Re: qemu-guest-agent doesn't get restarted after update

2023-07-26 Thread Shawn Weeks
About the time I post this someone on the Proxmox forums posted the link to the Debian merge request. See https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/merge_requests/37 Thanks Shawn On Jul 26, 2023, at 8:39 AM, Shawn Weeks wrote: I’ve been tracking down an issue where my Debian 12 instances on

qemu-guest-agent doesn't get restarted after update

2023-07-26 Thread Shawn Weeks
existing bug report for it. Thanks Shawn

Installing Gnome Desktop on Bookworm Cloud Image Fails due to netdev GID

2023-07-20 Thread Shawn Weeks
Thanks Shawn

Installing Gnome Desktop on Bookworm Cloud Image Fails due to netdev GID

2023-07-19 Thread Shawn Weeks
Thanks Shawn

Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers?

2017-09-30 Thread shawn wilson
The answer is correct - IANA maintains the list of ports. You may also look at the services file nmap maintains or ask showdan what it's seen publicly if you want a public popularity contest of ports. As it is, I'm pretty sure you're over engineering this. Have a config file that has a port range

Re: pen testing beginner

2016-10-30 Thread shawn wilson
Also, there's tons of free help online (mailing lists - duh, irc, reddit, Twitter, and Facebook has helped me once you get to know the right people). There are also loads of security conferences and meetups (BSides, ISSA, 2600, etc). On Oct 30, 2016 13:54, "shawn wilson" wrote:

Re: pen testing beginner

2016-10-30 Thread shawn wilson
I'll caveat my response by saying I'm not in this field - I'm a lowly sysadmin :) On Oct 30, 2016 00:01, "David Christensen" wrote: > > On 10/29/2016 11:50 AM, emetib wrote: > > have been a linux only person since before 2000 (late 2.2 early 2.4 > > kernels), yet haven't done much with it in the

Re: Shell - escapes

2016-05-10 Thread shawn wilson
'...' doesn't interpolate. push @f, '$ and a'; push @f, "'"; print join '', @f; If you want. I have a feeling YDIW and need to step back and present the actual problem. On May 10, 2016 05:36, "Die Optimisten" wrote: > Hi, > > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '

Re: iptables changes triggering audit messages, despite auditd not being installed

2016-05-05 Thread shawn wilson
On May 5, 2016 8:10 AM, "Tony Evans" wrote: > > Firstly, apologies for double-posting the issue originally. > > On 5 May 2016 at 13:05, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > On May 5, 2016 6:03 AM, "Tony Evans" wrote: > >> > > > >>

Re: iptables changes triggering audit messages, despite auditd not being installed

2016-05-05 Thread shawn wilson
On May 5, 2016 6:03 AM, "Tony Evans" wrote: > > I can't find why the log entries are being created (i.e. I know the > trigger, but I can't work out why that trigger is now generating log > entries when it wasn't doing that before I installed and removed > auditd). > I'm guessing the removal scri

Re: RECOMMEND: Wireless Home Router with VPN Built-In

2016-04-25 Thread shawn wilson
Seconded (unless you can't) On Apr 25, 2016 8:29 PM, "Joel Wirāmu Pauling" wrote: > My advise stands. Use a VPN client on the end devices. > > On 26 April 2016 at 12:27, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: >> >> > I don't suggestion running VPN (at least an

Re: Firewall - basic config?

2016-04-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 23, 2016 3:54 PM, "Joe" wrote: > . > > You might also try iptables -S which will list the rules in the form > that you would enter by hand as arguments to the iptables command. It is > a different view, and you may see things that are less obvious in the > -L view. > I'm guessing -S is the

Re: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

2016-04-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 23, 2016 06:27, "Reco" wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:23:57 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > > 'Proper' serial equipment > > typically does not go higher than 115kBd, and most wired serial > > applications need much less than that. > > But serial-over-bluetooth gets me 0.5 Mbps :) > Being able

Re: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

2016-04-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 23, 2016 00:09, wrote: > > According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth , > Bluetooth was "... originally conceived as a wireless alternative > to RS-232 data cables." Therefore TCP/IP inside PPP on a > Bluetooth connection is hypthetically possible. > > Has anyone tried it with a

Re: [ A little off topic] Best e-mail client for Android

2016-04-11 Thread shawn wilson
Y'all know you can buy kaiten mail and support the dev, right? On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > On 2016년 4월 11일 오후 9시 8분 6초 GMT+09:00, Hans wrote: >>Am Montag, 11. April 2016, 08:02:13 schrieb German: >>> I wonder what Debian users use on their phone/tablet. >>> >>

Re: Sudo

2016-03-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 21, 2016 5:56 AM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > > On Monday 21 March 2016 04:51:35 Jude DaShiell wrote: > > When you installed LinuMint I'm going to make a wag here and figure you > > didn't put a password in for root and because of that LinuMint put your > > user account in /etc/sudoers as part of

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-12 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 11, 2016 1:21 PM, "David Christensen" wrote: > Thoughts? Comments? > I don't have one of those (but I think I'll buy one). Currently I swear by my ducky mini (obviously remap caps lock to escape - also, I use vim/vim mode so YMMV if you like arrowing around which means it also doesn't do

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-15 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 14, 2016 5:11 PM, "Zlatan Todoric" wrote: > > > > On 01/14/2016 09:11 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > > Nearly all compact Linux computers feasible for gaming are sold > > exclusively using NVIDIA graphics, and that company is hostile to libre > > software. > > > > So I think it is very

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Why not use Knoppix, instead of re-inventing the wheel ? > For me, it's just nice to have an easy to boot system w/ storage - takes me a few minutes to setup and then I've got a thumb disk I can boot for rescue disk or a dns server or web

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 28, 2015 4:30 PM, "Joe" wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:37:12 -0800 > David Christensen wrote: > > Why you may be barking up the wrong tree is that all the software is > there, but the Ethernet interface is not being brought up. DHCP on my > network is not being used, though the DHCP cl

Re: installing Debian on USB flash drive for use in many machines

2015-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 28, 2015 3:37 PM, "David Christensen" wrote: > > I am continuing to work on the idea of installing Debian on a USB flash drive for use in many machines, primarily for diagnostics, maintenance, repair, backup, archive, imaging, etc.. > Google "debootstrap usb" - should bring you to enough

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:17 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > shouldn't be relied on (also see ftimes xmagic for a more featureful > magic implementation w/e sf comes back up). Ugh, it's back now: http://ftimes.sourceforge.net/FTimes/XMagic.shtml

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:25 PM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:13:48PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > > [...] > >> > Now you lost me. >> > >>

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 03:15:21PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> > % file t.sh >> > t.sh: ASCII text >> > % cat t.sh >> > max=10 >> > >>

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
> % file t.sh > t.sh: ASCII text > % cat t.sh > max=10 > Oh and before someone says "but there's some standard that says you're supposed to put a shebang at the top" - afaik, it's not in POSIX anywhere: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ So, magic dropped the ball - should've been

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:57 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 14:05:25 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Brian wrote: >>> > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 13:08:49 -0500,

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 14:05:25 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Brian wrote: >> > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 13:08:49 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, Nov 17, 201

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 13:08:49 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bannister >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> On No

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * shawn wilson [2015-11-17 13:08 -0500]: > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bannister >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > > [...] > >> &

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: >> > department has been trying for an hour". Puzzled, because I thought I had >> > s

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > > On Monday 16 November 2015 19:33:51 David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 16 Nov 2015 at 06:54:40 (+0100), Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > In article David Wright > wrote: > > > > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT > > > > was

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-15 Thread shawn wilson
You can call a function from within a sourced file and it'll run (no matter x bit). So: # ~/bin/runner.sh runner () { echo foo } runner # ~/.bashrc PATH="$PATH:~/bin" source runner.sh On Nov 14, 2015 4:51 AM, "Pol Hallen" wrote: > Put the command at the end of /home/user/.profile >> It works

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-08 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 8, 2015 6:51 AM, "Pascal Hambourg" wrote: > > shawn wilson a écrit : > > > > (which uefi uses for boot). > > So what ? Who needs an EFI system partition bigger than the recommended > 512 MB ? > Maybe he was trying to use a bigger partition? Do

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-07 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 7, 2015 9:47 AM, "Ken Heard" wrote: > > > Is there any limit to the size of a USB flash drive with the ext2 file > system encrypted on it which can be addressed through the BIOS > interface? (I am using Debian Jessie.) The largest size I am now > using is 32 gb drives but would like to us

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread shawn wilson
On Aug 4, 2015 1:26 AM, "Some Body" wrote: > > Le mardi 04 août 2015 à 16:11 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds a écrit : > > > > Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is > > it safe to remove file in dest, and move to it again from src? > > > If you don't want to take a risk

Re: cp output format

2015-07-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 17, 2015 7:16 AM, "Nicolas George" wrote: > > Le nonidi 29 messidor, an CCXXIII, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : > > Not sure if this is relevant enough, but I have a method to keep > > "source" files -- in this case .forward files in a controlled directory; > > if any of these differ from the t

Re: IP address

2015-07-17 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 17, 2015 11:53 AM, "Elimar Riesebieter" wrote: > > * John J. Boyer [2015-07-17 08:32 -0500]: > > > I have Jessie set up for CLI only. The machine is on a local network > > using dhcp. What command will tell me what ip address it is using? > > $ dig +short `hostname -f` > Won't always wor

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-07 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 6, 2015 8:17 PM, "Marc D Ronell" wrote: > > > As a test, I purchased a laptop (Toshiba Satellite C75-B7180) on sale > for $350 at our local Microcenter in Cambridge and was able to load > GNU/Linux for my son. I am thinking of working some programming > assignments in Squeak (Sm

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2015-06-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 22, 2015 9:16 PM, "Zebediah C. McClure" wrote: > > I'm sure it's going to continue, There should be a place for this problem > though. I took a quick look at the debian bug-tracker and it looks more like a > collection of mailing lists. > > After looking at how systemd does things, I'd rat

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2015-06-22 Thread shawn wilson
. On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:07 PM, chris wrote: > +1 > > On Jun 22, 2015 7:24 PM, "Zebediah C. McClure" wrote: >> >> On Monday 22 June 2015 18:30:56 shawn wilson wrote: >> > On Jun 22, 2015 4:39 PM, "Dan Ritter" wrote: >> > &g

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2015-06-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 22, 2015 4:39 PM, "Dan Ritter" wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:05:28PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > Dan Ritter writes: > > > People only complain about systemd being a cancer if they love > > > the Debian system otherwise. > > [...] > > > Remember that every time you tell peopl

Re: ipset

2015-05-09 Thread shawn wilson
On May 9, 2015 12:59 PM, "Gokan Atmaca" wrote: > > The Loop gives error as follows. > > # for g in 'gawk '{print $2}' facebook.com-ip'; do ipset add face $g; done > > ipset v6.23: Syntax error: cannot parse gawk: resolving to IPv4 address failed > ipset v6.23: Syntax error: cannot parse }: resolv

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Doug wrote: > Another reason to buy the HP: if they are abundant, then inks should be > abundantly available also. If you get something else, supplies might be > difficult to come by in such an out-of-the-way area. Something to > check out before you commit! > He

Re: Which plotter printer would you recommend for construction engineers who will be using Linux?

2015-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 13, 2015 5:41 PM, "Ric Moore" wrote: > > > You might want to go at this from another direction. I suppose you have > already chosen your software?? Ask them. They would know better than anyone > what plotter works with their software. Ric > I agree with this. But besides that, even if y

Re: Recompiling debian kernel

2015-03-07 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 5, 2015 7:26 AM, wrote: > make deb-pkg replaces all this: > > Then I execute > make > to build the kernel, and > > sudo make modules_install > > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b -apowerpc > > but at these last step I get an error message: > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/csanyipal/BubbaKe

Re: rsync question

2015-02-07 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 6, 2015 11:14 PM, "Don Armstrong" wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > That seems to work, but here's a problem. Each time it enters a new > > user directory I have to re-enter the root password. I realize I can > > just set it up so that I don't have to enter a passwor

Re: GHOST, Am I ok?

2015-01-28 Thread shawn wilson
doh, tired. sorry for the repeat. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:16 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > You'll need a reboot since most everything links against libc.so.6 > it'll never be unloaded. > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Bob Bernstein > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 28

Re: GHOST, Am I ok?

2015-01-28 Thread shawn wilson
You'll need a reboot since most everything links against libc.so.6 it'll never be unloaded. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 04:08:06PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> After you reboot, you are. Before that, maybe. > > Thanks everyone. I was not at all

Re: Command line wifi tooling

2014-11-28 Thread shawn wilson
Not sure if you're looking for cli or ncurses. I always just do: nmcli dev wifi # list APs) nmcli con "" password "" That assumes networkmanager - I'm sure installer probably uses iwlist scan and then either iwconfig or wpa_supplicant/wpa_passphrase though. On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Bram

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-11 Thread shawn wilson
While I like the dhelp script idea, I think man is a pure UX issue - man should generally DWIM because if I type "man foo", I don't want to jump through hoops. There times (looking at libraries and system calls and the like) that knowing the system helps. However, with >20 (IDR how many - a bunch)

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 10, 2014 11:34 AM, "Michael Biebl" wrote: > > Am 10.11.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >> You can use pre-seeding and run > >> > >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" > >> > >> in the debian-installer. Wh

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 8, 2014 12:24 PM, "Miles Fidelman" wrote: > > Mart van de Wege wrote: >> >> Slavko writes: >> >>> Ahoj, >>> >>> Dňa Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:03:46 +0100 Mart van de Wege >>> napísal: >>> Why don't the anti-systemd people do what they've been threatening the whole time and fuck off to

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 9, 2014 4:46 AM, "Jonathan Dowland" wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 05:38:59PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > What part of "we don't want systemd on any of our systems" don't you > > get? If we don't want it, we won't be testing it. > > There's still plenty of work to be done testin

Re: /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

2014-11-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 2, 2014 6:03 PM, wrote: > > Until recently > > # The black Kingston SDHC card. > KERNEL=="mmcblk?p1", ATTR{size}=="7626752", SYMLINK+="BlackSDHC1", \ > OWNER="peter", GROUP="users" > > in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules produced /dev/BlackSDHC1. > Now that doesn't work although, if the pa

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Vanessa wrote: > On 2014-10-31 17:17, shawn wilson wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro >> wrote: >>> El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: >>> >>>> I'm trying to allow an apt us

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:17 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro > wrote: >> El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: > -A FORWARD -d -i eth5 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 1024:65535 > --dport 80 -m time --weekdays --datestop -j AC

Re: apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió: > >> I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this >> polkit: >> >> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-o

apt as a user

2014-10-31 Thread shawn wilson
I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this polkit: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.foo.apt.pkla [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-user:apt Action=org.debian.apt.* ResultAny=no ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes However when I: su - apt it looks like

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread shawn wilson
On Oct 20, 2014 8:13 AM, "Jimmy Thrasibule" wrote: > > DM> I think it depends on what you're trying to achieve and what you're > DM> trying to avoid. > > Well my first idea was to have a kind of management OS that I can load > in memory to do some stuff like disk partitioning, fsck, etc... >

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Another good reason not to hash the known_hosts file: bash command > completion - after "ssh" or "scp" the bash command completion will use > ~/.ssh/known_hosts to suggest/complete hosts. Brilliant stuff. > Weird the ssh host completion

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 23, 2014 6:44 PM, "Keith Lawson" wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:45:50PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Keith Lawson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doi

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Keith Lawson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm > getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting to > for years: > IDK this has anything to do with the problem you're seeing (u

Re: Iptables

2014-06-27 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 27, 2014 8:14 AM, "Diogene Laerce" wrote: > > iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -s 192.168.0.2/32 -d 192.168.0.1 > --dport 137 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -s 192.168.0.2/32 -d 192.168.0.1 > --dport 138 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-16 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:54 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Bill Wood writes: >> and medical identity theft has risen sharply in recent years. > > What is medical identity theft? I'd also be interested seeing the proof for the claim (I think he means medical data breaches but IDK anyone has disclosed

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:59:30PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: >> On Apr 14, 2014 11:01 AM, "Chris Bannister" >> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:55:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: &g

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 14, 2014 10:11 PM, "Richard Hector" wrote: > > On 15/04/14 12:59, shawn wilson wrote: > >> That statement was made in the sense that at least the bank could have > >> > issued a statement along the lines of 'you may have heard of the >

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 14, 2014 9:15 PM, "John Hasler" wrote: > > shawn wilson writes: > > No, I don't want to hear from my bank unless there's a problem. If > > everything is going OK, don't spam me. If its not, by all means, let > > me know. This didn't

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 14, 2014 11:01 AM, "Chris Bannister" wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:55:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 4/13/2014 10:03 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > ... > > > considering it is a catastrophe worse than the Y2K bug. > > > > This is several orders of magnitude less severe than

Re: OpenVPN + Heartbleed question

2014-04-14 Thread shawn wilson
It might be possible for an openvpn server to initiate a heartbeat sequence with a client. And therefore for a rogue server to exploit this. I don't believe this to be the case however and I can't think of any other way of exploiting this. If you can get openvpn to use named sockets, you should be

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 13, 2014 11:03 PM, "Chris Bannister" wrote: > > Then there is also the very serious issue of embedded devices using > openssl. Tablets, smartphones, routers, ... etc. etc. > You're correct about network hardware (though the only one I'm aware of so far is F5 with the latest firmware). If

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but > they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. > This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. > > So, 2 questions: > A) What's the b

Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-10 Thread shawn wilson
(Nice top post) On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > The only problem with Java is that it is a bit "old" for current > architectures. There are better languages that run on the JVM (Clojure and > Scala to name two). > The problems with java come from allowing untrusted

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 9, 2014 3:51 PM, "Sven Hartge" wrote: > > Curt wrote: > > On 2014-04-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > >> The repository now contains a fixed version (0.9.4.2-r413). I tested it > >> and the new version looks fine. > > > Don't mean to hijack, but is this a useful tool? > > > http://filippo.io

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

2014-03-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/03/14 15:51, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> On Mar 14, 2014 12:13 AM, "Brad Alexander" > <mailto:stor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >> >>>>> >>>>> Due to t

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

2014-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 14, 2014 12:13 AM, "Brad Alexander" wrote: > >>> >>> Due to this experience I would like to know what the best way to limit such problems is, especially when hosting web servers for users who may or may not installed unsecure applications on the web server. > > > Auditing your security is

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

2014-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
Well Linux has LXC which is supposed to be equivalent to jails (also see docker). But use whatever suits you. Idk what's current for breaking out of VMs is. It might be good to pay attention to who is using the most entropy and make sure you don't run out. Most VMs use processor VT to isolate thin

multistrap

2014-01-17 Thread shawn wilson
How do I replicate this line: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted from sources.list in a multistrap.conf? I'm trying this: [General] directory=/mnt/install cleanup=true arch=amd64 retainsources=/var/cache/apt/archives noauth=true unpack=true retries=5 debootstrap=preci

preseed raid->lvm->crypto

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
I see how to create raid devices: d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string \ 1 2 0 ext2 /boot /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 1 2 0 lvm - /dev/sda2#/dev/sdb2 And then making lvm or crypto devices seems easy enough. However, how do I create one on top of the other (I'd prefer luks inside lvm so that swa

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-02 Thread shawn wilson
No idea. I compile vim on Debian for ruby support (command-t). Probably vim-gtk. So I'm putting this back on the list. On Jan 2, 2014 7:19 AM, "Paul Cartwright" wrote: > On 01/02/2014 07:12 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, "Paul Cartwright&q

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, "Paul Cartwright" wrote: > > On 01/01/2014 07:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > > Also perhaps: > > > > aptitude purge nano :-) > > > > Richard > thanks, I might do that also, since I use either VI or gedit.. > You do know about gvim right?

Re: Undocumented telnet access to Brother HL-2280DW

2013-12-26 Thread Shawn Wilson
There's a framework for hacking printers (and maybe other networked hardware). I did a quick Google and didn't find it but that's what I'd suggest looking for. Celejar wrote: >The Brother HL-2280DW (network printer) listens on port 23, but I >can't get a working telnet session going. Telnet opti

Re: fail2ban fails to ban apache...

2013-12-22 Thread Shawn Wilson
"François Patte" wrote: >Bonjour, > >I try to configure fail2ban in order to ban IP which try to connect to >directories protected by .htaccess. > >Here is my [apache] section in jail.conf: > >enabled = true >port = http,https >filter = apache-auth >logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log

Re: Collecting information after installation

2013-12-21 Thread Shawn Wilson
Ali ISIN wrote: >Hi, > >Since the "7.x" version does my computer freeze; In what way? No more messages are logged? Doesn't respond to pings? SysRq doesn't reboot it (is the kernel totally hosed)? >and that after installing "GRUB" and "rebooting". > >My system seem to work correctly but I tho

Re: Unable to change shell and add groups

2013-12-06 Thread shawn wilson
/alternatives/zsh-usrbin /bin/zsh4 (again, not probably not the issue and just annoys me since I noticed it) On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 06/12/13 18:31, shawn wilson wrote: >> For some reason, when I chsh to say /bin/zsh, log out and back in, I'm &g

Unable to change shell and add groups

2013-12-05 Thread shawn wilson
For some reason, when I chsh to say /bin/zsh, log out and back in, I'm still in bash - confirmed with readlink /proc/$$/exe I tried adding my user to the adm group, logging out and back in, and it's not there. However, if I exec su -p -l - everything works. I've also tried an init q to no avail.

Re: Serverbackup cron

2013-11-14 Thread Shawn Wilson
basti wrote: >Is there a better/ easier way for daily backups? >I don't want to do a daily backup if weekly or monthly is running. Use a pidfile - just make sure your process deletes it or you won't be getting backups. I've used Amanda in the past and that works. But now I encrypt my backups

Re: Copy buffer from a script

2013-11-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Lukas Erlacher wrote: > On 11.11.2013 00:42, shawn wilson wrote: >> That gives me the X clipboard buffer, which seems to be a different buffer. > > There are three buffers. You're looking for the keyboard buffer, which is the > primary buf

Re: Copy buffer from a script

2013-11-10 Thread shawn wilson
That gives me the X clipboard buffer, which seems to be a different buffer. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Lukas Erlacher wrote: > check out xclip. > > On 11.11.2013 00:29, shawn wilson wrote: >> How do I get access to the buffer that is presented by clicking the >> th

Copy buffer from a script

2013-11-10 Thread shawn wilson
How do I get access to the buffer that is presented by clicking the third (or center) mouse button from a script? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAH_

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-10 Thread Shawn Wilson
Erwan David wrote: >Le 09/11/2013 23:06, Shawn Wilson a écrit : >> Redhat has something called firewalld which generates rules based on >zones. I don't use it because using dbus to help manage rules scares >me. But it's there and could be what you want. >> >

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread Shawn Wilson
Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Hello, > >Bill.M a écrit : >> >> In IPTables one can specify multiple addresses, and multiple ports, >but >> is there anyway to specify multiple interfaces. >> >> For example, -m multiport --destination-port 22,25,80 >> >> Or -s 1.2.3.4,1.2.3.5,1.2.3.7 or -s

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread Shawn Wilson
Redhat has something called firewalld which generates rules based on zones. I don't use it because using dbus to help manage rules scares me. But it's there and could be what you want. David F wrote: >On 11/09/2013 12:47 PM, Bill.M wrote: >> But is there anyway to specify both eth0 and wlan0 a

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread shawn wilson
- get another one and be done with the old one. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Itay wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Shawn Wilson wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 04:46:48 -0500 > > > For some reason your messages ended up in a differenet mailbox, therefore I > saw them only

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread Shawn Wilson
I can't see how a default config would do this, but do you have SELinux or AppArmor enabled? What does fstab and mount show? If possible, copy the system off and write ones and then zeros to the disk (and look for speed drops). Looking at the disk might've been a good call. Itay wrote: >On S

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Shawn Wilson
Can syslog rotate logs? I just use logrotate. Itay wrote: >On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 21:47:11 +0100 >> From: Sven Hartge >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? >> Resent-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:48:34 + (UTC)

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-29 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:48:54 -0200 > André Nunes Batista wrote: > > ... > >> phone users. But even in the case of traditional pc's, many people rely >> on proprietary BIOS or proprietary firmware for special devices or >> cards. > > I'm never real

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-29 Thread shawn wilson
First, thanks for f-droid - I didn't know about that. I think the most open platform to date is the Pi - there are only certain parts of the processor that are kept under NDA. As for phones, there are many parts of them you will never see released (even openmoko which is old and I'd like one to pl

Re: How to format the command output like MySQL output

2013-10-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 08:54:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Check out perl formats. > > Great suggestion, it's a shame the user has (since) ruled out Perl. > Hardly anyone seems to discuss perl formats anymore ☺ > I think most people p

Re: How to format the command output like MySQL output

2013-10-20 Thread Shawn Wilson
"Lars Noodén" wrote: >On 20.10.2013 04:17, 陶治江 wrote: >> 于 2013-10-20 0:53, Lars Noodén 写道: >>> On 19.10.2013 19:35, 陶治江 wrote: >>> [snip] I think it seems good like this, but I do not know how to make out it.(someone says awk, sed may help, but the environment does not permit it)

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-11 Thread Shawn Wilson
Joel Rees wrote: >On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Richard Owlett >wrote: >We're a long way from being able to build internet terminals that >people can use as simply as they use a phone, and it's quite possible >that it can't really be done. > I'm not sending this email from a phone... Nope

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