Re: Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

2020-05-09 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 10/5/20 1:24 pm, Harry Brown wrote: Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing KaliLinux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed *Oracle VirtualBox* on my *Windows 10* and downloaded *Kali Linux 64bit ISO file*, Then I created a new virtual machine

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 09 May 2020 20:05:48 -0700 "Rick Thomas" wrote: > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root ext4 30G 9.9G 19G 36% / > /dev/sda2 ext2 248M 78M 158M 34% /boot Odd. That should be good for more

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-09 at 23:36, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Rick, > > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? > > There is no easy way. If you boot into a live/rescue environment and > run parted you *may* be able to shrink your

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-09 Thread Andy Smith
Another thought that is maybe a little outside the box: If your BIOS supports booting from USB or media slot then you could maybe make a new boot partition on one of those devices and switch to booting from that from now on. Ties up a USB or media slot forever of course, but possibly an

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rick, On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? There is no easy way. If you boot into a live/rescue environment and run parted you *may* be able to shrink your LVM and grow your /boot but it's a procedure fraught with

Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

2020-05-09 Thread Harry Brown
Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing Kali Linux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed Oracle VirtualBox on my Windows 10 and downloaded Kali Linux 64bit ISO file, Then I created a new virtual machine (Debian 64bit)  and started installing Kali 

Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

2020-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently did a "apt update ; apt upgrade" and it died for lack of space in /boot when trying to install the latest kernel. I purged a couple of old kernel packages (still present in the 'stable' repo, so they weren't obsolete) to make enough space and tried again. Worked this time, but I

Re: advisable to use installer script?

2020-05-09 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 9 May 2020 08:00:54 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 08 mai 20, 11:31:13, Celejar wrote: > > > > Indeed. It's just not clear to me that a typical package in Debian will > > have fewer bugs than the same software downloaded straight from > > upstream. > > The main "selling" point

Re: saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

2020-05-09 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 1:53 PM Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/9/20, Dan Hitt wrote: > > With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the > desktop > > background. > > > > Applications > Settings > Desktop > > > > In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including

Re: saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

2020-05-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/9/20, Dan Hitt wrote: > With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the desktop > background. > > Applications > Settings > Desktop > > In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including a Style, > such as "Scaled", a Color, such as "Horizontal gradient", as

saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

2020-05-09 Thread Dan Hitt
With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the desktop background. Applications > Settings > Desktop In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including a Style, such as "Scaled", a Color, such as "Horizontal gradient", as well as a picture that goes in the

Re: ajuda amb problema amb audio (pulseaudio?)

2020-05-09 Thread Àlex
El 9/5/20 a les 16:33, Antoni Villalonga ha escrit: > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 8:05 AM Àlex wrote: >> Benvolguts/des, >> >> Sabeu si hi ha alguna mena d'arxiu històric de nuclis de Linux? >> >> Per exemple, aquests últims dies Debian Testing ha actualitzat a nucli >> 5.6, però existeix algún lloc on

Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

2020-05-09 Thread Jörg Kampmann
Hello list, I did some further research. In particular I used the live-ISO-image of Buster (amd64) on DVD and bootet the system. And I found the following: Mouse still is irrational. It works fine, when no application has startet after logging. When then an application is started (in this

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/9/20 4:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : No, would be impossible and catastrophic. Either re-install, or try testing now, could be good for you. Reverting a such big upgrade is

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread Sébastien NOBILI
Le 2020-05-09 15:17, G2PC a écrit : Ce qui nous donne, pour le moment, deux script différents, un que j'utilise manuellement, un second qui serait à lancer via la crontab de root. Je me trompe, ou, ils ne seront pas pareil, du fait de l'approche avec root, qui serait différente que dans le cas

Re: ajuda amb problema amb audio (pulseaudio?)

2020-05-09 Thread Antoni Villalonga
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 8:05 AM Àlex wrote: > > Benvolguts/des, > > Sabeu si hi ha alguna mena d'arxiu històric de nuclis de Linux? > > Per exemple, aquests últims dies Debian Testing ha actualitzat a nucli > 5.6, però existeix algún lloc on encara es pugui descarregar el packet > d'un nucli

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread G2PC
> Je privilégierais ça : > >     sudo cp /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.deny.bak > > Tu devrais interrompre ici si wget n'aboutit pas : > >     wget https://hosts.ubuntu101.co.za/superhosts.deny -P /tmp || exit 1 > >>  cat /tmp/superhosts.deny > /etc/hosts.deny > > Chevron simple (">") plutôt non ?

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Sven Hartge
J.Arun Mani wrote: > The question is, shall I revert back to "stable"? At this point, the only sure way to downgrade to stable is via a reinstall, because downgrading a package is not supported (in general). Why is this? While many programs don't store anything on disk that is version

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : [Good advice snipped] > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main > > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian > >

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread Sébastien NOBILI
Bonjour, Le 2020-05-09 12:46, G2PC a écrit : # Utiliser le lien direct vers le fichier superhosts.deny (Plus de 15Mo) : https://hosts.ubuntu101.co.za/superhosts.deny cd /etc sudo cp hosts.deny hosts.deny.bak J'éviterais ce type de construction (changement de dossier puis copie avec des

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread G2PC
> echo "X" > echo "Y" > echo "Z" > > en : > > cat <<'EOF' > X > Y > Z > EOF J'ai pris note.

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread G2PC
> En fait, si d'aventure il y avait une tentative d'exploiter une > vulnérabilité dans wget(1), alors cela n'affecterait que le > compte qui aura lancé la commande. Pasque wget a des vulnérabilités aussi. Nom d'un gruyère ! >> De plus si on utilise ce script via crontab de root, le sudo ne sera

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread l0f4r0
8 mai 2020 à 18:20 de g...@visionduweb.com: > > > https://wiki.visionduweb.fr/index.php?title=Sommaire_S%C3%A9curit%C3%A9#Mettre_.C3.A0_jour_le_fichier_.2Fetc.2Fhosts_automatiquement_tous_les_mois > ...et j'oubliais, également remplacer les : echo "X" echo "Y" echo "Z" en : cat <<'EOF' X Y

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread l0f4r0
Bonjour, 8 mai 2020 à 18:20 de g...@visionduweb.com: > https://wiki.visionduweb.fr/index.php?title=Sommaire_S%C3%A9curit%C3%A9#Mettre_.C3.A0_jour_le_fichier_.2Fetc.2Fhosts_automatiquement_tous_les_mois > 1) Tu gagnerais en flexibilité/rapidité/lisibilité à modifier tes : cmd1 >>/etc/hosts cmd2

Re: ...

2020-05-09 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.05.2020 23:14, Thomas McAtee Jr wrote: > For some reason unable to file a bug report. Tried under kernel and the > Linux Image as well. > > Here is my issue. I'm using Debian Testing Mate and a couple days ago I > did my update/upgrades. I received the new Linux Image 5.6.0.1. After I > did

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 mai 20, 07:44:43, J.Arun Mani wrote: > ``` > Then I got some 1 GB of updates and I installed those. So far so good, > but now I'm having a rest-less heart that I did something wrong. I > feel like I should have stayed in "stable". This now troubles me. > The question is, shall I revert

Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread J.Arun Mani
Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb

Re: systemd

2020-05-09 Thread Fabien R
On 08/05/2020 16:58, Bernard Schoenacker wrote: > bonjour, > > il est possible de quitter systemd sans changer de distribution > et tu passes par un équivalent unix : rc.d Ce n'est pas vraiment un changement de distribution car devuan = debian sans systemd. -- Fabien

Re: Comment mettre à jour un fichier appartenant à l'utilisateur root avec cron ?

2020-05-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
Bonjour, G2PC, on 2020-05-08 18:06:36 +0200: > J'entends la proposition d'utiliser un utilisateur normal pour récupérer > le fichier. > mais ensuite, on utilise sudo ( manuellement ) pour déplacer le fichier > du /tmp vers /etc En fait, si d'aventure il y avait une tentative d'exploiter une

Re: ajuda amb problema amb audio (pulseaudio?)

2020-05-09 Thread Àlex
Benvolguts/des, Sabeu si hi ha alguna mena d'arxiu històric de nuclis de Linux? Per exemple, aquests últims dies Debian Testing ha actualitzat a nucli 5.6, però existeix algún lloc on encara es pugui descarregar el packet d'un nucli anterior: 5.5 , 5.2 , etc ? o toca descarregar les fonts a