Re: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Glenn English
On Feb 22, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:28:36PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org >>> wrote: Some people will say that unstable is better for security issues, because it is hard

Re: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:28:36PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > > wrote: > > > Some people will say that unstable is better for security issues, > > > because it is harder to exploit flaws when the software changes > > > con

RE: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Bannister [mailto:cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:56 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian 7 > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > wrote: > > Some people will

Re: Two questions about kfreebsd

2013-02-22 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 22/02/13 05:49, Bret Busby wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: [...] vm.swappiness controls the balance of RAM/swap used, on some 0 to 100 scale. I am not sure how or where I set it, but, from memory, I had set it to 80.

Re: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Some people will say that unstable is better for security issues, > because it is harder to exploit flaws when the software changes > constantly. Really??? They obviously don't understand the meaning of stable. (Hint

cryptdisks: altering order of mounting at boot

2013-02-22 Thread Paul
Hi all, I need to mount a small encrypted volume so that I can access a cryptographic keyfile that unlocks another disk that contains my /home. I don't want to end up with a fragile system (especially one that breaks during an upgrade), so I am asking for your suggestions. Here is the descripti

Re: Two questions about kfreebsd

2013-02-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 22/02/13 05:49, Bret Busby wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> [...] >> vm.swappiness controls the balance of RAM/swap used, on some 0 to 100 >> scale. >> > I am not sure how or where I set it, but, from memory, I had set it to 80. It's a sysctl, so you adjust it like thi

LXC status on Wheezy

2013-02-22 Thread Jeremy MAURO
HI everyone, I am trying to setup a LXC on wheezy, and I having a really hard time to make them work. Apprently there is a problem with 'live-debconfig' not present in wheezy, I even tryed with the sid which is supposed to have 'live-debconfig': # dpkg -l lxc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/

[Fail2ban] ban ip manually no ip table entry

2013-02-22 Thread basti
Hello, I have found this patch (http://blogs.buanzo.com.ar/2009/04/fail2ban-patch-ban-ip-address-manually.html) witch is implement in Fail2ban 0.8.6-3wheezy1. But when I run the command like: root@debian-test:~# fail2ban-client set ssh banip 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 root@debian-test:~# iptables -L Cha

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
> From: "Morel Bérenger" [mailto:berenger.mo...@neutralite.org] > > It would generalize the > > principle, but it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++ vs. single > > inheritance plus multiple interfaces in Java. Multiple is nice, but it > > really is a can of worms, which Java tries to sideste

use another /dev/tty0 as /dev/random

2013-02-22 Thread Dick Thomas
I'm making a random number generator out of bit and Arduino but that isn't the question my Question is is it possible to use a serial imput from the Arduino as /dev/random I've no idea what to even google to do this any help or pointers where to start would be fantastic Dick About.me http://a

How to display the reason for a revocation in GPG?

2013-02-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear all, is there any option to display the revocation reason for a given key in GPG? As you may know, GPG asks for a ‘reason’ when generating a revocation certificate (compromised, superseded etc.) and furthermore allows for a free-form comment to be submitted. Is there any way to display this

Dell T5600 Install Fails

2013-02-22 Thread S Scharf
Has anyone install Debian on a Dell T5600? I have a new system, with 32G RAM and two 2TB disks on the raid controller. The HW raid is set to display two non-raid disks. I have gotten through the testing installer (some problems but I have found work arounds for those issues).I have install only a

Re: use another /dev/tty0 as /dev/random

2013-02-22 Thread Dick Thomas
worked it out, i neeed the app rng-tools and set my device as /dev/foo :) About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259 gpg key: C791809B On 22 February 2013 17:05, Dick Thomas wrote: > I'm making a random number generator out of bit and Arduin

Re: apt-pining: no priority (or zero) specified for pining

2013-02-22 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 22 février 2013 2:58, Tom H a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Well, the error message in title is not the exact one, but a >>> translation of the one I have (which i

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Morel Bérenger
> It would generalize the > principle, but it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++ vs. single > inheritance plus multiple interfaces in Java. Multiple is nice, but it > really is a can of worms, which Java tries to sidestep. Mostly, people > are just going to say that you can get what you wan

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
> > How about running two different DMs? Isn't that what that's for? > > Can't have competing DMs like KDM, GDM, and LightDM. But why > > shouldn't LXDE and e17 run at the same time? > > Or Xfce4 and Xfce4 and Gnome and Xfce4? (I assume you mean DEs, not > DMs. Or we might as well want to run 2