Syslog-NG

2016-06-02 Thread David
Dear Group, I am running Syslog-ng on a Raspberry Pi, it stores the data sent to it on a 64G memory stick. It's working very well. I retrieve the syslog file by SSHing into the Pi and copying the file to my main PC. The problem I have is that the file has now grown to 3.7G and normal text editor

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

2016-06-02 Thread Felix Miata
Mostafa Shahverdy composed on 2016-05-30 17:53 (UTC+0430): > I have an ultra wide monitor that supports 2560x1080. > While I have a Radeon 5450 graphic card, running Debian Sid, I only can get > 1920x1080. ... I suggest you try purging xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon. I coul

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-02 Thread Lars Noodén
On 06/03/2016 05:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote: [snip] > When I wrote, I hadn't yet learned that the problem that made me want to > use Telnet was known, and a patch already submitted, but not yet > included in an update available on the mirrors: > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3339 [snip]

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-02 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Purgert composed on 2016-06-02 19:57 (UTC): Felix Miata wrote: I have no interest in answers explaining ssh and security risk. These are understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a test installation while normal logins are busy with segfaulting or otherwise inacce

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 at 06:56, Britton Kerin wrote: > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > $ ping www.google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > 2 $ > > presumably because the bit isn't set. >

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-02 Thread Felix Miata
Sven Arvidsson composed on 2016-06-02 20:59 (UTC+0200): On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 00:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Google cannot provide an answer to configuring telnetd WRT Debian, only WRT every other distro on the planet. When I try to login after installing telnetd and seeing xinetd enabled, l

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > So far as I can see, ping IS executable by normal users. But then I have > only > got Wheezy and Jessie. Are you using Stretch or Sid?? This is not really new in stretch. You can experiment this funny effect in jessie as well. Try

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:56:08PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > $ ping www.google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > 2 $ > > presumably because the bit

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 02 June 2016 22:56:08 Britton Kerin wrote: > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > $ ping www.google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > 2 $ > > presumably because the bit isn't set

Re: Portable Debian?

2016-06-02 Thread Glenn English
> On 2016-05-11, emetib wrote: >> I know this is a little off topic, yet I wrote this a while back >> because of script kiddies messing with ssh on my server at the time. Use ssh key logins and a packet filter to allow only certain IP(s)/user(s) to access your server(s)? -- Glenn English

make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-02 Thread Britton Kerin
On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: $ ping www.google.com ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted 2 $ presumably because the bit isn't set. What's the right fix? I could setuid it but then if I understand

Testing Dist MIPS Install Problem

2016-06-02 Thread Mike
Hello all, I'm playing around with using QEMU to configure different install environments. At present, I am able to successfully install and run a Debian MIPS install using the latest table release: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-mips/current/images/malta/netboot/ Ho

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-06-02 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 01 Jun 2016 at 14:47:11 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> [snip] >> >> I came "late" to the party myself, and missed the post where I imagine >> why Lisi is after runlevel 1. >> >> Personally, with the exception of my laptop, everything starts in >> runlevel 3 here. >

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-02 Thread Dan Purgert
Felix Miata wrote: > I have no interest in answers explaining ssh and security risk. These are > understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a test > installation while normal logins are busy with segfaulting or otherwise > inaccessible. well, if /dev/tty# is shot because

Re: Portable Debian?

2016-06-02 Thread Oliver Briscbois
On 2016-05-11, emetib wrote: >I know this is a little off topic, yet I wrote this a while back >because of script kiddies messing with ssh on my server at the time. Thanks for that. Oliver

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 00:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Google cannot provide an answer to configuring telnetd WRT Debian, > only WRT  > every other distro on the planet. When I try to login after > installing  > telnetd and seeing xinetd enabled, login name is always greeted with > "Login  > incor

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

2016-06-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 18:49 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I use the kernel parameter "radeon.dpm=1" for saving some energy with > my GPU. That shouldn't be necessary with an up to date kernel. Power management is automatic. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Michael Biebl wrote: [...] > Unfortunately the synaptics package in Debian was changed to have a > higher priority then libinput [2]. So if you have > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed you can't configure your touchpad > in gnome-control-center atm. Removing xserver-xorg-i

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

2016-06-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Mostafa Shahverdy wrote on 06/02/16 16:34: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:40:31PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> >>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 >>> HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y >> axis) 677mm x 290mm >>>

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

2016-06-02 Thread Mostafa Shahverdy
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:40:31PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 > > HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 677mm x 290mm > >1920x1080 60.00* 50.0059.9430.0

Re: SOS

2016-06-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:44:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [CCed, because probably not on list. Perhaps it's just a spam > trap -- so be it] He had already had two replies to the same question, which he is here asking for the second time, cc'd

Call for testing: regression update for samba security update (DSA-3548-1)

2016-06-02 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi The last Samba security update issued as DSA-3548-1 introduced several upstream regressions, which are addressed in this update. Before we release the packages we would like to call for additional testing. The packages can be found on https://people.debian.org/~carnil/tmp/samba/jessie (amd

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

2016-06-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Mostafa Shahverdy wrote on 06/02/16 14:37: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:38:20AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Mostafa Shahverdy wrote on 06/01/16 21:02: >>> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: But xserver-xorg-video-radeon would be the right driver to u

Re: What can AppArmor do?

2016-06-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/18/2016 9:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/apparmor is uninformative. [snip] There is a link to http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/Main_Page which gives no hints! http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/AppArmor:About has been updated.

Re: How to properly install Radeon drivers for Sid

2016-06-02 Thread Mostafa Shahverdy
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:38:20AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Mostafa Shahverdy wrote on 06/01/16 21:02: > > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> > >> But xserver-xorg-video-radeon would be the right driver to use. Now you're > >> using > >> the much simpl

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 12:46:11PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 02.06.2016 um 12:20 schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > > AFAIK, synaptics can do tap-to-click too. Perhaps it needs some > > [snip] > > You can of course still configure synaptics manually.

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.06.2016 um 12:20 schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > AFAIK, synaptics can do tap-to-click too. Perhaps it needs some [snip] You can of course still configure synaptics manually. That will continue to work. With GNOME 3.20 support for non-libinput configurations has been dropped from gnome-control-

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 02.06.2016 um 11:43 schrieb Francois Gouget: > > > > Since the upgrade to GNOME 3.20.1 I lost tap-to-click in GNOME. > > I cannot reestablish it in gnome-control-center as that only o

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.06.2016 um 11:43 schrieb Francois Gouget: > > Since the upgrade to GNOME 3.20.1 I lost tap-to-click in GNOME. > I cannot reestablish it in gnome-control-center as that only offers to > switch the left and right buttons. > Does anyone know of a workaround to that? > > Note that: > * xserv

Re: gathering system information

2016-06-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe this article in the Linux Journal helps your quest: "What's in the Box? Interrogate Your Linux Machine's Hardware" http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/whats-box-interrogate-your-linux-machines-hardware Regards, jvp.

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

2016-06-02 Thread Till Smejkal
On Thu, 02 Jun 2016, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap > > file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which > > write about 6-7 MB/s). > > > > As I see fa

GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread Francois Gouget
Since the upgrade to GNOME 3.20.1 I lost tap-to-click in GNOME. I cannot reestablish it in gnome-control-center as that only offers to switch the left and right buttons. Does anyone know of a workaround to that? Note that: * xserver-xorg-input-libinput is installed. * Tap-to-click still works

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

2016-06-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti wrote: > Hello, > > on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap > file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which > write about 6-7 MB/s). > > As I see fallocate can do this job much faster, so why you don't use th

Hmm, XFCE won't start after upgrade

2016-06-02 Thread Anthony Papillion
I downloaded the latest stable, did an upgrade, then replaced my stake trips with testing and did another upgrade. After that, XFCE went back to its first run state: asking me how I want the panel configured, etc. It also wiped out all of my configuration data (in Pidgin, for example). Lastly

Re: gathering system information

2016-06-02 Thread Ivan Jurišić
Try get information with inxi package: apt-get install inxi inxi -F Dana 02.06.2016 08:06, kamaraju kusumanchi je napisao(la): > I am planning to develop a script that gathers all the _relevant_ > system information for common configuration tasks such as sound, > graphics, wireless, network, p

dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

2016-06-02 Thread basti
Hello, on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which write about 6-7 MB/s). As I see fallocate can do this job much faster, so why you don't use this? fallocate is also part of the util-linux package wh

Verification of (xen) netboot images

2016-06-02 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi all, I'd like to use netboot images to install Debian VMs on a (Debian) Xen host. The copies on http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/ differ from those on http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images

Re: SOS

2016-06-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [CCed, because probably not on list. Perhaps it's just a spam trap -- so be it] On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:21:10AM +0100, john borley wrote: > Hi can you help me i’am trying with out success to get your software off > my computer can you please advis

Re: gathering system information

2016-06-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 10:30:33AM +0200, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2016-06-02 08:06, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > I am planning to develop a script that gathers all the _relevant_ > > system information for common configuration tasks such as sound, > >

SOS

2016-06-02 Thread john borley
Hi can you help me i’am trying with out success to get your software off my computer can you please advise me .thank you mr j borley

Re: gathering system information

2016-06-02 Thread hdv
On 2016-06-02 08:06, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am planning to develop a script that gathers all the _relevant_ > system information for common configuration tasks such as sound, > graphics, wireless, network, printer etc. > > Here is a proof of concept > https://gitlab.com/d3k2mk7/rutils/blob