Re: ferm systemd rasbian

2018-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
t. Without knowing more details, this sure sounds like you have some sort of issues with your firewall rules not properly allowing DHCP. You might have better luck including your ferm.conf and possibly the output of iptables -L -n; when things work and iptables -L -n; when they do

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

2018-06-20 Thread Don Armstrong
res don't already support it, though. Releases as old as squeeze are known to have multiple security exploits, and shouldn't be used at all for new installations. Therefore I can't argue for someone else to spend their development time implementing such a feature. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

2018-06-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Adam Cecile wrote: > On 06/19/2018 10:48 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Adam Cecile wrote: > > > That's a pity, don't you think so ? I think Debian should renew the > > > archive key, so we can still verify packages signatures. &g

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

2018-06-19 Thread Don Armstrong
xpired keys.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I did all day? -- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
even did that because I have all of them installed. [And really, mk-sbuild *is* a sysadmin tool designed to automate sysadmin tasks.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." &

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-13 Thread Don Armstrong
stable; schroot unstable; will get you in an unstable chroot which you can use to build packages. [schroot+sbuild is what Debian developers often use instead of pbuilder, but either approach works.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com The smallest quantity of

Re: appropriate package for bug report about qualcomm atheros attansic l1

2018-05-30 Thread Don Armstrong
more modern kernel (or perhaps see if a backported kernel still shows the issue), and mail that bug report with details on how to reproduce it. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away

Re: systemd-resolved violates The Debian Free Software Guidelines

2018-04-29 Thread Don Armstrong
for most users. 1: If you know of some, please provide specific citations. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_

Re: how to find out ethernet device name

2018-04-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Long Wind wrote: > we used to call them eth0, eth1 ...now we use new names > i have a ethernet card in stretchhow to find out its name? Thanks! sudo ip link; will show you what the available interface names are. -- Don Armstrong

Re: I have sought a file for explain the booting delay.

2018-04-17 Thread Don Armstrong
esn't exist. Edit /etc/fstab and comment out (type a # before everything) the line which starts with something like: UUID=3a64784b-9807-446a-bc39-c9011ba6ed6b swap sw and then you won't have this particular boot delay anymore. [Most likely, you caused it by running mkswapfs on this device

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Don Armstrong
ething like this: exec > /dev/log-xsession-errors 2>&1; in your .xsession [or whatever you're using to start things] after testing that the FIFO works. 1: https://git.donarmstrong.com/x_base.git/b/.xsession -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I may not hav

Re: Recipient address rejected

2018-04-05 Thread Don Armstrong
nd reverse match the provided IP address. 1: https://www.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Re: Invalid UTF-8 byte? (was: Re: utf)

2018-04-04 Thread Don Armstrong
Sam I actually forget what had to be done (f anything) to separate > a new record from the previous record). You might want to consider looking at org-mode too.[1] There are even integrations for notmuch+mutt+Maildir there. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM -- Don Armstrong

mbox vs maildir vs better formats [Re: Invalid UTF-8 byte? (was: Re: utf)]

2018-04-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 04 Apr 2018, Nicolas George wrote: > Don Armstrong (2018-04-04): > > You should consider looking at using Maildir with notmuch and using > > things which integrate notmuch.[1] > > Maildir is not that much better than mbox. Sure, it eliminates most of > its worse fl

Re: Invalid UTF-8 byte? (was: Re: utf)

2018-04-04 Thread Don Armstrong
ebbugs, which basically stores everything in a custom format mbox. This inevitably makes things slow, as you have to search through the mbox linearly to find any message in the mbox unless you also write indexes for the mailbox.] 1: Notmuch itself uses xapian to do the heavy lifting. -- Don Armstr

Re: Ideal place to set environment variables

2018-03-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:11:18PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > That's why you need @{HOME}, not ${HOME}. > > Same result. > > $ tail -2 /etc/security/pam_env.conf > FOO DEFAULT=@{HOME}/bar > LANG DEFAU

Re: Ideal place to set environment variables

2018-03-30 Thread Don Armstrong
o either of the two things I > actually care about (setting a variable with the user's $HOME That's @{HOME} > $LOGNAME in it, That's @{PAM_USER}. > or having a default fallback value for a variable like $LANG). I think you want LANG DEFAULT=en_US.UTF-8 OVERRIDE=${LANG} -- Don Armstron

Re: Ideal place to set environment variables

2018-03-30 Thread Don Armstrong
e code.] In this case, you likely really want pam_mail, and something like: session optional pam_mail.so dir=~/Maildir nopen which should DTRT. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "The trouble with you, Ibid" he said, "is that you think you're

Re: How to shut down

2018-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
actually powering off, usually that indicates that one or more units isn't finishing properly. The output of journalctl will tell you what is going on in such a case. 1: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/systemctl/systemctl.c#L7900 -- Don Armstrong https:/

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 10:24:36 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > The software might not support it, but if openwrt or ddwrt can run > > on the hardware, they should support bridging. > > I can make sure the router I buy can

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > 1: I suppose there might be some network hardware which doesn't > > support actual bridging of wired interfaces, but I've yet to see > > such an example. > > I

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-15 Thread Don Armstrong
wireless hardware doesn't support that). 1: I suppose there might be some network hardware which doesn't support actual bridging of wired interfaces, but I've yet to see such an example. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube,

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-08 Thread Don Armstrong
/wiki/Quadraphonic_sound Basically, unless you have quadraphonic vinyl, and the right stylus for the quadraphonic mode, you probably don't care about the rear channels. [And really, you probably want a better turntable and stylus anyway.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmst

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Don Armstrong
iso /boot/images; sudo update-grub2; then reboot, and select the right cd image in your grub menu. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Live and learn or die and teach by example -- a softer world #625 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=625

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Don Armstrong
hen I've used them. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discuss

Re: Bug when installing texlive in debian 9.3 stretch.

2018-03-05 Thread Don Armstrong
to guess, there's probably some part of texlive-base or tex-common which is only partially installed or has something else wrong. Could you try following the instructions in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832570#15 and/or open a new bug against tex-common? -- Don Armstrong

Re: BT dongle Q

2018-03-02 Thread Don Armstrong
. [You can also pair and scan from bluetoothctl as well.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Who is thinking this? I am. -- Greg Egan _Diaspora_ p38

Re: Some tasks very slow after upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2018-02-28 Thread Don Armstrong
ut a little birdie makes me wonder if this is the spectre/meltdown mitigation causing issues. Does this issue recur if the jessie and stretch machines are running the exact same kernel? Does this happen if you're running jessie/stretch on bare hardware or a more recent KVM/kernel?

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

2018-02-27 Thread Don Armstrong
apache2 init script tried to kill off init. Or something more original and evil. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com [M]en and nations do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Ebban

Re: sshd fails to start on boot

2018-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
nless you've modified it to listen on a specific address which isn't yet up, it shouldn't matter. Check out what journalctl -xe _SYSTEMD_UNIT=ssh.service; says to see why it failed to start, and that should tell you what's actually going on. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstro

Re: strace (brk) output - how to interpret this?

2018-02-15 Thread Don Armstrong
You can actually cat /proc/$pid/maps; if you want to know what is really going on there. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure. -- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_

Re: libgparted bug.

2018-02-09 Thread Don Armstrong
the fact that a device has been inserted with specific parameters to whatever (some DE?) is doing the automounting. 1: At least, it doesn't here, and I haven't specifically changed this configuration. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Who is thinking this? I am. --

Re: Is it appropriate to file this as a bug against php7.0-common?

2018-02-08 Thread Don Armstrong
nextcloud/server/issues/3909 -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub

2018-01-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 18 January 2018 16:04:26 Don Armstrong wrote: > > Which UUID changed? The filesystem UUID shouldn't change unless you > > reformat the partition, and the partition UUID shouldn't change > > unless you repartition it (or yo

Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub

2018-01-18 Thread Don Armstrong
e been using UUIDs for *ages*, and I've never seen one change unless I've specifically done something which would change it. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance. -- William's Law

Re: Keyboard language randomly changes to Arabic(?)

2018-01-11 Thread Don Armstrong
when you type '| ' quickly. Often it's mapped to shift-caps or something like that. setxkbmap -print; should tell you what your default keymap is set to and what the possible alternates are. [There may also be an XFCE specific way of setting this.] -- Don Armstrong

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-09 Thread Don Armstrong
most; and then rebuild the initramfs using something like: update-initramfs -vu; This should provide information on the modules that are being added to the initramfs, which should include the lvm modules and the ehci modules. [The missing ehci/ohci modules are likely what is causing your USB

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-04 Thread Don Armstrong
l update kernel packages? The DSA has been (will be shortly?) released for stable. Unstable, testing, and likely oldstable will probably follow soon. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4078-1 -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com There is no mechan

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-19 Thread Don Armstrong
gt; stars(*) being echoed on Terminal. The default is this way because it's less surprising to users who aren't used to this style of password prompt. I personally prefer the other way around, but that's because I already know what is going on and can change it if I care. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Needed - a byte perfect image of an entire partition

2017-12-18 Thread Don Armstrong
--reverse /dev/sda ./image.img ./image.map -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Re: Why the release-critical bugs status page has erroneous colors in the plots?

2017-12-03 Thread Don Armstrong
hould be updated the next time that bugscan is run (in the next few hours or so.) 1: https://git.donarmstrong.com/bugscan.git 2: https://git.donarmstrong.com/bugscan.git/d/e3a6541 -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com [On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in

Re: two graphics cards and two monitors

2017-11-16 Thread Don Armstrong
en't setting any kernel options, it should be the default now. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln

Re: two graphics cards and two monitors

2017-11-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Friday, 3 Nov 2017 at 11:19, Don Armstrong wrote: > > What happens if you run xrandr --output DVI-I-1-2 --auto; ? > > $ xrandr --output DVI-I-1-2 --auto > warning: output DVI-I-1-2 not found; ignoring This looks like xrandr isn't

Re: Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Nov 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro [Debian] > suggest a feature. Ubuntu uses Ubiquity. Debian does not. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets

Re: two graphics cards and two monitors

2017-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
your displays are just rotated, you'd be better off issuing xrandr commands to run the rotation immediately upon login or similar, IMO. Or using autorandr or similar.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il s

Re: buster ssh problem

2017-10-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Glenn English wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > > Host cisco1841 > > KexAlgorithms diffie-hellman-group1-sha > > Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc > > MACs hmac-md5,hmac-s

Re: buster ssh problem

2017-10-31 Thread Don Armstrong
h cisco1841; If it doesn't work, run ssh -vv cisco1841; and see what is being advertised, and adjust your options to suit. The real solution is to upgrade to a more recent version of IOS. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com If it jams, force it. If it breaks,

Re: Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
'?tag(implemented-in::c++)?tag(interface::shell)' or axi-cache search package implemented-in::c++ interface::shell; for example. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette and watched the clothes go

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-26 Thread Don Armstrong
temd appears to capture this line: > > ifup[35433]: mv: cannot move '/etc/resolv.conf.dhclient-new.35546' to > '/etc/resolve.conf' That's because systemd also captures STDERR, even if that isn't directly logged using syslog(). It's one of the rather nice features of system

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-25 Thread Don Armstrong
s been wrong for quite some time. /etc/resolv.conf does not control the order of querying. /etc/nsswitch.conf does. See nsswitch.conf(5) and resolv.conf(5) for details. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cann

Re: Delayed list posts [Was: Re: systemd process(es) consuming CPU when laptop lid closed

2017-10-17 Thread Don Armstrong
10 hours for randomly selecting from the pool to hit a sender that lists.debian.org has seen previously. We'll drop in a whitelist for outlook.com entry to fix this eventually. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times li

Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

2017-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
merge;users=m...@linux.it In theory, you should be able to install usrmerge, and things should "just work™". -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A r

Re: bug report - I don't know what package the bug is in

2017-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
_shift (control/shift toggles). Otherwise you won't be able to type ctrl-shift-key combinations, because they will shift the layout. man 7 xkeyboard-config; for details about all of the possible grp: settings for toggling between layouts. -- Don Armstrong https://www.d

Re: Asterisk security update

2017-10-04 Thread Don Armstrong
re why the amd64 buildd hasn't yet built that package, though. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scie

Finding the appropriate manpage [Re: Can't find the DNS Servers]

2017-09-26 Thread Don Armstrong
n dpkg -L isc-dhcp-client|grep man; to see all of the manpages that the dhcp client provides: /usr/share/man/man5/dhclient.conf.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/dhclient.leases.5.gz /usr/share/man/man8/dhclient-script.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/dhclient.8.gz -- Don Armstrong https://ww

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:20:45PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > as is documented in dhclient-script(8): > > Well now that's just EVIL. :-( It's much more powerful than a single variable because you can have it do *anything*. But si

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-25 Thread Don Armstrong
; } EOF as is documented in dhclient-script(8): When it starts, the client script first defines a shell function, make_resolv_conf , which is later used to create the /etc/resolv.conf file. To override the default behaviour, redefine this function in the enter hook sc

Re: Buster SSH

2017-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
rg/ explain some of the rationale. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I always thought violence didn't solve anything until one day it did. -- a softer world #470 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470

Re: unable to determine which package my bug report should be filed against - please advise.

2017-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
rrect and expected resolution and the aspect > ratio. > > After installing a fresh version of Debian 9 (Stretch), I am unable to > use the external monitor at its maximum resolution. Debian 9 (Stretch) > was a full installation from scratch (not an upgrade). When you file th

Re: systemd & postgresql - flooding system log

2017-07-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, Erwan David wrote: > Le 07/16/17 à 18:32, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > If you don't care about this in your log, then you can either filter it, > > or comment out pam_unix in /etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive. > > Commenting it will remove a

Re: systemd & postgresql - flooding system log

2017-07-16 Thread Don Armstrong
su is /var/log/auth.log flooded too, I didn't noticed before :-/ > (logcheck was filtering this). If you don't care about this in your log, then you can either filter it, or comment out pam_unix in /etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive. -- Don Armstrong https://www.dona

Re: systemd & postgresql - flooding system log

2017-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Don Armstrong: > > Something like this (untested) > > When you do test it (-: you will discover the rather drastic > side-effect on all of the repeated SSH logins of suddenly running them > in a completely di

Re: systemd & postgresql - flooding system log

2017-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
atabase user, and instead run as a user which only has the ability to read the appropriate tables and cannot also write to. If you fix that so that it doesn't start a login session, you'll fix the excessive number of sessions created. -- Don Armstrong https://www.don

Re: systemd & postgresql - flooding system log

2017-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
ignore] pam_succeed_if quiet shell = /bin/false session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if quiet shell = /usr/sbin/nologin session optionalpam_systemd.so -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
question asked during the install makes the install more difficult for new users. If you want a non-default init system, you should know enough to supply the incantation to the installer or know how to operate apt-get on your own. If that's too difficult, then you should stick with the default.

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
seed options; something like: base-installer/includes=sysvinit-core base-installer/excludes=systemd-sysv but that's totally untested. » -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conque

Re: How to format emails like debian-announce?

2017-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
ls links > like this one[1] more or less automatically. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/announcements.git is the codebase that generates all of Debian's press releases. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/dpn.git/tree/scripts/DPNhtml2mail.pl is the actual script that does it.

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Don Armstrong
omboy 1.15.8 > (or later) Debian won't go beyond 1.15.4 ? ?? No. I just said that you could file a wishlist bug if you wanted. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder?" [...] "

Re: Adding Date & Time to a script's output log

2017-06-01 Thread Don Armstrong
d-ddns.log I think you want echo "$dt" "Cha[...]. % is generally only used to refer to a job specification. Finally, you're probably better off using the "logger" command in util-linux to write to log files, not appending to a file directly. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Don Armstrong
perimental (rc-buggy) is at 1.15.4-1+b1 > Would that indicate whether or not a bug report is needed? You could file a wishlist bug requesting a new version if there wasn't already one filed. It would only end up in experimental, not unstable, though. -- Don Armstrong

Re: buying ssl certificate

2017-05-31 Thread Don Armstrong
lidity, it's an issue which many SSL certificates are going to share. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com They say when you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves. They underestimate me. -- a softer world #560 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Don Armstrong
s more output than just "initializing ramdisk". But in any event, once you do get it booted, installing a newer kernel from jessie-backports will likely resolve some (or all) of this issue. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com To punish me for my contempt of aut

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Don Armstrong
other driver) issue. Try booting without the quiet option, and possibly with nomodeset, and see if it works. [You'll have to edit the grub command line to do this.] Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably. -- Don Armstrong https://www.

Re: Actually [Re: Some spam]

2017-04-21 Thread Don Armstrong
it to people who have subscribed? Because that just adds more hoops to jump through for people with a legitimate question, and lots of spam forges From addresses nowadays, anyway. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-04 Thread Don Armstrong
e base-installer/includes and base-installer/excludes preseed options; something like: base-installer/includes=sysvinit-core base-installer/excludes=systemd-sysv but that's totally untested. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com No amount of force can control a f

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-03 Thread Don Armstrong
e the reason. The issue isn't with the maintenance of init itself, but with maintaining everything that interacts with init and any divergences from upstream which are necessary to keep maintaining compatibility with a non-systemd init. Bit rot happens. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Once again: alt as my meta key

2017-02-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 09 Feb 2017, Erwan David wrote: > Wouldn't that make it impossible to write languages with diacritics in > it ? Would be pathetic. You can just use the compose key instead, or additionally AltGr if your keyboard has one. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstro

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

2017-02-10 Thread Don Armstrong
://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages 2: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476899 -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, ou

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

2017-02-08 Thread Don Armstrong
odified.] If this is a package which you are planning on having anyone else use, then you basically shouldn't be touching /etc/ssh/ssh_config or /etc/ssh/sshd_config, because you're likely to break things horribly. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Overcast nights are be

Re: New version of lcdproc in experimental

2017-01-09 Thread Don Armstrong
one will take care of filing them upstream for you. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com unbeingdead isn't beingalive -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 brumaire, an CCXXV, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > This sounds like you're looking for debtags, which gives you the ability > > to subset packages by different tags. (For example, if you wanted all of > > the pac

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-15 Thread Don Armstrong
ity to subset packages by different tags. (For example, if you wanted all of the package management tools: debtags search admin::package-management; gives you all of the packages which are involved in package management.) -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-28 Thread Don Armstrong
erally just a dh-make-perl --cpan Foo::Bar; away. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
e bios, and the kernel, and you should be fine. That said, providing LUKS input over the wire is always going to be problematic unless you have known secured links to the terminal. [But maybe you'll know if the government has done this to you.] -- Don Armstrong

Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
ally because the policy wasn't fixed in time for the jessie release (see #756729 and #771484). If you're using selinux on Debian, it would probably be good to participate in the development of the default policy and refpolicy packages. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
ppropriate security context for the maintainer script, likely because you haven't upgraded refpolicy to properly support dpkg_script_t or other set up the selinux policy correctly. Fix that, and you should be able to complete the install. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: Using sudo in a script.

2016-08-03 Thread Don Armstrong
't ask for a password. adding set -x; early on in the script may help you see what is actually happening. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opin

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

2016-07-13 Thread Don Armstrong
ify that we're in a chroot jail, it > wouldn't tell us whether daemons should be started/stopped. Yep. This problem is exactly why the policy-rc.d framework exists; it's way too difficult to figure out in what circumstances which daemons should be started/stopped. Chroot-specific configuration is

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

2016-07-12 Thread Don Armstrong
ner scripts. Those all operate using invoke-rc.d, and are blissfully unaware of whether they are operating inside of a chroot or outside. [Indeed, there's no reliable way of identifying whether you're actually in a chroot or not unless you're root and can compare your root to init's root.] -- Don Armstrong

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

2016-07-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 messidor, an CCXXIV, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > That option already exists. See policy-rc.d. For example: > > > > https://jpetazzo.github.io/2013/10/06/policy-rc-d-do-not-start-services-automatically/ > > Wha

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

2016-07-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 messidor, an CCXXIV, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > If a services default configuration is insecure, it should be fixed. > > File a bug. > > If you think about it slightly more than two seconds, This is incredibly rud

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

2016-07-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Nicolas George wrote: > That means the service ran for some time with the wrong config. Pwned. If a services default configuration is insecure, it should be fixed. File a bug. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I learned really ea

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
arn if you maintain machines which occasionally need to do weird things. 1: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Configuration.html -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. --

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
, etc. There's a reason why no one is interested in maintaining lilo anymore. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and t

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
cover a new bug with lilo and newer kernels which no one else has seen, but that's probably fairly unlikely. In my experience, grub now works way more reliably than lilo ever did, and it's worth switching. [I switched over *years* ago for precisely this reason.] But your experience may var

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
e rootdelay and get it to boot. (Again, in theory.) -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila -- Mitch Ratcliffe

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
bug in the kernel itself) which is causing this issue. What I'm trying to do is get enough information so that the error is obvious. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for someone more interesting.

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
rget the error. The error would be useful to know. Most likely one or more of them dropped out of the array for some reason and you're booting off of one which has a lower event count and it won't assemble. But it could be any number of things. The output of mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcdef]1; when md

Re: Debian Testing Cannot be installed on Hyper-V 2012 R2

2016-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
some kernel errors about not being able to write to the drive and/or kernel panics or something else. (Formatting drives is pretty basic; failing during that usually indicates hardware failure, or in this case, something wrong with anything in the virtualization stack.) -- Don Armstrong

Re: Strange Email Bounce

2016-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
ken and subscribed. > I'll see if I get another like it. If so, then unsubscribe, then > subscribe with something other than Gmail. If you're getting them, it's almost certainly not you. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com life's not a paragraph And deat

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