My experience, solely as a user, has been that sometimes the unstable
distribution breaks and you're hosed. I can't remember when I was last
burned by running testing.
Joel Rees writes:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker
>> wrote:
>>
>>> fc:
>>> >
>>> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff?
>>>
>>> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of t
Patrick Bartek writes:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker
> wrote:
>
>> fc:
>> >
>> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff?
>>
>> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list
>> masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all o
I'm trying to use exim4 to send email to another site. My host
connects, negotiates a TLS connection and sends what seems to be a
reasonable amount of application data.
I then get an encrypted alert from the other host, the connection shuts
down, and the email doesn't get delivered. I don't get
Vincent Lefevre writes:
> On 2017-03-21 21:39:40 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2017-03-21 21:19 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> > aptitude ignores the apt preferences.
>>
>> Huh? At least on my systems, it obeys them.
>
> Perhaps with your configuration. And this is probably also true when
Vincent Lefevre writes:
> I've just noticed that aptitude upgraded packages from unstable to
> experimental versions (just with 'U' from the UI) without any warning!!!
> Again.
>
> Is there any replacement? Or a way to make aptitude ignore
> experimental packages?
>
> Note: I still want to keep e
Curt writes:
> On 2017-03-03, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
>
>> I will top-post as it is meaningless to comment specifically.
>> I do have 5 and have not used base since I don't know when, on this
>> installation it was firsts. I am made fun of having large fonts as I
>> refuse to wear glasses and my eye
David Christensen writes:
> On 02/04/17 07:18, Ric Moore wrote:
>> I'm looking at a Seagate 750 gig drive that went south on me with a pile
>> of errors. Good luck getting Seagate to give a good gosh darn. In the
>> past I have had mixed results replacing the drive motherboard. I saved
>> two out
I'm starting to try to learn pythonOCC (a wrapper on the OpenCascade 3d
modeling library) as an excuse to learn python itself, and am running
into some problems right off the bat.
(1) pythonOCC wants to be installed using a package manager called
conda (see http://www.pythonocc.org/download/ a
john cusey writes:
> Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs?
>
> I tried to install opera on Debian.
Did you look at https://wiki.debian.org/Opera ?
Ben Finney writes:
> Michael Milliman writes:
>
>> I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain
>> 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is
>> Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python).
>
> The policy for Python in Debian requires that “/usr
Brian writes:
> On Wed 09 Nov 2016 at 11:27:11 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:12:13AM +, Brian wrote:
>> >
>> > That gives "-bash: /dev/sda2: Permission denied" for me with a fixed
>> > disk. It's the same for a removable disk. The system came like that.
>>
>
Felipe Salvador writes:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:37:53AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 11/7/2016 6:20 AM, Felipe Salvador wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > > *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable.
>> > > Suggestio
Reco writes:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:22:02 -0600
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> Recently, I've been getting email messages that look like this:
>>
>> *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/w3m terminated
>
> This is recently fixed
Recently, I've been getting email messages that look like this:
*** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/w3m terminated
=== Backtrace: =
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x70bcb)[0x7f03ee523bcb]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f03ee5ac0e7]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
Harry Putnam writes:
> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>>
>> Any particular reason you need that particular version? Could you
>> upgrade your virtualbox VM to a different kernel and use the headers
>> for that kernel (or if I'm misremembering which kernel requires
Harry Putnam writes:
> Juanjo Benages writes:
>
>> El 25/10/16 a las 19:48, Harry Putnam escribió:
>>> Where can I get the kernel headers for my kernel 4.6.0-1-686?
>>>
>>> apt-get does not show that version.
>>>
>>> Googling for awhile here and not finding it either
>>>
>>> Trying to install vb
Richard Hector writes:
>
> It appears that Montenegro only came into existence (most recently) in
> 2006 - it was part of Yugoslavia, then 'Serbia and Montenegro'. So all
> the 'good' codes were presumably taken.
I'd imagine .me would, like .tv (Tuvalo) be one that a small country
could use to bo
Johann Spies writes:
> On 27 September 2016 at 23:34, Tony Baldwin
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Emacs?! People still use the crusty old thing?
> Perhaps he consider dumping that monstrosity and joining the rest
> of us in the 21st Century, and upgrade to a modern OS with a
>
Charlie writes:
> Hello Debian Users,
>
> I have a network issue that I find perplexing:
>
> When I do: # netstat -r -n
>
> or
>
> # route
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
> 0.0.0.0 10.80.2.85 0.0.0.0 UG 00 0 eth0
Nicolas George writes:
> Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit :
>> I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up
>> until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it
>> turns off the screen
I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up
until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it
turns off the screen, but leaves the laptop running. With a recent
update (possibly this morning, but I couldn't swear to it) I'm not able
to do this an
Ivan Petrov writes:
> 06.09.2016 22:19, Joe Pfeiffer пишет:
>> Curt Howland writes:
>>
>>> I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different
>>> phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations,
>>> nada.
>>
Tony Baldwin writes:
> On 09/04/2016 09:22 PM, Carl Fink wrote:
>> On 09/04/2016 09:13 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>>> I'm at a loss, friends:
>>> I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP
>>> device, and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8.
>>> AFAIK, I have all the requi
Curt Howland writes:
> I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different
> phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations,
> nada.
I've only been able to do it using jmtpfs (I don't have it set up to
automount using that).
--
"Erwin, have you seen the cat?" --
Anthony Baldwin writes:
> Sorry for top-posting.
> Iḿ no t even sure what it was that DID solve this but the phone is now
> mounting at mtp://[usb:005,012]/
> Must have something to do with installing the jmtpfs pkg,
> because that's the only thing I can think of that I did yesterday that
> could
Brian writes:
> On Sat 27 Aug 2016 at 09:15:50 -0500, limpia wrote:
>
>> On 2016-08-27 08:55, Steve Greig wrote:
>> >I would like to download a programme (opencpn) onto my laptop which is
>> >running debian. It is so long since I have done this I can not
>> >remember how to start. Also I am not s
"John T. Haggerty" writes:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Perry E. Metzger
> wrote:
>
>On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:06:15 +0200 Frederic Marchal
> wrote:
>
> > The download must be long
> > enough (more than one minute) for the attacker to discover the
> set
> > of paramete
Ben Finney writes:
> Dan Ritter writes:
>
>> evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub
>> files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files are
>> opened by evince".
>
> Bah, you're right. This is a long-standing request (since 2008!) in the
> Gnome BTS htt
Темир Урокбаев writes:
> Hello. Tell me, is there a
> comprehensive list of terminal
> commands, and where to find it
> or download.
Others have given good information; I'll just add that there can't be a
comprehensive list: in addition to the built-in shell commands and the
common utilities, a
Francesco Montanari writes:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Jessie on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The fan usage
> looks reasonable. However, high temperatures (96 C) are reached when
> CPUs are running intensively for more than one minute or so. The fan
> speed at those temperatures is about 4500 rpm.
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>
>> > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package manager.
Sven Hartge writes:
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look
>> like this:
>
>> Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so):
>> /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open
Christian Seiler writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/17/2016 05:11 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Christian Seiler writes:
>>> [Suggesting journalctl -o verbose to debug this]
>> I'm running a current Debian testing installation, and journal is
>> enabled.
>>
I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look
like this:
Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so):
/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM adding faulty module: pa
Bob Bernstein writes:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> :-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
>
> Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you
> changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if
> I launch 'emacs -nw' to a
Martinx - ジェームズ writes:
> Rest in Peace Ian!
>
> I wanna know exactly what happened with him.
>
> On 30 December 2015 at 20:44, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/
Yes. The story as reported so far is really bizarre.
Michael Fothergill writes:
> Dear Folks,
>
> I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in
> grub2.
>
> E.g.
>
> http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html
>
> Is there any substance to this?
Yes, for the microscopic proportion of people who put a pa
Bob Holtzman writes:
> Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall.
> Reinstalled all my s/w including msmtp and fetchmail. I brought
> .fetchmailrc over from my backup as well as .msmtprc. Both had been
> working flawlessly on the previous install. Now when I run "fetc
moxalt writes:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:32:25 +, Alan Chandler
> wrote:
>
>> Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of
>> the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar
>> etc on display)
>
> If you want a Chrome-like browser, what's wr
For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large
number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is
there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything
involving that architecture deleted? The best answer I've found on my
own has been to
David Wright writes:
> Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu):
>> Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's
>> another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with
>> Anonymous Pro, it seems a bit narrows a
Cindy-Sue Causey writes:
> One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was
> trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search"
> inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yar!),
> but stumbled on a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed a
rlhar...@oplink.net writes:
> On Mon, September 21, 2015 11:33 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>> a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a "fixed width sans serif
>> font designed for coders".
>> Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four
>> fixed-width fonts designed
Ralph Katz writes:
> On 08/12/2015 10:46 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than
>> this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as
>> welcome as any that address the question! I'm a D
doug writes:
> On 08/12/2015 10:46 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than
>> this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as
>> welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debia
rlhar...@oplink.net writes:
> On Wed, August 12, 2015 10:22 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
>> On Wed, August 12, 2015 9:46 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> ...
>>> Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source
>>> isn't silent, and mute other sou
rlhar...@oplink.net writes:
> On Wed, August 12, 2015 9:46 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source isn't
>> silent, and mute other sources in that cases?
>
> It does not directly address your need, but I think that
I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than
this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as
welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so this is
where I'm trying first
Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audi
Chris Bannister writes:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:17:31AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>>
>> In addition, you could put your laptop up on some blocks, so
>> the airflow is better, or use an external fan or
>> vaccuum cleaner to help.
>
> I'd be a bit hesitant to recommend to use a vacuum cleaner,
I'll echo the advice on cleaning the fan(s), air vents, and any ducts.
I've seen laptops which have been used in enviroments like sitting on a
blanket which whose vents have become completely blocked. Also, of
course, make sure the fans are actually turning, and haven't failed!
I'll also echo the
Patrick Wiseman writes:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:25 PM, John J. Boyer
> wrote:
>> I have net-tools. ifconfig works only for root. WHY? On other distros
>> ordinary users can use it.
>
> You haven't been listening to what others have been telling you.
> ifconfig resides in sbin, which is in ro
"John J. Boyer" writes:
> Why isn't ifconfig available on Jessie? There id no package. The
> command produces an error message that it has not been found.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:44:35PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> John J. Boyer wrote:
>> >I have Jessie set up for CLI only. T
"John J. Boyer" writes:
> None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not available on Jessie. ip
> seems to be inapropriate. dig produces nothing. I have used ifconfig on
> other distros.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:41:27PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>> * John J. Boyer [2015-0
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI writes:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:15:17 -0400
> The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> If you substitute in "madams" for "mesdames" (since, AFAIK, "mesdames"
>> is just the French equivalent of the same word), it makes more sense.
>
> remember that "madam" is usually apposite for the manag
andmalc writes:
> I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are specified
> in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently made
> changes to the disks that made a device name invalid but didn't
> notice. When I rebooted, the disk couldn't be found and boot halted
Talitha Thalya writes:
> My name was never meant to show up on a google search like this linked
> to Debian. and
> dated back in 2001 Not Ok it was meant to go to the cause. this is a
> misuse of trust. please remove me. name stated in this email address.
> Thanks
>
> Taliban woman 2001
> https:/
Carl writes:
> Really? I may have unthinkingly assumed everyone reading was a native
> speaker is American English. In my dialect, "out" means "openly
> homosexual" far more often than "quitting". The joke had nothing to do
> with Mr. Hess and everything to do with mocking my own first reading
>
Jerry Stuckle writes:
>
> The tone is subtle, and not necessarily something a native English
> speaker would see. But I see it there.
Are you seriously claiming that a non-native speaker would be likelier
to pick up on subtle, and quite possibly subconcious, cues than a native
speaker?
--
To
Carl Fink writes:
> When I wanted the options for umask, I typed 'man umask' and got the man
> page for it as a C header diretive? (I'm not a C programmer, but it seemed
> to be for C header files and came from section 2.)
>
> This is darn confusing for a new user. I have been around long enough
Harry Putnam writes:
> googling to learn how to enable modules in apache2-2.4.10-1+b1
>
> I'm getting a little too much input to really see what to do.
>
> what is the name of cgi module? That would be very useful for the
> `a2enmod' cmd. And for something real simple like making sure it is
> i
B writes:
> On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:10:10 -0600
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> Do you have more information on encfs being declared a security
>> hazard? Your post is the first I've heard of it.
>
> http://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm
> (You'll note that d
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been
>> declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at
>> least in jessie repos.
>>
>> What are people using as a replacement? Hopefully something as easy
>> to use and encfs was.
Do y
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my
> aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to:
>
> // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option
> Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "removals";
Whether it helps
Esther Carillo writes:
> On 2014-07-12, François Patte wrote:
>> I don't know anything to android but I have to connect an android
>> device to a computer.
>
> I run a smbd server on my desktop and ES File Explorer app on my phone.
> Scanning my network with the app detects the Samba share and I
Joel Rees writes:
>2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" :
>>
>> Joel Rees writes:
>>
>> > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" :
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi
>> >> wrote:
>&
Joel Rees writes:
> 2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" :
>>
>> Joel Rees writes:
>>
>> > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" :
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi
>> >> wrote:
>&
Joel Rees writes:
> 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" :
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi
>> wrote:
>> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks
>> > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what
>> > I am af
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Kushal Kumaran
> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>> Well, I don't want to keep two separate files (that's what I'm try
Steve Litt writes:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:27:56 +0530
> Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>
>> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>>
>> > First, here's what I'm trying to do:
>> >
>> > I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I
First, here's what I'm trying to do:
I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm
successfully mounting it automatically using pam_mount when I log in.
My email is processed by a .procmailrc file in my home directory, and
I'm passing the email through bogofilter. So, at pr
Tom Roche writes:
> Lisi Reisz Fri, 23 May 2014 17:10:49 +0100
>> "box" is a verb, so I found it confusing.
>
> You are indeed confused. As a native speaker of English, I can assure
> you, 'box' is both noun and verb.
> Also, having been "in computing" in the US for decades, I can assure
> you, '
Ralf Mardorf writes:
> On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 21:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 15:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > Kinda seems like the (de) evolution of cars, doesn't it? As a kid,
>> > I could tune up my beater flat head 6 1959 Plymouth in 20 minutes with
>> > a 10 inch
staticsafe writes:
> On 4/24/2014 19:15, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
>> Hello list:
>> Have you read this stupid things?
>>
>> http://boycottsystemd.org/
>> https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rage-against-systemd/
>
> What a waste of bits indeed.
But there's
ray writes:
> Marc,
>
> Thank you for your efforts. I tried it again and reached
> http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ which seems like the URL in source.list is
> just a relay.
>
> ray
One small note -- it would be helpful to include a little bit of context
in your messages (like I did here)
ray writes:
> The URL in the default source.list doesn't seem correct:
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list ->
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
>
> The above path is to a directory with other folders. But Wheezy is a
> subdirectory of dists, not debian. So it seems the
Darac Marjal writes:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a
>> 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box
>> into the new one and doing
I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a
64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box
into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'll be
neede (which will be very minor). So, while I'm at it, I'm curious --
is there any clean w
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes:
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago Google News carried this:
> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-enable-silverlight-watch-netflix-linux/
>
> I tried it and it works as advertized, an easy installation and
> Netflix works.
>
> IMO the latter is overrated: mostly old hat hu hum movi
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
> Muntasim-Ul-Haque writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address
>> or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way?
>>
>> -Muntasim Ul Haque
>
> The fact that you already have the M
Muntasim-Ul-Haque writes:
> Hi,
> How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address
> or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way?
>
> -Muntasim Ul Haque
The fact that you already have the MAC address doesn't matter in finding
out your IP address.
ifconfig will give
Sven Hartge writes:
PaulNM writes:
Thank you both for your help -- your suggestions were exactly what I
needed (I delayed responding until I was confident I had everything
working).
I'm puzzled as to why parted refers to these partition types as
"flags" -- seeing that when using the program,
My goal here is to be able to have a bootable, running system in the
event of a disk failure. I've been running two disks in a RAID-1
configuration, with grub installed on both disks, for some time. My
/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf is essentially empty, as mdadm has been
successfully finding my RAID part
Robert Baron writes:
> Second question:
>
> Doesn't memcpy allow for overlapping memory, but strcpy does not? Isn't this
> why memcpy is preferred over strcpy?
According to the man page for memcpy, "The memory areas must not
overlap. Use memmove(3) if the memory areas do overlap."
strcpy wi
Robert Baron writes:
> Aren't many of the constructs used as examples in the paper are commonly used
> in c programming. For example it is very common to see a function that has a
> pointer as a parameter defined as:
>
> int func(void *ptr)
> {
> if(!ptr) return SOME_ERROR;
> /* res
Reco writes:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:46:48 -0500
> "Cybe R. Wizard" wrote:
>> > How about this bug:
>> >
>> > http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html
>> >
>> > Impact: Successful exploitation of the bug will allow a user to run
>> > arbitrary commands as root.
>> >
>> > Exp
Curt writes:
> On 2013-11-02, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Again -- isn't "basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0." Permits
>>>> someone who *has* sudo access to avoid retyping a password.
>>>
>>> Not only that.
Reco writes:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:19:43AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Reco writes:
>> >> You also have to add to the picture such a vulnerability, and I haven't
>> >> noticed any.
>> >
>> > If we're speaking of public vul
Reco writes:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 09:28:51PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Reco writes:
>> > True, you need to add to the picture that curious user who just read on
>> > Bugtraq or Full Disclosure about fresh vulnerability in sudo. Or that
>> > di
Reco writes:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Reco wrote:
>> >>> Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled
>> >>> privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not
>> >>> updated unless local sysadmins care about security) sudo on these OS
Jonathan Dowland writes:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:29:33PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>> Speaking about endianness, it really is hard to manage:
>>
>> void myfunction( ... )
>> {
>> #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN
>> move_bytes_in_a_specific_order
>> #else
>> move_bytes_in_the_other_specif
Doug writes:
> On 09/09/2013 06:16 PM, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote:
>>> I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the
>>> cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over
>>> again every year.
>>
>> HP cartridges are also v
William Hopkins writes:
> On 09/03/13 at 03:45pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Stephen Powell writes:
>> >
>> > Interesting. If "break" appears out of context, you should get
>> > an error message something like:
>> >
>> >b
phillip johnson writes:
When your subject line is three lines long (on my display, anyway) maybe
you should move it to the body of your post.
When the body of your post is empty, you should *definitely* move
something in there.
Does your table run Debian Linux? If not, why are you asking here?
Stephen Powell writes:
>
> Interesting. If "break" appears out of context, you should get
> an error message something like:
>
>bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop
>
> You didn't get an error message, so part of bash thinks it is in context.
> Yet it did not exit
David Guntner writes:
> Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>>> Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hello,
This morning I have been puzzled by bash.
After typing the following command:
"Thod Motte" writes:
> Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as
> Windows 95 was in 1997 and less
> customizable.
>
> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have
been h
David Guntner writes:
> Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> David Guntner writes:
>>
>>> Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>>> David Guntner wrote:
>>>>> Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on
David Guntner writes:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> David Guntner wrote:
>>> Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it,
>>> even though I removed all partitions and repartitioned it? Is there a
>>> utility out there that can wipe the MBR of a drive
"M.Atıf CEYLAN" writes:
> On 07/25/2013 03:14 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> You haven't said a lot about your topology; are both interfaces visible
>> to the firewall through whatever series of switches you might have?
> Yes
>> Actually, that pretty much has
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