Frank wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > cat /etc/default/locale
>
> root@frank-debian:/home/frank# cat /etc/default/locale
> #LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Unexpected..I thought it would be empty ?
For whatever reason the locales package postinst script simply
comments out the li
Frank wrote:
> Sorry sent this to Bob instead of the list. Getting old :)
We are all getting old. And at the same rate too! :-)
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >Somewhere along the way you have set the default system locale to one
> >that doesn't exist. What is the value stored h
Ron Leach wrote:
> Some progress. The CDROM problem that was preventing the D7.7 install DVD
> from running in rescue mode was due to a defective USB DVD device.
> Replacing that enables the rescue mode of the install DVD to run properly.
Yay! Progress!
> Rescue mode has assembled 7 raid partit
Ron Leach wrote:
> # mount 192.168.0.200:/srv /mnt/nfs/srv
> mount.nfs no such device
I think the device refered to here is the network device.
> Does the error message mean that there is no nfs client available in the
> rescue shell?
Which root are you using for your rescue? Is it the root of
James wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade wheezy to testing.
> I am following the instructions at:
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90389/how-to-upgrade-debian-stable-wheezy-to-testing-jessie
The first problem is that you are not using the official release
notes. Start with the official relea
Frank wrote:
> The past few days I've been getting mail from anacron
> about errors like this:
>
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Somewhere along the way you have set the default system locale to one
that doesn't exist. What i
James wrote:
> Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> > Why doesn't /etc/issue say 7.8 though?
> > Not much of an answer, but in addition to /etc/issue there is
> > also /etc/debian_version, which does give 7.8.
>
> Thanks.
> There should be standard file for all distros. :-)
Oh but there is! The Linux Stan
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Jochen Spieker wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre:
> > > Why hasn't there been a security update of apache2 concerning SSLv3,
> > > making users vulnerable to POODLE when they use a client supporting
> > > SSLv3?
> >
> > I think that is a difficult thing to do. We are talking abou
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> xscreensaver is not safe:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403557
>
> (concerning the "when the system has no external input for a
> defined period of time").
I read through that bug log and I don't see why you say it is not safe
as a general state
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.create.html has
>
> $ # Create a repository
> $ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos
> $
>
> In wheezy this fails of course. Is /var writeable by users in
> any widely used Linux?
That is simply an example. If you use the
Tom Roche wrote:
> 1. Several years ago (when I was first struggling with getting the
> F5NAP to work directly[6]), I tried to find a headless alternative
> (e.g., something like a NetworkManager plugin), but was told by F5
> that there was no such client for linux (at least, with the
> make/model
Brian wrote:
> But what do we think about this as a procedure? [1]
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get -y upgrade
> aptitude -y upgrade
> apt-get -y dist-upgrade
> aptitude -y dist-upgrade
> apt-get -y autoremove
I first see that and it shocks me somewhat. I didn't understand why
there woul
Laverne Schrock wrote:
> After looking around, I found the culprits
> were /etc/logrotate.d/cups-daemon and /etc/logrotate.d/cups.dpkg-remove
I think you may have hit a bug. That cups.dpkg-remove isn't in the
tabooext list.
tabooext [+] list
The current taboo extension l
Brian wrote:
> The Wheezy point releases have no BIND9 updates so, without searching
> further, I am unable to check that new libraries were installed. Even
> if they were they would be from stable, which is ok.
This was a recent BIND9 upgrade in Wheezy on 18 Feb 2015.
https://www.debian.org/se
Brian wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the
> > equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change quickly and
> > sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. You'll want to get ALL those
> > changes -- minor and major. "Upgrade
Ken Heard wrote:
> I see that RC1 of Jessie is now available. I would consequently
> appreciate opinions as to whether Jessie is now or will be by mid
> April sufficiently stable for such installations, or should I install
> Wheezy instead and upgrade to Jessie when it is officially declared
> sta
Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> Here is my routing table:
>
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0
> 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 00 eth0
>
> The first entry IS my default gateway as I expected.
>
> The second line, however,
Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc.
You have company using rsync to upgrade file by file. Google upgrades
that way too. I liked presentation and found it quite interesting.
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My
Frank wrote:
> I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation
> which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number
> of other programs.
>
> Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird
> and firefox. Trying to purge them results in apt
Joe wrote:
> Pol Hallen wrote:
> > Sometimes I see inside the arp table (from wlan0) a strange IP like:
> >
> > 10.168.245.246 or similar
> >
> > what does it mean?
> > Could be a PC with static IP goes inside my lan (via wireless) or
> > what?
>
> Yes. A WAP may relay packets before it knows th
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Bob Proulx a écrit :
> > A 64-bit kernel won't have much advantage for a 32-bit userspace.
>
> Quote for the kernel source :
> Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
> However, the address space of 32-bi
Joe wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Joe wrote:
> > > It doesn't work with Windows 8, which refuses to accept 127.0.1.1 as
> > > a valid DHCP server IP address, and to be honest I can't say I blame
> > > it.
> >
> > Excuse me? Why is your
Ross Boylan wrote:
> I can ssh from machine A to B as user ross on both, using key-based
> login. ssh-agent is running under KDE on A. A is Debian wheezy, B is
> Debian squeeze.
>
> However, when I do the following sequence on A:
> sux # change to root with X credentials
> ssh -i /home/ross/.ssh
Linux-Fan wrote:
> Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> > My new toshiba is a 64 bit amd system. It has 6G of memory and 750G
> > hard drive. Is the 64 bit system better or should I install the 32
> > bit. I am using weezy.
>
> I recommend you to install the 64 bit version so that a single process
> is ab
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Software there asks, who am I? They then pass the
> > IP address around.
>
> Software doing this is simply broken.
>
> Nothing guarantees (nor any standard demands) that the hostname actually
> resolves to
Philippe Clérié wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> >Philippe Clérié wrote:
> > > It tends to be annoying when using dnsmasq as a server for static hosts.
> >
> > You'll have to be more specific.
>
> Nothing major. Just that every so often when trying to reach a host being
> used as a DNS server with dnsmasq,
Joe wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > Philippe Clérié wrote:
> > > What is the rationale for the /etc/hosts entry for 127.0.1.1?
> >
> > You can start with
> >
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/07/msg00809.html
> >
> > and then work backwards in time.
Every scheme proposed and used solve
Sharon Kimble wrote:
> This setup is currently running a "3.16.0-4-686-pae" kernel. Is it a
> good idea to convert to a 64bit kernel, specifically
> "3.16.0-4-amd64"?
How much memory do you have in your system?
If the answer is 4G or less then there is no advantage. Stay with the
32-bit kernel.
Charles Blair wrote:
>I have been recently noticing that the find
> command is taking a long time, and my /usr (see df
> output below) is 73% full. Should I do something?
73% is not very full. The knee of the curve for performance fall-off
of a full disk usually occurs above 85%. I wouldn't
Bret Busby wrote:
> In trying to use a standard Debian installer iso, and booting into
> rescue mode, I got toa screen "select partition into which to install
> the root system", or words to that effect.
Does it say "Rescue mode" in the corner? It should.
Here is the official documentation for i
Bob Holtzman wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > > Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> > > > Emil Payne wrote:
> > > > > I'm basically looking for medical record software. Mostly
> > > > > home use, but we rescue cats, so
Bob Holtzman wrote:
> Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> > Emil Payne wrote:
> > > I'm basically looking for medical record software. Mostly home use, but
> > > we rescue cats, so I need something a bit more extensive than just a
> > > form to fill out in a word processor.
> >
> > And what exactly featu
Bret Busby wrote:
> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue mode.
You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that
to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option.
However if you have a livecd and you say you do then that should be
enough to do w
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > With Debian 8, Sid: I'm trying to compile and install Emacs cvs
>
> Why the heck do you want to that?
Sven, That sounds so adversarial.
> Emacs development switched away from CVS _five years_ ago.
Of course emacs switched to bzr. But then just re
Gene Heskett wrote:
> gene@coyote:~/Documents$ file ./Aflac-server.pt
> ./Aflac-server.pt: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines, with
> CRLF, CR, LF line terminators
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then maybe it is a duck?
Try renaming the file to something ending in .
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> 1) How do I check if a newer version of a package is available from a
> perl script?
I vaguely remember there to be a perl module interface available for
such queries. That might be the "best way" from perl. I don't know
it though so will tell you what I would do.
>
Stephen R Guglielmo wrote:
> I updated my apt repo and there was a kernel update. I ran the update,
> and received an error claiming "no space left on device." Normally, I
> would do a force-uninstall for the currently running kernel (freeing
> space), then install the new kernel and reboot. Howeve
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> That's odd. Works on my Wheezy 7 64-bit install. Always has. Used it
> numerous times during the initial X set-up/config/shakedown. I didn't
> manually enable it either. Of course, my system isn't stock.
Perhaps you have it configured that way?
$ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc
Thomas H. George wrote:
> I created the display problem. The HP box has only vga, no hdmi so I
> experimented with the settings and chose an incompatable one resulting
> in a black screen. I created a second user, tom2, and the display opened
> normally for tom2.
That proves that the problem was l
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> OK, here's the thing that's nagging me a bit. This is what happened
> as far as I can remember.
>
> Installed Debian
> Installed Emacs24.4 from backports
> Installed R from debian CRAN vide instructions from CRAN site
> Installed Rstudio.deb community edition from Rst
John L. Ries wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything...
>
> I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie
> diagnostics; but I would never use it as a network interface configuration
> tool if I could help it.
The p
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now. This
> > is an Ubuntu page but it documents it.
>
> Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another "improvement."
That change was introduced in
Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> When I use elinks (Squeeze) with
>
> set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 1
>
> $ elinks -dump https://webmail.sbb.rs/
> ELinks: SSL error
Ah! Very good. That explains why it didn't complain for me.
connection.ssl.cert_verify [0|1] (default: 0)
Verify
Charles Blair wrote:
> > Clearing all the interactive-application droppings out of /root
> > *might* give you enough room to solve your problem without
> > rearranging your filesystems.
>
>Is there something simple and safe that I can do to
> try clearing the droppings?
You mean the /root dot
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Try this: Reboot. When you get the black screen, hit CTL-ALT-BKSPC
> simultaneously. This should shutdown the X-Server and drop you to
> a terminal. If it doesn't, post back here with the details. This
> should be a root terminal. Read the output on the screen as to wha
Ric Moore wrote:
> Bob, I just had that happen to me. It failed to start lightdm. so in text
> mode, as logged in root user, I re-installed lightdm :
> apt-get install --reinstall lightdm
Why is everyone having troubles with X all of a sudden?
> Then I got an error that there was a syntax error i
songbird wrote:
> Thomas H. George wrote:
> ...
> > Following previous suggestions installed both xdm and kdm. If
> > default-display-manager is set to xdm when xdm is started I get the
> > Debian login window and can only login as root. The login is successful
> > to the gnome desktop. Tried to s
August Karlstrom wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > As far as I know there isn't one. That doesn't mean one doesn't
> > exist. It just means I have the same result that you have. All of
> > the formats play except for flac.
> >
> > I have never see
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > You might want to use parted for alignment checks.
> >...
> > root@phobia:~# parted /dev/sda align-check opt 1
> > 1 aligned
> > root@phobia:~# parted /dev/sda align-check opt 5
> > 5 aligned
> >
>
ML mail wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > It is the state of an expired password that is a problem.
> > ...
> > What does this say? Example from a system of mine.
> >
> > $ passwd --status root
> > root P 05/01/2010 0 9 7 -1
> The result of
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Then why is fdisk complaining?:
'fdisk' is an old tool and unfortunately it hasn't had the love and
care that is needed for it to keep up with the modern day formats. I
used it for years before the new IDE drives but I don't use it anymore
because of exactly what you are see
Stephen R Guglielmo wrote:
> I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of
> my network activity.
Fun!
> Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output overflow?
Yes. Eventually.
> I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at which they
> overflow? Is it 2
August Karlstrom wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a package in Debian Wheezy that provides
> playback of FLAC files in Iceweasel? On the page
> http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/ all clips work for me except the last
> one.
As far as I know there isn't one. That doesn't mean one doesn't
exis
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> Emacs24.4 is working for me. What fails to install was the swirl
> package in R which needed Lcurl or libcurl which needed the ssl
> libs. From yours and Brian's research it seems that the backports
> install of Emacs messes with R package installation.
You say "mess
Gene Heskett wrote:
> The alignment seems to be bad on every partition if you do it by hand, but
> if you just let it use the whole disk, the first parttition is good, but the
> swap seems out of kilter and probably slow if and when I ever get into swap.
But your swap was aligned just fine. You
Brian wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > Do a CLEAN install to Jessie, if at all possible. There is just too
> > great a gap between Jessie and Wheezy for me to trust upgrading.
> > This way you get it all right, from the get-go. It would be like
> > "upgrading" 8.04 Ubuntu to 14.10 in one go. Do a back
Brian wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > It is good that you have provided sufficient information in this
> > thread to be able to follow in your footsteps as I am now able to
> > reproduce your problem.
> >
> > I installed emacs24:
> >apt-get -t wheezy-backports install emacs24
> > Then
> >apt-get
Thomas H. George wrote:
> A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm.
> When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
What was the display problem?
> problem not fixed.
>
> What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl
> commands?
Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> When I use links2 or elinks web browsers on some websites when https is
> https://webmail.sbb.rs/
elinks does not complain about the site. This may be a bug in elinks
as it may be ignoring an error.
I am able to recreate that problem using links2. And also curl and
wg
ML mail wrote:
> I am trying to run cron from /etc/cron.d with the root account which
> has password disabled in order not to be able to login as root but
> when the cron entry wants to run it simply does not and show the
> following error message in the log file:
>
> CRON[16785]: Authentication t
Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> When I use links2 or elinks web browsers on some websites when https is
> protocol I get error "Error loading ... SSL error" and page is not
> loaded.
This is probably due to the combination of supported protocols. When
negotiating the encryption it may not have an over
Brian wrote:
> Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> > libcurl4-openssl-dev : Depends: libcurl3 (= 7.26.0-1+wheezy11) but
> > 7.26.0-1+wheezy12 is to be installed
>
> The libcurl4-openssl-dev which depends on libcurl3 (= 7.26.0-1+wheezy11)
> is version 7.26.0-1+wheezy11. So the question becomes: Why does
Gene Heskett wrote:
> I have been down that graden path so many times I think I could do it in my
> sleep. ...
Unfortunately being asleep isn't good for doing it correctly. Because
everyone keeps showing you how to do it and you never show us that you
are following the directions.
> File it, i
Gene Heskett wrote:
> And the partitoner that will not allow one to bypass its fscked up write on
> partition tables IS DUMBER THAN A ROCK.
But we keep telling you that the debian-installer will do this. You
keep saying it does not work for you. We keep asking for details.
>Device Boot
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> This is what I have.
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> #
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64
> LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20141121-01:55]/ wheezy main
>
> #deb cdrom:[Debia
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> How does one go about fixing broken packages?
Double check every entry being used in /etc/apt/sources.list and any
additional file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*. You said you were using
Wheezy. In that case you should have *only* these entries.
deb http://http.debian.
David Baron wrote:
> Ever since my 64-bit fresh install adventure, various things simple are not
> working, no idea why.
If you have done a fresh install then you will need to tell us what
you have done. We won't know unless you give details.
> I no longer get logcheck emails, for example.
Say
Gene Heskett wrote:
> This time I just let it do its own multiple partition thing.
Would you be so kind as to share the partition details?
parted /dev/sdb unit s print
Then we would be able to see how it turned out. I assume in the above
you were using a single disk sdb as you were before?
>
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> As a new Linux/Debian user I have been doing the "not recommended"
> thing (at least I think it says it's not recommended; it has been a
> while since my last install) thing of not setting a password for
> root. That way there's no hoops to jump through to the installer
> put
Michael Grant wrote:
> I'm still searching for an answer to this.
> After upgrade from wheezy to testing, sendmail no longer starts.
> I see that the system is using systemd.
> ...
Some comments that I think are relevant...
Since it took a while for someone to respond to your question it tells
me
David Christensen wrote:
> I seem to be having trouble getting security updates. Is this a problem
> with my client system, my Approx server, the Release file on the Debian
> servers, or something else?
> ...
> W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not
> updated
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I think the file I have simply does not have many line feeds. Is that
> abnormal for Linux perhaps?
You mean such as your reply line above which is a very long line and
pushes off the right side of the screen? More typically it would be
word wrapped to make reading it easi
Rusi Mody wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Rusi Mody wrote:
> > > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed?
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > apt-mark showmanual
>
> Thanks
> I think this will be very useful
> [have yet to check - ne
Doug wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Rusi Mody wrote:
> > > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed?
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > apt-mark showmanual
> >
> > That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is,
> &g
Rusi Mody wrote:
> Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed?
Try:
apt-mark showmanual
That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is,
not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for
Wheezy and later. Older systems do not have that fea
John Hasler wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > When libc is initially upgraded for the first time it will ask you if
> > you want to restart services. You can answer yes or no at that time.
> > But once that option has been set I don't know of a way to change it.
>
>
Bret Busby wrote:
> I try to consistently use the term "non-dominant mouse button" rather
> than "right-clicking", to allow for people who use left handed mice,
> as well as right-handed mice. My wife, who is a software developer,
> uses mice and pointing devices (she sometimes uses trackball thing
Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY wrote:
> Yes, but how to default the upgrade process to ("dont restart" && "dont even
> ask")?
> I *will* restart the services, but I will do it manually, in order to check
> for functional regression.
> Prior to the manual restart of services, I need to *blindly* upgrade gl
Hi John,
Have some patience. It has only been three hours since your first
message. That is way too soon to be posting it again. Most of the
list won't have read it yet. People will only respond if they have
something to say about it.
Also note that Mint is not Debian. Please post Mint quest
Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Were you dropped into the initramfs rescue shell?
>
> Yes, and
> root@ron: # vi /etc/fstab
> vi: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.2: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
Sounds like /usr/lib isn't mounted.
Gene Heskett wrote:
> I was, I screwed around again last night and set it up again, using
> gparted, until everybody was happy. So now it looks like this:
>
> gene@coyote:~/Downloads$ sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print
> [sudo] password for gene:
> Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Thanks Bob for the pointer. Yes the patch works. I also saw your reply to the
> bug report. Good idea.
And the bug in apt-show-versions was fixed and uploaded and all is
good now. And a correction for my previous message which mentioned
Jessie. As far as I can see the
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Bob Proulx did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > > Go ahead and install its way, then run an fdisk -l and read the
> > > result, confirmed by quite slow readings from hdparm -tT on the
> > > drive you just installed it to.
> >
> &
Gary Dale wrote:
> Please note that a graphical desktop is NOT installed by default. You have
> to select it in the task selector.
The Wheezy default desktop is GNOME. Gene is asking about KDE. If he
didn't select the alternative desktop environment then KDE won't have
been installed but will ha
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Bob Proulx did opine
> > You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not handle
> > the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all of the time
> > with 4k sectors and it works fine. There is no known problem using
> > the
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater did opine
> > The wheezy installer _ought_ to work with a 4K disk - fdisk will
> > normally work - but ...
>
> It will work, poorly, giving ass-aligned disk that will be slow, or
> slower.
You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not handl
Karen Lewellen wrote:
> The challenge seems to be playing the mpg format on another device.
> ...
> My google indicates that there are many Linux tools for playing pvr
> recordings in mpg format.
Yes.
> am I reasonably correct in my understanding that if I have this associate
> transfer the mater
Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> ... but I also would like to mention xsel [0] which is really cool
> thing. Also it's manual reveals some interesting stuff about x
> selections.
>
> [0] http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/
I didn't know about xsel. Thanks for mentioning it. I knew about
x
mrr wrote:
> I often use the mouse to select some text and then I can paste it using the
> central wheel button of the mouse (that can be simulated by clicking both
> buttons if you don't have the wheel button but I'm getting out of
> subject...).
>
> Is there any way I could paste the selected te
Chris Bannister wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > I think everyone should be worried about removed but not purged
> > packages too. Otherwise they are a source of lint that builds up on a
> > system.
>
> apt-cache show cruft
I had forgotten about cruft. I just tried it
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Note that apt-show-versions is not able to find installed packages
> which are no longer available in the suite/release, e.g. on a
> testing/sid system, the packages libtiff4 or xlockmore.
Works in Wheezy.
Wheezy$ apt-show-versions | grep xlockmore
xlockmore 1:5.31-
Fredrik Jonson wrote:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote on 01/14/2015 06:25:
> > > Fredrik Jonson wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to find obsolete packages on a system that's been
> > > > dist-upgraded. How would you [do
Comer Duncan wrote:
> However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in
> Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but
> being prevented by repeated complaints that the system password I used was
> not correct, I now find that I can not get logged in in
Tony Baldwin wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > Xavi wrote:
> > > First I do:
> > >
> > > sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
> > >
> > > and then, to assert the rc.d links are not recreated,
> > > I recreate them stopped in all runlevels:
> > >
> > > sudo update-rc.d apache2 stop 80 0 1 2 3 4 5
Brian wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Brian wrote:
> I am still going to maintain that "TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves" is a
> more than adquate password for logging in *on-line*. If I were to lack
> trust in the maintenence of security at a site I might consider a change
Fredrik Jonson wrote:
> Here's a small challenge. I'm trying to find obsolete or orphaned packages
> on a system that's been dist-upgraded.
> ...
> How would you accomplish that assuming you cannot use aptitude?
Try this:
apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate
Or read my answer posted here Satur
Brian wrote:
> Seeing that my argument that enforcing (if it is possible) an
> unmemorable password is not in the best interests of security doesn't
> gain any tracton, let me try a different tack.
>
> The password
>
> TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves
>
> strikes me as a pretty good one for an ssh
Gene Heskett wrote:
> 10 characters is entirely within the realm of being solved by john in a
> surprisingly sort time.
In order to use john you will need to be running an offline attack
against an already exposed account database. It doesn't work as an
online attack.
> But every character you
Danny wrote:
> least myself) forgot about ... and that is the importance of
> choosing a proper username ...
> ...
> So ... if I know the username I am already halfway there ... I just
> need to get the OTHER remainig 50% (by breaking the password)
Trying to hide in an unusual username is obscuri
Iain M Conochie wrote:
> These increase in security as you go higher up the number. So (assuming the
> implementation is secure) my fingerprint (being something I am) is more
> secure than a password. Also, an ssh-key (being something I have) is more
> secure than a password.
Concerning fingerprin
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