Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

On 6/9/19 2:32 PM, Markos wrote: Many thanks to Mick, David and Joe, To guarantee "some" protection to the file containing the database I decided to use the following strategy: I created, as root, the directory /home/reading_room And activated the "sticky bit" of the reading_room directory w

Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

On 6/10/19 7:04 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: My Debian platform has four drives: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ??sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part / ??sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ??sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP] sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk ??sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /s

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

On 8/06/19 3:16 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:38 AM Jonathan Dowland > wrote: > > > You're quite right. I frequently mix up stretch and squeeze: the > forthcoming > run of Buster, Bullseye and Bookworm will be far more confusing >

Scratch that Actually Gene...

After seeing the struggles you are going thru, and since I see the incredible effort people make to help you... IF it was me, I would probably make one good post describing every machine, keyboard, terminal, monitor, device, hard drive, modem, tablet, laptop, cnc, or cordless drill you are usin

logging for complicated setups, (was: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?)

In-Reply-To: <201906101154.09137.ghesk...@shentel.net> [snip] >What the hell, I thought /var/log >was where to find/keep logs, but when only root can use it, its the same >as the belly appendages on a boar hog. Useless. Just because of someones >paranoia. ... I'd have to disagree with this Gene

Re: konquerer access to Stretch with fish or sftp not working

Thomas, on 2019-06-10 : > I have problems to access an Stretch debian Server with > fish://root@192.168.1.20 or sftp://root@192.168.1.20. > I is not working. > Access to other workings are OK. Good Day Thomas, Does a simple SFTP session work on command line? $ sftp root@192.128.1.20 If

konquerer access to Stretch with fish or sftp not working

Hello, I have problems to access an Stretch debian Server with fish://root@192.168.1.20 or sftp://root@192.168.1.20. I is not working. Access to other workings are OK. Thanks Thomas

Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, the preseed file is common for multiple hosts with the exception of the hostname. boot: auto hostname=try domain=example.com ... url=tftp://hostname/preseed.cfg The host name specified is not used when Debian is installed, it is always set t

Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

Le 10/06/2019 à 16:04, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : sda is a 500 GB SSD, currently the boot drive, running Stretch (...) I am planning on adding a 1 TB SSD to the system to be dedicated to Buster (currently Testing). I know that if I select the new drive (for the purpose of this note, sdd) f

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:33:14PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > You can help the maintainers by running Unstable or Testing and filing > > bug reports. > > Is there a URL to aid that upgrade? Or is it a start with a new drive & > iso image? I'm in favor of operational continuity, if it can be

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

On Monday 10 June 2019 01:00:58 pm John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > All of that I'm well aware of Tomas. So yes "should" is a bit > > stronger sounding than I intended. But at my thinkers age, I'd like > > to think I have sense enough left to know my limits. So I ask. I > > am behind the c

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

Gene writes: > All of that I'm well aware of Tomas. So yes "should" is a bit stronger > sounding than I intended. But at my thinkers age, I'd like to think I > have sense enough left to know my limits. So I ask. I am behind the > curve of any modern language, even bash scripts I wrote 10 years a

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

On Monday 10 June 2019 11:17:04 am to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 06:43:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I'm not a maintainer, just a user. > > > > And a instance of the above should result in the instant moving of > > that package into the non-free category. And

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On Monday 10 June 2019 09:44:36 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-10, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Maybe > >> > >> sudo systemctl stop serial-getty@ttyS0.service > >> > >> if you haven't already tried it. > > > > No, after a reboot, I don't need to. > > > > minicom is working, sorta. Theres enough dif

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 06:43:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I'm not a maintainer, just a user. > > And a instance of the above should result in the instant moving of that > package into the non-free category. And put a link to a readme > explaining why its contamination by such track

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:44:36PM -, Curt wrote: Well, Michael Stone's guess was a good one (though, apparently, wrong). The one thing I've learned is that Gene does weird things to his systems and has issues that nobody else has. I'll throw out a guess, but I won't waste a lot of time o

Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

My Debian platform has four drives: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ??sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part / ??sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ??sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP] sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk ??sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /sdb1 ??sdb2 8:18 0 1K 0 part ??sdb5 8:2

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On 2019-06-10, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Maybe >> >> sudo systemctl stop serial-getty@ttyS0.service >> >> if you haven't already tried it. > > No, after a reboot, I don't need to. > > minicom is working, sorta. Theres enough diffs in the protocol to > call "working" by a rather fuzzy definit

Re: Severe vulnerability in Exim 4.87 through 4.91

On 2019-06-10, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 04:50:06PM -, Curt wrote: >> https://lwn.net/Articles/790553/ >> >> I was actually going to point to another article on the subject, but as >> it revealed the exact modus operandi for the (local) exploit (which is >> trivial to an

Re: Severe vulnerability in Exim 4.87 through 4.91

On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 04:50:06PM -, Curt wrote: > https://lwn.net/Articles/790553/ > > I was actually going to point to another article on the subject, but as > it revealed the exact modus operandi for the (local) exploit (which is > trivial to an extreme) I thought better of it. https://ww

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On Monday 10 June 2019 04:46:33 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What do I do next to get rid of this nearly invisible agetty gizmo > > once this machine is booted? It might be handy if this machine is > > truly hung, but I can count those instances on one hand with finger

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

Hi, Do you know wether FSF or OSI has some tmplate, just like licnese examples, for such thing? With a tmplate, maybe Debian might accept to ship it to the packages like thy include COPYRIGHT, or displaying a screen to mention privacy policy. One thing seems sure, Debian will never have a

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

On Monday 10 June 2019 04:11:54 am to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:08:04AM -0700, npdflr wrote: > > Thanks Jean for your reply. > > > > Non-free packages should definitely be checked with their privacy > > policy. But what about free packages? > > Agreed. > > > The license for

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On 2019-06-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What do I do next to get rid of this nearly invisible agetty gizmo once > this machine is booted? It might be handy if this machine is truly > hung, but I can count those instances on one hand with fingers left over > in the 21 years I have been a linu

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

On 6/10/2019 7:56 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 06:32:42PM -0300, Markos wrote: >> Many thanks to Mick, David and Joe, >> >> To guarantee "some" protection to the file containing the database I decided >> to use the following strategy: >> >> I created, as root, the direct

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:08:04AM -0700, npdflr wrote: > Thanks Jean for your reply. > > Non-free packages should definitely be checked with their privacy policy. But > what about free packages? Agreed. > The license for the Go programming language is https://golang.org/LICENSE > which is fre

Re: How could I install ecryptfs-utils on Buster

On Mi, 10 apr 19, 15:40:13, Pierre Fourès wrote: > > I did the test and all went as expected. I got ecryptfs-utils being > installed with the four of its dependencies. One of them, keyutils, is > in 1.5.9-9 in stretch and 1.6.6 in buster. As expected, apt installed > the one from buster. After the

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

Thanks Jean for your reply. Non-free packages should definitely be checked with their privacy policy. But what about free packages? The license for the Go programming language is https://golang.org/LICENSE which is free but the privacy policy is invasive https://policies.google.com/privacy?