what is ri in dpkg -l about?
desired = remove, status = install I dont remember marking this packages in anyway, nor are they removed on a full-upgrade or autoremove. So what are these packages about? $ dpkg -l |grep -vE ^ii Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=-==-- ri fonts-lohit-knda 2.5.3-2 all Lohit TrueType font for Kannada Language ri gnome-video-arcade0.8.5-1 amd64Simple MAME frontend ri kde-runtime-dbg 4:15.08.2-1 amd64debugging symbols for KDE base runtime module ri kde-workspace-dbg 4:4.11.22-2 amd64debugging symbols for the KDE Plasma Workspaces ri kdelibs5-dbg 4:4.14.13-1 amd64debugging symbols for the KDE Development Platform libraries ri lib32tinfo5 6.0+20151024-2 amd64shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling (32-bit) ri libboost-iostreams1.55.0:amd641.55.0+dfsg-4 amd64Boost.Iostreams Library ri libboost-regex1.55.0:amd641.55.0+dfsg-4 amd64regular expression library for C++ ri libcloog-ppl1:amd64 0.16.1-5+b1 amd64Chunky Loop Generator (runtime library) ri libgnome-desktop-2-17 2.32.1-2 amd64Utility library for loading .desktop files - runtime files ri libio-pty-easy-perl 0.09-1 all module providing an easy interface to IO::Pty ri libkimproxy4 4:4.14.13-1 amd64Instant Messaging Interface Library for the KDE Platform ri libkutils44:4.14.13-1 amd64dummy transitional library ri libppl-c4:amd64 1:1.1-7 amd64Parma Polyhedra Library (C interface) ri libppl13v5:amd64 1:1.1-7 amd64Parma Polyhedra Library (runtime library) ri libqt4-dbg:amd64 4:4.8.7+dfsg-3 amd64Qt 4 library debugging symbols ri libusb-1.0-0:i386 2:1.0.20-1 i386 userspace USB programming library ri libx86-1:i386 1.1+ds1-10 i386 x86 real-mode library ri libxp6:i386 1:1.0.2-2 i386 X Printing Extension (Xprint) client library ri linux-headers-4.1.0-2-common 4.1.6-1 amd64Common header files for Linux 4.1.0-2 ri mame 0.154-3.1 amd64Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) ri mame-tools0.154-3.1 amd64Tools for MAME and MESS ri mess-data 0.154-3.1 all Data files for the Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) ri myrepos 1.20150503 all tool to manage all your version control repos ri network-manager-openvpn 1.0.6-3 amd64network management framework (OpenVPN plugin core) ri network-manager-pptp 1.0.6-1 amd64network management framework (PPTP plugin core) ri network-manager-vpnc 1.0.6-1 amd64network management framework (VPNC plugin core) ri openlugaru 0~20110520.1+hge4354+dfsg-4.1 amd64third-person rabbit action game ri python-backports.ssl-match-hostname 3.4.0.2-1 all Backport of the Python 3.2 SSL hostname checking function ri python-docker 1.5.0-1 all Python wrapper to access docker.io's control socket ri python-docopt 0.6.2-1 all command-line interface description language ri python-texttable 0.8.1-1 all Module for creating simple ASCII tables ri python-websocket 0.18.0-2 all WebSocket client library for Python
Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. So I think this deserves a bug report. Don't get carried away and start typing. #758902 Yeah, This bug is bound to bite everybody at least one... probably more Severity of this regresion bug is wishlist and maintainer doesn't seem to be willing to budge... go figure cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5497e2c1.6060...@gmail.com
we want you ☞ (debconf subtitles effort)
Did you ever wanted to help but werent sure what to do? we want you! We are trying to create subtitles for the debconf talks. Theres no technical requirement at all and you might learn a couple of technical things after you are done if you want! As a perk, you will have early access to debconf videos (did somebody say they wanted to attend to 2 talks at the same time?) You only need to either : * join to irc #debconf-subs [0] * join the mailing list debconfsubs-team [1] * mail me shouting one of these: * I want to do one of the jobs listed below for this particular talk because i loved it! * I want to help but im not sure what to do! * I know what I want to do, but not sure how to do it! * I was able to access the talks thanks to you guys, im so happy! Theres even people that has already picked a talk that hasnt happen yet to sub There are 4 kind of jobs: * create transcripts of the talks * syncing transcrips with the video * correcting subs. Basically a second pass to correct errors * translations to your local language (even tho this is wishful thinking, is it? :) To create transcripts of the videos you only need to open a txt file and write what you listen. its that simple! Put a new line after what would fit on screen aproximately. Some ?? if you dont understand something (some native can correct it afterwards). Ill help you to save the talk if it hasnt happen yet or give access to the video afterwards if it has already happened sounds easy enough? join now! [0] irc://#debconf-subs [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debconfsubs-team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/calkubt6iaq1p6nfx-wgaoqb3mw3wmyh6z4pevs5o4ytf-ef...@mail.gmail.com
Re: the importance of defaults ( was: Debian default desktop environment )
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:17:47PM +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: tl;dr http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tldr In this case I used it like, my mail is just my own opinion and if you dont want to read the mail of yet another skewed opinion, at least watch the presentation that is the interesting part. Its the subject of the mail as well, the importance of defaults. which is pretty objective I've always considered Debian to be closer to the NetBSD goals and objectives and the derivatives closer to the PC-BSD goals and objectives. I believe this distinction is important and is currently the source of contention within the Debian project. Thoughts? Yeah, well, no default desktop at all and make user pick one is another option with a lot of supporters. I agree is bikeshedding in the debian context since the goals of the project are others like you suggest. Give the user more responsability... OTOH, the features which attract some users could be the very features which scare others away. Its just a default. Power users can still dont install desktop or the one they like. This default wont scare anybody away. It only has the potential to attract more new users that have a first contact if at all. I do think defaults are powerful and to have users is very important as well. Among the leechers there are the 2% of new contributors And I dont think we should be disruptive in the transition to jessie This mail was intended for another list anyway. Sorry it ended up here in debian-user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALkubT72ZY=z_amvfuvzubsfwtcbcc9nmhpdijvmkgn391s...@mail.gmail.com
the importance of defaults ( was: Debian default desktop environment )
tl;dr go to [0] On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ghislain Vaillant ghisv...@gmail.com wrote: My vote would be on GNOME 3 classic for now, but XFCE with sensible and visually appealing defaults would do it for me too. You are all facing different experiences with end-users because end-users are probably different. Some likes shiny, others like useful, some are computer illiterate, others are experts, most are in between I had to leave gnome with gnome3 because it disrupted my workflow so much i couldn't cope In my case I like shiny but not at the cost of useful. xfce4 felt like a less polished gnome2 but at least it didn't disrupt my workflow. Some numbers with my free interpretation from ubuntu popcon: unity is installed in 605_209 machines, but its used regularly only by 46_210 Thats a very low number by all metrics for a default desktop [0]. People dislike it. People dislike disruptive My point is that gnome3 is even more disruptive than unity. Do we want to attract users or scare them away? Those who like disruptive desktops will still be able to do it by install it them. The next less disruptive thing after gnome2 is xfce. I used ubuntu instead of debian to make my point because i think is more representative for several reasons: - their numbers are one order of magnitude bigger than debian's - the user base is more average than debian's (its debatable what average even means) [0] Please watch this ted talk about the importance of defaults http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/calkubt4yan+-bpnzjgdfiwvrncdc1g5wnfkl6sv4ixd3iop...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Failed dist-upgrade of 7.1/wheezy and can't reboot/halt (sysvinit related)
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Russell Warren r...@perspexis.com wrote: Ow. Uninstalling the running init is likely to cause problems. If possible, install upstart and sysvinit alongside each other... No, wait. upstart conflicts with sysvinit. I would suggest that, unless you meant to switch inits, you re-install upstart (which will remove sysvinit again). If you ARE trying to switch inits, you may be on your own :/ I am definitely NOT trying to switch inits! I'm not sure why this happened. I simply ran an `apt-get dist-upgrade` per the log I posted (https://dpaste.de/iVgQo/raw/) and it did it. I don't know what triggered it... all I can say is that, prior to this, my normal upgrades have been done with `aptitude upgrade`. The only reason I did the extra dist-upgrade is that apticron was telling me about those updates, they didn't happen with `aptitude upgrade`, so I bumped up to the `apt-get dist-upgrade`. I've since found this bug report, so I'm apparently not alone (and I also happen to be running under openvz... hmm): https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2647 I've tried re-installing upstart (ugh... Yes, do as I say!): http://paste.debian.net/plain/21059 We'll see how that goes. I'm ensuring I've got full backups in place before trying a reboot. Just for future reference. reinstalling upstart worked fine : greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALkubT7ArAG9eSaOsap+Bn2YToNLxMs5MF=ghpbzdi9jfa0...@mail.gmail.com
iceweasel default applications
I run jessie version of iceweasel. These are the default applications on a new profile http://i.imgur.com/bwdD6J6.png It does not recognize most of my applications nor it save after i select one manually after clicking a link bug or feature? Thanks aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALkubT4uDcv1=cdmbvzx9oc0d9-jh7bqjut_3he0fkf5u9m...@mail.gmail.com
Re: How get login history on NIS server during all months?
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Markos mar...@c2o.pro.br wrote: But I have another doubt. This log only the login at this machine. But how to log the autentication of other machines at the NIS server? How keep the login history of NIS clients at only one file at NIS server? Is there any way to do that? Im young and ive read about nis... but never seen it myself. Is this some kind of ldap? Any how, im sure server, and probably clients, keeps records of logins. just tail logs, make a sucessful login and try to find what a login line looks like. Then parse logs and... profit!! There will be probably something in auth.log. Also, there are probably specialized tools for the job... none that im aware of... but it seems easy enough to roll your own cheers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT4roUnjoC+Lg9H=adCo7X5kBGZdPMTKsNf60EhQWK=w...@mail.gmail.com
ec2 image not starting after dist-upgrade
Hi! Im running testing/sid. After last dist-upgrade image refuses to start. I pasted the output from aws at the end of the mail I think this is the key --ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format. I read somewhere about grub having problems with xz images, but not sure how to fix it. So far I tried to change /etc/default/grub from GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to 2 and run grub-update with the disk attached to another instance, to try to boot and older working kernel, but now the instance start and stops without showing any errors my google fu does not show anything and i dont really know much about the kernel to mess with it and i would probably only make it worse on my own. Can anybody help me? :) Xen Minimal OS! start_info: 0xac4000(VA) nr_pages: 0x26700 shared_inf: 0xbf32(MA) pt_base: 0xac7000(VA) nr_pt_frames: 0x9 mfn_list: 0x99(VA) mod_start: 0x0(VA) mod_len: 0 flags: 0x0 cmd_line: root=/dev/sda1 ro 4 stack: 0x94f860-0x96f860 MM: Init _text: 0x0(VA) _etext: 0x5ffbd(VA) _erodata: 0x78000(VA) _edata: 0x80ae0(VA) stack start: 0x94f860(VA) _end: 0x98fe68(VA) start_pfn: ad3 max_pfn: 26700 Mapping memory range 0xc0 - 0x2670 setting 0x0-0x78000 readonly skipped 0x1000 MM: Initialise page allocator for c01000(c01000)-2670(2670) MM: done Demand map pfns at 26701000-2026701000. Heap resides at 2026702000-4026702000. Initialising timer interface Initialising console ... done. gnttab_table mapped at 0x26701000. Initialising scheduler Thread Idle: pointer: 0x2026702010, stack: 0x2664 Initialising xenbus Thread xenstore: pointer: 0x20267027c0, stack: 0x2665 Dummy main: start_info=0x96f960 Thread main: pointer: 0x2026702f70, stack: 0x2666 main root=/dev/sda1 ro 4 vbd 2049 is hd0 *** BLKFRONT for device/vbd/2049 ** backend at /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/297/2049 Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/297/2049/feature-barrier. Failed to read /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/297/2049/feature-flush-cache. 16777216 sectors of 512 bytes ** Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 4 Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 3 Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 2 Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 1 Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 0 [H [J Booting '3.9-1-amd64' root (hd0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.9-1-amd64 root=/dev/xvda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.9-1-amd64 ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format xc_dom_bzimageloader.c:394: panic: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found xc_dom_core.c:536: panic: xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found xc_dom_parse_image returned -1 Error 9: Unknown boot failure Press any key to continue... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/calkubt5+zxvtmscwd5gtp8bevyeqwwyudxw8jdwcdypcv0w...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Evolution error message
Does /home/myuser/.local/share/evolution/mail/local exist? what permissions does the folder have? do you have free space in your partition? I dont use evolution, but there must be in the configuration of your account somewhere that tells you the path where your mails is trying to get saved. check if its there. Or check where it is and configure that path in evolution hope it helps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT4iutY=qy6hboodmcbc4zo7l9ejpzv4redxn9mt5cv...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Updating remote system (testing) through aptitude - non-bootable ... was it intel-microcode?
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Johannes Graumann johannes_graum...@web.de wrote: Hi, I administer a remote server running testing and updated it yesterday (apt history and dpkg log below). After that the system wouldn't reboot. I have access through the hosting companies rescue system and can rummage around, but am at a loss how to trouble shoot this, as messages,dmesg etc seem empty - the system just wont boot the upgraded debian installation. Can anyone point out what might have been the problem from the logs below? How about the microcode update? Could that lead to this? Any ideas on how to proceed? I think is unrelated, but I just upgraded some remote box and wont boot either :) Take a look at this for booting logs so you can see the actual error http://wiki.debian.org/bootlogd hope it helps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT4+BazuzmnSi1m-ReXB6YDf7W=qsk1mpqvtmtm11ki...@mail.gmail.com
Fwd: simulating a large Windows domain with Samba
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: The Domain controller will be an actual Windows machine, but for my test I need to have a very large number of computers added to that domain. I was thinking perhaps a single Linux system running Samba could masquerade itself as multiple Windows machines, but I don't know if that's really possible. Of course is possible, it all depends on how many horse power do you have for this ;) I havent used much samba myself, sorry, but you could create some minimal debian installation with deboostrap and then run separate minimal machines with lxc. If you have access to professional servers, you could pull it off without much effort ;) hope it helps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT7xaQ_zZM=scDZUJdTnH=jxyebhjprkkeeewger4gk...@mail.gmail.com
Re: How get login history on NIS server during all months?
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Markos mar...@c2o.pro.br wrote: The command last -f /var/log/wtmp.1 shows only the month before. Is there any way to get this information? Im afraid that info is lost. Unless you have more of those /var/log/wtmp* logs around... The retention period of that log can be changed in vim /etc/logrotate.conf... you know, for the future ;) hope it helps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT6Sh6FiTMcLynBkF_i1ijq=nhzqf2ycm-ywk57qrhv...@mail.gmail.com
Re: virtual host
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: 1) what should be better: have two only log files (access and error) merged from each virtual host, or a separate virtual host file of each virtual host? This is a matter of taste more than anything else. Even more if you are not running anything with very high load 2) is it secure permit reading access from own virtual host owner? Im not sure what you mean. If you mean you are running an apache virtualhost in a box for another person, and if is secure to permit read to those logs to the owner of the virtual host (who, and im guessing, happen to have some user in that box) then yes. Im no expert but the only problem i could see is a information disclosure security problem... but since is its own virtualhost... no problem Again, Im no expert, but I hope it helps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT44GgELBWmbAdAT49V3BoJ=xkdcadnftjpqxms6d9r...@mail.gmail.com
Re: apache (debian 7) missed chroot module
Ive looked a little at this recently and the best i could come up with is, you either run apache in lxc or you run apache with different users. I run it with different users. There is a helper in /usr/share/doc/apach2/mutiuser.sh or something like that. You have to create the users yourself. It seems the saner isolation i could come up with. There is some apache module for isolation, but you have to have the apache process that process the petitions running as root ... which is not good hope it helps! On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: Hey all :-) Installing apache on debian 7 there isn't any chroot module for apache. Also searching out I didn't found any... any idea to put apache to chroot? thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51d04da3.5070...@fuckaround.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT4tmmB80xtKbtqXeuT9+So4Z=afyvyxkphc4z+mjg1...@mail.gmail.com
Re: virtual host
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: I mean users owner of own virtual host can see own logs. But if there're any security problem by log I prefer deny access to error.log (and permit only access.log [also for purpose statitics]) How are you going to allow read access to owner of virtualhost? does it have some user in that machine? does he have ftp access to virtualhost documentroot? Are you just going to send him the logs somewhere outside your server? I guess it depends in how potentially hostile is this user towards your server, but he will only be able to see the errors of his own virtualhost... I dont really see a problem, but just take this as amateur security advice ;) cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT6eGDgVumWfDUt+ZyOg=mudq3cycdmnwuxi5erqtoy...@mail.gmail.com
Re: calling in gnome active window via process number
wmctrl -a something in tittle of the window wmctrl -l #list windows There are several more command to play with this, but wmctrl can probably do what you want Hope it helps On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: for example there is a GUI application XYZ having process ID 12345 and i want to bring in front of all instead of hitting alt+tab. actually i am using a remote-monitoring Java base application to monitor multiple machines in my network where i can check the real time graph via SSH. since we have multiple windows i do not want to press alt+tab all the time. rather what i want is to use a Bash script to auto switch the application any idea please ? Thanks Myk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT7HbKhnM1r92q7dRX2Y9x9=5qyzg+xbp-q57cptsza...@mail.gmail.com
Re: debtorrent - how to limit the used space
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be wrote: Hi everybody, I use debtorrent but it uses a lot of space (1.8G / 2.7G) from my /var FS. Any idea how to limit this to max. 1G ? I dont know specifics about debotrrent, maybe there is some parameter, but you could just put some cleaner script in your cron to rm some files when it grows too much. Does it run as it own user? maybe you can put a quota to his user. You can create a partition of just 1G just for debtorrent as well. Hope it helps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT4OGE4vTXTtnFBWA8nN9=xr+jhxwavn_ofbtngezdt...@mail.gmail.com
Re: ec2 image not starting after dist-upgrade
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:52 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is the key --ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format. I read somewhere about grub having problems with xz images, but not sure how to fix it. So far I tried to change /etc/default/grub from GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to 2 and run grub-update with the disk attached to another instance, to try to boot and older working kernel, but now the instance start and stops without showing any errors Just for the record for those that come after me. After some digging yes, kernel changed from gz to xz at some point between 3.2 and 3.9 Ec2 run in some xen version that have problems with xz kernels. I just changed GRUB_DEFAULT=2 to 1. This time I checked that was an actual entry of some old kernel 3.2 in /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of guessing the entry. And it worked... Watch out for, i guess, old xen hypervisor, or ec2 when upgrading your debian virtual boxes! cheers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkubT7zNXeJVC7cE54zbwiRLrgf3jiC9vRuCDnS=zoz7ky...@mail.gmail.com
Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.orgwrote: I guess the OP means packets instead of packages. Some languages have the same word for packet and package. However I cannot figure out clearly what he is asking for either. Yes. I never noticed packages and packets are the same word in my language. Sorry to express myself so badly. Its evident my question was confusing I want to avoid the packets travel overseas to connect via vpn to another computer in my own city. I mean ssh, yes. I can connect to the computer in my city opening ports in the firewall for every specific case. And I usually do so. But i was looking for a generic way to use in a third party (openvpn server overaseas) to just handle the establishment of the connection somehow avoiding all firewalls. Some way for B to know I want to establish ssh conection with him and once the connection and dont make all the packets of the session go to the server, just the initial handshake (generic use of word handshake, not necesarily tpc/ip handshake) A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) This seems rather hard and I cant even picture how would it work. Ill take a look at the nat-traverse package and report back :)
Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make it a little more clear. Both computer A and B know about Server. Right now I use openvpn to bring all the computers together into the same network. But it seems too much overhead being both computers on the same city. Even if the server where in the same city as well, it adds another extra jump that i would like to avoid. Thank you
Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: alberto fuentes wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make it a little more clear. Both computer A and B know about Server. Right now I use openvpn to bring all the computers together into the same network. But it seems too much overhead being both computers on the same city. Even if the server where in the same city as well, it adds another extra jump that i would like to avoid. Then using ssh -W as I originally suggested is easy and will do it. Thank you for your answer -W will not do because all the traffic has to go through the server even if its transparent from the point of view of the client A. Also it will hit the firewall when trying to reach B from the server. Right now A and B connect to vpn in server and so I can connect from A to B via vpn, But i wanted to avoid having to send packets that far since I plan to be using the connection heavily.
Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Since alberto said that both A and B know about Server then NAT traversal shouldn't be needed. Actually I want to connect from A to B directly, so nat traversal seems nice, but I cant try it right now... when I have the machine back up I will try it and report back ;) Both computer A and B know about Server. If both A and B can get to Server then it is very easy to just hop through Server to get to the other. The server is just a convenience since both machines are behind firewalls, but I would like to avoid having to use it, because packets have to travel long distance. Also Im planning to make heavy use of it and I have to pay for bandwidth on server ;) Actually I got the idea from filetea [0] that allows to send files from A to B using a third server to make the connection. Actually I dont know how it works and if the traffic is sent through the server. Now that I think about it, I guess it does and I thought it was only used to establish the connection if nat-travesal works, it seems the only way so far to do it. I only need the vpn to start it on both ends. I will see how to automate this :) [0] https://filetea.me/default/
Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:29 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I got the idea from filetea [0] I just checked it out. Its less magical than I thought. It *does* use the server to route all packets :(
connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server
Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server, but I just want to use the server to establish the connection Any ideas :)
Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: alberto fuentes wrote: Subject: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server, but I just want to use the server to establish the connection The crystal ball isn't working well today. Please say more about what you are asking to do. Are you asking for something like this? Host lilypadmachine.example.com ProxyCommand none Host *.example.com ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p lilypadmachine.example.com That way all the packages would be forwarded via the server. The server is overseas. Im trying to connect to a computer in my city. Packages have to travel and comeback. I was hoping some kind of magic that would allow me to use the server overseas *just* to establish the connection between the two computers :)
Re: bind alt + . in bash vi mode
This took me too long to figure it out but in case anybody else was wondering how to do this. This is the correct line... bind -m vi-insert '\e.: yank-last-arg' On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:36 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: I set it to emacs set -o emacs then i saw the function i was looking for was yank-last-arg \e.: yank-last-arg \e_: yank-last-arg I tried to create it for vi mode with set -o vi bind -m vi-insert \e.: yank-last-arg but it does not work... as a side effect 'a' key stopped working :/ Does anybody knows how to achieve this? Thanks!
switching ESC and CAP LOCK in xcfe
i have this ~/.Xmodmap [0] to switch CAP LOCK and ESC but its not executed when login into xfce :S Also, I execute manually with xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap but it switch back to orinal conf within a random period of time and im not sure why... Im running latest wheezy Thank you! [0] $ cat .Xmodmap ! Swap caps lock and escape remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Escape = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Escape add Lock = Caps_Lock -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501bc174.8050...@qindel.com
Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?
On 06/22/2012 04:15 AM, Greg Madden wrote: 1. 'APT::Default Release' in '/etc/apt/apt.conf I think apt.conf is no longer there... At least its long since last time i saw it... I just created a file in apt.conf.d/00default with such directive greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe45e05.20...@qindel.com
Re: journaling on EXT3
On 06/19/2012 07:43 AM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have an EXT3 which is not journaled. I would like to enable it. So I can modify the entry in fstab to read data=journal, but I am unsure what command is required on the live system to 'convert' the EXT3 to journaling. Suggestions would be appreciated. so you have ext2? ext3 is exactly like ext2 with journal added first google result for convert ext2 to ext3 http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm basically, this is the line to add journal to a ext2 filesystem: tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe0207a.3030...@qindel.com
Re: Antivirus for CLI
On 06/19/2012 08:50 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: a newbie question. i am using Debian for providing server level services (non desktop) and i am using only CLI for managing the services further more i am using SAMBA, SQUID, Virtualization KVM and Planning for MTA. do you guys think i need an Antivirus for server side virus protection? We are using Nod32 and i found out that they have a software for GUI only. i couldn't find CLI base client. any help would be appropriated. Thanks, MYK well, for the servers dont really need antivirus protection (how many programs from unknow sources are you using?). You can run clamav for mail attachments and samba shares to protect your users. You can run some nids/ids or honeypot to mitigate attacks on the server greets aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe023ee.4010...@qindel.com
Re: Syslogd message...............
On 06/16/2012 02:31 PM, Charlie wrote: It changes the device from /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdd1 and back again. I am now mounting it as /dev/sdb1. That's what it has always been, and then it started to drop out while I was looking through the files and wouldn't mount and came up as /dev/sdd1 etc.. It keeps shifting, but it's working without error for now. does it shift between remounts or does it shift names live? I know it should not happen, but i have a disk that shift names without remounting it I use smartctl in a while loop to check for temperature every half hour... The script stops working for some reason after a few hours... when i check again the disk, the reason is the disk changed names from /dev/sdc to /dev/sdd.. without remounting... If i make the call with old name, it says the disk does not exist.. if i make a new call to smartctl with the new name... i get a kernel panic (if my memory does not fail me). The disk is fully operation until i make this new call to smartctl. Its a raid case... that might have something to do with it... but since its my first raid case im still figuring out what its normal and what is not :) Anyway, this happened a week ago or so... and i thought it was my hardware's problem until i read your email :s greets aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdece5a.4030...@qindel.com
Re: Syslogd message...............
On 06/18/2012 11:57 AM, Charlie wrote: [...] does it shift between remounts or does it shift names live? It used to shift live. [...] Maybe with raid the problem is different? Well, its a hardware raid and its presented to the system as a single disk. I have to pass a few parameters to smartctl to be able to check the health status of the individual disks... but, yeah maybe is a probelm with the raid... If you dont have any raid and it changed names for you too maybe is not just my raid case :S greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdf0449.4040...@qindel.com
Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14
On 06/14/2012 09:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Alberto Fuentes wrote: Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: After executing the command I got the following output:- # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, but your main problem is that you dont have a DNS server set in your computer as seen in your empty /etc/resolv.conf and your previous error Err http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' Agreed. But why is resolv.conf empty? That is the first problem to solve. Solve it first. One way to fix it is to $ sudo -i # echo servername 8.8.8.8 /etc/resolv.conf Almost but not quite. The word is nameserver not servername. And to deal with potential broken lines there now I would truncate the file with full contents. This would fix it. hehe silly me. God bless peer review :D # echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 /etc/resolv.conf And of course 8.8.8.8 is Google's public dns service. An easy to remember address. Should work to get you going. HOWEVER! The file is probably empty due to not having any network connection. Instead of doing the above at all I think it would be better to determine what the network problem is all about and fixing it first. Then with that fixed the /etc/resolv.conf issue will be fixed too. Yeah, agreed. Check for the box that is giving you ip. Something is wrong with it as they usually gives you dns automatically too. If you dont have control of that box, the above is a nice workaround tho. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdae5f3.6070...@qindel.com
Re: Syslogd message...............
On 06/16/2012 12:14 AM, Charlie wrote: This happens with both powered and powered only through a USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: Message from syslogd@nomad at Jun 16 08:04:30 ... kernel:[ 3187.986721] journal commit I/O error This seems regular error in disks to me. If you have tried the disks in stable and it does not show in syslog, maybe it was just added to show, but it does not mean the error is not there. Try to force check on the partition with fsck.ext -f and look for those entries in the lag again afterwards :) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdb28ac.4040...@qindel.com
Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?
On 06/13/2012 05:01 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, Yes I know about the Linux Documentation project, and that there are howtos that are a part of the system itself, and on line. these are not the sort of books I mean however. I am thinking of external ones, I have a scanner, books with pages smiles. I just searched my local library for example, and found a debian bible 3 x circle 2005...too dated? Other authors / titles I might find? e-books are okay as well, as long as they can be easily accessed. For example while I found a debian for beginners e-book from the free technology academy, In Europe I think as the license references the European Union, the zip format seemed unusual. I prefer text to audio and as expressed am not looking for tutorials if that makes sense. Thanks in advance, Karen actually, lots of people seems to forget about debian reference. Its pretty nice to start in debian. It does not have smiles, but i think all the info its pretty basic, crucial to know and friendly. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ And of course the debian handbook you can google about greets! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd99fd4.1090...@qindel.com
Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14
Please, answer to the list. You only emailed me :) I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, but your main problem is that you dont have a DNS server set in your computer as seen in your empty /etc/resolv.conf and your previous error Err http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' One way to fix it is to $ sudo -i # echo servername 8.8.8.8 /etc/resolv.conf Greets! On 06/14/2012 11:06 AM, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: After executing the command I got the following output:- # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! Best Regards, Joysankar Sengupta On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Alberto Fuentes alberto.fuen...@qindel.com mailto:alberto.fuen...@qindel.com wrote: cat /etc/resolv.conf ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd9ac32.3000...@qindel.com
Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14
cat /etc/resolv.conf ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd8904d.6050...@qindel.com
bind alt + . in bash vi mode
I set it to emacs set -o emacs then i saw the function i was looking for was yank-last-arg \e.: yank-last-arg \e_: yank-last-arg I tried to create it for vi mode with set -o vi bind -m vi-insert \e.: yank-last-arg but it does not work... as a side effect 'a' key stopped working :/ Does anybody knows how to achieve this? Thanks!
modify the upload throttle of an app in real time
i tried trickle but it does not allow to modify without restarting the app I tried wondershepard as well, but it affects whole interfaces only does anybody knows how to attack this problem? Thanks PS: Im trying to save some bits for ssh in a machine that uses the net heavily
Re: Password salt
On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Regards, /Lars From what i see, the password salt is different for each password... so i guess its different each time a password is generated. It makes sense since its saved along the password itself, so its more secure than having a single salt, at no extra cost greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd1bfb3.1020...@qindel.com
Re: Password salt
On 06/08/2012 11:05 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Regards, /Lars From what i see, the password salt is different for each password... so i guess its different each time a password is generated. It makes sense since its saved along the password itself, so its more secure than having a single salt, at no extra cost greets! aL Yes, I understand that the salt is different and random for each password, but how is it stored so that the hash can be used for authentication? Sorry for the dumb questions. Regards, /Lars Oh, i misunderstand your question. Well, as i understand it it, the password has 3 parts, differenced with a $. $ the kind of hash $ salt $ hash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd1c29e.1060...@qindel.com
Re: update-alternatives
On 05/16/2012 09:28 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Even though technically correct, it did not help me on the first (and second read) to understand it correctly although I am an experienced Debian user and was system administrator for 10 years. patch for the man page? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fb35d81.4060...@qindel.com
Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook
On 10/05/12 15:21, Lars Noodén wrote: The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and FREE download: FTFY :) btw, awesome piece of work. Thanks to everyone that made thit possible! greets! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fabc323.9010...@qindel.com
Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook
On 10/05/12 15:47, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:21 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and download: http://debian-handbook.info/ Regards, /Lars What a great contribution. Thank you. I went to the http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.quality-of-service.html page simply because it was an area where I had done a lot of work lately to develop a dynamic traffic shaper to conform to percentile billing. I assume the section is so short because it is such a fabulously complex part of Linux. I figured most of the information was under the given link: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/inetdoc/guides/lartc/lartc.html but that sends me to http://www.inetdoc.net/guides/lartc/lartc.html and generates a 404 Not Found error. Thanks again - John You seem you are looking for this: Linux Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO http://lartc.org/howto/ btw, what is this dynamic traffic shapper you are talking about? ive been after something like that for a long time in linux.. Something similar to what netlimiter is able to do in windows world The only thing ive been able to find similar is trickle and nethogs but they certainly have limitations greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fabc9b4.2070...@qindel.com
Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote: I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed to my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over them. Anyway, I don't think you are going to have any problem to manage a single partition of 2 TiB, even more if you plain to store plain data (not a bootable system) there. I have ext4 in one partition of 1.8 Tb or so. It takes about 40 min to chkfs... just something to bear in mind... Its very convenient to have a large sack to toss the stuff, but it has its own set of drawbacks :) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f968c65.4070...@qindel.com
Re: Working with ssh's escape character
I change often keyboard layouts between en and es... the original keyboard layout of this machine is ES. If i try to press the escape character while in EN, no matter if i press the original ES positions or the new positions of ~ in EN, it does not work... If I change to layout to the original of this computer (thats it, ES), it works just fine...with the current positions of ES layout. i dont really know what parts are implied in this problem, but maybe it helps you to figure it out whats happening in your case :) greets! aL On 19/04/12 21:50, Regid Ichira wrote: I had difficulties getting ssh(1)'s ESCAPE CHARACTERS to be recognized from within a login shell over ssh. In particular, sometimes the escape character was not recognized as such. I was able to find in gmane a similar issue for a Gentoo user from a few years ago. I don't have that gmane URL handy. Do you find the below patch acceptable? --- a/usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1.gz 2012-04-19 21:47:00.933890166 +0300 +++ b/usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1 2012-04-19 17:20:24.0 +0300 @@ -866,6 +866,11 @@ A single tilde character can be sent as or by following the tilde by a character other than those described below. The escape character must always follow a newline to be interpreted as special. +With a login shell, one might issue a single new line character to prepare +the correct conditions for ssh to catch the escape character. +If the escape character is cought by the remote application, perhaps +it is echoed back by a login shell, then it will not affect the +underline ssh channel. The escape character can be changed in configuration files using the .Cm EscapeChar configuration directive or on the command line by the @@ -913,6 +918,8 @@ option is enabled in Basic help is available, using the .Fl h option. +Pressing the return key twice will close the command line after it +was started from a login shell. .It Cm ~R Request rekeying of the connection (only useful for SSH protocol version 2 and if the peer supports it). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f9137a4@qindel.com
Re: Working with ssh's escape character
On 20/04/12 12:17, Alberto Fuentes wrote: I change often keyboard layouts between en and es... the original keyboard layout of this machine is ES. If i try to press the escape character while in EN, no matter if i press the original ES positions or the new positions of ~ in EN, it does not work... Ok, after skimming the docs a little, i noticed you have to press enter before entering the escape character. It works with both layouts now :) Also you can change the escape character to whatever you want in your ssh_config very easily with EscapeChar ~ greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f913dad.50...@qindel.com
Re: help about wine
On 10/04/12 16:57, Yaritza Gomez Villa wrote: Hi, I'm having problem installing Office 2007 under Wine on Debian (64 bits) when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the terminal, *7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Error: Incorrect command line* How do I fix this problem?* * try playonlinux. It brings wizards to install programs... and it includes a wizard to install office 2007 if its really necessary to install malware in your computer greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f8451fd.5070...@qindel.com
Re: Booting Debian from Windows
On 04/04/12 16:10, Patrick Kongawi wrote: To whom this may concern I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to getting debian and Downloading large Image and Download CD/DVD with Jiggo and select one of the official image. Is this the proper way to select and Image and write it to a CD? Will the BIOS read the CD if the Driver is selected? Please advise. Sincerely Patrick Kongawi I usually use http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ But for livecd i usually use ubuntu ones, latest packages conveniently packaged for live image greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7c5e53.10...@qindel.com
Re: Booting Debian from Windows
On 04/04/12 16:44, Alberto Fuentes wrote: But for livecd i usually use ubuntu ones, latest packages conveniently packaged for live image oh, i just saw that unetbootin allows you download debian testing as well... has anybody tested how stable are those for a live? I heard about debian CUT, but im not sure is ready yet. greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7c632b.7090...@qindel.com
Re: backup: automount and launch an script
On 02/04/12 19:31, Camaleón wrote: That's what usually happens when syncing or mirroring, each of the copies are keep the same but I think this can be customized, at least in Unison. Or maybe you need a backup/archive utility more than just a mere syncing approach. Im still building my solution. For the shake of completeness: unison is able to detect moved files and dont resend them. rsync has something that is not as good -y, --fuzzy This option tells rsync that it should look for a basis file for any destination file that is missing. The current algorithm looks in the same directory as the destination file for either a file that has an identical size and modified-time, or a similarly-named file. If found, rsync uses the fuzzy basis file to try to speed up the transfer. Note that the use of the --delete option might get rid of any potential fuzzy-match files, so either use --delete-after or specify some filename exclusions if you need to prevent this. greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7ac889.2050...@qindel.com
backup: automount and launch an script
Im planning to have an external usb disk that i can plug to all my computers, and without interaction, sync all data i want with the disks. Also, umount at the end and send me and email with the details of the backup attempt. The only part im not sure is how to automount the disk and launch the script also, if you know of some tool that is already able to perform all these tasks, it would save me some troble :) thanks! alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f798a03.8010...@qindel.com
Re: backup: automount and launch an script
On 02/04/12 17:04, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:14:11 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote: Im planning to have an external usb disk that i can plug to all my computers, and without interaction, sync all data i want with the disks. Also, umount at the end and send me and email with the details of the backup attempt. The only part im not sure is how to automount the disk and launch the script I bet you can use/write an udev rule to launch a script/program to be run when the automounter detects the device insertion. nice, udev rules is certainly what i was looking for :) also, if you know of some tool that is already able to perform all these tasks, it would save me some troble :) Rsync? Unison? Self-made script? I was thinking about using rsync. Does unison have any advantage in 1 to 1 syncs like the one i want to do? My idea is to have a external usb disk to avoid crashing/get lose related with the machines that hold the data, but maybe is easier (and as safe) if i just connect the disk (external or internally) to one of the machines and issue rsyncs from there... via network. I accept advice about this from people with experience regarding backups One of my concerns is if there is a way to detect that the same file just moved. I mean, if i move a file to another folder, the rsync is going to just erase it and move it from source again (AFAIK). Anyway to avoid this pitfall? There are also package divertions aimed to be used for backup/syncing purposes that may include what you want out-of-the-box. package divertions? what do you mean? any that come to mind? Also im thinking about encrypt the backup disk if is going to be around and somebody can just steal it... any recomendations for this? (i never used encrypted file systems coz im afraid if something is corrupted, is going to be harder to recover) Greetings, thanks! greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f79d418.1000...@qindel.com
sharing desktop on debian - freenx?
Ive seen that the most optimal sharing desktop is freenx but i aptsearched (new verb guys! if i can google something i can certanly aptsearch as well :) freenx does not give any result back on repositories. Searching freenx and debian in the internet give guides ranging from 3 to 6 years old. I know lots of people here can handle just fine without sharing desktop, but when you give remote support over the net is a must, and vnc does not cut it over the internet on low bandwidth links. Since its so hard to install anything like this from repositories, I think im not moving towards the more popular and tested solution. Are you people using freenx or is there any other implementation/protocol i dont know of? Thanks in advance! greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7581b0.5050...@qindel.com
Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not
look at this, is interesting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401835 On 22/03/12 17:49, Jochen Spieker wrote: Pierre Frenkiel: On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: I didn't have that problem. Is it reproducible? yes. I tried apt-get several times before shifting to aptitude. Is the difference coming from the fact that you are on amd64 and I am on i386? I'll try later on my laptop which has a amd64 processor. You could also try removing ffmpeg on your i386 machine again (or upgrading to Marillat's version) and install the specific version again. I assume apt-get developers might be interested in that. Sure, if you only use packages from there that are available from Debian, too. But I use other packages as well. Whether Marillat's use of the epoch qualifies as cheating is a question I cannot answer. This results in completely by-passing the pinning settings. No it doesn't, my pinning works fine. Christian Marillat at least uses documented behaviour in order to make sure that every user uses only his versions, even if Debian currently ships newer upstream versions. The policy says, the epoch is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering schemes, to be left behind. I don't know much about these things, but that doesn't sound like Christian Marillat uses the epoch in a way that was intended by the policy's authors. But then again, he is maintaining his own repository and nobody can force him to adhere to the policy. Of course, the excuse is to avoid dependencies problems, but I imagine that the maintainers of the official repos are also able to manage dependencies for the packages they provide Debian maintainers are not interested in making sure their libavcodec works with Marillat's ffmpeg and vice versa. J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f6c3a0d.4020...@qindel.com
Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude
On 21/03/12 22:22, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2012 13:42:24 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I've managed to mislay your follow up after having read it. It would have helped if you had not copied me in. But no, I do not agree that that is what the manual means. It says - and means - that aptitude dist-upgrade will still work for historical reasons, and is synonymous with aptitude full-upgrade. It neither says nor means that aptitude full-upgrade is synonymous with or identical to *apt-get* dist-upgrade. Lisi I agree with you, but it does not matter. The man page is often outdated and tend to mislead in obscure corners cases of the project Or so I've seen so far... greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f6ae896.2040...@qindel.com
Re: any GUI for LVM2 ?
On 22/03/12 10:37, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, Is there any GUI available in debian/ubuntu for LVM2 ? Thanks thanks to redhat guys! system-config-lvm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f6af4a8.5090...@qindel.com
Re: LSPCI shows network card, but the card refuses to come up
On 21/03/12 01:37, Bob Proulx wrote: Ahem... 'lspci | grep -i eth' is good but 'lspci -v' is paragraph formatted and so finding that with grep is more trouble. You need a paragraph grep of which there are many different programs and techniques. Perl is always available these days so perhaps using perl is easiest. for the shake of completesness lspci -v | grep -A5 -i eth or the even easier lspci -v | grep -5 -i eth greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f69916b.50...@qindel.com
Re: LSPCI shows network card, but the card refuses to come up
On 21/03/12 11:49, Bob Proulx wrote: But why did you stop at five lines? Aren't most network devices going to print more lines than that? And it misses the kernel driver in use line which is useful information. I see, in my case, 5 was enough to show everything :) Can't leave off the '-A' --after-context part since otherwise -NUM is the same as --context not --after-context. I said even easier, because the info you are looking for shows up the same as with the qualifier, and you don’t have to remember witch is witch (and less typing!) that said, i have a bind grep='grep --color' witch i think is a must as well ;) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f69b73a.9040...@qindel.com
Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude
On 21/03/12 11:01, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I then issued: apt-get dist-upgrade, and all worked perfectly, in less than 30 minutes. Awesome! I had a vm machine that i was trying to upgrade and it failed every time. I blamed the vm... then i noticed i was trying to upgrade it with aptitude full-upgrade... I tried apt-get and it did succeed at the first try :D ty! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f69f7dc.30...@qindel.com
Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not
On 21/03/12 07:08, Chris Bannister wrote: Remember, Aptitude's resolver system is different to apt-get's I think the problem is not the the resolver (apt-get and aptitude should get dependences about the same if not problem found, and therefore aptitude full-upgrade should do the same as apt-get dist-upgrade thats it, bring all packages up to date following the pinning system and install and remove packaged when needed. Im not sure (nor im sure how to check it if thats the case) but I think it may have to do with the database of how packages where installed. If you install some packages with aptitude and others with apt-get and then remove a third one with aptitude again, MAYBE the auto and manual installation flag in some packages goes crazy as they are handled in separate db (AAFAIK) my 2 cents... greets aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f69fb75.8050...@qindel.com
irq 19: nobody cared - Disabling IRQ #19
I get this at my testing box. Can anybody help me debug/fix this? Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555028] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555035] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: P O 3.2.0-1-amd64 #1 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555038] Call Trace: Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555040] IRQ [81092062] ? __report_bad_irq+0x2c/0xb5 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555051] [810922ea] ? note_interrupt+0x174/0x1f6 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555055] [8109069f] ? handle_irq_event_percpu+0x162/0x180 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555060] [810135b2] ? read_tsc+0x5/0x14 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555063] [810906f1] ? handle_irq_event+0x34/0x53 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555069] [8106b8e1] ? arch_local_irq_save+0x11/0x17 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555072] [81092a29] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x7c/0x9e Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555077] [8100f835] ? handle_irq+0x1d/0x21 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555081] [8100f565] ? do_IRQ+0x42/0x98 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555085] [81340aee] ? common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555087] EOI [811ad378] ? timerqueue_add+0x80/0xa0 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555096] [811e39c9] ? intel_idle+0xea/0x119 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555100] [811e39a8] ? intel_idle+0xc9/0x119 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555105] [812637cb] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0xec/0x179 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555109] [8100d255] ? cpu_idle+0xa5/0xf2 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555114] [816a9b3d] ? start_kernel+0x3bd/0x3c8 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555118] [816a9140] ? early_idt_handlers+0x140/0x140 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555121] [816a93c4] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0x104/0x111 Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555124] handlers: Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555144] [a0086be1] ata_bmdma_interrupt Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555151] [a01296c8] irq_handler Mar 21 20:29:05 box kernel: [ 4787.555153] Disabling IRQ #19 thanks!
Re: OT Apache Open Office
On 11/03/12 22:09, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one to use. Users can try it out: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshots Well, basically most of OO devs moved to LO. LO sanitized the code by translating German comments and variables so everybody can collaborate. They started to liberate new versions at a constant path. They moved to the ODF, that from my point of view is great advantage over being fucked over by Oracle (read this like losing traction from the community) and being spilled over Apache Fundation to see if they could bring it back to life... Dont take me wrong, I love OO, thats why I like to choose LO where the OO body (code) and spirit (community) has been moved to. Only time will tell what project survives, I just hope its sooner than later, and i hope its LO. These are not 2 different projects that give us choice. Its the same but better (for the reasons I just mentioned) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f5f0001.4090...@qindel.com
Re: ntp package. Client by default?
On 06/03/12 17:50, Camaleón wrote: In brief, I think the default is a very limited setup. Let's not be paranoids :-) I dont think im being paranoid. I thought debian was about doing things right, no matter the time it takes... :) This is my follow-up to this topic: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662770#20 greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f5f230a.5060...@qindel.com
why MaxRequestsPerChild is defaulted to 0 in apache2 prefork default conf?
I didnt have time to checkout the ntp thing of one my latest questions to answer that mail... but let me ask another unrelated question ;) in the prefork module, the MaxRequestsPerChild defaults to 0. I wonder why such thing is done. The only reason to do so is to increase performance with heavy loads but it carries a problem with it. If the process start leaking for whatever reason, it will drag the server until it runs out of memory and you can't even log in... It does not look like a sane default from my point of view... greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f5a04d4.5030...@qindel.com
Re: OT: Newbie questions on security
On 08/03/12 16:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 08 mar 12, 12:52:01, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You can post them here as long as they are Debian related[2]. If there is a better list for any specific question you will get hints. Sorry list, I didn't expect what was about to come... nobody did Sayvoid, your questions shows a lack of research. Most of them could be answered with the right google search. Also, Im happy to see you are eager to learn, but start reading the debian-reference for starters (apt-get install debian-reference; dpkg -L debian-reference) prior reading securing-debian... Also, if you still have to make THESE many questions (that i really think you didnt google about most of them), either space them in time, or post a single mail with a semi-descriptive subject saying something like Lots of noobish questions or something along those lines, where ppl can answer you inline... while you avoid spaming the list... greets! alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f58d5b5.6000...@qindel.com
Re: ntp package. Client by default?
On 05/03/12 22:35, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:38:52PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: The entire purpose of ntp is to interact on the network. Not doing this would be similar to installing sshd and then wanting it not to listen to the network. That would severely reduce its usefulness. If you install ntp then there is an expectation that it will behave like ntp and interact with the network. Clearly it needs to act as a client to ntpds elsewhere. But perhaps it shouldn't act as a server and permit ntp clients from anywhere to poll time from it. Or perhaps it is not the right package to install, or recommend to install, for people who want just an ntp client? As i understand it, to use ntpdate is discouraged, because it can make your machine go back in time among other things. its superseded by ntpd -q -q Exit the ntpd just after the first time the clock is set. This behavior mimics that of the ntpdate program, which is to be retired. The -g and -x options can be used with this option. Note: The kernel time discipline is disabled with this option. it should interact with the network as a client, not as a server by default. Even in your lan, even if you are behind a firewall. If you want a ntp server in your lan, you want one machine as a server, and the rest only as a client. I fail to see the logic to act as a server by default. And so I opened bug #662770 greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f55e15d.9030...@qindel.com
Re: ntp package. Client by default?
On 06/03/12 15:34, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:20:05 +0100, Alberto Fuentes wrote: I think /usr/share/doc/ntp/README.Debian.gz is bad worded. Correct me if im wrong but it says [...]The default ntp.conf file is set up for an NTP client that [...] [...]Extra configuration work will be necessary to offer time service to other hosts. [...] By default, it works as a server not just as a client. How is that? I mean, how did you reach that conclusion? Also I think by default it should not act as a server as is superseeding ntpdate, and the most regular use case is to install ntp is to keep in sync the time of your local computer. Am i missing something? Mmm... I don't see how the default setup allows another computers -other than the localhost- to connect and sync against the ntpd daemon :-? Greetings, Well, the port opened in all my interfaces was not a very good sign. But then I tried to set my computer as the only server of 2 other boxes on my network. It worked flawesly :) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f562df3.3040...@qindel.com
ntp package. Client by default?
I think /usr/share/doc/ntp/README.Debian.gz is bad worded. Correct me if im wrong but it says [...]The default ntp.conf file is set up for an NTP client that [...] [...]Extra configuration work will be necessary to offer time service to other hosts. [...] By default, it works as a server not just as a client. Also I think by default it should not act as a server as is superseeding ntpdate, and the most regular use case is to install ntp is to keep in sync the time of your local computer. Am i missing something? greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f54cb95.1020...@qindel.com
Re: ntp package. Client by default?
On 05/03/12 18:26, John Hasler wrote: Jon Dowland writes: Wow, good point. Indeed it *does* appear to be listening as a server for other clients, by default, and I'd agree this is perhaps not the best default. As long as it listens only on the LAN I don't agree. well, it does not. It listens on all interfaces. I just tested and it worked fine as an ntp server for another box with default conf :/ greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f54f88b.4000...@qindel.com
Re: Gnome-terminal focus
When I double click on the tab I get that rectange and then the focus remains in the tab rather than the command prompt. To remove it and recover the normal behaviour I have to click over the terminal window itself. Yes. That is the behaviour I want to change. double click seems to change the focus from the terminal to the tab. do you click or doble click the tab to change tabs? greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f508c51.2010...@qindel.com
Re: Gnome-terminal focus
On 01/03/12 08:35, Johann Spies wrote: When I left-click on a tab in gnome-terminal the focus is on the tab and not in the terminal at the prompt. How can I change that behaviour to take the focus to where the prompt is? Regards Johann what version are you running? im running testing and it seems the latest version in debian $ aptpolicy gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: Installed: 3.2.1-2 Candidate: 3.2.1-2 Version table: *** 3.2.1-2 0 900 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages 800 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status try updating. I dont think thats an expected behavior, but a bug if its happening to you greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4f4b4f.3040...@qindel.com
Re: Gnome-terminal focus
On 01/03/12 14:30, Johann Spies wrote: what version are you running? im running testing and it seems the latest version in debian $ aptpolicy gnome-terminal Where do you get aptpolicy? apt-cache policy also, i have all the versions of debian in my sources.list, so it reveals all versions available of a package. (I used the command to show that is the latest version gnome-terminal: Installed: 3.2.1-2 Candidate: 3.2.1-2 This is what I use. I have the same version and it works for me (TM). Check accessibility options, focus follow click or something like that. Im not sure where to find that kind of stuff on gnome 3 tho. If you want to avoid the problem altogether you can just use alt + 1 for tab 1 alt + 2 for tab 2, etc... ctrl + shift + T for new tab ctrl + shift + W to close tab i never click on tabs, its very inconvenient -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4f8649.60...@qindel.com
Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents
On 25/02/12 02:59, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set? And can it be set to the HOME directory? -- Sian Mountbatten Algol 68 specialist well, its something of kde. Im using testing and it happens the same to me. i did not found where is set in kde. I asked in #debian-kde and i was told to just 'cd' at the end of my .bashrc and, you know what? it works :D greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4bb8ae.1010...@qindel.com
Re: Any good all-in-one GUI tool for net analysis ?
On 09/02/12 10:02, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello list, There are already good tools in linux for network analysis like digg, nslookup, host, mtr, traceroute, prads, nmap, netdiscover etc.. etc... Is there any GUI client available which is based on all these collectively as a one place net analysis solution ? Please inform, Thanks Im sure you mean dig instead of digg, but dont worry, its a common mistake x) I like zenmap. Its a front-end for nmap. And there was a gui that had included all those utilities, ping, host, dig, mtr and more, but im sorry, I cant recall the name :S greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f339651.1070...@qindel.com
apache defaulting to openssl instead of gnutls
I just found out that openssl does not implement tls 1.1 or 1.2 and gnutls do implement them. I was wondering why for example apache2 defaults to openssl instead of libapache2-mod-gnutls. Just out of curiosity Thanks! greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f313aaf.7030...@qindel.com
Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser
On 05/02/12 08:20, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi everyone, On 20.01.2012 00:09, MRH wrote: Hi, After my recent update (Debian sid on amd64, icedove 8.0-2, iceweasel 9.0.1-1) everytime I click a link in email it asks me to choose an aplication to open the link with (Launch Application). I'm aware I can choose Iceweasel and tick to always use it, but I think it should (and did) use a global settings (ie x-www-browser, which is actually set to iceweasel). How can I fix it? I checked update-alternatives (for x-www-browser, it's OK), icedove / config: network.protocol-handler.app.http = x-www-browser What do I miss? Is it a bug? I was bitten by this bug too so I did some debugging and I think I found the culprit. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658479#15 Cheers, Michael Awesome! thanks for the debugging! greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f314190.6000...@qindel.com
Re: apache defaulting to openssl instead of gnutls
On 07/02/12 16:49, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:52:31 +0100, Alberto Fuentes wrote: I just found out that openssl does not implement tls 1.1 or 1.2 and gnutls do implement them. I was wondering why for example apache2 defaults to openssl instead of libapache2-mod-gnutls. Just out of curiosity My guess for upstream Apache2 defaulting to mod_ssl is because it's an older development and also a proven technology. Greetings, I read somewhere that the apache folks does not like gpl as much... Anyway, my question is about debian, where maintainers can correct upstream decisions... and what was what made them keep the upstream choice... :) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f314c9d.9020...@qindel.com
Re: second display
On 31/01/12 14:48, Florian Pougheon wrote: Hi, to customise dual screen resolution issue, you can try this utility : arandr It's the easiest way for me to customize a dual screen. A shame it does not work with propietary drivers (at least it does not work with nvidia) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2954a0.60...@qindel.com
Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser
On 24/01/12 22:01, MRH wrote: And I just checked that in Thunderbird 9 at work - the same (attachment tab is empty), but the links work there. So its not related... good to know :) ill keep looking for a solution and post it when find it greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1fba6d.8020...@qindel.com
Re: ext4 extends implementation question
That's not how extents work. What you are describing is a large block granularity, not extents-based allocation. There is no reason why the next allocation can't happen like this: [X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][X][X][X][X][X][A][A][A][A] [X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-] [-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-] That was pretty much my question, ty very much :) greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1e6a84.4040...@qindel.com
Re: ext4 extends implementation question
On 01/10/2012 11:31 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: afuentes (alberto.fuen...@qindel.com on 2012-01-10 10:33 +0100): What happens when you run out of space to allocate new extends in ext4? is not allowed to write anymore even tho there are tons of blocks available? I'm unsure what you mean. Extents is only an optimization strategy for allocating contiguous blocks. If there are no contiguous blocks, ext4 falls back to allocating singular blocks, but with normal usage patterns you should never get tons of blocks available with none of them contiguous. At least, that's how I understand it. Are you getting allocation failures with still plenty of space available? Regards, Arno This is how i see it [X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][X][X][X][X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [X][X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] [-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-] [-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-] row= extends [x]= used [ ]= allocated [-]= free after allocating two more extends in this scenario, what happens when it wants to write again? thanks! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1d194b.90...@qindel.com
Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser
On 01/20/2012 08:46 PM, MRH wrote: On 20/01/12 10:19, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 01/20/2012 10:10 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Did you check Preferences - Attachments for ftp, http, and https? i am having the same issue, and the attachment tab is empty greets! aL The same. The worst thing I don't remember how was it before. Kind regards, Michal ive got icedove 8.0-2 and its empty. I tried in a testing with 3.1.16-1 and its empty as well :S greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1d24d9.6050...@qindel.com
Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser
On 01/20/2012 10:10 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Did you check Preferences - Attachments for ftp, http, and https? i am having the same issue, and the attachment tab is empty greets! aL **AVISO LEGAL** Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener informacion privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es usted el destinatario indicado, queda notificado que la utilizacion, divulgacion y/o copia sin autorizacion esta prohibida en virtud de la legislacion vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que nos lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma via y proceda a su destruccion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f193fb2.3030...@qindel.com
Re: vlc form testing in stable
On 01/20/2012 01:08 PM, Maroš Žilka wrote: Hi, I am running Debian stable and I want to install vlc from testing. So I added testing to sources.list then I updated with aptitude update and finally I wanted to install vlc with # aptitude install -t testing vlc/testing but there was hundreds of problems. In apt.conf is default distribution stable. Am I Doing something wrong or it is just like it is and I can not easily have vlc from testing in stable. Thanks, Maros. Cerntanly you are doing several things wrong. - apt-get install vlc/testing: Will only pull vlc package from testing - apt-get install -t testing vlc: will pull dependencies from testing as well (-- my prefered way to avoid problems IMHO) - you have to manually asign a priority those sources... If all have the same priority, it will pull the newest source (aka, download everything from now on from testing) for example i have this file to give wheezy more priority than to lets say, sid... cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/wheezy: Package: * Pin: release n=wheezy Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release n=sid Pin-Priority: 800 and to finish, a very useful command when you mess with different versions in debian apt-cache policy package greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f195c75.80...@qindel.com
Re: kvm
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:16 AM, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.comwrote: Oh no, I can't learn how it works, let me install software to run my software. Then I'll install some software to run that software too. Nonsense. Learn KVM concepts or make some suggestions how the UI could be improved. I have one for virt-manager. Its counter-intuitive not to be able to change the network of a nic card after creating the network. Instead of that, you have to delete it and add it to the new private network :) Greets aL
diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed
This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell apart easily whats has been touched. Is there already something that makes this? The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, chroot and install the selection and then make the diff. although it looks like overkill when you just want to check out a few files maybe just find out where the file came from with apt-file, download the package, extract the file and do the diff any brighter idea? greets! aL
Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Peter Wiersig fri...@london087.server4you.de wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:44:41 +0200, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, chroot and install the selection and then make the diff. dpkg-repack and the debdiff command from the package devscripts? awesome... from the description of the packages this look like it could do the job more automated that what i intended to do... thanks!! I'll check it out! Perter
Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.comwrote: On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell apart easily whats has been touched. Is there already something that makes this? comparing dpkg --get-selections before and after is an easy way to see what new packages have been installed, which have been upgraded, etc. But you *should* be paying attention during the upgrade process. dpkg will already prompt you to view a diff of a config file that is to be changed if you have a modified version installed. If you need anything more granular than this, perhaps install tripwire. I think you misunderstood what I was asking. I wanted to check out the diff from the configuration file of a package from both its versions, installed and original packaged, to be able to tell whats been touched (added + deleted) :) greets! aL
Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source (it was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? No. The computer I was in has been formatted at least twice... Neither it was a computer I was logged into gmail to search the history... I visit a lot of random linux blogs and news sites... and my google-fu is not good enough to find them, Ive tried several times... I guess they are lost until some random day in the future I come across them again :/ thanks anyway! greets! aL
Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)
I gave it another try and found this[1] and this[2]. Im not sure it is what I was looking for. The web is nothing like I remember. Besides, they seems pretty old and only for readhat. Since nobody else is able to find anything like it I guess I dreamed about it Thanks anyway! greets! aL [1] http://trouble-maker.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://linuxfanboy.com/index.php/Practice_Breaks On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:04 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source (it was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? No. The computer I was in has been formatted at least twice... Neither it was a computer I was logged into gmail to search the history... I visit a lot of random linux blogs and news sites... and my google-fu is not good enough to find them, Ive tried several times... I guess they are lost until some random day in the future I come across them again :/ thanks anyway! greets! aL
Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: I would prefer a script to prevent my system against issues. Well, they are intended for training purposes but I guess I also prefer the script that prevents issues instead one that causes them ;D greets aL
Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:04:45 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source (it was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? No. The computer I was in has been formatted at least twice... Neither it was a computer I was logged into gmail to search the history... Your hard disk was formatted but not your brain :-) Maybe you rushed too much to say such thing : Didn't you remember any clue on what kind of media was that info coming from? Or if it was targeted to a concrete distribution? Well, I remember the menu was on the left and it was dark, and the rest of the web was light. I'll have to wait for google to finish the web for colors search ;) I visit a lot of random linux blogs and news sites... and my google-fu is not good enough to find them, Ive tried several times... I guess they are lost until some random day in the future I come across them again :/ Hint: take more vitamins to feed your grey matter! :-P I bookmarked it so I didnt need to remember it. My grey matter isnt as good as it used to be :op I'll follow ur advice with the vitamins anyway, thanks ;D Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.07.19.02...@gmail.com
Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)
I few months ago I saw some scripts with a list of 50 or so common problems in a debian box. The scripts were suppose to randomly break something on the system so you had to find the problem and fix it. The fix was saved into some file so you could know what was failing afterward. These scripts were meant to train you into linux troubleshooting. I bookmarked the scripts buy I lost the bookmark and I haven't been able to find it again. Does anybody happen to know about these scripts? greets! aL
Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: E.g. http://www.ixquick.com/ and http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm can't replace Google for my needs. Have you tried http://duckduckgo.com/ They say they do not track and results are pretty nice. I followed the guy for a while and it seems a pet project that worked well for him. I would say its legit... for now. greets aL
Samba or NFS
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot for your answers, I will use NFS. Both computers and the users are trusted. To improve the security I could set rules in the iptables to allow NFS access only to my computers. The problem is not that the users are trusted... the problem is if everybody in that lan is trusted. Anybody in your lan can spoof the trusted ip and get access to share AFAIK... As said previously nfsv4 should be used with kerberos if you want to do it properly Dan greets! aL
