Re: [DNG] linux-image-4.9.0-9-amd64 update breaks networking

2019-08-14 Thread Simon Hobson
Chris Richmond wrote: > Aug 4 18:33:15 teton dhclient[3755]: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1c:c0:e1:d0:ff > Aug 4 18:33:15 teton dhclient[3755]: Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1c:c0:e1:d0:ff > Aug 4 18:33:15 teton dhclient[3755]: Sending on Socket/fallback > Aug 4 18:33:15 teton dhclient[3755]: DHCPDI

Re: [DNG] IBM Gives Away PowerPC; Goes Open Source

2019-08-30 Thread Simon Hobson
Didier Kryn wrote: > Therefore it means IBM doesn't care anymore in PowerPc arch ... That's what I > fear, actually. I don't think it means that. It's clear that PowerPC is stuck as a niche architecture. The only way out of that is to get lots of people using it - and making it freely availab

Re: [DNG] ..the D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future ... albeit with broken SSH login

2019-09-26 Thread Simon Walter
I heard them talking about this on Jupiter Broadcasting. I think it was in a previous episode they mentioned Devuan too and talked about how some maintainers of Debian are having second thoughts. As with PulseAudio and Systemd, it might be a good idea, but the way Mr. Pottering goes about things i

Re: [DNG] ..the D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future ... albeit with broken SSH login

2019-09-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/27/19 7:25 AM, Steve Litt wrote: ... > > Basically, Kmail became dependent on a huge database called Akonadi and > an always dragging lookup facility called Nepomuk, to the point that > you couldn't fix things by moving files around or changing a config. I > bailed out of Kmail, and six month

Re: [DNG] I wrote IBM

2019-09-30 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/29/19 12:36 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > Sorry Steve . . . I think this idea is naive, ill-advised and a tactical > error that could have very real, unintended consequences. So that the ignorant among us can understand learn, do you mind telling us why? Thanks,

Re: [DNG] I wrote IBM

2019-10-01 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/1/19 12:57 AM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2019-09-30 09:27, Simon Walter wrote: >> On 9/29/19 12:36 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >>> Sorry Steve . . . I think this idea is naive, ill-advised and a tactical >>> error that could have very real, unintended cons

Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-12 Thread Simon Hobson
Jim Jackson wrote: > (*) These pi's are a lot more powerfull than the Sun Sparc servers we had > NFS serving user data to 60+ workstations back in the 00's :-) Ah yes, to think that many of us routinely carry around in our pockets more storage, RAM, and CPU capacity than we could have dreamed

Re: [DNG] OT: KVM/QEMU incremental backups?

2019-12-08 Thread Simon Walter
On 11/19/19 8:21 PM, hal wrote: > Is anyone doing QEMU/KVM incremental backups of a running VM? I'm trying > to find some info on how best to accomplish the backup as well as a > restore. I have not done it with a VM, but I suppose it should work fine: LVM snapshot. I take one every 30 minutes on

[DNG] Hidden "Chrome Web Store Payments" menu entry...

2019-12-08 Thread Simon Walter
is is from upstream. Does anyone about this? I thought maybe other privacy conscious users would like to know. It seems like the exact thing that the Chromium package maintainer would remove or document. Best regards, Simon PS I removed the screenshot as I think it may not be allo

Re: [DNG] Hidden "Chrome Web Store Payments" menu entry...

2019-12-09 Thread Simon Walter
On 12/9/19 8:56 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:24:05 +0900, Simon wrote in message > <6d01ab17-3ab2-bc52-cbb2-f838087fe...@gikaku.com>: >> I suppose this is from upstream. Does anyone about this? I thought >> maybe other privacy conscious users would lik

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

2019-12-10 Thread Simon Hobson
backup. Ah, but zero the whole disk and it will dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M It'll use one write cycle on the media. Simon -- ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

2019-12-11 Thread Simon Hobson
n one of the disk utils ? Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists (was: Can we fix this DMARC thing?)

2019-12-28 Thread Simon Hobson
Steve Litt wrote: > ... we could at least > change the munge string from: > > Firstname Lastname via Dng > > to: > > GOES TO DNG (IRT Firstname Lastname) > > So when you do "return to sender" and it crazily puts > dng@lists.dyne.org in the To field, at least that To field won't be > disguis

Re: [DNG] Question: Why does "mkdir -p" produce unexpected file permissions and group

2020-01-25 Thread Simon Hobson
n the directory, while "below" means those items within other directories. So /usr/local/foo is "in" /usr/local and /usr/local/something/foo is "below" /usr/local. I'm not sure which designation /usr/local/something (being a directory rather than a file) comes

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-04 Thread Simon Hobson
applaud your thinking, but alas I fear the result may be https://xkcd.com/927/ > Also, who has time to rewrite polkit and dbus from scratch? Alas I have neither the time nor skills to help with such a project :-( Simon ___ Dng mailing list

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

2020-03-12 Thread Simon Hobson
me dir off it's server on whatever machine you are using ? Something perfectly doable since ... err ... long before I ever got involved with any unix[like] system. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Beowulf Beta is here!

2020-03-18 Thread Simon Walter
On 3/16/20 1:22 AM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: ...  - Note that firefox-esr no longer requires pulseaudio. You can easily    remove pulseaudio and just use alsa. Oh yeah! I can watch Youtube now with Firefox now! Thanks for the news and for the for Devuan!

Re: [DNG] ibus

2020-03-18 Thread Simon Walter
On 3/18/20 7:12 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:59:41 +0100 "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote: Anno domini 2020 Tue, 17 Mar 10:27:11 +0100 Didier Kryn scripsit: ...     There's now a fashion of doing all innovations in a complicated way. It seems developpers have become unable to th

Re: [DNG] AMD Ryzen? -> AMD bashing

2020-03-29 Thread Simon Walter
e specific on how they failed and what the reason they failed if you want to be taken seriously. What motherboard? You don't mention a motherboard, just a 2200G. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] What to do with an inode?

2020-03-30 Thread Simon Hobson
ch results related to file with no directory entry, but the inode staying in existence due to the file being open. As in, "I want to create a directory entry pointing to a specific inode to rescue the file so it doesn't disappear when closed". I didn't actually look at any of thes

[DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Simon Hobson
roperable with anything else, while FreeSwan and OpenSwan were having a bun fight. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Simon Hobson
hink) for a long time now. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Debian abandons LSB

2020-06-05 Thread Simon Hobson
pdate drops all lsb-* compatibility packages, and is therefore an > abandon of the pursuit of LSB compatibility for Debian. Only lsb-release and > lsb-base are kept as they continue to be used throughout the archive. Simon ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] Debian abandons LSB

2020-06-11 Thread Simon Hobson
in rc?.d, thereby > rejecting the idea of stable renumbering in order to keep existing order where > possible (fix-init). And contributing to the "SysVInit is bad - it's scripts are too long" "argument" from certain quarters. Simon

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread Simon Hobson
lot of possible causes, which makes fixing the problem tricky. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Problem with DHCP during boot

2020-07-15 Thread Simon Hobson
s apart which ties in with the timestamps of my packet capture files. Can anyone give me any hint as to what is bringing up the network before it is supposed to be ? Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Problem with DHCP during boot

2020-07-17 Thread Simon Hobson
here that's happening. I think I'll ask the same question over at the ISC DHCP list, we're a friendly bunch over there, but it's more an OS question than a DHCP one. Still, there's a range of experience, so someone else might have hit this and know the answer. Simon As

Re: [DNG] Problem with DHCP during boot

2020-07-20 Thread Simon Hobson
p-users mailing list https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-users Mind you, the first of those does seem "rather old" ! Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] OT: mpv drops GNOME support

2020-07-20 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-07-09 03:57, Jim Jackson wrote: > > https://linuxreviews.org/Mpv_drops_GNOME_support > I love the poetry a commenter left. He knows how I feel. "Fuck GNOME devs coming straight from tha underground A young hacker got it bad cos he's out of other FOSS choices so devs think They have the

Re: [DNG] Problem with DHCP during boot

2020-07-21 Thread Simon Hobson
is run to bring up networking. I'll have another go at it when I next get a bit of spare time. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] my experience upgrading to NFT

2020-08-02 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-08-03 07:36, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-08-02 17:00, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> What is NFT? > > nftables, the slowly arriving successor to iptables. > https://wiki.debian.org/nftables I've been using Shorewall for years. I only just now learned that: https://sourceforge.net/p/shorewall

Re: [DNG] Zoom?

2020-08-04 Thread Simon Hobson
load direct from Zoom's website. I recall trying it out not long ago, I "wasn't impressed" with some of the dependencies - it seems to pull in a lot of dubious looking stuff. Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote: > I've switched to teams. That&

Re: [DNG] Privacy and large public, yet privately owned, service providers (was: Re: Zoom?)

2020-08-04 Thread Simon Hobson
veryone could see it would also be blown away, but there is too much riding on business as usual to allow such details as fundamental incompatibility between the two sets of law to get in the way. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Zoom?

2020-08-05 Thread Simon Hobson
with people and they have made that decision. At the day job we are starting to use Teams. I can see a lot going for it, but it also looks like more of the same slow, clumsy, eye candy we've come to expect from MS. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] End-end encryption (was: Zoom? Rather not...)

2020-08-06 Thread Simon Hobson
. And of course, we all trust Faceborg to to abuse such access don't we, after all they have no track record whatsoever of dodgy dealing or ignoring the law do they ? Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-09 Thread Simon Hobson
, I second the suggestion for rsync. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Simon Walter
ors. So head failure is an issue, and can also be predicted by SMART data. Mishandling of drives is something that SMART can't predict of course. ;) Best regards, Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Simon Walter
from the information provided to this mailing list. I know it's possible to see that in the SMART data, but I didn't see that posted. Are short reads always surface errors? Best regards, Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https:/

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/5/20 11:19 AM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-09-04 20:46, Simon Walter wrote: On 9/5/20 1:34 AM, Andreas Messer wrote: Hi golinux, On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: [...] I have no idea how reliable the

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Simon Walter
fsck found the corruption. That's just a bit too much to get into. I would only worry about it if the reallocated sector count keeps rising. For always connected disks, smartd is your friend. Best regards, Simon ___ Dng mailing lis

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Simon Walter
se-SATA-hard-drive-caddy-hot-swap-hdd.jpg Best regards, Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/5/20 12:50 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 12:26:21PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: Reallocation, to my knowledge, should happen in the background. It's *possible* that the reallocation event and the FS corruption are unrelated. My understanding is that the drive

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-09 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-09-09 15:53, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: > On 5/9/20 10:38 pm, Simon Walter wrote: >> On 9/5/20 12:50 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 12:26:21PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: >>>> Reallocation, to my knowledge, should happen in the backgro

Re: [DNG] OT? ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-24 Thread Simon Hobson
- and at no time would the customer be told about O365's dirty secret, that it will throw away some of your main and you'll never know unless the sender contacts you via a different means. Clients were also told that there was no GDPR

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-26 Thread Simon Hobson
ent and changed my settings in their control panel to wrong settings, and lost mail that they'd had queued on the wrong server for some time (triggered delivery without any notice, but from the wrong server and my server rejected them as it only allowed mail specific servers (the ones

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-27 Thread Simon Hobson
ure there are some constraints. In any case, there are some thing it makes sense to block - so-one else should be running a mail server and claiming to be in my domain, stuff like that. Some basic protocol checks block a good proportion of spam - and very cheaply in terms of resou

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-28 Thread Simon Hobson
s hosted) gives me a /64 IPv6 block > for free. That's 2^64 addresses. And the same with our home ISP, in case > I felt like violating the terms and running a server. Yeah, I can have a /56 or /48 for IPv6. How many IPv4 addresses do you have since

Re: [DNG] Is t worth the effort for SPF?, DMARC>, DKIM?, etc

2020-09-28 Thread Simon Hobson
linux mailer SMTP, where it came with > teo alternative sets of greetings. I always preferred the second option > of; > "Who are you going to pretend to be today" and the response > "Thrilled beyond bladder control to meet you" > and so on. That's great :D I

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-29 Thread Simon Hobson
over the neighbours. > Another possibility to discard spammers claiming to be your domain is to set > SPF -all. That, however, has other drawbacks. I think you missed the context. For *MY* mail server, I can ignore any SPF records etc - if the connecting client claims to be me then

Re: [DNG] Is t worth the effort for SPF?, DMARC>, DKIM?, etc

2020-10-02 Thread Simon Hobson
ay others' freedoms in a small way. Hmm, didn't Devuan come into being partly due to someone pushing a policy of not caring what he breaks for other people ? Sorry, that was a bit below the belt but I hope it illustrates the issue. Luckily the breakages with email have (mostly)

Re: [DNG] à chacun son goût (was: Is it worth the effort for SPF, DMARC, DKIM, etc.?)

2020-10-04 Thread Simon Hobson
roposal (followed through with implementation), pushed though ignoring any objections, known to break existing setups/configurations (deliberately so), and accompanied with a "I/we don't care, it's your responsibility to fix/work around whatever I/we break" att

Re: [DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-10-07 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-09-28 19:48, g4sra via Dng wrote: > On 28/09/2020 02:29, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:35:55AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: >>> On 27/9/20 13:59, g4sra via Dng wrote: I have reservations about where QT5 is going, despite any issue with pulseaudio, now might be a go

Re: [DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-10-07 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-09-27 19:25, . via Dng wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a thinkpad laptop with a separate numeric keypad.  I was using > devuan ascii with KDE happily on this machine, but when I upgraded to > beowulf  I lost the use of the numeric keypad.  It appears to be > KDE/plasma that's at fault, so I

Re: [DNG] Any parties interested in lxc ?

2020-10-07 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-05 11:23, tom wrote: ... > > I would appreciate if we kept this on-board unless needed. Never know > when someone in the future might find it useful. > I would appreciate that too! I use it mainly on servers, but also some dev env. I used the LXC and Debian documentation to get start

Re: [DNG] Any parties interested in lxc ?

2020-10-10 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-08 21:08, g4sra via Dng wrote: > On 08/10/2020 04:30, Simon Walter wrote: >> On 2020-10-05 11:23, tom wrote: >> ... >>> >>> I would appreciate if we kept this on-board unless needed. Never know >>> when someone in the future might find it use

Re: [DNG] Any parties interested in lxc ?

2020-10-10 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-11 08:10, g4sra via Dng wrote: > On 10/10/2020 21:47, Simon Walter wrote: >> On 2020-10-08 21:08, g4sra via Dng wrote: >> -- snip -- >>> >>> Anybody enlighten me about the meaning of the phrase... >>> >>> 'The controller see

[DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-22 Thread Simon Walter
hich, like many of you, is why I don't like it when software changes. Best regards, Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/23/20 7:27 PM, Dimitris via Dng wrote: On 10/23/20 10:04 AM, Simon Walter wrote: Has any of you TB users (assuming there are any here} done this migration? How is the new shiny? Is it fine? Shall I forget about TB? Any suggestions of what could replace it? yes it works, but not

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/24/20 7:03 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..heh, I've used Claws for over 18 years now, ever since it was known as Sylpheed version 0.7.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu), never really looked back, it's email the way email was meant to be. :o) Oh it's Sylpheed. I used that at one time when I ha

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/25/20 7:20 AM, Mark Rousell wrote: On 23/10/2020 08:04, Simon Walter wrote: Has any of you TB users (assuming there are any here} done this migration? How is the new shiny? Is it fine? Shall I forget about TB? Any suggestions of what could replace it? I'm not in a hurry to do

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/26/20 5:07 AM, Dimitris via Dng wrote: forgot to mention seamonkey (https://www.seamonkey-project.org/). -- also these days, webmail/nextcloud can be used as groupware too, with calendars/contacts included.. webmail gpg support is very rare (for a pretty good reason imo), but mailpile ca

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-28 07:47, Rick Moen wrote: ... > I continue to like projects that are limited in feature scope enough to > not live or die by corporate underwriting. E.g., mutt continues to be > maintainable by a small group of motivated developers. When I want it > to be graphical, I run it in an xte

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-28 08:20, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Dimitris T. via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > >> still recommending TB to clients/people though... > > In case it's useful, I keep a list of all known MUAs for Linux, here: > http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/muas.html > Necessary disclaimer: As anyone

Re: [DNG] the email universe

2020-10-29 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-29 20:12, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Greetings > > Found the list of MUA useful. > > The last time I went looking though - - - it seemed to me anyway that > much more than just a MUA is needed for a complete system. > > Would someone be able to outline for the unknowing what all actu

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-10-30 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/30/20 3:19 AM, Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote: That said, I've stopped using unbound and I'm using straight BIND as my local resolver lately. It's pleasant. From what we discovered about unbound during one of the meetings, I clearly do not trust that technology. What meetings? Is it pos

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-10-30 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/30/20 7:29 AM, Rick Moen wrote: ... FWIW, I am no longer comfortable with the idea of a combined authoritative/recursive server on a publicly exposed static IP. That has been deprecated for long decades as bad security, particularly because it increases the risk of cache poisoning of the re

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-02 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/31/20 11:18 AM, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: On 31 Oct 2020, at 10:52, Simon Walter wrote: On 10/30/20 3:19 AM, Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote: That said, I've stopped using unbound and I'm using straight BIND as my local resolver lately. It's pleasant. From what we d

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-11-05 Thread Simon Walter
I updated another field/site laptop yesterday and noticed (again) that TB was not updated passed 68. My heart was glad. I want to thank the Devuan maintainers for making these kind of sane choices. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ___ Dng mailing lis

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-05 Thread Simon Walter
On 11/3/20 4:36 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:08:50 +0900 Simon Walter wrote: On 10/30/20 7:29 AM, Rick Moen wrote: ... FWIW, I am no longer comfortable with the idea of a combined authoritative/recursive server on a publicly exposed static IP. That has been deprecated for

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-05 Thread Simon Walter
On 11/3/20 8:44 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: Hi Rick, Rick Moen writes: Quoting g4sra via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): Can anybody suggest a suitable authoritative/recursive DNSSEC supporting name server for SOHO domain use on embedded systems. What I am looking for is something like dns

[DNG] cdist real-world

2020-11-20 Thread Simon Walter
I just now had time to update cdist and saw this gem in docs/src/cdist-real-world.rst: case "$os" in devuan) : ;; *) echo "OS $os currently not supported" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac _

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-12-01 23:59, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 03:33:41PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > >> What, specifically, gets installed as part of Devuan which you don't want to >> see there? > > As an exercise, try doing a minimal install via debootstrap, which is > arguably the

Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-11-29 21:26, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with > Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten it to work without Pulseaudio? I set up an old Dell XPS desktop for a friend's son with Manjaro. I chose this because it was the only dist

Re: [DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-12-04 08:59, John Crisp via Dng wrote: > On 3 December 2020 09:12:07 CET, Edward Bartolo via Dng > wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> If you have other solutions which I did not think of, please suggest >> them. Thanks for taking the time to reply. >> > > "Firefox" has lost it. Hey ho. > That t

Re: [DNG] samba/NAS box problem

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
S shops and that looks useful. Vielen Dank, Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Oldstable and Archive timing expectations?

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
change is imminent. Thanks, Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Oldstable and Archive timing expectations?

2020-12-04 Thread Simon Walter
On 12/4/20 10:47 AM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2020-12-03 19:39, Simon Walter wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> First of all, sorry if I missed this in the docs somewhere. I had a look >> around the website and particularly https://www.devuan.org/os/releases >> has

Re: [DNG] samba/NAS box problem

2020-12-04 Thread Simon Walter
On 12/4/20 11:47 AM, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > Am 4. Dezember 2020 02:19:42 MEZ schrieb Simon Walter : >> On 2020-12-02 02:18, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: >> ... >>> You can 'nmap --script smb-protocols ' for a list of supported >>> versi

[DNG] Mental Outlaw does Devuan

2020-12-04 Thread Simon Walter
He has a lot of good videos - not so accurate, but I love his enthusiasm. He reminds me of myself when I was 15. He just put this out: Devuan 3.0 Beowulf Install & Review - The Best Entry to Freedom from SystemD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzDwiEaehrQ&t=0 -- Sent from my mobile device. Plea

Re: [DNG] Oldstable and Archive timing expectations?

2020-12-04 Thread Simon Walter
On December 4, 2020 9:17:12 PM UTC, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >On 2020-12-04 14:25, Adam Borowski wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:43:25PM -0600, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >>> > I have a lot of systems running ascii and no plan to upgrade them >yet. I >>> > don't want to upgrade when ascii is a

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-12-06 Thread Simon Walter
On 11/6/20 11:08 AM, Simon Walter wrote: > I updated another field/site laptop yesterday and noticed (again) that > TB was not updated passed 68. My heart was glad. > > I want to thank the Devuan maintainers for making these kind of sane > choices. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you

[DNG] Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.

2020-12-08 Thread Simon Walter
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Re: [DNG] Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.

2020-12-08 Thread Simon Walter
languages. AFAIR Let's Encrypt web page has a list. I found it at: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/ Thank you so much. I actually don't need anything messing with my Apache configs. I just need automatic renewal. I will study the various clients on that page. Best regar

Re: [DNG] Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.

2020-12-08 Thread Simon Hobson
Simon Walter wrote: > Other than a manual install, are there any alternatives? I am interested to > hear how others are doing this. I never got round to switching from using SSLMate - only $16/yr (equates to around £10/yr for me) for a basic (domain.tld + www.domain.tld) cert, but q

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-08 Thread Simon Walter
On 12/9/20 7:01 AM, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 09:56:54AM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: Unfortunately for those who are scared of source code and perhaps those who are scared in general, it is all too easy to become paranoid. After all, you are at the mercy of those who are

Re: [DNG] godaddy (was Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.)

2020-12-13 Thread Simon Hobson
at I'm now down to around 5 years left on my domains - so time to extend that back up to 9+ years. Like you, I don't subscribe to the "year by year and leave it late" renewals policy. We had clients with domain name problems caused by that. Of course, t

Re: [DNG] Ethernet names revisited

2020-12-13 Thread Simon Hobson
Also did the same thing with my Xen guests - gave the interfaces on the host meaningful names via the guest config files. I think removing the need to remember something is better than being good at remembering it (which I'm not anyway !) Simon ___

Re: [DNG] snapd in Devuan? Dependency on systemd...

2020-12-17 Thread Simon Walter
On 12/2/20 4:44 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: 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

Re: [DNG] savings from parallelism (Was: if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names)

2020-12-24 Thread Simon Hobson
it, everyone else had to put their requests in a queue. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] double negative

2020-12-25 Thread Simon Walter
On 12/26/20 2:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:07:57AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:18:55 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr):     Just to remind, if you forgot it.     There's one known case where double positive means negat

Re: [DNG] Apollo computers (Was: savings from parallelism)

2020-12-26 Thread Simon Hobson
Didier Kryn wrote: > I remember these Apollos. They were shining and ran some brand of > Unix if I remember well. We had a few in my lab but I never got a chance > to touch one. I knew "just about zero" about Unix back then so can't comment on how they compared with anything else. The OS wa

Re: [DNG] Why X does keyboard and mouse.

2021-01-01 Thread Simon Hobson
ick the mouse together - but given the processing abilities of modern hardware, I think it would need to be "together" (from human response times PoV) for it to be a risk. But really it's a moot discussion. It didn't happen, and it's not likely to given the vested interests in pushing their own ideas these days. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] librewolf

2021-01-25 Thread Simon Walter
Hi all, I noticed several discussions about browsers. Has anyone used librewolf? It's not a debian package. There is an appimage though. I'm not sure this is the official home page: https://librewolf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Best regar

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-02 Thread Simon Walter
I wish that the first three emails had their replies intact and were in the reply after quote style. Then I would print it out and frame it. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

2021-02-15 Thread Simon Hobson
who put absolute "free and open" above all else. Some who are more pragmatic and accept that sometimes non-free or non-open is acceptable when it comes to getting work done. There isn't a right or wrong - just a "best for your preferences" compromise. Sorry, couldn't resist this quote : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] GNUPGP Web of trust

2021-02-26 Thread Simon Hobson
or starters : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-05 Thread Simon Hobson
quot;We thought X was badly broken, so we developed Y which will require you to reconfigure lots of stuff - but even we have to admit that Y is actually more broken and here's the complicated ways to get sane behaviour" Simon ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Stable identifiers (Was: My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft)

2021-03-06 Thread Simon Hobson
ging to the network scripts - and the timing changes they produced changed this behaviour ! Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-10 Thread Simon Hobson
xx:xx:xx no 0.13 1 00:1e:0b:xx:xx:xx yes0.00 ... 00:16:3e is the OUI prefix used by Xen - so those first two lines are virtual machines Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] What does this remind you of?

2021-03-10 Thread Simon Hobson
hus while you lose the granularity possible when doing it from inside the box, you have created a separation of functions. I don't think either approach is "right" or "wrong" - but doing both would probably be best. Simon ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

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