Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-01-31 Scott Ferguson : > On 31/01/14 17:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > 2014-01-31 Scott Ferguson > >: > > > > On 31/01/14 15:29, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > 2014-01-30 Brian >

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Loïc Grenié
2014-01-31 Paul E Condon : > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the > computer issue a beep as it should according to the ma

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 18:12, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140131_174326, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a >>> adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny >>> bash script using

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 17:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2014-01-31 Scott Ferguson >: > > On 31/01/14 15:29, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > > > 2014-01-30 Brian

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140131_174326, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to ma

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-01-31 Scott Ferguson : > On 31/01/14 15:29, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > > > 2014-01-30 Brian mailto:a...@cityscape.co.uk>>: > > > > On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 18:53:11 +0100, Denis Witt wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:42:34 + > > > Brian mailto:a...@cityscape.co.uk>

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 17:17, Артур Истомин wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:37:57PM +, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 28 Jan 2014 at 11:40:04 -0800, Jon Danniken wrote: >> >> >> But ssh keys are great for some situations. The problem is their >> advocates never describe what the situations are and it is too

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the > computer issue a beep as it should accord

Re: Old computer with Savage Video Help

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 16:31, Robert Crawford wrote: > My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2400-S251 with Super Savage Video chip. > It does have pae built in. 30 gb hd and 512 mb ram. > > Ubuntu above 12.04.3 has issues with the Savage video chip. Also it > won't boot from USB drive. Debian != Ubuntu Just w

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Артур Истомин
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:37:57PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 28 Jan 2014 at 11:40:04 -0800, Jon Danniken wrote: > > > Thanks Brian, I ended up removing openssh-server, as it was not > > something I needed; it was automatically installed and set up to run as > > a "feature" of the live CD I used

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 15:29, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > 2014-01-30 Brian mailto:a...@cityscape.co.uk>>: > > On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 18:53:11 +0100, Denis Witt wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:42:34 + > > Brian mailto:a...@cityscape.co.uk>> wrote: > > > > > The AllowUsers di

making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the computer issue a beep as it should according to the man page. What special knowledge is n

Old computer with Savage Video Help

2014-01-30 Thread Robert Crawford
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2400-S251 with Super Savage Video chip. It does have pae built in. 30 gb hd and 512 mb ram. Ubuntu above 12.04.3 has issues with the Savage video chip. Also it won't boot from USB drive. This what worked., Download Hirens Boot CD http://www.hirensbootcd.org It ha

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-01-30 Brian : > On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 18:53:11 +0100, Denis Witt wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:42:34 + > > Brian wrote: > > > > > The AllowUsers directive is a legitimate way to restrict ssh logins to > > > certain users. However, I do not see what (ssh keys + AllowUsers) > > > bri

Re: Photovoltaic inverter monitoring or logging software

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 13:38, Bret Busby wrote: > > Hello. > > I am wondering whether anyone on this list, has any knowledge or > experience of software that runs on Linux, preferably Debian Linux, for > monitoring/logging electricity output from a photovoltaic inverter. > > In searching in the Debian pack

Photovoltaic inverter monitoring or logging software

2014-01-30 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am wondering whether anyone on this list, has any knowledge or experience of software that runs on Linux, preferably Debian Linux, for monitoring/logging electricity output from a photovoltaic inverter. In searching in the Debian packages facility, the only package that I found, wa

Re: chronyd startup issues

2014-01-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 01/29/2014 03:10 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: * Darac Marjal wrote on 2014-01-29 at 10:22 (+): On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:06:13AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: When my system boots up it starts chronyd. The problem is that it seems to not have (or find) a network connection at the time, so it

Re: put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 10:50, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > > Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest > that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least > update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't > be installed, don't k

Re: put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB

2014-01-30 Thread Doug
On 01/30/2014 06:50 PM, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: Greetings, Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't be installed, don't kno

put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB

2014-01-30 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't be installed, don't know if it actually works with disks over 2TB.

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-01-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 23:09:22 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 21:12:54 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > > FATAL: Module rtl8192cu not found. > > Does the file /lib/modules/2.6.39.4-4/modules.builtin.bin exist? That question is a bit silly! Please say what you get with cd /lib/module

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-01-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 21:12:54 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > sudo modprobe rtl8192cu > libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:505 > kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file: could not open builtin file > '/lib/modules/2.6.39.4-4/modules.builtin.bin' This is kernel 2.6.39.4-4. Are you using Squeeze? > FATAL

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/14 22:47, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> No. Probably a DNS problem, alt+f4 in the affected installation to see >> where the error is. > >> I've seen the problem but don't recall a specific cause - I also don't >> know your DNS, PXE and TFTP server setup. I generally use an IPCop >> Firewall and

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-30 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-30 01:51, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 1/30/14, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: >> On 2014-01-29 10:43, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >>> And then: $ cd ~/bar && rm `find -name '.*'` >> >> Find is indeed very useful, but that's probab

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 06:53:11PM +0100, Denis Witt wrote: password, also it's not "ssh keys + AllowUsers" it's (or should be) "ssh key + key pass-phrase + AllowUsers". As an administrator you can’t control the key pass-phrase. If a user creates a key without it you can’t stop him from using

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jan 2014 at 18:53:11 +0100, Denis Witt wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:42:34 + > Brian wrote: > > > The AllowUsers directive is a legitimate way to restrict ssh logins to > > certain users. However, I do not see what (ssh keys + AllowUsers) > > brings to the party that (password +

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-01-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi Pol, Pol Hallen writes: >> I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter > > apt-get install firmware-realtek I already have installed firmware-realtek, but still wifi adapter doesn't work. I can't to load the kernel module at all: sudo modinfo rtl8192cu | grep 17AB libkmod: ERROR

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-01-30 Thread Pol Hallen
> I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter apt-get install firmware-realtek 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/52eab0fd.7090...@fucka

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-01-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. > I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless > Access Point. > > I'm trying to follow these steps here: > http://www.daveconroy.com/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-wifi-hotspot-with-edimax-nano-

wheezy + xfce + samsung galaxy S3 android doesn't mount

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
Is there some magic, besides mtpfs to make xfce mount my android phone? Thunar doesn't see it, yet I can cd to the mount point and cd down to the DCIM... pictures folder in a terminal window, now I remember why I changed to MATE before, because it just worked in MATE.. -- Paul Cartwright Register

Re: no more dovecotpw?

2014-01-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:43:54 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > when I was trying to run > # dovecotpw -s SHA1 > > I found out that there's no dovecotpw anymore (searched with apt-file) doveadm pw -s SHA1 Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

no more dovecotpw?

2014-01-30 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
hi, I'm trying to setup an email server by following article from http://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-setup-simple-but-yet-powerful-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-and-sasl-in-debian-6-squeeze/ when I was trying to run # dovecotpw -s SHA1 I found out that there's no dovecotpw anymore (searc

Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone

2014-01-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi Markos, Markos writes: >> On 01/25/2014 04:35 PM Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Debian SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files >>> from phone to Debian system. How can I do that? >>> I have installed on the phone the KDE Connect application, and on >>> the Debian Dekstop the kdeco

Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-01-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless Access Point. I'm trying to follow these steps here: http://www.daveconroy.com/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-wifi-hotspot-with-edimax-nano-usb-ew-7811un-rtl8188cus-ch

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-30 Thread Denis Witt
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:42:34 + Brian wrote: > The AllowUsers directive is a legitimate way to restrict ssh logins to > certain users. However, I do not see what (ssh keys + AllowUsers) > brings to the party that (password + AllowUsers) doesn't. A key (if kept secret) is even harder to "guess

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-30 Thread Klaus
On 30/01/14 05:42, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Somebody above mentioned that there is a bug in the debian installer and you need to manually give the proxy. That "somebody above" was me: Sorry for this red herring, my memory obviously didn't serve me right there and I should have searched the list a

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-30 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 13:47 -0600, Craig L. wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:07:08PM -0600, Craig L. wrote: > > I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older > > version of > > Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set > > up > > so that

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-30 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> No. Probably a DNS problem, alt+f4 in the affected installation to see > where the error is. > I've seen the problem but don't recall a specific cause - I also don't > know your DNS, PXE and TFTP server setup. I generally use an IPCop > Firewall and DNS, with PXE and TFTP on a separate (VirtualB

Re: How can I debug a kernel module?

2014-01-30 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 03:00:05AM +0100, Sladjan Ristic wrote: > Hi, >I have installed Debian under client Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 Pro and the > time is not synced > after a resume, the clock just goes one like nothing happened. So if the > guest VM was in a saved > state for one hour, its cl

Re: Installing gconf

2014-01-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.01.2014 06:59, R. Vishnu a écrit : Hi I am new to debian, and I accidentally removed gconf2, so that I could install gconf-service_3.2.6. But so many stuff got uninstalled and now I cant access my desktop. No commands like dpkg, sudo etc are working when the system boots to command line.