Re: encfs over sshfs suffering with permission problem

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:28:21 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > 1. Ensure both encfs and sshfs are running as you, not root or any other > user. > Confirmed > 2. Check for I/O errors both on the local box and the remote box (run > dmesg and look for suspicious logs). > nothing found > 3. Verif

Re: screensaver recommendation

On 23 Nov, 2012, at 12:02, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:58:52PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wish to have a screensaver. >>> >>> Thanks ahead for recommendation. >>> >>> >>> >>> xscreensaver doesn't

Re: screensaver recommendation

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:58:52PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wish to have a screensaver. > > > > Thanks ahead for recommendation. > > > > > > > > xscreensaver doesn't work for me cause it won't recognize the password >

Re: Guide / Tools

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:36:41PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:56:07AM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > > On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >Crypticmofo wrote: > > >>Hello > > >> > > >>I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize > > >>tha

Re: screensaver recommendation

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to have a screensaver. > > Thanks ahead for recommendation. > > > > xscreensaver doesn't work for me cause it won't recognize the password > due to I use the dovrak layout. To me, seems the reboot is the only resort. > If

Re: encfs over sshfs suffering with permission problem

"J. B" writes: > Dear list, > > My non admin user is added to the fuse group. restarted the box. > > I have mounted a remote folder within my local box using sshfs and then > successfully created encfs over it and also copied some files into that > folder. After that I have "fusermount -u" the en

screensaver recommendation

Hi, I wish to have a screensaver. Thanks ahead for recommendation. Below are some background info.: lightdm install lightdm-gtk-greeter install xfce4 install xfce4-panel

Re: Guide / Tools

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:56:07AM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Crypticmofo wrote: > >>Hello > >> > >>I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize > >>that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question > >>here .

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Richard Owlett writes: > I suspect I'm looking more for a display manager than a desktop > environment. You don't mean a display manager: that's GDM, XDM, etc . You mean a window manager such as FVWM, etc .

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Remove gdm, and put in the file "/root/.bash_profile" following lines: === if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then startx fi === To have a auto-login, you can also modify "/etc/inittab" and replace a "/sbin/getty" by "/bin/sh"

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

On Thu 22 Nov 2012 at 23:18:21 +0100, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > Any idea? XFCE configuration or window manager? I use XDM on this machine. > The > Sun with Squeeze is running KDM. XDM does not co-operate with consolekit. Search the list archives at http://lists.debian.org/ using 'xdm', 'xfc

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

green wrote: Richard Owlett wrote at 2012-11-22 11:00 -0600: The installation CD lives in the drive, for various reasons the hard drive is wiped and reinstall done 2-3 times per week. When I boot I want to do *ANYTHING*! HOW? Use grml instead? Not looking for a "live" system. I'm only l

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Tom Grace wrote: On 22/11/12 18:06, Richard Owlett wrote: Effectively that's what I want. BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Presuming you're using GDM, maybe this will help you out? http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.14/configuration.html#securitysect

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

MPR wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: Log in as root? Effectively that's what I want. BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login to 0 (which effectively

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> Log in as root? > > Effectively that's what I want. > BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login to 0 (which effectively ma

Adding a new Raid-1 array to a LVM partition

Hi, Originally set my Debian system up on a raid array (raid 1 made up of 2x1Tb drives) containing four logical volumes, containing the following ext4 partitions. /boot is ext3 and separate, and swap is one partition on each drive. /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol00 / /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol01

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

David Guntner: > Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >> https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/speedup_thunderbird_imap > > Well, unless I'm looking at the wrong setting, I've got it configured > for 1. "Maximum number of connections to cache" in Advanced settings > for the server is curr

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:30:54PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Remove gdm, and put in the file "/root/.bash_profile" following lines: > === > if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then > startx > fi > === > To have a auto-login, you can also modify

Re: [Fwd: [D-community-offtopic] Outrageous sexism - dump questions - carbon copy - ignoring hidden ids - HTML - top posting - brainstorming - etc.]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:14:19PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > All off-topic is caused by people who feel offended by harmless jokes, > breaking threads, asking the wrong questions, carbon copy, brainstorming > etc., not by the people who make harmless jokes, are breaking threads, > asking the

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

On Monday 19 November 2012 23:52:13 Go Linux wrote: > --- On Mon, 11/19/12, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > From: Hartwig Atrops > > Subject: Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 3:03 PM > > On Monday 19 November 2012 20:05:15 > > >

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

Le 22.11.2012 22:07, Beco a écrit : On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, François TOURDE wrote: Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, Lisi Reisz écrivait: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 16:55:22 Beco wrote: Use of smiley face should point this was just a joke. As we can see in this first use in 1982:

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Remove gdm, and put in the file "/root/.bash_profile" following lines: === if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then startx fi === To have a auto-login, you can also modify "/etc/inittab" and replace a "/sbin/getty" by "/bin/sh". The better with those solutions

Re: dbus and power management

On 2012-11-20, at 9:37 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > org.freedesktop.UPower provided by upower > > http://upower.freedesktop.org/ > http://upower.freedesktop.org/docs/ Thanks, this works now. http://www.but-i-digress.ca/suspend-on-lid-close-debian-squeeze.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, > Lisi Reisz écrivait: > >> On Wednesday 21 November 2012 16:55:22 Beco wrote: >>> Use of smiley face should point this was just a joke. As we can see in >>> this first use in 1982: >> >> That is what is so ve

Re: Question about deb versioning

On 2012-11-22 21:38 +0100, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > Here's the apt's output: > > # LC_MESSAGES=C apt-get install acesso > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested

Re: Question about deb versioning

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Please copy and paste the exact error messages (with LC_MESSAGES=C). > Here's the apt's output: # LC_MESSAGES=C apt-get install acesso Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages

Re: Question about deb versioning

On 2012-11-22 21:10 +0100, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > I'm trying to install a custom deb package that depends > on libapache2-mod-passenger (>= 2.2.3) on a fresh debian squeeze, but apt > is reporting errors. I found that the current version of the package on > squeeze is 2.2.11debian-2, what sh

Question about deb versioning

Hi guys, I'm trying to install a custom deb package that depends on libapache2-mod-passenger (>= 2.2.3) on a fresh debian squeeze, but apt is reporting errors. I found that the current version of the package on squeeze is 2.2.11debian-2, what should be enough to meet the dependency, I suppose. Is

Re: Guide / Tools

On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Crypticmofo wrote: Hello I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question here .. From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a list of the

Re: Can't fix doc-base installation problem (DONE)

On 11/22/2012 03:46 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:19:28PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude reinstall doc-base It seems that some files are missing (install-docs?) but I can't determine what they are or where they are. Some help, pl

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

A little CLI typing will fix right up that lack of a GUI root login. Sometimes it's necessary. A suggestion, though: when you do manage to get root in a GUI, make the background a bright, solid red to remind yourself of where you are. But I'm hoping Debian's paranoia will never go away. I use De

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tom Grace wrote: > On 22/11/12 18:06, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> Effectively that's what I want. >> BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< > > Presuming you're using GDM, maybe this will help you out? > http://projects.gnome.org/

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On 22/11/12 18:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Effectively that's what I want. > BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Presuming you're using GDM, maybe this will help you out? http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.14/configuration.html#securitysection You could

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Richard Owlett wrote at 2012-11-22 11:00 -0600: > The installation CD lives in the drive, for various reasons the > hard drive is wiped and reinstall done 2-3 times per week. > > When I boot I want to do *ANYTHING*! > HOW? Use grml instead? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Start without X. Log in as root. Start X On Nov 22, 2012 11:20 AM, "Darac Marjal" wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:00:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner > > that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. >

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:00:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. It has intrinsically the best security in place Only _*I*_ have physical acc

Fresh repository for Chromium browser (Debian stable)

Hi I'm looking for repository for Chromium browser (something like http://mozilla.debian.net/ for Iceweasel) for Debian stable. I looked at unofficial Debian repositories page [1], but there is repository for Google Chrome only. Does anybody know Debian repository for Chromium browser with m

Re: iceweasel locking up

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:58:54AM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > Can you use snapshot.d.o to roll back to iceweasel 16? > It's IW 15, currently. I'd have to roll forward to 16. I suppose I didn't specify that. This is on Squeeze, amd64. iceweasel 15.0.1-1~bpo60+1 But I think I resolved the mat

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:00:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner > that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. > It has intrinsically the best security in place > Only _*I*_ have physical access to the machi

Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it. It has intrinsically the best security in place Only _*I*_ have physical access to the machine. It has no possibility of connecting to the internet. It will

Re: Guide / Tools

On 22/11/12 16:35, Doug wrote: > On 11/22/2012 05:52 AM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: >>> This whole thread points out a major problem with using Linux. There is >>> no comprehensive, cross referenced, command dictionary anywhere. I >>> have a C >>> programming reference that was written by Kernegian an

Re: Guide / Tools

On 11/22/2012 05:52 AM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: This whole thread points out a major problem with using Linux. There is no comprehensive, cross referenced, command dictionary anywhere. I have a C programming reference that was written by Kernegian and Ritchy way back when, which referenced the C

Found Workaround! Re: Failing to find LVM on RAID in while booting wheezy.

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:02:47 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > How can I get it so scan again for logical volumes from the busybox? > And after I've done that, how can I get it to try to look for the root > partition again and proceed with booting. > > And I should mention that the wheezy I'm trying t

Re: Debian Package Version system

Hello all, On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 09:54:22AM +0100, Arnoud Tijssen wrote: > After performing some vulnerability scans on some our systems one of > the outcomes was that some software packages were out of date. > We`re using the package management system of Debian and all packages > were updated (

iceweasel locking up

Have we become the Ubuntu project, breaking stuff regularly with updates? Once again a recent update has messed iceweasel up. It keeps locking up while loading pages, to where you can't even use another tab, or anything. I hate it when this happens. Last time, it was nearly a month before another

RE: Debian Package Version system

Thanks for the info, this solves the issue. I probably have been looking in the wrong direction. -Original Message- From: Darac Marjal [mailto:mailingl...@darac.org.uk] Sent: donderdag 22 november 2012 15:51 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Package Version system On

Re: Debian Package Version system

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 09:54:22AM +0100, Arnoud Tijssen wrote: > Hi All, > > After performing some vulnerability scans on some our systems one of the > outcomes was that some software packages were out of date. > We`re using the package management system of Debian and all packages were > update

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:23:42PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: > Hi all, > > While still trying to figure out why Thunderbird isn't working so well > with Dovecot, I figured I'd move onto another mystery; thought I'd seek > out some opinions here. :-) > > When setting up Linux systems, I've alway

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 02:26:59PM +0530, J. B wrote: > Dear All, > > I am interested to know about folder encryption technology available > in Linux for remote backup purpose. > > Let me clarify. I do my daily backup through ssh+rsync to a remote server. > It is quite fast because of rsync. On t

Re: encfs over sshfs suffering with permission problem

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:37:47 +1100 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/22/12, J. B wrote: > > My non admin user is added to the fuse group. restarted the box. > > > > I have mounted a remote folder within my local box using sshfs and then > > successfully created encfs over it and also copied some fi

Re: encfs over sshfs suffering with permission problem

On 11/22/12, J. B wrote: > My non admin user is added to the fuse group. restarted the box. > > I have mounted a remote folder within my local box using sshfs and then > successfully created encfs over it and also copied some files into that > folder. After that I have "fusermount -u" the encfs an

encfs over sshfs suffering with permission problem

Dear list, My non admin user is added to the fuse group. restarted the box. I have mounted a remote folder within my local box using sshfs and then successfully created encfs over it and also copied some files into that folder. After that I have "fusermount -u" the encfs and then sshfs. Next ti

Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:41:08PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Apologize! As a point of reference, I think the word you were looking for there was "apologies", as in "Please accept my apologies". Cheers, Tom -- The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty deed recor

Re: Can't fix doc-base installation problem

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:19:28PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: >root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude reinstall doc-base > > It seems that some files are missing (install-docs?) but I can't > determine what they are or where they are. Some help, plese. Install-docs belongs to package doc

Re: Outrageous sexism

Le Jeu 22 novembre 2012 12:39, Chris Harries a écrit : > Well some of us think it was harmless So I guess we should do a vote? :D <<<== this was a joke, hopefully harmless, so people where elections are not fair, please do not take that bad /me ->[] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Outrageous sexism

Well some of us think it was harmless, especially if you understood what he meant and not jumped the gun. We can all agree to disagree and take this as a lesson not to make any joke in-case someone either a) doesn't understand the joke or b) can't accept that some people's English skills are not th

Re: Outrageous sexism

On 22/11/12 11:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Is there anything people are else allowed on Debian user mailing list, > besides dissing people for harmless jokes, breaking threads, asking the > wrong questions, carbon copy, brainstorming etc.? > > All off-topic is caused by people who feel offended by h

[Fwd: [D-community-offtopic] Outrageous sexism - dump questions - carbon copy - ignoring hidden ids - HTML - top posting - brainstorming - etc.]

Perhaps the Debian user informers and vigilante group could continue the noise at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic ?! Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: [D-community-offtopic] Outrage

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

If enough people consider a problem such, it is easy to route around.. If one person consider another a problem, kill-file is a (partial?) route around for them. Perhaps debian-user_speak-your-firetrucking-m...@lists.debian.org? :) Shorter needed, so probably debian-user-uncensored@ldo Would the

Re: Guide / Tools

On 21-11-12 23:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 21:28 +, Joe wrote: I use dpkg [...] if I need to install a .deb <...> mc Indeed. I never went the vi/emacs route since cooledit in mc does all the admin work I need to do, and I don't do heavy text processing. And my se

Re: Stuck in a loop with Lazarus/FPC after doing an upgrade - FIXED

OK, it's sorted. Seems that synaptic is smarter than apt-get. Brian. On 11/22/2012 04:30 AM, brian wrote: I seem to be stuck in a loop having tried to do an update. The problem is with fpc, the FreePascal compiler. I'd downloaded fpc and Lazarus (the sort-of Delphi clone using fpc) from the

Re: Guide / Tools

> This whole thread points out a major problem with using Linux. There is > no comprehensive, cross referenced, command dictionary anywhere. I have a C > programming reference that was written by Kernegian and Ritchy way back > when, which referenced the C commands by function, that I used to live

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

Le Mer 21 novembre 2012 19:12, Brad Rogers a écrit : > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:41:08 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hello Ralf, > > >> I'm not sure, if it's really just the language barrier. Coarse humour >> > > I picked up your intent, but clearly others didn't. At least one other > person inv

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 09:58 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:52:44AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > If I type "encfs vs" into Google I get: > > > > Honestly, doing a basic google search and splurging the results > >

Re: Guide / Tools

> Simple things are really simple in bc. sounds like, yes. I'll try that someday -- 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/b72a3ac3cd3870db99ec175b04065008.squi

Re: Preseeding german keyboard layout in Wheezy

Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > I'm currently trying to streamline our Debian deployment using > preseeding and I'm having issues setting a German keyboard layout. I use > Wheezy daily 20121114 at the moment. > > Goals: > - installer should be English > - the country should be set to Germany (so timezo

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 09:58 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:52:44AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > If I type "encfs vs" into Google I get: > > Honestly, doing a basic google search and splurging the results > into a mailing list post helps nobody. If you don't have personal

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:52:44AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If I type "encfs vs" into Google I get: Honestly, doing a basic google search and splurging the results into a mailing list post helps nobody. If you don't have personal experience of solving the problem, don't post. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

"J. B" writes: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:17:28 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> "echo password | gpg --batch -q --passphrase-fd 0 --cipher-algo AES256 -c >> /tmp/file.tgz >> echo password | gpg --batch -q -o /tmp/file.tgz --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt >> /tmp/file.tgz.gpg" >> > > Thanks, but it

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:45:01 +0100 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: > On 22/11/2012 09:56, J. B wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I am interested to know about folder encryption technology available > > in Linux for remote backup purpose. > > > > Let me clarify. I do my daily backup through ssh+rsync

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 14:57 +0530, J. B wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:17:28 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > "echo password | gpg --batch -q --passphrase-fd 0 --cipher-algo AES256 -c > > /tmp/file.tgz > > echo password | gpg --batch -q -o /tmp/file.tgz --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt > > /tmp

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:11:08 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 23:28 +0100, François TOURDE wrote: > > Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, > > Lisi Reisz écrivait: > > > > > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 16:55:22 Beco wrote: > > >> Use of smiley face should point this was just a joke.

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On 22/11/2012 09:56, J. B wrote: Dear All, I am interested to know about folder encryption technology available in Linux for remote backup purpose. Let me clarify. I do my daily backup through ssh+rsync to a remote server. It is quite fast because of rsync. On the remote box all the backups are

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

Oops, send to "ebian-u...@lists.debian.org" first: ^ On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 10:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 14:51 +0530, J. B wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:07:36 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encr

Stuck in a loop with Lazarus/FPC after doing an upgrade

I seem to be stuck in a loop having tried to do an update. The problem is with fpc, the FreePascal compiler. I'd downloaded fpc and Lazarus (the sort-of Delphi clone using fpc) from the SourceForge website, all was installed and working just fine. Then I did an upgrade, and one of the updates

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:17:28 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "echo password | gpg --batch -q --passphrase-fd 0 --cipher-algo AES256 -c > /tmp/file.tgz > echo password | gpg --batch -q -o /tmp/file.tgz --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt > /tmp/file.tgz.gpg" > Thanks, but it doesn't fit with my requirem

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:07:36 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-a-password.html > > but it can't encrypt folder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

"echo password | gpg --batch -q --passphrase-fd 0 --cipher-algo AES256 -c /tmp/file.tgz echo password | gpg --batch -q -o /tmp/file.tgz --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt /tmp/file.tgz.gpg" http://www.linuxscrew.com/2007/08/16/encryption-files-with-gpg-without-user-intervention-batch/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: java plugin

On Tuesday 20 November 2012 16:32:35 you wrote: > I thought I read or heard on a podcast (TechSNAP???) that Firefox > (and by implicit extension Iceweasel) was blacklisting sun-java due > to Oracle's epic fail with security. Can anyone confirm? Using Iceweasel 10.0.10, from mozilla.debian.net in S

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-a-password.html -- 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/1353575256.19877.104.camel@q

Debian Package Version system

Hi All, After performing some vulnerability scans on some our systems one of the outcomes was that some software packages were out of date. We`re using the package management system of Debian and all packages were updated (apt-get update & apt-get (dist-)upgrade) prior to the scan. The vulnerabi

Re: Identify PCI/PCI-X/AGP devices nature

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 09:29 +0200, ed mente wrote: > > Is it possible to find out what kind of PCI/PCI-X/AGP device is > > installed on a PC? > > you can start by running lspci -vv I would run lspci too, but I always install hwinfo and also use it: $ hwinfo --help Usage: hwinfo [options] Probe f

how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

Dear All, I am interested to know about folder encryption technology available in Linux for remote backup purpose. Let me clarify. I do my daily backup through ssh+rsync to a remote server. It is quite fast because of rsync. On the remote box all the backups are stored inside a folder. How can I

Re: Identify PCI/PCI-X/AGP devices nature

On 2012-11-22 11:29, ed mente wrote: Is it possible to find out what kind of PCI/PCI-X/AGP device is installed on a PC? you can start by running lspci -vv Hello, below is a lspci -vv chunk for my extension VGA card 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210]