Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-05 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:38:05PM -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: [...] > I bought a new computer in May or June, and it came, of course, with > Windows [...] "Of course"? Next time consider giving your business to someone who goes that extra mile and tries to sell hardware with pre-installed Lin

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-05 Thread Keith Bainbridge
I'm still lurking here, but not sure what this suggestion means. Please expand. On 5/10/19 1:22 am, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 07:03:59PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: I wonder if having /home on a 'noexec' partition would stop this attack, please? I don't know specifi

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-05 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 06:02:32PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > I'm still lurking here, but not sure what this suggestion means. > > Please expand. I don't really understand your question. Otherwise I'd try to answer. Could you be more explicit? Cheers -- tomás signature.asc Description:

Re: hostname?

2019-10-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-10-04, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > the output of >> > >> > hostname -f >> >> root@pix:~# hostname -f >> hostname: Name or service not known > > OK > "Name or service not known" is OK? You'd think it wouldn't be, and that that devil systemd, believing the static hostname for the machine is

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

2019-10-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Étienne Mollier wrote: > Now, if the software is closed source, then you will have to > get a libpng12 targeting your system. In Debians case, the best way to do this, is to install the version from Jessie. It should not conflict with any libraries in the current version and resolve the problem.

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-10-05, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > I'm still lurking here, but not sure what this suggestion means. He's not making one. He's offering examples of the trivial circumvention of the noexec option (but they all appear to be faulty for one reason or another). > Please expand. > > On 5/10/19

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/10/2019 à 16:45, Albretch Mueller a écrit : I use ntfs as a data transfer file system between Mac OS, *nix and Windows (I code primarily in java). Even though while using that partition through fuser it is noticeable slower, afaik, it is the only viable option there is. What does fuser

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-05 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 05/10/2019 02.00, Steve McIntyre wrote: > etienne.moll...@mailoo.org wrote: >> deloptes, on 2019-10-03: >>> Gerard ROBIN wrote: >>> > What exactly bugs you about the signed kernel? The kernel is so big > that the extra signatures hardly make a difference. I read somewhere that the

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-05 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 09:39:06AM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-10-05, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > I'm still lurking here, but not sure what this suggestion means. > > He's not making one. > > He's offering examples of the trivial circumvention of the noexec option > (but they all appear to b

Re: iptables why rejects this output?

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
BAGI Ákos wrote: > How can I enable it with iptables? (I have lot of iptables rules). > Is it ok, to enable  it? without the iptables rules it is hard to tell - post the rules (iptables-save)

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
Étienne Mollier wrote: > I don't know if someone else hit some other corner base, but > signed kernels, bootloaders, drivers, and the like are only > required if one wishes to, or has to, boot with UEFI Secure Boot > enabled.  That's the only configuration I can think of where it > would be needed

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

2019-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-10-05 11:20 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Étienne Mollier wrote: > >> Now, if the software is closed source, then you will have to >> get a libpng12 targeting your system. > > In Debians case, the best way to do this, is to install the version from > Jessie. It should not conflict with any

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-10-05, wrote: > > # But we can bypass it with Jonathan's first method: > tomas@trotzki:~$ /bin/sh bar/hello > hello, world > I meant bash -c "~/whatever" appears to be faulty (for one reason or another. -- "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." -

fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Erwan David
Hi, I've got a computer with 3 SSD in RAID5 (dm-raid) containing a LUKS partition, then a lvm Is fstrim useful in suc a case ? Or on mylaptop without the raid, but with LUKS and LVM ? Should I add the discard option in fstab ? Or an equivalent in mdadm.conf or cryptsetup.conf ? Thanks

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
thank you (also, as part caring for good karma in case someone runs into such matters) the two (or three) silver lines I got from you comments were: a) defragment that NTFS partition once in a while. i mostly use that partition to read legacy data, but I didn't know you could defragment a window

Re: Failed to fetch libegl1-mesa-dev_19.1.4-1_amd64.deb

2019-10-05 Thread Martin
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:01:09PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > So, perhaps try an apt-get update first. Thanks, I forgot to update my instalation first :( Martin

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-05 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 12:14:28PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-10-05, wrote: > > > > # But we can bypass it with Jonathan's first method: > > tomas@trotzki:~$ /bin/sh bar/hello > > hello, world > > > > I meant > > bash -c "~/whatever" > > appears to be faulty (for one reason or another

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 02:52:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > I've got a computer with 3 SSD in RAID5 (dm-raid) containing a LUKS > partition, then a lvm > Is fstrim useful in suc a case ? It's disabled by default, but you can enable by setting "issue_discards=1" in lvm.conf, and by

RFE: Could crc32 be included in the debian live/installation disk?

2019-10-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
this is a hash algorithm that is implemented of the chips anyway, it is the fastest of them all, used by synch (is it?) and it is crucially helpful when data integrity is very important. I like to do baseline checks when I first install an OS base and when I upgrade it. Does Debian internally

No login screen after today "testing" update

2019-10-05 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Hello, I have no login screen on my "testing" Debian system after regular update against testing repository. I also tried update against unstable repository ... Thinking that maybe some involved packages are still there ... But it not helped Any idea how fix my system? Thank you m.

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

2019-10-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-10-05 11:20 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Étienne Mollier wrote: >>> Now, if the software is closed source, then you will have to get a >>> libpng12 targeting your system. >> In Debians case, the best way to do this, is to install the version >> from Jessie. It shou

Re: RFE: Could crc32 be included in the debian live/installation disk?

2019-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 03:57:09PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: > this is a hash algorithm that is implemented of the chips anyway, it > is the fastest of them all, used by synch (is it?) and it is crucially > helpful when data integrity is very important. And it's also one of thos

Re: RFE: Could crc32 be included in the debian live/installation disk?

2019-10-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > [...] crc32 [...] 200+K files Kids, whatever you do with one of the many "CRC-32"s, be aware that the birthday paradox predicts several identical 32-bit outcomes among 200,000 files. In the context of an intrusion detection system, a 32-bit checksum is much too easy

Re: hostname?

2019-10-05 Thread ghe
On 10/5/19 3:18 AM, Curt wrote: >>> root@pix:~# hostname -f >>> hostname: Name or service not known >> >> OK >> > > "Name or service not known" is OK? You'd think it wouldn't be, and that > that devil systemd, believing the static hostname for the machine is > absent or invalid, is using the tran

cannot bring up phpmyadmin in browser, cannot link to mysql

2019-10-05 Thread Dave
On our old server we used to access phpmyadmin via "oursite.com/phpmyadmin" on the new server we have installed phpmyadmin / php / and sql-server ... we cannot access phpmyadmin. also we have not been able to link other programs like wordpress to sql or phpmyadmin to sql. DEBIAN 9.04 please a

Re: cannot bring up phpmyadmin in browser, cannot link to mysql

2019-10-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/5/19 11:51 AM, Dave wrote: On our old server we used to access phpmyadmin via "oursite.com/phpmyadmin" on the new server we have installed phpmyadmin / php / and sql-server ... we cannot access phpmyadmin. also we have not been able to link other programs like wordpress to sql or phpmy

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Erwan David
Le 05/10/2019 à 15:55, Reco a écrit : > Hi. > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 02:52:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: >> I've got a computer with 3 SSD in RAID5 (dm-raid) containing a LUKS >> partition, then a lvm >> Is fstrim useful in suc a case ? > It's disabled by default, but you can enable by s

checking ssh server is running

2019-10-05 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi I am trying to figure out how to check if ssh is running using systemD which is of course what Debian and Raspbian use. However my search term system d check ssh server is running Yielded https://cplusprogrammer.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/how-t

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/10/2019 à 15:55, Reco a écrit : On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 02:52:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: I've got a computer with 3 SSD in RAID5 (dm-raid) containing a LUKS partition, then a lvm dm-raid (device-mapper) or mdraid (mdadm) ? Is fstrim useful in suc a case ? It's disabled by defaul

Re: checking ssh server is running

2019-10-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-05 17:01, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I am trying to figure out how to check if ssh is running using systemD which is of course what Debian and Raspbian use. However my search term system d check ssh server is running If it's the client on the same PC you'd know. if sshd "systemctl stat

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Reco
On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 06:14:24PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Is fstrim useful in suc a case ? > > > > It's disabled by default, but you can enable by setting > > "issue_discards=1" in lvm.conf, and by adding "discard" option to your > > crypttab. There's no SSD-specific mdraid configurat

Re: cannot bring up phpmyadmin in browser, cannot link to mysql

2019-10-05 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 11:51:59 -0400 Dave wrote: > On our old server we used to access phpmyadmin via > "oursite.com/phpmyadmin" > > on the new server we have installed phpmyadmin / php / and sql-server > ... > > we cannot access phpmyadmin. > > also we have not been able to link other programs l

Re: No login screen after today "testing" update

2019-10-05 Thread Ian Sharpe
If you can log in from an external machine (I could ssh into mine), then I did a hack fix using: su cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ rm libgnome-desktop-3.so.18 ln -s libgnome-desktop-3.so.17 libgnome-desktop-3.so.18 systemctl reboot Not a fix by any means, but it got me up and running.

Re: No login screen after today "testing" update

2019-10-05 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Thank you Ian, this helped me to get my machine work ... so this is libgnome-desktop bug? Should this be reported? I am a bit surprise this went unnoticed to testing ... best regards mira so 5. 10. 2019 v 19:00 odesílatel Ian Sharpe <" igs+debian-user"@ sharpe-practice.co.uk> napsal: > If you

Re: checking ssh server is running

2019-10-05 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/10/2019 17:15, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-10-05 17:01, Paul Sutton wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am trying to figure out how to check if ssh is running using >> systemD which is of course what Debian and Raspbian use. >> >> However my search term >

Re: No login screen after today "testing" update

2019-10-05 Thread Ian Sharpe
On Sat, 2019-10-05 at 20:55 +0200, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Thank you Ian, > > this helped me to get my machine work ... so this is libgnome-desktop > bug? > Should this be reported? I am a bit surprise this went unnoticed to > testing ... > Well that's what testing is for, so no regrets there.

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/10/2019 à 18:27, Reco a écrit : mdraid and dm-raid have discard disabled by default with RAID4/5/6 for safety reasons. One must pass the parameter devices_handle_discard_safely=Y to the module raid456 or dm-raid respectively to enable it. I want to make it clear that using this option wi

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > It's safe only if your SSD firmware is sane and does not corrupt your > > > > data while processing TRIM with NCQ enabled. > > > > For instance, some noname Chinese SSD (ADATA, for instance) can corrupt > > > > yo

Re: No login screen after today "testing" update

2019-10-05 Thread Ian Sharpe
It's already been raised as a bug, and that the problem appears to be that package dependencies aren't quite right, so the desktop package (using a new API) has been put into testing before the provider of the updated API. Proper temporary fix given here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Re: checking ssh server is running

2019-10-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-05 20:03, Paul Sutton wrote: On 05/10/2019 17:15, mick crane wrote: On 2019-10-05 17:01, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I am trying to figure out how to check if ssh is running using systemD which is of course what Debian and Raspbian use. However my search term system d check ssh server i

Re: checking ssh server is running

2019-10-05 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 08:03:31PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > > > On 05/10/2019 17:15, mick crane wrote: > > On 2019-10-05 17:01, Paul Sutton wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I am trying to figure out how to check if ssh is running using > >> syste

Re: cannot bring up phpmyadmin in browser, cannot link to mysql

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Other piece of advice:  I've found that complex software works better > when installed from a source tarball, with ./config; make install. Sorry, but this is a complete BS. Also reffering to some notes from may be 15y ago does not answer the question. The one which urges

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > Curious. I avoid RAID5/6 due to the old habit, but it's something that's > good to go. But what do you use? RAID5 is most efficient for building large arrays - what is the alternative?

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 11:12:06PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Reco wrote: > > > Curious. I avoid RAID5/6 due to the old habit, but it's something that's > > good to go. > > But what do you use? RAID5 is most efficient for building large arrays - > what is the alternative? RAID10 if th

Why is X loading my Nvidia drivers?

2019-10-05 Thread Celejar
Hi, On my Optimus laptop (with both Intel and Nvidia GPUs), I'm trying to avoid loading the Nvidia drivers on startup (in order to power down the Nvidia card with bbswitch). When I blacklist them in /etc/modprobe.d/, they don't load on boot, but X seems to be loading them, despite the fact that X