Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread David Christensen
On 09/09/2016 09:14 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 09 Sep 2016 at 20:36:39 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: >> So, 1048576900 bytes * 8 bits / byte / 76.024 seconds > ↑ > > What's this 9? A typographical error. 104857600 bytes * 8 bits/byte / 76.024 seconds = 11034158 bits/secon

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 23:14:30 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 09 Sep 2016 at 20:36:39 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > On 09/09/2016 11:51 AM, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:57:02 -0700 > > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiF

Installing Lenny -- how to deal with expired repo signing keys?

2016-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
It's a long story, but I need to install a fresh-out-of-the-box Debian amd64 Lenny system. I found ftp.us.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ which has installer images for old Debian releases, including Lenny. The README file says I need to use deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread David Wright
On Fri 09 Sep 2016 at 20:36:39 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 09/09/2016 11:51 AM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:57:02 -0700 > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data > >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps).

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread David Christensen
On 09/09/2016 12:43 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On 09/08/16 22:57, David Christensen wrote: >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wired is twice as fast (100 Mbps); still >> slow. Newer WiFi (n, ac) should be faster, but only the ne

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread David Christensen
On 09/09/2016 11:51 AM, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:57:02 -0700 > David Christensen wrote: > > ... > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wired is twice as fast (100 Mbps); still >> slow. Newer WiFi (n, ac) should be

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-09 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Joe. Thanks for your reply. On 09/09/16 18:06, Joe wrote: >>> An email client connects to its SMTP smarthost using SMTP, so >>> there's no way a given SMTP server can tell whether it's a client >>> (MUA) or another SMTP server (MTA) trying to connect to it. >> That's outdated information.

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread deloptes
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Still, 20-24 Mbps is more than 10 Mpbs I was seeing with rsync. There > could be a bottleneck somewhere? In my case it was the IO on the disk - I couldn't do more than 12Mbps even on wired connection, because I have encrypted disk ... it took me a while to understand why t

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 16:46:35 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Celejar. > > On 09/09/16 15:51, Celejar wrote: > > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data > >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wired is twice as fast (100 Mbps); still > >> slow. Newer WiFi (n, ac) shou

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-09 Thread Joe
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 16:13:10 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 08:58:15PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > An email client connects to its SMTP smarthost using SMTP, so > > there's no way a given SMTP server can tell whether it's a client > > (MUA) or another SMTP server (MTA) trying to co

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:10:53PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > On 9/9/2016 4:26 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >You know what, though, I did have two entries in there the other day. > >And I found that tip because I was getting the "RTNETLINK answers:

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 04:05:28PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > On 09/09/16 15:05, Stephan Beck wrote: [...] > H... I do not quite understand this situation. That is, lkeusa.com > asked to use SMTP authentication, but this would make sens

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 08:58:15PM +0100, Joe wrote: > An email client connects to its SMTP smarthost using SMTP, so there's no > way a given SMTP server can tell whether it's a client (MUA) or another > SMTP server (MTA) trying to connect to it. That's outdated information. SMTP is used to excha

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-09 Thread Joe
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 16:05:28 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On 09/09/16 15:05, Stephan Beck wrote: > > > Hi Daniel, > > Hi, Stephan. Thanks for your reply. > > >>> I recently set up an relay SMTP server on a host of Digital > >>> Ocean, using Debian and Postfix. > >>> > >>> The main reason for

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Celejar. On 09/09/16 15:51, Celejar wrote: >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wired is twice as fast (100 Mbps); still >> slow. Newer WiFi (n, ac) should be faster, but only the newest WiFi >> hardware can match or beat Gig

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, David. Thanks for your reply. On 09/08/16 22:57, David Christensen wrote: >> As you can see, the transfer was over than 3 GB and it were not hung. I >> did several tests and all were without problems. >> >> I wonder if in the mentioned episodes of hangs you remember whether the >> transferre

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread Tim McDonough
On 9/9/2016 4:26 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: You know what, though, I did have two entries in there the other day. And I found that tip because I was getting the "RTNETLINK answers: File exists" error that led to that tip (k/t Raspberry Pi @ StackExchange). My firsthand experience is that tip lea

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-09 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On 09/09/16 15:05, Stephan Beck wrote: > Hi Daniel, Hi, Stephan. Thanks for your reply. >>> I recently set up an relay SMTP server on a host of Digital Ocean, using >>> Debian and Postfix. >>> >>> The main reason for setting up this relay is that the cPanel VPS is >>> hosted at Godaddy, and th

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:57:02 -0700 David Christensen wrote: ... > My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data > transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wired is twice as fast (100 Mbps); still > slow. Newer WiFi (n, ac) should be faster, but only the newest WiFi > hardware can matc

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:03:33PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi, > > I was just about to order some usb2serial hardware when I read this. [...] > I'll try it when I get the first server assembled. Thanks a lot! Hey, glad to help :-) - -- t -BEG

gdm3 doesn't work any more after the upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie 8.5

2016-09-09 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, We used during 2 years Gnome and gdm3 on a server with Debian Wheezy to let users work from their Windows PC via Cygwin and xlaunch (xdmcp). It worked well till the upgrade to Jessie, for these Windows PC, as for the system console, a very simple terminal. The migration has been done

Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:58:03PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > This one should be _real_ easy! > > Two days ago, my hard drive on my (now) discarded computer gave up the ghost. > After consideration, and advice from friends, I went out to Staples and bought > a Dell, with Windoze installed. I

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-09 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Daniel, Daniel Bareiro: > > On 08/09/16 13:56, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >> I recently set up an relay SMTP server on a host of Digital Ocean, using >> Debian and Postfix. >> >> The main reason for setting up this relay is that the cPanel VPS is >> hosted at Godaddy, and they force everyone to

Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-09 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-09 13:58 (UTC-0400): Two days ago, my hard drive on my (now) discarded computer gave up the ghost. After consideration, and advice from friends, I went out to Staples and bought a Dell, with Windoze installed. I hooked up everything and Windoze boots OK, my s

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread Jarle Aase
Hi, I was just about to order some usb2serial hardware when I read this. Your suggestion will give fewer "moving parts" and is actually very simple to implement. I will loose the ability to do a cold boot, but it will probably not matter too much in my case, at least not for now. I'll try it

How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-09 Thread Alan McConnell
This one should be _real_ easy! Two days ago, my hard drive on my (now) discarded computer gave up the ghost. After consideration, and advice from friends, I went out to Staples and bought a Dell, with Windoze installed. I hooked up everything and Windoze boots OK, my sound works, etc. This mor

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 09/09/16 18:19, Stefan Monnier wrote: I suggest you re-read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm Nagle only kicks in when there are un-acknowledged packets. So on the first packet, there is no delay. There will be a delay on the *second* packet if it's small and we hav

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-09 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/08/2016 01:54 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 09:30:54 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 05:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to get it from unstable? On wheezy, how? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett Installing lib

Re: How to diagnose an "apt-get instal"l problem

2016-09-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:18:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > As root I attempted to do > apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core > It began normally but terminated with a file not found message > before coming to the confirm installation step. And the error message said...? > To nar

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm experimenting with TCP to see how long it takes to send a small amount > of data from A to B. One would expect a latency of a few hundred > milliseconds, but it's a few hundred microseconds instead. It is as if > Nagle's algorithm has been disabled. I suggest you re-read https://en.wikipedia

How to diagnose an "apt-get instal"l problem

2016-09-09 Thread Richard Owlett
I was experimenting with a custom minimal install. [ALL installs are from purchased DVDs as I have minimal connectivity.] I installed Jessie (8.0.0) using expert mode on a machine set aside for experiments. I explicitly chose no desktop environment. The install proceeded normally. From the De

icedove: failed to connect server x...@gmail.com

2016-09-09 Thread mudongliang
Dear all, recently I suddenly failed to update my gmail account in icedove. When I tried to get messages from gmail account in icedove, it poped up one window : "Failled to connect server x...@gmail.com". There is no error for my other email, for example, hotmail, outlook. Ho

Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-09 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there I'm experimenting with TCP to see how long it takes to send a small amount of data from A to B. One would expect a latency of a few hundred milliseconds, but it's a few hundred microseconds instead. It is as if Nagle's algorithm has been disabled. Regards, Rob

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Freitag, 9. September 2016 08:15:37 PYT Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-09 at 08:46 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > > I've used USB-to-serial adapters with the Prolific chipset. They've > > worked fine for me, in various models. (I haven't tried FTDI and am > > suspicious of them.) > > And my exper

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

2016-09-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > > update into the wheezy repo's? > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > > Please contact the Debian LTS people,

Re: Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade

2016-09-09 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Don Armstrong wrote: That's basically because the policy wasn't fixed in time for the jessie release (see #756729 and #771484). If you're using selinux on Debian, it would probably be good to participate in the development of the default policy and refpolicy packages. Yes please

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/8/16, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:08:04PM +0100, David wrote: >> I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about >> the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. >> >> Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/network/i

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread Joe
On Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:12:14 +0100 David wrote: > > Firstly an apology, I did not realise there was a Debian Jessie and a > Raspbian Jessie. > > I'm working with Raspbian Jessie. > Debian is the root of many other distributions such as Knoppix and Ubuntu, and many less famous. Raspbian is o

Re: Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-09 Thread Clive Menzies
Please ignore this last message about dovecot - my brain was scrambled. I hadn't installed it yet. On 09/09/16 09:16, Clive Menzies wrote: On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote: On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three days, si

Re: Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote: On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three days, since Monday afternoon. Never before have I questioned the decision to base our business (and our lives) on Debian and I remain a firm advocate

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread David
On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 12:42 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > On 9/8/2016 12:08 PM, David wrote: > > > > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy > > about > > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. > > > > Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does n

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:26:59PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in > Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for > longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2016-09-09 at 08:46 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > I've used USB-to-serial adapters with the Prolific chipset. They've > worked fine for me, in various models. (I haven't tried FTDI and am > suspicious of them.) And my experience is the opposite. I have genuine (there's apparently a lot of