Posts made by pattonb

@gjacobse Thanks, I have tried the recommended ones from Microsoft, the diskpart now shows it is out of "read only" , but it is a false reading. I can access some of the data ( most data is saved to server)m but users always know better (LOL). Next I will try dd and see how that goes, I suspect I may (low probability) be able to "fix" the installation after running dd. Thanks again. I was hoping for something I had not heard/seen.

@gjacobse Samsung 970 EVO

I have a m.2 that is in a read only mode, after an electrical disruption. I have tried all the online solutions without luck. Is there a relatively simple solution to this ? ( windows 10 OS)

In cleaning up, I came across these stickers. They are from the mid 90's, when we were introducing
linux file servers to our smaller clients. A client ( a printer) made up a whack of these, I must have a hundred or more sheets. If anybody wants some, I would mail them to you. When I saw them again, I chortled. If this post is out of line, my apologies

@dafyre of course. The aliases are email addresses, as the cronjob output needs to be emailed
to a few/several recipients. The script runs fine. I have zero issues with the script. It is just
the email aliases are not expanding ( /etc/aliases) .I am puzzled as it has worked fine for literally years.

@travisdh1
It is in a shell script, crontab just runs the script. The script is about 17 lines.
The weird thing is ( to me) , this backup server has been in operation for about 10+ years, so
minimal changes ( hardware over the time frame), and I started with Debian squeeze, and I have
never had any issues aside of a failing disk on the raid array. It has something to do with the
upgrade to Bookworm, I guess I will need to look over the release notes again, and/or replace postfix.

As mentioned in the subject line, I upgraded my backup server (debian bullseye) to debian bookworm yesterday. Since I upgraded, the aliases in crontab are not expanding. The aliases are sent a backup report from the rsync command line (cron job). Previous debian dist were fine when upgrading. I have done a search and could not find anything. Has anybody seen this issue ?

Why not use apcusd (http://www.apcupsd.org/)

you can calibrate the ups and monitor and much more. I have it running on a few proxmox pve servers. There is a Debian wiki as well. (https://wiki.debian.org/apcupsd)

you just need the usb cable that connects to the ups.

I am scratching my head on this one. I have added a dmarc record for a domain, but the query does not display the p value. I am at a loss for why.

the zone file

_dmarc.decca-design.com. IN TXT v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected];

and the query

dig _dmarc.decca-design.com TXT

; *<<>> DiG 9.16.44-Debian <<>> _dmarc.decca-design.com TXT
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 586
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_dmarc.decca-design.com. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_dmarc.decca-design.com. 600 IN TXT "v=DMARC1"

;; Query time: 55 msec
;; SERVER: 75.153.171.67#53(75.153.171.67)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 19 20:51:00 MST 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 73*

any idea why no "p" value ?

thank you

I have figured it out , need the double quotation marks around the values, sigh
ie. "v=DMARC1 p=none"

Now that isc-dhcp-server is officially eol, what is most/everybody using ?
isc-kea ? or ????

@IRJ sadly, have my "attachments" and a couple of my old keyboards fall into that category, they have worked for "oh so many years" and just keep on working, thus
my attachments.

@IRJ correct, You can buy these for about $2.00 ( from China), as I just did, and will
see how well they work.

Has anybody had success using ps2 to usb adapters ? ( specifically for keyboards)

I have one and can't get the keyboard recognized, I still have a few "favourite" ps2 keyboards. Does it make any sense, to cut off the ps2 end, and replace with usb ?

thanks in advance.

They use new batteries, from a 3rd parry, ( not official APC batteries) , I have used the same supplier/manufacturer and have had better results (https://www.magnacharge.com).
I was wondering/curious if it could be tied to the age of the UPS.

thanks for all the replies. I have a client that replaces the batteries about every 2 years, they test the batteries every month, ( the test on the APC 2U unit) what would explain the short life ? The UPS is about 14 years old.

What sort of timeframe, , does everybody get on UPS batteries, before needing to change.

my experience is about 4 years.

@JaredBusch , that is my suspicion, users these days click on "whatever" to get past screens they don't understand. although, in saying that, there is may on line reports of a bitlocker being deployed, but again, those are online accounts. so, somewhat suspect for accuracy.

greetings, I have a user that claims on his recently purchased lenovo laptop, that he started it up and is now asking for the bitlocker key. I have checked his Microsoft account, and there has not been any bitlocker keys used or saved. Is this a matter of a user inadvertently enabling bitlocker or............ ?

@dbeato that wasn't the issue

@dbeato argh ubuntu, too many things on the go. my apologies