Once again: alt as my meta key

2017-02-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
When I boot my Jessie it brings me, as desired, to a bash command line prompt (no X at this stage of the game). If I then launch the jed editor (or emacs -nw) from that prompt, pressing Alt-x on the keyboard, produces the M-x prompt where jed wants it. I then can enter startx and arrive in m

Re: Keys management (SSH, GPG)

2017-02-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 08 Feb 18:22 -0600, commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Debian 8.7 user. > > > # SSH > > I would like to know if there is an efficient way to manage SSH keys? There are probably better ways. I pulled the ideas for the following from the Web. I put the following in ~

Re: determining subnet mask using ip but not using ifconfig in debian 9.0 (stretch)

2017-02-08 Thread Dan Hitt
Thanks Marc, so indeed it does (and i guess 'ip -4 addr' or 'ip -4 a' would work fine for me). (Aside from google, i did a search for 'mask' in the ip man page and didn't see anything, but your command sure settles the issue.) dan On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: > Dan Hi

Re: determining subnet mask using ip but not using ifconfig in debian 9.0 (stretch)

2017-02-08 Thread Marc Auslander
Dan Hitt writes: > What is the preferred way to determine the subnet mask of your box > using /bin/ip on debian 9.0 (stretch)? > > In the old days, this sort of information would come out of ifconfig, > but it looks like debian really wants to get away from ifconfig, and i > think use ip as a sor

determining subnet mask using ip but not using ifconfig in debian 9.0 (stretch)

2017-02-08 Thread Dan Hitt
What is the preferred way to determine the subnet mask of your box using /bin/ip on debian 9.0 (stretch)? In the old days, this sort of information would come out of ifconfig, but it looks like debian really wants to get away from ifconfig, and i think use ip as a sort of replacement. So i would

Re: Debian-ML_Automatically spoof MAC address

2017-02-08 Thread commentsabout
Hello, Thank you for your answer. On 2017-02-09 01:19, Pyroteus wrote: - give a try # tail Do you mean "Tails"? Tails is not an option here. - type on your browser : how to spoof his MAC address on linux Yeah, I did that, didn't find any working solution so I came and asked here. - h

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, February 08, 2017 06:37:55 PM Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Careful there, I would not copy any of the /home/username/dot-files or > > dot directories over, except like .mozilla and .thunderbird, so y

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christensen wrote: > Sometimes you get lucky and the tool is a live CD: > > www.seagate.com/file

Re: Automatically spoof MAC address when interface is brought down

2017-02-08 Thread commentsabout
Hello, Thank you for you answer. On 2017-02-08 16:38, Michael Lange wrote: Does this help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AnonymizingNetworkMACAddresses ? No :( That is strange, the file already exists (it is a symbolic link): su ls -la /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: Keys management (SSH, GPG)

2017-02-08 Thread commentsabout
On 2017-02-08 16:20, commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: either connect to servers via ssh or to work with on remote servers. [...] to work with _git_ [...] CA

Re: Skype

2017-02-08 Thread ken
On 02/07/2017 03:25 PM, Anonymous wrote: Skype on Linux is terrible and crashes randomly, even after fixing the Pulseaudio issue. No other software I've ever used on Linux causes as many problems as Skype. Obviously this problem ultimately comes from Microsoft, but nevertheless many of us need Sk

Bug report: after booting, if laptop lid is closed without login in, the computer doesn't go to sleep

2017-02-08 Thread commentsabout
Hello, I am a Debian 8.7 user (with Gnome 3.14.1). On a Thinkpad X220. I do not know where this bug would be best reported so I will let people with more knowledge than me about these sort of things fill a bug in the proper place. # laptop lid closure not taken into account When I start my

Re: Automatically spoof MAC address when interface is brought down

2017-02-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:26:35 -0800 commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Debian 8.7 user. > I use the default Network Manager. > > I would like to know if there is a way to automatically spoof the MAC > address of my wireless interface every time I bring down (and up)? > > I

Automatically spoof MAC address when interface is brought down

2017-02-08 Thread commentsabout
Hello, I am a Debian 8.7 user. I use the default Network Manager. I would like to know if there is a way to automatically spoof the MAC address of my wireless interface every time I bring down (and up)? I have a Thinkpad x210 and there is a physical switch for the wifi interface. For the tim

Keys management (SSH, GPG)

2017-02-08 Thread commentsabout
Hello, I am a Debian 8.7 user. # SSH I would like to know if there is an efficient way to manage SSH keys? I have multiple SSH keys (rsa, ed25519) that I use all day long to either connect to servers via ssh or to work with on remote servers. I would like to know if there it is possible to

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/08/2017 03:37 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was f

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was fine. Then I made a clonezilla live CD and bo

Re: Best way to set maximum number of open descriptors for a process

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Sven. On 08/02/17 14:37, Sven Hartge wrote: >> In this case, it seems that the service file for systemd is created >> dynamically. Or I'm wrong? >> >> >> root@conference:~# find / -name jitsi-videobridge.service >> /sys/fs/c

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was fine. Then I made a clonezilla live CD and booted from it. It stopped on the first rea

Re: [(fwd): Debian/Stretch - network-manager_1.4.4-1 and libbluetooth3_5.43-1]

2017-02-08 Thread Ennio-Sr
* deloptes [080217, 19:45]: > Ennio-Sr wrote: > > ... > > I don't see dependency between network-manager and bluetooth in jessie > No, the dependency is on 'libbluetooth3' for Stretch version of network-manager (1.6.0-1). No dependencies are shown for previous versions. > Even if NetworkManager

Re: how to override a conffile (not using dpkg-divert)?

2017-02-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 07 Feb 2017, Harald Dunkel wrote: > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-diversions.html says > > "Do not attempt to divert a conffile, as dpkg does not handle it well." > > So I wonder what would you suggest to override a conffile (e.g. > /etc/ssh/sshd_conf and /etc/ssh/ssh_co

Re: apt's cache, was Re: Debian/Stretch - network-manager ...

2017-02-08 Thread David Wright
On Wed 08 Feb 2017 at 16:18:15 (+0100), Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 08.02.2017 um 15:38 schrieb David Wright: > > If you're worried about losing your .deb files, just copy > > them (as a user) or move them (as root) anywhere else, > > depending on how much storage you have. Using any of the -i > > -n

Re: CUPS in stretch does NOT WORK - Ricoh printer SP112 SP112-su

2017-02-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 05 Feb 2017 at 00:39:00 +, Roba wrote: > Thank you very much Gene, > You are the first person to ever mention that "the line was removed" for > security paranoia, not that I mistakenly removed it by mistake over the > past few months of it running under jessie and not running under > st

Re: [(fwd): Debian/Stretch - network-manager_1.4.4-1 and libbluetooth3_5.43-1]

2017-02-08 Thread deloptes
Ennio-Sr wrote: > Of course, the deletion of network-manager is announced when you remove > libbluetooth3 but I think it should be stressed by a stronger axplicit > warning, also considering that while removing bluetooth one would not > expect that network-manager will vanish altogether and could

Re: Skype

2017-02-08 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Next Tuesday (Feb 14) is "I Love Free Software day", a good chance to > tell your favorite developer that yes, you appreciate her/his job and > to send her/him virtual hugs ♥♥♥ > > Go ahead :) haha, thank you tomas

Re: [qubes-devel] Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

2017-02-08 Thread Chris Laprise
On 02/06/2017 09:25 PM, Unman wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:19:00PM +, Patrick Schleizer wrote: The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system. After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package unattended-upgrades got installed. 'reverse-depends unattended-upgrades' [1

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 02/07/17 23:37, Marc Shapiro wrote: > How it went is not well. > David Christensen wrote: >> Run memtest86+ for 24+ hours to verify that you don't have a memory >> problem. Did you test the memory? If not, test it now just to be sure. >> Use SeaTools to wipe the new 1 TB drive and run the

Re: Best way to set maximum number of open descriptors for a process

2017-02-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On 08/02/17 10:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> The process starts as a service, so it does not require a shell: >>> I had thought that I could add something to the script that starts the >>> process, but I'm not sure if it's the best idea from the point of view >>> of mainta

Re: Publicity: Stretch Freeze/Release Team meeting very soon

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Greg. On 08/02/17 14:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:08:13PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: >> Thanks for sharing the news. These days I was looking for information on >> whether Stretch was already in full freeze since the scheduled date was >> last Sunday. But I had not f

Re: Publicity: Stretch Freeze/Release Team meeting very soon

2017-02-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:08:13PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Thanks for sharing the news. These days I was looking for information on > whether Stretch was already in full freeze since the scheduled date was > last Sunday. But I had not found anything about it. I even planned to > ask on this

Re: Publicity: Stretch Freeze/Release Team meeting very soon

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On 08/02/17 13:46, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Hi :) Hi, Cindy. > Not sure what the protocol is for forwarding emails so am jumping off > the ledge here by covering the topic two ways. The email's public > Debian-Publicity link/URL is immediately below and then the email is > attached in full fur

Publicity: Stretch Freeze/Release Team meeting very soon

2017-02-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Hi :) Not sure what the protocol is for forwarding emails so am jumping off the ledge here by covering the topic two ways. The email's public Debian-Publicity link/URL is immediately below and then the email is attached in full further down. Thought the attached email might be of interest because

Re: Best way to set maximum number of open descriptors for a process

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Greg. On 08/02/17 10:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> The process starts as a service, so it does not require a shell: >> I had thought that I could add something to the script that starts the >> process, but I'm not sure if it's the best idea from the point of view >> of maintainability because

Re: apt's cache, was Re: Debian/Stretch - network-manager ...

2017-02-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 08.02.2017 um 15:38 schrieb David Wright: > If you're worried about losing your .deb files, just copy > them (as a user) or move them (as root) anywhere else, > depending on how much storage you have. Using any of the -i > -n -u options will avoid unnecessary overwriting. Older deb files can be

apt's cache, was Re: Debian/Stretch - network-manager ...

2017-02-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 00:16:57 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: [...] > Where are you seeing packages deleted from? I'm THRILLED you're > instead having to go to /var/cache/apt/archives because that means > maybe my horde of dotDebs is still safe from some default. Then again, [...] > first came to

Issues with power management

2017-02-08 Thread solitone
Hi, I resend this message because in my previous attempt I mistakenly linked it to a completely unrelated thread. Sorry for the inconvenience. as I told in thread "Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation", my MacBookPro 12,1 had problems with hibernation in stretch. If hibernation ha

Re: Skype

2017-02-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/08/2017 06:03 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: I am currently testing Jitsi Meet [1] with Debian. Here [2] you can see a server with Jitsi Meet open to the community for test the system. Kind regards, Daniel [1] https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiMeet [2] https://meet.jit.si I'm giving this a wh

Re: Best way to set maximum number of open descriptors for a process

2017-02-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 09:26:14AM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > The process starts as a service, so it does not require a shell: > I had thought that I could add something to the script that starts the > process, but I'm not sure if it's the best idea from the point of view > of maintainability

Re: Best way to set maximum number of open descriptors for a process

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Tomas. On 08/02/17 08:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> Maybe I could add something to the startup script, but maybe if the >> Debian package is updated, these changes will be lost. What do you >> suggest is the best way? > Yes, if the process is being started via a shell, ulimit seems the > wa

Re: Best way to set maximum number of open descriptors for a process

2017-02-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 08:28:33AM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi! [...] > Maybe I could add something to the startup script, but maybe if the > Debian package is updated, these changes will be lost. What do you > suggest is the best way? Yes, if

Best way to set maximum number of open descriptors for a process

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi! I would like to set the maximum number of open descriptors for a specific process in a way that is maintainable. I've tried putting something like this in /etc/security/limits.d/: jvbsoftnofile 10240 jvbhardnofile 10240 But this seems to only apply to processes with an a

Re: Synaptic Error: Duplicates in sources.list

2017-02-08 Thread Frank
Op 08-02-17 om 12:03 schreef Klaus Jantzen: I removed the two entries in the directory Which directory? /var/lib/apt/lists? That won't help. You need to fix the source, i.e. duplicate lines in the sources.list file in /etc/apt/ or - possibly - duplicate files/entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.

Synaptic Error: Duplicates in sources.list

2017-02-08 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Hello, I am still running Wheezy. When using Synaptic to upgrade Wheezy the following message is issued: = W:Duplicate sources.list entry .. (/var/lib/apy/lists/security.debian.org_dists_wheezy_updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages W:Duplicate sources.list entry .. (/var/lib/apy/lists/secur

Re: Skype

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, deloptes. On 08/02/17 03:36, deloptes wrote: > If we are pragmatic it was a joke that skype was ported to linux, we'll need > to find another way. I'm thinking of mere SIP phone or just dropping the > desktop and using windows anyway. There was too much disappointment > recently from the linu

Issues with power management

2017-02-08 Thread solitone
Hi, as I told in thread "Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation", my MacBookPro 12,1 had problems with hibernation in stretch. If hibernation happened after the monitor had been switched off, the system would not turn the monitor on again after resume. Therefore I disabled hibernati

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, at 17:52, Sven Hartge wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Feb 2017, Mike Nunn wrote: > > >> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/ORDER ignored: not > >> executable > > > Is /tmp mounted "noexec"? Just Don't Do It[tm]. The system will break