an Xfce4 system]
>
> About the only positive thing I can say about xfce is it's better than
> Gnome, KDE and the
ces for searching
> .desktop (alt+F3) and $PATH (alt+F2).
Haven't looked at it myself, yet, but dex might be of help. I just saw
it getting added as a dependency to i3-wm on daedalus.
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-mark showhold`
ought to list any packages that are on hold and `apt-mark unhold` will
remove the hold.
However, seeing that apt wants to install packages from backports, I'd
disable that in your APT sources first and give it another try.
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Hi,
o1bigtenor via Dng writes:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 5:12 AM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> o1bigtenor via Dng writes:
>>
>> > Greetings
>> >
>> > Basic question is: what happened?
>> >
>> > I wanted
n the apt-get and apt.conf manual
pages. While the apt.conf settings are honoured by the apt as well as
apt-get commands, I am not sure apt will honour the same set of options.
Finally, the list of automatically and manually installed packages (as
well as those on hold) is maintained via the apt-m
- dunno how but all that was installed was a kernel.
What probably happened is that you selected the versioned kernel in the
devuan-installer when you first installed that beowulf system. The
installer gives you a choice between a versioned kernel and one that
tracks the latest version.
I don&#x
ot;chgrp -R staff /usr/local; chmod -R g+w /usr/local; find
/usr/local -type d -exec chmod g+s '{}' \;"; };
ought to keep things the way I prefer them. The snippet uses -R instead
of the more descriptive --recursive for brevity.
Note that the above is simplistic. If you ha
tt@mydesk ~]$ "/usr/bin/cat -n /etc/fstab" | cut -b 1-20 | head -n5
Here your shell looks for a file called "fstab" in a directory called
"etc" in a directory called "cat -n " in /usr/bin.
> bash: /usr/bin/cat -n /etc/fstab: No such file or d
Hi,
Steve Litt writes:
> [...] Here at Troubleshooters.Com, spaces and all punctuation except
> underscore and hyphen are forbidden, but files coming in from the
> outside have horrible filenames.
Pretty sure you allow periods too ;-P
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ting
> this, bt a friend of mine who is colourblind tells me it's far more
> complicated than this.
Yup. Red/green colour blindness is most common but there are many more
varieties and some involve more than two colours. A greyscale version
is a good first approximation to check whether c
blindness and some other visual impairments. I have
played around with a tool for Chromium a while back but don't remember
it's name.
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how to read (pronounce) characters. Hearing it might
help prevent a trip to the dictionary ...
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o used as the default GRUB GUI theme (if you've installed
desktop-base, IIRC).
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!) after I
recreated swap (moved the partition and ran mkswap on it).
Updating /etc/fstab and /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume to match the
changed UUID and running `update-initramfs -u` made it go away.
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Hi,
Florian Zieboll via Dng writes:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 12:07:07 +0900
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Florian Zieboll via Dng writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:34:28 -0500
>> > tempforever wrote:
>> >
>
;s/#.*//; /^[ \t]*$/d' /etc/apt/sources.list{,.d/*}
so we can see what sources you're using.
BTW, I don't use synaptic myself. Too much bloat. The command-line
suits my needs just fine.
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nd personalized bulk mail. IIRC it was
>> quite annoying to set up, but once done, it worked.
>
> I just use /etc/aliases
That was my first reaction too ;-)
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Hi,
tito via Dng writes:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:27:52 +0100
> Didier Kryn wrote:
>
>> Le 25/01/2022 à 09:49, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng a écrit :
>> > Hi Tito,
>> >
>> > tito via Dng writes:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >> [...
rk the package for Devuan and maintain the appropriate information in it
>>
>> My opinion is that 1) is not a good option, because the mirror list is
>> volatile
>> information and that would require stable updates on a regular basis (and
>> that
>> won't e
Hi,
Hendrik Boom writes:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 05:43:44AM -0600, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 3:02 AM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hendrik Boom writes:
>> >
>> > > On Sun,
this area, even in
the expert installation mode.
Checking on my initially jessie installed laptop, subsequently upgraded
to ascii and then beowulf, this setting was added when I upgraded dbus
from 1.10.22-1+devuan1 to 1.10.22-1+devuan2 (on 2019-03-17).
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fit the pattern, and
> the best way to purge it.
As Antoine mentioned linux-image-amd64 is a meta package that depends on
the latest versioned linux-image-$version-amd64 package. See
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=linux-image-amd64=5.15.15-2~bpo11+1
configuration true for your system. I do and tend to muck around with
the apt and network configurations quite a bit but for most part there
is a lot of configuration that I use as is.
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("new iov_iter flavour: pipe-backed")
To: Alexander Viro
To: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org
To: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
so it l
ced mode
installation though.
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ted with Firefox.
>>
>> (I've also got Vivaldi, Opera and Falkon available.
>> Find that all the other browsers except firefox-esr expect one to
>> update almost daily - - - sorry I find that that kind of behavior is
>> usually a waste of my time!)
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amd64 Packages
chromium | 100.0.4896.88-1~deb11u1 | http://deb.devuan.org/merged
chimaera-security/main amd64 Packages
Seems to be there alright.
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s that are in main.
I do seem to remember that the handling of the file changed a bit and
that now the kernel loads it instead of whatever used happen before
that.
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contents
where you can search for both files and packages.
All that said, these days the Xorg server works quite well without this
file, auto-detecting things upon startup, so chances are you don't have
this file.
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esystem entries and about 7000 of
those on an NFS backed filesystem on the NAS downstairs. The rest is on
an SSD (NVMe).
Another point, the grep approach also lists everything below a directory
that matches, whereas the -name approach does not. That may be a lot of
extra junk to scan through d
configuration.
As I mentioned in a previous response, nowadays Xorg gets by without
this file quite well, most of the time. It simply probes your system
and uses what it finds. You can configure things yourself but you'll
have to write your own /etc/X11/xorg.conf yourself.
Hope this
just sit this one out, maybe even put libelogind0 on hold for
a while, until things are sorted out.
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Hi Mark,
Mark Hindley writes:
> Olaf,
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 06:14:26PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> Ah! Looking at the currently installed libelogind0=246.10-3, I see it
>> Provides: libsystemd0 whereas libelogind0=246.10-4 no longer does.
>>
>
gt;
>> which, I think should be
>>
>> Breaks: libelogind0 (<< 246.10-4~)
Oh! Missing digit ...
> src:elogind version 246.10-5 with this fixed is being built at the moment.
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Hi Mark, list,
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng writes:
> Mark Hindley writes:
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 01:44:44PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
>>> I have had a look at the dependencies again and I think I see the (my!) bug.
>>> libelogind-compat has
>>>
Hi,
Mark Hindley writes:
> On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 08:38:06AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> and do not have a desktop installed in case that matters.
>> Instead I rely on startx to start i3 for me when I need a GUI.
>
> Ah, so, no libpam-elogind? Yes that probably makes
?
- if not, how do I keep the copies in sync?
- should I use LVM?
- does randomizing the partition for /home make sense if on LVM and may
get resized sometime in the future?
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Hi Antony,
Thanks for the feedback. I've been researching a bit myself in the mean
time as well but still value additional input from the list.
Antony Stone writes:
> On Sunday 24 July 2022 at 05:18:47, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I lost the
Hi Didier,
Didier Kryn writes:
> Le 24/07/2022 à 05:18, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng a écrit:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I lost the single SSD on my mini PC and am in the process of rethinking
>> its storage. So far, I've got myself two brand new and identical PCIe
>> N
Antony Stone writes:
> On Sunday 24 July 2022 at 11:58:01, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>> Hi Antony,
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. I've been researching a bit myself in the mean
>> time as well but still value additional input from the list.
>
> I complet
feeling. Looking at manual pages, doing web searches and
not really finding what you're looking for.
I often forget to look below /usr/share/doc/$package/ ...
Have a peek at /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz
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Hi Gregory,
Gregory Nowak via Dng writes:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 08:54:00PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> OK but if / and /boot are encrypted, something has to be able to decrypt
>> that before GRUB can read /boot/grub/grub.cfg. It might be that GRUB is
>> a
I do think the overall impression he gives is
> unfavourable and inaccurate.
>
> I'm rather more amazed that he labels Devuan (and therefore by extension
> Debian too) as "retro" and yet gives a pretty complimentary review, in
> comparison, of Slackware!
>
> Anto
oomd does not depend on oomd ...
> Thank you for Devuan! Thank you for some sanity.
>
> And yeah, it appears that with Debian oomd is not installed as standard
> so far, but if its in Fedora, it may come with Debian at some point in
> time. Or not, after their recent experiences
, at least not
with a recompile, but perhaps xss-lock can help with that. Haven't used
it myself (yet?) though. See the manual page at
https://bitbucket.org/raymonad/xss-lock/src/master/doc/xss-lock.1.rst.in
for details.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# xfce4
#
#
ireshark to check that
> it's talking to the network and the server - it appears to be doing so
> (accessing server at 95.216.15.86).
>
> I'm wondering if it could be another effect of the recent key expiry
> problem.
I'd start a shell in the installer envi
l surely let everyone know when there are mini isos and then installer
> isos to test.
... and am still waiting for an announcement of newer isos to test :-/
# I've even been checking pkgmaster.devuan.org about weekly for newer
# isos. No such luck ... yet :-(
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owledge level is
not known a priori would spell it out first time around (with the
acronym in parentheses) *or* provide a link to a (wikipedia?) page
explaining the thing.
As per above.
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(perhaps
already mostly completed) support for vCards integration for org-mode.
Of course if you don't use Emacs already (or are hooked on vi/mutt) then
most or all of the above is of little use and concern.
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t; while true; do kill -ILL 1 ; echo -n "." ; sleep 0.5 ; done
> [...]
>
> OMG, that's both sad and hilarious.
>
> The jokes about systemd being ILL almost tell themselves.
And the systemd fan-folk will be complaining about ILL will, no doubt.
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es a long directory listing
> searchable by eye.
Aw, why not use your browser's search/find functionality?
Does Ctrl+F work?
# Still prone to eyebal searching myself but trying to improve ...
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aphical installer.
Besides amd64, there are also installers for armhf and i386 but I've not
tried those.
For documentation, refer to the Debian installer's docs. Things don't
seem to have changed much.
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rg?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng>,
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I suspect that the Dyne.org Webmail client is "helpfully" converting the
above List-*: header to the gunk you get to se
lient?
Only if that user can also read the content of the directory in the
first place. For that it needs r-x on the directory.
# I vaguely remember that only --x is sufficient but am no longer sure
# (and too lazy to check ;-)
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se the question of commensurability.
# Guessing you imply EUR as units (seeing an .at domain) but
Definitly so if Zimbabwean dollar, LOL.
Even JPY, although these don't have fractional bits, anymore.
Just my 2 JPY,
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BIOS settings perhaps.
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he
> development.
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# retro these days ;-) and seem to be using polkit with elogind. There
# are no consolekit packages on my system.
# Wait! I just noticed libck-connector0.
# Hmm, I see I have libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 installed but no
# libpolkit-backend-elogind-1-0. Is that a/the problem?
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any resources issues. Keep up the good work!
> Any talk of switching our base is premature.
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commends) ASCII install w/o any
extra software worked fine for me. If one is going to upgrade right
after the ASCII install anyway, not installing extra software during
the initial install saves you lots of bandwidth.
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d you get that. If you don't have
installed, you get `more`.
Personally, I prefer `lv` as I have to deal with Japanese in various
encodings :-/ but it also does on the fly decompression. Great when
looking at a compressed /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.gz!
# There's still no zpager,
h, not 2.0.0 as shown in the form.
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are referring to the mythical bird that rises
>>> from the ashes, it is 'Phoenix' in English. Anything else is not
>>> English.
>> Vous devez apprendre à parler la belle langue. Même certains Anglais
>> peuvent l'apprendre.
>>
> Why ? Everyone els
#x27;t run into any other
> issues either so far.
You did do a cold reboot after removing them, right?
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Hi,
Dimitris via Dng writes:
> On 1/10/20 1:32 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>>> Why ? Everyone else seems to want to learn English ;-)
>> Want to?
>>
>> I was forced to at the tender age of 12.
>> In addition to French.
>
> +1 ,
> and i think
Hi Erik,
Erik Christiansen writes:
> On 10.01.20 20:18, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> # There's still no zpager, even after asking for it two decades ago :-O
>> #
>> # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=49942
>
> In the "less" manpa
orks the same way on all of my applications. In that
respect, fcitx comes pretty close (using Xfce).
> I am not sure why "a video-conferencing app" needs it though.
Writing meeting minutes and chat, perhaps?
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dure with the Beowulf beta
ISO this no longer works :cry:
Off now to try with the amd64 server ISO (on non-UEFI hardware).
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Hi Mark,
Mark Hindley writes:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:05:18AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> goli...@devuan.org writes:
>>
>> > Dear dev1ers,
>> >
>> > The Devuan 3 Beowulf Beta release is now ready for review. The
&
Hi,
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng writes:
> Hi,
>
> goli...@devuan.org writes:
>
>> Dear dev1ers,
>>
>> The Devuan 3 Beowulf Beta release is now ready for review. The
>> installer isos, desktop-live and minimal-live isos can be downloaded
>> from:
>
n chromium. That
may be more of an issue as that package is completely useless by itself,
AFAICS at least.
BTW, the details on making it a Recommends: are in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=913116
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* that invalid rule trigger the cascade of
errors you see.
I don't see the offending file in any of the Devuan/Debian packages so
assume you installed a Canon provided scanner driver. In that case
Canon really should be fixing this up but you could post the file (here
or over at the sane-de
s._local
These have the second least significant bit of the first byte set to
one, so starting with 04 is NG. First byte values matching 0x#2, 0x#3,
0x#6, 0x#7, 0x#a, 0x#b, 0x#e and 0x#f, where # stands for an arbitrary
hexdigit, are fine.
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See https://minifree.org/
> How difficult was it?
Not difficult at all but I'd been using Linux (Debian) as a software
developer and small-time sysadmin for two decades already.
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em installable from it
>
> do not contain the ifupdown package (nor other networking utilities besides
> busybox ip?).
>
> The resulting base installation remains offline.
I reported that in
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20200322.113542.8f9ac3d5.en.html
and there was ta
p.
If the OP has task-console-productivity installed it might be a Devuan
specific issue. The brltty package is recommended there and there is no
such task in Debian AFAIK.
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ilar as well. Seeing every few seconds irrespective of triggers
is overkill, as you mentioned already.
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Hi,
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> 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.
I think in Europe it's better known as a nicotine patch.
Hope
rather, eh, "on topic", I guess.
Doesn't this thread kind-a make working on systemd something worthwhile?
Wouldn't we be better off burying the thing and get on without? Not
just in Devuan but also on the list?
Just a thought,
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r
solved it for me ;-)
Eh, perhaps I should mention that I also did a
apt install netplug wpasupplicant ifupdown
and tinkered a bit to get my interfaces(5) and wpa_supplicant.conf(5)
snippets in working order.
Hope this helps,
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